Chapter 51: King Ning's Ambition
Although Liu Lang was let go, Ye Guan still sent a cadre to monitor Liu Lang day and night to see if he could produce any moths. The group of people in Dongchang have no good eggs, and the rest are all bad water, don't accidentally let them get into the pit. That subordinate got the benefit of Ye Guan, how dare he disobey, and immediately gladly accepted the order, swearing to live up to the instructions of the servant.
When he sent those people to the yamen, when he came out, Ye Guan said to Zhu Qinglin, who was following him: "Today, thanks to Miss Zhu's great help, these four thousand taels are half of the two of us." No, it's yours. Ye Guan took out a silver ticket of two thousand taels and handed it to Zhu Qinglin.
"Ye Guan, what do you mean by this? Do you think that this girl is running around so much just for the money? Zhu Qinglin saw these two thousand taels and felt that he had been insulted, so he asked Zhu Qinglin with a red face.
"That's certainly not what I meant. Where can the big business of the Chengguo Mansion be able to afford these small money. But as the saying goes, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. It is good to love the people, but is it not acceptable to have a windfall? Hit the rabbit with grass, don't take it for nothing. What's more, I mean that these four thousand taels are half of them, I take two thousand taels as my wife's book, and the girl takes two thousand taels as a dowry, and when the girl gets married in the future, she will leave some private money, so as not to be controlled by others in her husband's house, and everyone will be happy, right? Ye Guan hurriedly explained, he still admired Zhu Qinglin very much, the real daughter, but she had a heart of grievance, so she didn't want her to misunderstand, so she grabbed Zhu Qinglin's hand and handed the two thousand taels in her palm.
Originally, Zhu Qinglin didn't want to accept these two thousand taels of silver, but when he heard Ye Guan say that one person and a half, his wife was his wife, his own was a dowry, and his hand was held by Ye Guan again. Suddenly I thought of something, felt that my face was flushed, and I took the two thousand taels of silver and ran to the Guogong Mansion without looking back.
Ye looked at Zhu Qinglin's back, and suddenly felt that he was in a good mood, but before he could turn around and go home, he saw Zhu Qinglin running back again, and asked cautiously: "Your two thousand taels won't be used to ransom the girl, right?" ”
"Of course not, I want people to spend money? Besides, I just feel sorry for Miss Li'er's background. Don't think crookedly, I don't have the idea of marrying a wife yet. Ye Guan replied.
"If you don't spend money, do you want to rob it?" Zhu Qinglin was a little curious, how could there be a business in the world that didn't cost money, not to mention that the girl was trapped in a brothel, and it was impossible for the bustard to let go of the chicken that could lay eggs.
"Hehe, within a few days, you will naturally see someone obediently sending Miss Li'er over." Ye Guan said mysteriously that he believed very much that the person who could be the old bustard in a big brothel was not a fool, and the old bustard would definitely think more about his words today.
persuaded the curious baby to go home, Ye Guan felt tired after a day of work, so after sending people to the yamen, he ran home alone to rest.
Sure enough, not long after Ye Guan returned home, there was a knock on the door outside.
"Who's knocking?" Ye Guan probably guessed who it was in his heart, but he still asked with a shelf.
"Ye Yanshi, the concubine is the mother of the ** floor, and I am here to thank Lord Ye for his help just now." A middle-aged woman's voice sounded outside the door, and the voice was the bustard on the ** floor.
Ye Guan opened the door and saw three people standing outside the door, one was an old bustard who had met a long time ago, one was a middle-aged man who had never met before, and the other was the girl who had sworn to save her from the sea of suffering.
"Mother Liu came late at night, why?" Ye Guan had already learned from the mouth of the old bustard that her surname was Liu, so he called her Mother Liu.
"My lord, the law does not pass on to the six ears. Let's go in and talk. Before Mother Liu could speak, the middle-aged scribe beside her began to speak.
"Oh? That makes sense, go in and say it. Ye Guan heard this person speak like this, and saw that Mother Liu was so respectful to that person, knowing that he was the protagonist this time, he couldn't help but feel strange in his heart, could it be that this is the master in Mother Liu's mouth?
Ye Guan led the three of them into the living room, asked his subordinates to make a pot of good tea, and sat down the guests.
Since he was young last time, after being played by Zhen Neng in Tai'an Mansion, Ye Guan knew the truth that if you say too much, you will lose. In addition, he is now in the Jinyi Guard, a standard four-grade high-ranking official. Officials naturally bring momentum. Ye Guan only tasted fragrant tea with a teacup, and did not mean to speak first. The middle-aged scribe didn't recognize Ye Guan, and he had important things to do, so it was not easy to speak first. Miss Li'er came over today as an additive, so she lowered her head and didn't dare to speak, so only Mother Liu, who was familiar with both her own situation and Ye Guan, spoke first.
"Look, my lord." Mother Liu looked at the left and right families in Ye Guan's mansion, and Ye Guan understood and sent her subordinates away. After Liu's mother saw that there were no idlers, she said her intention.
"Lord Ye, this is my master's staff - Mr. Chen Qingyuan Chen. Mr. Chen, this adult is Lord Ye Guanye, the commander of the Jinyi Guard who helped ** Lou to suppress those gentlemen today. Mother Liu got up with a smile and first introduced her master's staff.
"Lord Ye is really a young talent, he is only a weak crown, and he can actually hold the position of Jinyi Wei is position, compared to the rare pillar of the court in a hundred years, just like Qin Zhi Ganluo, Song Zhi Sima Guang! No, Gan Luo still relied on his grandfather to be a nobleman of the Qin State, and Sima Guang only became a Jinshi at the age of twenty, but Lord Ye had no predecessors to support him, and he was in an important position in the fourth rank at a young age, which was better than Ganluo Sima Guang! ": Chen Qingyuan didn't speak, he just opened his mouth to compliment, and Ye Guan blushed when he heard it, although his brother was not bad, but he praised it too much.
"Mr. Chen praised it falsely, and the official added it as a matter, but it was just a saint's love, and he was sincerely afraid. However, when the official and Mr. met for the first time, I don't know what happened when Mr. Chen came at night? Ye Guan bowed to the north, and then said the polite words on the official face very politely, and then picked up the teacup and asked what he thought in his heart with half-squinted eyes and tone.
Chen Qingyuan heard Ye Guan's official tone, and with the news he got from other places, he felt that his errand was very likely to be successful. Since Chen Qingyuan can be a staff member, he naturally understands the sharp words of officialdom. King Luo Bin of the Tang Dynasty has a cloud in "Firefly Fu": A gentleman has a way, and he enters the dark room without deceiving. Refers to the fact that an upright person does not whisper where there is no one. So Ye Guan's question is still very pointed. Among them, "come at night" is a very important sentence. As the saying goes: when a night owl enters the house, nothing comes. If Ye Guan was one of those upright officials, he would have turned the three of them away under the pretext that it was getting late. But now Ye Guan not only closed the door, but sat in the living room and asked the sentence "Come at night", indicating that the young high-ranking official in front of him must not be a rich and unadulterated person. And the master of his own family needs such a son of heaven in the court to rely on.
"Lord Ye, my master thanks you for leading the troops to help tonight, so that my family's property will not be destroyed by those people, and the adults are willing to be the masters of my Chunxiao Building in the future, so as not to be harassed by those ruffians and hooligans, and Lord Ye looks at the girl in this building differently, and the girl is also willing to the adult, so the good meal is not afraid of being late, and he sent the girl over at night. Rest assured, the formalities have been prepared, and the girl will change from the official slave of the public to the private slave of the adult in the future. At the same time, my host sent students to bring local products to adults, and I hope that adults will accept them. Chen Qingyuan said his purpose in one breath, and then took out a small box of one foot square from the old bustard next to him.
Ye Guan took the small box, opened it casually, and his eyes suddenly froze. There are about ten silver tickets with a denomination of 1,000 taels neatly placed inside, and the total number is about tens of thousands of taels. Before and after, this ** building has already taken out 15,000 taels of silver. This is far more than the concept of protection money, a brothel, how much does it earn in a year? In one go, he was able to take out 15,000 taels to honor the officials, so he made a mistake. Abnormality is a demon, but Ye Guan didn't dare to accept it with a big grin.
"Hmm." Ye looked at the wooden box in his hand and bowed slightly, but did not speak.
Originally, he thought that **Lou would send people overnight after knowing what he meant, but the 10,000 taels of silver he brought with him was a bit beyond his expectations.
"I don't know where your master is and what he does?" Ye looked at Chen Qingyuan, who was confident, and asked with a little doubt.
"The ancestor of my master is the Nanzhili clan, and he lives in Fengyang Mansion in the middle of the world. Later, he moved to the west of the Yangtze River in Jiangxi Province, and declared the political envoy to help the Son of Heaven protect the place. Chen Qingyuan played a dumb riddle that was not a dumb riddle, but it shocked Ye Guan's heart when he heard it.
"Your master is a family with a national surname?" Ye Guan bowed his hand to show respect for the national surname before asking Chen Qingyuan.
"Yes, yes." Chen Qingyuan nodded with a smile behind his back.
"I don't know why your master sent such a local product to this official?" Ye Guan didn't talk too much about his identity, but first knew why the person was giving such a heavy gift. From Zhongdu Fengyang to Jiangxi and surnamed Zhu can still be so rich, except for the contemporary King Ning, the younger brother of the Son of Heaven Zhu Chenhao, who else can be so capable. But although I know who it is, I can't ask it casually. The Son of Heaven's close ministers privately met with the vassal king's staff, and the crime was not small.
"My lord, the border of Jiangxi has been restless recently, and there are many cottage bandits roaring in the mountains and forests, robbing passing merchants and harming local people. There were a few times when my master's belongings were almost robbed by the bandits. My master thinks that the people of Jiangxi are deeply affected by bandits, so that they can't sleep at night, the governor of Jiangxi is vulgar, and the officers and soldiers are cowardly in public war. "Chen Qingyuan and Ye Guan met for the first time, so they didn't dare to say too much and too straightforwardly, just a little bit with such a meaning, it depends on what Ye Guan said.