In February of the 49th year of Kangxi, Jiangning weaved the inner courtyard of the mansion. ()

Li Xu was wearing a sable trimmed gown, his hands were in his sleeves, and he was sitting next to the smoked cage, but he still felt cold, and couldn't help complaining a little: "Ziqing, I know that you have the love of the pavilion, but you also have a season, isn't it?" Uncle Lang and the two talked about each other, so they naturally sent the servant away. Cao Yin smiled slightly, personally took the cup for Li Xu, and said: "The residual plum can be appreciated, and the warm wine can be drunk, are you happy? This is the champion red of thirty years, and I asked people to add some sour plum and tender ginger." This wine can only be found in Jinling, and Xudong must taste it. Li Xu was helpless, raised his glass and took a sip, and said, "You are the only one who still has such leisure." I came to Jiangning from Suzhou to ask you for a charter, not to accompany you for a drink. ”

Seeing that Cao Yin was still smiling lightly, Li Xu put the cup on the stone countertop, with a little gloomy on his face, and said: "Ziqing, Ziqing, in your early years, you were born in the guard, and you were half a martial artist, I don't believe it, Kali is so aggressive, you just endure it?" Li Xu said this, not completely deliberately provoking Cao Yin's temperament. Just a few months ago, Kali Fu conferred the governor of Liangjiang and impeached Cao Yin and Li Xu during his tenure as the inspection envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Transport, resulting in a total deficit of 3 million in the Lianghuai Salt Division for several years. Although Kangxi criticized this fold tactfully, saying "The crown prince, the elder brothers use a lot of silver such as Cao Yin and Li Xu, and I know very well, and Cao Yin and Li Xu have no way", but it is inevitable that there will be discussions between the government and the opposition, and there are many people in Jiangnan who proudly scold the two of them as national beetles. However, after decades of Li Xu's eun sea, what is there that he can't see clearly? What kind of character is Kali himself, who has at least added millions of dollars to his family in office, and at this moment he still vainly trusts the public to the public instead of discussing the greed of others? What's more, Kali also instructed the street scoundrels to slander the two of them in the downtown area, and then pretended to be the public opinion, thinking that he was the capital to participate in the impeachment. It's ridiculous, shameful!

Li Xu thought of this, and couldn't help but add a little more anger, frowned, and said: "You have always been too cautious, as soon as this incident came out, didn't the master tell you and me about it? Why worry about so much, and specially sent someone to bring a letter to Suzhou, instructing that the matter of salt affairs might as well be convenient with others." Up to now, you and I still have a deficit of more than 2 million yuan, and others don't know it, these deficits, aren't they all the expenses of the master's southern tour?

Cao Yin silently smiled, poured himself a drink, tasted the sweetness and bitterness after the mellow fragrance, and said slowly: "The master is the wise holy lord in ancient times, how can he not know the meaning of Kali? Although Li Xu was anxious in his heart, the meaning of Cao Yin's words was clear at all: "The master knows that Kali covets the two Huai salt classes, but he has never been impeached..." Eh.... Cao Yin drank another cup, took out a secret fold from his sleeve, handed it to Li Xu, and said, "This is the sunny and rainy fold I handed over a month ago, the master's imperial approval, you can take a look." Li Xu took it with both hands, but hesitated slightly, and said, "This... Cao Yin waved his hand and said, "It has a lot to do with you, but it doesn't matter." Li Xu opened it to take a look, but the corners of his eyes gradually moistened: "I know, there are many disadvantages in the two Huai, there are many shortcomings, we must try to make up for it, there is nothing to do in office, we must not be negligent, we must be careful and careful!" Cao Yin thought a little deeper, hesitated a little and wanted to say something, but only sighed in his heart.

Cao Yin is Kangxi's milk brother, and he is also a companion, and he has been accompanying the king for decades, and he already knows a lot about this high king. If Kangxi had no doubts, why did he sit back and watch Kali stretch out his hand for salt? Within the imperial approval, the evils referred to were many, and although they could refer to the overflow of private salt, they were also the first to drink! Cao Yin had a clear conscience when he asked himself, but he never dared to guarantee that the uncle in front of him was the same. Forty years ago, the crown prince asked for more than 80,000 silver taels from Jiangning Weaving and Suzhou Weaving, Kangxi ordered the Internal Affairs Office to investigate, and Cao Yin immediately secretly folded with Kangxi, but Li Xu was secretive for the prince, and he ate a lot of food before telling the truth. Subsequently, the crown prince was deposed, and Li Xu had a close relationship with the eighth elder brother Yinyu and the ninth elder brother Yinyu.

At this moment, Cao Yin saw Li Xu's face looking more and more happy at the imperial approval, and he felt helpless, but also a little disgusted. Now seeing that the capital is becoming more and more lively, Li Xu has started the idea of making more good connections and burning more stoves, the prince, the eighth elder brother, both ends are tightly stammered, pointing out that there must be a good son who can miss him in the future. Now it seems that Li Xu is getting deeper and deeper. But is Kangxi a master who is easy to conceal? In the land south of the Yangtze River, how can it be that only himself and Li Xu are his eyes and ears? Wang Hongxu, who is a single Zhishi, is the person that Cao Yin knows also has the right to play secrets, but who has a gap with Li Xu. Li Xu's father, Li Shizhen, who was the governor of Guangdong, was dismissed from his post because of the participation of Wang Hongxu, who was the imperial history of the left capital at the time.

Cao Yin treats people with high righteousness, is known as a literary name, and has been operating in Jiangning for a long time, so he is very popular with Jiangnan literati. Hanlin Qingliu such as Wang Hongxu, Han Hua, Xu Qianxue, etc., or Song Ju, Shi Shilun, who had been with the patrol of Jiangsu, and even Fang Bao, who was white but famous, all had a deep friendship with him, and often sang wine and poetry. Although these people have different political views from each other, they can come to Cao Yin's pavilion, and they are all kind. Wang Hongxu often sent texts to Cao Yin's place. But Wang Hongxu befriended Cao Yin, and he may not be able to let Li Xu go because Li Xu and Cao Yin have uncles. Li Xu bought opera troupes and girls for the prince, Yinxu, and Yinyu in Suzhou, while Wang Hongxu was in Lou County, only hundreds of miles apart.

Cao Yin was thinking about words to persuade Li Xu, but Li Xu opened his mouth first: "If there is something, it is good to teach Ziqing to know, so as not to be embarrassed in the future." Last month, I handed over a secret fold and impeached Wang Hongxu and Brother Yi Wang Jiuling to inquire about the palace ban. After that, he handed the transcribed secret fold to Cao Yin, who was a little surprised, and wrote in the fold: "The minister inquired about Wang Hongxu every cloud: "I often have secret letters in Beijing, although the East Palace is now restored, the sacred heart is still not topped." Such nonsense confuses people's hearts. The minister is grateful for the grace of Dai, and respectfully obeys the decree, and it is reported that it will be repeated. And Wang Hongxu's protégé is old, and there are people everywhere, that is, Zhang Boxing, the new minister of Jiangsu, and also Hongxu's protégé, and there are people everywhere, and they are good at listening. Long live the begging general's fold and the previous minister's handwritten fold, both destroyed and not existed, so as not to cause disaster, then the preservation of the net worth, all out of the gift of long live. As for Cheng Zhaolan and Fan Pu who played before, the two of them also talked nonsense every time that although the East Palace was restored, it may be difficult to determine in the future, and the reason was unified and replayed. Cao Yin finished reading, stomped his feet heavily, and said: "You are confused! Needless to say, Wang Jiyou's (Wang Hongxu's) matter, the Wang family, the holy family Youlong, may not be your fold and participate in it, so how can you be involved in the dispute between the governor and the governor?" Seeing that Li Xu was still a little disapproving, Rao is Cao Yin's temper was good, and he inevitably sank down and said: "I am drunk today, I have to rest, and I have to confess to Xudong!" Ignoring Li Xu's embarrassed look, he immediately got up and left.