Before Yinxiang could speak, Yinzhen, who had been forcing himself to calm down, suddenly threw an account book on the ground, and many pieces of paper sandwiched in the account book flew around like snowflakes, and said hatefully: "Because all those silver were borrowed!" ”

His sudden anger startled Ling Ruo, and Mo Yu was even more like a frightened rabbit, carefully moving a few steps behind Yinxiang, afraid of being implicated, she was respectful and afraid of this Belle Master, unlike Yinxiang who was still a little comfortable in front of him.

In my impression, Yinzhen has always been a very calm and self-contained person, and when he rarely gets angry, even Qingyin Pavilion has never seen him so angry that time.

Ling Ruo squatted down and carefully picked up the pieces of paper scattered all over the place, the more she picked up, the more frightened she became, this one was all IOUs, five hundred taels, one thousand taels, five thousand taels, etc., the people who paid were different, but without exception they were all officials of the DPRK and China, many names Ling Ruo had heard from Ling Zhu's mouth, and calculated at will, but these IOUs together exceeded 800,000 taels, and this was just an IOU sandwiched in an account book, and there were many identical account books on the bookcase, this loan must be millions, no wonder Yinzhen was so angry.

"Can't you recover this money?" Ling Ruo carefully placed the neat account book IOU on the bookcase.

Yin Zhen said coldly: "How to chase?" The Manchu Dynasty has borrowed both civil and military forces, which one is better to chase? What's more, how can the people affected by the disaster wait so long? ”

Ling Ruo remembered that Yinzhen had said before that only a part of this year's military salary had been paid, and the rest of the household had been dragging it out, and at that time the household department said that there was no silver in the treasury, so he thought it was a prevarication, but he didn't expect it to be true, "Didn't you find out about these things before?" ”

Yinxiang smiled bitterly and replied on his behalf: "It is the prince who is in charge of the household department, and he himself has borrowed silver from the treasury, so how can he pursue others, not to mention that it is difficult to recover the silver, how can the prince risk offending his ministers to ask for this silver." Last night, the fourth brother and the adults of the household department calculated all night, and now the silver available in the treasury is less than one million taels, relying on these silver to relieve the disaster is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket, and besides, if everything happens again, the court can't come up with the silver, so how can the court save face? Where does the national system exist? ”

"To be exact, it should be 890,000 taels." Yin Zhen stared at his eyes that were red from staying up all night and said with a tired face.

Less than a million taels? Ling Ruo gasped, there was only so much silver in the treasury of the Great Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that no one would believe it, has the rule of officials been corrupted to this point?

Yinxiang lost his appetite for a while, and put the mille-feuille steamed cake in his hand into the plate and said: "The silver can be chased slowly, as long as these people can always be recovered, at most it is just offending people, the most important thing at the moment is how to pass this level, Huang Ama is still waiting for us to reply, fourth brother, have you thought of a way?" ”

Kangxi didn't know about the empty treasury of Lu Dao until last night, Long Yan was furious, and the prince was late again, so angry that he scolded the prince and all the ministers who entered the palace to discuss, and ordered them to come up with a way today, otherwise they would not be spared. ”

Yin Zhen shook his head helplessly, he was already trying very hard to find a way, but it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, everything was empty talk without silver, as long as he thought that there were countless victims in Henan waiting for the silver to relieve the disaster and release grain, and more people would die every time he waited, he was restless.

"What the hell should I do? Damn it! There must be a way, but where is the way! Where? Is it true that God wants to watch so many people die! Yin Zhen slapped his palm on the table with hatred, angry at the ministers who borrowed the treasury silver, but also angry at his own powerlessness, from last night to now, he racked his brains, pondered and meditated, but he couldn't think of a feasible way.

"Fourth master, don't worry, there is no endless road, maybe there will be a way soon." Ling Ruo stared at those IOUs, and a bold idea suddenly appeared in his heart. "The concubine has a suggestion, I don't know if I should talk about it or not?"

"Tell me about it." Although Yin Zhen didn't think that Ling Ruo could think of any good way for a while, everyone was at a loss at the moment, so it was good to listen.

Yinxiang also echoed on the side: "Yes, little sister-in-law, there are only a few of us in this room, what should we not talk about." ”

Ling Ruozhan stretched his sleeves and carefully considered his words: "The treasury has no money, because the money flows into personal money bags, so why don't we borrow money from those rich families in the name of the imperial court, as long as the current difficulties are overcome, the imperial court will naturally return the money to them." ”

This is a very bold idea, so that Yinzhen and the others were stunned for a moment when they heard it, but they soon came to their senses, yes, since the minister can borrow money from the treasury, why can't the imperial court borrow money from the rich?

In fact, this method is not very ingenious, but Yinzhen and they are all used to the treasury allocating silver, and they are limited by their original thinking, while Ling Ruo is not limited by it in the court, and can think the opposite.

"Yes, that's the way to do it!" Yinzhen's eyes lit up, and her eyebrows, which had been locked all night, stretched. Although this method is likely to be criticized by others, he can't care about it so much at this juncture.

"But will the rich men be willing?" Yinxiang also agrees with this method, but I am afraid that it is not so easy to implement, the richer people are more concerned about money, and it is simply a fool's dream to ask them to take the initiative to borrow money and donate silver, and most of these people are inextricably related to the royal relatives and nobles, and they will affect the whole body.

"When the country is in trouble, the husband is responsible. They can't help but disagree! Yin Zhen didn't know what was at stake, so he snorted coldly and said decisively: "Since we want to do it, then let's make a big one." He glanced at the puzzled Yinxiang and said, "Let me ask you, what business is the most profitable in this world now?" ”

"Silk? Wine? Grain? Yinxiang touched his chin with a cyan stubble and said several answers one after another, but Yinzhen shook his head, he really couldn't think of it, so he didn't bother to think about it anymore and asked Ling Ruo, who was standing on the side with a smile, "Little sister-in-law, have you already guessed it?" ”

Ling Ruo's eyes rolled, and after pouring a cup of tea for each of them, he said: "No, the Thirteenth Master forgot, of course, making money is an industry monopolized by the imperial court, such as salt!" ”

It was really a word that woke up the dreamer, Yinxiang suddenly realized and patted his head and said: "Yes, how did I forget them, the fourth brother is going to take the salt merchants?" ”

Yin Zhen's eyes were full of vultures, and he said with a cruel smile: "Yes, these people don't know how much they have scraped in the open, and now it's time for them to spit it out, I don't want to ask them to borrow it, I want them to pledge it themselves!" He almost gritted his teeth at the last sentence.

"Without further ado, I will immediately enter the palace with you to meet Huang Ama, as long as Huang Ama agrees, I will immediately set off to Jiangxi to find those salt merchants to donate money, as for disaster relief, as for ......disaster relief, he thought for a moment and said: "There are still more than 800,000 taels of silver in the treasury, as long as I can raise silver, I should be able to receive it." ”

"It's not you, but let's go to Jiangxi together!" Yinxiang's eyes were clear, "I don't leave my brother when I go into battle, how can the fourth brother not take me with him." Besides, those salt merchants are not good birds, maybe when the time comes, they will unite to make a trick for the fourth brother, I have led the soldiers to be murderous, so I can finally suppress them. ”

Twenty-year brother, how could Yin Zhen not know that he couldn't rest assured, and nodded heavily at the moment: "Okay!" Together, we brothers will break through even the tiger's den in Longtan! Finally thought of a solution, Yinzhen didn't want to delay for a moment, and called Gou'er and Zhou Yong to come in and put away the account books on the table and prepare to enter the palace.

"This time to enter the palace, if the emperor agrees, I may have to leave for a long time, during this time you should be careful, if there is anything wrong, you can find Lianyi, I see that she is quite close to you, and there is also Imperial Doctor Xu. As for plain words...... She has not suffered any grievances since she was a child, and it is inevitable that she is a little arrogant, so you don't have to worry about her. Yin Zhen held Ling Ruo's shoulder and said uneasily.

Ling Ruo straightened his clothes for him and said softly: "The concubine knows that the concubine will take good care of herself, although the fourth master can go with confidence, the concubine is waiting for the fourth master to return!" ”

"Definitely!" Yinzhen strode away with Yinxiang after spitting out these two words, at this moment, it is a matter of life and death for millions of people, and there is no room for private affairs of children.

He turned around, so he didn't see Ling Ruo's lingering gaze following behind, at this moment, Yinzhen really walked into her heart, leaving an indelible shadow.

Yinzhen, do you think I will? I'll miss you every day...... Every day......

Seeing that Yinzhen had already left, and Ling Ruo was still standing there without saying a word, Mo Yu said strangely: "Master, what are you looking at?" ”

"Nothing." Ling Ruo came back to his senses and stroked the bat pattern on his clothes, and there was a strange light flashing in his eyes, "It's just...... I can finally be sure that Lord Belle is the one who truly cares about the world, and if he can succeed to the throne as emperor after a hundred years, it should be a blessing for the people of the world. ”

Mo Yu lowered his head and thought about it, raised his head and said with an affirmative face: "Although the slave maid thinks that Lord Belle is very serious and scary all day long, he treats his master very well, and he also cares about the people affected by the flood this time, so the slave and maid feel that Lord Belle is a good person." ”

"Unfortunately, not everyone knows the truth." Ling Ruo sighed slightly, it was the eighth elder brother Yinzhen who spread his reputation all over the world, and Yinzhen only got the words "cold-faced elder brother", alas......

She is also a little curious about that eighth elder brother in her heart, and she can make everyone praise his good name, he is by no means a simple person, not to mention that he also has a Fujin who Yinzhen misses, this man...... seems to have taken up all the good in the world, she really wants to see this eighth elder brother with her own eyes, and wants to see if Aixin Jueluo 61 Yinzhen is really better than Aixin Jueluo 61 Yinzhen.

Ling Ruo walked out of the study and looked up at the rising sun, where the morning glow was as bright as a brocade, so gorgeous that it was almost impossible to force people. There is a shallow smile blooming on the lips, reflecting the morning glow is particularly dazzling.

But ah...... No matter how good the eighth brother is, in her eyes, he is always inferior to Yinzhen, and for her, Yinzhen is the best one, and it will never change!