Pei Min thought of this, and felt a little uneasy in his heart.

Thinking of the abnormal situation in Arabia these days, I couldn't help but say, "That lion can't be dragging me here, right?" ”

Pei Min continued to look at the letter in his hand, and in the letter, Zhang Jiuling also said that Zhang Guangyuan went to Qinghai Lake for help.

At the same time, he also bluntly said the consequences of his help.

Wang Ji is a celebrity in the temple and the first confidant in the court today (in Zhang Jiuling's eyes, Gao Lishi is just an internal servant, and a eunuch is not a heavy minister).

If you help out, it is likely to offend this current celebrity, and Pei Min is a foreign minister, and if he interferes too much in the affairs of the court, it is likely that there will be an adverse impact.

Zhang Jiuling did not let Pei Min help, but told him about it.

Pei Min understood what his subordinate meant.

Zhang Jiuling knew that if he opened this mouth, Pei Min's temperament would not refuse no matter what.

But in terms of the overall situation, Zhang said that it should be saved, but for Pei Min himself, it is harmful and not beneficial.

Because even if he is saved, Zhang Shuo will not be able to continue to enter the center of power.

People go to tea and cool, and trees fall and scatter, this is such a reality.

Therefore, Pei Min rescued Zhang and said, not only will he not get any benefits, but he will cause a commotion.

Therefore, Zhang Jiuling handed over the real choice to Pei Min, whether to make a move or not, and let him make his own decisions.

Pei Min hesitated for a while, and asked someone to call Sun Zhou.

"You immediately divide a part of the people to investigate a person for me, Wang Jie, whether this person is loyal or treacherous, you must find out. There is also any special news in Chang'an recently, which will also be investigated by the way. ”

Sun Zhou frowned slightly and said, "Understand, the subordinates will arrange it." ”

Pei Min also knew the reason, since the beginning of the war, Sun Zhou was in charge of all the intelligence in the Western Regions and Arabia, and shifted his focus to the West, and suddenly wanted to go back to investigate the situation in Chang'an, which had a certain shortage of manpower.

"I will write a letter to my wife and ask her to send the Qingyu Alliance to assist, with this land snake, you can rest assured in terms of manpower."

Sun Zhou's brows soothed, and he said in a loud voice: "Understand, my subordinates will do it." ”

Pei Min thought about it for a while, but decided to save Zhang Shuo.

Zhang said that he is not only a prime minister, but also a generation of Wenzong, who has dominated the literary world for decades and has a great reputation.

It's good to say that he has nothing to do in the Yushitai, but once the punishment is added, it is not a trivial matter.

Shilin's writing punishment is likely to implicate a lot.

Now that the Tang Dynasty is at a critical time, there is really no need to cause a political storm in vain.

However, he did not plan to go out in person, but took a detour and wrote a letter to Colliers to see if he could come to the rescue.

If Colliers is not willing to help, think of another way.

Pei Min's letter was quickly delivered to the hands of Chang'an Gaolis.

Gao Lishi looked a little tired, for some reason, his spirit was a little wrong, looking at Pei Min's letter, he frowned slightly, and lowered his head to think deeply.

"Master Gao!"

Wang Ji walked from a distance in high spirits.

For Colliers, Wang Ji is still extremely respectful.

Faced with the existence of the two princes and the prince who are both called "Ah Weng", Wang Ji is the same as the relatives of the horse country, and is called "Ye".

Gao Lishi hid the letter and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is invited, Wang Siqing will follow me in." ”

For this important minister, who holds ten important positions, Gao Lishi also behaved extremely politely.

As for why ten?

It's not the eight that Zhang Guang said, that's because during the time when Zhang Guang asked Zhang Jiuling for help, Wang Jiao was promoted again.

Wang Ji walked quickly towards the hall.

Li Longji sat on the top with a worried face, and when he saw Wang Jie's arrival, his face was first happy, and then he stopped talking a little, and it was difficult to speak.

Wang Jie's mind was clear, and he first made a big salute respectfully, and said with a happy face: "The minister Wang Jiao has seen Your Majesty, and I have good news to share with Your Majesty." The minister has been in charge of Taifu Temple for a long time, and after some restructuring, he has gained a lot of money. The ministers chose 500 million of the money in addition to the rent and gave it to the palace for His Majesty's use. ”

Li Longji was overjoyed when he heard this.

The reason why he has a sad face is because there is no money in the palace.

Don't think that the emperor is high, and all the money is dispatched, and he can spend it as he wants.

Of course, this is indeed the case with the faint monarchs in history, but the system of the Tang Dynasty has tended to be rationalized.

The treasury was separate from the emperor's own treasury, and Li Longji also received his own salary like the courtiers, and all the dispatches in the palace had a certain standard amount.

It's just that this quota was set by Li Longji himself.

If Lee Longji's small coffers run out and he needs to allocate money from the state treasury, he will need to get the approval of the finance minister.

When Li Longji ascended the throne, he advocated frugality, and even stipulated that ministers below the third rank, as well as concubines and concubines of the inner palace, were not allowed to wear ornaments made of gold and jade, and dismissed palace maids to save expenses, and set the consumption limit extremely low.

Later, because of the need to raise pear orchards, the consumption limit was changed many times, but it was all within the range of acceptance by the courtiers, and no one said anything, and there was never a move to embezzle money from the state treasury.

But now Li Longji finds that his small treasury is not enough, this is the middle of the month, and there is still half a month to go, how can he go on?

This penny is difficult for heroes, and even the emperor is worried about money.

Wang Jie is in charge of the treasury of the Tang Dynasty, Li Long basically wants to open his mouth to Wang Jie to embezzle the money from the treasury, but as an emperor, he can't save this face, but he doesn't want Wang Jie to give 500 million yuan in one go, constantly solving his urgent needs, and there are still many surpluses to squander, and he has avoided the bad reputation of embezzling the treasury.

Looking at the confidant minister in front of him, Li Longji became happier the more he looked at it, and said, "Is this 500 million yuan really not a tax modulated by rent?" ”

Rent modulation was the core tax system of the Tang Dynasty, which was mainly based on the collection of grain, cloth or service for the government, and was based on the implementation of the uniform land system.

As long as the modulation of rents is not chaotic, the people's hearts of Datang will not be chaotic.

Wang Ji said with a package ticket: "Your Majesty, rest assured, these money are obtained by the ministers and have nothing to do with the state's funds. ”

Li Longji didn't ask carefully, and said with a smile: "Aiqing is good at managing money, and he will definitely be able to enrich the Tang Dynasty for me, and Aiqing will manage my treasury, I can rest assured." ”

Gao Lishi listened on the side, his brows were even more worried, and he said with a smile: "Zhang Gong didn't complain about the lack of funds before, but now it's okay, with Wang Siqing here, the funds are worry-free." ”

Wang Jie's expression froze, his head was lowered, and he didn't dare to speak.

Li Longji was stunned and said: "By the way, if General Gao doesn't mention it, I will forget Zhang Qing, but I don't know what happened to him in the Yushitai?" Zhang Qing has a credit to the court after all, and even if he has, he cannot be severely punished. ”

Gao Lishi smiled: "Why don't you let the old slave go for Your Majesty and see Gong Zhang?" ”

"It's good!" Li Longji has never refused Colliers' suggestion, and instinctively responded.