From Xiao Yue's point of view, if she hadn't discovered "On the Dao", maybe staying here and talking with him all night and solving the matter of the salt and iron franchise could be regarded as completing the purpose of entering the palace today. But now she felt that none of these things mattered, and that it was more important that she find her way home.

"Your Majesty, I haven't drunk my medicine tonight. ”

"It's okay, I'll send someone to ask the hospital to prepare one for you later. ”

"Your Majesty, you might as well rest early after drinking, and we can talk about it tomorrow. ”

"Actually, I didn't drink much, it's nothing. ”

“。。。。 ”

Xiao Yue couldn't find an excuse when she dug her mind, so she sat back and watched Yuan Chenhao slowly finish drinking a pot of wine and eating some rice.

Xiaoyue found that in fact, Yuan Chenhao's appearance when eating was really good-looking, he basically didn't squint when he ate, as if he was completing a ritual, methodical, chewing slowly, very elegant, very... Pretty.

She secretly thought in her heart, maybe this is the royal style, and then she thought of the way she had just gobbled up, and she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

After Yuan Chenhao finished his dinner and rinsed his mouth and cleaned it, Xiao Yue watched him take him back to the inner room behind the imperial study.

"Sit down and talk. After finishing speaking, Yuan Chenhao took off his shoes very casually, lifted his feet on the couch, and then sat down cross-legged.

On the coffee table on the couch, tea, snacks and fruits have already been placed.

Xiao Yue took off her shoes and was about to sit on the opposite side of the coffee table, but she didn't expect Yuan Chenhao to put the small coffee table where she was going to sit, so she could only sit down next to Yuan Chenhao.

In order to avoid the embarrassment of facing him face to face on the couch, Xiaoyue chose to lean on the backrest and move to a corner of the couch to sit down.

Yuan Chenhao didn't embarrass her, sat upright, and then said: "It's not early, I'm afraid you're ready to fall asleep at this time on weekdays, it's hard for you to stay up late with me." ”

"Your Majesty doesn't have to be so polite, it's the honor of the grass people to share your worries for Your Majesty. Satsuki tried to stay as calm as she could.

In fact, Xiaoyue didn't know what Yuan Chenhao's real intention was to keep her, but since she came, she still decided to act at the opportunity.

Fortunately, this couch is very large, and Xiao Yue has visually inspected it, and it should be no problem for four or five people to lie down, so she still keeps a safe distance from Yuan Chenhao now.

Yuan Chenhao looked at Xiao Yue who was still clutching the old book at this time, looking so childish. I couldn't help but think that when I was a child, I always liked to hold my father's notebook like this, just like my father had never left him, he suddenly pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly at Xiaoyue.

He laughed so suddenly, the smile was a little desolate, and doting, Xiaoyue was stunned for a while.

The night is like a hypnotic poison, which can make people lower their defenses and make their emotions easy to leak.

"You said you were willing to share my worries, didn't you?" his deep voice, slightly hoarse, like a demagogic drug.

Xiao Yue swallowed her saliva, trying not to be tempted by his beauty, and said word by word: "Back to Your Majesty's words, as long as it is for the sake of relieving your worries and benefiting the British family, the grass people will do their best to assist Your Majesty." ”

"Relieve your worries?" Yuan Chenhao's eyes were a little confused, and he said in a slightly drunk voice: "Let go of your worries first, you should help me undress first... ”

As soon as these words fell, Xiao Yue thought that she had heard it wrong, and she asked incredulously, "Your Majesty... You... What do you say?"

Yuan Chenhao glanced at her and laughed softly: "That's it, I'd better come by myself." He slowly removed his robe.

Xiao Yue's hairs stood up as she watched from the side, and then silently stuffed the book in her hand into her clothes, ready to slip away if she saw that the situation was wrong.

As a result, Yuan Chenhao took off the slightly thicker ink-colored kaftan outside, and actually wore a white robe inside. After that, he threw aside his robe and sat down to drink tea.

"After drinking, I have a fever, I hope you don't mind. ”

Seeing this, Xiao Yue's heart fell again, thinking that there were still people wearing two coats, it was really weird, and she almost wanted to be crooked, and she didn't feel a little red on her face.

After that, she thought about it, in this alternating season of spring and winter, dressing is a difficult thing, wearing more hot and less cold, so it makes sense for Yuan Chenhao to dress like this.

She herself has not taken off her winter clothes because of physical reasons, so she didn't think about it before.

However, her careful thoughts naturally did not escape Yuan Chenhao's eyes, and he smiled bitterly in his heart, it turned out that Wen Yue was still very wary of himself.

"Well, let's talk about the salt and iron franchise. Yuan Chenhao felt that it was better to talk to Wen Yue about something serious, such a topic might make him more natural, so that he would not look at him with the kind of eyes that pierced his heart.

"Well, okay. Xiao Yue was sitting precariously, waiting for Yuan Chenhao's next sentence.

Seeing him like this, Yuan Chenhao sighed in his heart, this person was really talking about business, and his eyes changed.

"I'll make a long story short, there are still several problems in the salt and iron franchise that have not been solved, the most important of which is money. ”

"What do you mean?"

Yuan Chenhao sighed, "I have thought about it for a long time, and I feel that whether it is a joint venture or a franchise, the imperial court needs to come up with a sum of silver in order to acquire those mines and salt wells, but the current treasury money is definitely not enough, so the primary problem is still the problem of money." ”

"Well, that's a tricky question. ”

In fact, Satsuki had already considered this problem, and according to her previous expertise, this problem was not a problem at all, because there was still a system in the society of her world, called finance, and there was also an institution called a bank.

If the treasury has no money, it is to borrow money from banks with the credit of the government. However, now there are no banks at all in Great Britain, only places like the Silver Bank, and the business of the Silver Bank is very small, just a simple exchange of silver bills, and then charge a custodian fee. In addition, private borrowing in Great Britain was not widespread, the people basically preferred to be self-sufficient, and the development of commerce was always interrupted by war.

Xiao Yue felt that if she wanted to solve this problem, all she could think of at the moment was to establish a bank in the Great United Kingdom, but she didn't know if it would work.

Just when she wanted to discuss with Yuan Chenhao, she found that he had already fallen asleep on the small coffee table with his face facing her.

Satsuki was relieved to see that he was asleep, and she saw that there was still some paper on a table next to the couch, so she prepared to go over and write down her thoughts.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she moved, Yuan Chenhao opened his tired eyes, "Where are you going?"

Satsuki was frightened by him and went back to his place, "I... I'm not going anywhere. ”

Yuan Chenhao looked at her sleepily, and then moved in the direction where she was sitting.

Satsuki looked at him tremblingly, not knowing what he was going to do.

As a result, Yuan Chenhao used her legs as a pillow, fell asleep again, and said with a heartfelt voice: "What did you think about that question just now? ”