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Southern Xinjiang needs grain and grass support, and 200,000 troops need to allocate money to return to their hometowns, but because of the continuous war, the treasury is very empty. He said that after estimating, the cost of pacifying the soldiers was about 30 million taels of silver, but now that the treasury was empty, he could only take out 20 million taels, and that he had to find another way to obtain the rest.

At this time, an official proposed that the spring tax could be increased, but Zhao Yuan did not agree.

Another official suggested that the harem expenses could be reduced, and Zhao Yuan shook his head after hearing this: "There are not many harem concubines in this dynasty, and they are not extravagant and wasteful people, so there is no need to reduce them." ”

Seeing that the officials had no effective method, Zhao Yuan called Cheng Xin to him and asked: "When the first emperor was in power, he built a summer palace in a hundred hectares of Lin'an enclosure, how is it being built now?" ”

Cheng Xincheng said: "The foundation has been laid and the deep pool has been dug. ”

Zhao Yuan said categorically: "The summer palace stopped first, and the silver required was handed over to the treasury. Also, the construction of my underground palace has stopped. The suspension of these two major projects will certainly save a lot of money. ”

Cheng Xin asked his nephew to supervise the construction of the summer palace and let his protégé manage the affairs of the underground palace, he was naturally unwilling to stop the construction, but the emperor spoke and had to do so.

After dispersing, Zhao Yuan remembered that he hadn't seen Yunyang for several days, so he broke away from the guards and walked to Qiao Palace by himself.

By this time, it was late at night. After dinner, Yunyang changed into a dark satin jacket with a tooth-yellow folded branch flower and bird pattern, the collar and cuffs were embroidered with a roller thread with a lake blue water pattern, the beads on the head had all been removed, and only a green jade wisp of hollow comb was obliquely inserted in the hairline.

She was leaning against the beauty and was reading. I didn't expect Zhao Yuan to appear in front of me at this time, and I felt surprised and happy for a while.

Naturally, this night, Zhao Yuan still stayed in Qiao Palace.

In the middle of the night, Zhao Yuan lay on top of the collapse without sleep. Yoonyang woke up in his arms and saw him with his eyes open, thinking hard.

Yunyang reached out and gently stroked his long sideburns, seeing that he seemed to be worried all night, but his heart was also very distressed. Then he said: "Your Majesty, it's good for the concubine to tell you a story." ”

Zhao Yuan glanced at her and gently pinched her shoulder, but he didn't speak.

Yunyang glanced at him with a grin and began to tell the story.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a famous man named Xiao Yingshi. Once he went to Lingchang to play and came to a place twenty miles south of Yuxian County. It was getting late, and Xiao Yingshi met a young woman of twenty-four or five years old, wearing a red shirt and green skirt, riding a donkey.

The young woman said to Xiao Yingshi, "My family lives twenty miles south of the road. It's getting late now, I'm scared to walk alone, would you like to walk with you and take a companion? ”

Xiao Yingshi looked at the woman and asked, "What's your surname?" ”

The woman replied, "My surname is Hu." ”

Xiao Yingshi heard that there are often wild foxes here, which turn into beautiful women, and confuse people when it is dark. Xiao Yingshi suspected that the young woman in front of him was a wild fox spirit, so he scolded: "Damn wild fox spirit, you dare to charm me Xiao Yingshi? After saying that, he spat three mouthfuls of saliva at the woman, and galloped south without looking back.

Xiao Yingshi rode to an inn, and when he was about to take off his clothes and rest after staying at the hotel, he saw through the window that the young woman he met on the road leading a donkey into the courtyard through the gate.

The old owner of the shop came out of the house and asked, "Why is it forbidden to walk at night?" The young woman replied, "It is enough to break the ban." Just now on the road, I met a man who was bitten by a mad dog, called my daughter a fox, and spat on my whole body. ”

After listening to this story, Zhao Yuan smiled faintly at the corner of his mouth.

Yunyang didn't feel that the joke he told was very cold, but he saw that Zhao Yuan already had a smile on his face, and said with great interest: "The concubine will tell you another one." ”

Xiao Yingshi is the seventh grandson of Xiao Hui, the king of Poyang in the Southern Dynasty. Once he went out to stay at Chenliu's inn. He was in the middle of eating, and suddenly saw an old man with snow-white sideburns, came closer, looked at Xiao Yingshi for a long time, and let out a slight sigh, as if he knew Xiao Yingshi. Xiao Yingshi didn't know what he meant, so he got up and asked. The old man said, "I look at the son's body and appearance, a little like a person, I don't feel sad." Xiao Yingshi asked him who he looked like. The old man said, "The prince is like the king of Poyang." Xiao Yingshi asked the old man in surprise: "King Poyang is my eighth generation ancestor, why do you know him?" ”

The old man cried and said, "My surname is Zuo, and I used to be the king of Poyang, and I was favored and trusted, and I was courteous in all aspects. When Li Ming was killed, I fled. After stealing his life and avoiding the calamity, he entered the deep mountains to practice Taoism. Finally born. Fang Cai was surprised to see Gongzi, but he didn't know that he was the descendant of King Poyang. ”

So they wept at each other. Xiao Yingshi was very respectful to him, but he was also surprised. He was three hundred and twenty-seven years old.

Speaking of this, Yunyang said: "What happened to the emperor when he knew about it? ”

Zhao Yuan said lightly: "Is there a future for gods and ghosts? ”

Yun Yang blinked vaguely and said, "Definitely." A year later, Xiao Yingshi came to Xuyi County in Jiangbei, and the county magistrate of Xuyi County invited him to the county government for a while. ”

The two men were sitting there talking, when an official came to report that he had caught a few tomb robbers, and the county order ordered the thieves to be brought along. Several suspects were escorted in, and Xiao Yingshi saw that one of them had a familiar face, it was the white-haired old man he saw last year.

How did the person who was identified as either a god or an immortal by Xiao Yingshi become a tomb robber? So he told the county magistrate about the adventure that happened at the inn last year.

The county magistrate of Xuyi County said that the problem was easy to solve, and pulled this person down to serve with sticks. It didn't take long for the interrogator to report that the thief had been recruited.

It turned out that this old man was a veteran tomb robber, more than a year ago he led people to steal the tomb of the king of Poyang, and after entering the tomb and opening the sarcophagus, he saw that the body of the deceased was lifelike, and left a deep impression. When I saw Xiao Yingshi in the inn, I felt very much like the person in the tomb, and when I learned that he was also surnamed Xiao, I concluded that the other party was Xiao Hui's descendant, so I made up a call to tease him.

Zhao Yuan stroked her shoulder and said, "So you're the white-bearded old man who made up words to tease Zhenluo?" ”

Yunyang leaned into his arms: "The concubine doesn't dare, the concubine just sees that the emperor is worried about the country, and she can't bear it, so she tries to make you happy!" ”

Zhao Yuan had a thought in his heart: "Does this story use the method of stealing beams and changing pillars?" When he thought of what he was worried about, he suddenly opened his mouth.