Huang Jingsheng shook the piece of paper in his hand and said with a smile: "There are more and more people looking for a certain family to ask for money. It's a pity that there are more monks and less porridge. ”

Wang Dahu glanced at the triumphant Huang Jingsheng, did not squeak, lowered his head, and took another sip of wine.

Li Zhongyi was not in Beijing, and after Ruan died, the cabinet became a situation of one and two ministers, and it was necessary to guard against it.

Li Yunxiao, who was sitting across the table, was a little distracted, because his wife Zhou was blowing the wind on the pillow.

Although Zhou did not make his words clear, it was impossible for Li Yunxiao not to understand the connotation.

How to say it, if there is a missing phase in the cabinet, it must be made up. And the most promising ones are actually the scholars of various ministries.

After the establishment of the New Han Dynasty, with the establishment of the cabinet, the originally powerful political hall became a complete decoration. The scholars and attendants of the various ministries, under the control of the cabinet, instead held the real power of the temples of the various ministries.

Li Yunxiao's father-in-law, Zhou Chongji, is currently the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, and he can be regarded as a high-ranking official in the imperial court. However, Zhou Chongji's lack of qualifications and now want to join the cabinet as a counselor, which is obviously wishful thinking.

According to the meaning of Zhou's words, Zhou Chonghe probably wanted to seek the position of secretary of the ministry. The Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Officials, has great real power and is known as the head of all ministries.

Thinking of this, Li Yunxiao couldn't help but sigh secretly: Zhou Chongji is also old and confused, and he doesn't want to think about it, where is Li Yunxiao's son-in-law, who dares to covet the position of the secretary of the ministry?

Li Yunxiao is an understanding person, even if Li Zhongyi trusts him again, it is impossible for him to hand over the military power and personnel power in the capital to their son-in-law at the same time.

Therefore, for the pillow wind blown by Zhou, Li Yunxiao simply pretended to be confused. No matter what Zhou said, he remained silent, neither explicitly supporting nor opposing it.

As the saying goes, it is difficult for a clean official to cut off family affairs. Reasoning with women, in Li Yunxiao's view, is asking for trouble.

Secretary of Police Li Yanqing has been proud of the spring breeze recently. By chance, Li Yanqing rescued the proprietress of a teahouse, but the proprietress was still a young and beautiful little widow.

Heroes save beauties, and beauties love heroes, although this story is a bit cliché. However, the taste of being loved by beauties, Li Yanqing has always enjoyed it.

Now, Li Yanqing's wishful thinking is that after the emperor returns to Beijing from the southern expedition, he will personally ask the emperor for marriage.

Although the death of Zhecongruan involved changes in the court situation, in Li Yanqing's view, it was not a big deal for the time being.

After all, the current saint is in the prime of life, and his physical condition has always been extremely good, and it is still very early for the prince to ascend the throne.

However, there has been a new situation recently, which has attracted Li Yanqing's special attention.

Since, after the destruction of the Southern Tang Dynasty, after Li Yu was named the Marquis of Disobedience, Cheng Comeng recited poems and lyrics in the backyard, and all day long he was either sad or sad, or he lamented his own misfortune.

Originally, according to the division of the terms of reference, the heavy task of monitoring Li Yu should be borne by Zuo Ziguang's Ti Qi Division. Who would have thought that the emperor would hand over Li Yu's family to Li Yanqing to be responsible.

Li Yanqing knew that Li Yu, the lord of the dead country, did not have a single soldier in his hands, he was already a dead tiger, and there was absolutely no possibility of a comeback.

Although the emperor did not say it in person, Li Yanqing knew in his heart that every move after the Great Zhou Dynasty was the focus of surveillance.

Coincidentally, Xiao Zhou, the younger sister of Da Zhou, is also under Li Yanqing's surveillance.

Of the eight concubines in the palace, only the seven concubines have been sealed, but Concubine Li has not yet been rewarded.

According to Li Yanqing's understanding of Li Zhongyi's temper, he once privately figured out what the emperor meant, and the position of this concubine is probably reserved for Xiao Zhou's family, right?

However, Li Yanqing was a little strange. Since Xiao Zhou's family lived in Chunxiangfang in Kaifeng City, the emperor has never come to visit her, not once.

The things of heaven are known as not known, and only then are known.

Li Yanqing can sit on the throne of the Secretary of Police safely, and no one can shake it so far, how can he not know the basic truth that his mouth must be tight?

Almost everyone in the hardcore five-person group in the hut has something on their minds. Only, Zuo Ziguang, the commander of the Ti Cavalry Division, sat on the stool leisurely alone, drinking tea while carefully observing everyone's demeanor.

Since Huang Jingsheng served as the third envoy, the household department under Shangshu Province has become a nominal ornament, and the financial power of the imperial court has fallen into the hands of Huang Jingsheng.

Because he was in charge of the imperial court's treasury and money and grain, Huang Jingsheng was so busy every day that he was happy. After all, the feeling of holding a lot of power and seeing the mountains at a glance is particularly refreshing!

Therefore, although Huang Jingsheng has been selling miserably with Wang Dahu, his demeanor full of spring breeze is undeceiving.

As for Wang Dahu, he holds the power to supervise hundreds of officials, and it is not too cool to see the taste of being a senior official.

Li Yunxiao's little caution, Zuo Ziguang knew at a glance that it must be those bad things in Zhou's mother's family, which are annoying.

Li Yanqing hooked up with the proprietress of the teahouse, others may not know, but his Zuo Ziguang is clear.

To put it bluntly, there are no fools who eat dry rice among the people of the Tiqisi. As long as Zuo Ziguang wants to know something, even if he digs three feet into the ground, he will be clear.

Today's small gathering is a normal exchange with each other, not because of Ruan's illness.

To put it mildly, compared to the hardcore five-member group in the room, the little power that Ruan holds in the cabinet cannot be compared at all.

In the house, Huang Jingsheng and Wang Dahu have the highest seniority. When the two of them didn't finish talking quietly, the other three juniors, none of them dared to sweep their interest.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Jiangnan has sent a letter, Liu Heyang commanded the army, quickly quelled the rebellion of the wealthy clans in the south, and raided 30,000 households, which can be described as a complete victory."

Coldly, Huang Jingsheng announced the good news in public, and the people present also breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, the decision to send Liu Heyang to Jiangnan to quell the rebellion was a decision made by the five of them. If Liu Heyang's rebellion does not go well, the five of them will follow and eat melons.

Li Yanqing and Zuo Ziguang looked at each other and smiled, they got the news a few days earlier than Huang Jingsheng, but they all chose to pretend to be confused.

Li Yanqing, who holds the power of law and order in the world, has so many eyes and ears that it is simply outrageous.

As for the most professional intelligence yamen in history, the Ti Qi Division, it has a separate and secret information transmission channel.

It is entirely possible that Zuo Ziguang, who is mainly responsible for monitoring the army, knows the inside story of the front line earlier than Li Yanqing.

After Huang Jingsheng announced the good news, he immediately said to everyone with a smile: "Everyone is free to do whatever they want, and everyone has their own business." ”

Li Yunxiao had something in his heart, so he took the lead in talking about the public security situation near the capital, in a word, everything was under control.

Wang Dahu nodded, what Li Yunxiao said was basically consistent with the facts he had grasped, and there was not much difference.

As the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Wang Dahu shouldered the heavy responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials, which naturally included monitoring the transfer of soldiers and horses stationed in Beijing.

It's just that the monitoring of the movement of troops and horses by the Metropolitan Procuratorate is just one within the scope of its functions, and it is impossible for there to be a person from the Ti Cavalry Division, so professional.

This is also the beauty of the balance of power, even if there is a mistake on the side of the Ti Cavalry Division, there is a separate source on the side of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, not to mention the strict control of the Police Division.

Only when the news from the three parties is compared with each other can the emperor sleep peacefully.

After an hour, the five of them discussed all the matters that needed to be communicated with each other, and everyone dispersed.

Li Yanqing happened to be idle, so he simply went to visit his fiancée, Yang Jiuniang, the proprietress of the teahouse.

Yang Jiuniang's background is very low, her parents are ordinary tenant farmers, and her deceased husband is just a small businessman who runs a teahouse.

Before Li Zhongyi ascended the throne, if it weren't for Yang Jiuniang's ability to be good at finding the right and the left, talking about people when she sees people, and talking nonsense when she sees ghosts, she is likely to have been robbed by the powerful family.

After Li Zhongyi ascended the throne, under his iron-fisted rectification, most of the magnates in the capital behaved with their tails between their legs, and did not dare to openly do the ugly act of robbing the people's daughters.

However, the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds.

The son of an old official in Kaifeng Mansion, this guy relies on his Lao Tzu's power, not only wants to include Yang Jiuniang as an outer room, but also thinks about Yang Jiuniang's teahouse.

As a result, Li Yanqing, who coincided with his meeting, not only took advantage of the situation to beat the guy hard, but also won the favor of the beauty.

When Li Yanqing entered the door, Yang Jiuniang was lying on the counter, using the calculation plan to settle accounts.

The guys in the store are all bright-eyed, who doesn't know the unspeakable relationship between Li Yanqing and Yang Jiuniang?

When everyone saw Li Yanqing's silent gesture, the guys also closed their mouths one after another, not daring to alarm Yang Jiuniang.

Li Yanqing approached Yang Jiuniang's body, and a unique fragrance of her daughter's family immediately hit her nose and refreshed her spleen.

"Lady, the taste of counting money, is it good?" Li Yanqing waited quietly for a long time, until Yang Jiuniang put down the calculation chip in his hand, and then he made a joke.

Yang Jiuniang was startled, the calculation chip in her hand actually fell to the counter, and when she saw clearly that it was Li Yanqing, she couldn't help but let out a long breath, and whispered: "Poke here silently, do you want to scare me to death?" ”

Li Yanqing liked to see Yang Jiuniang's delicate look in front of him, and he couldn't help but smile and said, "My lady, your courage is a little smaller, right?" Hmph, don't say anything else, on this street, whoever dares to scare my lady must be impatient. ”

Don't say it, women have Mu Qiang's genes, Li Yanqing asked so domineeringly, but Yang Jiuniang felt that it was particularly pleasing to the ear.

The reason is actually very simple, since she was a child, Yang Jiuniang has always been insecure because of her humble background.

After her ex-husband died of illness, ruffians from all walks of life continued to harass her, and Yang Jiuniang had already been emaciated and overwhelmed.

Now, with the support of Li Yanqing, she, Yang Jiuniang, can finally breathe a sigh of relief and be an upright person.

Yang Jiuniang threw down the calculation chip in her hand, led Li Yanqing upstairs, and sat in a separate private room.

"Official, what kind of wind is this, blowing your great bodhisattva over early?" After all, Yang Jiuniang is a married woman, and she is doing the business of a teahouse, and she has a refreshing and spicy energy between her words and deeds.

Li Yanqing looked at Yang Jiuniang, who was smiling and smiling, and was in a trance for a while, and actually forgot to reply.

How to say it, don't look at Li Yanqing, as Li Zhongyi's henchman, has always been in a high position. However, after so many years, don't look at him as twenty-eight years old, he is still a shameful virgin.

This is mainly because military and government affairs are too busy, and Li Yanqing is so busy all day long, how can he have the heart to think about personal affairs?

Moreover, with Li Yanqing's special status, it is naturally impossible to marry a noble daughter from a famous family. If he really did that, it would be too eye-catching, even if the emperor trusted him again, he was afraid that the villain would secretly fall into maggots.

Of course, with Li Yanqing's knowledge, he really doesn't look down on those noble ladies who are used to behaving.

Li Zhongyi has a famous saying, Li Yanqing has always remembered it vividly: If you marry a wife, you can go to the hall, enter the cave room, and go down to the kitchen.

It is also a coincidence that Li Yanqing and Yang Jiuniang looked at each other correctly. Moreover, this marriage is completely taboo, it can be described as a match made in heaven.

It's just that the fly in the ointment is that even if Yang Jiuniang likes Li Yanqing no matter how much she likes, she has to keep her body alive and dead, and she has to enter the cave room before she is willing to give it to Li Yanqing completely.

This man, the more he can't get it, the more itchy he is. Yang Jiuniang's guard was like jade, but it hooked Li Yanqing's heart, making him unable to run away anymore.

Yang Jiuniang didn't wait for the man's response, but found that the man was staring at her directly, she couldn't help but be ashamed and happy, and couldn't help but roll her eyes.

Compared with the yellow flower girl in the room, a woman who has been married will obviously be more sensitive in terms of emotion. After all, they have already understood things, and the aggressive eyes of men can naturally understand them.

It is precisely because she understands the man's careful thinking that Yang Jiuniang can't help but feel a little proud, and it is obviously the right choice not to let the man get wet.

"Official, please drink tea." Yang Jiuniang quietly brewed the tea, stretched out her white and tender lotus root, and handed the tea cup to Li Yanqing.

In front of him, Li Yanqing suddenly woke up, and couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, he pretended to take the teacup, took a sip, and praised insincerely: "Good tea, full of color, flavor!" ”

It's full of flavor and flavor, so that's a compliment to the snacks, right? Yang Jiuniang secretly rolled her eyes and slandered.

However, it is naturally impossible for Yang Jiuniang to openly point out the man's gaffe, that is too stupid, right?

After Li Yanqing returned to normal, Yang Jiuniang took the opportunity of pouring tea and asked him in a low voice: "Official, do you want to go far away?" ”

"Oh, how do you know?" Li Yanqing was surprised, and couldn't help blurting out Yang Jiuniang.

Yang Jiuniang lightly opened her red lips, revealing a playful smile and said: "When officials usually come, they don't stop talking like they do today. The concubine has learned the secret skill of divine arithmetic, and she only needs to pinch her fingers to know your thoughts. ”

Li Yanqing couldn't help laughing heartily in the face of the wonderful person who was like a flower, and sighed: "Those who know me, the lady is also!" ”

That's right, Li Yanqing is indeed going to go far away. The reason is not complicated, the emperor's southern expedition is very smooth, and he is about to enter the land of Bashu.

After the attack on Chengdu, the heavy task of attacking the heroes and big households in Shu will be handed over to Li Yanqing, a veteran of copying the house.

In addition, I don't know why, the emperor actually secretly ordered Li Yanqing to escort Concubine Fei along the way to meet in Shu.

So far, the people who know that Concubine Fei is originally a concubine of Shu Palace have all started from Hechi and followed Li Zhongyi's extremely confidant old subordinates in the world. Li Yanqing is one of these few.