Although she didn't know why Liu E was laughing, Zhao Qingyi was a little dissatisfied. After all, her family treated Ye An as a child prodigy. Not only a child prodigy, but also a good boy. During this period, Ye An only gave a few It seemed like a trivial suggestion, but the Li family's business suddenly made a lot of money.
"Sister-in-law, why are you laughing at my sister like this? Could it be that the Yunzhong Commandery Marquis you specially appointed is a loser?"
Liu E covered her mouth and helped Zhu Chai, who was already a little messy on her head, and said, "It's a joke that I say that Ye An is a child prodigy. It's not that he's not smart enough, but that he's too smart. Even you and Li Zunxu are being encouraged by them." inside."
"Sister-in-law, what do you mean?"
Liu E shook her head slightly and said, "You didn't discover anything, right?" Seeing Zhao Qingyi still frowning and thinking, Liu E couldn't help but sigh and said, "Don't you think child prodigy is no longer enough to describe his intelligence? "
"It is true that the founding lord is the only one who gets the title of Founding Lord at such a young age, but it is not due to his auspicious breeding. There are no other major events..."
"Oh? You really think so? This is not the only information Li Zunxu has heard, right? He is a cautious person."
Zhao Qingyi stopped talking. She knew what Liu E meant, but she still bit her lip and said, "Sister-in-law, do you think the Li family and Ye An are too close?"
As expected, Liu E looked at Zhao Qingyi with a thoughtful look and said with a smile: "It seems that you know how extraordinary he is! But I don't intend to let bad people do good things, as long as it's doing business or something." It doesn’t matter.”
Zhao Qingyi said quickly: "Sister-in-law, what did you say? The Li family is just doing business with Ye An and has no other intentions!"
Liu E smiled and nodded: "That's very good. It's not in vain that Yi'er talks about you all day long. It's rare for us to be so close to my aunt!"
This statement has made it very clear. The Li family can do business with Ye An, and they can also move around normally, but they cannot turn him, a lonely minister of the Song Dynasty, into an ally in the court.
Zhao Qingyi sighed and said: "Sister-in-law doesn't know that Duan Yi's child is different from other children, at least different from the children from my cousin Xungui's family. He doesn't like to live and drink, nor is he a carefree dandy. But... But he wants to be a physicist like him, Ye An. Now he doesn't read books about sages anymore, and spends all his time studying the science of yin and yang, medical skills, astrology, and geography. His father also doesn't care about anything. Let him waste time like this!"
"Don't be anxious. Everyone has his own ambitions. Besides, these are not bad things. To use Ye An's words... Oh! To exhaust the principles of the world with the investigation of things, it is as vast as the world and as insignificant as the sky. Cangming, the majesty and wisdom in this are not worth mentioning! Officials are also obsessed with those things recently, but fortunately they all use their free time to tinker with it. Isn’t this a small study room in their own Gyeongbokgung Palace? Don’t even wait to go in.”
Zhao Qingyi smiled and said: "The officials use their leisure time to rest and relax, but they don't let themselves relax. This is what the emperor does. That hozen in my house is just messing around. A saint would never dare to compare him with the officials. of."
Lan Jizong stood in the compartment of Shengping Building, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He was not a fool. When Ye An's guesses and inferences came out from Zhao Qingyi's mouth, he immediately believed them.
The party members must be behind this. What Ye Anchang said is: "Whoever is the ultimate beneficiary will be the most suspicious!"
Yes, if you think about it this way, once something bad happens in Huanzhou, the Dangxiang people will definitely take the opportunity to break the relationship between the Xiqiang people and the Song Dynasty, and even give them enough benefits to make them submit to Dangxiang.
As long as the party members cut off the connection between the Song Dynasty and the two states of Gansu and Liang, then no matter how many troops are stationed in these two states, they will all fall into the hands of Li Mingde!
The two people above were chatting happily, but Lan Jizong below was pale. He followed Taizong to fight in all directions, how could he not see the key point?
Fortunately, after Zhao Qingyi left, Lan Jizong immediately went up to the Shengping Tower and said, "Madam, this matter is not trivial. It is very likely that, as that boy Ye An guessed, the chaos in Huanzhou was instigated by Dangxiang people!"
Liu E shook her head slightly: "It's not enough to instigate, but Cui Jien and others did dirty things and were taken advantage of. I don't know how this kind of trash got the chief official position of the governor of the state, and dared to be corrupt even in the border state."
!”
"Empress, what should we do about this matter? Now there is only one mansion left in the two mansions, and the three princes are not aware of the disaster!",
Liu E's eyes narrowed slightly: "It's not that they didn't notice it, but they didn't think about it at all. Who is Cui Jien? He is a civil servant, a bachelor of Zhaowen Palace. If he is convicted of this matter, what will happen to the civil servant's face?"
Do you want him to come back? Wang Qinruo, Wang Zeng, and Lu Yijian are all thinking about how to make him move back with some dignity."
Lan Jizong didn't understand. In his opinion, there was no dignity left in this matter. Such corruption had put the country in an unstable situation. Even dismissal from office was not impossible, and he had to be transferred.
Come back to Tokyo city?!
Seeing Lan Jizong's confusion, Liu E sneered and said: "This is natural. For them civil servants, it is a severe punishment for a dignified Zhaowenguan bachelor to be transferred back to Tokyo to become a small imperial censor! But this
The matter could not be delayed, so Chen Lin sent the Imperial City Secretary to investigate the matter in Huanzhou, and issued an edict to Cui Jien to quell the matter, and use the grain he urged to offset the tax on Huanzhou for the next three years, so that Huangzhou could be exempted.
The summer and autumn taxes of the Western Qiang will be exempted from apportionment, labor service and Dingkou tax! There is no need to pay tribute to the court! In addition, the leaders will be rewarded with eighty pieces of brocade, thirty palace flowers, and the title of Captain of Light Carts!"
Lan Jizong was suddenly startled: "Your Majesty, is such a reward too much?"
"However, if it is true that the Dangxiang people are planning all this behind the scenes, such a reward is nothing. Even if it is not, it will still have the advantage of recruiting the tribes of the Western Qiang. If this little money can be exchanged for the Xiqiang's solid surrender, what can be compared?
It’s all worth it!”
Looking at Liu E who had the pearl of wisdom in his hand, Lan Jizong suddenly realized it and couldn't help but sigh that her method was so clever that she was able to kill two birds with one stone.
It's just that neither Liu E nor Lan Jizong take the turmoil in Huanzhou seriously, not even Zhao Qingyi who listened to Ye An's analysis in person.
The thing didn't really happen, and no one would worry about it. Only when the mountain collapsed, fear would spread. As for the princes of the Song Dynasty, they didn't know how powerful it was. In their opinion, the Xiqiang people
They were just a small tribe of barbarians and did not pose a threat to the Song Dynasty.
And party leader Li Mingde has been patrolling the Hehuang land and attacking the Western Regions. How can he have time to interfere with the Huanzhou matter?
In their opinion, both Huanzhou and Ganliang Prefecture are still far away from Dangxiang. But in Ye An's opinion, this means that people have begun to dig into the corners of the Song Dynasty. Seeing that the foundation is damaged, the house collapse is imminent.
Before my eyes, the people in the house were still "singing and dancing."
So when the documents from the Song Dynasty court reprimanding Cui Jien and praising the leader of the westward migration were still on the way, beacons were still blazing in Huangzhou!
Only Ye An's heart tightened even more when he got the news. Regardless of Li Zunxu, who was comfortably occupying his "special seat" next to him, he looked northwest at Huo Shaoyun and murmured: "Maybe it's still too late!"