"Beauties are alluring at first glance, let's see the list of the annual show girls is coming out!"

"Read the books of sages and listen to the words of sages! Huajing's largest private school opens the library!"

"Newcomers talk about old cases. The right temple of Dali Temple was burned overnight. What kind of story is hidden behind it?"

"The History of the Rise of the No. [-] Merchant in Huaiyang: A Patriotic Businessman with a Great Heart."

"The children of the rich and powerful are involved in the ink corruption case. Is it a distortion of personality or a loss of morality?"

"Pa——" A piece of rice paper about two feet long and one foot wide, with words written all over it, was slammed onto the table, and the medicine bowl placed aside was knocked over, and the medicine juice immediately wiped out the rice paper on the paper. The text was blurred.Du Liyu clutched her chest and pointed to the four large characters on it, "Where did this 'Da Shang Miscellaneous News' come from! How dare you slander the Duke of Wei's mansion like this, you have eaten the heart of a bear!"

Aunt Muzi on the side hurriedly packed up the miscellaneous newspapers and medicine bowls. Now that Wei Guogong's second room has been reduced to such a situation, she doesn't know what to say, but Gu Zhiyi, who has been afraid to come to see Du Liyu, has appeared and wants to marry The matter of Emperor Jianyuan, who was older than her father, made her haggard quickly in the past few days.At this time, she was staring blankly at her mother, but her eyes drifted to the unstained piece of text on the list of the annual show girls in the magazine.

"...To talk about the most brilliant girl in this show, it is naturally Gu Zhiyi, the granddaughter of the Duke of Wei. This girl is fifteen years old, her father is the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment, and her mother is the daughter of Tai'an. She is of noble birth and outstanding temperament. Talented and beautiful..."

Gu Zhiyi picked up the miscellaneous newspaper in a daze, and seeing the records about herself, a little hope was inexplicably ignited in her heart.She looked at her mother and suddenly asked, "Mother, can auntie not protect us anymore?"

Du Liyu looked at the exquisite wooden carvings on the top of her bed, but said nothing.

"Mother, I will enter the palace at the end of the month." Gu Zhiyi said softly, but without waiting for her mother's response, she closed her eyes, got up and left Du Liyu's room.

Emperor Jianyuan, who was far away in the palace, received a secret letter from the royal guards. The large sum of gold that Gu Yu coveted in private finally had a general whereabouts. The known place outside Huajing.

Emperor Jianyuan read the secret letter with a cold face, picked up a pen casually, and personally wrote about Gu Yu's disposal.

He copied and returned two thousand one hundred and forty-five taels of gold, and was exiled to the southwest, and was not allowed to return to Beijing for life without an edict.Gu Shiping had no way to teach his son, and he was fined three years' salary.

This punishment is definitely a representative of too light a sentence for such a large number of corruption cases, but for Du Liyu, it was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Even Princess Dong'an finally used the power of the Southwest King to suppress Seeing that Erfang got the Heli book, and completely separated from the Duke of Wei's mansion, Du Liyu's vitality could no longer be brought up.

After hearing the news from the secret guard, Gu Huai was not moved in the slightest. He turned around and met the third prince Shang Xuanchu who had come to the General Secretary to join in the fun.

Naturally, the third prince would go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. As soon as he came in and squinted at An Xiang, he pretended to be serious and asked for help. "How can my prince stand by and watch such a thing that benefits the people?"

An Xiang ignored him from the sidelines. At the moment, he was writing the second report about the Du family by himself.After thinking about it, he felt that the tone of the article about Gu Yu was still light, and he was trying to figure out how to use a more harsh tone to kill Du.

However, the colleagues of the prison department are still going through the more horrific cases, and then hand them over to Gu Huai for him to polish and revise, which is another excellent report about Zhiguai.

The ink pads for publishing miscellaneous newspapers were naturally provided by An Xiang, who had been doing the job of reprinting books all year round, and paid for by the Tong Zhengshi, who was not short of money.Only [-] copies were printed for the first time, some were sent to Tianxiang Building, some were sent to Anxiangfang, and Chang Min hired a few children to sell them along the street. Many people got the news and went to buy what they couldn't afford.

The popularity of the miscellaneous newspapers was unexpected by the Secretary of the General Administration. The price of a miscellaneous newspaper is only five copper coins. big response.The customer flow of the Tongzhengshi's family branch in Beijing increased several times in an instant, and the Tianxiang Building, which can provide miscellaneous newspapers for purchase, was also collapsed by one floor.

The influence of the country caused by new things has made some voices in the court, but the output of [-] copies has not yet caught the attention of the ministers. The bigger reason is naturally that many people have not bought this miscellaneous newspaper at all, but Soon, they saw this miscellaneous newspaper that was passed down by word of mouth in Huajing literati circle.

The next day, Gu Huai made a decision to reprint the miscellaneous newspaper, a total of [-] copies, and the price remained unchanged. At the same time, a section on the miscellaneous newspaper published a text about merchants who wish to contact the Secretary of General Administration and publish merchant information for a fee. content.

In fact, after seeing the grand occasion of the store at home, the Tongzheng envoy directly paid 100 taels of silver. Gu Huai accepted it very calmly, and then fiddled with the abacus and gave out a form. It clearly stated that the merchant wanted to write down the size of the text, the space occupied by the newspaper, and the corresponding price. The Tongzheng envoy made a rough calculation and found that the price of his shop article was about 20 taels of silver, so he was a little confused, " Master Gu, is the price too low?"

"We still need a period of time for the opening ceremony, what do you think?" Gu Huai sorted out the few miscellaneous newspapers that were reserved for archiving, "If we want to expand sales, we must rely on the Holy Lord's Longwei, and at the same time let Tong The name of the political secretary is known." He had already thought about it, and the magazine was released every two days, and when the amount of money earned by the second issue of the magazine came out, he went to invite the emperor's pen.

Although the emperor stated that he seemed to be persuaded by the ability of the envoy to make money, he should actually be holding a wait-and-see attitude.But now the imperial court is really short of money, and wants the emperor to make a public statement and fight for the interests of the people, not to mention that the people will riot, even the three-inch tongue of the censors is enough for Emperor Jianyuan to eat a pot.

Then let Emperor Jianyuan have a step down... Gu Huai smiled smugly when he thought of the imperial decree about Gu Yu's crimes that the emperor had just sent to the Secretary of General Administration.

"After the verdict on the corruption case, Xungui will be exiled for thousands of miles."

When Gu Huai presented this draft to His Majesty, Emperor Jianyuan glanced roughly at it and put it aside.There was some tiredness in his brows, as if he had caught the cold from the wind on the day and night of the Empress Dowager's banquet.He coughed twice tiredly, and asked Gu Huai in a hoarse voice, "This Gu Yu, as I remember, is Gu Qing's cousin?"

"Return to Your Majesty, that's right." Gu Huai responded.

Emperor Jianyuan was silent for a long time, and then Fang Youyou spoke again, "I remember, you were the one who exposed the ink corruption case at the beginning. It is really rare to kill relatives righteously."

"Your Majesty praises it so much, I am ashamed and dare not take it."

"Of course it should be." Emperor Jianyuan picked up a pen and wrote the word "Dashan" on the rough magazine, and Eunuch Mu En held the reply and handed it to Gu Huai, "Let's go."

Holding the emperor's own handwriting, the most conspicuous part of the freshly released miscellaneous newspapers is "The case of corruption of ink, the nobles will be exiled for thousands of miles", and it is also marked that the amount of gold and silver for corruption of ink is a thousand quantities of gold.

Now the entire capital of Huajing was completely blown up, and the emperor's imperial pen personally mentioned it, dare I ask if it is fake?People who were disdainful of the miscellaneous newspapers also rushed to grab a copy of the miscellaneous newspapers. It took even less time to sell out the [-] miscellaneous newspapers than the [-] copies of the day before yesterday.

Along with the topic of a thousand miscellaneous newspapers being sold, it was naturally the news that Gu Yu, who was in the headlines, was reprimanded for copying and returning thousands of taels of gold.This time even the specific amount of ink corruption has been released. This is the first time that the Dashang Dynasty publicly and unscrupulously accused a person and exposed his crimes.

This made Gu Yu's name repeatedly mentioned in newspapers and periodicals in the future, and he became a figure with very detailed records in the historical records of corrupt officials in all dynasties.

At this moment, Gu Yu's name was even more resounding than his grandfather Wei Guogong who was the Minister of the Ministry of War.But at this time in Duke Wei's mansion, Du Liyu smiled at the latest miscellaneous newspaper, and even had the strength to get up, put her hair in a bun, changed her clothes, and went out of the mansion to the Marquis of Tai'an. go to the government.

Ever since Du Junyan, the only son of the Marquis of Tai'an, was injured, the Qi family's arrogance has subsided a lot, but the Marquis of Tai'an, who is far away in the southwest, has never said a word about this matter, so the time has passed, and the Qi family has gradually recovered. The arrogance in the past, seeing Du Liyu coming back to her mother's house, without saying a word, brought the servants and blocked them unintentionally.

"Hey, isn't this the most honorable second lady of our Duke Wei's mansion! Why did you condescend to go back to this dilapidated Marquis's natal family today? I'm not afraid of losing my status." The Qi family would satirize Du Liyu as soon as she picked up her tone. Du Liyu went back to Cier, and immediately went on to say, "Could it be that you came back for alms? Oh, what a coincidence, the landlord's house is also short of food, and the Marquis of Tai'an can't find a thousand taels of gold."

"Shut up." At this time, Du Liyu didn't have the time to talk to her little mother, so she just pushed the person in front of her and was about to go into the mansion.How could the Qi family make her wish? He gave the servant a wink, and someone immediately stopped him knowingly.

Seeing Du Liyu's unconcealable sadness and exhaustion now, the Qi family felt very happy.Although the only son is ruined at present, the one the daughter married is now promising, and even the granddaughter will enter the palace to be the empress in a few days.Looking at Du Liyu on the other hand, she fought for half her life in Duke Wei's mansion, but now she has to go back to her mother's house to play the autumn wind. It's so sad and lamentable, but Qi's heart feels extremely happy!

Du Liyu cast a sideways glance at the schadenfreude on Qi's face, she was unceremonious, slapped her across the face, and pushed her aside. "My surname is Qi, why can't I, Du Liyu, say it like you are a low-ranking third-rate person? If you make me anxious, if you don't help me, your daughter will not be able to eat well."

"You—" being slapped across the face, Qi's eyes turned red, "Bah, my son-in-law is now an honorable heir, how dare you come and show off in front of me?" As he said that, he was about to fight back, but Du Liyu She directly grabbed the opponent's hand with no expression on her face. What happened to her these days made her look cold, and she kicked Mrs. Qi again, with a stern tone, "What is happening in Duke Wei's mansion now?" I still decide, if you are crazy in front of me today, believe it or not, I can give your daughter the slap that I paid back ten times and a hundred times tomorrow?"

The Qi family stopped cursing immediately, she glanced at Du Liyu bitterly, turned around and left with her sleeves thrown.

Du Liyu just glanced coldly at Qi's background, then headed towards Mrs. Tai'an, the courtyard of her own mother. As soon as Pu entered the room, she could smell the strong fragrance of Buddha, and the whole room was filled with sandalwood. .

The Shen family devoted herself to worshiping the Buddha, and had ignored the common affairs of the Marquis of Tai'an's mansion for many years. The sisters of the Du family had never been close to this mother, but now that something happened, Du Liyu still had to come to beg her mother, not for other reasons, just because This Mrs. Hou of Tai'an is surnamed Shen.

As soon as he entered the room, Du Liyu's eyes turned red instantly.Regardless of the dissuasion of the nanny who stopped her again and again, she cried and threw herself on Shen Shi who was kneeling devoutly on the futon and chanting scriptures. The sound of crying was miserable.

This room is not very spacious, and the light from outside seems to be impenetrable. It looks very dark, and it is a place that Du Liyu didn't like to come to since she was a child.But at this time, she didn't care about other things, and she cried bitterly about her difficulties, "...Mother, Yu'er is really killing her daughter now in exile in the Southwest! Mother—"

At this time, Shen Shifang slowly opened his eyes, but his eyes did not stay on his daughter, he just looked at the Buddha statue without saying a word.

Seeing this, Du Liyu cried even harder, "Mother—!"

"I objected to your marrying into Duke Wei's mansion back then." Shen Shi finally spoke.

Du Liyu choked, "Mother..."

"How would you like?"

"Mother, it's not what I want, but what Gu Huai forced me to do!" Du Liyu defended herself.

However, Shen did not follow her words, but shook her head lightly, "Back then you insisted on marrying the second son of the Gu family, so I made it clear to you that everything will have nothing to do with me from now on."

"Mom! You have the heart to look at your daughter..."

"There's never been any kind of forbearance or impatience."

Du Liyu looked at her steadfast mother, and slowly put back the crying on her face. "Okay, okay, okay! It's not the first day I know that my mother is heartless. Since that's the case, let's do business! You mentioned the year to me, and I will remind you that you also promised I, I can ask you to do something after marriage, you have not forgotten it!"

Shen Shi finally turned her head and took a look at her, then slowly closed her eyes, "So I ask, what do you want?"

"Yu'er can't leave Beijing, and give me 3000 taels of gold!" Du Liyu opened his mouth straight.

"Impossible." Shen refused, "Absolution to exile, and 2000 taels of gold. You can only choose one."

Du Liyu stood up abruptly, "Don't go too far!"

"If your heart is not sincere, why come to ask for it." Shen Shi slowly rolled up the prayer beads in her hand, her tone was flat.

Du Liyu looked at her mother, gritted her teeth, "2000 taels of gold!"

After getting Shen's nod, she turned around very neatly and left the Marquis of Tai'an Mansion. When she returned to Duke Wei's Mansion, she immediately ordered someone to take care of Ruyi.

This is the most important lifeblood of Erfang.She looked coldly at Ruyi, who was full of fear, and turned around to meet her daughter's haggard look.In an instant, Du Liyu changed her color again, and a happy expression appeared on her face in an instant.She patted her daughter on the shoulder and left the room guarding Ruyi, "Zhiyi, a few days ago, my mother was in poor health and ignored you. Can you forgive me? Let me tell you well about entering the palace..."

Now that the boat is done, let yourself ride the boat and ride the wind and waves!

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"Where did the two thousand 140 five taels of gold go?" In today's miscellaneous newspaper, after three consecutive days of being involved in the ink corruption case of the Duke's descendants, this important topic was raised. It is directly marked below. If you are interested, join the discussion , You can write your opinions into a document and deliver it to the wooden box set up outside the gate of the Tongzhengsi government office.

"Little Gu Huai, you absorb it very quickly! After exchanging a few books, you still know how to follow the gourd!" You Wu saw that Gu Huai's newspaper was flourishing, and even the public contributed articles. Looking at the model, it is still free to solicit papers without paying money, but it will be calculated.

After Gu Huai put down the last stroke, seeing the scene where the Tongzheng Secretary had completely changed his appearance in just a few days, he felt a little satisfied in his heart, but what was more important was the pleasure that the second room was about to collapse completely.

"Second Household's reputation is so bad now, I'm curious how they should use their minds to regain the position of the son." Gu Huai sighed lightly. After a series of things came to an end, he felt nothing but regret. He explained the process of the year that he had not completely unraveled.

To do evil for one's own benefit, and to lose the other party's power is the greatest revenge on the wicked.Gu Huai listed the names of the people who participated in the murder of Gu Lue one by one. Concubine Du, Gu Shiping, Du Liyu, Bao Zhixian, Li Gang, and Concubine Du's line of officials more or less all started from the case ten years ago!

2000 taels of gold is enough to ruin Erfang's family, and the ink corruption case is enough to completely erase the emperor's trust in Erfang. They will no longer be able to get what they want. This scene is so beautiful that Gu Huai suddenly felt a little stunned. I can't believe that I really abolished the second room.

It's just that there's always an eerie feeling of being buried deep, of too many puzzles being covered up.He continued to write the draft in his hand, but he called up the system's record panel in his mind, and checked all the information records one by one.

In the Li Gang case, the Zhusheren who disappeared later became Jiao Zhipi. What is the purpose of this person?

In Bao Zhixian's case, what was involved in Qi Delong's death?

Who wrote the unsolved case of Dening Hall?

And the official surnamed Qi in the mouth of the old lady...

together.

Gu Huai made another stroke, but at the end, he suddenly trembled.He stared fixedly at the already written line "Where is the two thousand 140 five taels of gold going?" for some reason he felt a palpitation in his heart.

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