Hearing Lin Yizhe's detailed report of Hu Yulin's greed for ink and silver, all the ministers in the hall looked at each other.

Five million taels of silver is an astronomical sum for everyone here.

These documents were obtained by the minister from HSBC, and every loan handled by Hu Yulin for the Western Expedition was on it, including the amount, term, and interest rate. Please the Queen Mother and the Emperor to take a look! Lin Yizhe said, took a step forward, bowed down and presented the documents with both hands, Li Jintai, who was holding the Empress Dowager Renxi, glanced at the little eunuch beside him, and the little eunuch hurriedly trotted forward, took the bill, came to the front of the Empress Dowager Renxi, and bowed down to present the documents.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Renxi's face was full of frost, she glanced at Zuo Jigao, who was already prostrate on the ground, stretched out her hand to take the slip, and slowly flipped through it.

Ren Xi looked at the documents, among the strings of numbers and printed English letters, Hu Yulin's autographed notes and vermilion seals were extremely dazzling.

"Rats! …… Rats! ......" Empress Dowager Renxi muttered, and her hand holding the slip trembled uncontrollably.

"Sixth Master, you can also take a look. We have produced such a big rat, no wonder we always let foreigners bully. After reading the documents, the Empress Dowager Renxi handed the documents to the little eunuch again, and motioned for him to hand them over to Prince Jing Yixin.

Prince Jing took the documents and only looked at them for a while, and his face showed indignation, he had been doing foreign affairs for a long time, and as soon as he saw these documents, he knew that what Lin Yizhe said was true, and he was sure that Hu Yulin handled these loans were greasy, and Zuo Jigao must have known about them. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his head and glared at Zuo Jigao fiercely. At this time, Zuo Jigao no longer scolded the late Zeng Guofan's "arrogance" in front of him all day long. It's a look of depression that can't be concealed on his face.

"The Queen Mother. Emperor. In addition, the minister also found out that during Zuo Jigao's expedition to the west, all the loans were deposited in Hu Yulin's Fukang Money Village, and Hu Yulin not only did not pay interest, but also arbitrarily extracted and embezzled them in the short term to make huge profits. It was Hu Yulin who had a family business of nearly 30 million taels of silver in just a few years, and the Hu family built a mansion and garden. The turquoise flowers and trees placed are extremely rare. The concubines were in groups, and the thirteenth floor was built to store them. Its big garden, indulgence, arrogance and lasciviousness, compared with the princes, there is no more. Lin Yizhe continued.

"Oh, yes! In the end, it was so easy to come by this silver that I dared to do such a trick. Empress Dowager Renxi paced lightly under Li Jintai's support, although she didn't speak loudly. But the cold energy in the words made all the courtiers tremble.

"The minister also found out. Hu Yulin built a mansion in Hangzhou, with aragonite as the wall and Yunnan copper as the masonry, and some of the walls were smashed into fine porcelain bowls produced in Jingdezhen and smashed into fine porcelain sand to smear, which is said to be immortal for thousands of years. The garden is ingenious, the pavilion is exquisite, the cloud screen is painted brocade, the green and dark Yao incense, the cost is huge, and the luxury is incomparable. All foreign envoys to Hangzhou are willing to stay in Hufu and not go to the guest house. ”

Hu Yulin is greedy and lustful, often looking for beauty in the market, and when he sees a beautiful person, he asks someone to make peace, no matter how high his worth is, he will also arrange errands for the woman's family. He relied on his wealth and power to marry back a woman who did not obey his lust and then abandon it, and wantonly insulted the woman of a good family. He forcibly bought the people's daughters, usually only after three or five days or a month or two, and as soon as the freshness passed, he would give hundreds of taels of silver to make them remarry, and those who bought and sent them would kill hundreds of people. The trip of the beast is outrageous! ”

"Hu Yulin's concubines are in a row, there are 12 beautiful women, known as the 'twelve golden hairpins', divided into each floor in the long lane of the hospital, and each occupies a room in order. It also follows the palace system, and at night, the maid presents the tooth card and summons the concubine to sleep. As for singing and praying for blessings, setting up wine and feasts, all of them are extremely luxurious, and they are as rich as Tang Woxue......"

"Enough!" The Empress Dowager Renxi couldn't bear it any longer, and waved her hand to interrupt Lin Yizhe's narration.

"Zuo Xiang, this is what you call the sincerity of good righteousness and sincerity, the sincerity of affection? If these traitors, immorality, and shameless people become role models, will I not become a state of male thieves and female prostitutes? ”

Empress Dowager Renxi pointed at Zuo Jigao with her hand and asked sharply. Seeing that the Queen Mother was really angry, Zuo Jigao couldn't stand anymore, and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

"The old minister is ignorant, deceived by the profiteer Hu Yulin and does not know it, the crime deserves death! Sin deserves death! Zuo Jigao kowtowed again and again, and said in a mournful voice, "Ask the Empress Dowager to punish the crime!" ”

"You are not the only one who is ignorant! Such profiteers have become patriots and businessmen, what are you people doing with long eyes? Empress Dowager Renxi took off Li Jintai's hand to support her, turned around angrily, pointed at the courtiers and said loudly, and the ministers immediately all knelt on the ground.

"The Queen Mother is angry, in fact, no one recognized Hu Yulin's true face back then, but they all took into account Zuo Jigao's feelings and didn't want to say it clearly." Lin Yizhe also knelt down, probably because he felt that there were enough people involved in today's incident, so he began to try to save it.

"Oh? Tell me, which one are they? Empress Dowager Renxi snorted and said.

"The matter of Hu's loan, Liu Kunyi, the current acting governor of Liangjiang, once said: The Western Expedition to subscribe to the foreign money is all handled by Hu Dao alone, but every million of silver to 240,000 is consumed, and it is thought that the military needs are urgent, and the left minister has no choice but to do it......

Hearing that Lin Yizhe actually brought Liu Kunyi in hand, Li Shaoquan held back the muscles on his face and did not laugh.

"Humph! It's a 'last resort and even one thing'," Empress Dowager Renxi was even more angry when she heard this, "He Liu Kunyi is really thinking about Zuo Xiang!" Once as a last resort, is it true that these six times are all a last resort? ”

Hearing the Empress Dowager Renxi say this, Lin Yizhe seemed to realize that he had said the wrong thing, so he quickly lowered his head and said no more.

"Minister Yan Danchu, please hand Hu Yulin over to the Criminal Department immediately for punishment, and use the law of the country to escort and chase his family members, and pay the count!" Yan Danchu, the head of the household, said loudly.

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The moths of such a country deserve to be cut by a thousand cuts!" Suddenly, a slightly immature voice rang out, unusually loud in the courtier's seconding.

Empress Dowager Renxi turned around slowly, and when she saw the young Emperor Guangxu standing up from his throne, her face indignant. A subtle look of joy flashed in his eyes. Nodding slightly.

"Intended! I'm going to use the seal myself! Emperor Guangxu said loudly.

Hear the words of Emperor Guangxu. The courtiers fell silent all of a sudden, and Prince Jing and several military ministers turned their eyes to the Empress Dowager Renxi.

"Just do what the emperor wants!" Empress Dowager Renxi said calmly.

Prince Jing couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw Renxi nodding in agreement. Because now, the emperor has not yet reached the time of "pro-government", this time the emperor personally used the seal, which can be said to be a pro-government in advance.

"Obey the order!" Prince Jing hurriedly answered loudly.

"Also, Ming issued an edict to reprimand Liu Kunyi!" Empress Dowager Renxi returned to the throne behind the bead curtain and sat down. Said in a deep voice.

Not long after, Prince Jing finished drafting the decree in the hall, and Emperor Guangxu personally stamped the treasure seal on the holy decree, which was read out by Li Jintai in the court:

"I have been practicing since Chongling, Yin Shao Piji, and the Queen Mother of Homon have nurtured kindness, taught diligently, listened to politics with a curtain, and worked hard at night. The heir obeyed Yi's decree and ordered me to judge the general. Admire the holy family law, and worship the ancestors of heaven and law. Diligent government and love for the people. For more than ten years, he has relied on the benevolent training, managed every opportunity, sought reason diligently, read the difficulties of the times, and compromised the Chinese and foreign laws. Such as the people's education, the establishment of schools, the rectification of military and political affairs, the revitalization of industry and commerce, the period and Bo Hai ministers, sharing the level. Unexpectedly, there was a profiteer, Hu Yulin, who actually borrowed back to Xinjiang to rebel, and the imperial court used troops in the northwest, and when the military needs were huge, in the name of helping the army, he was greedy for ink. According to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Hu Yulin, a profiteer who investigated the profiteer, actually colluded with Zuo Jigao, the former governor of Gansu and Shaanxi, under the pretense of returning to Xinjiang to rebel, and the imperial court used troops in the northwest to help the army. It is really a heart without a father, cunning and plundering, madness, and anger of people and gods. Today, the evidence is conclusive, ironclad, and cannot be denied. Such traitors who mislead the country will not thank the world unless they die. Hu Yulin Ling Chi decided, the adult men of the nine clans of the Hu clan were all beheaded, and the wives, daughters and children of minors were assassinated in Xinjiang, and they were never allowed to return to their hometowns. ”

"Yu Dongge University Scholar, Governor of Liangjiang, and Zuo Jigao, Marquis of Kejing, Second Rank, have not been allowed to negotiate recently, and in the past they insulted their subordinates, and now they criticize the sages, so that the public is not convinced. He is old and faint, arbitrary, moody, and resigned, which is really arrogant and capricious, and it is difficult to win the task of sealing the territory. During his westward expedition, he was deceived by the profiteer Hu Yulin, and he lost tens of millions of dollars in air force expenses without realizing it. It should have been investigated and punished, and he should have been severely punished, remembering his years of hard work in the west, and without severe punishment, Zuo Jigao immediately returned to his hometown as a sign of preservation, and issued a special edict. ”

Hearing that the decree was to open a vacancy and return to his hometown, Zuo Jigao's heart was relieved, he couldn't support it anymore, and sat down in place.

"Fan Zengxiang, I confess like this, are you convinced?"

"Thank you to the Queen Mother, the ministers are obedient, and the ministers are determined to serve the country and never die."

"Stand down."

"The minister retired." After Fan Zengxiang kowtowed again to thank him, he bowed down and withdrew from the hall.

This time, Lin Yizhe found ironclad evidence and exposed the traitor Hu Yulin's greed and treachery, and his credit was not small. He was immediately promoted to the imperial history of the right of the Imperial Palace. However, Lin Yizhe reprimanded the important ministers of the court in the court, and the following offenses were not respectful, and there were no subordinates, and he was fined for half a year as a punishment. ”

And at this moment, Zuo Jigao suddenly found that although most of the courtiers lowered their heads, there were many people who looked at themselves from the corner of their eyes from time to time, and their eyes looked indescribably cold, as if they were looking at a dead person.

Zuo Jigao felt that countless such eyes were staring at him, and it seemed that there were bursts of laughter like night owls!

The laughter gradually merged into a torrent that surrounded him, and the incomparably heavy and oppressive feeling made it difficult for him to breathe, and he couldn't help himself!

Zuo Jigao screamed violently and woke up.

It was still dark, except for the bright moonlight shining through the latticework, casting dappled light and shadow on the ground.

The scene just now was just a dream of Nan Ke.

Zuo Jigao straightened up and sat up. He reached out and stroked his forehead, feeling the fine beads of sweat that were dense there.

Since his cry was not loud, the servants who were sleeping next door did not hear it, so no one came to disturb him. Zuo Jigao sat on the bed, thinking back to the dream just now, and felt a palpitation in his heart.

Although it was a dream, why did it seem so real?

Zuo Jigao knew that everything in the dream just now should be illusory, such as Lin Yizhe's successive ministers of shipping, governors of Fujian, and ministers of moss-bay affairs. After the establishment of the Navy Yamen, he entered the center and served as the Minister of Maritime Planning. The Prime Minister's Yamen walks. But he has never entered the Metropolitan Procuratorate, served as the imperial history of the left and right capitals, and he has not entered the military aircraft department, when Lin Yizhe was alive, he had never met with himself, so naturally nothing happened in the dream.

In addition, the "Shen Wenzhong Gong" Shen Youdan in the dream, now. Although he was seriously ill, he did not die and is still alive!

For Shen Youdan, who had been invited out of the mountain by "three visits to the thatched house" but finally came together with his great enemy Li Shaoquan, he had always hated him for not dying early, and this time he dreamed of Shen Youdan's death in a dream, although it was not true, but it also made Zuo Jigao feel happy.

But as soon as he thought of the Fan Xie case and Da Keding mentioned in the dream, Zuo Jigao's mood turned depressed again.

There is also a loan from Nasi......

Thinking that there might be problems with the loans made by Hu Yulin and HSBC, and that Hu Yulin had already been imprisoned, Zuo Jigao's heart couldn't help but become anxious again.

He did it in great secrecy. No outsiders will know about it at all, but if it does leak the news. Then his Zuo Jigao will not only have a ruined reputation in his life, but I am afraid that he may die without a place to be buried!

And thinking of another incident that happened recently, Zuo Jigao was even more uneasy.

Although he has been fighting for half his life, he has taken the matter of killing and injuring people's lives lightly, but this time, after all, it is the life of more than 2,000 Huai troops......

Why do you have such a terrible and real dream tonight? Could it be that the dream was warning him?

Is it because the government and the opposition have been discussing Lin Yizhe's twin brother to return to his mother country in the past few days?

Thinking of Lin Yiqing, Zuo Jigao couldn't help but sneer again.

"The Lin family's son actually has a twin brother overseas, which is really unexpected for the old man!"

"This person's origin is unknown, and his identity is suspicious, but the Lin family and Shen Youdan even recognized him, it's really unheard of!"

"You are so happy in Japan, how can you compare to the old man's great achievement in pacifying the Western Regions! It's ridiculous that there are ignorant people who compare the old man with you! ”

"Huang Shulan called the Lin family's erectors Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, which is not bad at all! This person is really acting like the Lin family! From this point of view, it's not bad to be a brother! If this generation can mess with Japan, it will definitely mess with me! The old man really can't leave you! ”

"If you want to go back to Daqian Ansheng, you will pass the old man's level first!"

"Lin family erector, wait in the underworld to meet your brother!"

After muttering these bold words to himself for a long time, Zuo Jigao realized his gaffe, snorted, and lay down on the bed again.

At this time, it was still early in the morning, but because of that dream, Zuo Jigao was already sleepless.

The happy scene of talking about himself in the military aircraft office in the dream just now still surfaces in front of me from time to time.

Although the western expedition to recover Xinjiang is not a complete merit, but under his passionate performance, it can also be said to be a brilliant cause.

If this is the case, it seems that there are still many auspicious signs for this dream.

In a few days, it will be the day of the court meeting, and Zuo Jigao certainly knows what the topic of this court meeting will be.

The belonging of Lin Yiqing and the 100,000 Satsuma soldiers and civilians under his command!

Zuo Jigao had been back to Beijing for more than a month, and during this period, the empress dowager and the emperor of the two palaces summoned him more than once to inquire about the affairs of the Western Regions and discuss the situation of Ili, but he did not ask him once about the rebellion in southwest Japan, which made him feel that this was unusual.

Previously, Zuo Jigao had repeatedly asked the imperial court not to interfere in Japan's civil strife, so as not to affect the western expedition, and put forward his own opinions on the southeast coastal defense, and now that the western expedition is over, the imperial court can free up its hands to solve the problem of the southeast coast, but why did he not consult his own opinion on this matter once?

Could it be that the imperial court has already made a plan in this matter?

Suddenly, Zuo Jigao remembered his old rival Li Shaoquan.

Li Shaoquan also entered Beijing by edict and also lived in this Xianliang Temple.

Thinking of the time when Li Shaoquan entered Beijing, Zuo Jigao's heart suddenly moved.

Could it be that the imperial court summoned Li Shaoquan to Beijing at this time for Lin Yiqing?

Thinking of Li Shaoquan's previous excerpt on Japan's civil strife and southeast coastal defense, Zuo Jigao suddenly understood.

The imperial court obviously wanted to accept Lin Yiqing and the Satsuma, and summoned Li Shaoquan to Beijing before the court meeting, most likely to increase the strength and voice of the faction that accepted the opinions of the Satsuma!

"Li Zhangtong, I won't let you get in the way!" Zuo Jigao said viciously.

At dawn the next day, Zuo Jigao, who had not fallen asleep in the second half of the night, got up, was freshened up by the servants, and came to the garden.

Zuo Jigao originally didn't have the habit of exercising in the morning, but because he didn't close his eyes until dawn in the second half of the night, Zuo Jigao felt restless, so he planned to go to the garden to breathe, but what he didn't expect was that he would meet an old acquaintance here who had not been seen for a long time.

Not far away, Li Shaoquan, who was wearing a brocade robe and holding two jasper balls in his hands, was pacing back and forth there.

Li Shaoquan pays attention to health preservation, and is good at walking and exercising on weekdays, so his pace is extremely healthy, in order to move the tendons of his fingers, he listens to the doctor's advice, and spins with two jasper balls in his hand in his spare time, so that no matter where he goes, there will always be the sound of the jade ball's rotation and rubbing.

When Zuo Jigao saw Li Shaoquan, he felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

He once said to his granddaughter Zuo Pinghu more than once that if Lin Yizhe is the worst person in the world, then Li Shaoquan is the second worst person in the world.

Zuo Jigao saw Li Shaoquan, and Li Shaoquan also saw him at this time, but he didn't stop his steps, nor did he stop passing the jade ball in his hand. (To be continued......)

PS: One day I went to the snack street and found a shop that sells egg tarts, each of which looks very delicious and delicious, and I want to buy one to try, I asked the clerk: Is this a single sale? Clerk: No, it's Japanese.

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