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Chapter 1269: Political success or failure has nothing to do with caution

It seems that Yunchu is planning to put the blame of the copper shortage on the unscrupulous merchants, and is not planning to look for those people who melted coins into copper and then cast it into cannons, causing the copper price to soar.

Wu Chengsi felt that Yun Chu no longer had the courage and boldness he once had.

It is estimated that Yun Chu has already discussed with the people from the Baiqi Division. This operation is just to arrest a few unlucky merchants and cover up the surge in copper prices in Chang'an.

Therefore, Wu Chengsi wrote a special proposal and sent an official to the Hundred Cavalry Division to get the matter done.

The proposals from Chang'an and Wannian counties both appeared on the desk of Hechun, the newly appointed Grand Commander of the Chang'an Hundred Cavalry Division. After carefully weighing the two proposals, he cut off the beginning and signature of the proposal sent by Lu Zhaolin, and pasted the most important part in the middle onto the proposal sent by Wu Chengsi, and then handed it over to the left and right commanders to execute.

If the Hundred Cavalry Division is dispatched, the city of Chang'an will surely be in chaos.

Fortunately, the common people had no fear of the Hundred Cavalry Officers who rode on fine horses and carried swords. Over the years, the people of Chang'an had understood one thing: the Hundred Cavalry Officers were scary, but they had nothing to do with them because, even if they killed someone, they would be arrested by the constables and the bad guys, and there was no need for the Hundred Cavalry Officers to take action.

But this time, seeing that the Hundred Cavalry Division was actually arresting scholars and painters, it sounded very strange.

The strangest thing is that after these people were arrested, they were sent directly to Chang'an Zhaoyu, which was managed by the Baiqi Division.

Where is Zhao Prison?
Officials cannot enter the place unless they are of a high enough rank. Now, so many scholars and painters have been arrested. The know-it-alls in Chang'an believe that there is only one possibility: these people have offended the Emperor.

Lu Zhaolin had originally planned to flee after receiving the receipt from the Hundred Cavalry Division, so he had already prepared his horses, dry food and other things. However, he waited in fear at the Wannian County Government Office for two days, but never received any receipt for the official document.

Without the official document receipt from the Baiqi Division, he had no way to leave Chang'an. Just when he was about to leave Chang'an regardless of anything, he saw the official document receipt from Wu Chengsi from Yun Chu.

Two documents were submitted, but only one receipt was received, which made Lu Zhaolin very confused.

It was not until he read the entire receipt that his first feeling was that he bought the BMW too hastily.

It was not known whether the people from the Hundred Cavalry Division were lazy or negligent, but they actually combined the two petitions into one and removed his name from the list.

Coming out of Yunchu's official residence and meeting Wu Chengsi, Lu Zhaolin willingly greeted Wu Chengsi for the first time. He really didn't expect that the Wu brothers would actually think that doing this was a great achievement, and in order to monopolize the credit, they even squeezed him, Lu Zhaolin, out of the credit book.

Lu Zhaolin felt that he had no way to repay such a great favor, so he had to be more pious when paying his respects.

Wu Chengsi naturally felt Lu Zhaolin's piety.

In the past, Lu Zhaolin, as Yun Chu's confidant, was somewhat unconvinced and even a little contemptuous of him. But now, it seems that this smart man has also seen that Yun Chu's position is shaky and is ready to cling to his thigh.

Wu Chengsi has always been generous to such talented people as long as they can be used for his own purposes. If Lu Zhaolin could join his army, Wu Chengsi, knowing his talent, decided to treat him well. After all, talents are rare, but fools who are submissive to him are everywhere.

"In six days, it will be my son's 100th birthday celebration. Mr. Lu must come to my humble abode and have a few drinks."

Hearing Wu Chengsi talking and laughing with him, and even inviting him to his house for a drink, Lu Zhaolin also said with a smile: "Of course, of course, the county lord is happy to have a baby boy, this is a great joy, even if the county lord did not invite me, I will definitely come to congratulate him."

Wu Chengsi was even happier after hearing this, and he held Lu Zhaolin's hand and said, "In that case, an invitation will be sent to your house tomorrow."

Lu Zhaolin responded with equal enthusiasm, claiming that he would definitely go to congratulate as soon as the auspicious time arrived.

Before walking into the Yunchu official residence, Wu Chengsi looked back at Lu Zhaolin's back. He had already made it clear today that if Lu Zhaolin sent a generous gift to his family, it would mean that this person had the intention of currying favor with the family. Then, they could have a good talk.

Arriving at Yunchu's official residence, Wu Chengsi took the receipt from the Hundred Cavalry Division and casually tucked it under his arm and said to Yunchu, "My Lord, there are many things going on in Steel City. I will move the office to the construction site in ten days. Do you have any other instructions?"

Yun Chu looked at the receipt under Wu Chengsi's ribs with an incomprehensible expression and said slowly, "Aren't you going to take a closer look at the receipt from the Hundred Cavalry Division?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Chengsi opened the receipt and took a look. He then said in surprise, "Capturing the scholar who wrote the cannon poem and the painter who drew the cannon diagram was not my suggestion."

Yun Chu said indifferently: "Take a closer look."

Seeing Yun Chu's solemn expression, Wu Chengsi found a seat and began to carefully read the detailed and incomprehensible receipt.

After he finished reading it, he felt as if he had just been fished out of the water, and his clothes were soaked with sweat.

Yun Chu looked at Wu Chengsi, who looked pale, and asked, "What on earth have you done? How many people do you want to kill before you stop?"

Wu Chengsi shouted in panic, "In my petition, I only asked the Hundred Cavalry Division to help us find out who is hoarding copper coins, and I never asked for a thorough investigation of who is casting cannons."

Yun Chu was startled and quickly stood up and told Yin Erhu, "Get the archived documents."

Wu Chengsi, sweating profusely, immediately urged, "Go quickly, go quickly."

A moment later, Yin Erhu brought the county government's archived slip. Yun Chu opened it and took a look at it, then said to Wu Chengsi in confusion, "It doesn't match the content on the receipt."

Wu Chengsi quickly glanced at the archived petition and breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "This is what I wrote."

Yun Chu asked again: "Did you deliver the proposal personally?"

Wu Chengsi said awkwardly: "Send the clerks under your command."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Chengsi hurriedly said goodbye to Yun Chu, "I will go back and deal with this matter now."

Yun Chu said worriedly: "Go quickly, go quickly, and report immediately if there is any news."

Lu Zhaolin, who was in the official residence opposite, saw Wu Chengsi running away like an arrow had hit his buttocks, so he came to Yun Chu's official residence again and bowed, saying, "Thank you for your concern, my lord."

Yun Chu sighed and said, "It's not me."

Lu Zhaolin was stunned when he heard this and said, "In other words, someone is targeting the Wu brothers?"

Yun Chu raised his eyes and said indifferently: "There is nothing new in the world, and there are no secrets in Wannian County."

Lu Zhaolin let out a long sigh and said, "It is just as you said. I am a lowly official and my words do not count. Even if I wanted to participate, people would not look down on me.

My Lord, have you really put the blame on Wu Chengsi?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "It seems that Chang'an has escaped from the whirlpool this time. Of the three strategies you gave me, luckily it's the first one. As for Wu Chengsi, it will be difficult for him to escape this time."

Lu Zhaolin chuckled and said, "Since some people don't want Chang'an to get involved, we should not let them down. We, the Wannian County Government, should continue to stay out of this."

Yun Chu deeply agreed with this.

As the sun set, there was still no further news from Wu Chengsi. No matter how the Wu brothers tortured the clerk, the clerk insisted that he had not tampered with the proposal.

Things get complicated here. If it wasn't changed by the clerk, then it could have been changed by the Hundred Cavalry Division.

Yun Chu did not continue to wait for news. When the time came, he left and went home.

Those scholars who wanted to provoke Yun Chu and gain a good reputation at the doorstep finally disappeared. Among them, Yun Chu was expecting a few speculators to appear to scare the monkeys, but in the end, there was no one, which made Yun Chu laughed at by Yu Xiurong for several days.

Yun Chu stood at her own polo field and watched a women's polo match. There were many painters at the polo field today, so it seemed that there must be women with good figures playing on the field.

Yun Chu watched from the sidelines for a long time and found that many of the women playing polo today had incredibly plump buttocks. After careful study, he felt that it was impossible for an average woman to have a buttocks as plump as a watermelon, so he went home with regret.

After returning home, Fei Liu brought the tea up. Yun Chu took a sip and saw that Fei Liu turned around and actually had an exaggeratedly plump butt.

Seeing her husband looking at her, Yu Xiurong said coldly, "I didn't!"

Yun Chu sighed and said, "Everything is fake. Who would dare to be tempted by beauty in the future?"

Yu Xiurong said: "This is your daughter's business."

Yun Chu smiled bitterly and said, "How could she, who sells embroidery, ready-made clothes, and rouge and powder, think of helping those women to cheat? No wonder there seem to be so many women with big breasts and big buttocks in Chang'an City recently."

Yu Xiurong said: "Mei Yuer and Sisi went home for dinner today and said that the food cooked by the chef in the princess's mansion was not tasty."

Yun Chu said, "Our family is just a small house of less than 30 acres, and this is the result of continuous expansion over the years. A princess's mansion occupies more than 200 acres. You don't want to live in a good big house, but insist on squeezing into my house."

Yu Xiurong smiled and said, "The children are very filial, so just continue. Your husband is in a good mood today and has time to pay attention to Fei Liu's butt. It seems that the troubles are over now?"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "Just stand by and watch. Right now, the emperor is still grieving over the death of the giant bear. The prince and Naha are planting bamboos every day in Jiucheng Palace to appease His Majesty and please His Majesty.

This is good. The Tang Dynasty has its own mature bureaucratic system that can govern the Tang Dynasty well. The emperor should be sad about the passing of time, and the prince should work hard to plant bamboo. Only in this way can the world be peaceful and without trouble. "

Yu Xiurong said: "So, the Queen is the only one who is ignorant, right?"

Yun Chu looked at Yu Xiurong and said, "It's actually good for a woman to grow flowers and grass at home, study cooking, and do embroidery. But if she is too capable in politics, it will bore the men in the family."

Yu Xiurong said thoughtfully: "If that's the case, I will take my whole family to Bashang tomorrow to escape the summer heat, and by the way, I will serve Master Xuanzang who lives in Baiyun Temple."