In the capital, above the court, Li Chi snorted and threw a recital sheet on the main hall. Said almost angrily

"Look! Liu Maosheng, Lin Tingwu, Yu Deshui, these people still want to deceive me. What to say about the small flag mountain and the Hexi army was originally to protect the territory and the people, and what to say that Feng Xun was in chaos. Could it be that my eyes are blind? ”

The princes in the court looked at this scene, and they all lowered their heads, a little trembling.

Shi Yunjie peeked at Hubu Shangshu Chengguang and blinked, reminding him that it was time to come out and speak.

Cheng Guang didn't know what to say this time, the emperor was furious, he just looked at Shi Yunjie with a puzzled face.

Li Chi's anger was far from over, he just held the dragon case with one hand and said: "Let's talk about it, how to take Hexi, and that scalper, that Guanxi Sea, the Criminal Department still hasn't figured it out?"

At this time, Huang reminded in a low voice: "The old slave can do it for him." ”

Li Chi glanced at Huang from the corner of his eyes, but didn't pay attention. Huang retreated in embarrassment, he felt that he was a little anxious, the supervision and law enforcement of the spiritual cultivators in various places of the Golden Sword Guard, if he stretched out his hand to the court officials, he would be too lenient.

Shi Yunjie in the audience thought to himself, the emperor didn't agree, if he agreed, it is estimated that he would have resigned and gone home. Just the things in his garden were enough for him Shi Yunjie to lose his head.

Wang Youde, the secretary of the Criminal Department, stood in front of him and reported: "I am already in the court for interrogation, but I don't know Your Majesty。。。。。 ”

Li Chi's eyes narrowed, with murderous intent: "You are the secretary of the Criminal Department, how can it be your business." Do you still want to ask me?"

Wang Youde felt uncomfortable in his heart, everyone knew Guan Xihai and scalpers, one was bluntly contradicted by the emperor, and the other was a trumped-up crime, and he was really going to be sentenced, then he was afraid that he would be scolded to death by someone in the criminal department, the key was that the emperor only expressed his meaning, and did not say it directly. This is where the contradiction between imperial power and judicial power lies.

"Minister, you must act impartially... Wang Youde babbled on and on, and was interrupted by an impatient Li Chi waving his hand halfway through his speech.

Li Chi looked at Shi Yunjie, then at Cheng Guang, and asked directly, "The grain, grass, and military salaries in various places may be prepared within a month?"

As soon as Cheng Guang heard the emperor's question, he hesitated, although he had calculated it in advance, but for a month, he seemed to be in a hurry.

When Shi Yunjie heard that the emperor was so anxious to pay for food, grass and military salaries, it seemed that this was an opportunity to make a fortune, and he stood up earlier than Cheng Guang and said loudly: "Your Majesty! Lord Cheng also asked me to report the situation of the transfer department in advance, and the previous battle had already consumed a lot of food stamps in the treasury, and now, because of the expansion of the capital, it cost a lot. Although there is plenty of grain in the granaries in various places, now, the rainy season is coming, and the transportation of grain is very expensive. The household is stretched. ”

When Li Chi heard this, he was a little angry. The family is in charge of Shi Yunjie, and as a result, if he builds a palace and fights a battle, he will directly empty the family foundation, and this is worth it? And Huang is lying down and has a heavy gun, and he uses the transport team to help the emperor transport grain and grass, which has selfish elements, but why does it take a huge amount of money? Sure enough, it is the official word with two mouths, and what he says depends on him.

"Then you say. Li Chi pointed at Shi Yunjie, and his tone was very unkind: "What should I do now? Do you just sit and watch the fall of Hexi? Manchu Dynasty civil and military, isn't there a way?"

At this moment, the relatives are like quails, they can not speak without speaking, and the subordinate officials of the squire are even more bowed and almost buried in their necks.

The eldest prince Li Zheng and the second prince Li Zuo were the two most embarrassed, they were called back to the capital, they thought it was spring, but they never thought that they would not let people live on this matter? One person thought that if the emperor asked, he would say that he had just returned to the capital, and he didn't know everything and didn't dare to say anything. And the second prince Li Zuo thought that it was better to go back to Tianxing Pass to be comfortable, he was coerced, it was too scary.

Shi Yunjie turned his head and looked at the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces who were all shrinking turtles, and he was extremely proud. After selling enough, he spoke again

"Your Majesty, Weichen has a way, but this matter is very important, and it still needs to be considered. ”

At this time, Li Chi didn't pick it anymore, but said impatiently: "Shi Aiqing, but it's okay to say it." ”

Shi Yunjie smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, whether it is grain and grass and military salaries, or the transfer of troops and food, it is nothing more than money. Your Majesty, although the new grain has not yet been harvested in various places, the wind and rain have been smooth in the past few months, and I am afraid that it will be another harvest season. ”

Li Chi was impatient again, and directly interrupted Shi Yunjie's words: "Tell me about your attention." ”

"Wechen's attention is to print food stamps. ”

"Printing food stamps?" Li Chi frowned, remembering what Fan Wenliang had said to him when he was still there.

"In fact, there is no difference between food stamps and silver stamps, and if there are fewer of them, it is inconvenient for people to circulate. There are more, prices are soaring, and public resentment is boiling. The number of grain stamps and silver stamps to be printed must be determined according to the situation of the common people. Carefully consider it, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and the fire is too big to defeat. ”

Fan Wenliang's words, some of them are the experience he has gained from running the court's government affairs for many years, and some of them are the results of exchanges with Zhou Zhe. Whether it is take-it-or-leave-it-ism or creationism, the key is that the two of them think about benefiting the country and the people. The low price of grain hurt the peasants, so Zhou Zhe suggested abolishing the silver stamps and replacing them with grain stamps. And now, if we continue to print more, will food prices skyrocket?

Shi Yunjie saw that the emperor hesitated, so he didn't say anything more, anyway, the suggestion was given, and if something went wrong, the emperor took the blame. No problem, everyone's happy. What he thought in his heart was that there was a large amount of grain in Henan Province and Shandong Province and Beiyuan that had not been sold, at this time, if he printed the grain stamps again, he would definitely collect a wave of grain first, and then wait for the new grain stamps to come out, and he would make a lot of money with his left hand in and out of the right hand, and the emperor would also have money to fight, so why not?

After a while, Li Chicai asked: "Cheng Guang, tell me, if you want to satisfy the army for January." After thinking about it, he changed his words: "How much food do you need for two months... No... How many food stamps will be printed, and the people may bear it?"

Cheng Guang's mental calculation was very fast, after all, he was a professional household secretary, and he said: "The 100,000 army consumes nearly 150,000 catties of food every day. At the current price of grain, 70,000 taels of food stamps are needed every day. Two months, that's 。。。。。。 ”

Salaries, food, grass for horses, ordnance, men's husbands. None of them don't need money, and then considering the price increase and the cost of pacifying the people and stabilizing the place after taking Hexi, they calculated tens of millions of taels of silver tickets. This is already considered low. He didn't expect that Shi Yunjie's idea was to let him count these haves and not, Shi Yunjie's plan was to let Cheng Guang directly print food stamps according to the grain output in the second half of the year.

The imperial court printed 10 million taels of silver bills, and 20 million taels of silver bills would not have much impact on grain prices at all. Shi Yunjie wants to make a lot of money, what's the matter with printing 20 million taels?

Shi Yunjie desperately gave Cheng Guang a look, Cheng Guang at this time, his eyes were dull, and he was engrossed in mental arithmetic, how could he notice Shi Yunjie's eyes. The helpless Shi Yunjie could only give up.

In the audience, there were many officials who saw this scene, but they didn't understand it, but it was Lu Douya, who was standing in the ranks of the military department, who was thoughtful, Lu Douya had been in the household department for a long time, of course he knew how to make money in the household department, especially now, after the household department has the right to print food stamps, it is even more obvious.

Lu Douya thought about it carefully, now, if he wants to take the position, it is not enough to rely on Tian Shigu to send his name up again and again, at least Shi Yunjie, it is best to be able to feel the role of Lu Douya in the court.

Lu Douya took advantage of Cheng Guang's finished speaking, and Li Chi stood up from time to time

"Your Majesty. ”

The ministers looked sideways for a while, not knowing what kind of trouble this Lu Douya was going to make at this moment, this benevolent brother had a lot to do with Zhou Zhe.

"What?"

Lu Douya ignored the eyes around him, and said, "Wei Chen thinks that Your Majesty doesn't need to consider the matter of printing 10 million taels of grain stamps or 20 million taels of grain stamps. ”

Li Chi sneered: "Then I want to see the high opinion of Scholar Lu." ”

Li Chi's words made many people in the court laugh secretly, Hongwen Pavilion teaches and learns, isn't it that a scholar can do well, this is obviously a talent who despises Lu Douya.

Lu Douya's strongest ability is to spit on his face, what are these ridicules

"Your Majesty, Lord Shi has already said before, this year must be a bumper harvest year, and somebody, although it is indeed inferior to the ministers of the court, but this civil party has gained a little. Nowadays, the price of grain, one or two food stamps, you can buy two catties of grain, and it is still a grain cheap. Grain is cheap and hurts the peasants, don't you know?"

Lu Douya looked at the surrounding ministers with some pride and continued: "You don't know, or do you know but don't speak?"

"You're being reasonable. ”

"You're full of nonsense. ”

After Lu Douya finished speaking, he ignored the noise behind him and just continued to say to the emperor: "Instead of printing one or two million taels at this moment, it is better to directly print the grain stamps that should be printed during the autumn harvest, and when the grain stamps are gradually issued, it is time for the autumn harvest in various places. ”

Li Chi smiled at this time, looking at Lu Douya and smiling very happily, before, he had also heard that this Lu Douya was the person who Zhou Zhe pulled up. Now, whether it is to solve the imminent problem or not, it is a statement that separates himself from the Manchu courtiers, and it seems that he wants to show his heart with the attitude of a lonely minister. Li Chi is very satisfied with this.

And the other one who is satisfied is Shi Yunjie, Lu Douya's words can be regarded as directly returning his original plan to be frustrated back to the room for recovery. He never expected that Lu Douya would help him at a critical moment.

"All of you Aiqing, discuss it, and above the court, you should speak freely. Li Chi's words made Wang Youde, the secretary of the Criminal Department, roll his eyes, and speak freely, Guan Xihai, who spoke freely, had already entered, and he had nothing to do with himself anyway.

Li Zheng, as a prince, didn't want to speak, and at this moment he didn't pay attention to the ministers of the Qing Dynasty, but there was one thing, he was very grateful to Shi Yunjie, and it was Shi Yunjie who brought people to put forward a proposal to let him return to Beijing to get married, so that he was able to return to the political circle. He looked at Shi Yunjie's attitude towards Lu Douya's satisfaction with the previous one, and knew that Shi Yunjie was inclined to Lu Douya's opinion.

Li Zheng reasoned his thoughts, the court is the center of a game of thrones, no matter what he does is good or bad, but with one mouth, he flickered.

"Father, the sons and daughters think that what Lord Lu said is quite reasonable. The princes of the court did not know it, but this matter is not only related to the people's livelihood, but also related to the overall situation of pacifying Hexi. "Left and right, he sold Shi Yunjie a good one, and also pulled the princes of the court out of the state of knowing without speaking, which can be regarded as a passing grade.

Li Chi glanced at this son, it was rumored that his son was just brave and ruthless, but he didn't expect that today's performance in the court was not bad, which made him quite satisfied. The mood has also changed from the previous anger

"Hehe, since the eldest prince has said so. Shi Aiqing, you will lead Cheng Guang, go to the household department, and draw up a charter!"

"Yes. Shi Yunjie bent down and saluted, and his heart was determined, this matter, to this point, basically, it was done.

The full dynasty is happy, almost this is the ending, only Huang is alone, sullen, making up for the yin and anti-yang, now it is half of the failure, Lin Xiaoer's affairs have to be watched, and other places have to find a way. Moreover, he didn't want Shi Yunjie or even the eldest prince to become bigger, when the time came, the court might not have a foothold for him, it was better to unite with the three princes of the Northern Plains and borrow the hands of the three princes, whether it was to attack Hexi and take Lin Xiaoer, or to go north out of the Binghe River and take the half-orcs It was a good choice.

I thought of it, and I definitely didn't drag it out, and immediately, an anonymous letter sent the situation in the DPRK to Beiyuan.