Greed in Lao Li's concept is still stuck in the era of chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and he has always had reservations about the appearance of greed in his Zhenguan Dynasty.

Now Li Chengqian bluntly proposed that the railway project was suspected of corruption, which made His Majesty Li Er a little unable to get off the stage, frowned and muttered for a moment and said: "Is there any evidence? ”

"No evidence is needed for this matter." Li Chengqian sniffled and continued: "If Guo Xiaoke doesn't have a ghost in his heart, he will never be frightened by Erchen's words. ”

"It's just your guess." The old man was a little unhappy, thinking that Li Chengqian was perfunctory.

"Father, son-in-law, let's settle an account."

"Building a railway requires transporting a large amount of stone to lay the roadbed, and the amount of gravel required is different depending on the road conditions, and these things cannot be dug out from under the repaired railway, which means that some of the more or less bad ones cannot be seen at all."

"The other is transportation, our volume is calculated by car each time, but there is no standard for how much a car is, and it is not impossible to transport four cars in five cars."

"Then there is secondary transportation, there are many places where ox carts can't pass, which requires manpower to transport, or needs to build a road to transport, and there will be some differences."

"Then there is the number of tools, the quality of the food...... These are all questions. ”

"Father, do you really think that so many vulnerabilities will not be exploited? Guo Xiaoke's personality, if you know better than Erchen, do you think he is the kind of person who is not profitable to get up early? The two-year project was completed in one year, not to mention the quality of the project, it was really worth it for him to take the risk of offending the Prince of the Tang Dynasty to mobilize an army of 50,000 people at the risk of completing it a year ahead of schedule? ”

Li Chengqian said a lot in one breath, covering everything from specific engineering construction to speculation about people's hearts and human nature.

His Majesty Li Er fell into a deep silence, he didn't doubt everything Li Chengqian said, but he still couldn't convince himself that there would be something greedy in Datang under his control.

"What are you going to do? Although Guo Xiaoke is a bit luxurious, but this person also has some talent, and there is no conclusive evidence for you to suppress him like this, wouldn't it be chilling if it was spread out! After a long time, His Majesty Li Er, who had never been able to convince himself, finally spoke, but his tone was somewhat relaxed.

"Father, the child doesn't mean to take Guo Xiaoke, this time it's just to give him a warning, let him know to be more restrained, after all, the officials of Datang are generally good, but some people are lax in their thinking, and they feel that Datang is strong enough to be fearless of all threats and can enjoy life with confidence."

"This kind of thinking is unacceptable, we must make them all nervous, let them know that this is just the beginning, and Datang can be stronger and richer."

Li Chengqian knows very well what kind of impact the corruption incident will have on the old man, and a bad one is likely to implicate a large number of people, but this kind of thing cannot be left undiscussed, so in addition to saying it fiercely at the beginning, he then tactfully said that things are not as bad as he thought, and there is still a solution.

……

When Li Chengqian came out of the palace, he was already in the waning mountains, and when he met Wei Zheng, who came in a hurry, he shrugged his shoulders innocently, and said that the whole thing had nothing to do with him under the inquiring gaze of Old Wei.

And when he returned to the Furong Garden, which was renamed the Qin Palace, he found that Li Jingxian's old Taoist priest was waiting at the door.

"Why doesn't Master go in? Are you waiting for someone? ”

"It's you who are waiting, where the hell did you kid go? Why did you leave the teacher in the palace? Li Jingxian's original expression was quite calm, but after hearing Li Chengqian's question, he suddenly became angry.

"Well, my father's relatives and friends are all over Chang'an, and I am also an old friend with my father, do you still worry about where to live?" Li Chengqian scratched the back of his head.

When he came out of the palace last night, he really forgot about this old man, and when he remembered it, he had already laid down on the warm kang, but thinking that this old man should not be lost, he simply did not send someone to pick him up.

But I didn't want to wait until noon today, the old man still didn't come back, which made Li Chengqian a little worried, but considering that the old man knew Li Daozong and others, Xiao Li thought that the old man was likely to visit friends again, so he ignored the fact that he didn't come back again.

After all, according to legend, those Taoist masters and Buddhist monks will travel the world at every turn, go out to visit friends, etc., and go to them everywhere for fear that it will annoy people.

"Senior brother, Uncle Shi came back late yesterday, and he didn't have a token or anything on his body, so he was taken to Zuowu Houwei and locked up overnight, if it weren't for the fact that Lord Wuji happened to go to Zuowu Weihou to meet Uncle Shi and send Uncle Shi out, it is estimated that it would be ...... now."

Xuan Xunxue, who shrunk her neck, appeared behind Li Jingxian, and explained to Li Chengqian in a somewhat aggrieved whisper, it seemed that she had suffered a lot for Li Chengqian just now.

"Humph!" Although the old man Li Jingxian is old, his ears are very good, and although Xuan Xunxue has lowered his voice, he was still listened to by the old man, and let out an annoyed and angry snort.

It took a lot of effort for Li Chengqian to suppress his smile, and he looked at Xuan Xunxue with a strange expression and confirmed to her: "How can there be such a thing?" ”

"Hmm!" Xiao Daogu nodded.

Li Chengqian really wanted to laugh when he made up for the old Taoist priest being arrested, but looking at the old man's increasingly ugly face, he finally walked over and said, "Master, this matter is not good for the disciple, and the situation is wrong." However, don't worry, the disciple will definitely help the master to let you out this breath, turn around and arrest that daring, uh...... The guy who dared to force you to be a guest of Zuowu Houwei got it back, and asked him to stand guard at your door, so that he could have a long memory ....... ”

"Okay, I'm still so stingy as a teacher." Li Jingxian glared at herself, an unobtrusive registered disciple, and there was a faint trace of regret in her heart, feeling that letting this kid be her apprentice was probably a big mistake in her life.

"Then master, aren't you angry?"

"If I'm angry, I'm afraid I'll be angry with you before I reach Chang'an."

Li Jingxian really couldn't stand Li Chengqian's sneaky eyes, and turned around and entered the Qin Palace, while Li Chengqian helplessly spread his hands to Xuan Xunxue, and then chased after him, but he didn't take two steps before he said, "Oops!" He bumped into the old man who suddenly stopped.

……

In Chang'an City, in a remote unknown shop, Guo Xiaoke was already drunk, and looked at the so-called Lu Mansion housekeeper sitting opposite with drunken eyes, and said with a big tongue: "You, yours, guts, courage, no, not small, unexpectedly, daring, dare to put this, this kind of thing is right, say to Lao Tzu, difficult, aren't you afraid that Ben, General Ben, will send you to Your Majesty?" ”

(End of chapter)