Zhu Youzhang's face was already solemn. First heard that the Catholic General had a move in Beitongzhou, and then Mu Bin reported the tragedy of three thousand households in Beitongzhou, and Zhu Youzhu was almost certain that something would happen in Beitongzhou.

It's just that what will happen, Zhu Youzhu can't figure it out, Zhu Youzhu first glanced at Liu Chengfeng, and then fell on Mu Bin, whose face was pale.

"Your Majesty, Weichen is dead, Weichen, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, actually made the thief so arrogant, this matter, the Beizhen Mansion Department must investigate thoroughly."

"Thorough investigation?" Zhu Youzhu smiled faintly, for so many years, Mingjiao has been operating under the nose of the imperial court, so arrogant, the factory guards have not noticed the slightest clue, and now that things have come to this point, the Beizhen Mansion Division still doesn't know who did it, what is the use of really investigating thoroughly?

"That's it, it's not your fault for this, you don't have to blame yourself." Zhu Youzhu said lightly: "The incident happened suddenly, I have to think again, on the side of Beitongzhou, don't transfer thousands of households for the time being, I will let the Dongchang side temporarily stabilize Beitongzhou, this matter will be discussed in the long run." ”

Immediately, Zhu Youzhu glanced at Liu Chengfeng and said, "Liu Chengfeng, you have done a good job this time and made great contributions, but the reward, I still have to think about it, and there will be a grace in a few days." ”

Liu Chengfeng hurriedly said: "Thank you, Your Majesty for your grace." ”

Zhu Youzhu said: "By the way, this time those who have merit will be rewarded, you draw up a detailed list, and I will reward you according to your merits." ”

Liu Chengfeng thanked him again.

Zhu Youzhu said tiredly: "Okay, I'm tired, you can retreat." I'll have to go to the cabinet later. ”

Zhu Youzhu is now thinking about it, it is no longer Beitongzhou, Beitongzhou is involved in the whole body, the top priority at the moment is to discuss countermeasures with the ministers, after all, it is the suburbs of Beijing, once there is something, there must be precautions, only when the Beijing division is stabilized, what happened in Beitongzhou can be suppressed to the minimum.

But having said that, Zhu Youzhang hasn't thought about Liu Chengfeng's reward yet, and on the side of Beitongzhou, Zhu Youzhu is also black-eyed, and now he is too impatient to make a decision, although he knows that the matter is urgent, Zhu Youzhu still feels that he should think about it.

Liu Chengfeng and Mu Bin withdrew, and the two of them left the palace together, seeing Mu Bin's sad appearance, Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but comfort: "My lord, what are you going to do about Beitongzhou?" ”

Mu Bin restrained a little worried in front of Liu Chengfeng, and said lightly: "Naturally, I will do what His Majesty said, don't make any moves for the time being, and let Dongchang maintain it first." Dongchang ......" Mu Bin sneered and said: "Although Your Majesty doesn't blame, but letting Dongchang maintain Beitongzhou is to blame our Beizhen Mansion for being incompetent, and Mu is not doing well." ”

"By the way, His Majesty said that you took the chaotic party, what kind of chaotic party?"

Just in front of Mu Bin, Zhu Youzhu didn't spit out the matter of the Ming Sect, but just summarized it with the chaotic party, so Mu Bin asked this question, Liu Chengfeng said vaguely: "It's just an ordinary thief, take care, there are still some things to do in the lowly hundred households, so I will leave for the time being." ”

Mu Bin smiled bitterly, and couldn't help but scold Liu Chengfeng: "You kid, it seems that you have something to do with a hundred households, and I, the commander, have to be free, just don't pass it today, the official doesn't care about you, and I have to think about Beitongzhou's countermeasures later." ”

It is generally said that people are children, which is not bad in later generations, it is a kind of scolding in this era, but Mu Bin said it in this tone, but it made clear the meaning of closeness.

He is now in trouble, although His Majesty did not blame Beitongzhou, but his impression of him was only afraid of falling a little. And Liu Chengfeng, this guy, recently cracked a case of rebellion, and finally saved a little face in the guard, so he also favored Liu Chengfeng a little.

Liu Chengfeng smiled at Mu Bin, then went to lead his horse, turned over, and said goodbye again and again before reining in the horse.

At this time, Liu Chengfeng was tired and sleepy, stayed up all night, and did not go home for two days, and really wanted to go back to rest at this time. I just thought that there was still something to do in the hundred households, and I had to step on the melting snow and go to the fireworks alley in the cold wind.

Back in the fireworks alley, Liu Jin was waiting at the door, and as soon as Liu Chengfeng came, he smiled and wanted to lead the horse for Liu Chengfeng, Liu Chengfeng said: "Why is Father-in-law Liu still here?" Hasn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned to the palace yet? ”

Liu Jian said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the two uncles took a nap for a while, and asked the slaves and maids to wait here and wait for Master Liu to come back." ”

Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but smile bitterly: "You lead the way." ”

Still returning to the cell, Zhu Houzhao was napping in the cell, but Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, a pair of brothers, were silently pondering the mahjong, opening them one by one to study, seeing that Liu Chengfeng was coming, Zhang Yanling said angrily: "Why did you go to the palace for so long before you came back?" Don't be verbose, now I owe you a total of two thousand eight hundred taels of silver, let's continue! "Then I'm going to play mahjong.

Zhang Heling is yin has a calm face, he lost the most, enough for nearly five thousand taels, such a large amount of silver is exported, it is really more uncomfortable than putting him in this prison, the family is big, and he can't withstand such a big toss, the annual harvest of the Fuli Grange is only about 10,000 taels, if this account is not smoothed, the whole family can't go to eat the northwest wind, right?

Although he is a marquis, he earns a lot and spends a lot, and there are hundreds of mouths in the family, as well as servants, etc., which is a bit beyond his means, and Zhang Heling has no choice.

Besides, this mahjong is really a little interesting, more complicated than the leaf cards that are usually played, but it is also much more interesting, Zhang Heling also sat back, pushed Zhu Houzhao who was lying on the table napping, Zhu Houzhao woke up, there was saliva on the corner of his mouth, rubbed his eyes, and then cheered up and said: "Master Liu is here, come, come, play two rounds first." ”

Liu Chengfeng really couldn't do anything about these gambling sticks, it turned out that he taught the prince to want to gamble happily, who knew that it would evolve to this point, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I really can't bear it, I still have something to do at hand." ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "You want to leave when you win money, what is the reason!" ”

Zhang Yanling also said: "That's it, there is a beginning and an end, and I will talk about it after a few laps." ”

Even Zhang Heling couldn't help but say: "It's extreme, it's extreme." ”

Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but be angry, these three shameless ones, don't play if they can't afford to play, they gave a butt on credit, but they didn't leave the person who won by the dead, is there still such a shameless one?

Liu Chengfeng's face was cold, Zhang Heling felt a little chill on his back, he now knew that this surnamed Liu was not a fuel-efficient lamp, from yesterday to today, although he played mahjong in the prison cell, but from time to time there will be officials and captains to ask, such as how to deal with the chaos of so-and-so, this guy is playing cards, but he can silently pop out a kill or something like that.

The horizontal is afraid of being stunned, and the stunned is afraid of dying, but in fact, the one who doesn't want to die is afraid of this kind of careless human life, this guy is ruthless enough.

Liu Chengfeng said: "It's easy to continue fighting, first calculate the accounts, pay back the money you owe on credit first, and then fight after clearing the accounts." ”

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling immediately felt that they were a little shorter, they were not businessmen, but noble lords, what is a lord? The lord has no money, but he is the master of the grange. If Liu Chengfeng said that he was willing to convert the acres of land into silver to settle the account, it would not be difficult for them, but if they were allowed to repay the silver, most of them would not be able to raise it for a while.

But Zhu Houzhao said indifferently: "Isn't it just that I owe you a thousand taels of silver?" Master Liu, you are too stingy, is this small amount still a lot of money? Liu Banban...... Liu Banban......"

Liu Jin was waiting outside, and when he heard the prince calling him, he immediately came in with a smile and said, "What does His Royal Highness the prince command?" ”

Zhu Houzhao said lightly: "Go, go to the treasury and get five thousand taels of silver for the palace, and this palace wants to see how Master Liu earns all the money from the palace." ”

Zhu Houzhao's sentence is common to Liu Chengfeng and Liu Jin, but for Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, the pair of brothers, their jaws are about to fall. The prince's usual monthly money is clear, even her sister Queen Zhang often complains, saying that the prince's use is too little, and occasionally he always has to secretly stuff dozens of taels of silver for Zhu Houzhao's flowers, when did this prince have so much silver? Five thousand taels of silver said to take it, and he didn't even blink his eyebrows?

For their brother-in-law Zhu Youzhang, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling are also clear, the emperor is thrifty, usually in and out is very simple, although he loves the prince, but in terms of use, he is tightly controlled, where does this prince get the money?

And Liu Jin listened to Zhu Houzhao's instructions and went quickly.

Zhang Heling couldn't help but tug at Zhu Houzhao's sleeve and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, where did you get so much silver?" ”

Zhu Houzhao was originally a cheerful and neat person, and said bluntly: "This palace and Master Liu make a ...... by partnering in business" He suddenly became vigilant again, looked at this pair of uncles, and said: "My dividend last month is only these five thousand taels, don't fight the idea of this palace, although we are close relatives, but this palace does not have much money to spare now." ”

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling were stunned all of a sudden, not because of the stingy attitude of His Royal Highness the Prince, but because of the dividend of 5,000 taels of silver last month. What is the concept of five thousand taels of silver, how can they not know? Even the dignified Guogong's Yulu is only two hundred stones of fine rice, and the silver is folded down, that is, three hundred taels of silver, and it is only four thousand taels a year, plus the income of the grange, the expenses of a large family, there is really not much money left, on the surface it is noble, but in fact, there is bitterness and self-knowledge.

It's not that no one has let the people in the house try to do some business, for example, Zhang Heling has pondered about this, after all, the harvest of the grange is uncertain, and the royal rewards look valuable, but most of them can't be eaten or used, and they have to do business if they want to spend all their time drinking, but this business has been done, and the capital has been taken, but the result is a mess.

Or is the lower person in the deficit, obviously earning money, but when reporting the accounts, he is only a noble royal relative, and he doesn't know anything about business, where can he see the Tao here?

And then it is a direct loss, although doing business depends on the relationship, but there is a relationship may not be possible, people's merchants rent ships into some silk in the south of the Yangtze River and sell it to Beijing to make money. But he opened the joint and asked the Cao Boat Gang to bring the goods to Beijing, but he still lost a lot. The bitterness here is really not enough for outsiders.

The prince said that he would partner with Liu Chengfeng to do some business, and the monthly dividend would be 5,000, 5,000...... This...... This......

Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling, the two brothers, when they looked at Liu Chengfeng again, as if this guy was piled up with gold ingots, their eyes began to glow.

In these years, origin is important, but it is difficult to have no money, even if it is a relative of the emperor? Usually, in order to entertain, give gifts to each other with various princes and princes, as well as various expenses during the New Year's Festival, not to mention a lot of money spent for the sake of decency, it is enough for this pair of royal relatives to be anxious. As for her sister Empress Zhang, in fact, she doesn't use it much, plus Empress Zhang and the emperor have always been thrifty, so poor, do they dare to cry in the palace?!。