Ye Fu pulled down the account book in his hand and raised the abacus in his hand: "I actually ...... I love money. ”

Although I don't know how to use this old antique abacus.

"Zeng Mou knows, but the prime minister wants others to know."

"Let me go to the casino? Or is it a money grab? ”

"Definitely."

"So how?"

"I heard that Ji Junshou gave the prime minister a bunch of keys before leaving, and there was the one in the Yancheng treasury."

"So awesome?" Ye Fu immediately picked up his body, found out the set of keys, and brought out a "silver ticket".

"Eh, this is my ten taels of silver, sponsored by Ji Cheng!"

Ye Fu reached out to pick it up.

"The prime minister is confused, how can a piece of paper replace ten taels of silver?"

"Why not?" The words were spoken, Ye Fu remembered, Yu is not rich enough to use paper money, most of the transactions are gold, silver and jewelry, and then broken silver copper coins, knife coins.

Even if it is as rich as Yujing and Yancheng, there has never been paper money.

Ye Fu picked up the paper and spread it out, but was excited by the "pick two" on it.

The word "pick up two" appears on the top, the scenery on the bank of the Yancheng River is painted on the ground, and the back is the county guard yamen and the city gate.

"Mr. Zeng, let's go to the warehouse immediately!"

"What are you going to do?"

"Look for gold."

"Gold?"

There was a bang outside the door, as if someone had knocked on the door, Ye Fu Erming quickly opened the door and saw the back of a small guy who left in a hurry.

Fudi walked over with his burden, and Ye Fu asked, "How long have you been away?" ”

"Just now, someone asked me to go down and get something, did something happen to Xiangye?"

"Nope."

"Oh."

The three of them immediately took a few servants and rushed to the yamen.

On the way, Ye Fu has made countless plans, pulling Zeng Shidu's hand to write a word.

Then he calmly entered the yamen and came to the door of the storehouse.

Just as Ye Fu was holding the key to open the iron door, Junyue came in a hurry with a group of people.

"Oh, it's Her Royal Highness the Princess, you came in a hurry to see what's inside?"

"After all, it's something from Yancheng, take a look, and I have a good number in my heart." Junyue stood aside, the people under his hands were as aggressive as if they were facing a great enemy, and their eyes were not very friendly to Ye Fu and the three of them.

"Oh, Ji Junshou said that there are a few boxes of things in it, I can use them at will, does Her Royal Highness the princess have any opinions?"

"If it is gold and silver treasures, it is owned by Yancheng, and the prime minister is afraid that he cannot take it for himself at will. But if it is something else, it is Ji Cheng's private promise, and it has nothing to do with the palace. ”

Ye Fu glanced at everyone, threw the key in front of Junyue, and stood aside and leaned against the wall, and said lightly: "There is still Her Royal Highness Princess Lao, I am an outsider, this Yancheng warehouse, I have a lot of inconvenience when I go in, and I ask His Royal Highness to do it for me." ”

Jun Yue was a little surprised, then resumed her bright smile, and opened the big lock on the iron door with her eyebrows raised.

When I went in, I saw a few mahogany boxes on display, and counted them carefully, a full ten, and they were not locked.

Ye Fu walked in and glanced at it, but did not speak.

Zeng Shidui stepped forward and asked people to tie a rope to carry the box.

The people brought by Junyue stopped, and the two sides were at a stalemate, and someone suddenly opened the mahogany box and brought up the paper inside for a while.

As Ye Fu expected, it was the "silver ticket" made by Ji Cheng, which had no value to the people present.

Jun Yue smiled contemptuously on his face: "It's just that Ji Junshou and Prime Minister will take a pile of waste paper as a treasure." ”

Ye Fu spread his hands: "Let Her Royal Highness the princess smile." ”

Junyue is disdainful, the wind and fire come, and the wind and fire go.

Ye Fu smiled indifferently and ordered someone to bring back those boxes.

"Mr. Zeng, believe it or not, these waste papers are really treasures."

"If the prime minister makes a move, Zeng will believe it."

"Do you know what Ji Cheng is thinking?"

"I want to turn this pile of waste paper into real gold, instead of selling the money in the gold cave."

"He's halfway there. Ji Chengcheng has been in Yancheng for four years, and his political performance is mediocre, but he has not done nothing. ”

"Is the prime minister trying to use this to uproot Yancheng's power?" Zeng Shiwan finally picked up the "silver ticket" and looked at it carefully in his hand.

If Ye Fu has his own plan, no matter how complete and thoughtful he thought before, he must change his own and obey her.

Zeng Shidu, as Ye Fu's strategist, has such a consciousness.

"Then what does the prime minister want to do? What do you need me to do? ”

"Wait, I need a reason."

"Huh?"

"One, a reason for me to do it." Ye Fu's eyes fell on Zeng Shidui, looked directly into his eyes, and expressed his will, "The second princess, they did not do anything illegal and undisciplined, and it was not my wish to drive them to a dead end." ”

Once the plan in Ye Fu's mind is implemented and successful, Junyue they will be shuffled as a resistance and be squeezed out.

"Zeng understood."

"Hmm."

"There are some things, just what Zeng said, is not convincing to the prime minister, Zeng will come up with evidence to convince Cheng."

"Good. That's hard for Mr. Zeng. ”

Zeng Shidui recalled that he was on the warehouse road, Ye Fu wrote the word "fraud" in the palm of his hand, and the two sang and sang in red, and successfully brought the box out under Junyue's nose.

Now there is a disagreement on how to take the next step, Ye Fu hesitated.

Zeng Shidui fell into contemplation and asked himself: He has always boasted that he is full of poetry and books, and he is not only good at talking about soldiers on paper, but after the imperial examination, he learned a lot when facing the prime minister and Yu Fuyin.

Yu Fuyin's deep speechlessness, the prime minister's grace and power, neither of them are people who like to make trouble, and calming people will always be their yardstick.

Before leaving for Yancheng, Yu Fuyin had warned himself that he should never try to teach the prime minister the rules of this world.

Rules......

Fraud, black or white. Profit-seeking, regardless of right or wrong.

"I heard that there is a taboo in Yancheng." Zeng Shidui saw that Ye Fu was in a bad mood, and quietly caused a conversation, and poured hot tea for Ye Fu by the way.

"What?"

"Taboo people. The concept of Shinong industry and commerce does not seem to have much significance in Yancheng, and it is even the opposite. Those who do business have become noble, and those who have become lowly. ”

Ye Fu smiled, drank tea and said: "Isn't that Ji Cheng very miserable, he was born in the orthodox imperial examination, and he came to Yancheng to be a parent official, but he must not be suffocated to death." ”

"The day before yesterday, I was drinking tea in the city, and I saw a boss who framed a child who was studying for stealing food, and the others didn't ask the reason, so they drove the person out. There are too many rich people in Yancheng, so many that they regard bullying as the right way. ”

"How?"

"Oppressing each other, even cheating, forming gangs, and complimenting each other is the norm. Chasing money has become an unwritten rule, everyone is believing in such a clause, over time, what will Yancheng be like in the future? ”

"Just like a person who corrupts morality, he has no talent, no virtue, and no foothold. Even the inside is rotten, attacking each other. ”

Ye Fu said lightly, and both of them fell into deep thought.

Yancheng's problem is not big, but it is not small. It seeped into the bones, and it was also embedded in the character of a generation.

"The prime minister thinks that benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith are useless?"

"Mr. Zeng, you haven't been brainwashed by rich people in Yancheng for a few days, right?" Ye Fu teased, "In any case, the basic quality of being a person must be there." Don't you see, whether it is an official or a eunuch, they dare not be malicious to people with high moral integrity, and the reason is because of the ancestral belief of the whole society. It is understandable that Yancheng people love money, and it is their ability to take it in a good way. What I'm worried about is another layer, when the ** is too big, the person loses**. ”

"I am in fear all day long, and I don't know what to do in life."

Ye Fu snorted slightly, as if laughing: "It's very sad." There are a lot of people like Yancheng. The people of Yancheng live too well, and they may not be able to understand some things clearly. ”

"So, the prime minister has already thought about it, and he wants to change the rules for them?"

Ye Fu's eyebrows moved slightly, the corners of his eyes smiled, and he whispered like a fox: "I serve the emperor, so naturally I want to help raise his people." ”

Zeng Shiwei smiled clearly, took out a piece of paper from the sleeve and the previous "silver ticket" the same size to push it in front of Ye Fu, the top is the current use of the ticket according to the pattern, the name of the store is "Fu Ji".

"I hope Zeng didn't mean to mistake the prime minister."

"Why does Mr. Zeng think that I will definitely open a pawnshop?"

"I privately think that the form of barter for pawn tickets is very novel, and it coincides with what the prime minister is thinking about now."

Using a seemingly worthless piece of paper to resist valuable goods increases the significance of the exchange of goods.

There was a knock on the door, and Fu Di said, "Xiangye, Ji Junshou is back!" He sent a message for you to go to his house to find him. ”

"Then Mr. Lao Zeng will help pick up the new shop." Ye Fu got up, left with Fudi, and went to the place where Ji Cheng made an appointment.

Fu Di drove the carriage, and the person in front of him who was riding a horse to lead the way drove away, and Fu Di said: "Prime Minister, this road doesn't seem to be going to the county guard. ”

"Hmm."

"Isn't Xiangye worried at all?"

"Follow him."

Anyway, I haven't been deceived once or twice when I come to Yancheng.

But when Ji Cheng comes back, he must be going to see him, how can anyone pass the word over.

Ye Fu smiled, and only said that the place where the other party wanted her to go was not a mountain of swords and a sea of fire.

Several people stopped at Yanfu.

A servant came to greet her: "The princess has been waiting inside for a long time." ”

This Yan Mansion is not Yan Mingsheng Yan Mansion, it is the place of the princess's husband, that is, the previous county guard's mansion.

Go around and around, or you will meet Junyue for a while.

Ye Fu went in, was taken by the small guy in the yard to turn left and right, and soon arrived at a bamboo garden, the little guy stood at the door and motioned for Ye Fu to go in.

No one stopped him, and Fu Di rushed ahead.

The bamboo garden is quiet and abnormal, and the door is closed. The master and servant approached, and before they knocked at the door or window, they heard the warblers singing and dancing inside.

Fu Di rushed forward, and his face turned red before the hand that knocked on the door fell, and his ears were dyed with sunshine.

On the other hand, Ye Fu's face did not change color, and her good hearing allowed her to identify the woman inside as Junyue.

Ye Fu glanced at the little guy at the gate of the courtyard, and looked at her with a triumphant smile at this time.

This is not the person at the Grand Hyatt Mansion.

Ye Fu wanted to go, but he heard the movement in it louder, and there was a conversation.

"How much does Big Brother want this time?" The woman asked in a coquettish voice.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince means that he wants the prime minister's business."

"Heh, I really don't understand what you are doing with her life one by one, trying to have fun? In my opinion, it is just slaughtered! ”

It seemed that there was a hot battle inside, and Junyue screamed as soon as her words fell, and there were no extra words.

Ye Fu came out of the bamboo garden with a white face, and met a few waiters on the way, so frightened that they walked quickly towards the bamboo garden.

Ye Fu thought to himself, his "uninvited" is afraid to provoke trouble.

Sure enough, not long after leaving the Yan Mansion, the carriage of Ye Fu and his party was intercepted, and Junyue's lazy voice exploded outside: "Why don't you stay for a cup of tea when the prime minister comes?" ”

Ye Fu was a little tired, too lazy to be vain, the curtain was not opened, and his voice said coldly: "Your Royal Highness Princess, if you have nothing to do, please let you go." ”

At the end, he also added: "I don't know where I offended His Royal Highness, so that you want to stab me from time to time, but I Yu also admitted it, and the gambling contract with the princess is still valid, and if there are any grievances at that time, please let the princess know." ”

Junyue's face was not very good-looking, and Ye Fu was not embarrassed when he heard the words, and let the two leave.

Yanfu and his party were a little in a bad mood, Ye Fu returned to the restaurant, locked in the building and had no dinner.

When Zeng Shidui went in with dinner, Ye Fu was looking at a lamp.

"Xiangye, let's have dinner first."

"Alas, it's all to blame on the messenger that I don't have an appetite for dinner."

"Xiangye went to Nayan Mansion, did you encounter anything?"

Ye Fu was stunned and said, "It's nothing." ”

It's just some reluctance and happiness, it's not worth making a fuss, but in Junyue, it seems that Ye Fu has added a debt again.

"Then what are you worried about?"

"Why did you say the man told me this?"

Zeng Shidui smiled: "Since Xiangye knows who is guiding you to see those things, he must have a plan in his heart. ”

"Hmm."

Ye Fu finally didn't talk anymore and ate honestly.

After resting for a while, the two began to count the things of the restaurant and the pawnshop, and when the reconciliation was over, Zeng Shidui took out a stack of letterheads.

"This is the material and information that I have obtained from those people in recent times."

Ye Fu took over and read one by one, with the imagination of ten lines at a glance, he knew the approximate in a moment.

"You mean, the second princess's power in Yancheng is just a middleman, and there are deeper people behind her?"

"Hmm. At present, it seems that everything the second princess has done is to take the lead for this person. Xiangye suspected that it was Yan Mingsheng before, but the second princess of the Yan family's spice business did not interfere, but stayed away. ”

"It's not Yan Mingsheng, who else?" Ye Fu thought about it, and suddenly thought of the words he heard in the bamboo garden today, "Prince! ”

Zeng Shiwei nodded.

"It is reported that most of the prince's turnover expenses in the court come from the support of the second princess. As for whether there are any grievances between them, it is not clear. ”

"My brother and sister help each other, and it makes sense to think about it. From the beginning, I thought of the wrong way, and I thought that the people who supported the prince were ......"

"Who is it?"

"King Jingyang."