Mu Zhaotong said: "No one has been able to win Your Majesty, even if it is half a child, the queen has tried, lost, I want to try." ”

Wuwei Taoist was silent, and he couldn't answer this.

"No one in the world can play against His Majesty, and I can barely put it in my hand."

Mu Zhaotong looked at the chessboard: "From the beginning, I knew that I couldn't win, no matter who sat on that dragon chair, he had already taken the lead, let alone someone like His Majesty?" Fighting with His Majesty, it is difficult to fight with the sky, and I may be able to win half of the sky in my life, but I can't win against Your Majesty. ”

Mu Zhaotong picked up the teacup: "New tea, old man, wait for the moonlight." ”

The moon is coming soon, and the alternation of day and night cannot be reversed.

The old man under the moon looks older, there is still a little vitality under the sun, Mu Zhaotong under the moon is like an old ghost who died early in the morning but refused to leave the world, he is not nostalgic, he is not nostalgic at all, he just has something to do.

"Your Majesty's chessboard is too big, my chessboard is small, while Your Majesty has put all his thoughts on the big chessboard, I steal a hand on the small chessboard, this hand...... Everything that I have accumulated for more than 40 years as an official is in it, and all the cultivation skills that I have accumulated for more than 40 years as an official are in this hand. ”

Wuwei Taoist still couldn't help but ask: "Since the elder has given up so much, why do you still do it?" ”

"These are not parting, and there is nothing that I can't give up after my son's death."

Mu Zhaotong fiddled with the chess pieces: "The person who knows me in the world is Your Majesty, but Your Majesty is too busy, where does he have the time and heart to deal with me?" I'm different, I'm the one who knows Your Majesty the most in the world, but I can put all my heart on Your Majesty...... Daoist, do you know what he is most afraid of? ”

"I don't leave the house, I don't know the affairs of the world, and naturally I don't know the affairs of the king."

"Your Majesty is most afraid of becoming a sinner of Daning."

Mu Zhaotong said: "Your Majesty wants to give Daning a hundred years of stability and peace, what Your Majesty wants is to solve the big trouble of black martial arts when he is in power, and by the way, he is also taking down the small countries with hidden dangers around, Your Majesty is not afraid of the infamy of being reckless, as long as he wins the infamy, what is the infamy?" A hundred years later, it will still be said that he is the first emperor of a thousand years, but he can't lose. ”

"When I left Chang'an City, I said, although I hate Your Majesty, but I can't spoil Daning, but if you want to make Your Majesty sad, it's not enough to kill his two or three sons, you have to make Your Majesty feel that he is a sinner of Daning, that is the biggest blow to Your Majesty, that is the most ruthless knife in Your Majesty's heart, so I think twice, I can only put this chess piece in Pingyue Road, not only let Ning people die less, but also let Your Majesty die."

Mu Zhaotong raised his head and looked at the moon: "Do you know why poets always use the moon to express their thoughts?" Too many poems have been used, whether it is the thought of relatives or the thoughts of lovers, I like to say two sentences about the moon. ”

Wuwei Taoist shook his head: "I don't have so many emotions, so I don't understand." ”

"You should understand, it's very simple."

Mu Zhaotong smiled: "Because the sun is dazzling, the moon is not dazzling, and you can only shed tears when you look at the sun, who can chant poetry?" ”

Where and where is this? Talking about it, how did Your Majesty get to the sun and the moon? He thinks about an old man like Mu Zhaotong, and his thoughts often jump, you see an old man who seems to be pondering, maybe he is just stunned, you see that he is stunned, he may have recalled his life for decades.

"I'm too glaring."

Mu Zhaotong said: "So if I'm gone, few people will miss me, but there will be many people who shed tears because of me." ”

Wuwei Daoist sighed.

Mu Zhaotong put down the chess pieces: "I'm old, I can't stand it, I'll go to sleep." ”

Wuwei Daoist helped Mu Zhaotong to get up: "Elder Ge wants to make His Majesty uncomfortable, and he doesn't want to damage Daning, I thought about it just now, and I came instead."

Bear this sadness, I'm afraid it has collapsed. ”

"I've long since collapsed."

Mu Zhaotong smiled: "You don't understand." ”

Pingyue Road.

Ye Kaitai looked at the six or seven big boxes on the floor in front of him: "This is all the accounts in Changchang County in the past few years, I have a record here, it looks like I can't sleep tonight." ”

Han Zhaozhi said: "Incense, tea, snacks, if you can't stay up, go to sleep." ”

Ye Kaitai glanced at him: "Who do you look down on?" ”

Han Zhaozhi: "You are old. ”

Ye Kaitai: "Not a few years older than you!" ”

Han Zhaozhi: "That's also big." ”

Ye Kaitai didn't bother to pay attention to him, sat on the ground, grabbed a few account books from the box and opened them, Han Zhaozhi stopped talking, only the sound of turning the book leaves was left in the study, and the two of them didn't say a word for nearly two hours, until it was already the second half of the night, Ye Kaitai stretched his arms: "I found something useful." ”

He handed the account book to Han Zhaozhi: "So much cash, they have to find a way to go out, a small-scale team will definitely not work, I looked at the record of the mulberry hemp business in Changchang County in the past two years, and found that since the beginning of the previous year, there has been one more Tuyue commercial bank in Changchang County, and a commercial bank in Changchang County has never received mulberry hemp locally in Changchang County, but has always been doing business outside Changchang County." ”

Han Zhaozhi looked at it: "Tuyue Commercial Bank? It was only on the record that appeared the year before last, and the time when Li Hongkui went to Longchang County to serve was indeed a bit coincidental. ”

He raised his head and glanced at Ye Kaitai: "By the way, what about Ye Jingtian?" I didn't hear you mention him this time. ”

"Go south with the wolf ape."

Ye Kaitai said: "There is a war on the side of the country, a country called Rilang that has never heard of it suddenly raised 200,000 troops, and just received a military report last month, and it is too late to ask Your Majesty, Ye Jingtian took the wolf ape to move south, and now it should have reached the coast of southern Xinjiang, and if it is fast, it may have arrived in the country of Qiao...... Sometimes wars come inexplicably. ”

Han Zhaozhi snorted: "I'll just say, he doesn't dare to hide from me...... Shen Leng and Haisha are over there, even if Zhuang Yong doesn't go in person, Shen Leng and Haisha will definitely not be unable to win, but the troops in those two places are indeed stretched, and the 200,000 army is coming, so don't take it lightly, and the wolf ape is good in the past. ”

He continued to look at the account book: "But the taxes reported by this Tuyue Commercial Bank are not very high, which means that there is no large amount of business. ”

Ye Kaitai: "What if it's just to transport silver out?" ”

Han Zhaozhi nodded: "If it is just to transport the silver out, all the places where the Tuyue Commercial Bank passes through will have a record of customs clearance documents, but it is not difficult to check, my people have already gone to Changchang County, I told them not to act rashly for the time being, now it seems that you can check this Tuyue Commercial Bank first, and after dawn, I will arrange for someone to go to Changchang County to inform them." ”

Ye Kaitai said: "The problem now is that we can't think of where such a large amount of silver flows, I've been here in Pingyue Road for almost ten years, maybe more, I don't remember clearly, I came after Daning destroyed South Vietnam, Ren Daofu has been a few years, I am still confident that I can see this side clearly, counting, now the South Vietnamese rebels who are still entrenched in the deep mountains and old forests add up to less than 10,000 people, and they are scattered in seven or eight places, it is difficult to chase and suppress, and they dare not come out, Therefore, Mu Zhaotong's silver will definitely not be sent to them, and he can't send it over. ”

He glanced at Han Zhaozhi: "Shi Yuanxiong was transferred back to Chang'an by His Majesty, Shi Podang has been transferred to the general of the Xishu Dao Army, and the wolf ape is in Ye Jingtian's hands, so there can be no problem with the wolf ape." ”

Han Zhaozhi was silent for a while, then raised his head and asked, "What about the Yue people?" ”

"The South Vietnamese troops have long been disbanded, and a small number have become vanguards."

Han Zhaozhi said: "That's not worth worrying about. ”

The two of them looked at each other, but they still didn't

The slightest clue.

"Take a break."

Ye Kaitai got up, poured a cup of tea and walked to the window to look out, at this time the sky was already a little shiny, the two of them compared the account books all night, and only saw that there was something wrong with one Tuyue Commercial Bank, if the conclusive evidence of this earth-shattering case can be turned out from the account books, what can it mean? It shows that Mu Zhaotong is incompetent, and it can also show that Ye Kaitai is incompetent, and being fooled by such a group of incompetent people is naturally incompetent.

"If Mu Zhaotong wants to make something big, can he just rely on his protégés?"

Ye Kaitai glanced back at Han Zhaozhi.

Han Zhaozhi suddenly woke up to something: "It's still Yueren." ”

"At that time, Yang Yu, the emperor of South Vietnam, was not convinced, and wanted to make an alliance against Daning, at that time, he sent troops in the name of goats crossing the border and eating the cabbage of our border people, in fact, it was enough to give face to those other small countries and make them afraid.

Ye Kaitai said: "Because of this, the Yue people have always been unconvinced, not many people know about the alliance except Yang Yu, and the Manchu civil and military forces in the Nanyue court know no more than twenty people combined, so after the destruction of the country in South Vietnam, those generals who led the troops were extremely hostile to Daning, and they really thought that the country was destroyed because of a few cabbages, which was a shame that could not be washed away for the soldiers." ”

Han Zhaozhi said: "So Mu Zhaotong knows that the Yue people can use it, Yang Yu and those two old ministers who are locked up in the Babu Lane of Chang'an City can use it, and at that time, who would suspect that Mu Zhaotong would collude with the two ministers who died in the country?" ”

"The point is, what can Yue people do?"

Ye Kaitai still couldn't figure it out: "If Mu Zhaotong was making waves when the resistance was strong a few years ago, they might still have something to do, and now that Pingyue Dao has been stabilized and stable, what else can they do?" ”

Han Zhaozhi said: "Anyway, I can't see anything in the account books here, I still go to Changchang County in person after dawn, I'm hungry, you tell someone to get some food, I'll leave when I'm full." ”

Ye Kaitai said: "Will you leave again if you don't sleep?" ”

"Sleep in the car."

Han Zhaozhi looked at the account books: "I have to take them all." ”

"Okay."

Ye Kaitai asked, "What else?" ”

"People."

Han Zhaozhi said: "I am seriously understaffed, I only brought out a thousand offices from Chang'an City, Nie Ye, two hundred black horses, I planned to come to Purple Imperial City to see you and meet Ye Jingtian by the way to borrow someone from him, but the wolf ape went south, I can only stretch out my hand with you." ”

Ye Kaitai said: "I will give you all the barracks." ”

Han Zhaozhi smiled: "Then haven't you become a loner." ”

Ye Kaitai said: "Who else can do to me in this mansion and govern the city?" I'll give you some more from the city guards. ”

"Don't do so much, give me half of your personal barracks, and transfer five hundred people from the city defense army."

Han Zhaozhi said: "You should know that if they want to make trouble in Pingyue Road, no matter how big the matter is, it will not be as big as you, so you should be the one who wants to do it the most." ”

The corners of Ye Kaitai's mouth raised slightly: "Then just do it." ”

Han Zhaozhi smiled: "When you're older, you don't brag about it." ”

He was about to say that your mind is not as good as mine and your physical strength is not as good as mine, when suddenly another thing came to mind: "Isn't it too smooth?" ”

Ye Kaitai asked, "What's too smooth?" ”

Han Zhaozhi looked at Ye Kaitai: "As soon as I arrived, I found out that Zhen Xuanyuan's wife was in Changchang County, and then logically found out that Li Hongkui was Mu Zhaotong's protégé, and then logically speculated about the Jiangnan Weaving Mansion, and now I found the Tuyue Commercial Bank." ”

Ye Kaitai's face changed: "You mean...... Mu Zhaotong is leading you away? ”

Han Zhaozhi frowned: "Where does he want to lead me to?" ”