On the sixth day of March in the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, the rain finally stopped for half a month, and the sun that had not been seen for many days shone on the earth, slightly dispelled the haze in some rainy days, and the pedestrians on the street were also more and more old and young, and the shops naturally had customers overflowing, earning a lot of money. The professional smiles on the faces of the shopkeepers who received the reward money were also a little more sincere from the heart, and they greeted the guests, and the voice was a little more brittle than before.

"Guest officer, please upstairs."

"Yo, thank you for your reward, you go slowly."

"Third floor, Yalingku, four."

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Although there is still a little time from noon, but the front of Wanhualou is already busy, a prosperous scene, just when the second shopkeeper who greeted the guests together was very busy, a large group of people and horses in the distance surrounded an eight-person sedan chair and went straight to the door, and looked at the name on the number plate, it turned out to be the current Eighth Prince, His Royal Highness the King of Yue arrived, this is a rare guest, shocked that the guys didn't care to greet other guests, and rushed over, and didn't dare to say much, just respectfully waited aside, Wait for the master in the sedan chair to get off the sedan chair.

"Your Highness is here, and the shop is shining, Your Highness, please inside." As soon as he saw Li Zhen's tall figure getting off the sedan chair, Liu Hushun, the second shopkeeper of Wanhualou, hurriedly trotted all the way over, smiling all over his face.

Li Zhen came to this Wanhualou for the third time, but the first two times were all white dragon fish suits, and it was the first time to drive in a row, and at this time, he saw the second shopkeeper in the store to greet him in person, so he smiled and nodded, as a greeting, looked left and right, and then asked with a smile: "Store, business is good, hehe, the wealth is wide." ”

Although Li Zhen is the richest man in the Tang Dynasty, he is low-key, and he has rarely shown his face, and he appeared in Wanhualou in a grand manner, but it is a rare thing, Rao is Liu Hushun is well-informed, and he feels that he has extra face, at this time, when he heard Li Zhen praise Wanhualou's good business, he smiled so much that his eyes narrowed, and he bowed down and smiled: "TOEFL, TOEFL, Your Highness, please come in." ”

"Hmm." Li Zhen nodded with a smile, but did not move, just asked with a smile: "Has His Royal Highness King Wei arrived?" ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Wei?" When Liu Hushun heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded, repeated in confusion, and looked at Li Zhen suspiciously.

"Oh, did you hear Tao Xuan's guests arrive?" Li Zhen seemed to suddenly remember something, patted her head, and asked with a smile.

"Huh?" Liu Hushun snorted stupidly, and then suddenly replied: "It's here, it's here, the guest is His Royal Highness the King of Wei?" ”

Li Zhen didn't explain more, laughed and raised his feet and entered the store, and ignored the stammering of those shopkeepers, and led the guards up to the fourth floor, and went straight to Tingtao Xuan, entered the door, and just turned the screen, he saw Li Tai, who was wearing a soapy white silk robe, standing by the window with his hands behind his back, looking at himself with an unhappy face.

"Fourth brother, you are here, hehe, the younger brother is one step late, forgive the sins, forgive the sins." Li Zhen didn't seem to see the anger on Li Tai's face, and said hello nonchalantly.

Li Tai came here to travel in Weifu, and he was going to meet Li Zhen in private, but he didn't expect Li Zhen to line up the prince's posture and come so publicly, and he hated it in his heart, but when he thought that the key to bringing down the prince was in Li Zhen's hands, he couldn't do it again, and snorted hatefully: "Eighth brother, you are ...... this"

Li Zhen was deliberately trying to make a big fuss, so naturally she didn't care much about Li Tai's dissatisfaction, shrugged her shoulders, and said with a smile: "Fourth brother, yesterday a little brother made a bet with you, no, the sun is shining today, and the little brother lost the host, so it's time to treat him, what?" You won't forget. ”

Yesterday, when the suburbs sent the army on a trip, Li Zhen did talk about this matter in order to fool the prince, Li Tai was on the side, naturally it was clear, but he knew better: Li Zhen never acted according to common sense, so fanfare, there must be no good intentions inside, the left and right are just for other brothers to see, and there must be other arrangements in the future, but Li Tai also knew that he couldn't think of the mystery if he wanted to break his head, so he simply didn't think about it anymore, and glanced at Li Zhen, who had a hippie smile, and waved his hand angrily: "That's it, Let's get down to business. As soon as the words fell, he didn't greet Li Zhen, and sat down first. Li Zhen laughed, didn't care about Li Tai's rudeness, went straight to the bottom and sat down, looking at Li Tai with a smile on his face, but he didn't speak.

"Eighth brother, brother is still the same old saying, make a price." Li Tai obviously had no choice but to take Li Zhen, and he didn't want to go around in circles with Li Zhen any more, so he said bluntly.

"Haha, okay, since the fourth brother is so refreshing, then the little brother is welcome." Li Zhen smiled and poured a full bottle of wine for Li Tai first, and then filled the wine bottle in front of him, picked up the wine bottle, and looked at Li Tai with a smile on his face: "The younger brother's uncle Yanhe has been driving in Gunzhou for many years, even if there is no merit, there is hard work, what's the matter, it's time to go back to Beijing to enjoy the blessings, hehe, Wang Ning, the waiter of the Criminal Department, seems to be not in good health recently, and he is also old, it's time to pay tribute, hehe, what does the fourth brother think?" ”

As soon as he heard Li Zhen's words, Li Tai, who was drinking wine, was immediately choked, his face turned red, he sneezed hatefully, glared at Li Zhen angrily, and was speechless for a while - the criminal department is in the hands of Li Tai, according to the Tang system, the positions below the Lang officials of each ministry can be recommended by the ministry, and it can be reported to the Ministry of Officials for review and submitted for approval, and under normal circumstances, it will not be returned, but once it involves the servants of the ministry, the ministries do not have the slightest right to speak, and the power is all concentrated in the hands of the emperor. Even the officials only have the right to recommend, and Li Zhen's requirements are really a bit outrageously high.

"Eighth brother, don't you want the fourth brother to look good?" Li Tai was choked by Li Zhen's anger, and stared at Li Zhen angrily for a long time before he said something hatefully.

Ha, you're right, I'm just looking at you today! Seeing Li Tai's resentment, Li Zhen was very proud in her heart, but her face was inexplicably wonderful: "What? Why did the fourth brother say this? Is there anything inappropriate? ”

"You ......" Li Tai laughed angrily at Li Zhen's pretending to be stupid, and after laughing for a while, he said with a cold face: "In this way, the eighth brother is not sincere in talking to his brother, and no matter what, my brother is not reluctant." ”

Oh, he's really an impatient guy, this kid's ability is really worse than the third, well, even the sixth is better than this one, damn, these sons and daughters-in-law are all waste! Seeing Li Tai's puffed up virtue, Li Zhen despised him hatefully in his heart, but he said with a look of grievance on his face: "What did the fourth brother say, isn't the younger brother doing what the fourth brother said?" Well, since the fourth brother doesn't want to talk about it, then let's not talk about it, come, drink! ”

Drink? At this moment, Li Tai was in the mood to drink, and he had the heart to leave with his sleeves up, but he was reluctant, after all, all the hope of overthrowing the prince was in Li Zhen's hands, how could Li Tai succeed, in desperation, he could only force the anger in his heart to be suppressed, and said calmly: "Eighth brother, my brother also knows that Yan Beijia has worked hard and made great achievements, and the court should be rewarded, well, this is good, there is a vacancy in the history of the Shengzhou assassin, and Yan Beijia will be promoted to the history of the Shengzhou assassin?" ”

Shengzhou belongs to Fengxiang Mansion in Guannai Province, not far from Jingshi, just a middle state, according to the official rank is under the four grades, compared to Zhiyan and the current Shangzhou Don't drive from the four grades to be considered two levels higher, plus this state is close to Gyeonggi, for Yan He can be regarded as an exceptional promotion, if you can take it, Li Zhen will naturally not have any opinions, but well, since it is a business, then the time to bargain is not allowed to be sloppy, Li Zhen listened to Li Tai's proposal, and did not answer immediately, just frowned and did not say anything.

Seeing that Li Zhen didn't open his mouth for a long time, Li Tai couldn't help but be a little breathless, frowned and said: "Eighth brother, you must know that the history of Shengzhou is very **** now, not to mention that the boss is fighting, several ladies in the palace have also handed over the note, and my brother has lost a lot of favors to get this state, if not...... Hehe, my brother is reluctant to take it out. ”

"Well, since my brother said so, then the younger brother shouldn't be too careful, right? Haha, drink. Li Zhen raised the wine bottle with a smile, drank the wine in the bottle in one go, lit up the bottom of the bottle, and suddenly turned his head and said: "Fourth brother, you know, the younger brother opened the mansion, built the government, and there are many people, young and old, and the fourth brother was wrongly loved in front of him, and helped arrange some people to enter the criminal department, and the younger brother was grateful, but he ...... Alas, this bowl of water is not easy to be leveled, the opinions of the people in the house are too big, there is no way, and the younger brother has to ask for the elder brother again, hehe. ”

As soon as he heard that Li Zhen accepted his own proposal, Li Tai was happy, but he never thought that Li Zhen would come up with a new request, which really made Li Tai's lungs explode - last time Li Zhen said that he wanted to hand over Liu Qi, he just stuffed several people into the criminal department, but now, he didn't see Li Zhen hand over the people, and now he is going to be on again, which really makes Li Tai hate Li Zhen and want to give Li Zhen an old punch, but it's a pity that Li Tai is under the eaves at this time, and he has to bow his head, how can he have a seizure, but Li Tai no longer refuses to let Li Zhen stuff people in the criminal department, If you really stuff more people, it will be difficult to say whose world the criminal department will be in the future, right?

Li Tai is not stupid, in the face of Li Zhen's sky-high asking price, he immediately began to sit on the ground to repay the money, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly laughed and said: "The eighth brother is suffering, and the elder brother should help, but there is no vacancy in the criminal department recently, and it is not good to enter again, but there seems to be a shortage of people at the end of the Ministry of Works, well, if the eighth brother is interested, the elder brother can help jointly recommend one or two, with the talents of the eighth brother's group, there will be no obstacles to coming to the father's place, so good?" ”

The Ministry of Industry is the lowest status of the six ministries, and it is also the least valued of the ministry, the influence in the court is not too high, the power of Wu Wang Li Ke is the strongest in the Ministry of Industry, in general, more than half of the officials in the Ministry of Industry are the manpower of King Wu, which is also the reason why King Wu and others were able to get out some unstocked ordnance through the Ministry of Industry at the beginning. What's more important is to let Li Zhen fight with the third child, how can the scheming here be hidden from Li Zhen, but Li Zhen doesn't care, he originally planned to take advantage of the third child's chaos to erode the third child's power, Li Tai's proposal is indispensable for Li Zhen, but well, Li Zhen doesn't want to let Li Tai go so easily, after all, this is a hammer business, outdated and invalid, can you knock a little more and count a little, isn't it? No, Li Tai made a suggestion, but Li Zhen refused to speak, just drank silently, but Li Tai was suffocated.

"Eighth brother, can you give my brother a word, a manly husband, what's the matter with my mother-in-law and mother-in-law?" Seeing that Li Zhen was still silent, Li Tai finally couldn't help but shout.

Tsk, waste is waste, damn, I can't even bargain, and I still want to be an emperor, cut, sample, so I'm in a hurry? Ha, useless thing! Li Zhen was secretly amused in her heart, but her face was full of embarrassment and said: "Fourth brother, do you know, the third brother at the end of the Ministry of Industry has the final say, if it is ......, hey, if the third brother has an idea, he is only afraid that it is not good, or the fourth brother will help him go to the Criminal Department to talk about it, the younger brother does not want much, it is enough to enter seven or eight people, so it can be done?" ”

Look at what Li Zhen said, there are not many people called seven or eight people? Although there are more than 2,000 people in the Criminal Department, there are only more than 500 people with grades, and after deducting those adjutant officers below the seventh grade, there are only about 100 officials who are full of officials, and only half of the real people who follow Li Tai closely, Li Zhen has already stuffed eight people last time, and this time there are seven or eight people, so what is it? Li Tai's anger was indescribable, he stared at Li Zhen with a tiger face for a while, and he was speechless, but Li Zhen was good, as if nothing happened, just drinking leisurely, with a relaxed smile on his face.

"Three, no more!" Li Tai saw Li Zhen's indifferent look, although he was extremely angry in his heart, he still endured it and gritted his teeth and said.

Ha, too, although the sparrow is small, it is also meat, isn't it? Li Zhen saw that Li Tai opened his mouth, so he didn't care about it anymore, and said with a smile: "Okay, the fourth brother said that three people are three, but the Ministry of Industry is ......."

Li Zhen This is a typical Longwang Shu, but Li Tai doesn't care very much, in his opinion, as long as Li Zhen is willing to hand over people, everything is negotiable, left and right to wait for him to enter the East Palace, and then turn around and clean up Li Zhen, what's the difficulty, besides, let Li Zhen's people go to the Ministry of Industry but mix sand, and it is not a big deal to fight with the third brother, which laughed and said: "Okay, since the eighth brother has opened his mouth, how can my brother not help the courtesy, go back today, my brother will prepare this chapter, and go back to the eighth brother to jointly sign the book, so it can be done?" ”

This bamboo bar is knocked quite smoothly, although the income is not too much, but for Li Zhen, who has just started for a long time, it is also an acceptable result, plus some leftovers from the hands of the prince and the third child in front of the head, it will be counted, Li Zhen has a little foundation in the court, although the confidence is still insufficient, but well, with a good start, the things behind will be easy to do, isn't it? Besides, kicking the ball to Li Tai's feet and letting him come forward to fight the prince is Li Zhen's established policy, as for those sky-high asking prices, to put it bluntly, it's just a cover, it's good to get it, and it doesn't hurt if you don't get it, now it's a big profit, and it's time to stop in moderation, Li Zhen said with a smile: "Okay, so thank you for the fourth brother's success, come, the younger brother respects the fourth brother." ”

Li Zhen can be satisfied, but Li Tai has wasted a lot of energy but hasn't seen anything, he doesn't want to repeat the scene last time, don't end up Li Zhen's people have entered the criminal department, but they don't hand over people, so it's just a matter of waiting for the wrongful loss to suffer once, and the last time, how embarrassing is it? Seeing that Li Zhen was playing the trick of drinking again, Li Tai immediately stopped doing it, and he didn't go to raise the wine bottle, but just stared at Li Zhen with a pair of eyes and said: "Slow, my brother should accept everything you should do, and the eighth brother can hand it over, right?" ”

"Heh, fourth brother don't worry, this person, since the younger brother has agreed, he naturally has to hand it over, but the situation is not very good now, if the one in the palace is killed, wouldn't it be a joke, fourth brother, what do you say?" Li Tai was in a hurry, but Li Zhen was not in a hurry, took a sip of wine, and said with a smile.

Li Zhen's words seem reasonable, but Li Tai doesn't believe it at all, after all, how strong the strength of the "Rising Sun" is Li Tai still has a point in his heart, at this time, seeing Li Zhen talking about this matter, he immediately sneered and said: "The eighth brother said that he was laughing, that guy is not very capable at all, so many days have passed, and I haven't seen him please from the eighth brother, hey, the eighth brother doesn't have to talk about these nonsense that is not salty or light, give my brother a quasi-letter, when will people be able to hand it over?" ”

Damn, you're going to die? It's done, Lao Tzu, it's good for you! Li Zhen scolded secretly in her heart, but her face was very bland: "Since the fourth brother said so, then the younger brother will not go around the corner, Liu Qi and Su Gan Chengji are now in Beijing, tomorrow Shen Shi is genuine, the younger brother sent someone to the elder brother's mansion, as for Wang Jima, this person is still on the way to Beijing, but it is also fast, it will be there in seven or eight days, and when the time comes, how about the younger brother personally send it to the elder brother's mansion?" ”

Wang Ji, Liu Qi, and the most important of the three is Wang Ji, for the arsenal case, this person is direct evidence, and the other two are circumstantial evidence, but because Su Gan Chengji is the prince's henchman, just pry open his mouth, then everything will be solved, this Li Tai knows in his heart, he doesn't believe that Su Gan Chengji can survive the punishment of the criminal department, plus Liu Qi's circumstantial evidence, it is enough to bring down the prince, and for Wang Ji Li Tai has already gotten the news, and there are other arrangements, but he is not very worried that Li Zhen will not hand over, At this time, seeing that Li Zhen agreed to hand over Liu Qi and Su Gan Chengji first, he was very satisfied, and said with a smile: "Okay, then it's a word, tomorrow when you only see someone, my brother should have your things, and hand them over together, haha......, come and drink, you and my brother are not drunk today!" ”

Hey, it's done, it's time to get lively this time! Li Zhen saw that the most critical step had finally been completed after months of planning, and she was also very happy, laughing and raising the wine bottle, drinking the wine in the bottle in one go, and the brothers looked at each other and laughed......

Finishing (full book)