Lord Lin saw that Sun Feng's face was sincere, not like he was telling a lie, but he couldn't seem to like it too much, so he had to pretend to be embarrassed and said, "Okay, this official will reluctantly accept it." ”

After speaking, he closed the box, for fear that others would take away the emeralds inside.

Sun Feng saw Lord Lin like this, and smiled, this Lord Lin can be regarded as having fallen into their trap.

"Lord Lin, please sign the list of decorations for this tribute, so that we both have a voucher."

Seeing that Lord Lin was in a good mood, Sun Feng hurriedly took out the list of tributes he had prepared a long time ago.

"Well said, well said."

Lord Lin did not hesitate, took the pen and wrote his name, and pressed his handprint with the red seal clay handed over by Sun Feng.

The so-called cannibalism has a short mouth and a soft hand, and Lord Lin still understands this truth, so he signed his name very happily.

After all the tributes were counted, Lord Lin set off back to Beijing with his men.

Sun Feng looked at Lord Lin's proud back, and felt happy in his heart, this old boy didn't know what he would face after he went back.

Sun Feng repaired a book yesterday and sent 800 miles to send the letter to the capital urgently, and the content of the letter was nothing more than singing praises and praising the emperor.

By the way, he informed the emperor that he had offered six pieces of superb emerald jade. After Lord Lin returned to Beijing, if he kept the jade privately, then the court would punish him for the crime of greedy ink, and he would have good fruits to eat when the time came.

Lord Lin didn't know what he was facing, so he left happily, holding the box tightly in his hand and not letting go.

……

"The old boy didn't know that he had entered the trap, and kept holding the box in his arms, for fear that I would snatch it back."

Sun Feng's eyebrows fluttered and he talked to Jing Beihan and Zuo Xingyan about the situation just now, and the gloating expression was so bad that even the back molars were about to be exposed.

"General, Lord Lin's matter is small, but have you ever thought about a problem?"

Zuo Xingyan's expression was serious, after all, the question she said next was related to life and death in Quanzhou.

Seeing that Zuo Xingyan rarely became serious, Sun Feng also became serious.

Although he and Jing Beihan and his wife have not been together for a long time, he still sees their wisdom and wisdom, and he still sees each other.

He often takes their advice.

"Now that the imperial court is in turmoil and the treasury is empty, can the imperial court really give Quanzhou the materials we want? This Lord Lin is already a fourth-grade official, he should have no worries about food and clothing, and he is usually greedy for ink, so how could he go to a poor country like Quanzhou to exploit it, which is not reasonable. ”

Zuo Xingyan has been worried about this issue since he knew that Quanzhou uses tribute in exchange for materials every year, can the current imperial court still take care of Quanzhou?

"The imperial court will send supplies on time every year."

Sun Feng didn't have much confidence when he said this.

Zuo Xingyan was right, in previous years, the treasury was sufficient, and the imperial court gave them materials for the sake of tribute.

But this year, the court is in turmoil, the treasury is empty, and the people's taxes have increased more than five times.

Jing Beihan saw that Sun Feng couldn't accept the reality for the time being, so he had to say: "The general doesn't have to worry too much, this is just an assumption of ours, maybe the imperial court will transfer materials to Quanzhou from other places." ”

Jing Beihan's words didn't seem to comfort Sun Feng, and he also fell into his own thoughts.

Lord Lin escorted the tribute back to Beijing to resume his life, they had horses, and they arrived in the capital in ten days.

Lord Lin went home first to tidy up his clothes, changed into his official clothes, and entered the palace with tribute.

Of course, he didn't forget to hide the emerald that Sun Feng gave him, how could this thing be brought outside?

"Weichen Lin Cheng, come to restore your life."

Outside the palace hall, Lin Cheng knelt under the steps in official uniform.

A eunuch was now on the top of the steps, and his shrill voice shouted, "Xuanlin Cheng is here." ”

The high-pitched voice seemed unusually abrupt in front of the empty hall.

Somehow, a trace of uneasiness flashed in Lin Cheng's heart.

He hurriedly shook his head, he did a good job in Quanzhou, and His Royal Highness the Emperor and the Crown Prince only rewarded him, where would there be any accidents?

Lin Cheng got up and entered the palace, and the crown prince was sitting at the top, Lin Cheng knelt down and said: "See His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister is fortunate not to be dishonored, and now he has brought back all the jade from Quanzhou, please take a look." ”

The crown prince has been in charge of the country for a long time, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are no longer surprised by this matter, and the emperor seems to have been forgotten by the ministers.

Lin Cheng presented the list of tributes, his face full of pride.

Who knew that the prince was very angry after reading the list, and roared angrily: "Lin Cheng, you are so bold, you dare to hide the tribute privately, do you know that this is a big crime to kill the head!" ”

Lin Cheng's brain buzzed, he hurriedly picked up the list on the ground and checked it carefully, the words of six pieces of emerald jade appeared on it clearly, what is going on!

"Your Highness! Your Highness! Weichen doesn't know! ”

Up to now, Lin Cheng could only pretend that he didn't know about it, anyway, the box containing the emeralds had been hidden by him, and ordinary people couldn't find it at all.

"When death is coming, you still have to be hard-mouthed! Come on, give me a raid, I want to see how hard Lord Lin's bones are! ”

The prince was so angry that he directly ordered the house to be raided.

Lin Cheng didn't dare to speak anymore at this moment, and could only hope that the person who went to raid the house would not find the box he put in the secret room.

But the last thing people should have is a fluke mentality, Lin Wei thought that no one would find out about his secret room, but as a result, the officers and soldiers who raided the house coerced and lured, and one of his concubines couldn't stand the punishment and recruited his secret room.

In the end, Lin Cheng was sentenced to the end of the Nine Clans because of his greed for ink tribute.

You have to ask Sun Feng how he was able to change his list of tributes under Lin Cheng's nose, and let him sign and draw a pledge on it?

This is Zuo Xingyan's credit.

She brought a potion from the last days, and when it was first written, there was no trace of it, and when it dried, it did not show any handwriting.

But it will appear after ten days, it is just the time when Lin Cheng arrives in the capital, and it will not be possible to complete this matter for one more day, and it will not be completed for one less day.

Therefore, when Lin Cheng arrived in the capital, it meant that he was not far from death.

When Song Chatou spread the news of Lin Cheng's death to Quanzhou, it was already a month later, and Zuo Xingyan only snorted coldly when he saw the news, this Lin Chengcheng was self-inflicted and could not live.

And in this month, Sun Feng has been anxiously waiting for the news of the imperial court sending supplies.

Originally, the materials should have been delivered half a month after the tribute arrived in Beijing, but a month has passed, and there is still no news.