Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 576 Chapter 591: Li Hao Corruption
Li Shimin had already raised his hand, trying to hit Li Hao, but Li Hao quickly shrank his head, and replied obediently: "Your Majesty, after all, the matter in Hangzhou was found out by the minister. Trivial matters are delayed. In fact, I know all the unjust, false and wrong cases in Hangzhou. Di Renjie has always been impartial and upright. He will definitely find out these problems and will definitely come back to report to His Majesty. Jian Da, from the corruption case in Hangzhou, I thought of the government of the whole country, so I made preparations in advance, but I didn't expect to be guessed right by the minister."

Li Shimin was stunned when he heard the words, he never expected that Li Hao would take everything into account, so smart, really powerful, but fortunately Li Hao is a wise man, and he has no evil thoughts, otherwise the Great Tang Dynasty would be in danger.

In fact, Li Hao didn't want to say these words, after all, this would let Li Shimin know that his thoughts were too deep, but Li Shimin forced him, and he couldn't make up any proper reasons for the time being, so he could only tell the truth and take a gamble , He felt that with his loyal performance over the years, Li Shimin shouldn't doubt himself. After all, he had the opportunity to usurp the throne, but he didn't.

"You, you..." Li Shimin couldn't help shaking his head and sighing with a smile when he heard the words, "You have such a terrifying mind at such a young age, you know the whole leopard with just one sight."

Li Hao cupped his hands and respectfully said: "Your Majesty, I am the most intelligent person in the Tang Dynasty who outwitted Lu Dongzan, how could he fall into the title of the most intelligent star in the Tang Dynasty." Li Hao still tried his best to correct himself, Lest Li Shimin seriously harbor grudges.

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Okay, I know you are loyal, after all you have passed the many tests I set, how can I not trust you, I am also honest with you now, aren't I?"

"Your Majesty Long En, I'm terrified."

"Okay, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, you go back, the road will be difficult later."

"Yes, I will leave." Li Hao saluted and exited the Ganlu Hall.

Watching Li Hao disappear into the vast snow in a blue and white robe, Li Shimin's face was neither sad nor happy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Chinese New Year is coming in a blink of an eye. There is a folk saying that if it rains and snows in Lidong, it will be sunny. This year it will snow in Lidong. Sure enough, the first day of the Lunar New Year is a sunny day, but the weather is a bit dry and cold.

Although Li Hao is now a high-ranking and powerful man, he still brought a large group of people to drive chariots and horses and dragged a large number of gifts to give gifts to the three uncles. Qin Qiong was the oldest and had silver hair all over his head. He didn't go out because of the weather, and hid at home to practice boxing and read books. Even Li Ji, the youngest, didn't want to come out in such cold weather and hid at home to read military books.

Cheng Yaojin, however, became crazier as he got older. On the first day of the new year, he called his sons to the middle court, saying that he wanted to study their martial arts skills, and then he picked up the iron rod and began to fight with his sons. After all, he is old, and his sons are in their prime, and after Xue Rengui's training, except for Cheng Chumo, all of them are very skilled in martial arts. Cheng Yaojin can't beat his sons, so he cheats. He stared and frightened his son.

Several sons were beaten by him with a whip. When they saw him staring, they felt scared, and they shrank when they beat them. Then they were all thrown to the ground by Cheng Yaojin. After that, Cheng Yaojin brazenly began to discipline his sons, scolding them Wu Yi didn't improve or something, and the sons didn't dare to talk back, so they could only hang their heads and be scolded.

When Li Hao came to the door of Cheng Yaojin's house, he thought of Cheng's sturdy family style, eat and drink first when entering the door, eat meat in a bowl, drink in a bowl, and it's still spirits, and you are not allowed to leave unless you pour it down.

So he shuddered, knocked on the door, handed the gift list and greeting card to the porter, and said: "Please inform Lu Guogong that his nephew Li Hao is here to give him a New Year gift. The gifts are all in the car. You can pick them up yourself. I still have something to do. One step ahead." After speaking, he ran away as if he was running away, as if there was a vicious dog chasing after him.

Cheng Yaojin trained his son well, and when he got the porter's report, he immediately opened his eyes and yelled angrily, "It's unreasonable, that brat pays New Year's greetings and doesn't even see each other. Do you despise the old man? Come here, prepare the horse, old man If you want to find that kid, you must beat him to death!"

Hearing the words, the concierge hurriedly said: "Master, this is not appropriate, the gift that King Qiongnan gave this time is quite a good one."

"Oh?" Cheng Yaojin's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and asked, "How much did you give away this time?"

The concierge said: "The villain calculated carefully, and all the gifts are worth about [-] guan."

"Hiss—" Cheng Yaojin grinned and took a breath, waved his hands and said, "Forget it, don't prepare the horse, for the sake of his filial piety, this beating will be avoided."

Cheng Yaojin's four sons covered their faces when they heard the words, feeling ashamed of their father's unscrupulous behavior.

Next, I went to give Qin Qiong a gift. Qin Qiong entertained him warmly. Li Hao ate with Qin Qiong for a while and drank two cups of tea instead of wine. Qin Qiong has also been paying attention to exercise and maintenance.

The last one to visit was Li Ji. If you want to say who Li Hao likes the most among these three people, it must be Li Ji. There is nothing to talk about with good friends. Li Ji and Li Hao are inseparable, and they are proficient in the art of war. Li Hao lingered in his house for a long time, and discussed many issues of art of war with Li Ji, as well as the treatment of Tubo and Western Turks. The military plan has benefited a lot. Although Li Hao is good at fighting, his foundation is not very good. In most cases, he wins with strange moves. In the field, Li Hao reckoned that he would lose more than he would win, and the way of battle is the essence of Li Ji's lifelong experience in military art. Even though Li Hao is now honored as the military god of the Tang Dynasty, he dare not underestimate Li Ji in terms of art of war.

After the New Year’s greetings, I’m bored. During this period of time, there’s no need to go to court, and not many shops in the city are open. Everyone is visiting relatives to pay New Year’s greetings. However, Li Hao has no relatives, so he can only play at home with his children , by the way teach them boxing or something.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Yun came back. Lu Yun came back from the Japanese country, because he and Wu Lei took the fleet to the Japanese country to sell Japanese knives and food. Li Hao reported the situation.

Li Hao welcomed Lu Yun into the study, sent Ye Mengqiu and Zeng Yulin to guard outside, and then asked Lu Yun, "Lu Yun, where are Wu Lei and the others?"

Lu Yundao: "I came back early and rushed all the way back non-stop. I guess the fleet is still at sea."

Li Hao hurriedly asked: "How is the transaction going?"

Lu Yundao: "I made a lot of money this time. I sold a total of 20 big Japanese swords and 80 shichen rice. Each big Japanese sword sold for 40 taels of silver, and one stone of rice sold for 20 taels of silver. A total of 2400 million taels of silver was obtained."

"So many!" Li Hao was slightly surprised when he heard the words, and said slowly, "You actually sold 20 big Japanese swords? Does the emperor know?"

"This is the meaning of the emperor." Lu Yun nodded and said, "At the beginning, we forged Japanese swords too fast. After the emperor learned about it, he ordered us to make more Japanese swords. In one month, we forged 20 swords. "

"Very good." Li Hao nodded slightly, "I didn't expect there to be so much silver in Wa Kingdom, but it's not a good thing that so much silver suddenly flowed into Datang, Lu Yun, I need to trouble you to make another trip to inform Wu Lei, Keep 600 million taels of silver, transport it to Chang'an, hand it over to the emperor, and transport the rest to Liuqiu."

"Ah?" Lu Yun stared and exclaimed, "Didn't you promise the emperor to pay half of it at the beginning, why only pay 600 million taels now?"

"Can I be corrupt?" Li Hao rolled his eyes and said coldly, "Your Majesty doesn't understand market economy. If you give him 1200 million taels of silver at once, he may use it wantonly. So much silver suddenly appeared in Datang, it will It will have an impact on Datang's market economy, leading to a sharp depreciation of the currency, which will easily cause panic."

Lu Yun blinked and stared blankly at Li Hao, before saying for a long time: "Don't say that the emperor doesn't understand, I didn't understand after you finished speaking, but I understood a sentence of corruption."

Li Hao laughed and scolded: "Yes, I am corrupt. I am the number one corrupt official in the Tang Dynasty. Although this transaction is an order transaction, we have always contributed money and efforts in commercial activities. The emperor just said a word." , You can share 600 million guan with one sentence, which is already a great thing, what else do you want to do?"

Lu Yun thought about it carefully, and felt that what Li Hao said was quite reasonable, but he immediately said with a bitter face, "However, we have hidden tens of millions of taels of silver in Liuqiu these years and haven't used it up yet. There are already several mountains of silver piled up in Zhongdu, so what should I do?"

"You, you." Li Hao smacked his lips and said, "You are really strange. No one thinks that there is too much money. Are you short-hearted?"

Lu Yun shook his head, Li Hao spread his hands and said: "That's it, you, you have never lived in poverty, alas, back then, the great powers demanded hundreds of millions of silver dollars in compensation from our country, and almost squeezed our country dry. Angry, when the king stabilizes the country and the border, he must personally take the boat out to sea and teach those wild monkeys a lesson!"

Lu Yun asked with a puzzled face: "What are the great powers? When did our Tang Dynasty pay compensation? What are silver dollars?"

Li Hao waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about these details, you should take a good rest and report to Wu Lei tomorrow."

"Yes." Lu Yun clasped his fists and nodded, and exited the study.

Li Hao was the only one left in the room. Li Hao thought about what he had just said, and muttered to himself: "Corruption? I am corrupt? Hehe, what is the use of me asking for so much money? It's not for big things. Alas, I suddenly miss the people in the mountains." It's time to live, even though it's been a bit hard, but you don't have to worry so much, now that you've shouldered the big burden of revitalizing China, you can't even think about it, my baby is really tired."

After he finished speaking, he leaned on the boss chair and rubbed his temples.

(End of this chapter)