Better to live forever [Rebirth]

After Qin Xi and Jia Jiaming returned from Jiangling, everyone felt the changes in them.

They look like they've moved on from the hurt, but they both know they're just hiding it.Like carved jade, only the pain of the skin can be polished to a round luster, they are all growing.

In October, the eldest prince Rui Wang and the fourth prince Lin Wang returned to Luojing from Yangguang and Guangzhou.

Originally, in August, the disaster situation in Yangguang area had been calmed down, and they could retire with success.They stayed in Yangzhou and Guangzhou for two months because of the emperor's secret order, asking them to assist the imperial envoy to supervise the merchants in Yangzhou and Guangzhou, and beware of someone taking the opportunity to make trouble.After two months of fighting wits and courage, the sudden rise in food prices was suppressed by the emperor's strong means.

But even so, the price of grain is still higher than before. If they want to completely fall back to the average price set by the imperial court, unless the imperial court releases grain to supplement demand, they can only wait for the next year's bumper harvest.

The imperial court's treasury is currently tight, and it is impossible to release grain. It can only minimize the damage by forceful means.

Among them, there was one thing that Zhu Dingbei was quite concerned about.

"The Cheng family's business in Yangzhou has declined?"

The Yangzhou Cheng family he was talking about was the family of Cheng Wen's father who left a blood letter last year exposing the fraud in the imperial examination.Because of Cheng Wen's death, the imperial court also issued some compensation but did not pay attention to Cheng's family.But the Su family fell down, and local wealthy businessmen like the Cheng family should take the opportunity to grow stronger, but it just came to an end.

Ning Heng hooked the corners of his mouth and told him: "The Su family is the most wealthy businessman in Yangzhou Prefecture, and there are countless families who depend on him to survive. Once he falls, my Ning family has its own way of doing business and will no longer use them. They think This property was confiscated by the imperial court, and they dared not do unnecessary things, so this grievance naturally fell on the Cheng family."

As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents.Cheng Wen's action ruined a champion of the Su family, made Yangzhou students feel ashamed, and made these merchants directly cut off the mutually beneficial business with the Su family. They twisted together to target, and it was only a matter of time before the Cheng family fell.

Zhu Dingbei understood, and then he also left the Cheng family behind, and instead asked what he had been thinking about all along: "Is there no clue about the inferior bank case?"

Ning Heng shook his head.

This was beyond Ning Heng's expectations. Emperor Zhenyuan had secretly entrusted the case to the Ning family for investigation two months ago, but the Ning family investigated a lot of circulating silver in the market, but they did not find out the whereabouts of this batch of silver. .

Thirty percent of the national treasury holds silver, tens of millions of taels of silver. Even if the silver thieves rework them and break them into broken silver or jewelry, as long as this batch of silver is used, there will be no traces.

But now that the Ning family can't be visited anywhere in Dajing, there are only two possibilities.

The other party acted carefully, sealed up the silver and did not use it.Or, this batch of silver flowed outside the territory of Dajing Kingdom.

If it's the latter... Ning Heng squinted his eyes, even the Ning family would never be kind to him.

Zhu Dingbei chuckled: "I'm afraid the emperor hasn't slept well in the past six months."

Someone actually secretly exchanged the national treasury bank under his nose, without anyone noticing, so as long as that person wants to, he can quietly kill him at any time.The palace, it seems, is not watertight.

Ning Heng heard that the gloomy tone in his tone was not aimed at His Majesty, but at those daring people. After thinking about it, he didn't think of the truth to appease him, so he took out a silver ingot from his sleeve pocket and handed it to him.

"Give me money for what?"

That being said, Zhu Dingbei was not slow at all in grabbing Yuanbao.

Ning Heng suppressed a smile, pretended to clear his throat and coughed, and said to him: "Baoyin, didn't you mean that you want to see that you can confuse real money with fake ones?"

Zhu Dingbei was astonished, and shook the heavy silver in his hand, "Fake?!"

Still in disbelief, he looked at the silver ingot carefully, and then checked the Tongnian seal under the gold ingot, but he didn't hear a sound during the violent shaking, so he sighed: "I don't blame people who point silver ingots for being confused, they can't see it at all." is fake."

Ning Heng nodded.

The craftsmanship of this batch of inferior silver is really high-end, unless they are smashed, it is impossible to tell the authenticity.The treasury's silver is jointly produced by the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry, and it is sent to the treasury for storage after layers of supervision. There is absolutely no possibility of counterfeiting, so there is no second reason for this batch of bad silver except that someone stole the treasury silver. possibility.

Zhu Dingbei smashed the bad silver with a hammer, and saw the mixed color of copper powder and stone powder inside. Throwing away the hammer, he frowned and said: "There are too many things that tens of millions of taels of silver can do."

No one knows who stole the silver taels and what they want to do with them. If the case is not closed as soon as possible, it will be really worrying.

Zhu Dingbei looked back and thought about it, and still told the old Hou Ye about this. The old Hou Ye was shocked, and immediately listened to his grandson's words and sent a letter to Xianbei Mansion.

He also thought of Ning Heng's guess. It would be fine if those people hid the money, but if it really got into the hands of foreign enemies, the threat would be too great.In addition to a traitor and collaborator General Li Ping in the Dajing Dynasty, he would not be surprised if there was a second Li Ping in the court.What's more, the foundation of the Li family in the imperial court has not been ruined. If those people have cooperated with the enemy like Li Ping, maybe they stole the silver from the treasury this time.

And no matter whose human skin they are wearing, the border defense of the northern border cannot be broken.

Zhu Zhenliang almost fell off his chair after receiving the letter.

"Boss?"

Zhu Fan was taken aback.

Zhu Zhenliang waved his hand, read the letter again, and said obediently: "There is actually someone in this world who can do such a thing, and Zhu has learned a lot today." He sighed inexplicably, and then looked at the lieutenant general Said: "Please come over, the military division."

"Boss, Master Military Advisor, he..."

"What? Still sick?"

Zhu Zhenliang frowned.

Gu Chaoan's illness has not recovered after a month.Thinking of what his wife said to him after returning from the doctor's visit last night, he wrinkled his face and got up to go to the military division's tent.

When he opened the curtain and came in, Gu Chaoan was holding a book and wandering away. Zhu Zhenliang moved his nose and said harshly: "What kind of smell, you can actually sit in it. Could it be that your sick nose is blocked?" He waved his hand in disgust.

Gu Chao'an sneered, "Master Commander once lay in ambush in the snow for nine days, and he took all his shit in his trouser pocket, yet he dared to despise my scholarly fragrance."

Zhu Zhenliang: "...Fart! It's at your feet! At your feet!"

Gu Chao'an withdrew his gaze, and landed on the scroll in his hand again.The pages are yellowed and old.Beside him is a box that has not been opened for a long time. There are many books in it. It has been neglected by the owner for many years. The indescribable musty smell is coming out of the box.

Zhu Zhenliang buckled the box, sat directly on the lid of the box, and said in a bad tone: "It's too late to regret it now, who told you to avoid seeing the old man last time. Now it's all right, and I didn't even see the last one."

Gu Chao'an's eyes suddenly turned red, "I've seen it before. He knew I was here, and he even sent someone to give me my favorite chestnut cake. It was hardened when he brought it from the capital, and it was as unpalatable as a stone. "

Zhu Zhenliang didn't know what to say for a while.

Gu Chao'an buried his head in silence for a while, and then said in a muffled voice: "Recently, I always think about the past, so I realize that I... also owe a lot of people, but it's too late to make up for it."

He has been living in hatred these years, feeling that everyone has betrayed him and is sorry for him.

In fact, it's just the unworthy person.

Why couldn't he let it go, but blinded him, and missed so many things and so many people.

The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop, the child wants to support but the relatives don't wait, there is nothing more painful than this in the world.

Zhu Zhenliang put his hand on his head hesitantly, and said uncomfortably: "Then sister-in-law said, you have a heart disease, and no one can help you except you. Besides, my father said, Uncle Chen is leaving It was pretty good when he died, and he didn't suffer much."

It can only be said that Mr. Chen Gel, who is picky about everything, was too tricky in selecting his disciples, and picked two of the most extraordinary people.But now a disciple and the Ninth Five-Year Master gradually became strangers to him, and this proud student was reduced to anonymity and wandering.

Gu Chao'an: "Master, the old man will never wrong himself. It's hard for others to suffer for him. It's just... I said that I would give him a pension until the end of his life, but I broke my promise."

Zhu Zhenliang withdrew his hand, "Didn't Uncle Chen take in a new disciple? I heard that the boy is more promising than you, and he has performed filial piety for the old man for three years. If you are worried that the old man has no money to spend down there, give him a gift." It’s just a little supplement.”

Gu Chao'an said angrily: "Fuck off! I won't recognize what kind of bullshit Junior Brother! The old man is the same. He clearly promised that those books would be left to me in the future, and he turned around and gave them to others."

Speaking of this, he was caught off guard, and tears fell.

Zhu Zhenliang was at a loss, wondering: "What are you arguing with a child?"

"Whoever fights, it's a waste to give it to me."

Gu Chao'an wiped away his tears, straightened up and said, "I think of burning incense sticks in front of his grave."

How could Zhu Zhenliang refuse to agree, seeing that he was burning with anxiety, he ordered a few people to escort him, and waited until the military adviser left in a hurry, then he slapped his head: "I forgot the business!"

Zhenyuan 23 years, November.

Hu Erduo, the Queen Mother of the Huns, retreated to live alone in the name of old age. The new king of the Huns, who was only 20 years old, took over the government.

After the news came out, it aroused fear from all parties.

Zhu Dingbei was startled, the new king chosen by Hu Erdu turned out to be such a tyrannical person, and his behavior style was even worse than that of the previous Xiongnu king.

At the same time, another major case broke out in the settled area of ​​Beihai.

According to the confession of the pirate leader who was captured alive, the two ships of the Pingzhou Army were stolen because a high-ranking official in Pingzhou made a deal with the pirates.

The author has something to say: [Quack, Mr. Chen Ge's first two apprentices are both ruthless characters.