During this time, although Qi Muyuan thought about Du Jinning very much in his heart, thinking of the agreement he made with Du Jinning when he left, he suppressed the longing in his heart and worked hard.

The emperor doesn't want to be bound by the family, so he wants to use a few powerful families to make an example and show his fist to the families. He didn't want to be an emperor like his father, he spent his whole life playing games with the family, and he was tied up when he wanted to do something.

The father did not set up the crown prince, but let their brothers fight each other, the winner is the king, the world said that the father was confused, but Zhao Yu knew that the father did this out of helplessness.

If the prince is established early, the families will try their best to control the prince through various means, influence him in character, control him in marriage, and weave a big net around him, firmly binding the prince and letting him use it for his own use. Once the prince is brainwashed by the family, he can only become a puppet of the family. And the prince didn't mention it if he wanted to, he could change it if he wanted to, and the family would never agree.

That's why the emperor didn't make a prince.

Zhao Yu doesn't want to be like his father, and he doesn't want his son to be like him and his brother, either you die or I die.

So he wants to bring down the family.

Qi Muyuan led dozens of people under him, and his immediate task was to investigate the hidden power and crimes of the family, planning to uproot one or two families in one fell swoop and shock the world.

If this matter is done well, it will naturally be extremely beneficial to Qi Muyuan personally. First, he can gain a high degree of trust from the emperor, and second, the power under his command can also be used by him to a certain extent. On the other hand, he was deeply annoyed that the family used Du Jinning as a felling son at the beginning, and almost trapped her in an extremely troublesome situation, and pulling up the family can be regarded as avenging Du Jinning. He and Zhao have the same goal.

So, during this time he worked very hard and did his best to do it.

And although he was worried in his heart, he did not send anyone to Runzhou to investigate Du Jinning's situation. He didn't want Du Jinning to misunderstand, and at the same time deeply trusted Du Jinning's ability.

Although he knew that Du Jinning's commission was mostly an element of acting in front of the emperor, he was still very angry with Cao Hongshou and the others.

"Grandfather, you don't need to say it, I know how to do it." He said, "Now the emperor only needs the information of the Chen family?" Don't want Cao Hongshou's information? ”

Qi Bokun knew what he meant, and couldn't help but reach out and pat his grandson hard.

"Be honest with me, the more this is the case, the more you should be careful. The emperor knows your relationship with Du Jinning, and if you use the power in your hands to avenge Du Jinning, the emperor will definitely be very dissatisfied with you in his heart. He said sternly.

"Grandfather, don't worry, I still have this bit of proportion." Qi Muyuan said, "You also know that I have partnered with Du Jinning to open several restaurants, and the business is acceptable, and I also have a monthly income of 100 taels." Coupled with the income from some of the industries under my name, there is a lot of it in a year. In the past two years, I have used this money to train some people, and I don't need to use the power of the emperor to do this. And I also know very well that the emperor's power cannot be moved until the moment when his life is at stake, and if he moves, he will lose the emperor's trust. ”

Seeing that his grandson knew the importance of this, Qi Bokun nodded with satisfaction: "It's good that you know." ”

As he spoke, he asked curiously, "How do you think about cultivating your own strength?" "Even he doesn't know about this.

Qi Muyuan didn't know that Du Jinning had also cultivated a force of his own, and he couldn't tell his grandfather that he had found out that he had different feelings for Du Jinning, thinking that the road might be more difficult in the future, so he suddenly bought some teenagers to cultivate.

He explained vaguely: "When Zhou Dongping dealt with Du Jinning, I had this idea. Later, when I had the money, I did it. ”

"Oh." Qi Bokun nodded, he didn't know whether he believed it or not, so he didn't ask any further.

He is still very confident in his grandson's character and ability.

However, if he cares, he is worried that Qi Muyuan will do something stupid for Du Jinning, and reminded: "If Cao Hongshou is just simply embarrassing Du Jinning, then transfer and demotion will be a punishment for him." If he had done anything else that hurt heaven and reason, according to Du Jinning's temperament, he would never let him go so easily, and he would definitely use this to do the right thing for heaven. So you don't have to worry about Runzhou's affairs. Otherwise, it will disrupt Du Jinning's plan and layout, which will not be good. ”

Qi Muyuan nodded: "I understand." ”

Seeing that his grandfather looked tired, he asked his subordinates to come over and serve Qi Bokun, while he went out and rode to Zhuang Yue's house.

Zhuang Yue is Du Jinning's shopkeeper, not his minion. Du Jinning treats him as a modern general manager, and every business in his hands will share a certain amount of shares with him, so Zhuang Yue has more money in his hands than ordinary small landlords and small businessmen, and he can be regarded as a small rich man in the capital.

In order to facilitate the report, his home is located near Du Jinning's house, and the area of the two-entry courtyard is not small.

Zhuang Yue's family also called slaves.

Seeing Qi Muyuan coming to visit, saying that he was a friend of Du Jinning, his family hurriedly welcomed Qi Muyuan in, and said, "The master is still in the shop and has not come back, so the villain will call the master back." ”

As he spoke, he asked someone to call Zhuang Yue, and on the other hand, he asked someone to notify Zhuang Yue's youngest son Zhuang Zhengkang to accompany the guests.

Zhuang Yue's eldest son, Zhuang Zhengping, is nearly thirty years old, and when he was in Gui Province, he was entrusted with an important task by Du Jinning, and he went to the county to be the shopkeeper. Later, Zhuang Yue followed Du Jinning to the capital, and Du Jinning, after soliciting the ideas of the Zhuang family's father and son, left Zhuang Zhengping in Gui Province and assisted another big shopkeeper to preside over the business of Gui Province.

Zhuang Zhengkang is 17 years old this year and is learning to do business with Zhuang Yue.

Although he and Qi Muyuan are in the same year, their status is very different, and he is very restrained in front of Qi Muyuan, lest he say too much.

Qi Muyuan is not a talkative character. The two of them exchanged a few polite words to each other, and then fell silent.

Fortunately, Zhuang Yue came back after a while, although he came back by carriage, but he probably ran in, he was sweaty, panting, and his expression was full of worry: "Young Master Qi, are you looking for me?" ”

"Don't worry, it's not your young master who has an accident." Qi Muyuan hurriedly comforted him.

Zhuang Yue breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel that his legs were weak.

Usually, Qi Muyuan would not come to him if he was fine. Even if there is something to order, according to the status of both parties, Qi Muyuan should send someone to call him to Qi Mansion.

But Qi Muyuan suddenly came to the door in person, and it was dark at this time, if it wasn't for the young master who had a big incident in Runzhou, he would never have come to the door at this time.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Yue came back all the way, and he was so panicked that he was about to jump out, lest he hear some bad news.

Seeing Zhuang Yue so loyal, Qi Muyuan was very useful in his heart. asked Zhuang Yue to sit, and then called Zhuang Zhengkang: "Give your father a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, and then pour tea." ”