Tang Dynasty: The seventh rank of official residence, and you will be given the Ten Thousand People

In a hurry, Li Ai woke up faintly, glanced at everyone and said tiredly

"I'm going to make you laugh. I have no good discipline. It's embarrassing to have such bastards under my command." When he got angry, he coughed violently.

Everyone looked at each other, and the governor of Youzhou said with concern: "My lord, it's important to take care of yourself. There's no point in getting angry with a petty official."

"Yeah, just find a chance to get rid of this kid in the future."

After hearing everyone's words, Li Ai nodded: "Thank you for your attention. You go to the front hall for the banquet first. I will be here soon."

"Then, Your Majesty, take a rest first, and I will take my leave." Youzhou Governor Gong cupped his hands and led everyone out of the room.

When only the housekeeper was left in the room, Li Ai suddenly walked out of the bed and said in a deep voice.

"Call Butler Wu, Lu Sima and others in."

Not long after the housekeeper left, Fatty Wu, Lu Sima and others walked into the room.

"My lord, I wonder why you asked me to come here?" Fatty Wu asked.

Li Ai took out an account book from the box and said to several people.

"What is recorded here is Li Chong's family property, 400,000 acres of fertile land, and a total of 950,000 pieces of gold, silver and bronze."

"After excluding the 400,000 yuan used to build Ziwei City for the Queen Mother, I plan to divide the rest into four parts, one for me, one for your master, Wu Chengsi and all the other princes in the court."

"What do you think?"

"This..." Everyone looked at each other and began to ponder in their hearts.

Although they are all butlers, they represent their respective masters behind the scenes. There must be no carelessness in dividing the profits.

a long time.

Fatty Wu muttered: "My lord, according to your method, each of our families can get 120,000 copper coins and 100,000 acres of fertile land."

"Would it be too cruel to do this? After all, the court and the people are still watching."

Others also looked in agreement. It was good to take more, but the prerequisite was that it did not arouse the suspicion of the court.

As if he knew what everyone was worried about, Li Ai smiled slightly and took out another memorial from his sleeve.

"Don't worry, everyone. I have already stated in the note to the court that the confiscation of Li Chong's property will result in a total of 500,000 copper coins and 100,000 acres of fertile land."

"This huge amount is enough to explain to the Queen Mother and the court. As for the rest..."

Li Ai didn't say anything else, but the meaning was self-evident.

Everyone smiled knowingly when they saw this, and Fatty Wu held his hands.

"As expected of the prince, he can actually come up with such a strategy that has the best of both worlds. In this way, the court is satisfied, we are satisfied, and everyone is happy, hahaha...

After the laughter, Lu Sima said hesitantly: "The strategy is good, but I'm worried that Fan Xin will do something bad. After all, he confiscated the stolen goods."

At the mention of this name, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became dull.

Li Ai walked to the window and said coldly, hands behind her back: "Don't worry about this. Fan Xin just recovered the stolen goods and hasn't had time to count them. He doesn't know how much money is inside."

"As long as we hurry up and transport the seized money to Luoyang,

"I'm sorry he can't say anything!" Thinking of the previous scene, his eyes flashed with murderous intent.

A mere senior official dared to scold him, a member of the royal family surnamed Li, in public. He was simply looking for death!

Fatty Wu believed deeply and said: "Your Majesty is right, we must secretly escort the treasure to Luoyang as soon as possible."

"To prevent disturbing Fan Xin, the team escorting the box truck will come out from our personal escorts, so that by the time Fan Xin reacts, we have already transported the things to the place."

Seeing that no one had any objections, Li Ai immediately called a confidant and said to him.

"You immediately lead twenty guards to load the box onto a carriage and transport it to Luoyang overnight. Remember not to attract anyone's attention!"

"I understand!" The confidant clasped his fists and left the room, accompanied by several other guards.

After talking about business, Li Ai raised her head and glanced at the sun, and said calmly.

"It's noon. You and I can go out with the king to meet the guests. It's not good for the officials to keep them waiting for too long."

"Yes." Everyone bowed.

……

After leaving the governor's office, Fan Xin went straight to the ox cart and returned to Wushui County.

Halfway along the way, Liu Zi noticed him frowning in deep thought and shaking his head.

"Master, if you want me to just say this, forget it. You have done your best for the people. There is no need to provoke King Fan Yang because of this."

"You saw it in the Governor's Mansion just now. The room was full of officials, and none of them were lower than the fifth rank. Just pick one out and you can drink a pot of it for us."

"Why are we doing this?"

Fan Xin did not respond to his proposal, but spoke.

"Liuzi, you should turn around and return to Bozhou immediately, and secretly monitor the governor's mansion."

"Master, do you mean that Li Ai will make a big move tonight?" Liuzi signaled the carriage to stop, turned around and said in surprise.

Fan Xin nodded lightly: "If my prediction is correct, Li Ai will definitely transport the seized government property to Luoyang overnight when no one is paying attention, catching me off guard."

"No one will know how much money they have made from it."

"So I sent you to monitor the governor's mansion. Once they come out with the box truck, come back and notify me immediately."

Liu Zi knew that the matter was serious and did not dare to delay. He quickly put on his straw hat and returned to Liaocheng.

Fan Xin, on the other hand, came to Lin Tie's home alone. When the latter heard that they were asked to go out in the middle of the night, he went directly to summon everyone without any hesitation.

Soon it was getting dark, and eight hundred masked men wearing night clothes and holding swords stood on the hills on the outskirts of the city.

"Reporting to Fan Changshi, the eight hundred brothers have gathered and are ready to set off at any time!"

Fan Xin glanced at the sergeant who was ready to go and said solemnly.

"Brothers, this battle is related to our people's livelihood. We must succeed in one fell swoop and we must not let anyone get away. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" the eight hundred sergeants shouted in unison.

"Okay! Let's rest first and wait for Liu Zi to send back the news!"

After ordering everyone to sit down and rest, Fan Xin held his sword in his hand and looked towards the vast night in the distance, with a look of determination on his brows.

This batch of stolen goods was the only evidence of the survival of the Li family, women and children, and the people of Bozhou. He could not let it fall into the hands of those corrupt officials.

"Fan Changshi, the governor's guards are well-trained. I'm afraid we can't keep them all here."

"And once the news of the killing of officers and soldiers leaks out, it will inevitably lead to sanctions from the court. I wonder if you have any good ideas?" Lin Tie came over and said.

Fan Xin turned his head and glanced at him, and said calmly.

"You think too highly of that group of people. No matter how courageous they are, they don't dare to use the army to transport money to their homes blatantly."

"At best, some guards from the palace will be sent to escort them. Only in this way can they hide it from the court and from my eyes and ears."

As he spoke, a fast horse appeared in the night and came towards the hillside.

Liuzi jumped off the horse and took a few steps forward, breathing heavily.

"Master, the team escorting the box truck has come out and is heading towards the Huangmulin area!"

“There are about three hundred people!