"According to the investigation of his subordinates, it was because Li Zhonghe's father offended the people in the capital that he was killed, so after General Cheng's men rescued him, he followed General Cheng to the capital in order to find the murderer." The secret guard also compiled the evidence of the investigation into a document and reported it.

As these words entered Jinshang's ears, what Jinshang was concerned about now was not only the origin of Li Zhonghe, but what the person who destroyed Li Zhonghe wanted to do, so he asked in a cold voice: "Does this murderer have a clue?" ”

"Your Majesty, I didn't find the slightest trace, that person bought xiong to kill people, and even those murderers on the rivers and lakes don't know who they are." The secret guard had already checked all of them, and then he came back to tell him.

Imagami nodded, and said a little weakly: "I know, you can step down." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." After saying this, the dark guard disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Jinshang read the two scrolls presented by the secret guard just now, and finally handed them over to Li Gonggong on the side: "Burn it." ”

When Gonggong Li took the scroll, lit it with a candle, and put it into an iron utensil in the corner of the imperial study, Imajo suddenly asked, "Little Dezi, what do you say the person who paid someone to kill Li Zhong and his family wants to do?" ”

Father-in-law Li, who was suddenly asked, naturally knew that he was in a bad mood today, but he didn't dare to say more: "Maybe there is any prescription for this Li Zhonghe's family." ”

"Prescription?" Jinshang repeated these two words again, and Jinshang, who was originally a little worried about Li Zhong and the purpose of entering Beijing, is now even more afraid of the person behind the command.

"Come on, Xuan Li Zhonghe enter the palace!" Now that I think about it, I still want to interrogate Li Zhonghe and Xuan into the palace.

Because it was an urgent call, Li Zhonghe naturally came very quickly, and it didn't take long for him to wait outside the imperial study.

"Xuan Li Zhong and the audience!" There was an oracle in the imperial study, and it reached Li Zhonghe's ears layer by layer.

It was already a little late now, and Li Zhonghe didn't understand why he was summoning him along the way.

"The grass people have seen the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live." Li Zhonghe knelt on the ground and bowed his head, still feeling a little nervous in his heart.

Now that I watched it for a long time, I didn't notice anything wrong with Li Zhonghe's attitude, so I simply asked, "I don't know why Dr. Li came to this capital?" ”

"Back to the emperor's words, the family suffered an accident, the grass people, the grass people suspected that the enemy was in the capital, that day when those people slaughtered the grass people's family, fortunately they were rescued by General Cheng's people, those people had said that the enemy was the accent of the capital, so he came to the capital alone." Li Zhonghe hesitated again and again, but still talked about these remarks with Jinshang.

"I am extremely sorry for this kind of encounter, I wonder if you have eyebrows?" Imakami asked tentatively.

At this time, Li Zhonghe suddenly remembered what Gu Muyan had said to him after testing the medicine, and seemed to suddenly understand why Jinshang was so interested in him, and because of this, he was even more worried: "I haven't had eyebrows yet, but the grass people believe that if that person has any other intentions, then he will definitely come to find the grass people again." ”

"It's a good idea." Jinshang nodded, and just let Li Zhonghe retreat.

It's just that after Li Zhonghe retreated, Jinshang called another secret guard, followed Li Zhonghe, and monitored day and night, but he wanted to see who was doing it behind his back.

"Did you find out?" At this time, Xiao Yi was talking to a man who looked like a guard beside him.

The man followed Xiao Yi and replied: "Back to the Lord, this Li Zhonghe is exactly the person we are looking for, but by mistake was saved by General Cheng's people, our grain and grass should not have reached the hands of the people's grain farms, but went to various places, and the traces after that cannot be found." ”

"But this king remembers that it was a person who was sold, why was it sent to various places?" Xiao Yi frowned, obviously asking in disbelief.

The guard naturally understood what Xiao Yi meant, but he could only explain vaguely: "Xu is a person who can't eat so much food, so he entrusts it to a person to buy it, and only shares the spoils after he goes back, right?" ”

"Then you mean, this king has been fooled?" Xiao Yi was almost angry, gritting his teeth and saying that since he could remember, there had never been such a scene of successive defeats.

"Subordinate, subordinate doesn't mean that!" The guard had naturally seen the consequences of Xiao Yi's anger, and even though he was nervous, he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Get out!" Seeing that his guards were so incompetent, Xiao Yidang roared angrily.

After the guard left, Xiao Yi finally let out a long sigh and looked out the dark window.

Suddenly, a person dressed in a black night robe suddenly appeared in front of Xiao Yi, knelt on the ground respectfully and said, "Lord, this Li Zhonghe is the doctor we have been looking for so hard before. ”

"What?" If Xiao Yi wasn't so angry at the beginning, then now he really wants to kill people: "Have you dealt with the original people?" ”

"Back to the Lord, we found people in the rivers and lakes at the beginning, and they will not show their feet." The man in black shook his head and replied, and then as if he remembered something, he said: "During this time, the emperor's men and horses don't know why, they are staring very closely, and the people on Lord Su's side have passed the letter to the post station. ”

As he spoke, the man in black took out a letter sealed with paraffin wax from his sleeve and handed it to Xiao Yi.

I saw that the letter roughly wrote: "Now I want to attack the imperial merchants in our hands, only the salt merchants will be left, and the rest will be eliminated, and it is not known when to do it, I hope the four princes are ready." ”

"Why are you giving it to this king now?" Xiao Yi saw that the letter was crumpled and thrown directly into the brazier not far away, and turned into ashes in an instant.

The man in black couldn't answer, so he had to kneel on the ground all the time, and he didn't reply for a long time.

"Immediately notify you, destroy all the account books in the secret, and ship the silver out as soon as possible." After Xiao Yi finished speaking, just as the man in black received the order and was about to leave, Xiao Yi stopped him again and said, "Wait, half of the silver will be left, and the remaining half will be shipped out." ”

"Yes, Lord." At this moment, the black-clothed person finally left Xiao Yi's study.

On the second day, almost all the imperial merchants were raided, and the whole house was detained, and if it was found that there was nothing serious, then they would be released, and the business would be done, but if the slightest problem was found, then they would only wait to be imprisoned and raided.

"Why did you suddenly raid the Imperial Merchants?" Gu Muyan, who had just learned the news from his maternal grandfather, was amazed, in his impression, this incident had never happened in his previous life.

Old Lady Fu shook his head slightly and said, "I have never mentioned this matter to your grandfather today, so even I knew about it when I went to the next morning today, but I think nine times out of ten it is because of the people's grain village you opened." ”

"Is it because the price of grain in the capital hasn't increased too much this time?" Gu Muyan thought about it, I'm afraid it's really because of the people's grain farm, otherwise he wouldn't have specially rewarded Ruoshu today.

Originally, Gu Muyan just wanted to make Ruoshu famous in the capital, but now it far exceeded her expectations, and even made her a little worried.

Seeing that Mu Yan's brows furrowed slightly, Old Lady Fu comforted: "Yan'er, don't think about it too much, this may be a good thing." ”

"Misfortune and fortune depend on blessing and misfortune, if the people's grain village really wants to become an imperial businessman, the danger that will be faced is definitely not small." Gu Muyan became more and more worried.

In his previous life, Xiao Yi not only accumulated great popular support by hoarding food, but later made a lot of money by relying on the plague prescription developed by Li Zhonghe, and now these have been robbed by Gu Muyan, so Xiao Yi can't be unaware of it at all.

Especially the matter of Li Zhonghe, with Xiao Yi's temperament, I am afraid that he has already held a grudge, and there are many people who are Xiao Yi among the imperial merchants, so how can he give up.

What his grandfather can guess is the matter, Xiao Yi can't not guess a penny, after adding Ruoshu's identity, then presumably after Ruoshu and himself greeted the void is his thunder blow.

Thinking of this, Gu Muyan hurriedly bid farewell to Old Lady Fu, went straight to the people's grain village, called Ruoshu and Sheng Zhoujin over, and said worriedly: "I'm afraid you already know the news that the imperial merchants have been investigated one after another, right?" ”

"Hmm." The two of them nodded one after another, not knowing what was at stake.

Therefore, Gu Muyan did not delay any longer, and immediately told the two of them about his guess: "My grandfather guessed that this time the imperial merchants were investigated, I am afraid that it was because our people's grain village indirectly controlled the grain prices in the capital, so the idea of rectifying the imperial merchants came to fruition." The relationship between these imperial merchants and the ministers of the DPRK and China is already a dense net, and if they are really investigated, I am afraid that more than the interests of the family will be violated. ”

"Aren't we on the cusp of the storm?" Sheng Zhoujin glanced at Ruoshu worriedly before looking at Gu Muyan and asked.

"That's true." Gu Muyan nodded solemnly, and continued: "There is another point, that is, it is very likely that Ruoshu will be pushed out today and become a new imperial merchant, and the first one to offend will be the fourth prince Xiao Yi, and then the ministers of the court, as well as those shops who cooperated with the imperial merchant before, the people in the court are not afraid, but the people in the rivers and lakes are not controlled by the temple and have to be guarded." ”

"Miss, I'm not afraid." Ruoshu said very firmly, without the slightest fear, after all, in the flower building before, in the face of all kinds of characters, Ruoshu has not been threatened.

Seeing Ruoshu like this, Gu Muyan suddenly smiled and said, "You, even the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers!" ”