Linzhi Gongzi [Red Mansion]

Witnessing a rivalry and jealousy, Liang Yu didn't feel bored, and curled his lips: "You want me to help you, you don't mean this?"

"How come?" Wen Yishu laughed angrily.Blinking his eyes, he added: "It's just that it has something to do with his family."

Wen Yishu pointed to the armchair next to him, motioning for Liang Yu to sit down and talk.What the maid served was not tea, but rose dew.Just take a spoonful of water and wash it away, light and transparent pink, sweet and fragrant.Liang Yu took a sip of it, and was stunned to himself: This so-called clear dew, even the concubines in the palace are only favored to get a bottle or two.

But just now he saw that the maid brought down more than one or two bottles.

If you drink something, you can talk well.As expected, Wen Yishu, a dude, would not keep his composure. He secretly tried, and said: "His Royal Highness Zhao Wang should know that the Lianghuai salt administration has always been in deficit."

Liang Yu hummed, and said bluntly: "However, I have checked these days, and the deficit in the salt administration is not unfillable. The Lianghuai Salt Director said that this is because other salt farms are not producing enough salt, and Lianghuai needs to supply other places. Salt, and the salt tax in other places has not been made up for a while."

As he spoke, he sneered: "If what I'm looking at isn't a fake ledger or a fake warehouse..."

"Seven to eight is true," Wen Yishu continued, raised a finger, and said slowly, "It's just that the money you see is not the salt tax, but my Wen family's money... My father is dead. Most of the family property that was pawned before made up for the salt tax that has been in short supply.”

Even if Liang Yu was prepared, he was also shocked at this time.There was a look of astonishment on his usually calm face.

Wen Yishu looked at his expression and showed a mean smile, "How about it, my Wen family is rich, right?"

King Zhao said nothing, and clenched his hands into fists on his knees.The smirk on Wen Yishu's face disappeared, he stared into Liang Yu's eyes, and said word by word: "However, even if it is made up like this, the shortfall that my father has filled up is only in the past three years. Your Highness, do you know In the past 20 years, how many salt taxes have been leaked out, and who have leaked into their hands!"

Liang Yu's eyes sparkled, and he gritted his teeth, "He, they, dare!"

"Why don't you dare!" Wen Yishu suddenly asked back.

"His Royal Highness, there is no need for you to be so angry when you patrol the south of the Yangtze River. I might as well say something to you. If you can still keep your faith after listening, you and I will talk about it in detail. If your heart is shaken , you left this room, and today you just heard a joke."

Realizing that what Wen Yishu said next would probably expose the sky, but Liang Yu didn't hesitate at all, but spit out two words: "Say it."

Wen Yishu snorted and raised his arm to support his chin, "Do you really want to listen?"

"Listen."

"it is good!"

Wen Yishu took a sip, took a sip of the clear dew on the table, calmed his breath, and said: "When my father was first appointed as the inspector of salt and censor, he went to Beijing secretly to expose the former Lianghuai salt administrator and the current governor of water transportation. Taihuitan, corrupted the law and deceived the court. Negligence of duties and perfunctory errands resulted in a deficit of 80 taels in the salt class. In addition, the imperial court lent 100 million taels of treasury silver to Lianghuai merchants, of which 20 taels disappeared... ..."

Liang Yu frowned and said, "I've never heard of this before."

There is no news about such a shocking thing in the court.

"Of course you don't know," Wen Yishu said quietly, looking out the window, "because this is a secret letter, which was delivered directly to His Majesty. It didn't take long for my father to receive the imperial court's approval. The cinnabar imperial pen writes, "It is better to save one thing than to make it happen, just for the present, fearing that the future will be difficult to deal with, and it will not be feasible for future generations, and it will not be feasible in the long run, so we should pay attention to it and discuss it carefully."

He probably read the reply to the memorial many times, and the handwriting on it, every swipe and swipe, was deeply imprinted in Wen Yishu's mind.Every time I think of it, it is bright red and dazzling.It's not cinnabar, it's blood, it's his father's blood!

"Salt commissioners' yamen's expenses are cleverly set up, but birthday gifts, lantern festivals, ghostwriters, empresses, family members, etc., can cost more than 100 taels a year. Don't talk about saving fees for the governor of the province, give it to the Yundao yamen The company fee, 3 taels, 2 taels is just a starting point. My father was not reconciled, and he wanted to ban leather and save fees and other superfluous fees. As a result... the instruction he got was just: "This one can't go! It must be gone!" I deeply offended the governor and the governor, and there is not much money, so why bother to accumulate harm?'”

Wen Yishu smiled and shed tears.

"Hahaha, what a 'there is not much money, why bother to accumulate harm'. Fortunately, fortunately... fortunately, I never went. If I did, what would my father use to fill the big hole in the Weaving Salt Administration? What would I use to fill it? !Hahaha!"

Maybe it was because the past was too bitter, or Wen Yishu couldn't lose his composure when he remembered it.After laughing with a hoarse voice for a while, he stopped talking, his expression was not as ostentatious as before, and he lowered his head and did not speak.

Liang Yu thought about what he had just heard, and said in a cold voice, "Go ahead."

Wen Yishu raised his head, a little surprised, "Your Highness still wants to listen?"

Liang Yu looked directly at him and said firmly, "Listen!"

"At the end of the first month of the 42nd year of Yongjia, my father sold ginseng for the first time for His Majesty, and got a total of more than [-] taels. After the beginning of spring, the money should be collected by the internal affairs. But when the ship arrived at Tongzhou Ferry, my father was told that there were no ginseng on the cargo ship. This money. A whole box of silver. My father saw the boat on board and lost it inexplicably on the river. Ha, the money in the emperor's private treasury was lost, and my father's life might be taken away. So he Go ask Taihui Tan why the good money is gone."

Wen Yishu thought of how his father's face was ashen when he came back that night, and he vomited a mouthful of blood at the gate before entering the house.He said in a cold tone: "Master Tai told my father that the 2 taels of silver were used to make up for the interest that was lent to the merchant. If my father hadn't reminded him, he would have forgotten that there is still 20 taels of silver that have not been recovered."

Liang Yu's face was livid, and he had already thought of the deal behind it.The memorials played at the hearing ceremony are secret ones, and only the prince can see them except the emperor.Taihuitan actually knew the content of Wenli's impeachment. If His Majesty hadn't informed him, then only the prince would have leaked it—and the prince and Taihuitan are relatives of their sons and daughters.

"I remember that in the spring of that year, the crown prince offered two rare green peacocks. It is said that they were bought from a merchant from the Western Regions at a cost of ten thousand taels. Now they are kept on Penglai Mountain in Daming Palace."

Wen Yishu gave a "hmm" and said: "In the autumn of 41, the prince sent someone to ask my father for more than 1 taels of silver, saying that he wanted to buy treasures to honor His Majesty, but my father refused."

What the two said was not on the same topic, but the meaning they wanted to express was already very obvious.

Liang Yu calmed down his breathing, and asked, "Then what happened to the ginseng money?"

"Naturally, we have to make up for it," Wen Yishu said lazily, "It's only 2 taels of silver. The gold selling cave in Yangzhou city is just a night's expense."

With a sneer, he said, "It's just that after my father died, he no longer dared to dictate the reform of the salt government. Spend a handful of money to buy a lesson, haha, it's worth it!"

"I understand." Liang Yu stood up and looked directly at Wen Yishu, "I still have doubts about some things. It's getting late now, and I'll look for you tomorrow."

Wen Yishu looked at Liang Yu's calm face and said with a smile: "Your Highness, do you really understand? You know where the people you want to investigate come from, and the people standing behind them, do you want to continue to investigate?"

"Yes, no matter who it is, I will investigate." Seeing disbelief on Yishu's face, Liang Yu's tone was light, "You told me to take revenge all day long, but you want to seek justice for your father? If that's the case, don't You should doubt me so much."

Wen Yishu laughed, played with his fingers and said, "Your Highness, you are not my only choice."

Liang Yu's eyes fell on Wen Yishu's fingers, and he said, "But now I am your best choice."

Amused by this sentence, Wen Yishu stood up and approached Liang Yu, with a low tone, "In this case, I will send His Highness another message. Since His Highness came to Jiangnan, he has been blocking His Highness from asking you to go to some places The thieves are Jiangning Economic Strategy Envoy Zhen Yingjia and Master Zhen's subordinates. The person in charge of dispatching is Jiangnan Xuanfu Envoy Binglai."

"Binglai?"

"That's right," Wen Yishu elongated his voice, almost leaning on Liang Yu, "He used to be my father's subordinate Yuntong, and he was promoted after my father's death. His son, here , just that one just now. Coincidentally, I just happened to know some tricks about him."

Liang Yu narrowed his eyes, looked at Wen Yishu who was half a head shorter than himself, and felt that his current blooming face was a little bit hateful.The crescent-like eyes are full of cunning, and there is also a seductive fish rippling in the water.

"Your Highness, if you want to investigate their corruption, you won't be able to. If you want to make a breakthrough, you might as well start from other places."

Liang Yu put his hand on his shoulder, took a step back, and showed a rare relaxed expression that night, "Anywhere else to attack? By the way, help you get rid of a... infatuated little love?"

"Xiaoqinger?" Wen Yishu frowned disdainfully, curled his lips, "Just him?"

He didn't finish his sentence, but his eyes clearly showed dislike, dislike of Liang Yu's aesthetics and taste.

At this moment, Liang Yu broke free from the ambiguous atmosphere created by Wen Yishu.When he reached the door, he looked back at the young man who was still thinking about it, smiled and closed the door and left.

The author has something to say: I am very bad at naming names.I always look for the protagonist's name on the fortune-telling website.Wen Yishu's name is taken from Quan Deyu's "Gua Mingshi" "Zhi Yi tired book cover, walk the whole mountain towel".Several of his servants are famous rivers and lakes, which shows the determination of this man to roam around _(:зゝ∠)_.

The few supporting characters that appear now are all homophonic.

Zhao Qiaoze: looking for extortion

Bingyou: Patient

Taihuitan: too greedy

I can't bear to look at myself so shriveled, (ノへ￣、) cover my face

In addition, Emperor Yongjia's reply to Wenli used the reply Kangxi gave to Cao Yin back then.Cao Yin's heart to rectify the salt administration was poured with cold water by his master, and he never mentioned reforming the salt administration.Afterwards, Kangxi continued to tour the south again, and the hole could never be repaired.Emperor Yongjia actually used his wealth~