Ye Tianhuai rubbed the corners of his forehead and asked, "Counting the various celebrations in the entire palace every year, the annual expenditure is only four or five million taels, of which one million and two thousand taels are for them?" ”

"Yes. This expenditure has also been cut twice, and was originally supposed to be more than three million two years. ”

Ye Tianhuai gasped, frowned and asked, "Three million taels is enough to build a palace, what do they want so much money for?" ”

Li Baoquan paused, as a simple cashier, he couldn't answer this question.

So he replied bluntly, "The slave doesn't know." ”

Ye Tianhuai pulled out the wooden chair behind him, walked to the door, stopped halfway and turned back, and said to Li Baoquan: "What about Lu Yanchen?" Does he know that it costs so much money every year? ”

"Mr. Lu, I shouldn't know." Li Baoquan said, "The specific amount of this expenditure is only roughly estimated by the commander of the Eagle Guard, except for the minions. ”

Ye Tianhuai calmed down and thought about it, and felt that what he said was reasonable.

Lu Yanchen has taken over Eagle Guard for two years, and he has used Eagle Guard only a handful of times.

If he had known that the Inner Court would spend so much money on this every year, he would have come to her, the emperor, and asked for the expenses to be diverted to his own use. Even if he couldn't speak for various reasons, he would never have put so much money there in vain.

"Is the Eagle Guard a commander?"

"It stands to reason that there should be, but the slave has never seen this person, but he has heard the first emperor mention this person's name before."

"What's his name?"

"Tao Yuan."

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The huge amount of silver of 1.2 million vehicles made Ye Tianhuai in a trance.

What's even more terrifying is that, as far as Ye Qianhuai knows, in the past two years, the only contribution that this huge amount of money has made to the imperial court is to protect Wang Lisong and Li Wenqing.

Ye Tianhuai suffered a heavy blow of 2.4 million taels.

Thinking that a few days ago, Gu Shihai was still arguing with Chen Yuansi over two million military expenses, and this blow became even heavier.

It's not good to use this money for something!

Until Aunt Fanghua changed Ye Tianhuai's clothes, Ye Tianhuai did not come to his senses.

After changing Ye Tianhuai's clothes, Aunt Fanghua suddenly knelt down.

"Your Majesty, it was the slave maid who didn't take good care of Concubine Lan, begging Your Majesty to punish the slave and maid!"

Hearing the word "Concubine Lan", Ye Qian was stunned, she sighed, and said, "I don't blame you, you can't do anything." ”

Aunt Fanghua knelt and did not move.

"Concubine Lan is going to be funeral the day after tomorrow, so you can also send her off." After Ye Qianhuai finished speaking, he suddenly coughed violently.

Coughing and coughing, she suddenly felt a chill in her nose, and something trickled out. Ye Tianhuai wiped it with his hand, and saw that his palm was full of blood.

"Your Majesty......" Aunt Fanghua looked flustered and stood up, looking for the silk handkerchief and handing it to her.

"The slave went and called Imperial Doctor Zhou." Aunt Fanghua hurriedly turned around to leave.

Ye Tianhuai wiped the blood with a silk handkerchief and stopped Aunt Fanghua: "Don't go, it's nothing, it's just that I haven't slept much in the past two days, and this bit of blood will stop for a while." ”

Aunt Fanghua turned her head and looked at Ye Qianhuai with a worried face.

The blood on the snow-white silk handkerchief looked shocking, Ye Tianhuai frowned slightly, and said, "Bring me a cold handkerchief." ”

"Slave and maid, go now."

After a while, Aunt Fanghua came back with a basin of cold water.

When she came in with a basin of water, she saw Ye Tianhuai leaning on the bed frame with his eyes closed, frowning slightly, as if he was asleep, and holding the blood-stained handkerchief in his hand.

Aunt Fanghua walked closer lightly and found that Ye Tianhuai's nosebleed seemed to have stopped. Her chest heaved slightly, and she looked tired even from breathing.

It's been two days and one night, and it's the first time she's really relaxed.

It was like a machine running at high speed, and it suddenly stopped. Ye Tianhuai took off his fully armed armor and turned into an ordinary child.

"Your Majesty." Aunt Fanghua tried to call softly.

Ye Tianhuai slowly opened her eyes, and when she saw Aunt Fanghua, she said in a hoarse voice: "Auntie......"

Aunt Fanghua suddenly thought of Ye Qianhuai, when she was a child, she was still a small one, and every time she woke up from a nightmare, she called her aunt with such a look.

She felt a pain in her heart and applied a wrung out ice handkerchief to her nose.

Ye Tianhuai woke up, lowered his eyes and said, "I'm asleep." I dreamed of the orb, it was Concubine Lan, and I dreamed of her crying and begging me to save her. ”

Her eyes were full of remorse and remorse.

"Auntie, did she say anything at the end?" Ye Qianhuai asked, her voice silent.

Aunt Fanghua shook her head slowly.

Ye Tianhuai's expression darkened, like a candle flame about to be extinguished.

Also, in that kind of chaotic situation, where can I say anything?

"She could actually live. If she had told them in the Punishment Division that I was a woman, the Right Guard would have spared her life so that she could live. ”

Aunt Fanghua was shocked and said, "Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that Concubine Lan will not do such a thing. ”

Ye Qianhuai raised his eyes to look at Aunt Fanghua, and there was a dead silence in his eyes.

Aunt Fanghua continued: "When Concubine Lan first entered the palace, she once chatted with the slave maid, and the slave asked her how she felt when she knew that Her Majesty was a woman. Concubine Lan said that she was shocked at first, and then felt a little distressed about Your Majesty, feeling that Your Majesty was very lonely, and she had always been fighting alone, and even went to Wenxin Hall to explore the sacrificial wine by herself. She said that she didn't have any skills and couldn't help His Majesty, but she wanted to be by His Majesty's side and let His Majesty remember that she was not alone. ”

When she talked about this, she wanted to comfort Ye Qianhuai, but she didn't expect Ye Tianhuai to look even more gloomy after hearing it.

After a long time, she pulled out a wry smile and said, "Auntie, do you know how I felt when Concubine Lan died?" ”

Without waiting for Aunt Fanghua to speak, Ye Tianhuai continued: "I feel that a certain part of my body has also died, and I will never be able to live again. ”

Aunt Fanghua was stunned for a moment, she hesitated for a long time before asking the question in her heart: "Your Majesty, is it ...... Do you like Concubine Lan? ”

Ye Tianhuai understood that the kind of like she asked was that kind of like.

"I don't know." Ye Tianhuai shook his head, "She is different from all the people around me. She was alive, and I felt like I was alive when I was with her, living like a human being. Now that she's dead, everything in this palace seems to have become a pool of stagnant water again. ”

She was alone again, alone in the midst of endless suspicion and strife.

No one can be trusted.

Every word and action that everyone says and does may be a performance with another deep meaning, a temptation with ill intentions.

Qin Baozhu was the only person in this deep palace who had made her feel the truth.

What Du Zhengen killed was not only her only concubine, but also her hope that she could live as an ordinary person.