Li Huan smiled and said: "Now that I know His Majesty's attitude, I don't have to worry anymore."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but shook his head and smiled: "Li Qing, you really think I don't know that it's not so easy to take out the money after it goes into the treasury, so it's better to put it into the inner treasury, so that I can take it out at any time to rectify the capital."

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Li Huan said seriously: "I will order Du Guang and others to send these coins to His Majesty's inner treasury. When the time comes, Your Majesty will arrange the manpower to hand them over."

Zhu Houzhao nodded and said: "I will send Gu Daban to personally supervise this matter and make sure that no one else will get a chance to interfere."

Neither Li Huan nor Zhu Houzhao could believe it for the people in the civil service group. If people from the civil service group were really allowed to intervene, maybe the money would not go into the internal treasury but be taken to the state treasury.

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While he was talking, he saw a young eunuch running over and said to Li Huan: "Grand Governor, Mr. Wang Yangming, please see me."

Li Huan raised his brows, with a look of doubt on his face, and glanced at Zhu Houzhao subconsciously, while Zhu Houzhao smiled at Li Huan and said: "Li Qing doesn't need to look at me, he can see me when he wants to. If you want, Wang Aiqing will come."

Looking for you, Li Qing, there must be something going on."

Li Huan was not worried that Zhu Houzhao would have any fear because of his friendship with Wang Yangming, so he nodded after hearing this.

Soon Wang Yangming strode into the Li Mansion. When Wang Yangming saw Zhu Houzhao, he couldn't help but be startled. After realizing it, he quickly stepped forward and bowed to Zhu Houzhao and said: "I, Wang Yangming, pay homage to your Majesty and have met the Grand Tutor."

Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly and said: "Aiqing, I am free from courtesy. In this Li Mansion, I am also a guest. Wang Aiqing does not need to be polite."

Li Huan looked at Wang Yangming and said, "What's the matter with Mr. Yangming coming to see Li?"

Wang Yangming looked serious and said: "Wang came here because he has something to tell Taifu."

Li Huan looked at Wang Yangming and heard Wang Yangming say: "The two elders have learned that the Fei family in Jinyiwei copied the Meixian Mountain and obtained millions of taels of silver. Elder Yang is going to petition your majesty for permission to put it into the national treasury."

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Li Huan raised his eyebrows when he heard this and glanced at Zhu Houzhao, who smiled at Li Huan.

Suddenly Zhu Houzhao turned to Wang Yangming and said, "Wang Aiqing, in your opinion, what should be done with the money?"

Wang Yangming was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Li Huan, then at Zhu Houzhao. Wang Yangming pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, I thought that these confiscated coins should be put into the inner treasury."

Li Huan couldn't help but look at Wang Yangming in surprise. You must know that based on Li Huan's understanding of Wang Yangming, Wang Yangming was not a flattering person.

If he had a flattering temperament, he would not have achieved such high achievements and become a sage. Normally, in Wang Yangming's position, Wang Yangming would definitely insist on adding the confiscated money to the national treasury.

Seemingly seeing the surprise on Li Huan's face, Wang Yangming smiled lightly and said: "If Wang is not mistaken, these coins are related to the reorganization of the capital. With these confiscated coins, the Taifu can reorganize the capital."

I have enough confidence. However, once this sum of money is put into the national treasury, it is unnecessary to think about it if you want the officials to take it out and use it to reorganize the capital. Therefore, I think this money can only be temporarily put into your majesty's treasury.

, Only in this way can the usefulness of this money be better utilized."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look at Wang Yangming with admiration and said, "Okay, I'm very relieved that Wang Aiqing can consider things like this and take the overall situation into consideration."

Li Huan cupped his hands at Wang Yangming and said, "Mr. Yangming has his own intentions."

To be honest, Li Huan really didn't expect that Wang Yangming would see through his intention to use the stolen money to reorganize the capital camp.

However, Wang Yangming had spent some time with Li Huan, and knew how much money Li Huan had gained from ransacking his house several times, and considering the commotion Li Huan made in the capital camp, he could guess that Li Huan might

A choice that will be made.

If it were anyone else, even Li Dongyang, Yang Ting and the others would never realize this.

It was unclear how much money Li Huan had confiscated in Fuzhou, so the civil and military officials naturally did not expect that Li Huan had enough money to solve the problem in the capital camp.

After all, the problem of Jingying has not been solved for decades. The biggest problem is that the court has no money. The court cannot spend millions of taels of money to eliminate the old and weak in Jingying. But as long as there is such a sum of money, Jingying can

I dare not say that the problem has been solved, at least it is no longer an unsolvable problem.

Watching Wang Yangming leave, Zhu Houzhao suddenly said: "I was originally worried that Wang Aiqing would be affected by the officials after joining the cabinet. Now it seems that Wang Aiqing is still credible."

Li Huan smiled, Wang Yangming was full of talents and learning, especially his already accomplished mental studies, which focused on the unity of knowledge and action. This was reflected in Wang Yangming's style in the officialdom, which was to do things in a down-to-earth manner.

As long as it is beneficial to the court, Wang Yangming is not a person who does not know how to adapt.

However, Li Huan also knew that if the two of them disagreed on a certain matter in the future, Wang Yangming would definitely not give in due to his temper.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, Wang Yangming has a strong imprint of Li Party, and many officials even believe that Wang Yangming is Li Huan's spokesperson in the cabinet.

I am afraid that the emperor had this idea in his mind to some extent, but only Li Huan knew that Wang Yangming had his own ideas, and he could not be anyone's spokesperson.

Just like what happened today, if Wang Yangming hadn't guessed what Li Huan wanted to use the money, I'm afraid Wang Yangming would have sided with Yang Tinghe and Li Dongyang and insisted on depositing the money into the national treasury.

After sending the emperor back to the palace, Li Huan went directly towards the Royal Horse Prison.

The Royal Horse Supervisor was Gu Dayong's territory. When Gu Dayong learned that Li Huan was coming, he immediately put down his affairs and came forward.

From a distance, I could hear Gu Dayong laughing and saying: "Brother Li, you are a noble man. I don't see you coming to our house on weekdays. Today, you are here, and my little horse supervisor is really shining."

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There are not many people who can be treated like this by Gu Dayong. Looking at the world, I am afraid there is no other person besides Li Huan.

Li Huan said with a smile: "Brother Gu is joking. I came here today and it caused so much trouble. Please forgive me for coming here today."

After welcoming Li Huan into the Royal Horse Prison, Gu Dayong looked at Li Huan curiously and said, "Brother Li doesn't come to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. If he comes to see our family today, he must have something to do."

Li Huan laughed loudly and said, "I knew I couldn't hide it from Brother Gu."

As he spoke, Li Huan looked serious and said, "Brother Gu, please send me a thousand elite soldiers from the Fourth Guard Camp in Tengxiang."

Gu Dayong could not help but be stunned, and subconsciously said: "Brother Li, does he have His Majesty's will?"

Gu Dayong said with some embarrassment: "It's not that our family doesn't trust Brother Li, but Brother Li has mobilized thousands of people at once. Without His Majesty's will, our family would have lost its head."

Li Huan said with a smile: "Without His Majesty's will, Li would not dare to come to find Brother Gu."

As he said this, Li Huan took out a handwritten letter from the emperor himself from his sleeve and handed it to Gu Dayong.

Although it is not a formal imperial edict, the Four Guards of Tengxiang are the emperor's forbidden army. Their mobilization is not as troublesome as the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp. They need to be reviewed and approved by the cabinet, the Ministry of War, and the Fifth Army Governor's Office.

As for the Tengxiang Four Guards Camp, as the Emperor's personal army, if they want to be mobilized, they only need the Emperor's decree.

As a result, the troops of the Tengxiang Four Guards Camp are particularly important. They have always been controlled by the emperor's most trusted people. Otherwise, once they are taken over by someone with ulterior motives, it is very likely to cause serious trouble.

Gu Dayong took the emperor's handwritten decree and looked at it. He confirmed that it was indeed the emperor's decree. He breathed a sigh of relief. He did not ask Li Huan what he was going to do with the thousands of people. He just nodded at Li Huan and said: "

Brother Li, don't worry, I will order a thousand elite troops to be dispatched to you, ready to be dispatched at any time."

When Li Huan heard this, he cupped his fists at Gu Da and smiled and said, "Thank you so much."

As night fell, the Jinyiwei Yamen was brightly lit. In front of Li Huan stood Chen Ke, Zhao Yi, Meng Hui, Chen Yao, Feng Yongguo, Lin Pingzhi and others.

Li Huan looked at Chen Ke and Feng Yongguo and said: "Chen Ke, Feng Yongguo, you two stay here and take charge of the Jinyiwei Yamen. The rest of you will follow me to Shaoxing Prefecture in Zhejiang Province."

Lin Pingzhi's face was full of excitement. Now he could be regarded as an official of one hundred Jinyiwei households, and his subordinates had just taken charge of hundreds of Jinyiwei captains. This was naturally quite exciting for Lin Pingzhi, who was only twenty years old.

Especially this time when he heard Li Huan say that he was going to take people to search his house, Lin Pingzhi was full of expectations for this trip.

That was a house raid. He had heard of it back in Fuzhou Prefecture, but he had never actually led anyone to raid a house.

Meng Hui, Chen Yao, Zhao Yi and others were all shocked, just like Lin Pingzhi, who was extremely excited.

Soon Li Huan took advantage of the night and quietly left the capital with three hundred elite guards.

Although Li Huan set out in the evening, so many Jinyiwei people left the capital, so they couldn't hide it. What's more, countless people are watching Li Huan's every move. Now I saw Li Huan taking advantage of the night.

Taking people out of Beijing, countless people got the news almost immediately.

In Maoyan Lane, Yang Tinghe looked at Li Huan's mansion with a complicated expression. Just now, he came to look for Li Huan, but was told that Li Huan was not in the mansion.

This made Yang Tinghe a little disappointed. He originally planned to go to Jinyiwei Yamen to look for Li Huan, but after thinking about it, Yang Tinghe went directly back home.

As soon as I returned to the house, I saw the housekeeper coming in a hurry and saying, "Master, you are finally back. Not long ago, you asked me to send someone to keep an eye on Li Huan's actions. Now there will be news."

Yang Tinghe couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this. He glanced at the housekeeper and said, "Tell me, what is the news?"

The steward's expression revealed a hint of doubt: "The people we sent saw Li Huan leaving the capital at night with hundreds of royal guards in royal robes, and they didn't know what they were doing!"

"What? Li Huan took people out of Beijing?"

Yang Tinghe frowned, his mind turned, and he secretly guessed why Li Huan took people out of Beijing at this time.

Suddenly, a look of surprise appeared on Yang Tinghe's face and he said, "Could it be that Li Huan was going to receive the confiscated money that was escorted into Beijing by the Jin Yiwei?"

With this thought in his mind, the more Yang Tinghe thought about it, the more he felt that he was right.

Then he sighed softly. If Li Huan really led someone to receive the money, then it would be difficult for him to insist on returning it to the treasury.

After all, just by looking at Li Huan personally going to receive the money that was escorted back, you can tell how much Li Huan attaches importance to this money. In this case, it would be strange if Li Huan could agree to return it to the national treasury.

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Not to mention that Li Huan took people out of the capital at night, causing countless people to secretly speculate on Li Huan's purpose of leaving the capital.

However, it is said that after Xie Qian returned to Xie Garden, he gave lectures at Muzhai Academy for several days, which suddenly attracted many literati from the south of the Yangtze River to gather.

On this day, Xie Qian was hosting a banquet in Xie Garden to entertain several scholars who came from Suhang and Hangzhou to visit him.

Su Kui, Xizhen, Shao Zhiyong, Qi Wenyu, if these people were mentioned a few years ago, few people would know about them, but now these people are famous scholars in Shilin.

Of course, compared to those famous scholars who relied on their talents and qualifications, such as Su Kui and Xizhen, their reputations are much better.

Almost a year ago, because of Liu Jin, a large number of tax collectors were sent to the areas south of the Yangtze River, especially the areas of Suzhou and Hangzhou, which are famous for their wealth.

Following Liu Jin's instructions, these tax collectors went to the local areas and arbitrarily collected taxes from the local gentry and wealthy families. Whether it was mines, fields, or shops, these tax collectors were all targeted, forcing the local gentry and wealthy families to pay taxes.
To be continued...