The next day, the envoy from Jiangnan told the meaning of the southern minister to the court, causing an uproar.

Just as Qi Shao and Li Mao thought, the Manchu Dynasty was almost one-sided and did not want the young emperor to leave Beijing.

A turmoil, so far it is said that the crown prince killed the first emperor, that the second prince killed the first emperor, and that the king of Xiangcheng killed the first emperor.

The Xungui faction was just happy that the Shizu faction had gone to Jiangnan, and now these people said that they had become meritorious heroes of "protecting the Queen Mother", and they did not send the Queen Mother to Beijing, but they wanted the emperor to welcome them in person.

Is the emperor going to welcome the queen mother, or to welcome them?

Will you invite these people with eyes on the top of their heads to Chang'an to sing against each other?

Qi Shao and Li Mao had already thought of these problems, and they also had countermeasures against the opposing ministers.

They summoned Li Zhao, who should be buried in the household department, to go to the court.

Most of the officials in the household department are from the Jiangnan family, and they returned to Jiangnan with the queen mother, and now the household department is supported by many other officials who are also good at local finance, including the Chen family, who is in charge of the emperor's private treasury, and Li Zhao, who has gradually emerged in the household department.

Li Zhao is an official in the shadow, and his ancestor is the logistics officer next to the old prince Li Shuo. But he was overshadowed by the recommendation of the old man Chen Siqing, and the Shengshang personally entered the household department with "good calculation", and let the degree of the six products. The director of the degree branch went to Jiangnan, and he is now acting as the director of the degree branch.

The household department is originally complicated, and as a department like a "cashier", the household department has a variety of tasks such as statistics, accounting, and expenditure.

Li Zhao's genius calculation ability and co-ordination ability quickly overwhelmed everyone and became a newcomer appreciated by several other films.

"Li Duzhi, you and all the adults calculate the money and food now."

"Yes, Lord Qi. At present, the household department still has 87,420,000 yuan in taxes and 32,000 stone of grain in the grain warehouse. Now the price of grain is high, and each stone has reached 700 wen. And just three years ago, each stone only cost about two and three hundred wen. The reason for this is mainly because of the grain merchants in Jiangnan ......"

Li Zhao began to talk about all kinds of "business scriptures" in the court, what price fluctuations, what hoarding, what folk grain is difficult to store, and so on.

Many ministers of the Xungui faction are not good at calculation, let alone finance, which is why Li Zhao came to the fore so quickly. Many ministers yawned when they heard this, but they didn't dare to lose their manners, so they had to endure a small bite and hold back tears in their eyes.

Li Zhao said that the situation was very serious with a solemn expression, and finally came to a conclusion:

"If we continue to support the 100,000 Chinese army in the battle, and feed the western army, the southern naval army, and the northern army that is still recovering lost territory in Youzhou, together with the consumption on the supply road, our food can only last for about 16 months. This does not include relief for victims of war. And things are only going to get harder in the future. Because the war is going on in Guanbei, the spring plowing and autumn harvest are all delayed, and the war-torn areas have to reduce or exempt taxes, and it is a habit in various places to hoard grain during the war, not only the big clans, but also the common people are hoarding, and the grain on the market is getting less and less, and the silver money is getting cheaper and cheaper, and the price is higher than that of the city, and the official money is ......."

"Ladies and gentlemen, the petty officials are calculating the minimum food consumption, and this does not include your income." Li Zhao lowered his head and smiled, a little gloating.

The salary paid by Da Chu to officials is Lu Mi plus Lu Yin, and Lu rice is the largest component, and what officials can't eat is taken out and exchanged for silver. But most of the people left the rice, and they couldn't eat it themselves, and there were still people.

If the officials can't send the rice, they have to spend silver to buy it, but now the silver is cheap and expensive, which is virtually equivalent to a drop in wages.

Of course, the dignitaries don't care about that bit of money, but most middle-level officials still count on it to live. If they can't even support their families, who will stand behind them?

As soon as Li Zhao's words came out, there was silence in the court.

Gu Qing stood beside Chu Chengping and sighed that Li Zhao had grown to this point.

Thinking that when he was settling accounts for herself, she also thought that if he could find an official in the court with his arithmetic, even if it was just a small official, with Li Mao's status and influence, he could also make him a petty official, and finally live up to his family's high hopes that he would "become an official".

Unexpectedly, after following a famous teacher, this child even learned inflation and market laws, and even had some shadows of actuaries in later generations.

These ancients did not attach importance to business, and they also thought that these things were "insulting", so they could not see Li Zhao's ability. Li Zhao's skills will only be more and more needed in troubled times and turbulent times, Chen Siqing is indeed a good teacher, teaching this child enough to live in peace.

No wonder Li Rui is relieved to hand over all the shops outside to Li Zhao to "practice". It's just a pity that the two cities in Luoyang were destroyed by fire, and the Li family's property has shrunk a lot, after all, Li Meng originally bought all the shops in the capital.

Aha, when I think about it, I'm such a witty old grandmother!

The gold, silver, and jewelry that their family put in Qiyun Mountain can come in handy! There is also the book of the Frost Hall that was asked to be copied at the beginning!

I don't know if Zhang Suyi married those who copied it!

Li Mao saw that everyone had already sensed the serious side of the confrontation between the north and the south, and immediately took the opportunity to put forward the plan with Qi Shao yesterday.

Qi Shao analyzed that Jiangnan would not threaten the emperor's safety, but would desperately protect the emperor's 12345, while Li Mao proposed how many soldiers and horses could accompany him along the road, and the 30,000 cavalry of the Qianren could also be temporarily used as a forbidden army escort, etc.

Of course, the young emperor and Li Mei will naturally not resort to such a matter in the public court, but they also have to guarantee the emperor's safety, and try to persuade those opponents to relax.

This is a protracted discussion, whether it is the clan in Jiangnan or the courtiers in Chang'an, they know that it will not be decided so quickly. The ministers in the court talked a lot, and the officials in the Daxing Palace came and went endlessly, and even the people were arguing violently about whether the emperor should personally pick up the queen mother or not.

But none of this has anything to do with the household.

Because Li Zhao was so busy that he was going crazy.

Nineteen-year-old Li Zhao is not outstanding. Like his cousin, Li Zhao has a square face, and his skin is not white, because he often runs around, and his face is black and his body is yellow all year round. But he, like most of the men of the Li family, inherited a face that was harmless to humans and animals, and was loyal at first glance.

In the household department, it is really advantageous to be in charge of money and food, and to have such a face.

It's just that when you reject others with such a face, no matter how advantageous you are, you are limited.

Especially when tossing with the "wood heads" of the Ministry of Industry.

"Nope." Li Zhao shook his head and pointed to the album of the green-clothed officials of the Ministry of Works. "Now that the inner treasury is empty, isn't it good for the ministers to live in Daxing Palace? Now is not the time to build an inner city mansion district. ”

"Don't be extravagant, just be able to live on your own. Chang'an poured in so many people at once, and there are not too many houses in the inner city to use, and now the monthly money for renting a house in Chang'an is almost more than that of an official. ”

Those who can live in the palace are all high-ranking ministers, and officials below the fifth rank still have to live outside.

A fire in Luoyang burned many officials into extreme poverty, and the prices of goods in Chang'an also skyrocketed, and the resettlement of the victims was about to make the remaining officials of the Ministry of Household Households, and now the Ministry of Industry is going to build houses again, Li Zhao will naturally not let go.

"I don't care which adult lives in Daxing Palace, I use my cousin's place myself, and I want to have my own house to live in more than you." Li Zhao said without raising his eyebrows. "I'm just a small branch, and I'm not a household secretary, so I can't take care of the matter of repairing the official residence."

"Who doesn't know that the head of the household is serving the Queen Mother in Qiantang! You don't stamp the drawings out of the warehouse, who pays for it! ”

"You're too expensive. It's not the same as you said. Nowadays, construction is going on everywhere in the city, and the prices of masonry, stone and trees are inflated, and it is not the time to build an official residence. Li Zhao shook his head.

"But you only approved the drawings of the bear construction yesterday!"

"It's a new outer city, different from your mansion."

"Li Zhao! Who doesn't know that you are filming Xiong Yibin's sycophants for the master of Wanning County! The official slapped the table angrily, and the Ministry of Works official who came with him was so frightened that he hurriedly pulled him back.

"Li Duzhi, my colleague has put a lot of effort into this drawing, don't blame it, don't blame it!"

Li Zhao has been slapped in the face since he became this tricky degree supervisor, this is nothing, when he raised his eyebrows, pointed out the unreasonable cost of the person's drawings one by one, and told him that he couldn't find the lake stone bonsai at this time, and the official of the Ministry of Industry was drenched in cold sweat, so he pushed the drawings and sent them back to him.

"First of all, I have indeed admired the county lord of Wanning for a long time, and I have known about this all over the world, but His Majesty has not heard it. If you have the heart to help me pass it on a few more times, and I am grateful, it is better to spread it to His Majesty's ears and point me to marriage, then I will be very lucky. ”

"Secondly, Xiong Yibin is a construction doctor, using His Majesty's inner library, I only need to calculate, regardless of the cost, that is the category of the supervising envoy Chen, I am not a sycophant of Xiong Yibin."

"Third, Xiong Yibin's sycophants are about to become popular, but Xiong Yibin can't control the marriage of the county lord of Wanning, and if he shoots, he can only say good things, I don't need to risk losing my official position to do this."

The green-clothed official Li Zhao said had a flushed face, and the official accompanying him had a playful expression on his face.

Many people know that this young Li Duzhi sent flowers, dogs and rare things to the Deyang County Lord's Mansion all day long, just so that the Deyang County Lord could go to the Holy Ground to mention the marriage of the Wanning County Lord.

Wanning's identity is embarrassing, the queen and the queen mother are now in Beijing, and no one can preside over her marriage. Her father, who had rebelled and was imprisoned, also died in the fire in the palace, and the county lord of Wanning needed to keep filial piety for three years, and everyone in Beijing seemed to have forgotten her marriage.

Li Zhao actually wanted to ask his cousin to say a few good words for himself in front of the young emperor, but now that his cousin is in a high position, if he mentions marriage at this time, it will not be like a marriage proposal, but a force. He wanted to wait for himself to make some achievements, and he asked the emperor for marriage, anyway, Wanning still had to keep filial piety for three years, and he redoubled his efforts.

It's just that now that he's old, it doesn't take long for him to get up in the middle of the night to wash his pants, which is really annoying.

It's also a kind of trouble to have a confidante who is too beautiful.

The two Ministry of Industry officials went back with the drawings and budgets convincingly. Li Zhao personally got up and sent them out of the degree branch, and repeatedly promised that when this year's tax revenue came up, there would be a surplus, and the drawings of the official residence would be recalculated first.

When they were far away, Li Zhao shook his head and went back to the house.

'When the inner city expands to the official residence area, the Deyang County Lord's family and Wanning will move away, where is it so convenient to meet in the palace every day? ’

I'll have to delay talking about it a little later.

And it is true that silver is required everywhere.

What, what do you say about the ministers who can't afford to rent a house?

There are so many Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in Chang'an, can't you borrow it?

No matter what, spread a piece of paper in the office room, isn't it the same sleep!

In a restaurant in Yiyangfang, Chang'an, a few former friends sat together and had a few drinks.

On the night of the turmoil in the palace, Qin Bin and Li Rui were at home, Xiong Ping had already left the East Palace and became a scholar in Guozijian, the Qin family was taken to Jiangnan by Qin Feng, and Qiu Mu also went to Jiangnan by mistake in the East Palace, so worried that the Qiu family was on pins and needles.

Now that Qiu Mu has returned to Chang'an as a messenger, it is obvious that the Duke of Jin does not intend to let him go back, and he finally escaped.

Li Ming and Li Rui are good friends with Qiu Mu, Qiu Mu is the same age as Li Ming, and they both like the character of dropping the book bag, and they soon became close friends. When Qiu Mu returned to Beijing, he naturally had a good drink.

Yiyangfang is close to the East Market, and it was originally a very prosperous place. But now on this bustling street, there are many people walking with big burdens. Their feet were vain, clutching the hands of children or old people, and their bodies were covered with layers of soil, and they walked as if they were sleepwalking.

Chang'an is the capital of accompaniment, although it covers a vast area, it is not as large as Luoyang. The influx of Luoyang residents and refugees from all over Guanzhong could not find a house to live in, so they had to carry their luggage and live temporarily under the eaves of people's homes. There are many places with eaves in Yiyangfang, and the refugees rested for one night, and when they met the opening of the market, they could only continue to carry their burdens and covers in confusion, wandering again, looking for a place where they could sleep on the streets tonight.

Although Qiu Mu was coerced to the south of the Yangtze River, the south had not suffered any turmoil, and such a scene was naturally not seen on the streets. He drank a sullen glass of wine, completely unsure of what to say.

The things I have seen and experienced during this period of time are enough to make this inseparable teenager who always quarreled with Qin Bin before mature.

"I'm in Jiangnan, and I've been under Qin Bin's care. I am soft-spoken, the prince was killed, but I am not around as an escort and confidant, I am already ridiculed, and I have not lived in Jiangnan...... Very wishy-washy. Qiu Mu looked at the Li family brothers and Xiong Ping, who were listening to him carefully, "Qin Bin's father holds military power, and he takes care of me everywhere, at least let me survive." ”

"How did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince die?"

"It is said that the second prince shot him with a hand crossbow." Li Rui frowned, "It was too chaotic that day, our whole mansion was not in the palace, and we had everything to say, so I didn't know who to believe." ”

"After this time, I will probably follow my father to inherit the family education, and then enter the Ministry of Engineering." Qiu Mu smiled bitterly, "The background of the East Palace has become a stain on me, I was sent to Beijing, and there is no way for both sides to stand in line." Now he can only inherit his family education, and since then he has been buried in the Ministry of Industry and loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Qiu Mu has always been not interested in the water conservancy institutions and other academics at home, and has been studying Confucianism hard, hoping to assist the emperor with his talents in economics. But now that he has gone to Jiangnan and come back, he can't find his way out.

The ministers who know the way of Confucius and Mencius are all over the country, where do we need an old minister of the East Palace who has not served the monarch well?

He is not like Xiong Ping who jumped out early, and second, he is not like Li Rui, who has the merit of supporting him.

This is the only way to go.

"You're still much better than many people, and you at least have a way out." Li Rui also drank a glass of wine. Qin Bin...... His dream is to lead troops to the expedition and establish a career, and now he is involved in this kind of thing, and he doesn't know ......"

As soon as Li Rui's words came out, everyone fell silent.

Xiong Ping's temperament was too simple and slow, and he soon couldn't adapt to the fast-paced actions of the East Palace, so he invited himself out of the palace to seek a future and give up his position as the prince.

The emperor kept him by the prince's side, originally to make friends with the relationship between the clan and the Xiong family, and secondly, to let the county lord of Deyang and the Xinguo Mansion return to the old good, and dissolve the previous grievances.

Now that Xiong Ping has married a wife and had children, and his family is happy, he didn't make a wrong choice.

Choosing the prince, sometimes one step to the sky, sometimes one step into the abyss.

A few teenagers who have grown up drank wine and talked about life, and when they were still in their prime, they even talked about some of the vicissitudes of life and realized it.

When they had had enough to eat and drink, they left the restaurant, only to see a few refugees in ragged clothes and with no money poking their heads in and begging for food. And the owner of the restaurant let them see that although he is not a bad person, he is not a saint.

He frowned and told the runners to drive the refugees away.

If the news of letting them eat and drink gets out, the restaurant will soon be flooded with beggars.

Li Rui was slightly drunk, and when he saw it in his eyes, he became angry and threw a silver ingot on the counter.

"It's really annoying to watch, no matter where you go to sit down, it's like this."

The shopkeeper looked at Li Rui in surprise, Li Rui pointed to the silver ingot and said, "This is enough to pay them a meal, right?" No, it should be enough for a lot of bitter people to eat. Count how many people the silver ingot can give food and drink, and fill their stomachs as long as the silver is not spent. ”

Li Rui often comes to this restaurant, naturally because this shopkeeper looks pleasing to the eye and is not a bad person. So he bowed his hand to Li Rui, thanked a few bitter people, and asked Xiao Er to prepare enough steamed buns and porridge.

Li Rui glanced down at his younger brother Li Ming, who was now taller than his shoulders.

Of course, in Li Rui's heart, he is still that little bit.

"Li Ming, now you're also in charge, aren't you?"

Li Ming didn't know why his brother said this, but he still nodded.

"Do you still remember what the students of Guozijian did when it hailed in Beijing that year, and what did we do?" Li Rui patted Li Ming's shoulder, "You are the same as Qi Shao, and now you are also in charge, what can you do." ”

Li Rui's alcohol made his words feel drunk, but his eyes were very sober, sober to the point of surprise.

"It's been a long time since we've done anything together like many people did when we were kids. You go and ask Mrs. Qi, let's do it again." ”

Li Rui looked at the shopkeeper who had set up a shed at the door and sighed.

"There are many more homeless people in Chang'an today than there were in Xicheng back then."

Li Ming looked at his brother and remembered the days when they were together for disaster relief and put Kong Ming lanterns together.

His face lit up, and his eyes flashed with a different light.

Li Ming nodded.

"Okay."

He still keeps the bowl that Lummer sent.

It should come in handy.

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Li Zhao: Hurry up and welcome back the Queen Mother, I ask for marriage!