Shuntian Prefecture Prime Minister Qiu Maohua couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and looked at the Dongchang man outside in a little surprised. He never expected that as soon as he had ridiculed Wu Youke, the Dongchang man came to arrest him.

Qiu Maohua couldn't help but look at Guo Yunhou, the Minister of Revenue, and said: "Guo Butang, why is this? How could Your Majesty send people from the East Factory to take him?"

Guo Yunhou was also looking at the Dongchang mansion in his heart as if in a storm, but when Qiu Maohua asked him, he seemed to have realized something, and he pretended not to be very familiar with the Shuntian Prefecture Order Qiu Maohua and said, "How did I know Your Majesty's thoughts? Five hundred thousand silver dollars have been handed over to your office. I have other important matters, so I will leave first."

As he said that, Guo Yunhou hurriedly ordered his officials from the Ministry of Revenue to hand over to the officials of Shuntian Prefecture, and he himself left the Shuntian Prefecture Office first. As soon as he got on the sedan chair, he hurriedly ordered: "Go to the old mansion of Li Ge immediately!"

Here, when Qiu Maohua saw Guo Yunhou leaving so anxiously, he naturally knew that the Minister of Revenue wanted to avoid suspicion, and was afraid that the people from the East Factory would see that they had colluded with him, the prefect, but he was sure that yes, the Minister of Revenue would not harm him.

So, the prefect of Shuntian Qiu Maohua looked at Wu Youke. In his opinion, the only one who would impeach him in front of His Majesty was Wu Youke, the Minister of Health who did not deal much with him, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"Shangshu Wu, the minister didn't expect you to take the initiative. It would be better if you were to be a senior official and crushed people to death. I just asked Secretary Wu to make it clear that in the past 30 years, Hedong and 30 years, sometimes you can't survive in the officialdom for a long time with the favor of Your Majesty. Do you understand?"

Wu Youke was a little confused by Qiu Maohua's words, and he didn't expect that His Majesty would arrest the Shuntian Prefecture at this time. However, when he thought of the performance of the Shuntian Prefecture Qiu Maohua, he was too lazy to explain and snorted: "The Qiu Gong is joking. I have no time to impeach you in front of His Majesty, but as the saying goes, if you don't know anyone, unless you don't do it, since you can't give me a satisfactory reply to the batch of medicinal materials in the Imperial Pharmacy, then I have to go directly to His Majesty. Even if you are arrested by the people from the East Factory, don't think of this matter!"

"Shangshu Wu, you!" Qiu Maohua was so angry that his face turned purple when he was criticized by Wu Youke. He knew that if Wu Youke really stabbed this matter to His Majesty, the consequences would be absolutely unimaginable, but he was unwilling to give in to Wu Youke. He also knew that pleading with a stubborn person like Wu Youke was useless, and it would be better to make it clear. Therefore, Qiu Maohua directly threatened: "Shangshu Wu, you should understand that this batch of medicinal materials in the Imperial Pharmacy is not only related to the lower officials, but also involves the father-in-law of the Imperial Pharmacy, as well as senior officials of the Ministry and the people from the Cabinet and the Sili Supervisor. Be careful that you can't afford to be guilty at that time!"

"I don't care who is involved in it, I only know that the people who are now quarantined need this batch of medicinal materials!" Wu Youke said and left the Shuntian Prefecture Office directly.

Wu Jin, the chief chief of the East Factory, also regarded this as absent. He came to Qiu Maohua and directly ordered his subordinates to take off Qiu Maohua's black hat on his head, put on a chain, and escort him to the East Factory.

...

The Minister of Revenue Guo Yunhou had arrived at Li Mingrui's residence at this time, but he did not come to find Li Mingrui. Li Mingyun, the third brother of Li Mingrui, is now the person in charge of the Li family industry and one of the several imperial merchants who were directly in contact with the Ministry of Revenue. He has always had a close relationship with officials of the Ministry of Revenue, especially the Secretary of Revenue Guo Yunhou.

"Where is your Master Lan, please call him to see me!" The minister of the Ministry of Revenue came to the mansion in person. The housekeeper of the Li Mansion knew that something must have happened, so he did not dare to neglect it. He hurriedly found Li Mingyun. As soon as Li Mingyun came back, the Minister of Revenue Guo Yunhou told Li Mingyun about the sudden arrest of the Shuntian Prefecture Qiu Maohua by the East Factory.

After hearing what Guo Yunhou, the Minister of Revenue, Li Mingyun sat on the ground in shock and said in a daze: "Your Majesty knows whether this matter is true? Who revealed it to Your Majesty? Fortunately, this batch of medicinal materials is still in the Shuntian Prefecture Office. The prefect Qiu had not had time to transport the medicinal materials to me, so as long as the mouth of the prefect Qiu was sealed, there might not be any important things."

In response to this, Guo Yunhou, the Minister of Revenue, nodded with great agreement and said:

"No matter what Your Majesty found out, since he has just arrested the Shuntian Prefecture Prime Minister Qiu Maohua, it means that Your Majesty has not yet suspected me and Eunuch Zou of the Imperial Pharmacy. So, now you have to hurry up and tell him about this and let him find a way to find the Prince of the Sili Supervisor. The official must immediately go to see the people from the Ministry of Justice and the Censorate, and let them find a way to get Qiu Maohua out of the East Factory, or do him directly in the East Factory, so as not to say too many things!"

Guo Yunhou said fiercely and left the Li Mansion directly, and Li Mingyun also hurriedly took a car to the mansion of Zou Yingquan, the young supervisor of the Imperial Pharmacy.

At this time, in the Western Warehouse, Zhu Youxiaozheng, as the emperor, had a great conversation with Wang Chengen, the chief secretary of the Sili Palace, Li Mingrui, the Grand Secretary of the Zhongji Palace, and Lu Xiangsheng, the Grand Secretary of the Wuying Palace. The contents of the discussion were the internal struggles between the Lin Dan Khan tribe and the Lin Dan Khan tribe and when will the Lin Dan Khan tribe be conquered next year.

Just as these people at the top of the empire's power were talking, Liu Ruoyu walked in at this time: "Your Majesty, the prefect of Shuntian Qiu Maohua has been arrested and taken to the East Factory, and Master Cheng Ge has also gone to Shuntian Palace. Now he is discussing with Shangshu Wu how to control the epidemic."

Liu Ruoyu's words made Li Mingrui, who was working at a desk, stop the pen in his hand. Although he didn't know why the Shuntian Prefecture Prime Minister Qiu Maohua was arrested by the people from the East Factory at this moment, he knew that the Shuntian Prefecture Prime Minister Qiu Maohua had always had a close relationship with his third brother, and his Li family's business in the capital had indeed been taken care of by Qiu Maohua in secret, but now he suddenly learned that the Shuntian Prefecture Prime Minister Qiu Maohua was arrested by the people from the East Factory, which made Li Mingrui worry whether his third brother Li Mingyun would be involved.

But what he needs to be sure of is what Qiu Maohua did. However, it is not easy for him to directly ask the eunuch of the East Factory in front of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, the eunuch of the East Factory, because this will easily arouse the suspicion of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao.

Even, in order not to make His Majesty Zhu Youxiao a little suspicious, Li Mingrui immediately returned to normal after being stunned for a moment, pretending to be unwilling to care, and then honestly wrote a memorial as before.

Here, Wang Chengen didn't know that his godson, Zou Shaoquan, the young supervisor of the Imperial Pharmacy, was already involved, so he seemed calmer than Li Mingrui. What's more, in his opinion, he and Liu Ruoyu were both civil servants and both worked in the Sili Supervisor. Liu Ruoyu didn't have to be in trouble with him.

So, Wang Chengen didn't ask much.

Zhu Youxiao also glanced at the ministers present at this time, especially Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen. However, seeing the calm performance of the two, they were also a little surprised. They thought to themselves that the signs provided by the East Factory said that many illegal businessmen who had hoarded and committed crimes against the wind had visited the residences of Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen. But now it seems that these two people have little to do with the Shuntian Prefecture Order Qiu Maohua.

However, this also made Zhu Youxiao even more determined to break the question to the end, and said directly: "Very good. I will interrogate this Shuntian Prefecture Prefect Qiu Maohuayan, and make sure to tell him that the implementation of the cholera epidemic is ineffective, which has caused the efforts made by the court to almost fail. If this person does not honestly explain, I will never tolerate it!"

After Zhu Youxiao gave this order, Liu Ruoyu, the admiral of the East Factory, responded and retreated.

Although Li Mingrui deliberately did everything to care about Qiu Maohua, his ears were listening carefully to His Majesty Zhu Youxiao's answer.

Zhu Youxiao's answer did make him feel relieved. He thought that His Majesty asked the East Factory to arrest the Dongchang Prefecture Chief Qiu Maohua because of party struggles and hoarding the country's wealth. Unexpectedly, it was because the Shuntian Prefecture Chief Qiu Maohua was arrested because the control of the epidemic was not strict enough and the implementation was not in place.

In Li Mingrui's view, as long as the Shuntian Prefecture Prefecture is not due to party struggles and market manipulation, it will not involve his third brother and himself.

But at this time, news came from outside that the Minister of Health Wu Youke requested an audience. Zhu Youxiao also needed to learn about the situation on the front line of fighting cholera, so he ordered people to bring Wu Youke directly to the Western Warehouse Pavilion.

As soon as Wu Youke arrived at this Xihunting Pavilion, he directly told Zhu Youzhai that a batch of emergency medicines from the Imperial Pharmacy was missing after he arrived in Shuntian Prefecture.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao directly glared at Wang Chengen and shouted: "What's going on!"

Wang Chengen couldn't help but curse Wu Youke. Anyone who is a foreign minister knows that the internal minister cannot be impeached casually, because once you offend these emperors, it will be easy to lose money. As a doctor who only knows how to cure diseases and save lives, Wu Youke is obviously just a naughty man in the officialdom. He directly pulled the eunuch from the Imperial Pharmacy into the case.

So, Wang Chengen was so scared that he knelt down directly: "Your Majesty, I really don't know what's going on. The young prison in the Imperial Pharmacy is Zou Yingquan, and he is responsible for the procurement and hoarding of the palace medicinal materials. The old slave dared to advise Your Majesty to arrest this person immediately and interrogate it strictly. Be sure to find out the clues in it!"

At this time, Wang Chengen, the chief of the Sili Supervisor, did not know what his godson, Zou Yingquan, had done with the imperial pharmacy prefecture's young supervisor, and Qiu Maohua, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture. But now he had to separate his relationship, so he could only destroy his relatives for justice and proactively confessed Zou Yingquan to show that he had no relationship with Zou Yingquan, and even if he had any relationship, he was just a general friend.

Wu Youke's words not only made Wang Chengen depressed and had to throw away his godson, Baoshuai, and also made Li Mingrui, the first person in the cabinet, feel uneasy, because although he didn't know what shameful transactions were being made between his third brother and the prefectural prefect Qiu Maohua, he knew that his third brother had always been in the medicinal materials business. He couldn't help but think that if his third brother really set his mind on the medicinal materials business in this batch of imperial pharmacies to make a fortune, the consequences would be really unimaginable!

Of course, Li Mingrui still deliberately showed no joy, anger, sorrow, and anxiety. Instead, Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, slapped the table suddenly: "Investigate, I will investigate it to the end! Qiu Maohua wants to dig out more information from him, and the minor prison of the Imperial Pharmacy, directly arrest him, and be sure to torture him strictly. He is really bold and dares to make up for this batch of medicinal materials. Is it really a waste of life?"

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao turned around and said coldly to Wang Chengen: "From now on, you should stay in the prison, don't think you gave Zou Yingquan out. I don't know what your relationship is. Look at who your godsons are! If this happens, don't think of any good results to eat!"

"I understand!"

Wang Chengen was naturally very depressed, but he also knew that it would be better than to fight if he didn't fight now. Some things can only be blamed for being unlucky.

...

After one night, after Zhu Youxiao returned to the harem, Li Mingrui hurriedly left the palace and immediately returned to the mansion to find his third brother Li Mingyun, and asked him about the Shuntian Prefecture Prime Minister Qiu Maohua.

Li Mingyun also told his brother Li Mingrui the content of the conversation that Guo Yunhou, the Minister of Revenue, suddenly found him and the news that the Shuntian Prefecture Prime Minister had been replaced by the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, Cheng Jiming, and Li Mingrui seemed to realize it suddenly: "So that's it. I just told you why your Majesty suddenly wanted to arrest the Shuntian Prefecture Prime Minister Qiu Maohua, but it was not because of Qiu Maohua's collusion between officials and businessmen. It seems that the crux of this is that the conservative Cheng Jiming intends to mess with us! Cheng Jiming is a good hand in hand!"

Just when Li Mingrui began to think that the essence of this matter was the conservatives who were slandering his reformist faction, the Shuntian Prefecture Order Qiu Maohua was finally pried open by the people from the East Factory.

Qiu Maohua quickly confessed to the Minister of Revenue Guo Yunhou, the Imperial Pharmacy Scholar Zou Yingquan, and a medicinal material merchant named Lan Duo.

Zhu Youxiao was shocked when he found out. He did not expect that Guo Yunhou, the Minister of Revenue, was also involved. If Guo Yunhou was involved, it would mean that he could not be related to Li Mingrui in the cabinet, because everyone knew that Guo Yunhou and Li Mingrui were very close.

But now there is no doubt about Li Mingrui, and the businessman named Lan is also a person without a trace.

Because it involves the reformists who have already begun to gain an advantage, and they also need to seize typical cases to punish these people who make money in the national crisis and disrupt the market, and clarify the administration of the government, Zhu Youzhao directly issued a strict order to continue to question Zou Yingquan, the minor supervisor of the Imperial Pharmacy, to avoid missing the real big tiger.

However, what Zhu Youxiao did not expect was that Zou Yingquan, the young supervisor of the Imperial Pharmacy, only knew a businessman named Lan Duo and the Shuntian Prefecture Qiu Maohua, so he could not break any important news.

"It seems that the key point now is that the Minister of Revenue Guo Yunhou revealed by Qiu Maohua. What a Minister of Revenue Guo Yunhou, who dared to do such a thing behind my back, immediately pass on my orders and escort Guo Yunhou to me. I want to ask him who is his subject!"
Chapter completed!