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Chapter 19 Fighting the False Moon(1/2)

Chi San was thinking about his future wife, and there was also a fairy man thinking about Liu Mingqi.

She also sent Liu Mingqi a fragrant prayer post.

"Can the flower building cultural meeting tomorrow afternoon, can the little woman be lucky enough to see the amazing talents of His Royal Highness again?"

The signature is the word "花".

When Liu Mingqi received the visiting letter, she immediately remembered the vivid face of her.

Tsk tsk, in fact, after removing makeup, there are still many flaws, which are not as good as the national beauty of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1980s and 1990s.

But if she put on makeup and went out, she would be considered top-notch.

It's similar to Qiu Xiang now.

When Liu Mingqi was reciting the poem that day, she carefully observed the young lady and felt that she had not outlined any makeup at all, and most of them were bare-faced.

That is much more outstanding than Mrs. Chen.

It is absolutely impossible for such a monstrous beauty with memories of a boy in her previous life to say that Liu Mingqi has no thoughts.

But Liu Mingqi will not be seventeen years old at the end of the year, and it is not even a long time to live a thousand miles a day.

So the boy also forced himself not to think too much.

Qiu Xiang had invited Liu Mingqi twice before, but Liu Mingqi was busy doing various things, so she pushed her back.

Now she came to invite her again, thinking of her beautiful face, Liu Mingqi was still feeling a little excited.

After working hard in the workshop for a while, Liu Mingqi rode a horse and prepared to go home.

I took a break early today, and I was fully prepared tomorrow, and I went to the beauty to show it. Maybe after a while, the young lady would be willing to follow me home?

But then Liu Mingqi smiled herself.

The prince went there several times, but Qiu Xiang didn't like him or said what he wanted to follow the prince. So what is the little kid he is?

A junior in the third year of the women, holding gold bricks.

Qiu Xiang is five years older than herself. With such a big age difference, I think about it and hope is slim.

The reason why she is so enthusiastic is probably mostly because of my extraordinary talent.

Just thinking about it here, there was suddenly someone else in front of me.

A red cloak was so scared that the horse's legs raised high.

If Liu Mingqi hadn't had the wise and quick hands, she would have fallen off the horse long ago.

"Governor Gao, are you killing me?" the young man shouted with a little dissatisfaction.

The visitor was Gao Jing, the General of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

He was not embarrassed, and said lightly: "Your Highness, I have some business to talk to you."

"Tell me!"

Liu Mingqi jumped off the horse.

This is the gate of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. There are people from Embroidered Uniform Guards around. Others dare not even stay, let alone listen.

"The last time you provided the palace with a thousand bottles of disinfectant alcohol, the embroidered uniform guard also wanted to buy a thousand bottles." Gao Jing said in a deep voice.

His information was very informed, and he knew that the disinfectant alcohol in the palace was very popular now. With it, many eunuchs and palace maids who suffered minor injuries were no longer afraid of developing into the danger of amputation.

"no."

Liu Mingqi was in an official voice, "The Emperor has said that at this time, using grain to brew wine and making disinfectant alcohol is an intolerable waste."

If someone else said it, Gao Jing might have believed it.

But the one who talked about Liu Mingqi, the tired prince, didn't believe that Gao Jing was so noble even if he was beaten to death.

"The embroidered yarn guard pays 1 tael of silver a bottle."

"This is not a matter of money, it is a matter of principle."

"Then, what are your principles?"

"Ahem, it's actually simple." Liu Mingqi looked at him, "Governor, there are many illegal vendors who have pretended to be the flower essential oils in our Prince Yu Mansion recently... Can you see if the Embroidered Uniform Guards' yamen work harder and hand over the clues to the Imperial Court and arrest these people?"

Gao Jing blinked.

Because the number of flower essential oils in Prince Yu’s Mansion is not large, it only sells a little every three days, which cannot meet everyone’s needs at all, so all kinds of fake products are rushing to watch, all of which are branded by Prince Yu’s Mansion.

The quality was still very bad, and many of them were just making up for the numbers. Some people who bought fakes even went to Prince Yu's mansion to ask for an explanation.

But those who pretend to be floral essential oils are the children of some high-ranking officials and nobles.

If they sweep their stall, it will cause a lot of trouble.

Compared to such troubles, a thousand bottles of disinfectant alcohol seem to be less important at once.

"Governor Gao, you can't just think about it when you encounter something." Liu Mingqi said, "Look at how long we have been inventing soap, flower essential oil, disinfectant alcohol and other things. Maybe there are better things right away? Then will the embroidered yamen enjoy it together?"

After a pause, he said: "Also, our Dakang Dynasty has developed business, which requires even more fairness, justice and openness. Look at what Governor Liu did in Jiangnan? Otherwise, wouldn't he be able to turn the tide this time and save countless people?"

When Liu Renhuai, the governor of Jiangnan, adopted a strategy to be fair, just and open. Although he collected taxes from merchants, he protected them very well in addition.

For example, four years ago, when Liu Renhuai just took office as the governor of Jiangnan, he encountered a case where local officials from Lingbo Prefecture, Zhejiang colluded with a large businessman to destroy his family.

After finding out the facts, Liu Renhuai directly killed the magistrate of Lingbo Mansion, a fourth-ranked rank. The remaining twenty-seven officials involved in the case were either beheaded or exiled.

Liu Renhuai was so decisive and cold that he suddenly shocked the three provinces in Jiangnan.

Before him, no official would have killed a fourth-rank official because of this matter.

At that time, I didn't know how many memorials were crazily impeached Liu Renhuai. Even Jing and the Emperor endured it several times, but in the end they still held back and did not give the imperial edict, making Liu Renhuai slightly restrained.

But in Jiangnan, the wind direction is completely different.

The merchants instantly felt that the Governor of Jiangnan was very courageous and could uphold justice. They were not the kind of person who only paid money and did not do things.

In the next few years, Liu Renhuai continued to build roads, build water conservancy, severely punish malicious competition, protect the interests of law-abiding merchants... and so on, and actively provided good conditions for merchants to do business, and finally gradually won the hearts of merchants.

Otherwise, this time he would not have bought 10 million stones of grain for eight million taels of silver, nor could he have exchanged 50 million stones of bran for ten million stones of old grain.

This is inseparable from the active cooperation of the merchants.

Similarly, the Jiangnan has continued to have a super bumper harvest in the past two years, and both food and money have increased significantly. Isn’t this the result of Liu Renhuai’s drastic actions in recent years?

For example, Liu Mingqi said that counterfeit other people's brands were on sale. Such things were caught in Jiangnan. From the owner to the shopkeeper to the shopkeeper and the servants below, they would be thrown into prison. The interrogation was slowly made, and they would be heartbroken. They would never be able to get out of it.

But it's different in the capital.

Because there are too many nobles, royal families, and court leaders in the capital, their children are naturally of different quality, but if you catch them and do bad things, their fathers and ancestors will come forward to plead.

Once you retreat for the first time, you will become a tool of favor and you will not be able to do anything at all.

In other words, the prefect of the Imperial Palace was Miao Yan. He could eat and live in the elders of all the playboys, so most of the years who made trouble and broke the law were fewer.

Even so, Miao Yan could not have beheaded every time, so he would have gone home to retire.

However, it still happens from time to time to counterfeit and inferior products by other brands, and it is very secretive. It is difficult for the Imperial Court Office to investigate.

But the Embroidered Uniform Guards are different. They are born to do intelligence, so they naturally know these mice hidden underground.

What Liu Mingqi wanted was the information from the Embroidered Uniform Guard Office, and then handed it over to the Imperial Court Office for processing.

Seeing Gao Jing, Liu Mingqi was still a little hesitant, so he added fire: "Governor Gao, if you arrest them, you won't have any worries about your life. If you leave them to the Imperial Capital Office, Lord Miao can still squeeze out their oil and water, which will add more benefits to the people of the entire Imperial Capital Office.

In addition, with Lord Miao's character, he will never betray the friendly forces. Besides, he has gained so many benefits, so he will not look forward to the next cooperation?

Governor, you can kill three birds with one stone. You think this is good?"

When Gao Jing heard this, his heart moved.

Although he is so sinister and vicious, he is actually a civil servant, but he is still a Jinshi of the three lists.

So Gao Jing has a very good brain.

Miao Yan has been going crazy recently because the Imperial Palace has done a lot of water conservancy projects, including dredging rivers, planting trees, digging reservoirs, stabilizing dams, etc., so they need a lot of money.

The Imperial Palace actually has some inventory, but it is definitely not enough.

Fortunately, the emperor asked the court to allocate five million taels of silver to temporarily hold on for a while.

In order to have sufficient funds in the future, Miao Yan directly scrambled the unscrupulous merchants without saying a word, and even confiscated a large merchant who had been raising a border business for five years, and confiscated the property of more than one million taels of silver that he had worked hard to smuggle.

There are more than one example like this. Miao Yan swept seven large and medium-sized merchants in one breath with lightning speed, obtained more than three million taels of silver, and immediately announced their sinful transactions in detail, which was shocking and scolded.

But smart people are a little scared. You are raising fish!

If I hadn't known it for a long time, how could I have confiscated all my belongings so neatly, and even transported back the farthest-far-longest-in-Daming Mansion?

Say it was a temporary intention?

Do you believe it?

Gao Jing actually had information about these people, but three of them did not have any details about Miao Yan. For this reason, a commander was directly demoted to a poor and poor place in the southwest.

Now that Liu Mingqi talked about letting Miao Yan take the blame and getting her own benefits, Gao Jing suddenly felt that it was okay.

Even Prince Yu Yu said less of one thing, that is, to report this matter to the emperor, and the emperor would be very happy that he dared to take responsibility, and at the same time, he would reduce some burden on the Ministry of Revenue warehouses.
To be continued...
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