"Yi'er, do you know that there is a fire in the palace?" Liu E still asked in a slow tone.

"Big Lady, it's my fault for trespassing in the Secret Pavilion, please punish Big Lady." Zhao Ying fell to his knees, he knew that the eldest lady must have understood that he and Zhao Xuan were at the scene when the fire broke out.

"What are you doing here? I didn't scold you, but you got up and spoke. Liu E called Zhao to benefit.

Zhao Yingfu got up, and he felt that he was actually sweating.

"I heard from Huang Neijian that you and Zhao Xuan fell into the water, but fortunately, they were found early. It's just that there is a fire in this palace, how did you fall into the water? How do you explain that the scene of the fall into the water is far from the location of the secret pavilion? ”

"Back to the eldest lady, Yi'er and the second brother went to the secret pavilion today to check the Taoist scriptures of the past dynasties, and I didn't want to suddenly catch fire, but fortunately, the second brother found out early, and quickly rescued Yi'er, it was inevitable that I was a little dizzy in this panic, and I accidentally fell into the water, making this mess."

Liu E didn't scold loudly when she heard it, but frowned again when she heard the word second brother, thinking that it was Zhao Xuan's wild boy who made a ghost again.

"Second brother, you call Zhao Xuan the second brother again, it seems that you forgot what I just said."

"Yi'er doesn't dare. The eldest lady, Huang Neijian also saw it, it was Zhao Xuan who saved me, the eldest lady taught me to read the sage book since I was a child, this life-saving grace, Yi'er can't help but repay it. ”

"Well, Huang Neijian, what about Zhao Xuanren, why didn't you come with you?"

"Back to Niangniang, it was His Majesty who called him away."

What did His Majesty call him to do at this time? Hmph, this kid dares to do anything wrong with His Majesty's support? I think that if the responsibility for the fire falls on him this time, even His Majesty will not be able to protect him.

"Yi'er, do you know the seriousness of the fire in the palace this time?" Liu E's tone began to become stern.

"Yi'er doesn't know, I only know that the secret pavilion burned down, and all the collections of books, calligraphy and paintings of the past dynasties are gone, and the losses are heavy."

"Hmph, what's that loss in the Secret Pavilion? I've always hated those so-called sage books and calligraphy and paintings, as well as Taoist treasures or something, playthings are demoralized, Your Majesty is deeply involved and I can't stop him, you can't repeat the mistakes of the past. ”

"You should also listen to some things about the court, this fire caused the Zuo Zang Treasury to be burned down, the Zuo Zang Treasury contains the world's materials, and its value is much greater than those immortal books and antique calligraphy and paintings, so it was burned down. I think His Majesty will punish him severely this time. ”

Zhao Yingfu understood that the biggest loss of this fire was in the Zuo Zang Library, and his life should be put in second place, as for the Secret Pavilion and other libraries, they were nothing in Liu E's eyes.

Liu E's wrist is really realistic, a large part of the reason why the Zuo Tibetan Treasury is so important is that in addition to the large number of materials that can directly affect the economy, there is also a factor that is the Liao State.

Since the Tanyuan Alliance, the Northern Song Dynasty has to start giving 300,000 guan to the Liao State every year, and the reason why the court has no objection to this money is because this money is really just a drop in the bucket compared to the Northern Song Dynasty finances, and it is really too small compared to the expenditure of the forbidden army of several million. Of course, this was all when the Liao State did not know that the Northern Song Dynasty was so rich.

But this time it was different, as soon as the Zuozang Treasury was burned, coupled with the fact that in the past ten years, Zhenzong has asked God to ask for a lot of profligacy, and the money has been spent too much, and the whole country has built a large number of missions, and there are many complaints among the people.

If the Liao State knew that the imperial court had no money at this time, and took the opportunity to rob it, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At this time, the famous generals have died, the old and the old, the retired have retired, and no one can use them.

Although the number of forbidden troops is large, the elites accumulated since the generations of Taizu Taizong have been lost. The recruits had never seen a real national war, and the Battle of Danzhou was just a legend to them.

Zhenzong usually doesn't ask about the military, but in the Danzhou War that year, he still has lingering palpitations, and he never wants to come to the imperial expedition again.

There was a fire, he had to take care of it.

Gotta be investigated!

It will even break the example of how few killings have been made since the beginning of the dynasty.

This time, Long Yan was really furious.