That night, the documents of the city hall sent a settlement report, a thick stack, Liu Jin flipped through it, and compared it with the information collected by the informant - there were more or less cases of lying and concealing the report, even if it was himself, he deducted the extra military supplies he had privately prepared, and reported the inventory of the liquidation. It's just that I didn't expect the War Department to report a deficit, and as soon as the municipal government allocated it, the supplies became a state of emergency across the board.

A thin cough came from the window, Liu Jin raised his eyes and followed the voice, but saw that Lin Wanjing had already fallen asleep wrapped in a blanket, so he quietly came to her side, covered the blanket for her, and was about to leave, but the corner of his clothes was pulled by her, his heart softened, but he still said:

"I still have documents to look at......"

Who knew that she didn't let go, closed her eyes and whispered coquettishly: "Just ...... for a while"

The determination to leave was not firm, and he couldn't refuse her coquettishness, so he smiled helplessly, sat down beside her, and took her to lean against him. She seemed to be relieved, her breathing gradually stabilized, and the hand that grabbed the hem of his shirt slowly let go. He looked at her, raised his hand to brush away the broken hair on her forehead, and couldn't help but feel distressed:

She's been sleeping like this lately, sometimes on the way home from the office, she's snuggled up in his arms for a nap. But when she was awake, she was in a good state of mind, and her appetite was very good, not like she was sick, and it was really hard for her to go out early and return late with him in recent days, so he only thought that the tranquilizer prescribed by the doctor had a role, which could make her sleep more, and he felt at ease.

The door of the study was not closed, and the little guy who came to report rushed in, shouted the young marshal, raised his eyes and found that there was no one behind the desk, and then turned around, but saw Liu Jin make a "silence" gesture to him, and then motioned for him to go over.

"Tell me, what's wrong?"

He deliberately lowered his voice, and the little guy naturally followed softly:

"The handsome man is here, waiting in the hall downstairs, do you want him to come up?"

Today's handsome seal has been taken over by Liu Ming, and Liu Jin's "young marshal" has nothing to do with seniority, but is just a title.

Looking down at Lin Wanjing, who was sleeping soundly, Liu Jin shook her head:

"I'll see him downstairs."

Hearing Liu Jin's footsteps downstairs, Liu Ming hurriedly stood up to greet him, he respected and loved this eldest brother very much in his heart, until he watched Liu Jin come to him, he called out a little crampedly:

"Brother."

Liu Jin smiled slightly and motioned for him to take a seat, and walked quickly down the stairs to him:

"Shaoxun, you rarely come to the Imperial Kuntai to find me, what kind of wind blew you here today?"

But I saw Liu Ming's throat trembling slightly, and repeated it several times, but he still swallowed back the words that came to his mouth:

"I just heard that Luo Luo bumped into his eldest brother and sister-in-law this afternoon, and came to compensate for her."

"You and I know what kind of temperament Luo Luo is. Don't worry, I won't go to my heart, and Wanjing will naturally not either. You don't have to take it personally. ”

Liu Jin poured a cup of tea for him as he spoke, using classic French-style gilt porcelain, and the fat and emerald green tea tips stretched out in the shell-shaped white porcelain cup, which had a unique elegant style.

"The clouds and mist of Lushan that Commander Xu sent a few days ago, you try it."

But seeing that the tea soup was golden in color, clear and clean, and then smelled the aroma leisurely and mellow, Liu Ming praised the tea, drank a full cup, and then put the cup down:

"This Lushan cloud mist is indeed the best! It's just that I don't know when the eldest brother changed his taste, and he used to drink Junshan silver needles before, didn't he? ”

Liu Jin smiled and poured a full cup for him, and said:

"Junshan Yinzhen is too cool and not suitable for Wanjing. When Commander Xu came to the peace talks last time, he specially brought the best Lushan clouds and mist, saying that it was far better than the silver needle of Junshan, and I drank it, and Wan Jing liked it too, so I simply changed it. ”

Today's Xu Chuanhui is no longer the small Ganzhou overseer at that time, he has successfully reversed the hostile relations on the south coast, and eased the tense economic situation through the temporary armistice agreement with Luzhou, and is now the commander of the three provinces, commanding a million elite divisions. As far as he is concerned, Lin Wanjing is a hero who turned the tide and saved the entire Ganzhou, not to mention the best Lushan clouds, it is not an exaggeration to collect the top new tea in all tea gardens and give it to her - this is the treatment that only Lin Wanjing deserves, and it is the treatment that heroes should have, no one can match!

After three rounds of tea, Liu Jin saw that he was restless and didn't have anything to say, so he put down the tea cup and spoke for him:

"Did you come here tonight for something else? If so, it doesn't hurt. ”

Liu Ming pondered for a long time, and finally said as if he had made up his mind:

"The clearing accounts sent by the paperwork, brother, have you read it?"

It's really for this thing.

"Well, I've just seen some of it. I really didn't expect that all kinds of reserves would be in deficit. ”

"In the early summer of this year, Longmen Village suppressed bandits, and there was no harvest on both sides of the Xijiang River. In addition, there are frequent exchanges of fire in various places, and a large number of refugees have moved south, and the cost of relocating these refugees is also very large. The war cut off the inland trade routes, and the fiscal revenue of this part shrank severely. Those foreigners are changing their ways to lower prices, and now the enthusiasm of Luzhou exporters is not as good as before, you know this matter......

"I understand what you're saying, but at the moment munitions are supposed to be self-sufficient, why is the expenditure so huge?"

The military fabric factory in the western suburbs was put into operation smoothly, not only supplying more than enough military supplies to Luzhou, but also providing most of the tents and warm clothes for the resettlement of the victims, and even undertook orders from the north. Liu Jin still remembers that at the beginning of the year, Liu Ang asked him how many more cars of quilts he had transferred on the grounds of the War Department's expansion, and he didn't ask this younger brother for anything, but now the War Department's expenditure has increased unabated, which is really puzzling.

But Liu Ming obviously couldn't answer this question, frowning and saying:

"I don't understand that, either. Let's talk to him later. Actually, I'm here tonight, and I want to discuss this matter with my eldest brother......"

Liu Jin guessed that he shouldn't have come just for military expenses, so he sat deep on the sofa, stared at him and said:

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Actually, I have sent someone to count the reserves of the treasury again, but the result is really unsatisfactory. If it were an ordinary day without war and disaster, these reserves of the treasury should be abundant, but the current situation is so tight, let alone the disaster of war, it is a natural disaster, and I am afraid that it will become the last straw that crushes us. Liu Ming paused, lowered his eyes and said:

"If I didn't really have no choice, I wouldn't have come to discuss with you late at night. The Luzhou Chamber of Commerce is strong, rich and rivals the country, and the sister-in-law is also talking in the Chamber of Commerce, if the sister-in-law comes forward, it should be able to mobilize the Chamber of Commerce to raise some money, right? We can count the money as bonds, and when the treasury is free, it will be returned with interest. ”

"The idea is good, but you only now remembered that the Luzhou Chamber of Commerce is rich and rivals. What were you doing when the Lin family was wronged? Who helped Wanjing say a word? She didn't care, she gritted her teeth and didn't swallow it in her stomach, but you were embarrassed to ask her to raise money for you? ”

"At that time, the incident happened suddenly, in fact, I knew that the news was not much earlier than you, brother, and when I knew, I was powerless......"

In fact, Liu Jin doesn't blame him, the Ye family relies on military power to run rampant in Luzhou, covering the sky with one hand, and trying to find an excuse to get rid of anyone.

He was just cold, recalling Lin Wanjing's crying in the rainy night that day, he could almost see the situation when she blindly asked for help everywhere, and he could imagine how those people shirked in every possible way, pretending to be deaf and dumb for fear of offending the Ye family, and watched the fire from the other side.

Even though everyone has his own hardships and thousands of last resorts, the indifference of human feelings still makes him indignant and extremely disappointed.