After listening to Guo Dongtai's words, Meng Jing was a little angry, and after talking for a long time, it turned out to be a fortune teller, and he was disappointed in his heart, and he couldn't help but drink alcohol.

Guo Dongtai saw that Meng Jing didn't speak, and with the strength of the wine, his courage gradually grew, and he leaned into Meng Jing's ear with a strange expression, and said:

"Lord Wang, we are all men, if you go to the Qinglou to talk to the girl in the future, you must bring the upper and lower officials. ”

Meng Jing's expression was a little complicated, and he didn't know what to say anymore.

Guo Dongtai seemed to have opened a chatterbox, talking non-stop.

"Xiaguan has been in Pingzhou for decades, and there are no brothels in Pingzhou that Xiaguan has not been to. ”

"The characteristics of each Qinglou girl are clearly understood by the lower officials, and absolutely no one knows better than me. ”

"As the saying goes, a moment of Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, no, it is priceless, such a wonderful moment, stained with copper smell is too damaging to the artistic conception. ”

At this time, a rough voice interrupted Guo Dongtai's words.

"This is the reason why you don't give money every time you visit the Qinglou? Lao Guo, every time you run away through the window, you are not afraid of flashing your old waist?"

Two middle-aged subordinate officials walked from the banquet to Meng Jing's table, one of them had a long scar on his face, like a hundred-legged centipede, and he was the one who spoke, while the other official, with dark skin, was obviously a little introverted.

The scar subordinate saluted Meng Jing with a fist, and said drunkly: "The prince is here, and you don't know it, I am the government to govern Li Dazhuang, and I am here to compensate the prince." ”

Ti Zhi is the official in charge of the arrest of thieves and the maintenance of law and order in the states, and the rank is below the main book.

Meng Jing glanced at Li Dazhuang's body, this burly body made his eyes shine, the Ti Zhi who maintains law and order should have such a figure, and if he stops there, he can scare off the thief.

Yes, yes, it's a talent that can be created, but it's a bit of a charlatan.

"Li Tiha, how did you come to serve in the palace of the king of Xin, tell this king. ”

Li Dazhuang stood there with a staggering body, obviously drunk, perhaps feeling a little tired from standing, he sat directly on Meng Jing's table and said:

"Seeing that the prince is also a cheerful person, I will not hide it, today I will give the prince a thorough understanding, I came to the palace purely by accident, that night the dark wind was high, I drank high, made a mistake, and touched a high wall. ”

Speaking of this, Li Dazhuang raised the wine jug on the table, poured a few large sips into his mouth, and continued:

"Look at this wall, it's tall and strong, it must be a big family, and for a while I was obsessed with money, I took out a knife and climbed along the wall, and as soon as I entered, I was caught by the palace guards, and then I became a magistrate. ”

Meng Jing gasped and asked in disbelief, "What did Li Tizhi do before?"

Li Dazhuang patted his chest and said proudly:

"Do you still need to ask, of course, it's robbing the rich and helping the poor, for the thieves of the Heavenly Way, I am still a little famous on the road, and I often give lectures to those new students who have entered the industry, impart experience, and accept a bunch of apprentices and grandchildren......"

"Forehead ......"

Meng Jing began to panic in his heart, Ti Zhi, who was responsible for catching the thief, was actually a thief, and the details of the subordinate officials of this government were really fiercer than the other.

He raised the cup and took a sip, it was bitter.

After calming down for a while, Meng Jing noticed that the restrained black-faced subordinate official didn't talk much, and he looked like a pragmatic person.

He looked at the black-faced subordinate officer and asked, "Can you introduce this person?"

The black-faced subordinate official was stunned for a while when he heard this, and he didn't dare to look at Meng Jing, muttering in his mouth, but he couldn't hear the sound.

After waiting for a while, he finally spoke:

"Xia, Xiaguan, Niu, Niu, Niu......"

The black-faced official stuttered severely, and he held back these words for a long time, he was so nervous that he was sweating profusely, and his face was flushed, like braised pork after stir-frying.

Meng Jing was very upset, it was the first time he was so tired from hearing someone talk, and it took a lot of effort to hear what the black-faced subordinate official said

"Xia Guan Niu Qi, Ren Fu Ya engaged in it, used to kill pigs."

He was an official who was responsible for transcribing the text for Taishou.

The job of holding the pen was done by the person holding the knife, and Meng Jing fainted in anger.

He stood up, staggered to the door, and muttered to himself:

"The palace is full of talents. ”

After noon,

After dinner, Meng Jing took a nap in the dormitory.

What he saw and heard in the palace today shocked his eyes, before he only knew that the Xinwang Mansion was weak, but now he deeply realized that the internal crisis of the Xinwang Mansion was far more serious than he imagined.

It's a complete mess.

Xiaozhu tiptoed in with the teacup and carefully placed the teacup on the table, for fear of disturbing Meng Jing, who was resting.

"Xiaozhu, how much money do you have every month?"

Xiaozhu turned his head smartly, saw Meng Jing who opened his eyes, and muttered in a low voice: "It turns out that the prince is not asleep." ”

Then he replied: "The slave maid has three pieces of silver a month, but the palace has not paid money for half a year. ”

"Didn't anyone else get paid?"

"Except for a few stewards, the people in the house haven't received money for half a year. ”

Meng Jing fell into deep thought, the Xinwang Mansion couldn't even send this little money to the subordinates, I'm afraid that the treasury would have bottomed out a long time ago, and in this year, no one would buy your account without silver.

However, just after the Tufu was confiscated, it should be able to dig out a large sum of silver taels, why is there no movement at all?

There is a problem.

A steady sound of footsteps came from the door, and after a while, a middle-aged general in bright armor walked into the dormitory.

Meng Jing knew him, he was Yang Gui, the county guard of Tiansi County, and it was said that he was the cousin of the concubine Yang, and it was with his assistance that he succeeded in exterminating the Tu family this time.

Yang Gui bowed his hand to Meng Jing and said, "The last general, Yang Gui, meet the prince." ”

"Didn't Yang Junshou report the military situation to the concubine, why did he have time to come to this king?"

"The last general is here to present the accounts of the Tu family's confiscated property to the prince, and ask the prince to take a look. ”

Yang Gui's words revealed a kind of momentum in the army, and the words were sonorous.

Meng Jing took the account book and asked:

"This kind of account book has always been handed over to the concubine, how did it send it to the king this time?"

The Yang family is in control of the power, and the account books record the items confiscated from the Tu family, which will definitely be presented to her, but now they are sent to Meng Jing, Meng Jing is very puzzled.

"The concubine has already read the accounts, and she will send them to you at the end of the day. ”

Is Yang hinting that she is going to delegate power?

Meng Jing opened the account book and browsed page by page, which were basically some butchers' collections, and he didn't find a large amount of cash.

Meng Jing gradually frowned and asked:

"Such a large account book, all the records are miscellaneous things, which add up to only 100,000 taels of silver, how can the Tu family have such a big family business, how can it be that there is only this bit of family wealth?"

"Lord Wang, these are indeed all the items confiscated from the Tu family, in addition, there are also the Tu family's mansions and properties have been seized, and the last general dares to guess that in the rebellion of the Tu family, it must have cost a lot of silver taels to hire dead soldiers and monks, so he can only copy this bit of silver. ”

"No way. ”

The Tu family is the first family in Pingzhou, with strong financial resources, it is impossible to be seriously injured by hiring a few monks and a team of dead soldiers, and the Tu family also deducted three million taels of silver from the Ning family's caravan, so where did those silver taels go?

There are only two possibilities, one is that Tu Shenjia hid the silver in a hidden place, and the other is that Yang Gui secretly swallowed the silver.

Meng Jing stared at Yang Gui's eyes for a moment, his eyes can always expose the nature of people, Meng Jing did not see panic and uneasiness in Yang Gui's eyes, so he had to give up.

Yang Gui knew that he couldn't tell the matter of silver, so he skipped the next thing:

"The last general still has one more thing to report, when he arrested the remnants of the Tu family last night, he missed a person, and the whereabouts of one of Tu Shenjia's nephews are unknown, and the last general has already sent additional people to search for him. ”

A fish that slipped through the net could not affect the overall situation for the time being, and Meng Jing did not pay much attention to it.

"Yang Junshou has worked hard, and the king will think about these things repeatedly. ”

"The last will retire. ”

After speaking, Yang Gui turned around and walked out of the dormitory.