After Cai Jing sold his Happy Forest, he kept half of the silver notes and gave the other half to Emperor Zhao Ji.
Zhao Ji did not stop purchasing Jiangnan's Flower Stone Gang even in such a chaotic situation in the imperial court. The national treasury was very short of money to spend, and when he saw the important officials competing to contribute silver, he was so happy that he could not close his mouth.
He used his world-famous thin golden calligraphy to write a voluminous imperial edict for Cai Jing. The Grand Preceptor was loyal to the monarch and loved the country, and he was experienced in planning for the country.
When Cai Jing called Ximen Qiao over, he praised him greatly. Little did he know that his Happy Forest was gone forever, and this was just a small warm-up.
When he found out that Ximen Qiao wanted to become an official in the capital, Cai Jing did not agree at first. The depths of the capital were unpredictable, and there was no place as peaceful as a small place.
However, seeing that Ximen Qiao indeed had some talent and might be useful in the future, he agreed. He used his personnel to recommend Ximen Qiao to become a guerrilla general, and the Qianhu of Qinghe County also stayed.
The Eighth Prince was not someone who would let things go. He slowly gained the trust of his brother and even got some of his belongings back. He swore that he would never be able to live with Cai Jing and even began to form an alliance with Gao Qiu. All of this could not escape Ximen Qiao's eyes.
After the intensive training of the intelligence team, coupled with the use of money, the people of the intelligence team had already infiltrated the families of the major dignitaries and became servants. Some even became second butlers.
Information kept coming in, and Ximen Qiao spent four hours analyzing the information every day.
The reward for all this was that in the capital, other than the Imperial Palace, he had spies in all the residences of important officials.
In this series of acquisition of brothels, Ximen Qiao had taken control of half of the brothel industry in the capital.
He had made a profit of one million taels of silver in the first month, but this did not meet his expectations.
He decided to introduce talents on a large scale and completely change the way he operated. He thought of Su Dongpo and Ouyang Xiu.
These two scholars were invited from Qinghe County to Tokyo. They were so happy that they didn't prepare for the imperial examinations. They hugged the girls and enjoyed themselves first.
Ouyang Xiu then recommended many other scholars from the capital. All of a sudden, the scholars under Ximen Qiao gathered together and chanted poems all day long.
After being trained by the scholars, the overall temperament of the girls was different. Slowly, the Happy Forest and Heavenly Destiny Garden became famous, and they had the momentum to suppress the Immortal Seeking Tower and the Spring Garden.
The money spent was like a snowball rolling into Ximen Qiao's wallet. In less than two months of business, the profit of ten million taels of silver had already entered Ximen Qiao's treasury.
With too much money, Ximen Qiao decided to open a bank, a pawn shop, a medicinal herb shop, and a silk shop.
Cai Jing's TongLiao case started to ferment in Zhao Ji's hands. The censors that Zhao Ning had secretly made friends with suddenly started to work hard. Within a day, 20 censors had written secret memorials to impeach Cai Jing.
Ximen Qiao had been urgently called to the Grand Preceptor's residence. Cai Jing had led his entire family to prepare to escape. He had called Ximen Qiao over to ask him to escape with him. After all, he was his closest godson.
Cai Jing's tears flowed down his face. With his forty years of experience as an official, he felt that this time, he would not be able to escape.
Ximen Qiao thought to himself, I haven't even carried out the next step of my attack plan, and Cai Jing has collapsed just like that? It was really effortless.
"Godfather, you guys go first. Leave immediately. I'll clean up the mess.”Ximen Qiao said.
"Qing 'er, I didn't dote on you for nothing. This time, you can't avoid it. The storm is coming soon. If you don't leave now, you might not be able to leave.”
"Godfather, why is it so out of control? Doesn't the emperor trust you?"
"It's all Zhao Ning's fault for colluding with Gao Qiu and Tong Guan. Forget it, let's not talk about it. Father has already bribed the Guard General of the West City Gate. Qing 'er, leave everything behind and come with us.”
"Godfather, where are we going?”
"To the Liao Dynasty."
"What? Godfather really has an affair with Empress Dowager Xiao?"
"No, but now I do. This time, I've brought the city defense maps of 36 cities to present to Empress Dowager Xiao. Our family will definitely be protected.”Cai Jing took out the scroll from his sleeve and said to Ximen Qiao,
City defense map? This old thief really wanted to betray his country.
It's fine if you're a little greedy. In the Song Dynasty, there's no official who isn't greedy. However, if you treat the country's public funds as corruption, then don't blame me for being rude.
Looking at Cai Jing's family who had fled from the back door in a sorry state, Ximen Qiao took out his golden folding fan and waved it.
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。