The Prime Minister's Mansion is not far from the Yue Palace, Yu turned back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, sat in the study and felt uneasy, always feeling that something was going to happen, but he couldn't think of what might happen, until his third son Yu An walked in with a cup of ginseng tea, he suddenly thought of the reason.

Why did Sun Shao leave Lu Ji behind?

Sun Shao has always treated him and Lu Ji equally, and most of the things are agreed with the two of them, unless one of them is not around, and the thing of leaving a person alone like today has never happened. Yu Fu couldn't help muttering in his heart, what did Sun Shao leave Lu Ji for?

"Awn?" Yu An shouted, Yu replied, and then he came back to his senses, and asked Yu An to sit down and tell him what had just happened. Yu An smiled: "What else is there to say about this, it must be something related to the duties of the Imperial Doctor." Ah Weng, don't forget, the Imperial Doctor is called the Deputy Prime Minister, assisting the Prime Minister in handling affairs, but the most important duty of the Imperial Doctor is to supervise the hundred officials, including Prime Ministers like Ah Weng. Such a thing, of course, must be avoided by Aweng. ”

Yu Pan nodded, but he was a little uneasy, he took a sip of ginseng tea: "Shiping, what do you say he can report?" ”

"What else could be done?" Yu An raised his eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "It must be a matter of those few families trading with Wei Wu, they think they are doing it mysteriously, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, and there are secret soldiers under the king, how can it not even be clear about these?" ”

"No, the year before last and last year, I audited the accounts twice, but no problems were found." Yu Fu was a little reluctant to believe Yu An's words, and retorted with a deep groan. Yu An glanced at Yu and rolled his eyelids: "Ah Weng, do you really believe that the fake accounts they made can hide from people?" ”

Yu Fan didn't say anything, but his face was a little difficult to look at. Yu has been an official for many years, and those twists and turns around him are very clear, in the past, when he encountered this situation, he must have scolded without saying a word, and now he is still like this, he always has to be angry when he encounters such a situation, but he is angry, and if he really wants him to report to Sun Shao, it is inevitable that he will have some concerns, so he has dealt with some small things by himself, and some big ones, he also privately instructed those responsible to wipe their buttocks clean immediately, and try not to be discovered by Lu Ji. Fortunately, Lu Ji is a little bookish and angry, and his knowledge is good, but his political experience is limited, and he is not too clear about those private deeds, and these things have not been exposed.

But Yu Fu knows that it is easy to hide these things from Lu Ji, but it is not easy to hide from Lu Shan, how could that little woman who is so strong in mental arithmetic that she is perverted find problems from irrelevant accounts, how could she miss so many clues? What's more, in addition to Lu Shan, there are also Sun Shao's secret soldiers.

"This ...... It can't be that serious, right? ”

Yu An didn't say anything, he knew that his father didn't know how powerful, but he was involved in too many interests, and he couldn't extricate himself from it. The Yu family is now the fastest-growing family in Yuejun, his eldest brother Yu Ying is now in charge of the Donghai Shipyard, and the second brother Yu Ge is the captain of the South China Sea, and it is said that he will soon be transferred to the rank of Yizhou Captain, although he did not hold a position, but he was an assistant by his father's side, and his career in the future was also smooth sailing, and the Yu family could develop so fast, of course, it had a lot to do with the support of those families, such as the placement of so many people who came to hear the wind this time, without the support of the family, it was impossible to complete such a task.

"Ah Weng, the king is a king who follows the rules, but the king is also a shrewd king, you must not think that he despised him when he was young." Yu An earnestly admonished: "The embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed in the anthill, those people are too greedy, and sooner or later they will drag you into the abyss." During the trip to Zhuya, hasn't Ah Weng noticed the king's unhappiness? See the subtle knowledge, Ah Weng, this is the essence of easy learning. ”

Yu's hand holding the cup shook in the air, his eyes were obviously a little flustered, and he sat quietly for a while before nodding silently. Yu An breathed a sigh of relief, no longer bothered Yu Xuan's thinking, got up and walked out quietly. Standing under the porch, he looked at the bright sunlight and showed a relaxed smile. Yu Fang, who has always had a bad official career, became the prime minister of Yue Guo, and the Yu family was prosperous, and he was also happy, but seeing his father, who was originally going straight, lost in power day by day, he was very worried, for fear that his father would make a mistake and be ruined.

"Shiping, is the Prime Minister here?" Lu Ji hurriedly walked in, and when he saw Yu An standing under the porch, he hurriedly asked. Seeing that he was in a hurry, Yu An was taken aback by the uneasiness of Yu Turn, and hurriedly rushed to the bottom of the stairs to greet him: "Lu Gong, who are you?" ”

"You're welcome, take me to see Yu Gong." Lu Ji waved his hand, and stepped up the steps in two steps, Yu An was taken aback, he had known Lu Ji for so long, it was the first time he had seen Lu Ji walk like this.

"Gongxu, what's wrong?" Yu Flip, who heard the voice, came out of the house, and when he saw Lu Ji's appearance, his face immediately twitched involuntarily twice, and without saying a word, he immediately welcomed Lu Ji into the house and closed the door with his hand.

"Duke Yu, the king wants to kill someone." Lu Ji's first sentence scared Yu Flip's hands and stood there for a long time without coming back to his senses. By the time Lu Ji told what had happened, Yu Fu had already regained his composure, and the thick black sword eyebrows that did not match his age were twisted into a pimple, and his puzzled expression was undisguised: "What is the king thinking, since he is going to go to Funan, why is he still fighting corruption at this time, doesn't he know that doing so will cause chaos?" ”

Lu Ji smiled: "The internal affairs are uneasy, how can you conquer, the king must first remove the internal cancer, and then he can go on the expedition with confidence." Duke Yu, the two of us ......" Lu Ji shook his head: "I am ashamed of my trust in the king." ”

Yu Fu stroked his beard a little embarrassedly, and lowered his head in shame. Sun Shao respected and trusted them very much, and handed over almost all internal affairs to them, except for tightly grasping the military power, he basically didn't ask about government affairs. He, the prime minister, is the most powerful prime minister now, Zhong Xuan of Wei, Zhuge Liang of Shu and Sun Shao of Wu do not have as much power as him, but he has lived up to Sun Shao's trust.

"The three princes sat down and said, the king did it, we didn't do it." Lu Ji sighed, "I have already resigned from the king, and I will bear all the responsibilities with all my might." Gong Yu, you can do it. Don't have any more scruples, otherwise, it will only be a matter of time before the story of the prime minister being suppressed repeats itself. ”

Yu looked at Lu Ji in amazement, rushed to Lu Ji in two steps, and pulled Lu Ji's hand in surprise: "Gongxu, how are you ...... Resigned? ”

"For such a big thing, someone has to take responsibility, I didn't like politics in the first place, so I resigned, and I went to Zhuya College to study it." Lu Ji patted the back of Yu Flip's hand with his backhand, and smiled a little reluctantly: "I heard that there is a person named Li Ze from Zhuya Academy who grinds out a large lens, which is set up on the top of Wuzhi Mountain, which is specially used for stargazing." I'm happy to see the hunt, and I'm going to have a sneak peek. ”

"Then who will take over the Imperial Doctor?"

"I don't know." Lu Ji's eyes flashed, letting go of Yu Fan's gaze. Yu Fu nodded silently and retreated to his seat without saying anything more. Lu Ji took office as the third duke with him, and now Lu Ji took the blame and resigned and took all the responsibilities away, then he would be safe for the time being, but if he didn't rein in the precipice, then the next Lu Ji would be him, think about Shen Xuan of Zhuya, Yu turned his heart heavy.

"I'm wronged." Yu Chuan bowed respectfully.

"It's good to do it yourself." Lu Ji smiled, stretched out his arms, and made a relaxed expression: "I am now an unofficial and light, I can go to Yanyi with peace of mind, and you have to work hard, the king has great expectations for you." ”

Yu turned but didn't smile, nodded solemnly, and after sending Lu Ji away, he sat alone in the study all night, and the next morning, he wrote to King Yue, asking King Yue to postpone the expedition, and first check the stains of violations of law and discipline in various families.

For a while, there was an uproar in the country.

Three days later, Sun Shao, the king of Yue, issued a letter to the people, in which he raised the question in a short article, that is, what is the role of the army? He said that the role of the army is to protect the lives and wealth of the people of the whole country, and that the Vietnamese respect business and value business, and establish the country with business, and now the businessmen of the Yue country have been innocently killed by the people of Funan and their property has been taken away, which is a provocation to the Vietnamese country and a contempt for the naked people of the Vietnamese people. Then he changed his words, saying that the soldiers of the Yue country were defending the interests of the merchants with their own blood, the farmers were watering the grain with their own sweat for the merchants to eat, and the craftsmen were using their wisdom and diligence to provide the merchants with a large number of goods, but a small group of merchants indulged their greed, unscrupulously evaded and evaded taxes, and sold all kinds of controlled materials privately. Although the number of such businessmen is very small, it greatly harms the positive surnames of other people, and also harms the interests of other law-abiding businessmen.

This letter to the people quickly spread in the Yue country, everyone has a lot of discussions, who are doing this kind of thing that people are angry about, the status of merchants in Yue is the highest in history, almost the entire Yue country revolves around the merchants, the king still has to hold a sword to do business, for a few merchants he has to crusade against the Funan country, but why are these merchants not satisfied?

Not only the craftsmen, farmers and soldiers, but even the merchants themselves could not hold back, they speculated and blamed these lawless elements who ruined the good situation, and they were very afraid that Sun Shao would lose confidence in the merchants because of this, so they gave up the national policy of valuing merchantism and restoring the old way of valuing agriculture and suppressing business, in that case, they would be miserable. So they were more desperate than anyone else to get rid of the moths.

For a while, Qian Tangcheng and even the entire Yue Kingdom were lively.

General Cui Qian strode into the palace of Yue Wang, and as soon as Sun Shao's letter to the people was issued, these soldiers received a lot of attention, which made Cui Qian unexpected. In the past, the military had two roles, one was to deal with foreign enemies, but the other or the main one was to suppress the people internally, so the soldiers were not good people in the eyes of the people, and even more hateful than bandits, and now Sun Shao emphasized the role of the outside world, clearly defining their responsibility as protecting the life and property safety of the people, and stating that they wanted to seek justice for a few businessmen who were killed by the Funan Kingdom, which naturally aroused the favor of ordinary people. And those businessmen who originally enjoyed the benefits of the sailor's escort were even more reassured, they were originally stipulated to sell goods to the soldiers and only earn limited profits when they were still a little unwilling, but now they are still unwilling, but the psychological balance is much more, people use their surnames to protect themselves, and they should give them a little discount, these days Cui Qian often meets his subordinates who are happy and buy bargains and run to him to ask for war, one by one as if they have been beaten with chicken blood.

"The King." Cui Qian knelt down in front of Sun Shao from the bottom of his heart.

"Jianzhong, come here." Sun Shao, who was sitting in front of the case, beckoned, called Cui Qian over, pointed to the map of the South China Sea on the case, and tapped his finger on the location of Lin Yiguo: "Do you remember here?" ”

"Yes." Cui Qian glanced at it and smiled, this was originally his sphere of influence and tax collection area, and his first achievement under Sun Shao was also because he killed the prince of Linyi State, how could he not remember.

"This time the Funan Kingdom invaded the south of Yuenan, and the Lin Yi Kingdom was the vanguard, and they shouted the most." Sun Shao patted the map and said with emotion: "I originally wanted to do my best, but you have also seen that now some people can't deal with it, and if they are not treated, they will become terminally ill, and I want to take advantage of the fact that they have not yet formed a climate to nip this bad sign in the bud, so this South China Sea matter can only be handed over to you first." ”

When Cui Qian heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, he took a step back to his knees, and fell to the ground: "The minister dares to disobey his orders." After a while, he raised his head again in confusion: "The king, the minister...... Not suitable, right? ”

"Hahaha......" Sun Shao raised his hand and pointed at Cui Qian, "I said you, a pirate leader, don't play tricks with me, if you are not suitable, I will not come to you, you can go with peace of mind, let it go, and make the coast of Linyi and Funan as muddy as possible for me, I will make them regret it for the rest of their lives." ”

Cui Qian's slender eyes blinked, his mouth grinned, and he smiled: "That's okay, since the king doesn't worry about other people's gossip, then I'll be a pirate again." King, if I do well this time, I will have to be a pioneer next time I go to Xiyi. ”

"Get out! Do you dare to talk to me about conditions? Sun Shao's eyes glared: "If you don't want to go, I'll go and call Chen Hai and Yuehai now." ”

"Don't! Other! Other! Cui Qian said repeatedly: "They are all serious sailors, and I am still the best at this kind of pretending to be a pirate and robbing them." Cheng, I don't talk to the king about the conditions, anyway, the king has clear rewards and punishments, and he won't treat me badly. King, when will you go? ”

"The sooner the better." Sun Shao touched his chin and smiled sinisterly: "You go quietly, don't be too public, first take the opportunity of the training camp to go to the estuary, and then rush to the South China Sea." I'll give you Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi, there are about 8,000 people, it should be enough, right? ”

"That's enough, the minister obeys." Cui Qian understood, discussed the details with Sun Shao again, and got up to leave.

Sun Deng stood at the door of the post house, looking at the bustling Qiantang street, although the sun was shining, his face was so cloudy that water could drip out. originally wanted to go to the South China Sea with Sun Shao to fight, but first Sun Quan transferred Bu Qi out of Jiaozhou, which broke his thoughts, and now Sun Shao is busy fighting corruption, seeing that it is impossible to go on the expedition for a while, so what should he do? Do you stay here and wait for Sun Shao to go together, or go to Jiaozhou first? If Sun Shao doesn't leave, what's the use of him going to Jiaozhou alone?

Sun Deng was in a dilemma and was in an awkward position. He looked at the Yue Wang Palace not far away, and inexplicably regretted it. He remembered that he had a verbal agreement with Sun Shao that Wu Yue would not attack each other, and now although Wu Yue did not go to war, there were many open and secret fights, and the intimate relationship between him and Sun Shao also inadvertently faded. Thinking of Sun Shao's care for him when he was in Liaodong, Sun Deng missed it a lot, and he believed that if their relationship had not deteriorated, such a problem would definitely not have arisen, and even if it did, Sun Shao could help him solve it.

Everything is because of Zhou Yu. Sun Deng secretly sighed, he has been paying attention to Zhou Yu's whereabouts these days, everyone in the Zhou family often goes in and out of the Yue Palace, but Zhou Yu has not been there, Sun Shao has not met her so far, and the two seem to be a little cold and unimaginable. Sun Deng couldn't figure it out, could it be that he was too sensitive and misunderstood Sun Shao?

"Uncle Fa, does the king have any news?"

Xie Jing shook his head and stopped talking. Sun Quan seemed to have forgotten Sun Deng's son, and there was neither an instruction for him to rush to Jiaozhou, nor an order for him to return to Jianye, silently.

"Say whatever you want, don't say half a sentence and leave half a sentence." Sun Deng forcibly suppressed his unhappiness, turned his head and glanced at Xie Jing, Xie Jing's face was not good, his eyes flickered, and he obviously had something to hide from him.

"Minister...... The minister heard that Mrs. Wang had appeared in front of the king several times recently. Xie Jing raised his head and looked at Sun Deng: "Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Bu are not easy to say, the prince is not in Jianye, and there is only one son by the king's side." ”

Sun Deng's eyelids twitched, and he nodded: "What's so strange about this, my father is not in good health, and he will feel better when he sees his children in front of his knees." After a while, as if he felt that the sentence was not convincing enough, he added: "When I was in Jianye, my father often came to me, and there was nothing important, just small talk." ”

Zhuge Ke walked in from outside, just in time to hear Sun Deng's last words, he glanced at Sun Deng, walked behind Sun Deng and stood still, and sighed softly: "The king's body seems to have improved greatly, and the recovery is unimaginable. Prince, don't take it lightly. ”

"Yuan Xun, you're thinking too much." Sun Deng's eyelids jumped, and he turned around and entered the house: "Yuan Xun, come, tell me what you saw." ”

"I've seen a lot of things." Zhuge Ke smiled bitterly: "Prince, the speed of resettlement of those farmers is simply amazing, we underestimated the financial resources of Yue Guo and their determination, and now even if Yue Guo is willing to let these farmers go back, they will not go back." ”

"Yuan Xun, is it an exaggeration?" Xie Jing laughed unnaturally.

"Exaggeration?" Zhuge Ke sneered: "I saw it with my own eyes, but I didn't stay in the city and speculate. Shufa, why don't you go outside the city to have a look? As long as you see the small courtyards they built for the farmers, the food stored in the small courtyards, you will know if I am exaggerating. I made a rough calculation, the cost of these farmers to settle down can be worth their output for five years, that is to say, they did nothing in Yueguo, and first got a great benefit, although they left their hometown, but it is definitely better than living in their hometown, who wants to leave? He paused, sighed again, and pointed in the direction of the Yue Palace outside the door: "Prince, Shufa, have you ever seen such a palace?" Have you ever seen such an office? Seriously, it's not much better than those small courtyards outside the city. ”

Sun Deng was silent, and Xie Jing did not speak. King Yue is the richest of the four kings, but the Yue Palace is the most shabby palace among the four palaces, and I am afraid that the Luoyang Palace rebuilt from the ruins is much stronger than him. Sun Deng couldn't understand why Sun Shao was so bitter about himself, the most beautiful place in the world of the Han Dynasty was the Imperial Palace, then the Sangong Mansion, and then the official offices at all levels, the greater the power, the more beautiful the house to live in, this is a natural thing that everyone thinks, but the Yue Kingdom does the opposite, the Yue Palace is very simple, the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Imperial Historian's Mansion are slightly better, but they are also limited, in a word, the best house in Qiantang City has absolutely nothing to do with the official office, and the palace where Sun Shao lives can only be regarded as medium in Qiantang City at most.

The most frugal Emperor Xiaowen is no better than this, right? Emperor Wen created the rule of Wenjing, why couldn't Sun Shao create a prosperous dynasty that belonged to him? Sun Deng was silent, the more he thought about it, the more he regretted it, he turned his face with Sun Shao for a woman, it was too impulsive and reckless.

"Yuan Xun, I want to meet King Yue." Sun Deng raised his head suddenly, and his face, which had always been very calm, showed the helplessness that he should have at his age: "Yuan Xun, I think...... We can't afford to be in such a stalemate with King Yue anymore, we can't afford to wait. ”

Zhuge Ke clasped his hands together and stirred, he was also a little flustered in his heart, and his original ambition was slowly exhausted in the face of waiting for no end. They originally wanted to talk to Sun Shao about the conditions, but they didn't expect that they couldn't see Sun Shao at all now, not only Sun Shao, they couldn't even see Prime Minister Yu's face, so they could only listen to the old master Kong Zhu's morality, but this day is a head.

"Prince, I heard that the princess is in the Flying Tiger Camp, you ...... Would you like to visit? ”

Sun Deng was stunned for a moment, thought about it for a long time, and nodded: "It's okay, I've heard the name of the Flying Tiger Battalion for a long time, and I haven't been able to see it with my own eyes, so let's open our eyes and see what this first female army in history looks like." ”

Xie Jing smiled silently. Among the three of them, he is the eldest, and he has already passed through the kind of young surname, Sun Deng and Zhuge Ke's regretful expressions fell in his eyes, but he will not pierce their self-deception, Sun Deng is the superior, and Zhuge Ke is a person with a very strong surname, no matter which one of them loses face, it is not a good thing for him.

Seeing that there was no objection, Sun Deng, who had been waiting for a long time, seemed to have grasped a straw, and immediately drove straight to the Flying Tiger Camp. The barracks of the Flying Tiger Battalion and the Destroyer Battalion were next to each other, close to the Qiantang Wharf, and the barracks of the Later General Yuehai were in charge of guarding the periphery. As soon as Sun Deng and the others arrived at the dock, they were stopped by Yuehai's subordinates, and a captain with thick eyebrows and big eyes and a fierce face shook his two broom eyebrows and bared his teeth at Xie Jing: "Prince of Wu? Since you are the prince of Wu State, there is no one from Dahonglu Kong Gong to take with you, what are you doing in the barracks? Do you want to spy on the military situation of my country? ”

"Definitely." Xie Jing hurriedly laughed and stuffed a handful of money from his sleeve: "My prince is the son of the fifth general of the Flying Tiger Battalion, and he came here to observe the heroic appearance of the Flying Tiger Battalion." ”

Before he finished his words, the captain's face changed, he raised his hand and knocked the money in Xie Jing's hand to the ground, and shouted: "You dare to bribe me? Come on, take it! ”

There was a "bang", fifty heavily armed soldiers surrounded at once, Sun Deng did not understand what was happening, fifty soldiers had already lined up in five columns in front and back, surrounding them from four directions, twenty knives, twenty halberds, and ten crossbows.

Sun Deng suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

(To be continued)