Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

Li Linfu was sitting alone behind the desk, twirling his beard on his chin, his eyes shining brightly, staring at the memorial letter discussing the method of salt, feeling as sick as if he was stained with dog excrement.

He knew very well that as long as the court was unwilling to take corvee lightly and allow the people to rest and recuperate, any tax laws would eventually become a means to help the saints exploit the people.

In fact, he is not afraid of those people who claim to be honest, such as Zhang Jiuling, Pei Yaoqing, Li Shizhi... These people are gentlemen, and gentlemen can be bullied, and he has eliminated too many of them.

However, the evil method proposed by Yang Zheng posed a great threat to him.

"Xue Bai's real purpose is to encourage Yang Sui to fight for power."

The murderous aura towards Xue Bai resurfaced in his heart, lingering in and out of sight. Li Linfu personally took up the pen and listed in the memorial the ways in which the Salt Law harmed the country and the people.

At this moment, he became an eternal loyal minister who cared about the common people and worried about the people at the bottom.

The world only knows that he is a traitor, but they don't know that under the appearance of exorbitant taxes and jealousy of talents, he is actually a wise prime minister who only wants to collect taxes for the Tang treasury. If others also want to collect taxes for the Tang Dynasty, they will harm the people and destroy them. Of the Tang Dynasty.

suddenly.

A female envoy hurried over and handed a message to Li Linfu.

He looked at it, and his frown deepened.

"Recruit Ji Wen."

"Here."

After a long time, Ji Wen didn't arrive, but Pei Mian came first to see him.

Li Linfu's conversation with Pei Mian was very simple and he only asked one sentence.

"Have you heard everything? What do you think of this matter?"

"Report to the right minister, the lower official has heard about it." Pei Mian said: "No matter who did this, the lower official thought that Ji Wen was too much of a mistake. Without him, the lower official would have been better off making secret visits."

"Keep checking."

"Here."

Afterwards, Ji Wen's somewhat hasty voice came from the other side of the screen.

"Ji Wen has seen your prime minister, and he is in good health..."

"You have what it takes." Li Linfu put down his pen and said, "I want you to find out the truth, and you can kill him directly."

"What an injustice! Please believe me, I never killed him!"

Ji Wen quickly prostrated himself and shouted: "Right Minister, you know me well. Over the years, whenever I kill people, I have always been imprisoned, tortured, killed with a stick, and sent to the police to kill after being exiled. How have I ever sent an assassin?" ?!"

Li Linfu was silent.

Ji Wen knelt forward, kowtowed, and cried: "Since the right prime minister presided over the revision of the "Kaiyuan New Style", I have always abided by the laws of the Tang Dynasty and acted in accordance with the law. I have never thought of using force to break the ban. What's more, Where can I find such a dead warrior?"

Li Linfu believed these words.

Since he became prime minister, he has killed countless people, but whether it is the Xue Xi family who was forced to kill in Lantianyi, Wei Jian who was forced to kill after being exiled, Huangfu Weiming, or the countless innocent souls who died in Gongmen... there has never been any He sent an assassin to kill a man.

A dignified country's prime minister does not need to be sneaky and raise dead soldiers like some people.

Even the bodyguards in his palace are all Jinwu Lijing halberds approved by the sage.

"Your right prime minister." Ji Wen said again: "I beg your right prime minister to intercede on my behalf!"

"It's late."

Li Linfu picked up the news on the table and read it, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"When Mrs. Guo Guo learned the news, she immediately brought the treasure to see the imperial concubine. This time, the truth cannot save you, so you should take the initiative to leave for a few years to wait for the imperial concubine to calm down..."

"Right Prime Minister." Ji Wen cried: "Right Prime Minister, if you don't have someone as loyal and loyal as me by your side..."

"Go down."

Li Linfu has no shortage of a Jingzhao Prefecture magistrate like Ji Wen.

The more urgent matter now is to let the saint understand that there is no need to fight for salt. The prosperous Tang Dynasty can also support the northwest military expenditure and expand the Huaqing Pool.

The candlelight flickered, and it was dusk before I knew it.

"Alang, Da Xi Yingying is asking for an audience... Today, the saint summoned her in Xingqing Palace."

"Has the news from Xingqing Palace arrived?"

"Not yet."

"Bring her in."

~~

Through the screen, you can vaguely see the graceful figure of the beautiful woman.

Li Linfu thought to himself that King Shou also had excellent taste in choosing women...it was a pity that he was just too good.

"I have met the right minister." Da Xi Yingying Wanfu said: "The slave family has something important to report."

She made people feel much better than Ji Wen, and she spoke eloquently.

"The slave family gave up Qingliangzhai and spent money to form a partnership with Fengwei House. Sure enough, they won the trust of Xue Bai and Du Zhai, but Xue Bai still didn't trust me. He asked Yang Yuyao to find out that I was from King Shou, so he gave me

The saint presented the dominoes and shared part of my merits. Today, the saint gave me my birth..."

Having said this, Daxi Yingying also felt great pressure.

She knew that saying this would make Li Linfu doubt her, but she couldn't hide the matter, so she could only take the initiative to tell it before the news of Xingqing Palace came out.

"Are you telling the truth that you have defected to them?"

"The slave family dare not." Da Xi Yingying said quickly: "The slave family dares to leave King Shou, but they will never dare to disobey the right prime minister. After all, how can they compete with you?"

Li Linfu was silent.

Da Xi Yingying lowered her head and said softly: "If you don't believe it, I want to serve you..."

"Cough cough cough."

Li Linfu suddenly coughed.

"Right Chancellor, what's wrong with you?"

"Don't come here."

Da Xi Yingying whispered with concern, and wanted to step forward, but was stopped, so she stood by the screen, holding the knot tied on the belt with both hands, looking charming and charming.

However, she secretly glanced behind the screen and saw four female envoys standing beside Li Linfu, but she didn't know which one was having an affair with Xue Bai.

"Go down."

"yes."

"Go on."

Da Xi Yingying talked about the dominoes and the face saint in detail, and then talked about the little things she learned about playing dominoes with Du Wulang earlier.

"At that time, Du Li had already listened to the cards, but someone wanted to see him. The slave followed him quietly on the pretext of changing his clothes. He only heard a very low voice saying, 'Even if he is dead, as long as the deed is there, the next person to come is Xue Pingzhao.'"

"

"What do you mean?"

"The slave family speculates on this meaning. Xue Bai may not really be Xue Pingzhao. After ten years, who knows whether a child who has become an official slave will survive. But there is definitely a force behind them, and they have cultivated several outstanding young people.

, throw it out, stir up trouble in the name of Xue Xiu's son, and remind the saint of the three common people case back then..."

Li Linfu's eyes became more thoughtful.

He understood what Da Xi Yingying was saying.

The mastermind behind the scenes still made him fearful, but Xue Bai might just be a chess piece, not an orphan with a blood feud to seek revenge.

"Keep checking."

After dismissing Da Xi Yingying, Li Linfu recalled the information he had obtained today and knew that if the imperial concubine was unhappy, then the saint would be unhappy, and even his dignified prime minister had to express his stance to appease Xue Bai.

He then recruited Li Xiu.

"Xue Bai is injured, you go and visit him."

~~

Changshoufang, Xue Zhai.

Because it was once sold out and then bought back, the layout of the main hall of Xue's house is quite strange.

Li Xiu sat there, looking at the bandaged wound on Xue Bai's arm, and said: "My master was furious when he heard about this, and has already asked Ji Wen to be demoted to Fan Yang."

"Thank you, Prime Minister, for standing up for me, but this matter may not have been done by Jifa Cao."

"Don't mention it, you need to recuperate."

After seeing each other again after many days, Li Xiu also felt that he was very alienated from Xue Bai and could not return to the atmosphere of getting along before the Lantern Festival at all.

There was no one else in the hall at this time. He pondered for a moment and said, "Can you and I have a frank talk?"

"good."
To be continued...