As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

At that time, Er Situm was still nodding his head in approval, but Huamanlou's next words made his scalp tingle: "To be honest, basically anyone can go to Hamiwei to do business when the exchange market opens, but the matter is handled by my younger brother." , I don’t want the fat water to flow to outsiders, I must take care of my own people, do you understand this truth?”

"Oh, it's good to understand. Brother E doesn't want competitors to go to make trouble, right? What, you think they won't make trouble? Brother E is a real person, but what can't those profiteers do? What if They fiddled with some counterfeit and shoddy products and went to ruin the market to instigate the normal trade between the two countries. When the time comes, the DPRK and China will be dissatisfied with the younger brother's opening of the mutual market, so...presumably Brother E doesn't want the mutual market to disappear, right?"

"What do you ask me to do for your help? Oh, it's actually very simple. It's just a play... Oh yes, it's the kind of thing that Brother Er came to the capital to play with his dead wife last time... Hey, my brother is straightforward Brother, don't worry, that's what happened anyway, it's even simpler than that, when you start making trouble, I will cooperate with you..."

Thinking back to Huamanlou's words, Er Situmu's face was neither happy nor sad, but the more he thought about it, the more angry he became - of course, he didn't dare to vent his anger on Huamanlou, so he ordered in a deep voice: "Should be more serious in a while." It's not important whether something happens or not, it's important to get angry, understand?"

473. Smash shop

In the bustling city south of the city, a company named Hengtai occupies a large area, and there are seven banners of the company flying outside.

The store clerk enthusiastically stood at the door to welcome customers, and there was an endless stream of customers in the store, and it seemed that the business was very good.

There are a lot of leather goods in this store. In each compartment, there are tea, silk, cloth from the south of the Yangtze River, and even spices from Nanyang and famous knives from the Japanese country. It can be said...

A large grocery store?

When Er Situm came to the door with a large number of prairie men, the store clerk beamed with joy: "You are here! Guest officers, please!"

The smile on his face is full of the meaning of "the shopkeeper, a few fat sheep are here, and the foolish money will come out quickly".

Er Situmu stood at the door, just glanced at the signboard coldly, and after confirming that it was correct, he raised his hand and pointed: "Come on, smash it for me!"

Even though the store clerk had never learned Wala mandarin, at this moment he could see that something was wrong, but before he could ask or warn, twenty or so prairie men rushed into the store, grabbing something. It was smashed.

The tea leaves were dumped on the ground, the silk cloth was torn apart, and the famous knives were tossed out as objects to demolish the house. Almost in an instant, the shops full of all kinds of goods were trampled by mammoths, which was horrible.

Estumu kept in mind Huamanlou's teachings... Instigation, only smashing the store, not hurting people, so when the customers in the store were terrified or shrank aside, or rushed out the door, the group of men had the right to act. I didn't see that guy who was not very smart, but when he tried to stop him, he was pushed away by the group of people. In the confusion, a voice shouted: "Reverse! Reverse! Wait for these goddamn tartars, Why dare to be presumptuous here? Stop it!"

The shopkeeper who was negotiating business with people in the room finally came out.

Estumu glanced at him coldly, and snorted coldly: "Keep smashing, smash this profiteer's shop for me!"

This sentence is in Chinese.

Following these words, the crowd of onlookers took a breath: Hengtai...isn't his reputation very good, could there be some misunderstanding?

But if it's a misunderstanding, why did the tartar smash the store when he started?What a hatred!

Nowadays, there are not so many means of crisis public relations and announcements. Most of the businesses of merchants rely on word of mouth to maintain their business. Therefore, most merchants dare not touch the word "profiteer".

Once this matter is hammered to the ground, it is estimated that no one will dare to do business with him in the future-of course, it is another matter to kill a fat sheep.

So the shopkeeper was startled and angry, and he didn't dare to step forward to stop the prairie man who smashed the shop—these people are all big and round, and any one of them can use Mongolian stumbling blocks to keep him from sleeping for a long time, so he pointed at the responsible person. Erstum, who stood at the door with his hand in his hand, exclaimed, "Who the hell are you? When did I do business with you?"

Estum was even angrier than him when he heard this: "The salt you sold us was mixed with sand! The iron you sold us was brittle! The cloth you sold us was rotten!"

This word...

Although there are no actual credentials yet, many people look at the shopkeeper a bit strangely.

Most of the Nancheng downtown area is engaged in large-scale transactions, and the partners of large-scale transactions are naturally merchants, so most of the onlookers are also merchants—that is, everyone clearly knows that Shanxi merchants do business. They are all tricks.

Therefore, whether it is good to mix salt with sand or pass it off as good, most merchants have this tendency, especially when they do business with foreigners.Therefore, there is basically no need for evidence for this matter, and the blame is to blame Hengtai for being watched and found a shop in the capital.

It's just that the matter of selling salt and iron was suddenly revealed, and this matter became a big deal...

The shopkeeper's eyes widened: "You...why do you defile people's innocence? Wait, stop, I'm going to report to the police!"

Ersitum shouted: "Report it! Go ahead and report it! Report the matter to your Khan and let him judge us!"

"You!" The shopkeeper shouted tremblingly: "We, Hengtai, have never sold salt and iron to you! Stop it! Is there any law left!"

One side is confident...or it is to make trouble, and the other side is terrified, and the matter has not been investigated at all, so the dialogue between the two parties seems to be wrong, and the shopkeeper is really not responding. Now I am still struggling with whether to save the goods first or calm the matter down first, but at this juncture, a group of street patrolling wrestlers from the Qianhu Office of the Xuanwu Guard South City passed by the market...

Things couldn't hold back.

……

The incident in Nancheng was quickly reported layer by layer. An hour later, the ugly-faced Honglu Temple Minister and Nie Wenbing, Minister of Rites who had returned to Beijing only two days ago, arrived at the palace to report on their duties.

"What the hell is going on!" Emperor Guangxing was furious: "Why did you make a fuss again?"

The two old ministers hurriedly knelt down: "The ministers are guilty!"

Emperor Guangxing roared: "A few days ago, Huamanlou just punished the envoys of the Japanese country. All countries invited themselves to study the "Great Zhao Law".

"This..." The Minister of Honglu Temple said with difficulty: "Return to Your Majesty, this matter... this matter may be a misunderstanding..."

Emperor Guangxing became even more furious: "Misunderstanding? What kind of misunderstanding would cause trouble by smashing up the store?"

Emperor Guangxing hadn't heard the cause and effect of the incident, but at this time he was so angry that it was because of Huamanlou. Emperor Guangxing felt that Wala was still dissatisfied, so...

Suddenly there was an urge to twitch.

The Minister of Honglu Temple heard the words, but he dared not say the cause and effect at all. After all, this matter involved the Minister of the Household Department—yes, the person standing behind Hengtai was Na Zhenghao himself.

"Your Majesty, the old minister just heard that this Hengtai company exchanged some sand-mixed salt and low-quality iron for a large amount of Wala's leather last year. It was too late to find out. Then the Wala people came to Beijing and met them unexpectedly. The person who made the deal back then, so..." Nie Wenbing was neither humble nor overbearing, and gave a rough overview of the 'facts' with neither joy nor worry.

Emperor Guangxing was taken aback when he heard the words: "You mean, the Hengtai Company privately sells salt and iron?"

Well, Huamanlou is also responsible for the deal with Wala. It is said that the Jiangnan Gu family is running it for him, so where did this Hengtai firm come from?Do you want to turn the sky upside down?

Nie Wenbing said calmly, "Returning to Your Majesty, the veteran doesn't know the details, but that's what the Oala people said. As for whether this is true, the veteran has not yet found out."

The old Nie Kankan, who finally returned to Beijing, stayed with his grandson for two days before being approached by Huamanlou. Although he complained in his heart that Huamanlou didn't understand the old man, he still pushed the matter along with him.

The inside and outside of these words, no matter how they sound, they are trying to guide Emperor Guangxing to the 'facts', so that the minister of Honglu Temple on the side turned pale with fright: Good guy!Is this going to be pinched?

Emperor Guangxing did not hesitate when he heard the words: "Come here, see Lu Kun!"

The wind, just like that.

474. hard work

As soon as Commander Lu received the news from Nancheng Market, the people from the palace came.

"Creating a crime..." Lao Lu muttered words of unknown meaning, got up and hurried to the palace.

In fact, even though he has been limped by Huamanlou, Lu Kun doesn't want to get involved in something that will cause an uproar if it is spread out. Before entering the palace, he was still hesitating whether to follow Huamanlou way to do things.

Mingzhe has saved his life for so many years, how can he give up all his previous efforts?

"Marshal Lu is here?" Kankan stepped into the palace gate, Lu Kun raised his head and saw Xu Dacheng standing beside the door with an eager expression on his face: "Quick, Your Majesty is waiting."

"Xu Banban?" Lu Kun was surprised: "Why are you here?"

Xu Dacheng didn't say much, turned around and said: "Come with us, Your Majesty is waiting."

Lu Kun rushed to his side in a few steps, seeing how far the others were, he whispered: "Companion, this matter..."

"Shuai Lu, you and I are both His Majesty's eagle dog and His Majesty's eyes and ears." Just as Lu Kun spoke, Xu Dacheng interrupted him and said, "Do you understand this truth?"

Lu Kun was a little puzzled: "What does Banban mean?"

"As an eagle dog, you can't have your own thoughts. As eyes and ears, you have to see and listen more." Xu Dacheng lowered his head and walked quickly, his voice erratic: "At that time, whatever your Majesty wants to do, let's just do it; what you want to hear If so, let's talk about..."

Lu Kun looked at Xu Dacheng, who seemed to have suddenly become an expert, and didn't know how to deal with it.

To be honest, factory guards have been fighting among themselves for a long time, even in Guang Xingchao.This is not only because of wanting to compete for favor, but also because to some extent the emperor does not want to see a harmonious factory guard at all—one is to prevent the two parties from jointly deceiving the upper and lower, and the second is to let the two sides compete for jobs based on the idea of ​​competition. All work well.

After all, it is a eagle dog.

Therefore, on the surface, Lu Kun and Xu Dacheng can't be too harmonious, but in fact, how dare Lu Kun go against Xu Dacheng?He didn't know how much he had given Xu Dacheng these years, so he didn't hesitate to ask about the situation when he saw Xu Dacheng today, at least...

I have to see if I have fed my money all these years to the dogs, right?

But after Xu Dacheng suddenly said something vague and vague, he directly gave Lu Kun a rectification.

And Xu Dacheng looked back at Lu Kun, who was still in a daze, and sighed: "Shuai Lu, to be honest...is it difficult?"

For a moment, Lu Kun couldn't help roaring in his heart: Honest man?You say this?Do you have the face to say this?

But after the slander was over, he suddenly felt a move in his heart: tell...a 'little' truth?

It is true that Shanxi merchants smuggled salt and iron, and it is also true that Wala people once bought inferior products. As for who sold them, when they sold them, and how much they sold...

Well, Xuanwuwei can't go to the grassland to verify, so it's understandable if he doesn't know?

And having said that, His Majesty likes honest people, honestly reporting the 'already known' facts... Doesn't seem difficult?

"Thank you, companion, for clarifying the confusion!" Lu Kun realized.

……

In the imperial study room, Lu Kun bowed his head in shame and pleaded guilty to Emperor Guangxing: "Your Majesty, I have heard about the private sale of salt and iron by Shanxi merchants for a long time."

Bang!

Emperor Guangxing jumped up against the case: "You've heard it before? Why did you keep it from me? Are you dumb?"

"Your Majesty, calm down!" Lu Kun kowtowed in horror, "Your Majesty, it's not that I don't want to say it, but I feel that if I report this matter to Your Majesty without any real evidence, then... wouldn't that be a false accusation? A few years ago, Wei Chen secretly sent people to the grassland area to investigate..."

Emperor Guangxing was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and suddenly felt that Lu Kun in front of him was quite pleasing to the eye—it was rumored that the censors who played the role had tormented him a lot, because last year, the censors had no accurate information Don't speculate and fabricate it, but dogs can't change eating shit, and the situation is only a little better than before.

So in such a comparison, isn't Lu Kun very pleasing to the eye?

So Emperor Guangxing was a little annoyed: "Then have you ever found out the inside story? You just get up and answer."

Lu Kun was startled into a cold sweat at first, but when he heard Emperor Guangxing say this, a stone in his heart fell to the ground. After thanking Emperor Guangxing, he got up and said, "Your Majesty, when I heard about this a few years ago, I sent a A group of people went to Tatar, Wala and even the Jurchen tribes to investigate carefully, but they didn’t know much, and the news was not true.”

Lu Kun took a peek at Emperor Guangxing's expression, and continued: "Your Majesty, the border of Dazhao is too long. If merchants leave the customs by trails, or if someone accepts bribes to let them pass through the customs, I will send you People can't touch their shadows at all, so it's extremely difficult to verify."

He said so, but in fact, he quietly spent a few taels of money to buy a few guys under the Shanxi Merchants...it doesn't seem to be difficult?

"Weichen is not a merchant, and I can't figure out the inside story, so most of the people I sent have returned without success, and what I know is basically that some Shanxi merchants have committed illegal acts." Lu Kun looked ashamed: "Later, Weichen reorganized his thinking and asked some people to mix into the caravan, or venture to the grassland to buy herdsmen, and then he roughly figured out the way."

Emperor Guangxing nodded: "Then what did you check? Why have I never seen your Xuanwu Guard report this matter?"

Lu Kun replied: "Your Majesty, it is extremely difficult to verify. So far, I have not found out how many Shanxi merchants are selling salt and iron privately..."

Anyway, chopping up this group of people one by one would have slipped through the net - Lu Kun added this sentence in his heart.

"...That's why, in order not to scare the snakes, and to prevent some officials involved from interfering, I dare not be careless, let alone reveal the rumors, and beg Your Majesty to forgive me."

Emperor Guangxing seemed to know Lu Kun only today, and said in surprise: "You... Aiqing mean, just to be cautious, you didn't even tell me?"

This subtle change of title made Lu Kun happy for a while: "Exactly. Your Majesty, I believe that this matter involves many people, and it also involves the court. If there is no evidence to find out the matter, it will be revealed, or it will be taken without asking any questions. People's words, if not done well, it will cause turmoil, or people will think that His Majesty is tyrannical, so I am trembling like walking on thin ice, for fear of leaking the wind. It's just..."

Lu Kun smiled bitterly: "Although some things have been found out now, and there are many evidences, but in the end, everything has not been found out. It just so happened that the Oirats revealed the matter at this time, so the matter verified by Weichen cannot be hidden. Living."

Emperor Guangxing sighed with emotion: "Don't worry about Aiqing, you... well done."

Lu Kun bowed his head to thank, but his heart was ecstatic: How many years have you not been praised?Huamanlou... no wonder he was promoted so quickly!Who else can grasp His Majesty's psychology better than him?

Emperor Guangxing asked again: "So in the final analysis, is it true that the Wala people angrily smashed Hengtai's business this time?"

Lu Kun took out a stack of materials from his sleeves and presented them with both hands: "Your Majesty, this matter is true. These... are the painstaking efforts of this minister in recent years."

475. Not good!

Lu Kun has been acting according to the routine given by Huamanlou from the beginning, and he has acted extremely seriously.

Let’s take a look, first make it clear that I knew about it a long time ago, intentionally or unintentionally, then explain the difficulty of verification and set up a person for myself, and then make it clear that I didn’t find out all the offenders before I reported it. Later, he not only removed the hat of Xuanwu Wei's negligence, but also showed his maturity, perseverance, and finally explained why Emperor Guangxing got a lot of information when he asked about it...

Tianxiu.

Lu Kun's hard work is very thick, it seems to be more than a foot.

But Emperor Guangxing didn't mean to be impatient at all, he held the stack of papers indifferently, and examined them carefully one by one.

Needle dropping could be heard in the imperial study room, but the atmosphere became more and more depressing.

It took a long time for Emperor Guangxing to put down the stack of papers in his hands, with neither joy nor sadness on his face—or rather, he was already exhausted while reading the materials, and now he is too lazy to get angry again.

"Three great scholars..." Emperor Guangxing frowned and said a few words, but then changed his words: "No, half an hour after the civil and military officials, we will meet you at Fengtian Palace."

Although his tone was very flat, Xu Dacheng couldn't help but shiver when he heard him say that, so he quickly responded and sent someone to pass it on.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Guangxing looked at Lu Kun who was standing with his hands down, and said indifferently: "Go back and gather people to prepare to take people, and continue to do this in the future."

"Here!"

It can be said that Lu Kun has completely convinced Huamanlou at this moment. This kind of thing that caused the current Shangshu to fall directly was actually done, and the most important thing is that all the credit really fell on him, Lu Shuai.

What?You say such a shocking case is not credit?