After Ling Buyi left, Li Hao asked Wang Chun specifically: "Do you think Ling Zicheng really met us by chance, or was he waiting here specifically?" Wang Chun already had some concerns about Ling Buyi's arrival. Alert, after hearing this, he immediately asked: "Are you saying that Ling Buyi also knew about the counterfeit coins? This is just to test." Li Hao smiled and replied: "I didn't say that. The most important thing now is to do your own thing well. The longer it takes, the more risks you will take." After saying that, Li Hao said goodbye to Wang Chun and returned to Yuan Mansion to mind his own business.
But after Li Hao left, Wang Chun did not leave. Instead, he stood there and watched the direction in which Li Hao and Ling Buyi left.
There was also an infinite feeling in his heart. Although he knew that he was not good at maneuvering, it was a great chance that he was in a high position now.
But no matter what, he was somewhat proud of being able to climb to the current position of General of Chariots and Cavalry.
As a result, after seeing the performance of Li Hao and Ling Buyi today, Wang Chuncai realized his lack of ability. You must know that Emperor Wen is still in his prime and the government is relatively stable.
But once Emperor Wen's health fails one day, there will definitely be chaos in the court. Especially if the third prince is interested in retaining the throne, he and his party will inevitably become the target of attack by others.
Can I cope with this situation at that time? Wang Chun really didn't have much confidence in his heart. Thinking of this, Wang Chun thought again of what he had just said. Perhaps it was time to find a reliable and hard-core ally for himself.
After thinking about it, Wang Chun immediately returned to his mansion and then did three things. The first thing is to recruit his subordinates and ask them to secretly investigate all kinds of information between the government and Shouchun. In addition to finding evidence of the crime of Wen Xiujun, Wang Chun also needs to find evidence of the crime of Prince Xiaoqianan and Peng Kun. .
Because Wang Chun too understood Wen Xiujun's obsession with the Qian'an royal family, and he also understood the character of King Xiao Qian'an.
If no evidence of their crimes is found, then Wen Xiujun will most likely bring the Wang family into trouble in order not to implicate King Xiao Qian'an, and King Xiao Qian'an will also throw the blame in order to clear the suspicion.
However, Wang Chun still has some confidence in finding out this point. After all, the chariot general's mansion is still surnamed Wang.
Although in the past, because he relied on his relationship with King Qian'an to establish his family, he was quite tolerant to Wen Xiujun and seemed to have little control over the house.
But the King of Qian'an's lineage eventually declined. The servants, maids, food and clothing in this mansion were all supported by the royal family, so it was not difficult to get some information.
Another thing, Wang Chun made a list. The names on it were all famous sons and daughters in the capital, and then asked people to check the marriage status of these people.
Originally, he was very dissatisfied with Wen Xiujun letting Wang Yao marry Peng Kun. First of all, Peng Kun was older than him.
Although Wang Chun often does this old cow eating young grass, if this young grass is his daughter and let others eat it, Wang Chun really can't accept it.
Secondly, Shouchun is remote. Wang Chun thinks he understands his daughter's character and is not a man who can swallow her anger. If any conflicts arise from such a distant marriage, it would be beyond his reach to step in and support her.
It was only Wen Xiujun who forced Wang Chun to agree. Now that Li Hao reminded him, he decided to ruin the marriage.
The purpose of exploring the situation of these sons and daughters is to prepare for the repentance of the marriage. If we can find evidence of Peng Kun's crime, it would be good to divorce them openly.
But Wang Chun also had to prepare for the event that he could not be found. After all, Peng Kun was also a battle-experienced figure, and it would not be easy to deal with him.
It would not be impossible to force the two families to break off their engagement by using the girl's affair, although it might make Peng Kun angry.
But judging from Li Hao's attitude, even if Peng Kun could escape this time, he would be in trouble sooner or later, so he should be offended.
The third thing is to send a message to Wang Long, telling him to hold on to the camp. If there is no edict to mobilize troops issued by his majesty or the prince, he must stand still even if he asks him to send troops.
Then, in order to let Wang Long understand the importance of this matter, Wang Long specially sent the most trusted staff member in the government to deliver the letter, and asked him to stay there after delivery and watch that nothing happened to Wang Long.
After things were arranged, Wang Chun began to wait for the news to come back, but the situation was still a bit bad after all.
The first thing is about the private minting of coins. The evidence Wang Chun found here can only prove that Wen Xiujun was involved, and there is no way to target Xiao Qianan Wang and Peng Kun.
As for the marriage, after confirming that none of the sons and daughters had discussed the marriage, he found some elders on the sidelines and took the opportunity to talk about their children's marriages to test out how his daughter looked in their hearts.
The result was very unsatisfactory. Although what they said was quite tactful, Wang Chun could still tell that they all looked down upon his daughter.
For this reason, Wang Chun became more dissatisfied with Wen Xiujun, believing that it was her own shortcomings in character that gave Wang Chun such an unpleasant temperament.
Of course, what Wang Chun is looking for now are the top families in the capital. If Wang Chun lowers his goal, there will definitely be people who want to marry the Wang family, but Wang Chun doesn't like them.
Only Wang Long's side was going smoothly. His staff had already arrived. With him watching, at least he didn't have to worry too much about Wang Long's problems.
Now Wang Long can only place his hope on Li Hao, hoping that Li Hao can find out the evidence about Xiao Qian'an Wang and Peng Kun from Shouchun.
But on Li Hao's side, the actual progress was quite smooth. He quickly found the workshop where coins were minted privately, and based on the transactions, he found the copper mine that supplied the ore.
Therefore, there was an unexpected discovery, that is, the copper mine here was not reported to the court. It should be a new vein that was discovered in recent years and was then secretly hidden.
But this alone was not enough. After that, they stared at these two places, checked the people coming and going here, and followed the clues to find the account books recording the counterfeit coins and ore information.
Therefore, I have to say that the backbone of the caravan specially trained by Li Hao is quite effective in detecting intelligence.
Not only was the evidence quickly obtained, but in the process, it was also discovered that the people who were investigating the counterfeit coins in Shouchun were not just themselves, but two groups of people. After careful investigation, the source was discovered. Also from the capital.
So he ordered people to send the news back to the capital via flying pigeons. At this point, Li Hao's original suspicion was finally confirmed. Ling Buyi had indeed been keeping an eye on the counterfeit coins for a long time.
As for the other group, Li Hao, who is familiar with the plot, can probably guess who it is. Therefore, Li Hao immediately ordered Shouchun to send the evidence back immediately in order to ensure that Wang Chun could be convicted and meritorious.
After all, under the current circumstances, Li Hao was not sure what method Ling Buyi would use and when to expose this matter.
Especially now that the third prince was punished, if Ling Busuo wanted to give him a chance to make meritorious deeds, the third prince might immediately go to see Emperor Wen, and then Wang Chun would really lose the opportunity.
After getting the evidence, Li Hao immediately sent someone to find Wang Chun. This time because he had to deliver the evidence, he met directly at Yuan Mansion for safety reasons.
After receiving the evidence, Wang Chun immediately started flipping through it. He was very happy to look at it at first, but by the end of it, the joy on his face disappeared.
Instead, he frowned and asked: "There doesn't seem to be much evidence about Peng Kun here?" Li Hao nodded and said: "That's true. Peng Kun is still too careful in doing things. His profits should all come from The Palace of Qian'an had a hand in it. Therefore, the evidence obtained from the mines and mints basically pointed to the Palace of Qian'an. Although from many aspects, such as the abnormal mobilization of guards in the city and the additional protection of the Mint, In other aspects, Peng Kun can be implicated. But as long as he is bent on evading it, it is unlikely that he will crush a feudal official to death." After finishing his conclusion, he looked at Wang Chun's sad face and advised him. : "But this evidence is enough for you. We'll talk about Peng Kun later. He can't cause any trouble." Wang Chun naturally knew that with these, it would be logical for him to cut off from Wen Xiujun.
But without Peng Kun's evidence of guilt, it would be troublesome for him to regret his marriage to Peng Kun, which meant that he did not have a suitable reason to convince Emperor Wen.
As for Wang Chun's troubles, Li Hao really didn't expect it, so he just gave another warning: "When my people were investigating in Shouchun this time, they found that besides us, there were two other groups of people who were also investigating this matter. We are watching, and these people are all from the capital. Therefore, you must not delay in reporting the matter to His Majesty. If others take the opportunity, you will be in trouble if you want to clear your name." After hearing this, Wang Chun's heart suddenly trembled, and he woke up from the distress just now.
Asked: "People in the capital, besides Ling Buyi, who else is there?" Li Hao shook his head and said: "I don't know, this news was sent together with the evidence, and then I hurriedly You came here, and you didn’t even have time to check. But no matter who this person is, as long as you do your own thing well, then this person will not be able to deal with you." Wang Chun nodded and said, "In that case , then I will go to the palace tomorrow and apologize to Your Majesty." Obviously, when it came time to make a decision, Wang Chun did not want to hesitate any longer, otherwise if he lost the initiative, he would be doomed.
After saying that, Wang Chun planned to leave, but at this moment, looking at Li Hao, he suddenly had an idea in his mind.
He immediately stopped and asked, "By the way, I heard that Lord Chang'an is pregnant now. Do you have any plans to take in more wives or concubines recently?" Li Hao was really stunned when he suddenly heard Wang Chun say this. For a moment, I didn’t understand why the guy in front of me changed the subject so quickly.
But when I thought about Wang Chun's love of drinking and sex, I didn't think much about it. I just thought that this guy was grateful for his help, so he wanted to give him a few beauties in return.
After all, this is normal in this era. Let alone ordinary women, sending concubines to each other is normal.
It's just that Li Hao really doesn't have any thoughts for the time being, and even if Li Hao wants to take a concubine, he doesn't want to take over Wang Chun's person.
Although I believe that Wang Chun will not use the human body he used to trick himself, but if someone whose identity is unknown is directly put into the inner house, who knows if there will be any problems.
He shook his head and refused: "I have no intention of taking a concubine for the time being. General Wang doesn't have to worry about it. It's better to go and do your own business." After saying that, he served tea to see the guests off, but Wang Chun's next sentence was abrupt. Let Li Hao spit out the sip of tea he just drank.
"Actually, if you don't want to have a concubine, what if you want to marry another official wife?" After Li Hao sprayed the tea, he frowned and said, "What does General Wang mean by this? Lord Leng is pregnant now. You are here." When he said this, he felt that Yuan was untrustworthy or wanted to provoke the Yuan Qu family." Wang Long saw that Li Hao had misunderstood, and did not bother to wipe off the water stains on his face, and quickly explained: "No, I will never give in. Ziyang intends to divorce his wife and remarry, but Ayao has admired Ziyang for a long time. This time Ziyang worked hard to help my Wang family out of trouble and was kind to the Wang family. It happened that this time my family wanted to regret their marriage to Peng Kun, so I wanted to do it at the same time. Please ask Your Majesty to grant the marriage in person." As soon as he said this, Li Hao relaxed his brows, but there was something wrong with the way he looked at Wang Long.
"I already have a wife, how can I say that I will marry another one? And you yourself said it last time, the queen will not allow her to be a concubine." Although there is often a saying among the people about equal wives, in fact, it has never been According to etiquette and law, this does not exist. According to etiquette and law, there is only one primary wife, and the others can only be regarded as concubines.
Even the emperor was no exception. Only the queen could be regarded as his wife, and all other concubines could only be regarded as concubines.
Of course, in order to compensate Yue Fei, Emperor Wen specially ordered the two palaces to be in the same position, which can be regarded as a special case. But this matter is different from etiquette after all. If the Yue Concubine itself did not represent the heroes of Jingfan and had their support, I am afraid that it would not be so easy to pass in the court.
Although Li Hao's status was not comparable to that of Emperor Wen, and the impact would be much smaller, Li Hao did not think that Emperor Wen would make an exception for Wang Chun.
Moreover, Li Hao really didn't understand why Wang Chun suddenly remembered that he wanted to marry Wang Jian to him, and his mind went crazy!
But in fact, Wang Chun's idea was also thought through. First of all, those people he liked had no hope now.
The next best thing is that although Li Hao is already married and has a good relationship with his wife, the other talents, scholars, and family backgrounds are all top-notch in the world, and they are much better than those people.
And it just so happens that Qu Lengjun is pregnant now. This pregnancy lasts for ten months, and it takes such a long time. If he can send his daughter in, he may not be able to take this opportunity to capture Li Hao's heart.
After all, although his daughter has a bad temper, it is not impossible to change, and Wang Chun thinks that his daughter's appearance is indeed good, at least not worse than Qu Lengjun.
Therefore, based on Wang Chun's judgment of men, it is still possible to prefer the new and dislike the old.
And even if the fight for favor is not successful, given the Yuan family's family style, my daughter will not suffer too much injustice in the Yuan family.
Of course, the problem Li Hao mentioned was indeed an objective factor, but Wang Chun was quite confident and thought he could do it, so he said directly: "Your Majesty, I will find a solution. In addition, I can also provide compensation to the Qu family. Now I just want to confirm with you whether you are willing to agree to this."
