Lilai also, bustling. Benefiting the past, never forgetting.

There are very few people who are not greedy for possessions, and few people who can refuse temptation.

That night, Deputy General Lin Tang led his five subordinates to quietly sneak into the informant's house, wiped out all the old and four subordinates in the family, and threw them into the well.

It wasn't until five days later that the farmer who came to deliver the vegetables found that the door was not locked, the whole family was not there, and the official reported that the population was missing. After checking the Jingzhao Mansion Yacha, they came to the conclusion that the family had moved, and the case was closed.

After Lin Tang sent 1,000 taels of silver to Jingzhao Mansion Yin, Jingzhao Mansion did not report the case to Dali Temple. He also sent five hundred taels of gold to Tian Lingzi, saying that he wanted him to help him make an accommodation with Prime Minister Xiao Ran.

After returning to the dynasty for a month, Tang Xizong and his eighteen fandai, during the day, fought cocks, threw pots, fished, played polo, rode rouge horses at night, rode meat boats, and had a lot of fun, and the government completely let go of Tian Lingzi's control.

"Father-in-law Tian, this year's tax tribute has been collected, it is much worse than expected, this is the account book, you can take a look."

Gongsun Zheng, the secretary of the household department, showed Tian Lingzi the account book of this year's tax tribute.

"Why is this so little, why don't the provinces and states pay tribute according to their will? Outrageous! Tian Lingzi complained to Gongsun Zheng.

Tian Lingzi thought to himself: "I originally knew that they would not pay tribute completely according to their will, but it would not be the same as last year." How good is that? ”

"Zizhi, I know the accounts, you go back first, and I'll report to Your Majesty."

"Okay, then I'll go back to the yamen."

Tian Lingzi took the accounts out of the palace and went to the new mansion in Huaning, the eastern city of Chang'an, to ask for ideas. Chang'an's new mansion was specially arranged by Tian Lingzi, a think tank that has followed him for many years, has given him advice many times, and has won his trust.

In order to show his sincerity in recruiting talented people, Tian Lingzi was very generous to his cronies, and he had all the official positions in houses and fields. Therefore, Tian Lingzi's group of cronies have done their best to help him solve one problem after another.

"Mr. Hua, you see that this is a big deviation from your previous estimate."

Hua Ning flipped through the account book and thought in his heart: "It's a lot worse than estimated, this Tian Lingzi didn't come over and make a fuss, nine times out of ten he knew that he needed to find a way to solve the current financial shortage problem by himself." If it had been put in the past, it would have been cynical a long time ago. ”

"Father-in-law Tian, although the amount of tax tribute this time did not reach the expected amount, it was still a lot more than last year's, if it wasn't for the deliberate non-payment of several of them, it would definitely not have reached expectations."

Hua Ning saw that Tian Lingzi was a little worried, and he couldn't tell why Tian Lingzi was so worried for a while, but the tax and tribute did not meet expectations, but he was not so worried.

"Mr. Hua, you don't know something. I'm not worried about the lack of tax contributions, but I have other concerns. ”

"Oh? I don't know what my father-in-law is worried about? ”

"I received a compliment from Li Keyong, Zhu Wen and others the day before yesterday. Several of them took advantage of this counterinsurgency and asked the court to issue a reward and reward the soldiers. ”

When Huaning heard Tian Lingzi say this, she understood why Tian Lingzi was worried.

"This Li Keyong directly deducted this year's tax tribute, and then went to the court to say that the tax tribute will deduct a part of their Shatuo warriors' bounty, and let the court make up for most of the rest."

Tian Lingzi directly pointed out that Li Keyong was arrogant and unreasonable, and said angrily: "There is also that Zhu Wen, who directly said that the tax tribute was robbed by Qin Zongquan, and now he is working hard with Qin Zongquan to get back the tax and tribute to the imperial court." I hope that the reward of the soldiers and horses on his side can be sent as soon as possible, and he also needs to equip the soldiers and horses to quell the rebellious army in Henan Province. ”

Hua Ning looked at Tian Lingzi and felt like he was a storyteller, raising his head and lowering his eyebrows, his fingers were flying, and his saliva was flying. Listening to Hua Ning's brows, he was thinking and analyzing the current situation.

"You don't know, the most annoying thing is that there are several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and they prevaricate with bad harvests and pay half of the tax tribute. They are all rebels and thieves, shameless people......"

Tian Lingzi scolded the officials of these state roads with despicable words that he could think of.

"Father-in-law, the taxes collected this year are still completely okay to support the forbidden army of the current scale, but it is far from enough to support 100,000 forbidden troops, and there are also courtiers and the supply of the inner palace. We still have to find a way to solve the problem of financial shortfall. The requirements of the envoys of the feudal towns are all minor issues and are not worth worrying about. ”

When Tian Lingzi heard Hua Ning's words, he also stopped scolding his mother, and looked at Hua Ning with a crying face: "Mr. Hua, the miscellaneous family knows that if you want to feed the huge forbidden army, give the courtiers and supply the palace, you need silver." I really don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, where did I get so much silver? ”

After answering Hua Ning's words, Tian Lingzi sat on the chair and sighed heavily: "Alas! It's hard! ”

Hua Ning sat on a chair and drew circles with his right index finger on the tea table, one, two, three circles......

Tian Lingzi saw Hua Ning's movements and knew that he was thinking of a solution, so he looked at him quietly and didn't bother, knowing that now he could only rely on this ghost strategist to give him ideas. In the past, when I encountered difficulties, Huaning gave me reliable advice, and I also solved the difficulties with its help. Now it's up to you to be a genius strategist!

"Father-in-law, how much tax tribute did Wang Chongrong send?"

Tian Lingzi heard Huaning ask himself, and knew that there was a solution to it. I don't know what he asked Wang Chongrong to pay taxes for? Didn't he read it just now, and he had to reply with a smile: "The account book said that he sent thirty carts of salt and two thousand taels of tax silver." ”

Tian Lingzi slandered in his heart: "This Wang Chongrong is also a picker, thirty carts of salt is enough for the imperial city and the ministers' families to eat, two thousand taels of silver is so little, it is not as much as the filial piety that Lin Tang gave himself." ”

Mr. Hua, you don't know: "He also went to the table two days ago, hoping that the imperial court will see that he has contributed a lot to quelling the rebellion this time, and posthumously seal his father and mother, and think beautifully!" ”

"Thirty carts of salt?"

"Yes, it's only thirty cars, only thirty cars a year, what a villain who picks the door!"

Wang Chongrong served as the envoy of the river festival, monopolizing the two major salt ponds in the jurisdiction, Anyi and Jiexian County. The two salt ponds are for the consumption of the people in the Central Plains, Guanzhong, Hebei and Henan, and the annual output is not less than tens of thousands of cars, right? Thirty cars in taxes? And the official salt is 300 dollars a bucket, and the income this year is unimaginable? ”

"That's right, why didn't the miscellaneous family think of it."

Tian Lingzi heard Huaning say that the price of official salt was high, so he patted his thigh and continued: "I think that the illegal salt dealer Huang Chao can win over and feed 400,000 bandits by selling illegal salt, but this official salt is more than twice as expensive as illegal salt, so wouldn't it be able to feed the 1 million forbidden army." Hahaha~"

Hua Ning looked at Tian Lingzi and smiled to himself, and didn't interrupt without saying anything, but he was thinking: "How to get this huge salt profit from Wang Chongrong?" ”

After Tian Lingzi laughed enough, he found that Hua Ning didn't pay attention to him, and he didn't continue to speak, a little embarrassed, and then asked: "Mr. Hua, this salt profit is very big, but this Wang Chongrong is also a festival envoy." How could you obediently hand over the salt profit? ”

Tian Lingzi also knew that this was a bit difficult, and said in his heart: "This festival envoy is the emperor of the soil everywhere, who has always disobeyed the instructions of the imperial court and does whatever he wants, how can he tame this king Chongrong and make him obedient and obedient to hand over the salt profits?" ”

Hua Ning was thinking about it, thinking that Tian Lingzi said that Wang Chongrong was on the table just now, but he couldn't remember the specific content, so he asked: "Father-in-law Tian, what did Wang Chongrong say on the table??" ”

"Oh, oh, that thief wants His Majesty to posthumously seal his parents. I still want to enter the knighthood myself, and I think it's weird and beautiful! ”

"There you have it! I have a way to get him to hand over the salt profit! ”