What happened at night spread in Chang'an City at the fastest speed, and it was almost a few hours of effort, and various versions of the gossip were known to the people of the whole capital.

Even, even the residents outside the city knew about this matter, including the servants in Li An's mansion, and when they were talking about this matter, they happened to be heard by Li An, who got up early.

"Cao'er, what are you talking about? Whose house is dead? ”

Li An listened with a half-understanding, and then asked.

"Ah Lang got up so early today, oh, it was Yang Yushi and Yu who had an accident in the mansion, but the dead were all servants in Yang Yushi's mansion."

Cao'er replied.

"You know what happened last night early in the morning, it's fast enough! Who told you? ”

Ang Lee asked with a smile.

"It was the vendor selling oil cakes on the east side of the side gate who said that he went to the city to buy flour yesterday evening, and when he saw it with his own eyes, he said that it was scary, there were blood stains on the streets, and thousands of Jin Wuwei had sealed many streets, and he also took a long detour to rush back, and he didn't know much about the specific situation."

Cao'er said.

Li An nodded and said softly: "It seems to be true, but it is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface, there must be something bigger behind this, but it is quite interesting." ”

After saying that, Li An went to have breakfast, he originally planned to go to Lishan Farm to inspect it, but now that he thinks about it, forget it! If you go to Lishan, you won't have time to inquire about what happened last night, Ang Lee always feels that this matter is quite interesting, although he is emphasizing on various occasions that he is unwilling to contact the government and politics, but it does not mean that he really does not care, and last night's incident must be related to the imperial court, not a simple assassination.

In the palace, it was not until the emperor finished breakfast that Yang Yuhuan opened his mouth to tell him about it, so as not to affect his appetite for food.

"What, Yang Aiqing's mansion is being assassinated, such a big thing, why didn't Concubine Ai say it earlier?"

Li Longji said with a slight reproach.

Yang Yuhuan hurriedly said: "In the end, it's just a dozen dead servants, my cousin is unscathed, and it's not a big deal, how can you disturb Your Majesty's rest because of this little thing." ”

"Haha! Concubine Ai just knows that she feels sorry for me, but this matter involves Yang Aiqing, and I must take care of it. ”

Li Longji said.

In a side hall of the palace, Yang Guozhong and Xian Yu Zhongtong, as well as Yu Chaoen and many other people, all waited quietly, because the waiting time was relatively long, many people were holding their urine, but they could only endure it, no one dared to leave casually, especially Yu Chaoen, who was very nervous in his heart, in case he said the wrong sentence later, it would cause very serious consequences.

When the emperor came, everyone knelt down and shouted long live.

"What happened last night, who can tell me the truth from beginning to end, Yang Aiqing, I heard that more than a dozen servants died in your house, so, you should say it first!"

Li Longji looked at a room of people and spoke.

Yang Guozhong hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, Wechen was resting at home yesterday, and suddenly a person who claimed to be Chen Xiaoer, the deputy stationmaster of Luoyang City Railway Station, asked to visit, saying that he had something important to report, and Wechen also suddenly thought that a few days ago, he had seen the income and expenditure reported by the Railway Bureau, and felt that there were some problems, so he did not hesitate to let him in, wanting to see what important things he had, and then, Chen Xiaoer told Wechen that the Luoyang Railway Branch was greedy for three million yuan of money from the imperial court a year. Wei Chen was shocked, just for the sake of safety, he did not hand over the account book to Wei Chen, saying that he would hand it over to His Majesty in person to rest assured, Chen Xiaoer, what are you still doing. ”

As he spoke, Yang Guozhong reminded Chen Xiaoerdao.

"The villain greets Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Chen Xiaoer first saluted respectfully, and then took out the account book that had been prepared, in fact, this account book was hidden in the sewer on the street near Yang Guozhong's mansion, because the sewer was in disrepair, there would inevitably be many holes on both sides, and it was not a big problem to put an account book or something, and when he set off in the morning, Chen Xiaoer took advantage of the chaos to take out the account book and put it in his arms.

"Three million a year, I want to take a good look."

Li Longji was a little unconvinced, but since the account books were all in front of him, he naturally understood when he looked at them, and after casually flipping through them for a while, he angrily threw the account books on the ground.

"It's really reasonable, a small Luoyang Railway Branch, can actually be greedy for so much money, Yu Chaoen, you are so controlled."

As he spoke, Li Longji transferred his anger to Yu Chaoen's body, so frightened that Yu Chaoen kept kowtowing, shouting that he was wrong and had failed the emperor's favor, and begged the emperor to give him a sin, but before the ins and outs of the matter were clarified, Li Longji would not easily punish him, and naturally he would be given a chance to plead his case, and then he would be given a certain punishment as appropriate.

"Yu Chaoen, I heard that the assassin who assassinated Yang Aiqing was hiding in your mansion, don't you open your mouth to explain?"

Li Longji really didn't know much, what the concubine told him was only a general situation, only a dozen sentences, and he didn't know much about the specific situation.

Yu Chaoen replied nervously: "Don't dare to deceive Your Majesty, in the past few years, the little slave has been cared for by His Majesty, in charge of the operation of the Railway Bureau, I thought that I was doing a good job, and I have always been tolerant of the people below, but in the past year, I found that the people below are getting bolder and bolder, and they have gradually escaped the control of the little slave, especially the Luoyang Railway Branch, the profit of a month is only more than 300 times, the little slave feels that it is very problematic, so he sent a secret agent to see the situation, but the result is that he has not come back, most of them have encountered accidents, The sad little slave is not stable at night, but just last night, the Luoyang Railway Branch of the Lang Wang Hu, that is, the younger brother of Langzhong Wang Gui, suddenly visited me in the middle of the night, and brought more than a dozen fierce people, all of them are fierce and vicious, and gave the little slave 3,000 yuan and a large number of gifts, the little slave thought at the time, it must be because they killed the secret agent, this time it is called a gift, in fact, it is a warning, if the little slave dares to take care of his business, the next time he will kill the little slave. ”

"Hmph, the benefits of giving you one person are more than the annual revenue of the entire Luoyang Railway Branch, Datang has so many railway branches, Yu Chaoen, is the warehouse in your house enough?"

Li Longji said coldly.

Yu Chaoen was so frightened that he hurriedly took out the account book from his arms, and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty forgives the sin, the little slave is young, it is not easy to be in charge of the railway bureau, the people below give gifts, and the little slave does not dare not accept it, for fear of hurting the friendship, however, the little slave does not dare to spend a penny, all the accounts of receiving gifts are here, a total of 580,000 yuan, gold, silver and jade are also recorded, the little slave is an orphan, born in the palace since childhood, even if there is more money, no one inherits, these money is saved for His Majesty, once the treasury is short of money, The little slave will definitely dedicate all his money to His Majesty and to the court, and the little slave's loyalty to His Majesty can be seen. ”

Li Longji opened the first page of the account book and saw Yu Chaoen's oath, in which all the accounts belonged to the treasury, and these handwriting obviously existed for a long time and was not newly written, so he believed what Yu Chaoen said.

And Yu Chaoen is also shrewd enough, many years ago, when he just started to receive gifts, he was preparing for the day of an accident, if nothing happened, it didn't matter if he had an extra page of handwriting in his own account book, and if something happened, he could reduce the crime, why not?

"You're faithful, too, go on?"

Li Longji saw that Yu Chaoen was so loyal, so he didn't blame him in his heart.

Yu Chaoen continued: "After Wang Hu and his group sent gifts, they did not leave immediately, but asked to live in my house, the little slave saw that they were all fierce and vicious, and naturally did not dare to object, so they let them stay, but also found that they were panicked, from time to time someone came in and out from the side door, as if looking for someone, but the little slave sent someone to ask, Wang Hu just refused to say, and later, a little maid on Yang Yushi's mansion also suddenly came, saying that there were 100,000 urgent things, to find the little slave, The little slave thought that Yang Yushi had something to order, and hurriedly invited people in, but what the little maid said was that Chen Xiaoer stole the account book, she said that once this account book was dedicated to His Majesty by Chen Xiaoer, those people in the Luoyang Railway Branch would be completely finished, and the little slave as the railway bureau gave the matter, naturally he would also be implicated, the little slave was still wondering, why did the little maid of the Yushi Mansion think about the little slave, but unexpectedly, Wang Hu suddenly brought someone to break in, forcibly asked Chen Xiaoer and the whereabouts of the account book, and then, learned that Chen Xiaoer was in the Yushi Mansion, and left four people, and then went out with a group of people, I heard that it was to go to Yang Yushi's house to assassinate Chen Xiaoer, and take the account book, after that, it was the little maid who wanted to escape, and several villains wanted to kill the little maid in the courtyard, and the little slave went to stop it, but not only failed to stop them from committing the murder, but was also stabbed by them, they didn't seem to really want to kill the little slave, it was pure anger, seeing that the little slave was afraid, laughing terrifyingly and arrogantly, kicking a few times from time to time, until someone whistled outside the wall, they suddenly fled, and finally, Yang Yushi and a few hundred Jin Wuwei arrived. ”

After saying so much in one breath, Yu Chaoen was tired enough, but the emperor seemed to have heard almost everything, and he had a general understanding of things, but he still had some questions in his heart, and these questions needed to be answered by others.

"Yu Chaoen, you say that you wonder, why should a little maid care about your future? Is it really wondering? You really don't know why? ”

Li Longji didn't believe this, and he wanted to know why Yang Guozhong's maid had to think about Yu Chaoen and send information in the middle of the night.

Yu Chaoen looked at Yang Guozhong next to him, and stammered but didn't dare to speak.

Li Longji seemed to see something, and asked coldly: "Yang Aiqing, you seem to know why, how, can't you say?" ”

Yang Guozhong hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, it's this Chen Xiaoer, he did the things of beasts, so he ......"

Because this kind of thing is too disgraceful, Yang Guozhong can only point to the point, and can't be too specific.

Li Longji naturally understood as soon as he heard it, and when he looked at Chen Xiaoer's eyes, he suddenly looked very unfriendly.

"Your Majesty, this is all a misunderstanding, when the little lady watched me eat, she kept secretly laughing, I think she likes me, and the little one has always heard that the owner of a large family will let his maid serve the guests, so the little one is ...... But the little lady didn't resist, just trembled slightly, and my lady was the same as the day she got married, it was all something you and I wanted, not a beast. ”

Chen Xiaoer opened his mouth to explain.

"Do you want me? Chen Xiaoer, don't you usually look in the mirror? ”

Li Longji said very unhappily.

This is clearly saying that Chen Xiaoer is ugly, and several irrelevant ministers at the scene couldn't help but laugh a little, and then immediately stiffened their faces, not daring to let themselves laugh too much.

Xian Yu Zhongtong looked at Chen Xiaoer and scolded: "Yang Yushi is an important minister of the imperial court, you are just a small official from the ninth grade, how can Yushi sacrifice his own maid in order to please you, are you also worthy?" ”

Chen Xiaoer's neck was red when he said this, he came to make meritorious service, but he didn't expect to be so unpopular, the emperor said he was ugly in public, and the minister also scolded him loudly, but he himself didn't want to think about what kind of goods he was, and he dared to be so shameless.

"Okay, it seems that the matter is very clear, the assassin is Wang Hu, a member of the Luoyang Railway Branch, has this person been caught?"

Li Longji asked.

A Jin Wuwei general hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, Jin Wuwei has launched a search for the whole city, and no trace of Wang Hu has been found yet, in addition, the minister has sent a group of men and horses to Luoyang overnight, if it goes well, at this moment, Wang Hu and his comrades should have all been captured." ”

"A small Luoyang Railway Branch can be greedy for three million dollars a year, but what about other places? How much is the railway branch of Chang'an City greedy? There are other yamen, how much are they greedy? ”

Although Li Longji was very angry, he was not so angry in his words, after all, as long as he thought about it in reverse, he would find that the Tang Empire was too rich, and a small department could be greedy so much, which was enough to make him proud, and as long as these greedy money were confiscated into the treasury, then he would have a large amount of money in his hands, and he would be able to carry out more effective construction.

The older the emperor, the better the great joy, the current Tang Dynasty, although there are a lot of railways, but many remote areas still do not have railways, especially in the southwest and north, even the wealth in the east is indeed only the most important trunk lines, the density of the railway is far from Li Longji's expectations, and the following businessmen are making money crazy, are through various channels, asking the Tang Dynasty to build more railways, only the railways extend in all directions, their business can be done more smoothly, in order to earn more money, Even if they have to pay a lot of taxes, they will not hesitate to do it.