Not to mention Kou Shouxin, even Guo Dan felt very surprised in his heart at this time.

You must know that it took him a lot of time and a lot of routines last time to coax the fat house out of the palace.

And today the fat house came uninvited.

If there is really any urgency, he should be summoned to the palace immediately!

"Virtuous son-in-law, what are you doing in a daze, hurry... Go and meet the Holy One. ”

Kou Shouxin, who had just woken up, saw that Guo Dan was still stunned there, and he was so anxious that he stomped his feet.

How to entertain the emperor, he has no experience.

Guo Dan was stunned suddenly, oh, and was about to go out to greet him, when he heard someone outside the hall: "No need, no need." ”

Under the light of the candlelight, I saw an amiable fat man walk in.

But for Kou Shouxin, the emperor is coming head-on, and the deterrent power can be imagined. His mouth trembled, "Grass... Grass... Grass... Your Majesty! "My legs trembled and I just couldn't get down on my knees.

Grass Majesty? Guo Dan looked at Kou Shouxin in surprise, admiration arose, and he thought, it is not a loss to his father-in-law, who dares to insult the emperor like this.

"No need to be polite, no need to be polite."

Wanli waved his hand, entered the hall, and regardless of the etiquette of the guests, he looked around, this look, that look, as if he had come to the zoo.

If it weren't for the emperor, he would have been killed.

Kou Shouxin and Kou Zhuansha hung their heads and did not move, they didn't dare to breathe, they could only look at Wanli with their eyes, and they only felt that the emperor's behavior was so weird.

Guo Dan looked at Wanli and was also confused.

What's going on?

Do you want to visit a private house?

After walking around the hall for a while, Wanli came to the table again, looked down at the dishes on the table, and asked, "Are you eating?" ”

"Yes."

Guo Dan nodded, but thought in his heart, you just found out!

Wanli leaned his hands back, bent over, and looked at the dishes for a long time before he straightened up, called Guo Dan to the side, and asked in a low voice: "Guo Dan, you tell me honestly, have I lost all my money?" ”

Guo Dan was stunned for a while, and said, "No! Why does Your Majesty ask this? ”

Wanli said: "Otherwise, why do you live so simply, and you don't eat as well as those maids in the palace." ”

It turned out that this fat house was really the first time to set foot in a private house, he thought that Guo Dan's house must be very luxurious, and the food must be delicacies from the mountains and seas, but he never thought that this Kou family's house was very simple, and the food was even more unsightly, one meat, one soup and two vegetables, plus a few big steamed buns.

It doesn't look like a rich man at all.

You must know that luxury is prevalent in the Ming Dynasty today.

Guo Dan suddenly realized, sighed slightly, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty has misunderstood, this is just the concept of our Kou family's business." ”

Wanli was curious: "What does this have to do with trading?" ”

Guo smiled lightly: "Your Majesty, although this small courtyard looks simple, it can be regarded as complete, everything in life can be satisfied, much better than most people's families, although the food is not delicacies from the mountains and seas, but it can be regarded as having vegetables and meat, and the portion is enough." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the wall behind the main seat.

Wanli also followed his gaze, there was nothing on it, and he heard Guo Danyan say: "Maybe there is one more famous painting there, it will be very good, but the money to buy that painting, in the hands of the lowly position, can give birth to more than a dozen famous paintings, so it is not hanging." ”

When Wanli heard this, he immediately reacted and said with a smile: "I understand, this is what you once said about the technique of making money and making money." ”

Guo Dan said: "Your Majesty still remembers!" ”

"How could I forget such wonderful theories?" Wanli laughed.

Guo Dan said: "However, the decoration of Yinuo Dental Shop is much better than here, and it is much more atmospheric. ”

"That's right!"

Wanli glanced at Guo Dan approvingly, he liked Guo Dan, a person who takes pleasure in making money. Only then did he turn around, look at Kou Zhuan Sha slightly, and said, "This is your wife." ”

Guo Dan hurriedly said: "Liansha, don't come over and see Your Majesty soon." ”

"The people's daughter, Kou Zhuasha, see Your Majesty."

Kou Liansha immediately stepped forward and saluted.

"Excuse me!" Wanli smiled lightly at Guo: "I can understand why you are willing to go to this Kou family to be this son-in-law today." ”

Each other, each other! Guo Dan said: "I really can't hide anything from Your Majesty." ”

Wanli laughed, and smiled at Kou Shouxin: "Outside Kou, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Your Majesty took the initiative to greet me? Kou Shouxin was stunned for a moment before he said: "Your Majesty, I haven't seen you for a long time, no, no, old decay... Grass people.... ”

Wanli said: "There is no need to be nervous, I just heard that Guo Dan is happy with his son, so I sent some gifts to congratulate me." ”

The emperor personally sent a gift to congratulate? Kou Shouxin immediately knelt down, with tears in his eyes, and thanked the Holy Grace.

Guo Danzhen felt distressed for the floor.

Wanli was speechless, could he still speak well, and glanced at Guo Dan.

Guo Dan immediately stepped forward, picked up Kou Shouxin, and said in a low voice: "Father-in-law, Your Majesty is out on patrol this time, and these etiquettes can be saved, but don't alarm others." ”

Kou Shouxin was shocked when he heard this, and covered his mouth with his hands.

Wanli was amused by this old man and laughed, and said to Guo Dan: "Guo Dan, have you finished eating, if you finish eating, take me to your tooth shop to have a look." ”

Kou Shouxin hurriedly replied: "After eating, after eating, we have already finished eating." ”

I've just started eating.

Guo Dan glanced at Kou Shouxin, smiled secretly, and saluted: "Obey orders." "But I'm very curious, is the fat house here to visit the tooth shop today?

He didn't believe that Wanli would come to his door to congratulate him in person.

As soon as he came out of the hall, Wanli revealed the mystery, and only heard him whisper to Guo Dan: "Take me to the vault to have a look." ”

Oh... After a long time, you came to check the accounts. Guo Dan nodded and said, "Your Majesty, please." ”

Wanli's small treasury had been moved out of here and placed in a house in the east of the city, but now everyone knows that Marseille has a great relationship with him, so since the establishment of the money bank, the small treasury has moved back here, but it has dug up another big one, which is separate from the Kou family's money.

"See Your Majesty."

The guards guarding the door of the vault suddenly saw Wanli coming, and hurriedly saluted.

The people guarding here are all Wanli's guards.

After all, this is a lot of money, and Wanli does not dare to give it to Guo Dan for safekeeping.

The door opened, and after a guard entered first and lit all the candles on the wall, Wanli entered the vault with Liu Gui's support.

When I went down the stairs, I saw that under the light of the candles, there was a little silver light in the vault, like the vast stars.

I saw rows of wooden shelves in the vault, and on the shelves there were neat ingots of silver.

Wanli directly pushed Li Gui away, as if he saw a beautiful woman, his eyes were round, his eyes were unturned, his eyes were dull, he stepped forward slowly, came to a row of wooden frames, picked up an ingot of ten taels of silver, first checked it, then took a closer look, sighed, wiped it with a silk handkerchief, and carefully put it on.

He looked at the silver in his hand, counting it in his mouth.

Li Gui held the candle and carefully helped Wanli shine it.

Guo Dan was about to remind Wanli that he didn't have to count it himself, there was an account book to check, but he was stopped by Li Gui with his eyes.

What's the situation? Don't believe me? But the people here are sent by you to win people, and this is silver, not accounts, many of them are deposited by people, and the Weihui Mansion has not sent the accounts yet, how to find out how much it is.

Guo Dan was really confused, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he could only follow quietly.

After about a quarter of an hour, Wanli was still tireless, counting with relish and focus.

It's not like this when you check the accounts! Guo Dan secretly glanced at Wanli and thought, this can't be his love, right?

He looked back, only to see that Wanli counted the silver, more neatly placed than before, even better than the professionals, usually at home did not practice less, secretly thought, it must be so, it must be so, I should have thought of this a long time ago, even if it was the era, there were some people who like to count money, this is really the true nature of wealth!

An hour has passed......!

Guo Dan was so tired that his chest was pressed against his back, he had never been here for so long, and he was already running out of oxygen.

Wanli was really ruthless, and he touched every ingot of silver in it, leaving his fingerprints.

But he was so happy that after a while he called the man who was in charge of the accounts, and asked, "Twenty-eighteen thousand six hundred and forty taels in all, am I right?" ”

The accountant hurriedly opened the account book, and immediately said excitedly: "Your Majesty is right, it is 218,640 taels, but ......!" ”

Wanli hurriedly asked, "But what?" ”

The accountant raised his head and said, "But there are still two thousand eight hundred taels of gold." ”

"Gold?"

Wanli's fat body trembled slightly, and he hurriedly asked, "Where is the gold?" Why didn't I see it? ”

The bookkeeper hurriedly said, "It's in the cabinet over there." ”

Oh, my God! You say your sister! He's going to touch it again. Guo Dan only felt dizzy.

Sure enough, Wanli hurriedly said: "Take me to take a look." ”

"The villain obeys, Your Majesty, please come here."

The bookkeeper took Wanli to a corner, and saw an inconspicuous wooden cabinet there.

But this time it was opened, and the golden light was shining, at least in Wanli's eyes, I saw that the fat house was intoxicated, and he rushed forward, eager to sleep with this cabinet in his arms.

Guo Dan wiped a cold sweat, looked at this fat man, and said in his heart, this... It's fake, right?

Wanli wiped it again.

Guo Dan was really impatient and asked, "Your Majesty, why don't you go to Yaxing to sit and sit, it's stuffy here." ”

Wanli waved his hand and said, "Don't bother, I think it's pretty good here." ”

Is there gold to touch in the tooth shop?

I don't have you to tell me to go.

Wanli suddenly looked back at Guo Dan, called Guo Dan aside again, and asked, "All this money is my gain?" ”

Guo Dan said: "This will not be determined until the money ticket comes from Weihui Mansion, but Your Majesty, please rest assured, it is only a lot more." ”

Some of the money in it was deposited by others, and it had to be taken out by Weihui Mansion before it could be entered into Wanli's account.

Wanli asked again, "Then how much do I earn now?" ”

Guo Dan said: "Your Majesty, this year has not started to settle the accounts, and the grass people are not very clear now, but there may not be too much on the accounts for the time being, because Marseille and Kaifeng Mansion have invested a lot of money, and now Marseille has begun to return to the capital, but Kaifeng Mansion has not yet, and the humble estimate of 300,000 taels can still be taken casually." ”

Wanli nodded thoughtfully.

Guo Dan cautiously asked, "Is Your Majesty planning to use money recently?" ”

"Probably going to use it."

Wanli glanced at Guo Dan and said with a wry smile: "This is still thanks to you." ”

Guo Dan was stunned and said, "Your Majesty, where did you start with this?" ”

Wanli snorted: "Today at the court meeting, I helped you speak like this, so that they lost face, and they will definitely not easily allocate money to me for the time being." ”

Guo Dan was surprised: "Do they dare not allocate money to Your Majesty?" ”

Wanli said with a look of resentment: "What do they dare not get, every year when the tax revenue is collected, the household department has to allocate a layer from the accounts of the inner government, and I usually ask them for my own money." ”

Because every year, not all of the money is silver, but also candles, silk, and so on, all of which have to be converted into silver, and the household department has done something to put part of the income of the inner government into the treasury.

However, people don't want to cheat his money, these money are all into the treasury, and the treasury really has no money, they all think that the emperor should not take so much money now, because the emperor's income is a fixed amount, not according to the tax ratio.

This is very cheating.

Wanli knew very well in his heart, but he didn't keep silent, because this matter has to be argued, he may not be able to fight, the treasury really has no money, if this is said, maybe the ministers will find a way to reduce the income of the inner government, it will be more than worth the loss, anyway, he will come back then.

But at today's court meeting, Wanli counted the ministers hard, especially the household department, Wanli also knew in his heart that if there was no legitimate reason, otherwise, he would definitely not get money.

That's why I thought I'd come here to see the vault.

Guo Dan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, we have money here, why bother begging them." ”

He has no objection to Wanli using the money here, if Wanli doesn't like money, then he will be finished, and he will not lose more money in exchange for power.

But just this sentence made Wanli's heart warm, no one had ever told him like this, almost everyone was accusing him of spending too much, at this moment, he really regarded Guo Dan as a confidant.

Under the whole world, only I understand me.

"That's what I thought when I came, but ......!" Wanli took a silver ingot and said, "But you're right, if this silver is placed here, it can still produce silver, and if you use it, it doesn't seem to be cost-effective." ”

Guo Dan said: "Your Majesty, this should be spent, otherwise what is the point of making money." ”

"Really?" Wanli asked, "Then why are you so saving?" ”

Guo Dan blinked and said: "Humble duty is like to make money, and that money is used to do business, saying that it is making money, but it is actually a kind of spending money." ”

Wan Li Le said: "Spending money is also making money, and I like it too." Hehe.....! ”

"Really?"

Guo smiled lightly and said, "In this way, if Your Majesty wants something, tell the humble position, and the humble position will spend as little money as possible to help Your Majesty get what you want." ”

Wanli's eyes lit up, and he thought, yes, Guo Dan is so good at trading, why don't you leave the procurement of the harem to him. After thinking about it, he suddenly said, "I recently want to buy some beads for the imperial concubine. ”

"Beads?"

Guo Dan asked, "Pearls?" ”

Wanli shook his head and said, "It doesn't have to be a pearl, but it must be big." ”

"Big?"

"Hmm."

Wanli nodded solemnly.

Guo Dan groaned for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I don't think your routine is right." ”

"The routine of picking up girls?" Wanli was stunned.

"Ahem!"

Guo Dan hurriedly explained: "The meaning of humility means that the imperial concubine was born in a large family, and she entered the palace very early, and was favored by His Majesty. ”

"What's new?"

Wanli said: "It's like saying that you gave your wife an expression pillow." ”

"Yes, yes, that's what it means."

Guo Dan nodded, and said: "If Your Majesty believes in the humble position, as for the gifts given to the imperial concubine, all the humble duties will be handled, and the humble position is guaranteed to be not only noble, but also full of novelty, which will definitely make the imperial concubine happy." ”

"Of course I believe you, I'll leave this matter to you." Wanli said excitedly.

"I will not let your majesty down." Guo Dan bowed his hand and said: "Your Majesty is as kind to the lowly family, and this time I will pay for it to repay Your Majesty's kindness." ”

Wanli was immediately moved, his eyes were red, and his reddened eyes suddenly turned around a few times, and said, "Guo Dan, why don't you go back to your hometown and break your oath in front of your father's grave." ”

Guo Dan was stunned when he heard this.

Wanli said: "I will find a way to make you the head of the household department." ”

Tobe Shangshu?

Guo Dan immediately compared a middle finger in his heart.