As a result, the British Duke opened an underground gambling house outside the city.

This is a matter of losing his head, Li Hao was reluctant to go at first, but then once while Li Hao drank too much, he used words to provoke, and Li Hao quietly went to the underground gambling house.

With the first time, there are countless times.

Under the secret arrangement of the British public, Li Hao won more and lost less, and slowly, Li Hao's gambling addiction became bigger and bigger, and he played bigger and bigger.

After the five princes of the flood last year were scolded by Sheng Hong for their hard work in disaster relief, the British Duke discussed with Dong Kunrui, including Dong Guifei, and knew that it was time to push Li Hao.

Under the operation of the British public, Li Hao began to lose more and win less.

At first, the British Duke was willing to lend Li Hao silver.

Later, after Li Hao lost 50,000 taels in one night, he shirked that he didn't have so much cash at home - at that time, everyone knew that his duck shop was not doing business, and the gambling house in Shengjing City was also robbed.

He encouraged Li Hao to embezzle military salaries.

The military salary of the forbidden army is paid once every three months, and the lowest-ranking ordinary soldiers also have one or two silver a month, and if the squad leader and battalion commander have a position, then they can get more silver every month.

Li Haoden turned his face when he was in charge, knowing that he was in the hands of the British public.

How could a dignified British duke not be able to take out 50,000 taels of silver?

However, Li Hao did not dare to let others know that he was gambling in an underground casino.

Li Hao couldn't find someone he trusted enough to borrow 50,000 taels of silver for a while.

Li Hao didn't dare to make a fuss about the matter and end up with the British public, plus the five princes came forward at that time, guaranteeing that if the five princes defeated the three princes in the future, then Li Hao could choose positions in the army at will.

So, after Li Hao turned his face, he finally agreed to step on the ship of the Five Princes.

Anyway, the ministers of the court and the central government have begun to stand in line, and he will have to stand in line sooner or later, and it is okay to choose the five princes, he really doesn't like the actions of the three princes.

After winning over Li Hao, the British duke's underground gambling house in his hometown was stabbed in front of Sheng Hong, the British dukedom was taken away, the fifth prince lost an arm, and Xu Ying was punished for framing Xu Ying, so many officials who stood in line with the five princes began to waver.

The five princes were anxious.

The British duke, who had been robbed of his title, was not convinced and began to incite the five princes to rebel.

Now that Li Hao is here, as long as it is properly arranged, it is possible for the rebellion to succeed.

The Dong family, including Dong Guifei, was also worried that the situation of the five princes was getting worse and worse, and after careful consideration, they also encouraged the five princes to rebel.

The fifth prince has been hesitating, but when he learned that Sheng Hong was going to start checking the accounts of the army next month, and wanted to change some of the current rules of the forbidden army, Li Hao panicked.

At the beginning, in order to show his determination to stand in line with the five princes, he really embezzled military salaries to pay off gambling debts, and took the initiative to hand the five princes pigtails.

Now Sheng Hong wants to check the accounts of the army, what if he is found?

Although he arranged it very well that time and paid back the 50,000 taels of military salaries in time, there is no impermeable wall in the world.

Li Hao panicked.

In addition, Sheng Hong lived in Dingchun Garden instead of the palace at this time, and the security work of Dingchun Garden was not as good as that of the palace, so a variety of factors were added, and finally the five princes decided to do the opposite.

Li Hao has a wide network of people in the army, and the sweat pills that should be taken are enough to make most of the forbidden troops outside the city lose their combat effectiveness.

And Li Hao has 10,000 hands in his hands, which is enough to control the situation.

But who knew that it was Li Qiao, a scholar, who turned the situation around!

And the guards were just pretending to be lured away, and Tang Dian was even involved!

The Seventh Prince presented this interrogation report to Sheng Hong, and after Sheng Hong read it, he was in an even worse mood.

Sheng Hong really didn't know about Li Hao's embezzlement of military salaries before, he only knew that Li Hao had dealings with the British public, and he also knew that Li Hao had been to the underground gambling house in the British mansion outside the city.

However, Li Hao is indeed brave, he can't find someone who can replace Li Hao for a while, and he was tolerating the British Duke at that time, so he has not moved Li Hao.

He only learned that morning that the Fifth Prince was going to rebel, because someone had told Zhou Zhengye and the Seventh Prince at the same time.

This informant revealed the detailed plans of the five princes to Zhou Zhengye and the seventh prince, so the two hurried to Dingchun Garden.

It's just that the whistleblower has not yet been discovered.

However, regardless of who the whistleblower is, he is confident that the rebellion of the five princes will not succeed.

With only 10,000 people, what can you do?

He and the members of his father's guard, each of them were the elite of the elite selected from the forbidden army, and it was absolutely no problem to fight ten at a time.

Coupled with the terrain, even if the forbidden army of Tang Dian and Zhengjiapo's camp really fell, the five princes were not absolutely sure that they would be able to defeat the guards.

It's just that his fifth son made such a big joke about his rebellion, which is ......

Headache.

Although it is a headache, what should be disposed of should still be disposed of, and what should be rewarded should also be rewarded.

Sheng Hong hid the specific experience in the hall at that time, and only said in general terms in the holy decree that Li Qiao had made great contributions, so Li Qiao was directly promoted from the bachelor of the fifth grade to the head of the household department from the third grade.

Yes, the head of the household department.

This is the position of the five princes, which does not account for the original establishment of the user department, and there is no specific grade, it is a special position set up by Sheng Hong in order to let several princes experience.

Now that the fate of the five princes is to be imprisoned for life, Sheng Hong directly promoted Li Qiao, and let Li Qiao serve as the head of the household department who is not in the imperial court establishment, and gave this position a grade: from the third grade.

The Seventh Prince was already the head of the Criminal Department, and he couldn't be promoted, so Sheng Hong rewarded him with a Shang Fang sword, as well as a lot of gold and silver property and land.

……

Those who have made meritorious deeds have all been duly rewarded.

Li family.

Because the Seven Princes interrogated all the accomplices of the Five Princes with great vigor, Sheng Jing only had martial law for five days before returning to normal order.

Li Qiao, Meng Yue, Zhuang Wen, Xu Ying, including Xin Zhi, rushed to Li Qiao's house as soon as martial law was lifted, wanting to ask what was going on.

Sheng Hong's holy decree did not explain the specific process, and Li Qiao naturally did not want to say that of course he had to help Sheng Hong cover the Sheng family's disgrace.

If you can't explain what happened, what you can do is celebrate.

In the summer, everyone was reluctant to eat barbecue and hot pot around the stove, so two ordinary banquets were set up to celebrate Li Qiao's promotion.

Directly jumped from the fifth product to the third product, from now on, Li Qiao can also be called a member of the third grade.

It's a great event!

"Come on, Lord Li, I have to toast you, from now on, I will have to beg for a living under your hands."

Xu Ying held a bowl of rice wine and said to Li Qiao with a smile.

His voice was purely for fun.

Li Qiao picked up his wine bowl, touched it with him, and nodded with a smile: "Brother Xu, you have to be careful in the future, I will check the accounts of your rice and silver office from time to time."

"Okay, then I'll wait for Brother Li at the rice bank." Xu Ying said, drinking the rice wine in the bowl.

"Tsk, Brother Xu, if you want to see Brother Li in the future, I'm afraid it's a little difficult, Brother Li is getting the Sacred Heart, we can't see him when he is in the Hanlin Academy, he went to the household department, and we can't see him."

Meng Yue said slowly while holding chopsticks to pick up vegetables.

"That's right." Xu Ying also sighed, and couldn't help but raise her hand and pat Li Qiao's shoulder: "Brother Li, it's really difficult to see you on weekdays." ”

Xin Zhi also sighed, but this was said to his heart.

Li Qiao was originally an official of the Hanlin Academy, but it turned out that he, a person from the Hanlin Academy, had a hard time seeing Li Qiao.

However, Brother Li is worthy of being the champion of their six yuan in this year, and he is awesome in his actions, and he can also make great contributions on occasions such as rebellion, which can lose his head at any time.

"Come on, come on, Brother Li, respect you, respect you." Thinking like this, he picked up the wine bowl and opened his mouth to Li Qiao with a respectful face.

Zhuang Wen also smiled and picked up the wine bowl: "Come, I will also touch one with you, my brother behave well in front of the saint, don't live up to the grace of the saint." ”

"Brother Wen, don't worry, I will do my best to share the worries of the saint."

Li Qiao said solemnly.

To tell the truth, before Sheng Hong's holy decree came down, he really didn't expect Sheng Hong to give him such an exaggerated promotion, he was originally leading the four-grade Yulu, he thought that Sheng Hong would let him be promoted by two levels and give him a four-grade official.

But who knew that it was from the third grade!

Don't look at the difference between the fourth grade and the third grade, in fact, there is a Himalayas in between.

The four grades can only be regarded as medium in Dasheng's officialdom system, except for the special position of Zhao Cun, the captain of the guards, and the rest of the four rank officials, not counting the local prefect and only the Beijing officials, are not responsible for important positions, and they do not have much real power in their hands.

But Sanpin, that is the real power in his hands, can be regarded as stepping into the power center of Dasheng.

The six Shangshu is the second product, and the six Shilang is the third product, and he is second only to the Shangshu and the Shilang among the six.

It should be that Sheng Hong saw that he was too young, so he didn't let him jump directly to the grade of Zhengsanpin, but it was also amazing from Sanpin, and he really stepped into the power center of Dasheng.

At a young age, he became a member of the third grade, which is an honor, a pressure, and a responsibility.

He will not let Sheng Hong down.

Moreover, in addition to being promoted, Sheng Hong also rewarded him with 500 acres of first-class land!

He and Brother Zhu also have real land in Shengjing.

This time the five princes rebelled, he was sure that Sheng Hong had a back hand, so he stood up to announce his personal vendetta and made meritorious service, and now Sheng Hong is giving him a promotion and rewarding him with property, if he doesn't work hard in the future, then his conscience will be uneasy.

A few friends were sent away, and it was getting dark.

Li Qiao drank too much rice wine and was about to go to the toilet to put water, but Meng Yue's voice sounded in the front yard again.

He couldn't help but stop.

Sure enough, Meng Yue went and returned to inquire about the news of the Seventh Prince.

This time, the whole city was under martial law for five days, and Meng Yue stayed at home honestly, and she couldn't see the Seven Princes on one side.

Although now that the holy decree has been issued, knowing that the Seventh Prince is safe and sound, he still can't help but come to Li Qiao to find out what happened at that time.

Li Qiao originally wanted to help Sheng Hong cover up the ugliness of the family, but Meng Yue was the seventh princess, since Meng Yue was a member of the Sheng family sooner or later, it was the same if she knew it early or late.

Besides, he also expected Meng Yue to get Sheng Hong's specific arrangements from the mouth of the Seventh Prince.

So, Li Qiao told Meng Yue about the situation that night, and he also deliberately pointed out the state of the Seven Princes at that time:

Holding two knives in his hands, covered in blood.

When Meng Yue heard this, her face couldn't hide her distress.

A little brother has to practice such a skill, how much hardship does this have to endure?