Lin Yanchao sent Tang Xian to a carriage.

The rest of the people also left, but Guo Zhengyu stayed.

Lin Yanchao asked: "Why don't you leave the main domain?"

Guo Zhengyu said: "If everyone here has left, someone will ask in the future. Isn't it that the teacher's instructing the Times to discuss major affairs in the court? I can at least help the teacher share the matter."

"Don't worry, teacher, I am a juren, and my father is also the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Even if this matter is involved in the future, no one dares to pursue it. Besides, someone will continue to handle the Yanjing Times. If they leave, someone will eventually take charge of the overall situation."

Lin Yanchao knew that Guo Zhengyu was determined and nodded and said, "Okay."

Guo Zhengyu immediately sent Lin Yanchao onto the carriage.

Before leaving, Guo Zhengyu bowed and said, "Teacher, I am writing with my heart straight. It's enough for me to have a passion, but in the court, I still need a teacher to correct the situation. There is no Guo Zhengyu in the world, but I must not be without my teacher. If the matter is not good, the teacher will keep this useful body and wait for the future."

Lin Yanchao moved to help Guo Zhengyu and said, "Don't worry, I have the ability to protect myself."

After Tang Xianzu and his friends left the capital.

Lin Yanchao returned to his house, Chen Jichuan came to report and took out a stack of silver notes and said: "The 500 acres of farmland in Xiong County is pledged for 3,000 taels of silver, and the official gifts from the master over the past few years. The mortgage income is about 1,000 taels, and the money accumulated in the mansion. I calculated that there are 3,500 taels."

Lin Yanchao frowned and said, "It's less than 5,000 taels to say so."

Chen Jichuan said: "Master, there are still several wealthy businessmen in Beijing. They have always been willing to interact with you. Why don't I ask them?"

Lin Yanchao asked, "What conditions do they want?"

Chen Jichuan smiled and said, "Master, with your current status in the court, it is too late for these wealthy businessmen to cling to each other, let alone talk about the conditions. In the past, the master was honest and self-confident, and I dared not mention it. This time, the master needed so much money, so he dared to ask this."

When he saw Lin Yanchao, he didn't speak.

Chen Jichuan whispered: "The villain knows that the master is planning a big deal, so the more money the better. The villain has inquired, and these wealthy businessmen are usually generous and generous, and do not care about the gains and losses in front of them, but about the long-term."

Lin Yanchao thought for a moment when he heard this, and then said, "If you can't pass this hurdle, then how can you get the long term? You can borrow it, anyway, I have too much debt to suppress myself."

Chen Jichuan said that he left silently.

At this moment, a palace banquet was being held in Cining Palace.

Empress Dowager Li invited the little emperor and Lu Wang to a banquet.

King Lu is fourteen years old this year, and he was born to the same mother as Danghon. Not long ago, Zhang Siwei submitted a petition to marry King Lu. According to the custom, after the vassal kings are married, the country can be married.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Li and the little emperor were very reluctant to leave King Lu.

Although the Tian family has no affair, the little emperor himself still attaches great importance to feelings, especially his only brother-in-law.

At this moment, Empress Dowager Li talked about the vassal state and looked at each other and cried.

The little emperor couldn't bear it and said to Empress Dowager Li: "Mother, I think even if King Lu gets married, he doesn't have to be so anxious to leave the capital. My son-in-law also wants him to stay with you for a few more years in the capital."

After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li asked, "The prince will marry according to the ancestors' rules, but not the country, and all officials will criticize him."

The little emperor smiled and said, "Don't worry, my mother, my son's ministers will give me the will, so they dare not say it."

Empress Dowager Li shook her head and said, "It's not necessarily true. When the Ai family heard about the wedding of King Lu, the emperor ordered the Ministry of Revenue to buy gold beads, but the Ministry of Revenue used the ancestor's words to limit the number of "the prince's engagement gift is only fifty taels of gold and ten taels of pearls". It also said that from the sixth year of Wanli to the present, the Ministry of Revenue has increased the number of gold and silver in addition to spending 5 million gold and silver in comprador gold and silver in the comprador gold and pearls and silver in the next quotation."

After hearing this, King Lu said with a grievance: "Mother, the emperor, and the ministers bully my son, you must make the decision for my son."

Empress Dowager Li comforted her and said, "Your Majesty is the only brother. Don't worry, Your Majesty will support you."

The young emperor was so embarrassed that he was embarrassed to defend himself: "Mother, those ministers knew that things happened. But this time what the Ministry of Revenue said made sense. The national treasury only earned two or three million a year in the year of Longqing. In recent years, due to Mr. Taiyue's reform, the money has been increased. However, King Lu spent the previous two or three years of treasury income. It is inevitable that the ministers below will have opinions."

Empress Dowager Li sneered: "What a good emperor who loves the people as much as his son. Do you know how to use the great principles to suppress the Ai family?"

Empress Dowager Li said softly, and the little emperor couldn't help but change his color. He left the table and knelt down and said, "Mother, my son, don't dare."

Empress Dowager Li slowed down and tried to cry with a palm and said, "When the emperor grew up, he had no mother in his eyes. After taking power, he couldn't even listen to his mother's words."

After hearing this, the little emperor kowtowed and said, "My son is not afraid. My son is now issued an order to denounce those ministers. No, dismiss the ministers who said this."

Empress Dowager Li said: "No need, people are right, so they are dismissed. Wouldn't it be that the ministers are pointing in trouble again? When Lu Wang bought the wedding, Mr. Zhang also supported it, saying that the court had no money, but it could be obtained by the reform of the new policy, and there was no need to impose an extra cent of tax on the people."

"The Ai family thought that although this reform was an offensive thing, Mr. Zhang was also in a state of concern for the country and the people, so he agreed to him. A few years ago, when Mr. Zhang was in power, the purchase of King Lu's wedding never allowed the Ministry of Revenue to not approve the notes. Now he was willing to spend 5.9 million taels of silver, and even moved the military expenditure of the nine sides. But in the end, the Ministry of Revenue was stinging with the gold beads. Could it be that the emperor said something, isn't it that Mr. Taiyue is not useful? So where has the power gone since you took power in the past few months?"

The little emperor was sweating when he heard this. This was his ability to be questioned by the queen mother. The little emperor immediately said, "The mother is waiting for her son to summon someone to ask."

Soon Zhang Jing went to the hall to kowtow to Empress Dowager Li and said, "The inner minister has met Empress Dowager Cisheng Xuan and Wenming and Ming Su."

Empress Dowager Li ignored it, and the young emperor said to Zhang Jing: "You talk to the Empress Dowager about the purchase of King Lu's wedding in recent years."

Zhang Jing said: "When I returned to the Empress Dowager, I bought the wedding and the construction of the royal palace, both Eunuch Feng and Mr. Zeng. In recent years, Eunuch Feng and Mr. Zeng spent too much money and misappropriated some of the expenses that I had originally planned to buy gold beads, green rubies and corals."

Empress Dowager Li said: "Everyone knows these things, Feng Bao has told the Ai family that you have never heard of."

Zhang Jing said: "Yes, I reported to the Empress Dowager that this time, the Inspector was ordered to go out of the palace to buy gold beads, green rubies, and corals, and searched all over the capital, but found that the merchants in the capital said that they had finished buying it, and even if there were some traitors, they asked for high prices, so the purchase fee was not enough, so they asked the Ministry of Revenue for silver."

Empress Dowager Li said coldly: "You slave, you have become greedy for a lot of money from the palace? But you have pushed everything to others."

Zhang Jing was so scared that he was out of his mind when he heard this, and said loudly: "The Empress Dowager is clear and clear. Since the Inner Master has done his job for His Majesty, if he receives a piece of jewelry and coral, it will be said that the slave will not die well."

After hearing this, Empress Li said suspiciously: "Really?"

Zhang Jing said: "The Queen Mother, in front of Your Majesty, the inner minister dare not say a word of false words."

Empress Dowager Li said: "You don't dare to lie, but where is the capital? The department store is full of all kinds of rare treasures in the world. How can you not buy the golden pearl coral?"

"This." Zhang Jing showed a hesitation.

The little emperor said, "The Queen Mother asked you, just say whatever you have."

"Yes, since this is the case, the inner minister is brave enough," Zhang Jing said, "The inner minister is inquiring about it. He heard that in recent years, the shameless ministers have all the goods to offer Wen Zhonggong and Master Feng, and even treasures in the capital, which are very expensive. Others told the inner minister that the inner minister wanted to buy jewelry for King Lu, and that they could only buy it by going to the imperial shop below Master Feng."

After Zhang Jing finished speaking, Empress Dowager Li was so angry that she trembled all over and said a few swear words from her hometown in Shanxi on the spot.

When the little emperor and Lu Wang saw it, they hurriedly stepped forward and helped him, "Don't calm down, please calm down."

Empress Dowager Li sneered: "So you said that a traitor is asking for a high price? It's Feng Bao's imperial shop. Very good. He sold his left hand to his right hand. Feng Bao actually started the business of the Ai family. In the past few years, he has made a lot of benefits for purchasing the palace. Do you think the Ai family doesn't know at all? The Ai family thought that he was entrusted by the late emperor and took care of the emperor's son and grew up, so he turned a blind eye. But this time, the Ai family could not tolerate him."

Hearing this, Zhang Jing showed a nearly invisible smile on his face.

"The Emperor."

The little emperor hurriedly said, "My son is here."

"Although Feng Bao is the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor and the admiral of the East Factory, he is still your slave. If the slave makes a mistake, he will do whatever he wants. But Feng Bao has served us mother and son for many years, so you have to leave some mercy for him."

The little emperor said immediately: "My son understand, I will do it now."

Empress Dowager Li waved her hand and said, "Go to your Majesty."

So the little emperor, Zhang Jing, left Cining Palace.

After leaving, the little emperor showed a trick and said, "The biggest backer of the great companion in the palace is the queen. If the queen does not speak, I will not dare to touch the big companion."

After a pause, the little emperor said to Zhang Jing: "Fortunately, you have a clever plan this time. Knowing that King Lu's wedding is the reverse scale of the mother's queen. It is not enough that the mother's queen will make up her mind."

Zhang Jing hurriedly said, "It's Your Majesty's clever tricks. Besides, Master Feng is really too greedy this time. I don't have any false words."

The little emperor nodded and said, "Are the outer court ready?"

Zhang Jing replied: "Zhang Cheng brought Yuan Fu's oral message, saying that he had ordered the Jing camp to be martial law now, and replaced the guards of Xifengkou and Panjiakou, and ordered people to monitor Mr. Feng's mansion outside the palace."

"Since my mother asked me to show mercy, I will give my grand companion a leisurely place in the mansion." Afterwards, I thought of Feng Baojiwei and asked worriedly, "If so, if so, the grand companion will come to the palace to see me, what should I do?"

Zhang Jingyan said: "Since Your Majesty issued an order to stay at home, Feng Bao would not dare to enter the palace."

When the little emperor heard this, he nodded and said to Zhang Jing: "Then you go and draw an order for me."

That night.

Feng Bao's house in Beijing was surrounded by people and horses in the Beijing camp, isolating the entry and exit.r
Chapter completed!