Seeing that Mei Niang had scruples, Gonggong Li made the words clear and asked: "Xiao Mei, you tell me the truth, who opened the 'Shuang Come Again' gambling house?" The emperor has already begun to suspect Li Shangshu. ”

"Father-in-law, don't hide it, that gambling house was opened by Li Shangshu, and the money shopkeeper was just a decoration, a disguise, in order to hide people's eyes. The young lady of the Imperial History Mansion did the right thing, if that gambling house was still open, I don't know how many people would go bankrupt now. ”

"Is that gambling house really a black-hearted gambling house?"

"I heard before that there are two rich sons who have gambled and gone bankrupt, and because it was opened by Li Shangshu's family, people dare not speak out."

Gonggong Li took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels and said, "Xiaomei, this is for you." ”

Mei Niang pushed away Gonggong Li and said; "Master Li, you take it back, I haven't used up the hundred taels you gave last time."

"Xiaomei, you go up and down, you always need silver taels, it's useless for me to leave too many silver taels alone." Gonggong Li grabbed Mei Niang's hand and forced a hundred taels of silver tickets into her hand.

Gonggong Li came out of the 'Yanchun Building' and returned to the palace, and went directly to the emperor's bedroom without stopping for a moment, the emperor was closing his eyes on the dragon bed to recuperate, and when he heard someone coming in, he opened his eyes and looked, and saw that it was Gonggong Li, and asked: "Little Lizi, do you have eyebrows about what I asked you to inquire about?" ”

"Your Majesty, the servants found out that the gambling house was opened by Li Liucai, and it was a black-hearted gambling house, which caused several rich people to go bankrupt, and people dared to be angry and dare not speak."

The emperor said angrily: "The gambling house was originally an entertainment venue, for people to have fun after tea and dinner, but he really made it a harmful venue, and he really hurt people." ”

"Your Majesty, do you want to put Li Liucai in prison?"

"Now is not the time. I have long suspected that he embezzled the treasury silver, and now I am worried that I have not found evidence, and I have always wanted to send someone to secretly investigate him, and now he has such a thing, it seems that the treasury silver must be investigated, but I don't know who to send to investigate? ”

"Your Majesty, the slave thinks that there is a person who is very suitable to help the emperor investigate the case."

The emperor was curious: "You say come and listen." ”

"It's Chen Qing, Chen Yushi."

"Why him?"

Gonggong Li analyzed: "Your Majesty, you want to be in the gambling house, the two of them have already fallen out, Lord Yushi will never favor Li Liucai, and Lord Yushi himself is the manager of the Inspectorate, and the Inspectorate is originally in charge of investigating cases." ”

"Well, that makes sense. But how are we going to convict Li Liucai? The emperor looked at Gonggong Li and asked.

"If you condemn him for only a thousand taels of silver, it is inevitable that he will not accept it."

"So what to do? Overt or covert visits. ”

Gonggong Li said: "It seems that it is not possible to visit openly, and it is necessary to investigate secretly." ”

"Secret investigation, how to investigate,."

"A few days ago, didn't the emperor send someone to Tianyuan County with disaster relief funds? I don't know who was sent? ”

"It was Li Liucai who sent someone, and there were 18,000 taels of treasury silver, as well as 10,000 taels donated by the courtiers, a total of 28,000 taels." The emperor recalled.

"Your Majesty, if Li Liucai wants to embezzle the treasury silver, he will not donate both the silver to the disaster area, he will definitely do something, you just need to send someone to Tianyuan County to investigate, you can find out the flaws."

"Who to send to investigate? Send Chen Qing to? ”

"Your Majesty, it's okay to send Lord Chen, but you have to send some masters to protect you, I'm afraid that Lord Chen will go and not return."

"You say, Li Liucai will retaliate."

"The emperor is not afraid of 10,000, just in case, from the gambling house, it can be seen that Li Liucai is by no means a fuel-efficient lamp, Chen Qing made him ugly in the court, he will not give up."

"So what to do?"

"Tomorrow morning, the emperor, you asked me to read out the recital of Tianyuan Zhi County, saying that due to the timely distribution of disaster relief funds, the disaster situation has been temporarily stabilized, but food seeds are still needed to help the victims resume production."

"Where can I get some grain seeds?"

Li Gonggong said, "I can ask the ministers to donate some more money to buy grain seeds." ”

"You said that Chen Qing should go to Tianyuan County with grain seeds?"

"Well, that's all there is to it."

After Li Liucai returned home, he ordered someone to call his son Fugui in front of him and said: "Xiaogui, it's not good, Chen Qing's old thing shook the matter of you paying off his son's gambling debts to the court,"

Li Fugui blinked: "You mean that in front of the emperor, he said that his son owes us gambling debts?" ”

"Well, he also said let's give him the IOU, and he will pay us back."

"This Chen Qing, isn't he afraid that the Manchu Dynasty will laugh at his son's gambling money?"

"I think he must have seen through our plan and knew that we couldn't give him the IOU at will."

Li Fugui looked at his father and asked, "Then what should we do?" ”

"What else can I do besides give him the IOU obediently, I don't want to make any extraneous branches."

Li Fugui gritted his teeth and asked, "Daddy, do you want your son to help you teach the father and son surnamed Chen a lesson?" ”

"Don't, at this time, don't make any more extraneous branches, lest the emperor be suspicious."

"Then I'll get you an IOU."

It was not likely that Li Fugui would take the IOU and hand it to his father.

Li Liucai looked at his son and said, "Xiaogui, these days, you try to go out as little as possible, let alone cause trouble." ”

"Got it, Daddy." Li Fugui agreed, but he didn't think so in his heart, he didn't want to be so cheap, Chen Bo and his son.

Li Fugui came out of his father's room, took some silver taels, and went directly out of Shangshu Mansion, Li Fugui rode to Qian Biao's residence, Qian Biao had nothing to do these days.

Qian Biao was napping in the room, when he heard someone knocking on the door, he hurriedly got up to open the door, and when he saw Li Fugui at the door, he hurriedly asked, "Is the young master's gambling house open?" ”

"What kind of business, here are five hundred taels of silver, gather your brethren together, and do something for me in a few days." Li Fugui commanded.

Qian Biao took the money bag: "What's the matter with the young master?" I don't dare to kill people and set fires. ”

"I said it then, I don't have to kill people, haven't you always wanted to start a dart game? After the deed is completed, I will fund the dart game for you, and the harvest will be yours. ”

"Young master, what do you want Qian to do for you?"

Li Fugui instructed: "It hasn't been decided yet, I'll inform you when the time comes, you can gather the first brothers before you speak." ”

Qian Biao looked at the money bag in his hand, thinking about his majestic appearance as a header, and said to Li Fugui with a smile: "Don't worry, young master." The younger one must gather the brethren together and wait for you to do so. ”――

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