Chapter 11: Silent Undercurrents

"Jing Yu, you immediately fly the pigeon to pass the book to the eldest prince, let him come to Jinling within ten days, and bring two seven-star butterflies by the way, to ensure that the flowering period can be extended to at least five days after he arrives, and there must be no damage along the way!"

"Yes, girl!" Jing Yu responded, "However, the eldest prince doesn't know where he is now, but the Seven Star Butterfly is only available in our Yingzhou Su Mansion, I'm afraid that if the eldest prince is in other places, when the eldest prince rushes back to Yingzhou to get flowers and then comes to Jinling, time, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up!" ”

"He must be in Yingzhou!" Su Jin said with a light smile. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Why is the girl so sure?" Bi Xi on the side was puzzled.

"Didn't the young lady of Liuyue Villa recruit relatives in a martial arts competition recently? With such a lively look, where do you think he can be if he is not in Yingzhou? ”

"That's right! Sister Su Xin competed to recruit relatives, why did I almost forget such a big thing! Biyue jumped up from her chair and clapped her hands and shouted, "But...... But with such a lively scene, why am I not there? Woo......"

"If you rush back now, you might still have time to see some exciting final showdowns!" Bi Xi sneered.

After hearing this, Bi Yue only felt a chill all over her body, of course she understood that Bi Xi's implication was to let her go back and not come, so she hurriedly stopped with a smile and said, "That, that's still not wanted!" It's also good to be in Jinling, just go back, forget it! ”

"But then again, with Young Master Liu's high spirit, I'm afraid there aren't many people who can see it! She is so powerful, it is not easy to walk under her in three moves, and it will be even more difficult to defeat her! Girl, do you say that the eldest prince will he be able to ...... too"

"No!" Su Jin said with a smile, of course she knew what Jing Yu was going to say, "Liuyue Villa is a pure family in the rivers and lakes, the reputation of the owner of Liuzhuang in the rivers and lakes is also very loud, Su Xin's own skills are not comparable to ordinary people, plus Su Xin is the only daughter of the owner of Liu Zhuang, the weight of this son-in-law's position is so attractive, whether it is in the rivers and lakes or other families, there are not a few who want to grab it!" But as for our eldest son, he just went to sit and watch the excitement! ”

"But if he is, it's just...... Want to mess around? After all, he has a criminal record here! Two years ago, the third daughter of the valley lord of the Dark Valley competed to recruit relatives, wasn't it just a whim of the eldest prince, and as a result, he made a mess of other people's good recruitment? Biyue said in a suppressed voice.

Su Jin couldn't help laughing, "If you want the eldest prince to hear this, he will probably clean you up again!" But you forget, although he did make a move in the Dark Valley, others only knew that he was a Yanke and did not know his true identity, but if it was in Liuyue Villa, who in the rivers and lakes didn't know Yanke, and who didn't know the eldest son of the Su family in Yingzhou? So should he be a goose guest or the eldest son of the Su family? No matter which one it is, his identity will definitely be seen through, so will he be able to follow his temperament in the future, where there is excitement, and occasionally jump out to make trouble? ”

"Wow! Originally, the eldest prince was such a person in Sister Su's eyes......" Biyue leaned over and said with a smile.

"Bixi, let's go! Go to Jiyue Pavilion. Su Jin said lightly.

"Yes, girl!" Bi Xi responded.

Jing Yu smiled and patted Biyue's head, and then went out.

"Hah! You ignore me! I'm ...... Ignore it!! Biyue said indignantly, seeing that Su Jin and the others were already gone, they could only follow with a short breath.

After bypassing half of the long street, the carriage stopped in front of the Jiyue Pavilion in the middle of Ganlin Street, which is separated from Pingding Street, Jing Yu jumped out of the carriage and entered the pavilion first, and after a long time, Du Xiu, the master of Jiyue Pavilion, greeted him with a smile on his face, walked quickly to Su Jin, and bowed respectfully, "Du Xiu, the master of Jiyue Pavilion, has seen Su San Girl, Su San Girl came to Jinling, all the way to Jinling, Du Xiu failed to know in advance and went to meet from afar, I hope that the three girls will forgive their sins!" ”

Su Jin looked at Du Xiu and said lightly, "It's okay, I'm just here to meet my friends in Jinling, and by the way, I'll come over to see your business situation here, you will prepare all the relevant books such as all the purchases and shipments in the past two years, the corresponding voucher quotations, the warehouse revenue and expenditure, the store work award, etc., I will read it soon!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! It is natural for the three girls to check the accounts, the three girls, please come in! Du Xiu hurriedly smiled and flattered.

Su Jin hummed lightly, and went straight into the pavilion, but this movement caused a lot of passers-by to look at the secret, and some customers in the pavilion also secretly looked at this sudden appearance here, and it can also make the famous and dominant Jiyue Pavilion master in the Jin Tomb so flattering, and it looks like she has an extraordinary temperament, and she mysteriously hides a woman in white with a moon silver mask, and it seems that this is the real master behind Jiyue Pavilion, the person from the Su family in Yingzhou!

"Three girls, please!" Du Xiu stood on the side of the doorway into the cabinet courtyard and said to Su Jin with a smile on his face.

Su Jin turned sideways and looked at several pairs of eyes behind him, intentionally or unintentionally, and coldly glanced at Biyue, who was already flushed and almost out of breath, but didn't say anything, followed Du Xiu's guidance into the cabinet courtyard of Jiyue Pavilion, and the eyes that followed behind him were also quickly gone, Su Jin's footsteps stopped, and turned to look at Du Xiu with a smile, "According to my guess, Lord Du Ge, you must have a hobby, right?" ”

Biyue finally couldn't hold back and laughed, "I, I feel it!" Brother Du's acting skills are actually very, very good! I don't know how many times better than the bad drama team I watched on the street two days ago who specializes in cheating people out of money! ”

As soon as these words came out, they both couldn't help laughing.

"Subordinates, don't you want those people in Qingwangfu to see enough! When King Qing is completely relieved, it also saves these people from coming here every day to make people's eyes panic! ”

"How long have they been here?"

"Qin Ming and Zhao Shen were the first to come, and it's been some time! Uncle Yuan hadn't been together for a long time, after all, it would be easy to attract attention, but ...... Miss Jiang is here too! Du Xiu led the way.

Su Jin paused instantly, his face changed slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "What is she doing here?" Didn't I say it before, let her stay in Cangzhou and not leave without permission? ”

Du Xiu expected that Su Jin would not be very happy when he heard this, and said helplessly, "Miss Jiang came here alone, none of us knew about it before, until yesterday she suddenly appeared here and said that she wanted to see you, and the subordinates were also startled at that time, originally planned to take her over to see you overnight, but first, I was afraid that it would be too late to disturb your rest, and secondly, I also knew that you were coming, so I simply let her stay here and wait, about entering the palace, Miss Jiang said that she hoped you could ......."

"I won't agree!" Su Jin directly interrupted.

Du Xiu sighed softly and didn't say anything more.

Several people followed Du Xiu's leadership into the tent room of the side court, and after closing the door, Du Xiu walked to a large celadon bottle on the side, slowly rotated the bottle body half a circle, and then a low voice sounded, and the bookshelf on the side that originally seemed to be nothing different had been separated from the center at this time and slowly retreated to both sides, and a dark passage from the ground to the underground gradually appeared in front of everyone.

A few people walked down the dark passage back and forth, and a huge underground hall appeared in front of them, and there were seven or eight people standing solemnly in the room, kneeling on one knee facing the door, and said in unison, "Subordinates, I've seen the master!" ”

Su Jin walked quickly in front of everyone, "Everyone, please get up!" When have you seen me pay attention to this, not to mention that most of you are older than me, even if you are working for me now, but if you don't have your dedication, how can you come to Su Jin today, where can you come to the undercurrent of today? See me again in the future, and there will be no more such false gifts! ”

A sturdy man in the middle who looked to be about thirty or forty years old laughed, "The head has been coming to the Jinling Tomb for so long, but our subordinates have not been able to visit. The Lord is the backbone of our family, and of course these etiquettes are inevitable! ”

"Who taught you that 'those who achieve great things must be disciplined'?" Su Jin said solemnly.

"Uncle Yuan!" The man immediately pointed to an old man beside him who was over old and had gray hair.

The people around laughed, and the old man only bowed his head slightly, smiling lightly.

"What are you doing standing, sit down! Uncle Yuan is old, does he also stand with you? Su Jin said solemnly.

Everyone immediately returned to the position on both sides of the previous column, and Su Jin also sat down in the separate position of everyone in the front, and then his eyes swept coldly to the delicate "man" who was sitting at the back and only half of the figure could be seen, and said in a deep voice, "Jiang Ying'er, stand up!" ”

The delicate "man" stiffened suddenly, his face was like a thunderbolt, and he gritted his teeth and stood up, and cautiously walked in front of Su Jin from the last position, but he lowered his head and looked at the ground, not daring to meet Su Jin's gaze.

"Tell me about it! What are you doing all the way to Jinling alone, with my permission? ”

"I didn't ...... No! Jiang Ying'er lowered her head and replied in a low voice.

"Okay, give me a reasonable reason, what are you doing in Jinling?"

Jiang Ying'er hesitated for a moment, then exhaled deeply, then changed to a righteous look, and said resolutely, "Chief, you can let Ying'er enter the palace!" Although Ying'er is not taller than others, and has no other strengths, but Ying'er boasts that this skin is still comparable to those women in the harem of the faint king, although there are also our people in the palace now, but these dots and lines are still too marginal after all, not only difficult to reach the core, but even have great restrictions on action, but if Ying'er can enter the palace and strive to get great favor and gain Zhong Jing's trust, then the situation is very different, so the chief, let me enter the palace at the moment, that is, it is the best, It is also the most beneficial choice for us! ”

Su Jin looked directly at Jiang Ying'er calmly, "You're right, the palace is heavily guarded, and it is even more difficult for people who want to insert us, and at the moment we are indeed very short of manpower in the palace, plus we have to be limited by many other factors, so that even the space for display is greatly reduced, and the transmission of information is not well-informed enough." But have you thought about it, once you get down this path, do you know what it means for you? Be! Of course, the blood feud must be avenged, but that is by no means the way you put everything into it! Let's not say it's your parents and brother under Jiuquan, even I, Su Jin, will never agree! ”

"But I ...... the Lord"

"Shadow girl, listen to Brother Du's words, don't sacrifice yourself no matter what, if you are put in just for this, then what is the meaning of our existence?" Du Xiuwen, who was sitting at the bottom of Su Jin's side, persuaded him.

"Indeed, Miss Jiang, don't say that the leader doesn't agree, even we will never agree!" Uncle Yuan, the oldest in the seat, also said.

Jiang Ying'er knew that she would not get permission no matter what she said, Qiao Zhizhi's Yin lips opened slightly, and after all, she didn't say anything, turned around and sat down in the back position, listening to the conversation of the others without saying a word, but she was also absent-minded.

“…… Chief, you mean that we will start with the military first? ”

"For King Qing, he now has 8,000 troops in his hands of the patrol battalion, and 100,000 imperial troops in the hands of Zhao Linchong, the general of the imperial army who is integrated with him, while Emperor Chen only has 50,000 Janissaries in his hands, and he has 170,000 border guards in the hands of King Rong of Beishu Town, or 140,000 troops in the south of Jienhou, then after all, far water can't save the fire, just the troops in King Qing's hands now, it is already a chance of winning nine out of ten to launch a mutiny, but this must be done under the most ideal situation for King Qing.

"Even though Emperor Chen doesn't think that King Qing has the courage to rebel one day, as long as he has a little bit of defense, he can't really let King Qing completely control such a huge military force in this imperial capital, that is to say, whether it is the patrol battalion in the hands of King Qing or the imperial army in the hands of Zhao Linchong, they can't do it completely for him, and even as long as Zhao Linchong and King Qing have a difference, Wang Qi, the deputy general of the imperial army, may immediately preemptively take away Zhao Linchong's command!

"Another point is that even if there is no deputy general Wang Qi who contains Zhao Linchong, if you want to mobilize the imperial army, you need a talisman, but the talisman of the imperial army is divided into two halves, half is in the hands of Zhao Linchong, and the other half is in the hands of Xu Changzhen, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Zhao Linchong is the person of King Qing but Xu Changzhen is not, if you can't get a complete talisman, it is almost impossible to move the imperial army at will! So what we have to do now is to help him get the half of the talisman from the military department! ”

"But in this case, isn't that also an obstacle to our future plans?" Zhao Shen said worriedly.

Su Jin smiled lightly, "I just said that I would help him get the half of the military department now, but I didn't say that I would also help him keep the half in Zhao Linchong's hands, right?" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly understood the meaning of Su Jin's words, Su Jin can help King Qing get the half of the military department, but if he "accidentally" loses the other half of the previous one, he can't blame Su Jin, and use half of the army to exchange the half of the military department, it is not just a loss of one or the other, but also a loss outweighs the loss!

"The situation at the Ganling Gold Mine, how is the verification site?"

"Looking back at the Lord, it has been basically verified that at least a quarter of the gold mine production has gone directly into Zhao Linchong's pocket, although the evidence is not complete, but it is more than enough for the official to intervene, but we want to release the news immediately?"

"Is King Qing involved in this matter?" Su Jin asked.

Although the mining and smelting of minerals are all in charge of the officials of the Ministry of Industry, the army responsible for the supervision of the mining site and the escort of finished gold bars is the imperial army, that is, Zhao Linchong himself, and then bribe the officials of the Ministry of Industry who are responsible for this piece with a high remuneration, and everything will naturally fall into place! The leader just mentioned King Qing, but do you want to find a way to release the news to King Qing or do you want to involve King Qing as well? ”

"No, you don't have to! This matter King Qing doesn't know will be more beneficial to us, don't release the news for the time being, it's not the best time, you try to gather the evidence as soon as possible, it's best enough for him to keep it even if he has King Qing's backer! Even, it may drag King Qing's hind legs, and only in this way can King Qing take the initiative to abandon Zhao Linchong's arm! ”

"But no matter how this matter works, it is impossible for you, the chief, to stay out of the matter, in case there is a slight mistake, causing King Qing to become suspicious, I am afraid that King Qing will definitely attack you, the chief!"

"I will grasp this degree, at least it will not set himself on fire, and if I lose a Zhao Linchong, can I let him get more? At least in his opinion, yes to get! ”

"The first master is going to strip the soil and fertilize?"

"Yes, but not exactly, after all, Emperor Chen still needs to rely on him to contain him, just first in addition to his original foundation and then change it, since he wants to seize the throne, even if he doesn't have to succeed, he still has to have the ability to make Emperor Chen hurt his muscles and bones, right?"

"What you mean, Chief, is that we want to help King Qing's water rise, but at the same time, we also have to dig holes and release water!"

"That's what it means!" Su Jin smiled and nodded, "That's all for today!" Everyone's respective tasks are very clear, and I won't go into them all here, but one thing you must remember is that no matter what situation you encounter, protecting yourself is always the most important! Everyone standing here now is a person who has already experienced life and death, and some have even crawled back from the gates of hell, and it is important to succeed, but I would never want to see any of us sacrifice our lives for it! ”

As soon as Su Jin's words fell, Zhao Shen stood up from his seat and said with a straight face to Su Jin, "Serve the leader, subordinates, never give up!" ”

Su Jin looked as if he was really going to show his loyalty with death immediately, but he felt speechless, and Uncle Yuan, who was sitting opposite Zhao Shen, coughed twice as a reminder.

Zhao Shenwen looked at Uncle Yuan on the opposite seat, and hurriedly said with concern, "Uncle Yuan, are you catching a cold?" It doesn't matter, but do you want to ask a doctor to come over and have a look at it later? ”

The rest of the people couldn't hold back their laughter in the end, only Zhao Shen himself looked dazed.

Qin Ming, who was sitting beside Zhao Shen, looked at Zhao Shen and said with a smile, "Brother Zhao, the first master's words just now were said to a person like you, the chief is afraid that you may put your own life into it if you don't know how to be flexible, you are good, and immediately replied to the head master that you will never give up!" You're slapping the leader in the face! ”

"I'm ...... I didn't, I didn't mean that, I was ......."

Su Jin smiled and nodded, "I know you don't mean that, but when you have free time, it's better to read more books, and it won't be so that sentences like 'those who become big things must be restrained' can be brought out, but you think you have won the arrow when people send you chicken feathers!" ”

Zhao Shen was still at a loss, "What chicken feathers, who gave me chicken feathers?" I don't have any arrows, do I? ”

Everyone laughed again, and Zhao Shen, a tall and burly man, was also laughed so red that his ears were red, and he shouted, "You are not allowed to laugh, you are not allowed to laugh!" ”

"Alright, don't go too far!" Su Jindao.

As soon as Su Jin spoke, everyone gradually put away their smiles, and Zhao Shen's embarrassment was solved, and then after everyone basically dispersed, there were only three people left in the room: Su Jin, Du Xiu and Jiang Ying'er.

Su Jin walked up to Jiang Ying'er, who had been sitting absent-mindedly in the corner, leaned over and helped her up from the seat with both hands, and said softly with a smile, "I haven't seen her for half a year, so you don't have anything to tell me?" ”

Jiang Ying'er stood up, raised her head to meet Su Jin's concerned and soft gaze, her nose was sore, and the whole person threw herself into Su Jin's arms, shouting with a thick cry, "Cousin......"