Kofu.

Gao Changgong returned to the mansion angrily, Gao Mang was picking up his flowers and plants in the garden, and was cutting the money laurel he had carefully planted with scissors.

Gao Changgong came to the side, picked up the water and drank it unhappily, and sat on the stone bench angrily. Didn't save anyone? ”

Gao Mang knew that he went to the county government to fish for people, and he also knew that Li Yun's temperament would not let him get his wish, and it was expected that he would not succeed, why did he have such a big anger when he returned to the house?

Gao Changgong took another sip of tea, slammed the cup to the side, and smashed it to pieces: "Save a fart, that Tao Qianming has recruited everything in prison." ”

Gao Mang was abrupt and looked back sideways: "What do you mean?" ”

"This cowardly bag was casually greeted twice by Lin Qingzhu with torture, and he was frightened, not only admitting his crime, but also confessing to many hidden things that we dared to do before."

"What!"

Gao Mang was also stunned, and the whole person had a bad feeling, he felt that God sent Li Yun to torture him, and there was no good result if something had anything to do with him.

"What the hell is going on, you can tell me in detail." Gao Mang threw aside all the utensils in his hand and asked anxiously.

Then, Gao Changgong beat Tao Qianming into a trick and said some shady things, including some things that united Gao Changgong.

After hearing this, Gao Mang broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly asked, "Have you ever said that?" ”

Gao Changgong shook his head: "No, I'm afraid Tao Qianming also knows that if that incident is stabbed, not only will all of us follow along, but his father, who is too guarded, will return to the place where he is buried without a burier, and I am afraid that many people in Chang'an will be implicated."

"Rao is like this, don't take it lightly, this year is different from previous years, this Lin Qingzhu don't look at him young, but I really can't see through his way, it is both good and evil, and it is very weird." Gao Mang said, "The day of reconciliation and cancellation of accounts this year is coming soon, if Lin Qingzhu crosses his feet, the death will not be close to us, and I am afraid that even your uncle will be implicated at that time." ”

Gao Changgong also knew the stakes and said, "Father, what does my uncle want to do?" Why does he need a lot of money every year? ”

Pei Lin is in a high position, ranking in the first rank of Zaifu, and he is the minister of the emperor's side, although the emperor does not pay much attention to him today, he has no worries to keep the family's fine clothes and food, why do you need so much money?

"Your uncle is doing a big thing, a big big thing, in short, the less you know, the better." Gao Mang said.

For so many years, Gao Changgong only knew that the Gao family sent no less than 700,000 taels of silver to Pei Lian's mansion every year, not including rare and exotic treasures.

Every year, for so many years, if you calculate it in general, there are almost five million taels into the Pei family's treasury, and these silver taels are enough to feed an army of 200,000 for several years.

"This year's flood season is coming, and the money allocated by the imperial court for river repair will soon be allocated, and the merchants will be notified, as well as the county orders of neighboring counties, and the layers of exploitation will be carried out according to the usual practice."

Although the Gao family is not an official, it has an inexplicable relationship with the official family, and the annual disaster relief funds of the imperial court are embezzled by officials and sold stolen goods in the name of merchants, which also creates collusion between officials and businessmen.

And Lincheng Taishou Tao Yuan, as a prefect, is naturally difficult to get rid of.

And the money allocated by the imperial court for disaster relief from the household department, and the money that can be used to repair the river in the end, is at most two-three-tenths.

Therefore, in order to ensure the authenticity of the amount of silver deposited, they will reconcile and write off the accounts every year to ensure the accuracy of the accounts, and this year is no exception.

But the biggest accident this year is Li Yun, his appearance has disturbed the officialdom of Lincheng, especially when he just arrived in Linzi County, he is lawless, offended the Gao family, and not to mention, the big and small businessmen in Linzi County have been offended by him.

In addition to the Gao family, the biggest merchant is the salt shop, the salt used in ancient times was all strict, official salt and private salt have always been bought in parallel, and often the people who sell private salt are usually businessmen who buy and sell officials, which is also an unwritten rule, but Li Yun likes to poke the hornet's nest.

Once, Li Yun received a report from the people, saying that the salt store was secretly selling illicit salt by buying official salt. Li Yun sent someone to check the salt store, and the result was a feather return, the salt store received the news in advance, and the private salt was dropped, and from where did he offend the big boss of the salt store, Jia Bin, and since then the two Liangzi has been married.

"Father, if you don't stop first, I always feel that this year will not be too smooth, especially that Lin Qingzhu, I always feel that he is going to spoil our good deeds." Gao Changgong said.

"This Lin Qingzhu is easy to do, if he really dares to spoil me and wait for good things, it's a big deal to do him. What worries my father the most is that King Yun is here. Gao Mang said.

Since the last fake cloud king incident, the Gao family can be said to have lost face, some time ago, Pei Lin sent a letter, saying that the cloud king had arrived in Lincheng, and asked them to be careful.

"Can you find him?"

"This Cloud King's whereabouts are extremely secretive, and no one has found his traces, so your uncle reminded us to be careful." Gao Mang said.

"He's not here to investigate the corruption case in Lincheng, is he?"

"Your uncle said that King Yun came here to investigate a tragic incident thirteen years ago, as long as we don't show off too much and don't attract attention, King Yun will not interfere in our affairs."

Referring to the tragedy of destroying the door thirteen years ago, Gao Chang was still small at that time, but he also heard a little, there were two big families in Lincheng back then, both of which were located in Linzi, as for their Gao family, it was still a little-known small family at that time, and the two major families could not be compared.

Unexpectedly, overnight, the two families were slaughtered, becoming the biggest unsolved case in Lincheng.

And today's important minister Fang Xuanling, and Prince Yun's maiden family are one of the two major families, and this time King Yun came, it seems that the case was overturned.

"Dad, who did the Fang family and the Lejia back then?" Speaking of this matter, Gao Changgong's interest was aroused, and he couldn't help but ask more.

"It's better not to ask about this matter, have you forgotten how the Fake Cloud King died?" Gao Mang's eyes revealed fear, a look of fear.

That night, the picture of the tragic death of the fake cloud king is vividly remembered by Gao Changgong, and the tragic death is chilling.

It was not until this time that Gao Changgong really realized that his father must have known something about the events of that year, the fall of the two major families back then, and the rise of the Gao family, there must have been an ulterior connection during the period.

Gao Changgong was okay to say something, but was interrupted by Gao Mang: "This matter ends here, there are some things that you shouldn't know, you better don't know, we just need to do a good job of reconciliation and write-off, understand?" ”

"The boy knows."

Gao Mang looked at the sky and said to himself in his heart: "The sky in Lincheng is about to change, it's time to prepare for the future." ”