The person who can ride the carriage is not an ordinary person, Li Yanqing hurriedly greeted him, only to see a little eunuch helping out of the carriage, it was Liang Shicheng, who had not been seen for a long time.

Although Li Yanqing was very reluctant to see this person now, he still stepped forward and saluted, "Taifu, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Liang Shicheng looked a lot thinner, his complexion was very bad, and his voice was also very low, "I've been in the palace recently, I heard that Yanqing went to my house yesterday?" ”

"Yes, yesterday I went to visit Taifu and said that Taifu was in the palace."

At this time, Li Daqi said on the side: "Yanqing, quickly invite the Taifu to the back room to sit, the river breeze here is relatively strong, don't get cold." ”

Li Daqi had a very good impression of Liang Shicheng, the hundreds of thousands of rouge money he sold to the palace was withheld by Li Yan, thanks to Liang Shicheng's opening to come back, Li Daqi always remembered this incident.

"Taifu, please!"

Liang Shicheng nodded, followed Li Yanqing and his son into Baoyan Zhai, he is no longer the powerful minister before, Zhao Ji is increasingly dissatisfied with him, so that he has lost his power, and even the head of the Great Inner Mansion can't take his turn, only in the palace to take care of clothes, no different from an ordinary old eunuch, and his figure has also lowered a lot.

Liang Shicheng stayed in the palace and didn't come out, on the one hand, he wanted to hug Zhao Ji's thighs as Gao Yu said, but one of the more important reasons was that he lost his power, and he was afraid that the enemy would come to the door, so he didn't dare to live outside.

Liang Shicheng sat down in the lobby and smiled at Li Daqi: "Baoyan Zhai has moved south!" ”

Li Daqi said cautiously: "It has not completely moved south, and it is still in business in the capital." ”

"In fact, everyone knows that if the Hangzhou Palace is completed, the official family will also go south for the winter, and those who stay are in line with the situation, not to hide from Li Yuan, my family has also moved south, and most of the property has been transported to Suzhou, if the official family goes south for the winter, I am afraid I will also follow."

Liang Shicheng sighed and said: "I had an illness two months ago, and my health has not been good, and the imperial doctor has repeatedly told me that I can't stay outside for a long time, so I said a few words to Yanqing, sit down and leave." ”

Li Daqi understood and said with a smile: "Taifu sit down for a while, I'll go to check the account, I just came back, and things at home are a little worried." ”

"Li Yuanwai is casual."

Li Daqi left, only Liang Shicheng and Li Yanqing were left in the room, Liang Shicheng smiled slightly: "Yanqing is still concurrently serving as Jingzhao Tongzhi!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled, "I don't know what's going on, I went to the Ministry of Officials to resign, only the position of Taiyuan was relieved, and none of the positions of Jingzhao Mansion were removed, not only Jingzhao Tongzhi, but also the head of Yanyun Road, the Ministry of Officials said that there was no arrangement above, and they didn't know." ”

"This is actually the meaning of the official family, he is also very worried about Xixia, if there is a change in Shaanxi Road, I'm afraid you will have to go back."

"In that case, just let me go to Jingzhao Mansion directly, why do you want to enter Beijing?"

"It's a good thing to go to Beijing! If you go out for too long, your connections in Beijing will gradually fade, which will be very detrimental to your future career. ”

"I see!"

Liang Shicheng took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "You performed amazingly in the Zichen Hall this afternoon!" ”

"But some people say I'm arrogant!"

"Nope! No! No! Only the ignorant will say this, today the official family originally planned to merge the military hall into the Zhizheng Hall, which was directly managed by the Zhizheng Hall, but you used the refugee matter to force the palace, resulting in Wang Hao being suspended, disrupting the plan of the official family, and completely reversing the decline of the prince in the past two months, today you are the prince's meritorious minister, if the prince will be rewarded for meritorious deeds in the future, you can at least rank in the top three. ”

"I really didn't expect this result, but I was too angry at the time, and I was bent on settling accounts with Wang Hao, but I didn't have any other ideas."

Liang Shicheng knew that Li Yanqing was insincere, and he didn't say more, so he handed Li Yanqing a cardboard box he carried with him, "Here are some old things that the prince used when he was a teenager, please Yanqing hand them over to the prince for me, and then say a few good words for me, and please leave this matter to you." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "I will definitely do it!" ”

"Then I'll go back, and I have to serve the official family at night, I can't do without me, stay in Yanqing!"

Li Yanqing sent Liang Shicheng out of the mansion and watched the carriage go away before returning to the courtyard.

"Yanqing, what is Mrs. Liang here for?" Li Daqi came out of the account room and asked.

"You want to ask me to pull the relationship with the prince."

"Hasn't he been very good with the prince's Guan Xiu?"

Li Yanqing smiled and shook his head, "That was before, and now..... He went the wrong way. ”

"That.... Does he have anything to do with a substitute? ”

This is what Li Daqi is worried about, the identity of the teacher has always been a sword hanging over his son's head, and Li Daqi has been worried about it for many years.

Li Yanqing sneered, "Daddy, don't worry, he's still afraid that I will leak this matter now, but it's unlucky that he, not me!" ”

Li Daqi was stunned for a moment, suddenly came to his senses, and said with a long sigh of relief and a smile: "I see, then I really don't have to worry anymore." ”

"I really don't have to worry anymore."

Li Yanqing saw that the night had dropped slightly, so he smiled and said, "Daddy, rest early!" I'm going to see Mr. Mo, I still have a bunch of things to deal with tomorrow. ”

"There you go! Say hello to the old man for me, and tell Cao Yan that the ship is ready and they can leave Beijing at any time. ”

Li Yanqing nodded and left Baoyanzhai quickly.

.........

The next morning, Li Yanqing took Mo Jun and Cao Ying to Kaifeng Mansion, Cao Ying is the son of Cao Xu, the fifth elder of the Cao family, but he is a concubine, born in Taixue, about Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, knowledgeable, and very stable in character, this is the first civil official arranged by the Cao family after Cao Xing and Cao Meng's two military generals followed Li Yanqing, as Li Yanqing's staff.

Li Yanqing walked into the Kaifeng Mansion, and Zhao Hui greeted him with a smile on his face, "Just now there is news from all the counties of Kaifeng Prefecture that the relief of refugees has all started yesterday, and Renqiu County has set up three relief points, and Jiang Zhixian guarantees that no refugee will die of illness and starvation in Renqiu County." ”

Of course, Li Yanqing, Zhao Hui's former and later servant, knew it, but he was too lazy to worry about Zhao Hui, and his own mind was not in Kaifeng Mansion, as long as Zhao Hui didn't have any moths, he also hoped that everything would be safe.

Li Yanqing nodded, "Shaoyin has worked hard, let me introduce Zhao Shaoyin, these two are my staff members Mo Jun and Cao Ying, and you can directly contact them if you have anything in the future." ”

Zhao Hui hurriedly greeted the two of them, and hurriedly sent someone to arrange a staff room for Mo Jun and Cao Ying, the official room of the two was also in the backyard of Meihuatang, next door to Li Yanqing, according to the division of labor, Mo Jun was responsible for the affairs of the imperial court and Kaifeng County, and Cao Ying was responsible for the affairs of the other fifteen counties under his jurisdiction.

At this time, another Kaifeng Mansion Shaoyin Nie Shan came to meet Li Yanqing, Nie Shan is nearly fifty years old, is the former Xiangguo Cai Bian's protégé, is very rigid and upright, he was originally a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, because of the Fan Dang case was demoted to the prefect of De'an by Wang Huang, at the beginning of the year was transferred back to the capital by Cai Jing, as Jingzhao Shaoyin, he is mainly responsible for the counties of Kaifeng Prefecture, two days ago I just went to Chenliu County on business, and only came back last night.

Li Yanqing invited Nie Shan to sit down and asked, "What is the situation in the counties of Kaifeng Prefecture now?" ”

Nie Shan shook his head, "The situation is not very good, mainly because of the high prices and low income, plus the panic in recent months, many rich families have gone south, and most of the young people have flocked to the capital, making the counties seem very depressed, and the public security is not good, there have been several cases of interception and robbery and murder, this time I went to Chenliu County, it was a businessman who had a murder case, a family of seven was killed, and more than 5,000 taels of silver were robbed." ”

"Has the case been solved?"

"Basically, it was found out that it was done by a group of thieves from Caizhou, and there were five thieves in this group, but after the incident, these five people fled, and now they are missing, and arrest warrants have been issued to various states."

Li Yanqing sighed and said: "Now there are four or five hundred thousand refugees who have fled from Hebei prefectures to the capital, and the security in the capital is very bad, Zhao Shaoyin alone is too busy, Nie Shaoyin also focused on the capital during this time, and the cases of each county were handed over to the magistrates. ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Li Yanqing introduced Mo Jun and Cao Ying to him again, and said to Nie Shan: "Tomorrow will start to strengthen the training of soldiers defending the city, and my energy will also be scattered in the past, maybe there will not be too much time to take into account Kaifeng Mansion, if there is anything, you can discuss it with my two staff, if you can deal with it, you will deal with it yourself, if it doesn't work, I will come forward to solve it." ”

Nie Shan said solemnly: "Military training is the top priority, please go all out to Fu Yin, and try not to disturb Fu Yin." ”

Li Yanqing smiled and nodded, "Then it's hard Nie Shaoyin!" ”