Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 814
In the backyard of the government office, Li Huai personally poured a cup of tea, and held it in front of Yan Mu with both hands.

"Your Highness, please."

Yan Mu didn't answer, but raised his left sleeve and flicked the dust on it slowly.Seeing this, Li Huai hurriedly put down his teacup, knelt down on one knee and patted Yan Mu.

When the shot was clean, he straightened up and brought the tea to Yan Mu.

Yan Mu glanced at him before catching the cup of tea.But he just took a sip and put it on the table in front of him.

"Lord Li, it's really not easy for me to go out. I have to beat down all the officials who have arranged for you to guard His Highness outside the Wanchun Garden." Yan Mu said coldly.

"Oh, Your Highness, you misunderstood, those officials are here to protect you." Li Huai explained terrified, "A murder occurred in the city, a family of three died, the gangsters were extremely vicious, the officials really wanted to protect your safety. "

Yan Mu looked at Li Huai again, and smiled faintly, "Master Li, what are you panicking about, I'm just joking with you."

"So His Highness was joking." Li Huai's face turned blue, but he could only laugh along with him.

Yan Mu picked up the teacup and took another sip, "In order to catch the murderer, Master Li still locked down the city?"

"Yes, this murderer is in the city, I believe he will be caught soon."

"I came here to see that your people are searching from house to house. Why is there such a big commotion?"

"The stupid officials can only think of this way."

"I heard that it was the ancient magistrate you asked the officials to search for?" Yan Mu raised his eyebrows and asked.

Li Huai lowered his head and explained respectfully: "Someone saw him enter Jiang's house, and then the three members of Jiang's family were killed. He is very suspicious."

"This king has had brief contact with Nagu county magistrate, he doesn't look like a vicious person."

"One cannot just look at the surface."

"Master Li used to be a government official in Yanzhou a few years ago, and we are old acquaintances with this ancient county magistrate. Do you think he will kill people?"

Li Huai sighed, "The lower officials also hope that he is innocent, and we can only ask him clearly if he is arrested."

Li Huai's answers were impeccable, and he didn't mention a word about those account books.

Yan Mu lowered his eyes: "The king came to Yanzhou to investigate Yang He's corruption case, Master Li knows?"

"know."

"Is Li Futai willing to help this king?"

"This……"

"Don't want to?"

Li Huai changed his mind and said, "I'm afraid the lower officials will be powerless."

"The ancient county magistrate is an important clue to Yang He's corruption case. This king wants Mr. Li to catch him and hand him over directly to him. This shouldn't be possible, right?"

"This." Li Huai paused, "I really can't do it, after all, three lives are at stake."

"Master Li still needs to distinguish between priorities."

"Your Highness, please understand that the official is the parent officer of Yanzhou, and must give an explanation to the deceased and the family of the deceased."

Yan Mu slapped the table with his palm, and squinted at Li Huai, "What if the king insists on this person?"

Li Huai pursed his mouth tightly, apparently thinking about whether to confront Yan Mu head-on.

At this time, an official trotted in to report something. Li Huai went over to listen to a few words, stood there for a while, and then turned around and walked back.

"Your Highness, I'm sorry that I can't hand over the suspect Gu Zian to you. You want to investigate the case, and the lower official should also investigate the case. You are impatient, and the lower official is also impatient. I can only offend His Highness."

Upon hearing this, Yan Mu guessed that Li Huai had caught Gu Zi'an and obtained those account books.

That being the case, Yan Mu didn't have to go around in circles anymore.

"I give it to you, but the account book, I want to take it away." Yan Mu said.

Li Huai was taken aback for a moment, probably because he didn't expect Yan Mu to speak so directly, "Your Highness said that the officials are confused, what account book?"

"You are really confused." Yan Mu snorted coldly, "A small mansion is playing tricks in front of this king, and it has done meritorious service at the moment, but it has offended this king. Will you have any good fruit in the future?"

Naturally, Li Huai had heard about the things that His Highness the Seventh Prince did in his early years, and he was not a good person, let alone someone to mess with.Especially the emperor only has him and the fourth prince at his knees, the fourth prince is crazy, the throne can only be passed on to this...

After weighing it for a while, Li Huai said: "Your Highness, I want to offer a plan, which can make Your Highness a great contribution and make the Emperor happy. I hope you will be appointed as the heir apparent as soon as you return to court."

Yan Mu glanced sideways at Li Huai, "Say it."

"Gu Zian has a few account books in his hand. These account books have actually recorded the amount of taxes paid by the people and businessmen in Yanzhou in recent years. This is more than 100 million taels behind what Yang He reported to the court."

"So Yang He is not corrupt, but the account books he handed over to the court are fake."

"Yes."

Yan Mu clicked his tongue, "It seems that Yang He is innocent."

"No, he deceived the imperial court, and he committed the same heinous crime. Let's ignore him, just say that these account books, if we can recover the [-]% that Yang He did not collect, we can recover the treasury and solve the most troublesome problem for the emperor. At that time, you won the trust of the emperor, so the position of the crown prince is naturally not a problem." Li Huai thought that this idea was very powerful, and he was a little complacent.

"Master Li is not planning to leave a way for Yanzhou people to survive."

"Your Highness is joking, Yanzhou is so prosperous now, it is not short of this money."

"This amount of money." Yan Mu snorted lightly, "Yang He has been in Yanzhou for seven years, seven years, and if he really has to pay the [-]% tax, Mr. Li can't imagine how many people will lose their family property because of this. Paying these grain taxes, as well as those merchants, may not be able to bear the heavy tax and flee Yanzhou one after another, or even close their doors. The current prosperity of Yanzhou, the opportunity to wither in an instant."

Li Huai said with a smile: "Your Highness is young after all. The common people and businessmen are like a piece of cloth that has soaked up water. No matter how many times you twist it, as long as you tighten it a little more, water will always come out."

"It's broken?"

"If it is broken, it will be broken, but it is only one Yanzhou."

Yan Mu snorted, this was actually the words of a court official, such people are clearly moths of the Great Rong court, and it is unknown how many such moths there are.

"This king is indeed not a good person, but this king likes to be clean." Yan Mu stood up and flicked the ashes from his clothes, "I especially disdain to associate with a rotten person like you."

Then Li Huai originally thought that Yan Mu would definitely accept his proposal, after all, this was a well-known treacherous minister in his early years, so he didn't want to hear such words.

"What's wrong with recovering the missed tax?"

"You are after the lives of the people of Yanzhou!"

"I don't think I made a mistake. Since Your Highness doesn't accept this, I will hand over the account book to the imperial court after the official. Let's see how the imperial court handles it!"

"It seems that you don't intend to give those account books to me anymore?"

"Your Highness, it's getting late, you should go back earlier."

Yan Mu squinted his eyes, and asked Li Huai to hand over the account books, it seemed impossible.He strode out, and Li Huai saw him off from behind.

"Be careful, Your Highness!"

Under Li Huai's reminder, Yan Mu stepped into the mud, and his face turned black immediately.

"Your Highness, look, who is really clean, isn't it all going in and out of the pit."

(End of this chapter)