"Second brother, since you are on duty today, then you can take him to the examination. The weather has been cloudy these days, and the king has been injured in the back. ”

King Zhongshun said to Li Yao, but he may know something, so he mentioned more: "Bring it back after the examination, this king will take him into the palace to face the saint, and the emperor wants to see him." ”

When Li Yao heard this, his originally bright eyes suddenly dimmed, he frowned and glanced at Jia Qiang with disgust, got up and got off the kang, and went out.

After Jia Qiang saluted Prince Zhongshun, she went out with him.

Under the verandah, feeling that Jia Qiang was following, Li Yao paused and turned his head and snorted coldly, squinting at him and saying with disdain: "It's really unreasonable, and now even the minions are trembling." Don't you bow to the official? Don't you want to be an official, why are you going to take the exam at this time? ”

Jia Qiang looked at Li Yao a little arbitrarily, and said with a smile: "If there is no official letter from the Zongren Mansion, the prince thinks I am willing to come?" ”

"Presumptuous!!"

Although Li Yao is only the prince of the clan, he is still the prince of the Son of Heaven, and the prince of the idle clan does not put it in his eyes, and he never thought that a lucky child would dare to talk to him like this.

In Li Yao's eyes, or in the eyes of the vast majority of people, Jia Qiang is just an ignorant teenager who has gone through shit luck and has no heels.

If he hadn't entered the eyes of the emperor, if he hadn't received those few words of praise, and if he hadn't been given by the emperor to the word "good minister", he would not even be as valuable as a dog in the palace.

And this young man who didn't know whether he was alive or dead dared to be disrespectful to him.

Jia Qiang looked at Li Yao and sneered: "Although the prince is the king of the county, he is not qualified to call me a minion. ”

When the surrounding officials of the Zongren Mansion and the officials saw this scene, they all turned pale with fright, and they panicked one by one.

Li Yao laughed angrily: "Okay, good! This king has opened his eyes today, it's not that he hasn't seen rampant, but it's rampant to the point of yours, this king is still the first time to see it! Someone came, and held down the ...... for this king."

Before the word "type" came out, his eyes suddenly froze, the anger on his face dissipated, and turned into a suspicious look, looking at Jia Qiang and saying coldly: "This king almost fell for you...... You really don't want to accept this knighthood? ”

Jia Qiang twitched the corners of her mouth, regretting in her heart, she really thought about people simply, he arched his hand and said: "The prince said that he laughed, how can there be no reason not to want to be interested in the family business of a national mansion?" ”

Li Yao looked at Jia Qiang again and again, and sneered: "You are not arrogant and rampant on the surface, you are arrogant and rampant in your bones!" How dare you trick this king with trickery? ”

Seeing that everything was said to this point, Jia Qiang simply stopped blocking it, put away her false smile, looked at Li Yao and said: "The prince is angry with me because of the matter of the Bai family in Yangzhou, I just want a way to live, why is it arrogant and rampant?" ”

Hearing that he actually directly broke the matter of the Bai family, Li Yao sneered and said: "The Bai family in Yangzhou, that is, the emperor and the emperor have done their filial piety in front of them, you are ignorant and arrogant, and you have the face to talk about the Bai family's full house, and you still have the face to talk about anger?" ”

Jia Qiang sighed when she heard this, shook her head and said, "The Bai clan has fallen because of its clan's sins, and heaven is intolerable!" In order to compete for the benefits of the salt farm, the Bai family destroyed several families. There is a way that is the cycle of heavenly principles, and retribution is unpleasant. With the Son of Heaven above, how can such thieves be allowed to go unpunished? I am just a white body with no official and no lord, even if I have a heart, how can I destroy people? The prince's words are wrong. ”

Li Yao Yuguang saw that there were more and more people in the sect mansion around him, and his face became more and more ugly, so he snorted coldly and said, "What you said is right, the retribution of the Heavenly Principle Cycle is not happy, and the one who destroys the sect will sooner or later have to blame himself for this disaster!" Look at you, how long can you be rampant! ”

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Half an hour later, Jia Qiang returned to the main hall with an indifferent face.

Prince Zhongshun took the examination seal document from Li Yao's hand, frowned after looking at it, looked sideways at Jia Qiang, and asked, "You are also the serious great-grandson of Ning Guo after Wuxun." Even if it's not as good as your ancestors' martial arts, you can't even shoot a single hair with fifteen arrows, right? After that, he angrily threw the examination seal document on the kang table.

Jia Qiang did not feel ashamed, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "If you go back to the prince, because I never thought that there would be a day of inheritance, I have never studied literature and have never practiced archery and horse archery. ”

When Li You, the prince of Zhongshun, heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he actually smiled: "It's good to learn literature, and it is safer to know more literature and ink than to ride a bow horse." Among the nobles, who was better than Jia Daishan in terms of martial arts? Yuan Ping Meritorious Heroes Six Great Princes Twenty-four Waits, Jia Daishan can hit from beginning to end with a silver spear, but didn't he die early into a pile of stinky meat? So it's better to study literature, at least live longer. ”

Although he said this with a smile, there was no trace of friendliness in the meaning of the words.

Obviously, this Li You and Jia Daishan are afraid that they have a very unhappy past......

Although Jia Qiang has always wanted to break off from Xifu, his surname is Jia, if he allows others to insult Jia Daishan at this moment, it will spread out, and he will not be a man in the future.

Therefore, Jia Qiang raised her head, looked at the white hair of King Zhongshun, and said loudly: "The prince's words are bad, and he is studying literature in the next place, not to live longer, but to be reasonable, and to know loyalty and filial piety." The ancestors of Rongguo died young, although they died young, but they died for the sake of the country's society and for the Li family! As the head of the royal family, although his status is noble, he should have respect for his ancestors. Otherwise, if you throw away your blood and fight for the country in the world, in the end you will only be regarded as a pile of stinky meat by the Heavenly Family, where is the reason of heaven? ! ”

Looking at the awe-inspiring and fierce Jia Qiang, the Zhongshun Wangcheng Mansion is much deeper than Li Yao, how could he easily drop the handle, and said with a smile: "This king believes in Buddhism, and the Buddhists pay attention to the theory of stinky skins, so this king borrows one or two." Thou, thou, thou hast set up a charge against this king. That's it, I'm going to take you into the palace today, and I won't bother with you, and I'll talk about it later. ”

After that, he got up and got off the kang, and under the service of the two chamberlains, he dressed up in the blue Nine Dragons and pierced the clouds, and took a sedan chair to the palace.

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Daming Palace, the Palace of Nourishing the Heart.

Emperor Long An frowned and looked at the seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man who was crying poor in the hall, and shouted: "I asked people to go to the medicine depot of the Internal Affairs Office to get some good medicine and send it to Lin Ruhai, the household servant, what do you want to do?" Did you greed all the money in the inner treasury? ”

This young man is Li Xuan, the fifth son of Emperor Long'an, and Li Jing, the eldest son of the emperor, Prince Bao, both from Empress Yin.

It's just that although he is a compatriot, the emperor's eldest son, Prince Bao, Li Jing, has a cold temperament, is afraid of both the government and the opposition, works as an errand in the military department, and has a somewhat delicate relationship with several princes and marquis.

And Li Xuan, the fifth son of the emperor, has a completely different personality.

This son is famous for his greed, good goods, good food, good clothes, and good antiques...... He is a stubborn lord who is well-known in the capital.

Originally, according to Emperor Long An's temperament, such a rebel should be killed.

It's just that among the children, only this young son is the youngest, and he has always been raised by his side, and he is also the only prince who dares to get close to him, so it is inevitable that he will be favored.

Because he saw that he was good at collecting money and goods, he handed over the Internal Affairs Office that he had recovered from the King of Ningjun and asked him to be the acting prince minister of the Internal Affairs Office, but he didn't expect that he was actually on a business trip.

Even if Emperor Long An favored him again, he would never allow such a thing to happen.

Li Xuan, who was kneeling on the ground, heard this, bluffed half to death, and said with a face full of grievances: "Father, the son is really going to die unjustly, even if the son is a guest, he doesn't dare to be greedy for your silver!" There is not much silver left in the inner treasury, and it will be spent so much in the next year, how can there be silver to buy so many medicinal materials. Now there are still some good medicines in the medicine store, but those medicines are reserved for the emperor, the queen mother, the father, the queen mother, and the concubines and concubines in the palace. ”

When Emperor Long An heard this, his face was a little ugly and said, "What about the silver that was sent to the treasury a few years ago?" ”

Li Xuan stretched his hand to his waist, and actually took out an abacus the size of a palm-sized gold-framed jade bead, dialed it up three times and divided it by two, and said in his mouth: "Father, the property that Yangzhou handed over to Beijing a few years ago, antiques, land deeds, door shops and other things are not counted, and those can't be realized for a while, just say silver, there are a total of 4.8 million taels." Due to the severe deficit of the household department, the father and emperor transferred 2.8 million taels by decree, and the remaining 2 million taels were left. But last year, in order to relieve the victims of the great drought in Shandong, my father emptied the inner treasury, not to mention, but also borrowed a total of 1.2 million taels of silver from the emperor's grandfather, the emperor's grandmother, the Yin family, and the Mei family. When his father got the new money, he immediately paid it back. There are only 800,000 taels left, but in the New Year, not only will there be rewards everywhere in the palace, but also silver and winter clothes will be rewarded to the 12th regimental battalion stationed in Beijing...... Seven counts eight counts, and it's empty again! ”

In fact, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a lot of inputs, and the Ministry of Household Affairs alone allocates more than 600,000 taels of silver every year.

The rest, such as Huangzhuang, Guanwai Gold Mine, Northeast Deer Antler Ginseng, Jiangning Weaving, Jingdezhen Porcelain Organ Kiln and even Shanhaiguan, Guangzhou Customs, Jimo Customs and other tariff silver, are all put into the inner warehouse.

But the Ministry of Internal Affairs spends more money.

It is a huge imperial city, not to mention the members of the royal family, as well as the palace concubines, palace maids, eunuchs, guards, etc., adding up to more than 10,000 people.

The food, clothing, shelter and transportation of these people all depend on the expenses of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It would be naïve to think that there are only people.

In addition to the more than 10,000 most exquisite people in the world, there are countless rare beasts in the upper courtyard, representing all kinds of auspicious beasts, and another huge expense.

In addition, there are also the Guangchu Division, the Duyu Division, the Ceremonial Division, the Accounting Division, the Construction Division, and the Qingfeng Division......

The total of "seven divisions and three courts" is all for the palace, and every place is a bottomless pit that swallows gold without blinking.

Those magnificence, those rituals that show the wealth of the heavenly family, where does not need to be made with silver?

It is said that the emperor is rich all over the world, but in all dynasties, there are only a handful of people who have really lived a surplus.

When Emperor Long An was having a headache with the short silver in the inner library, there was a yellow gate to come to Tongbing:

"Prince Li You of Zhongshun came to meet Jia Qiang."

Emperor Long An raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said, "Xuan." ”

Let Li Xuan roll up and stand aside.

Before long, I saw Li You, the prince of Zhongshun, leading a handsome young man in.

After the two of them bowed to the monarch and the ministers, Emperor Long An first called the king of Zhongshun and asked, "How is the examination seal?" ”

Li You took out the official document of the examination, and Emperor Longan motioned to the emperor's fifth son, Li Xuan, to take it and present it.

After Li Xuan took over, he subconsciously looked down, and then laughed out loud.

However, under the knife-like gaze of Emperor Long An, he quickly shut up and presented Jia Qiang's examination transcript with a strange face.

After Emperor Long An took his hand, he swept his eyes, frowned and glared at Jia Qiang fiercely, and Tibi changed the riding shooting fifteen to ten in the fifteen, and the fifteen in the zero in the foot shooting, and changed it to the passing line of fifteen in twelve.

The rest of the test scores such as the art of war and military strategy were all changed from zero to a passing grade......

In the end, Zhu Bi flicked it and snorted coldly: "Since you have attacked Wujue in the future, you will practice more of your ancestors' abilities." I don't want you to glorify your ancestors, and don't be ashamed! ”

What else can Jia Qiang say, let's follow the rules, just listen to Emperor Long An and say: "Enfeng is a third-class mighty general, and he will be awarded the title of embroidered clothes and guards...... The soldiers and horses of the five cities are commanded by the East City, and kneel down. ”

Jia Qiang: "......"

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