His Peasant Wife: Yao Ling [Part 1]

Chapter 79: Connection To The Throne 2

"But... why?" Yao Ling asked in confusion.

"To control the princes. Am I right, Father?" Yao Ying asked Wang Luo Hai whether his guess was correct or not.

"You are correct." Wang Luo Hai knew that Yao Ying was always perspective.

"Do they get married out of love?" Yao Ling hesitantly asked. She felt really curious about this.

Wang Luo Hai laughed bitterly. "In political marriage, who will get married out of love? Especially to the Emperor. He has thousands of concubines, how can you expect a man with a harem full of beautiful women will be able to love one woman for life? It's simply an outrageous dream!"

"Ha..." Yao Ling sighed. "It's true. All the males from royal bloodlines indeed have a lot of beautiful women around. I really do pity the women."

"That's true!" Wang Luo Hai said. "My sister actually really did love the Emperor and it adds to her grievance."

Yao Ying and Yao Ling looked at each other and helplessly talked to each other through their eyes,

'Father... you also have concubines.' But oh well... they just swallowed the words inwardly.

"Father, what's the organization for? What's your job there?" Yao Ying asked, steering back the topic to the organization once again.

"It's the web of communication and spy intelligence for the princes. I manage the network in this city," Wang Luo Hai answered.

"No wonder there's a rumor about how Wang Fu has a pretty big network," Yao Ling remembered what Ning jie had told her. Then, she was reminded of something, "If this news is public secret, won't it affect the Emperor's opinion to our family? Won't it increase his anxiety?"

Wang Luo Hai laughed. "Yes, but we indeed are the ones who supply the gossip to the commoners. After all, without a little bargaining chip like this, the Emperor won't be scared of us. If he doesn't fear us, he will certainly crush us to death. Besides, we also cover up our network nicely. We pledge our loyalty to the Emperor and promise him to give the Emperor the latest news first. At a glance, we look like we solely work for him."

"But...?" Yao Ying felt like Wang Luo Hai hadn't finished telling them all about it.

"Clever Boy..." Wang Luo Hai praised Yao Ying. "Of course, we sort out what kind of news that the Emperor is allowed to hear, what he needs to hear and what's not."

"Doesn't the Emperor also have his own intelligence network?" Yao Ying furrowed his eyebrows.

"Yes, but some of our people are there too, so what we report to the Emperor always go in line with the Emperor's intelligence network. We will just add a piece of bonus information once in a while so the Emperor will rely on us and remember our worth," Wang Luo Hai explained.

Yao Ling found that Wang Luo Hai -- although he seemed to be an easygoing person, actually was very clever.

It seemed like they were serving the Emperor, but actually, they controlled the information around the Emperor!

Yao Ying started to see the bigger picture very clearly, about Fu Rong, the Hua Lou, and the connection with General Lin and Lin Jian.

This was a really big network and he wondered how long they had built this kind of amazing achievement.

It seemed like the princes were indeed very clever or someone probably had prepared this network for them.

"Father... this isn't an organization that has a plan for treason, right?" Yao Ling asked.

After all, they even managed to infiltrate the Emperor's network, so what else they couldn't do?