Wu Jin didn't know what was happening outside the door, he pushed the door in, and saw Su Hanzhen pacing in the room with his hands behind his back.

"My lord! Are you looking for me? ”

"Yes, I have something to do with you, you sit down first, and we'll talk slowly."

Su Hanzhen asked Wu Jin to sit down, Wu Jin looked at Su Hanzhen's study, the study was elegantly and plainly furnished, with a table and two chairs, and a row of bookshelves, the bookshelves were full of books, and there was a bottle of bronze incense burner with a faint fragrance in the corner of the wall, tiger head and cow body, although the style was simple, but Wu Jin knew at a glance that it was only worth eight dollars, and there were several identical ones in their pawnshop.

"You know everything about today!"

Su Hanzhen poured him a cup of tea and sat across from him, looking at him with a smile.

What Wu Jin doesn't like the most is Su Hanzhen's politeness, a politeness is not a good thing, the last time he came to the pawnshop for a long time, he left a word, in fact, he wanted to make himself a thief over the wall and help him steal the letter back.

And this time? actually poured tea for himself personally, what purpose did he have?

"I've heard that someone killed the Huang family Erlang, and the Huang family and the Ma family were out at the same time."

"Anyone?"

Su Hanzhen looked at him with a smile, "But my intuition tells me that you did this." ”

Wu Jin's heart jumped, and he laughed, "Master Su is too good at joking, how can it be me?" ”

"Because you are too quiet, because your eldest brother told me that you promised him that you would not let the Huang family succeed!"

Su Hanzhen looked at him proudly, as if he had exposed his old bottom, and Wu Jin couldn't help but complain secretly in his heart, "Big brother! Big brother! Don't you have a city? Why can't you hide it in front of Su Hanzhen? ’

He still didn't admit it, "My lord is too arbitrary, although I said this to my eldest brother, it doesn't mean that I have the ability, and it doesn't mean that I did it, it may be done by Zhang County, or it may be Xu Changshi, and it may be because Huangfuqu can't help the Huang family. ”

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Su Hanzhen stared at Wu Jin, for a long time, there was a hint of approval in his eyes, very good, not lost because of power, not relieved by fraudulent questioning, these two brothers are worthy of reuse.

He retracted his gaze and smiled faintly, "Actually, it doesn't matter what you do, what matters is your attitude, are you willing to help your eldest brother succeed?" ”

Wu Jin was just about to speak, but Su Hanzhen interrupted him with another wave of his hand, "You listen to me finish speaking." ”

He walked a few steps in the room with his hands behind his back, sighed, and said, "Do you know why the matter of Master Hu Cao is so important? ”

Wu Jin shook his head, he also wanted to know, why were so many people fighting for a small household Cao in charge? made Donghai County turbulent, although the eldest brother told him a little, he wanted to hear Su Hanzhen's explanation.

"In the eyes of ordinary people, the head of Hu Cao is a shortcut to promotion, and when he becomes the head of Hu Cao of Donghai County, he will generally be promoted to the head of Weiyang County or Pingjiang County in two to three years, and officially enter the official, which is a practice for decades, like Liu Mi, the assassin of Danyang County, ten years ago he was the head of Hu Cao of Donghai County, so the families of Donghai County are staring at this position with red eyes."

Speaking of this, Su Hanzhen glanced at Wu Jin and said with a smile: "Do you understand?" ”

Wu Jin still shook his head, "This point may be important to my eldest brother, but for adults, I think there should be a deeper reason. ”

Wu Jin's words made Su Hanzhen nod secretly, ordinary people only see that this head of the household can be promoted and make a fortune, but this young man can see the deeper part of the problem, very good, if it was just convenient for promotion, he and Xu Yuan would not spare no effort to fight.

"What I want to tell me next is a secret of the imperial court, you can know it yourself, and you must not say it at will."

Wujin didn't say anything, Su Hanzhen glanced at him, and said slowly: "Because the East Palace of the previous dynasty was abolished very frequently, so that the internal strife continued, and finally perished, so that my Daning Dynasty at the beginning of the founding of the country, it learned the lessons of the previous dynasty, and it was not allowed to say lightly that the prince was abolished, Gaozu set up an iron monument in the Taimiao, the prince was not immoral and not allowed to be abolished, and at the same time gave the East Palace a lot of autonomy, once the prince was designated as the prince, he could have three powers, one was the official power, and the prince of the East Palace had the right to appoint and dismiss; One is military power, and the 20,000 troops of the East Palace Sixth Mansion are controlled by the crown prince; The other is financial power, and one-tenth of the treasury is handed over to the East Palace, which is used for the military salary of the East Palace. ”

Speaking of this, Su Hanzhen paused and asked him, "Do you have a problem?" ”

"I don't quite understand, what's the difference between the prince and the prince?"

"The crown prince cannot participate in state politics, he can only learn the way of governing the country, but after being promoted to the prince, he can participate in state politics, but he must meet three conditions to be promoted to the prince, one of which the prince must be in the East Palace for ten years; The second prince must be at least 30 years old; The third emperor is over fifty years old, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has met these three conditions, so he was officially canonized as a prince at the beginning of last year. ”

Wu Jin nodded, "I understand, please continue." ”

"Hmm!" Su Hanzhen pondered for a moment, and continued with the topic just now.

"The most important of the prince's three powers is military power and financial power, without enough financial resources, the army can not be maintained, after the prince was canonized as the prince last year, he got these three rights, but since June last year, the household department began to intermittently deduct the financial resources of the East Palace, especially after Queen Yang at the beginning of the year, the household department cut off the financial resources of the East Palace, the prince wrote to the emperor several times to ask for the restoration of the financial resources of the East Palace, and once in the book, the household department gave a little, and finally the emperor asked for the surname to make the East Palace negotiate with the household department, that is to say, he didn't care about this matter, Therefore, financial resources have become the most serious crisis in the East Palace, without financial resources, the East Palace will not be able to support the army, and finally the military power will be forced to hand over. ”

Su Hanzhen's mood was also very heavy, he sighed, "I won't tell you, I have handed over the five thousand taels of silver that Huangfuqu bought Yang Xueyi last time, and I know that his financial resources are very tight." ”

"That's why the adults took up the post of Assassin of Donghai County, right?"

"That's right, the prince spared no effort to participate in the battle for the history of the assassination of Donghai County, and finally won, but this is only the first step, and the second is to seize the financial power of Donghai County, because the Taizu iron tablet is clearly written, the taxes of the East Palace are distributed by the counties, and the princes of the Daning Dynasty are like this, after the prince is canonized, the household department must return the financial power to the East Palace, but the household department is the uncle of Shen Guo, he did not implement the counties to send to the East Palace, but the household department first collected all the taxes of the counties, and then the household department allocated the East Palace, Obviously violated the regulations of the Taimiao Iron Monument, the prince asked for punishment of Uncle Shen Guo for violating the rules several times, but the emperor pretended to be deaf and dumb, if I can seize the financial power of Donghai County, I can directly allocate the tax to the East Palace, no longer transferred by the household department, then the prince will have 300,000 taels of silver a year to pay taxes, which can greatly ease the tension on his financial resources. ”

Su Hanzhen saw that Wu Jin's face showed an expression of sudden realization, and he couldn't help laughing, "Now you understand!" The head of Hu Cao is the most critical chess piece here, and if I get the position of head of Hu Cao, I will have the financial power of Donghai County, so the position of the crown prince will be much more stable, of course, Uncle Shen Guo also understands this, so the competition between me and Xu Yuan will be so fierce. ”

Su Hanzhen made a long speech, and finally let Wu Jin understand the cause and effect of the matter, he knew that he had to agree to help today, in fact, he was also willing to help Su Hanzhen do something, in return for his help when gambling, but he didn't like Su Hanzhen always talking about the eldest brother, obviously he wanted to let himself help him, but he refused to say it directly, as if he was afraid of owing himself favors, or afraid that he would not be able to let go of face.

Of course, Su Hanzhen is a county assassin, and he needs to maintain the necessary official authority or dignity in front of his own small people, he understands, so he would rather do business with Su Hanzhen, everyone is for their own interests, you help me once, I respect you once, so that I can maintain my reading ability, and will not become Su Hanzhen's henchman like the eldest brother, he doesn't want to become anyone's vassal.

"Master Su, what do you need my help to do, you just say it, I am a straightforward person, as long as I can do it, I will do my best, and I am a businessman, businessmen pay attention to the exchange of interests, I want to repay the help of the last gambling adult, but also to prepare for the next time I ask the adult, so the adult should not have any scruples, just say it bluntly."

"Good! I like your straightforwardness. ”

Wu Jin made his words clear, Su Hanzhen also put down his burden, he actually wanted to take the opportunity to take Wu Jin as his subordinate, and let him and Wei Ming become his right-hand man, but Wu Jin's words just now, it was obvious that he was unwilling to attach himself to him, just to exchange interests with him, although he was a little disappointed, but it also made him a little less scrupled, after all, their goal was the same, to push Wei Ming up first.

"Since you want to do business with me, then you have to show sincerity first, and I'll ask you again, is it your hands and feet that Huang Feng was captured?"

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