After sending Li Hailin out of the door of the study, Shen Gui came to the front yard. Now the wings on both sides of the front yard of the Shen Mansion have become 'girls' bedrooms', and the eldest lady of the Li family, who has 'died in Huangquan', is naturally 'secluded' here.

Shen Gui stepped forward and knocked on the door casually, and a woman with an ordinary appearance came out. Before entering the door, Shen Gui looked back weakly, and saw that there was nothing abnormal in the front yard, so he 'slied' into the house like a loach.

"Have you eaten ......?"

Shen Gui looked at Li Le'an after the disguise, and couldn't help but feel a sense of strangeness. After holding it for a long time, he only said such a nonsense. After hearing this, Li Le'an also looked suspicious, tilted his head and asked Shen Gui:

"Have you been so idle? Oh yes...... It should indeed be very idle, after all, your library building is occupied by Princess Fengyang...... However, it is also quite an elegant matter for the two of you to 'add fragrance to the red sleeves' in the library building, not to mention that they are a genuine princess? I'm not hungry, and I don't have anything else to do, Shen Gongzi, just do what you want! ”

Shen Gui knew that Li Le'an should be 'angry', but he couldn't understand why she was angry for a while. From the analysis of the meaning of what she said just now, it seems that it has something to do with Yan Shuqing's girl; But I felt a little wronged in my heart, after all, until now, I really haven't had anything to do with Yan Shuqing......

"In broad daylight, what kind of red sleeves do you wave and what kind of incense do you add...... Didn't you let that scarred man get sick...... Do you want Sun Baizhi to show you......"

"Phew! You're sick! And even if I am sick, I am also a doctor, and I still use his Sun Baizhi to do a lot of things? Look at what it's like to be in the same room in broad daylight, with this lonely man and widow! If you don't have anything to do, you can go out, girl, I'm upset! ”

Now Li Le'an looked a little angry, pushing Shen Gui out of the door, pouting and losing his temper; Shen Gui didn't dare to resist hard, so he could only hurriedly speak:

"Something, something, something! I'm going to the Prime Minister's Mansion in a moment, do you have anything to say to the Prime Minister? ”

"Cheng! Appearance! Big! Person! Okay, okay, just tell my dad that I don't want to live with you! I want to go home! ”

In the face of Li Le'an's 'sudden frenzy', although Shen Gui was a little at a loss, he was not mentally retarded after all, and from Li Le'an's 'logical accent' alone, he could hear that she had another voice.

“…… That Emperor Xuande has just died, and he is about to mourn the whole country, and he can't get married in a short time! ……”

"Yes, yes, Princess Fengyang's father died, at this time, if you get married again, won't you die of a delicate and charming woman like her? Get out and get out! I've never heard of anything like that......"

Shen Gui, who was confused, was pushed out of the door by Li Le'an in this way. He stood in the courtyard, looked at the door that had been closed in front of him, looked up at the blue sky, and said to himself with confusion:

"Fengyang, that girl, what kind of thunder did you bury for me?"

When he turned around again, he found that Tie Li'er and Yan Qinghong were lying side by side in front of the window of the opposite wing, revealing four eyes full of curiosity......

Half an hour later, Shen Gui sat in the study of the Prime Minister's Mansion, still holding the small porcelain jar that Li Hailin had seen. And Li Deng's current hands are holding two balls of 'Sheng'a Hibiscus Cream' on the left and on the right.

"You mean to say that this thing is also a type of Fleur?"

Lee Deng held his nose and played with the black-brown object in his hand.

"To be precise, this is raw hibiscus paste, and the quality of the lump in your left hand is purer than the 'Nankang goods' in your right hand. This jar of Nankang goods is the sample brought out from the third floor of the prince's two-day gambling house; The slightly shallower piece on your left hand was brought back from Zhongshan Road by a friend of mine. ”

After hearing this, Li Deng carefully distinguished the two parts of A Furong's color. After looking at it for a while, I found that as Shen Gui said, these two hibiscus, although the color is slightly different from each other, but in terms of touch and smell, it can be concluded that they belong to the same thing - raw hibiscus paste.

Shen Gui looked at the thoughtful Li Deng and smiled wryly:

"Guess how my friend got this thing, old man?"

Li Deng looked at Shen Gui and shook his head, not making such a meaningless guess......

"...... from your Dongyou Li family"

"Impossible!"

After Li Deng retorted, he immediately shook his head with a smile, and then his eyes fell into deep thought again. After thinking for a long time, he waved his hand again with an awe-inspiring expression:

"It's really unlikely, the land that Dongyou can cultivate is all in my place. Oh yes, I still have some Li family account books here, you can look at them for yourself......"

As he spoke, Li Deng found a few ledgers, opened them in turn and introduced them to Shen Gui:

"Come and see, this is a field book for measuring cultivated land...... This is the Ding book of the household registration of the people of Dongyou...... This is the tax book of the amount of tribute paid by the imperial court in previous years...... These things are clearly laid out here, and the accounts do not lie; And you must also know that although the land in our northern part is fertile, the climate is too cold, and there is no more land for them to engage in this thing at most, and there is no extra land for them to engage in this thing......"

Shen Gui didn't even look at these complicated and chaotic account books, and with a wave of his hand, he pushed aside the account books that were all over the table, stared at Li Deng tightly and asked:

"Who reported these books? And who wrote these accounts? ”

“……”

"You say that numbers don't lie, so let me ask you a few questions: Since you entered Fengjing as an official, have you ever taken time out to go back to Dongyou's hometown every year to check it with your own eyes? And after Wan Changning, who helped you sort out the accounts, showed his feet, are the accounts you believe in really reliable? And most importantly, why would those people of your Li family who are collateral branches buy you those title deeds that have no meaning to them at this point in time? ”

Li Deng looked at Shen Gui, who had cold eyes, and couldn't help but be moved by his question, and fell into a deep thought. When he came back to his senses, a cold sweat broke out on Zhou's body......

"You mean to say...... The crown prince's Furong has collected money, and the source of supply may not be the Nankangdi we inferred before...... Instead, ...... my Dongyou Li family? ”

Shen Gui shook his head, and then nodded again:

That's not wrong, it's just not entirely true. I want to ask you clearly, since the crown prince was in charge of the country, you, the prime minister of the dynasty, have been called ill; However, the military situation of the Third Route of Youbei is urgent, and the household in your hand is in charge of the money bag of Youbei...... In the past few days, has the household department ever approved silver for the prince of the prison country? ”

"When the first emperor was in a serious situation, he was ordered to be in danger, and he did ask the old man to allocate silver to defend against the enemy; And the old man did wholesale a few times, but it was not a big amount...... However, it should be after the Battle of Puhe...... He never came to my house again. The silver in the treasury naturally didn't move......"

"At this moment, how much silver is in the treasury, and how much silver is in the account of the household, have you personally verified all of this?"

Hearing this, the look on Li Deng's face changed several times, and it was not until the end that he shook his head vigorously and said in a gloomy tone:

"No...... Since Shi'an came out, he has been in charge of most of the public and private accounts, and he has never made a mistake; Over time, the old man will no longer be distracted...... So you mean, after Wan Changning colluded with the prince, he would forge a fake account in an attempt to deceive the old man? ”

Hearing this, Shen Gui's expression was a little embarrassed, and in the face of this future father-in-law, he didn't want to say anything too ugly; But Li Deng seemed to see the embarrassment in his heart, pushed open all the doors and windows with his own hands, looked around, and said to Shen Gui: 'It's okay to speak bluntly'.

"Don't worry, I'm not necessarily right...... However, judging from the analysis of all the signs we have now, I am afraid that as early as the defeat of Yan Chongwu and the death of Emperor Xuande, your nephew, who was forced to imprison the country, was ready to abandon the country and flee. He exchanged the gold and silver in the inner and outer warehouses for a lot of raw hibiscus ointment, which he sold at the Double Heaven Gambling House; If he had waited for the Pingbei army to break through the city, he would have fled out of the city with the rest of Ah Furong...... After all, hibiscus cream of the same size is worth more than gold! And it's easy to carry and transport, but it's not noticeable......"

When Li Deng heard this, he looked at Shen Gui with interest, and interrupted:

"Shen Gui...... You haven't done the Weak Crown yet, have you? Why is this 'Fleur' so clear? ”

Shen Gui took out the sign of 'Huayan Business Gang' in his arms and put it in front of Li Deng.

"I have a 'Nankang senior' named Zhou Shutong, who likes this way in my life, and I also listened to him. As far as Hibiscus is concerned, although it is a 'rare commodity' that has only appeared in recent years in our Youbei, it has long been the favorite pleasure of all kinds of court officials and celebrities and wealthy businessmen in the more affluent Beiyan and Nankang. Therefore, as long as this kind of thing goes out of the East Customs, it will become a 'hard currency' like gold and silver! ”

After all, Li Deng is a businessman, and when he heard that this Ah Furong was so 'easy to earn', he immediately had a lot of thoughts:

"Since the return of this 'hibiscus paste' is so rich, and it can be planted and produced in the land of the third road in the north, isn't it like gold growing out of the soil? Why are you so nervous? Oh, the old man has also heard that Ah Furong is easy to become addicted, right...... But the Qilu tobacco leaves and southern Yunnan tobacco leaves that we often take, are they not the same as addictive? If you think it's harmful, we don't sell it locally. We can completely use these precious hibiscus to exchange for some necessities of daily life from Nankang and Beiyan, isn't this also excellent? ”

When Shen Gui heard this, he really had mixed feelings. He never expected that he, the future father-in-law's business sense, would be so keen. Not long after they talked about A Furong, Prime Minister Li Cheng had already figured out this thing that eats people without spitting out bones, and has figured out a ......

"Father-in-law, since the beginning of the ancestors of the Li family, the land of Dongyou has always been planted with food that can live people; How? Could it be that you covet the heavy reward of this hibiscus, and you actually plan to plant such a bloodless bone-breaking steel knife? ”

Li Deng shook his head with a smile, pinched a piece of A Furong that was more 'valuable' than gold, and said to Shen Gui:

"The old man is already a rich man, with today's family business, he can't spend it for another ten lifetimes, why do I need so much silver? The old man was just curious, since the prince had already encircled Wan Shi'an, who was in charge of the household department, it was equivalent to saying that all the money and grain in the treasury depended on him to get what he wanted...... Yan Tian, this kid, still needs so much silver, what does he want to do? ”