The Most Powerful Man in the World

Outside the East Factory, several tall carriages slowly entered the East Factory, and the heavy boxes were removed one by one. Chu Yi stood in the yard with a smile on his face and said, "The manager may wish to send someone to check it out. , everything on the gift list is here."

Chu Yi patted Li Ke's shoulder with a smile and said, "Mr. Li has taken a lot of trouble, so he doesn't need to count. Could it be that the Governor still doesn't believe Governor Lu can't do it?"

Wang Zheng directed Dongchang Fanzi to carry boxes and boxes of belongings into the Dongchang warehouse. Chu Yi left Li Ke directly, had a meal with Li Ke in person, and then comforted him with ease, and Ask Li Ke to speak to Lu Wenyang.

Li Ke got out of the East Factory and got into the carriage, and saw the driver who was driving the carriage with a glint in his eyes: "Mr. Li, how is the situation? Has the Governor of the East Factory accepted the gift from the Governor."

This coachman is obviously not an ordinary person, and his cultivation base has reached the realm of a first-class player in the arena. How could such a player in the rivers and lakes be a coachman.

The *** changed the kind of servile and kneeling when facing Chu Yi before, there was a faint glint in his eyes, and he said with a bit of disdain: "The world is as black as a crow. I thought this Chu Yi was a person, but I didn't expect it to be like this."

Dong Qianshan is also the driver, his face is full of regret: "It's just a pity that the millions of taels of property are really cheap, that dog eunuch!"

As a good player in the arena that Lu Wenyang has gathered, Dong Qianshan has been with Lu Wenyang for nearly ten years. It can be said that he personally saw how Lu Wenyang took the position of the governor of Caoyun, and even helped Lu Wenyang get rid of many opponents.

It's not that Lu Wenyang has never met an opponent over the years, but Lu Wenyang is a ruthless person. Once someone spy on his position as the governor of water transportation, Lu Wenyang will either throw money at him and hold the thigh of the big man in the court tightly. On the one hand, he will Competitors directly killed.

There were no less than ten competitors of Lu Wenyang that Dong Qianshan personally eliminated. Otherwise, how could Lu Wenyang have been able to sit firmly in the seat of the Governor of Caoyun for such a long time, because everyone who competed with him was killed by him. .

Li Ke chuckled and said, "It's just a mere million taels of property, as long as the Governor can secure his seat as the Governor of Caoyun, let alone one million taels, even if it's more, it doesn't matter, the Governor can't want it. It can be retrieved in half a year.”

Dong Qianshan nodded and said: "Since this dog eunuch is so interesting, then Dong Mou doesn't have to think about getting rid of him this time."

Li Kedao: "It's not necessary for the time being, Dong Huwei still dismissed the people and continued to lurk in the capital as usual, waiting for the call of the Governor."

This Dong Qianshan is a confidant of Lu Wenyang who was specially placed in the capital, and there are even other people in the capital. Listening to Dong Qianshan, if this time Chu Yi refused to accept the gift from Lu Wenyang or Li Ke If it is judged that Chu Yi was not knocked down by gold and silver, then Dong Qianshan will take action to remove the scourge of Chu Yi.

When Li Ke and Dong Qianshan left, Wang Zheng, as one of Chu Yi's confidants, knew nothing about Chu Yi, and now said with a bit of confusion: "The Governor will not just let the Governor of Caoyun go. ."

Chu Yi chuckled and said, "Caoyun, this position is so important, do you think the Governor will let Lu Wenyang stay in this position?"

Wang Zheng suddenly said: "It turns out that the overseer accepted the gift from the other party to confuse the other party!"

Chu Yi said with a bit of murderous intent: "Right now, the Governor can't tell the energy to pay attention to Lu Wenyang. When the situation in Beijing is stable, with just one Lu Wenyang, he will still be able to turn the world upside down!"

Wang Zhengdao: "Then these gifts..."

Chu Yi waved his hand and said, "Let me sort it out. When I go to see the Son of Heaven, I will hand these things over to His Majesty."

If this were an ordinary person, he would definitely accept the gold and silver. However, gold and silver are treasures to others, but to Chu Yi they are nothing more than things outside the body.

If a million taels of silver can be exchanged for thousands or even hundreds of luck, Chu Yi would not hesitate to exchange it.

On the third day, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be stunned when Chu Yi brought a million taels of wealth to meet Zhu Houzhao.

Previously, Huang Huai, Huang Kui, and others had seized nearly three million taels of gold and silver, plus various property, almost five million taels.

However, these gold and silver were filled into the household and the official treasury. Now Zhu Houzhao looked at the millions of taels of property in front of him, even Zhu Houzhao was a little confused.

The silver in Bai Huahua is really eye-catching. Zhu Houzhao's private store has several million taels of silver, but the silver was saved by several generations of emperors, and Zhu Houzhao has never seen so much silver.

"Chu Dafan, what's going on with the money? Could it be Gao Feng and the others returning to Beijing?"

Chu Yi shook his head, stretched out his hand from his sleeve and took out Lu Wenyang's salutation letter and presented it to Zhu Houzhao, "Your Majesty, please take a look."

With Lu Wenyang's invitation and the gift list, Zhu Houzhao only glanced at them, and then looked at these white flowers and silver taels to understand what was going on.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look gloomy, that is, the number of officials' properties that were confiscated again and again these days was stimulated, so Zhu Houzhao's ability to bear was much stronger, so he did not get angry when he understood the origin of these silver taels.

But this does not mean that Zhu Houzhao is not angry, it is just that he has been able to control his emotions and not show them.

Zhu Houzhao, who was extremely annoyed, said coldly: "What a good governor of water transportation, he often has a million taels of silver, and he is really a good minister. How many silver taels have he looted for greedy ink?"

In order to bribe Chu Yi, Lu Wenyang was able to come up with millions of taels of silver at once, and Zhu Houzhao couldn't even imagine how much the other party was greedy for ink to have such a big hand.

Five million, eight million, or ten million or more, when he thought of this, Zhu Houzhao could not wait to immediately order Lu Wenyang to be slashed by a thousand swords.

"Send someone to investigate, inspect the imperial envoy and the minister, but I want to see how much Lu Wenyang is greedy for ink!"

Chu Yi raised his brows and said, "Your Majesty, Liu Jin also sent someone to investigate Lu Wenyang, but in the end it was nothing."

Referring to Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but said: "Liu Dafang has lived up to my expectations, he is just a little greedy, and he is greedy for millions of taels of silver, which is really mad at me!"

It turned out that not long ago, Liu Jin's embezzled property was counted, and Zhu Houzhao almost died of anger when he saw the case sent by the Ministry of Punishment, Jin Yiwei and others.

It's not that Zhu Houzhao didn't know that Liu Jin was embezzled. In Zhu Houzhao's opinion, Liu Jin embezzled tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and he could keep his eyes closed, but the result was good. Liu Jin gave a big surprise. as many as millions of taels.

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So now, when Chu Yi mentioned Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao would have such a reaction, but Zhu Houzhao responded with a cold snort, "Since it's over, could it be that Lu Wenyang also sent money and Liu Jin?"

Chu Yi nodded slightly and said, "At the beginning, Lu Wenyang gave Liu Jin [-] taels of silver, so he kept his position as the Governor of Caoyun!"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but laugh angrily and said: "Okay, that's really good, this Governor of Caoyun is really a good collector of money, Liu Jin has [-] yuan, and his companion has more than [-] million yuan. I really want to ask him, so So much silver, where did he come from!"

After a little restraining his anger, Zhu Houzhao looked at Chu Yi and said: "Chu Da, you immediately discuss with Yang Ge, and send the imperial envoy to investigate this Lu Wenyang. I want to know how much he has been greedy for ink over the years, and he has done it again. What evil things have happened!"

Chu Yi cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty must have a mental preparation!"

Hearing what Chu Yi said, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help looking at Chu Yi curiously and said, "Oh, what did my partner ask me to prepare, isn't this Lu Wenyang's greed for ink too much? You don't need to worry, even if he is really greedy for ink. Ten million taels of silver, I am also mentally prepared."

With the stimulation of more than [-] million taels of silver that Chu Yi had stolen from Jiangnan, and the millions of taels of silver that had been stolen from Huang Huai's family, Lu Wenyang was able to make millions with one shot. Two taels of silver bribes, Zhu Houzhao no longer thinks that a corrupt official can copy tens of thousands of taels of silver, which is very amazing.

Just as Zhu Houzhao himself said, at least for now, even if someone tells him that Lu Wenyang's family can copy tens of millions of silver lines, he can accept it.

However, Chu Yi shook his head and said, "I am worried that once the imperial court sends someone to investigate Lu Wenyang, Lu Wenyang will repeat his old tricks!"

Zhu Houzhao said in surprise: "Oh, what is the old trick?"

Chu Yi said slowly: "At the beginning, Liu Jin also sent people to investigate Lu Wenyang, but those officials sank with the boat in the canal before they could do anything..."

Zhu Houzhao is not a little white who doesn't understand anything. When Chu Yi said this, Zhu Houzhao's expression suddenly changed, and he said solemnly: "He...he is so bold that even court officials dare to murder him?"

Chu Yi sneered: "For some people, as long as they have enough interests, there is nothing in this world that they dare not do. Has your Majesty forgot that Huang Huai, Huang Kui and others dare to mobilize troops and horses privately? Why can't Lu Wenyang kill the court officials who went to investigate him!"

With a snap, Zhu Houzhao shouted angrily at the table, "He dares!"

It could be seen that Zhu Houzhao was really angry. It was only a matter of Huang Huai and other daring people in the capital. He did not expect that there were such lawless and lawless officials even in the local area.In particular, the other party is still an important minister in charge of water transportation.

Don't these important officials have a bit of kingly law in their hearts, and don't have a bit of reverence for the officials sent by the court?

"Come on, call me old Yang Ge to come here!"

Looking at Zhu Houzhao's posture, he didn't want to wait for Chu Yi to discuss with Yang Tinghe, but wanted to discuss Lu Wenyang's affairs with Yang Tinghe directly.

In the cabinet, Yang Tinghe is dealing with government affairs. Compared with Liu Jin's grasping and fighting for power, Chu Yi has no sign of this at all.

As the chief supervisor, if he really wants to fight for power, he is indeed able to compete with the cabinet, and even relying on the emperor's reliance and trust, it is not uncommon to overwhelm the cabinet.

If it is said that Chu Yi competes with the cabinet as soon as he comes up, Yang Tinghe and other cabinet elders will never be surprised. The key is that there is no such sign of Chu Yi.

However, although Chu Yi did not show any intention of fighting for power with the cabinet, Yang Tinghe and others did not dare to take it lightly. After all, Chu Yi is still trying the case of Huang Huai, Huang Kui and others for conspiracy. Who knows when Chu Yi makes his move Will it start against the cabinet?

A servant entered the cabinet and said to Yang Tinghe: "Elder Yang, your Majesty urgently summons the elder to come!"

Yang Tinghe was slightly taken aback, Zhu Houzhao rarely summoned them on his own initiative, but this time it was a sudden call, Yang Tinghe's heart was abrupt, but his expression was calm, and he bowed his hands to the servant and said, "Father-in-law, wait a minute, Ben. The official will go with your father-in-law to visit your majesty."

After leaving the cabinet, Yang Tinghe quietly handed a silver note to the servant and said with a chuckle: "This father-in-law, I don't know why His Majesty recruited this official to go there. If possible, father-in-law may wish to remind one or two."

The waiter glanced at the amount on the silver note, it was a hundred taels of silver, which was quite a sum of money for him as a waiter, he immediately smiled and said, "Elder Ge, don't worry, although he said I don't know what the slaves are for, but it doesn't have anything to do with the patriarch."

The waiter really didn't know what happened, but it was obviously impossible for him to return the money from Yang Tinghe, so he relaxed Yang Tinghe's heart.

Yang Ting and what kind of people, just listening to the words of the servant, knew that they were asking Yu Bing, and the other party obviously didn't know the reason why Zhu Houzhao invited him.

Soon Yang Tinghe arrived at the location of the leopard room and entered the leopard room smoothly.

In the main hall, the chamberlain said respectfully, "The chief assistant of the cabinet, Yang Tinghe, beg to see your majesty!"

"pass!"

Yang Tinghe straightened his clothes and walked slowly into the hall, and saw Zhu Houzhao sitting there, while Chu Yi and Gu Dayong stood aside.

Taking a few steps forward, Yang Tinghe respectfully bowed to Zhu Houzhao and said, "My minister Yang Tinghe greets His Majesty!"

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand slightly and said, "Yang Qing's family doesn't need to be polite, get up and answer!"

After Yang Tinghe thanked him, he got up slowly, and said with some doubts: "Your Majesty has urgently summoned the ministers, what are your orders?"

Zhu Houzhao handed the gift list presented by Chu Yi to Lu Wenyang, the Governor of Water Transport, to Gu Dayong and said, "My partner, please show this gift list to Yang Ge!"

Gu Dayong walked to Yang Tinghe with a smile on his face and handed the gift list to Yang Tinghe and said, "Elder Yang, you might as well have a look."

Yang Tinghe was puzzled, what gift list?

After taking the gift list, Yang Tinghe glanced at the contents above and was shocked.

Huanhai has been ups and downs for decades, and Yang Tinghe has never experienced any kind of things. He has seen such a gift list many times, so he can see at a glance that it is probably given to a certain DPRK by a local official. member's gift.

Almost instantly, Yang Tinghe could be sure that nine out of ten this gift list was given to Chu Yi, and even the person who presented this gift list had a rough guess in Yang Tinghe's mind.

Scanning the gift list with one eye and ten lines, Yang Tinghe roughly calculated in his heart that this gift list was worth millions of taels. In the blink of an eye, Chu Yi presented it to the emperor.

Even if Yang Tinghe asked himself, if he was in Chu Yi's seat, I'm afraid he might not be able to present so much wealth to the emperor like Chu Yi.

That's millions of taels of silver, who wouldn't be tempted.

Yang Tinghe glanced at Chu Yi with a strange look. Didn't he say that eunuchs like wealth the most? This has been the case since ancient times.

Respectfully presenting the gift list to the emperor, Yang Tinghe said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, this gift list is invaluable, it is not less than a million taels, I don't know..."

Zhu Houzhao looked at Yang Tinghe and said: "This gift list was presented by Lu Wenyang, the governor of Caoyun, to Chu Dafan, and Chu Dafan presented it to me as soon as he received it. If not, I still don't know my Caoyun governor. It's still such a huge greed."

Yang Tinghe immediately bowed to the ground with a terrified look and said with sincerity and sincerity: "This minister's negligence in supervision has led to such a huge amount of greed in the local area, and it has been entrusted by Your Majesty. Please also ask Your Majesty to rule the minister's crime!"

Zhu Houzhao sighed in his heart and raised Yang Tinghe in front of him and said, "What does this have to do with the Yang Qing family? Lu Wenyang has been in the local area for many years and has served in several cabinets. How can you blame Yang Qing's family?"

After appeasing Yang Tinghe, Zhu Houzhao said to Yang Tinghe: "I have just discussed with the great companion of Chu, and the imperial court immediately dispatched personnel to investigate Lu Wenyang. We must find out which officials are involved in the case of Lu Wenyang's corruption."

Being stared at by Zhu Houzhao, Yang Tinghe said solemnly, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, this minister will definitely dispatch competent personnel to investigate and deal with it."

Zhu Houzhao nodded with satisfaction and said, "In this case, I will hand over this matter to the Qing family!"

Yang Tinghe left the leopard room and returned to the cabinet. Several cabinet elders saw that Yang Tinghe looked a little wrong and couldn't help but surround him.

Jiang Mian said to Yang Tinghe, "Master Shoufu, is there anything wrong with His Majesty's summons?"

Yang Tinghe took a deep breath, glanced at everyone, and sighed softly, "Your Majesty has already ordered the cabinet to strictly investigate the corruption case of Lu Wenyang, Governor of Caoyun."

"what!"

The expressions of the elders of the pavilion could not help but change. Who was Lu Wenyang, the governor of water transportation, the elders of the pavilion who were present were naturally very clear.

When it comes to Lu Wenyang, the governor of water transport, even they have to admire in their hearts. This is simply the emperor of the soil on the Grand Canal. He has been the governor of water transport for nearly ten years. Made into an iron bucket.

It's not that no one has tried the idea of ​​the Governor of Caoyun, but no one has been able to succeed. Even Liu Jin, who had the power in the world at the time, took back the hand he stretched out after hitting a wall.