On the dark long street, Li Xuan stood alone under the moonlight, her figure stretched very long.
Shen Zhuang looked at Li Xuan with eyes filled with deep malice.
A cold dagger appeared silently at his fingertips, turning gently.
Li Xuan's eyes fell on Shen Zhuang's men with a smile but not a smile, and he said softly: "What if I came alone? What if I didn't come alone? Does Shen Canjun have other ideas? "
"Of course not." Shen Yuqing suddenly backhand, "Pah", slapped Shen Zhuang in the face, and then without looking at Shen Zhuang, who was covering his face with shock, resentment and hatred, he raised his hands to Li Xuan and said, "Your Majesty If there are not many people coming, I would like to invite the prince to the largest restaurant in Yangzhou and treat him well. Before the prince came to Yangzhou for the first time, Yu Qing failed to come to greet him in person, which is really Yu Qing's fault."
"Xiao Wang has thanked Mr. Shen for his kindness, but it's a pity that although there are not many people here tonight, they are all people who never show up in public." Li Xuan waved her hand and her eyes fell on the bad money in Shen Zhuang's hand. Then he said softly: "Brother Lu said before that this thing was made by a great craftsman under the general manager of the Tianyin Rebellion Sect. But who is this master craftsman? Who is this chief manager?"
Shen Yuqing turned to look at Shen Zhuang with a gloomy look on his face.
Shen Zhuang's face changed slightly, and he hesitated a little, but he still said: "There is not much information about who the great craftsman was. It is said that he was the supervising craftsman of the Ministry of Works at that time. No one has ever seen him specifically. He has been kept secret by heaven. The Yin Cult is hidden deep in the mountains like a treasure, and as for the chief manager..."
Shen Yuqing made an excuse and said: "The identity of this chief steward is extremely secretive. It is said that he is the most trusted person by the Queen of the Tianyin Sect. All the external affairs of the Tianyin Sect are handled by this chief steward. This is all I know. "
Li Xuan nodded, wrote down this information, then looked at Shen Zhuang and asked, "What about Qian Mo? Where is Qian Mo now?"
If you want to create bad money, you must have a money model.
Without Qian Mo, no matter how much bad money you have, it is just dead money. But with Qian Mo, money will immediately come in a steady stream like living water.
"I don't know, I just know that the Tianyin Sect and a certain force in Yangzhou cooperated to create bad money. As for the location of the money model, it should be in the hands of the Tianyin Sect." Shen Yuqing shook his head, this kind of thing Tianyin How could the person who taught it easily fall into the hands of others?
Even if it’s a partner.
"It seems that the Tianyin Sect still has a lot of manpower in Yangzhou City!" Li Xuan nodded thoughtfully.
Looking at the calm Shen Yuqing and the slightly nervous Shen Zhuang, Li Xuan smiled lightly and said, "That's it for tonight. I will go south to Wuzhou immediately. Brother Shen, we may meet again someday!"
"Your Majesty, please be patient!" Shen Yuqing quickly stopped Li Xuan, bowed his head, held his hands in his hands, and said respectfully: "Don't you, Your Majesty, want to know who is joining forces with the Tianyin Sect in Yangzhou City?"
"Captain Guoyi Zhang Ji." Li Xuan spit out the name lightly, and Shen Yuqing and Shen Zhuang changed their expressions at the same time.
Shen Zhuang's face was filled with disbelief. He suddenly turned around and looked at his brother Shen Yuqing on one side.
Shen Yuqing saw a look of astonishment on his face, but Shen Zhuang understood the meaning of the astonishment. Shen Yuqing was not shocked because he knew that the Tianyin Sect member was Guoyi Captain Zhang Ji, but because Li Xuan actually knew such extreme I was shocked by the secret news.
"In the entire city of Yangzhou, there are not many people who have the courage and ability to make bad money. He even also takes care of making weapons. Just calculate the entire Yangzhou, and you can guess right away where the price of wood has risen the fastest and highest. Who is he?"
Li Xuan turned to look at Shen Zhuang, smiled meaningfully, and then continued: "Xinlin Zhechong Mansion, according to regulations, in addition to repairing ordnance, it also needs to build farm tools and other items needed for daily use, and It consumes a lot of money, so his iron workshop is also very large, and it’s not surprising that he also makes bad money, and even makes weapons and armor, but no one can figure out why he does it.”
Zhang Ji was obviously the captain of Guoyi in the Zhechong Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty. He held a fifth-grade military position. How could he not understand that the Tianyin Sect seemed to be active and powerful, but in fact it was all
The governors and governors from various places deliberately indulged themselves in order to completely wipe out this group of people.
Even this was the emperor's intention. As a high-level military general in the Tang Dynasty, how could Zhang Ji not understand this.
"Perhaps this matter also involves Yongchang Bo's Mansion." Shen Yuqing's face suddenly became solemn. It was precisely because Shi Jin, the captain of Zhechong, suddenly attacked Yongchang Bo's concubine that Shen Yuqing noticed something strange.
People with really sensitive minds have already noticed that something is wrong, so they all stayed put during this period and allowed Li Xuan to do whatever he wanted.
"Uncle Yongchang's Mansion?" Shen Zhuang immediately thought of Liang Fuling, the uncle of Yongchang who appeared on Li Xuan's boat today, and understood everything at once.
"My lord, I wonder what should I do with Zhang Ji?" Shen Yuqing bowed and saluted.
"That is a matter between you and the Governor's Mansion. I will not get involved in sharing the credit." Li Xuan waved her hand and said, "I am still eager to go south..."
"Your Majesty, please wait a moment." Shen Yuqing quickly stopped Li Xuan, then raised his hands and asked, "I wonder what should be done with this bad money?"
Shen Zhuang, who was standing aside, changed his expression instantly. He looked at Li Xuan in the distance, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily, but he still bowed his head and saluted.
"I don't want these things, so as not to get into unnecessary trouble." Li Xuan looked at the carriage, shook his head, and said: "Mr. Shen, if you are interested, just send him to Baiqisi Yangzhou Branch. , Doctor Shen, do you know where that place is?"
"I know. Thank you, Your Majesty, for your advice." Li Xuan waved her hand, then turned and left without saying goodbye, completely disappearing into the darkness in the blink of an eye.
When Li Xuan completely disappeared, Shen Zhuang breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Shen Yuqing, and asked with a low face: "Second brother, how do you know that the King of Nanchang has not left Yangzhou and is still watching in secret? "
"During the day, the King of Nanchang only sent Qiu Zhenmu to send the heads of An Rongxiang and Wen Bingyan to the Silla embassy, but I didn't come forward, so I knew something was wrong." Shen Yuqing said coldly to Shen Zhuang, Some people who hate iron and steel said: "Those things in that place were released by all parties to lure people into the bait. Even I didn't expect that you were the one who was finally lured into the bait."
Shen Zhuang's expression changed and he looked at Shen Yuqing in disbelief: "You actually knew the secret of that place a long time ago?"
"What do you know? If I hadn't appeared in time tonight and your knife had gone down, then the one who would die in the end would definitely not be you alone, but our entire Yangzhou Shen family. You, you, let me tell you what you are good at." Shen Yu Qingshen He pointed firmly at Shen Zhuang's forehead, his face full of fear.
Shen Zhuang's mouth twitched slightly, and he timidly retorted: "Second brother, the King of Nanchang shouldn't have such rights, right?"
"The King of Nanchang doesn't have it, but His Majesty does." Shen Yuqing's eyes fell on the bad money and he said coldly: "Don't you know, the King of Nanchang was aware of the bad money on the first day he came to Yangzhou. Hidden danger, I immediately went to the capital of the gods to file a memorial. It’s okay to mint a small amount of this kind of evil money. If it really needs to be minted on a large scale, it is obviously a conspiracy to rebel. You really think your majesty doesn’t understand.”
This copper coin, even if it is Kaiyuan Tongbao, is a means for the imperial court to plunder the people's wealth. Therefore, even if a private person only mints copper coins of the same level, there will still be benefits, but the benefits will not be large.
If it were built on a massive scale like the imperial court, the wealth plundered would be absolutely astonishing.
The average initiator simply doesn't have that kind of patience and can't help but quickly reduce the quality of the copper coins, thus achieving the effect of making a large amount of money. This does little harm to the court.
But once the other party starts to make copper coins that are comparable to those of the imperial court, then his purpose is not just to make money.
More importantly, it was to prevent the imperial court from plundering wealth from the people.
This is the biggest taboo of the imperial court.
"The King of Nanchang stayed in Yangzhou for the last night just to see who was the most impatient. I didn't expect that it would be you who took the bait in the end. If you kill Lu Lin with one knife, then all the charges will be completely ignored. From the emperor and empress in the palace to the ministers and ministers in the court, they will all demand that my Shen family be destroyed." A trace of joy flashed in Shen Yuqing's eyes.
Fortunately, he has never relaxed his attention to Li Xuan, otherwise he would have been very close to having his house confiscated and destroyed.
"Young brother, I understand." The corners of Shen Zhuang's mouth twitched and he bowed deeply to Shen Yuqing.
"Also, all those things you secretly tinkered with will be destroyed by me immediately, and you won't be able to keep any of them." Shen Yuqing emphasized again.
"Yes!" Shen Zhuang no longer dared to talk back now. His eyes fell on the carriage beside him and he whispered: "Second brother, these things really have to be sent to Baiqi..."
There was a "pop" sound. Before Shen Zhuang could finish his words, he was slapped hard by Shen Yuqing's backhand.
Shen Yuqing pointed at Shen Zhuang's nose and cursed bitterly: "Have you been kicked in the head by a donkey? Do you think the only people who were here just now are the people of the King of Nanchang? The King of Nanchang is all here, and the people of Baiqisi are here." Can it be far away?
The King of Nanchang was using these things to borrow flowers to offer to the Buddha and give them to the people of Baiqisi.
As long as you are greedy for these things, the people of Yangzhou Baiqisi can eat up our entire Shen family alive without His Majesty and the King of Nanchang taking action.
It wasn't just one family that was exterminated by His Majesty back then. Have you forgotten, or do you just want the Shen family to follow in that footsteps?
Forget it, from today on, you will be banned from leaving home for one year.
I don't want the whole family to be confiscated and exterminated because of you.
I will write to my father and believe he will agree with my decision. "
Under Shen Yuqing's cold gaze, Shen Zhuang's face had already become very ugly.
