"Uncle Hejian, are you really drinking?" Li Xiaogong's reaction greatly surprised Li Chengqian's expectations, because even if the alcohol was not highly purified, it should actually be concentrated at about 80%, as long as it was a person, a little common sense basically would not drink that kind of thing.

It's just that Li Chengqian's estimate is completely based on modern people's estimates, and for ancient people who have never seen alcohol, whether that thing can actually be drunk or not depends entirely on the same taste as wine.

"Uh~" Li Xiaogong hesitated for a moment, his old face was a little red, and he said tangledly: "How can the old man drink that kind of thing, just taste it, otherwise what if it is poisoned and poisons people." ”

The pale and weak explanation can only deceive the children, but Li Chengqian does not plan to delve into it, after all, whether he can drink alcohol or not has nothing to do with what he says next.

Thinking of this, Li Chengqian smiled faintly, and did not expose Li Xiaogong, but asked very casually: "If Uncle Hejian has time for a while, how about going to the East Palace of the little nephew?" ”

"What the hell are you thinking? Tell you, the old man has learned a long lesson after being deceived by you once, and he will never believe you again. Li Xiaogong remembered the IOU again at this time, and suddenly became alert.

"Don't worry, Uncle Wang, the IOU is just a joke made by the little nephew and you, if the business between the two of us is really done this time, the little nephew will not take it to heart for just a thousand taels of silver." Li Chengqian smiled, a little unimpressed by Li Xiaogong's caution.

However, Li Xiaogong is not as big-hearted as Li Chengqian, he must be afraid of being deceived, after thinking about it, he remembered that Li Chengqian should have asked the old monk for the hundreds of thousands of guan at this time, and he shouldn't have come here to talk about business with himself, so he hesitated and asked: "Don't you already have more than 100,000 guan, why are you in a hurry to do business with the old man?" ”

"More than 100,000? Uncle Hejian, a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way. The more than 100,000 yuan is ill-gotten gains, and it is better to hand it over to my father and the emperor for the livelihood of the people in the Tang Dynasty, and it is still inconvenient for me to participate in the little nephew. Li Chengqian shook his head and denied that he had more than 100,000 things.

The old monk's money is not so easy to ask, and if he forcibly goes to get it badly, there will be a big mess, after all, there are many Buddhist believers, and there is not much deterrence when he uses the means that he can get out.

But if it is handed over to Li Er, there will not be so much consideration, the old man is the biggest landlord in the world, and he is also the biggest creditor, he is justified and justified when he asks for money, even if he forces a handful of people to death.

But these things want to come back to me, but they can't say it explicitly, and it will have a bad impact on others to hear it more or less, so Li Chengqian said anything else to Li Xiao's respectful left and right, and after talking about the calf for a long time, he set a time to meet in the East Palace, and parted ways outside the old man's study, and entered the old man's study alone.

"What? Did you meet Uncle Hejian? In the study, Li Er looked at his son who came in with a smile.

The commotion between the two of them outside just now was really not small, and the door of Li Er's study was open again, how could he not know.

"Hehe, Father Emperor Mingjian, Uncle Hejian is old, and he can't remember some things clearly." Li Chengqian spread his hands and made a helpless expression to show his innocence.

"You kid, don't play this word game in the future, beware of him and take you into Zongzheng Temple to play the board." Li Er raised the note in his hand, signaling that Li Chengqian's borrowing of money was over, and there was no need to mention it in the future.

It's just that he didn't say a word about the fact that he also relied on Li Xiaogong's 1,000 taels of silver, as if he didn't do it.

"Father, my son is here this time to discuss with you." Li Chengqian found a place to sit down, took the tea handed by the palace maid, and said tentatively.

Li Er looked at his son with a smile, and asked almost without thinking, "Is it about your more than a dozen runs?" ”

"Uh~, yes, with such a large amount of money in his hands, the ministers will always think about spending it indiscriminately, so it is better to hand it over to the father and the queen mother to help collect ......." Seeing the purpose of the old man, Li Chengqian looked a little embarrassed.

I thought that the old man would give him a violent training, or just kick him out, but unexpectedly, after the old man was silent for a moment, he just said lightly: "You don't have to ask for this money, and don't mention it in the future." ”

"Why?"

"For more than 100,000 yuan, it's not worth it!" Li Er's voice was a little cold, but Li Chengqian could hear that it was not aimed at himself.

So I couldn't help but have the intention of asking the old man's true thoughts: "Father, there are already a lot of hundreds of thousands, why do you want to say that it's not worth it?" ”

"Do you think my face is only worth a hundred thousand yuan? Or do you think I'm really short of money to the point where I personally open my mouth to ask someone for money? ”

"Since those monks haven't even sold your face, how can I go to find that uncomfortable."

"After so many years, I have been thinking about the righteous deeds of the Thirteen Stick Monks, and I have interfered with their preaching, and now it seems that it is a little too indulgent."

"If you don't pay food or taxes, you can't do it, they dare to collect the people's fields, they dare to collect the people's real estate, and a lot of land is in the hands of the temple, what is the matter if they rent it to the people? When can the country's taxes be controlled by them? ”

The more Li Er spoke, the more irritable he became, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and his voice was as cold as ice.

"Father knows?" Li Chengqian was a little stunned.

Before this, he thought that only he recognized this problem, and planned that if the old man didn't help and ask for money, he would talk about it, but he didn't expect Li Er to find out about this a long time ago.

"Are you a fool? In which year do the state capitals of the country not report the acres of land? I don't know how to compare it? How much land there is, how much grain is produced, I can't count it? Li Er glared at Li Chengqian dissatisfied.

"Then the father ......" Li Chengqian was about to ask the old man why he didn't want to take some measures, but he quickly thought that Li Er had mentioned the matter of the thirteen stick monks just now, and couldn't help but sigh.

He knows something about this history, whether it is in later generations or in the Tang Dynasty, it has been recorded, except for slight differences, it is generally not different. With the above things, and then contacting Li Er's good-looking character, Li Chengqian estimates that the current old man should be difficult to ride a tiger.

The father and son sat silently opposite each other, speechless for a long time, no one could come up with a good solution, neither forgot the wrongdoing, but also couldn't get rid of the tail, how to deal with this mess, it was really a headache.

As for the hundreds of thousands of yuan, now it is really like what Li Er said, it has become a secondary issue, whether it is Li Er or Li Chengqian, thinking of the matter of the thirteen stick monks, there is really no way for anyone to ask for this money.

(End of chapter)