"Presumptuous."

On the side, Zong Yuan really couldn't listen to it, and couldn't help but scold Ying Zhi and asked.

He ignored him.

After all, a new champion is not an opponent at all for the behemoth of the corresponding family.

"What? The prince thinks what I said is wrong? ”

The smile on Ying Zhiwen's face was very fake, so fake that people couldn't bear to look at it.

Lu Hui really didn't want to look at his fake face, so he unconsciously looked down.

Intentionally or unintentionally, she saw the head of the family on Ying Zhiwen's waist, and also saw the jade pendant hanging on the tassel under the jade pendant.

It is a signal commonly used by single dredging. What this represents, Lu Hui hardly has to think deeply.

But what surprised her was that Ying Zhiwen didn't know when she had reconciled with Dan.

It seems that he already knows the truth, but he is just pretending to be stupid.

Lu Hui breathed a sigh of relief, as if a big stone had been unloaded in his heart.

She genuinely regards Ying Zhi as a friend. She doesn't have many friends, so she doesn't want to lose any of them.

Ying Zhiwen still looks like no one can look down on him. He looked at Lu Hui, his ass moving around on the stool.

Lu Hui knew that he was trying to get his attention to the accessories around his waist.

After thinking about it, since he and Shan Shulin were hiding it from him, why did he have to understand the alliance between them so quickly?

Then, she spoke: "I am ordered by His Majesty to go to the Ying Mansion to collect taxes, if the head of the Ying family does not welcome me, why ridicule, the palace is leaving." ”

With that, she got up, pulled her sleeves and left, not giving Ying Zhiwen a chance to react.

Ying Zhiwen was stunned on the chair, seeing that Lu Hui was really leaving, and unconsciously said: "Wait." ”

Also standing up to stop Lu Hui was Zong Yuan.

Collecting taxes was a task given to Lü Hui by the emperor. It was the first time she needed to complete the political achievement, and if she left easily now, I am afraid she would not be able to explain to the emperor.

Of course, Lu Hui knew that he couldn't go. She didn't really plan to leave. Since someone stopped her, she naturally returned to her position.

"The head of the Ying family has changed his mind?" Lu Hui had a smile on his face.

Ying Zhiwen looked at the smile on her face, remembered what Shan Shulin had told him, and sighed silently.

This woman already knows it all.

also knew that he still had a grudge against her, so he would take the opportunity to mock her like this. Although there is something wrong with him, he will not refute his face like this, right?

"Your Highness has come to answer the house." Ying Zhiwen returned to his normal tone, "It's the luck of the Ying family." It's just that the tax collection of the Ying family and the Fan family has always been the highest in Beijing. If it is left in peacetime, even if Your Highness doubles it, it will not matter. ”

Lu Hui twisted his eyebrows. She knew that what Ying Zhiwen was going to say next was the point.

"Now that Jiang and Nanguo are in constant conflict, our border defense is a time when there is a great shortage of medicinal materials, and now that the taxes are high, it will be difficult to supply the medicinal materials from the border at the right time."

If asked, it is also true.

Jiang Guo relied on the Ying family, mostly because the Ying family had a large area of fertile medicine fields.

The climate of Jiang Country is very cold, and not all places can produce medicinal materials normally, only a few places with sufficient sunshine and a humid and warm climate are the best places for medicinal materials to grow.

And these places are basically under the name of Yingjia.

Therefore, most of the medicinal materials of Jiang Guo flowed out of Ying's family.

As a big clan in Xijing, the Ying family supplies medicine to the frontier soldiers free of charge every year, and these flowing water have brought huge benefits to Jiang Guo.

This is also the reason why the Ying family was able to become a century-old family in Xijing.

Now that Ying Zhi asked about this matter, Lu Hui didn't say much. Yingjia is indeed meritorious, but this tax cannot be ignored.

"At the behest of the family, this palace doesn't quite understand." Lu Hui thought about it, so he could only pretend to be stupid, "This tax rate of the Ying family has been like this since the first head of the Ying family, is it possible that I only think of changing it now?" ”

Ying Zhi was surprised: "Doesn't the prince know the news?" ”

Lu Hui pursed his lips.

What news could she know? Of course, she didn't know the news.

You must know that there is no one around her who can listen to the news, and all the news is known from Shan Shulin's mouth; Second, she can't go to court, and she doesn't even have an ordinary way.

It's ridiculous to think about it that way. As the crown prince, she Lu Hui is a penny rooted in isolation on an isolated island.

"Your Majesty has already made a decision in the court." Ying Zhi asked if she really didn't know, sighed, and said, "Order you and Master Zongyuan to prepare to escort the grain and grass to the border." The tax that will be collected is your reserve fund for this time. ”

As soon as these words came out, Lu Hui only felt a little blank in his mind.

Charge the grain? She?

No wonder the emperor's side is normal, and there is such a deep meaning with her for such miscellaneous matters as tax collection.

But why don't you know anything?

She opened her lips and found her voice for a while: "Taxes...... I'm afraid it's not enough, right? ”

The expenditure of grain and grass is not something that can be solved by a few hundred taels or a few thousand trucks of silver. That's tens of thousands of running water, and it needs countless soldiers.

She is an empty shell prince, where did so many people come from? Where did you get so much money?

Lu Hui felt that he should take a knife and go to the golden pillar of the prince's mansion. I don't know if I can make up the money after I pry the house down.

"Of course not enough." "It's still a long way off." ”

Lu Hui remained calm on his face, but in his heart he began to plan which piece of land in the prince's mansion to start with: first demolish the house, and then sell all the valuable utensils in it. Paintings and calligraphy cannot be sold at will, and things stamped with palace stamps cannot be thrown into pawnshops.

I don't know how much Shan Shulin is worth, and if he buys him into a pawnshop, it should be worth a few taels of silver.

"Still." Ying Zhi smiled, "You don't have to worry too much, the Fan family has already taken over the task this time and said that they will help you." ”

Fan's family?

For some reason, Lu Hui thought of the golden silk robe, and thought of the Fan family's demon king.

Yes, Fan Congqian is much more valuable than Shan Shulin, it is better to sell him than to pay for it, and the Fan family will naturally redeem him if he sells him.

If you don't discuss with Shan Shulin, tie up Fan Congqian, and blackmail their Fan family for tens of thousands of taels of gold, it shouldn't be too much?

Wait a minute.

Lu Hui raised his head and said with difficulty: "Who do you say will help me?" Fan's family? Who is from the Fan family? ”

What should be asked is Lu Hui's question. He showed an extremely satisfied smile: "Of course it's the son of the Fan family, Fan Congqian." ”

"Him?" Lu Hui lost his voice. Forget it, she's better to knock on the golden pillar of her prince's mansion.

With Fan Congqian here, I'm afraid that I won't be able to do anything well.

"The Fan family wants to give him a chance to exercise, so they deliberately fight for the emperor and let Fan Congqian follow you and Zong Yuan to transport military salaries!"

Looking at Lu Hui's ugly look, Ying Zhiwen laughed and was satisfied: "For the sake of His Royal Highness the Prince, I will help His Highness." ”

"Come on, collect the taxes we should pay this year to His Royal Highness, and send the prince out of the house!"