Emperor's Trophy

Ji Huaisu's papers about leaving the capital and going to the feudal clan passed quickly. No matter the cabinet or the clan secretary of Guanglu Temple, the draft papers were drafted.

Ji Huaisheng and Yun Zhen were very sentimental when they were eating: "In this wave of us, there were only three people staying in Beijing, and they won the title of the county king, but Ji Huaiqing and Ji Huaisu left. It would be too eye-catching for me to stay in Beijing. My royal father will soon write a letter to marry and open a mansion for me."

Yun Zhen poured wine for him: "There is always a banquet in the world, I will go to see you - I will go to drink when you get married, and when you give birth to a son, I will tell the emperor that I will find a way to transfer you to Beijing. Get you an errand."

Ji Huaisheng drank wine, his face was slightly drunk, he looked at Yunzhen and said, "Hey, sometimes I think you are very strange, when you get along with each other, you can feel that you treat people very well and sincerely, but sometimes I feel that you are not free and easy like a person of this age. It seems that separation and reunion, even life and death, cannot touch your heart. I know, if I really need you, you must be the most reliable, hey."

Yun Zhen said: "Everything is like a dream, like a bubble, like dew like electricity. If we can be brothers in this life, then we should cherish this fate. If the fate is shallow, don't worry about it. We just need to cherish it when we are together." .”

Ji Huaisheng laughed loudly: "When did you start cultivating Buddha?" Then he touched the string of Buddhist beads on Yunzhen's wrist, Yunzhen smiled and said, "I want to borrow some money from you to do something."

Ji Huaisheng said: "Just tell me how much you want—the logic is that you shouldn't be short of money."

Yun Zhen said: "I have earned some money, but it's not enough."

Ji Huaisheng said: "What on earth are you going to use this much money for?"

Yun Zhen said: "I harvested some grain in the south of the Yangtze River last autumn, and my money is a little tight."

Ji Huaisheng said: "What do you do with harvesting grain? Last year, the harvest in Jiangnan was poor, and the price of grain was not very low. It didn't make much money. My grandfather refused to do grain business, saying it was easy to lose money."

Yun Zhen smiled and said nothing, Ji Huaisheng said: "I'll give you a token, you can get money from Rongfu Bank if you need it urgently, there are many branches in many places."

Yun Zhen was not polite to him: "Okay, I will definitely repay you in the future, and I will definitely pay back the money."

He suddenly became serious, Ji Huaisheng was a little at a loss: "No need, you are young, what kind of big game can you play?"

Yun Zhen said: "No, the main reason is that all the living money in my hand has been thrown away. There used to be a adopted son by my side. He was recognized by his biological father. The situation is not very good. I want to send him some money. past."

Ji Huaisheng chuckled: "I remember, the blue-eyed beard beside you, right? You can tell it was born by Hu Ji at a glance. Those who can raise orchids will not be from ordinary families. He is also born to Hu Ji." Yes, I came from a humble background, so I thought life would be difficult, but with your Lord Marquis as the master, who would dare not buy from you? Blame me, I blamed you for being cold, it was really wrong."

He stared at Yunzhen for a while, and said sadly: "If you are a woman, you are really ruthless. How many people care about you when you are so merciful." He was still saying that Ji Xianger was sorry, he was really troubled by love and trapped by love, which made him feel a little sad when he thought about it.

Yun Zhen: ...

Ji Huaisheng murmured: "I can't do it, I have to go back, I think if I stay with you any longer, if I can't keep it, I have to try Longyang..."

Yun Zhen reached out and pinched his face and said: "Stop talking nonsense, I think you owe a lesson, why don't I be sad and let's part? I don't know that you often sneak around pretending to be the young master of the Zhou family? Just look at it Got you? Even if you stay in Beijing, you won’t be able to stay for long. You are born to like to run around! A man, don’t talk about defending your family, defending your country and building a career, you should also achieve a career. We are young for a few years, what should we do? Well, if anyone is reluctant to put on a show in front of you, it's probably for you to watch!"

Ji Huaisheng was shocked.

Yun Zhen sneered and said: "It must be Ji Huaisu who performed in front of you again, you are a snow-white little fat sheep, listen carefully and don't lend him any money!"

Ji Huaisheng felt guilty, and Yun Zhen said: "I knew it, you must have lent him money a long time ago, didn't you?"

Ji Huaisheng said: "It happened a few years ago... I borrowed it once and paid it back soon. He also gave me some news. I made a lot of money. I earned more than what I lent to him. Don't worry." Yes, no loss."

Yun Zhen snorted coldly: "He doesn't need to borrow money from you, he just needs to be friendly with you, and he can make a lot of money in your name. He is smart, and he has the ability to make money with empty hands. He is the best at this way." He glanced at Ji Huaisheng, fortunately he was not good at Long Yang, otherwise he would be fooled foolishly like himself back then.

Ji Huaisheng sighed: "Brother Zhen, what auspicious son, I am not a three-year-old child, I have been rolling in the business field since I was a child, I can still tell who is sincere to me and who is false to me, although Huai Su is scheming Deep, but you really have no bad intentions towards me."

Yun Zhen didn't speak. When Ji Huaisu treats people well, he really seems to be nice.Ji Huaisheng was interrupted by him like this, and the sentimentality of facing parting also disappeared a lot. The two chatted a little more before leaving the table.

Yunzhen returned to the Hou's mansion, but found Bai Yuqi, explained to him in detail, and took 5 taels of silver to him. Bai Yuqi smiled and said, "Master Hou is not worried that I took the money and ran away. 5 taels of silver, the average family can’t save it for a few lifetimes.”

Yun Zhen said: "Run and run, tens of thousands of dollars to see that a person is worth it, it's better than entangled for half a lifetime before turning back at the end, if you think it's inappropriate, say quit as soon as possible, I can reward you as soon as possible, although It’s not as much as [-] silver, but it’s okay to make you rich and worry-free, I think it’s better for you to do this.”

Bai Yuqi suppressed his smile, stared at Yunzhen for a while and said, "Master Hou is the most heroic person I've ever seen in my life. After all, Mr. Bai is right."

Yun Zhen pushed the silver ticket and said: "Although things like money are important, they are not that important. On the contrary, confidantes, lovers, brothers, etc., are hard to change for thousands of dollars, and hard to repair in several lifetimes. Naturally, we should cherish fate when we meet. Dharma, you and I have known each other once, and may this predestined Dharma end well in this life."

Bai Yuqi took the silver and smiled freely: "It taught me that pride suddenly arose."

Yun Zhen waved him away: "Go, I will go to the Nine Sides to patrol soon, and I will find you when I have a chance."

Bai Yuqi nodded and left.

Yun Zhen sat in the study, thinking over and over again what omissions there were, but suddenly the curtain outside the door was lifted, Zhang Yan walked up, turned to Linghu Yi behind him and said, "You guard the door."

Seeing his serious expression, Yun Zhen was startled: "What's wrong with Mr. Zhang?"

Zhang Yan's expression was almost exasperated. He stepped forward and directly grabbed Yun Zhen's wrist, and said coldly: "Master Hou, I haven't seen your expenses much these days. After a careful investigation recently, I found out that Master Hou has spent more than half of his expenses in the past six months. It's amazing, but it turned out that they were all thrown in the Yangwei Escort. Originally, I thought that Lord Hou had a rare hobby, so he would lose money if he lost money. However, the loss is too big. Check it out."

His face was pale, and his voice was trembling slightly: "It's all right, I personally went to several Escort bureaus with the largest deficits to investigate, and found that Lord Hou, you have stockpiled food, raised a horse farm, and repaired countless bows and arrows!"

"There are three horse farms in Su'an County, Fangping County, and Gaoyan County, all of which have hundreds of horses. It doesn't look like many at first glance, but there are already thousands of horses in total!"

"Not to mention food and grass...those weapons...those weapons..."

His hands were trembling: "Master Hou, do you know that once these things are reported to the court, you can immediately go to prison and conspire against him?"

Yun Zhen was taken aback at first, but after hearing what he said, he smiled and said, "I didn't deliberately hide it from the military adviser, yes, I did it, don't worry, it's not treason, it's just for emergencies. "

Zhang Yan was almost laughed angrily by him: "Master Hou! What is a contingency! This is..." He lowered his voice: "Privately store soldiers and horses, privately forge weapons, privately stockpile grain and grass, each of which is worthy of the nine clans. Great crime!"

Yun Zhen touched his back: "Oh, Mr. Zhang, it's nothing serious, it's nothing serious, I'm just guarding against the north."

Zhang Yan was already numb all over: "You go and say that it is for defense and resistance to Beiqi. Who the hell would believe the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty! Lord Hou! How can you be so confused!"

He was shaking like a fever: "And those bodyguards, you opened so many branches, I thought you were just driving for fun at first, but now that I think about it, the bodyguards learn to ride horses and martial arts, and you let them out Lan Yongxun and the others, they are training soldiers for you! There are dozens of bodyguards in each bodyguard, adding up to an elite cavalry force of hundreds of people... You are still in charge of the imperial army, the emperor treats you with great kindness... Lord Hou, Lord Hou! There is still King Qingyang's shares here, you will even kill King Qingyang and King Jin together!"

Yun Zhen poured him a cup of tea: "Calm down, okay? Listen to me, it's okay, it's okay, I didn't do anything, and you said that the emperor treats me well, besides, it's all about you knowing me Others don't know the way, and they can't guess it."

Zhang Yan said angrily: "Master Hou...you...what evil did you fall into? Why do you think that Beiqi will definitely go south like a madman? In the past few years, you have spent several 10 taels of silver in it. I was tossing about these things, but I didn’t pay attention, I was in a daze! I was negligent!”

It was very cold at dawn, but he was sweating in a hurry, and it was cold under his fur clothes. He almost wanted to go to the death of Princess Dingxiang to confess his crime tonight.

But Linghu Yi said outside the door: "Grandpa Qingsong, are you here?

Zhang Yan stopped talking for a moment, Yun Zhen said: "Please come in."

I saw Qingsong came in with a smile on his face and saluted: "Hello, Lord Hou, Hello, Master Zhang. The emperor asked me to send a few baskets of cherries to reward Lord Hou, and told me to take you into the palace tonight, saying There are a lot of seasonal dishes at Guanglu Temple, I teach you to go in and taste them. By the way, Doctor Jun has also returned to Beijing. The emperor said that he will welcome him, so you can also bring Doctor Jun into the palace, Lord Hou Look, it's not too early now?"

Yun Zhen stood up with a smile and said, "Okay, I'll go right away."

He looked back at Zhang Yan's unrequited look, and couldn't help but smile: "Then I'm entering the palace, Mr. Zhang, I have something to say when I come back."