Tang Yang said softly: "Your Highness, this possibility is not impossible, in the past few years. Concubine Xian Niangniang spent a lot of money in the palace, with her example of silver. Can't afford it. ”

Yuwen Hao said in a deep voice: "This king asked her, and she said that the foreign family gave her silver. ”

Su Lao said: "Cousin." I'm afraid that there is not, you also know what the situation of the Su family is now, and the money in the public is not enough for expenses at all. Where is the money left to support my aunt? ”

Yu Wenhao's heart was in turmoil. "I'll ask Su Dahe about this tomorrow."

Su Laobiao said: "But you also have a plan in mind, if your aunt is really involved in this matter, what will you do?" ”

Yu Wenhao sighed softly, his eyebrows raised, "What else can I do?" This kind of money. I'm going to have to make her throw it back. ”

It's just that. If she really had a share, the money she had shared would have been spent long ago. How to return? Even if you really use 200,000 taels of silver on the leprosy mountain, you still need to vomit 800,000 taels.

And, if the father knows. Can you spare her?

Following. Yu Wenhao invited Su Dahe to the mansion.

Su Dahe served in the household department, so he naturally knew that Yu Wenhao had transferred the account book of Leprosy Mountain. So come over today. He knows it.

However, Yu Wenhao didn't see any panic on his face, and even picked up his uncle's shelf, accusing him first, saying that he was disobedient to Concubine Xian.

Yu Wenhao listened to these words, his heart sank, from Su Dahe's words, it can be heard that the mother concubine and her mother's family have a close relationship, and his so-called disobedience is just something that has happened in recent days, but Su Dahe knows.

Yu Wenhao didn't say anything, just let him look at the account book.

Su Dahe glanced at it and asked lightly: "I have read these account books, and some of them are written down by me personally, what does the prince think is the problem?" ”

Yu Wenhao's voice was slightly cold, "The cost of the leprosy mountain is 200,000 yuan, and the expenses of the past five years have cost hundreds of thousands of taels, and in five years, a small leprosy mountain has cost millions of taels of silver, do you really think that the silver of the imperial court is blown by the wind?" ”

Su Dahe laughed, his eyes shining with mockery, "Your Highness, are you thinking of a way to make meritorious contributions?" If you want to braids on the leprosy mountain, it is better to do a few more cases to be practical, these account books have no problem at all, the leprosy mountain is spent so much silver, if your highness feels that there is a problem, you can make these account books public in the court, however, I am your own uncle, and I can't help but warn you, leprosy is a taboo, no one wants to hear these three words, your highness should not be clumsy, and when the time comes, the emperor will reprimand him, it will be thankless. ”

After speaking, he calmly took a sip of tea, then glanced at Yu Wenhao and snorted.

Yuwen Hao's eyes were filled with anger, and he said coldly: "The account book is not open in the court, I can also handle you, how much silver have you embezzled, you know in your heart, take the silver of white flowers, and give the sick people on the mountain to eat the rancid nest?" Only two meals of meat a year? You have earned all this money, and your conscience is happy? It's crazy! ”

Su Dahe listened to Yu Wenhao's words, his face changed, and he said sadly: "Old Five, the so-called Heavenly Thunder Father, Underground Uncle, you should be respectful, what is madness?" Won't I give them food and clothing? They spend all day in the mountains, they don't need to do any work, they enjoy their blessings, what's wrong with eating a nest? You are a rich and noble child raised in the heavenly family, and naturally think that the nest is not delicious, but you go outside to see, how many people are tired and tired, and they are looking forward to a meal of nest nest, as a prince, you don't know the people's suffering, isn't there any absurdity that you don't eat minced meat? ”

This crooked reasoning made Yu Wenhao's lungs explode, and when he slapped the table, he said angrily: "The money you opened is the degree of eating the nest and the head?" In the past few years, hundreds of thousands of taels of food and drink have been eaten, and the silver of the imperial court is so easy to deceive? You are thinking that no one cares about the leprosy mountain, so you toss hard, right? Let me tell you, if you do anything without conscience, there will always be a day when you will be exposed, and tomorrow you had better go to the yamen in person to surrender and confess, if you want Jingzhao Mansion to come to arrest people, don't blame me for being ruthless at that time. ”

Su Dahe was so angry that he sneered, "Catch me? Okay, grab it, grab it, but don't blame the uncle for not reminding you first, this matter is not my master, and this silver does not fall into my pocket, go into the palace and ask your mother, these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver over the years, did she take the lion's head? The so-called unconscionable silver in your mouth, I'm afraid that it will not be spent on you, and you will still arrest me? You wash the off your body first! ”

After speaking, Su Dahe held his head high and walked away, with an arrogant attitude that Yuwen Hao couldn't do with him.

The matter was really said by Cousin Su, Yu Wenhao suddenly felt a burst of anger and anxiety in his heart, is the mother concubine crazy? And these silver are greedy?

Tang Yang heard it outside, pushed the door in, and asked worriedly, "Your Highness, how do you think this matter should be handled?" ”

Yuwen Hao's face was as cold as ice, and he was silent for a while and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Tang Yang sighed and said: "The son judges the mother, it is not filial, there is no other way, but to cover up this matter, no one will continue to investigate this matter, and it is not difficult to cover up the past, but the expenses in the future can be controlled, and you can take over the materials on the mountain yourself." ”

"Cover it up?" Yu Wenhao held his breath in his heart, and he breathed very hard, "Do you know how much military spending has been allocated this year?"

"Twenty million taels!" Tang Yang knew it and said softly.

Yu Wenhao was so angry that he laughed, "Twenty million taels, which is 10 million taels less than in previous years, and the rest is said to be transferred at the end of the year, why bother so much?" It is because there is no silver in the treasury, the treasury is empty, and the silver money has to be allocated only when taxes are paid in various places. ”

Tang Yang sighed softly, "The emperor is indeed very frugal. ”

Yuwen Hao said angrily: "How can you be thrifty? Who doesn't say that his father is the most stingy emperor in the Northern Tang Dynasty? He even has to pay an IOU for a reward, have you ever seen the emperor who made an IOU? Yu Wenhao was so angry that his voice was crying, "Although my father thinks that people with evil diseases are unlucky, he feels guilty in his heart, so although he knows that the cost of leprosy mountain is large, he has never doubted it, but he is afraid that he never dreamed that there would be people who are mean to these seriously ill people, and fill their own pockets with the money for food and medicine, Tang Yang, how can you ask this king to hide the past?" Can this be settled? ”

Tang Yang sighed, "But if you don't hide the past, what can you do?" If you really asked the virtuous concubine about the sin, but it would be a big unfilial piety, why can't you do this thing, and it is not appropriate to hand it over to others, the first assistant designated you to do this, do you push it out and push it back to the household department? The household department definitely didn't dare to mention it, but Concubine Xian was the prince's biological mother, so in the end, she still hid it. ”