Yan's foreign relatives, give Da Yan a little Xuanwu Gate shock

When he was brought up again, he was covered in mud and blood, and looked like he was dying.

In fact, Yuan Congqian never beat Lao Deng at all, and Lao Deng is still developing his histrionic personality.

Minister Huang raised his head miserably, his voice hoarse, puzzled: "Yuan Congqian, what hatred do I have against you? Have I ever taken a tael of silver from you?"

Yuan Congqian did not answer him. He grabbed Huang Renzhao by the collar and threw him against the wall:

"I was upset with you, so I wanted to do it, so I did it."

"Yuan Congqian!"

Minister Huang shouted, his voice almost breaking:

"Don't pretend to be an upright person here! Isn't the money spent by your Yuan family the so-called hard-earned money of the people? You bully the officials of the court, but you are not stepping on me, but the court of Dayan! I will definitely write to His Majesty and hold you accountable..."

"What, you're not convinced?"

Yuan Congqian laughed, "What rank are you, and you come to challenge me? If you threaten me, can I say you are carrying a sword to assassinate me? Or you can try it, you say I trampled on the Great Yan court, and I say you hold a Hongmen Feast for me, guess who will die?"

He took off Minister Huang's ceremonial sword, drew out his long sword, and touched his neck.

Perhaps it was because Yuan Congqian was too gentle, which made these officials reach their rebellious stage and feel that they could control Yuan Congqian.

The current real dragon makes his maternal relatives work hard for him and clean up the historical legacy, which does not mean that the maternal relatives really live a humbler life than the third-rank officials. Yuan Congqian is not a dragon. He is not a threat to the throne, but he is a threat to the face of the royal family.

What's more, the Western Pharmacy is a royal property recognized by the real dragon. If the Ministry of Revenue takes a part of it, wouldn't Yuan Congqian be labeled as incompetent?

Today, Minister Huang had to endure this severe beating.

Under the horrified gaze of Minister Huang, Yuan Congqian smiled and said:

"There has never been a poor minister of the Ministry of Revenue in ancient and modern times. I advise you to be smart and not think about how to take revenge on me, but think about how to save your own reputation. When someone who understands how foreign currencies are encroaching on the economy of Yan State like me writes a letter to explain the harm, your life will be gone."

"Even if the business fails, the righteousness remains. After what you did today, who else would dare to do business with the Western Pharmacy?"

"If I don't break your dog's paw, do you really dare to lay your hands on the Western Pharmacy?"

Yuan Congqian threw Minister Huang to the ground, and a group of guards immediately rushed to support him, or wiped herbs on Minister Huang's face. Yuan Congqian looked carefully and found that it was not herbs, but cream produced in Victoria, which was sold at 100 taels per box on the black market.

"If you don't associate with them, there are plenty of people who do! You still want to represent the Ministry of Revenue and the people of the capital? Who do you think you are?"

Minister Huang did not dare to look at Yuan Congqian and covered his face with his long hair.

Chapter 59: Justice for the Country

Yuan Congqian beat up Minister Huang severely and left Huang's mansion in a swagger.

Surrounded by the doctors of the Jin Ministry and the servants and guards of the Huang Mansion, no one dared to stop him.

He was a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Revenue, a third-rank official, wearing a golden and purple robe, and had made great contributions to the country. But he was beaten by him and lay on the ground like a dead dog.

Da Yan is the number one male gunner, but he has no time to fool around with him!

The pharmaceutical industry of Yan State has no policy support from the imperial court. It can be said that the chemical factories in the country are now supported by truly patriotic businessmen. The dumping strategy proposed by those students in the Western Pharmacy is simply a nightmare.

Our ancestors had figured out the economic law of "low grain prices hurt farmers" based on history, but they still wanted to dump sulfanilamide at a low price. Once sulfanilamide was dumped, not only the chemical intermediate factories of patriotic businessmen, but also traditional medicinal materials would be hit hard.

If Yuan Congqian had not come to the capital, people would have bullied him. Now that he has come, people will still bully him. So, didn’t he come here in vain?

By the next day, everyone in the capital knew that Huang Renzhao had been beaten.

The rumors about the breaking into Huang's mansion and the beating of the minister hit the capital's thirst for novelty about high-ranking officials, and immediately began to spread from top to bottom on a small scale. The one who beat him up was Yuan Congqian, a relative who was at the center of the storm in the capital.

However, after a few days, the real dragon's reprimand did not come as expected.

Zhenlong read Yuan Congqian's petition, which was so impressive that it filled the capital, and burst into tears. He told the ministers around him about the past when he and Yuan Kerang got along well. It was so touching and moving. He missed Yuan Kerang's achievements, so he conferred the title of Congqian on Yuan Kerang's only son:

He concurrently served as the historian of the Shangshu Ling, and was appointed as the Left Jinwu Guard. He was given the imperial calligraphy to write "Great Righteousness for the Country" in person.

At this time, it would have been impolite for the Censorate to impeach Yuan Congqian for beating officials and disrespecting the court.

"The Left Jinwu Guard is an honorary military post, so you don't need to take up the position."

Qiu Fengshu was explaining these official titles to Yuan Congqian, and he was quite clear about the complicated official titles that had existed for thousands of years: "The position of Shangshu Lingshi is a concurrent one, and the rank is relatively low. You have the original job of Right Prime Minister of the Western Pharmacy, so you don't have to go to the Shangshutai to take up the position."

She selectively ignored the fact that Yuan Congqian did not kneel down to receive the imperial calligraphy.

“Is this a compliment or a criticism?”

Yuan Congqian sat in the study, looking at the four words "righteousness for the country" written by Zhenlong himself, laughed, and threw it directly into an inconspicuous corner of the desk.

Of course, Zhenlong was not saying that Yuan Tianshi was doing justice for the country. He was asking Yuan Congqian to pay attention to public opinion and be careful about the degree of propriety. He gave Yuan Congqian a higher official position to indicate that Yuan Congqian was right to interrupt the hand extended by the Ministry of Revenue, and he also used the phrase "do justice for the country" to imply that he should not do it again.

Undisguised footsteps sounded from outside the door.

"Congqian! Congratulations on your promotion!"

Yan Junyan learned from the worker who was cleaning the mansion that Yuan Congqian was at home.

He pulled Yuan Congqian's arm and reminded him, "Even if you don't care about your aunt and uncle, you are now a fourth-rank official. How can you be so poor in your mansion without even a few servants? If you don't know, you might think that Zhenlong is being mean to you."

"The slave contract has been abolished for hundreds of years. How can there be servants?"

"A hired worker is nothing more than a servant who doesn't need medical treatment! In the past, they were called doormen and servants, but now they are called hired workers, long-term workers, and bonded laborers."

"When I am powerful, I am respectable. When I am not powerful, no matter how many people there are, they will all die in one night. A bunch of Filin and Liberi, a piece of wood that I can cut with one sword, they need several people to work for a long time. What's the difference between asking them to take care of me and asking children to protect me?"

Yuan Congqian didn't really care about the so-called decency of these nobles.

It's not the Rongguo Mansion, where there are a bunch of women, and they need to recruit a group of servants to support them. There are only him and Qiu Fengshu in the Yuan Mansion. Yuan Tianshi's wife and family don't interact much, and they have long been estranged. How many more people are needed to take care of them?

Yan Junyan said: "After all, it's inconvenient to travel back and forth. It's a bit too lonely for just two people in such a big mansion. You don't need someone to serve you, but you need someone to entertain you. I know the owner of a sumo arena, and there are a few people who have just entered the industry with clean backgrounds..."

His expression was a little bit unserious.

Yan Junyan was talking about the sumo wrestlers who wore less and less clothes. Every time they lost a round, they wore one less piece of clothing.

After a brief chat, he got down to business: "A batch of sulfanilamide has arrived from Chernobyl, Ursus, and has now passed the Dragon Gate. But there is a small problem. The value of the cargo is too high, and it has to pass through a place where bandits gather in the mountains."

"In the territory of Dayan, Juxiao Mountain Forest?"

"Why not? The gaps between the mobile cities are so large, and there are natural disaster areas and wilderness in between. Who would go there to track down the escaped households? Mountain bandits and water bandits are suppressed every year, and there are always bandits, but they can never be completely eliminated. Without bandits, officials can only be promoted by accumulating experience."

Yan Junyan's words were suggestive.

There are two ways to get promoted: meritorious service in local governance and meritorious service in eliminating bandits.

Putting aside the issue of local governance, don’t these bandits have any responsibility at all for the officials’ inability to make progress?

"Can't we go around it?"

"They know where your transports are. They go wherever your transports are."

"So it's coming for me?"

Yuan Congqian looked at him and sensed something: "You tried to reach out to me from an official perspective, but I cut you off. Now you want to play dirty tricks and attack the transport team coming from Longmen? You can still play like this. Where is the court? Where is the real dragon? You don't care about it?"

"There are people in the imperial court who have contacted thieves and pirates."

He spread his hands and pointed to a piece of news:

In order to avoid the natural disaster, the city of Jiju could not be merged, and the bandits started a riot, dragging the victims of the natural disaster, forcing Jiju to stop, occupying the core city arsenal, and confronting the government troops. From now on, the capital will send troops to the south of the Yangtze River, the lights will be on day and night, and the curfew will be imposed.

Yuan Congqian realized:

"Damn real dragon, you want me to do this too?"

This means that the imperial court and Zhenlong are preparing to crack down on the phenomenon of raising thieves, and they want to use Yuan Congqian to clear out that group of thieves!

The imperial court and the True Dragon spent too much money to suppress the bandits.

If the Western Pharmacy was transporting expensive medicines and industrial facilities, and the Pharmacy was destroyed, it would not cost the Ministry of Revenue money, and the Western Pharmacy would not lose money. After the destruction, just like Yuan Congqian beating up Minister Huang, it would be enough to reward the military officer with a nominal position.

The honorary position of the military officer has been completed, and there are still titles to be promoted, so there is no need to worry about having nothing to give to Yuan Congqian.

It’s great to have a convenient right prime minister of the Western pharmacy like Yuan Congqian!

"This group of bandits seems to be related to the Ministry of Revenue. When they put on robes, they are a transport caravan, and when they take off their robes, they roar through the mountains and forests. Well, I just don't know where they heard it. After all, the Shaofu has many connections, so it's normal for him to hear some rumors."

Yan Junyan drank his tea calmly, as if he hadn't said anything.

Chapter 60: Famous Knife Little Pudding

The real dragon didn't want to specifically order someone to suppress the bandits in the wilderness.

That would make it seem like the bandits were his biggest threat, unlike the peaceful and prosperous times.

He just wanted to manipulate the officials of the capital to work for him, just like playing with puppets, and put a live fish like Yuan Congqian into the sardine barrel to make the sardines active again. As for whether the sardines would be swallowed, compared to becoming stagnant water, consumption was insignificant.

Before Yan Junyan left, Yuan Congqian asked, "Is there anyone from the Ministry of Revenue following him?"

His uncle Yan pretended to be silent and thought: "I never said that the Ministry of Revenue was related to the bandits. It's just that the Ministry of Warehouses is in charge of national transportation. If you continue to frame them, it will definitely involve Huang Renzhao. You must not do this."

"Is it Doctor Cangbu?"

"Huang Renzhao is a man of arrogance and narrow-mindedness. He will certainly not tolerate being beaten up by you in vain. The Ministry of Revenue's asking for money from the Western Pharmacy represents the court asking the royal family for money. Not only will he fail, but he will also be laughed at by the capital. How can he tolerate this?"

"That is to say, I am here in person."

"Perhaps it should be, but it doesn't seem so."

Yan Junyan still looked like he was unwilling to provide any information.

He actually said everything he should have said to Yuan Congqian, and he also said things he shouldn't have said.

Our Minister Huang had a bad reputation in the officialdom. When facing Yuan Congqian, a relative of the emperor, he was in the same group as other court officials. What court officials hated most was someone who would benefit the whole world by taking a penny, but they loved to take advantage of the public and benefit themselves, and used the royal family's money for the Ministry of Revenue.

As a representative of the court officials, he wanted to make friends with Yuan Congqian and share the royal property of the Western Pharmacy, but failed. In order to save face, he had to rob Yuan Congqian's goods in private to make his failure less ugly.

If I fail this time too...

The question is whether the Langzhong of Cangbu and Langzhong of Jinbu will continue to follow the Huang family and whether they will report their superiors for corruption and the Huang family's extermination of the ethnic minorities.

"The key to the major case involving Huang in Yan State and the Huang clan's Yi people probably lies with Minister Huang."

Yuan Congqian thought silently in his heart.

Minister Huang's nickname is "Exploding Cat".

With the dark blue hair of Film and the skill of boiling Originium, it is obvious that the Huang clan has a very close connection with the senior and experienced operator [Huang] of Rhodes Island. When thinking about the big and secret case involving Huang, everything can be connected.

Even if he didn't take action against Minister Huang now, he would be liquidated sooner or later and used as a scapegoat for Yan's economic losses over the years. A few decades later, the Huang clan in the capital was exiled, and the young Huang fled to Kazdel near Yan and joined Rhodes Island...

Judging from Lin Guangmei's identity, he might have also participated in the Huang clan. That's why Rhodes Island did not allow Jingzhe Lin Qingyan to meet Huang.

Compared with bagpipes and reeds, it feels more like one of our fellow countrymen from Yan Country.

……

The blacksmith worked quickly and Yuan Congqian got his knife before sunset.

The knife is not fancy, it can even be described as plain.

Only the blade part was shining with beautiful silver light like moonlight, while the handle and jaws were plain matte black. Qiu Fengshu's eyes widened when he looked at it inadvertently. The blade tip was carved with lotus copper and glowed green. This part had been put away for a long time.

The blacksmith had a sharp eye. Just by looking at Yuan Congqian, he decided the most suitable weight and weight distribution.

This knife is very heavy, and the blade is made entirely of D-series steel that can smoothly conduct Originium technology, but it is just right for the gods and people to use.

Yuan Congqian added his Originium skills to the blade more smoothly than ever before, and the color of the blade suddenly became darker and duller than the blade jaw, as if he was holding a silhouette of a world that did not reflect light.

At the same time, there was a patter of black rain falling.

"Good sword, good Originium skills."

The coach clapped his hands and stroked the delicate blade as if he were stroking his lover: "I know that Old Pei's sword-forging skills are still there. Look at this arc. If you touch it with your hand, it will be a blood line. It can transmit Originium skills better than mid- to high-end staffs."

His fingers just touched the blade lightly, and blood immediately flowed down the blade.

Yuan Congqian shook the knife and all the blood beads fell off, without a single drop sticking to the blade.

"Is the sword famous?" asked the coach.

"There's no need to name the weapon. Once I've figured out my own Seven Star Dragon Abyss sword moves, people will naturally call it the Seven Star Sword."

Yuan Congqian said this.

In fact, many names flashed through his mind, such as Ancient Ingot Knife, Famous Knife Siming, Little Pudding... It was too embarrassing. Texas could name her two knives Blueberry and Black Chocolate, so what's wrong with me naming my knife Little Pudding?

He took back the Seven Star Sword Little Pudding.

The coach watched the beautiful blade being sheathed reluctantly and began to explain the moves:

"...When it comes to learning your own sword and developing your own sword moves, does it mean that you must break away from the experience of your predecessors and create an unheard-of angle to attack? It's impossible. It may disappoint you, but in a fight with a knife or a sword, it seems that you will only have a style difference caused by your body size.

Sword moves are not fixed. For example, Chengying swings the sword and cuts sword marks on the ground as an auxiliary means. If you don't cut sword marks, but cut the opponent directly, isn't that also possible? Doesn't that count as Chengying? Of course not..."

Yuan Congqian listened carefully to these truths that were shattering his dreams of becoming a martial artist.