The dew was deeper and heavy, and a layer of pale mist floated on the Qujiang Pool. The lanterns of the pleasure boat swayed in the wind, and the dim light reflected on the water surface, like a few drops of blood that were about to dry.

In the cabin of the pleasure boat, Li Hanyan was cooking tea. The red light of the charcoal fire reflected in his wrinkles, but it could not illuminate the deep eyes.

The water in the teapot rolled, and the sound of gurgling came into the ears of Li Ying, who was wearing a blue shirt opposite him.

Li Ying smiled self-deprecatingly, and he felt that the voice was like Li's breathing dying in a confidential manner.

"Aren't you here to ask me?" Looking at his self-deprecating smile, Li Hanyan also smiled faintly, "Why don't you ask?"

Li Ying pushed the hot teacup forward, "The city is hot, I just borrowed your pleasure boat to escape the heat."

Li Hanyan didn't expect Li Ying to do this at all, but was stunned.

"Cooking tea late at night, but it doesn't seem like I'm tired of the world's affairs." Li Ying said sarcastically.

Li Hanyan looked at Li Ying meaningfully and said, "Have you seen a lot with your tall companions recently? Why do you speak with this kind of yin and yang smell?"

Li Ying said calmly, "Since you knowingly ask, you don't have to blame me for Yin and Yang. As soon as Li Chenshan died, you would like to break up the secret place of Li's family immediately. If you say you just retire to the countryside and enjoy it well, you'll have to wait and see. You're still cooking bitter tea here at midnight and staying up late. What tricks are you playing?"

"Just seek good luck and avoid bad luck." Li Hanyan couldn't stand Li Ying's tone. He picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for Li Ying, sighed, and said, "Sometimes, no need for any complicated tape preparation. Once Li Chenshan died, his true disciples were extremely energetic and could not hand over those real dragon magical objects. Wang Yehu died and Changsun Wuji died. What else could the emperor be able to suppress his opponent in this Chang'an City? It would be fine if Li Guichen was willing to join forces with me. He had been fishing everywhere for ten years, and he clearly had something to do with me. Then in this city, Xuanqing and Mrs. Zou were originally on the side of the emperor. If I don't follow the flow, I would become a thorn in the emperor's side and the first object to be removed."

"What does the private army of the Zheng family mean?" Li Ying sneered.

"It's not interesting." Li Hanyan said calmly, "You can think this thing is not the way I paved for the prince, but the emperor himself wanted to make it."

Li Ying frowned slightly and said, "What goal does he want to achieve?"

Li Hanyan glanced at Li Ying, and there was such a dialogue in his eyes that was reassuring. He then smiled slightly and said, "If he wanted to change the imperial examination, the first thing he had to do was to cancel the family. The banned family of marriage will almost no longer exist now. Next, the hereditary family of the family can be cancelled so that those ignorant family members can give up their positions. Otherwise, those sects occupy the pit and do not poop, so how can they make a fart for the poor people?

Where to cancel the door shade, there must be a reason. It is not enough to privately build firearms to cooperate with the enemy, so we can only add a private army. In the future, the clans in the local area may not be able to stand up in front of a regiment captain. The officers in this area are more important. The appointment of these officers will definitely be in the hands of the emperor in the future. After a few steps, the power of the clans will be much worse than before."

Li Ying took a sip of the strong tea soup and fell silent.

"Everyone thinks Chen Qiqi is powerful, everyone knows Xuan Qing is powerful, but many people don't think the emperor is powerful." Li Hanyan sighed, "The emperor's methods are very vicious. Except for Wang Yehu and Changsun Wuji, they can also wrestle his arm, and the rest are not enough. Now he has created an illusion that before Gu Shiwu came back, all parties can still seize time to make a fight with Li Chenshan's group of people. This is a way to drive away wolves and eat tigers. Since the Li family is in a confidential manner, Li Guichen wants to push me forward to prevent disaster, why don't I just follow the emperor's will? Li Guichen probably wouldn't have thought that I would play like this. He has no choice but to let Li Jixing go up. But who knows if the emperor has other arrangements. There are so many wolves in the city, who can eat meat, who can chew bones, and who can trap himself in, that's not sure."

Li Ying slowly raised her head, looked at Li Hanyan's eyes, and said, "Will you take this opportunity to deal with Li Jixing?"

Li Hanyan frowned slightly and said, "Why do you think so?"

Li Ying was still looking at him and said quietly, "I wanted to keep my troops still, but why did I help the prince to Qianzhou? If you didn't use your efforts in secret this time, I'm afraid the prince is going to be in Yazhou, right?"

Li Hanyan looked at him calmly and said, "The prince exiled Yazhou, how can there be such a precedent? If you cross the sea, whether you can get there on the road is still a question, let alone how many years you can live after going there. I just think that the stain on my Li family is that the treatment of blood relatives is too cruel and criticized by the world."

"Is it just that?" Li Ying stood up and looked at him and said seriously, "I hope you are really just holding on to this idea."

Li Hanyan smiled and stopped explaining anything.

When Li Ying left and looked at Li Ying's back, he sighed thoughtfully.

...

The bright moon hall is still brightly lit at this time.

Listening to He Haixin asking her to come over to discuss matters, Pei Yunqi also sighed. She first asked someone to prepare some nourishing soup, and then entered the Privy Council of Mingyue Pavilion.

Seeing the dark circles that He Haixin and others had made, she couldn't help but say, "I have grown up so old that I have seen a Hua Cangming who is heavier than your dark circles. Don't be anxious. Don't stay so late in the future."

"There are many things in the past few days. After these days, we will make an appointment for a rest time." He Haixin signaled that it was not important, and then he said serious business seriously. "Yang's business is actually divided into two parts. One is the spice shop on the surface, and the other is the secret market business that does not pay taxes. Yang's ability to accumulate money is amazing. The extremely high-grade agarwood they accumulated comes from the inventory of the Sui Dynasty imperial palace. This part of the agarwood is not only equivalent to having no capital, but most of them go to the secret market and do not pay much taxes. Because they have close contact with overseas caravans, many smuggling businesses in the secret market are actually Yang's path, and the income of this part will not be lower than their spice business."

Pei Yunqiu just took the seat, and after hearing this, he frowned, "It's fine if you don't have to be discovered for ten or eight years. It's been so many years. It's impossible for everyone in Chang'an to be fools, and you can't find such a big fat meat in the dark market."

"This is the key point." He Haixin said in a deep voice, "From the clues that can be found on the surface, these markets, including the banned smuggling market, should be managed by Lu's family, but in fact the real manager behind it is Li's confidentiality."

"There is a connection between Li's confidentiality and Yang?" Pei Yunqi was shocked.

He Haixin said in a deep voice, "It should not be related."

Pei Yunqi frowned and said, "Don't you know about Li Wangji and Li Xuanxiao?"

He Hai thought to himself, "The Li family's confidential department performs their duties. The two of them should be the leaders of the department, so they don't know if there is any problem with the leaders of the department who supervises the secret market."

Pei Yunqi couldn't help but smile.

Comparing the duties... Isn't this equivalent to saying that the two of them are stupid.

He Haixin continued, "However, based on some of their case studies and some information reported by the departments, we sorted out and came to a conclusion that the money Yang's income in Chang'an and Luoyang has never been transported out, and there is not even a treasury. There is a kind of deed called 'golden banknote'. As long as we rely on this deed of gold banknote and the agreed code word, it can be directly sold in another place. According to our verification, the income is in Luocheng, Yangzhou."

Pei Yunqiu thought for a while and said, "There is no silver or money transaction at all in the delivery here. Just keep a account, and then use physical goods or gold or silver to deliver it in Luocheng, Yangzhou? Then there must be a reliable and powerful dark manor like Gu Shiwu. Could it be the secret place of Li's family?"

"The prince seems to be involved." He Haixin did not give a direct conclusion. Before many speculations were confirmed, he could not directly say yes or not. He looked at Pei Yunqiu and said seriously, "The biggest business in Yangzhou is salt transportation. The sea salt concentrated in Yangzhou is transported to various parts of the Tang Dynasty, with an annual transportation volume of more than one million stones. The prince sent to Qianzhou this time, and Qianzhou's salt production was also very huge, and it was also taken over by the group of people in Yangzhou. The wood and cinnabar produced in Qianzhou were also transported to Yangzhou by water by these people. There are countless large ships in the water transportation channel composed of Qianjiang, Yangtze River and Hangou. On this route, even if it is transporting troops, armor, and food, there will be no problem for those who control the water transportation."

Pei Yunqi frowned slightly and said, "Yangzhou is the canal hub, which controls the financial resources of the Jianghuai River and has close contacts abroad. It can quickly gather materials and troops. However, Chang'an wants to send troops to deal with Yangzhou, but Yangzhou cannot hold on. It is not a favorable place for long-term battles. On the contrary, Qianzhou is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but the financial resources are too little, but the place is demoted and officials gathered, which is easy to form a resistance alliance. If the prince is the banner, if there is enough financial support, it is probably not difficult to gather troops."

He Haixin nodded and said, "We roughly estimate that it will be a miraculous effect of 100,000 soldiers in ten days."

Pei Yunqi said calmly, "So the prince is very likely to have thought of the rise of the army after Qianzhou, and it is very likely to echo Nanzhao. I remember that what Nanzhao lacks the most is salt."

He Haixin nodded and continued, "We have carefully studied all the records about the prince, including the poems and essays he wrote, and have secretly contacted some of his teachers. We concluded that this person's eyes are not short-sighted, but he sometimes deliberately reveals flaws to show that he is young and has no depth in planning. According to our inference, people like him are unlikely to want to deal with you because of personal anger, so he may have a deeper plan for setting up the Soul Transfer Array."

Pei Yunqiu thought for a while and said, "What do you mean is that he set up this soul-moving array? He didn't really want to ask someone to borrow my body to assassinate Gu Shiwu? But he had other plans, and even the people under him thought that this was used to deal with Gu Shiwu and me, but it was not actually?"
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