It was nearly December, in the grass hall of Huangpu Wuya Palace, Li Xi opened his arms and hugged Guan Ko who threw him, Yan Sanniang, Xiao Fumei, An Jiuxiu, and Zhu Yuyou looked at it with tears in their eyes, and there was a Baoyin shrunk behind, bowing his head and twisting his handkerchief.

Li Xian smiled and said, "What, I don't recognize your husband?" ”

Xiao Fu frowned and suppressed his crying and said, "My husband is black and thin." ”

Yan Sanniang said hatefully: "My heart and eyes have become small and dark......"

An Jiuxiu wiped her tears and said with a smile: "Fortunately, my husband is not traveling far away in Europa. ”

Zhu Yuyou was indifferent, and bowed his head as a blessing:

"Husband? Where is our husband? Isn't this the emperor, the emperor is blessed......"

Li Xian laughed and grabbed it, took Zhu Yuyou into his arms, hugged Yan Sanniang again, and announced loudly: "It's my husband's bad, I won't run around casually from now on." ”

Yan Sanniang and Zhu Yuyou were still pouting, and Li Shi nodded her lips on the spot, and there were many outsiders present, and the two of them were suddenly flushed with shame, and they couldn't stop sneering.

Li Shi pulled Xiao Fumei and An Jiuxiu over, and his posture was extremely upright: "It's me who is wrong, I have made an edict."

surrounded his own man, the trace of resentment in his heart disappeared, and a low sobbing suddenly sounded in the field, which was the joy of venting the past thoughts.

Yan Sanniang's mind quickly turned to the difficult matter at the moment, and she said worriedly: "As long as you are here, you don't need to coax us, our hearts will be at ease, but this country, I'm afraid that it will be peaceful if you don't make an edict against yourself." 4 Li Xian's face narrowed slightly: "Is it a message from the Chaoshan Shen family?" ”

The Chaoshan Shen family is Shen Shisheng and Shen Fuyang's father and son, but the original source of this news is the Liang family, a salt merchant in Quanzhou, as for the content of the news, Li Shi has already known it clearly from Yu Hanyi.

He chuckled, "Trust me......"

Facing his clear and confident eyes, a trace of doubt that was still hanging in Yan Sanniang's heart disappeared, she buried herself in Li Xian's arms, and hummed in a low nasal voice.

Then Li Xian talked about the reward for meritorious deeds, "Guan Ko is the hardest, I have to treat him well...... "I don't want anything, as long as the fourth brother ......" Guan Ko hurriedly asked in his ear, and Li Xian nodded again and again.

"Okay, redouble our efforts from today onwards, so that we can become mothers as soon as possible."

Li Xi said it loudly, and everyone burst into laughter, and Guan Ko slammed his small fist on Li Shi's chest in shame.

Facing the children who were held by the mother-in-law in the rear, Li Xian was also excited in his heart, he also had three daughters and two sons, at least the I page of "being a man", he was already at a high level.

In this regard, Li Xi is a little overly arrogant, his achievements, compared with some people, are not worthy of lifting shoes.

Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, General Jinghai, General Jinghai, and the third-class Hou Shi Shibiao paced back and forth, eight people stood in front of him, not daring to make any changes, these eight people from thirty to ten years old, similar to Shi Shibiu, are his eight sons. One of them was in his early twenties, and he did not stand with the others, but stood on the side, and his body was also dressed in simple clothes, and the other seven were completely different.

"The Southern Dynasty is powerful, and the generals under the father's banner have lost their fighting spirit, once the Southern Dynasty looks at Fujian, it will be difficult for the father to resist. But my Shi family, who is highly favored by the imperial court, eats the king's Lu for my father, and repays the emperor's kindness, and will never dare to tarnish your grandfather's prestige and loyalty. ”

"Recently, there has been a turmoil in the Southern Dynasties, and if my father expects it to be true, the Southern Dynasties are especially good at fighting and pacifying civil strife outside the country, and before receiving Luzon, it is imperative to send troops to Fujian, and I Shi Liu's family has reached the critical point of life and death."

"The boy of the Shi family, serve the country loyally! Waiting for the adults, you will fight to the end with your father, Tinglin, Tinghuan, Tingyong, the three of you are young, and your father will entrust you to the second uncle. ”

Shi Shibiu's words and almost the same explanation of the aftermath, the sons all had a sad face.

"Handsome! Handsome! ”

Shi Shibiao looked at the concubine who was standing aside, his eyes flashed, as if he had something else to say, but the shouts came from the main hall, straight through the inner hall where they were.

A middle-aged second-grade officer rushed in, it was Li Fu, the governor of Fujian.

"Handsome! Wedding! ”

Li Fu's face was flushed, Shi Shibiao waved his hand, and after the eight sons stepped back, they calmly asked what was going on. "It's done!" What we had discussed earlier was done

Li Fu clapped his hands excitedly, as if he had completed a shocking feat. "As expected, within the year, the Southern Barbarians will definitely suspect the monarchs and ministers, and the industry and commerce will collapse!"

Shi Shibiao finally moved, "Is it really done?" ”

Li Fu nodded: "After I came back from Nanban, I thought hard about its national politics and destiny, and finally realized its roots. The foundation of the Southern Barbarian country is in the control of silver money. In the middle of the year, Nanban competed to open the stock market, gathering tens of millions of gold in one place, and between the ups and downs, the hearts of the people of a country also climbed. Didn't I discuss with the big boss earlier to find a way to shake its foundation? ”

"At that time, we saw that the Nanban was based on the Cantonese people, and the Cantonese and Fujian people started with the grievances, and buried the thread in the silver and money matter, which could be fought by the two parties. But I don't want to...... The people we use see more deeply, and they bury the line in the matter of the hypocrite's wealth! ”

His eyes flashed with an incomparably complacent light: "When the incident happens, the Southern Barbarian businessman will see through the true face of the hypocrite, and there is no trust between the two parties, how can it still be stable in that country!?" ”

Shi Shibi was stunned for a moment, and the blush also appeared on his face: "That person has such a ability!?" It's really a land! ”

Li Fu smiled and said: "People are talented, who would have thought that the foundation of that country would be so fragile, and that the hypocrite would be so unbearable." ”

At the same time that Shi Shibi and Li Fu were secretly discussing, the Wuya Palace was in the government hall, and in front of Li Shi, there was also a person who was righteously questioning him.

"Your Majesty set up the stock market, not only has it become a place for greedy businessmen to fight for silver, but even Your Majesty himself is working on it, profiting from the imperial court resolution and the Qingtian Company.

This is Lei Xiang of "Yuexiu Times", Yuexiu Times

Under his leadership, he has always adhered to a fair position in judging the rights and wrongs of national politics, and at the same time has cultivated a large number of newspaper talents, other newspapers have not only benefited a lot, but also the political part of the "Yuexiu Times" as a benchmark, Lei Xiang himself, but also implicitly threatened the leaders of public opinion in the country.

"Do you believe what the newspaper says?"

Li Xi asked rhetorically, he was still holding a newspaper in his hand, the masthead was "Min Bao", which was a newspaper from Fujian, and what it said was what Lei Xiang said. The newspaper commented on the previous stock price fluctuations, and bluntly said that Qingtian Company was behind the game and won millions of taels of profits. And countless people jumped into the river and went bankrupt, and the culprit was Qingtian Company.

The newspaper did not directly say that the emperor was related to the incident, but the business people knew that the big proprietor of the Qingtian company was the emperor himself.

Nowadays, newspapers are printed in licensed bureaus, and the Provincial Information Department has a censor in the bureau to censor these newspapers. I don't know how the people of Fujian have great powers, or whether the censors from the province of Menxia act in strict accordance with the regulations of the publication based on their ethics, and as long as they do not slander the king, insult others, or leak state military aircraft, they will not be restricted.

That's it.

Li Xian said clearly: "Only "Min Daily" said this, and other newspapers did not say it, including your Lei Xiang's "Yuexiu Times", is it because you newspapers have my shadow behind them, and there are people from me in the newspapers?" No, it's because you have all received anonymous submissions, and because you all know that this is a money dispute between Guangdong and Fujian, and that someone is behind it, so you don't want to act rashly. ”

Lei Xiang did not flinch, and said bluntly: "The grass people also know this background, but the grass people are worried about Your Majesty. At this time, everyone can still be in the same breath, the newspapers do not speak, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry does not speak, the businessmen in the country are watching, and the court is also indifferently disposing of it, in fact, they are all waiting for His Majesty to explain, and everyone believes in His Majesty. If His Majesty does not explain for a long time, or even does not want to deal with it, when this public opinion rises, His Majesty is afraid that it will be difficult to deal with it, so the grass people ......"

He took a deep breath and said resolutely: "Let's ask Your Majesty first, I don't know what Your Majesty said?" ”

Li Xi smiled and said, "Why do you want me to give any explanation?" I have long explained to the court, and there were local officials, and even people in the court, colluding with businessmen, inflating stock prices, and abusing power for personal gain. Lei Xiang was stunned, and only after a long time did he mutter: "Can ...... But Qingtian Company is His Majesty's industry... Li Shi frowned: "Why can't I buy and sell stocks?" I bought and sold all my own money, but I didn't touch a cent of the treasury. The imperial court strictly inspected the officials, too. They are checking whether they are using public money, and there are no restrictions on officials buying and selling stocks. ”

This rhetorical question was extremely lethal, and Lei Xiang was completely stunned.

"Rules, I have opened this stock market, and I have also established rules, and if you want to enter the market, you must see the rules clearly. Qingtian Company is indeed seeking profits, but my decision-making has deviated from the interests of a country and sought the interests of Qingtian Company? If others want to sit in the bank, they have to be willing to gamble and lose, how can they lose and then splash and roll and slander me!? ”

Li Xian said coldly, making Lei Xiang suddenly wake up to the fact that his understanding of the stock market was so far off. He finally remembered the explanation of the imperial court when the stock market was established.

This thing is set up to gather money and serve various industries, focusing on industry. And the turmoil in the country because of this, but the focus is all on speculation, speculation and speculation.

The imperial court had no restraints on speculation, buying and selling, and the emperor used the Qingtian Company to sit in the village to deal with this group of speculation and speculation, among which those who competed with the emperor and tried to take away the big profits with silver money naturally became the emperor's sacrifices.

Lei Xiang said with difficulty: "Everyone has the heart to seek profit, and Your Majesty also said that as long as the law does not prohibit it, seeking profit is a legitimate thing." His Majesty Bian swallowed the benefits of others with his own interests, and he was afraid that he would damage the hearts of the people of a country. ”

Li Shi shook his head: "When you speak, you have to look at the facts and the evidence."

When the turmoil was turbulent, I was thousands of miles away, and the turmoil in the stock market was all in Jianxia Investment and Fujian Cabinet, who was bent on the benefits of others? Aren't they those Fujian businessmen? And who bribed the officials to send out the many rumors during this period?

Isn't it still those Fujian businessmen? ”

Lei Xiang opened his mouth to speak, but found that it was difficult for him to continue debating, and the emperor did not have any violations in the whole turmoil.

To put it bluntly, it wasn't the emperor who was sitting in the village and squeezed out the gang of Fujian businessmen, but I don't know how much trouble they want to make and what kind of situation the stock market will be. But in the end, all the profits were swept away by the emperor, and this matter always felt very inappropriate.

Then Lei Xiang's brain was excited, on the one hand, the stock market was not strictly supervised, and a group of Fujian businessmen were allowed to manipulate the stock price, and on the other hand, the emperor was also a transcendent existence into the stock market. Emperor...... He shouldn't have stayed in the stock market, he was a national decision-maker, he commanded hundreds of officials, if those Fujian businessmen changed the emperor's authority and were bent on collecting money, instead of maintaining the order of the stock market, then who else could restrain them?

But this matter is no longer a question of right and wrong, let alone any merit or crime.

Lei Xiang said dejectedly: "Your Majesty is wise and always has the foresight, but although the rise and fall of the silver industry established by Your Majesty is related to industry, in reality, it is more subject to the government. The grass people think that anyone who is related to national politics should not reach out to this industry.

Otherwise, in the long run, this market will be a place where power is used to make profits, and it will lose His Majesty's original intention to set up a market, and in the end no one cares about it. ”

Lei Xiang saw that he had seen through this matter, and Li Xian nodded with satisfaction. "You've seen through the stock market and know the real cause of the previous turmoil. As for your opinion, why don't you make it clear in the newspapers? Just say that I, the emperor, shouldn't go into the stock market, I've been waiting for this for a long time. ”

These words made Lei Xiang even more shocked, and after thinking for a long time, he solemnly kowtowed: "It turns out that Your Majesty's intentions are here, and the grass people are completely enlightened!" ”

Li Shi mentioned one more sentence: "Since you are talking about the facts, you have to make it clear that among the Fujian businessmen, there are people from the Taqing Dynasty who want to use this stock market to defeat the hearts of our country." ”

Lei Xiang sighed: "This is indeed the way to appease the people, although it is against the heart of the grass people, but it is ...... for the overall situation."

Li Xian shook his head: "Do you think I am manipulating power!?" What I said is true, this person should have fled back to Xiamen! ”