The old chief who was kicked out of the case by Li Buqi knocked on the door of Liu Xiang, the deputy envoy of salt and iron, as soon as it was dark that day. The cangtou who answered the door knew that this official of his own family had been moving around frequently with officials recently, so he hurriedly passed him in. Soon, the old director was brought to Liu Yushi's study.

Liu Yushi's first words when he saw the old master were: "Brother Shan, you are too Meng Lang!" ”

Liu Yushi himself is the deputy envoy of salt and iron, and it is naturally impossible to hide the affairs of the three divisions from him. The old master said, "You know everything? ”

"Naturally, I know. It is indeed wrong for Li Buqi to take these trivial and mundane affairs to take the school jinshi, but he is a saint, and it will not be useful to bring the lawsuit to His Majesty with such a trivial matter. Now that the good elder brother has left the case like this, it will be difficult to meddle in the affairs of the case. ”

"But, how can you endure such an insulting thing?"

Liu Xiang knew that this person in the same year actually only liked to drink a little wine and chant poetry, and he was completely incomprehensible to practice, so he was a mess in the case, and he was ranked behind in the annual performance appraisal. However, compared with those officials who were born in Enyin, this same year has an advantage, that is, he was born in the top three and was born as a scholar, and he can boast of being a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, and he has never shirked his responsibility on the grounds that he is unwilling to indulge in vulgar things.

So this question who didn't answer Li Bu in the same year must really not be, and "insulting Sven" is just a shield. But he won't tell the truth about this matter, the civil officials are not willing to take care of the facts, not only bother, but also easy to cause trouble, this is a tacit matter, no one needs to say anyone. So Liu Xiang immediately diverted the topic: "It's just that in this way, there is no good elder brother staring at Li Buqi, but I am afraid that I will not be able to get his mistakes." ”

The old master took a sip of tea and said confidently, "You don't have to worry about this. I think Li Buqi is a person who can make trouble, and he just arrived at the case and made such a fuss, and I don't know what happened in a few days. In the four years of the case, I know everyone well. In the past two months, I have made some arrangements, and as long as there is a stir, I will naturally know. ”

Liu Xiang is now a little disappointed in this same year, and the old director is not the only one who has planted eyeliner in the case, so he just nodded perfunctorily to the old director: "This matter still needs to be bothered by the elder brother." ”

The old boss's face flushed slightly: "This is natural." It's just that Zizheng's brother, Li Buqi said that he wanted to impeach the old man, but he was afraid that it would affect the old man's performance appraisal, and the matter was ......"

Although Liu Xiang looked down on this same year in his heart, when he thought about it, he and a group of civil officials in the case had expressed that they wanted them to help bring down Li Bu, and others might think that the old master handed over the white paper at his own instigation. In this way, if this person is not arranged in the same year, he is afraid that it will adversely affect his future plans. He's a little cocooned right now.

In the end, he had to give the old master a package ticket: "Brother Shan, don't worry, Li Buqi insults the scholar like this, many people must not be used to it, Li Buqi may not be able to impeach you." Since you can't stay in the case, I'll tell Ji Xiang to let you go elsewhere. ”

One of Liu Xiang's official positions is that of the same judge. The examination of low-level officials will be in charge of Liu Neiquan, so Liu Xiang dared to say that Li Buqi would not affect the performance appraisal of the old director, and the old director was immediately relieved, and said at the moment that he would definitely keep an eye on Li Buqi. Liu Xiang was perfunctory again, and at this time, Menzi came to report that several officials from the case had come to see Liu Xiang, and the conversation between the two did not continue.

After a short time, several officials from the case were brought in, and Liu Xiang saw that they were all officials from the imperial examination. As soon as these officials sat down, they complained to Liu Xiang about Li Buqi's examination of them, saying that Li Buqi promoted the military attachés and petty officials of Enyin, squeezed out the civil officials, and asked Liu Xiang to call the shots for them. Liu Xiang had no choice but to appease them, and vaguely told them that it was impossible to bring down Li Buqi with this matter, and let them temporarily follow Li Buqi's wishes, and when Li Buqi had a definite handle, he would immediately launch it and give them justice. This was discussed by everyone for several months, and seeing that Liu Xiang did not change his words, several officials had to leave after complaining about their bitterness.

After sending everyone away, Liu Xiang sneered: "Hmph, Li doesn't give up, you have offended so many people at once when you get to the case, see how many people you can jump for a few days." ”

When he returned to the house, he took out a notebook and added a charge of "bullying civil officials and appointing private individuals" to Li Buqi. This charge is preceded by two charges: "conspiring with petty officials to resell materials for arms workshops" and "embezzlement and misappropriation of government money."

This black account was still ready as soon as Li Buqi was appointed to the case. When Wang Gongchen approached him and hinted at taking advantage of Li Buqi's position in the Third Division to kill Li Buqi, the two agreed that these two charges should be investigated. Both of them understand that they may not be able to grasp Li Buqi's handle in their duties, after all, the shadow of the famous tree of the person, and the two of them feel that they may not be able to understand the manufacture of weapons better than Li Buqi with the civil officials of the third division. But starting with economic issues is different, almost a grasp of one accurate.

Liu Xiang and Wang Gongchen are both people within the Third Division, and they have heard of the theft and sale of materials by the weapons workshop. It's just that those petty officials have slippery hands and feet, and they have never found out the flaws, and they are not easy to investigate.

But if you don't find out, it doesn't mean you can't find out. In the past, the main reason for not investigating was because I didn't dare to investigate: all the petty officials and officials were arrested, and the civil officials above did not know how to do it, and the case was about to be suspended.

But everything is most afraid of being serious, as long as Yu Shitai is careful to investigate, no matter how many people are implicated, this matter will definitely be revealed. At that time, as long as Li Buqi is in charge of the case, and first plant him for the crime of sharing the spoils with the petty officials who steal and sell materials, even if the stolen goods are not planted, Li Buqi will not be able to escape the charge of ineffective supervision. As for the "minister's money", it is the weakness of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and the imperial history is accurate when checked, after all, the use of the minister's money is too complicated to explain.

Liu Xiang now has a lot of functions on his body: a member of the Shangshu Rite Department and a member of the Imperial History Governor, a deputy envoy of salt and iron, and a judge of the Ministry of Officials, Liu Neiquan, this is because he impeached Yin Zhu for his private use of minister money at the behest of the prime minister, so that Yin Zhu was promoted after his dismissal.

Liu Xiang killed Yin Zhu last time, and got the prime minister's blue eyes to have today's wealth, seeing that Wang Gongchen is a rising star, he has to work hard for the future position. Li Buqi is Wang Gongchen's heart disease, not only Li Buqi, an official killer, may affect his official position under him, but also when Wang Gongchen was the imperial history, Li Buqi made the imperial history platform ugly, and Wang Gongchen also became a joke, and this hatred Wang Gongchen could not help but report.

Li Buqi and Han Qi are also rivals, and Han Qi also has great potential. In the face of Wang Gongchen and Han Qi, Liu Xiang also wanted to kill Li Bu. So he will remember this black account carefully until the day when Li Buqi is brought down.

Li Buqi delayed his appointment for three months, in fact, he also expected that the Third Division would never be calm, so he needed time to collect intelligence and deduce various situations that might arise. But now that he has taken office, he must show the emperor the appearance of hard work and selfless dedication, after all, the emperor is the tree on his back.

How can you win the favor of the leader? Of course, it is to let the leader see his dedication. How do you let leaders see their dedication? Overtime! As long as you don't want overtime pay, Li Buqi really hasn't met a leader who doesn't like his subordinates to work overtime.

According to this routine, he kept looking at the materials until he was about to take charge of the lamp before leaving the Third Division. When I returned home and entered the back house, the mother-in-law and maid I met along the way saw Li Buqi standing respectfully on the side of the road, and there were many rules than a month ago.

Feeling a different atmosphere, Li Buqi couldn't help but give a thumbs up to his wife. For more than a month, it is rare for Zhao Min to be able to quietly train the servants to this extent. This wife's scheming skills are first-class, and she really married the right one.

After greeting his parents and returning to his own courtyard, Zhao Min was already waiting at the door, and when he saw Li Buqi, he immediately opened the meal. After eating, Ying'er and the others put away the dishes, and then brought tea but didn't leave. At this time, Zhang Yingniang and her little sister also went into the house, and several people found chairs and Xiudun to sit down.

Zhao Min hurriedly said: "Oh, the officials have been busy in the three divisions for a day today, but I am afraid that they will be tired, and you will not let the officials rest." ”

Li Buqi waved his hand: "Don't worry, just tell a story and change your mind." Which time did you talk about it yesterday? ”

Zhang Yingniang hurriedly said: "Speaking of Ziya Xiqi meeting Lu Yue." ”

Li Buqi said: "Okay, then let's move on next time." ”

Zhao Min hurriedly said, "Wait first, I'll prepare the pen and paper for you to talk about." ”

Xing'er was grinding ink and holding grievances: "Official, you said such a good story, the lady is tired to write it every day, but she makes money for those storytellers, isn't it too cheap for them?" ”

Li Buqi smiled and said, "Xing'er is careful." Let those storytellers talk about this book, but for our own sake. ”