Houshou Gate is the palace queen gate, there is a river dug in front of the palace back door, there are imperial guards stationed on the palace wall every ten steps, a large stone bridge is placed in front of the door, and there are also standing guards on it. After crossing the bridge, it is Houshou Street, there is no light and no fire on the street, there is no shop and no shop, all are flat-headed horse houses as far as the eye can see, it is the house of ordinary people, there is a Bai Che mansion in front of the stone bridge, and the plaque is "Internal Affairs House" four big characters.

Together with the rush into Houshou Street, I saw the palace guards across the river shooting a vigilant gaze, and the Houshou gate, called for several slow horses, the vehicle stopped for a while, and the imperial guards guarding the stone bridge quickly rushed forward and shouted: "No parking is allowed here, leave quickly." ”

Hearing this, Lin Huaan lifted the curtain and walked out, glanced at the guards who looked like they were facing a great enemy, and said lightly: "I came to find Khalkha for something, and I shouldn't have seen me tonight, so let's go on duty." ”

The group guards saw that the young man with white hair was so pale, and he was wearing a forehead uniform, and he almost didn't have to guess to know who was coming, so he bowed down in unison and quickly retreated.

When the guards left, he helped him and jumped off the board, and then he walked up the steps of the Interior Mansion and asked the guards in front of the gate. "Is Khalkha still there?"

Everyone knows that Master Lu Dao has mobilized the power of the inner government, and the doorman bowed in a hurry: "Yes, Lord Khalr left after dark, only Lord Hua, the deputy attendant of Uritai, has not left yet, and the slave will go to call Lord Khalkha." ”

"No, just have Benoy there." Lin Huaan said, and the praying mantis stepped into the house.

Kuaizi's night was slightly cold, he went up to the front porch, and saw four candles rising in the hall, the candles were swaying by the cold wind, and the mottled land shadows floated on seven or eight huge tables, one of which was Zhuang Yuan.

Zhuang Yuan is a pseudonym, his real name is Uritai Hua Beno, Uritai is not a surname, but the Beihai Uritai tribe, his surname is Hua, which is known as the first in Jinling more than 200 years ago, the descendant of Hua Disheng.

Lin Huaan stepped into the dead and silent hall, and saw that everyone was gone, only Zhuang Yuan was still in the office, and Ha Luha smiled: "I haven't seen you for a long time, I haven't rested so late." ”

Zhuang Yuan, who was a fan of thoughts, laughed familiarly, raised his head, was stunned for a moment, his face was suddenly full of excitement, and he stood up and bowed: "E, you are finally here." ”

Lin Huaan nodded, stepped up to him, looked down at the account on the case, and sat on a table and chair at random: "It's so late, what are you still busy with?" ”

"Yes." Zhuang Yuan saw him sitting at the lower table, and hurriedly invited him to the main table: "Please sit down." ”

"Anyway, no one, out of the way." Lin Huaan waved his hand, pointed to the account of the desk and asked, "What kind of account is this?" Is it the water tent of the two transports, or the Lu tent in the silver village? ”

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is an independent business outside the court, which is in charge of the main lifeblood of Daikin, with the largest silver village in the country, river transportation, sea transportation, land transportation, etc., although half of them are officials and half are merchants, but like all merchants, they still have to pay taxes and are still subject to the control of the criminal code.

Hearing the inquiry, Zhuang Yuan hurriedly handed over the account and said, "My lord, please see, this is the money borrowed from our Tianlong Silver Shop by Xianping Mansion and Sanwa Huzhuang, and it stands to reason that the third day of this month will have to repay the interest of 7,900 taels first, but until today, it has not been repaid." ”

"Oh!" Lin Huaan stretched out his hand to take the account book, glanced up and down, nodded and asked, "How is the origin of this three-tile pot village?" Talk to me. ”

Zhuang Yuan said: "The boss of the three-tile pot village is called Chen Ming, who is a native of Pingyang Mansion in the Song Dynasty, because I am backward in the technique of porcelain kilns, and in February this year, I was introduced by Beijing and other places in the province of Zhongshu and adults to attract investment, and the festival and adults drew a thousand tilts of land ten miles outside Xianping Mansion, and let Chen Ming build 55 caves to burn porcelain, but ......"

Speaking of this, he turned over a few pages of the account book, pointed to some numbers, and then said: "My lord, please see, Chen Ming once failed to repay the loan interest in May, and at that time, it was still a seven-day delay for the festival and the adult, and then it passed." ”

Lin Huaan read it at a glance, turned to the first page of the book, and casually threw the book on the table and asked: "How much is the valuation of the fifty-five caves and the properties under construction?" ”

Zhuang Yuanzhi said that he was originally a businessman, but he could get through it in the blink of an eye, which was too fast, and replied hurriedly: "It adds up to less than 500,000 taels." ”

"Humph!" Hearing less than 500,000 taels, Lin Huaan snorted coldly, looked up at Zhuang Yuan and said: "If this thousand tilts of land belong to this Chen Ming, then the five million taels borrowed are not afraid of him, but this thousand tilts of land belong to Xianping Mansion, and this festival is a good businessman." ”

Zhuang Yuan just smelled the smell, so he couldn't close his eyes late at night, and he could hear a sneer, where did he dare to answer the first half of the sentence, thinking that Chen Ming and Jiehe might be hanging.

"How are the two fortunes now?" Putting down the rotten accounts in his hand, Lin Huaan sighed lightly: "There is a famine outside, how much rice, grain, wheat and rice are in and out every day?" ”

"This ......" Zhuang Yuan didn't know how to answer, this matter was very involved, hesitated for a while, and then said simply: "Fenshui, Zishui, Weishui, and Beiqinghe have Song merchant ships entering the country every day. ”

Hearing that the daily draft of the passenger ships in the Song Dynasty was extremely deep, Lin Huaan knew that the household department was not clean, after all, the tax case written in the household department book was definitely not a matter of extremely deep draft.

He took a deep breath and asked, "If I want to withdraw the money for housekeeping, how much can I have?" ”

Zhuang Yuan thought for a while and replied: "The famine is raging, and the officials in various places are violently extorted, and there is not much money in the village, a total of more than 56 million taels, and the bottom line of the feasible money dealer must not be less than 50 million taels, so as to cope with the withdrawal of silver and loans in various places, and the energy consumption is not much, only more than 6 million taels." ”

The largest Yinzhuang was only more than 56 million taels, so Lin Huaan got up from his chair and crossed the door: "Today, twenty wealthy businessmen came to give me bribes, there are many large and small boxes, I sent all the bribes, you sold the things, and recorded them in detail." ”

"Yes." Zhuang Yuan responded, and followed out of the door.

Walking out of the Internal Affairs Mansion, Lin Huaan saw Yu Sixian and Long Xing standing next to the car, so he turned to Zhuang Yuan and said, "If anyone bribes me in the future, I will ask them to send the bribe to the Inner Mansion, and you should rest earlier." ”

Zhuang Yuan said yes, but did not return, personally sent him down the steps, and when he got into the carriage, the carriage turned around and galloped away towards the avenue, and then straightened up. It's hard to believe that half a year ago, he rented dozens of storefronts from Eyu, and half a year later, he was already a silver thread and a very good minister. He was not wrong that day, this loser who was beaten and scolded by everyone in Lin'an City was definitely not a person in the Hongchen District.

Back in the house, the sky at midnight was as clear as a mirror, the moon was cold, the stars were shining, and a coldness made people feel a little chilly.

Lin Hua'an walked on the path of the inner garden, there was no one in the flower gallery, there were several miserable lanterns hanging under the crooked corridor, and the water of the river pond next to it was sparkling on the fence under the dusk moon, and the silence made people only feel that the world was in space.

He walked into the courtyard, the bedroom in front of him was pitch black, and suddenly remembered that he had asked Jing'er to sleep just now, and Jing'er naturally didn't dare to cross the line to come here, after all, this was his and Yan'er's bedroom, and this little girl thought that her identity was worse than that of a concubine.

Thinking about it, he smiled and shook his head, pushed open the door and walked in, took off his boots beside the bed, and fell into the bed in a fit of exhaustion, his bright eyes were stunned in the darkness for a long time, and his eyelids sank like boulders, healing more and more densely, and he fell into a deep sleep.

The night was quieter, the wind surge intensified, the whistling north wind passed through the branches, and the howling world was even colder.

There were messy shadows of trees on the pasted window, and the wicker danced messily in the wind, like the sky holding a whip rod, urging the lazy Lin Hua'an to wake him up from his sleep.

Before the sleepy eyes opened, the slightest cold struck first, Lin Huaan, who was sleeping in clothes, opened his eyes, and saw that the room was still in darkness, so he straightened his hands and feet and stretched his body, and got out of bed.

Walking out of the bedroom, he took two deep breaths of fresh air, glanced up at the oblique moon, went back to the room to light a faint candle, changed into his court clothes, and closed the door and walked out.

When he came to the hall, he thought that he was the earliest, but he saw that Yu Sixian was already sitting in the hall, and immediately said with a smile: "Mo Daojun is early, and there are even more early pedestrians." I didn't expect Yu Lao to get up so early? ”

Yu Sixian is responsible for guarding him, the two courtyards are only separated by a wall, the eyes and ears of the martial arts practitioner are sensitive, the young master fell from the bed, she woke up, and was wondering what he was doing when he got up? When you hear the cabinet opening, you know that he is about to get up. Without thinking much about it, he jumped off the bed, put on a fake face in his sleep, put on a black robe and came to the hall to wait, and sure enough, as soon as he sat down, he walked in.

"Young Master, it's only now that Shen Shizhong, what are you doing getting up so early?" Yu Si let out a tearful sigh, turned his old face, and saw that he was already in court clothes, and said again in surprise: "There is still nearly an hour before the early dynasty." ”

Lin Huaan also knew that he couldn't sleep, so he looked at the night outside the hall, and sighed forward: "I'm not happy in my heart, I always wake up in my sleep, since I'm awake, it's better to go to the province to have a look, maybe ......."

He sighed and walked to the gate and said, when he arrived at Yu Lao, he suddenly grabbed his legs and feet, and stared at Yu Lao's strange face with crooked eyebrows in astonishment. ”

Yu Sixian was listening to him, only to see his steps stop in front of him, pointing to his face with a grotesque face, saying that his eyebrows were crooked.

"What...... What the? Yu Si was stunned, raised his palm and touched his eyebrows, his eyes fixed on his smiling eyes, and asked suspiciously: "What eyebrows are crooked?" ”

"Not this way." Lin Hua'an smiled and stretched out his hand, helped him on his right eyebrow, waited for his eyebrows to straighten, and sighed: "I have heard that Taiyuan Wenmen's disguise technique is wonderful, but I didn't expect that Yu Lao might as well let it go." As the words fell, he turned around and stepped out of the door.

Yu Sixian was stunned, raised his hand and touched his righted right eyebrow, turned to look at the young master who left without asking more than half a sentence, blinked his eyes twice, and hurriedly chased after him.