A little hesitant, Bao Linghou looked at Zhen Qiyao with mixed feelings.

As I said before, it is okay to borrow money from the treasury, but if it is repaid, it is necessary to weigh it carefully.

After all, the entire Great Xuan Dynasty, as long as it has been immersed in officialdom for many years, basically has accounts on it.

Therefore, the book of the household department is no exception.

Of course, Zhen Qiyao knew what these two people meant.

So when he went to the household department in the afternoon, he hesitated for a long time before he spoke. After all, the stakes are high, and he is also afraid of encountering some obstacles or black hands.

But unexpectedly, he was not qualified to see the Hubu Shangshu at all with his identity.

The Zhen family is not as good as in the past, even if the name of Zhen Yingjia is raised, no one may buy it.

So Zhen Qiyao was originally going to be honest and entangled with the little ghost, but he couldn't wait for the little official to return the matter, and he was immediately received by the Hubu Shangshu, and not only that, Zhen Qiyao still remembers the look on his face after the Hubu Shangshu asked him clearly.

"He seemed to be surprised to see me, but he was not surprised, not only smoothly returned the 500,000 arrears to the treasury, but also asked a lot of strange questions."

Tell Jia Lian and the others about the afternoon in detail, Zhen Qiyao frowned slightly.

"Lord Shangshu asked me what Your Majesty is not serious this time, and what is not the Qin and Wei families."

And more importantly, with the status of the head of the household, Zhen Qiyao already felt very honored to be able to ask about this matter. But the strange thing is that this household secretary not only paid great attention to this matter, but even treated Zhen Qiyao with unusual politeness, even respect.

It is understandable to pay close attention to this Zhen Qiyao, but the attitude makes Zhen Qiyao feel really weird.

After all, the matter of national debt is sensitive enough, even if it is for its own sake, it is understandable that the head of the household department values something.

But now that the Zhen family is in such an embarrassing position, Zhen Qiyao is not as good as Jia Lian, and there is only one false title of five products on his body until now, and there is really nothing that can make him have such an attitude.

1510 told Jia Lian everything that happened, and Zhen Qiyao really couldn't think of a reason for asking himself.

Jia Lian never thought that there would be such a play, and he was very surprised when he heard it.

The two marquis of the Shi family were even more surprised, and the two of them looked at this Zhen Qiyao carefully, although his face was still handsome, but he really couldn't see any reason why Hubu Shangshu was like this.

Pacing left and right, Jia Lian looked at the night outside, and suddenly thought of the emperor in his heart.

Just Zhen Qiyao said that after the fact, the head of the household department Shangshu asked the emperor or something, so combined with what Jia Lian knew before, Jia Lian had a general conjecture in his heart.

Maybe the thing I've been worrying about has started to happen unconsciously.

As I said before, the emperor has always been obsessed with the family, and from the attitude of the emperor inadvertently revealed before, Jia Lian can clearly feel that the old emperor knows that his life is short, and he has begun to clear the way for the new monarch to succeed to the throne.

And the most urgent of them is these family tumors.

The eight families of Kyoto have been immersed in Kyoto for hundreds of years, and their families are all over Daxuan, although there are only five of the eight families left, but the emperor knows it.

The reason why these things went well was nothing more than because the family was not united.

Hundreds of years of wealth have worn out the original ambition in their hearts, and they have become greedy for life and afraid of death, and they are afraid of death.

The old emperor was naturally not afraid when he was there, although these families had their own little Jiujiu in their hearts, they did not dare to act rashly.

But if the new emperor ascended the throne, it would be different.

At that time, the government has not yet stabilized, and there are foreign enemies coveting, the family has suffered the loss of the old emperor, in order to survive, while the new emperor's foundation is not yet stable, what to do, this big announcement of the world, I am afraid that it will change.

Therefore, the combination of the two, Jia Lian has a rough idea of why Hubu Shangshu has this attitude this time.

The treasury is empty, although the popularization of the salt drying method in the salt fields has eased the pressure on the treasury, but after all, there are more monks and less meat. Coupled with the relationship between the family, if the old emperor wants to make trouble, starting with the national debt is undoubtedly the fastest way.

So Jia Lian might as well make a bold guess, although there is no rumor outside, maybe the emperor and Hubu Shangshu have already talked about this issue.

Even if it hadn't been discussed, the emperor should have released the matter of the national debt in some way.

Therefore, the performance of Hubu Shangshu this time may be because he thinks that Zhen Qiyao is invited by the emperor, and it is difficult for such a character to explain his identity clearly, but what he has to do is to take the lead.

Just like the immediate effect, the first person to repay the national debt, the emperor may have a reward, so that everyone is urged to repay the debt, if the family is repaid, the treasury is full, and the new emperor has money in his hands, and he has enough confidence.

If these people don't know how to repay their debts, then he will be more satisfied.

directly raided the house and arrested the people, and the entire family property became the court's.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was the case, and it just so happened that this time Jia Lian invited the two marquis of the Shi family to come for this matter, so he simply told the results of his speculation in front of Zhen Qiyao.

"Now that the Zhen family has gone to the front, the two uncles have also seen it, in order to appease people's hearts when Lord Shangshu took the throne, I heard that he also borrowed a lot of arrears, but now he not only did not hinder his Yao brother from repaying the loan, but even had such a look, which can be seen in the deep meaning."

Although the Shi family is not very rich, Jia Lian actually respects these two marquis very much.

In the past, when Lin Ruhai was there, he often boasted about these two in front of Jia Lian.

To say that with the identity of the Hou Ye, it is not difficult for the Shi family to get rich.

But in fact, although the historian seems to be a little stretched to get by, the fact that subordinates are filial to their bosses has never happened.

And not only that, but they also do not take any of the filial piety of foreign officials who go to Beijing.

In this way, the expenses of the historian can only be paid by the two historians.

It's not that there is no property under it, it's just that Shi Taijun, that is, Jia Lian's grandmother, when Jia's mother got married, because it was Jia's mother who single-handedly pulled the two marquis of the Shi family to grow up, and Shi Taijun was the only daughter in the family at the beginning, so the dowry was very rich, and the entire Shi family was emptied.

So under such circumstances, Jia Lian still admires that the Marquis of the Shi family can still be so honest.

But this kind of thing in the treasury, the ending in the Red Mansion of the Shi family is there, the Shi family rarely does anything to commit a traitor, and in the end it still ends up being a family raider, except for the national debt, Jia Lian really can't think of anything else.

Sighing, Zhongjing waited for Shi Ding to smile bitterly at Jia Lian when he heard this, looking a little helpless.

"Virtuous nephew, your Rongguo Mansion has a great cause, so naturally you don't take this matter to heart, but we are different."

"Yes, Brother Lian, even if it is as you said, what can our family do?"

Bao Linghou spoke, his tone full of melancholy.

If the assets of the Shi family are placed in the homes of ordinary people, or even in merchants, they are actually considered to be of the highest quality.

But a historian is a historian, and a historian is an official.

After several lifetimes of human relations, it doesn't matter if the historian tightens his belt, but he spares no effort to deal with these relationships.

This is the foundation of the official family.

And now the life of the historian is already stretched, and they have to prepare for the New Year's and festivals, the New Year's ceremonies, the red and white ceremonies, all year round, these alone make their hands and scalps numb, and where can they take care of what the treasury is not the treasury.

was a little embarrassed, Jia Lian was a little uncomfortable with the two elders' straightforward openings.

In fact, the Jia family was no better than the Shi family before Jia Lian came, that is, in the past few years, Jia Lian has earned a lot of money by virtue of his business philosophy and endless creativity in later generations.

But that's about it.

Originally, Jia Lian also wanted to make a lot of money and a rich country, but unfortunately he was in the official career, and the deceit of officialdom had already made him take care of himself, and the existing ones in the Jia family were still thought of by him in his spare time.

But according to Jia Lian's estimates, these are basically only enough to deal with the Jia family's own, that is, Jia Lian has the heart to reach out to help the Shi family, but he is also powerless.

"I'm not afraid that the two uncles will think too much, in fact, the younger generation has thought about this problem for the house."

Speaking slowly, Jia Lian glanced at everyone.

"In the eyes of the younger generations, whether it is the Yao brothers' mansion, or our mansion, or the two uncles' mansions.

At the beginning, this was more than silver, but we didn't use it ourselves.

Of course, the prince of heaven and earth, this kind of thing has to be taken care of, and we have no place to reason, but justice is in the hearts of the people, so the younger generation guesses that the house is not as good as the Zhen family, take your time. ”

This is the meaning of a long stream.

Even the Jia family, which now seems to be infinitely beautiful, is no longer a family, and the Zhen family can't talk about it.

The thorn in the emperor's side is the eight great families, and they are at most an incident.

Or in the Red Mansion, it is a chicken that kills chickens and makes an example of monkeys.

So Jia Lian thought that as long as they showed that they attached great importance to the national debt, they were already doing their best to repay it.

The emperor should not be wiped out.

It's just that if you really want to say this, it will mean to talk about the royal family, so it's hard to speak.

It's just that it doesn't prevent everyone from making up for it, after all, everyone is not stupid.

At dinner, Jia Yu had no intention of coming out to meet guests.

Jia Yu's filial piety period has not yet passed, and it is indeed not suitable to attend such an occasion, so no one cares.

After sending the three of them away, Jia Lian asked people to go to Jia Yu's house to see it first, and Jia Yu Xing's family had not rested, so he went over to tell Jia Yu the details of the matter.

came to the conclusion before dinner, even if Jia Fu had this capital, in order not to attract attention, mainly considering the Zhen family and the Shi family, Jia Lian finally decided not to pay off the arrears at one time.

In the same way as the Zhen family historian, the repayment can be made in installments, but the number of times can be slightly reduced, which is also the best of both worlds.

The Jia family in the Jia family's red mansion is no longer at the same level, and he is now labeled as a princeling, so Jia Lian estimated that even if he didn't pay it all at once, the emperor should not take him under the knife.

So it was decided, Jia Lian went to court on the second day, and in the court, as Jia Lian expected, the Zhen family was praised fiercely about the arrears of the treasury.

"Now that there are many foreign enemies, it seems that winter is about to begin, and Ping'an Zhou has not stopped, although the silver returned by the Zhen family is a drop in the bucket, but it is good to have it."

Although his body was already very weak, the emperor had persevered, trying to make himself look normal.

Time passed day by day, his body has become more and more unbearable, and the Zhen family should be lucky, the emperor was originally preparing to send a post report in the past few days, asking the Jinling prefect to arrest the Zhen family.

The affairs of the treasury are no longer a day or two, and now he has little time, and he can't care so much about other delaying tactics or something.

The emperor has already spoken, and the people below naturally don't dare to refute, although the old emperor now also wants these people to repay the money, but more of them want to borrow this matter, to become famous, and then find the filth of the family.

These families, because the crown prince was personally selected by the emperor, and his temperament is extraordinarily tough, so they do not support this prince very much.

The family has been entrenched in Kyoto for many years, and it is impossible for the old emperor to want to catch all these people.

Unless the old emperor is out of the way, he doesn't care about the people at all.

After all, although one-third of the military power has been recovered now, as long as the emperor does not dare to guarantee that things will be done in a tight manner, and the slightest rumor will not be spread, it will be impossible to completely eradicate the family.

Because as long as the emperor dares to make a move, there will inevitably be turmoil over there.

So why did the emperor do this, knowing that such a thing would happen?

Pity the hearts of parents all over the world.

This is for the crown prince.

Since they can't be killed with one blow and wiped them all out, what the old emperor can do in the only time he has here is to conquer them.

Let them surrender.

Of course, this submission was not to the old emperor, but to the crown prince.

is old, the old emperor's original obsession with Ming Jun has also been exhausted, and now the best thing he can do for the crown prince before his death is to create a good environment for him to take office.

And what is a good induction environment?

Surrender to the crown prince.

All people, or powerful and talkative, submit to him.

Therefore, the old emperor's decision was to do everything possible to clean up the family and the ministers, so ruthless that while ensuring the safety of these people's lives, he also wanted to make these people live like a year, and they were uncomfortable.

In this way, when he dies in the future, the crown prince should be the new emperor using the excuse of amnesty to rescue these courtiers who should have been imprisoned.

Then it is okay to allow a high position, or the official can be restored, and then he can be encouraged.

The prince, as the person who pulled them out of the mud pit, naturally treated the prince with liver and brain.

In this way, these people are also grateful to the prince and thus surrender.

After all, the crown prince was the one who saved them from danger.

Of course Jia Lian didn't understand this, he looked at his eyes, his nose looked at his nose and stood in a regular manner, and Jia Lian quietly listened to the old emperor's tirade.

"What kind of situation is the Zhen family, I believe that I don't need to go into details, Zhong Aiqing also knows.

But even so, the Zhen family still stood up fearlessly when the imperial court was in danger, this is an attitude that I appreciate. ”

was very shameless and praised, Jia Lian was speechless. Jia Lian couldn't cry or laugh.