Shuntian Mansion Yin Qiu Maohua couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and looked at the Dongchang Fanzi outside with some astonishment, he didn't expect that he had just finished ridiculing Wu Youke, and the people from the Dongchang actually came to the door to arrest him. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Qiu Maohua couldn't help but look at Guo Yunhou, the head of the household: "Guo Butang, why is this, how could Your Majesty send someone from Dongchang to take him?" ”

Guo Yunhou also looked at Dongchang's fan like a stormy wave in his heart at this time, but when Qiu Maohua asked him, he also seemed to realize something, and pretended to be not very familiar with this Shuntian Mansion Yin Qiu Maohua, and said: "How did this official know His Majesty's thoughts, 500,000 silver dollars have been handed over to your palace, and this official has other important tasks, so he will leave first." ”

Saying that, Guo Yunhou hurriedly instructed his household officials to hand over to the officials of Shuntian Mansion, and he himself went out of the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion first, and as soon as he got into the sedan chair, he hurriedly ordered: "Go to Li Ge's old mansion immediately!" ”

Here, Qiu Maohua saw that Guo Yunhou was leaving in such a hurry, and naturally knew that this Hubu Shangshu wanted to avoid suspicion, and he was afraid that the people in Dongchang would see that he had colluded with his prefect, but he was sure that yes, this Hubu Shangshu would not harm him.

Therefore, this Shuntianfu Yin Qiu Maohua looked at Wu Youke, in his opinion, the only one who would impeach himself in front of His Majesty was Wu Youke, the secretary of the Ministry of Health, who did not deal with him very much, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"Wu Shangshu, the lower officials didn't expect you to make a preemptive strike, or not, the official level crushed people to death, but I also asked Secretary Wu Shang to know that in the past thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, sometimes you can't mix in the officialdom for a long time just by relying on Your Majesty's grace, do you understand?"

Wu Youke was a little confused by Qiu Maohua's words, and he didn't expect His Majesty to arrest Shuntian Mansion Yin at this time, but when he thought of the performance of this Shuntian Mansion Yin Qiu Maohua just now, he didn't bother to explain, and snorted: "Qiu Mansion Yin said that he laughed, this official doesn't have time to impeach you in front of His Majesty, but as the saying goes, if you don't know what to do, since you can't give this official a satisfactory answer to the batch of medicinal materials in the imperial pharmacy, then this official has to go directly to Your Majesty, Even if you are arrested by the people of Dongchang, don't think about this one thing! ”

"Wu Shangshu, you!" Qiu Maohua was scolded by Wu Youke like this, and couldn't help but turn purple with anger, he knew that if this matter was really stabbed by Wu Youke to His Majesty, the consequences would be absolutely unimaginable, but he was not willing to give in to Wu Youke like this, he also knew that it was useless to intercede with a stubborn person like Wu Youke, it was better to find out directly, so Qiu Maohua directly threatened: "Wu Shangshu, you should understand that this batch of medicinal materials in the Imperial Pharmacy is not only related to the lower officials, but also not only the father-in-law of the Imperial Pharmacy. There are also high-ranking officials in ministries and departments, as well as people from the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor, be careful that you can't afford to eat when the time comes! ”

"This official doesn't care who is involved in this, this official only knows that the people who are now quarantined urgently need this batch of medicinal materials!" Wu Youke said that he left the Shuntianfu Yamen directly.

Wu Jin, the head of the East Factory, also didn't see this, but just came to Qiu Maohua, and directly ordered his subordinates to take off the black gauze hat on Qiu Maohua's head, put on the chains, and escort him to the East Factory.

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Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, had already arrived at Li Mingrui's mansion at this time, but he did not come to find Li Mingrui, but Li Mingyun, the third brother of Li Mingrui, who is now the person in charge of the Li family's industry and one of the several imperial merchants who directly contacted the household department, and has always had a close relationship with the officials of the household department, especially the Shangshu Guo Yunhou.

"What about you Lan Ye, hurry up and call him to see me!" As soon as Li Mingyun came back, Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, told Li Mingyun that Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion was suddenly arrested by Dongchang.

After listening to what Guo Yunhou said, Li Mingyun sat directly on the ground in shock, and said blankly: "This matter was actually known by Your Majesty, who revealed it to Your Majesty, but fortunately, this batch of medicinal materials is still in the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, and that Qiu Governor has not had time to transport the medicinal materials to me, so as long as Qiu Mansion Yin's mouth is sealed, maybe nothing important will happen." ”

In this regard, Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, also nodded approvingly, and said:

"No matter what Your Majesty has found, now that you have only arrested Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion, it means that Your Majesty has not suspected the official and the Imperial Pharmacy Zou Gonggong, so now you have to hurry up and go to Zou Gonggong to tell him about it, so that he can find a way to find the Master of Ceremonies Wang Gonggong, and this official must immediately go to the Criminal Department and the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and ask them to find a way to get Qiu Maohua out of the East Factory, or kill him directly in the East Factory, so as not to say too much!"

Guo Yunhou said fiercely and left the Li Mansion directly, and Li Mingyun also hurriedly rode towards the mansion of Zou Yingquan, the young eunuch of the imperial pharmacy.

At this time, in the Xinuan Pavilion, as the emperor, Zhu Youzheng and the celebrant supervisor Wang Chengen, Li Mingrui, a scholar of the Zhongji Temple, and Lu Xiangsheng, a scholar of the Wuyingdian University, had a very happy conversation, and the content of the discussion was the internal struggle between the Lin Dan Khan and the Lin Dan Khan and when to conquer the Lin Dan Khan in the coming year.

And just as these people at the top of the empire's power were talking, Liu Ruoyu walked in at this time: "Your Majesty, Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion has been arrested and taken into Dongchang, and Cheng Ge Lao has also gone to Shuntian Mansion, and is now discussing with Wu Shangshu how to control the epidemic." ”

Liu Ruoyu's words made Li Mingrui, who was working at the desk, couldn't help but stop the pen in his hand, although he didn't know why this Shuntian Mansion Yin Qiu Maohua was arrested by the people of Dongchang at this moment, but he knew that this Shuntian Mansion Yin Qiu Maohua and his third brother have always had a deep relationship, and his Li family's business in the capital did take care of Qiu Maohua secretly, but now he suddenly learned that Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion was arrested by people from Dongchang, which made Li Mingrui worry about whether his third brother Li Mingyun would be involved.

But now he needs to be sure that Qiu Maohua has committed something, but it is not good for him to directly ask Liu Ruoyu, the eunuch of Dongchang, in front of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, because this will easily arouse His Majesty Zhu Youxiao's suspicion.

Even, in order not to make His Majesty Zhu Youxiao suspicious, Li Mingrui immediately returned to normal after being stunned for a moment, smiled as if he didn't care too much, and then continued to play honestly as before.

Here, Wang Chengen didn't know that his godson, Zou Shaoquan, the young eunuch of the imperial pharmacy, had also been involved, so he was more calm than Li Mingrui, not to mention, in his opinion, he and Liu Ruoyu both belonged to the ministers, and they both served as the celebrant supervisor, so Liu Ruoyu couldn't get along with him.

Therefore, Wang Chengen didn't ask much.

And Zhu Youxiao also glanced at the ministers present at this time, especially Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen, but seeing that the two of them were not shocked, he was also a little surprised in his heart, thinking that the various indications provided by Dongchang before said that most of the illegal businessmen who hoarded and committed crimes had visited the mansions of Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen, but now it seems that these two people seem to have little to do with Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion.

However, this also made Zhu Youxiao more determined to break the casserole and ask to the end, and said directly: "Very good, this Shuntian Mansion Yin Qiu Maohua will be strictly interrogated, and he must be asked to say that the implementation of the cholera epidemic control this time is not effective, so that the previous efforts of the imperial court have almost come to naught, if this person does not confess honestly, I will not tolerate it!" ”

After Zhu Youxiao gave this order, Liu Ruoyu, the commander of Dongchang, retreated.

Although Li Mingrui said that he deliberately did not care about Qiu Maohua's matter, his ears had been listening carefully to His Majesty Zhu Youxiao's answer.

And Zhu Youxiao's answer did make Li Mingrui breathe a sigh of relief, he thought that His Majesty asked Dongchang to arrest Shuntian Mansion Yin Qiu Maohua because of party strife and hoarding Juqi to make the country's wealth, but he didn't expect that it was because of this Shuntian Mansion Yin Qiu Maohua was arrested because the control of the epidemic was not strict enough and the implementation was not in place.

In Li Mingrui's view, as long as this Shuntianfu Yin is not because of party strife and market manipulation, he will not be implicated in his third brother and himself.

But at this time, there was news from outside that Wu Youke, the secretary of the Ministry of Health, asked for an audience, and Zhu Youxiao also happened to need to have a good understanding of the situation on the front line of the fight against cholera, so he ordered someone to bring Wu Youke directly into Xinuan Pavilion.

As soon as Wu Youke came to this Xinuan Pavilion, he directly told Zhu Youxiao about the fact that a batch of emergency medicinal materials from the imperial pharmacy was missing after they arrived at Shuntian Mansion.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao directly glared at Wang Chengen, and asked, "What's going on!" ”

Wang Chengen couldn't help but secretly scolded this Wu Youke, everyone who is a foreign minister knows that the minister can't be impeached casually, because once he offends these days, the close ministers will easily not be able to eat and walk around, and this Wu Youke, as a doctor who can only treat diseases and save people, is obviously just a stunned young man in the officialdom, and as soon as he came up, he directly pulled the eunuch of the imperial pharmacy into this case.

So, in this way, Wang Chengen was so frightened that he knelt down directly: "Your Majesty, the old slave really doesn't know what's going on, the young eunuch of the imperial pharmacy is Zou Yingquan, and he is responsible for the procurement and hoarding of medicinal materials in the palace, the old slave dares to advise His Majesty to arrest this person immediately, interrogate him strictly, and be sure to find out the clues!" ”

At this time, Wang Chengen, the master of ceremonies, did not know what heinous things his godson, that is, Zou Yingquan, the young eunuch of the imperial pharmacy, had done with Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion, but now that he wants to clear up the relationship, he can only kill his relatives in righteousness and take the initiative to confess Zou Yingquan to show that he has nothing to do with this Zou Yingquan, and even if there is a relationship, it is just a general friendship.

And Wu Youke's words not only made Wang Chengen depressed and had to lose the car to protect his godson, but also made Li Mingrui, as the first person in the cabinet, also began to feel uneasy, because although he didn't know what kind of unsavory deal was being made between his third brother and Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion, he knew that his third brother had been doing the medicinal herb business, and he couldn't help but secretly think that if his third brother really put his idea into the medicinal herb business of this batch of imperial pharmacies in order to make a fortune, the consequences would be really unimaginable!

Of course, Li Mingrui still deliberately showed no joy, anger, sorrow and anxiety, but Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, slammed the table at this time: "Check, I want to find out!" This Qiu Maohua, to dig out more people's information from him, as well as the young eunuch of this imperial pharmacy, directly arrested, must be tortured strictly, it is really bold, and he dares to fight the idea of this batch of medicinal materials, is it really fatal? ”

As he spoke, Zhu Youxiao turned to Wang Chengen and said coldly: "From now on, you also go to stay in the edict prison, don't think that if you confess Zou Yingquan, I don't know what the relationship between you is, look at who your godsons are!" If the epidemic spreads because of this, don't think about any good fruits to eat! ”

"The old slave understands!"

Wang Chengen was naturally very depressed in his heart, but he also knew that it was better to fight than to fight now, and he could only blame himself for being unlucky for some things.

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And when it got dark one night, after Zhu Youxiao returned to the harem, Li Mingrui also hurriedly left the palace, and immediately returned to the mansion to find his third brother Li Mingyun and ask him about Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion.

Li Mingyun also told his brother Li Mingrui the news that Guo Yunhou, the secretary of the household department, suddenly found the content of his conversation and that the Shuntian Mansion Yin had been replaced by the cabinet scholar Cheng Jiming, and Li Mingrui seemed to suddenly realize when he heard it: "I see, I said why Your Majesty suddenly wanted to arrest this Shuntian Mansion Yin Qiu Maohua but it was not because of this Qiu Maohua's collusion between officials and businessmen, it seems that the crux of this is that this old-fashioned Cheng Jiming intends to rectify us!" This is a good hand to play! ”

Just when Li Mingrui began to think that the essence of this matter was that the conservative faction was rectifying his own reformist faction, Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion was finally pried open by the people of Dongchang.

This Qiu Maohua quickly confessed to Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, Zou Yingquan, the young eunuch of the imperial pharmacy, and a medicinal herb merchant named Lan Duo.

Zhu Youxiao was shocked when he found out, he didn't expect that Guo Yunhou, the secretary of the household department, was also implicated, and if Guo Yunhou was implicated, it means that he can't get rid of Li Mingrui in the cabinet, because everyone knows that Guo Yunhou and Li Mingrui are very close.

But now it is impossible to find out the slightest suspicion about this Li Mingrui, and the businessman surnamed Lan is also a person who has no trace to be found.

Because it involves the reformists who have begun to occupy the advantage, and it is also necessary to grasp the typical punishment of these people who make money and disrupt the market, and clarify the rule of officials, so Zhu Youxiao directly ordered that Zou Yingquan, the young eunuch of the imperial pharmacy, continue to be tortured strictly, so as not to miss the real big tiger.

However, what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that Zou Yingquan, the young eunuch of the imperial pharmacy, only knew about a businessman named Lan Duo and Yin Qiu Maohua of Shuntian Mansion, so he couldn't pry any valuable news.

"It seems that the key point now is that this Qiu Maohua revealed that Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, Guo Yunhou, dared to do such a thing behind my back, and immediately passed on my will to escort Guo Yunhou to me, I want to ask him, whose subject is he!"

Zhu Youxiao commanded directly.