When night falls, the lights of Yongfang are bright. With the recent personnel changes and disputes in the court, officials have frequent exchanges with each other, and Xu Pu, as the leader of Qingliu, has become the target of many officials.

The protagonist of tonight is Li Yu, the original secretary of the household, who seems to have let go of all the knots in his heart, and his brows have been stretched at this time.

There are three large round tables here, except for the high-ranking officials at the ministry level such as Li Si, the head of the household department, mainly the Lang Zhong or the Wai Lang of each important department of the six ministries, and then there are a few lowly and powerful people.

The lowest official position is actually Yang Tinghe, Yang Tinghe's father Yang Chun is Xu Pu's protégé, and he has a lot of fun with Xu Yuanji, who is of the same age, so this time he was invited by Xu Yuanji to come to dinner.

Li Yu raised the wine glass in his hand with a red face, and said to the officials present: "Invite you to a banquet at the Xu Mansion tonight!" Everyone is willing to come to participate in this feast of the official, and the official is grateful, drink this cup together! ”

"I wish Li Shangshu a smooth journey and a return to his hometown!" All the officials raised their glasses and responded together.

Although Li Yu resigned because he was not pleased with the emperor, with the joint efforts of their civil official group, the retirement treatment of their civil officials was also very favorable, and he resolutely went back to be the emperor of the soil.

After Li Yu took a sip of wine, his whole face turned red and raised his hand and said: "These are the top dishes of various restaurants in the capital, as well as anchovies from the south of the Yangtze River, everyone must eat and drink well tonight!" "The officials have already noticed that tonight's meal is not a small cost, and each dish is quite exquisite.

Yang Tinghe was born in the family of Sichuan eunuchs, and was introduced as a son-in-law by Huang Mingshan, the then Guozijian when he was studying in the country, and he was well-informed in the capital over the years, but when he looked at this table, he realized that this former household secretary was really hiding ten thousand gold.

Although food is in the forefront, some people still don't know how to eat. Xie Qian was taken care of by Li Yu in the past, and he still owes Li Yu two silver taels, so it is naturally difficult to refuse to be invited to participate in this banquet this time.

Just looking at the anchovy, I just hate too many spines. It would be something to celebrate when he moved from Zuo Shuzi to Hanlin to study for a bachelor's degree, but he was ruined by someone at the table, and he still had to accompany the smiling face.

Having a similar encounter with Xie Qian is Cheng Minzheng, a bachelor of Hanlin, who had already seen that the position of a bachelor of Hanlin was about to arrive, but he didn't expect that Xu Pu, an old horseman, would play such a game.

It's just that he and Xu Pu are fellow villagers, and they have been supported and cared for by Xu Pu along the way, so it is naturally not good to show Xu Pu a face, so he also has to accompany a fake smiling face.

The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors. Xu Pu has never been a person who only wants to have fun, and when he saw that the atmosphere was about the same, he coughed lightly towards Ye Qi, the left attendant of the household.

Ye Qi nodded understandingly, and said to Li Min at the same table: "Li Shangshu, you live next door to Xie Yikui, it is said that the imperial court has seized a lot of property from Xie Zhai, is this really true?" As soon as these words came out, the officials present put down their wine glasses one after another and looked over curiously.

"This is completely someone deliberately spreading rumors to slander us Qingliu, I don't know about others, but Xie Yikui is a good official who is as honest as water, how can he be greedy for ink? Although Jinyiwei transported more than ten truckloads of heavy objects to the East Factory, the old man had people in Jinyiwei, and all of them were stones dug from the backyard lake! Li Min immediately said aloud disdainfully.

Lake Stone? When the officials present heard that this was the case, they were shocked and their eyes were filled with a hint of excitement.

"Is it true or not, all the transport is lake stones?"

"Li Shangshu has always had great powers, can this matter be fake?"

"If that's the case, let's talk about it together!" …… Some officials were still a little unbelievable at first, but Li Yu's news has always been reliable, and it is also in line with the reaction of the imperial court these days, and his mind should be active again.

They had made a big fuss about the case of the eunuch Chen Zhun who was greedy for 500,000 taels of ink, but Emperor Hongzhi suddenly raided Xie Yikui and had no choice but to stop fighting, and now they know that His Majesty has played an empty city plan, so they are naturally Lap especially did not copy a large amount of greedy ink and silver in Xie Yikui's case, so they can continue to advertise themselves as incorruptible ministers, thus forcing the emperor to abandon the eunuchs and reuse their ministers.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Ye Qi, the left attendant of the household department, said with another fire: "I have heard that His Majesty has intended to train thirteen eunuchs to go out of the thirteen provinces of the capital town!" ”

"Such a heavy use of eunuchs is really unheard of, not to mention the creation of a prosperous era, I am afraid that the century-old foundation will be wasted! As the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, we definitely can't let Your Majesty come so nonsense! He Congdang, the left attendant of the military department, said strongly.

The officials present echoed one after another, and when they learned that Jinyiwei was transported out of Xie's house, their confidence also became stronger in an instant, and they immediately geared up to do a big job.

Xie Qian and Yang Tinghe are both smart people, Xie Qian understands that his teacher is unprofitable and does not get up early, while Yang Tinghe is a politician with a lot of wisdom, but they all looked thoughtfully at Xu Pu, who was sitting in the first seat but did not say a word.

The smartest politician undoubtedly didn't say anything, but the people below had already done everything he wanted to do, and he Xu Pu wanted to officially carry the banner of fighting against the imperial power.

"Tomorrow, I will go up together to advise Your Majesty!" After everyone discussed, when they reached a consensus, they would show off their Wenchen's muscles to this new monarch tomorrow, so that he could understand that this court still had to rely on their Wenchen.

"Come, drink this cup together!" Li Min seemed to be in a very good mood tonight, and immediately raised the wine glass in his hand and said excitedly.

Although he was ostracized by the new monarch and had to leave the court, it is also a thing worth bragging about directing such a play before leaving.

"Mo Dao has no confidant ahead of him, and no one in the world knows you, drink together!" The Ministry of Writings said a word, and then raised his glass and drank it.

Li Min naturally knew

The importance of "confidant". It's because of this gang

"Confidant", the nephew of his own clan must be taken care of when he enters the court as an official. As for the locality, there is no one to worry about, not to mention that the Xuzhou Zhizhou and Xiangcheng Zhixian only nod their heads and waists for their second-grade Beijing officials, these two are actually people who have been promoted by themselves.

From sunset, it's a new day. The Forbidden City is shrouded in clouds, but the majestic palace is undiminished.

Song Cheng, who was dressed as a five-grade official, had a slightly haggard face, but he just cleaned himself up neatly, but he came from the direction of Xie Mansion and followed Xiaohuangmen to Qianqingmen to ask for a meeting.

There are many things in the world that are really not hard work, and there is still no trace of the account books. After Song Cheng reported the situation in the Dongnuan Pavilion, he was also deeply ashamed and said: "The minister has a negative grace, and please punish Your Majesty!" ”

"This is a matter of looking for a needle in a haystack, Song Aiqing has not been out of Xie's house for three days, this time it is also hard, you will go home and rest today!" Although Zhu Youzhu was disappointed, he was also sympathetic and authentic.

Song Cheng felt Zhu Youhui's care, and a warm current suddenly surged into his heart, and suddenly as if he wanted something, he immediately took out a deposit ticket from his sleeve and said: "Your Majesty, this is a deposit ticket that the minister found in the books in the Xie family's house, and it can be regarded as Xie Yikui's stolen silver, and it will be handed over to Your Majesty today!" ”

"Deposit a ticket? Present it! Zhu Youzhu was a little interested, and then he commanded. Although he had already learned about the financial industry in this era, it was mainly money banks and pawnshops, and there were only a few money shops that simply carried out deposit and withdrawal obligations, and none of them engaged in the business of bills and foreign exchange.

In fact, the credit of the money shop in this era has not yet risen, especially in the absence of the endorsement of powerful business gangs, and now it is usually less than 10,000 taels of deposits.

After all, the current money store only has the effect of access, who wants to easily hand over their property to the money store?

Song Cheng gave the deposit ticket to Liu Jin, and Liu Jin transferred the deposit ticket to Zhu Youzhang.

"Huh...... Thirteen thousand two hundred and thirteen taels, that's already a lot! Song Aiqing, this thing is convenient to hide, haven't you thought about keeping it for yourself? Zhu Youzhu saw that the amount on it was enough to make people's hearts move, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

Song Cheng raised his face to look at Hongzhi, and said with a sense of reason: "The minister is on an errand, and he will not take the ill-gotten gains!" Zhu Youzhu was very satisfied with Song Cheng's style of being able to stick to his principles, as long as he handed over the deposit ticket to Liu Jin to redeem it, he suddenly felt a slight move in his heart when he caught a glimpse of the amount above.