There is nothing wrong with the dignified Emperor Daning, for the sake of just a few hundred taels of silver, threatening an important minister of the court and the chief minister of the cabinet. After all, it is not the first time.

Think about it, in order to have some pocket money, His Majesty can make Ye Liuyun come up with a Liuyun Club, and what's wrong with making some money?

After taking a sip of tea, Lai Cheng said, "What does Your Majesty think Xue Huayi will do?"

The emperor stared at the chessboard and thought about how to make the next step. After hearing Lai Cheng's question, he said, "Don't want to distract me, you can win back some more."

Lai Cheng sighed: "Your Majesty extorted money for hundreds of taels. When playing chess and raised bets, he gritted his teeth and said that three coins were a game. I can only win back these hundreds of taels of silver if I win the year of the Monkey and Horse Month."

The emperor glanced at him: "Do you really want to win back?"

Lai Cheng: "..."

After the emperor made a move, he said, "I have always thought that Xue Huayi is very talented, so I have always used him to transfer him to Gyeonggi Province. One is to make underwater affairs in Gyeonggi Province surface, and the other is that he will have public opinion on doing it on Hujiandao. It is obvious that he has deceived the people, but if he has done it on Hujiandao, the people who have seen it on Hujiandao will say that the court has deceived the people."

Lai Chengdao: "So if this person is not dealt with properly, there will be a rebound in public opinion."

The emperor nodded: "Since I have handed over the things to Changye, he should be able to do it."

Lai Cheng nodded and said, "Why did Your Majesty secretly lose another son?"

Emperor: "What does it mean to be secret? You see it, can it be called secret? I am blatantly cheating."

Lai Chengdao: "It's fine to play Go, Your Majesty is just playing two games with his ministers, and it's also about..."

Emperor: "Hmm?"

Lai Cheng: "Your Majesty is wise."

The emperor smiled and said, "What's wrong with Gozi chess? Gozi chess is also a test of wisdom."

Lai Cheng: "This is all cheating, and it seems to have nothing to do with wisdom..."

Your Majesty: "Hmm?"

Lai Chengdao: "Your Majesty is wise."

The emperor smiled and said, "I let you in not only play chess with me, nor do I just want you to extort hundreds of taels of silver. There is something I plan to tell you in advance. I am afraid that if I will tell you again when the matter is about to come, you may be so scared that you will be so scared."

Lai Cheng: "Then your Majesty, please stop talking..."

The emperor asked: "Why?"

Lai Chengdao: "I have lost hundreds of taels of silver. Let's talk about something scary, this is double torture."

The emperor smiled and shouted outside the door: "Dai Fangzhou."

The eunuch Dai Fangzhou hurriedly ran in from outside: "Your Majesty, I am here."

The emperor ordered: "Go and take the gifts I prepared for Lord Lai. These things have been prepared for a while, and there has been no suitable opportunity."

Dai Fangzhou hurried out and soon came in with a wooden box in his hands. The wooden box looked not small, and he didn't know what was inside.

Dai Fangzhou put the wooden box on the table and bowed and retreated. The emperor pushed the wooden box to Lai Chengdao: "Let's take a look."

Lai Cheng didn't dare to look at it, so he asked carefully: "Your Majesty, what is this?"

The emperor gave him a blank look and said, "Look at your cowardly look... I asked a while ago that I asked Han Huanzhi to take a sum of my money to Tianji Ticket Number to earn a share. Few people know about this. After calculating it two days ago, I found that I had made a lot of money.

Take out some of the money you earn.”

He opened the box and took out a land deed from it: "This is your old house in your hometown. In order to raise enough money and travel expenses for you to study in the academy, your parents sold your old house."

The emperor handed the land deed to Lai Cheng and said, "I know that you later passed the exam and wanted to spend money to buy the old house back, but they didn't want to sell it anymore. I think your old house has good feng shui and can have promising people."

"Later, you were already the chief minister of the cabinet, but you did not use the power in your hands to put pressure on the house to buy it back. Although your family and the buyer agreed that they would buy it back in the future, your subordinates once asked you why you didn't ask in person. You said that the transaction was fair, and that it was protected by the Daning law. Even if you were the chief minister, you could not interfere with this fairness."

Lai Cheng took the land deed, his hands trembling slightly.

"I haven't asked about it because I think you're doing a good job and don't overpower others."

Lai Cheng asked excitedly: "How did Your Majesty buy the house back?"

The emperor said: "Because I am richer than you, I bought it for three times the price, and I can speak the same way as you? I speak...is an imperial edict."

Lai Cheng: "Thank you for your grace!"

The emperor said, "Don't thank me. The money for buying a house was probably fed from you over the years. It cost a total of 600 taels. I have fed it back just now."

Lai Cheng: "..."

But there was still money, some jewelry, and some gold in the wooden box, which totally accounted for as many as thousands of taels.

"These silver is earned by me using another part of the money I have stolen from you to invest in Tianji Ticket Number, and it is your dividend."

The emperor asked, "Are you happy?"

Lai Cheng nodded excitedly: "Happy."

Emperor: "Since I'm happy, then I'll talk about what I want to tell you, so you can sit firmly."

Lai Cheng: "..."

A moment later, Lai Cheng was so scared that he sat on the ground, but still couldn't sit firmly.

Five days later, Gyeonggi-do, Shicheng.

The Taoist Cen Zheng brought all the officials of the Jingji Road Office to welcome His Royal Highness outside the city gate. He saw a black dragon-like team coming from afar. They were the cavalry of the imperial guards. When they marched forward, they were like dragons walking in the wild.

Dao Cheng Xue Huayi stood beside Cen Zheng, his face changing constantly. He did not expect that Chang'an City would send someone so soon, and even more unexpected that the person who came was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

He thought that although there was no chance in this matter, the law did not blame the public. Once the fig leaf in Gyeonggi Province was revealed, the people would see all these clearly. Even the court and even His Majesty would not dare to bet like this, and the people would not have any public grievances.

However, Xue Huayi thought she was wrong, and she would come back if she should come, and she would definitely not be late.

Half an hour later, the Taoist government office.

His Highness the Crown Prince sat down on the throne, and the civil and military officials from Gyeonggi Province bowed and saluted again. Prince Li Changye nodded and said, "All sirs, please get up."

He looked at Cen Zheng and said with a smile: "Mr. Cen, long time no see. I remember when you came back to Beijing to meet your father when you were a child, you hugged me."

Cen Zheng's face turned red and his mood immediately became a little excited. He quickly leaned over and said, "I remember, that was already ten years ago."

Li Changye pointed to his side: "Come and sit beside me and talk."

Cen Zheng hurried over, not daring to confirm, and sat down with his butt, half of his butt was outside the stool.

Li Changye pulled him: "You must sit firmly, you are the master of the Taoist government,

Of course, the Lord of the Taoist Palace must be firmly in. If you sit firmly in Gyeonggi Province, Chang'an City will be stable."

The praise for this sentence is already very high.

Cen Zheng heard some unusual meaning from this sentence, so he subconsciously looked at Xue Huayi not far away, and Xue Huayi's face changed slightly because of this sentence.

Li Changye smiled and said, "Before I left Chang'an, my father said, "You are going to see Cen Zheng to help him sit firmly. If there is anything he can't and can't solve, then you can help him solve it. Before the Northern Expedition, there can't be any instability in Gyeonggi Province."

Cen Zheng lowered his head and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you."

Li Changye said directly: "Then, see if there is something you want to solve, but you can't solve it within your own authority?"

Cen Zheng immediately understood that he was a retainer from the Liu palace, and His Royal Highness had already pointed it out so thoroughly. If he pretended not to understand, there would be a problem.

So Cen Zheng immediately said: "The Northern Expedition is a big deal, and Gyeonggi Province is fully prepared and cooperates with each other. But... some officials below were either older, lacking ability, or being comfortable and careless, so the preparation of food and supplies was delayed a little. If it was one or two, I could deal with it, but I had to deal with it, so..."

He looked at his subordinates and said, "Take the memorial I wrote."

The subordinates hurried out and soon took a memorial back. Cen Zheng handed the memorial to Li Changye and said, "I originally wanted to write a memorial to send it to the cabinet first, and then submit it to His Majesty for review. Your Highness inspects Gyeonggi Province, so I'll ask Your Highness to take a look first."

Shen Leng, who was sitting on the side, looked at it and found it interesting. His Majesty transferred Cen Zheng over before this. At this moment, the intention became so obvious. The civil and military officials standing below all looked a little bad. They probably guessed that something big would happen to His Royal Highness in person this time, but they did not expect that His Royal Highness had not even had a rest for a moment and went straight to the topic.

This is not going to give those people any time to react, and they don’t give any breath.

Li Changye took the memorial and opened it and looked at it. As he looked, his face changed: "Why is the administration of Gyeonggi Province so bad? Lord Cen, as the chief official of Gyeonggi Province, why did you delay this matter until now to report it!"

His tone suddenly became stern, and Cen Zheng immediately stood up, took a few steps back and bowed down: "I am guilty, I am not good at handling things, and I am not able to deal with them clearly. Please punish me."

"Of course I have to punish you."

Li Changye said: "I'll be exempted from this welcome banquet today. If you send all the files about these people as soon as possible, I'm so full of anger."

After saying that, he got up and left with his sleeves.

At this moment, all the officials present were shocked.

Your Highness’s killing stick comes so fast and fiercely.

Li Changye walked out with great strides, not even looking back. He left, and all the people who were accompanying him followed him. Shen Leng followed behind Li Changye, holding it hard to suppress the smile on the corner of his mouth.

"My dear master..."

Li Changye, who was striding forward with a swaying force, did not look back, and asked in a low voice: "How is it? Is the situation okay?"

Chen sneered: "Okay, it can't be better."

Li Changye said as he walked: "I just want to see what they will do under heavy pressure, whether to come to me or find a way to escape."

He stopped and looked back at Chen Leng: "Will they escape?"

Chen Leng shook his head: "They won't."
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