Willing to be hired by Jiangshan

Big ambition

Not long after the letter was sent, Liang Yanwen went to Beijing.

Yan Xi opened the door and was stunned for a long time before recognizing him by his figure, "Brother?"

Liang Yanwen smiled and gave him a hug.

The two brothers entered the room, gesticulating and exchanging greetings, "Why is brother here? Send someone to deliver a letter in advance so that I can pick you up!"

"No problem, you left your address in the letter, so it's not hard to find." Liang Yanwen gestured, "Brother, I'm here for the two Zhejiang salt fields and mines."

"How?" Yan Xi took a pen and paper and handed it to him.

Liang Yanwen wrote: "Cao Jingren, the former prefect of Suzhou, was dismissed by the emperor a month ago for privately purchasing Yantian. Later, under the protection of Fu Zhuo, he became a salt transport envoy. Those salt fields were not purchased by Cao Jingren, but by the Minister of the Ministry of War. Jiayan blamed it. Yantian’s profit is not small, but it is far from enough to support the army’s expenses. Fu Zhuo’s way of making money is mining. Half of the gold and silver mines in the northwest are in his hands. These places are besieged It’s so airtight that ordinary people can’t go there.”

"The emperor doesn't know?" Yan Xi clicked his tongue.

"The sky is high and the emperor is far away. He has cut off all news transmission. How does the emperor know?"

"How did the elder brother know?" Yan Xi wondered.

Liang Yanwen was obviously stunned by the question, he was taken aback for a moment, and wrote: "I just happened to hear what Cao Jingren said that day."

Yan Xi frowned, "It would be great if I could know the locations of these mines."

Liang Yanwen wrote: "This matter is not urgent, it needs to be discussed in the long term. I will inquire after my brother returns."

"Thank you, brother." Yan Xi recalled what happened to Gu Tingzhi and asked, "Did brother tell Gu Tingzhi to be more on guard?"

For some reason, Yan Xi felt that Liang Yanwen's face became extremely ugly for a moment.

"Don't worry, he has been notified."

In this way, he was relieved.

In fact, Liang Yanwen was right, there was no rush for this matter.The most convenient way is for him to pretend to submit to Fu Zhuo and gain his trust.Whether it is to get the distribution map of the mines or Fu Zhuo's private troop deployment and control map, half of the battle is won.What's more, the transfer of officials is under the control of the Ministry of Officials. Although the factional disputes in the court have reached the point of blatantly, the appointment of personnel to some important positions is still extremely secretive.Not to mention Xiang Jiayan, even the emperor may not know if there is Fu Zhuoan's eyeliner by his side.

Yan Xi didn't know how much Lin Rongchen knew about this matter, nor did he know whether Lin Rongchen trusted him.After thinking about it, I feel that the matter is of great importance, and it is appropriate to go to Datian to listen.He asked for a face-to-face saint several times, but Eunuch Zhou refused on the grounds that the emperor was very busy these days and had no time to see him.

The last time I saw Lin Rongchen was because of Li Yuan's affairs. He even slapped his face swollen and made him fat again. He accused Lin Rongchen of being a puppet emperor. He spoke impassionedly and filled with righteous indignation, which made him furious and drew his sword at each other.Later, for some reason, I suppressed my anger and started drinking with him.As for what happened after drinking, he really had no memory at all.

Today, Lin Rongchen has not summoned him for half a month, which is unprecedented.

The more Yan Xi thought about it, the more anxious he became. Did he really say something more serious than forcing Lin Rongchen to draw his sword?

Today happened to be the first day of the new year, and after the court, Yan Xi ran faster than anyone else, and went to intercept Lin Rongchen behind the Mingde Palace.

"emperor!"

Lin Rongchen turned a deaf ear and walked like flying.

Yan Xi took a shortcut and blocked in front of him, "Why doesn't the emperor see the humble minister?"

Lin Rongchen stopped and looked at him indifferently, his eyes... were very strange, even stranger and colder than when he first met Yan Xi, "I didn't see you, didn't you come too?"

Yan Xi didn't have time to care about the etiquette of the monarch and his ministers, as for Lin Rongchen's sudden change of attitude, he just thought it was something he said when he was drunk last time, which annoyed people: "But what did the humble minister say last time to anger the emperor? "

"No!" Lin Rongchen denied it. "I've been very busy recently, so I don't have time to listen to you and read classics and history."

"My minister has something very important to report!" It's not like he can only speak and read. "About the Grand Master."

"Yuanzheng!" Lin Rongchen didn't want to hear it.

Eunuch Zhou stepped forward helplessly, "Lord Yan, if the emperor is free, he will summon you! Why don't you go back first?"

Yan Xi said urgently: "Your Majesty, the matter is of great importance. No matter what the humble minister said before, the emperor should not get angry with the humble minister at this time and delay the important matter."

Lin Rongchen stopped, "I listen to you."

Yan Xi lowered his voice, "The Taishi secretly opened mines, all over the northwest..."

"I see, you step back!" Lin Rongchen didn't even give him a chance to finish his sentence.

"Your Majesty!" His reaction to such a big matter was too flat, so he didn't take it seriously?

"Yan Xi, these things are beyond your control, and it's not your responsibility. Just do your part." Lin Rongchen brushed past him expressionlessly, but his body was stiff as if he didn't listen handle.Is he desperate?Actually secretly investigated Fu Zhuo!Besides, if he needs to tell these things, he really doesn't have to be the emperor.

After walking a long distance, Lin Rongchen paused, "Has he left?"

Eunuch Zhou looked back, Yan Xi was still standing there, "Not yet. The emperor hasn't summoned Lord Yan for half a month, so he must think that something happened."

What happened was--

The next day after drinking, he received a message from Zhao Xun.The spies who secretly monitored Fu Zhuo reported that Fu Zhuo sent people to Gusu and Yutian, as if to investigate Yan Xi and Li Xingzhi.Sure enough, not long after, Liang Yanwen entered Beijing.Not only went to Beijing, but also went to Taishifu.

On the day Liang Yanwen left Beijing, Lin Rongchen met him in disguise.

After that, he summoned Zhao Xun into the palace again. He didn't know what the two of them said, but when Zhao Xun came out, his expression was very serious.

It was also from that day that Eunuch Zhou discovered that Lin Rongchen had suffered from insomnia again.Sleeping until midnight, I still heard him muttering, "There are some things I haven't thought about yet."

Lin Rongchen was never procrastinating in his work, and after a few days, he made a decision and secretly summoned Liang Yanwen to Beijing.Of course, this secret refers to keeping it from everyone, including Yan Xi.

Yan Xi even felt that Liang Yanwen must have just returned to Suzhou, and he might not even have time to drink a cup of hot tea, so he turned around and went out, and came to the capital again.But the news brought by Liang Yanwen made him too worried, so that he didn't think about how he found it in such a short period of time.

"What are you talking about! Fu Zhuo is really planning to rebel?!" Yan Xi only guessed that Fu Zhuo was raising military expenses and hoarding food and grass for this purpose, but he never expected that he had already started to take actual actions.No wonder Lin Rongchen's reaction was so indifferent when he told Lin Rongchen about Fu Zhuo's mining last time. It turned out that he knew about it a long time ago, and the situation was far more serious than what he said!

Liang Yanwen nodded and gestured, "I'm afraid the number is quite a lot. Once the time is right, I'm afraid...the consequences will be unimaginable."

"No wonder the emperor seems to be in a bad mood recently. Is there no way to stop it?"

"Stop it?" Liang Yanwen shook his head, "I'm afraid...not. Most of Yunchu's troops are in the hands of Fu Zhuo, and the emperor's confrontation with him is like hitting a stone with an egg."

"If, if..." Yan Xi hesitated to speak.

Liang Yanwen took the rest of the conversation for him, "If I can get the location map of the mine, will I be able to draw my salary from the bottom of the pot?"

Yan Xi nodded.

"It's not enough to draw a salary from the bottom of the pot. After all, the centipede is dead but not stiff, but at least it can give him a heavy blow and buy him a little longer. It's not that the emperor has not sent people to check those mines, all of which have been gone and nothing has been found. "Liang Yanwen looked at Yan Xi, saw that his expression had changed, and wrote, "Could it be that you want to..."

"I'm afraid that's the quickest and easiest way!"

"No way!" Liang Yanwen shook his head, his gestures became confused in anxiety, "He has so many civil servants and generals, why should he let you take risks? Absolutely not!"

"Brother!" Yan Xi looked at Liang Yanwen and smiled, but there was a stubbornness in his eyes that he was very familiar with. He really...hasn't changed at all. "You said if my grandfather was here, would he agree with me to do this?"

Liang Yanwen was dumbfounded.After a long time, he said in a muffled voice, "Is it really because of your grandfather's teaching that you helped him so much?"

Yan Xi's heart was beating wildly, and he didn't dare to think about the deep meaning behind these words, and said with a smile: "I heard a few words a few days ago, and I don't know if I can try it."

"What?"

"Set up your mind for the heaven and earth, set up your destiny for the life and the people, follow the sages of the past, and create peace for the world!"

Hearing this, Liang Yanwen was shocked all over, his face was a little scary pale, and said: "How do you know these four sentences."

Yan Xi said: "How can I say that I'm also a number one scholar. What's so strange after reading these few sentences? My brother is so surprised?"

Liang Yanwen breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to gesture: "It's just that I didn't expect you to have such great ambitions."

"Great ambition?" Yan Xi remembered the King Yi that Lin Rongchen told him, and said with a smile, "The emperor once said that His Royal Highness King Yandan Yi made this his lifelong ambition when he was seven years old. Compared with him, I am nothing worth mentioning." .”

Liang Yanwen didn't seem to be interested in King Yi and his ambitions, so he changed the subject and said, "If you really want to help the emperor, you are willing to do your part for my brother."

"Thank you, brother!" Yan Xi said happily.He was eager to do something for Lin Rongchen, and ignored Liang Yanwen, who was usually not sociable. Why was he so good at finding out the news?Or, he thinks that everyone has their own uniqueness, and collecting information may be what Liang Yanwen is best at.

"how do you want to do it?"

"I haven't thought of it yet." Although Yan Xi has a plan to gain Fu Zhuo's trust and break into the interior, he has no idea how to make Fu Zhuo trust him, "The last time Qiu Zhonghai asked me to help him get rid of Gu Tingzhi... "

Liang Yanwen: "You don't want to, and you can't bear it. Although you haven't met him, you appreciate his talent and think that Gu Tingzhi is deeply loved by the emperor. In this way, the emperor may misunderstand you. Besides, there is Di Qiu Princess."

"Sure enough, no one knows me better than elder brother." Yan Xi smiled bleakly.

Liang Yanwen: "Since that's the case, you should plan first, and you must let me know when you make a decision."

The author has something to say: I wish everyone a happy Lantern Festival!