The news that Lin Ye was scolded by the emperor and even dismissed from his post as general of the Sanbei Protectorate by the emperor spread like wildfire.
Soon the news spread throughout Geling City, and Lin Ye was once again pushed to the forefront.
This was obviously the emperor's intention. He did not talk about transferring Lin Ye to Jingzhou, but only talked about his dismissal.
Perhaps the emperor just wanted to see what the attitude of the civil and military officials in the court would be after hearing the news.
Early the next morning, someone was sent from the palace to take away the plaque outside the door of Lin Ye's residence in Geling City.
As soon as the news spread, the news that Lin Ye was finished became even crazier.
The not-so-skilled chess piece originally arranged by Wang Luoshen, namely Li Ci, the shopkeeper of Lin Ji Pawnshop, now seemed confused.
According to the plan, he should seek refuge with Lin Ye, but he also had to reveal some secrets to Lin Ye.
Now that news of Lin Ye's dismissal from office was flying everywhere, he didn't know whether he should continue to post about it or wait and see.
After much hesitation, he finally decided to take the risk and meet Xu Xinshu.
He found his subordinates and sent them to Qingyuzhuang to ask for instructions. Xu Xinshu was not so ruthless, so he sent someone back to tell him that they would meet him in Diecui Garden at noon, and asked him to come back in disguise.
In fact, at this time, Xu Xinshu was not in the mood to meet a little person like Li Ci.
Wang Luoshen never recovered after Lin Ye was so angry that he vomited blood that day, and the whole Wang family fell into a gloomy atmosphere.
Wang Luoshen was the pillar of this huge family. When he fell, everyone in the Wang family was panicked.
So at this time, Xu Xinshu had to show calmness. He was afraid that people around the Wang family would be too suspicious, so he decided to meet Li Ci.
In fact, Li Ci wanted to see Xu Xinshu, saying he wanted to ask for instructions, but he also wanted to find out the truth.
The Wang family's property is so large and the family is so complicated, the news that Wang Luoshen is ill cannot be hidden.
If Wang Luoshen really fell, Li Ci and others who were attached to the periphery of the Wang family would have to make plans for themselves.
After Li Ci disguised himself and went out, he deliberately passed by Lin Ye's house and took a look, and saw that the plaque on Lin Ye's house was indeed missing.
He guessed that many of the people passing by came to see if the plaque was still there.
The water waves in Geling City are said to be undercurrents, but in fact, as long as the wind blows, the waves on the river will not get smaller.
Once a person like Lin Ye, who has offended countless people, really loses power, how many people may line up to step on him.
The emperor deliberately delayed the announcement of the decree. In fact, he also wanted to see if Lin Ye would really be stepped on.
With his kind of character, Lin Ye didn't take the initiative to ask for transfer to Ge Ling for a month, and he was still feeling unhappy.
If Lin Ye is not allowed to suffer a little loss and suffer a little injustice, the emperor will also feel unhappy.
Moreover, the more people step on the forest leaves at this time, the stronger the forest leaves will be stepped back in the future.
The emperor reused Lin Ye in order to make Lin Ye an enemy of all officials. He just couldn't let Lin Ye create a circle in Geling City, and couldn't let Lin Ye have such a stable position as he did in Yunzhou.
Of the two people the emperor wanted to use, one was Ning Weimo, the head of the hundred officials, the one who wanted to get along with the civil and military officials.
Lin Ye, on the other hand, is the person who holds military power, but cannot get close to anyone.
If Lin Ye could not create an isolated situation for himself, then the emperor must also create this isolated situation for Lin Ye.
Li Ci couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw the door of the General Protector's Mansion was closed.
The emperor used Lin Ye's hand to weaken Shangyang Palace, and then used Lin Ye's hand to attack the Wang family.
Now that Shangyang Palace has been weakened, and Wang Luoshen, the head of the Wang family, is also seriously ill, the emperor has to free his hands to take care of Lin Ye again.
Li Ci thought to himself that it was a good thing that he was not an official. The ancients said that accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. This is really a truth.
Shortly after passing the gate of Lin Ye Mansion, he turned into another street. He arranged for a carriage to pick him up in front. Although he was disguised, he could not walk into Qingyu Village so directly.
The carriage was hired by his subordinates, and there was no sign of Lin Ji's Pawn Shop. He now understood that even if he was a small person, he had to keep a low profile when he should.
When the subordinates saw him appearing, they quickly opened the car door. When Li Ci got in the car, he asked if it was safe. The subordinates said don't worry, there will be no problem, and Li Ci felt at ease.
The carriage moved forward slowly, and Li Ci did not dare to let anyone follow him. After walking for about three to five miles, the coachman suddenly told him that he had a stomachache and wanted to go for a while, and asked him to wait in the car for a while.
The driver tied the horse to a tree on the roadside and trotted off to find the toilet.
Li Ci felt something was wrong, and just as he was about to get out of the car, the car door was suddenly opened from the outside.
A man wearing a bamboo hat got on the bus and sat directly opposite Li Ci.
Li Ci's expression changed: "Who are you?"
As soon as the man wearing a bamboo hat stretched out his hand, the knife was on Li Ci's shoulder.
Li Ci is not an ordinary person. He can be the shopkeeper of Lin Ji's pawnshop because of his good brain.
His own cultivation level was quite good, but at this time, he didn't even have the slightest room to resist.
"I will only say a few words. I hope you can remember them."
The swordsman in a bamboo hat said in a cold voice: "I know you are going to see Xu Xinshu. If she lets you continue to get close to General Lin Ye, you will ask her for as much money as you can."
Li Ci said: "This brave man, are you a member of the general?"
The swordsman in a bamboo hat said: "You don't need to care who I am, just remember what I say. You have hid your family in Xiaoduzhuang, thirty miles outside the city. I will take good care of it for you."
Li Ci's eyes suddenly widened, and he was about to move immediately, but the knife sank down, holding him firmly there.
"You can do whatever Xu Xinshu asks you to do, but you should know how to tell the general."
The swordsman in the bamboo hat took back the unsheathed sword. Li Ci immediately stepped forward and used his sharp claws to pinch the throat of the swordsman in the bamboo hat.
With a muffled bang, Li Ci fell back and his face turned pale.
At the moment of Li Ci's attack, the swordsman in the bamboo hat was able to turn his long sword around and hit Li Ci's heart with the handle of the knife. This time, Li Ci was immobilized, even his energy and blood were immobilized, and his breathing could not be stopped.
Can't come up.
"Originally, I wanted to give you a chance to make a mistake. If you do something bad in the future, you can be forgiven. But now you have wasted this opportunity. Therefore, you will definitely die if you make a mistake next time."
The swordsman in a hat lifted the curtains of the car and looked outside, then opened the door and got out of the car.
Li Ci sat there, his face pale, and it took him a while to calm down.
Only then could he breathe easily, and the coachman came back, apologized profusely, and urged the horse to move on.
At this moment, Li Ci suddenly realized something... Once he was involved in a fight between big shots of this level, there was no way a person like him could escape.
Even though Lin Ye has always been an official in Yunzhou, the power he can use in Geling City is far beyond that of the native Geling people like them.
They feel that Geling is their territory and they have an absolute advantage.
But the appearance of Lin Ye made this so-called advantage look like a joke.
Li Ci knew that the swordsman in the bamboo hat was not trying to scare him. Only his two most capable men knew that he hid his family in Xiaoduzhuang.
He thought that even the Wang family would not be able to find out about this matter, but a person from Yunzhou found out so easily.
It's not just him.
Yuehe Village is the largest inn in Geling City. There are a total of thirteen Yuehe Villages in Geling City, which can be called the leader in the inn industry.
Ordinary people cannot afford to live in Yuehe Village. It is said that the most ordinary house starts at 20 taels of silver per night.
Two taels of silver was what ordinary people spent for two months, so they were reluctant to stay in Yuehe Village for one night.
Moreover, these two taels of silver are only for house prices, and do not include food costs. You can eat whatever you want in Yuehe Village with one tael of silver. One tael of silver is enough for three or four people to spend a month. You may only be able to buy two taels here.
Three kinds of snacks.
Most of the big businessmen who come and go from Geling City will choose to live in Yuehe Village.
As for those local officials who returned to the capital to report on their duties or came to the capital for official business, many of them ostensibly lived in Guanyi, but in fact they lived in Yuehe Village.
The owner of Yuehe Village is Qin Tailai, who is considered a very important figure in Geling City.
The scary thing about this kind of person is not how high his status is, but how many dignitaries he has made friends with.
What Qin Tailai has to do every day is to visit all the thirteen branches in the capital.
He has extremely strict requirements for every branch and will never allow any customer dissatisfaction to happen.
His route is not fixed, and no one knows which branch he will go to first today.
Moreover, he would not ride in the same carriage and let others know his route.
Sometimes, he would physically walk to the first semicolon he wanted to visit.
After hearing that General Lin Ye had arrived in Geling City, he sent someone to deliver a gift.
This gift is that whether the general himself or his subordinates come to Geling, they can enter the Yuehe Village at any time, free of charge.
He would never miss an opportunity to make friends with powerful people, even though Lin Ye seemed not to be very popular in the officialdom.
Qin Tailai deliberately drove past Lin Ye's house today. He felt it was a pity that such a high-status person might have fallen down before he could make friends with him.
But how could a person like him be sure that Lin Ye would never get up again.
When passing by the door of Lin Ye's Mansion, the carriage slowed down a bit. Qin Tailai pulled back the curtain and took a look, feeling a little sad.
Just as he was pulling back the car curtain, someone suddenly threw an envelope from outside the car.
Qin Tailai opened it and took a look, but his expression changed within a moment.
This letter is not very long, just a list.
So-and-so, how old he is, where he lives, how many people are around him to protect him, and so on, a total of more than ten people.
Qin Tailai was so frightened that his heart almost jumped out of his chest. A man like him, whose city was so unfathomable, was so frightened that his whole body shivered.
Listed on that list are all the children he had with different women over the years.
These people don't know each other, so they can keep such a large industry for the continuation of future generations.
He found many women with innocent family backgrounds and placed them all over Geling City.
He has given birth to more than ten children, seven sons and nine daughters.
Now that the list is in his hand, the last thing written in this letter is... When he arrives at the seventh branch of Yuehe Village, someone will be waiting to see him.
No one knows how the waiting person appeared in Yuehe Village or in a house that originally had no guests.
That's a swordsman in a bamboo hat.
On this day, not only Linji Pawnshop and Yuehe Village, but at least half of the wealthy people who had business dealings with the Wang family saw the swordsman wearing a hat.