Just from Li Xu's appearance, Yuzhu could guess why Kangxi trusted Li Xu more than Cao Yin.
He looks like the old emperor, which is a big plus.
"The minister of Dali Temple with the title of Suzhou Weaving, the lower official Li Xu pays homage to the imperial envoy." Li Xu met Yuzhu with his usual worship, it was because he wanted to conduct official business.
Unlike Cao Yin, Li Xu was first a die-hard Eighth Ye Party member and then a die-hard Fourteenth Ye Party member.
Therefore, when the fourth son ascended to the throne and began to settle old scores, Li Xu suffered a worse fate than Cao Yin.
Both Li Xu and Cao Yin owed money to the court and suffered huge losses.
However, Li Xu was better at business management than Cao Yin, and he paid off all his losses before the old emperor died.
In fact, Cao Yinzhen was not a material for practical work. When he concurrently served as the censor of salt inspection in the Huaihe River, he obviously had an absolute monopoly on the business, but the money he made could not make up for the shortfall.
"Sit down, someone, let's serve tea." It is impossible for Yuzhu to have any personal relationship with Li Xu, just because his backer and Yuzhu are bitter enemies.
After Li Xu sat down, he completely told the story about the "Yunnan and Guizhou Chronicles" hidden in the home of the former number one scholar Dai Youqi.
The matter is actually not complicated. Dai Youqi took a 16-year-old concubine. This concubine had an affair with Dai Youqi's cousin and was discovered.
Dai Youqi beat his nephew severely, and then sold the concubine who had cheated on him.
But the problem is that Dai Youqi's cousin had a grudge, so he found an excuse to frame Dai Youqi.
Maybe Zhang Boxing, the governor of Jiangsu, had a personal relationship with Dai Youqi.
Zhang Boxing not only failed to arrest Dai Youqi, but also gave the cousin who reported the crime a beating.
After Yuzhu heard this, he couldn't help but smile. He was not good at handwriting and never wrote or collected books.
In addition, Yuzhu was not talented in poetry and never wrote poems or lyrics.
Yuzhu was born in Manchuria and was a junior of the emperor's mother's family. He was deeply trusted by the old emperor. He only needed to be good at military management and making money to remain invincible.
As a veteran in the officialdom, Yuzhu understood at a glance that Dai Youqi's case was just a cover. The real target Li Xu wanted to attack was Jiangsu Governor Zhang Boxing.
The old emperor could not trust Zhang Boxing, but he was also worried about the Jiangnan scholars. He sent Yuzhu down to the south of the Yangtze River, just to hunt down rabbits and severely punish the rampant Jiangnan scholars.
It doesn't really matter what Li Xu came to say to Yu Zhu. The key is that Li Xu came to meet Yu Zhu, and that was enough.
As for how to deal with the whole incident, now that Yuzhu has come to Jiangnan, there will be nothing wrong with Li Xu.
Li Xu managed two of the three weaving yamen in Jiangnan, which shows Kangxi's trust in him.
Yuzhu, who is also the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, happens to be Li Xu's immediate boss.
However, Kangxi was still alive, and Yuzhu was not interested in asking Li Xu how the weaving yamen was doing?
After Li Xu left, Zhou Quan came in.
"Dong Weng, the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are beautiful, why don't you dress up and take a trip?" Zhou Quan's suggestion fell into Yuzhu's wish.
Such trivial things in the Jiangnan literary world are actually just a storm in a teapot and cannot cause waves at all.
Kangxi sent Yuzhu to the south of the Yangtze River to deal with those scholars who had bright minds.
To put it bluntly, Yuzhu came to Jiangnan to be a bad person.
Yuzhu is a dignified infantry commander and an important minister with military power. If he had received high praise in Jiangnan Shilin, he would have lost his head.
Yuzhu's strategy has always been to pursue military power while underestimating fame.
Therefore, the question before Yuzhu is, which celebrities from Jiangnan should be dealt with?
Except for Dai Youqi, who is already determined to be unlucky, how to trouble the other Jiangnan celebrities depends entirely on Yuzhu's mood.
Zhou Quan had a clear conscience, and it was obviously necessary for Yuzhu to come to Jiangning to spread the melons.
However, based on a detailed analysis of the specific situation, Yuzhu still needs to find a breakthrough for self-destruction.
With the precedent of Qian Yinglan, Yuzhu fell in love with a girl from a certain family and snatched her directly. Kangxi would definitely be happier when he found out.
A lonely minister, a pure minister, what good reputation do you want?
Only Wang Mang needs to be invited!
Longkodo also had an extremely bad reputation in history. Not to mention other things, just robbing his father-in-law's concubine, this incident alone has been notorious in the history books for thousands of years.
However, without the more than 30,000 soldiers and horses at Longkodo's disposal, it would be impossible for Lao Si to become emperor.
Zhou Quanming suggested that Yuzhu pay a private visit incognito. In fact, he was reminding Yuzhu.
Dong Weng, you are going to be forced to do bad things anyway, so why not snatch a few women who are pleasing to your eye and who are very suitable to your heart and come back.
There is also great knowledge in robbing people.
Once he was impeached for robbing a woman in the street, even if Kangxi had tacitly approved it, Yuzhu would not be spared lightly.
If you want to do bad things, you must follow Kangxi's wishes and start directly from the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River.
For five days in a row, Yuzhu took Qingwen back to his hometown and visited almost all the streets and alleys of Jiangning, showing a leisurely and contented look.
Zhou Quan and others went around to find out about the famous beauties in the houses of wealthy local families.
After Yuzhu had a lot of fun with Qingwen, Zhou Quan already had the answer.
"Dong Weng, among the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, there has been a saying of eight beauties. However, according to Quan's private investigation, the real beauty in the south of the Yangtze River is actually..." Zhou Quan reported the investigation in detail.
Yuzhu nodded and said, "Zhu Sheng, I will send someone to pick up my post tomorrow and ask Dai Youqi to come over and explain it."
Dai Youqi has already registered with Kangxi and cannot escape no matter what.
However, Dai Youqi did still have value, and Yuzhu didn't mind at all and squeezed him hard.
The imperial envoy who was patrolling Jiangnan personally sent a message to invite him. Dai Youqi had already realized that something was wrong.
If so, he would dare to escape if he was the only one at home.
But the problem is, how can the entire Dai family escape, with hundreds of people and tens of thousands of acres of fertile land?
Don't dare to escape at all!
If you don’t run away, you will die!
If you run away, you won't be able to escape, and it will bring harm to the whole clan.
Five days later, Dai Youqi rushed from Jinshanwei to Jiangning to pay homage to Yuzhu.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Jinshanwei is now Jinshan District, Shanghai. However, Jinshanwei at this time was affiliated with Suzhou Prefecture.
Not long after Dai Youqi arrived at the door of the General's Mansion and handed over his name card, words came from inside, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Envoy, has invited Mr. Dai."
Yuzhu did not deliberately leave Dai Youqi dry, but met him in the inner study, where Zhou Quan was also present.
"I, Dai Youqi, respectfully send my greetings!"
"Holy Holy Gong!"
After bowing politely, Yuzhu politely gave up his seat and served tea.
After Dai Youqi took a sip of tea, Yuzhu said with a smile: "Presumably, Mr. Long, you have cleaned up the study and home, right?"
Dai Youqi, whose courtesy name is Longyan, is called Longgong by Yuzhu, which is already very polite.
After hearing Yuzhu's words, Dai Youqi was stunned for a moment, and then his face turned earth-colored.
Everyone is understanding.
After being reported by his nephew, Dai Youqi destroyed all the prohibited writings at home.
Of course Yuzhu knew that the house raid was no longer effective, so he politely posted a message and invited Dai Youqi over.
After all, Dai Youqi was the number one scholar in the 30th year of Kangxi's reign. In this year, Yuzhu was only one year old.
According to the calculation of one year old for a bannerman, Yuzhu is only two years old.
Seeing that Dai Youqi was already panicking, Yuzhu said slowly and calmly: "To be honest with you, Mr. Long, when I arrive in Jiangning, you and your whole family will be considered dead!"
Dai Youqi read a lot of books, and he immediately realized a terrible fact: there was no doubt about the case.
As long as it is an imperial case, even if there is not a single prohibited piece of paper in Dai Youqi's home, he will still be implicated.
"Now, there are only two ways before you, Mr. Long. The first is to cooperate with this imperial envoy, your family will be safe, and you have a great chance to continue to live. The second is, all the wives and concubines of the five Yi tribes
Not included in the government."
Since Kangxi ascended the throne, only the three vassals and other rebels have razed the five clans.
The five tribes of Yi means that the matter involves great rebellion and the crime is so heinous that it cannot be forgiven.
Yuzhu had already made his words clear and left it up to Dai Youqi to decide where to go.
Dai Youqi finally couldn't sit still as Yuzhu calmly and gradually closed the net. "Pfft." He fell to the ground to plead guilty.
Well, you’re right if you know you’re afraid!
However, since we already knew how ruthless and vicious the Qing court was, why did we insist on using era names such as "Hongguang", "Longwu" and "Yongli"?
These Jiangnan scholars all have hard mouths, but most of their bones are soft.
Now that Dai Youqi had subdued him, Yuzhu was no longer too lazy to deal with him anymore. He got up and left, leaving Zhou Quan behind to arrange various follow-up affairs.
Zhou Quan gently shook the folding fan and asked Dai Youqi with a smile: "Dai Gong, I heard that you have several private gardens in Jiangning?"
"Yes." Dai Youqi didn't know what Zhou Quan meant by this, but he couldn't hide the property in his name from anyone, so he had to admit it obediently.
"Mr. Dai, your wife is known for her talents in the Jiangnan area. It seems that she hasn't entertained guests and performed poems for five years, right?" Zhou Quan was not in a hurry and slowly introduced Dai Youqi.
Dai Youqi was able to pass the exam, so he was definitely not a real fool.
After he heard Zhou Quan's hint, he couldn't help but secretly complained. What a cruel method, he actually wanted to use the Dai family as bait to wipe out all the famous families in Jiangnan?
"To be honest, Mr. Dai, the main reason is that my boss wanted to meet a few real ladies and ladies from famous families, so I gave you the opportunity to save yourself by doing something good. I hope you will not make any mistakes, which may cause harm to you."
The lives of the whole clan.”
The fish had entered the net, but Zhou Quan didn't mind at all, and Dai Youqi let it out if possible.
Since the jade pillar is the guardian of heaven, those people in Dai Youqi's circle can escape from the first day of the lunar month, how can they escape from the fifteenth day of the lunar month?
According to a wise saying that Zhou Quan learned from Yu Zhu, if the wolf wants to eat the lamb, why worry about having no excuse?
People are selfish. Compared with the hundreds of lives of the Dai family and the huge family fortune, what's the harm in betraying all the celebrities in the south of the Yangtze River?
Moreover, Dai Youqi knew better than anyone else that even if he was tough and refused to cooperate, it would not help.
There are a lot of weak-minded guys in the circle!
It is self-evident whether you are a dead Taoist friend or a dead Taoist!
(ps: I'm working overtime, so the next update will probably be very late, or it will be updated tomorrow.)