During the process of reading the letter, Li Ling frowned at first, but soon, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and a different smile appeared, with a sarcastic smile.

Sure enough, the Confucian scholar would not write to him for no reason. He was entrusted by the prince as a lobbyist and wanted to persuade him to stop and not continue to pursue the previous matters. Of course, the letter written in Zhang Hefeng was quite sincere. He did not rely on his seniority or emphasized the relationship between the two parties to force Li Ling to make concessions. Instead, he patiently helped him make a series of analysis. Generally speaking, it was a principle that enemies should be resolved rather than made. In addition, it was a special identity of the prince, and it was not something that could be offended by a minister, and so on. There was still some intention of thinking about Li Ling.

The content of the letter is indeed not wrong, and Li Ling also owes Zhang Rushi favors. Since the prince has done this, he really shouldn't have kept a close eye on this point.

Of course, this is just a common principle. If an ordinary official is at this point, it is indeed difficult to force him too much, but Li Ling obviously doesn't think so. After pondering for a while, he put down the letter and said, "Let the sender come in to see me, I want to talk to him."

Li Moyun agreed and soon invited two men dressed in the scribes waiting outside the door. Li Ling just glanced at him and confirmed that he was exactly what he expected. The person who came to deliver the letter was definitely not an ordinary servant. Both the two of them dressed and had different temperaments.

He smiled: "The two should not be disciples of Zhang Rushi, are you? Are you the prince's people?" As he asked, the two were just a little stunned, but Li Moyun suddenly became alert. His hand had already pressed his hand decisively on the handle of the knife at his waist, and he could draw his sword to make moves at any time. At the same time, his steps were moving, and he had already blocked between them and Li Ling.

The prince framed the prince several times and wanted to kill the young master. Now that his people appeared here again, Li Moyun was naturally wary. If he hadn't had any concerns, he would have drawn his sword and chopped them down first.

"Liu Suiyun (Liu Suifeng) has met Lord Li. My brothers are the aides around the prince. This time, they came to send a message, and they were also to show our sincerity and apology to Lord Li." The two bowed and looked quite calm.

Under the pressure of Mr. Mo, the Liu brothers finally couldn't help but feel the danger. In order to show their performance, they didn't even care about the danger. They asked him to come to the northern border to negotiate with Li Ling, so that he could change his mind and make meritorious.

Li Ling didn't know the exact identities of the two. After hearing their own identities, he just smiled: "It turns out that the two are the prince's confidants, so they are disrespectful. No wonder you were able to send the letter from Xuzhou to the northern border so quickly." It was through this point that he inferred that the sender was not Zhang Hefeng, who had retired, but the prince's power.

The two of them bowed again, and then sat down at the bottom of their heads under Li Ling's signal. Then, they felt a lot of pressure. Under Li Lingru's substantial gaze, their spirits tense and their bodies became a little stiff.

Until they saw them a little scared, Li Ling said again: "Actually, I really want to say a few words to the prince or the confidants around you, just to ask for a little bit. I have no contact with the prince, and I have never had any contact in private, but why did he repeatedly attack me and want to get rid of me? To be honest, I have never understood this until now."

Liu Suiyun looked at his brothers and then said carefully: "I would like to forgive my sins. This is actually a misunderstanding. In fact, it is not that the Prince of the Crown Prince who hurts you. It is really because some of his subordinates are making their own decisions. Because you had ruined the prince's affairs at the time, someone wanted to vent his anger for your Highness, and then the matter was spread to the bottom and it was out of control."

"Is that true? Just because of some minor frictions a few years ago, the prince held grudges for several years, and even let the front-line military rations be attacked, throwing all the major events in the northern border aside?" Li Ling obviously said with a hint of disbelief.

"Mr. Li blames that some people are indeed too irrelevant, but they have paid the price for it, and the court will definitely punish them severely... But after all, these are not what the prince himself means, and I hope Lord Li can understand." Liu Suiyun continued to argue.

Liu Suifeng also spoke, "We are deeply apologizing for the grievances of Lord Li, but we are also aware of the prince. He has also passed on a message before. In the future, no one in the Eastern Palace will be enemies with you. In addition, we have also prepared generous gifts to apologize to you. As long as the Lord does not make any mistakes and the court will no longer investigate this matter, there will be a generous reward in the future."

Liu Suiyun quickly followed up again: "In addition, the prince once said that Lord Li must be strong in terms of finance and taxation, as is the most officials in the current dynasty. He is a real pillar of the country and will be valued in the future. Lord Li, this is what the prince said in person in person. We believe that as long as you get rid of the rift, you and the prince will definitely become a good story of the king and the ministers in the future, just like Guan Zhong and Duke Huan of Qi, who are famous in history."

The two brothers said one by one, but they cooperated very well and had good eloquence. From defending the prince at the beginning to persuade Li Ling later, until they finally mentioned the prince's future in a vague way.

Li Ling listened with a smile, and until they finished speaking, he slowly said, "Is this the prince's attitude? I want to calm down and let me not hand over more evidence I have at hand to the court, and then use only some money and some future verbal promises in exchange?"

The teasing in his words was very obvious, which made Liu Suiyun and the others stunned, and their expressions were unwilling: "Mr. Li, our sincerity is already quite good. Do you still want the prince to apologize to you in person?"

"I dare not, the prince is the king, and I am the minister. How dare I accept the prince's apology?" Li Ling shook his head and said. Although he said that, the expression was not the case. Then, he said, "To be honest, I, Li Ling, were originally a businessman before, so I like to calculate the accounts clearly no matter what I do. The government affairs delivered by the court are the same, and the same is true for my own affairs.

"Maybe the prince does not have too much malice to me, but the harm he caused to me and the people around him is a fact, so the matter must not be settled in just a few words, otherwise I can agree, but what about those innocent people who died?

"So, you have to make enough compensation for this matter. Of course, it is necessary to make money and not too much. Five hundred thousand taels are enough to pay for my brothers and their families who died or injured because of this."

"What?" The two of them changed their color and couldn't help but scream. They really didn't expect Li Ling's appetite to be so big. They just asked for 500,000 taels of silver to compensate, which was enough for the expenses of the Eastern Palace for nearly a year. Why don't you rob it?

Li Ling looked at them with a smile: "Is it more? Then let's take a closer look. Just this time when the grain transport was attacked by thieves, the casualties of soldiers and generals and civilians exceeded 1,000. Is it a lot for their life to exchange for 100 taels of silver? Also, the damage to food and supplies, other miscellaneous losses, and the damage I suffered, all of which could have cost millions of taels of silver. This is a half-discount for you."

Li Ling is really a good player in finance and taxation. After calculating the accounts, the two of them were speechless. His words continued: "You don't think that the prince's reputation and reputation are not worth even this little money, right? If so, there is nothing to say. Let's see the truth in the court."

"Mr. Li, are you not even willing to sell your face to Mr. Zhang Ru?" Seeing that he said this, Liu Suiyun was a little panicked and could only push Zhang Hefeng forward.

"I am willing to meet you and make my request because of Mr. Zhang Ru's face." Li Ling replied immediately, "Or what you did, I can't even enter my door today!"

"You..." Liu Suifeng was even more annoyed and was about to scold him, but his brother stopped him with his eyes: "Okay, since you have made a request, we will be ready for the money..."

"Then write down the IOU. By the way, I believe you must have something to prove the identity of the prince. Let's use it as collateral." Li Ling continued to make a request.

The two were really shocked by his shamelessness, but under his aggressive momentum, they could only accept it, so they wrote an IOU of 500,000 taels of silver as he said, and also stamped it with the prince's unique seal.

After Li Ling put it away, the smile on his face finally became more kind: "Okay, let's talk about how to compensate me."

"What? I have to compensate you for that half a million taels of silver..."

"Those silvers are to compensate the brothers beside me, so mine will certainly have to be fine. But don't worry, my request is not so excessive, and you won't let you take out the silver again." Li Ling was completely determined to take them and said with a smile, "As long as you take on my behalf, you will write down everything before."

"But what is it?" Liu Suiyun asked with a gloomy face.

When Li Ling said his request, the two of them looked even more ugly. After staring at him for a while, they said: "No, we can't agree to this!"

"Then there is no way. This is my bottom line. If the prince cannot even do these two trivial things, how can I trust his sincerity?"

"You..." Now, even Liu Suiyun was angry and suddenly stood up, as if to vent his emotions. At this moment, the door was knocked on, and a personal guard reported in front of the door: "Sir, please see Lord Huangchengsi from the capital now. I wonder if they would let them in?"
Chapter completed!