Chapter 65: Be Prepared

Finally waited for Li Ren to stop commanding for the time being, picked up the water cup and took a sip of water, Yun Xi immediately stepped forward and said, "Li Langzhong is really busy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

Li Ren didn't pay attention to them because the people here were walking around, and when he heard Yun Xi speak, he hurriedly got up and saluted and said, "Li Ren has seen His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson. None of the others present knew Yun Xi, and they were all shocked when they heard Li Ren's words, and the low-grade officials saluted and said, "Weichen and so-and-so Yamen have seen His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun." "Officials, craftsmen, and others who had no official status fell to their knees one after another, some of them could still speak, and some of them were so frightened or excited that they could not speak.

Yun Xi said to everyone present: "Excuse me, all the ministers, all the people get up." ā€

The officials are fine, and the salute is over; The officials have also seen a lot, and they quickly reacted, and got up after kowtowing; But the craftsmen present couldn't come back to their senses for a long time, and Yun Xi motioned for the guards to help them up, and they reacted one by one to get up, but they were still absent-minded in their work.

Yun Xi realized that some of the practices of later generations could not be applied to the present day. Although I didn't come to the work site to boost morale this time, I also realized that I couldn't just go to the grassroots level to carry out any so-called 'morale-boosting' behavior in the future, because that would greatly affect work efficiency. For officials, it is possible to do so.

Yun Xi didn't wait for everyone to get up before speaking, and asked directly: "Li Langzhong, have all the preparations here been done?" ā€

Li Ren replied: "Your Highness, the food that is enough for three days of distribution has been delivered, the personnel have been prepared, and we have already communicated with Ying Tianfu once, and Lord Yin of Ying Tianfu is also quite cooperative; All kinds of tools are also available; His Highness came in just now and could see that the gate had been remodeled. I have discussed it with all the officials present, and there should be no problem. ā€

Yunhee didn't hear that there was a problem. He inspected the venue again, and was about to leave, when the Treasure Money Lifting Division saw him bow and salute.

Yun Xi saw the officials of the Treasure Money Lifting Division and remembered something: "Ambassador Zhang, what are you going to do with this recovered treasure banknote?" ā€

Zhang Tiju replied: "Your Highness, according to the usual practice, these treasure banknotes are destroyed. ā€

Yun Xi was curious: "Why? Why don't you keep it for another handout? ā€

Zhang Tiju said: "The treasure money is easy to hide, Your Majesty is afraid that the officials of the treasure money lifting department will steal the treasure money and go out to spend it (in fact, it also includes officials), so he ordered the treasure money lifting department not to store the treasure banknotes, and the treasure money printed on the same day must be sent to the yamen or the treasure money Guanghui Treasury on the same day; The treasure banknote Guanghui Treasury cannot keep a large number of treasure banknotes, and the excess is destroyed. ā€

Yun Xi understands that the decision made by Lao Zhu at this time without effective supervision can be said to be very suitable for the present.

He didn't have anything to ask, so he waved his hand to let Zhang Tiju hurry up, and then rode his horse to Jinyiwei.

On September 20 before, Yun Xi had found the commander of the Jinyi Guard through Lao Zhu, and asked the commander Guo to help spread all kinds of rumors that could improve the people's confidence in the treasure banknote. Although Yun Xi felt that the person who could be the commander of the Jinyi Guard should not be able to do this little thing, he still felt that it was better to communicate again.

The group rode their horses and ran for a short time, out of the Taiping Gate, the north gate of the outer city of the capital. The Beimen Bridge mentioned earlier is near the north gate of the inner city (Nanjing City before Zhu Yuanzhang's expansion), which is still far from the outside of the city, and the edict of Jinyiwei is adjacent to the prison of the Criminal Department outside the city. Although the Jinyi Wei Zhenfu Division was in the south of the imperial city by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the commander of Guo had been on the side of the edict prison for the past two days, so Yun Xi went out of the city to find him.

When they arrived at the Imperial Prison, the captain who was guarding the door ran in to report, and the rest of the captains and wrestlers knelt on the ground and saluted. Yun Xi dismounted and asked, "Is Commander Guo here?" ā€

The leading lieutenant replied: "Your Highness, Commander Guo is interrogating the prisoners in prison. ā€

Yun Xi was puzzled, isn't Jinyiwei now about the case of 'Concubine Lu's poisoning case'? Although he didn't inquire in detail, the details were all confessed, and only a few people were left who had not been arrested, so what else was there to interrogate?

He walked into the yamen, and before he reached the second gate, Commander Guo and his subordinate officials had already greeted him. After Yun Xi returned the salute, Guo Hongtao asked him to go into the house to rest and drink a cup of tea.

Yun Xi took a sip of tea in the living room and said with a smile: "Commander Guo made this Anxi Tieguanyin, which tastes different from the Wuyi rock tea in the palace." His Majesty likes to drink Wuyi rock tea, but Lone prefers Tieguanyin, and Commander Guo seems to have similar tastes to Lone. ā€

Guo Hongtao said: "How dare the minister be compared with His Royal Highness? Wuyi rock tea is fragrant, Anxi Tieguanyin is mellow, and each has its own strengths. If Your Highness likes it, there are still more than a dozen taels of Anxi Tieguanyin here, so let Your Highness go back and taste it. ā€

Yun Xi just wanted to take tea as the content of the greeting, not to ask for his tea. But he really likes to drink Anxi Tieguanyin. Yun Xi struggled for a while, but still felt that it was not good to accept the minister's things privately, so he said: "No need, you can't take the favor of others, Commander Guo let him keep it for drinking." Guo Hongtao saw that his tone was resolute, so he just stopped.

Then after a few more greetings, Yun Xi asked: "On the twentieth, Gu once said that Jin Yiwei helped spread some rumors about the treasure banknote, how is Jin Yiwei doing now?" ā€

Guo Hongtao said: "Back to His Royal Highness, everyone has already been arranged, and they have begun to spread rumors. They are all selected from the Jinyi guards in other places or the local dark lines, and they are guaranteed not to be discovered. ā€

Since he said so, Yun Xi can only believe that if the final exchange plan fails to stop the fall of the treasure banknotes, he will definitely be held responsible. Yun Xi asked another question at this time: "Commander Guo, I heard that you are still interrogating prisoners, what else is there to interrogate?" ā€

Guo Hongtao didn't understand why he jumped to this question, but he still replied: "Back to Your Highness, because the relatives of Tan Shanggong of the Yuan Yuan Pavilion and Chen Shanggong of the Yuan Yuan Pavilion have not been caught, and the ministers are interrogating the people who have been caught, whether they know that they have other hiding places; In the past two days, the city gate has been strictly checked, and all the women have to check their appearance when they want to go out of the city, so they must still be in the city. ā€

Tan Shanggong! When Yun Xi heard this name, he immediately evoked distant memories: although Tan Shanggong was only eighteen years old this year, he had taken care of him for four years when he was eight to twelve years old, until he moved to Dongnuan Pavilion.

For Tan Shanggong, Yunxi can't raise any hatred. He remembered that Tan Shanggong was a person who could analyze the pros and cons very accurately, and this time the matter was dangerous regardless of success or failure, so she definitely did not voluntarily participate in this operation to poison him; In addition, she used to take care of him and took good care of him, so Yun Xi actually didn't want her to be caught and executed.

But he couldn't get involved in this matter, so he could only pray silently for Tan Shanggong in his heart: he must not be caught.

Yun Xi stayed in Jinyiwei's territory for a while, did not choose to meet those who participated in poisoning him, and turned around and walked out of the prison.

Walking out of the prison, he was blown by the oncoming wind, and the remaining little emotion quickly disappeared, and he got on his horse and ran back to the palace in good spirits. Lao Zhu told him to go back after inspecting everywhere, and Lao Zhu had to teach him how to read the excerpts.