The current Wuqing Marquis Li Gao is the nephew of the Empress Dowager's family, which is the cousin of the current emperor. According to folk sayings, if Li Gao does not speak when the Empress Dowager dies, the Zhu family will not be able to bury the Empress Dowager.

Of course, the royal rules definitely do not require the emperor to kneel down on his cousin, nor do they need to cut a cousin's numbness or something. Therefore, when the empress dowager passed away, Li Gao was still very low-key.

After all, the death of his aunt was the biggest loss for his Li family, and his reputation as a Li family has always been bad. Whether it is civil officials or generals in the court, they all "look at Wuqing Hou Mansion with a different eye".

If my aunt is there, the sky will fall and my cousin dare not attack the old Li family. Now that my aunt is away, Li Gao must consider whether his cousin will not miss his expression when he will be able to hit him hard.

For this reason, Li Gao has sincerely supported his cousin in doing big things in recent years.

He is the most staunch supporter of His Majesty the Emperor's maritime cause and one of the royal relatives who purchased the most maritime bonds. In total, he has purchased 300 bonds, totaling 300 taels of silver, and has received a dividend of 80,000 taels.

Li Gao hopes to express his support for his cousin through real money and the Li family’s support for the country. Sure enough, after hearing that he invested a lot in maritime affairs, he issued a rare edict to reward him once.

Of course, the decree only said that Li Gao performed very well in all aspects when the Empress Dowager passed away and was filial, so he gave pigs, sheep, melons, eggplant and other things to express condolences, except that there was nothing else.

The meaning of this decree is not required to be well thought out by Li Gao. He only knows that he will be able to be peaceful in the end. The old Li family will not be able to share weal and woe with the Ming Dynasty and live together. There will definitely be no problem with the wealth and honor of the Five Dynasties.

No matter how you calculate this account, it is cost-effective. I took out 300,000 taels and recovered 80,000 taels. The remaining 220,000 taels were not recovered, but I still had to pay dividends according to the 300,000 taels.

My cousin is in one day and the maritime affairs are in one day. The Wuqing Marquis Mansion can distribute dividends twice a year. In a few days, the principal will be recovered and the dividends will be given. Where can I find this good thing that I can’t find even with a lantern?

Therefore, when he heard his cousin's niece Shouning run away and said that someone was going to ruin the maritime affairs, Li Gao was furious to go to the palace to ask his cousin to sue the Donglin Party for his illegal behavior.

The Fore-Foot Marquis just arrived, and before he could talk to his cousin, the fifth princess Wan Wei and his wife arrived. Later, Shouning and the Fourth Princess Yongning also arrived.

In the past, Li Gao and Wan Wei were very unfavorable. One looked down on each other and was a businessman who looked down on each other and was a small family. The two of them looked down on each other and were not in a relationship with each other.

As a rich man, he is both a royal relative, or a relationship between his brother-in-law and his cousin, he can't talk about gathering a crowd to fight, but he can only fight in writing.

This literary fight is also a struggle for wealth.

The two of them were holding their strength and fighting, and they had to push each other over. On weekdays, unless they had to be present, they were beaten to death and were unwilling to meet. Even if they met, they were still competing openly and secretly. But now they looked at each other as if they were in a sympathetic manner, and then they clasped their hearts together to make an agreement for Xiao Eunuch Wei.

Prince Wan had to say that his eldest niece "selled" him 240,000 taels of bonds. Although his family was rich, it was also a concern for him to take out 240,000 taels at once. Therefore, no matter what, the money could not be wasted. Shouning explained clearly that the money sold was all used by the young master Wei to invest in maritime affairs. If this young master Wei was ruined, the money would definitely be ruined.

As a uncle, can Prince Wan be embarrassed to ask for money from her niece and brother-in-law?

Therefore, he had to pull his wife into the palace and talk to his brother-in-law, asking him to be careful of the bad people outside, and don't let others cheat him.

What Mr. Li and Mr. Wan said was quite pertinent, saying that the maritime affairs were finally done, and the little master Wei worked hard for this, and his hair was missing. He had just gotten a little bit of a sudden. The emperor must not listen to the slander and recalled the little master Wei, otherwise the maritime affairs would have been exhausted, and the money he invested in in advance would have been wasted...

"Okay, I know what you said."

While Wanli was speaking, he looked at Princess Yongning, the fourth sister who entered with her daughter Shouning, with her eyes full of heartache. Wanli has always felt guilty and heartache for this sister. When he dealt with Feng Bao heavily, there were reasons for venting anger for this sister. If Feng Bao hadn't been greedy for money, how could the royal golden branch and jade leaves marry a dying chattering ghost!

"Brother of the Emperor."

When Yongning saw that his cousin Li Gao and his younger sister Ruian were also present, he was a little surprised. She glanced at her niece Shouning, who hurriedly nodded slightly, and suddenly realized in her heart that it was Shouning who was afraid that she would not be able to persuade her father, so she called Marquis Wuqing and Prince Consort Ruian.

The eunuch of Wanli waving his hands and signaled to bring a few stools.

"Your Majesty, those censors who have nothing to do will make trouble. They always think that they can do it in the world, and they are afraid that the world will not be in chaos. This maritime affairs have finally been done. Your Majesty cannot be ruined because of their slander." Wan Wei said angrily.

"I said it, I know."

Wanli was also a little arrogant at this time, because the Tongzhengsi sent dozens of memorials impeaching Wei Liangchen to the palace in the afternoon. Somehow, the imperial concubine heard about it. She came to complain to herself with a big belly, saying that the people outside were impeaching Xiao Wei in public, but secretly came to her, the imperial concubine. If the emperor really wanted to send someone to recall Xiao Wei, someone would probably turn over the old case and kill her Zheng family.

In order to reassure the imperial concubine, Wanli sent an eunuch out of the palace to send a message to Yang Lian, asking him not to knock on the door tomorrow. These censors were full and made a big fuss when they caught a small matter. Don’t they know that Wei Liangchen was sent to Jiangnan himself?

The so-called long dike of a thousand-mile long dike was destroyed in an ant hole. If Wei Liangchen was recalled after hearing the censor's words, Wanli would be sure, and the memorial to request the withdrawal of the mine and taxes would fly into the palace like snowflakes.

"I have sent someone, so you don't have to worry."

Wanli said this to my cousin and brother-in-law. He knew that these two were the largest buyers of maritime bonds, so he was very worried about maritime problems.

"Your Majesty's wise!"

Li Wei highly praised the cousin and wanted to talk more to him to deepen his relationship. A eunuch came in outside and said that he had received the report from Suzhou Prefecture that the former chief minister Shen Shixing had passed away.

Wanli was stunned. He heard in the early month that Shen Shixing was over 80 years old, so he sent an envoy to ask why the teacher passed away in less than half a month.

Thinking of Shen Shixing's various things, Wanli couldn't help but feel sad, and asked the eunuch to issue an eunuch to the Ministry of Rites to award the title of Prince Shen Xianggong, and to grant the posthumous title and to give the sacrifice.
Chapter completed!