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King Qing stepped into the hall in high spirits.

He ignored Guo Lian who was standing and waiting, picked up the tea by himself, and took a deep sip pretending to be respectful.

It was the first time that Guo Lian was so humble in front of King Qing, and he felt that his old face was going to be completely humiliated.

He was resentful in his heart, but he managed to force a smile on his face, which was extremely ugly.

"The next official sees the prince."

King Qing raised his eyelids and looked at him, with a smile that was not a smile, "Master Guo, you are a rare visitor! You are not on duty at the Yamen today, why did you come to my place?"

"My lord, I came here uninvited. I really want to ask for something." Guo Lian lowered his old face, "Dare to ask your lord, why do you want to arrest the dog?"

King Qing was surprised: "Your son committed a serious crime of beheading, and you, as the chief of a government, want to shield him?"

Guo Lian shook his head and said with a smile: "Your Majesty doesn't know, the dog's move is just to catch the salt dealer, not really selling private salt, you misunderstood."

King Qing choked, the old fox was worthy of being an old fox, black can be called white!

Fortunately, his clever Yu'er was well prepared!

"Your son is white and has no official position. If he wants to participate in government operations, even if he is your own son, he must produce official documents. The king has sent someone to the government office to ask if there is a document assigning your son to handle the case."

If there is no document, it is impossible to prove whether Guo Tang is really just fishing to enforce the law. Even if this can be proved in the end, if there is no document, it is also an omission in the case handling procedures, and Guo Lian cannot absolve himself of the blame.

Guo Tang wasn't there to handle the case, so of course he didn't assign any documents.

Guo Lian came in a hurry, and the excuse he just thought of was that he didn't make sufficient preparations, and was so stunned by King Qing that he couldn't say a word.

He was silent for a while, and said in a hoarse voice: "The salt dealer is cunning, and he has priorities, and the officials have no time to issue documents."

He just heard that Guo Tang was arrested by King Qing for the crime of selling smuggled salt, but he didn't know the details, and his words were full of loopholes without knowing it.

King Qing suddenly threw his cup on the ground and said angrily, "Guo Lian! How long are you going to cover up! This is a serious crime of confiscating one's family and exterminating one's family!

"As an official of the imperial court, you are mediocre, indulge Guo Tang to steal official salt privately, collude with salt dealers, and there are all witnesses and material evidence, how dare you quibble!

"This king has already reported all his crimes in the memorial and sent them to the capital immediately! If you continue to cover up, I'm afraid you will lose more than just a black hat!"

After shouting, King Qing felt refreshed all over.

Seeing Guo Lian's instant fatigue and pale face, he really wanted to look up to the sky and laugh.

"My lord, these are frame-ups!" Guo Lian's eyes turned red with anger.

He has been in an ups and downs career for many years, and after a little thought, he knew that Guo Tang was young and frivolous, and fell into the opponent's trick.

It was he who underestimated King Qing!

King Qing smiled lazily.

"Guo Lian, don't think that the king doesn't know how much profit you have made from the official salt these years. Guo Tang can easily transport [-] catties of raw salt. If you say that you are not behind it, who will believe it?

"Government and business collusion, do you think the emperor can tolerate you? Do you think the emperor will not order a thorough investigation of the Gyeongju Salt Field if this matter is heard by the emperor?

"Guo Lian, you're done!"

Dasheng private salt has been banned repeatedly, and the key reason is the collusion between government and businessmen.

Illegal salt merchants cooperated with local officials, and local officials sent filial piety to their superiors, bribed them layer by layer, and officials and officials protected each other, which led to more rampant salt smuggling.

If you want to say who in the world hates private salt the most, it must be the emperor!

Officials can get money, but the emperor can't!The money was all snatched from the treasury!

Can the emperor hate it?

Guo Lian is the governor of a government, and the salt field is right under his nose, so how could he not get a share of the pie?

If people do not know, unless they do nothing.His collusion with the salt merchants will definitely leave traces.

Now being scolded by King Qing, Guo Lian's first reaction was not anger, but guilt and panic.

If King Qing really had the evidence of his crime and personally played this game of chess to put Guo Tang in prison, would he still have a chance to survive?

Cold sweat rolled down his forehead.

Before he had time to think about it, he bent down and bowed.

"My lord, please let the dog go!"

King Qing continued to put on airs, "Your son is bold and bold. As a subject, I eat the king's salary, so I should share your worries. You betrayed the emperor and were greedy for money. How can I let you go?"

They are all old foxes in the officialdom, who doesn't know who?

Guo Lian immediately stated: "The lower officials have been operating in Gyeongju for many years, and the secret agents of the court are all driven by the lower officials. After today, they will definitely be deaf and blind."

That is to say, those eyes and ears of the imperial court will no longer monitor the Prince Qing's Mansion in the future, or will no longer submit real information.

King Qing suppressed his excitement and sneered, "I don't understand."

He didn't believe the verbal promise at all.

Guo Lian bowed: "Please enlighten me, my lord."

King Qing held up the teacup, "I have a method. Not only will the official salt not be in short supply in the future, but also more raw salt can be provided for sale."

Guo Lian's reselling of private salt will inevitably lead to a reduction in the amount of official salt, and the profit of official salt will be lost.

This kind of loss, no matter how powerful Guo Lian is, he can't make up for it, unless the salt production in Gyeongju far exceeds the national standard.

Hearing this, Guo Lian was dumbfounded.

"My lord is not joking, is he?"

King Qing looked at him coldly: "I seem to be joking? Could it be that you don't want to earn more profit?"

Guo Lian didn't believe it at all.

But in the situation before him, he couldn't help but believe it.

He committed the felony of beheading, and once the emperor finds out, he will be ransacked and exterminated.What's more, his only son is still in the hands of King Qing.

If you can preserve your official position and keep your financial resources just by passing wrong information to the court, why not do it?

And even if the imperial court's eyes and ears are removed, how much trouble can Prince Qing's Mansion create?

After all, even if King Qing wanted to rebel, would he have the ability? !

Guo Lian was full of ghosts, but he complimented him on the face: "The prince is the master of Qingzhou, so naturally the prince has the final say on the salt field."

Don't you just want a piece of the pie?He gave!

"That's wrong," King Qing said in a serious tone. "The salt field belongs to the imperial court. This king is just sharing the court's worries and increasing salt production."

Guo Lian laughed in his heart.

"What the lord said is reasonable. Since this is the case, I wonder if the lord can let the dog go? If the dog collides today, the next official will ask him to make up for the lord."

In a word, Guo Tang's crime has changed from selling illegal salt to crashing a car.

King Qing's smile deepened: "There's no rush."

"My lord?"

King Qing's eyes fell on the outside of the hall, "My son, I will let someone take care of him. Since you have shown sincerity, this king will naturally not break his promise."

Guo Lian felt something and turned to look.

The young prince walked in slowly. He had beautiful eyes, was dressed in a moon-white costume, and moved his hands and feet, showing a bit of grandeur and elegance.

Guo Lian bowed to him: "Your Majesty has seen His Royal Highness."

King Qing said at the right time: "Starting tomorrow, the prince will lead three hundred government soldiers to the salt field to use the new method to increase salt production. Master Guo, do you think it is feasible?"

Guo Lian: "..."

It's doable, mother!

Lou Yu smiled warmly: "Master Guo, Guo Tang and I have known each other since we were young, and we have a deep friendship. In order to get him out of the crime as soon as possible, I will do my best."

Shit father and son!

Guo Lian scolded furiously in his heart, and he held back and said, "I will entrust the prince to take care of that dog."

A yellow-haired child actually wants to increase salt production?What a fool's dream!

Lou Yu knew very well that the threat of hostages and charges could only make Guo Lian temporarily compromise.

But what if you add the huge profits that are rolling in?

He wanted to tie Guo Lian to this chain of interests to protect Prince Qing's mansion.

After reaching an agreement with Guo Lian, Lou Yu returned to the East Courtyard.

Feng Erbi came to report: "Your Highness, Sun Jingwen asks to see you."

Lou Yu was taken aback for a moment, almost not remembering who Sun Jingwen was.

The quiet and delicate appearance of the little girl appeared in my mind, and I couldn't help but my eyes lit up: "Please!"

After a while, Sun Jingwen came in with the wooden box in her hand, and was about to kneel down and salute.

"There's no need for these formalities," Lou Yu said with a gentle expression, "Is it all done?"

Sun Jingwen nodded, she was wearing a beggar's tattered clothes, and her hands were blue from the cold.

Lou Yu couldn't bear it anymore, took the wooden box, and told Feng Erbi: "Take Miss Sun to wash up quickly, and come here after dressing warmly."

The two took orders to retreat.

Lou Yu took out the drawing paper and unfolded it slowly, the overall layout of Gyeongju City was clearly reflected in his pupils.

The key buildings in Fucheng are clear at a glance.

Prince Qing's Mansion is located in the south of the center of the city, while the magistrate's yamen is located on the central axis. From the geographical location, one can tell which is stronger and which is weaker.

There are four gates in Gyeongju City, east, west, north, south, among which the north gate faces the barbarian enemies in the north and has the strictest defense.

But Lou Yu knew very well that it was not the northern barbarians who broke through the Gyeongju government five years later, but the uprising army.

The rebel army colluded with the salt dealers. The former attacked from the south gate, and the latter led the salt workers to break through the east gate, and Gyeongju Mansion collapsed instantly.

The garrison of Qingzhou Prefecture is only one thousand, plus the 4000 soldiers of King Qing’s Mansion, a total of [-] people, how could it be possible to defeat tens of thousands of rebels?

And the rebel army attacked Gyeongju Prefecture also for the benefit of the saltworks.

When Lou Yu went to the saltworks, one was to profit from the salt, and the other was to find out the details of the saltworks.

Time was running out, and we were going to the salt field tomorrow, Lou Yu didn't want to delay, so he called everyone together in the east yard.

Li Shu went to the farm with him once, and he seemed to regard him as his master, expressing his loyalty: "This subordinate is willing to lead three hundred soldiers to protect Your Highness!"

"Okay." Lou Yu smiled warmly and asked the others, "Who else is willing to go together?"

Needless to say, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone all knelt down to express their views.

Not to be outdone, Yang Ji'an said, "Your Highness, I want to go too!"

There was only one Huo Yan left, and everyone looked at him.

Huo Yan: "...um."

After the personnel were assembled, Lou Yu left four people with pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

"Erbi is going with me this time. Sanmo stays in the city and pays attention to all the movements of the Guo Mansion. Ah Zhi goes to Tianzhuang to continue teaching Lin Dajing how to read characters. Ah Yan..."

"Your Highness, I want to go!" A Yan was afraid of being left behind, so she hurriedly begged.

"Alright." Lou Yu nodded.

One more of him is not much, one less of him is not more.

Lou Yu waved away the others, leaving only Feng Sanmo.Feng Sanmo contributed a lot to the success of this plan.

"Sanmo, the Guo family has eyes and ears, and we need eyes and ears, do you understand?"

Feng Sanmo was firm and fearless: "Your Highness, please give me instructions!"

"This time we are fighting with the Guo family, without you secretly listening, things would not have gone so smoothly."

Lou Yu said in a deep voice: "I hope you can take charge of Anbu and cultivate more eyes and ears for me. Would you like it?"

Feng Sanmo suddenly knelt down, and said without hesitation: "I will definitely live up to His Highness's trust!"

Lou Yu helped him up, and solemnly asked: "From now on, you will only obey my orders, remember?"

"Slave obeys orders!"

Lou Yu's eyes are deep.

The amount of money needed to develop his power is countless, no matter what, he has to take down the saltworks!