Even if they are blood brothers, they have to settle their accounts separately. The struggle for power in the court does not depend on blood relations. The two largest military groups in the capital are the forces of the Nine Admirals, that is, Yixuan.
The other one is naturally the Xishan New Army, which is Yi Xin's force. Of course, the bigger the territory, the better. Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake are strategically located and have always been guarded by Yixuan's soldiers. Today, taking advantage of the opportunity of Yang Zhi's assassination, It was a small surprise to grab it from Xishanying.
Guizi Liu pulled up Yang Zhi and patiently interrogated Jiangnan about his money-making business. Time passed by little by little. It wasn't until the foreign clock hit 10:30 in the morning that Guizi Liu deliberately exclaimed.
"Oh...don't you have to enter the palace today? I was really negligent. Please hurry up and hand over the sign. Don't let the Queen Mother wait too long!"
Yang Zhi was actually so anxious that his back was sweating, but Guiziliu refused to let him go, and he didn't dare to move. Now he finally relented, and quickly took advantage of the situation to say goodbye.
"Thank you for your teaching, Your Majesty. I will resign now..."
After leaving the Prime Minister's Office, Yang Zhi boarded the carriage and hurriedly urged, "Let's go, let's go... hurry up and enter the palace! The Queen Mother of the West will definitely have to skin me!"
After entering Donghua Gate, Yang Zhi got off the carriage, handed the sign to the Ouchi guard, and then trotted all the way to the Yangxin Palace under the leadership of the young eunuch.
Yang Zhi was a clever man. He put a roll of banknotes into the little eunuch's hand without noticing. "Excuse me, father-in-law. I wonder how the Queen Mother of the two palaces is feeling today?"
The little eunuch was Li Lianying's subordinate. When he saw Qian Qian, his eyebrows raised when he smiled, "Master Yang, you are so polite...Why are you here at this time? The Queen Mother of the West has been waiting for a long time..."
"But you can't see the Queen Mother Dong today. She is resting in Jingshan Beiyuan today because she is not feeling well!"
"I heard that you were assassinated today... This can be regarded as a reason for being late, but it doesn't look like you are dressed like this!"
After collecting the money, he had to do something. The little eunuch looked around and led Yang Zhi to the corner of the steps of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and took out a roll of gauze from his arms.
"Look, Master Yang, I have already prepared it for you!"
"Gauze, pigeon blood... I will bandage it, and if the Queen Mother softens her heart, you will be safe!"
The eunuch's profession is to serve people all his life, and his eyes are full of evil ideas. The news of Yang Zhi's assassination in the morning has spread throughout the officialdom, and the eunuchs also know it.
Then Yang Zhi first went to the Prime Minister's Yamen to report, and then went to Ouchi to see the Queen Mother. This was an opportunity for blackmail!
The little eunuch has already made preparations. If you give me the money, I will bandage it for you. I will make sure that you will be miserable, so that the Queen Mother will be soft-hearted.
If you don't give me the money, haha... I'll tell the Queen Mother some secrets later, and it won't be easy to give you eye drops.
Yang Zhi was very clear about what was going on here, so he didn't dare to neglect and handed over more than a thousand yuan in banknotes. Finally, he was safe!
Sure enough, when Yang Zhi, whose forehead was wrapped in blood-stained gauze, entered the Yangxin Gate to report, he heard Cixi's angry voice inside before entering the room.
"Let him kneel in the yard! How dare you neglect your job like this! How dare you go on your knees..."
Without saying a word, Yang Zhi knelt on the ground with a bang and pulled his neck and shouted, "Thank you, Master Lafayette for the reward... I pay my respects to Master Lafayette!"
"There's no need for you to say hello! Just go lick Guiziliu's stinky feet..."
Li Lianying couldn't pretend to be dumb at this time. Yang Zhi had been interested in Yang Zhi for four to five million yuan in recent years. What he wanted was to show his face at this critical moment.
"Ahem... Queen Mother, please calm down. Even if you want to kneel as a punishment, let Master Yang kneel inside the house... It won't be good if he is so seriously injured and gets wind in the yard!"
"Injured? Can his nine-life demon cat be injured? He's a liar!" Cixi said angrily.
"Your Majesty, look at it. Mr. Yang's head is wrapped like a rice dumpling. It seems that he was seriously injured in the assassination in the morning... Even if he went to Prince Gong's side first, he probably just talked about the assassination and asked the Xishan Camp to help arrest him. Just a thief..."
With coaxing and persuasion, Li Lianying finally calmed down Cixi's anger. After she was relieved, Yang Zhi quickly rolled into the hall and kowtowed to the Queen Mother.
"The Queen Mother... Wuwuwu... I almost lost sight of the Queen Mother... The thieves arranged three waves of assassins!"
The embellished Yang Zhi told the story of his assassination in an extremely thrilling way, as if he was fighting with the thieves there. Cixi loved listening to plays and books, and Yang Zhi's story was more exciting than the script.
Speaking of the critical moment, all the maids and eunuchs in the room, including Cixi, listened intently, and their unhappiness just now was long forgotten.
"Ouch... It's not easy for you to blame. You wanted to join the imperial court but ended up making such a big enemy... He, Xiao Letian, is also unreasonable!"
"Aren't you allowed to let others not hang out with you? If you don't take them seriously, you don't allow them to change their jobs?"
Yang Zhi shed tears of grievance, "That's right! Why can Xiao Hexin and Sima Yun lead troops to fight? Why should I just do odd jobs in the back? Isn't this bullying..."
"Okay, okay... don't mourn with the Ai family. I came to you today to discuss something important!"
Li Lianying winked, and the other eunuchs and maids in the room all left.
"Yang Zhi! The Ai family won't talk nonsense to you anymore. Just tell the truth... Long live the Lord and lead the troops back to take charge. How much money can you exchange for the Long live Lord!"
"I don't want those expenses from the Ministry of Accounts, please tell me the truth..."
Yang Zhi sat on the chair with his butt half pulled up, and when he heard the Queen Mother's question, he quickly leaned forward, "The Queen Mother... I have been prepared for a long time... I have been secretly saving money for Lord Long live these years!"
"Is there more? I have prepared three million taels in cash...and there are another four million in various Jiangnan bonds and stocks. If I want to withdraw cash, it will probably take some time..."
"Withdraw it in batches, it will take about four months to collect all the money into the hands of Long Live Lord..."
Li Lianying's eyes lit up, "Oh... seven million! Queen Mother, Master Yang's handiwork is quite big!"
Cixi also smiled, "You capable minister! You actually secretly saved so much wealth for Long Live Lord? How did you do it?"
Yang Zhi didn't dare to raise his tail at all and said respectfully, "Her Majesty Mingjian, in fact, this investment business is difficult to say and easy to say..."
"What are small retail investors? They are all leeks... The real big investors make money by relying on connections and information!"
"The slave borrowed the power of the imperial court and was able to control the imperial court's finances. Because I had money, I was able to establish good relations with the merchants in Jiangnan..."
"I need a profitable business, and those Jiangnan businessmen also need money to make money. These are complementary to each other!"
"Slave, I have the imperial court as my backing and sufficient funds, so I can get involved in many businesses in Jiangnan..."
"Moreover, many businesses are digested by the inner circle. Businesses that are truly risk-free and highly profitable are not accessible to outsiders who want to invest!"
"To give a simple example, Hu Xueyan's right-hand man Zhang Xiaowen jointly bought seven sea-going ships with more than a dozen Jiangnan giants... They are all clipper ships that can cross the Pacific!"
"Through connections, he can receive silver ore transportation orders from Fan Qian... This business will definitely not lose money!"
"But this won't be a loss in a highly profitable business, and the start-up capital will not be small. Those people have a capital gap of three million taels..."
"This gap of funds... is actually the most profitable business!"
