Chapter 65 – What’s it to do with Fan Qing?

“It’s not easy for an envoy to visit me.” Marquis Changning shivered and said in a shivering voice, “Son, don’t look at father as the empress dowager’s own brother, but that’s Fan Xian, a generation of poetic immortal Fan Xian, ah, my old father’s face is shining!”

Wei Hua is also gradually sour in his heart, knowing that although his family is well-dressed and powerful, but in the North Qi dynasty, which is very important to the reputation, it has always been a very poor reputation, he has survived to the position of Honglu Temple Secretary, finally blocked the mouths of some people, but there are still people who think that this is the Palace to the Empress Dowager’s own family’s gifts.

He sighed, knowing that his father studied in Zhuang Mo Han, is also ready to do the world’s great things, but because of the aunt’s reasons, can only do an idle marquis, this many years of depressions, can only borrow a cup of wine to pour dispersal, so it is not convenient to say anything more. But thinking of what Fan Xian said before he left, he was still a bit scared and inquired: ”Fan Xian just said he wants to do business with you? He’s a governor of the Southern Dynasty’s Supervisory Court, what kind of business can he do? And what business would require your presence?”

Marquis Changning responded, “I’m just the middleman, the person he really needs is Lord Shen.”

“Uncle Shen?”

“Not bad, Fan Xian’s father is the Minister of Household of the Southern Dynasty, and he himself has the status of a fake county princess extra horse harnessed by the side of a team, in the future, he will be the one to take care of all the business of the Southern Dynasty’s Princess’s inner treasury, and judging by his intentions, he is ready to do some maneuvering. This way to the north, if you do not have your uncle Shen escort, that kind of business that can not see the light how to do not long.”

Wei Hua on with his father earlier when he heard this news generally shocked, opened his mouth wide and said, “Could it be that he is ready …… to smuggle!”

“This is a trap!” Wei Hua’s first reaction was this.

“It’s not like he needs to threaten me with anything.” Marquis Changning shook his head disapprovingly.

Wei Hua became anxious: “You don’t know that there’s still a piling agreement between the two countries this time, and Fan Xian is currently in a hurry for that matter, while His Majesty’s intention is to delay for a few days if he can, until the Southern Qing’s mission is in a hurry. If you make such a mess, not to mention whether or not this deal is real, if you really arrange for him to meet with Lord Shen, we can’t get out of it anymore, and Fan Xian comes to me for someone, how can I stall?”

“Will His Majesty delay if he says so?” Marquis Changning glanced at his son, “That person is going to be released anyway, so if we can get some benefits, we can help Fan Xian if we can, so what are we afraid of? Your aunt is still in the palace anyway.”

Wei Hua sighed, not knowing what to say. Only after a long time did he ask in a low voice, “Do you think what Fan Xian said is true? My son really doesn’t understand why he would risk so much to smuggle goods into our Northern Qi.”

“People die for money, birds die for food.” The Marquis of Changning’s drunkenness has not yet gone, thinking that he has seen through the world’s heart, he laughed shamefully and said, “Inner treasury? What a big piece of bread, but unfortunately it is not his Fan family! Even if his father is the Minister of the Household Department of the State of Qing, how much can he get from the treasury? If Fan Xian really sells the goods from the inner treasury to the north in the future, do you know how big a sum it is?”

Wei Hua this person is smart and resourceful, a slight frown, then have a rough figure, this more than ten years, Qing Guo’s one application degree is basically rely on the Ye family left behind those industries in the support, at the same time also from the rest of the world to earn a full of silver, if Fan Xian really have the ability to make this kind of shocking things, that can be obtained from the benefits …… is too horrible! It’s!

“Fan Xian …… obscures this kind of money?” Wei Hua seemed to have a hard time connecting the Fan Da Talent, who had been rumored throughout the world, with this corrupt person he had just heard about.

Marquis Changning poured another cup of spirits with a crooked face, burped, and said, “What did you expect? You know, poets also need to eat.”

After saying these words, this talented man of Northern Qi back then, now the assholes of Northern Qi ambled on the table and fell into a deep sleep, full of wine and flooded with a not-so-nice flavor.

On the carriage, Wang Qinian glanced at Lin Jing who was pretending to sleep beside him, and revealed a disapproving look to Fan Xian, as if he felt that the Lord of the Tisheshi, how should he not be in front of the ministers of the imperial court, boldly speaking about smuggling and such things.

Fan Xian laughed and said, “You don’t really believe it, do you?”

Wang Qinian really believed it, and so did Gouda. If anyone could control the inner treasury and get countless times the profits from those glass jars, could they really be unmoved? Fan Xian is not moved, because for the Princess, the inner treasury is the court, and for Fan Xian, the inner treasury …… is Ye family’s, is their own, at least one day will completely become their own.

Stealing your own family’s goods and peddling them to the north to sell them at a low price? Only a fool would do this. But the problem was that no one knew Fan Xian’s true thoughts, no one knew the historical connection between Fan Xian and that so-called Imperial Merchant of the Inner Vault, so everyone who heard of Fan Xian’s plan would think that the Fan family was really keen on digging out a gold mine that belonged only to themselves from the golden mountain that was the Inner Vault.

Fan Xian didn’t want to dig a mine at all, he just wanted to circle the entire mountain.

“Don’t pretend to be asleep.” Fan Xian yawned, feeling a little tired. Next to him, Lin Jing opened her eyes somewhat awkwardly and glanced at Fan Xian with some trepidation. Although he was a deputy envoy, the young official in front of him was not only the main envoy, but was also the Lord of the Tisi of that horrible Yamen of the Supervisory Court, and as the other party did not shy away from talking about those illegal and forbidden business that would lead to the plagiarism of families and the destruction of clans in front of his own face, it was hard to guarantee that the other party wouldn’t plant some kind of accident in himself on his way back to his home country.

Fan Xian gave him a funny look, patted him on the shoulder and said: “Silly ah? If I say it to your face, naturally I’m not afraid to let you know. At night, you can go back and write something and send it back to Kyoto, don’t worry, the court will understand what I mean.”

Even if the court doesn’t understand, the emperor understands.

Lin Jing forced herself to believe that the young adult in front of her would not become the biggest corrupt official in the history of Qing, swallowed her saliva and moistened her somewhat dry throat, “My lord, why do you want to come to Changning Marquis Mansion today?”

“First, to make good relations with the people on the Empress Dowager’s side of Northern Qi, well, so far, it seems that the Emperor of Northern Qi is still taking care of the mission.” Fan Xian lowered his head, closed his eyes in a sleepy state, and continued, “At the same time, let the Changning Marquis deal with that matter at the entrance of the previous legation, after all, it is the precious rabbit child of the human Marquis of Beiqi that will be beaten up, and it has to be dealt with. ……”

Hearing the five words of the baby brat, Wang Qinian and Gouda at the same time smiled slightly, feeling that the adults said extremely.

“…… Lest it affect the main business of this mission. Third, I want to see that Lord Shen, and the only way to arrange it is through Marquis Changning. Fourth, I want to scare Wei Hua, whether the Marquis believes in the packet of food bait I threw out or not, but I think he should be able to make the process faster in secret.”

“Why do you have to go around so many circles …… to meet the Zhenfu ambassador, Commander Shen?” Lin Jing frowned, “This person is a high official with real power, not the same as Changning Hou, and the Northern Qi side will not allow it.”

“So it depends on what Marquis Changning really thinks, anyway, even if we can’t meet, there isn’t much harm in it.” Fan Xian opened his eyes and yawned again, “As for why we should meet? This is courtyard business, so it’s not convenient to speak with Lord Lin.”

Lin Jing was flabbergasted, remembering Fan Xian’s true identity, and fell silent.

Fan Xian yawned again, all the way on top of the carriage was actually yawning constantly, it seemed that he was indeed tired enough, and after entering the palace today, he didn’t even have half a moment to rest.

“Stay for what?” Wang Qinian whispered: “This is, after all, the enemy on the capital, we have two eyes in the dark, want to contact around in the capital’s eyes and ears?”

“Said no.” Fan Xian stuffed his fist in his mouth, forcibly stopping the yawn that was about to snatch out of his mouth, and responded with a tired look that was hard to remove, “Don’t let those scouts take any chances, it’s not that time yet, so stay and do what? Just sleep and wait for Wei Hua to lead us to Yan Bingyun tomorrow.”

He pinched the hard envelope in his clothes, a hint of worry welling up between his brows.

After reading that letter, Fan Xian staggered his palm and expressionlessly rubbed the letter paper into pieces, a habit he had picked up from his time in Cangshan, and those pieces had become powdery, so that even after the intelligence masters of the second division of the Supervisory Academy gathered them, they could not be recovered again.

The letter was written by a person called Huang Yi, Fan Xian had heard of this name, it was one of the scribes of the Princess in the Xinyang Li Palace, and in the most confidential intelligence of the Supervisory Academy, it was even pointed out that there was some ambiguous relationship between this scribe and the Princess.

“Save save save! I’m not a teenager who puts out fires.” Fan Xian laughed bitterly, realizing that there was such a complicated relationship behind things. Chen Pingping obviously didn’t know that Sean had the secret of the temple on his body, and the Eldest Princess wasn’t clear about it either, so the starting point of what they were doing was very simple and clear.

Chen Pingping wanted Yan Bingyun to come back and Xiao En to die because he didn’t like the fact that there were multiple old men in the north again and thought that it would be an excellent opportunity to sharpen Fan Xian’s growth.

The Princess ignored the death of Yan Bingyun, but wanted Xiao En to be able to live to regain the power of the Brocade Guards, because she enjoyed watching the pair of bulls, Uesugi Hu and Xiao En, join forces, standing between the Empress Dowager and the Emperor of the Northern Qi, and watching for an opening to make the whole big country in the north even more difficult to bear.

Although he didn’t know the Princess’s overall plan, Fan Xian was certain that his mother-in-law, who was far away in Xinyang, must have reached some kind of secret agreement with Uesugi Hu, or else he wouldn’t have put down such a large sum of money.

The Princess does not know the matter of the paper, did not find out the matter of the night exploration of Guangxin Palace, but Fan Xian as a black man lurking in the dark, but naturally to the Princess to be respected, waiting for an opportunity to move, at this time far away from the foreign country, but then her letter, can not help but feel a little ridiculous.

In the end …… what is this about Fan Qing?