Chapter Seventy-Three: A Fortune

Shouguang County Ya. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Hurry up, I don't want these things, I have already told you to clean up the softness, but I just don't listen!"

"Master, these are the master's favorite calligraphy and paintings, concubines......"

"Oh, when is it, my life is almost gone, what calligraphy and painting do you need! Hurry up, just wait for the money! ”

When Li Shan, the county governor of Shouguang, was cleaning up his concubines, the housekeeper suddenly ran in.

"Master, there are too few carriages, not enough, and there are more than a dozen boxes of silver that can't fit it!"

"Oh, I told you to prepare, and it's a deaf ear for you all to be masters!"

"No, sir, the little one has prepared five big cars early, but I didn't expect there to be so many things!"

"Go, throw away all the useless ones to the master, just bring the silver!"

The housekeeper said with a gloomy face: "Master, all the small ones that should be thrown are thrown away, and only the silver can't hold them!" ”

"That's good, that's good!"

Just as Li Shan was in a hurry, suddenly Li Shan's concubine said, "Master, why don't you go and find a carriage!" ”

"Madame!" The housekeeper arched his hand and said: "The small ones that can be found have already been found, not only our family in this Shouguang City, but also Li County and Sun Zhu Bo's family, and earlier, those big families who escaped had already taken away the carriages that could be used in the city, and this was still a small one detained in advance!" ”

As soon as she heard this, the little concubine was silent, but there were always smart people, and at this time another concubine said: "Master, it's better to find a place to bury it!" ”

"Yes, yes, buried, find a place to bury! But where can I bury it? ”

With a clear instruction, the housekeeper, who was originally helpless, immediately had an idea and said, "Master, it's better to bury it in the outer house you found a few days ago!" ”

"That's right!" Li Shan clapped his hands and said, "Just bury it there!" Old Sun, you can do this, if you do it, the master will be greatly rewarded! ”

Steward Sun immediately said, "Let's do it for the little one!" ”

Steward Sun led the people away, and Li Shan also took his concubines into the carriage, and the cronies selected from the soldiers of the inspection department immediately drove the carriage to escort Li Shan to the north city gate.

Although the shouting and killing sound in the south of the city shook the sky, but the city was very quiet, the sound of horses' hooves beating on the bluestone road, the sound spread far away, Li Shan and others had not yet reached the north gate, and were suddenly stopped by a team of soldiers.

The cronies hurriedly reported the situation to Li Shan, and Li Shan immediately lifted the carriage curtain and said angrily: "Who dares to stop this master's carriage!" ”

The leading soldier immediately clenched his fists and said: "If you go back to your lordship, my lord asked his subordinates to wait for your lord here in order to protect your lordship!" ”

Li Shan was puzzled when he heard this: "Who is your adult?" ”

The leading soldier clenched his fists and continued: "Lord Hui, my family is Wei Qiye!" ”

Hearing Wei Xiaoqi's name, Li Shan was not puzzled and said, "Okay, lead the way!" ”

A team of people and horses marched out of the North City Gate, but at the fork in the pipeline turned in the direction of Guangling in the northeast, Li Shan noticed that the convoy was not disguised to the left but turned to the right, and immediately stopped the team.

The soldier who led the way in front of him saw Li Shan's horse convoy stop, and immediately walked over and said, "My lord! Why did it stop? ”

Li Shan stared at the soldier's eyes and said, "Let me ask you, is this going to Le'an?" ”

The soldier shook his head suspiciously and said, "If you go back to your lordship, let's go to Guangling, not Le'an!"

"What? Going to Guangling? Didn't the Seventh Master say that we should follow Sun Baihu's people to Le'an? Li Shan asked in surprise.

"If you go back to your lordship, this subordinate won't know, the subordinate has the order of the seventh master to let his subordinates escort you to Guangling!"

Li Shan wondered in his heart, thinking that these people were not people who lied to Wei Xiaoqi, and then came to kill him for money, but he looked at this soldier carefully, but saw that this soldier's eyes were clear and did not seem to be lying, so he asked: "You said that you were arranged by the Seventh Master to protect me, do you have a certificate?" ”

The soldier said happily: "Yes, Lord Wei gave his subordinates a waist card!" After speaking, the soldier took out a wooden plaque from his pocket and handed it to Li Shan.

Li Shan took the waist card, and looked at it with the torches of his cronies, there were six doors carved on the front, and a Wei character was engraved on the back, Li Shan knew that this person was indeed not a thief who wanted to harm him, but a real person sent by Wei Xiaoqi to protect him.

Li Shan was even more puzzled, what does this Wei Xiaoqi mean? said that he would wait for Sun Baihu's people to kill the Tanma sent by Liu Zheng to keep an eye on, and then sent someone to inform him to follow him to Le'an, why did he suddenly change his mind again?

Doubts are doubts, but they still ordered the team to set off in the direction of Guangling, the road from Shouguang to Guangling is smooth, and the distance is only more than 50 miles, but Li Shan's horse convoy arrived in Guangling until dawn.

As soon as he arrived in Guangling, Li Shan saw Wei Xiaoqi waiting for him at the entrance of Guangling Town, and when he met, Li Shan immediately asked the doubts in his heart and said, "Wei Qiye, why did you let this official change the route to Guangling?" ”

Wei Xiaoqi smiled and said, "In order to give Master Li a fortune!" ”

A fortune? The doubts in Li Shan's heart were not only not solved at all, but they increased a lot!

"Seventh Master, you won't be happy looking for the official, the official is like this, what wealth is there? Presumably, in a few days, the emperor will order the official to be arrested and imprisoned! ”

"Haha!" Wei Xiaoqi laughed and said, "Lord Li's words are wrong! ”

"How?"

"I guess, the emperor will not only not put you in prison, but will also promote you!"

"Don't look for the happiness of the official anymore, Wei Qiye, have something to say!"

Wei Xiaoqi smiled and hugged his fists and said: "Okay, I'll just say it directly, I asked the adults to come to Guangling to let the adults enter Beijing as soon as possible!" ”

Li Shan just wanted to open his mouth to ask something, but saw Wei Xiaoqiyi stretch out his hand to stop him: "Listen to me continue to talk to Master Li!" ”

"Lord Li, now that the longevity has been broken, there are less than 500 soldiers in the thousands of households in Le'an, and Le'an County, Boxing County, and Gaoyuan County have no soldiers defending the city, do you want to follow Liu Zheng's temperament, will he not take the opportunity to take these county seats?"

Li Shan said without thinking about it: "If he wasn't an idiot, he would definitely take it!" ”

Wei Xiaoqi smiled again and said, "Then after Liu Zheng won these counties, what do you say will be the reaction of the imperial court?" ”

How will the imperial court react? What else can you react to! As soon as he said this, Li Shan was angry, he gave the emperor a year ago, and wrote the situation in Qingzhou clearly, I thought that the imperial court would send a large army to encircle and suppress, and when the time came, he would stick to the city, and he would not hesitate to break his bones to fight against the thief Liu Zheng, he would be appreciated by the imperial court, and the promotion of officials or something was not easy to capture, but he didn't expect that the world was unpredictable, not only did he not wait for the army of the imperial court, but also lost his official position inexplicably! The officials didn't even greet him, so they dismissed him and asked him to return to Beijing to wait for another appointment!

He Li Shan is not a novice in officialdom, he is a jinshi in Wanli for eleven years, officialdom has been staggering for decades, not to mention the ability to observe words and colors, and he has also read the warmth and coldness of life, and at the same time, his wisdom and emotional intelligence have reached a very high level!

Such a ridiculous thing happened, presumably there must be someone with hands and eyes who was secretly with Liu Zheng, thinking about the information he got before, the dead eunuch Chen Zeng had sent someone to contact Liu Zheng, so who was the troublemaker was already about to come out.

Since there is the participation of the eunuchs, then this place has completely become a huge whirlpool of right and wrong, and it can be twisted into powder in an instant, since there is a chance to escape from this whirlpool justifiably, wouldn't it be a fool not to leave?

But just when he was happy and ready to leave the place of right and wrong, Wei Xiaoqi found him, and after a night of secret talking, he got on Wei Xiaoqi's thief ship.

In order to pull him on the thief ship, Wei Xiaoqi told him a clever plan to keep the treasury silver stored in the county government as his own, so that he could get more than 30,000 taels of silver for nothing, and even sent someone to slaughter several wealthy families in the city a few days later, and brought him nearly 50,000 taels of silver, which is enough 80,000 taels of silver.

Not only that, Wei Xiaoqi also brought him the soldiers of the inspection department in the five counties of Linzi, Changle, Le'an, Boxing, and Gaoyuan, and even brought him 500 elite sergeants from the Le'an Thousand Households.

Wei Xiaoqi did not hesitate to exert so much effort to win him over, and there will inevitably be a request of equal value to this silver, so now is the time for Wei Xiaoqi to say the request.

Wei Xiaoqi asked him what the imperial court would do? It's hard for him to answer! If it's not easy to answer, you have to answer, because a lot of 'nonsense' before this is the introduction for Wei Xiaoqi to say the 'request', that is to say, whether you answer or not, Wei Xiaoqi will use this 'introduction' to put forward his requirements.

Since you know that it is the same whether you answer or not, and you already have the answer in your heart, why not answer?

"Now that the matter of Taiyuan Mansion is not over, the warehouse in the household department has been clean and starved to death of rats, those bigwigs in the court will inevitably suppress this matter, besides, Liu Zheng hooked up with Chen Zeng, Chen Zeng is the emperor's henchman, and those bosses in the court will find something to do for themselves when they are full? What's more, something is really going to happen, and there is Chen Zeng, the eunuch, to take the blame! The cabinet bosses don't know what to do? ”

In fact, there are more than these things that Li Shan wants to say in his heart, there are some more obscure things that he has not said, such as King Heng, Liu Zheng rebelled here, so will the emperor take this opportunity to suppress or even kill those vassal kings who have always been a thorn in his eye and a thorn in his flesh? There are too many things involved, so it is inconvenient for him to say it, let alone say it, this kind of thing will cause a fuss, and he doesn't want to make himself uncomfortable.

Wei Xiaoqi smiled slightly and said, "Then since Master Li understands it so well, Xiao Qi is much easier to say here!" ”

"After today, Liu Zheng has half of Qingzhou in his hands, and Wang Jiabin, the prefect of Qingzhou, shamelessly surrendered to Liu Thief, and the bosses of the cabinet are pretending to be deaf and dumb, so Lord Li, your task is to take a sea boat from here, all the way to Tianjin Wei, go straight to the capital from Tianjin Wei, and then beat the Dengwen drum that has not sounded for many years!"