After that, he thought for a moment and said, "The silver needed for repairs should be spent from the inner treasury!" ”

The Tang Dynasty is poor, and the treasury can't get the money to repair the palace, but Li Xuan can't let the Empress Dowager Bai, Dong Yunyun and the Ye family live in a dilapidated house, if the treasury has no money, he can only use his own private money.

That's right, the Tang Dynasty, like the Ming Dynasty, also had a financial system divided into the treasury and the inner treasury, with the money of the former belonging to the state and the money of the latter belonging to the royal family, or more precisely, to the emperor's private money.

The money of the treasury comes from taxes, and the money of the inner treasury is more diverse, first of all, there is a payment from the Ministry of Taxation, for the living expenses of the royal family, but this number is not large, and the more obtained is still the property obtained by the officials and gentry of the recalcitrant Ming Dynasty, this part can not belong to the treasury, but directly into the inner treasury, in addition to some donations from the Ming Dynasty officials, gentry and donations.

However, in the past, the distinction between the treasury and the inner treasury was not obvious, as soon as there was money, it was immediately filled in the bottomless pit of the army, and after entering the Xingquan Mansion, the Tang Dynasty raided the homes of many recalcitrant Ming army officials and gentry who did not obey, plus some of the gentry and big gentry took the initiative to donate a lot in order to survive or want to mix an official or a half-job or something.

So in the past few days, the treasury has also accumulated a lot of silver, most of which is naturally left hand in and right hand out, directly used as military expenses, but there is still a small part left, and the cost of repairing a house and maintaining the royal family is barely enough.

Huo Shouqi nodded slightly and said, "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Li Xuan raised his feet and continued to walk out, but after just two steps, he suddenly stopped: "By the way, has the Dong family found it?" ”

Huo Shouqi heard Li Xuan suddenly ask, and he reacted a little for a while, but as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, although he had been with Li Xuan for less than half a month, he was not stupid, and he naturally understood many things, and after being stunned for a moment, he quickly reacted, the Dong family that His Majesty said was the maiden family of Dong Yunyun, the queen's mother.

The Dong family is a scholarly family in Zhengtai County, and there are still people in the family who are officials in the imperial court, but after the puppet Tang thief army in Zhengtai County made trouble last year, in order to avoid trouble, the family has already moved to Xingquan Mansion City to live, so I couldn't find the Dong family in Zhengtai County before.

But after entering Xingquan Mansion City, he still couldn't find the Dong family.

The Dong family is Dong Yunyun's maiden family, and Li Xuan can't ignore it, so he ordered the people below to look for the traces of the Dong family, but they didn't get any clues, and they couldn't find it after looking for a few days.

Huo Shouqi said: "Back to Your Majesty, I have sent someone to look for it, and I have found a few clues before and after, there is news that the people of the Dong family only lived in the house of a friend in Xingquan Mansion for half a month, and then left the friend's house and purchased the house by themselves, we found the house where the Dong family stayed, but only found some people who watched the house, and the people of the Dong family disappeared on the day we entered the city, we guess that the people of the Dong family are probably hiding like other big families!" ”

The puppet Tang thief army entered Xingquanfu City, and the gentry of Xingquanfu City were panicked, some were waiting to be killed, some wanted to escape from the city, and some were hiding, especially some gentry families whose families were officials in the court, many of them were hiding.

It is not surprising that the people of the Dong family are hiding, after all, they don't know that their eldest lady has become the queen of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

In fact, so far, the outside world's understanding of the Tang Dynasty is very limited, and many of them are superficial, for example, many people know the names of Li Erbi and Li Xuan's father and son, but if you want to ask Li Xuan's wife, what is the name of the queen of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, then you have to be blind, at most you know the word 'Dong'.

And in order to protect the people of the Dong family, Li Xuan will not be stupid enough to let people claim that Dong Yunyun is the daughter of the Dong family in Zhengtai County, because once the news spreads, there is a chance that the Dong family will be exterminated by the imperial court, especially Dong's father, who is still an official in Jiangnan, and it is 100% that he will be questioned by the imperial court.

The daughter of the Dong family became the queen of the puppet Tang thief army, this is worth it, the Dong family has to die if they don't die!

"Is it possible that they are out of town?" Li Xuan continued to ask: "If you go out of the city, it's not easy to find it!" ”

Huo Shouqi said: "There is this possibility, and it is not small, after my Wang Shi entered the city, in order to clear the remnants of the city and demote the officials, the first three days were closed down, but after the closure was lifted, although we still have some control over the big families in the city, many people are out of the city, and many of them are dressed up and mixed out of the city!" It is possible that the Dong family is also mixed in the crowd out of the city and went out of the city! ”

Li Xuan said: "Keep looking, it's best to find out a day earlier, otherwise, this Dong family will be in danger!" ”

Huo Shouqi nodded and said: "The minister obeys the order, and he will instruct the people below to find out the Dong family as soon as possible!" ”

Today's people of the Dong family probably don't know that their eldest lady has become the queen of the Tang Dynasty, so they will run away, but if this matter is publicized, I am afraid that the fate of the Dong family will be very bad, and it is a good thing to find them as soon as possible to avoid the people of the Dong family falling into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the troubles on the Dong family's side are troublesome, Li Xuan doesn't take it too seriously to the truth, now he is busy with so many things every day, and the following people are looking for the Dong family's affairs, and he won't be staring at them every day, because even if he stares at them every day, it's useless.

Li Xuan didn't know that at this moment, in a farm about thirty miles outside the city of Xingquan Mansion, several men who were dressed ordinarily, but whose temperament was different from ordinary people, were frowning sadly, and although the tea on the table in front of them was still full, it was already cold.

These men are old and young, both old and young, and they all reveal the temperament of rich and noble families that ordinary people in this era do not have.

The leader was an old man about sixty years old, with a calm face and didn't know what to think, and beside the old man, there was a middle-aged man in his forties with a pale face who closed his eyes slightly, and occasionally sighed.

In addition, there were two young men, the youngest was about fifteen or sixteen years old, sitting a little restless, looking around from time to time, as if he was afraid of something, and the slightly older one looked eighteen or nineteen years old, although he looked very calm, and did not look around with fear on his face, but occasionally he could still see a little panic flashing on his face.

When the young man, who was about eighteen or nineteen years old, poured hot tea for everyone, the door was pushed open from the outside, and everyone looked out of the door, only to see a young man in a blue cloth robe entered.

After the young man walked in, the old man sitting on it spoke: "An'er, are you all settled?" ”

Dong Songan immediately stepped forward and said: "Grandpa, don't worry, my grandson has already settled everyone down, and let the people in the manor prepare meals, and you can eat hot meals after a little longer!" ”

The old man nodded slightly: "Well, it's good!" ”

The middle-aged man next to the old man also said: "An'er, you have worked hard along the way, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid our family would have encountered disasters among the sword soldiers!" ”

Speaking of this, he showed a hint of self-reproach: "It's all my fault, otherwise I wouldn't have let An'er be busy alone!" ”

Perhaps he was in a hurry when he spoke, the middle-aged man suddenly coughed violently, and the eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man beside him immediately stepped forward and patted him lightly on the back: "Dad, what's wrong with you!" ”

"Second uncle!" Dong Songan also took two steps forward: "Are you okay?" ”

The middle-aged man continued to cough while waving his hand and said intermittently, "No...... It's okay, I'm ...... Dong Bode also ...... Can't die! ”

The old man above looked at Dong Bode, who was coughing constantly, and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he sighed and didn't speak.

When Dong Bode's coughing stopped, the handkerchief he used to cover his mouth was already covered with a drop of blood.

At this time, the old man spoke again: "I'm tired along the way, let's settle down in this Zhuangzi for a while, and you all go back to rest!" ”

At this time, everyone began to get up and leave, but the 'An'er' did not get up, and looked at the old man with a meaningful gaze, the old man glanced at Dong Songan slightly, and then said: "An'er stays!" ”

After the other three walked out, the old man spoke: "An'er, is there anything else?" ”

After Dong Songan heard this, he still didn't speak for the first time, but showed hesitation on his face, and only after a long time did he hesitate: "Grandpa, my grandson heard some rumors outside, I don't know if to say it!" ”

Dong Laoweng was stunned: "You are the eldest son of my Dong family, the future of this Dong family is yours, you can say anything!" ”

Dong Songan took a deep breath at this time and said: "Sun Er recently heard that the pseudo-queen of the pseudo-Tang thief army is called Dong, and it is rumored that the pseudo-queen of the pseudo-Tang thief army is a lady from a scholarly family, and she is also a Zhengtai person!" ”

After Dong Laoweng heard this, his eyebrows furrowed, and he muttered: "The daughter of the Dong family who was born in a scholarly family is still my Zhengtai person!" ”

After muttering a few words, suddenly his face changed slightly, and then he raised his head and looked at Dong Songan: "What do you want to say?" ”

Dong Songan lowered his voice and said, "Grandpa, don't you think it's too much of a coincidence?" The subordinate who fled back said that the third sister was robbed by a group of mountain bandits. And there are not many people in the Dong clan in my Zhengtai County, who else can be called a scholarly family besides our family? ”

Dong Laoweng immediately waved his hand at this time and said, "An'er is cautious!" ”

As he spoke, he said in a serious tone: "Your third sister, Yun'er had already died of a cold the year before last!" ”

Dong Songan also wanted to say: "But ......"

However, before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Dong Laoweng, who stared at Dong Songan and said in a louder tone: "An'er! ”

Dong Songan looked at Dong Laoweng's expression, and finally sighed and stopped talking!