Under Gu Dayong's urging, the soldiers of Tengxiang Right Guards who were rushing toward the dock moved a little faster.
On the long street, because there were soldiers taking the lead to clear the way, the team of Gu Dayong and others were rushing towards the dock at an extremely fast speed.
But Gu Da made such a big noise, not only the people could notice it, but some officials also noticed it.
In fact, the soldiers of Tengxiang's right guard were too obvious, which attracted the attention of some officials.
Especially when the soldiers of Tengxiang Right Guards left the military camp, what happened to the large vehicles was the key.
The most lively thing circulating among the officials these past two days was that the millions of taels of silver that had been confiscated were about to enter the capital.
Many officials knew that under Yang Tinghe's arrangement, the Ministry of Revenue was ready to receive the money, and would send it to the national treasury as soon as the money entered Beijing.
Even some of the officials were heading towards the dock. When they saw Gu Dayong leading the soldiers from the Tengxiang Youwei Battalion and so many carts heading towards the dock, they had no choice but to
Let these officials come up with ideas.
"Is Gu Dayong trying to steal money?"
If it were anyone else, those officials might not think so. The key is Gu Dayong's identity, so some officials can't help but think too much.
As the chief steward of the Royal Horse Supervisor, Gu Dayong was in charge of the emperor's inner treasury. In other words, Gu Dayong was the chief steward of the emperor's inner treasury.
The emperor had planned to put the money into the inner treasury. News spread wildly in the past two days, but Gu Dayong, the great steward of the inner treasury, did not make any movement, so many people subconsciously put Gu Dayong into the inner treasury.
Ignored.
But now, when they saw Gu Dayong leading the Tengxiang Right Guard Camp and so many large vehicles, these people realized that Gu Dayong clearly wanted to take the money away with actual actions.
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This is to do important things quietly. When did Gu Da use this old eunuch become so insidious?
Even a fool can imagine that if the silver fell into Gu Da's hands and was sent to the inner treasury, it would not be that easy for the emperor to take it out.
At that time, Emperor Xiaozong valued the preferential treatment of all his ministers, but every time he wanted Emperor Xiaozong to withdraw money from the inner treasury to replenish the national treasury, all the important ministers had to talk to Emperor Xiaozong for a long time.
Today, Emperor Xiaozong is no easier to talk to. It is conceivable that if it really falls into the inner treasury, then this money and the court will also be missed.
"Quickly, we must tell the elders that Gu Dayong took people to the dock to grab money."
When an official reacted, he didn't care about his manners and just jumped into the alley.
On the long street, Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and others were heading towards the pier, and Yang Tinghe was talking to Li Dongyang in a low voice at the moment.
Behind a few people, hundreds of officials and clerks had gathered. With so many people so aggressive, even the Jin Yiwei colleagues would have to be honest when they saw them.
At this moment, on the long street ahead, an official was running like crazy. It was the official who had seen Gu Dayong leading people towards the pier before.
Chai Fangnai is a member of the Ministry of Industry. Although his rank is not high, he is still an official among the six ministries. At this moment, all Chai Fang wants to do is to inform the cabinet about Gu Dayong as soon as possible.
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Suddenly, Chai Fang's eyes widened when he caught a glimpse of the group of people in front of him, with a look of shock and surprise on his face.
He was originally worried that even if he spread the news to the cabinet, it would be too late.
But he never expected that he would meet several cabinet elders on this long street, especially there were many officials behind them.
Just looking at this posture, Chai Convenience couldn't help but guess that with such a huge momentum, the officials had already gotten the news that Gu Dayong had brought people to snatch the money, and were they ready to stop Gu Dayong?
Thinking of this, Chai Fang showed a bit of joy on his face. With several elders taking action, it would be impossible for Gu Dayong to steal the money.
Among the officials, officials from the Ministry of Industry are naturally indispensable.
I heard a doctor from the Ministry of Industry say in surprise: "Hey, isn't this Chai Fang? What happened to him? He was running wildly on the long street."
As an official, he usually pays great attention to his appearance, so when they saw Chai Fang running wildly, some officials looked at Chai Fang.
Yang Tinghe glanced at Chai Fang and frowned slightly.
At this time, Chai Fang had already arrived in front of a group of people. He bowed his hands to Li Dongyang, Yang Ting and several others and said, "Your Majesty, Chai Fang has met all the elders and gentlemen."
As he spoke, Chai Fang said with a bit of excitement: "You sirs, I think you are here to stop Gu Dayong from robbing the money."
Chai Fang's words were actually more of a kind of excitement. He said it casually and was about to walk into the team of officials behind Yang Tinghe and others to head to the dock together.
But as soon as he said those words, Yang Tinghe and others couldn't help but change their expressions.
Especially Yang Tinghe paused, looked at Chai Fang and said solemnly: "Chai Fang, what did you say? What's the use of grain, what's the matter of robbing money?"
Chai Fang, who was about to walk into the official team, turned around subconsciously when he heard this, looked at Yang Tinghe with some confusion and said: "Didn't you guys know that Gu Dayong was going to steal the money, so you rushed to stop Gu Dayong?"
Is it used?"
After hearing Chai Fang's words, Yang Tinghe and others' hearts trembled. Now after hearing Chai Fang's words, Yang Tinghe and others' expressions suddenly changed.
Staring at Chai Fang, Yang Tinghe said slowly: "You said Gu Dayong took people to the dock to grab money?"
Chai Fang nodded and said: "Not long ago, I happened to see Gu Dayong leading Tengxiang Right Guards and heading towards the pier with many large cars. I thought Gu Dayong must be trying to capture the people."
The money was taken away, so I was so anxious to tell you the news that I ran all the way."
After speaking, Chai Fang added: "Fortunately, I met all of you adults..."
This time Yang Tinghe didn't wait for Chai Fang to finish his words, and directly shouted angrily with a gloomy face: "Gu Dayong, how dare you!"
Saying that, Yang Tinghe walked away towards the pier. As for Mr. Ge's demeanor, how could he care so much at this time? If he had gone too late, Gu Dayong might have already taken all the money with him.
It was snatched away.
Not only Yang Ting and the other officials stopped Chai Fang's words one by one, but when they learned that Gu Dayong actually led people to rob the silver, they were immediately filled with indignation and boundless anger arose in their hearts.
What a good guy, Gu Dayong. He didn't expect that there was no movement before, but he was holding back his bad intentions. He actually led his troops to grab the silver and asked them if they had heard of it.
On the pier, the servants brought by the Ministry of Revenue were leaning against the carriage one by one.
Originally, it was said that there would be work soon after arriving here. Most of these servants help the household department to move money and food, and they have long been accustomed to starting work when the time comes.
But like this time, the ship carrying silver was already docked at the pier, but the other party refused to move, and even killed an official from the Ministry of Revenue, which shocked all the officers.
A slight vibration came, and the ground shook slightly. Many people heard the movement and looked directly in the direction of the movement.
At first glance, many of the guards showed astonishment.
I saw a group of soldiers and horses driving large vehicles in the distance. Looking at their posture, they seemed to be rushing towards the dock. Looking at the large vehicles again, some people vaguely understood that these large vehicles were coming.
The purpose of the car coming.
Gu Da took the lead with one horse, and at the same time, a group of soldiers directly drove away the servants brought by the Ministry of Household Affairs and appeared on the dock at an extremely fast speed.
Gu Dayong boarded the big boat in a few steps, and Du Guang, who was on the big boat, finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Gu Dayong arriving.
"Manager Gu, you are finally here! If you don't come again, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep the money."
Du Guang was not exaggerating. He could establish his authority with an ordinary official in the household department, but if a cabinet minister or an important minister of the court came, how could he be able to chop him down with a single blow?
At this moment, Gu Dayong arrived in time, and Du Guang felt that the mountain of pressure on him finally disappeared.
Hearing this, Gu Dayong smiled and said: "Du Qianhu has worked hard, and he will be handed over to our family next."
Du Guang's expression became serious when he heard this. He took out a thick account book from his arms and said, "Manager Gu, this is the bill for the confiscated silver, property, gold, silver, jewelry, etc. that was carried on the ship. I would like to ask Manager Gu to check it."
Gu Dayong said directly: "It's not too late to transport the things into the inner warehouse and then check them. Maybe by now Yang Ting and those people will know about our family bringing people here."
As he spoke, Gu Da waved his hand, and groups of soldiers immediately began to board the ship and use tools to quickly transfer the gold and silver boxes loaded on the ship to the carriages on the dock.
Gu Dayong personally watched the shipping boxes on the dock. Whenever a carriage was loaded, Gu Dayong would directly order people to transport the boxes away.
As the carriages left one after another, the money on the ship was being transferred at an extremely fast speed.
Almost half an hour later, a horse suddenly galloped over, shouting as he ran: "General manager, here we come, the people from the cabinet are here."
Gu Dayong, who was sitting there, heard the shouting and immediately stood up, with a somewhat solemn look on his face.
He looked at Du Guang and said, "Du Qianhu, how much money has been transferred?"
Du Guang made a silent calculation in his mind and said: "Back to the general manager, almost half of it has been transported away, and there are still more than a million taels left."
Gu Dayong couldn't help but smile when he heard the words, but when he thought that Yang Tinghe was leading people to kill him, he immediately turned to Du Guang and said: "Du Qianhu, you leave the Jin Yiwei people to keep an eye on them, and then you return immediately.
Jinyiwei Yamen, don’t leave Jinyiwei Yamen until brother Li Huan comes back.”
When he said this, Gu Dayong's face became solemn and he said: "Although he is just a household official, the other party is still an official of the imperial court. I am afraid that these people will vent their anger on you after losing their money.
Come on."
Du Guang is not a fool. When he killed the household official, he knew that the officials would not let him go so easily. Gu Dayong asked him to hide in the Jinyiwei Yamen and not come out. This was also the response he had planned.
Of the policy.
The Jinyiwei Yamen is their Jinyiwei's territory. As long as Jinyiwei doesn't agree, no one can enter the Jinyiwei Yamen and take him.
After cupping his hands at Gu Dayong, Du Guang immediately said: "In that case, I will resign now."
Yang Tinghe and others are coming soon. If he stays here, he may not be able to leave.
Gu Dayong nodded, watching Du Guang disappear into the distance, with a slight smile on his lips, and suddenly said not far away: "Brother Ma, since you are here, why don't you come over."
It turned out that Gu Dayong had noticed Ma Yongcheng and the others not far away.
Ma Yongcheng stepped forward with a smile, looked at Gu Dayong and said: "Manager Gu Dayong, you have hidden it so well that you even hid it from His Majesty. You don't know what His Majesty has been doing these days to deal with the money.
Everyone is worried."
Gu Dayong couldn't help but laugh and said: "Our family also followed Brother Li Huan's instructions. Brother Li Huan said that in order to prevent the officials from knowing in advance, he asked me to send the silver to the inner treasury before telling His Majesty."
Ma Yongcheng watched the silver on the ship being transported away at an extremely fast speed, and wondered what Yang Tinghe and others would think if they arrived and found that most of the silver had already been transported away.
Suddenly, Ma Yongcheng looked at Gu Dayong and said, "Manager Gu Dayong, I still have so much money, I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it."
Gu Dayong smiled, he naturally knew what Ma Yongcheng meant, but Gu Dayong smiled and said: "Brother Ma, would you like to go with me to meet Yang Ting and them for a while."
Ma Yongcheng was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized what Gu Dayong meant. He couldn't help but laugh and said: "Okay, then our family will go with the manager of Gu Dayong to meet Yang Tinghe and others."
After all, Yang Tinghe and others came all the way on foot, so they weren't too anxious at first. After all, the money was there, and they wouldn't have to run away, right?
But when they learned that Gu Dayong had actually brought people from Tengxiang Youwei Camp and a cart to grab the money, Yang Ting and the others became anxious.
It doesn't take much. If hundreds of soldiers work together, the speed of transporting gold and silver will definitely not be slow. If they arrive late, the silver may really be taken away by Gu Dayong.
Suddenly, several figures in front appeared in the sight of all the officials.
Someone couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw it: "It's Gu Dayong, Ma Yongcheng and the others."
Yang Tinghe frowned, but he kept walking and soon arrived in front of Gu Dayong, Ma Yongcheng and the others.
With a smile on his face, Gu Dayong stepped forward to face Yang Tinghe, Li Dongyang and others cupped their hands and smiled and said: "Gentlemen, our family has been waiting for you here for a long time."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, wondering what Gu Dayong meant and why he was waiting for them here.
Yang Tinghe glanced at Gu Dayong and suddenly said: "Manager Gu Dayong, if you don't tell secrets, the money..."
Before Yang Tinghe could finish his words, Gu Dayong said with a smile: "Isn't the matter of silver easy to discuss? Isn't it just some silver? Our family knows that your lords are thinking about the court, so it's okay for your lords to think about collecting the silver into the national treasury."
Can understand.”
I thought that Gu Dayong was here to grab money, but after hearing Gu Dayong's words, he turned out to be very reasonable. This made many officials who were staring at Gu Dayong angrily look at him a little kinder.
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Yang Tinghe glanced at Gu Dayong in surprise and said, "Oh, so Manager Gu also thinks that the money should be put into the national treasury?"
Gu Dayong coughed slightly and said: "There is no problem in entering the treasury, but your Majesty is also poor, so you can't understand His Majesty's difficulties."
When Yang Tinghe heard this, he snorted coldly and said: "It's not that I don't understand your Majesty's difficulties, but the imperial court is in urgent need of a batch of money to do things."
Gu Dayong smiled and said: "Our family knows that the court needs money, so aren't we here to discuss it with you adults?"
Ma Yongcheng on the side looked at Gu Dayong with Yang Tinghe and other officials arguing with a strange look, and even quarreled several times over the ownership of the money.
But Ma Yongcheng felt like a clear mirror in his mind. Gu Dayong was not competing for the ownership of the money. He was clearly competing for time.
More than half an hour passed, and Gu Dayong felt that his mouth was a little dry, and he thought that the money on the ship should be transferred.
But now Yang Tinghe and others saw that Gu Dayong was not getting oil and salt, and they had no intention of continuing to discuss with Gu Dayong.
Yang Tinghe was heard saying angrily to Gu Dayong: "Since Manager Gu insists on his opinion, then please ask Manager Gu to get His Majesty's imperial edict. If there is Your Majesty's edict, the money on the dock will be put into the inner treasury.
I have nothing to say."
Gu Dayong waved his sleeves and said: "That's ridiculous. If our family could get the imperial edict, would we still discuss it with you here? Since you adults are unwilling to agree, then our family will say goodbye."
As he spoke, Gu Dayong said to Ma Yongcheng: "Brother Ma, let's go."
Regardless of what Yang Tinghe and others looked at, Gu Dayong directly took the others and left with Ma Yongcheng.
Bao Qing and others had stunned expressions on their faces, and they could only hear Bao Qing muttering softly: "It's strange, Gu Dayong stopped us and talked for a long time, but it seemed that all of them were meaningless words."
When Yang Tinghe heard this, his expression suddenly changed and he said: "No, Gu Dayong may be delaying time. Please follow me to the dock quickly."
No one was stupid. They were just fooled by Gu Dayong's trick before. Now after hearing what Yang Tinghe said, everyone felt vaguely that they had been fooled by Gu Dayong.
The group of people rushed all the way to the dock, and saw several officials from the Ministry of Revenue sitting there with sad faces, and even their bodies were covered with dust.
When they saw Yang Tinghe, Bao Qing and others, several officials seemed to have been rescued and ran over almost crying.
"My lords, my lords, the money is gone..."
Yang Tinghe stiffened when he heard this, and his expression became extremely ugly, while Bao Qing slapped an official in the face and shouted: "Didn't I let you stare at it? How could the money be gone?"
Li Huan, who was slapped, cried: "Sir, not long after you left, Gu Dayong brought a team of people and transferred the money away at a very fast speed, while we were vacated.
The soldiers of the Xiangyou Guard Camp are under guard..."
Bao Qing said in a trembling voice: "All the money was taken away by Gu Dayong's people?"
The official said with a mournful face: "Just a quarter of an hour ago, Gu Dayong's people took all the money and left."
Yang Tinghe suddenly burst out laughing. While laughing, he said angrily: "What a great guy. I never thought that I would be deceived by you."
Thinking that Gu Dayong stopped them more than half an hour ago, Gu Dayong's people must have been transferring money at that time, and Gu Dayong said so much nonsense, which was nothing more than delaying time.
But at that time, they didn't think Gu Dayong could take away the money in such a short period of time, so they gave Gu Dayong a chance.
Bao Qing looked at Yang Tinghe and said, "Sir, the money is gone, what should we do?"
Yang Tinghe took a deep breath and said: "Since the silver was taken away by Gu Dayong, how easy is it to get it back again?"
As he spoke, a strange color flashed in Yang Tinghe's eyes and he said, "But this money will eventually return to the treasury."
Many officials looked at Yang Tinghe with confusion after hearing this.
At this time, Censor Bian Yu suddenly said: "That Jinyi Guard Qianhu Du Guang..."
Yang Tinghe sneered and said: "Let the governor send someone to arrest Du Guang when he returns home on the charge that he was good at killing court officials."
An official responded immediately and left.
After losing money, we can't just forget about Du Guang's murder of the household official.
The officials dispersed, and what happened on the dock spread quickly.
In the palace, evening
Zhu Hou looked after Ma Yongcheng and Gu Dayong, especially Gu Dayong, who was holding the account book containing millions of taels of gold and silver that had been put into storage, with a look of astonishment and surprise on his face.
Listening to Gu Dayong's story, Zhu Houzhao exclaimed: "So, everything is as expected by Li Huan?"
Gu Dayong nodded and said: "Although Brother Li couldn't predict what happened, he also guessed that it was impossible for the officials to let the gold and silver enter His Majesty's inner treasury, so he specially wrote a letter to warn the old slave, so that he could
The money was snatched from the hands of hundreds of officials."
Zhu Houzhao laughed loudly and said: "Okay, okay, Li Qing really did not disappoint me."
Autumn of the third year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty
The October autumn wind already carried a bit of a chilling chill. On the official road, a long team escorted several prison cars forward slowly.
Behind these prison cars were no less than a hundred large carriages making a creaking sound. Wherever the carriages passed, they left a very obvious rut mark on the official road. It can be seen that each of these carriages
How heavy was the load pulled on the carriage?
On top of the leading war horse, a figure was dressed in brocade clothes and a black cloak, letting the autumn wind rustle.
Surrounded by a team of imperial guards, the convoy was protected by a group of elite soldiers exuding an evil aura.
And this group of people was none other than Li Huan and others who personally led the Jin Yiwei to Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture more than a month ago to deal with Xie Qian's rebellion.
Li Huan, who was riding on the horse, had a look of emotion on his face. Thinking of his experience of more than a month, he was filled with emotions.
Even he did not expect that Xie Qian's influence in Yuyao County would be so great. To be precise, his influence among Shilin was completely beyond his expectation.
Those scholars who listened to Xie Qian's lectures were completely brainwashed by Xie Qian and became his loyal followers.
If he could avoid killing people, Li Huan actually didn't want to kill people either.
However, the reactions and actions of those scholars had already touched Li Huan's bottom line. It is conceivable that if Li Huan really let Su Kui, Xizhen and others go, it would only make those people even more arrogant.
What's even more frightening is that when these people take part in the imperial examination and enter the court, these people will inevitably become potential serious troubles.
Li Huan had no choice but to wield the butcher's knife. Even if he was regarded as a murderer and a butcher, he would admit it.
It can be said that Li Huan did not gain nothing in Yuyao County this time. Except for the Qu family and the other eight families in Yuyao, it can be said that all six families were confiscated and exterminated by Li Huan.
Counting the confiscated property of the Xie family, the amount of cash confiscated this time alone is almost three million taels. This does not include acres, manors, mines, etc.
Although there are still some finishing touches that have not been dealt with completely, Li Huan also arranged for someone to deal with them.
Looking at the capital city that had come into view in front of him, Li Huan showed a slight smile on his lips. He, Li Huan, was back again.
Almost half a month ago, Li Huan received news from Jin Yiwei that Gu Dayong had snatched away the silver and put it into the emperor's inner treasury.
The officials who were originally furious suddenly fell silent. For such a long time, all officials turned out to be honest. No one mentioned the issue of the ownership of the confiscated money. It was as if
Baiguan suddenly suffered from amnesia and forgot about the matter.
Although he failed to get the first gold and silver, there was still a sum stolen from Fujian, plus the millions of taels that Li Huan brought back this time, adding up to several million taels.
If the civil servant group is not eyeing these two gold and silver coins, no one will believe it.
With nearly ten million taels of gold and silver involved, Li Huancai didn't believe that the civil service group would give up just because of one failure.
But no matter what these people's plans are, Li Huan is not afraid. The worst thing is that the water will come to cover it up, and the soldiers will come to stop it.
At the gate of the city, several figures were looking forward to it, led by Gu Dayong, Ma Yongcheng, Qiu Ju and others.
Suddenly, Qiu Ju said with a somewhat excited look on his face: "Here we come, Brother Li is back."
When Li Huan's figure appeared in front of Qiu Ju and others, Qiu Ju and others couldn't help laughing and stepped forward.
I could only hear Qiu Ju saying to Li Huan: "Brother Li, you are finally back. His Majesty has always talked about you. A few days ago, he told our family that we must personally come to welcome you into the palace today."
When Li Huan heard this, he cupped his hands in the direction of the imperial city and said, "Thank you for your majesty's care. Li Huan is terrified in his heart."
Gu Dayong's eyes fell on the long line of carriages behind Li Huan, and an old face said with a smile: "Brother Li, are these all gold and silver confiscated from Yuyao County?"
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Li Huan smiled and nodded: "Yes, there are more than three million taels. I will have to trouble Brother Gu to send these gold and silver to His Majesty's inner treasury later."
Gu Dayong patted his chest and said: "Brother Li, don't worry, our family will bring troops from the Tengxiang Right Guard Camp this time just like last time. No one can even think about taking advantage of these money."
Hearing what Gu Dayong said, Li Huan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, glanced at Gu Dayong, Qiu Ju, and Ma Yongcheng and said: "It's strange. With the temperament of Baiguan, I brought so much gold and silver back.
They definitely want to compete, but why didn’t I see any reaction?”
Hearing what Li Huan said, Gu Dayong also looked puzzled and said: "Not to mention Brother Li, even I feel very strange. These people didn't react at all. It's really abnormal."
Li Huan looked at Ma Yongcheng. Ma Yongcheng naturally understood what Li Huan meant, but he also shook his head helplessly at Li Huan and said: "Jin Yiwei's inspection and supervision of hundreds of officials is better than that of Dongchang. Even Jin Yiwei didn't find anything.
The boys and men under our family didn’t even notice anything.”
Qiu Ju said with a smile: "Perhaps those people are afraid of Brother Li. After learning that Brother Li has returned with gold and silver in person, they don't dare to come together at all."
Several people couldn't help laughing when they heard what Qiu Ju said. Gu Dayong even nodded and said: "Not to mention, if there are no other reasons, I might be afraid of Brother Li."
Li Huan smiled bitterly and shook his head. With the officials' urinary temperament, it would be strange if they were afraid. The reason why there was no movement must be that there was a bigger plan.
At this moment, Qiu Ju coughed lightly and turned to Gu Dayong. Ma Yongcheng and others said: "Everyone, Your Majesty is still waiting for Brother Li in the palace. If you have anything to say, we will talk about it later at leisure."
Gu Dayong and several others nodded.
Li Huan handed over to Gu Dayong, and then ordered people to escort Xie Qian and others to the imperial prison. He himself went straight to the imperial city with Qiu Ju.
In the carriage, Qiu Ju chatted and laughed with Li Huan, telling Li Huan many things that happened in the capital and the imperial city during these days.
Suddenly, Qiu Ju said: "By the way, Brother Li, do you still remember the time when you made a suggestion to His Majesty to summon Master Shao Yuanjie of Longhu Mountain to Beijing?"
When Li Huan heard this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. A bright light flashed in his eyes and he looked at Qiu Ju and said, "Did you say that Master Shao has already entered Beijing?"
Qiu Ju smiled and nodded.
Although Qiu Ju was the emperor's personal attendant and could be said to be the closest person to the emperor, Qiu Ju didn't know why Li Huan suggested that the emperor summon a Taoist person like Shao Yuanjie to the capital.
But the greatest advantage of people like Qiu Ju is that he knows what things can be inquired about and what things cannot be inquired about.
Qiu Ju vaguely guessed that the Emperor's summons to Shao Yuanjie to Beijing must be related to the Emperor's privacy, so Qiu Ju had no intention of inquiring.
Li Huan pondered for a moment and said, "Has your Majesty ever summoned Shao Yuanjie to the palace?"
Hearing this, Qiu Ju shook his head and said, "Zhenren Shao probably came to the capital a few days ago, but His Majesty did not summon him to the palace. He said that he would not consider summoning Zhenren Shao until you come back, brother Li."
Li Huan nodded.
Qiu Ju suddenly said: "By the way, Master Shao is now staying at the British government residence."
As he spoke, Qiu Ju winked at Li Huan with a smile on his face and said, "Speaking of which, Brother Li, your unmarried wife Zhang Jin is still the true disciple of Shao Yuanjie. In terms of seniority, Brother Li?
You should call Master Shao master."
Li Huan couldn't help but smile when he saw Qiu Ju teasing him.
However, with Zhang Jin's relationship, he thought that before Shao Yuanjie entered the palace, he could go and see Shao Yuanjie first, and at least let Shao Yuanjie understand why he was summoned to the palace.
And he also wants to make sure whether Shao Yuanjie is really capable and whether he is just a person with a false reputation. After all, he recommended him. If Shao Yuanjie is a false name by then, maybe the emperor will not blame him, but his face is also dull, right?
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Qianqing Palace
Zhu Houzhao, who had ordered the imperial dining room to prepare a table of sumptuous food and wine, was looking out of the palace from time to time.
Gao Feng, who was serving on the side, said: "Your Majesty, the news has just arrived. Brother Li Huan has completed the handover with Director Gu and the others. They are rushing to the imperial city with Qiu Ju. They may have entered the palace at this time. ."
Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly and said: "I'm not in a hurry. It's just that Li Qing has been gone for so long, and I feel a little worried about him."
Gao Feng said: "If brother Li Huan knew about it, he would definitely shed tears of gratitude."
While he was talking, he heard a young chamberlain say sharply: "The Grand Governor Li Huan wants to see your Majesty."
Zhu Houzhao stood up suddenly, with a bit of surprise on his face and said: "Quickly pass!"
Soon I saw a figure appear in my sight, tall and straight, wearing a flying fish suit, with a serious face, and a faint look of dust on the body, striding towards me with steady steps, it was not Li Huan. who.
When Zhu Houzhao saw Li Huan, a smile appeared on his lips.
When Li Huan saw the sumptuous meal on the square table in the Qianqing Palace, he was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but feel a little moved in his heart.
The emperor made it clear that he would hold a small banquet to welcome him. Even some important ministers may not be able to receive such treatment in their lifetime.
Taking a deep breath to suppress the turmoil in his heart, Li Huan strode forward and bowed to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, Li Huan, pay homage to your Majesty."
Zhu Houzhao said with a hearty smile: "Qing family, get up quickly."
After sizing up Li Huan, Zhu Houzhao motioned for Li Huan to take a seat and said, "Li Qing has been running around for court matters, so he has worked hard, but his expenses have been reduced a lot."
Just when Li Huan and Zhu Houzhao met, the news of Li Huan's return to Beijing spread very quickly.
Residence of Yang Tinghe, Cabinet Minister
Yang Tinghe returned home early that day, and was currently reading a solitary classic in the study. Suddenly, the housekeeper gently walked into the study and said to Yang Tinghe: "Master, Li Huan has returned to Beijing."
Yang Tinghe slowly raised his head and looked at the old housekeeper.
The old housekeeper said clearly: "Li Huan arrived at the city gate about a stick of incense ago, and gave the gold and silver he brought back to Gu Dayong to transport to the inner treasury. Xie Qian and others were escorted to the imperial edict, and Li Huan I went to the palace under the imperial edict."
Yang Tinghe nodded slightly, and upon seeing this, the old housekeeper slowly withdrew.
Yang Tinghe, who was sitting in front of the desk, unconsciously slapped his palms with the lone classic in his hand, and a smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Li Huan, you are finally back. I'll see how you deal with it this time."
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PS: I also recommend a new book by a friend, "Let Me Go, the Painted Skin Fairy". The author Xin Yi is also an old author. It takes the path of ghost cultivation and opens up the world from a different perspective.