Since the angel Han Xizai completed the task of the first decree, he began to work on the second important thing, welcoming King Zheng back to Beijing.

Speaking of which, Li Yuan and the imperial court seem to have reached a tacit understanding, with King Zheng's previous "sincere" handwritten letter, coupled with Liu Jiangsheng's painting in front of the royal car, King Zheng's return to Beijing is a foregone conclusion, and the imperial court from the treasury to reward Li Yuan for his meritorious rescue and victory in the war A large amount of gold, silver, money and grain is also on the way, and it will soon arrive in Langzhou by water.

With the idea of "taking money in one hand and handing over people in the other", although Li Yuan had a kind of luck, he also gave the court enough face, but he gladly agreed to Han Xizai's request to visit the pair of masters and servants who were in fear all day long, and then turned back to deal with Wuping's daily official business, only waiting for the arrival of the car and ship escorted by the court.

In the past few days after returning to Langzhou, Li Yuan was having a good time, and after dealing with official business in the Governor's Mansion, he finally had free time to enjoy the good time with his wives and concubines, and took them to visit the places of interest in Langzhou City. While soothing your body and mind, you can also calm down and think carefully about each step ahead.

Then, under the discussion of his adoptive mother Liu and his wife Zhou Ehuang, he finally chose the auspicious day of October 26, and Li Yuan officially accepted Wang Jingyao and Peng Qingying on that day and entered the door together as concubines, which is also a major event in the Governor's Mansion in recent days.

The whole house is also actively talking about this matter, just like Wang Jingyao, who was originally the most inconspicuous and low-key person in the house, and naturally became the focus of the whole family's attention after marriage, and was taken care of meticulously.

This period of time can be regarded as the most comfortable and leisurely period that Li Yuan has lived through time. Sitting in the high position of the governor of Langzhou, the beautiful wife and concubine in the house, Yingying Yanyan, and the affairs of the entire Wuping Festival Town are also going smoothly, whether it is as a traveler or a real person of five generations and ten countries, such a life can be regarded as a successful life.

Of course, this is in the eyes of outsiders, but in Li Yuan's view, this is far from enough. Because Li Yuan knew everything that was about to happen in the future, and some upcoming changes might easily destroy everything he had, so Li Yuan had to tense his nerves and deal with it actively.

On October 29, a problem that had to be faced was finally brought to the table for discussion. That night, Liu and Zhou Ehuang suddenly gathered the whole family to discuss the family's finances, and Li Yuan, who had been completely ignorant of housework, was also asked to participate in the family meeting, because this matter was related to Li Yuan's actions.

"My mother and I have gathered all of us today to tell you something. This matter should not be so exciting, but my mother and I both feel that this matter needs to be made by Lang Jun in public, so please come and witness together. At the beginning of the meeting, the words of Emperor Zhou E, who was the main room, suddenly made the atmosphere solemn, and everyone who didn't know what was going on looked at Emperor Zhou E suspiciously.

Li Yuan was holding a teacup and drinking tea, and he was also stunned when he heard this, and frowned: "What is so serious?" It seems to have a lot to do with me. ”

Emperor Zhou E smiled lightly, and looked at Chaoqiu'er with a pout.

Qiu'er is Emperor Zhou'e's personal maidservant, and she is considered a confidant, and she has recently become the steward of the house, and her status in the back house is extraordinary. ”

Liu sat on the main seat and nodded kindly.

Li Yuan said with a smile: "Don't beat around the bush, what's going on at home, just say it." ”

Qiu'er smiled awkwardly, reached out and picked up one from the pile of account books in front of her, and raised her head: "This is the general account of the inner treasury of the house, and everyone here can also have a count, and have a number in your heart." ”

"Qiu'er, let's not look at it, you just say it, is it something in the accounts at home? Let's listen. Peng Qingying said with a smile.

"You just said that you don't need to read the account books, can't we believe you?" Wang Jingyao also smiled.

Qiu'er glanced at Emperor Zhou E, and Emperor Zhou E bowed slightly. Qiu'er coughed and said, "Okay, then I'll forgive the slave and say it directly." Recently, the slave was highly regarded by the governor and the master mother, and was fortunate to be the steward of the palace, which also included the affairs of the inner treasury. There are three gentlemen in our inner treasury, and generally the money needs to be approved by the old lady and the lady, so the accounts in this regard are very clear.

It had been seven months since the Governor had officially arrived in Zhenlangzhou, and in March the money and gold and silver in the Inner Treasury had been converted into 6,23,900 yuan. I don't know if the Metropolitan Governor still remembers this number? ”

Li Yuan said with a smile: "I remember, most of them are Ma Xicao and Liu Yan's furniture." Hey, the family's accounts are discussed with the emperor, but I don't care about money, but I come to ask me what to do? ”

Qiu'er nodded and said, "It's good that the Metropolitan Governor remembers." More than 6 million yuan of money, put in any large family, dozens of lifetimes without worrying about food, drink and spending, these amounts can even feed the entire festival town...... The slave even calculated, from top to bottom in our house, even if we add more than 1,000 mouths of the guards. Eating, dressing, and traveling will cost a fraction of a fraction at most.

But I didn't expect that the money was spent so quickly, in a blink of an eye, millions of yuan had been spent, especially in recent days, this page is the money recorded on the account today, and 30,000 yuan was withdrawn on today's account alone. ”

"What?"

"How is that possible?"

"It's going to take too fast."

Everyone was surprised, it had only been half a year, and so much money had been spent, even Peng Qingying was surprised, you must know that she was Peng Shichou's daughter, Peng Shiyu's sister, naturally a rich woman, but spending millions of dollars in a short period of time was also incomprehensible to her.

"The slaves and the gentlemen in the bookkeeper have calculated that the wages and expenses of our family's food, clothing, housing, and maidservants have never exceeded three thousand. In seven months, we spent less than 25,000 yuan on the normal expenses of Fuchu. 3,000 per month, which is already considered a big deal. If it is according to the slave's idea, the monthly expenses of the house can be completely controlled within 2,000 yuan.

But the Metropolitan Governor once said that it doesn't matter too much to spend money, after all, we are big families, and we are not without money, although we are open to use. Therefore, in terms of consumption at home, we have never saved money in our house. But in the present situation, the slave had to bring the matter up. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid it won't work. Qiu'er bowed her head and said.

"Qiu'er, since we haven't spent more than 25,000 yuan, how can we spend millions of yuan in the first half of the year? That's not right. Peng Qingying frowned.

Qiu'er didn't dare to speak, Zhou Ehuang hesitated for a moment, glanced at Li Yuan and said, "I have to ask Lang Jun about this matter, and today I am going to bring up this matter for everyone to comment." ”

Li Yuan pointed to his nose and said, "My business?" I don't seem to have spent a lot of money, although I am the governor of the capital, but I am still very frugal, at most I reward my subordinates on weekdays, and sometimes I invite Wuping's big and small officials to eat a few meals and drink a few wines, which does not cost a few dollars. ”

Emperor Zhou E said: "Lang Jun, how much money can be spent on the reward banquet?" A thousand is enough for you to reward as many people as you want, and to set up as many banquets as you want. ”

"yes, why is the money gone?" Li Yuan was surprised.

Qiu'er's slender jade fingers were dipped in saliva, and she opened a few pages of the account book and read: "On the first day of the first month of October, Hu Gui Neiku received 20,000 yuan. On the sixth day of October, Hu Guineku received 70,000 yuan. On October 15, Hu Guineku received 30,000 yuan. On October 19, Hu Guineku received 40,000 yuan. On October 29, that is, today, Hu Guineku received 30,000 yuan. In less than a month, this Hu eunuch came to the inner treasury of Fuzhong to take 190,000 yuan. Where does the money go? ”

Emperor Zhou E's face was also flushed, obviously angry.

Everyone was amazed, in less than a month, Hu Gui, the superintendent of armaments, actually took so much money from the inner treasury.

Li Yuan was stunned and said: "There are a lot of expenses required for the Ordnance Prison, I know this, but it has always been borne by the Wuping Treasury, and my Inner Treasury is at most just taking out some support, why is it that I have only taken money in the Inner Treasury recently?" What's going on? ”

Emperor Zhou E said quietly: "Why does Lang Jun still ask us? Have you ever remembered that before you went to Dongxi this time, you specially instructed the concubine that Hu Gui should not be prevented from coming to the inner treasury to receive the money, as long as he signed and confirmed, and reported the details to check every month. It was Lang Jun himself who gave him the convenience of receiving money, but now he came to ask us? ”

Li Yuan's brows tightened, and he suddenly understood what was going on.

Liu, who had been silent, frowned and asked, "Brother Yuan, what the hell is going on?" So how did Hu Gui use so much money, and where did he spend it? ”

Emperor Zhou E sighed and said, "Didn't Lang Jun ask him to be in charge of refining the fire subduing formula for the twenty alchemists he found from the capital?" Those people simply spent money like flowing water, it is said that a large amount of money has been put into it like a stream, a refining furnace costs 7,000 guan, and ten Dan furnaces are 70,000 guan, and these warlocks are very particular, asking for a Dan furnace and a Dan room.

The concubine heard that hundreds of families around the ordnance prison were forced to move out, because the smell of alchemy was too bad, and they all went to the state government to complain, and finally the state government had to spend a sum of money to settle new places for these people. The sulfur, saltpeter, and all kinds of strange things that are spent on alchemy are also very expensive. A sum of money just went into the furnace......"

After hearing this, Liu frowned deeply and said, "Brother Yuan, you told your mother, are you addicted to some way of immortality?" You have been a wise person since you were a child, how can you believe in these illusory things? Those pills are harmful things, you can't eat them indiscriminately......"

Everyone suddenly realized that many people knew about Li Yuan's invitation to refine the fire square, and they naturally didn't understand what Li Yuan was using refining this fire square, but Li Yuan was the head of the family, and everyone dared to say anything about anything, so no one stopped him. But now, in their eyes, this thing just burns money, and they are afraid that it will harm Li Yuan's body.

"Lang Jun, to be honest, I invite you to come today, mainly because we and we are all worried that you will be poisoned by the elixir." Emperor Zhou E couldn't help but sigh.