In the past three years, the pattern of the court has undergone slight but non-negligible changes.

Xue Peiqi became the core of King Xu, and his status gradually rose, and the official was the fourth grade of Dali Temple Shaoqing, and his father Xue Chengming was only one grade behind. Xue Chengming, on the contrary, was too cautious because of his foresight and backwards, and was gradually disliked by King Xu, and his official position was also transferred from the waiter of the Sanpin Rite Department to the Honglu Temple, which was in charge of the affairs of foreign guests, to the Sanpin Honglu Temple, although he was the leader of the Honglu Temple, but he was eliminated from the core of the six departments, and his power was weakened.

Xue Huijin completely attached himself to King Xu, and even took advantage of Xue Chenggui's confusion to forcibly dedicate his sister Xue Yuxue to King Xu, which was called a marriage, but in fact she was just a concubine in King Xu's mansion. The prince's wives and concubines are divided into nine grades, including princesses, side concubines, concubines, ladies, concubines, concubines, concubines, and widows.

The Ding Taihe stolen by Xue Huijin gradually became a major source of income for King Xu's camp, and its funds continued to flow into King Xu's mansion through the family business of the queen's relatives. And Xue Huijin also became the main staff of King Xu's reliance, and because of his merits, he was dismissed from the five ranks.

Because Xue Chenggui has been seriously ill since Xue Chunyue's accident and has been bedridden all the year round, Xue Huijin has become the de facto head of the Xue family in Haizhou, and the largest shipping company in the country, Ding Taihe, the largest shipping company in Daye Country, and the nineteen commercial houses of the Xue family in Haizhou, are rich and rich, and they seem to replace his father and become one of the chaebols.

Since the Xi Wang camp lost Ye Cizhun as a strong general, it has tried to find a replacement from the Ye family, a financial family. After Xue Chengming inherited Xue Yin's official title, the Ye family naturally became closer to Xue Chengming, so it has always been regarded as King Xu's camp. Moreover, in King Xi's camp, there is no big chaebol like the Xue family in Haizhou, and there is a lack of funds, so it is difficult to attract talents and expand power, so he can only stick to the field of criminal law and operate in a low-key manner.

On the surface, King Xu turned defeat into victory in the struggle three years ago, and he basically won the battle.

However, King Lingjing, who has always been regarded as King Xu's camp, gradually became detached from his appearance.

The Cabinet, with the governors of the three provinces as its main members, has always been the emperor's main decision-making, administration, and deliberative body, and is his right-hand man. Among the governors of the three provinces, Zhongshu Province, which is in charge of decision-making, is respected, and as the governor of Zhongshu Province, his status and role should not be underestimated.

King Jing and King Xu's separation from virtue is not the most recent start. In fact, since a few years ago, after King Jing was trusted by Emperor Hongyuan to ascend the throne of Zhongshu Ling, he gradually became inseparable from King Xu. At the beginning, everyone thought that this was just a deliberate attempt to avoid suspicion after King Jing took power to avoid the suspicion of forming a party for personal gain, but in the case of Din Tai Fung's smuggling of copper coins three years ago, King Jing actually disagreed with King Xu and tried to protect Xue Chunyue, and everyone has seen a lot of clues.

No matter how Changxing changes, at this time, the fledgling Xihexing has extended its tentacles to Binzhou Port on the southern coast of Daye Country and Tongzhou Port on the southeast coast, which are the second and third largest ports after Haizhou Port, and the trade dividend can not be underestimated. Moreover, these two ports are located in the south and southeast coasts of Daye, in fact, it is more convenient for Western Regions seafarers to dock than Haizhou in the east, but they lack basic facilities and are not widely known. Xue Chunyue is trying to use Lizhou, which faces each other across the sea, as a springboard to include these two ports in his bag and further expand his business.

Shen Yue, who was an official in Taifu Temple with Ye Cizhun at the beginning, was also implicated in Ye Cizhun three years ago, and moved to the left to be the fourth product of Binzhou Thorn History.

Shen Yue's move to encroach on the shipping business of Binzhou Port can be said to have played a role in fueling the trouble, which made King Xu's camp very nervous. Now that Ye Cizhun has become the head of Taifu Temple, Xue Peiqi has to ask Xue Huijin to speed up the business expansion of Tongzhou Port, and strive to annex Tongzhou Port when Xihexing is busy operating Binzhou Port and has no time to take care of it, otherwise it will be difficult to have a chance to compete with Xihexing in the future.

But Xue Huijin, who should have been busy with his body and lack of skills, entered Beijing at this time. In addition to asking King Xu for tribute, he also went to Yuan Qingguan and asked to meet Su Yuming.

This is not the first time he has come, before he went to Yuanqingguan, as if he was in a no-man's land, even if he abused Su Yuming in every way, except for the cuckoo, no one in the temple dared to speak out, if this was not an empty place, Su Yuming was afraid that he would be humiliated.

Now, Xue Huijin can't even enter the Yuanqing Guan Mountain Gate, which is far away in the Thousand Peerless Mountains.

Just as he was about to break through, a voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Uncle Xue, this is a pure Taoist place, if you break in, the official will take you back to ask for the guilt."

This voice, even if it is tens of millions of years later, Xue Huijin will not forget it, it is from Ye Cizhun who gave him great shame!

The enemies were very angry when they saw each other, especially Ye Cizhun who hated taking his wife and made him a laughing stock in Haizhou City, and Xue Huijin was even more angry.

He turned around suddenly, stared at Ye Cizhun fiercely and said, "Lord Ye, are you a little too lenient, when did you even take care of the affairs of the temple and Taoist temple?!" ”

After all, Ye Cizhun is a member of the third rank of the imperial court, and Xue Huijin is a businessman, but he is a loose official who scatters doctors from the fifth grade, and he does not dare to be too presumptuous to him.

As early as three years ago, Ye Cizhun was already angry because of his abuse of Su Yuming, and now he has added the grudge of Din Tai Fung, and the new hatred and old hatred have surged up, making him eager to correct Xue Huijin on the spot. However, the tribulations he has experienced in Lizhou in the past three years seem to have worn out his impatience, making him more calm about the people he hates.

Ye Cizhun slowly walked past him, and said as if he was light and breezy, "From now on, as long as Yu Ming is still in this Lingyun Peak for a day, you will not be allowed to set foot on this Thousand Peerless Mountains for a day." Otherwise...... The setback suffered by the Guibao in the grain market in Heungbuk Province this time was only a small punishment and a big admonition, and in the future, it will come one after another. ”

Xue Huijin was shocked, "What do you mean?!" ”

"Uncle Xue might as well go back and ask if the Guibao has any grain in Xingbei Province that can be sold. The Xue family and the Wu family created a grain panic in Xingbei Province and raised food prices, but secretly hoarded Juqi with the intention of making huge profits, and the evidence is conclusive. If Uncle Xue wants to know my Ye Cizhun's ability, within three days, these evidences will appear in Dali Temple, don't think that your family's Dali Temple Shaoqing Lord Xue can stop it, this official will directly meet the number one Dali Temple Qing, at that time...... I'm afraid it's not just as simple as losing a little money. Does Uncle Xue want to try it? ”

"Impossible...... If you want to stabilize the market price, you must have a large amount of grain transported to Xingbei Province and put it into the market, but the water and land roads leading to Yunzhou Mansion, the seat of Xingbei Province, are all under my supervision, and there are no imperial court materials entering in the near future, can your grain fall from the sky?! ”

"Uncle Xue didn't say that I forgot, the Yongji Canal channel from Luo'an in the eastern capital to Yunzhou in Xingbei is almost monopolized by Dingtaihe, and even the fleet of the Losing Division has been intimidated and squeezed out, this is not what Your Majesty is happy to see, I haven't reported it yet, Uncle Xue has exposed himself as ugly?"

"Say that Dingtai and monopolize Yongji Canal? Where's the evidence?! Lord Ye, if you are not able to transport grain to Yunzhou due to poor scheduling, don't fabricate these trumped-up charges and put them on the heads of ordinary people such as us! ”

Ye Cizhun snorted coldly, "This official advises Uncle Xue to go back to Haizhou as soon as possible to discuss with the Wu family how to fill the deficit in the Xingbei Grain Market!" Leave! ”

After Ye Cizhun finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and walked towards Yuan Qingguan.

Xue Huijin was about to follow, but saw Xueqian trotting all the way over to report to him, "Young master, it's not good!" ”

"What's the matter?"

"For some reason, a large amount of official grain suddenly appeared in the grain markets of the state capitals of Xingbei Province, and the Pingzhun Divisions in various places sold it at the normal grain price, estimated at hundreds of thousands of stones! The grain we used to sell at a high price is about to rot in the warehouse! ”

Xue Huijin grabbed Xueqian's collar and glared at him angrily, "Impossible! The official food of Xingbei Province has long been supplied to the garrison of the border area, and the officials themselves are short of food all year round, where can they get the food?! ”

"East, East, East...... The Imperial Court's Junyi Division loaded the grain tax collected on the outlying islands at the port of Liju and first went to Silla along the East China Sea, avoiding our eyes and ears, and after repairing in Silla for a period of time, he quickly crossed the sea in a short time and transported it directly to the coastal Yuyang Province in Heungbuk Province! ”

"No...... No way...... Where did they get their fleet?! ”

"Hee, Heeheung, Heeong, is a large cargo ship of Heeheung, anchored from Binju Port, bypassed all inland waterways, and went directly to the sea passage of the East China Sea, and, moreover, it is still an open sea, sailing directly to Silla, and we can't find their traces before the ships in the near sea!"

Xue Huijin was dumbfounded for a moment, and let go of Xueqian in a daze......

The loss of tens of thousands of taels of silver is still secondary, the Wu family can't afford to lose, but the Xue family can afford to lose, but they have already vouched to King Xu to force the state capitals of Xingbei Province to surrender to him, and now the success is falling short, how to explain......

Xueqian gradually cried and continued, "Young Master, the Wu family Fengxing firm secretly purchased and hoarded surplus grain in Xingbei Province in large quantities, and spread rumors about the imminent invasion of Khitan and Goguryeo, it is estimated that the grain transportation officer of the Taifu Temple Losing Division has obtained evidence, and those small grain merchants who were forced to go bankrupt in the acquisition will also become witnesses, Changfeng Xing estimates...... Can't keep it......"

Xue Huijin's eyes were red, and he said angrily, "If you can't keep it, you can't keep it!" That's Changfeng Xing's business! What do you have to do with the Xue family! ”

"But in case the source of funds behind Master Wu's confession is the Xue family's Ding Taihe, then ......"

"How dare he?!"

Xue Qian saw Xue Huijin furious, and was immediately silenced.

As soon as Ye Ci Zhunfu returned to the dynasty, he solved the problem of the redeployment of the average transportation materials and the sudden grain shortage in Xingbei Province, which not only stabilized the market, but also stabilized the people's hearts. It was the time to reward meritorious deeds, Ye Cizhun struck while the iron was hot, and suddenly made a suggestion to Emperor Hongyuan.