King Xu, who was in the middle of the day, collapsed overnight.

Queen Lu was deposed, demoted to Jieyu, moved to the side palace Shouning Palace, King Xu was demoted to the Duke of Chenliu County, confined to the mansion, and was not allowed to leave without an order, which was like a prison. Lu Siye was stripped of all titles, demoted to a concubine, and all family property was confiscated.

The Lu family was destroyed like a wither, and the assets seized by the imperial court in the Lu family were equivalent to nearly five million taels of silver, not including the Guanbei Province Copper Mine under Rishengchang, plus the copper mine, its net worth was innumerable, which was staggering!

It is reported that after reading the joint report of the Criminal Department, the Household Department and the Dali Temple, Emperor Hongyuan was silent for a long time, and dismissed everyone without saying a word, and boycotted the dynasty for three days.

The dignitaries and nobles who had dealings with King Xu were all in a panic, and they didn't know when they found themselves, and the Changxing officialdom was as depressed and miserable as being shrouded in dark clouds.

Although the Xue family and King Xu have no money exchanges, the fact that the Xue family and the father and son are the pawns of King Xu cannot be denied at all, and Xue Peiqi is using the east wind of King Xu to sit in the position of Shaoqing of Taifu Temple.

In the midst of doubts, Yushitai impeached Xue Peiqi on the grounds that he was in a party with the Lu family and was not worthy of the position.

Emperor Hongyuan adopted the report of the Imperial Historical Observatory, demoted him from the core of the imperial court's decision-making, and served as the Yin of the Zhengsi Pin Luo'an Mansion, leaving Beijing on the same day. The affairs of Taifu Temple are assisted by Li Jingfeng.

Xue Chunyue was reinstated for his meritorious work in the excavation of the copper mine in Xingdong Road, and returned to serve as a waiter from the Sanpin Household Department.

The Lu case is about to settle, but Dali Temple still has a matter under pressure, and I don't know how to report it to Emperor Hongyuan for the time being.

That is the Xue family in Haizhou.

Unlike the Changxing Xue family, the evidence of the Haizhou Xue family's crime is conclusive.

When his family Xue Huijin injected a lot of money into the Xuwang camp through business dealings with Rishengchang, Din Taihe's profits were continuously imported into Rishengchang after entering Din Tai Feng Money. Xue Huijin is not familiar with the way of transfer and transformation, and the traces of his actions are clear and the context is clear, and it is not difficult to find out. Once this matter is reported to the imperial court, the Xue family will rarely get the same fate as the Lu family, even if King Jing intends to save the Xue family, it is estimated that he can only save everyone's lives, and this family business will definitely not be saved.

Yuan Su, the secretary of Dali Temple, was uncertain, and he couldn't guess the emperor's thoughts, so he asked Hubu Shangshu Wei for advice.

Wei Yingshi could still guess a little bit of the emperor's thoughts.

Xue Yin's first creation is even, and the country has made great contributions, and now Xue Yin has only been dead for more than ten years, and the whole country still remembers his merits, and Xue Chunyue and Li Jingfeng have made meritorious contributions to the mine, and they have just been rewarded for their meritorious deeds.

However, Xue Huijin's collusion with King Xu is conclusive evidence, and if he is not punished, he is suspected of protecting his shortcomings, which is also a loss of prestige. If the case is reported to Emperor Hongyuan as it is, it will only put him in a dilemma, and there will be no good fruit to eat in the household department, the criminal department and the Dali Temple.

Under the dilemma, Wei Yingshi came up with a way to weaken the Xue family's participation in the case of King Xu's formation of a party and put the emperor in the active position.

Xue Huijin had earlier married his sister Xue Yuxue to King Xu, although he was only a mere widow, but he was also a relative of the prince recorded in Zongzheng Temple, so King Xu and Xue Huijin were serious in-laws. In this way, it is easy to handle, and it is only necessary to treat the case as an improper exchange of interests between in-laws, and weaken the elements of bribery and party formation.

The interest disputes between civil in-laws are complicated, most of them are civil cases, and few are criminalized, so Xue Huijin will inevitably suffer a little, but the Xue family can at least be saved. If the emperor thinks that the punishment is too light, he will naturally instruct Dali Temple to redo it, and if the emperor is biased, he will naturally approve it.

It is the fault of Dali Temple that the case is not handled well, and it is the grace of His Majesty that the case is handled well, and no matter how you look at it, it will not hurt the majesty of the Son of Heaven.

When Yuan Su heard this, he also felt that this plan was reasonable, so he wrote the case file again in this direction, and submitted it to Emperor Hongyuan in a few days.

Dali Temple believed that the correspondence between the Xue family and King Xu was an improper dispute of interests between the in-laws, and revoked Xue Huijin's dismissal from the five products, fined 100,000 taels of silver, seized the Din Tai Feng Qian Zhuang involved in the case, confiscated all business income for the crime of improper operation, and ordered the Haizhou Xue family not to set foot in the Qian Zhuang business for ten years. Xue Chenggui was not strict in governing his family, fined him 30,000 taels of silver, and ordered him to think about it at home and clean up his family style.

Emperor Hongyuan was very satisfied with the closing chapter of the Dali Temple, and the imperial pen Zhu approved it, and it was described.

The Haizhou Xue family finally saved their lives, but they were not lightly injured.

In order to facilitate the transfer of money to the Lu family's Rishengchang through Din Tai Fung, Xue Huijin put almost most of the profits of Din Tai Ho into Din Tai Fung, and now Din Tai Fung was suddenly confiscated, and all the funds in it were handed over to the state treasury.

After Xue Huijin tossed around, the Xue family did not have much money left, and there were 18 remaining after the 19 commercial banks eliminated Din Tai Feng Qian Zhuang, but Xue Huijin only cared about drilling the camp Changxing officialdom, and even Ding Taihe's operation was conformist, where did he still have the energy to manage the commercial bank? Therefore, the profitability of these eighteen commercial banks is not ideal, and there is no extra capital for Ding Tai and this giant to consume.

The only way to minimize the loss is to sell Din Tai Ho and keep the eighteen firms.

Ding Tai and the value is quite rich, even if it is cheap, it is expensive, many companies in the country of Daye want to swallow Ding Tai He, and then monopolize Haizhou Port, but suffer from the lack of this strength. Many firms thought of the method of joint investment, so the voice of the joint group was endless, and it became the biggest talking point in the country.

Just when the firms negotiated with each other and the business community of Daye Country was in a hustle and bustle, Taixiangxing, which rose in Luo'an, directly negotiated with Dingtaihe and implemented mergers and acquisitions by itself!

There was almost a national uproar!

When did Taixiangxing come out, where did so many funds come from, and who is the actual controller behind it? These problems shrouded in front of the world have not yet been clarified, and Yi Ruhai, the leader of Taixiangxing, has gone to Haizhou to negotiate with the Xue family to acquire Dingtaihe with three million taels of silver!

Xue Huijin also wanted to find out the ins and outs of Taixiangxing before deciding, but Xue Chenggui, the actual owner of Ding Taihe, did not give him a chance, and signed the transfer agreement without saying a word.

With the change of ownership of Ding Taihe, Haizhou Port changed almost overnight, although Ding Tai and the firm name has not been changed, but the owner has been different.

The Xue family, which has been in the water transportation industry of Daye for more than ten years, is no longer the leading shipping giant in Daye, but is replaced by Taixiangxing, and Yi Ruhai, who came out of nowhere.

Tai Xiangxing seems to be very familiar with the Haizhou business community, and the operation of Ding Taihe is almost seamless, and the people in the ship line do not feel the change at all. At the same time, Tai Xiang Xing immediately established Tai Xiang Feng in Haizhou, with its sufficient financial resources, to expand its power before other money banks encroached on the original market of Din Tai Fung, and soon grew into the leading money village in Haizhou after Din Tai Fung. Taixiangfeng's silver ticket can not only be remitted to the world, but even to the states of the East China Sea. With its strong convenience and security, Taixiangfeng has become the first choice for merchants in the big industry including Haizhou.

The changes that occurred in the winter of Hongyuan's nineteenth year are not limited to these.

The war between Daye and the state of Detention completely started in a deep winter night.

The reason was that the Daye garrison discovered that a small group of tribal troops from Guanzhou had infiltrated the southern province of Daye and attempted to assassinate Wei Shaoqing, the chief general of the border garrison of Daye. After the conspiracy was foiled, Wei Shaoqing ordered troops that night and launched a rapid attack on Jianzhou.

The first day of the twentieth year of Hongyuan.

Although the outcome of the border war is undecided, the national capital Changxing is still happy and peaceful.

Ye Qinyu returned to Changxing from Luo'an after finishing Taixiangxing's layout in Haizhou, and after Haizhou Dading, Yi Ruhai only needs to follow the steps, and she will not have problems if she leaves for a while.

The Hubu Shilang's Mansion was full of laughter, Xue Chunyue, Ye Qinyu, and the visiting Taifu Temple Shaoqing Li Jingfeng, Mrs. Xue Yuyan and others drank and talked together.

In the eyes of the world, since the rebellion in the Xiangwang Mansion, the hostess of the Hubu Shilang Mansion, the county lord Yi'an, was imprisoned in the deep palace by Emperor Hongyuan, Ye Qinyu, the second lady, even if she does not have the status of a wife, but she is naturally the new hostess of the mansion.

Ye Qinyu, the second lady who returned from Luo'an, seems to have swept away the previous haze, and regained the freedom and self-confidence of the adopted daughter of the king, and even the half-cut finger that she once regarded as a shortcoming is no longer a pain point that she can't talk about, and she has long been able to face it calmly.

The banquet lasted until three o'clock, and after bidding farewell to his sister and brother-in-law, Xue Chunyue led Ye Qinyu back to the Hezheng Hall. There is no one else in this mansion, those Changchun Gardens and Qinchun Gardens can no longer be used, and the husband and wife naturally want to live together in the main house in the back hall.

Xue Chunyue, who was drunk, was a little presumptuous, as if she was not satisfied, she indulged in Ye Qinyu's gentle township and couldn't extricate herself, as if she wanted to make up for the joy she owed at the time of parting, and she was willing to let her go until the second half of the night. Ye Qinyu felt sorry for the suffering he had suffered in Xingdongdao before, so he indulged his presumptuousness until he finally became weak and weak......

She nestled in his arms, listening to the sound of snow outside the house, and her heart became more and more warm.

She didn't seem to be sleepy yet, Xue Chunyue felt a little strange, so she leaned into her ear and said, "Madame is not satisfied?" ”

His lips and the sound of exhalation made the roots of her ears hot and itchy, and Ye Qinyu shrank her head and avoided his lips.

"Not ......"

This shy "no" made Xue Chunyue throb for a while, and the corners of his mouth smiled contentedly, "Then what are you thinking?" ”

"I'm thinking, if there can be Uncle Junn and Sister Yu Ming at the dinner table tonight, it will be perfect......"

Tai Xiangxing has been completely on track, but Ye Cizhun has not come back, could it be that the task given to him by the imperial court has not been completed? What kind of task is this, Wei Zhiyu, who entered Shu with Ye Cizhun, can know, but she can't know, whether it is Uncle Xiao Zhun or Xue Chunyue, they are all silent. and Yi'an once mentioned to her in Luo'an that Chunyue had returned to Haizhou last year, why did he hide it from her?