When I arrived at the Yamen of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the south of the Imperial City, I waited for Xiao Zheng to see a lot of people sitting in the lobby, all kinds of official robes were colorful and green, and after seeing Xiao Zheng, a room of people stood up. In terms of official position, Xiao Zheng is only one level lower than Du Ruhui, but in terms of title, Xiao Zheng is higher than Du Ruhui, a very interesting pair.

Other officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs also wanted to meet this young prince, who had only known that his medical skills were astonishing, and his calligraphy and poetry were unique. Everyone wants to see what magical powers this person who has gone from white to Guogong in less than three years after entering Li Shimin's vision.

After entering the door, he bowed respectfully to everyone and said, "I have seen all the adults."

Everyone was also a little surprised to see Xiao Zheng taking the lead in giving a salute, but their good impression of him suddenly increased a lot, so they said in unison: "Xiaguan has seen Lord Xiao."

When he arrived at Du Ruhui, Xiao Zheng bowed deeply to Du Ruhui and said: "Xiaguan Xiao Zheng has seen Du Shangshu, and he will work under Lord Du in the future.

Lao Du already knew what Xiao Zheng's virtues were, stretched out his hand and pushed him, kicked him again and said: "I haven't seen you have a positive shape, when you made a mistake on the first day of taking office, you have no one, hurry up and sit down" After speaking, he pointed to the seat next to him and said.

Seeing the two of them joking so familiarly, all the officials settled down in their hearts, if they didn't get along, everyone would be uncomfortable in the future, but fortunately, the two of them were still quite familiar. When everyone sat down, everyone, including Du Ruhui, was looking at Xiao Zheng, which had the meaning of letting the leader speak two sentences in the future.

Xiao Zheng spread his hands and said: "Everyone, it's useless to see me, if anyone has a headache and brain fever, I have a way, but today I didn't have silver cakes on my body when I came here, I came to see the silver cakes, even if I have it, it's not enough for everyone to share."

"Haha......" After listening to Xiao Zheng's words, everyone in the room laughed, everyone thought that Xiao Zheng was so young that he would have to come to a new official to take office three times, but they didn't expect the talented Lord Xiao to stare at and talk nonsense on such a serious occasion.

Du Ruhui shook his head, pointed at Xiao Zheng with his finger and said with a smile: "You, alas...".

When everyone stopped laughing, Du Ruhui presided over everyone to get to know each other, and after the introduction, he called an official to come over and say to Xiao Zheng: "This person's name is Liu Yijie, who is in charge of the specific affairs of Taifu Temple, you listen to him talk about the situation first."

After Liu Yijie's introduction, Xiao Zheng learned that the treasury was in charge of the left Tibet, the right Tibet, and the Yellow Tibet. The left treasury is the main treasury of the state, which mainly accepts and stores coins, cloth and other materials that are transferred to the central government from all over the country. The officials include Zuozang Order, Cheng, Fu Shi, Supervisor, Zhanggu and others. The coins and cloths in the treasury were mainly used to pay for the salaries of hundreds of officials, allocate military expenses, supply court supplies, and transform to recover bad money. In addition, it is also responsible for collecting and deducting fines.

The right treasury is mainly used to store gold, silver, pearls and other treasures that are transported to the central government from all over the country, and to manage the procedures of income and expenditure, such as gold, silver, pearls and jade, accounting review of accounts, storage of treasury goods, and punishment of those who violate the system and laws and regulations. The Great Surplus Treasury of Huangzang mainly received coins, cloth and other items from the state treasury, local revenues, palace markets and imperial estates. Its expenses were reserved for the profligacy and waste of the imperial court, the emperor's rewards, etc., and sometimes the emperor also appropriated military expenses and state expenses.

The miscellaneous warehouses mainly include the treasure storehouse, the library library, the bow and arrow storehouse, the utensils storehouse, the medicine store, the clothing storehouse and the food storehouse, etc., which are mostly managed by eunuchs. The first treasury is a professional treasury for the preparation of edicts and documents.

Seeing that the official was talking about the truth, Xiao asked, "Dare to ask what position Mr. is in?" ”

Liu Yijie bowed his head and bowed and said, "Xiaguan is currently the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple."

It seems that Lao Tzu has a lot of things to do, although it is a treasury head, I thought it was just a matter of managing money, but I didn't expect there to be so many miscellaneous things here.

Du Ruhui looked at him and said with a wry smile: "Brother Xiao, you have made my brother miserable by the way."

After listening to Lao Du's words, Xiao Zheng was confused, "Lao Du, you can't say that, anyway, you are also a senior member of the DPRK and the Central Committee, how can you say that I cheated you?" ”。

"Brother, I know that you asked from the sage to give me the position of Shangshu, and you will be your deputy. This Ministry of Civil Affairs sounds good to say, in charge of the territory, fields, household registration, taxes, salaries and all financial matters of the country, the world's money and grain go out of the Ministry of People's Affairs, but you have to have money and grain to manage, you will know in a while", Lao Du patted Xiao Zheng's shoulder and said.

After finishing speaking, he got up and said to Xiao Zheng: "Go, my Lord Xiao, take your people and horses, and let's go to the treasury of your Taifu Temple to have a look."

Xiao Zheng became interested as soon as he heard it, the treasury, Datang's money bag is under Lao Tzu's control, how much money does Lao Tzu have the final say, and he walked forward proudly.

On the way, I chatted with Du Ruhui and learned that Liu Yijie was also an expert in managing finances, hundreds of thousands of troops in the early years of Wude concentrated in Chang'an, and people ate horses and fed living materials all day long, and the price of living materials rose, and the result was that the price of firewood and rice was higher than that of cloth, Liu Yijie proposed to let the army cut down the trees in the streets and gardens in his leisure time to exchange firewood for cloth, and in less than a year, he changed Lou Wan's cloth, and the price of firewood and rice also fell, and used the exchanged cloth to buy rice to ensure military supplies, Li Yuan was happy to promote Liu Yijie to the Taifu Shaoqing in charge of the treasury.

After Liu Yijie arrived at Taifu Temple, he found that many of the tens of thousands of silk silks in the library were used and discarded, so he saved a lot of money by using these leftover cloths for miscellaneous expenses.

Such abusive methods can also be regarded as financial management masters? He also became a Beijing official! Xiao Zheng thought about it for a long time and didn't figure it out, thinking about it for a while and thinking about the concept of people at that time, Liu Yijie did have his uniqueness.

After the door of the "boom" warehouse was opened, a stream of musty dust rushed over, Xiao Zheng pulled Du Ruhui coughed and hid to the side, and when the dust fell, he walked in and stood in the middle of the warehouse and looked around at the emptiness, Xiao Zheng was stunned.

"Liu Shaoqing, this is my Datang's treasury?! … of the treasury ... Treasury... Storehouse... Library..."Xiao Zheng's roar echoed in the warehouse.

Looking at everyone's helpless expressions, Xiao Zheng looked up to the sky and shouted to the roof of the warehouse: "I'll make a CAO...".

“CAO… CAO...", echoed in the storeroom again.

After sitting on the steps next to the stone lion, he couldn't say a word, and after sitting for a while, he suddenly stood up again, grabbed Liu Yijie's clothes, gritted his teeth, and asked, "Say, did you bring Lao Tzu to a fake warehouse?"

Liu Yijie said helplessly: "My lord, how many heads in the lower officials dare to deceive you in broad daylight, this is really my Datang treasury."

Du Ruhui stepped forward and pulled Xiao Zheng's hand away and said, "You understand why I said you cheated me now."

"Then how much money do I have in the Datang treasury?" Xiao Zheng asked.

"Five years ago, Wude was valued at about 650,000 yuan in all the copper coins, silks, gold, silver, pearls and jade in all the treasury of the Tang Dynasty, and after six years of Wude, the emperor was extravagant in the reward fees of the harem, although the world was stable, but the accumulation in the treasury was decreasing year by year, and when the new emperor ascended the throne, all the treasury was less than 220,000 yuan", Liu Yijie bowed his head and was silent after speaking.

More than 200,000 people listen to a lot, if this is really put in the whole country, if there is an emergency in Datang, it is not enough to dig out three feet of soil in the warehouse! Damn, why is Li Yuan so a loser in the past few years, and if he spends it like this, his family will be ruined in a few years, this is all poor like this, and he spends a lot of time tossing, no wonder his son is anxious with him.

Thinking of the playful smile that Li Shimin gave him an official position at that time, he only now understands what is going on. I chose such a poor official, and I was so poor that I was so poor that I was still complacent with my pants, and I looked at the silver cakes, and there were few copper coins, which was stupid!

Sitting on the steps weakly, Xiao Zheng, leaning on the stone lion, looked up at the sky and sighed and said, "Damn, Lao Tzu was also cheated by Li Shimin!" ”。

"That's how dare you say that!" Du Ruhui gloated and replied.

After finishing speaking, he patted Xiao Zheng on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't say that you have a bad life, all the yamen in the Tang Dynasty have a hard time, that is, the dragon robe worn by the saint when he ascended the throne is said to be a reward from the emperor, in fact, it is all handed down from the former Sui, and I can't afford to use that material to make the dragon robe myself." Even now, the sage's harem chief Sun Niangniang is still wearing patched clothes. Don't talk about this, the paper used by many departments is the reverse side of the remaining paper before use, and you will know when you have time to look at it."

"I remember that the emperor gave the stove to today's saints to mint money, and you can cast copper coins at will, so how can there be no money?" Xiao Zheng asked.

Du Ruhui glanced at him and said, "It's true that there is a furnace, but what about copper?" Where did you get the copper money without copper? ”。

"What about the officials? The eldest grandson Wuji has nothing to do, and he has to get some money to spend on the two official vacancies," Xiao Zheng asked.

"Selling officials?! His eldest grandson Wuji has a few heads, so he is not afraid of hitting the knife on the sage, giving him a righteous annihilation? Besides, you think those imperial historians are vegetarians. If you, Lord Xiao, are not afraid of death, you can try, my Lao Du will not accompany you."

"There are a lot of rich people in this Chang'an City, for example, Yu Chi Laohei has entrusted all the gold and silver treasures of the Qi Wangfu this time, and that guy has a lot of fiefdoms, oh, and Cheng Zhijie's traitor, both of his sons are from a prestigious family, and they must be rich and rich."

"My Lord Xiao, it's true that people are rich, but the money belongs to others, you can't go to others to grab money and put it in the treasury, besides, you have to rob Wei Chi Laohei and Cheng Zhijie!" Du Ruhui stomped his feet and said.

"Okay, Lao Du, you pull me up first, let's find a way to make money, otherwise in the future, when all the yamen reach out to us to ask for money, we will say no every day, sooner or later we will become public enemies in the court, and if we don't get it, we will die without a place to be buried."

Du Ruhui helped Xiao Zheng and said: "Yes, how to make money is your business Master Xiao, and I can still do it if my old Du goes to resist a burst of spit for you first."

A pair of brothers and sisters walked outside to ...... as they spoke.