After entering the house, Gao Yue scolded Wang Haichao for "selling me", and was immediately locked up in Zicheng Prison, beaten with a cane day and night, beating Wang Haichao all over his body, begging for mercy, and went to half his life, dying.

Several big salt merchants in Yangzhou thought that the time had come to bring down Gao Yue, so they secretly funded the good walkers, and quickly reported to Pei Yanling and Li Qiyun in Beijing.

Almost at the same time, Gao Yue hurriedly sent his marching Sima Gu Xiu into Beijing, telling Li Qi to "rob the wealth and give it to the Jingkou, so as not to leave the ship after Yangzi stays, and want to do misdeeds." ”

Not to be outdone, Li Qi also sent himself to march Sima Li Ling, and also marched into Beijing day and night, telling Gao Yue that "I want to take the two taxes and wealth for my own use, and innocently scolding the Yangziyuan to stay in the Wang Haichao, all of which are caused by fear of crime, which can be described as poor." ”

These two are riding horses for 300 miles a day, but they are still halfway there, and the emperor of Chang'an Daming Palace and the scholars of Jingshi have already known about this great event.

No one cares why the Huainan Jiedu Envoy and the Zhenhai Jiedu Envoy finally made such a fuss.

But everyone knows that one town has nine states, and one town has fifteen states, which together is the entire Jianghuai land, and nearly half of the country's wealth has been retained.

The Shenwei Army in Beijing, the Shence Army in Jingxi and Jingdong, and other border armies are all waiting for the distribution of winter clothes!

And the entire Beijing officials are also waiting for the money!

The amount of all the two taxes in Guanzhong, that is, 500,000 guan, is far from enough to support the entire country.

Wei Gao Jiannan's 650,000 taels of taxes and Gao Gu Xingyuan's 240,000 taels of taxes were immediately delivered, but they were still not enough.

The emperor panicked.

In the Lingxu female crown of Fuxingfang, the princess sat on the eaves, hurried all the way, entered the bathroom hall of Daming Palace, and handed over Gao Yue's secret letter to the emperor.

"Sure enough, Li Qi refused to provide Gao Lang with the ships of the Zhen Navy, and Gao Lang wanted me to replace him, and now the situation has been forced to such a situation!" The emperor was both afraid and remorseful.

Why did he listen to Pei Yanling in the first place, let Li Qi go to the navy, and in vain intensified the contradiction with Gao Yue, so that today, the emperor only felt a buzz in the back of his head, and his feet were unstable, so he immediately retreated and fell on the rope bed.

Lingxuan was frightened, and hurriedly stepped forward to support his father.

But when he saw his father's tears flowing down his eyes, he said to her, "You are a good man...... What can I do? ”

Lingxu wanted to say, "Then I will replace Li Qi's festival and follow the woman's dog's wishes", but now she looks at her father's painful appearance, where can she say it, and hates Gao Yue for doing things arbitrarily and domineeringly, and the tears of incompetence are also swirling, and she can't say half a word, and in the end she can only suggest that her father convene Yanying to ask the right question, and discuss this matter, and it can't be cleaned up in the end.

Even on an autumn rainy day, the emperor still urgently convened Yanying to ask for the right thing.

In Pei Yanling's mansion, this person got tangible information from the eyeliner who entered Beijing from the direction of Yangzhou before leaving.

"Wang Haichao has been arrested, and Gao Yue wants to force the imperial court to cut off Li Qi's Zhenhai Festival?"

Pei Yanling's eyes darkened, and an ominous feeling surged in his heart, so he trembled and asked the eyeliner sent by the salt merchant, "Li Qi is in Runzhou, what are you doing?" ”

"Runshuai has also sent people to Jingshi, saying that Gao Yue has objections, and has gathered military horses to repair Stone City."

Pei Yanling almost vomited out a mouthful of blood, he was full of liver and gall, and scolded why Li Qi was so uncontrollable, it was more than a failure.

No, you have to make a cut with Li Qi.

As Gu Xiu expected, Pei only had the courage to slander, but he had no courage to take responsibility.

On the other hand, Li Qiyun, the supervisor of the palace, was also frightened like sifting chaff in the house, and repeatedly said that Yangzhou was on the Caoyun hub, and Gao Yue didn't speak, and half a penny and half a bucket of rice couldn't come to the capital, "At the beginning, I only cared about receiving bribes, where did I think that I would offend the intention of Wei Guogong?" ”

His concubine Wei was also frightened, and her face turned pale, "Li Qi was recommended by your husband, if he is convicted, or even convicted of rebellion, it is equivalent to, that is equivalent to your husband, you are also responsible......"

was so angry that Li Qiyun scolded, saying that this was all Pei Yanling's bad idea.

Li Qiyun was so anxious that he asked his servants to rush to Pei Yanling's house to inquire about countermeasures.

But at this time, Pei Yanling was already depressed, his clothes were covered with rain, and he was standing in the Yanying Palace.

On the rope bed, the emperor's face was also extremely embarrassed.

In the past two days, a few people who have collected and made up for the relics, that is, those in the emperor's circle of worshippers, advised him: When Pei Yanling was in charge of the treasury, he made too many frauds, and regarded the surplus savings of the treasury as "envy" and presented it to His Majesty's Daying Qionglin Inner Treasury.

Almost at the same time, the new Imperial History Zhongcheng Muzan, changed his previous dissatisfaction with Gao Yue, and suddenly submitted an impeachment of Pei, which was very harsh, requiring the Imperial History and the Criminal Department to unite and thoroughly inspect the account books of the Du Branch.

The emperor asked the relics, you are menacing, and it is I who can accept the envy, do you still want to investigate my crimes?

The officials were busy saying that they didn't dare, but His Majesty's best decision now was to "cut" Pei Yanling and send him to Lingnan for a long time, so that the monarch and the court could settle down (stop the loss in time).

"Humph!" The emperor was so angry that he was silent.

Returning to the scene of Yanying Palace, the emperor asked with great difficulty, Wu Yijun and Zhenjun are fighting, which is the right one?

Zhongshu Lang Du Huangshang walked out first: "Your Majesty, Gao Wei Gonghuai has the land of Kyushu in the south, and Li Qi Zhen's navy has fifteen states, and the minister feels that if he rebels, it seems that Li Qi has more strength to act, so the minister is willing to protect Gao Yue and has no objection." ”

The emperor thought to himself, as the chief prime minister, what kind of logic is this?

But Du Huangshang continued to gush: "Gao Weigong went out of the town of Huainan, and served as the Jianghuai tax disposal envoy, he already had the responsibility of supervising the payment of taxes and arrears, but now it is Li Qi who detains the ships in Jingkou and does not send them, and Wei Gong is just doing his own business, how can he rebel?" ”

"But now the problem is that the two important town marshals can't compete with each other, the financial endowment is stagnant, and the Beijing division and the forbidden army are about to run out of food and clothing, you say that Gao Yue can't be opposed, then Li Qi will be opposed, where is the evidence? Moreover, if Li Qi is forced too tightly and burns two taxes, who will be responsible? Li Huaiguang's lesson at the beginning was not profound enough! The emperor was very angry and took the case.

Lu Zhen came out of the list and said directly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the minister calculated the surplus of the treasury in previous years, and there should still be four million yuan of money and silk for the expenditure and household money, please take it out for the time being, and buy the rice grain in the Jinggi Pass, and buy silk and cotton cloth from Shu and Xingyuan, to meet the needs of the army's winter clothes and hundreds of officials, so that the situation can be stabilized, and then the minister is willing to go out of Beijing and personally mediate the dispute between Huainan and Xuanrun." ”

This advice is really fair.

However, in the palace, the reaction of the emperor and Pei Yanling was even more intense.

Especially Pei Yanling, he couldn't stand firm at all, and almost knelt on the ground, his body was like a dead branch and a leaf, shaking.

Outside the hall, lightning and thunder, wind and rain.