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The rest also left, but Guo Zhengyu remained.

Lin Yanchao asked, "Why don't you leave Zhengyu?" ”

Guo Zhengyu said: "If everyone here leaves, someone will inquire in the future, isn't it true that the teacher instructed the Times to discuss the affairs of the government and politics?" I'm here to at least help the teacher with this. ”

"Teacher, don't worry, I am from a high background, and my father is also the former governor of Liangguang, even if I am involved in this matter in the future, no one will dare to pursue it. Besides, this Yanjing Times, someone must continue to run it, and when they leave, someone will eventually preside over the overall situation. ”

Lin Yanchao knew that Guo Zhengyu was resolute, so he nodded and said, "It's okay." ”

Guo Zhengyu immediately sent Lin Yanchao into the carriage.

When parting, Guo Zhengyu bowed down and said: "Teacher, write straight, it is enough for me to have a lot of enthusiasm, but in the court, I still need the teacher to set things right." The world can do without me Guo Zhengyu, but there can be no teacher, if things are not good, the teacher will stay this useful body for the future. ”

When Lin Yanchao heard this, he was moved to help Guo Zhengyu and said, "Don't worry, I have the power to protect myself." ”

Tang Xianzu After they left the Beijing Division.

Lin Yanchao returned to the house, Chen Jichuan came to pray, took out a stack of silver tickets and said: "The five hundred acres of farmland in Xiongxian County were pledged to get three thousand taels of silver, as well as the officialdom gifts of the lord in the past few years, the mortgage income is about one thousand taels, and the money in the house, I calculated that there are three or five hundred taels." ”

Lin Yanchao frowned and said, "That's less than five thousand taels." ”

Chen Jichuan said: "Master, there are still a few wealthy businessmen in Beijing, and they have always been willing to associate with you, so why don't I ask them?" ”

Lin Yanchao asked, "What conditions do they want?" ”

Chen Jichuan smiled and said, "Master, with your status in the court today. It's too late for these wealthy businessmen to cling to each other, let alone talk about any conditions. In the past, the lord was honest and self-controlled, and I didn't dare to mention it, but this time the lord needed so much money, and he dared to ask like this. ”

Seeing that Lin Yanchao did not speak.

Chen Jichuan said in a low voice: "The villain knows that the master is plotting big things, so the more money, the better." The villain inquired, these wealthy businessmen are usually generous and wealthy people, not caring about immediate gains and losses, but in the long run. ”

Lin Yanchao pondered for a moment when he heard this, and then said: "If you can't pass this hurdle in front of you, then how can it be long-term." Even if you go and borrow it, I'm not in debt anyway. ”

Chen Jichuan said yes and left silently.

At this moment, a palace banquet is being held in Cining Palace.

Empress Dowager Li hosted a banquet for the little emperor and King Lu.

King Lu is fourteen years old this year, and he was born to the same mother as his son. Not long ago, Zhang Siwei played to invite King Lu to get married. According to the custom, after the marriage of the vassal king, the kingdom of the vassal can be established.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager Li and the little emperor were very reluctant to King Lu.

Although the Heavenly Family has no selfish feelings, the little emperor himself still attaches great importance to feelings, especially his only half-brother.

At this moment, Empress Dowager Li and King Lu talked about becoming a vassal and wept at each other.

The little emperor couldn't bear it and said to the Empress Dowager Li: "Queen Mother, I think that even if King Lu gets married, there is no need to be in such a hurry to go out of Beijing, and the sons also want him to accompany you in Beijing for a few more years." ”

Empress Dowager Li listened and asked: "Emperor, according to the ancestral system, the prince is married, and if he is not in the country, there will be criticism from hundreds of officials." ”

The little emperor smiled and said: "Don't worry, the queen mother, the sons will make a will, and they won't dare to say it." ”

Empress Dowager Li shook her head and said: "Not necessarily, the mourning family heard that this time King Lu got married, and the emperor ordered the household department to buy gold beads, but the household department was limited to the number of ancestral sayings, 'The prince set a gift for relatives, the gold limit is fifty taels, and the pearl is ten taels', and it is also said that from the sixth year of Wanli to the present, in addition to spending 5 million gold and silver, the household department has increased the comprador gold beads and silver 900,000 taels, borrowing the number of side items. ”

King Lu listened and said with a face full of grievances: "Queen Mother, Brother Huang, the ministers are bullying your sons, you have to be the masters of your sons." ”

Empress Dowager Li soothed: "Your Majesty is just your younger brother, don't worry, Your Majesty will support you." ”

The little emperor was said by the Empress Dowager Li, and he felt that he had no face to defend himself: "Queen Mother, those ministers know about life." However, what the household department said this time also makes sense, the treasury will also earn two or three million a year during the New Year, and in recent years, due to Mr. Taiyue's change of law, there is more money. However, once King Lu got married, he used the income of the treasury in the past two or three years, and it was inevitable that the ministers below would have opinions. ”

Empress Dowager Li sneered: "He is really a good emperor who loves the people like a son, and he knows how to use the big truth to suppress the mourning family?" ”

Empress Dowager Li said softly, and the little emperor couldn't help but change color, and immediately left the table and knelt down and said, "Queen Mother, the sons don't dare." ”

Empress Dowager Li slowed down, and Napa tried to tears: "When the emperor grows up, there is no mother in his eyes." After being pro-government, he couldn't even listen to his mother's words. ”

When the little emperor heard this, he hurriedly kowtowed and said, "The ministers don't dare, so the ministers will issue an order to reprimand those ministers, no, the ministers who said this will be dismissed." ”

Empress Dowager Li said: "No need, what people said is right, so if you dismiss people, wouldn't you be criticized by those ministers again." At the beginning, Mr. Zhang also supported King Lu's wedding, saying that the court had no money, but it could be obtained by changing the law and the new policy, and there was no need to levy an extra penny of tax on the people. ”

The mourning family thought that although this change was an offense to people, Mr. Zhang also had a heart for the country and the people, so he agreed to him. A few years ago, when Mr. Zhang was in power, the purchase of King Lu's wedding never asked the household department not to approve the slips. At present, 5.9 million taels of silver are willing to be spent, and the military expenses of the nine sides have been moved, but in the end, this gold bead is being picked by the household department. Could it be that the emperor said a word, isn't it useful for Mr. Taiyue yet? So where has the power gone since you were in power in the past few months? ”

The little emperor was sweating when he heard this, this is the ability to be questioned by the Queen Mother. The little emperor immediately said: "The queen mother will wait for her sons to summon someone to ask." ”

Soon, Zhang Whale went up to the palace and kowtowed to the Empress Dowager Li and said, "The ministers have seen the Empress Dowager of Cisheng Xuanwen and the Empress Dowager. ”

Empress Dowager Li ignored it, and the little emperor said to Zhang Whale at the moment: "You tell the Queen Mother about King Lu's wedding purchase in the past few years." ”

Zhang Whale said: "Back to the Queen Mother, the previous wedding and purchase, as well as the construction of the palace, were all done by Gonggong Feng and Zeng Shangshu. In the past few years, Gonggong Feng and Zeng Shangshu have overspent too much, and they have appropriated some of the funds they were originally going to buy gold beads, green rubies, and corals. ”

Empress Dowager Li said: "The mourning family knows all these things, Feng Bao has told the mourning family, you pick up some things that the mourning family has never heard." ”

Zhang Whale said: "Yes, back to the Queen Mother, this time the ministers were ordered to go out of the palace to buy gold beads, green rubies, and corals, and asked all over the capital, but found that the merchants in Beijing said that they had finished buying, and there were also traitors who sat on the high price, so the purchase fee was not enough, so they asked the household department for silver." ”

Empress Dowager Li said coldly: "You slave, you are greedy for a lot of money in the palace? But they blame everyone else. ”

Zhang Whale was so frightened when he heard this, and said loudly: "Queen Mother Mingjian, since the ministers have done things for Your Majesty, if they receive a piece of jeweled coral, they will make it difficult for the slave to die." ”

Empress Dowager Li listened and said suspiciously: "Really? ”

Zhang Whale said: "Queen Mother, in front of Your Majesty, the ministers dare not say a word. ”

Empress Dowager Li said: "You don't dare to lie, but what is the place of Jingshi?" Department stores, the world's treasures are all available, how can you not buy just gold bead coral? ”

"This." Zhang Whale hesitated.

The little emperor said: "The queen mother asked you, if you have anything to say, just say it." ”

"Yes, since this is the case, the ministers are bold," Zhang Whale kowtowed, "The ministers have been inquiring in the streets, and I heard that in recent years, the shameless ministers have done everything to offer Wenzhong Gong and Feng Ye, as well as the treasures of the Jingshi, and their prices have suddenly become expensive. The others told the ministers that the ministers wanted to buy jewelry for King Lu, and they could only buy it by going to the emperor's shop under Feng Ye. ”

After Zhang Jing finished speaking, Empress Dowager Li was already so angry that she trembled, and she uttered a few curses from her hometown in Shanxi on the spot.

When the little emperor and King Lu saw it, they hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The queen mother is angry, the queen mother is angry." ”

Empress Dowager Li sneered: "So you said that the traitor sits on a high price? It is Feng Bao's imperial store. Very good, the left hand was sold to the right hand, and Feng Bao actually started the business of mourning the family. In the past few years, how much benefit he has made for the palace purchase, do you think that the mourning family doesn't know anything about it? Mourning the family is entrusted by the emperor in his first department, and he is taking care of the emperor when you grow up, so he turns his eyes open and closes his eyes. But this time, the mourning family can't tolerate him. ”

Hearing this, a barely visible smile appeared on Zhang Whale's face.

"Emperor."

The little emperor hurriedly said, "The son is here." ”

"Although Feng Bao is said to be the celebrant eunuch and the commander of Dongchang, he is still your Majesty's domestic slave after all. If a house slave makes a mistake, he will deal with it as he should do it. But after all, Feng Bao has served our mother and son for many years, and you have to show him some affection. ”

The little emperor immediately said: "Erchen understands, Erchen will do it." ”

Empress Dowager Li waved her hand and said, "Your Majesty, go." ”

So the little emperor, Zhang Whale, left Cining Palace.

After leaving, the little emperor said with a scheming look: "The biggest backer of the eldest companion in the palace is the queen mother. If the queen mother doesn't speak, I don't dare to touch my companion. ”

After a pause, the little emperor said to Zhang Whale: "This time I am fortunate to have your clever plan, the marriage of King Zhilu is the queen mother's rebellion, and this matter is not enough to make the queen mother make up her mind." ”

Zhang Jing hurriedly said: "It's Your Majesty's clever calculation, and besides, Feng Ye is indeed too greedy this time, and the slave didn't say a word." ”

The little emperor nodded and said, "Are the outer courts ready?" ”

Zhang Jing replied: "Zhang Cheng brought a message from Yuan Fu, saying that now he has ordered martial law in the Beijing camp, and removed the guards of Xifengkou and Panjiakou, and also ordered someone to monitor Feng Ye's mansion outside the palace. ”

"Since the queen mother wants my subordinates to show mercy, she will let her companion stay in the house first." After the little emperor finished speaking, he thought of Feng Baojiwei again, and couldn't help but ask worriedly, "If yes, if yes, the eldest companion is going to enter the palace to see me, how can I be good?" ”

Zhang Whale said: "Your Majesty has ordered him to stay idle at home, Feng Bao will not dare to enter the palace. ”

Hearing this, the little emperor nodded and said to Zhang Whale: "Then you will go and prepare the decree for me." ”

Night.

Feng Bao's house in Beijing was surrounded by people and horses in Beijing, cutting off entry and exit.