The big bandit in the Red Mansion robbed Lin Daiyu at the beginning

Military Advisor Ai was holding a cup of tea in his hand.

Looking at the smiling face of Qingfeng Li,

Lin Ruhai wanted to rush up and punch him in the face twice.

Looking at Qingfeng Li coldly,

"What do you mean by 'older brother'? I dare not approach Master Li Feng with such prestige!"

Qingfeng Li was not angry, but smiled and said,

"It seems that Brother Lin is truly a forgetful person! Could it be that you have forgotten how happy we were last night, drinking together?"

Lin Ruhai sneered and pointed at the big red lanterns and colorful silk outside the door, saying,

"If that's the case, what are all those things outside?"

"How can you be so mean as to call me your brother?"

Li Qingfeng smiled and shook his head.

"Brother Lin is deliberately trying to provoke me, but why don't you invite me in to sit down?"

Lin Ruhai snorted coldly.

"Hmph! I have nothing to say to a bandit who is full of secret tricks and acts cunningly."

"Here is my head, you can chop it off as you please!"

As he spoke, he stood with his hands behind his back, head held high, as if ready to die.

Qingfeng Li waved his hand.

"Hey, isn't Brother Lin excited?"

Looking at Lin Ruhai's angry face,

Qingfeng Li smiled and nodded.

"Yes, you are right, but what if this bandit can help you break the current situation in Yangzhou?"

Lin Ruhai frowned.

Looking at Qingfeng Li with some suspicion,

"What do you mean?"

Qingfeng Li looked at Lin Ruhai, who was blocking the door, with an inscrutable look and asked,

"Brother Lin, won't you invite me in to sit down?"

After hearing what Qingfeng Li said, Lin Ruhai was silent for a moment.

He turned slightly to the side and looked at Qingfeng Li with a serious expression.

It must be said that Qingfeng Li's previous words,

It really touched Lin Ruhai's heart.

In recent years, he served as the Imperial Censor of Salt, in charge of the salt tax in Lianghuai.

However, in recent years, the expenses of the palace have been increasing. In addition, Lin Ruhai has to pay double the salt tax every year, and the amount has been increasing year by year. He has long been exhausted physically and mentally.

Since money had to be taken out of the salt merchants' pockets, they naturally refused to cooperate and found various ways to resist taxation.

In the past, Lin Ruhai had to fight wits and courage with salt merchants to barely keep the salt tax.

But this year, due to the emergence of Qingfeng Village,

As a result, a lot of money from the Yangzhou salt merchants was plundered.

For this purpose, Lin Ruhai specially found a group of salt merchants.

The share of previous years has been reduced by 10%.

But even so, those salt merchants all cried and shouted that they had been robbed by Qingfeng Village, and they shouted that they had no money in their pockets and refused to pay taxes.

Even if Lin Ruhai wanted to, he couldn't settle accounts with Qingfeng Village, right?

Lin Ruhai was at his wit's end and had reached the end of his rope.

He had no choice but to pass on the situation in Yangzhou through Qingfeng Village to achieve his own goal.

Because of the tax silver, he asked the court to send troops to attack Qingfeng Village so that he could escape.

After clearing out Qingfengzhai, Lin Ruhai’s real purpose was to expose the Yangzhou salt business to the emperor through Qingfengzhai!

Lin Ruhai had been in Yangzhou for many years, but the salt merchants were not without supporters.

Otherwise, how could Lin Ruhai, who had the salt trader in his hands, be so humble to those salt merchants?

Lin Ruhai's way of being an official was to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country.

But at the same time, he is by no means a pedantic person, and his heart can hold a few buckets of dirty water.

Otherwise, in the original novel, he would not have left a dowry of one million silver taels for Lin Daiyu after his death.

But plans cannot keep up with changes, and before he could implement his strategy,

His daughter was captured by Qingfeng Village and brought to the mountain, so he came here in a hurry.

Now, after hearing Qingfeng Li's words again, although he was very angry about Qingfeng Li's actions last night,

But he suppressed his anger and let him into the house.

As soon as Qingfeng Li entered the room,

So he sat down at the table.

Xiao Ai placed the tea on the table and stood beside Qingfeng Li with her head bowed respectfully.

After Lin Ruhai closed the door, he quickly walked to the table and sat down.