Emperor Yongming left Yikun Palace and returned to the study of Qianqing Palace, and after waiting for a long time, the chief manager of the tiger took Xu Yan to the study. He did not stay, and soon withdrew from the study, leaving only the two monarchs and ministers to discuss in secret.

As the door was slowly closed, the voice gradually became a few words, and occasionally a word or two floated out, although the meaning was unknown for a while, but it was enough to make the tiger manager shake in his heart.

The investment of one million taels is definitely not a small number for the royal family, and in the past, there were more than one million taels of gold and silver in the inventory......

In the cabinet building in the southeast corner of the outer court, the four cabinet elders are still busy for the end of the year, and many court affairs must be dealt with before the 30th cabinet seal.

Of the three big yellow-tiled houses, only the one due north has been heated by floor heating, and it is also the office of the elders, so the four old people will not feel how cold they are when they are buried in the case. It's just that the lighting of the house is not very good, if it is a hazy day, even if it is in broad daylight, it is necessary to hold candles indoors, and when the government affairs are busy, it is lit all night.

The large roof in the north is three rooms wide, the main hall and the east and west times are separated by a floor cover, the north of the middle hall is set up with the first auxiliary seat, and the left and right sides are set up with the second auxiliary and group auxiliary seats, so it is set up for office convenience, and the east and west secondary rooms are the places where the officials of the Hanlin Academy assist in the office, as well as the place where the bigwigs relax in their spare time.

At the end of the year, the officials of the six ministries and Jiuqing and Kedao frequently came and went in this cabinet courtyard, and Xu Yan was called away by the chamberlain here just now.

Xu Yan was called by His Majesty to the Qianqing Palace, in fact, these people have some guesses, but to the surprise of the four of them, this year, His Majesty suddenly has money in his hands?

Dongyu Treasury is His Majesty's private treasury, and it is also used to hide private money, which everyone knows, but Dongyu Treasury's account does not go to the internal carrier warehouse, nor does it go to the household department, that is, it is not public, so how much private money His Majesty has, how many good things are hidden, in fact, not many people know.

Shoufu Li Ju felt that this matter was particularly 'meaningful', the court officials of the Ming Dynasty had always 'managed' the emperor's spending money, even if the emperor was 'no matter what others said, Lao Tzu would have to spend money if he was the emperor', he had to stop it, and he would give direct advice every day, anyway, he would not stop if he didn't dispel the idea of spending money.

And the emperor's way of dealing with it is that instead of being whispered in the ears of the ministers every day, or even directly admonished, it is better to get a private money by himself, and it is not linked to the income of the inner court. In Li Ju's view, this is really a smart approach, in fact, it can be understood if you think about it, just like the mother of a large family is in charge of the middle feed, but the grandfather still has some private money in his hands. Private money does not need to be paid to the public, of course, it can be used justifiably.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think about this?" Li Ju still couldn't help but ask the other three.

"What do you think?" Zhang Ge Lao Zhang Ying thought for a while, "Why don't you ...... Then use the Dongyu Treasury as an inner treasury? ”

'Haha, can't you do it? Liu Yikun couldn't help laughing, "This is not a problem of Dongyu Treasury, but how His Majesty's private money is earned, where to put private money is not to put it, and it does not necessarily have to be placed in Dongyu Treasury." ”

"Yes, Dongyu Treasury originally belonged to the internal carrier warehouse, there is no charge or not, the key is how did Your Majesty earn so much private money?"

Li Ju shook his head when he heard this: "The old man reminds you, since they all say that it is private money, even the Queen Mother is not good to ask, you are a courtier, why are you embarrassed to ask Your Majesty how the private money came from?" It's like Your Majesty wants to ask you how much money you have in your private house, will you say? ”

"Five hundred thousand taels...... The annual income and loss of the household department is this number, I feel that Your Majesty's private money is quite easy to earn? ”

'Whose credit you don't know?' ”

"To know is to know, but to feel that the money is blowing like a strong wind...... It's so easy. ”

"Will someone hear about it tomorrow?"

"Definitely, but I don't think Your Majesty will pay attention to it, or even stay in the middle of it."

"What do you mean, what does Your Majesty invest in his private money, what do you invest, and don't care about it?"

"The question is, is it okay?"

"500,000 taels! Can you really earn more money back if you invest? ”

"It's not 500,000, it's 1,000,000! There is also money from the small treasury of Guanglu Temple. ”

"Well, I really have to find Xu Buzhi to talk about it," Liu Yikun remembered that Xu Yan asked him for next year's funds.

This Xu Yan is really hateful, he obviously has money, and he has to ask the Ministry of Industry for the cost of repair, just two thousand taels a year! What is this? Now two thousand taels are not enough for Xu Yan to plug his teeth.

"By the way, has he repaid the money that Guanglu Temple borrowed from Taicang in previous years?" Liu Yikun suddenly remembered this stubble.

"I heard Gu Xianzhong say that he returned it."

"All returned? How can the money owed accumulate to be a small 100,000 taels, and it has really been repaid? ”

"Gu Xianzhong said, is that still false?"

"Shhh...... How much money did Guanglu Temple earn this year? After paying it back, there are still 500,000 taels to partner with His Majesty? ”

Without waiting for others to answer, Liu Yikun himself remembered that Guanglu Temple also has an imperial kitchen outsourcing to undertake banquets, which should make a lot of money.

"The one that undertakes the folk banquet, has this part of the income been recorded in Guanglu Temple?"

"Heh~ Don't ask, Kedao is more active than you, and I don't know how many times I have checked the accounts of Guanglu Temple."

"Is that okay?"

"Do you see any recent impeachment of him? If there is a problem, it will already be flying all over the sky. ”

"Hiss......" Liu Yikun was surprised again, "It's really strange~, Guanglu Temple was a bad debt in the past, and now he Xu Yan can even settle the account?" ”

"Anyway, I heard that I can't see any problems."

"By the way, that girl is still the ambassador of the silver treasury, and she is the silver treasury in Guanglu Temple."

"Hehe, so who's really powerful? You should know now. ”

Liu Yikun secretly pondered, he really didn't take that girl in his eyes in the past, although he knew that she was doing business in partnership with her nephew Liu Jin, even if he believed in his nephew's vision, he didn't pay much attention to her.

"I wonder if that racecourse should be profitable, right?"

"By the way, and the horse farm!" Liu Yikun almost forgot this, "The Jingshi horse farm will open in March, doesn't it mean that dividends will be distributed after March?" ”

"Didn't the Ministry of Industry buy some shares?"

"Alas," Liu Yikun couldn't help but feel a little regretful, "It's less, I just wanted to mean it, but I saw that His Majesty had entered, but I didn't expect it to be ......."

"Cut!"

"Cut~"

"Cut~"

The other three scoffed at him......

In the Qianqing Palace, Xu Yan had been in the upper study for a long time, and finally came out of the upper study and left the Qianqing Palace quickly. Before leaving, Manager Hu secretly looked at Xu Yan, saw that his face was ruddy, and wanted to come to 'discuss' with His Majesty It was not bad.

The tiger manager sent Xu Yan away, and then went in again to continue to stay by the emperor's side.

"Go and find Liu Bing again," Obviously, Emperor Yongming didn't want him to be idle.

Huzi didn't talk much, only suppressed all the doubts in his heart, and immediately said: "Yes, the little one will go and find it." ”

There is a Longzong Gate on the west side of the Qianqing Gate, opposite to the Jingyun Gate, and the south of the Longzong Gate is the clerk's room, Xiegong Hall.

Li Dongyan was on duty at this time, and a little eunuch had already come in to tell him that His Majesty had found Liu Bing, the imperial horse eunuch.

Li Dongyan waved away the little eunuch without asking much, his eyes refocused on the table, and he picked up the secret report and flipped it over, and then flicked it with his fingers, in fact, he didn't need to look at him to know the content. He pondered for a moment, and then instructed the people around him: "Prepare the horses." ”

After a while, Li Dongyan got up, took a mink fur and put it on him, and then followed him out of the duty room, and someone outside the door had already brought a few horses, one of which was Li Dongyan's mount.

The weather is cold, the north wind is howling, even if he wears a thick one, just coming out of the warm room, being stirred by such a cold wind, it will also make people shiver, but Li Dongyan doesn't seem to feel cold, he turned over and got on the horse with a big flirtation, and three or four people followed him on the horse.

Li Dongyan ordered: "Go to the East Factory." Then they whipped their horses out of the imperial city. The sound of horses' hooves, accompanied by the cold wind, is actually not really heard.

They went to Waidongchang, north of Zhongfu Grassland and south of Cuihua Hutong outside Dong'anmen, covering a wide area. When he arrived at Dongchang, Li Dongyan dismounted and threw the horsewhip to the people behind him, he still didn't speak, but he seemed to be accustomed to it with his retainers for a long time, and they cooperated tacitly.

He went all the way, and soon arrived at the place of the factory superintendent, and after a cup of tea, he had entered a secret room.

Li Dongyan entered the secret room, took off his mink fur and sat down, and then sat down and the stall came in to report.

Li Dongyan didn't talk nonsense at all, and asked him directly: "Say, what did you find?" ”

The stall head was obviously prepared, and quickly replied: "I found out that the Imperial Horse Supervisor has a total of 2,400 hectares of land in Shuntian, Baoding, Hejian, Zhending and other prefectures, and in addition, he also forcibly occupied a total of 10,000 hectares of land in Xunqi Zhuangtian and military and civilian tuntian......"

Li Dongyan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and he didn't look surprised, as if he had known it for a long time.