This assassination is very dangerous, the enemy is dark and I am clear, and I don't know the intention, but I definitely didn't want to invite Xu Yuan to the mansion for tea. Dali Siqing is famous in the capital again this time, and everyone knows that there is an army that comes up from Dali Siqing who is arrogant and domineering, lawless, and dares to gallop in Gyeonggi. Xu Yuan secretly complained in his heart, this matter was no longer what he expected.

The list of the chamber of commerce members who had been caught secretly possessing gunpowder was sent along, as well as the list of the sons and daughters of the concubines sent by the household department. Xu Yuan began to compare, and sure enough, there were overlapping people among them. "You're Li Jiaxuan, right?" "It's Li." The boss in front of him was full of anger, although he said that he was hung in prison by Xu Yuan, he didn't seem to have suffered much.

"Why are you stockpiling so much gunpowder?" A hint of cunning appeared on the young man's face: "My lord, I am not gunpowder, I brought firecrackers." "Gyeonggi enters the city every year for the Chinese New Year with 3,000 catties, and when we raided it that day, there were 3,000 catties in just one warehouse, how do you explain it?"

"I'm just stockpiling the goods, and I haven't raised the market price, nor have I lowered the market price, my lord, are you right?" He blinked his eyes and looked innocent. "Then you admit that you rented the warehouse?" "That's right." "When did you start renting?" "Nine years from the first emperor Zhengde."

"Did you know we found a new cannon in there? Li Jiaxuan, you are a businessman, what do you do as artillery? Do you have a heart of disobedience? Li Jiaxuan was stunned, but he quickly returned to normal after many years of ups and downs in Shanghai: "My lord, you can't talk nonsense, I have never made any artillery, and I have never had a disobedient heart." ”

"The stakes are high, am I going to trick you with such an important matter? In the final analysis, this is the sin of the Nine Clans, whether others are using you to act, or yourself. It's all up to you, let me see, no one wants to leave their lives to others to judge life and death, right? Xu Yuan carefully observed his expression and said tentatively.

I saw that Li Jiaxuan shook the iron shackles on his hand vigorously, let go of his hand, and smiled lightly, "I don't understand what you're talking about, the warehouse is indeed rented by me, and no one else touches it." I just want to hoard firecrackers and sell them, and I don't have any disobedience, let alone gunpowder shells, a businessman like me, only when the world is peaceful, I can make money. ”

He really didn't know anything, he was just a scapegoat that was pulled out, and he wouldn't gain anything if he asked any more, Xu Yuan left the interrogation room irritably. What is the origin of the Li family? Can this concubine, who has never been very important in the family, be willing to take the blame for them?

Whenever this time, Xu Yuan will sigh at the strength of the Hanlin Academy, the scholars are all through the past and the present, and if they find a chief in Dali Temple, they can all talk about the head: "My lord, the Li family is the duke title given by a Dingxi general who followed the first emperor at the beginning of the founding of the country, and it can be hereditary. Successive generations of emperors have weakened the lord, and only this Li family has been retained until now because of its low profile, and there are people in the family who have been officials in the court for generations. ”

"You mean, their family has been passed down for thousands of years and has deep roots in Gyeonggi. And, it's hidden deep, right? The chief secretary nodded, "My lord, that's basically what it means. "You look it up, you have to find out the details of them, do you understand?" "I don't really understand." The chief replied very bluntly. That is to say, where did their family once be an official, what position did the official reach, and what year did it last. I have to know which commercial bank has shares and participates in dividends. ”

After sending him away, Xu Yuan was still a little relieved in his heart. He carefully read the documents again and interrogated Li Jiaxuan overnight. "My lord, it's getting late, what's the matter with you?" He waved his hand, and the officials of Dali Temple all went down, leaving only one of the officials who refused to leave, and Xu Yuan ordered the attendants to write on his behalf, so he reluctantly left.

"My lord, are you going to torture me to extract a confession?" "In the past few days in prison, you have had a very good life." "Li has a little money, it's not a problem to go up and down, after all, no one wants to suffer from flesh and skin." "Up and down Dali Temple? You're so naïve, Dali Temple isn't a comfortable place where you can live with money, unless you know someone here. ”

"The adults laughed, I have a cloth dress, how can I have an intersection with the adults?" "Why not? Your brother is Li Gong, what's impossible? Li Jiaxuan smiled dumbly, "My lord said that I was joking, I don't have a brother, how can I get in touch with a dignitary like Li Gong?" ”

"Don't be afraid, I can find out your relationship with Li Gong, I know that your relationship is actually not so harmonious, if you are really brotherly, how can you be in business, and how can you be used as a scapegoat?" Li Jiaxuan's head was lowered, and it took a long time to raise it.

"Now that the adults know, why do you deliberately come to make fun of me? I'm just a concubine, an insignificant fellow, so why waste time on me? "The same son of the old duke, why can he inherit the title, and you can only be in business? I see your temperament like a reader. ”

"Because I'm a concubine. I'm not a son-in-law, so I have been like a slave since I was a child, listening to their calls, letting them beat and scold, that old man, he never regarded me as a son. Don't I want to be a reader? Don't I want to test for fame? Don't I want to be in the family tree? ”

"You don't choose your identity, but you can change it." Xu Yuan smiled, and Li Jiaxuan looked at him: "What do you mean, adult?" Don't adults dislike my lowly status? "How so? I was once just a fugitive, and my identity was never something we could choose, but if you dare, we could change. ”

"You still have bandages on your head and arms, have you forgotten the pain? In Gyeonggi, they can kill us silently at any time, leaving no trace. "Do you still think you'll get out unharmed? In their eyes, you are nothing more than an outcast, and if they are in a bad mood, you may die without a place to bury. I guess you have the handle in their hands, right? What is it? Family? ”

"My mother, who is still a slave, is still in the Li family." "No wonder, no wonder you, a young master, are willing to send someone under the fence, do you want to take back everything that belongs to you?" "My lord, you don't understand that in Gyeonggi, there are many things that you can't have if you want to have, including identity. You are not me, and you cannot understand my difficulties. ”