Li Longji's eyes lit up. He thought of the names Li Rizhi and Liu Youqiu and felt that he could do something about it.
Just as Li Yi said, his emperor was relatively young. Many of the old officials had experienced three or four emperors.
Each of them wanted to gain power, which would affect his prestige.
Therefore, Yao Chong was in charge of doing the dirty work.
Although he was moved, his reputation was not good. There were always people complaining. Lu Huaishen did not say anything when he encountered something big.
In order to protect himself, he did not want to be taken care of.
If he followed Brother Yi's idea, he would form a group and throw them in to find work for them. His reputation would be good.
"Brother Yi, I think it makes sense. I can tell His Majesty. What's the name of the new group you mentioned?"
Li Longji decided to do as he was lacking a good name.
"The first royal inspection group of the Tang dynasty." Li Yi casually said a name.
"Why royal?" Li Longji's chopsticks trembled. A group of old men in the royal group?
"Tell others that it's His Majesty's group. Otherwise, they have a lot of old officials and are quite powerful. I'm afraid that something will happen if they make their own name."
Li Yi did not want Li Longji to really let go. A group of old foxes with many disciples and old friends.
Li Longji nodded to show that he understood.
He wanted to control the old officials' group and then arrange people. He asked Gao Lishi to send eunuchs to serve the members of the group.
If the people in the group wanted to send messages, the eunuchs would be in charge.
To tell others that they were royal and let people know that they were working for His Majesty.
After making the decision, Li Longji ate half of the pancake. He broke a pancake and shared it with Li Yi.
After eating and returning to the courtyard, Li Longji issued an order.
Two groups of horses went out quickly. One group went to Zhengzhou Xingyang to find Li Rizhi. The other group went to Hangzhou to find Liu Youqiu, who was the provincial governor of Hangzhou.
Li Yi, who ate half of the pancake, strolled in front of a pile of money and watched the farmers happily sift and organize.
There was only a small amount of gold, not worth five thousand taels.
Most of them were made of different kinds of cloth. Some were beautiful, such as those from Hangzhou, Yizhou, and Suzhou. These cloth were valuable and well-preserved.
There was also silk and silk. There was more silk than silk.
He unfurled them one by one, looking at their color and feel to determine how long they could last.
Pick a horse first. As long as there was something wrong with it, pick it out one by one.
After that, in the areas that were badly cut from the selected pieces of cloth, the other pieces were kept in the same size as possible.
There were people who came to sell picked tea, and they were all doing individual transactions. Each time, there would be several zhang of tea, and they would give it to them like this.
They were also using it to buy things.
A group of people tidied up the cloth and silk, while another group of people took apart the copper coins. They took them apart strand by strand, they looked at the traces of rust.
Some copper coins were rusty and could not be placed together with others. Otherwise, the others would rust faster.
He picked them out and prepared to wash them before soaking them in vinegar.
Only after it was tidied up could it be used again. Fortunately, the words were still there and hadn't rusted.
The farmers didn't feel tired. Instead, they were very happy. Money, this was real money. It was earned by Dongzhu with his ability.
"Song De, quickly send people to Luoyang and bring back the people from Lantian County who were placed on the mountain. See if there are any large caravans from Luoyang to Chang 'an. It can be by land or water."
Li Yi knew that with the imperial court's intervention, the matter would be resolved. His follow-up plan would change. He would bring the people back and give them compensation.
"Dongzhu, tell the seventy people who came back later to go home?"
Song De recalled the seventy people from Lantian County who had just returned with the large group yesterday.
"Stay for two days. It's tiring to travel, and they're on tenterhooks. Lantian County will be chaotic for a few days. Wait for the new officials to be sent over. When the seventy people are emotionally stable, we'll send them back."
Li Yi was worried that if they were sent back now, the seventy people would collapse and fall sick.
"Then I'll send someone to their house to inform them." Song De agreed and found someone to make the arrangements.
In Lantian County, Yao Chong and a large group of high-ranking officials had not eaten yet. They were not in the mood to eat.
The county's storehouses were opened. A group of people from the Ministry of Revenue rushed in to check the accounts and verify the goods.
The people from the Taifu Temple did not find it troublesome and checked Chang Pingcang.
In fact, they did not need to check to know that there was a problem. However, they still had to go through the necessary procedures. Otherwise, they would not be able to convict.
In the Drunken Immortal Restaurant, the three prime ministers sat alone in a single room by the window. There was tea and snacks brewed with green tea on the table.
"Come, everyone, try this fourth-grade tea." Zhang Shuo was the youngest among the three. He was in charge of livening up the atmosphere.
"This old man only drinks second-grade tea." Lu Huaishen joked.
Yao Chong frowned. "We don't dare to investigate. Apart from Wannian and Chang 'an County, if we investigate the other twenty counties, something will definitely happen. What's more, the entire Tang dynasty."
"It's not like we didn't know when we were local officials. Who investigated? Who made up for it? "Zhang Shuo did not feel that saying this now was of any use.
The three prime ministers all had experience as local officials. How could they not know the ins and outs of the matter?
When they were local officials, they still had to follow the rules and did not uncover the truth.
Yao Chong took a sip of the tea and smacked his lips. "The taste is less fragrant than second-grade tea, but it's stronger."
"There's a lot of tea leaves. Of course it's stronger. This kind of tea will lose its taste after three or four times. It can't even be eaten." Zhang Shuo commented.
Second-grade tea leaves could be chewed after being brewed.
Fourth-grade tea leaves were small leaves. Fifth grade tea leaves were large leaves. Later on, the leaves were incomplete.
Putting down the teacup, Yao Chong looked outside and said, "Li Yi and Zhuangzi's housekeeper took money from the county's storehouse. Who's going to ask for it?"
"We can't ask for it. It wasn't Song De or the county magistrate who took it. It was Ma Hangrui and the others who borrowed it from the county magistrate. We should ask them to return the money."
Lu Huaishen gave a different opinion.
"They can't return the money. They're counting on the treasures they dug out from the fields. Once they sell the treasures, they can make up for it." Zhang Shuo shook his head.
"Ask Li Yi. It's written in the contract that if they can't dig out the treasures, Li Yi will have to use his skills to exchange for the treasures." Yao Chong reminded him.
Lu Huaishen laughed, "Haha! Ask Li Yi. Li Yi will tell you how to pay for the treasures. He will definitely not give you the skills. "
"That's good. We know how to pay for the treasures. The county's land hasn't been sold yet. We can use the money to make up for the losses." Zhang Shuo suggested.
Lu Huaishen dealt another blow, "Stop dreaming. Li Yi is very angry this time. Since he made a move, how could he not think of a way out? I can guess that if the land is given to him, there will be money. If it's given to someone else, it's useless. "
"Mm!" Yao Chong nodded slightly, agreeing with Lu Huaishen's words. The Li Family Zhuangzi's greenhouse vegetables were worth a lot of money. No one else would have thought of that.
It was the same for the land. If Li Yi said that he would pay for the treasures, it would be impossible for anyone else to do the same.
"Who's going to make up for the losses?" Yao Chong admitted. He still had to solve the problem.
This involved a shortage of tens of thousands of taels of money. The imperial court could not take out any more money.
"The idea was Li Yi's. Ask Li Yi. Don't expect him to pay for the losses. See what he has to do." Lu Huaishen could not think of a solution, but he could think of Li Yi.
"Let's go back and look for His Majesty. We can't go to Zhuangzi." Zhang Shuo suggested.
"I'll see what else he can do in this situation." Yao Chong agreed. He was full of doubts and could not think of any other solution Li Yi could come up with.
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