Poor Family Chapter 517

  Chapter 517 Black-hearted offer

The afternoon is the last meeting time with the transshipment envoy, but this is just a formality, and will not mention the specific situation of the supervision. It is just a thank-you meeting for the cooperation of the transshipment department. Li Yanqing learned that Liang Fangping was not in Zhending Mansion, so he could only They were met by deputy envoy Qi Yao, and he asked Wang Zao to preside over the appreciation meeting on his behalf under the pretext that he was in a hurry to write a report and had no time to attend.

  Before dawn the next day, Li Yanqing left Zhending County with the inspectors, escorted by Wang Gui, Yue Fei and 300 soldiers, and returned to the capital.

  It was already the seventh day of the first lunar month, and Fan Zhixu asked them to return to the capital on the tenth day of the first lunar month. The time was very tight, and they had to travel overnight, and basically they could not stop on the road.

  In the evening, they were still more than ten miles away from Tangyin County, Yue Fei came to bid farewell to Li Yanqing, Wang Guihui would continue to lead the army to send Li Yanqing to the capital, and Yue Fei would break up here and go home.

  Li Yanqing smiled and asked Yue Fei, "I asked Mr. Mo to give the silver to Fifth Brother, did he give it?"

   "He already gave it to me, and even forced me to give me two hundred taels of silver. I don't want it. He said you insisted on it."

  Li Yanqing said with a smile: "The two hundred taels of silver are a reward for killing bandits. Every brother will have fifty guan. You are a lieutenant general, so you will get a little more, so you don't have to refuse."

  Yue Fei also laughed, "Since it is a reward for suppressing bandits, then I will not be disrespectful, come! Say goodbye to uncle."

  He hugged his adopted son Yue Yun in his arms and bid farewell to Li Yanqing. Yue Yun said something in a milky voice, following his father's hand, making everyone laugh.

  Li Yanqing took out a pearl, smiled and handed it to Yue Yun, "This is a gift from my second uncle, do you like it?"

"like!"

  Yue Yun clutched the shiny pearl in his hands joyfully, and refused to let go. Yue Fei was startled, "Yanqing, this is too precious, I can't give it to him."

   "What is precious or not, it's just a thought. For the meeting gift for the child, you can accept it if you give it to Agui, and don't want it if I give it to you?"

   "I didn't mean that, okay! Thank you, brother, for your kindness."

"now it's right!"

  Li Yanqing said again: "Think about what I told you in Zhending Mansion, I am very serious."

In Zhending Mansion, Li Yanqing suggested that Yue Fei move his parents to his father's manor in Ezhou, and he would provide houses and land. Yue Fei was very tempted by this suggestion. Also bought a lot of land in Ezhou and Hangzhou.

   More importantly, through this inspection, he witnessed the desertion of the Song Dynasty's frontier defense. If the Jurchens invaded Hebei, the people of Hebei would suffer. It may be a wise move to transfer their families to a safe place in the south.

  Yue Fei remembered that Li Yanqing said when he was a child that the Jurchen barbarians would become stronger day by day, and sooner or later they would attack the Song Dynasty. Now it seems that his prophecy has been fulfilled day by day, and Yue Fei, like Wang Gui, firmly believes in Li Yanqing's words.

  Yue Fei smiled and said: "Thank you for your kindness. I will discuss it with my parents when I go back. If my parents agree, I will go south as soon as possible. Then I will come to the capital to find you."

   "Okay! I'm waiting for Brother Wu in the capital."

  Yue Fei bid farewell to everyone again, and ran southeast with the child alone. He didn't need to take the official road to enter the county town, but went directly to Tangwang Village by another small road.

  Wang Gui looked at Yue Fei's back, enviously said: "Fifth brother is the luckiest, actually taking a son back!"

  Li Yanqing smiled and said: "You kid, work harder, I hope to see your son next time when I come back."

   Everyone laughed together, and the team continued to go south, speeding up to Tangyin County.

  Li Yanqing returned to the capital on the afternoon of the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. The day before, the other two monitoring teams had already returned first, but he did not violate the rules, at least he returned within the stipulated time.

  In the chief officer's room of the military prison, Fan Zhixu was reading the official report handed in by Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing stood aside. He seemed to want to say something, but he didn't want to interrupt the chief officer's attention.

   "Not bad! Very detailed, much more detailed than the other two reports. With your report, I can report to the emperor."

  Fan Zhixu flipped through the supervision manuscript next to him, nodded and said, "Just hand over the supervision manuscript to me! What else do you want to say?" He saw that Li Yanqing was hesitating to speak.

"Reporting to Xiangguo, this inspection is shocking. It can be said that the Northern Expedition was not prepared at all. The military rations are insufficient. Not only are there a serious shortage of various ordnance materials, but they are all obsolete materials from decades, or even hundreds of years ago. They are already unbearable. If we go to the Northern Expedition with such preparations, we will inevitably suffer a disastrous defeat, so I implore the Prime Minister to persuade the Son of Heaven to suspend the Northern Expedition plan."

Fan Zhixu pondered for a moment and said: "When you went to Hebei for inspection, the envoys of the Liao Kingdom asked to see the Son of Heaven. They were willing to give up the annual tribute, and they were willing to return part of Youyun's land to the Song Dynasty, but the condition was that the Song and Liao The joint anti-golden war was rejected by the emperor. The emperor has decided to unilaterally abolish the Tanyuan alliance and no longer negotiate with the Liao country. It may be very difficult for the emperor to suspend the Northern Expedition plan now."

   "But the Son of Heaven doesn't know that the state of combat readiness is so poor. If he knew, he would at least replenish his combat readiness, and would not go to battle so hastily. It is related to the fate of the Song Dynasty, so don't take it lightly."

  Fan Zhixu nodded, "Okay! After I merge the three reports, I will try to persuade the emperor. This trip to Hebei is very tight and the task is heavy. You have worked really hard. Go back and have a good rest for a few days!"

   "There is also a group of humble officials who encountered bandits in Cizhou, and need to reward the soldiers with 15,000 guan, please Xiangguo..."

   "This matter is not a big problem. The report you wrote earlier has been approved by the Privy Council, and it can be implemented after the Political Affairs Hall discusses it. It is estimated that it will take these two days. I can guarantee this matter. You don't have to worry about it."

   "Thank you, Xiangguo, I will resign from my humble position!"

  Li Yanqing saluted and retreated slowly. When he reached the door, he hesitated for a moment, stopped and turned back, "Don't Fan Xiangguo think Liao Kingdom's proposal is very good?"

   "What proposal do you mean?"

   "Song and Liao join forces to resist gold!"

Fan Zhixu gave a wry smile, this idea is nothing more than the envoy of the Liao Kingdom mentioning it, it would be strange for any official of the Song Dynasty to dare to bring it up and not be drowned in spit. There are indeed many officials in the court who opposed the Northern Expedition, including himself, but they were in favor of a joint The Liao Kingdom did not have any anti-gold forces.

   "You can joke about this, but if you take it seriously, even I can't protect you!"

   Li Yanqing secretly sighed, the deep hatred between Song and Liao has become the consensus of the whole country, and it is difficult to change it, so he can only salute and leave quickly.

   Not long after, Qin Hui walked into the room, bowed and saluted, "See Xiangguo for the humble job!"

Fan Zhixu took out three reports and handed them to him, "Merge these three reports into one, the content inside cannot be changed in any way, make another copy, and hand it to me before seventeen days, there should be enough time. "

  Because there were three days of the Lantern Festival holiday in the middle, in fact there were only four days, but this was enough for Qin Hui. He hurriedly said: "The humble job must be handed over on time."

   "This report is very important and is top secret. You must keep it safe and never leak it."

   "A humble job must be cautious."

  Qin Hui took the report and retreated, Fan Zhixu heaved a sigh of relief, got up and left the military prison, and returned to the Zhizheng Pavilion.

Li Yan, the head of the palace, generally doesn't have too many opportunities to leave the palace. Unlike Liang Shicheng, who runs a mansion independently, he can go back to his mansion every day. He hasn't risen for a long time, and his accumulated qualifications are not enough, but his ambition He and Greed far surpassed Liang Shicheng, and his qualifications did not match.

In fact, it is no wonder that eunuchs have no normal personality, no wives and children, and have lost a lot of joy in life. Power and wealth have become the biggest pursuits of many eunuchs. Li Yan is no exception. When he became Zhao Ji's chess piece to balance Liang Shicheng, His ambition and greed quickly expanded.

  Although Li Yan doesn't have many chances to go out of the palace, if it is profitable, he is still willing to condescend and force himself to go out of the palace.

At noon, in a luxurious room on the third floor of the Fan Building, Li Yan was drinking the best tea and tasting the most exquisite snacks. He was not very interested in the most beautiful tea prostitute next to him, but he was very interested in what he had gained today. But with great expectations.

  Sitting across from him was Liang Zhi, governor of Dengzhou. Another identity of Liang Zhi was Liang Fangping's cousin.

  He came here today to bribe Li Yan specially entrusted by Liang Fangping. Of course, Li Yan would not accept anyone's invitation. He is very aware of the crisis Liang Fangping is facing now, and he is even more aware of how much money Liang Fangping has made over the years.

Seeing that Liang Zhi hesitated to speak several times, Li Yan waved his hands to let the tea prostitute back, and the maids and musicians on both sides also retreated. Li Yan wiped his hands with a snow-white handkerchief, and used his sharp and Asked carefully: "What is Governor Liang looking for from our family?"

   "That's right. People from the Military Supervision Office have gone to Hebei. I'm afraid the result of the inspection will be unfavorable to my brother. My brother begs the chief executive to speak well in the Son of Heaven."

  Li Yan laughed, "I'm afraid the governor of Liang has found the wrong person! This matter should go to Liang Taifu. As far as I know, this matter is Liang Taifu who persuaded the emperor to untie the bell in exchange for the person who tied the bell!"

   "The chief executive is serious. My brother belongs to Wang Xianggong. How can I go to Liang Taifu?"

   "Then you can go to Wang Xianggong, he has real power."

   "Wang Xianggong has already looked for his humble position, but the key is still with the emperor, so Wang Xianggong can't help."

As he said, he took out a house deed and put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Li Yan. Li Yan was not polite, so he picked up the house deed and looked at it. It was Liang Shiping's ten-acre mansion by the Jinshui River, worth at least thirty Wanguan, this price is quite satisfactory, but for the transfer envoy of Hebei who can earn hundreds of thousands of guan a year, this is not enough bleeding.

  He pushed back the house deed, "It's about the emperor's plan for the Northern Expedition, and I'm afraid I can't do anything about it."

  Liang Zhi was stunned. He was still not satisfied with the mansion worth 300,000 guan.

  Seeing that Liang Zhi didn't respond, Li Yan got up and said, "I have something to do this afternoon, so excuse me!"

  Liang Zhi became impatient, and quickly asked, "How much more is the Chief Manager?"

  Li Yan glanced back at him, then stretched out two fingers, "At least add another two hundred thousand coins, nothing less!"

   "I'm afraid I have to ask my brother for instructions. I will give Manager Li an answer in two days."

Li Yan smiled coldly, turned around and walked away. Liang Zhi stayed in the room, not knowing what to do. Li Yan's asking price was too harsh. After a long time, he sighed, picked up the deed and hurried back home. He will immediately send a pigeon letter to his brother for instructions.

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  (end of this chapter)

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