His Majesty the Emperor arrived, and the ministers knelt down to greet him. The eunuchs in the palace shouted loudly as they stood in front of the high throne.

Under the leadership of Meng Tian, all the ministers here knelt on the ground, and then shouted in unison: "Ministers meet His Majesty the Emperor, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live!"

His Majesty the First Emperor walked up to the throne wearing a crown and a black silk embroidered royal robe, sat down on the throne where gold was smelted supremely, looked at the courtiers below and said, "All the ministers are flat. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Everyone stood up and walked to their places.

Ying Zheng sat on the throne and saw Meng Tian standing in front of the generals, and said with a smile: "Meng Qing, you just returned to Xianyang yesterday, and the widow thought that you would not come to the court today." What's the matter, don't you rest at home for a few more days?"

Meng Tian turned to face Yingzheng, bent down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is the courtier of Daqin, for me Daqin, it is a matter of course to share worries for your majesty, how can the minister enjoy happiness at home because of the work of the carriage and horse." ”

Ying Zheng clapped his hands and said: "Okay, Meng Tian is worthy of being my right-hand man, I have Meng Qing, and Daqin has Meng Qing, which is a great luck." Meng Qing, you come forward to listen to the seal. ”

Meng Tian walked to the empty passage in the center of the hall and knelt down to Ying Zheng.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: I have a great Qin, the rivers and mountains are boundless, there are northern Xiongnu barbarians in front of me, and I am in the northern border of Great Qin, fortunately the general Meng Tian, led the elite soldiers under his command, and went north to resist the enemy, so that my country and mountains are worry-free, and the people of me are safe and healthy. The merit is also great, and now I give Meng Tian a thousand taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver, 500 horses of Shu brocade, and also serves as an internal history to help me take care of the country. In addition, the soldiers of the Mengjia army who went out this time were all rewarded, and they admired this. ”

It was Zhao Gao who read the decree, he finished reading the contents of the decree, walked down on the side of the throne, walked to Meng Tian and handed it to Meng Tian, who was still kneeling, and then returned to Ying Zheng according to the same way.

Meng Tian raised the holy decree with both hands and said loudly: "Chen Meng Tian thanked His Majesty for the reward on behalf of the soldiers. ”

"Okay, Meng Qing, you stand up and speak. Today, I have a few important things that need to be discussed with many ministers, and you have not been in the court for the past two years, so you can stand aside and listen to them first. ”

"Obey. Meng Tian stood up, took the holy decree and returned to his place and stood up.

Ying Zheng looked at Li Si and said, "Prime Minister, yesterday you said that the treasury was short of money and food, and the construction period of the Lishan Palace was slow, what is going on? How can the treasury be empty?"

Li Si heard His Majesty the Emperor ask himself, and came out and said: "Your Majesty, the slow progress of the construction of Lishan Afang Palace is not only the reason for the emptiness of the treasury, but also the continuous rain in Xianyang City last month, and the muddy roads on Lishan Mountain are difficult to walk, so the people can't start construction at all, so the progress of the project will be slow." ”

"So, is it true that my treasury is empty?" asked Yingzheng.

Li Si nodded, did not speak, just stood there with his head down.

Ying Zheng took his eyes off Li Si, and then looked for the minister in charge of managing the treasury above the court. "Zhao Yu Zhao Aiqing, you are the one who manages the treasury for me, you come to tell me, why is my treasury empty?"

Named by His Majesty the Emperor, Zhao Yu walked out of the civil official queue and knelt behind Li Si with a trembling body. "The minister is guilty. Zhao Yu fell to his knees and confessed his guilt as soon as he opened his mouth, causing many ministers in the court to start whispering.

Ying Zheng frowned, and he asked without a trace of emotion in his tone: "I just asked you again why the treasury is empty, and as soon as you came out, you said that you were guilty, where did this start? Could it be that you have the money and things in the treasury for yourself?"

After listening to Ying Zheng's words, Zhao Yu was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, and kept knocking on the ground with his head, and said in his mouth: "Minister...... The minister did not dare, even if the minister had ten guts, the minister would not dare to embezzle the money of the treasury without permission. ”

"Well, I don't think you have that much courage, you should get up first, explain this matter to me well, and I can treat you lightly. If you can't tell, I think you know more about Great Qin's laws than I do. ”

Zhao Yu stood up from the ground, and there was a red blood stain in front of his toes, which he had just knocked when he kowtowed. Zhao Yu raised his head and glanced at Ying Zheng, then Yu Guang glanced at Zhao Gao, who was standing beside Ying Zheng, and then quickly lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, since Your Majesty pacified the Six Kingdoms, the world has belonged to my Great Qin, and the original treasury is surplus." It's just that after Your Majesty ascended the throne and became emperor, he rewarded my Great Qin princes and ministers and my Great Qin soldiers more, and most of the treasury was already consumed. Later, the Xiongnu army invaded our border, General Meng led his troops to the north, and the treasury was a large expense, and then His Majesty built the imperial mausoleum and Afang Palace, and the treasury, which was already a little tight, was completely empty, not to mention that the remnants of the six countries later committed rebellion, and they had to send troops to quell the rebellion, and now the treasury is indeed very little. The minister is loyal to His Majesty, and he will never dare to deceive, hoping that His Majesty will learn from it. ”

Ying Zheng didn't think to talk about himself in the end, he knew that Zhao Yu said that these big things, which one of them needed a lot of money and food as support, but despite this, Ying Zheng still didn't believe that the treasury was empty.

"So, it's all mine, isn't it?" asked Yingzheng.

"Minister, minister don't dare. Zhao Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng looked at Meng Tian, and then asked Zhao Yu: "I ask you, what can I take out of the treasury for my reward to Meng Aiqing this time?"

Zhao Yu also looked at Meng Tian, but Meng Tian didn't look at him. "Back to Your Majesty, gold may be enough, but silver is not enough, and Shu brocade is not much, originally the minister was thinking about leaving it for the palace, and the taxes of Shu County will arrive in Xianyang in a few days, and then Your Majesty's reward for the general will be enough. "Little bookstore

Ying Zheng asked Meng Tian: "Meng Qing, ...... you see?"

Meng Tian saluted Yingzheng and said: "Your Majesty, over the years, Your Majesty has rewarded the ministers, the Meng family, and the Meng family army enough, and the ministers dare not ask Your Majesty for more rewards. But the minister has a proposal, and I beg your majesty to grant it. ”

"Okay, as long as Meng Qing speaks, it's not too difficult, I'm all right. ”

Meng Tian opened his mouth and said, "The minister doesn't dare. Meng Tian only hopes that His Majesty can transfer all the rewards to the families of these soldiers who died in battle, so that it can also show that His Majesty attaches great importance to my Great Qin soldiers and make my people live a better life. ”

Ying Zheng nodded, and he said to Zhao Gao beside him: "What Meng Qing said is good, good, Zhao Gao." ”

"The minister is here. Zhao Gao turned around and bent down and said.

Ying Zheng said to Zhao Gao: "You are my CRRC government order, I will hand over this matter to you today, you must handle it, do you understand?"

Zhao Gao said: "The minister obeys the order, and the minister will not live up to His Majesty's trust, please rest assured that Your Majesty and General Meng." ”

Ying Zheng stood up from the throne and just wanted to say that he would retire from the dynasty, but he seemed to remember something again. He stood up and said, "Well, I'll get here this morning." By the way, Meng Qing, you are my newly appointed internal history, in charge of my Great Qin laws and regulations, and the affairs of the treasury, from today you and Zhao Aiqing will be in charge of my treasury, and you must make sure that there is more money and food in the treasury. ”

Meng Tian said: "Your Majesty rest assured, Minister Meng Tian will definitely remember Your Majesty's words and take care of the treasury for Your Majesty." ”

"Well, that's good, let's retreat. ”

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, long live long live long live. ”

After the dispersal of the dynasty, all the ministers walked out of the palace, and many generals gathered around Meng Tian to congratulate him.

After Meng Tian had sent all the generals around him away, he saw Li Si watching him from the carriage he was sitting in.

Meng Tian walked over and said to Li Si: "Prime Minister, why haven't you left yet, are you waiting for me?"

Li Si smiled at Meng Tian and said, "Yes, I was just waiting for you, originally I wanted to visit you yesterday, but I heard that you refused all the people who came to visit, so the old man didn't bother you to rest." Since you are in the court today, it is also saved to wait for me to run a trip, I don't know if General Meng has something to do, if it is okay, can you go to the old man's mansion for a few drinks?"

Meng Tian clasped his fists at Li Si and saluted, and said with a smile: "I should have gone to the Prime Minister's Mansion to meet the Prime Minister, how dare I bother the Lord to open his mouth and invite it, or I'll accompany the Lord to the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”

At this time, Meng Yi walked out and saw the eldest brother and Li Si together, so he walked over.

Meng Yi clasped his fists and saluted Li Si, and before he could speak, Li Si said: "Meng Yi, you came just in time, the old man invited your eldest brother to the Prime Minister's Mansion for dinner, do you want to go with you?"

Meng Yi smiled and said to Li Si and his eldest brother: "Prime Minister, there are other official duties that have not been dealt with today, so I can't accompany them." ”

Meng Yi is now a doctor of imperial history, and his daily official duties are very numerous, and it is precisely because of this that he got married so late.

"Okay, you go get busy first, by the way, tell your sister-in-law, just say that I will have dinner at the Prime Minister's house at noon, please don't wait for me. ”

"Yes, big brother, then I'll take my leave first. Meng Yi bowed his hand to Li Si and Meng Tian, and then got into the car that had already walked over and was waiting on the side.

Meng Tian beckoned his family general to lead the horses over, and then rode to the Prime Minister's Mansion with Li Si's chariot.

Li Si's Prime Minister's Mansion was rebuilt from Lü Buwei's Xiangguo Mansion before, and the scale and size of Xiangguo's Mansion have not changed much. It's just that after the owner here was replaced by Li Si, the words on the big plaque at the door were changed from "Xiangguo Mansion" to "Prime Minister's Mansion", and the layout inside was almost the same as before.

Standing in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Meng Tian sighed: "It's been a long time since I've been here, and I've forgotten what I was like when I first came here." "He was not yet twenty years old when he was invited here by Lü Buwei for the first time, and this time he stood here again, he was already nearly forty years old, and more than twenty years passed in a blink of an eye.

"Haha, the old man was also quite emotional when he became the owner of this place for the first time. Okay, let's stop standing at the door, General Meng, please. Li Si said beside Meng Tian.

"Prime Minister, please. Meng Tian and Li Si walked into the Prime Minister's Mansion side by side.