Shuozhou won a great victory, all the remnants of the Yuan family were confiscated, and the generals who followed the Yuan family's rebellion died in the previous war, and those who were still alive were all tied up by Xue Nuo's order, and they were packed up and sent back to the capital with those people of the Yuan family.

Xue Nuo did not exterminate the generals of the original Shuoyong Pass, and did not discriminate against those in the army, she just ordered people to break up all the original battalion system, from the generals in the army to the centurion soldiers, and disperse the new battalion into the troops they brought.

Not only does it prevent some people from turning against it, but it will not cause chaos in the army because of too much bullet pressure.

Xiao Chi continued to lead the troops to patrol everywhere, while Xue Nuo and Shen were busy restoring the livelihood of Shuozhou.

By the time I got the 300,000 taels of silver from the capital, it was already two months later.

Looking at the white silver in the warehouse, those boxes occupied most of the warehouse side by side, Xue Nuo, who was almost emptied of his family, took the escort documents sent by the household department, and couldn't help muttering: "Why is it so little, is Your Majesty too picky..."

The faces of the household officials who escorted the money over were darkened.

God knows that these 300,000 taels are about to empty the entire household, and the treasury is now empty, and every mouse has to shed tears, and their hair is almost gray when they are worried about raising money.

But this master actually said with a disgusted face?!

"Eldest princess, in the past two years, Beidi and Shuozhou have fought one after another, and you have fought with South Vietnam several times, do you think that all the military food and grass you spent fell from the sky?!"

"There is also the Sui clan who helped in the war before, and they only needed some grain and grass, but you bought a bunch of war horses with a large amount of silver for a large sum of money, and even the bottomless pit of the household can be hollowed out by you."

The official was in his thirties, and his face was tanned all the way to the escort Guanyin, and he glared angrily at the woman in red opposite,

"If the eldest princess of 300,000 taels of silver is too little, the next official will send her back to the capital!"

Zhang Shangshu can cry with joy!

Shen was dressed in a plain white brocade robe, and looked at Xue Nuo a little helplessly.

Seeing her stunned look, he sighed silently, and then stepped forward and said to the angry household official: "Don't be angry, Lord Chen, the eldest princess is not afraid of lack of silver, but now Shuozhou is in ruins, and silver money is needed everywhere, and the eldest princess is also anxious to say a few more words." ”

In the past three years, Shen has not only followed Xue Nuo to fight everywhere, but also traveled with her everywhere.

I don't know how many times I have walked on the edge of life and death, but the original young man is now more mature and stable, and he is more sleek when he speaks.

He poured a cup of tea for the person opposite and said,

"You came all the way from the capital, and the journey has been hard, why don't you go into the post house first to rest, and later I will meet Lord Chen with the eldest princess."

That Lord Chen was just angry for a moment before he could say anything, but after all, this was the eldest princess of Zhaochen who almost lost the throne at the beginning.

After scolding Xue Nuo just now, he actually had some regrets in his heart, for fear that his little life would be left in Shuozhou.

At this time, seeing that Shen gave him the stairs, he naturally wouldn't have to look for death with his neck in his hand, so he softened his face and said, "It was the subordinate who offended the eldest princess in a hurry." ”

Xue Nuo waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.

Then Master Chen continued: "Lord Shen, there is no need to catch the wind, I know the current situation in Shuozhou, you and the eldest princess also have to be busy with the affairs in the city, there is no need to greet us, we only stay here for two days to rest, and then we have to rush to the south of the Yangtze River." ”

Shen was puzzled: "So anxious? ”

Lord Chen said: "Before we left Beijing, Lord Zhan first went to Jiangnan Caosi, and in the past few years, the war has continued to be in the DPRK and China, and the matter of Jiangnan inspection has been delayed. This time, Xia Guan was ordered to escort the official silver, and he also had to cooperate with Lord Zhan and several imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to inspect Jiangnan, so it was not good to delay. ”

Going to Gangnam?

Shen was thoughtful when he heard this: "I see." ”

Master Chen said, "By the way, there is one more thing. ”

He called out to the people who had come with him outside, and saw more than a dozen people coming in with seven or eight large boxes.

The gold-edged plastic seals of those boxes looked much straighter than those that had been put into storage before, and those who carried them in were careful when they landed.

Shen was puzzled: "Lord Chen, what is this?" ”

"This is what His Majesty asked the lower officials to hand over to the eldest princess."

Lord Chen said respectfully, "Your Majesty has learned that the eldest princess and Lord Shen are about to get married, these are the dowries that he and the queen mother have prepared for you, and asked the ministers to tell the eldest princess." ”

"Although he can't come to Shuozhou to send you to marry, he will always be your brother, and the eldest princess's mansion in Beijing has always been kept for you, he wishes you a smooth rest of your life, and Lord Shen will always be married and affectionate."

Shen's gaze softened.

Xue Nuo's eyes were also slightly bent.

……

Let Shi An lead Lord Chen and his party down to settle down, but when Shen came back, he had an extra letter in his hand.

Xue Nuo raised his eyebrows: "What is this?" ”

"Your Majesty entrusted Lord Chen to give it to me."

"He also writes to you alone?"

Xue Nuo was immediately dissatisfied, she was his own cousin, why didn't he write a letter to her?!

Shen couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw her wrinkled face and was unhappy: "You first look at what Your Majesty wrote." ”

Xue Nuo took the letter with some curiosity and opened it and looked at it, thinking that the new emperor had something to explain to Shen Qi, or something serious, but when she looked at it for a while, her face couldn't help but become strange.

She looked up at Shen Qi, and then continued to look down.

When he saw the content behind, the corners of his mouth twitched, and then he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"How did you offend him?"

"What do you say?"

Seeing Xue Nuo laughing, Shen was full of helplessness.

The only thing he offended their majesty was that he helped Xue Nuo hide his identity at the beginning, and then abducted Xue Nuo.

The new emperor looked at the serious and majestic, but he didn't write anything serious in this letter, first picked and picked and picked him from beginning to end, and said a bunch of things in the past, and then didn't forget to put a few cruel words, a posture that he arched his little cabbage and dared to be sorry for his sister in the future, he would die.

He said the etiquette of a big wedding, and told him not to neglect Xue Nuo.

He couldn't come to Shuozhou as a person, but he did everything that his brother-in-law should do.

Xue Nuo looked at the handwriting on the letterhead, as if he could see the new emperor standing in front of him staring at Shen but babbling.

With a smile on her face, she flipped through the congratulatory gifts sent by the new emperor, and found that most of the boxes were calligraphy and painting jade, as well as some precious jewelry, in addition, there were two boxes that the new emperor had collected over the years from the original Yongzhao Mansion, and the largest box left was a complete set of head and face jewelry.

Made of red gold, set with gemstones, you can see how much it has cost at a glance.

Xue Nuo touched the red gold pearl nine phoenix crown on the top, the crown body is extremely complicated, every part of the phoenix wings on it is carefully carved, in addition, the crown body is inlaid with gems, just the crown is full of pigeon egg size round and dazzling pearl is worth a lot of money.

Under the crown of the nine phoenixes, the bright red wedding dress is pressed, and although it is not unfolded, the gold thread embroidery on the dress can be seen.

Xue Nuo couldn't help but say: "His Majesty is about to empty his family's funds, and he still has people make these things......"

Shen said on the side: "This wedding dress and phoenix crown should be made by the queen." ”

Xue Nuo looked at him with some surprise: "Empress? ”

Shen said "um", bent down and sat beside Xue Nuo and said to her: "Grandfather mentioned this matter in the letter when he sent a letter earlier, saying that His Majesty knew that we were going to get married, so he handed over the errand of preparing congratulatory gifts to the queen. ”

"I guess His Majesty said something to the queen, and the queen asked her mother's family to find the best embroiderers and craftsmen overnight, and spent a lot of money to rush to work, so that the phoenix crown wedding dress could be made and sent over as a congratulatory gift before the household department sent the silver out of Beijing."

He pointed to the phoenix crown and the wedding dress and said,

"The queen's mother's family is not rich, in the past few years, in order to help His Majesty, it has also been a big injury, this set of phoenix crowns is afraid that it can hollow them out, the queen has been angry with you for two years, and the anger of that incident should be enough, don't send people to Beijing in the future, don't really make the queen hold a grudge."

Xue Nuo raised his chin: "I'm afraid of her?" ”

Shen smiled helplessly: "You are not afraid, Your Majesty is afraid." ”

Seeing her snort, Shen whispered softly around her,

"After all, Your Majesty and the Queen are a young husband and wife, and they have been in trouble for many years, and his feelings for the Queen are different."

"The queen is virtuous, although she is a little careful but she is dedicated to Your Majesty, her eldest son is gradually growing up and talented, Your Majesty has had enough of not being valued by the abolished emperor, and being suppressed by other princes to fight for power, he will never let the queen's children be the same as him, as long as there is nothing wrong with that child, the position of the prince will definitely fall on him in the future."

Shen whispered softly to her about the court, bowed his head and kissed her ear,

"Your Majesty loves you, but he also cares about the queen, he doesn't want the queen to be suspicious of you, so he handed over the congratulatory gift to the queen."

"The queen probably also understands Your Majesty's intentions, so she and her mother's family took the initiative to send an apology gift to show favor and convince you, you should not be angry with the queen in front of Your Majesty, otherwise Your Majesty will be busy raising money for you, and you will have to appease your wife and children to take care of that group of warblers Yanyan."

"Grandfather said that His Majesty didn't dare to go to the harem for a long time, and he rested in the imperial study every day."

Xue Nolai paused beside him: "So miserable? ”

Shen nodded: "When General Lu's sister entered Beijing before, Your Majesty was so worried that she was about to cry. ”

Xue Nuo pursed his lips and looked at the rather luxurious phoenix crown wedding dress, as well as the box of relics left by his mother found by the new emperor next to him, and muttered a little: "Are the finances of the DPRK and China really so tight? ”

"Why?" Shen said, "In the past few years, there have been continuous wars, and there has been a drought in the northwest, and the treasury cannot make ends meet. ”

In recent years, the new emperor has gradually replaced the old ministers who originally belonged to Emperor Tianqing in the court, promoted new people through the imperial examination, and used some courtiers with hard work, even with the continuous weakening of the power in the hands of those clansmen.

Those relatives of the emperor relied on their own status and status in the past, either Lao Tzu broke the law or his nephews were involved in the case, almost none of them were clean, and some officials in the court and the central government also had a lot of corruption and perversion of the law, and the new emperor ordered people to screen them layer by layer.

Those who committed too serious crimes were directly exiled from their homes, and those who did not do much evil were cut with soft knives, and while degrading officials and lords to reduce their power, they took money from their pockets.

The prince who once didn't know the suffering of the world and didn't worry about money at all is now about to become an iron rooster in everyone's mouth.

Forget it if you don't pull out a dime, and you still pick up the silver from the side in a different way.

If it weren't for the fact that the new emperor still cared about the emperor's face, and was afraid that he would be too ruthless and make the people in the court rebel and directly lift him as the emperor, he was afraid that he would be able to catch those big families and courtiers in Beijing one by one.

Xue Nuo felt funny when he heard Shen Qi's words, but he couldn't help but sympathize: "It sounds like he's still strange and pitiful." ”

"Not really."

Shen hugged her and said, "I'm afraid that the money sent by the household department has tightened his belt this time, otherwise why do you think Fourth Uncle Zhan suddenly went to Jiangnan?" It's just a routine inspection, so why use the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate and the household officials? ”

The Caosi Yamen is notoriously rich, and Jiangnan is even more rich and prosperous.

When the smuggling salt case broke out, the investigation and handling of the DPRK and China was actually not too clean, because many of them involved too much were stopped at the point, and only the top few were taken down and replaced, but in fact, the Cao Yun Division was far more dirty than the outside world thought.

There is no money in the DPRK, and although the autumn harvest is in these months, it will be early winter when the new grain is put into the warehouse and the tax revenue is in the warehouse.

There is no place to collect silver in the capital, so the new emperor can only focus on Jiangnan.

Zhan Changdong and his entourage said that if it sounded good, they would go to inspect, and if it was not good, they would go to find silver, I was afraid that this time there would be a large number of officials in Jiangnan who were unlucky.

Xue Nuo listened to Shen Ke slowly talking about the affairs in Beijing, and while sympathizing with the new emperor, he was full of relief and felt that he was really right not to take over this mess in the first place, otherwise she would be the one who is poor and picks up money everywhere now.

Thinking of the poor new emperor, Xue Nuo looked into Shen Ke's arms, and said generously:

"Well, for his pity, I won't trouble the queen in the future."

Shen said with a smile: "Arnold is the most generous." ”

Xue Nuo smiled and bent his eyes.

knew that Shen was just coaxing her, and he knew that she was the most stingy, but his words still made her happy.

Xue Nuo turned his head and hugged him on the cheek and kissed him: "Do you want to see me wearing a wedding dress?" ”

Shen Ke's eyes were slightly dark.

Xue Nuo leaned closer to his red lips and raised slightly: "Do you want to see it?" ”

Shen struggled for a moment, and said honestly: "Yes." ”

Xue Norton smiled, dragged the person to get up and closed the door, took the wedding dress and got into the partition door behind the blue gauze cupboard.

Not long after the bolt fell, there was a moment of squirming inside, and I faintly heard the woman's smiling voice: "Is it good-looking?" ”

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