Princess, he is rich enough to rival the country

"Ok?"

Qin Lu opened his eyes and saw the letter in Xingren's hand at a glance. After being slightly stunned, he quickly reacted:

Calculating the time, I should have received a soft reply from his family today.

Thinking of this, the unhappiness in Qin Lu's heart dissipated a lot immediately.

Especially when he took the letter from Xingren's hand, and felt the thickness of the envelope was more solid than before, a faint smile appeared on the corners of his lips.

Noticing the change in his lord's mood, Xingren also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart:

In the end, the princess still has a way, just a letter can make the prince happy.

Seeing that his lord had already taken out the letter paper from the envelope, Xingren hastily and silently bowed to Qin Lu, and then directly exited the meeting hall.

This is also one of the experiences Xingren has accumulated in these days:

When his prince was reading the letter from the princess, he didn't like the presence of others.

Xingren attributed this behavior to the possessiveness of the beast.

At this time, a certain possessive person who was regarded as a beast had already read more than half of Gu Yanshu's reply.

Looking at the familiar handwriting on the letter paper, Qin Lu immediately thought of the days when he was still in the capital.

When he was in the capital, he and Gu Yanshu were both busy with their own affairs, so the time Bai Liri could spend together was actually not that much.

Sometimes I get so busy that I don't even see each other for a whole day.

After discovering this situation, after dinner or before going to bed every day, Gu Yanshu would ask Qin Lu to spare half to an hour to be alone with him, in the name of exchanging feelings.

During this period of time, Gu Yanshu liked to talk to Qin Lu about what he did during the day and what interesting people or things he met.

Qin Lu felt a little awkward at first.

After all, in his previous 20 years of life, few people shared their lives with him like Gu Yanshu.

But Gu Yanshu, who is used to being extremely sensitive to the emotions of others, seemed to be completely unaware of Qin Lu's strangeness at that time, and still went his own way.

Although Qin Lu felt awkward about Gu Yanshu's approach, he didn't find it annoying.

Especially Gu Yanshu's voice was very nice, with the unique clarity of a teenager, but it was a little more gentle than the average teenager.

When talking about things that happen every day, I can always make an ordinary thing very interesting.

In addition, when he spoke, he always looked at Qin Lu with a pair of eyes eagerly, with an unusually brilliant light in his eyes, as if he was looking forward to Qin Lu's response.

Facing such eyes, how could Qin Lu have the heart to disappoint his master?

Gradually, Qin Lu overcame the awkward feeling in his heart, and occasionally gave Gu Yanshu a certain response.

In the days before leaving Beijing, Qin Lu had long been accustomed to Gu Yanshu's way of communicating feelings, and sometimes, he even looked forward to the daily alone time.

Even after getting used to it most of the time, Qin Lu would tell Gu Yanshu what happened to him just like Gu Yanshu did.

However, unlike Gu Yanshu who can tell even a trivial matter very interestingly, Qin Lu seems to lack some talent in telling stories, and what he said is also a bit dry and boring.

But Gu Yanshu didn't care about it, even when Qin Lu spoke, he was extremely flattering.

Not only will he look at Qin Lu with an "I'm very interested" look, but he will even ask about the development of the matter in due course when Qin Lu pauses.

In Gu Yanshu's words, he and Qin Lu belonged to an arranged marriage. The two of them didn't even have a normal meeting before they got married. They were not even comparable to ordinary couples. At least ordinary couples always have to see each other before they get married. .

If you want a long-lasting relationship, you not only need to tolerate and understand each other, but also need both parties to have a better understanding of each other.

The process of exchanging information like this is a process of mutual understanding.

Therefore, it doesn't matter whether the story is boring or not, as long as Qin Lu is willing to share it, it is a progress.

Now looking at the letter paper, Gu Yanshu wrote all kinds of words related to Cement Road, Liu Ruxi and Yaoyue Pavilion's upcoming branch.

Qin Lu seemed to have heard his princess's voice as usual, with a warm and clear voice, mixed with a hint of a smile, appearing in his ears.

With a slight smile on the corner of his lips, Qin Lu looked down at the letter paper in his hand.

Afterwards, I saw the things related to Ding Yibai, the household department and the eldest prince's line that Gu Yanshu had written on the letter paper.

Just now, Qin Lu, who was still thinking about the news of Tongtan County's news back to the capital, and the lineage of the eldest prince who would make use of it, didn't even know how to react for a while.

Ever since he was sensible, Qin Lu didn't consider himself a lucky person.

Born in the royal family, but not favored, in the deep palace compound, he and his mother and concubine are almost bullied by everyone.

It was hard to see that life was getting better, but the mother and concubine died in the sudden fire.

Later on the battlefield, everyone said that he was invincible, and that he was able to achieve this at a young age, which was considered lucky, but they didn't know how difficult it was for him to win.

Even now, Qin Lu can feel the oppressive feeling that the blade is only an inch away from his vital point just by recalling it for a while.

However, now, Qin Lu felt that he seemed... really lucky?

Thinking of the person who brought him luck, the curve of Qin Lu's lips deepened slightly.

Keeping his eyes down, Qin Lu saw the puzzles raised by Gu Yanshu at a glance, the corners of his lips just raised a slight sag, and even his eyes showed a hint of contemplation.

Regarding the first doubt raised by Gu Yanshu, Qin Lu can say one, two, three.

It is true that Ding Yibai cannot be supported by mud, but it is precisely because of his image of a dandy that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that it is the best cover in the eyes of outsiders.

Youdao is dark under the lights. No one thought that the Ministry of Finance would cooperate with such a seemingly unreliable person in such a dangerous matter.

Another thing is to print money, which requires knowledge of all kinds of teachings and nine streams, so that it is convenient to do things.

Whether it is the second prince or the officials of the household department, they all hold their own identities and will not be willing to associate with low-ranking people.

Taking a step back, even if they were willing, there would be many inconveniences.

For example, the second prince, who has always been with people of similar status, suddenly has a friend who is not of the same rank, which is as eye-catching as planting a bright banner on himself, telling others that he has a problem.

Ding Yibai no longer had any troubles in this regard.

Ding Yibai is a vulgar man, although most of his friends are dandies with similar family background, but those low-level hooligans in Beijing can almost have a word with Ding Yibai talk.

As for how the two sides got together...

Qin Lu tapped the letter paper slightly with his fingers, and a matter that Zhi Ge reported to him two years ago suddenly flashed through his mind.

At that time, he had just returned to Beijing not long ago, and compared with the First Prince who had been entrenched in the capital all year round, he was not very clear about the power in Beijing.

Therefore, Qin Lu spent a lot of time and experience to find out the distribution and division of various forces in Beijing.

It was also at that time that Qin Lu found out that Changle Gambling House was involved with the eldest prince.

When investigating the Changle Casino, Zhige once mentioned to Qin Lu in his report that Ding Yibai was a frequent visitor to the Changle Casino because of the thin blood relationship.

In a place like a gambling house, it doesn't matter what your status is, as long as you step through the gate, all living beings are equal, and you lose out of ten bets.

It was also mentioned in the report that on a certain day four years ago, Ding Yibai almost lost his eyes in Changle Casino.

At that time, many people thought that Ding Yibai might wipe out the huge family property of Princess Funing's mansion in that day.

Who knew that this matter would be nothing more than a matter of course.

Although Ding Yibai is very famous in Beijing, his daily life has a certain distance from the common people.

In addition, at that time, the direction of public opinion in Beijing was still in the hands of the First Prince, so this incident did not cause any disturbance outside the Changle Casino.

Thinking back now, Ding Yibai and the eldest prince probably had already connected at that time.

Cooperating to do bad things does require the relationship between the two parties to be strong enough, but what if one side is the main one and the other is the supplementary?

I am afraid that only the leading party is needed, and it is enough to hold the other party's big enough handle.

And it can also be seen from the time when Ding Yibai brought the concubine into the mansion.

Only people with inexperienced people will bring back the woman who was sent to print money back to their house.

It can also be heard from Liu Ruxi's words that after that concubine, Ding Yibai never brought anyone related to printing money into the mansion again.

And the concubine who was mortgaged only lived in the eldest princess's mansion for about half a year before being taken away by Ding Yibai.

What Liu Ruxi said was that Ding Yibai must have felt the novelty, so he sent him away.

However, the fact may be that Ding Yibai gradually got used to printing money, and after accumulating a certain amount of experience, he finally realized the various disadvantages of the concubine's placement in the princess mansion, and quickly moved him out of the mansion.

Regarding Ding Yibai's involvement with the eldest prince's lineage, Qin Lu could still find some reasons.

However, Qin Lu also had a lot of things he couldn't figure out about Gu Yanshu's subsequent questions.

His elder brother is indeed very bold, but most of the time, the eldest prince is surprisingly timid.

Don't say anything else, just talk about the disaster relief in Shaocheng last time.

Those who are more courageous, even if they pay attention to many parties, will play some tricks on the disaster relief money.

After all, there are so many and complicated places where money is needed for disaster relief, even if there is a little bit of greed from it, it is difficult to be discovered.

However, the Great Prince did not do so.

It's not so much that he doesn't want to, it's better to say that he doesn't dare.

This is true for disaster relief money that is easy to handle and difficult to detect, let alone such a big thing as printing?

Even if the eldest prince doesn't find a few scapegoats, he will be more cautious.

Qin Lu was even clearer than Gu Yanshu about the action capabilities of those in the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Without the help of outsiders, the possibility of finding out such a result in such a short period of time is almost zero.

So who is the person standing behind the Ministry of Punishments and helping him?

In Qin Lu's mind, he went through all the people who had trouble with the eldest prince, and found that there was no one who met the requirements.

Immediately, my doubts became more serious.

It wasn't until I saw the impact of the eldest prince's incident on the situation in the court written by my princess at the end that I seemed to have a vague answer:

There is a way that the law does not punish the public, since half of the household department is involved in the printing of money, even if the father does not hold it up high and put it down gently, the punishment will not be so severe.

Even the Minister of the Household Department was dismissed.

You must know that the minister of the Ministry of Rites returned to his hometown a few days ago. His father just said that the new batch of students will go to Beijing for scientific examinations, so there should not be too many changes in the court.

As a result, the emperor turned around and moved a small half of the six parts, which was inconsistent with common sense.

And all these unreasonable things seem to be pointing in the same direction——

The person who caused this situation is the father?

When he realized this, Qin Lu couldn't stop his heart from jumping, and the strength of his fingertips also slightly deepened.

As if thinking of something, he quickly relaxed, lowered his head and looked at the letter paper in his hand carefully, and after making sure that there were no wrinkles, he was slightly relieved, and then continued to think about it just now:

If the people behind the scenes are really what he thinks, then what is the purpose of the father doing these things?

In order to suppress the First Prince's lineage, or do you want to use the First Prince's lineage to take the opportunity to beat him?

After pondering for a long while to no avail, Qin Lu could only put the matter aside for the time being, and continued to read the letter with his head down.

Unexpectedly, at this glance, he saw the sentence of his princess, "It is said that a man becomes bad when he has money", and he was a little bit dumbfounded, and the concealment in his heart due to thinking about the court affairs also dissipated a little:

If it is true what the concubine said, shouldn't it be me who should be worried the most?

After all, when it comes to being rich, even if she owns the entire household department, she is not as good as her own princess.

Not to mention that the concubine is already planning to open a branch now, and the household department will not be able to keep up with the speed at which the concubine makes money in the future.

Seriously speaking, he is still eating his own soft rice, so how dare he show the face of the God of Wealth?

Thinking this way in his heart, when replying to the letter, Qin Lu directly wrote these thoughts on the letter paper.

When he saw the last sentence on the letter paper, "The flowers on Moshang are blooming, but they can return slowly", the smile on Qin Lu's lips just disappeared, and it reappeared.

His family is Ruanruan... still miss him!

Originally, Qin Lu planned to reply to Gu Yanshu's letter in a few days, but this time Gu Yanshu's letter happened to collide with the Tongtan County incident.

Qin Lu put the reply letter together with the memorial to his father, handed it to the post officer, and ordered him to hurry up and deliver the letter to the capital.

Qin Lu and Gu Yanshu had a great time playing here in a hurry for eight hundred miles, but they didn't know that all their actions were seen by the emperor.

When Gu Yanshu received another [-]-mile urgent request from Yizhou, the person who sat on the temple and held the power of life and death finally lost his temper:

"They really treat my [-]-mile rush as a joke, don't they?"