"What did you say? Your Majesty directly issued an order to ask Brother Sun... the Seventh Prince went to his mother's spiritual front to keep mourning, and for three years?" After hearing Xiao Chengzhi's words, Li Ling was full of surprise and could not control his voice when he said this.

Xiao Chengzhi smiled bitterly: "Just noon today, the palace suddenly passed the order, and before we could respond, my cousin was taken away. I am really worried about something going on next, so I came to discuss with you if there could be any countermeasures."

Li Ling replied with a wry smile: "Brother, you are too arrogant to me, right? I am just a small head of the Ministry of Revenue. If you want no one, you have no power, you have no power. How can I ask about royal affairs?"

After a pause, he comforted the other party with a bitter face and said, "But you don't have to worry too much. Since it was His Majesty's direct order, the safety of the Seventh Prince should not be a problem."

"But this is being left in the tomb outside the city, and it lasts for three years. What's the difference between this and going to jail?"

"What's his reaction?"

"He...you also know that he is a calm person. He likes to hide any worries and never talks to us. Of course, the same is true today. He just thanked me for my previous care and followed them, and there was no sign of happiness or anger." Xiao Chengzhi scratched his head in distress.

Li Ling smiled bitterly again. This is Sun Bi's temperament, which is indeed difficult to make a judgment. However, since he is willing to follow, he obviously accepts this arrangement, so the only thing he needs to consider is his safety issues. However, this is not something he can ask about, so he still has to fall on Xiao Chengzhi.

"Brother Xiao, what should you do when you enter Beijing this time, such as meeting Your Majesty, or going to the grave to pray, so you can find out some news indirectly."

"Yes, you really reminded me that in two days, I will be able to enter the palace to see Your Majesty. I just hope that everything will be too late." Xiao Chengzhi then calmed down and said this as if comforting himself.

Li Ling could only look at him seriously again: "Now the capital city is really willing to help. If you can help the Seventh Prince, you are the only one who is Brother Xiao. Don't make any mistakes."

Xiao Chengzhi also patted his chest solemnly: "Don't worry, he is my cousin, so I will do my best to help him. At worst, I will live in the capital for the time being. Anyway, I have a father in the southwest!"

Li Ling nodded with a smile. After the two of them said for a while, Xiao Chengzhi said goodbye and left. Shortly after he left, another guest came, but Lu Zhen came to the door again.

After inviting Lu Zhen into the living room to see the tea and exchanged some more greetings, Li Ling asked tentatively: "Mr. Lu is here today, but have you noticed anything?" He also wondered in his heart, the Imperial City Department is too efficient, and in just two days, a minister's handle was found out?

Lu Zhen could see his thoughts at a glance and laughed: "Mr. Li has such a deep friendship with our Imperial City Department. Since we have entrusted us here, we naturally have to do our best to get things done. So in the past two days, we have used hundreds of spies to search carefully from the people and the officialdom, and finally found some inside stories. Let's see if these are suitable or not." As he said that, he had taken out a few pieces of paper and handed them to Li Ling.

The fresh ink marks on the light and fluttering sheets of paper were just drying, and the content on them was the many questions and handles about Bian Xuedao collected by the Imperial City Department through their unique secret spy channels.

It is truly a secret spy yamen that has been rooted in the capital for many years. As long as they want to investigate people, they can easily dig out many things since they became officials, and can determine the time and location of the incident.

Li Ling glanced down and the smile on his face gradually faded away. I really didn't expect that the hypocritical assistant minister of the Bian had done so many shameful things over the years. Although many of them had changed a lot and could not be targeted, some problems could still be used.

After reading the contents on a few sheets of paper and putting them on the table, Li Ling looked at Lu Zhen again: "Mr. Lu, is the contents on this? "

"Of course, some things can be found with conclusive evidence."

"Okay, I will find this, this one, and this one within a few days... Can the relevant personal certificates be done?" Li Ling asked, lit the content on the paper.

Lu Zhen followed him to read the content, and nodded after a moment: "No problem, give me three days, and I will send someone to you at that time."

"No, the person stays in the Imperial City Division." Li Ling said with a smile, "The greatest contribution of seeing through this beast in the clothes belongs to the Imperial City Division. I think this should be what Your Majesty and Eunuch Wei want to see."

Lu Zhen was stunned for a moment and understood what he meant, and there were other meanings on his smile: "Then according to Lord Li, we will look at the methods of the Lord."

"Haha, it's just a trivial matter." Li Ling looked confident, as if what he wanted to deal with was an insignificant ordinary minor official, rather than a third-rank minister of the court, his immediate superior.

...

Since he had returned to the capital and had been exposed in the Ministry of Revenue due to a correspondent, Li Ling couldn't go back to the yamen for no reason.

So after resting at home for a day, he went to the Ministry of Revenue early in the morning to get a chance. But this time when he entered the yamen, Li Ling had a feeling of going back to the time, as if he had just become the governor of the Ministry of Revenue. He was once again excluded and neglected by the entire yamen.

Since entering the yamen, Li Ling greeted people all the way, but these colleagues did not respond. Many of them avoided far away, as if he had some disease on his body, and would be infected when he got close. Moreover, this attitude was not only for those officials, but also for those clerks and servants who had a good relationship with him in the past, but also for a certain distance from him this time.

That's not all. When he entered his public housing and met those familiar colleagues, these people quickly withdrew and left the public housing as if they were running away. Then they didn't see them back for a while. This behavior made the meaning clearer. They really dared not have any contact with Li Ling, for fear that they would be implicated by this ignorant guy.

This made Li Ling feel a little helpless, not because of their attitude, but because he didn't know what he could do when they left.

After all, he had just returned to work from outside, so his opponent had no idea about his job. He should have handed over to his colleagues, or suggested that he find a boss to get relevant documents or something. But now, everyone is like meeting a plague god when they see him, and they don’t tell him a word, how to take over the job?

After waiting for a while, he still didn't see anyone coming, Li Ling had to get up and take the initiative to see Lu You. Lu You, who has now been promoted to doctor, is considered his direct boss.

Lu You was actually deserted, but the clerks who listened to him were still there after all. However, after seeing Li Ling arrive, these people still avoided them without their boss's instructions. Then, Li Ling saw Lu You also looked at him with a wry smile: "I thought you would have made an excuse for the trip to the southwest to be quite hard, and I won't go back to the Ministry of Revenue to work as a job for the time being."

"Sir, you are joking. The official is not so coquettish yet. It will be enough for a few days to rest." Li Ling replied with a smile.

"Haha, you know what I mean."

Li Ling smiled again: "By the way, the official has not yet congratulated the Lord Gao for being promoted to the position of doctor." As he said that, he bowed to the other party and bowed.

This was indeed something that made Lu You happy, but at this moment he couldn't be too excited and just waved his hand: "There is no need to be such a false condom between you and me, and at least one of the things I can sit in this position is your credit. If you hadn't found out Dai Xiao's guilt that day, it wouldn't have been my turn to take over his official position." Speaking of this, he felt a little lost. Why is the current situation somewhat similar to that before.

At that time, he was watching Li Ling, a governor, fight with Dai Xiao's uncle and nephew. Then, under their operation, Li Ling looked passive everywhere, but finally convicted him in one fell swoop... Then this time, can he still reproduce the miracle, and defeat the dignified minister, and also take down the horse?

This thought made Lu You startled. He was crazy and he actually felt that Li Ling could do this. That was the Minister of the Secretariat, how could Dai Xiao and others compare?

"Your sir is so serious, so you dare not take credit for your contributions. By the way, when you come back today, you have no responsibilities in your hands. I wonder if you have any responsibilities to me?" Li Ling then got to the point and asked.

Lu You was stunned and shook his head and said, "If you don't have any important errands for now, you might as well take a few more days off."

"But I think everyone in our yamen is very busy now. Now it's time to collect money, grain and taxes from all over the country. How can I hand over to me no errands?"

"Stop talking about you, I've been idle for two days. This is what the minister said. Do you understand what I mean?" At this point, Lu You could only tell the truth.

Li Ling nodded, but frowned and said, "But even if we offended him, the minister of the border, we won't be here? Don't we have Shangshu Ye?"

"Shangshu Ye is old and has been ill recently, so the two ministers are in charge of our Ministry of Revenue this time. And our Qing official department has the final say, so..."

This really hit someone at the gun. Li Ling frowned repeatedly when he heard it. It seemed that his previous decision was right. He had to deal with this guy as soon as possible, otherwise his situation would only become more and more difficult.

Learning Tao while learning Taoism, all of this is your own fault. Since you have no room for anything, don’t blame me for protecting you!
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