"Young Master Li, are you guilty?"

After a moment of contemplation, the Emperor of the Apocalypse opened his mouth to ask Li Hongyu under the concerned gaze of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and his tone was quite serious. Bayi Chinese ≤≈=.≈8≠1≥Z≥≈.≤C≥OM

"Back to the emperor, the minister did violate the "Ming Law" and was willing to be punished." Hearing this, Li Hongyu bowed to the Emperor of the Apocalypse and replied in a deep voice.

"In that case, then I will punish you for a year's salary, and the Honghai will be handed over to someone else to take care of it, and then take it back after you have done it."

The Emperor of the Apocalypse hesitated for a moment, and then said to Li Hongyu with a serious expression, "You have been working hard outside for all these years, and you haven't even made a home, so I will specially allow you to take leave and return to your hometown, and then return to Beijing after you get married!" ”

"Thank you, Lord Long." When Li Hongyu heard this, he hurriedly kowtowed to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, a year's Yulu was nothing to him, after all, he was not a person who relied on Yulu to eat.

As for the Honghai business, after the Holy Judgment of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, no one can attack Li Hongyu on this matter, after all, this is the ancestral business of the Li family, so the Emperor of the Apocalypse adopted a workaround, asking Li Hongyu to hand it over to others to operate, but the industry is still Li Hongyu's.

It can be seen that the Emperor of the Apocalypse still takes good care of Li Hongyu, and solves Li Hongyu's trouble lightly.

"Young Master Li, you may not have returned to your hometown for a long time, so let's leave within these two days."

The Emperor of the Apocalypse pondered for a moment when he heard this, then glanced around at the ministers at the scene and said, "This is the end of today's court discussion, and we will discuss this matter in three days." ”

"The emperor has a decree, drive back to the palace!" As he spoke, the Emperor of the Apocalypse stood up from the dragon chair, and the attendants on the side hurriedly shouted.

"Congratulations to the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor!" Seeing this, the civil and military officials in the main hall knelt down with a hula and sent the Emperor of the Apocalypse away.

After the Emperor of the Apocalypse left surrounded by a group of chamberlains, palace maids and guards, the civil and military officials in the main hall flocked to Li Hongyu to comfort him.

Although the Emperor of the Apocalypse did not severely punish Li Hongyu, he found an excuse to drive him out of the capital, so that he could not participate in the next court meeting.

This means that the Emperor of the Apocalypse was quite dissatisfied with Li Hongyu's business, so he punished Li Hongyu, so that Li Hongyu could no longer stay in the capital to support Qi, Chuzhe, and other factions.

Obviously, Li Hongyu's departure is a heavy blow to the already disadvantaged Qi Chuzhejiang and other factions, and their situation will be even more difficult after losing Li Hongyu's support.

In the eyes of the outside world, Li Hongyu is the only hope for Qi, Chuzhe and other factions to turn over in this Beijing Chacha, and Li Hongyu did give the Donglin Party a disadvantage as soon as he opened his mouth.

It's a pity that there is such a madman as Zhang Hong in the Donglin Party, who has carried out a crazy attack on Li Hongyu in disregard of the taboos of officialdom.

Although Zhang Hong's impeachment of Li Hongyu did not hurt Li Hongyu, it made Li Hongyu have to leave the capital, and then the officials of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang and other factions lost their last support.

"Zhang Hong, you are really shameless!"

At the same time, Zhang Hong, who walked out of the Taihe Hall with a smug face, was surrounded by officials from the angry Qi Chuzhe and other factions, and one of the leading imperial historians pointed at Zhang Hong's nose and reprimanded him.

Who would have thought that Zhang Hong would use the Honghai to deal with Li Hongyu in such a down-to-earth manner, this is a big disapproval from the officialdom, and it is really shameless.

"This official is just reporting according to the truth, every sentence is true, how can it be shameless!"

Zhang Hong immediately sneered when he heard this, and not to be outdone, he glared at the imperial historian and asked, "Even Young Master Li has already confessed to the emperor, do you still want to overturn the case?" ”

"You ......" The imperial historian couldn't help but be speechless when he heard this, and he didn't know how to refute Zhang Hong for a while, he was so angry that he trembled all over, and his face turned red.

"What do you have to say to this inferior man, let's teach him a lesson together!" At this moment, an angry voice sounded in the crowd behind the imperial historian.

"Hit him!" Immediately, officials from Qi, Chuzhe, and other factions gathered around rushed up, pushed Zhang Hong to the ground, and punched and kicked him.

Seeing this situation, the officials of the nearby Donglin Party hurriedly rushed up to help Zhang Hong, although they did not agree with Zhang Hong's approach, but they could not sit idly by and watch Zhang Hong be beaten, after all, Zhang Hong helped them to bring down Li Hongyu, the biggest stumbling block in Beijing.

When the officials of the Donglin Party tried their best to save Zhang Hong from the siege of the angry Qi, Chuzhe, Zhejiang and other faction officials, Zhang Hong, who was tightly covering his head with his hands, was covered with footprints, not only did his black gauze hat fall off, but even the official robe on his body was torn, and he looked very embarrassed.

Perhaps because he felt that Zhang Hong was too inauthentic this time, the officials of the Donglin Party just rescued him, and did not mean to deal with the officials of the Qi Chuzhe and other factions who beat people, so they helped Zhang Hong and left in a hurry, causing a burst of boos behind him.

Li Hongyu didn't see this farce in front of the main hall, and when he walked out of the Taihe Hall surrounded by Ye Xianggao and Zhou Jiamo and others, Zhang Hong had already left in embarrassment.

Being comforted by the leaders of the Donglin Party and Qi Chuzhejiang and other factions, it is enough to see Li Hongyu's popularity in the court, Ye Xianggao, Sun Chengzong, Yang Lian and other bigwigs of the Donglin Party feel very sorry and sorry for what happened to Li Hongyu today, and they really did not instruct Zhang Hong to do such a dirty thing.

But because the Donglin Party has benefited a lot from it now, Ye Xianggao and others have no way to explain this matter to the outside world at all, and they can't get out of it, which makes the bigwigs of the Donglin Party feel quite embarrassed about this matter.

Fortunately, Li Hongyu is aware of the overall situation, and if Li Hongyu fights back on the matter of officials doing business, the losses of the Donglin Party will be greater than that of the Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, and other factions, and the entire officialdom will definitely be in chaos.

After returning to the Young Master's Mansion, Li Hongyu immediately asked his subordinates to pack up and prepare to leave Beijing tomorrow and return to their hometowns, which was not only to comply with the holy decree of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, but also to escape from the capital as soon as possible.

"Brother Yu, the emperor only fined you for one year, isn't this a little too light?" After learning about today's birth in the court, Qin Yue burst out laughing, not at all surprised that Li Hongyu was punished by the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

"How could the emperor not know about the affairs of the courtiers' business, he did this to knock the mountain and shock the tiger, and even I was punished, let alone others?"

Li Hongyu leisurely sipped the fragrant tea and replied slowly, as if he was not affected by what happened in the court today.

"Brother Yu, I didn't expect that Zhang Hong, who deliberately made trouble for you, turned out to be the person who was installed by the emperor in Donglin." Qin Yue nodded thoughtfully when she heard this, and then said with interest, "I'm afraid those people in Donglin can't think of this at all." ”

In the letter sent by Zhu Wanting from the Emperor of the Apocalypse yesterday, it was mentioned that someone at today's court meeting would attack Li Hongyu with the name Honghai Firm, so that Li Hongyu could deal with it calmly.

Although the Emperor of the Apocalypse did not say how to deal with it calmly, Li Hongyu immediately guessed the thoughts of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, so he generously admitted the crime in the court today, so that the Emperor of the Apocalypse could make him leave the power vortex of the capital.

As for the Honghai Firm, the Emperor of the Apocalypse had known about its existence for a long time, not only knowing the development process of the Honghai Firm, but also knowing that Li Hongyu had mobilized a large amount of money from the Honghai Merchant for the affairs of the Customs Department, and the money he earned was spent on the Customs Department in addition to the expansion.

Emperor Tianqi was very emotional about this, and among the officials in the Ming Dynasty who could use private money to supplement public affairs, there was no one else except Li Hongyu.

The high-ranking officials and dignitaries who benefited greatly from business would not give money to help the imperial court at all, and would try to win the country's profits by all means.

Emperor Tianqi actually has no way to do this, Li Hongyu has been busy with official business all these years, neither forming a party for personal gain nor bending the law for bribes, and he is loyal to the imperial power, so he can only use the Honghai to find trouble with Li Hongyu.

said that it was to find trouble with Li Hongyu, but in fact, it made Li Hongyu have the Honghai openly, after this matter of tossing, who in the Ming capital and local magnates would dare to provoke the Honghai?

Emperor Tianqi knew very well in his heart that the business style of Ming officials was uncontrollable, so instead of letting others earn money and squander pleasure, it was better to give it to Li Hongyu, which indirectly helped Daming.

Now, Zhang Hong impeached Li Hongyu in the court with the Honghai number, so it is obvious that he is the pawn placed by the Emperor of the Apocalypse in the Donglin Party, which Qin Yue can naturally guess.

"The emperor is no longer the young son of heaven who is constrained by others, this Jingcha is an excellent opportunity for the emperor to establish his prestige, but unfortunately those people in Donglin think that the emperor is young and can be bullied!"

After listening to Qin Yue's words, Li Hongyu couldn't help but smile helplessly, and then sighed and said, "Let's go back to our hometown this time and stay at home for a few more days, I'm afraid there will be a great change in this court soon!" ”

"A sea change?" Qin Yue was slightly stunned when she heard this, the thing that could make Li Hongyu describe it in these two words must be very serious, otherwise Li Hongyu would not want to stay in Baihe Town to hide.

"These things are beyond our control, let's wait and see what happens." Li Hongyu put down the teacup in his hand, pulled Qin Yue into his arms, and said with a smile, "I have been working in my grandfather for all these years and have neglected you, this time I have to make up for it, we should also have a child." ”

"Brother Yu!"

Qin Yue's cheeks became crimson when she heard this, a shy look appeared on her face, her face was ruddy, she knew that Li Hongyu would marry her after her wedding, she could finally enter the door of the Li family after guarding it for so many years, and officially became a member of the Li family.

"Young Master, things are ready." At this moment, Rou'er walked into the house, smiled when she saw this, and said to Li Hongyu.

Qin Yue was so ashamed that she hurriedly pushed Li Hongyu away, and stood aside with a sy expression, after all, she and Li Hongyu were not yet famous, so it was not appropriate to be so close.

However, Rou'er obviously didn't mind the intimacy between the two, after all, Qin Yue had been with her for several years, and a deep friendship had been established between the two, and everyone knew that Qin Yue had been Li Hongyu's person since she followed Li Hongyu to the capital, and it was normal to be intimate.

Li Hongyu looked at Qin Yue, who had a little daughter's cowardly look, and smiled, and then walked away, before leaving the capital, he was going to visit someone, a person who was in a cold position in the capital.

(End of chapter)