Lei Yue Longmen

Uncle Sun Ya was brought into the study with a limp, his expression of panic at first calmed down inexplicably the moment he saw Hua Qing.

This was the first time that Li Jingzhu looked at this man seriously.In her opinion, a man in his 40s, with a long thin face, triangular eyes, thin hair, a sharp Adam's apple, and no surprises in appearance, is actually the most trusted butler of the largest grain merchant in the south of the Yangtze River. Seeing it with your own eyes, who would believe it?

He hunched over the whole time, never daring to look people in the eye, but occasionally glanced at Hua Qing in a panic, as if any danger would become safe after being filtered by her eyes.

With Hua Qing's acquiescence, Uncle Sun Ya wrote down the criminal evidence of Prince Xiao's mansion collected over the years on paper. Although it would not uproot the old man, it would be good for the empress dowager to vent her anger.

When Hua Qing saw the smile finally appeared on the face of the Crown Princess, she also became happy.But after all she worked as an interpreter all night, she was so sleepy that she fell asleep on the desk before she knew it.Feeling vaguely that someone poked her, Hua Qing opened her eyes wearily.

The Empress Dowager kindly reminded: "There is a couch inside."

Hua Qing paused for a while to understand what she meant, she said "oh", she was not polite, she might have thought she was at her own home, she climbed onto the couch in a daze, kicked off her shoes, pulled the quilt over her head and fell asleep.Li Jingchen caught a glimpse of the pair of snow-white jade feet that were left out on purpose or not, he was stunned for a moment, hesitant to speak.Seeing that it was impossible for her to get up and stuff it in, she struggled for a while, and finally stretched out a hand with difficulty, quietly covered her with the quilt up to her toes, and left in a hurry.

In order not to disturb her rest, she deliberately moved all the discussions to the front hall.But when the moonlight came up, she went back to the study, and heard that Hua Qing was still sleeping in the room, so the Crown Princess put down her official duties in disbelief and went to the inner room.Sure enough, this guy was wrapped up like a silkworm chrysalis and fast asleep.

It's okay, for the princess who is diligent all day long and dare not slack off for a day, it is simply unforgivable to waste the whole day on sleep.But the rotten tree in front of her obviously wanted to break her cognition.

He tried to twitch her pillow, but he couldn't twitch, which was unbelievable.

"Hey, have you had enough sleep? How long has it been?"

"Don't make noise~let me sleep a little longer~call me tomorrow morning." What was annoying was that she was clearly awake and could still echo, which meant she could still get up, but she just lay on the couch, motionless.Just hum with your nose.

"Tomorrow morning is tomorrow, you didn't do anything from morning to night today!"

"If you don't do it, you don't do it, the sky won't fall."

She turned over, like a drunken hibiscus flaunting its beauty, throwing her soft body on the mattress to her heart's content, ignoring the wind and rain outside.

"..." The Crown Princess was speechless, holding back a sentence that seemed to condemn her for a long time, and even tormented her.Hua Qing didn't hear clearly, stretched out a hand from under the quilt, and touched the skirt of the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager blushed, and subconsciously flicked it away.

"What do you want to do?"

Hua Qing looked hopeless, "His Royal Highness, be honest, is it because you were forced by those princes and teachers with a ruler when you were a child?! What did they threaten you with? You tell me, I will ask for it for you!" Return to justice!"

"...What nonsense are you talking about? Is the lethargy still reasonable?"

Early the next morning, Hua Qing came to greet Li Jingchen with great vigor.

"Your Highness woke up very early. You haven't rested all day and all night. Are you really not tired?"

"Hmph, who is like you, lethargic, wasting time, and showing no remorse."

Since she lifted him up last night, she went back to her room to sleep soundly, and the empress dowager defined this person as "incurable".Too lazy to bother.

Hua Qing suppressed a smile, pretending to be wronged and said: "Your Highness is a pillar, so naturally he can't understand our rotten wood's suffering. We have to stop the loss in time. Take a full night's sleep and get up early the next day, so as not to delay It's a matter. Otherwise, it will take a lot of days to pay for this night. If you are a rotten wood, how do you choose?"

"If you don't think about making progress, you will be willing to fall!"

Hua Qing listened to her criticism with a smile on her eyes, completely gone from her initial fear.She knew that although the empress dowager in front of her had a fierce face and a serious face, she was actually a soft-spoken person, but she had a clear distinction between likes and dislikes, and she could eat soft and not hard.

"Treasurer Bao came to the palace yesterday to hand in his resignation letter to Gu." Li Jingchen said suddenly while he was flipping through the book.

Hua Qing was taken aback, "What resignation letter?"

"She doesn't want to be the host of the Grain Merchant Conference anymore. I'm afraid the good intentions of the Qin officials will be in vain."

Hua Qing was a little surprised, "Then His Highness agreed to her?"

"A solitary man is never strong enough to make others difficult."

Hua Qing was silent, she knew Bao Siniang's character, she definitely didn't want to cause trouble to Li Jingchen, so she took the initiative to resign.

"But if this is the case, who will help His Highness raise food? That Du Laosan is a typical fence-sitter. He always runs wherever the wind blows. At this stage, it may not be so easy for His Highness to subdue him."

"It's too late, Gu just got the news that he has gone to Prince Xiao's residence."

Hua Qing was taken aback, "Isn't that terrible?"

Li Jingxuan raised his head and glanced at her, "You don't need to emphasize it again."

Hua Qing was serious: "How does Your Highness plan to deal with it? Du Laosan defected to King Xiao, and he must have rushed to hinder His Highness from raising food. I am afraid that no one in the Jiangnan grain business community can suppress him."

Li Jingchen said calmly: "I have no plans, I'm trying to find a way."

"Hey, Your Highness, I have an idea."

"Miss Huaqing, even I have to admit that you look a lot like that official Qin in men's clothes. This move is a bit risky, but it might be able to achieve a surprise victory!"

"General Mu, I'll take you as a compliment!"

When Hua Qing and Yun Zhong stepped through the door together, Li Jing's eyes lit up unexpectedly.

The person in front of me is wearing a high headband and a loose gown. His facial features have not changed much, but because he has changed into men's clothing, his temperament has been completely changed, and he has become a different person.

There is no sloppy rouge on her body, nor is there any overly pretentious masculinity.It seems that I just washed my face, and when the blue hair is tied up, it looks romantic, handsome, hearty and elegant.

Li Jingchen looked at her attire, all of them were newly bought by Yun Zhong on the street according to the official Qin's attire he saw at the gate of Qin's residence that day. Disguise real ones!

"Your Highness, the grass people are being polite here!" Hua Qing respectfully made a bow in front of her.After that, he straightened up with a smile, and turned around for a week, and the jade tree facing the wind was on his side, which was radiant.He said proudly, "What do you think, Your Highness, is my idea feasible?"

Li Jingchen concealed the astonishment in his heart, and said, "How can you guarantee that there will be so many people at the meeting, no one will recognize you?"

"There is this!" Hua Qing suddenly raised a silver iron mask, put it on her head, and covered the upper half of her face.There was a faint smile on the corner of his lips, and the original small and exquisite nose, because of the changes in the surrounding facial features, highlighted the tall and straight aura, which became different from the past.

Li Jingchen frowned: "The face is blocked, but what about the voice?"

Hua Qing smiled, and suddenly changed to Qin Zhuo's voice, which was much lower than her usual tone. If you didn't listen carefully, you might think it was a man.

Yun Zhong held his sword in his arms and said, "Miss Hua Qing, you can really go to the stage to act, let alone other people, even I will almost not recognize you!"

Hua Qing lifted the mask again, fixed it on her forehead, and winked playfully, "What about now?"

Yun Zhong was obviously very into the drama, "Now it's Miss Huaqing again! However, it's not quite, it's a bit..."

He was trying to find an accurate word to describe this slight difference.

Hua Qing suddenly smiled with her cheeks in her hands, and her voice returned to her daughter's coquettish voice, "What's the matter? Does General Mu not know me anymore?"

Yun Zhong clapped his hands, and immediately continued: "Yes, this is Miss Hua Qing, the one just now was not, uh, not not, just..." It was really difficult for him to describe that subtle feeling.

Hua Qing didn't tease him anymore, "It's just that the voice has changed. It's the same feeling when you change the voice yourself."

Yun Zhong was a little skeptical: "Really?"

"Yeah, if you don't believe me, hold your throat and pretend to be a female voice, try it like this!"

Yun Zhong was terrified, and instinctively refused, willingly bowed down and said: "I can't do this, please forgive me."

Hua Qing couldn't stop laughing.

He remembered one more thing, "By the way, Qin Zhuo still has a piece of lotus sashimi in his hand, which is not easy to handle."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Li Jingchen, who seemed to disapprove, "This level of difficulty must not be difficult for Miss Huaqing, is it?"

Hua Qing said: "It's really not difficult, just draw one."

"Draw one? How to draw it?"

"Of course it's drawn with a pen. I've seen his tattoos thousands of times. It's so difficult to draw them exactly the same."

Yun Zhong suddenly came to his senses and said with a smile, "I forgot about that."

"This is the end of the matter, let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor!"

Li Jingchen didn't intend to listen any more, stopped in front of Hua Qing, and asked casually: "Gu has always had a question, the most important people around Qin Zhuo have all shown up, why hasn't he himself shown up for so long?"

"Uh..." Hua Qing scratched her face, originally wanted to make up another reason, but the clinker lost interest in an instant, smiled, turned around and left.

On the horseback leading to the Grain Merchants Conference, Qin Zhuo was still pondering over the mysterious smile of the Empress Dowager, feeling uneasy.

Yun Zhong and her rode together for a while, seeing that she was absent-minded, he patted her on the shoulder hard from the back of the horse, "Miss Hua Qing, don't worry, with us covering you, you can act to your heart's content."

With this shot, Qin Zhuo was even more stressed.The acting this time is different from the past, and the acting skills are tested more than ever.First of all, she has to act like herself in order to fool those grain merchants who have dealt with them.He also has to play himself out of character, in order to fool the shrewd empress dowager.Both sides are not easy to fool.I racked my brains and couldn't understand why I caused such a big trouble for myself, why bother?

I was frowning, and the guild hall arrived ahead.

I saw a group of dark figures, all standing at the door of Chengfeng Tower, eagerly waiting to be picked up.Nadu's youngest stood at the forefront together with Ma County Magistrate.These two old men, who together were more than 100 years old, stood together, and Qin Zhuo only thought of the word "wholesome".Just looking at their eyes with hidden swords in their smiles, Qin Zhuo felt that it was right to come this time.He didn't care about revealing his identity anymore, and he was only thinking about helping the empress dowager to stabilize the game and suppress their arrogance.

Li Jingchen only brought twenty riders with him, he got off at the gate of the guild hall, everyone saluted outside the gate, then followed Yi into the inner hall and took their seats in sequence.

Ma County Magistrate was in the east, and the west seat was vacant. It was originally reserved for Bao Siniang, but for reasons known to all, she did not come.Qin Zhuo and Du Laosan sat one on the west and the other on the east. The old and the young faced each other across the aisle.Of course they dislike each other.The rest of the grain merchants sat on either side of the front or back, and the faces were so crowded that it was almost impossible to tell who was who.

The empress dowager wears a crown of black gauze wings and a red gown with four round dragon collars and narrow sleeves, and occupies the throne in the north.Like a pure and harmless little sheep in gorgeous clothes, sitting opposite to the wolves who are staring at each other.As soon as he opened his mouth, he said the humble words of "respect for the conference and focus on observation", which is easy to be slapped on the nose by those mercenary old men.

Sure enough, within a few words, Ma and Du began to manipulate public opinion overtly and covertly.

Speaking of the Grain Merchant Conference, it was originally a non-governmental organization that emerged during the reign of the ancestors. It was mainly the same industry that took the lead in establishing industry regulations, negotiating on grain prices, establishing weights and measures, and maintaining a structure of fair competition.Sometimes it is also used to mediate disputes and rescue peers. Although the title and form have changed many times in the past 300 years, they remain the same.Some insightful people in Zhongzong's last year's meeting helped the second prince, the later emperor Qingzong, to suppress the rebellion, and were able to carry forward the chamber of commerce.However, since Qin Zhuo joined the association, most of what he saw was the collusion between government and businessmen, oppression by peers, and gradually becoming a tool for powerful businessmen to grab personal benefits and set up names to make big fish eat small fish.

The empress dowager was unable to raise food before, the key was the issue of food pricing.

Now that there is a famine in the north, the price of grain in various places has also risen accordingly. Many grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River have taken the opportunity to hoard a large amount of grain, raising the price of grain, and preparing to make a fortune.At this time, the imperial court came to collect grain, and the price given was still in February, which was far lower than the current market price.Of course, grain merchants are unwilling to sell grain cheaply to the government.But if the imperial court bought it at the market price, it would cost two or three times more money than usual.

The imperial court wanted to buy at a low price, and the grain merchants wanted to sell at a high price. The local government colluded with the grain merchants to maximize the price difference.And many grain merchants are actually agents introduced by the local nobles because it is inconvenient to show their faces.It screwed on right away.

In order to please the Empress Dowager, Lu Chaisheng deliberately kept the price of grain extremely low, which is equivalent to using the interests of all the grain merchants to pave the way for him to rise to the top, so his downfall is inevitable.It's not necessarily that Du Laosan is behind the scenes, it should be the result of the joint efforts of all the grain merchants.Otherwise, Du Lao San would not be able to get rid of him overnight, otherwise he would have been Du Lao San long ago.

Therefore, how to price the grain is the key to this grain raising.

The county magistrate of Nama talked a lot eloquently about the number of acres of fields and the amount of grain stored. He was nothing more than helping the grain merchants to raise prices and earn more court money, and he benefited from it.As for Wu Shamao, he is now supported by King Xiao and the Queen Mother, and there are countless interest groups behind him. Naturally, he is not afraid of an empress dowager who has no foundation in Kangyang.

However, Qin Zhuo is not a vegetarian either, pricing is nothing more than profit.If she made up her mind to give up the profits, and used any method to buy the grains of those small households at high prices and sell them at low prices, it would not be difficult for her to keep the market price down with Qin Zhuo's financial resources and appeal.Even if the market price is lower than the price offered by the imperial court, it is not a problem. At that time, everyone will suffer together and benefit tens of millions of people.Even if her family goes bankrupt, she will not lose money this time, because she is investing in the empress dowager, the future emperor. not a problem.But those grain merchants who refused to advance and retreat with her will be miserable. Not only will they lose money, but they will not get any benefits.

This was also Lu Chaisheng's thinking before, but he was too stingy, he didn't want to make any profit, and his chassis was too low, he could even kill or rob.All rely on Dong Gong to give him the bottom line.It would be strange if Li Jingchen could give him a pocket.

Not long after the meeting started, an accident happened. A maid accidentally knocked over the cup while serving tea, and the water just splashed on Qin Zhuo's face.Except for Mr. Du, everyone in the house was shocked.

Qin Zhuo hurriedly left his seat and wiped his face with his sleeve. Fortunately, the tea was warm, otherwise it would have disfigured him.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Qin, my servant will clean it for you!" the maid said in a panic.

"No need!" Qin Zhuo moved two steps away, not to be wary of someone grabbing the silver thread on her head from behind, and in the blink of an eye, she sensed a pair of women's hands, and before she could react, the hair on her head The mask was taken off.

Because the opponent's movements were too fast, Qin Zhuo focused on the front again, not the back.Was caught off guard.

There was only a burst of sighs from the audience.

The people behind stood up one after another, wanting to see the true face of the official Qin.

But this Qin Zhuo was also very shrewd. He had prepared in advance and turned himself into a fist-sized panda eye, which looked like he had been beaten.Still didn't show his full face.

Yun Zhong had already taken a small step, but when he saw this situation, he backed away.

Qin Zhuo turned his head slowly, and saw a 25-year-old woman with the color of autumn flowers and the eyes of mercury, holding her mask and pretending to wipe it off.However, when he saw her face, he froze slightly, and suddenly looked at Du Laosan suspiciously.Qin Zhuo also glanced over. The latter had a strange expression, and he knew it in his mind.

"Don't blame the official Qin, the girls in the building are ignorant, I'll wipe it off for you!"

"Don't bother!" Qin Zhuo pulled back the mask and put it back on his face.looked at her with a sneer.

That woman was the proprietress of Chengfeng Building, she had an affair with Du Laosan secretly, and had met Qin Zhuo on a certain occasion.This Du Laosan heard the wind from somewhere, and asked her to expose the true face of the "fake" Qin Zhuo in public. As a result, there was no fake Qin Zhuo, it was clearly him!

"Boss Jiang, you have held so many grain business conferences in Chengfeng Building, when did you become so careless, and the girl you picked is frizzy, and has no eyesight, it scares Brother Qin! "That old man Du's three-faced accusation is actually smoothing things over for his old friend.

"The third master has taught you a very good lesson. The little girl is not being disciplined strictly. She is acting as a maidservant to accompany Mr. Qin. I will send Mr. Qin upstairs to change clothes."

The proprietress was originally born graceful, charming and charming, and she was still young, this show of weakness immediately aroused countless sympathies and pity.Pian Qin Zhuo didn't like her, threw off his sleeves and said sarcastically, "Farewell, lest I have another accident and fall off the stairs!"

"Huh", and dismissively went to change clothes,

After a moment of astonishment, everyone felt a little sour.As expected, this Qin official was adopted by the oiran lady.After all, the proprietress is a well-known beauty in Kangyang County, so she doesn't care to take a second look.

After Qin Zhuo finished changing his clothes, he thought secretly that this group of people started their hands before he said anything, trying to kick her out early, but there was no door.

In the corridor, I met Du Laosan who also came to change clothes.

"Brother Qin, I haven't seen you for a long time. You really have climbed a high branch. I'm really envious!" The old man Du said with a wrinkled face that looked like a haggard tree.

Qin Zhuo also smirked: "Oh, didn't Mr. Du also go down the wall? I heard that even the Chengfeng Tower has been built, so you are not afraid that the pear blossoms in the palace will crush the begonia?"

"Brother Qin's mouth is really getting more and more venomous. I just don't know if this flirtatious ability has grown?"

Qin Zhuo had an expression of being pissed off, "Hey, you are always right, I, Qin, have no other skills, but this woman, I have as many as I want, and all of them are devoted to me Yes. Do you know why?"

She approached the old man on purpose, with a look of contempt on her face: "Because I won't rush to give them away. If someone robs me, I can snatch it back for her. It's not like you, stricter than yourself, Wide as a green man, thousands of pear trees bloom. Hahahaha~"

The old man Du is in his mid-thirties, and he prides himself on disdain to care about her younger generation, "Hmph, dead set? Brother Qin, don't be too optimistic. Be careful if you stumble, you won't get back up again."

"Accept your good words, I still have things to do, please accompany me!" Qin Zhuo was too lazy to look at him, and he went to the corner laughing, and ran into the lingering proprietress again.He stepped forward to block the way, and said provocatively, "How much benefit did Du Mou give you? Let you harm me?"

"I don't understand what Qin officials are talking about."

"Don't pretend to be confused." Qin Zhuo approached her, and suddenly swept the Liuyun wooden hairpin in her hair, and took it off easily.The eye-catching cloud temples slipped down in an instant, scattered around the waist, and a gust of wind blew up in the icy cold area.The proprietress suddenly came to her senses and fiercely came over to snatch it.Qin Zhuo held up the wooden hairpin with one hand, preventing her from getting it, and pushed her far away with the other hand, holding the wooden hairpin to admire carefully, "This hairpin is so rough in workmanship, it's hard for the proprietress to keep wearing it on her head."

The proprietress seemed very nervous about the hairpin, she clenched her teeth and emphasized: "That is the only token left by my husband, please give it back to the senior officials of Qin."

But it was too late for her to say, and there was a crisp sound of "crack", and the slender wooden hairpin was broken from the middle.Qin Zhuo was satisfied to see the beauty bursting into tears on the spot, "This is just a warning, next time it won't necessarily be a punishment." After speaking, he threw away the wooden hairpin and walked away.

This is Qin Zhuo, a businessman who has never been willing to suffer a little bit of loss. She has always been the only one who bullies others.

After returning to her seat, Yun Zhong came over to express her condolences, "Brother Qin, are you okay? Your Highness said that you have performed well in the play, and I will definitely reward you heavily when you go back." Qin Zhuo heard that this was a bit wrong Wei'er glanced at the throne, but he didn't see any joy in the Empress Dowager's face, but her face was cold and cold.It felt like my neck was frozen on the spot.He wanted to drink some tea to warm him up, but his throat also went on strike, and he just sipped the tea in his mouth, unable to get up or down.

At this time, suddenly a crazy woman shouted and cursed loudly outside the building. The voice was so high-pitched and long, it was so penetrating that Qin Zhuo choked himself accidentally!

For no other reason, she actually shouted that Qin Zhuo forced her to rape her daughter, causing her daughter to become pregnant with Liujia!This is simply nonsense!

"What's going on? Who is making noise outside and disturbing Fengjia?" Nama County Magistrate immediately sent someone to stop drinking, but after a while, he brought them back to the center of the venue.The crazy woman seemed to regard the venue as a court, and rushed to sue in front of the county master.

The county magistrate of Nama also acted uncharacteristically for the people, telling her to appeal truthfully and not to bite her at will.

I saw the crazy woman bursting into tears, arranging a scene of forcing her into prostitution so well that her acting skills were even inferior to Qin Zhuo's.

"Auntie, please don't get excited. You said that I persecuted your daughter, please show me the evidence. When, where, and how I persecuted your daughter, is there any evidence or physical evidence? Are you sure? Is it me or someone else? Don't let the real murderer go unpunished, and besides, who is your daughter?"

"You have completely forgotten about her! You are a thousand dollars, you want to force my daughter to be a prostitute, and if my daughter refuses, you will use despicable means to force her to submit. I will give up my old life today , I want to seek justice for my daughter, I want to tell the world about your evil deeds, let everyone know that you are a jackal with a face like a beast."

As he said that, he was about to come up and tear him apart, as if he was desperately looking for Qin Zhuo, but fortunately he was stopped by a few guards.Everyone was shocked by the crazy woman's aura, and no one dared to speak out for a moment.

The empress dowager turned her body slightly and asked Yun Zhong, "Why did you throw a thousand knives?"

"Uh," Yun Zhong didn't know what to say, "I guess what she said was not the one who threw a thousand swords, but the one who killed a thousand swords, which means that the crimes committed by this person can only be paid for by a thousand swords. Probably To say that this person is bad."

The Empress Dowager has never been ashamed to ask questions about folk slang, she nodded to show that she has learned a new knowledge.

Seeing the crazy woman chasing after Qin Zhuo, all the people in the audience whispered to each other as if they were watching a good show.

Qin Zhuo didn't know if this woman was really crazy or just pretending to be stupid. She was obviously full of loopholes, but she still acted like a real person. Just saying a fact could block her, and she didn't even bother to argue with her.

After that, the so-called witnesses came into play.The person testified that she had never met Qin Zhuo, but according to the introduction, she was Qin Zhuo's new love, the lady from a certain building who was arranged for her by Uncle Sun Ya, and Qin Zhuo's expression immediately looked like he had eaten shit.

"Qin Zhuo, what else do you have to say?"

Qin Zhuo already understood in his heart that these people deliberately set him off!If one plan fails, another plan will be made!

"The one who cleans himself up. This mad woman and this oiran conspired to kill me in order to prevent me from participating in the grain business meeting. If the county magistrate insists on believing the mad woman's false accusation, then the grass people have nothing to do. The grass people are willing to accept the investigation, but Will never admit to this attempted crime."

Before being taken away, she gave Du Laosan a hard look, and a sinister smile finally appeared in the latter's haggard eyes.

"Brother Qin, I won't give you away."