Although Chu Huan drank a lot of wine last night, he still entered the yamen early in the morning the next day, and sat down at his office, before his butt was hot, Dou Yi was already standing outside the door with an official letter, and said respectfully: "Lord Chu!" ”

Chu Huan summoned in, saw Dou Yi's official letter, and asked with a smile, "Is there something wrong with Lord Dou?" ”

Dou Yi got straight to the point and handed over the official letter, "My lord, please put a seal on it!" ”

"Oh?" Chu Huan nodded and said, "Okay, by the way, what is this?" ”

Seeing Chu Huan agree, Dou Yi frowned slightly, and said with a smile: "This is the silver tael allocated for the repair of the Tongren Pavilion, the humble position has been calculated, and the household Cao has also been seen, as long as the adult stamps a seal, he can approve the silver." ”

Chu Huan nodded and said with a smile: "This is the first time that this official has stamped the seal, yes, Lord Dou, is there anything else to pay attention to besides stamping?" ”

"Your Excellency only needs a stamp." Dou Yi's voice and attitude were respectful, but the meaning of his words was really not respectful.

Chu Huan didn't seem to hear the disrespect of Dou Yi's words, and carefully took out a small boxy seal from his arms, opened it, blew the seal seat, opened the official letter, glanced at it, and asked with a smile: "Lord Dou, is the Tongren Pavilion going to be built with gold?" ”

Dou Yi frowned slightly and said, "The adults laughed." However, how to build it, it is a matter for the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry, and our household department only needs to calculate it and approve the silver. Yes, my lord, quickly seal it, and this will be handed over to the gold department Cao, and let them transfer the money. The Xiliang mission can arrive within two months, and the construction period of the Tongjin Pavilion is still very tight, so we can't delay the project of the Ministry of Industry. ”

Chu Huan nodded again and again: "What Lord Dou said is that this is a big deal, and it can't be delayed." But he didn't make a stamp, but leaned back in the chair, looked at Dou Yi with a smile, and asked, "Lord Dou, this official suddenly thought of something, I don't know if Lord Dou can give advice." ”

"Lord Chu, please speak!"

"Lord Dou is in the household department, but I don't know if he knows how much silver and one stone of rice is on the market today?" Chu Huan humbly asked.

Dou Yi was stunned, a little strange, but still said: "About one or two silver." ”

One stone of rice in Daqin, that is, about 100 catties.

Chu Huan bowed slightly, and asked again: "If there are five people in a family, how much rice does it need in a day?" ”

Although Dou Yi was a little bored, since Chu Huan asked, he could only reply: "It depends on whether the family of five is an adult or a child." If all five of them are adults, and they fill their stomachs three times a day, they will need about one and a half catties a day. ”

"I see." Chu Huan raised his fingers and said to himself: "One tael of silver and one stone of rice, a family of five needs one and a half pounds of rice, then two months will probably need one stone of rice, and in a year, five or six taels of silver will be enough for a family of five to eat rice......!" ”

Dou Yi saw Chu Huan talking to himself, and couldn't help but say: "My lord, you still have to cover this seal, and you have to go to the Ministry of Gold for a while, and the people from the Ministry of Industry will come to the door later." ”

Chu Huan smiled and waved his hand: "No hurry, no hurry." He also said: "Do you know that this official has traveled to many places before, and many people don't say that three meals a day, two meals a day is a problem." And they can't eat big white rice, but get a little brown rice and eat it with porridge from leaves...... A family of five in Beijing needs one and a half pounds of rice a day, but in some places, one pound of rice is enough for ten people to eat for two or three days, believe it or not? ”

Dou Yi frowned and said, "What adults mean, I don't understand it. ”

Chu Huan sighed: "Lord Dou, it takes 350,000 taels of silver to repair the Tongren Pavilion, is there any mistake in this?" Leaning forward: "Could it be that all the Tongren Pavilion must be made of gold?" That's what is it called the Tongren Pavilion, it is directly called the Gold Pavilion. ”

Dou Yi reluctantly smiled and said: "My lord misunderstood, the Tongren Pavilion was not repaired with gold, but only a large number of materials for repair, which required a large amount of gold and silver. ”

"Oh?" Chu Huan wiped his forehead, seemingly wiping sweat, but there was no sweat stain on his forehead, and said with a smile: "This confuses the official." This official also asked yesterday, although the Tongren Pavilion is not small, it is not huge, there are four compounds in total, a total of 123 houses, Lord Dou, am I right? ”

Dou Yi's face was already a little impatient, but he still nodded.

"This official also knows that buying a house in the capital, with a front and back yard, with twenty or thirty rooms, and even a house, the location is not bad, and it is only more than a thousand taels of silver, which is not wrong, right?" Chu Huan asked quietly.

Dou Yi couldn't help but say: "What do adults want to say, why can't you understand what adults say?" ”

Chu Huan said lightly: "How could Lord Dou not understand? Buying a house is only a thousand taels of silver, but now it costs 350,000 taels of silver to repair a complete Tongren Pavilion, Lord Dou, is this too mysterious? Even the belt house of Tongrenguan already exists, but it is only slightly repaired, but it costs such a huge amount of money, and the official really doesn't understand what kind of repair method it is? If it weren't for the plating of a layer of gold on the outside of the house, the official couldn't think of how the silver would be spent. ”

Dou Yi's face changed slightly, and he said: "How to repair it, this is a matter for the Ministry of Industry, and we don't need to worry about it." ”

"We don't have to worry about how to repair, but when the money goes out of us, we have to worry about how to spend the silver." Chu Huan leaned back on the chair and said lightly: "Three hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver, such a huge amount, all of them have been replaced with silver ingots and placed in the Tongren Pavilion, but I am afraid that they will not be placed." He raised his eyelids, glanced at Dou Yi, and asked, "Lord Dou, are you calculating the repair cost of the Tongren Pavilion?" Do you want to do the math again? ”

Dou Yi couldn't hold back on his face anymore, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Chu, what do you mean by this?" Is it said that it is not good to do things in a lowly position? ”

"Does this mean that?" Chu Huan asked rhetorically: "The official just said that there is something wrong with the money spent. Lord Dou should know that with 350,000 taels of silver, how much rice can be bought, and how many people can eat? To build a pavilion, 350,000 taels of silver is already appalling, and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver is just a joke. ”

Dou Yi opened his mouth, he couldn't speak for a while, he finally eased up, calmed down his mentality, and then said: "Lord Chu, Tongren Pavilion is my Great Qin's foreign pavilion, not an ordinary house that can be compared, every brick and tile, grass and tree there is very particular, and it must not be measured by the value of ordinary houses." ”

Chu Huan smiled and said: "In this way, Lord Dou is not only an errand boy in our household department, but also an errand in the Ministry of Industry?" ”

"Why do you say that?"

"If it weren't for the errand in the Ministry of Works, how could Lord Dou be so familiar with the bricks and tiles of the hotel, and what else would he say that it was different from ordinary houses?" Chu Huan touched his chin and said leisurely: "Could it be that my Daqin also has a special cave for firing the bricks and tiles of the Tongren Pavilion alone?" ”

Dou Yi was patiently talking to Chu Huan, but at this moment, he was really a little uncontrollable, and said: "My lord, this project is two silver, the humble position has been calculated, the household department Cao has also approved, and the lord Shangshu also knows, the lord still stamps the seal, and the humble position is better to go down on errands." ”

Chu Huan sneered: "In this way, this degree of Zhicao is Lord Dou's master, and the official doesn't need to be clear about everything, it's up to you to decide?" ”

Dou Yi frowned and said, "If you are an adult, you can't afford to be humble." However, in the past, when Yang Tong and Lord Yang were there, Lord Yang would not ask too much, and all the humble treatments, Lord Yang only needed to stamp it. ”

"Yang Tong is Yang Tong, and this official is this official." Chu Huan's voice suddenly cooled down: "Master Dou may have forgotten, but now that he is supporting Cao, it is the official who is in charge." The official felt that there was something wrong with this account, and wanted to ask clearly, could it be that it was not within the scope of his authority? ”

Seeing Chu Huan's voice turn cold, Dou Yi was stunned at first, and then sneered: "In this way, Lord Chu feels that he has not done a good job in his humble errand?" When you say that there is an error in accounting, do you mean that you have been derelict in your duties? ”

Chu Huan's face did not change, and said, "That's not what I mean." Dou is in charge, the official has just arrived, and he has just presided over the degree of support Cao, and many things are still unclear, perhaps it is really the official who is lonely and unheard. It is better to spend 350,000 taels of silver on the people of the Ministry of Works, and if you ask them to draw up a list and list the budget of various expenses in detail, the official really wants to see what kind of use these 300,000 taels of silver is, and if such a huge amount is really needed, the official has nothing to say, and will definitely seal it! ”

Dou Yi's expression turned cold, and he said, "In this way, Lord Chu is not going to seal it today?" ”

"This official has made it very clear."

"Lord Chu, don't forget, the Holy Majesty decreed to repair the Tongren Pavilion and promote the prestige of my Great Qin, if Lord Chu does not seal it, the Ministry of Engineering will not be able to arrange construction." Dou Yi's expression was not good: "If we really want to delay the matter, our household department will not be able to get rid of it." ”

"You are just the right master, if you really want to blame it, you will find the head of this official first." Chu Huan said calmly: "Chief Dou, the official still has to remind you that you are assisting the official in handling the affairs of Du Zhi Cao, which is true, but don't forget that Du Zhi Cao is what the official says, not you Dou is the main thing." ”

Dou Yi snorted coldly and said, "Lord Chu has said so, and there is nothing to say about his humble position." Less than three days after Lord Chu came to Du Zhi Cao, he seemed to have doubts about the ability of the humble post to handle errands, even so, the humble post did not dare to serve, and the humble post went to the Ming Ministry of Justice, and asked the Lord of the Ministry to transfer the humble post out of the Du Zhi Cao, so as not to delay the affairs of the Lord! ”

Chu Huan frowned and said, "Master Dou is leaving?" ”

"Lord Chu's actions make the humble heart cold." Dou Yi said: "The cost accounting of Tongrenguan is not just Dou alone, there are many people in Du Zhicao who are bothered and laborious, and now the results of our hard work, but the adults are so suspicious, not only makes the humble and cold, but I am afraid that the other colleagues of Du Zhicao are also cold." If they want to leave, they may not stay...... Since Lord Chu said that he presided over Du Zhi Cao, then please ask Lord Chu to do everything himself! Speaking of this, his eyes showed a look of pride, staring at Chu Huan's eyes.

Chu Huan instantly understood that Dou Yi was using crooked tricks to force himself to comply.

He has just taken office, and at this time, if a large number of officials of Du Zhicao leave, not to mention that Du Zhicao cannot operate normally, Chu Huan's own reputation and prestige will also be greatly hit.

When the new official takes office, a large number of subordinates are leaving, and if this matter is to be spread, Chu Huan will be ridiculed for being incompetent.

Dou Yi said this, understatement, but Chu Huan also understood that the other party was probably ready to deal with him a long time ago, if he was obedient, it would be fine, once they hindered their affairs, they would use all kinds of tricks to force themselves to comply, I am afraid that in the heart of this Dou master, he was ready to make himself his puppet early on and be at his mercy.