Chapter 64 Entering the Palace

Lu Yi was depressed. For the next two days, he hid in the base and did not step out.

The one thousand underground ghosts summoned by Ah Hu have gathered.

The intelligence network that Lu Yi had set up through small vendors was officially and fully activated, and a large amount of intelligence was continuously delivered to Lu Yi every day.

Lu Yi's intelligence network is not just hanging around in the streets.

Those inconspicuous small vendors, within a few years, got married, started businesses, and had children. Some of their relatives went into other industries to make a living, while some joined larger families to work as servants, grooms, craftsmen, doormen, etc.

When relatives visit each other in a roundabout way and drink and chat occasionally, a lot of information will be leaked out intentionally or unintentionally.

Therefore, after Lu Yi officially launched this big network, the information he received was unusually rich and diverse.

However, these past two days, the news that annoyed Lu Yi the most was about the 'new traitor of the dynasty' - 'Lu Yi' himself.

Maybe it was Bai Changkong's instruction.

Or maybe he is directly controlling it behind the scenes.

Scholars all over Gaojing, and even those in the countryside and towns of the seventh and eighth ranks, were all shaking their heads and spreading the word about the notoriety of "the traitor Lu Yi".

Before, Bai Changkong and the cultural and educational disciples had praised Lu Yi for how powerful he was. Now, they put a hundred times more energy into slandering Lu Yi, regardless of the cost.

Dayin was established for more than 1,800 years, and Lu Yi was probably the bastard who became "notorious" and then "infamous" at the fastest speed in history.

The only thing that could interest Lu Yi was the official information conveyed in the official documents of the Guard Palace Supervisor.

Because the Yushunfang Investigation Office's headquarters was attacked the day before yesterday, Supervisor Yu Changle accepted Lu Yi's suggestion and personally took charge of the matter. He even mobilized the eunuchs from the inner court of the Shougong Supervisor headquarters and the imperial guards from Jiuquyuan to conduct a comprehensive and thorough inspection of all coffin shops in all the sixth-rank and above markets in Haojing.

Yu Changle issued a strict order, and the Palace Guards' thorough investigation became a bit bloody, even triggering impeachment from the Censorate.

However, the impeachment of the Censorate soon became so pale and powerless in the face of the evidence they found.

In two days, the Guard Palace Supervisor raided and thoroughly checked thousands of coffin shops. As a result, the people in the court of Dayin were horrified to find that among these thousands of coffin shops of all sizes, about 60% of them, from top to bottom, including the managers, waiters, craftsmen, servants, etc., were all followers of the Nine Yin Sect!

A coffin shop requires a lot of manpower. A small coffin shop may have more than a dozen waiters, workers and handymen, while those high-end and large-scale coffin shops may employ hundreds of people.

There are thousands of coffin shops controlled by the Nine Yin Sect, with hundreds of thousands of people working there!

These followers of the Nine Yin Sect were like people with rabies. When the palace guards came to their door, some of them launched a crazy, desperate, and suicidal counterattack.

There were also some followers of the Nine Yin Sect who were extremely proactive. Before the Palace Guards came to investigate, they gathered people and launched attacks on the Fangling Yamen, military camps, and residences of high-ranking officials in the market, just like they had taken the initiative to attack Lu Yi's base.

The palace guard let loose and killed.

There are not many masters in the Nine Yin Sect.

So, in a little over two days, the guards killed everyone so hard that the blood flowed like a river, and the whole city of Gaojing was in turmoil.

The two slogans, "The Ghost Mother Descends to the World" and "Save My Remaining Soul", resounded throughout Gaojing in the past two days. Countless officials and civilians had a deep understanding of these two slogans.

These two days, Lu Yi's Survey Department has been quiet.

The two coffin shops in his jurisdiction had actively attacked him the day before yesterday. As a result, some were killed and some were captured. His jurisdiction was very quiet.

However, through the information sent back by the Palace Guard, Lu Yi could imagine the bloody storm in the city of Haojing in the past two days!

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Even if spread out among hundreds of sixth-grade and above markets, there were thousands of Nine Yin Sect followers killed on the spot in each market. The tragedy of this scene can be imagined.

"Really... they worship the ghost mother, so they ask for death."

Lu Yi threw a piece of information into the brazier and watched the thin, flexible piece of paper being burned cleanly.

He whispered, "Hey, do they really regard those red-clothed female ghosts as their ghost mothers? Are they so willing to sacrifice themselves for their ghost mothers?"

Looking at the young eunuch standing in the study with his hands hanging down waiting for orders, Lu Yi waved at him and said, "Apply to this department and see if you can give me a detailed case file of the Nine Yin Sect, also known as the Ghost Worship Sect?"

"This sect is interesting. Haha, there are so many coffin shops in Haojing City. Is it true that selling coffins is profitable?"

The young eunuch respectfully left the study and closed the door behind him.

Lu Yi shook his head, looked at the pile of scattered account books in front of him, sighed, rubbed his fingers on the abacus, and continued to clatter.

Ah Hu is enough to maintain the stability of Lu Yi's network of small vendors. His size, force, and the small gang that has grown stronger over the years, which Lu Yi calls the "Hundred Tigers Hall", are all enough to maintain the fundamental interests of these small vendors.

However, after all, it is a network developed from the bottom of Dayin city, and Lu Yi lacks talent, extremely lacks talent.

Knowledge, especially professional knowledge such as arithmetic, is in the hands of the cultural and educational disciples. Do you expect those high-minded, arrogant and presumptuous cultural and educational disciples to help Lu Yi manage this street snack network?
Therefore, there are some things that Lu Yi can only do himself.

If Ah Hu were to do it, he would only make a mess of everything.

Stinky tofu stalls have been distributed in nearly seven hundred markets, and each market has at least one hundred stalls.

According to the rules set by Lu Yi, these stalls had to hand over half of their profits every day. On average, each stall could hand over 100 coins to Lu Yi every day.

One stall costs one hundred coins, not much.

These one hundred coins are the net profit after deducting all costs, all taxes, and various fees paid to all gray forces.

There are seven hundred market towns, with an average of at least one hundred stalls in each market town, totaling nearly seventy thousand stalls. If each stall hands over one hundred coins every day, that would be seven million coins. Even if it is the worst quality copper coins, at one string worth fifteen hundred coins, that would be a huge sum of nearly five thousand strings.

Five thousand strings of cash a day, that’s nearly two million strings of cash a year.

This is just a stinky tofu stall.

There are also soy milk stalls, soy juice stalls, dandan noodles, small wontons, large dumplings, roujiamo, baked buns, mutton skewers, fish ball stalls, etc., a total of more than twenty kinds.

Among these types of stalls, some of them are more in line with the daily appetite of the people of Dayin, and their revenue is several times higher than that of stinky tofu stalls. For example, wonton stalls and dumpling stalls, many people may not like the smell of stinky tofu, but who would refuse wontons and dumplings?

Every year, during the first few days of each quarter, when Lu Yi calculated the total revenue of the previous quarter, he had a terrible headache!

Therefore, the accounts of Lu Yi's huge network of small vendors are, after all, a mess, and there is generally no problem with them.

What made Lu Yi even more worried was that he had hoarded too many copper coins over the years. It was very difficult and careful to exchange them for a small portion of gold and silver, and a small portion of other high-value hedging items and stored them.

Even so, the number of copper coins piled up in the secret vaults of Baihutang was already too large.

The full treasuries were like huge bombs. Whenever Lu Yi thought of those treasuries, his scalp started tingling and he couldn't sleep well.

"We have to find a way to gradually clean up this money, so that we can at least spend it openly..." Lu Yu muttered to himself, "But it's really difficult. My position is still too low... Damn, I should have given up on this deal a long time ago. The snowball has rolled too big."

"But, with so many employees relying on me for food and so much money in profit every year... I can't bear to give it up!"

"I, Lu Yu, am still a layman after all!"

After working hard for more than two hours with an abacus, he barely managed to come up with a rough approximation of the general ledgers of dozens of halls. Lu Yi wrote down a long string of numbers in the general ledger using characters that the people of Dayin would definitely not recognize, and threw the separate ledgers handed in by the halls into the brazier and burned them clean.

"About the same."

Lu Yi sighed: "If the Bai family knew that I was actually a hidden tycoon... No, no, no, I would probably die even faster if that happened."

There were feminine footsteps outside.

From the strength and speed of the footsteps, you can tell that the person coming must be a eunuch.

The sound of those footsteps was unfamiliar. It was not from one of the twenty young eunuchs surrounding Lu Yi.

Lu Yi put away the account book, stood up, opened the door and walked out.

Several eunuchs around Lu Yi were escorting a young eunuch in a purple robe. When they saw Lu Yi, the young eunuch in the purple robe hurriedly bowed to him and said, "Oh, Master Lu, congratulations, congratulations. The eunuch has been praising you highly these past two days, praising you eight or ten times a day."

"But thanks to your suggestion, we have thoroughly investigated the coffin shops in Gaojing City these past two days, captured and killed countless monsters, and seized a lot of spoils. Hehe, the spoils are very rich."

"Just wait for good news. In the next few days, the emperor will surely show mercy. You have done a great deed this time."

"But, I didn't come to see you today for this."

The young eunuch looked up at the sky and said hurriedly, "Come on, it's almost time. Hurry up and follow me into the palace. Alas, we still have a long way to go."

"Enter the palace?" Lu Yi looked at the sky. It was already evening and it would soon be completely dark.

"Come here, prepare the horses, I and ..."

Lu Yi gave the order immediately.

The young eunuch in purple robes said hurriedly, "Don't worry, we can't catch up on horseback. We can just fly over there."

The young eunuch's eyes quickly circled around Lu Yi, and he exclaimed sincerely: "Hey, Lord Lu is so mighty and powerful, that guy is going to suffer today!"

As the young eunuch exclaimed in admiration, the sound of flapping wings was heard from high in the sky, and a huge white crane, together with a vulture that was three or four times larger than the white crane, fell straight down, stirring up a gust of wind.

Lu Yi's face turned black as he looked at the vulture, which was extremely ugly, with a bald neck that was more than four feet long and a red tumor on its bald head.

He's going to fly on this thing?