Thump! The old eunuch in gray clothes was thrown to the ground, stirring up a thin layer, and the man in white took out a handkerchief to wipe the white oil paint on his face, it was actually a handsome young man, he raised his head proudly, and bowed to King Qing and said: "This eunuch came out of the East Palace, and was intercepted by another man in black in front of Wang Zhonghe's mansion, and he was captured by his subordinates on the way to escape, and he is here to give orders." ”

"Order?"

Qing Wang Li Cong walked up to the old eunuch and kicked him with his foot, seeing that he was still unconscious, he couldn't help sneering and said, "What is he doing in Wang Zhonghe's mansion?" And who is that man in black? Did he have anything taken away? You can't answer so many questions, can you get a half-dead person and give the order? ”

"This.

The young man's proud eyes showed a trace of guilt, his name is Xing Xuan, he is a famous killer in the Jiangnan area, he was invited by King Qing with a lot of money, and is now temporarily serving as the guardian of King Qing's mansion.

Xing Wei was reprimanded by King Qing, he glanced at the old eunuch, his eyes suddenly appeared, without saying a word, he strode out with his vest.

Li Cong looked at his back, couldn't help but smile proudly, he clapped his palms, and a skinny old man turned out of the screen with a smile, "The old man is right!" ”

Li Cong personally brought him a cup of tea, and said sincerely: "Mr. Wang is really old-fashioned, and I will force Xing Yanluo to shoot only once a day with one sentence." ”

This Mr. Wang is a Taoist priest who met in Zhongnan Mountain in the year of King Tianbao. Since he entered the Qingwang Mansion, he persuaded Li Cong to put the treasure on the Yang family, Li Cong spent a lot of money to please the Yang sisters, and detained several times in a row, so that Li Longji was happy. The evil feeling for him gradually subsided, and in October last year, his cultivation and fields were restored, and Li Cong also obeyed Wang Junshi's advice from then on.

Wang Junshi stroked his long white beard lightly and said with a slight smile: "This Xing Wei has never missed a move since his debut, and he has always been arrogant. He can't coax or ask for this kind of person, he can only use agitation, and he will definitely do things perfectly under a provocation, and His Highness will wait to see the confession. ”

Half an hour later, a bloodstained confession was placed in front of King Qing, and Xing Wei said lightly: "This confession is true, but the other person is dead." ”

Li Cong picked up the confession and looked at it, and then handed it to Wang Junshi, he skimmed it twice, frowned, and said, "It seems that Tai must have hidden the secret letter to Wang Zhongji in the golden pill." If you can get this letter, it is very likely that the position of Tai will not be guaranteed. ”

"It's a pity that the letter was obtained by the man in black first."

Wang Junshi placed the confession on the table. He smiled slightly: "That's not necessarily!" ”

Li Cong's spirits perked up and said, "How can you say this?" ”

Wang Junshi bent his index finger and pointed at his confession: "Isn't it written on it?" Throw away the gold pill not long after. The man in black turned around to chase after him, and the old man speculated that it must be that the man in black did not find the golden pill, so he thought he had been fooled and chased after him again, so the man in black did not get the golden pill. ”

Speaking of this, he saw that Xing Zhuangshi's eyes were realized, and he couldn't help but smile and said, "What did Xing Zhuangshi think of?" Let's hear it. ”

Xing Jian thought that he had seen a thin figure at the scene. He remembered the little beggar he had seen at the gate of the workshop, and his heart had a plan. He didn't pay attention to Wang Junshi, but bowed his hand to Li Cong and said: "This matter is only half done by my subordinates, and the other half should be completed by me." ”

Li Cong was overjoyed, he took a silver medal from his waist, handed it to Xing Wei and said, "With this silver medal, you can call the people of my house at will." ”

Xing Wei didn't answer, turned around and left, and when the person was about to disappear, his cold voice came from a distance, "I, Xing, have always been alone in doing things, and I never need help from others." ”

Li Cong was stunned, he looked back at his military advisor, only to see him shaking his head and sighing: "I guess that the man in black was either sent by Yang Guozhong or sent by Li Linfu, we want to get it, can't they think of it?" The capital is not Jiangnan, Xing Wei thinks too highly of himself, and His Royal Highness still has to arrange it secretly. ”

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There is a dilapidated Taoist temple in the northwest corner of Qinrenfang, the doors and windows are hollow, the weeds are barren, the Taoist temple has long been abandoned by the Taoist priests, now this is the beggars' paradise, the sky is bright, the milk-like fog is more dense, ten steps away can not see people, in the apse of the Taoist temple, there are more than 20 beggars lying horizontally and vertically, snoring one after another, sleeping sweetly, the head of Zhang Tianshi enshrined in the main hall is gone, only the broken mud body remains, there is a big drum next to Zhang Tianshi, there is more than one person high, the skin on the drum surface has been stripped away, leaving a drum stand empty.

The young beggar was curled up in the drum frame at this time, his eyes widened and he carefully looked at the gold pill in his hand, the gold pill is actually a model of the egg, divided into two layers, the outer layer of eggshell is completely hollowed out, carved with flowers and birds, lifelike, ingenious, there is naturally an egg yolk inside, which is also polished with gold, although this golden egg is extremely exquisite, but in the eyes of the young man, it is just a piece of gold, perhaps because the gold pill was smashed into a piece when it landed last night, and the boy wanted to squeeze the recess into its original state, Unexpectedly, as soon as he exerted his strength, 'Click! The boy curiously scratched the crack with his fingernails, and the golden yolk was also split in half, and he saw a roll of paper inside, and the boy was disappointed, he thought it was jewelry and jade, but he didn't expect it to be black and white words that he didn't recognize.

"Bad luck!"

The young man muttered, casually stuffed the paper roll into Zhang Tianshi's broken neck, and lay down happily to admire his gold, he slowly closed his eyes and began to look forward to his bright future.

Suddenly, he felt that his hand was empty, and when he opened his eyes, the gold pill in his hand was snatched away by someone.

"Master!" The young beggar sat up straight and cried out in fright, only to see an old beggar crawling up in front of him at some point, squinting at the golden eggs with exquisite workmanship, and smiling in his mouth: "I said that you didn't come to see me when you came back last night, it turned out that you had caught a treasure!" ”

The young man was so remorseful that he almost pinched off the flesh on his legs, how could he be so careless that he forgot the thief's eyes of this old thing, the young man's mouth

Fu, in fact, is the head of the flower, the whole Qinrenfang is his territory, living on beggars, every day the beggars begging back, they have to give him nearly forty percent of the things in their hands, even a copper coin has to be accounted for, last night the young beggar came back too late, the head of the flower has slept, too late to pay the account, but he found that the young man has a yellow and clear thing in his hand early in the morning, so he took advantage of his unpreparedness and snatched it away.

"It's pure gold!"

The flower head's eyes shot a color of ecstasy, he had some insight, knowing that the workmanship of this golden egg far exceeded the value of ordinary gold, this is absolutely extraordinary, he pouted, and asked excitedly, "Where did this come from?" ”

"I picked it up!"

The young man's heart became more and more desperate, and he still said unwillingly: "Master, give you half according to the rules, and the guts in it will be returned to me!" ”

Huatou was stunned, a despicable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he casually took out a handful of copper coins and threw them to him, "The money is for you, I want this thing!" ”

"Master, how can you do this!" The young man roared angrily, "The rules are set by you, aren't you afraid of the chills of the senior brothers when you do this?" ”

He jumped up, and despite being in mid-air, he threw himself at the old beggar, 'Boom! There was a loud bang on the ground, and the drum frame fell to the ground, and the beggars who were sleeping soundly all over the ground jumped in shock.

"You little bastard!" The old beggar was rubbed on his leg with a large piece of oily skin, oozing blood, and he was so angry that he slapped the little beggar viciously.

"Master. What happened? A few beggars slowly gathered around, and when they saw the gold pill in Huatou's hand, their eyes lit up together, and Huatou casually tucked the gold pill around his waist, pointed to the copper coins all over the ground and scolded: "This little bastard dares to steal the old money, give me a beating, and kill the best, and I will reward you with this money." ”

A dozen beggars looked at the money on the ground. With a vicious smile on their faces, they slowly gathered around the young man, and the young beggar was extremely alert, pointing to the roof, "Be careful!" Fell. ”

The moment everyone looked up, he 'rubbed! The ground came out of a hole in the foot of the wall. Like a wild dog running wild through the wild grass one man high, it soon disappeared into the thick fog.

"Damn! Or let him run. ”

Huatou got up while scolding, slapped away a few hands to help him, pointed to the money on the ground and said, "You can divide these yourself!" I have something to go out. In the puzzled eyes of everyone, he limped out of the Taoist temple, the wealth has been exposed, this golden pill must be disposed of as soon as possible, otherwise he will be assassinated sooner or later, the best way is naturally to sell it, this golden egg is worth five hundred yuan even if the workmanship is not to mention. Right! Sell it at the East Market Jewelry Shop, and then save the money in the counter. Before God knew it, a large sum of money arrived. The more he thought about it, the more beautiful it became, and he dragged his lame leg in the direction of Dongshi.

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In the eastern city, in the cabinet of the government government, money was deposited and withdrawn over the counter, and there was a constant flow of people, if only from the perspective of commercial banks, Li Qing's experiment was completely successful, and the cabinet shops in the east and west cities had almost monopolized the banking industry in Chang'an. Business is booming, and the money deposited with the people has reached 50 million. However, if from Li Qing's original intention, he directly collected taxes through cabinets and used technical means to deprive the local government of financial rights, from this point of view, Li Qing's reform failed, not to mention that the central bank has not been able to spread throughout the country, and even the original pilot projects in Chang'an, Chengdu, and Suzhou, in the seventh year of Tianbao, the tax revenue of the three places was restored to the original collection and management method, which was collected by the local government, and a part of the local use was intercepted and then handed over to the imperial court.

The problem lies in Li Long's base, he agreed to An Lushan's application in Tianbao Nian, and did not set up a cabinet under his jurisdiction, since this opening was opened, the applications from all over the country also flew to the imperial court, and in the end, Li Longji had to revise the plan, so that Li Qing's reform died halfway.

"Money shopkeeper, can you help me take a look at this thing?"

The shopkeeper of the East Market Jewelry Shop hurriedly stepped into the door of the cabinet shop, and shouted from afar, it was the gold pill in his hand, followed closely behind him, staring at his treasure nervously, the jewelry store shopkeeper used the excuse that he had no cash, and led him to the cabinet to withdraw the money, but now he had faintly felt that something was wrong.

"Is this the thing?"

The chubby money shopkeeper poked his head out of the counter, pointed to the gold pill in his hand and smiled: "You are the shopkeeper of the jewelry store, why did you ask me instead?" ”

"I found out this is a palace thing?" Shopkeeper Qiu leaned close to his ear and whispered, "This golden pill was sold to the East Palace two months ago, how can it be in a beggar's land now?" ”

"I'm sorry! I'm not selling anymore. The flower head split his hand to grab it, but the money shopkeeper was quick, grabbed the gold pill in his hand first, took a step back, Fang smiled and said: "Don't worry, this guest is worried that the purity of the gold is not enough, so I came to identify, wait for us to verify it, and I can give you an estimate, how about it?" ”

Without waiting for the other party to agree, he handed the gold pill in, the flower head was helpless, he didn't want it but he was reluctant, so he had to stand aside and wait anxiously, for a while, a guy walked out of the room, whispered a few words in the shopkeeper's ear, the money shopkeeper's face changed, pointed at the old beggar and shouted, "Come on, catch him!" ”

Fifth, a big man snatched out from both sides at the same time, and rushed straight to the flower head, at this time, the flower head was bluffing, secretly complaining, it seems that the golden pill has a background, I don't even know, I blame that damn little mongrel!

He didn't care about the leg pain, jumped out of the gate like a rabbit, but stepped on the air, and rolled down the steps, at this moment, the dense fog and cold stars flashed, and the flower head and body flicked, and then he was motionless, and when a few big men grabbed him, he was surprised to find that a flying knife shot in from behind, penetrating his neck, and several big men looked up at the same time, only to see that there was a vast fog ahead, but there was no one.

The money shopkeeper on the steps stared at the old beggar's corpse in amazement, and suddenly he 'Ha! He jumped up with a thud, grabbed a fellow by the neck, and shouted, "Go! Go and ask the waiter to come, there's something big going on here! ”