"Lord Li, please look, the sedan chair has been waiting in front for a long time." The butler pointed to the front and spoke to Li Xian.

When Li Xian heard this, he looked up, and sure enough, he saw four or five people in front of him who looked like sedan chairmen, leaning or sitting, as if they were waiting for something.

Seeing this situation, Li Xian hurriedly walked to a sedan chair man, and then spoke: "Brothers, Li has made you wait for a long time. ”

As he spoke, Li Xian took out some loose silver from the leather bag and handed it to the palanquin drivers.

The sedan chair man originally thought that today's errand was a chore, but he never thought that the person he sent it, Li Xian, was so generous, and he couldn't help but be extremely happy in his heart, and hurriedly thanked him.

After distributing the silver to these palanquin men, Li Xian naturally did not pull the housekeeper in Xu Youzhen's mansion, who had just sent him all the way, took out a silver ticket and handed it to the housekeeper of Xu's mansion and said: "Butler, this little meaning is not a respect, a little bit of heart. ”

The housekeeper in Xu Youzhen's mansion took the silver ticket and glanced at it slightly, only to see that it was a thousand taels of silver.

At the moment, the housekeeper was overjoyed, and the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion did not expect Li Xian to be so generous, not only gave the sedan chair man in the house silver, but also gave himself the benefits to be generous, and he made a move of one thousand taels of silver.

"Master Li, how can this make you, you are our Lord Xu's honored guest, I and other domestic slaves are still afraid that they will not take good care of Lord Xu, how dare they ask Lord Xu's reward. This is really unacceptable. The housekeeper of the Xu Mansion hurriedly retreated.

Seeing this person's resignation, Li Xian grabbed the hand of the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion, and couldn't help but shove the silver ticket in his hand to him.

Then, Li Xian spoke: "In the future, Li and Lord Xu will often come and go, and I am afraid that the days when I come to the house will not be good, and when the time comes, you can help a lot, these are just meanings, and they are not valuable things, and please ask the housekeeper to accept them." In the future, the disturbing place is still facing it, if you refuse to accept Li's little meaning, you will look down on Li. ”

Hearing Li Xian's words, the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion took Li Xian's silver ticket half-pushed, and then put this small amount of extra money back into his money bag.

After accepting Li Xian's generous gift, the housekeeper was impressed by Li Xian and felt that Li Xian was really a rare good person.

"Since Lord Li said this, if we don't accept it, won't we live up to Lord Li's good intentions. Anyway, this time he will take the right and accept Lord Li's reward, and if it is a place of effective labor in the future, Lord Li will order. The housekeeper of the Xu Mansion said to Li Xian.

Hearing the butler's words, Li Xian knew in his heart that his plan to attack the heart had been successful, so he said to the butler: "Certainly, definitely, if there is something in the future, please serve." Today's little meaning is not a respect, not a respect. Li Xian pretended to be very cheerful and said.

Seeing Li Xian's appearance, the housekeeper in Xu Youzhen's mansion was naturally very happy, so he spoke to Li Xian: "I have long heard that Lord Li is a person from all over the world, and people from three religions and nine streams are all unwilling to get acquainted with adults. There is no vanity under the fame, and judging from the current situation, Master Li can really be regarded as the contemporary Meng Weijun. ”

Several other sedan chair drivers who had benefited also stepped forward and chimed in and said, "What the housekeeper said is not bad at all, Lord Li must not be a true friend of the ancient way. ”

When Li Xian heard this, he smiled again and again: "Thank you for your love, in fact, where does Lord Ben have such great ability, it's just plain and elegant love to make friends." Being able to get to know you today is also a great blessing for Li Xian in this life. The hurry of coming today is just a little meaning, and there will be benefits in the future. ”

Hearing Li Xian's words, the family members in Xu Youzhen's mansion were even more grateful.

The housekeeper said to Li Xian: "Lord Li is really a good person, so let's take Lord Li's reward today, and I will accept it, and I will thank you for it." ”

Li Xian then spoke: "Accept it, it's a little meaning, why bother." ”

When the housekeeper heard this, he thanked Li Xian again and again: "Thank you Lord Li this time, Lord Li, it's not too early, please get on the sedan chair, and the little one will protect Lord Li and go home." ”

Hearing the housekeeper's words, Li Xian opened his mouth and said, "Okay, it's not early, Li will get on the sedan chair first." ”

When the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion heard this, he opened the curtain of the sedan chair for Li Xian very attentively, and carefully waited for Li Xian to get on the sedan chair.

After Li Xian got into the sedan chair and sat down, the housekeeper ordered the sedan chair man to get up and send Li Xian out of the Xu Mansion.

After arriving at the outer room, Xu Youzhen specially ordered that after coming out of the back door of Xu's mansion, the sedan chair followed the small alley with few people.

Li Xian sat in the sedan chair and opened the corner of the sedan curtain from time to time to look out, and couldn't help but admire Xu Youzhen in his heart.

With such a thought in his heart, Li Xian knew in his heart that it was not easy to deal with Xu Youzhen, it seemed that there was still a long way to go to clear the grievances of Lord Yu Qian and Lord Yu if he wanted to make traitors for the imperial court, after all, Xu Youzhen was by no means an easy person to deal with.

With this thought in his heart, Li Xian no longer cared about the outside affairs, so he sat in the sedan chair with peace of mind, meditating on how to deal with Xu Youzhen in the future.

The sedan chair man in Xu Youzhen's mansion was not bad, and when Li Xian in the sedan chair had not come up with a particularly clear idea, he heard that the sedan chair had already survived.

Immediately, I heard the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion ask outside: "Lord Li, your mansion has arrived, please let Master Li get off the sedan chair." ”

When Li Xian heard this, he answered in the sedan chair, and then got out of the sedan chair with the support of the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion.

After getting out of the sedan chair, Li Xian took some precautions with the housekeeper who came to Xu Youzhen's mansion, and asked the other party to go to his mansion.

However, the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion was acting on orders and couldn't stay longer, so he thanked Li Xian for his kindness, and hurriedly took the sedan chair man to say goodbye to Li Xian.

A few days later, Xu Youzhen really attacked Shi Heng when he was alone with Zhu Qizhen.

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know whether to say or not to say something." In the palace, Xu Youzhen kowtowed to Zhu Qizhen and said.

When the emperor heard this, he felt a little strange in his heart, it was not enough that Zhu Qizhen had experienced a lot of ups and downs, and he was already experienced in political affairs.

"Xu Aiqing is in her life, if you have something to say, you might as well say it bluntly, Xu Aiqing and I still have nothing to say." Zhu Qizhen stared at Xu Youzhen and spoke.

Xu Youzhen kowtowed very respectfully, and after bowing to the emperor, he said to Zhu Qizhen: "Since the emperor entrusted the Henan disaster relief case to Weichen for disposal last time, the minister has been conscientiously investigating and dealing with this matter every day, wanting to repay the emperor's kindness. ”

Hearing Xu Youzhen's words, Zhu Qizhen's curiosity was also raised, he never thought that Xu Youzhen actually had such a word.

Zhu Qizhen, who felt slightly surprised in his heart, said with his words: "It's really strange that there are still things in this world that Xu Aiqing is difficult to decide. Maybe Xu Aiqing might as well come and listen to me. ”

Hearing Zhu Qizhen's command, Xu Youzhen replied: "Yes, Rong Weichen told the Holy Zhou in detail, this matter is like this, Weichen has been bothering the emperor to handle the Henan disaster relief for the emperor these days, although it has not yet been completely revealed, but the general situation is almost known." But the day before yesterday, when Wechen was not in the house, someone sent some gifts to Wechen, the insider didn't want to accept it, not enough for the other party's origin, the insider was afraid of offending the subordinates of the court, so he ordered his subordinates to accept it. By the way, the minister's wife has no case, please ask the emperor to punish her. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Xu Aiqing is in a high position, and the ministers of the DPRK and China want to show favor and cling, these courtesies and exchanges are nothing, and I must not blame Aiqing's family members for such things." ”

Hearing Zhu Qizhen's words, Xu Youzhen knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Zhu Qizhen and said, "Thank you for your magnanimity and forgiveness for such a crime." ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he waved his hand at Xu Youzhen and said: "Xu Aiqing doesn't have to be like this, in the future, Aiqing will do this kind of thing, and I will never offend Aiqing's relatives because of such things." ”

Hearing this, Xu Youzhen hurriedly thanked Zhu Qizhen and said, "Weichen thank you." Saint, if things are like this, it's fine, but there is a silver ticket of 100,000 taels in the gift, the amount is huge, it is better to deal with it than how to deal with it, so I have to wait for the minister to return. ”

Hearing Xu Youzhen say this, Zhu Qizhen was interested, so he asked: "This person gave such a generous gift, according to me, the person who gave the gift must have something to ask for, I don't know what will happen next?" ”

As soon as Zhu Qizhen asked, Xu Youzhen responded: "The emperor is a saint, and he has insight into thousands of miles, and Wei Chen was not at home that day and was on duty in the court room until he returned on the second day, and he only learned about it. It turned out that the person who gave the gift was Shi Heng, the minister of the DPRK and China. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he was quite surprised, so he opened his mouth to Xu Youzhen and asked: "Xu Aiqing said that the person who gave the gift was Shi Heng, what was Shi Heng's intention in giving Xu Aiqing 100,000 taels of silver?" ”

Hearing this, Xu Youzhen opened his mouth and said: "Wechen was also at a loss in his heart, so he blamed the insider for how to accept such a generous gift, and said that the person sent by Shi Heng before only said that it was a small gift, and the right should be a gift between the Beijing officials, because Weichen was not at home, and Humble Jing was afraid that the refusal would save Lord Shiheng's face, so he took the decision first and waited for Weichen to go back before making a decision, but he never thought that there were 100,000 taels of silver tickets in the gift. ”

Hearing Xu Youzhen's words, Zhu Qizhen was also very curious, squinted his eyes at Xu Youzhen and asked, "Xu Aiqing, what do you want when Shi Heng sends someone to give you so much money." ”

Xu Youzhen heard that the emperor had a question, so he said: "The minister didn't know at the time, and after a day, Shi Heng sent someone to Weichen's house and said that since Weichen accepted 100,000 taels of silver, please raise your hand and let go of his nephew Li Kelin." The minister refused with righteous words. ”

Hearing Xu Youzhen's words, Zhu Qizhen's heart sank, and he said angrily: "Shi Heng is so bold that he dares to overturn the things I have decided, it is really an unforgivable crime, and he wants to buy off the ministers of the DPRK and China to do this bad thing." ”

Zhu Qizhen's tantrum, Xu Youzhen was naturally extremely happy in her heart, because some of the emperor's actions showed that he had succeeded in provoking.

The most taboo thing for Zhu Qizhen is that his power is hollowed out, and the reason why the change of seizing the door will happen is also because Zhu Qizhen has always had such resentment in his heart.

Back then, Xu Youzhen was able to say that he moved Zhu Qizhen to launch a change to seize the door, and he also caught Zhu Qizhen's weakness and lured Zhu Qizhen to act like this, and the result was a success in one fell swoop.

Now, Xu Youzhen is still using Zhu Qizhen's desire for power, causing Shi Heng to deliberately empty Zhu Qizhen's power, making Zhu Qizhen unable to tolerate this matter.

"Even what the saint said, Weichen didn't know why Lord Shi Heng dared to ignore the emperor's prohibition, but instead wanted to overthrow the emperor's holy decree wholeheartedly." Xu Youzhen said to the angry Zhu Qizhen in front of him.

"It's the opposite, it's the opposite, Shi Heng is simply the opposite, he didn't even listen to my words, it's just unreasonable, it's unreasonable." Zhu Qizhen said in an extremely manic voice.

Hearing Zhu Qizhen's words, Xu Youzhen opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty, this matter must not sit idly by, Weichen leads the court, so he naturally has to listen to the emperor's words and do things for the emperor in a down-to-earth manner, but Lord Shi's affection is too great, although Weichen has the intention to refuse, he is also afraid that Lord Shi will be dissatisfied in the future and have the intention to retaliate." ”

Zhu Qizhen lost his temper manically, and his mood settled down slightly.

Hearing Xu Youzhen's words, he opened his mouth and received: "Xu Aiqing, did you bring the 100,000 taels of silver tickets sent to you by Shi Heng?" ”

Xu Youzhen hurriedly said when he heard this: "Weichen is with him, Weichen doesn't know how to dispose of the 100,000 taels of silver tickets, yesterday I thought about it, it is better to hand it over to the emperor, so that the emperor can use it as the money for disaster relief to Henan Province, and also take it from the people, use it for the people, and relieve the people of Li who were affected by the disaster." ”

After that, Xu Youzhen took out the 100,000 taels of silver ticket from his body, and then presented it to Zhu Qizhen respectfully.

Zhu Qizhen took it and saw that it was really 100,000 taels, and his disgust for Shi Heng was great.

Seeing that Xu Youzhen had this suggestion, Zhu Qizhen opened his mouth and said: "What Master Li said is very true, since Shi Heng gave you this 100,000 taels, Xu Aiqing handed it over to me as soon as he was a prince, and he did not go along with Shi Heng, I am really pleased, Xu Aiqing, I am determined to give Aiqing a gold medal to avoid death, in recognition of Aiqing's loyalty to me." ”

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Xu Youzhen hurriedly knelt down and said to Zhu Qizhen: "Thank you for the holy grace bathing, Weichen is grateful, and he will definitely bow to the emperor in the future, and he will die." ”

Hearing Xu Youzhen's words, Zhu Qizhen opened his mouth and said, "Aiqing is flat." ”

Xu Youzhen followed her words.

Zhu Qizhen walked back and forth a few times with a silver ticket of 100,000 taels, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, so he shouted for fear of the imperial case: "The people who serve are all let me in." ”

When the eunuch on duty outside the palace heard Zhu Qizhen's summons, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly entered the palace and waited for Zhu Qizhen's orders.

After Zhu Qizhen saw the eunuchs of all sizes coming in, he shouted: "Spread my will, Lord Xu Youzhen has a meritorious role in exposing the cheating, and I Qin gave me a gold medal to avoid death, Shi Heng privately bribed and wanted to commit fraud for personal gain, and ordered the eunuch Sun Xiang to go to the house to reprimand, punish Yu Lu for one year, and deprive him of the Jiuxi I rewarded, and ordered him to spend a month at home facing the wall, and not to go out during the period of facing the wall." ”

Hearing Zhu Qizhen's anger, all the eunuchs were trembling.

It was Xu Youzhen who reminded from the side: "The emperor has an order, so don't you hurry up and obey the order." ”

When he first heard the shocking news, a group of eunuchs knelt on the ground and trembled slightly. They heard Xu Youzhen's reminder, and hurriedly said to Zhu Qizhen: "The minions obey the holy decree. ”

After the eunuchs were ordered to act according to the order, Zhu Qizhen was still a little angry, and he was still angry in his heart that Shi Heng dared to disobey his holy will.

Zhu Qizhen originally thought that no matter what happened, once he set the tone, Shi Heng and the others would never dare to rebel.

But today's events made Zhu Qizhen extremely disappointed, even if he set the tone, Shi Heng and the others may still obstruct it, isn't this not taking himself as the current emperor in his eyes.

Zhu Qizhen walked back and forth a few times, then turned his face to Xu Youzhen and asked, "Xu Aiqing, what does Shi Heng want to do?" I treat him well, and everyone in the world can see it. Shi Heng actually did such a pickled and dirty thing behind my back, and he was simply deliberately trying to deceive the king. ”

Xu Youzhen was extremely happy when she heard Zhu Qizhen's words, so she spoke to Zhu Qizhen: "What the emperor said is very true, from the current situation, Shi Heng is indeed guilty of defrauding the king, but now the crime is not to death, and it is not impossible for the emperor to deal with it like this." ”

Hearing Xu Youzhen's words, Zhu Qizhen felt very relieved in his heart, so he opened his mouth to him and said: "The princes of the court, or Aiqing knows my mind best. Xiang Shiheng and these people, relying on the merits of the past, just asked for credit for their relatives and friends, and their subordinates asked for credit, and they didn't care about the people's production, only Xu Aiqing diligently pursued and often asked for his life in front of me, this is the minister of the country and a model of a hundred officials. ”

Zhu Qizhen had this praise, Xu Youzhen suddenly felt the encounter, and staggered forward with some gratitude, knelt down to Zhu Qizhen and thanked him: "The emperor has such a word, and the old minister is ashamed." ”

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "Xu Aiqing, please hurry up, what I just said is the truth." Xu Aiqing is the pillar of the country, and I rely on Aiqing as my right-hand man. ”

Hearing Zhu Qizhen's words, Xu Youzhen said with tears in his eyes: "The emperor looks down on Weichen with his heart, and Weichen should bow and die with all his might, and he is willing to drive for the emperor in this life, and he will not change his will when he dies." ”

Xu Youzhen made this oath, and Zhu Qizhen was moved.

"Xu Aiqing really deserves to be my minister, loyal and loyal, but the sun and the moon." Zhu Qizhen stepped forward and personally helped Xu Youzhen up.

Xu Youzhen saw that the emperor came to help him in person, and hurriedly confessed, and then stood up from the ground tremblingly.