After the rebirth, the queen took the Meiqiang tragedy script

Chapter 107 Balance
"I have three things here that I need you to do." Ye Qinghuai cut to the chase.

"First, Du Zhengen, the former commander of the Youya Mansion of the Forbidden Army, should be imprisoned in the Ministry of Punishment. I want to know his current situation and his relationship with Du Jing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment."

Tao Yuan nodded.

"Secondly, find someone to keep an eye on the Gu family's movements. Gu Shihai has to report to me every day who he meets and how long he has been there."

Tao Yuan nodded.

"Third, find a 14-year-old girl named Wang Siyun."

Tao Yuan paused for a moment, then asked, "Is it the case of Mr. Gu who caused a lot of trouble in Beijing?"

"Yes. Wang Siyun, the daughter of the shopkeeper of Heshun Buzhuang King, is missing according to the Jingzhao Mansion, but I don't believe that anyone in this world can disappear out of thin air." Ye Qinghuai said with a serious expression, "I want to see you later." People, to die is to see a corpse."

"Understood. If there is progress, how should the Caomin pass the news to His Majesty?"

Ye Qinghuai originally thought that the few things she mentioned would be difficult to handle, and Tao Yuan would say something, but she didn't want him to respond with a relaxed tone.

It's a good thing.Ye Qinghuai thought: "In this way, you can write down the information you find every day in a note and store it here. In the morning of the next day, I will send someone to bring this gold medal to Huisheng to pick it up."

Tao Yuan was silent, and said: "There is a kind of colorless ink here, and the color of the ink can only appear when it meets a special potion. The grass people use this kind of ink to write. Your Majesty will bring a bottle of potion back, and every time you drop it in the water, Put two drops on it, and then put the blank note in the water to make the words visible. It is safer to prevent changes on the way.”

Ye Qinghuai was slightly taken aback, thinking that this was their usual method in their business.She nodded, "It's better that way."

She thought for a while, then asked again: "Is Wang Lisong protected by your people?"

"Yes."

"How does he know now?"

"On the way back to Beijing, he will take the official road and the horse-drawn carriage, and he will arrive in the capital in about five or six days."

From Tao Yuan's expression and tone, it was obvious that he was not worried about Wang Lisong's safety.This made Ye Qinghuai breathe a sigh of relief.

The two looked at each other silently for a while, and Ye Qinghuai asked: "Before Mr. Lu, were you all loyal to the late emperor?"

Tao Yuan nodded: "Yes, the first emperor gave us the order at that time, and Eunuch Li conveyed it from it."

Li Baoquan was an eunuch who grew up with the late emperor, and he followed the late emperor from the beginning to the end. Even the history books commented that the late emperor's trust and reliance on Li Baoquan completely surpassed the relationship with the courtiers.

Now it seems that Li Baoquan knew about the existence of Yingwei from early on.But he never revealed anything to Ye Qinghuai until Ye Qinghuai put the gold medal in front of him.

In Ye Qinghuai's mind, Li Baoquan's low-browed and pleasing appearance appeared in his mind.

She couldn't help feeling that although the late emperor had been buried for more than two years, in Li Baoquan's heart, his master was still the late emperor, not her.

"When Mr. Lu took over Yingwei, was the late emperor here with him?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

Tao Yuan shook his head, and said: "At that time, it had been ten years since Shunping. I heard that the late emperor couldn't even go to the early court. It should be because his health was already bad and he couldn't get out of bed. At that time, the late emperor wrote a secret edict in his own hand, Let Mr. Lu come here with the gold medal and secret edict."

Tao Yuan recalled that year, and added: "Mr. Lu didn't know the contents of that secret edict beforehand, not even the Eagle Guards. That secret edict was sealed in wax by the first emperor himself, and was only opened here. Seeing the contents of the secret edict, Mr. Lu was even more surprised than us."

There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and those peach blossom eyes suddenly became charming.

Ye Qinghuai was indifferent to the charm he unintentionally released, and she immediately asked the question she was most concerned about: "How many people are there in Yingwei today?"

"One thousand and seventy-three people." Tao Yuan did not evade.

"I heard from Li Baoquan that the inner court allocates 10 taels of silver to Yingwei every month. What are you going to do with this money?"

Tao Yuan paused slightly, and said, "His Majesty, wait a moment."

He got up and left the room, and after a while, he came back, holding three thick indigo-bound booklets.

Tao Yuan put the booklet in front of Ye Qinghuai, and said, "This is the account book of Yingwei every year from the first year of Suihe to the present."

Ye Qinghuai began to read.

Although she has never studied accounting, these account books have detailed records. The purpose of each expenditure, the payee, and the time are written very clearly. At the end of each account book is the sum of the categories of expenditures for this year, which can be said to be clear at a glance. Even Ye Qinghuai, a layman, can see it very clearly.

Ye Qinghuai quickly flipped to the end, and her eyes lit up immediately.

"What does this mean, that Yingwei still has a balance of more than 150 million taels on its books?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

Tao Yuan nodded slightly, but his expression suddenly became gloomy, and said: "The last large-scale dispatch of the Eagle Guard was in the ninth year of Shunping. Since then, until now, the tasks that the Eagle Guard has taken over can be counted on two hands. But despite In this way, the appropriation of the palace has never been cut off. Your Majesty should be able to see from the account books that the majority of the Eagle Guard's expenditure in the past three years has been focused on training newcomers. At the end of the ninth year of Shunping, the Eagle Guard had only 330 five people, and now it is 73. Zero 150 people, a total of more than [-] million taels of silver was spent."

Ye Qinghuai reconciled the accounts carefully.

Tao Yuan looked at her serious expression, smiled, and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, we are different from the courtiers, we have faith. Silver is not that attractive to us."

Ye Qinghuai raised her head from the ledger and looked at Tao Yuan.

There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and there was an inexplicable firmness in those beautiful peach eyes.

"We believe in the wild gods. Ill-gotten wealth will affect people's wild souls, weakening people's abilities and longevity. Besides, every eagle guard is an orphan, let alone have offspring. The things I brought are not of much use." Tao Yuan said.

Ye Qinghuai looked at Tao Yuan with surprise.With no parents and no children, she never thought that the Eagle Guards would have such cruel rules.

Tao Yuan spoke calmly, as if he didn't feel anything.

"These balances are recorded in the name of the inner court. Your Majesty needs it, so you can take it. However," Tao Yuan changed the subject, "Your Majesty will use us now, and I am afraid that there will be no such a large surplus in the future. After all, whether it is an informant or a Intelligence, weapons and devices, disguises and medicines all cost money."

Ye Qinghuai thought about it for a while, and finally said: "I need you now, money is a small matter. Just go ahead and do it, don't let me down."

"The grassroots take orders." Tao Yuan replied respectfully.

"There is another thing," Ye Qinghuai asked with a serious expression, "Do you know the details of Mr. Lu?"

(End of this chapter)