You must know that it is of great significance to let a eunuch from Dongchang submit the inscription for him, first of all, he does not trust his superiors.

According to the rules of the imperial court, civil officials' question books need to be handed over one level at a time, and no one may dare to withhold your question book, but delay and suppression are inevitable. Even before the question book arrived in the capital, Qi Huan, the prefect of Yangzhou, had already been taken down, and this kind of thing should not be too common.

There is no such worry about the question book handed over by Yang Lian from the East Factory, because the question book of the eunuch can be directly handed to the celebrant supervisor, and the East Factory has the authority to play the secret fold.

But the question book that let Dongchang hand it over, in addition to showing that he didn't believe in Shangguan, also showed that he took refuge, this is taking refuge in Dongchang, which is spurned, once the matter breaks out, Qi Huan will be scolded.

This is also the place where Yang Lian feels that Qi Huan has passed, and when she sees the opportunity, she pounces on it, bites the opportunity and does not let go, she does her best, she makes a desperate bet, and she does not look forward or backward. In the face of Qi Huan's contribution, Yang Lian was silent, in fact, he was a little hesitant about this matter. First of all, Yang Lian can't accept Qi Huan, he is very clear about his position, he is here to run an errand for the prince this time.

If Qi Huan is accepted in Yangzhou, then it is easy for the prince to misunderstand, and it is easy to have drawbacks, and even his godfather will have ideas.

This is my first errand, and for me, the importance of this errand is unparalleled, and there must be no omission. But Yang Lian knew that with Qi Huan's joining, everything would be much smoother for her, and Qi Huan's cheeky face would definitely be of great use.

"No problem!"

After pondering for a moment, Yang Lian nodded and said, "This question book will be sent to the capital immediately!" Saying that, Yang Lian handed the question book that Qi Huan took out to Chen Stalltou behind him: "Immediately send this question book to the hands of the godfather in the capital, and ask the godfather to play it for the emperor on behalf of Chen Rong!" ”

"Yes, father-in-law!" Chen Baotou agreed, hurriedly took the question book, and then turned around and went out to arrange.

Watching Chen stall head leave, Yang Lian turned her head to Qi Huan and said: "Lord Qi, our acquaintance today is also fate, our family and Lord Qi hit it off at first sight, it is better for our family to invite Lord Qi, just introduce a few people to Lord Qi, I believe that Lord Qi will be able to become friends with them." ”

Yang Lian's idea is very simple, she can't accept it or not, she can introduce Qi Huan to the Shouning Hou Mansion, but the Shouning Hou will not refuse.

"Then there is Father-in-law Lao Yang!" Qi Huan hurriedly smiled and arched his hand: "But this treat is still a lower official, when Yang Gonggong first arrived in Yangzhou, it was naturally a subordinate official who did his best to be a landlord, how could he let Yang Gonggong break the bank?" There are still a few restaurants in Yangzhou City, and today the lower official is picking up the wind and washing the dust for Yang Gonggong, Yang Gonggong must give the lower official this face! ”

"Since Lord Qi said so, then our family might as well be respectful!" Yang Lian looked at Qi Huan, nodded with a smile and said, "Chen stall head, you go and invite Steward Zhang!" After saying this, Yang Lian turned her head to look at Qi Huan again, and said with a smile: "Lord Qi may not know that this Steward Zhang is the steward of Shouning Hou's Mansion, and Shouning Hou has a lot of trust in Steward Zhang, and this time Steward Zhang came to Yangzhou to do something." ”

Qi Huan was slightly stunned, and then understood in his heart that this was Yang Lian's order to himself, and this time he wanted to introduce himself to Shou Ninghou.

In fact, Qi Huan has been paying attention to Yang Lian and his party these days, he not only knows that the people who came this time are people from the Shouning Marquis Mansion, but also know that there are Dingguo Mansion, Wei Guo Mansion and so on. If it weren't for this, Qi Huan wouldn't have rushed to catch up, you must know that for Qi Huan, those salt merchants are not important, and his family does not make a fortune by doing salt business.

"I see, it's just the right time to be the official!" Qi Huan immediately laughed, turned around and made a gesture of please: "Then it's annoying father-in-law!" ”

When Yang Lian and his party went to celebrate, the Yangzhou transfer envoy Yamen was gloomy, and Liu Qi sat on the chair expressionlessly.

"My lord, the news just came from below, Lord Qi of the prefect has gone to the yamen of the eunuch to garrison!" The master looked at the adults in his family cautiously and spoke.

Liu Qi didn't react, just nodded, and then said, "Got it!" ”

Liu Qi is a fat man in his forties, but unlike the fat man with a good face, if Liu Qi sinks his face, he looks a little fierce, and seeing that his master is still standing in place, Liu Qi opened his mouth and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"My lord, are you doing something now?" The master asked with a little hesitation, the master really didn't understand, why did his master still sit so still? Those people with discerning eyes can see that this is for the master of their own family. If you don't do anything, isn't that going to be troublesome?

Glancing at his master, who had been with him for more than ten years, Liu Qi immediately smiled, and put down the teacup in his hand with a flat face: "What to do?" ”

"But if you let them do it, wouldn't you?" The master said more worriedly.

Shaking his head, Liu Qi said with a wry smile: "After knowing that those people were coming, I had already asked people to send a message to the capital, and the news of the capital has come back in the past few days." The cause and process of the matter have been roughly understood, the imperial court has set up a yamen called the Salt and Iron Division, this yamen is in charge of the world's salt and iron, do you know who is going to set up the yamen? ”

Seeing that the master shook his head, Liu Qi continued: "It's Shou Ninghou, and now this yamen has also fallen into the hands of Shou Ninghou, do you know what this is?" This is Shou Ninghou is going to reach out to this salt government. ”

"The people from Dongchang, the people of Jinyiwei, and those who took refuge in Shouninghou are not coming to Benguan, but to the Lianghuai Salt Farm." Liu Qi said expressionlessly: "What am I doing at this time?" The more you do, the faster you die, let those salt merchants go and fight with Shouninghou! What this official is mixed with is nothing more than changing a place to become an official, even if he dismisses the official and returns home, it is better than this, and it will only be a matter of revival in a few years. ”

"In this way, you take the eldest young master into Beijing immediately, bring more good things, don't be afraid to spend money, go to Shouning Hou's Mansion to visit, money, things, send, now is not the time to be stingy with money."

Master nodded: "Can Hou Shouning keep your official position?" ”

"Position?" Liu Qi sneered and said: "Give me this official position now, I don't dare to ask for it, when I go to the capital to see Shou Ninghou, seek to be transferred, it doesn't matter if I am demoted, this official wants to leave Yangzhou, it would be better if I could enter Beijing, let Shou Ninghou help operate." Even if you can't enter the capital, other places are fine, as long as you are not in Yangzhou, if you can't keep your official position, then you can fight to quit and return home, it's really not good, as long as you save your life. ”