Shen Tong entered the study and confessed first: "The season is hot, and the children can't sleep, so go out for a walk." Seeing that the candles in his father's room were still burning, he took the initiative to come and visit. Disturb my father, and ask my father not to blame. ”

Second Young Master Shen was wearing a dark coat and a dark green coat outside, thinking that he should have fallen asleep at this time. The sweltering summer night is indeed a difficult place to sleep, and it is understandable to go out for a walk without sleepiness.

"It doesn't matter."

"Is there something troubled about my father? I don't know where there is a child's effect? ”

Among the three sons, Shen Tong, who knows Wen Dali, is undoubtedly the most filial and understands him the most. Shen Di didn't hide much at the moment, so he handed the anonymous letter to Shen Tong, and by the way, he told Shen Tong about the current emptiness of the treasury, the inability of the household department to allocate the salary for the triumphant return of the Tiger Ben Army, and a series of predicaments in which the prince's mind was not here.

Shen Tong frowned, the more he looked at it, the more his face sank, and then he raised his eyes to look at Shen Di, and asked, "Father, what is written on this is true?" ”

Although it was a questioning word, the tone was firm.

If not, Shen Di would not be upset in the middle of the night and slap the table to vent his anger.

Shen Di didn't deny it, his face was very ugly.

The contents of these pages of dark ledger transcripts are not only true, but they are more than that. Now it is not clear who the person holding this secret account is, nor is it clear how many such handles he has in his hands, let alone what the other party's idea is, how can he not be upset!

"Father, have you offended anyone lately?"

Shen Di thought about it and shook his head. Above the court, political discord is common, although he is a little public, but he rarely embarrasses people and makes people resentful. treats subordinates with a blind eye, and is not considered to have offended anyone.

Shen Tong doesn't think so, most of his third brother's temperament was learned from Shen Di's father, he has a strong personality, acts flamboyantly, and often offends people without knowing it. This point is the same, which makes Shen Tong worry that his father is unintentionally hated, so he has this anonymous letter, which is unknown.

However, since Shen Di denied this, Shen Tong could not be in vain and expose his father's shortcomings.

"Father, whose hand is this secret account, where is it originally, who will have the transcript, do you have any clues?"

Shen Di shook his head again: "The only ones who can get into this matter are those account rooms and master books, but it is really difficult to find out whose hands it is, to what extent it is recorded on the island, and how many manuscripts there are......

Shen Tong put the anonymous letter on the table, his face heavy.

Shen Di looked at his son and was worried: "Tong'er, what do you think?" ”

"This letter, on the surface, is aimed at the matter of the tiger's army's salary. The emperor decreed that the tiger army would be rewarded, and if something went wrong in the salary, it would be a felony! Father, forgive the child for being presumptuous," Shen Tong looked at Shen Di with a solemn expression, "Is it true that as the letter said, the treasury can't even allocate the food of the Tiger Army?" ”

Shen Di was silent for a long time, sighed, and shook his head helplessly.

The decree has been given, rewarding the three armies. If it is not possible to distribute the general's salary and reward to the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army at the end of June, causing a mutiny in the army, then even if it is not his officials and those who behead him, it will not be too much!

What's more, it is not only the Tiger Ben Army who is staying outside the outskirts of Beijing at the moment that is rewarded, but also the soldiers of the Northern Army who are far away in the north.

If you want the salaries of these two armies to not be different, you have to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall.

But where to dismantle it?

The southern army under the command of the Duke of Dian and Zhennan Hou could not move, otherwise if the complaint was brought to the queen mother, the title of the secretary of the military department would still not be kept; The military salary of the Northwest Army could not be moved, and Shen Han had to be transferred back to the Northwest in half a year, confronting the wolf-like barbarians, how could he drag the little General Shen who was the only one in their family with military power at this moment?

As for the officials and troops in various places, although the imperial court does not need to pay all the money, but the matter of favoring one over the other cannot be too obvious. I have allocated it in previous years, but I will not allocate it this year, which will also make people feel uncomfortable. When the time comes, the snowflake-like recitals will be on the emperor's imperial case, not to mention that those soldiers can drown the Shen Mansion and the household department with a mouthful of spittle, and those recitals alone may be able to smash him to death!

Military salaries can't be moved, so what about the rest? Equally unmoving!

As a saying often said in later generations: to look at the layout plan of a city, a heavy rain is enough. And to test the treasury and the household, a natural disaster is enough.

At this moment, the household department is not facing a test of the competence of household officials and the geometry of corruption, but a storm after storm!

If you are not careful, you will be crushed!

A natural disaster, a war, almost emptied the few deposits of the treasury; The emperor's holy decree, an Oiran election of the Lin family, cut more than half of the income of the household.

Less income and more outflow are already difficult to support the country's huge expenditures; However, a group of people who are used to fishing for oil and water still don't know how to converge, and they still reach out when they should reach out......

Detailing the pros and cons, the Hubu Shangshu, who has always been high-spirited, seems to have aged ten years in an instant.

In fact, from the very beginning, what Lin Ruo calculated was to use the wind and snow to gather the world's food in his own hands; The second is to build the world's granary, lay a huge grain road network, and more conveniently collect the world's news.

Disturbing the household department and making it chaotic was not what she expected, nor was it in her plan.

But, I have to say, even God helped her! A natural disaster, a decree, and all kinds of people and things that she can or can't control are mixed in, which has led to today's situation.

Shen Di regarded the Lin family as the culprit and hated the Lin family to the core, in fact, it was not completely wronged - after all, if something went wrong like Shen Di, he would not be a very small minority in any dynasty or country if he did not find the reason for the problem from himself.

Shen Tong, as a half-outsider, was much more sober than Shen Di, and quickly grasped the crux of the problem: "Father, according to the child, the purpose of the person who sent this letter is nothing more than two. ”

"Which two?"

"First, it is against my father, or rather, at our Shen family. The side concubine is about to give birth, if she can give birth to Lin'er, it will be the eldest son of His Royal Highness the Prince, or rather, it can be regarded as the eldest son. ”

Although Su Muqing's inability to have children is a secret, as the maiden family of the crown prince's concubine, this secret is not a secret.

"What do you mean...... No, no, no, it's unlikely, not to mention that the prince is just a prince, even if the prince is ...... Well? Shen Di made a gesture, hiding the disrespectful words in his movements, and then continued, "Won't it be too early to deal with us at this time?" ”