Xue Chongxun felt that the visionary strategists in ancient China mainly based their predictions on the outcome of major events based on historical experience and summarization, for example, after the founding of the Han Dynasty, strategists would summarize the lessons of the Qin Dynasty and put forward far-sighted predictions. Maybe you can calculate it accurately, thinking that it is fate, but in fact it is just experience.

And Xue Chongxun doesn't believe in fate anymore, if there is really fate, Princess Taiping is unpopular and does not follow the trend of history, why did she finally defeat the "Xuanzong" who exists like the true son of heaven? This qiē is just because of some details, if Xue Chongxun did not get the memories of his previous life, if he ...... There are no ifs in the past, and some accidental and subtle things change the big things.

It's the most difficult thing to grasp, but that's where life is interesting, because it's complicated and subtle.

When he was thinking nonsense in the carriage, he was in a calmer mood. Because there is no one else in the car, there is no need to put on a show, there is no need to wear a mask of kindness on your face.

He is very afraid of loneliness and loneliness, so he is afraid of becoming a loser and having to escape in an unknown corner; But I enjoy loneliness very much, and loneliness can make my mood calm.

People are really contradictory things, and those who are hidden in the city also feel like this?

Gently lifting the corner of the bamboo curtain, there is a bright ray of sunlight shining into the dim carriage, and you can see fine dust flying briskly in the sunlight, irregular. Looking out along that gap, you can see the gate of the Yuanfang, which is where the princes' mansions are located, and the prince Li Chenghong also lives in it.

After a while, sure enough, I saw the cavalry opening the way, and Li Chenghong's guard of honor came out of it. The gongs and drums were beating, the people on the street gave way one after another, and the vendors and pawns who set up small stalls hurriedly collected their things, and the scene was like a modern hawker seeing the chengguan coming.

Xue Chongxun came here just to observe Li Chenghong at will, and he didn't want to do anything...... It's funny to think that the person who thinks about it the most is actually his own enemy.

As a prince, he will get acquainted with many people, thousands of officials in the court, and all kinds of people. But no matter how many people you know, what you can ponder is actually the few around you, and people's energy is very limited after all. family, staff and opponents who work together, among which he thinks about Li Chenghong the most.

The prince occasionally expressed his rebellion, but so far he has not made any response. made Xue Chongxun feel that this opponent was too weak, even if he was the crown prince. But Xue Chongxun was faintly uneasy, afraid that something that would not conform to the rules of power would happen.

Just as Xue Chongxun thought at first, some events cannot be measured by the "Great Dao".

In the middle of the road, surrounded by many heavily armed guards, Li Chenghong was riding a horse, swaggering very calmly. Although he has little power in the court, when he walks on the road, all the officials and people around him bow down and stand in awe of everyone, and he is not a person who can afford to be provoked.

Xue Chongxun quietly watched Li Chenghong's expression with interest for a while, until they gradually walked by. He pondered Li Chenghong's psychology and feelings, the status of brocade clothes and jade food is very high, and the current situation is still good, ordinary people in such a position and life, should think about cherishing the one they have in their hands?

The guard of honor has gradually moved away, heading in the direction of Daming Palace. There was no longer anything Xue Chongxun was interested in here, so he knocked on the carriage and said, "Pang Er, catch the car." ”

"Where is Lang Jun going?" There was a muffled voice from the slave in front of him, and the fat thing was mostly eating.

The expansion of the pro-kingdom has begun to take shape, and the pattern of Xue Chongxun's palace is actually a bit strange. Most of the palaces of princes and nobles are official offices and residences together, because the official offices of the royal palace are mainly to manage various affairs in the palace, just like when Princess Taiping lived outside the palace in the past, the pattern of Princess Taiping Mansion in Zhenguo is like this, and the front of the inner house is the official office. Because Xue Chongxun's palace was the former palace of the Patriotic Prince, the place could not be expanded, and the depth of the north and south was limited, so he was unwilling to move the land, so he made the current pattern: the pro-kingdom official offices were arranged in parallel next to the residence.

He stopped in front of the house, and when he went to the side of the construction site to look, Yu Wenxiao, who was in charge of the expansion, greeted him and said some general affairs. Xue Chongxun was absent-minded, and suddenly asked a question that had nothing to do with the topic: "What kind of woman does the prince like?" ”

Yuwen Xiao was stunned, his expression was a little surprised, and he said after a while: "As far as the news that the inner factory has at present, he doesn't seem to have a particularly favored concubine. However, our spy has not made further progress, and there may be some secret information about him that has not yet been discovered...... Xue Lang is very concerned about the prince's affairs? ”

Xue Chongxun nodded: "Underestimating the enemy is the stupidest thing. Last time, we framed him for incest, causing a storm in the city, but I saw that he didn't care, hehe, don't care about other people's eyes? It's kind of interesting. ”

Yuwen Xiao smiled: "Now even if he is very ambitious, he is also weak, Xue Lang doesn't need to worry too much." ”

"Isn't there an East Palace official and a six-rate? There are always some simple-minded people in this world who are flattered and carried away by a person with a high status. ”

Yu Wenxiao nodded and said: "If the prince can first encircle the people around him, he will be a somewhat capable master." ”

Xue Chongxun said with a smile: "Playing power with me, but I'm not afraid of him, so I have to beware of him jumping off the wall in a hurry...... Not a pampered woman? I don't care about others, I always care about myself, right? ”

At this moment, Yu Wenxiao suddenly asked: "The woman Xue Lang favors is ......?"

Xue Chongxun was stunned, and then smiled again: "I care about her (Yuwen Ji) very much." He said let Yuwen Xiao go about his own business, and then went back to the house.

A lacquered letter was found on the desk in the front room of the residence, and when I picked it up, I saw that it was a letter from Luoyang, and I could guess that it was written by Liu An without opening it, most of which was about official business in the eastern capital. He threw it on the case, not bothering to look at it. The days when you don't have to go to the court on weekdays are actually relatively idle, whether it is the Nanya Zuowei or the household department, he has an official title, but he never takes care of things. Being a prince is obviously much easier than being a general, and there are not so many complicated affairs...... However, it would be very boring to completely degenerate into the princes' mansion who could only eat, drink, and have fun and could not do anything else.

Xue Chongxun remembered the recent "money law" innovation that he wanted to complete, some files were stored in the study, and it was still early to get things out of the room.

The courtyard where the study is located is on the shore of Tingyu Lake, which stores a large number of palace accounts, official files and other things, Xue Chongxun himself has a key, and the other key is in the hands of his mother-in-law Sun. Those things must be sorted out and kept by a trustworthy person, Xue Chongxun's old housekeeper Xue Liu, who used to be Xue Chongxun's old housekeeper, but this guy is too greedy and often seeks personal gain, and now almost all the internal affairs power has been transferred to the hands of the Sun family, and the business situation of the palace has improved, because Xue Chongxun can see the numbers on the account.

His income from Yongye Tian Chenglu and others was just a small head, and Xue Chongxun didn't bother much, but this time the money change method was a huge benefit, which attracted his attention.

When I walked into the courtyard of the study, I only saw a few slaves and maids walking around under the eaves, but I didn't see the mother and daughter of the Sun family. Xue Chongxun went straight to the study, opened the cabinet and took out the accounts of the staff's budget.

He casually flipped through the search to see the results, that is, how much money he could make every year, but he couldn't find it after looking for a long time. Although there are many people with ink in their stomachs, these staff members are far worse than modern accountants, and their accounts are not clear and detailed at all, and they do not even have a budget result. What made his head big the most was that the numbers on the top were Chinese numbers, such as numbers like "1352", which always made Xue Chongxun feel it and didn't have much concept in his heart. He thought about it, and then called the slave and maid to come in and sharpen the ink, and personally counted the results with Arabic numerals.

He used to do good grades in mathematics and physics when he was in school, and even if he didn't have a calculator, he couldn't do abacus, and he was quite fast at columnar arithmetic.

It didn't take long for him to calculate the gross profit of "fire consumption". Looking at the few pieces of scratch paper on the table, he exhaled with a sense of accomplishment and stretched.

At this time, I suddenly heard a voice at the door say, "I just heard that Xue Lang is here, what are you doing?" ”

Sun's voice, Xue Chongxun glanced up, and once again said in his heart This elder is really quite stylish, "Last time I raised money in the court, I calculated the profit result of the money bank." ”

"Xue Lang turned out to be able to settle accounts." Sun smiled, walked over, looked at the table, only saw a bunch of unfamiliar numbers and equations, and said with some curiosity, "What kind of text is written?" ”

Xue Chongxun let out a "ha", and hurriedly made an excuse to explain: "It's the counting method over there in the Western Regions, because it's more concise and intuitive, I learned a little bit before, and now it's coming in handy." "If the new law is enacted, the revenue from the expenditure of the state treasury from printing paper money alone will be one million yuan a year, and the profit from mortgage lending will not be lower than this amount, and the bank will be very profitable." ”

"A million?" Sun was also taken aback, "I also read the file after it was sent, but I didn't expect the total number to be so large." ”

Xue Chongxun said proudly: "Someone said that I would collect money and sell my official position, how many official positions do I have to sell for one million?" The so-called gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way, haha. ”

Xue Chongxun's smile became a little stiff, and he only said: "It should be no problem, there are people in the political hall who support and are neutral, and no one wants to go against me." I'll meet the queen another day and ask her to help, and it's basically done. ”

Speaking of this, Xue Chongxun thought of the crown prince Li Chenghong again, if he hadn't interfered in the temple that day, there would have been less trouble. The party in power is the same as the other, Xue Chongxun understands this kind of thing more today, and some people often make it very uncomfortable to mix it like a fish in the throat. G