"Huh? Long'er, how do you know? Li Tai looked at Long'er in surprise.

"When the Emperor Taishang was in power, he repaired the palace in the palace, although it was repaired, but it was no different from the reconstruction, the Taiji Palace was the old palace of the Sui Dynasty, and when Emperor Yang was in power, there was a palace change, and then there were successive wars, and the damage was quite serious.

Li Tai patted his head: "How did I forget this, when the imperial grandfather was in power, he used to repair the buildings in the palace, but I was still young at that time, and I still lived in the Qin Palace, so I didn't pay much attention to these things." ”

"Nalong'er, do you know how much it will cost to build a pavilion?" Xuan Shijing had the mentality of trying it out and asked Long'er.

"It's simpler, a pavilion or something, it can be built in 50,000 yuan." Long'er said.

Fifty thousand guan, although it exceeded Li Tai's expectation a lot, but it was much better than the 150,000 guan that built the palace.

"Then let's build a pavilion, just with the token that my father gave me, I can also mobilize the Ministry of Works, I will go back to discuss with my eldest brother how to make money." Li Tai has made up his mind.

"In this case, then the things pulled by His Royal Highness should be left in the mansion first, yesterday the money piled up to report to me, the money of the new paper has arrived in the mansion has been nearly two thousand, and the rest of the money of the new paper in Chang'an City will be shipped over in two days, a total of about 5,400 tubes, in addition to the five hundred dividends of His Royal Highness the King of Shu, there are more than 4,700 guan left, and I have to reserve two thousand guan for the river on the Zhuangzi, that is to say, there are still two thousand seven hundred guan left at hand now, plus a car of utensils you sent." Xuan Shijing saw that Li Tai had made up his mind, so he directly told Li Tai about the financial situation that could be embezzled.

Li Tai shook his head, only two thousand seven hundred, a drop in the bucket, originally thought that he and his eldest brother were stealing some ornaments in the palace, saving them on weekdays, plus the dividends of Xuan Shijing's new paper, it was almost enough, after all, the construction of the warm pavilion could not be completed in a while, during this time, he and his eldest brother could also think of some ways, but according to the current situation, even if they sold that car of things, it was still a lot away from 50,000 yuan, and he and his eldest brother were still too thoughtful.

"Although there is a lot of money missing, it is not completely impossible to build a warm pavilion, the income of more than 5,000 yuan is only around Chang'an, I have already ordered Qiandui to send people to Luoyang and other places, presumably it will not take ten days and half a month, there will be news." Xuan Shiqing said.

This news can be described as a mountain and a river for Li Tai, and there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village, hearing this, Li Tai's eyes lit up again, and the matter of building a warm pavilion is still reliable.

"Wude Hall and the East Palace, don't make any more moves, if you two really hollow out the palace, don't say that Cheng Qian's side will be impeached, just your Wude Palace, I'm afraid you won't be able to open the pot, I expect, 50,000 tubes, almost able to make it up, Your Highness, you can put the matter of Zhuangzi on the river first, go to the Ministry of Industry to find someone to come and take a look, you are still busy with the matter of warming the pavilion, it is a complicated matter to set up a pavilion in the palace, you still have to think about how Your Majesty and Niangniang are going to say."

Today in the Hou Mansion, Li Tai's mood can be said to be spent in the ups and downs, and his mood is chaotic until he returns to the Wude Palace, and he can't calm down for a long time, although the matter of money is solved, but to build a warm pavilion in the palace, he has to think about how to tell his father, Li Tai sighed.

"Your Highness, just now someone from the East Palace has sent a message, saying that you are back and please go to the East Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is waiting for you." Before Li Tai returned to the Wude Palace, his buttocks were hot, and an attendant came to report.

Li Tai waved his hand and motioned for the chamberlain to go down: "This king knows, you can step down." ”

The chamberlain answered the promise, and without further words, he bowed down and withdrew from the temple.

Li Tai got up from the couch, went to the inner hall to change the robe on his body, and put on the royal robe, since he stayed on Xuan Shijing Zhuangzi for these few days, his daily trivialities, he was more and more unaccustomed to letting the palace maids serve.

With two eunuchs and two palace maids, Li Tai walked all the way, through the imperial garden, to the East Palace.

"You four stay outside the temple and wait." When he arrived at the gate of the palace, Li Tai stopped, turned his head and ordered the eunuchs and palace maids accompanying him to wait for him outside.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Li Tai entered the main hall, in the main hall, Li Chengqian was sitting in front of the bookcase looking at the folding, frowning, as if he had encountered something difficult, Li Tai went straight to the bookcase, picked up the apple placed in the porcelain plate on the bookcase, wiped it with his hand, and gnawed it down.

"Look at your expression, what's wrong." Li Tai sat cross-legged on the soft couch in front of the desk.

Li Chengqian handed the fold in his hand to Li Tai with a serious face: "Look at this." ”

Well? Li Tai put the apple in his hand on the case, took the fold handed over by Li Chengqian, and opened it to look at it.

"Gangneung drought?" After roughly reading the contents of the excerpt, Li Tai said: "Shouldn't this kind of thing be reported to my father?" ”

"This book was sent by my father, saying that he was asking me what my opinion was." Li Chengqian said.

"What do you think, big brother?" Li Tai frowned and asked, this may be the father emperor testing the eldest brother.

"What if it was just a drought." Li Chengqian sighed: "If it is just a drought, the imperial court only needs to allocate funds and allocate grain, although the treasury is not abundant, but it can always be gathered." ”

"What does big brother mean?" Li Tai continued to ask.

"Jiangling used to be a place where Xiao Mill was entrenched, until now, there are still Xiao Mill's old departments active, and my father sent people to investigate several times, but as soon as the people from the court arrived, the gang did not move, like a turtle shrunk their heads in their shells, making people unable to start, if those people take advantage of the drought to do something this time, it will be extremely unfavorable to the court in any case." Li Chengqian analyzed.

Li Tai nodded: "For today's plan, we can only quickly send officials to Jiangling for disaster relief, and the imperial court must also send money and grain as soon as possible." ”

Li Chengqian smiled bitterly and shook his head: "If there is money and grain to send, my father and I don't have to be so helpless, yesterday my father asked the head of the household department, and even the internal affairs office also asked, and the answer given was, no money, isn't it ridiculous, my huge treasury of the Tang Dynasty can't even send money for disaster relief." ”

Li Tai frowned, he urgently felt the importance of money for the first time.

"Big brother, I just came back from Shijing Mansion, and the construction of the Warm Pavilion will cost about 50,000 yuan, or I will embezzle the money first."

"Fifty thousand? Where did we get so much money, even if we hollowed out the East Palace, we wouldn't be able to make up 50,000 yuan. Li Chengqian said.

"I discussed it with Shi Jing, 50,000 guan can be made in about ten days, anyway, the matter of the warm pavilion can't be rushed, even if there is money now, without the approval of my father, we can't start the work, so we can embezzle this money to disaster relief first." Li Tai analyzed.

"But 50,000 guan" Li Chengqian didn't continue, 50,000 guan is still a little stretched.

If it comes to money, you still have to ask Xuan Shijing for advice, Li Tai thought of Xuan Shijing again, a new paper recipe can be sold in Chang'an City for more than 5,000 yuan, he will definitely have a way.

"Big brother, you write a letter to Shi Jing now, saying that your father is in urgent need of money, ask him to help think of a way, and then you go to see your father again, it is best for Shi Jing to discuss it with his father face to face." For some reason, Li Tai now has an inexplicable trust in Xuan Shijing, who is much younger than him.