Li Xie's side was directly blocked from the door, and he didn't mention it for the time being, but said that the guards watching the gate told the ins and outs of the matter after going in and finding the housekeeper.

After the guard finished speaking, the butler frowned and scolded: "What's the matter with you?" How can you keep people out? ”

"But ......"

"But what? Are you still reasonable? Nothing big or small. As he spoke, he got up and walked out, but the pace of walking was not fast, and he even had the leisure to scold a person who couldn't see it.

Looking at the posture of the housekeeper, the doorkeeper knew that the housekeeper should not be in a hurry to meet the person outside the door, so the original anxiety in his heart calmed down a little.

The Yiwang Mansion was originally very large, and the housekeeper could be said to have no tigers in the mountains, and the monkey was called the king. In order to make his life more comfortable, he moved directly to the backyard. This was originally extremely unruly, but there was no master in this palace, so it wasn't a housekeeper, so what happened.

It didn't take long for the gatekeeper to run all the way to find the butler, but when the housekeeper walked out slowly, it took at least three times as long as the gatekeeper.

So almost half an hour passed back and forth. Li Xie was outside the door, the more he waited, the more angry he became, his grandmother, Lao Tzu had to wait at the door of the house for half an hour when he returned home.

Li Xie felt that his face was hot at this time, he had never been so embarrassed.

"The little ones have seen the adults." The housekeeper was also very knowledgeable, and as soon as the door opened, he immediately saluted respectfully as soon as he walked out. Then without waiting for Li Xie to say anything, he hurriedly opened his mouth to defend himself:

"The palace is too big, there are too many things, I deal with some things in the backyard, it's too far away from here, I came a little late, and I hope the adults don't blame me."

The reason for the uprightness is that the housekeeper was originally to deal with the trivial matters of the palace, and he did his own job, and he was a little far away from the gate, so it was too late, and no one could say anything wrong.

After all, even if you are an emperor, you can't ask others to be on call. This person is just a person, not a god, he can't do it, and he can reach it with a thought.

"You know me?" Li Xie's face didn't get much better, and he asked this sentence neither softly nor hard.

"When the messenger gave the message, the people below said a word or two." Li Xie didn't tell the housekeeper to get up, and the housekeeper could only salute like this, not daring to move.

"I see, since that's what it looks like, then I can go in."

"Of course, there is no reason why adults can't go in when they go back to their own homes." The butler took the opportunity to get up as he spoke, and scolded the people behind him: Don't open them yet.

After saying this, he shouted angrily at the two guards of the door:

"Dogs that don't have long eyes, their own owners can't recognize them, what's the use of you? They pulled out their clothes and threw them out to me. ”

After finishing speaking, he turned around and said to Li Xie with a flattering face: "My lord, please." ”

Li Xie's identity is now very distinctive, you say that he is a prince, he is indeed a prince, but because, when Li Xie was born, it was when Concubine Zhen died. With Li Zhanji's attention to Concubine Zhen, the people below didn't dare to say much at all.

So unless there is an identity in the palace, ordinary people don't know Li Xie's ranking among the princes. And generally when you call the prince, you always have to bring the ranking to look respectful, after all, the prince is not only you, there are many more. So directly call a few princes, this housekeeper obviously can't do it, because he doesn't know at all.

And the general prince will be crowned the throne when he becomes an adult, as long as the throne is sealed, it is the prince, and the descendants in the family can be called the prince directly.

But it's a pity that the holy decree to make Li Xie king was not issued, so in this respect, he is not a prince. The title of the prince is not something that can be called casually, although the person who lives in the palace must be the prince, but the top has not been sealed, and the people below dare not call it that.

So going around, the only thing Li Xie is in his official position. As long as you have been an official, even if you are no longer in office, it is appropriate for others to call you an adult. Therefore, it is very appropriate for this housekeeper to be called an adult.

Li Xie didn't respond, took Cao Ying's hand and walked in, which went directly into the main courtyard, and brought Su Ci and a few people over, just a little inquiry, he already knew the approximate situation of the entire palace.

The butler has been in this palace for more than ten years, and the subordinates with a little seniority have been tamed by him. I am afraid it will not be too easy to get the truth from the mouths of those subordinates.

However, Li Xie did not give up, and with the psychology of luck, he found several subordinates and asked about the recent situation of the palace. As a result, the answer they got was far from the answer they got from Su Ci and the others. Of course, Li Xie trusted Su Ci, so while he was disappointed, he had already begun to plan in his heart how to change the blood of these subordinates.

From this aspect, it can be seen that Huang Yu's idea was correct at the beginning. If Su Ci and the others had moved in from the beginning and left directly if they felt uncomfortable, Li Xie wanted to find someone to inquire about the general situation of the palace, but there was no way.

Of course, this is actually a troublesome thing, and it is of course impossible to drive people out directly. It's not that Li Xie, as the owner of this palace, doesn't have this right, but that if he just drives everyone out like this, people outside will definitely gossip about Li Xie.

In the past, there was no one in charge of the palace, and these subordinates showed you the palace for more than ten years, and they took care of it quite well, at least there were no scandals in the palace. More than ten years, how many decades does a person's life take?

People have shown you more than ten years of home, there is no merit and hard work. It's good now, as soon as you come back, you will drive everyone else out, no matter how you look at it, it feels a bit like crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

Li Xie doesn't care about these gossips, but he doesn't care, and he has to think about the people around him.

Lu Xiaomei has to get married in the future, right?

Li Xie married Cao Ying in the future, so he had to have a child, right?

It's okay to give birth to a boy, but the reputation is notorious, and it will be a long wine, if you give birth to a daughter, such a reputation is not good.

Maybe that's how people grow.

When he was alone before, Li Xie never thought about these things when he did things, and some didn't. As long as the method is effective, Li Xie will never care what others say, such as the plans he used when he was outside Xicheng.

Li Xie is really self-defeating, and he has made his reputation stink. But now he doesn't dare to do that, he starts to plan for his future, which is growth.

"The things in this palace can be put aside, and what must be solved now is the chaos in this city." To solve it, these people in the palace are very simple, it is nothing more than to find some evidence of their power, and then make it public, and then drive them out.

In doing so, you can convince the public, and others will not be able to say anything. There was no master in the palace before, and there was no big expenditure, so what could there be to be greedy for?

It is nothing more than taking some of the more fragmentary objects of the palace out to exchange for some money, or doing some tricks and tricks in the accounts of the daily life of the palace. Originally, these were just small things, if Li Xie could come in smoothly, he didn't care about his subordinates, and took such small profits.

The bad thing is that his own master, before he entered the house, he let others come to a dismount. Li Xie didn't know how others were, anyway, he couldn't bear it anyway.

The Yi Wangfu is a royal mansion, since this housekeeper knows his name, but he has not announced it to his subordinates, what does this mean?

Well, even if I am embarrassed now, I can't tell others. At least the people watching the gate outside have to tell me, so that the master won't even be able to enter the house when he comes back.

Forget about these things that you didn't do, and your own master was stopped at the door after returning home. The butler turned around and sent the two guards away.

What is this?

Death without proof?

It seems to be a very ordinary thing, but there are too many cats in it. Li Xie even faintly felt that there were still outsiders' hands and feet inside.

When Li Xie said this, his eyes were staring at Cao Ying directly. What Li Xie is most afraid of, what he is most afraid of is not an opponent, what he is most afraid of is trouble.

What's so scary about this opponent? Each means is nothing more than dividing the high and low, otherwise, the winner is the king, and the loser is the villain.

But this trouble is different, especially for trivial troubles like this kind of auditing, Li Xie is particularly annoyed by this. It's like an itch attached to the bone, if you don't scratch it, it's uncomfortable, if you scratch it, you can't scratch it.

"What do you think I'm doing? Not right now. "How else can there be such a thing as husband and wife? Or how can it be said that it is a tacit understanding?

Li Xie just glanced at Cao Ying when he said this, and Cao Ying understood what Li Xie meant.

What identity does Cao Ying use now to meddle in the affairs of the palace?

Hostess?

Although the decree has been given and has been offered to the family, it has not yet been married, that is, the six rituals have not yet been performed. This is not rightly named, sooner or later it is a matter of time, but it is also divided into sooner or later.

And aside from the identity of this hostess, it seems awkward to meddle in the affairs of the palace in any capacity. Lu Xiaomei is Li Xie's goddaughter, and Linghua, as her mother, is naturally not an outsider. But even with this relationship, she is not suitable to meddle in the affairs of this palace.

Su Ci and Li Xie had a fateful relationship, but Li Xie never regarded him as an outsider. When I was at home, I ate at the same table every day, and I was just like that, even if I was my brother, Su Ci couldn't control the affairs of the palace.

It is precisely because this housekeeper saw this that he dared to embarrass him openly. Otherwise, as a scary person, give him ten dares, he would dare to do such a thing?

"Sooner or later."

"That's sooner or later."

"Yes, that's sooner or later, that's it. You are the mistress of this palace, and you don't care who cares. "I have to say that the charm between words, it's just a matter of adding a word. The meaning is completely different.

Li Xie just pushed the matter to Cao Ying like a scoundrel, and after pushing it to Cao Ying, he didn't give her a chance to refute, Li Xie turned his head and discussed the matter of selling grain with Su Ci.

In the past, Li Xie's shop selling sugar water was almost all over Luotianfu, so now it is not troublesome to sell grain, as long as you change the signboard.

And it is precisely because of the use of ice in the sugar water that Li Xie has never appeared in this regard at all, so this sugar water shop has always been mysterious in the eyes of many people.

This mystery has two advantages, this is, of course, when you sell grain at a high price, you don't have to ruin your reputation. These two are that once they become mysterious, others will not be able to probe your bottom, so whatever you brag about, others will believe it.

Naturally, then, when you have this mysterious identity, and you say that you have food in your hands to supply others for a year, others will believe that you have food in your hands to supply others for a year.

With the prerequisite for this, Li Xie's subsequent operations will become very simple......

The next day, Li Xie went directly to the palace with the token, and then Li Zhanji ordered someone to find Liu Bao, the household servant. Liu Bao, who received the order, of course, did not dare to delay, and took Li Xie to the warehouse where the imperial court stored grain.

Li Xie looked at the pile of grain that filled a whole granary and frowned, this one was much less than he imagined. Li Xie originally thought that the food he said he would supply to the border would be enough for millions of people to eat for a month.

But I don't want to, there is only such a little bit, not to mention millions of people, that is, 500,000 people, and the food in this granary is enough to choke.

"I said, Lord Liu, you won't hide some secretly, will you?" Of course, this is a joke, but it is also a desire to blow up this Tobe squire.

Embezzlement is unlikely, but it's hard to say whether he will think of handing over only a part of it. After all, Li Xie is still very young, and Li Zhanji is very relieved of him and is willing to hand over the grain of the whole country to him. But Liu Bao, the head of the household, may not be very reassuring to him.

"What are you talking about? It's not the first time you've dealt with me, don't you know me yet? How dare I do such a thing? Liu Bao has received Li Xie's help and believes in his talent, but when it comes to handing over the entire country's grain to Li Xie's hands, Liu Bao's heart is still a little trembling.

So he did secretly keep a little bit, but not much. If you can only solve the urgent need, you can keep a little bit of yourself, so that you will not be helpless at the most critical time.

Liu Bao was born poor, and he knows very well how helpless he is when the people have no food. So in this regard, he does not trust anyone, not even the emperor.

It is precisely because of this that he was able to sit in the position of this household squire at a young age, in his early 30s, and less than 40 years old.

"Of course I believe Master Liu, just ask." Li Xie said this pointedly.

He really doesn't care how much food he gets, what he wants is just the cost of acting. There is a lot of grain in such a large warehouse to use for acting. So whether Liu Bao has any reservations, Li Xie really doesn't care.

"I'm tired of Lord Liu sending someone to send all this grain to my sugar water shop." The sugar water shop has now changed all its signs. All of them have been converted into grain stores.

Luo Tianfu was already panicked, it was good that there was grain in the house, but the middle-class people who did not have grain in the house wanted to break their heads and wanted to find food, but there was no way.

Those who have stored grain and those whose families are relatively wealthy have also been seen by now. In the coming year, there will definitely be a shortage of food. It is impossible to exchange your life-saving food for silver taels.

Naturally, those who want to find a way and find food will spend more and more money. Now a lot of grain on the black market has been speculated to sky-high prices. You can't be sure how long this grain has been in place, there is no guarantee, because it is a black market, you can't go back to those bosses. Those bosses do a stick and hammer business, one place sells things for a day, and the things they buy, that is neither quality assurance nor returns.

Even the people on the official uniforms are difficult to find their handles, but even if it is such food, there are people who really want to buy it now.

Li Xie's sugar water shops have all been converted into grain shops, which has certainly attracted a lot of attention.

When I first started buying sugar water, there was ice, and the store was what many people paid attention to. No way, it's already summer, and the ice can't be preserved in such a hot weather, but these sugar water shops spend a huge amount of ice every day to make sugar water sales.

This is just the beginning, and it has already been labeled as a mystery. And now, when there is a shortage of food, these shops are selling food again. It's really nothing in the world, you just sell what's right.

Therefore, the signboards of these shops have just been hung up, and they have already attracted the attention of those families.

There is no way, there is one and there are two, and everyone can sell ice in the summer, so it is not incomprehensible to sell food when there is a shortage of food.

As more and more people pay attention, of course, there are many people who start to disbelieve.

"Where are they going to find food at this season?"

"Actually, there is nothing impossible, they are very mysterious, they can open shops all over Luotianfu overnight, which is not something that ordinary people can do."

The crowd of onlookers was in a state of confusion, but then the officers and soldiers of the household department escorted truckloads of grain into the store.

There was no time for half a day, and as soon as the grain was transported in, it was followed by the opening. When the doors of the shops were opened, the onlookers were simply blindsided.