Compared with the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry, one of the six ministries, does not seem to have that high importance, but the fact that a servant was taken to the Ministry of Punishment for investigation was still quite a turmoil for the entire court.
Although the result is not yet known, judging from the current situation, Li Shilang may be in danger.
The results of investigations by the Ministry of Punishment or the Secret Service Division have always been the results that His Majesty wanted. If you really want to investigate meticulously, there is no one in the court who is not guilty.
The other officials are fine. Although His Majesty has changed a lot these days, even his temperament has become violent. He is far less lenient and tolerant of courtiers' mistakes than before, but it is only within a certain limit.
Li Shilang from the Ministry of Industry happened to exceed that limit this time.
However, for other officials, the second to third year of Jinghe is really a bad time.
The officials in the faction suffered one by one, and now it is the turn of the fourth-rank officials. Even the King of Shu himself was expelled from the capital. Qin Xiang has rarely spoken out in the court. In just over a year, what originally took several The advantages gained in ten years have been negligible.
His Majesty's health is getting worse and worse, but at this time he expelled the King of Shu and suppressed the officials of the King of Shu. Could it be that His Majesty is really disappointed in him and has other concerns in his mind
These speculations and doubts began to emerge in the minds of more and more people, lingering.
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"Why are there always so many idiots in this world?"
In a brothel somewhere in Kyoto, Qin Yu held a plump woman in his arms, sipped a glass of wine, shook his head and said.
Chen Lijun sighed, and said: "The Li family is finished. The Minister of Criminal Affairs led someone to raid the house today. Li Jianren's funeral has just been arranged, and I'm afraid it will have to happen again."
The Li family, where the minister of the Ministry of Industry works, will be completely erased from the list of elites in Kyoto this time.
Li Jianren's death was not meaningless, at least he took the entire Li family to be buried with him.
Chen Lijun looked up. In the entire capital, if it is said that he hated Li Yi, few people could compare to Qin Yu.
However, even he could only hold back, those idiots, who gave them confidence.
bang!
Cui Chengyu threw something on the table, made a crisp sound, glanced at the plump woman in Qin Yu's arms, and said, "You go out first."
"Thank you son!"
Seeing a crystal clear bracelet on the table, the woman's eyes were straightened, she grabbed it, hid it in her sleeve, and said: "Thank you, sir, thank you, my wife, let's go!"
After the woman left, Qin Yu looked at Cui Chengyu with some surprise, and asked, "Since when did you become so generous, giving you the glass bracelet as you please?"
"They are all worthless things." Cui Chengyu shook his head and said, "I have something to ask you."
Qin Yu sighed, and said: "The Cui family is truly a big family, it can't be compared, it can't be compared..."
Cui Chengyu looked at him and asked earnestly, "What exactly is Prime Minister Qin thinking?"
Qin Yu glanced at him and asked, "Is it Cui Chengyu who is talking to me, or the young master of the Cui family?"
"Master Qin." Cui Chengyu stood up, cupped his hands, and asked, "I need to know the attitude of your Qin family."
At this moment, he was representing the Cui family. After several rejections in the Qin residence, the Cui family was eager to know the true attitude of Prime Minister Qin and the civil servants of Qin Xiang's family.
Qin Yu glanced at him, waved his hands, and said, "Sit down and talk..."
Not long after, in a tea house opposite a certain brothel, a man sitting by the window watched several young people come out of the brothel, turned around and went downstairs.
A few actors invited by the teahouse performed on a temporary stage, and the audience below was full. The man walked to one place and whispered to the middle-aged man sitting there: "Fifth Lord, they have come out."
"Listening to opera in a teahouse is different from Goulan. It's boring. Let's go..." The middle-aged man stood up and shook his head. The two walked out of the teahouse and walked straight to the opposite teahouse.
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The prison of the Ministry of punishment.
The former servant of the Ministry of Industry sat at the table. The prison cell was extremely clean without a trace of peculiar smell.
He filled himself a glass of wine, enjoyed the meal slowly, and only after a stick of incense, slowly wiped his mouth with a clean handkerchief, looked at the young man opposite and said, "Master Liu is a good means."
Liu Yishou looked at him and said, "Master Li, is there anything else you want to eat, I'll tell them to buy it."
"Desires are not worth mentioning." The minister of the Ministry of Industry waved his hands and said, "I thought there would never be such a day. God is not as good as people. For Mr. Liu, Li admires it."
"If you want people not to know, you have to do nothing." Liu Yi shook his head and said, "I knew it earlier, so why bother?"
The middle-aged man on the opposite side smiled and said: "People in the court can't help themselves. Mr. Liu is still young, and you will understand in the future. In this court, who dares to say that his front and back are clean?" net?"
Liu Yishou looked at him and asked: "So, Mr. Li intends to carry those things alone? You don't know, what will be the consequences of adding up these crimes?"
The middle-aged man shook his head and said: "Let's stop this matter, otherwise, it will be a disaster rather than a blessing for Mr. Liu."
After a pause, he looked up at Liu Yishou and said, "Li doesn't want to let go, I just hope that Mr. Liu will be merciful and leave a little incense for my Li family. Li is very grateful."
"Beyond legal principles, there are also reasons. Mr. Li's request is not excessive." Liu Yishou nodded and said.
The middle-aged man stood up and bowed to him, "Thank you, Mr. Liu."
"However, before that, I have one more question." Liu Yishou nodded, looked at him and said.
"Master Liu, but it's okay to say."
Liu looked at him with one hand, and said word by word: "Twenty years ago, how much did Mr. Li know about the Yong'an Palace?"
The middle-aged man's complexion changed drastically, but he returned to normal in an instant. He shook his head and said, "I don't know what Mr. Liu said?"
Liu Yishou glanced at him and said, "In that case, I will leave!"
After finishing speaking, he turned around and left without hesitation.
"Protect my Li family incense."
When he stepped out of the cell, a difficult voice came from behind him.
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Between the mountains, a team of nearly a hundred people, surrounded by several carriages, walked slowly.
"How long do you think he can sleep today, I guess ten hours." In front of a certain carriage, a man in yellow looked back and said.
Another man in yellow thought for a while and said: "I guess more than eleven hours, twelve hours a day, at most one hour is used for eating convenience, and a bet of one tael of silver."
"It's a bet!"
As soon as the other person finished speaking, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the young man asked, "Where are you?"
"After a few more days of walking, we will reach Shuzhou." A man in yellow said immediately.
The young man nodded, but he didn't enter the carriage again. Instead, he leaned against the front of the carriage and watched the surrounding scenery.
Seeing this, the man in yellow was slightly startled, and asked tentatively, "You, aren't you sleeping?"
"Don't sleep anymore." The young man shook his head and said, "It's stuffy inside the carriage, come out to get some air."
The man in yellow counted with his fingers, and after another hour, he would have slept for eleven hours in one day, and he would get a tael of money, but if he continued to look at the scenery, his money would fly away. Already...
He looked at the young man and whispered, "Why don't you go in and sleep for a while, and I'll help you roll up the car curtain and open the windows, so it won't be too stuffy..."
The young man thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's fine."
Not long after, another gnashing of teeth came from outside the carriage.
"Damn, you cheated!"
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"The heroine, spare your life, the heroine, spare your life!"
On the rugged mountain road, more than a dozen bandits who were extremely ferocious just now all knelt down on the ground, their faces turned pale, and their voices trembled.
"Did you see it?" the young woman holding the sword asked coldly.
"Yes, yes!"
A bald bandit nodded quickly and said, "Two days ago, a group of people like the woman said passed by here, but there were so many of them at that time, we didn't dare to do anything!"
"Where did they go?" the woman asked coldly.
"Shuzhou!"
The bald bandit immediately reached out and pointed in a certain direction.
There was no sound for a long time, he took courage, looked up, finally heaved a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground.
That female devil is finally gone!
After a while, the bald bandit turned around, gritted his teeth and said, "Who hasn't failed before, the first business failed, don't worry, come back tomorrow!"
after one day.
"Senior, senior, three days ago, the person you mentioned passed by here three days ago and went to Shuzhou!" The bald bandit said to an old man in front of him with his face covered in blood and his whole body shaking.
"If the old man finds out that you lied to me, watch out for your head!" The old man glanced at him, and his figure instantly disappeared on the spot.
After a long time, the bald bandit got up from the ground, patted the dirt on his body, and walked forward in a daze.
"Brother, where are you going?" A few anxious voices came from behind.
The bald bandit wiped away his tears, and said in a trembling voice, "I want to be good..."