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In the hall at this moment, in addition to Zhou Yunyi, there was also a eunuch dressed in red official uniform, sitting in the first seat with a gloomy face.

"Eunuch Wang, Xia Yun has already bullied our Jiangnan Weaving General Administration! Do we have to continue to endure it?"

Zhou Yunyi looked at his boss who was sitting still. He was so anxious that he stood up from his chair and paced back and forth.

"We have long said that Xia Yun is not someone you can easily mess with, but you insisted on messing with him. Now one of your own people has been killed by Xia Yun. What do you think we should do?"

Wang Changqing responded in a gloomy voice.

He had no way of knowing that Bai Tian had sent people to create chaos in Sangtian, which was under Xia Yun's command.

He didn't learn about the incident until the news that three eunuchs and twenty-seven guards had all been killed was passed back to the Weaving Administration in the evening.

"What should we do? Of course we should go to the governor's office! We should settle accounts with Xia Yun! I don't believe that Xia Yun dares to do anything to us!"

Zhou Yunyi was so angry that he seemed to have lost the most basic ability to think and judge things.

"Don't you dare?"

Wang Changqing snorted coldly when he heard this.

"When Xia Yun killed thousands of people in one breath in the capital, he didn't dare?"

"Or the hundreds of scholars imprisoned in the governor's office now. Does he not dare?"

Wang Changqing's expression was extremely cold at this moment.

If things were really that easy to solve, why would he still be sitting here worrying!

He had already known everything Xia Yun had done in the officialdom in the past two months.

If I were to describe it in four words, it would be "audacious as hell"!

The other party was in the capital, and even dared to kill the prince! What about their Jiangnan Weaving General Administration in Hangzhou?

"Eunuch Wang! You and I were sent to Hangzhou by His Majesty himself! We can't just sit there and watch as more than twenty people are killed in vain!"

Zhou Yunyi didn't listen to Wang Changqing's words at all, and his tone became increasingly sharp.

When things got to this point, Wang Changqing finally couldn't help it.

"Zhou Yunyi!"

A loud shout suddenly came from Wang Changqing's mouth, and the whole person seemed like a tiger waiting for food in secret, and an extremely powerful force was released when he opened his mouth.

"Don't forget, I am the director of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau appointed by His Majesty!"

"Who is Xia Yun? Isn't he a trusted confidant of His Majesty? We are now in Hangzhou, and we are already fish on the chopping board of the other party."

"If you insist on doing it your own way, then take your people to find Xia Yun yourself, and don't use the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration's sign!"

Wang Changqing scolded again and again.

As the saying goes, a single move can affect the entire body. He didn't want Zhou Yunyi's recklessness to bring disaster to the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration.

"Eunuch Wang, you said that yourself! I will write to His Majesty right now to accuse Xia Yun of abusing his power and killing the eunuchs in the palace!"

Zhou Yunyi was so angry that he uttered a few last words and walked out of the hall in a rage.

Wang Changqing looked at Zhou Yunyi's back and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Things have developed to this point, I'm afraid it will be difficult to end it!

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"Report! Your Excellency! Zhou Yunyi, the third-rank deputy director of the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration, is leading a hundred guards and rushing to the governor's office!"

"Report, General Chong Heihu has recently informed you that several express messengers with a speed of 800 miles have left the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration and are on their way to the capital!"

"Report! General Jiang Wenzhong sent back a message that all prefectures, counties and cities near Hangzhou have already made arrangements for disaster relief."

At ten o'clock in the evening, the governor's office was brightly lit.

Xia Yun, sitting in the lobby, was listening to a series of reports from his subordinates.

"Tell General Chong not to stop the messenger and let him go to the court."

Among all the reports, Xia Yun was the first to respond.

"Sir, what should we do with Zhou Yunyi?"

Qin Tianye, who was waiting beside Xia Yun, had a murderous look on his face at this moment.

According to his idea, he would lead people out personally and kill Zhou Yunyi.

To prevent the governor's office from being stained with blood.

"Once Zhou Yunyi enters the street where the governor's office is located, arrest him immediately and put him in the dungeon. Remember not to harm his life."

Xia Yun waved his hand and had no intention of killing Zhou Yunyi directly.

After all, Zhou Yunyi was a third-rank official in the imperial court, and a close confidant of the empress who had been sent to Hangzhou earlier.

If he were killed like this, it would be somewhat disrespectful to the empress.

And for all this time, the empress had never made things difficult for him, so he had to show her some mercy.

"The last general takes command!"

Jiang Wenzhong immediately accepted the order and left the governor's hall in a hurry with his soldiers.

"Wan'er, send a letter of divorce to the Ninth Prince's residence in the capital, explain the true situation of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau in Hangzhou, and ask Xiao Yan to petition His Majesty to abolish the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau."

"Also, send another divorce letter directly to the palace, stating that my Hangzhou Washing and Weaving Factory will supply the court with 300,000 rolls of silk and 300,000 rolls of high-quality cotton cloth every year for free from now on!"

Xia Yun turned his gaze to Xu Wan'er beside him, and his words were meaningful.

When it comes down to it, the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration no longer has any need to exist.

Since the establishment of the Jiangnan Weaving General Bureau, it has ostensibly supplied silk and cotton cloth to the imperial court.

However, due to corruption within the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration, the amount of silk and cotton cloth supplied to the court continued to decrease year by year!

The situation has become even more serious in the past two years. Last year alone, the amount of silk and cotton cloth supplied to the court by the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration was only 300,000 pieces in total!

There is no doubt that the missing silk and cotton cloth were all embezzled by the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration and some people in the palace!

"So big, my lord!"

There was a hint of surprise in Xu Wan'er's eyes. Obviously, she was shocked by Xia Yun's strong methods.

With Xia Yun's current status and power, he never thought of competing with the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration in Hangzhou.

The first move Xia Yun made was to ask the court to directly abolish the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration.

In this way, the greatest support of Zhou Yunyi and other people with ulterior motives was directly cut off.

As for the 300,000 rolls of silk and 300,000 rolls of high-quality cotton cloth that Xia Yun promised, it was nothing at all.

According to the scale of the Huanyi Weaving Factory and the various resources in Xia Yun's hands, he could produce 2.3 million rolls of silk, let alone 300,000 rolls of silk a year!

And the most important thing is that the 300,000 rolls of silk and 300,000 rolls of high-quality cotton cloth that Xia Yun supplied to the court were free of charge.

Although the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration worked for the imperial court, it still needed special silver allocations from the imperial court every year, and the Jiangnan Weaving General Administration would then purchase silk from merchants.

In the Daliang Dynasty, the price of a piece of silk was six taels of silver. Three hundred thousand pieces would cost one million six hundred thousand taels of silver!

The price of a piece of high-quality cotton cloth is ten taels of silver. Three hundred thousand pieces means three million taels of silver!

In other words, the 300,000 rolls of silk and 300,000 rolls of cotton cloth that Xia Yun supplied to the court were worth at least 4.6 million taels of silver!