The palace's intention was very obvious, which was to find a way to get Gu Hengbo to leave his country.
According to Shen Yi's guess, although he has not contributed much in the past few days, His Majesty the Emperor still met Gu Hengbo and everyone.
This is normal.
It was not difficult for the emperor to see anyone he wanted. Even if he met secretly, it would not be a problem. There was no reason why he would have no way to see Gu Hengbo without Shen Yi.
It is estimated that during this meeting, the emperor still liked Gu everyone very much, so he sent these two redemption notes to Shen Yi.
Twenty thousand taels of silver was the money used to redeem Gu Hengbo's life.
Theoretically speaking, no matter how talented a Qinhuai River prostitute is, she can bring her home for just a few thousand taels of silver. Twenty thousand taels of silver is very abundant, but in reality, the palace still underestimated Gu Hengbo. worth, or rather...
Underestimating the spending power of Jiankang’s second generation.
At last year's oiran convention, Zhao Jizhou and Zhao Er alone contributed more than 3,000 taels of silver. All the others together, that day, just because of Gu Hengbo, Chunyi House received at least 3,000 taels. Two silver coins.
This is the prosperous land of Kyoto, and Gu Hengbo is the top figure in Jiankang.
Twenty thousand taels of silver is not enough to "buy out" such a top-notch person.
At least not now.
Maybe in two years' time, when the Gu family turns 20 and is "old", twenty thousand taels of silver will be enough to redeem her.
But now, twenty thousand taels of silver is not enough.
Even though these 20,000 taels of silver are already all the money that Chen Fuzun embezzled in the Jiangdu Prefecture grain price case, it is still a bit unsatisfactory to put it in Chunyi Tower and in front of Gu Hengbo.
But it doesn't matter. In a place like Beijing, money never has the final say.
Shen Yi stayed in Xu Fu's shop for a while, greeted Xu Fu in advance, and then sent a letter to Eunuch Gao from the inner guard's stronghold.
The content of the letter is that the money is not enough and we need to ask someone to help.
At the end of the letter, Shen Yi also wrote the name of the co-organizer.
Li Mu, the crown prince of Jin Dynasty.
Immediately afterwards, Shen Yi went home to wait for the news.
It wasn't until the next morning that Shen Yi received a reply from the palace.
The letter affirmed Shen Yi's approach and agreed that Shen Yi should ask Li Mu to help "co-organize" it.
After receiving this reply, Shen Yi's first reaction was not that the emperor was on an errand, but that he remembered some of his guesses about Prince Jin's Mansion.
For example, the Jin Palace has already stood with the emperor.
The emperor also has great trust in the Jin Palace, at least for now.
As a result, Shen Yi, who was already preparing to go home, postponed his trip for a day, then changed into summer clothes and came to the Prince Jin's Mansion to ask to see the Crown Prince of Jin.
The requesting process went smoothly.
Because the weather was hot at the moment, the crown prince Li Mu did not go out, but stayed at home to enjoy the coolness. After Shen Yi came to visit, Li Mu even came to the door of the house in person and welcomed Shen Yi in.
The crown prince went out to greet people in person. This etiquette standard was second only to Prince Jin himself to greet people in person.
At this time, Prince Jin was working in the Jiankang Mansion. Li Mu was the eldest in Prince Jin's Mansion. The Crown Prince behaved much more casually. After he led Shen Yi to sit down in the living room of Prince Jin's Mansion, he said with a smile: "Zi Heng If you don't come after two days of writing, I'm going to look for you. My father said that you are half a member of the family, so how come you won the Jinshi but didn't come to the family?"
Shen Yi lowered his eyebrows and smiled and said: "It's not that I won't come, it's just that I've been busy these days. I originally planned to visit the palace before going home, but I came early today."
Hearing the words "came early", today he raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "What? Zi Heng has something to do for his brother?"
At this time, Shen Yi was already a second-ranked Jinshi. In terms of status, it was enough for Li Mu to call him a brother.
Shen Yi lowered his eyebrows and said: "Your Majesty, I have a friend who wants to buy someone in the Qinhuai River. However, every brothel along the Qinhuai River has a background and may not be willing to sell. The Crown Prince has a lot of face, so I want the Crown Prince to intervene."
Hearing this, Li Mu was stunned for a moment, then clapped his hands and laughed: "This is easy, it couldn't be easier. Nearly half of the owners of brothels and Chu houses on both sides of the Qinhuai River recognize my brother. Even if they don't recognize me, they still have to give me some face." , that’s it, I will take you to the Qinhuai River tonight, and if you like any girl, you can take her directly without saying a word."
Shen Yi lowered his head and took a sip of tea, then smiled and said, "What about Gu Hengbo?"
Li Mu was startled, then smiled and said: "Gu Hengbo is not that great. If you take a fancy to me, brother, take him to your room tonight. If you are great, I will send him back to Chunyi Building tomorrow. The owner of Chunyi Building is my brother." I understand, my brother will take care of this for you."
Shen Yi shook his head slightly: "Your Majesty, it's not just for one night, but someone wants to renounce Gu Hengbo's citizenship."
"I'm afraid there are not many people in the entire Jiankang City who can do this, so I came to trouble the prince..."
Li Mu thought for a while and felt helpless: "Gu Hengbo and the money tree of Chunyi Tower have lost a money tree for no reason. No matter how good the relationship is, they will probably be in trouble with me."
Shen Yi did not speak, but silently took out the letter Gao Ming sent him from his sleeve and handed it to Li Mu: "Your Majesty, take a look."
Li Mu took the letter handed over by Shen Yi with doubts. After just scanning it, his expression changed slightly.
After reading it carefully, he returned the letter to Shen Yi. After a long silence, he said, "If this is really the case, it seems that there is no need for you and me."
"The palace must be decent."
Shen Yi lowered his eyebrows slightly and said with a smile: "It is impossible for people in the palace to go directly to the brothel to deregister people. After all, His Majesty has not yet got married. If word spreads..."
"It doesn't sound good."
The Crown Prince glanced at Shen Yi with a suspicious look on his face: "Ziheng, are you attracted to Mr. Gu and trying to trick me?"
Shen Yi shook his head helplessly: "If the prince has this idea, then just pretend that I have never been here today."
After that, Shen Yi stood up and left.
With doubts on his face, Li Mu sent it to the main entrance of Prince Jin's Mansion. Before parting, Li Mu said: "I will go and verify this matter. What is your friend's name? I will contact him afterwards."
"His surname is Xu, and he does business on the banks of the Qinhuai River."
Shen Yi smiled and said: "My name is Xu Fu."
After that, Shen Yi said goodbye and left.
Early the next morning, Shen Yi took his two maids and left Jiankang.
It is worth mentioning that only three people left. Shen Ling, Xu Fu and others stayed in Jiankang and did not follow them back.
After all, Shen Yi wouldn't be back for long, he would only be back in ten days and a half at most.
Not two days after Shen Yi left Jiankang, a big event happened in Jiankang City.
Gu Hengbo, who was famous in Jiankang for his singing and playing skills, was bought by an unknown young businessman and was freed from his lowly status.
Gu Hengbo was a serious figure in Jiankang, so the fact that she was bought immediately caused a sensation in Jiankang.
Because if you want to bring this patron home, you can't do it with just money.
As a result, everyone secretly tried their best to find out which young master or boss took away this famous Qinhuai prostitute.
But after searching again and again, I could only find four words.