Lie Junhou [Rebirth]

Lu Qi's words of "ugly words first" really meant that the visitor was not kind, and the expressions of Lin Sibo and Gu Zhaoqing sank by half.

On the main seat, Lin Sihong's expression remained unwavering, he just poured the wine, and toasted Lu Qi and the people beside him: "Today, there is a banquet in the house, and I am fortunate that you are all here. Anyway, let's do this first." cup!"

Everyone relaxed a little, and they all raised their glasses to return a few polite words, and the oppressive atmosphere in the hall dissipated by three points.

Looking at the situation in front of him, Lin Yi recalled his previous life. When he was fighting in northern Xinjiang, the rough guards drove thousands of miles from Jinling to Yingzhou, and suddenly put Lin Sibo in prison to await trial, and thoroughly investigated the business under Lin's command.

But before he was convicted, Linsper fell seriously ill and died.

Even if Lin Yidang wanted to ask Emperor Yongguang for clarification, Emperor Yongguang sent a message, promising to give him an explanation and ask him to guard the army.

At that time, in northern Xinjiang, the front from Huanglong Mansion to Heishui was full of gunpowder and smoke, and the flames of war continued. It was the critical moment of the stalemate. Lin Yi had to take care of the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people in 26 border towns, as well as the big battle behind that line of defense. Yanjiang Mountain.

When his sister Lin Yunxi came to him, he had already made a decision, and he never took a step out of northern Xinjiang.

Emperor Yongguang also gave him an explanation at the end: The case of the Lin family in Yingzhou ended with Lin Sibo not guilty, and Lu Xiaowei was responsible for the unjust judgment.Lin Yunxi had died of illness at that time, so he could not wait for his father to recover.

If it wasn't for Lu Xiaowei who came to investigate the Lin family, the Lin family would have been fine.

Later, when Lin Yi wanted to investigate, Emperor Yongguang was critically ill, and all the guards were replaced, without any evidence.

But the world said that Marquis Lie Jun disregarded his family affection, flattered him, coveted his uncle Wanguan's wealth, and framed Lin Sibo.

Bad things always spread faster than good things. Since then, Lin Yi has changed from a low-key townside lord to a notorious unjust person.

Today Lu Qi came with Lu Xiaowei, and made it clear that he was targeting the Lin, Ruan, and Gu families—as if the situation at that time had reappeared.

Lin Yi finally had the opportunity to figure out the cause of the Lin case.

Lin Yi stared at Lu Qi, is the Lu Xiaowei today the same as the previous life?Had they really killed Linsberg?

Under the dancing light of the bright candle, Lu Qiu put his head back and smiled, and put the wine glass on the table.

——"Since the beginning of this dynasty, everyone, will there be a day like today, when half of the Great Yan Kingdom is in the hands of certain people?"

The "certain people" in Lu Qiu's words undoubtedly refer to the people in the hall, which is tantamount to accusing them of disobedience.

The room was suddenly silent, breathing could be heard, the twilight outside the house faded, and the sky gradually accumulated clouds, covering the stars and moonlight.

Lin Yi looked at Lin Sihong. Lin Sihong's tall figure was as majestic as a mountain, with sharp eyebrows and calm eyes.

While Gu Zhaoqing and Lin Sibo's expressions became more and more gloomy, Xiao Huan just put down the wine glass, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

"Master Lu, what do you mean by this?" Linsbo raised his hand, "Please explain clearly."

"Since Master Lin asked first, then..." Lu Qi looked at Lin Sibo, "Lin's timber business is only in Qifeng Mountain Farm and Hengdaowu in Sanling, Ganzhou. What is the annual harvest?"

Linsbo frowned: "Master Lu wants to check the accounts?"

Lu Qi waved his hand: "Money is not a problem, and neither is timber... Lin's pawn and cloth shop operations account for [-]% of the business."

Lin Sibo had a straight temper, and said, "If the Lin family wasn't in the middle, the purchase of imperial wood would be like a corvee. Lin's doing this business is a good thing for the people and the court. How can it monopolize the big and endanger the country?"

Lu Qiu smiled, gestured to appease Lin Sibo: "Master Lin, don't be angry, then I'll ask Mr. Ruan?"

Xiao Huan came here in the name of the son of the Ruan family in Jiangzhou. Hearing this, he raised his eyes to look at him and smiled gently.

"Lord Lu, just ask."

Lu Qiu lowered his eyes and thought for a while: "Mr. Ruan, let's just talk about the bank. Taihengchang has a branch in Shanghai and Shanghai. Is there such a number as the annual exchange of silver?"

He stretched out his hand and made a gesture of seven, which meant 700 million taels. This was just the amount in exchange for silver. Lu Qi didn't directly say the profit, so maybe he should be praised for his politeness.

Xiao Huan glanced at it, nodded with a smile, and didn't care that Lu Qi got the number on the Ruan family's Longmen account.

Lu Qiu nodded, and then looked at Gu Zhaoqing: "Then, half of the water transport ships on the four continents of the Huainan Canal belong to the Gu family. How about 300 million stones per year?"

This amount does not need to be checked from the Gu family's account book, and Gu Zhaoqing has nothing to hide, so he nodded: "It's probably the number."

Looking at it this way, the three clans really control most of the commercial lifeline of the Yan Kingdom.

Lu Qi smiled: "As expected of being one of the top three wealthy merchants in my country of Yan, it's fun to talk."

Lin Sihong had been listening, and at this moment he said bluntly, "Master Lu, what exactly does Your Majesty mean?"

Lin Yi was puzzled, did this mean that the three clans were too popular, and should they be eliminated quickly?

He wasn't worried, even if Lu Xiaowei made an attack today, he would be able to deal with it, but he didn't understand their motives for doing so.

Xiao Huan stretched out his hand from under the table, and patted the back of his hand on his knee calmly. Lin Yi looked sideways at him slightly, his clear peach blossom eyes were clear under the candle, which made him relax.

Lu Qiu's smile returned to his usual kindness, and his fox-like eyes were slender and slanted: "Your Majesty's meaning--the business in your hands must be supervised by the officials. If the supervision is not enough, it will be directly handed over to the officials." Home run!"

take over?It's so nice to say, it's obviously a copy of the house!

"Ridiculous!" Gu Xiaohang couldn't help but speak.

Linsbo was so angry that he almost scolded him, and Gu Zhaoqing's expression turned cold.

Lin Sihong smiled, with sword-like eyebrows and star-eyed eyes, and an outstanding demeanor, he said: "If your majesty really thinks this way, Lord Lu wouldn't be chatting nicely with Lin, Ruan, and Gu's family right now, and just let Lu Xiaowei surround you all." Just the mansion."

But Lu Qi closed his eyes and shook his head: "Everyone, Your Majesty really thinks so."

The night outside the house was dark, lightning pierced the ground, there was a thunderbolt in the sky, and a rain in late spring poured down, pouring down in an instant.

Several people frowned when they heard this, Lu Qi is not a simple person, he is dressed in a book and long shirt, but he can command the rough guards.

His official career has been bumpy, but he is very good at making money. The most upright old minister in the Great Yan Kingdom——Yu Lichen, always dislikes Lu Qi, and many people also think that Lu Qi is a traitor.

Such a person took power and received the emperor's order to confiscate the house. Wouldn't he want to have a good time and make a big copy?

Lin Sihong crossed his arms, not worried, and looked around the audience: "I can fight wars, but you can talk about business."

Lin Sibo and Gu Zhaoqing didn't have a good impression of Lu Qi, and they were very unhappy at the moment, so they didn't speak for a while.

Xiao Huan put one hand on the case, tapped lightly with his slender fingers, smiled slightly, and said: "Master Lu, the government may not be able to handle these business."

Lin Yi couldn't help turning his head to look at him. Xiao Huan was dressed in a light blue robe, and he smiled softly and spoke calmly, but at this moment he had a kind of power, as if he had just suppressed his sharpness in normal times.

"Can't afford it? Only officials don't want to accept it. How can they not?" Lu Qi smiled, more like a fox.

Lin Yi raised his eyebrows, and said, "Mr. Ruan's words are true."

Lu Qiu opened his eyes, looked at the two of them, and said, "Young Master Ruan and Young Master, let's talk about it."

Lin Yi smiled: "Let's talk about the Lin family first, the procurement of timber is handed over to the government, even if the people suffer from corvee service, the previous dynasty has learned lessons first-in the nine years of Zhengde alone, the Qianming Palace project spent hundreds of dollars on timber procurement. Ten thousand, the national treasury is huge, and it is not cost-effective compared to commercial operations."

After hearing this, Linsbo was a little surprised that his nephew could be so serious, and nodded: "Zi Yao remembers it right."

Lin Yi looked at Xiao Huan, and the two looked at each other for a moment, as if they had a tacit understanding.

Xiao Huan leaned forward a little bit, with some coldness in Taohua's eyes, and then said: "Let's talk about our Ruan family, we don't talk about the bank, we only talk about the ticket number, Jinhengrun's semicolon in Nanyang, which was lent to the state capital 120 last year. Wan Liang...Master Lu, if it is handed over to the government, the ticket number may not even be able to keep the bank, so is there any need for this business?"

Lu Chenming saw that Xiao Huan's demeanor was intimidating at this time, as if he was a different person, but even more eye-catching, so he couldn't help but echoed in a low voice beside his uncle: "Mr. Ruan...you are right."

Lu Qi was noncommittal, his narrow eyes were still half a smile.

Xiao Huan closed his eyes again for a moment, and said: "As for the Gu family, the official water transportation department is in charge of the Lianghuai Canal, and it is in charge of material transportation and water conservancy deployment. Merchants can accept ships and pay taxes. at home?"

Gu Zhaoqing couldn't agree more: "That's the reason, not to mention that the officials can't digest so much capacity now."

Linsbo frowned and said, "If you really want to forcibly 'take over' these businesses, then it will be a mess, and the country will be really in danger!"

It was raining heavily outside the house, and the tiles along the corners of the eaves and corridors were crackling, and the branches and leaves of the sycamore trees in the courtyard were fluttering. Presumably, the fallen flowers flowed into the river outside the city with the rain.

No one thought that Lu Qi would care about She Ji, he climbed all the way to this position, relying on his cruel heart and cold hands.

Lu Qi's smile never faded, as if that smiling face was a mask that never took off.

Just when everyone thought that he was going to forcefully attack, Lu Qi got up, stretched out his robe, and bowed deeply to the audience.

——"Everyone, Lu has something to ask."

There was silence in the house again, Lu Qi's behavior was unexpected, at this time he should have ordered Lu Xiaowei to raid the homes of the three clans.

Lu Chenming was also stunned: "Uncle...we're not here to clean up..."

Lu Qiu stood up straight and glanced at Lu Chenming, but Lu Chenming didn't dare to speak any more.

Lin Yi felt strange, and subconsciously glanced at Xiao Huan, who gave him a comforting look.

The smile on Lu Qiu's face faded a bit, his eyes were still like a fox turned spirit, he shook his gown, and said: "Your Majesty really intends to let the government take over your business, but as everyone said, it really did. , the country is in danger."

He shook his head, his tone was a little helpless, but his smile remained unchanged: "This idea was not actually thought of by His Majesty, it was brought up by Concubine Li and Ning Guogong over and over again..."

Lin Yi understood in an instant that Concubine Li Gui was a demon flower in the harem, and now the holy family is in full bloom.It turned out that this concubine colluded with her relatives and wanted to swallow the business of the three clans, so she had a big appetite.

Lu Qiu also said: "Lu Mou can't persuade His Majesty, so he has to come here first. Now I want to ask you to contribute to a joint memorial. After Lu Mou returns to the court, he will submit it to His Majesty in the name of other colleagues, hoping to make His Majesty change. Mind."

Lin Yi knew that this method had a great chance of winning. Emperor Yongguang was not a faint emperor, and he could still listen to the persuasion of his ministers.

But this is against the emperor's will after all, Lu Qi is willing to take this risk, because he is loyal in his bones.

Lin Sibo and Gu Zhaoqing didn't want to look at him at first, but now they looked serious and looked at Lu Qi with some respect in their hearts.

In the previous life, when Lu Xiaowei came to Charlinsbo, the commander was no longer Lu Qiu, he must only dare to follow orders, and never dared to make any joint admonitions, and Linsbo suffered disaster because of this.

Lin Yi was in northern Xinjiang at that time, and he didn't know the inside story. Who would have thought that it was a disaster caused by a concubine!

Lu Xiaowei is just a knife, which can be borrowed to kill people or used as a scapegoat. When Emperor Yongguang punished Lu Xiaowei, he also gave Lin Yi a face-to-face explanation to cover up his mistakes made by his stupidity.

Lin Sihong who had been watching quietly stood up, smiled loudly, poured the wine, and signaled to Lu Qiuyi: "Lord Lu is utterly loyal and well-intentioned, I will do it first as a respect."

All the people under the seat also raised their glasses one after another. For a while, the hall was brightly lit and the haze dissipated.

Lin Yi raised his head and drank a glass, and couldn't help but look at Xiao Huan a few more times. At first, he thought that this young master of the Ruan family was aloof, but now it seems that he knows all kinds of business.

Thinking about the Lin case back then, but something was still missing, Lin Yi rubbed his forehead, planning to go back and think about it.

The night rain came and went quickly, the rain curtain dissipated, the thick clouds in the sky shattered, the galaxy was like a waterfall, and the bright moon was in the sky.

Everyone immediately drew up a memorial, and Lu Qi put it away and left the Hou Mansion with Lu Xiaowei, intending to leave for Jinling the next day.

In late spring after the rain, the night wind was cool, Xiao Huan returned to the courtyard, and a rhododendron tree in the courtyard fell all over the ground, and the flowers on the branches were stained with rain.

Xiao Huan passed by the flower branches, stopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to look at the cornices in the corridor.

A thin and slender figure stood at the corner of the eaves, with the moonlight on his back, a long sword at his waist, and a slightly smiling voice: "Your Highness, it's been a long time."