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Chapter 17 The Imperial Envoy's Office Was Stolen
"Fight?"

Li Yan glanced at Aldo who didn't understand romance, smiled helplessly, took the brush and dipped it in some ink, and carefully painted on the picture: "I'm afraid it's unavoidable!"

"I heard that the emperor has personally said that whoever takes this task will be promoted to prince as long as he can recover 10 million taels of silver from the treasury. If the Fourth Master completes this task, he will be a prince, and his fame will surpass that of the Eighth Master." Aldo said with envy.

'Prince!'

Li Yan thought to himself that it was this prince who ruined the matter. If it weren't for the prince's reward, perhaps he could have recovered more silver.

With this prince title, all the princes will be stimulated and go crazy. The people of the crown prince's family can see that the fourth prince is catching up. The people of the eighth prince can see that the fourth prince is superior to the eighth prince. Even the eldest, third, fourteenth and other princes will secretly instigate the people below to make trouble for the fourth prince, so that he will mess up the job and lose the prince title. These brothers of his are not simple, and each of them has a group of supporters in the officialdom.

Most people in this world are spectators who hate others for what they have and laugh at others for what they don’t, and Lao Ba is no exception.

Throughout the whole play, the fourth brother did the work while the eighth brother sabotaged it. They basically did nothing serious, except investigating the case of wrongful imprisonment in the Ministry of Justice. He did his best to bring down the crown prince.

Speaking of it, the Ministry of Revenue has always been managed by the Eighth Brother, but he lent money from the national treasury to officials of all ranks, sacrificing the country's money to buy his own hearts, and finally pushed the hard task of recovering the debts onto the Fourth Brother.

The so-called good reputation of the Eight Wise Kings came from the fact that they let others be bad guys and they themselves became good guys.

It was a joke to think that he could get the throne in this way. But the fact was that more than 80% of the officials recognized the Eighth Brother, but Kangxi still rejected him.

If you want to inherit the throne of a great country, it is not enough to just set traps for others and trip them up. If you don't have the courage and responsibility to take on tasks, forget it. Kangxi was a wise emperor who had been emperor for sixty years. He was not a puppet like those emperors in history. How could he not see this?

Before leaving Beijing, I mentioned this matter to Lao Ba, creating a tense atmosphere for him, hinting that the emperor might let you eat your own shit, and let Lao Ba recover the borrowed silver. This is a tough job, no matter whether the arrears of the treasury can be recovered or how much is recovered, it will offend all the officials in Beijing.

The Eighth Prince was afraid that the incident would fall upon him, so he would definitely pass the blame on to others. This would kill two birds with one stone and also attract some hatred from the people of the Crown Prince's faction.

Li Yan was not trying to trick anyone. One of the main reasons why he came to Jiangnan for disaster relief was to avoid this matter. What if the old man waited for him to return and saw that he was good at doing things, and put the blame on him? This matter was obviously impossible to accomplish. I don't know what Kangxi was thinking. Throwing out the title of prince, wouldn't it make the already difficult task even more difficult? Those greedy cheap brothers wanted it but were afraid of taking responsibility, and didn't want to offend anyone, let alone let others accomplish this matter.

However, this matter has nothing to do with me. I am far away in the south of the Yangtze River. Let them fight each other about the affairs in the capital!
What should I do if I want to succeed in my bid for succession?

Have
The fourth brother is a typical success case. All you have to do is act according to the fourth brother's behavior. As the saying goes, follow the fourth brother's path and leave him with no way to go.

Thinking of this, Li Yan smiled triumphantly!
Just like that, half a month passed in a flash. During the day, Li Yan took Miss Qiuyue to travel around, and at night he secretly went out to take private jobs. He was very busy!

When Li Yan's private space was filled with more than 10 million taels of silver, the city of Hangzhou was in an uproar, and the news began to spread that the Japanese pirates were plundering everywhere.
Moreover, this notorious bandit is also a pervert, who often repeats the words "Yamaidi" and "Yiku".

It left everyone confused!

The reports received by the government office were all about wealthy families having a vase, an ancient painting or something like that stolen from their homes, but these wealthy families were secretly offering high rewards like crazy, and their servants and private guards from each mansion were searching everywhere for the thief, as if they had lost their own daughter, and they would not stop until the thief was caught.

After Li Yan came to Hangzhou, he had no contact with local wealthy people and only dealt with people in official circles. When he was robbing, he used particularly stiff language and occasionally threw in a few Japanese words and phrases, so everyone thought that it was a Japanese bandit who was committing the crime.

Hangzhou is also an outlet to the sea, and it also fights pirates with the Japanese. Some pirates who came ashore to commit crimes also captured many people. Some people with connections bribed the government office to enter the prison to torture these people, and described Li Yan's physical characteristics and interrogated them. It is said that many people were tortured to death in just ten days.

Even the paid bailiffs felt that these wealthy people were making a big fuss out of nothing. Just because a vase was lost, they were so crazy that they beat people to death!

When Li Yan's profit gradually dropped from millions at the beginning to only a hundred thousand from one company, Li Yan knew that his order was almost completed. If he continued, it would damage his foundation and would be detrimental to future harvests. He had to take it easy and stopped at the right time!

Recently, I have been touring West Lake with Nian Qiuyue every day. We are already in love and have made our feelings known to each other. It is time to break the window paper. But I have been here for nearly 20 days. Hangzhou is not only beautiful, but also has beautiful women to accompany me.

I really don’t want to leave!
what can we do about it?

We have to find a way to delay it for a while.

So one night, there was a commotion in the imperial envoy's office.

"Someone is coming, someone is coming!"

In the middle of the night, in the silence, Li Yan's angry roar spread throughout the camp. Aldo hurried over, hurriedly putting on his clothes while running. Li Yan was surrounded by guards with torches, all of them nervously searching everywhere!

"My Lord, what happened?"

"What's the matter! There's a thief in the headquarters. How are you guarding it? You are all good-for-nothings, trash, all trash!" Li Yan's eyes were wide open, looking at the guards in the yard angrily.

Aldo was so scared that he was shaking all over, his heart was in a knot. Usually, the Tenth Master was gentle and soft-spoken, and he never lost his temper. He didn't expect that he would be so scary when he got angry!
He quickly stepped forward and asked, "My Lord, are you injured? Let me take a look."

"You're not injured at all, what are you doing standing here? Hurry up and catch the thief, half a million yuan worth of disaster relief notes have been stolen, go after him, everyone!"

"Hey, you guys protect the prince, and the rest of you follow me!"

When Aldo heard that half a million dollars in silver notes were lost, he was also shocked. He asked other people and they all said that they had not seen the thief. However, he did not dare to be careless and quickly took his men out. No matter whether he could catch the thief or not, attitude was the most important thing and he had to show his attitude.

After a busy night, naturally I didn't catch anything.

When the news reached the government office, the prefect Li Duo's heart trembled, and he couldn't help but wail, "Damn thief, you could steal from anyone else, but you had to steal from the imperial envoy, and you stole 500,000 taels at a time."

Li Duo naturally understood that the 500,000 taels were the disaster relief funds he had paid half a month ago.

The same thing happened to the Tenth Master. He took the money but didn't leave quickly. He traveled around with Nian Gengyao's sister every day, looking like he didn't want to leave.

That’s good, someone is watching me!

Losing 500,000 taels of disaster relief funds was a serious crime. When the case was reported to the capital and the emperor blamed them, dozens of officials in Hangzhou would be held responsible.

As for whether Master Shi will be unlucky, he doesn’t know, but he is finished anyway.

Who knows, before the Tenth Master is questioned by the Emperor, he will be stripped of his hat, dismissed from office and thrown into jail. This is very easy to do. Even if he has a backer in the capital, he has no good governance and condoned bandits, and lost 500,000 taels of disaster relief silver. Even the prince cannot save him.

Li Yan was like a several-kilowatt light bulb in the dark in Hangzhou, with everyone watching his every move. Li Yan had recently become obsessed with Nian Gengyao's sister, and the two of them stuck together all day long. All the officials and gentry in Hangzhou knew about this.

Many people were joking privately that this girl from the Jiangnan water town had won over the amorous young man from the capital, and their words were mostly filled with envy.

Among them, there were quite a few people who secretly bought beautiful women and sent them to the imperial envoy's office in order to curry favor with Li Yan.

Who knew that the Tenth Master returned all the ones he didn't want, and threw his whole heart on Nian Qiuyue, which led to the rise of Nian Gengyao's popularity. It was no longer like no one liked him before, but now people invite Master Nian to dinner and banquet every day, and if you don't have the status, you can't get a seat!
Early in the morning, Nian Gengyao rushed to the Imperial Commissioner's Office after hearing the news. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a large group of red collars kneeling in unison. Li Duo and officials of all ranks from Hangzhou Prefecture were among them. Li Yan stood in the front and roared angrily: "Waste, all of you waste! The bandits in Hangzhou Prefecture have been rampant for half a month, and you didn't catch any of them. Now someone has stolen the Imperial Commissioner's Office."

"What is this place? This is where the emperor resides. This prince is on tour on behalf of the emperor. Holding the imperial sword, I represent the emperor. How could those bandits sneak in here? What do you think you are doing?"

"ah!."

"say something"

"Every one of you is here saying that I am guilty. I don't want to hear this. I will give you three days!"

"If you fail to catch the thieves and recover the relief funds within three days, I will take off your hats and take you to the capital. You will have to explain yourself to the emperor!"

Li Yan was panting angrily. He picked up the cup on the table, drank it all in one gulp, and then smashed the cup in his hand to the ground with a "bang", sending pieces flying everywhere.

"What are you all doing here?"

"Get out of here, my king."

(End of this chapter)