The Bandit Gentleman of the Red Chamber

Recently, today's admiral handed over the matter of the officials' arrears to himself, and Ji Wen could only say that he was both sad and happy.

The sad thing is that this incident is really a very offending errand. Officials who owe money to the Ministry of Accounts range from first-rank public officials to ninth-rank officials, and he who collects the bills is tantamount to offending them all from top to bottom. Over and over again, in the end the money went to the treasury, but he was responsible for the infamy.

There are two joys, one is that Jinshang can hand over such an important matter to him, which is enough to show the trust in him; I saw Lin Chen.

It's ridiculous to say that the two of them hadn't made it clear before and they could meet each other every day, but when he finally poured out his heart to Lin Chen, after the two of them played harmoniously, the days when they met became more and more rare.Now it's just a meeting during business leisure time, which is enough to make him happy.

Before recovering the arrears, the accounts must be checked first. The time limit is tight, and the officials and officials of the Ministry of Accounting have also moved from their duty rooms to the lobby. A group of people is divided into several groups, and a group of people takes turns check.Although it is a bit crowded, there is no need to run around, and the office efficiency has also improved a lot.

Ji Wen, Hubu Shangshu, and the servants used a large screen to set up a corner in the lobby, and the people below sent over the aligned accounts, and they were responsible for guarding the gate.He read more than a dozen books, and was really dizzy from those messy numbers, so he got up and got out of the screen, wanting to take a walk outside to relax.

Lin Chen was checking an old account from last year with his Shangfeng. He originally turned his back to the direction of the screen, but at this moment he suddenly turned around and smiled at him, which seemed to be a tacit understanding.

Ji Wen seemed dazzled by his smile, and hurried out of the lobby, even omitting the routine patrol.

Lin Chen looked funny, and couldn't help shaking his head slightly, but when he went up to the peak and saw something wrong with the account book in his hand, he hurriedly asked, "Why did Zijia shake his head? Could it be that there is something wrong with this account book?"

Lin Chen had no choice but to make amends by saying, "There are no omissions in the account book, it's just that the lower officials checked the accounts first, which is a bit shocking."

In the past few years, the household department has been calling for poverty, always saying that there is not much silver in the treasury, and others always said that they were stingy at the time. Now that Lin Chen has experienced it himself, he knows that this statement is really true.Up to now, they have only corrected how many accounts. Even if the account department has a deficit of at least 200 million taels, when all the accumulated accounts are calculated, there will be a deficit of 2000 to [-] million taels.It is really shocking that a country's treasury is so short.

The holy benevolence allows officials of the fifth rank and above who have a difficult family to receive money and grain from the household department, as long as they sign an IOU.It's just that the present is good intentions, and the Ministry of Accounting is never in a hurry to ask for the arrears, so many officials have developed the habit of asking the Ministry of Accounts to borrow money when they are in distress.What's more, they have to borrow tens of thousands of silver from the national treasury even though they are well off tomorrow, so that they can promote benevolence and morality today.

In fact, there was such a practice before, if any official could not survive, he would borrow a sum of money from the household department to make ends meet, this was all tacitly done by everyone.It was only in the past two years that the matter of borrowing by officials was clearly decreed.

Now that the decree has been issued, the household department has no choice but to borrow, and the debtors are all prominent officials in the capital, so it is difficult for the household department to recover.After going back and forth, until today, such a staggering amount of arrears has been accumulated.

Lin Chen really didn't know how to comment on this move today. Maybe the older a person is, the better his face will be. But with a huge amount of silver, he just wants to buy himself a good reputation. It doesn't look like that early What a wise and mighty emperor would do during the years.

Now the national treasury is about to be unable to sustain it, and today I am also in a hurry, but I can't bear the face to issue an imperial decree to ask for the arrears, so I have to blame this thankless thing on my son.In this way, his face is also preserved, and the money can be recovered, but Ji Wen has to bear all the infamy...

When the imperial decree allowed everyone to borrow money, the Lin family also borrowed a sum of money from the Ministry of Households.The reason for the loan was that Lin Chen was going to get married, and Lin Hai was an upright official, and his family had no money at all. Seeing that his only son was about to be unable to marry a wife, he came up with such a wise and mighty decree. , the virtue of all peoples!

——This is also the reason why so many people turned to the household department for loans in just one or two years.

Everyone borrows, if you don't.The first is that they are not gregarious, and the second is that everyone is so poor that they have to borrow money from the household department to survive. Why can't you borrow money?Could it be that you were corrupt-accepting-bribery in office, and your family is full of stolen money?

Therefore, even if there is no shortage of money, the Lin family borrowed a full 10 taels from the household department, just for the sake of a "group".

This time Ji Wen is in charge of recovering the arrears. The household department has just calculated every arrears, and before Ji Wen comes to ask for it, the loyal prince's mansion over the years will pay the debts that he has owed to the household department over the years. The silver was delivered in boxes and boxes.

There is not much silver, only 20 taels.But there were no bank notes in it, they were all ingots of official silver, and boxes of them were piled up at the door of the household department waiting to be weighed and put into the warehouse, which was rather shocking at first glance.

Immediately afterwards, the Princess's Mansion, the Gu family, the Lin family, the Wei family, and other families, as well as officials of all sizes from the household department, also sent over the silver. Boxes of snowflakes and silver piled up neatly, blocking the entrance of the household department. It was a leak.

Prince Loyalty's repayment was a good start, and then others sent money one after another.It's just that more people are waiting and watching. I don't know if the Ministry of Household Affairs is planning to come hard this time. Although their family is not short of money, they don't want to spit it out so early.

Others are even more miserable, because they owe too much, even if they sell everything, they can't get out, so they can only live in fear day and night, hoping that the Ministry of Household Affairs will let them pass them by.

Prince Zhongheng can be counted as one of them. He is an old man who lives a chic life, and it is best to enjoy famous horses. A good horse can be worth 10,000+ taels!Although there is the filial piety of the servants, but these silvers are not enough to stop Qiantose Lord from falling in love with Ta Xuebai today, and Sa Luzi's practice tomorrow.Therefore, Prince Zhongheng took money from the House of Internal Affairs from time to time, which was not bad. Although the House of Internal Affairs was his father's private treasury, it was not his property after all. Prince Zhongheng did not dare to be too presumptuous.

But when everyone was able to get money from the household department in an open and honest manner, Prince Zhongheng felt that spring had finally come (...), and immediately brought several good horses into his mansion, which he had set his sights on a long time ago, In the suburbs of Beijing, I bought a huge horse racing village, and spent more than 200 million taels of snowflake silver boldly and neatly.When the old man was at home, he never thought about repaying the money. Just kidding, Jinkou Yuyan promised them to borrow money, but still need to pay it back? !

Who would have thought that Ji Wen, a boy who had only taken charge of the household department not long ago, would aggressively ask them for money?

The more Prince Zhongheng thought about it, the more Ji Feng became angrier. Originally, he wanted to complain to his third brother, but he didn't expect that Ji Lian also fell in love with that kid Ji Wen recently, so he returned the money by himself. up.Ji Feng had no choice but to turn to his seventh younger brother, Prince Lian, who was said to owe a lot of money.

Ji Qing, Prince of Lianjun, was sitting in the flower hall of the Prince's Mansion, his ears were filled with five elder brothers' nagging complaints, but he was still smiling like a spring breeze.Prince Zhongheng has been muttering for half an hour, and he still nods from time to time to show that he is listening carefully, without the slightest hint of impatience.

When Prince Zhongheng's complaints finally came to an end, Ji Qing said with a smile: "Although the old nine is in a hurry, he is still young and only wants to make some achievements in front of the father. Since the old nine With such a heart, those of us who are elder brothers should also cooperate."

Seeing that Prince Zhongheng's face was getting dark, Ji Qing changed the subject and said with a smile, "Fifth Brother's hands are tight, but there is still some surplus food in Yudi's house. When the time comes, give Fifth Brother 20 million. Just pay it back first. As for the rest—I think Lao Jiu is a generous person, and he will definitely not make it difficult for his brother for a little money."

This is the real brother!

Ji Feng burst into tears when he was moved by Ji Qing's generosity, grabbed his hand and sighed: "I just didn't see it wrong! Lao Qi, you are really righteous! Unlike Lao Jiu, who even kissed you Brother's money is also staring at it, it's outrageous!"

He has also made up his mind at this moment, and according to Ji Qing's intention, first pay back a small amount of money to the household department to make a show, as for the rest, he will naturally wait until he has more money before slowly paying back. .But when will he be able to have more money... It's not up to him!

The more Ji Feng thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea.He was also unambiguous, as soon as the silver from Lianjun Prince's Mansion was delivered, he added 10 taels himself, and sent it to the Ministry of Households in one go.The servants of his family who sent money to the past also said it well-in recent years, Prince Zhongheng's mansion has been married by the prince or the princess, and the Zhongfu has long been short-lived. Now the 30 taels are still their princes. He sold several of his most beloved war horses to get them together, and he really couldn't get any more.I just hope that the lords of the household department can hold their hands high and let their prince's mansion go, otherwise a majestic prince's mansion can't even maintain the top and bottom of the house, wouldn't it be an added joke?

All the officials, big and small, from the household department were speechless, and they never dared to mention the fact that Prince Zhongheng's mansion had only paid one-tenth of the arrears.

With Prince Zhongheng as an example, many people in the capital who really didn't pay and didn't want to pay back the money saw the way, and followed Prince Zhongheng's house one after another.In the past few days, people have been beating gongs and drums to repay the money to the household department, but the money they repay is often less than one-tenth of the loan, but there is a lot of trouble. It's like knowing that their family is too poor to exchange money for the Ministry of Households.

The originally methodical account collection operation of the Ministry of Accounting was disrupted all of a sudden. Now, people all over the capital not only scolded Prince Zhongdun for being cruel and mean, but even beat the old minister's coffin plan; The people who scolded the household department were all fascinated by A Duwu, and they knew how to make money when they focused on it; there were also a few families who took the initiative to repay the money at the beginning of the smile, and now they suffered a big loss...

In short, there are people who say anything, but there is no one who pays back the money honestly.

Ji Wen was very popular with these people, but what made him even more angry was his good fifth brother.Don't forget to make trouble for him at this time, isn't he his good fifth brother?Although he has experienced a lot of great things in these years, he is still young and vigorous. In a fit of anger, he decided to go door-to-door to collect debts in person. Let's see who dares to stop him!

Prince Zhongdun is young and energetic, but the people in the household department have no sperm. This kind of thing that is destined to offend people to death will not do it even if they are killed.Now that Ji Wen wanted to collect debts, they naturally tried to persuade him from the sidelines.

It's a pity that Ji Wen has already made up his mind, no matter how much the bearded Minister of the Household Department quoted scriptures and tried to persuade him, he couldn't change his mind.

The Hubu Shangshu Rong Ziliang had no other choice, he signaled his servants to continue persuading him, he said he wanted to walk, and walked out from behind the screen.He came out this time to talk to Lin Chen.

The immediate boss's immediate boss told him to go out, saying that it was impossible for him not to be curious at all.Although the Lin family and the Rong family had no personal friendship, it was the first time for Lin Chen to meet Rong Ziliang in the household department.

Lin Chen bowed to Rong Ziliang, and didn't ask him why he asked him to come out. He just put his hands aside and waited for him to speak.

Rong Ziliang first sized up Lin Chen, saw that his manner was polite and calm, and his perception of him improved a lot.He also heard that there was a newly promoted Xiaolin Bitieshi from the household department who had a good relationship with Prince Zhongdun, so Lin Chen came up with the idea. No matter whether Lin Chen's words could reach the prince's ears, he would die like a dead horse. Ma Yi once was not.

Rong Ziliang said casually: "There are priorities, and now this matter is very urgent, so I won't play tricks on you anymore. You have seen those people who owe money messing around with you these days, and now the prince is really provoked by them In a hurry, I want to condescend to ask those people to repay the money in person. This official thinks this matter is extremely inappropriate, but I have tried hard to persuade the prince with several colleagues, but the prince has not changed his mind. I have heard that Lin Family Dalang and Duke Dun You are irreversible, and this official wants to let you go through this."

Lin Chen laughed when he heard that Ji Wen was going to collect debts in person, which was also in line with his temperament. He looked calm, but he was actually a hot tempered person, and he would show it at once.It's just that Rong Ziliang is obviously the elder brother of Concubine Rong in the palace and the uncle of Prince Zhongheng. Most of the current bad things are caused by Prince Zhongheng. How can he be so kind and only think about Ji Wen's reputation?

No matter how he thought about it, Lin Chen still obediently agreed, and said: "My lord, I understand what you mean, but even my lord can't make the prince change his mind. The subordinate is just a small note, although in front of the prince It's a bit thin, but it doesn't necessarily make the prince change his mind. Besides, although collecting debts in person sounds bad, it's better than the national treasury being in the red all the time."

Although he also disapproved of Ji Wen's actions, he couldn't say it to death in front of the fifth prince's uncle who was very likely to have evil intentions.

Rong Ziliang knew that he was suspicious of his intentions, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. It is true that Prince Zhongheng is his nephew, but as the prince's life in Shengfa has declined, the friendship between the two has weakened a lot in the past few years. After all, no matter how close a nephew is, it is not as important as the future of the Rong family.This time Prince Zhongheng tripped Prince Zhongdun, and some people thought it was his idea.In the past few days, those servants didn't say anything on the surface, but which one wasn't secretly rejecting him?

The person who gave advice to Prince Zhongheng was really ruthless. With such an understatement, the painstaking efforts of so many people in the household department were completely ruined, but he was hiding behind others. The blame was entirely on the Rong family and the others. Prince Zhongheng's mansion was carried on his back.

It's just that others don't know, how can Rong Ziliang not know how wronged he is?

On the one hand, he hated his teeth, and on the other hand, he had to work hard to wash away his suspicions: "Master Xiaolin's words are modest, who doesn't know that Master Xiaolin is amazingly talented, less than fifteen is a second-class biography, such aptitude is not enough. If you are humble and stupid, then those students who are inferior to you will die of shame and indignation?"

Without giving Lin Chen a chance to speak modestly, he said, "Master Xiaolin's concerns are vaguely clear in my heart. It's just that Master Xiaolin is thinking about it. I have been the secretary of the household department for many years. Today, you trust me as a person. Now that one side is state affairs, and the other side is not even considered family affairs, how can I not know how to choose?”

"Now I have an idea here, but I don't want to ask the lord personally. If Mr. Xiao Lin has the heart, I hope to tell the lord at that time: "The prince violated the law and the common people are guilty of the same crime. Prince Zhongheng's actions have already disturbed my king's law in Dayong." Order, if everyone is as opportunistic as he is, I am afraid that the debts owed by the treasury will never be recovered. Therefore, the prince might as well make an example and directly report the behavior of Prince Zhongheng to Jinshang. There is a booklet to hand over. In this way, the universe will shine today, and there will naturally be a judgment!'”

Lin Chen was taken aback by his words - this is simply the chicken that used Prince Zhongheng as a chicken to scare monkeys!Unexpectedly, as Ji Feng's uncle, Rong Ziliang would do the same to his own nephew in order to get rid of his suspicion.

However, don't let the opportunity come in vain. Since he has clearly stated that he will cooperate with Ji Wen to cheat Prince Zhongheng in front of Jinshang, how can Lin Chen refuse such a beautiful thing?

When I was in the household department, Ji Wen usually took the opportunity of inspecting his subordinates to catch a glimpse of Lin Chen, but it was the first time Lin Chen came to the door by himself.

It was time for Ji Wen to rest, and the two of them talked in Ji Wen's duty room in the household department.There were obviously two chairs in the duty room, but the two insisted on squeezing into the same armchair.Lin Chen has grown rapidly in the past few years, and is already half taller than Ji Wen. Although Ji Wen is very dissatisfied with the height difference between the two, she is enjoying leaning against Lin Chen's arms at this moment.

The two of them were tired, Lin Chen continued to talk about the fact that Rong Ziliang found him today, and then said: "I think he meant to be serious, when the time comes, both of you will have papers to hand over, today's meeting It will definitely teach Zhongheng a lesson, and the rest of the jumping clowns will probably not dare to jump again, so your task will be easy."

Ji Wen has been working tirelessly on this matter for the past few days, but he has seen it all. Seeing that his face and waist are almost gone, it is really distressing.

Ji Wen lazily let him grope around on her body, and she also had some disdain for Rong Zirong: "This old man has made a lot of money in his tenure as Shang Shu, so I don't know how to spit out some money to help at this time For his nephew, he even took the initiative to push people into the fire pit, such a duplicitous character... If he hadn't been able to manage the household department with one hand, the emperor would not want to use him."

Although he was very annoyed by Ji Feng's matter, the two were brothers after all, it was fine to stumbling and calculating each other, but it was absolutely impossible for an outsider to not take the sons and grandsons seriously.Hmm...Lin Chen doesn't count.

Inciting people all over the capital not to repay the loan, Ji Feng would never have come up with such an idea, most likely he was used as a gun by someone and he didn't know, maybe he thought he was taking advantage of it.

On the one hand, Ji Wen felt a headache because of his fifth brother's pig-headedness, on the other hand, he handed over the booklet to the palace that afternoon without any hesitation, and reported the matter to Jin Shang.

Just as Ji Wen expected, Ji Feng really thought that he had taken advantage of it, and he didn't have to pay back the money by himself for the time being, and most of the money that went to the household department was not his own money.It seems that Lao Qi is really a good brother, he came up with such a good idea for himself!

When the people from the palace arrived, Prince Zhongheng, who was in a good mood, was watching the ice lantern in the backyard of the palace with his concubine in his arms. He was a little confused when he heard that he was summoned by Jinshang. Usually, Jinshang also called him into the palace. , but it was usually in the early morning, or at noon at the worst, so there was no one who called people to the palace in the middle of the night.

Ji Feng had an intuition that something was unusual, and while preparing to enter the palace, he told the side concubine Xu beside him - his concubine Zhen's natal family had long since collapsed, and this Xu family's natal family still had some real power.Therefore, he ordered Xu Shi to say: "Don't be idle when the king enters the palace, and send someone to go to Xu's mansion quietly in a while. I think today's matter may be messed up with the Ministry of Households a few days ago. You can't get rid of that matter, you can tell Xu Gong, so that he can make plans earlier."

Mrs. Xu quickly responded, and said: "My lord, just don't worry, I'm in the house." It was natural to assume the air of being the mistress of the house.

After Ji Feng explained to his family, he immediately rode out of the palace, and rushed all the way to the palace.

Concubine Xu sent him out, called a capable companion, and told him to bring some things to her natal house, and also brought a few words along the way.

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Knowing that his father might have annoyed him because of the household affairs, Ji Feng really thought of some words to deal with when he came all the way.In fact, things will become what they are today. He never expected that when he heard that boy Ji Qing carry so much money to the household department. Who knew that those people in the capital would be so courageous and dare to learn from this prince. The account of the treasury!

Not long after Prince Zhongdun took over the household department, he conducted a massive audit of the accounts. At first, Ji Feng also thought that he was doing it to show his merits in front of the present.But now he is going to be mentioned before the imperial court because of this matter, no matter how bad Ji Feng is, he knows who is behind this matter.For a moment, I couldn't help but hate Ji Qing deeply. If it wasn't for this bad-bellied thing who gave him a blind idea, he wouldn't suffer today's crime!

Horses were not allowed in the palace, so Ji Feng dismounted in front of the palace gate, led by a young eunuch from Qianqing Palace, thinking of ideas all the way while cursing Ji Qing, it seemed that he arrived in front of Xinuang Pavilion in a blink of an eye.

The little eunuch who brought him had long since disappeared, and an eunuch wearing a fifth-grade tonic came to meet him. This eunuch Ji Feng also knew him well. Now the second in command of Qianqing Palace, he has more face than some high-ranking officials. .

Ji Feng smiled a little, and nodded to the eunuch as a greeting.

The eunuch next to him went up to meet him, took the eunuch's hand and said affectionately: "Eunuch Zhang is free today? Eunuch is here now, but Long Live summoned our master?" He stuffed a purse from under his sleeve and passed.

Eunuch Zhang took the purse, and his face was not as warm as before, he bowed to Ji Feng and said, "Long live, let the slaves come and pick up the fifth master."

Since the word "Jie" is used, it means that Jinshang's attitude is quite moderate.Those who can serve by Jinshang's side are the tightest-mouthed, and they are the most taboo to confide in Jinshang's affairs to outsiders.Now that he is willing to say this, he is already buying Ji Feng, Prince Zhongheng's face.

Hearing what he said, Ji Feng also heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly strode towards Xinuan Pavilion.

As soon as he entered, he saw that Ji Wen was also inside, sitting at a table writing something, and that table seemed to be added temporarily.Seeing him coming in at this time, Ji Wen hurriedly stopped writing and stood up.

Ji Feng frowned, and also bowed to Jinshang, and waited for Ji Wen to meet him, seeing that Jinshang was not as angry as he imagined Longyan, so he boldly said: "The queen summoned by the emperor Urgent, my son thought it was something urgent, and he didn't even have time to change his clothes when he came over, it was really rude."

It can also be seen that Prince Zhongheng has always been favored by Jinshang. Knowing that such a big thing happened, he dared to talk to Jinshang like this. Confidence is far from being comparable to that of a prince like Ji Wen who later made a fortune.Of course, he would not be able to utter such words that seemed to be a confession but were actually coquettish even if Ji Wen was killed.

However, today's mood is indeed peaceful, and at this time, he just scolded Prince Zhongheng a few words, and said: "I have nothing else to do for you to come here, first go and help your brother sort out the roster When I get a copy, I want to see what kind of daring and rebellious officials and thieves, even the dignified prince dare not look down on them!"

The words "rebellious officials and thieves" are really heavy, Ji Feng thought his father was referring to Sang and Huai, and was blaming him, so he was so frightened that he knelt down to plead guilty.

Today he was too lazy to look at him, and said impatiently: "Those little tricks you play down there, do you really think I can't see it? The reason I let you go today is because your younger brother came to plead for you in person, and he said it sincerely." That's great. I only allowed him to let you pay off your merits. You don't have to thank me, after this matter is over, you should thank your brother for your magnanimity."

There are only a few of his younger brothers, and some of them are even less important in court, and there is only one who can plead for himself in front of Jinshang, if he wants to lose his head...

Ji Feng couldn't help but feel a little strange looking at Ji Wen.

However, Ji Wen gave him a gentle smile: "Just now, my father asked Yudi to sort out the list of arrears paid at the household department for several months, and by the way, also sort out the defaulters. I just copied the names of the people on the paper one by one. Now that I have Brother Huang to help me, I think it will be faster."

At first, he thought that there was still a tough battle to be fought in the palace, but now that he was just sorting out the account books, Ji Feng was unwilling, so he rolled up his sleeves and got ready to start work.

Unexpectedly, Imakami, who was sitting upright, suddenly said: "When the account books are sorted out, you can go door to door according to the names of the people on it. It would be best if you can make them pay back the accounts. If not, you should also find out the reason. false."

He is from the Ministry of War! ! !

The account of the Ministry of Accounts, the prince in charge of the Ministry of Accounts doesn't care, why let him be a busybody in the Ministry of War!Debt collection from door to door!If he really did this, half of the officials and eunuchs in the capital would hate him to death!

Someone who originally thought that Ji Wen looked more pleasing to the eye couldn't help itching...

The roster of the household department is very complicated. Even with the help of Ji Feng, the labor force, it will not be sorted out in a while.Jinshang was also angry and confused before ordering Ji Wen to move the roster to Xinuang Pavilion, and the old man watched him personally.This time it was time to recover, so today he asked someone to clean up a temporary study in a room near Xinuange, and asked the two brothers to clean it up.

After moving to the small study room, all the young eunuchs of Qianqing Palace stayed outside to wait for orders, and all the confidant eunuchs brought in by the two of them were waiting on the side.Ji Wen knew that the real fire had already been stirred up today, but now she just kept it hidden, so she only wanted to finish the matter at hand quickly, so that she could take advantage of the east wind this time to get rid of the people in the household department that she didn't like. Several people cleaned up in one go.

Ji Feng was a little awkward before, but later seeing that Ji Wen didn't care about him and was still focused on handling official business, he became a little embarrassing again - these days, he, as an older brother, has lost his temper.After making a lot of determination, he said: "For today's matter, I would like to thank Brother Jiu for speaking kindly for Brother Yu in front of the Holy One."

He was also tempting, wanting to know what Ji Wen said in front of Jinshang, which made him escape from Jinshang.Although the consequence of escaping the catastrophe is to do the offending chore of collecting debts for Ji Wen, it is better than bearing today's anger.Therefore, Prince Zhongheng is still somewhat grateful to Ji Wen.

But Ji Wen didn't bother to hide it from him, and said with a smile: "If Brother Huang is talking about the debt owed by the household department, Brother Yu is indeed talking too much in front of the Holy One, but he is just reporting the truth to the Holy One. As for Mei Words, but it’s out of the question.”

"My foolish brother's pursuit of the money owed by the Ministry of Households is to act according to the order. It is to fill the deficit of the national treasury. It is a matter of benefiting the country and the people. But I don't want people in Beijing to have different intentions. I don't want to see me, Da Yong, Haiyan, Heqing, and the people of Li. I want to benefit. You want to mess up this matter. It's really despicable and contemptible! Although Brother Huang is also at fault in this matter, more of them are used by such villains. Naturally, Brother Yu also wants to report the truth to the Holy One, so as not to be innocent The people are wronged in vain."

Prince Zhongheng's words were clearly heard in his ears, and he thought clearly in his heart.From what he said, since he was being used by others and was innocent, then today's anger must be directed at the person who "used" him.Ji Qing...

Although Prince Zhongheng can't play with these conspiracies and tricks in the court, it doesn't mean that he really doesn't understand the tricks.The reason why Ji Wen gave up such a chance to beat himself to death, instead of recklessly diverting the disaster to the east, intending to completely destroy Ji Qing, was the reason why he could understand it after a little thought, wasn't it because of Ji Qing Is it more threatening?

Unexpectedly, after fighting for half his life, he, the prince who sat on the prince's seat by virtue of his military exploits, would have such an image in the eyes of his own brother.When the abolished prince was completely dead, he had been ambitious for a long time and wanted to compete with the loyal prince. Among the other brothers, he would at most feel that Prince Lian was a bit of a threat, so why would he let the little brother Ji Wen go? In the eyes!Before the nine brothers, apart from the dead fourth child, Ji Wen, the youngest, was the most miserable. At that time, the ninth child was even hit by the prince's sword!

How much time has passed now, the crown prince was abolished, Prince Yizhong was imprisoned, the Prince Lianjun's mansion was seeing more and more decline, King Yujun and Prince Shenjun were idle clouds and wild cranes did not care about world affairs, Prince Loyalty also devoted himself to writing books and did not fight with others, but faintly Standing behind Prince Zhongdun's mansion.When people talked about Imam's son before, they all praised Yizhong Chitose for being brave and invincible, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a dragon and a phoenix.Now talking about Imakami's son, Prince Zhongdun would be the first thing most people think of.

Ji Feng was a little displeased, it seemed that it was the first time he had discovered the gap between him and Ji Wen, and it was really hard to accept it.He originally had some vague hopes for the throne, but Ji Wen's words just now completely woke him up - this time Ji Wen wanted to use Jinshang's hand to hit King Lian , He didn't believe it couldn't be seen today.But today, he still followed Ji Wen's wishes and aimed at King Lianjun, presumably it meant to pave the way for Ji Wen...

It turns out that the outcome has long been known, and the brothers have made their choices long ago.I am the last one to know the result, and I am lost in it, which is hard to describe.

Prince Zhongheng's Mansion.

The companion who was sent out of the mansion by Concubine Xu just now was shivering, and was so frightened that his nose and tears reported to Mrs. Xu: "The gate of our mansion was blocked by a pair of officers and soldiers, who said it was the Holy Majesty. There is a decree, if you say yes, if you say it is the money owed by our prince, you have to guard outside our mansion for a day!"

Hearing that the officers and soldiers surrounded her mansion, Xu's face turned pale with fright. In her opinion, the only thing that could be used to siege the mansion was the ransacking of the house.

However, she is also the concubine of a wealthy family, and she has the guts to be brave. After hearing that the companion said that it was because of the money, she felt more at ease. Thinking that their prince is the son of a dragon, it must not be the same. Because of such things, the house will be ransacked.

At this time, Mrs. Xu said: "Please invite the son here, I have something to tell him here." If the servant is not allowed to go out, how can the master not be allowed to go out?Besides, the current prince and son is her own son, which is more reliable than anyone else.

News in the capital was transmitted faster than the wind, and soon the news that Prince Zhongheng's mansion was surrounded by a group of officers and soldiers spread throughout the capital.

For a moment, the people who were relying on the money and not paying back the money were a little panicked—even the prince didn't pay back the money, so if it fell on them, wouldn't it mean that the house would be ransacked?