Chapter 465 Part2 (2/2)

The Minister of Rites secretly took a glance at the emperor, when he saw him smiling, he suddenly got confused: Xiao w.a.n.gfei didn't accept the imperial decree, why the emperor is not angry?

Did he not explain things well, or did the emperor not understand?

When Lin Chujiu saw that the sky was getting dark, but the emperor hasn't called her to enter the palace, she also wanted to ask what the emperor mean to say?

“Isn't the emperor trying to find fault at w.a.n.gye by doing this and let him lose the trust of the people?” Lin Chujiu, who was sitting alone in the study room, was thinking about all the possibilities.

Originally, she was thought about all the possible countermeasures this whole afternoon, but now that the emperor doesn't make a move, she couldn't use them.

“Am I wrong? The emperor is not trying to find the fault of w.a.n.gye?” If it's not like that, then what does the emperor want to Xiao Tianyao?

If she accepted the imperial edict, Xiao Tianyao will definitely not be able to clear the charges of colluding with merchants, but now that she refused to accept it, things didn't go according to the emperor's wish, so why the emperor didn't get angry?

“Did I miss something, the emperor was not aiming at Xiao Tianyao, but something else?” The more Lin Chujiu thought, the more she felt wrong, then suddenly she jumped up. Lin Chujiu looked for the information that Su Cha had sent to her this afternoon. The information was about the supporters behind the merchants… …

“I was used as a gun by the emperor!”

The large grain merchants in the East Country, except for several imperial family's relatives, most of them were from the Central Empire. The Zhang Family was one of the largest merchants, but others only belong to small families. Such a family cannot be underestimated in the East.

So it can be said that the price of grain in the East was completely at the mercy of the Central Empire. Even the emperor can only watch the price of rice increase helplessly.

“Sure enough, I was used!” Lin Chujiu slapped her forehead and couldn't help but cry: Xiao Tianyao, I did something wrong, but… …