Chen Mo didn't guess wrong, it was really Chen You who was looking for him outside, wearing a coat, covered in snow-white, as soon as he saw him come out, he hurried up to greet him, and complained to him: "Father-in-law Chen asked us to send you clothes, let's go to the Yangxin Palace first, and then to the Wenhua Palace, and ran through most of the palace, this snowy day, they are all about to freeze to death......"

"What a coincidence that you came, just to accompany us out of the palace!" Chen Mo didn't pay attention to Chen You's complaints at all, dragged him out, and asked as he walked: "By the way, Long Live Fang asked us to seal fifty taels of silver and send it to Wang Jiaping, fifty taels of silver, who should we ask for?" ”

"Nekubei, do you still need to ask?" Chen You looked at Chen Mo as if he was looking at a fool.

Chen Mobai glanced at him: "We don't know the inner warehouse yet, the key is fifty taels of silver, it's not worth going to the inner warehouse, right?" ”

There are ten warehouses in the inner library, the inner carrier library is one of them, not far from the high mansion, specializing in the storage of satin, gold and silver, precious jade, tooth horns, feathers, gold and silver, etc., Ming belongs to the jurisdiction of the household department, in fact, the eunuch is in charge, equivalent to the emperor's small treasury. Among them, gold and silver have the most figures.

Here I want to explain that the so-called gold and silver refers to the silver taels that are converted into tax grain. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, taxes were mainly collected in kind, and only the pit smelting tax was gold and silver. The tax grain was converted into gold and silver, and only occasionally in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shaanxi and other places, and the two cashiers were all sent to Nanjing to be military ministers, and the expenses of the border troops were sometimes taken from it. Yongle moved the capital, and the officials of the Beijing division needed to go to Nanjing to withdraw the rice, which was very inconvenient.

In order to solve this problem, the Xuande period began to allow heavy official fields, the best under the household to pay gold and silver, every two silver as four stone rice, and then changed repeatedly, until the orthodox period, this law was used throughout the country.

In the Wanli period, taking the sixth year of Wanli as an example, the actual cash register was more than 2.2 million taels, which was mainly used for the emperor's reward in addition to the monthly salary of the military attaché.

In fact, the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty hid a huge problem, but now Chen Mo's status is too small and has not yet been touched.

Far from it.

Chen You was also dumbfounded, and muttered to himself: "Yes, just this little thing, if you run and lie down in the carrier warehouse, won't you let people laugh out of their big teeth?" Suddenly, his eyes lit up: "There should be someone in the palace who cares about this kind of thing, right?" Wouldn't it be enough to find him? ”

"You know?" Chen Mo couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Don't you know, aren't you the personal eunuch of the Long Live Lord?" Chen You's tone was slightly jealous, but it was hidden very deeply, and even he didn't notice it.

"Nonsense, we just became this Laoshzi's 'personal eunuch' this morning, and we haven't even been to this Ouchi before, can we get to know each other?"

Chen You suddenly slapped his forehead: "Yes, look at our memory...... Forget it, you have to leave the palace anyway, and go back to Gaofu to find Gonggong Chen by the way! ”

"That's all there is to it!" It's embarrassing to ask someone Chen Mo, so you don't have any worries about asking Chen Ju.

While the two were talking, someone came over in the snow, Chen Mo was a little familiar when he saw it, as if he had seen it outside Feng Bao's duty room, and hurriedly greeted: "This father-in-law, it's snowy, why did you come here?" ”

"It's not all because of Gonggong Chen," the person who came was in his early thirties, snow-white, only his face was cold and red, it was estimated that it was Feng Bao's cronies, and he had no scruples between the words, he glanced at Chen Mo, and while groping in his arms, he said: "You left too hurriedly this morning, you didn't even take the tooth card, the ancestor was afraid that it would be inconvenient for you to enter and leave the palace gate, so don't you have to let our family send it to you." Saying that, he sighed twice, and looked at Chen Mo up and down: "Over the years, you can make the ancestors so attentive, you are the first one, and you will give away cards to our family in the snow, and it will be developed in the future, but don't forget our family." ”

Only then did Chen Mo remember that Fengyu was going to replace the existing ebony card with an ivory one, and hurriedly bowed and thanked him.

In fact, the ebony card can also go out of the ban, is the bottom of the small fire owner, lotus leaf head, can be two inches wide, one side is engraved with the words of the inner envoy or small fire, one side has a rectangular fire seal, on the seal four words, said: "off the prevention of access". On both sides of the fire seal, a number of numbers of the word "small" or "inner" are engraved to indicate that the holder belongs to the yamen. This is an official property, no one dares to make it privately, let alone lose it, but it is a tooth card, and occasionally it is bought and sold privately, and it has never been prohibited.

Chen Mo bent down and bowed, when he straightened up, the person who came had already taken out two brands from his arms and handed them over, Chen Mo looked carefully, and found that one of them was white and smooth, and the upper circle below, one side was engraved with the seal inscription "Zhongzi Zero Zero Three", and the other side was engraved with the words "Qianqing Palace Fengyu", which was heavy and heavy and weighed up and down (for the above information, see "Zhu Zhongzhi, Volume 19, Neichen Admires Ji Luo", and the above record of the tooth card weighs six or seven taels should be the old system, that is, one catty and sixteen taels).

The other brand is made of brass, which is round and heavier, with the words "東厰" engraved on one side, the number engraved on the side, and the "Sifang" engraved on the other, indicating Chen Mo's identity.

The two brands together weigh more than a catty, Chen You looked at it and swallowed and foamed, Chen Mo was also very happy, and said that he would be really anxious in the future, and these two brands would be sold, and it would take a few days, right?

Chen You and the others didn't know that Chen Mo was so thoughtful, if he really wanted to know, he would probably have to laugh off his big teeth. You must know that any of these two brands will be served as guests when they are taken out, not to mention that the two are unique, if they really want to go out of Beijing, the governors and governors will have to greet each other when they see that it is not good - Chen Mo is really lucky, and no one is jealous.

"Zhang Whale was really prescient." The crony who handed over the ebony card to Feng Bao was called Li Liang, and the two of them walked south, Chen You said.

"How?" Chen Mo only vaguely guessed the reason why Zhang Whale dealt with him from Zhu Yijun's words about Zhang Whale's careful eyes, but in fact, he didn't know how he could be jealous of himself, and when he heard Chen You's words, he hurriedly asked.

Chen You glanced at Chen Mo: "How else can you say it?" Without foresight, he will deal with you with the dignity of the master of ceremonies and the admiral of the book? Let's just wonder, how on earth did he see that you would soar? You must know that there are many eunuchs studying in the inner study hall, and there are more promising ones than you......"

"Yes......" Chen Mo was also puzzled.

"Could it be that he knows that Lord Banzai has an unusual relationship with you?" I explained to Chen Ju last night, and after returning to the room, Chen Mo talked to Chen You again, because Chen You knew the relationship between Chen Mo and Wanli, so he asked this question.

Chen Mo nodded: "It is estimated that there is only one explanation, his identity is left there, so he naturally pays attention to the movements of the Long Live Lord." He sighed: "Disaster fell from the sky, there are fish and eyes in this palace, and it is really impossible to prevent it!" ”

"Yes," Chen You echoed, and suddenly slapped his forehead as if he remembered something: "By the way, I forgot to tell you, I heard Zhao Gonggong say that Li Tianyou was beaten by Zhang Whale." ”

"Why? When did it happen? ”

"I heard Zhao's father-in-law say that Zhang Whale went to Neidongchang to execute Zhang Decheng today, and when he returned home, he hung Li Tianyou and beat him badly, as for why, no one said it."

"Zhang Decheng is dead?" This time, Chen Mo was really taken aback, stopped and looked at Chen You with a side face, as if he didn't believe what he said at all.