"Master, it's late at night, and the slave and maid serve you to bed, right?" Zhuge Yan said softly.

Liu Wei glanced sideways at Zhuge Yan, nodded, and said, "If you don't go anywhere tonight, just rest in the Heart Cultivation Palace." ”

"Yes."

Zhuge Yan accompanied Liu Wei straight to the Winter Warm Pavilion, and was about to serve Liu Wei to bed, but he heard Liu Wei say in a deep voice: "How many people are in the prime minister's family?" ”

Zhuge Yan frowned and thought for a while, and said, "There are about more than a hundred people. ”

"Hehe, it seems that the family has a lot of money." Liu Wei pointed out.

Zhuge Yan suddenly heard the meaning of Liu Wei's words, so he deliberately lowered his voice and said: "The Prime Minister's Mansion was busy the day before yesterday, and there was an endless stream of gift-givers, so the master should pay more attention." ”

"Let Dongchang secretly investigate the specific situation of the prime minister."

"Yes." Zhuge Yan replied softly.

Liu Wei really became more and more satisfied with Zhuge Yan, because Zhuge Yan had already explained his loyalty to Liu Fang in the previous Sims.

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, Liu Wei went to the Xuanzheng Hall as usual to go to the morning court.

In the early dynasties, Liu Wei publicly announced several important personnel appointments.

Shen Ce was moved to the Ministry of Rites, and the original Ministry of Rites was ordered by Liu Wei to return to his hometown for the elderly, and the vacated post of internal affairs counselor was held by the eldest grandson Wuji, and then Gao Shilian was promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

The prime minister took the lead in expressing his willingness to support Liu Bian's decision, and the ministers also expressed their support for Liu Bian's decision when they saw this, only the Ministry of Rites Shangshu, who was dismissed from his post and went home, felt very depressed, but he did not raise any objections in public, because he was also a handful of old people, and it was time to return to his hometown to be honored.

Liu Wei rewarded the outgoing Ministry of Rites with a large sum of silver and ordered him to return to his hometown for retirement.

Liu Wei checked the training of the army again, and when he saw that the current army's training value was only 35 points, he almost beat the central general in front of his ministers.

Liu Wei resisted the urge to beat the central general Wei Lei, and announced the order to retreat from the dynasty with a speechless face.

Zhuge Yan saw that Liu Wei's face was very ugly, so he proposed with a smile: "Master, today's wind is beautiful, why don't you go out of the palace to relax, how about it?" ”

When Liu Wei heard this, he immediately came to his senses, and nodded again and again: "It's exactly what I want." ”

Liu Wei deliberately changed into civilian clothes, and immediately took Zhuge Yan and several personal guards out of the palace and wandered around the market.

The group walked aimlessly on the street for an afternoon, and finally when they were tired, under the guidance of Zhuge Yan, they went to Yipinlou to rest and eat something by the way.

Zhuge Yan asked Xiao Er for a table of exquisite dishes, and when Liu Wei was about to move his chopsticks, he saw a mysterious man wearing a hat and a black robe quietly come up.

Seeing this, several guards drew their knives and blocked in front of Liu Wei, and the commander of the guards looked at the mysterious man wearing a hat with a vigilant face, and said, "Who is Your Excellency?" What is the purpose of being here? ”

Seeing this, the black-robed man hurriedly accompanied the smiling face and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I have a new treasure here, I wonder if you are interested in taking a look?" ”

Zhuge Yan approached Liu Wei, who was full of doubts, and said softly: "This person is a well-known black market merchant, and the things he sells are good and bad, and whether he can buy a real treasure mainly depends on his personal luck. ”

Liu nodded knowingly and said, "I see." ”

"It's hard to come out of it, naturally there is no reason to go home empty-handed, let him take out the baby, let us open our eyes." Liu Wei said.

"Yes."

Zhuge Yan came to the black market merchant in response, glanced at the colorful brocade box that he was holding in his arms, and was about to ask about the price, when he heard the black market merchant immediately grab a sentence and said: "Four hundred taels, he is yours, this is what I took a lot of effort to get." ”

"Give it to him." Liu Wei said lightly.

Four hundred taels is really not worth mentioning for Liu Wei, who has a big family, and he has the right to spend money and have fun.

When Zhuge Yan heard this, he immediately took out a few gold ingots from his arms, and handed over the money with the black market merchant and delivered the goods with one hand, and after the transaction was completed, the black market merchant arched his hand to Zhuge Yan and said: "Farewell" and ran away immediately.

Looking at the back of the black market businessman, Liu Wei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It seems that he was deceived." ”

Zhuge Yan smiled awkwardly, and immediately opened the brocade box silently, only to see that there was only a jade pendant with an average texture in the brocade box.

"It's not surprising."

Liu Wei took the jade pendant in his hand and played with it for a while, and then casually threw it at the beggar who was begging outside the Yipin Building.

After Liu Wei and the others were full of wine and food, Zhuge Yan said: "Master, it's not early, let's go back to the palace." ”

"Let's go back."

Liu Wei reluctantly got up and walked in the direction of the palace first.

After returning to the palace, Liu Wei stayed in the palace of the noble Lu Yi that night.

The next day, in the early morning, Liu Wei heard the news he didn't want to hear again.

Hubu Shangshu came out of the class with a sad face and said: "Qi Shengshang, there has been a storm in Shandong that has not been encountered in ten years, and the local state government has sent the urgent performance to the imperial court, and the ministers respectfully invite the Holy Emperor to visit. ”

"What the hell is going on? How did it come to be like this? Could it be that the sky is going to kill me in Great Xia? ”

Liu Wei snatched the song handed by Zhuge Yan, looked at the series of casualty figures on the song, and the most eye-catching passage in it: The Shandong disaster requires 290,000 taels of disaster relief funds.

After reading it, Liu Wei threw the song on the imperial case in front of him, and said weakly: "The Yamen of the Division immediately sent people to Shandong to assist the local state capital in disaster relief, and the household department... Allocate funds as soon as possible. ”

When Prime Minister Xue Conggui heard this, he immediately took the lead in bowing to Liu Wei and said: "The saint is as virtuous as heaven, and it is really the blessing of all the people." ”

Liu Wei looked at Xue Conggui's eyes full of disdain, and said in his heart: "It's all this time, he still has the heart to pat my sycophants, such a mediocre person can become a prime minister, and his ancestors have accumulated virtue for eight lifetimes." ”

Liu Wei is really not wrong in saying this, almost none of the civil and military forces in the Manchu Dynasty were on the throne by ability, and they were able to sit in their current position because of the merits of their ancestors.

After dealing with the disaster relief matter, Liu Wei found that Lei Li, the head of the household, was still standing there, and he had no intention of returning to the court, so he frowned and asked, "What else does Aiqing have to do?" ”

Lei Li bowed and said with a smile: "Qi Song Sheng, the tax revenue in this quarter is 120,000 taels, and the current treasury silver is 1.36 million taels. ”

"Huh."

Liu Wei smiled helplessly and said, "I know." ”

Lei Li was bored, and immediately returned to the court.

"I have been on the throne for half a year."

Liu Wei was thinking about things in his heart, and suddenly patted his head and said, "I almost missed a big thing." ”

"It's the day of the imperial examination again, and in addition to that, new national policies can be formulated."

Liu Wei immediately ordered Shen Ce to preside over the imperial examination, and immediately opened the national policy option and checked it silently.

Defend the inside and outside: within 3 years, the probability of obtaining a famous minister will be increased by 3%, the literature test score of all students in the imperial examination will be additional +5, the official salary is x3, the expatriate troops and the prefect will not rebel, the attack power of the troops is -2, the HP is -2, and the initial training degree is -20.

"That's it."

Liu Wei immediately set a new national policy, and immediately instructed the central general Wei Lei to strengthen the training of the army and the security inspection work within the capital.

Looking at the only 35 training points of the national army, Liu Wei reluctantly announced his retreat from the dynasty.