At the Chaoyang Gate of Beijing City, a team of Han soldiers walked forward with neat steps, and several heads of the household department smiled at each other, this month can be very busy with them, hundreds of thousands of troops have to ask about their food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they have to ask in person, to put it mildly, that is, to build a latrine, they have to ask in person.

"This is the last batch of troops, and we will be idle in the future."

"What are you idle! The army is levied outside, and we are not responsible for calculating the food and salary? Alas! The emperor is really, why do you want to start a war with the northern barbarians, there is no benefit if you win, and if you lose, it will affect the fortunes of the country......"

"Shh......h Be careful that the wall has ears, isn't it right for us to be officials, why bother with these, it's not our turn to plan for major national events. ”

"Yes, yes! Let's go back, we have to pay to Shangguan Lu. ”

Wang Qinglu closed the account book and said to the principals in front of him with satisfaction: "I remember this account book in detail, and I did a good job!" ”

"Thank you for the compliment."

Wang Qinglu nodded, got up and said, "You guys go down, this official wants to enter the palace to face the saint." ”

"The subordinates retired."

Wang Qinglu carried the account book, sorted out the official mansion, and went out of the household department, like the south study of the palace.

Min Shu looked at Wang Qinglu, who was calm and leisurely, and knew that they didn't matter, but she saluted first, and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, the emperor is meeting with the minister, I'm afraid you have to wait for a while." ”

Wang Qinglu took advantage of the situation to sit down on the side and replied: "It's okay, the official will wait here." ”

In the south study, Li Yunzhong's mind Tang Liang was really unpredictable.

Li Yunzhong looked at Liu Xiucai's confession again and asked: "In addition to the capital, these Xiucai are still in the hearts of the people all over the country?" ”

Tang Liang bowed and replied, "The Intelligence Bureau has found out. The evidence is conclusive, led by some officials of the Ministry of Rites. Contacting relatives and friends everywhere to slander the New Deal is not only that. They also ran several newspapers and slandered the New Deal. ”

Li Yunzhong smiled indifferently and asked, "What do you say should be done with these people?" ”

Tang Liang sighed, and said in his heart, I have to think carefully about a thousand deaths with one word.

"Your Majesty, now that the imperial court is engaged in constitutionalism, it can no longer be casually connected as before. Besides, the deeds committed by these talents and people are not to death......"

"That's to let them go?"

Li Yunzhong has thought a lot, since the incident, he has been putting up with this group of self-righteous literati, but they have to inch in, thinking that I dare not kill people, these cheap bones, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, I didn't see them have such hard bones.

Tang Liang said tentatively: "Why don't you lock them up for a few months?" It's good to keep them in their minds. ”

Li Yunzhong clenched his fists. Angry: "Kill! There is no one in the world who changes the law and does not shed blood, let them make a start! ”

Tang Liang was extremely surprised, this was not like the emperor's style, and thought that the emperor was just carried away by anger. immediately knelt on the ground and pleaded: "The emperor is angry!" The emperor is angry! These literati just drank too much and fooled around, why should the emperor be serious with them. Ask the emperor to spare them. ”

Li Yunzhong tilted his head and stared at Tang Liang, and suddenly gritted his teeth and asked, "Tang Liang." I remember you're not a reader, right? Why do you intercede for them, you know this? I'll remove you from office, huh! Good! Good! , you tell me why. ”

Tang Liang replied stubbornly: "Wechen read some books when he was young, at that time Wechen was not sensible, and he had been unwilling to study hard, and then his family fell into the middle of the road, and he couldn't read it if he wanted to, and his father died depressed, so Wechen respected those who lifted people and ...... scholars."

Li Yunzhong shook his head inexplicably, he really didn't understand Tang Liang's words, and sighed: "There are good and bad scholars in the world, and there are loyal and traitorous officials in the world, do you respect these people and scholars?" ”

Tang Liang didn't dare to reply, he hadn't thought about these things.

Li Yunzhong said coldly: "You get up, go back and do a good job, don't think nonsense in the future." ”

Tang Liang sighed secretly and replied, "Weichen retired." ”

Seeing Tang Liang leave gloomily, Min Shu didn't understand what was going on, so she came in and reminded in a coquettish voice: "Your Majesty, the head of the household is still asking to see you." ”

Li Yunzhong seemed to have met a savior, and asked urgently: "Min Shu, I ask you, how did you treat scholars in the Qing Dynasty before, these people are too unpleasant, they are really bastards!" In the past, you were engaged in literary prison in the Qing Dynasty, and I really wanted to learn to see if these literati were hard-mouthed or my knives were hard. ”

Min Shu's cherry mouth could already hang up a soy sauce bottle, and finally after listening to Li Yunzhong's words, he replied with a small face: "Does the emperor want to be a tyrant!" If the people are stable today, the people of Dawn are looking forward to the emperor to implement benevolent government and create a peaceful and prosperous era, how can the emperor slaughter scholars! ”

Li Yunzhong was stunned for a moment, he was so counted by the little beauty, he was really embarrassed, the depression just now had already been thrown out of the clouds, and he immediately asked: "Then when your ancestors entered the customs, what slaughtered the world for, which city in China has not suffered a military disaster?" ”

"Woo...... You're bullying me! Min Shu's eyes were hazy, and she choked up: "What the emperor doesn't understand, how can I answer you as a woman." ”

"Don't say it, don't say it, but I have already made up my mind to teach this group of literati a lesson, head, I have to cut a few before I can get angry." Li Yunzhong remembered something, and then asked, "Who did you just say came to see you?" ”

Min Shu pouted without replying, and looked at her toes vigorously, as if there was a golden flower on them.

Li Yunzhong was completely helpless, and he didn't have the habit of losing his temper with women, so he replied softly: "Okay, what I said just now is angry, but you Daqing really didn't do it authentically, but for the sake of flowers...... Okay, don't talk about it, don't be angry. ”

Min Shu muttered, "How dare I be angry." ”

Li Yunzhong smiled indifferently, and looked at the few little eunuchs who were snickering next to him, and he was embarrassed again.

"Ahem! Go down, all of you. ”

"The slave obeys."

Min Shu twisted her fingers and whispered: "Hubu Shangshu asks to see, can the emperor see it?" ”

Li Yunzhong said: "See! How not to see! ”

"Weichen meets the emperor!"

"No courtesy, Aiqing has something to do?"

Wang Qinglu took out the account book, raised his hands flat, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the three armies have arrived at the designated place and are ready to leave, all of which are the thirty-five major armies, and the cost of millions of people this month is equivalent to 1.2 million taels of silver. ”

Min Shu stepped forward to take the account book and presented it to Li Yunzhong.

Li Yunzhong was shocked and asked, "One hundred and twenty thousand taels!" This hasn't started yet, and it cost 1.2 million taels? How the money is spent, just say a lot of money. ”

Wang Qinglu replied: "The biggest flower is the military salary, more than 300,000 people, and the monthly cost is one million taels. ”

Li Yunzhong was stunned for a moment, and replied: "I remember, when I led the troops, they were all ...... Volunteers do not have to pay military salaries. Depend on! One million taels a month, this battle will be fought for at least a year, wouldn't it be necessary to prepare tens of millions of taels, no matter how long it takes, it will be hundreds of millions, obediently, this time the days are sad. ”

Listening to these nondescript exclamations, Wang Qinglu couldn't cry or laugh, and replied: "Don't worry, the emperor must not worry, the household department is enough to support, and there is no need to issue additional bonds." ”

When Li Yunzhong heard this, he immediately refused: "Bonds still have to be issued, so as to increase cohesion, as long as the people who buy bonds, they will hope that the big man will win, and the more they buy, the more they will try their best." ”

Wang Qinglu replied hesitantly: "But, Your Majesty, now the household tax has increased to 40,000 taels a year, which is enough to support the war and expenses, if you issue bonds, this interest is also a large expense, since we can win the war, why do we have to issue bonds, isn't this a loss-making business!" ”

"You! How can you only count small money! Li Yunzhong was helpless, remembered the words of those literati, and replied: "Why do you only think about competing with the people for profit, your kind of thinking is very dangerous, cough cough, okay, you will do what I say." ”

Listening to the emperor's strange tone, Wang Qinglu embarrassedly agreed: "The emperor can rest assured, Weichen understands." ”

Looking at the shocking bills on the ledger, Li Yunzhong had a headache, and the nature of the poor was revealed, these were all white silver, and Russia was defeated. I must make a good deal, this is not the usual method of the European powers! (To be continued......)