Zhou Yu calmed everyone down, and paused after endless questions.

Seeing that everyone was waiting for his explanation, Zhou Yu spoke: "First, this imperial history sounds good, but it doesn't have any real power, and the duty is to see if the clothes, words and deeds of the officials are decent in the early dynasty, if the officials make any mistakes, I will point it out to Your Majesty in front of the civil and military officials, and impeach him." Second, although I am the imperial history of the two courts, the actual official rank is only six grades. In the capital, a brick can be smashed to death by a bunch of six-grade officials. Now you understand, although my official is the Son of Heaven's royal pen, but I have no real power, and the other is not a high position, if I mix up a marginal idle position, it will be fine, but what I do is the work that offends people! If I accidentally offend a powerful family, I'm afraid that I will be killed on the way before I get home from the Jinluan Palace!"

Zhou Yu's words made Feng Yue and the others feel creepy, they had lived at the bottom for a long time, and they were completely unaware of the cruelty of the struggle above the court. Under Zhou Yu's explanation, they understood that now that Zhou Yu was canonized by the emperor for a while, he really wanted to go to that place where fish and dragons were mixed, but it was full of dangers!

But Zhou Yu is also a person who can withstand strong winds and waves, and he took a long breath and said, "Your Majesty has given me permission to go to work after my three-month retreat, and before I leave, I will take care of everything at home. Xiaoyue, Shui Ling, go to the treasury and light the lamp, I will personally count the family property!"

"Oh......" Although Feng Yue and the others didn't know Zhou Yu's next plan, it was always right to do what he said.

"Shui'er, how did I teach you arithmetic last time?" Zhou Yu asked.

"Uncle, I've learned all the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division you gave me last time!" Shui'er replied.

"Okay, then you grind and wait in the study, we have to learn something difficult today!" Zhou Yu commanded.

"Yes!" The water moved.

Feng Yue's arithmetic talent is really average, simple addition and subtraction are easy to say, but if she is a little more complicated, she will not be able to get around the corner. Not to mention multiplication and division, it was simply her life. But no one in the family can keep accounts, and in the contact again and again, Zhou Yu accidentally discovered that his maid Shui Er had an excellent mathematical talent. When he was teaching Feng Yue, Shui Er was just waiting on the sidelines, but he didn't expect that Feng Yue, who was in the main class, was not as fast as Shui Er who was listening. Seeing that Feng Yue was struggling to learn, Zhou Yu no longer forced her, but instead cultivated Shui'er seriously.

Feng Yue was also able to understand Zhou Yu's approach, and she didn't feel jealous because Zhou Yu spent more energy on Shui'er, after all, the bookkeeping work must not be sloppy, and finding a trustworthy family member to do it is the most important thing.

Zhou Yu came to the treasury and carefully counted the amount of cash. At present, his family property has as much as 15,000 taels, and most of this silver will be used as the principal to be injected into the dart game and ticket number.

But they live in the capital with a very high level of consumption, and if they invest all their belongings, the big family in the house will not even be able to afford the next day's food.

Therefore, according to the current situation, the amount that can be used for investment is about 12,000 taels. Previously, Zhou Yu also estimated the capital needs of the dart board and the ticket number, and the total of the two should be above 200,000 taels. Even on a smaller scale, the cost should be no less than 100,000 taels.

In other words, at present, Zhou Yu only has about 10% of the start-up capital in his hands, and the remaining holes need to be filled by Chen Jin and others.

After accounting for the economic problems, Zhou Yu came to the study again and instructed Shui Er to learn arithmetic. For the sake of efficiency, Zhou Yu did not follow the traditional arithmetic method of teaching, but used Arabic numerals as the basis of the subject at the beginning. Today he is going to explain to Shui Er the last part of the introduction to arithmetic, that is, decimal arithmetic and the corresponding unit conversion.

"Now we know that a tael of silver can be converted into ten pieces of silver, and one penny of silver is equal to a hundred copper coins, so one penny of silver is a fraction of a tael of silver, and so on, and one penny is equal to a hundred and a hundred taels of silver. So how do we calculate this decimal point? Actually, the principle is the same......

After Zhou Yuyi's careful guidance throughout the afternoon, Shui Er finally succeeded in understanding the rules of decimal point operation. Zhou Yu came out again

A few questions were tested on her, and the difficulty ranged from low to high, and the correct rate of Shui'er was quite impressive.

Zhou Yu's experience in school taught him that it seemed easier to grasp some simple knowledge when he first learned it. But to what extent you can master it depends on the next practice.

Zhou Yu has converted the most basic units into a table, and the water supply can refer to it at any time until it is completely memorized. In addition, he also left a few practice questions, requiring Shui Er to complete the corresponding exercises every day in the future, and handed them over to Zhou Yu for correction.

The capital, the right prime minister's mansion.

"Lord of the Golden Pavilion, the imperial court's martial law decree has been revoked for a few days, why do you keep hiding in my mansion?" A middle-aged man asked.

His appearance was very ordinary, his hair was already slightly gray, and even his back looked a little rickety when he walked, but his eyes were bright, which did not match his ravine-ravine face.

He is none other than Wang Cheng, the right prime minister who is now in power and opposition, under one person and above ten thousand. He has a deep foundation in the court, has a wide range of contacts, and also controls the Ministry of Rites, firmly holding the door of students from all over the world in his own hands. Many new science and technology scholars are called protégés of the Son of Heaven on the surface, but in fact, they all worship under Wang Cheng's disciples.

In addition, in the past two years, Zuo Prime Minister Liu Weixian has been old and frail, often sick at home, neglecting the government, and the affairs of the six ministries have almost been monopolized by Wang Cheng alone.

"The imperial court's martial law decree is nothing to fear, and the real threat to me is the old woman Liuying. My people have already received a tip-off that she has bypassed the pursuit of the official army and secretly infiltrated the capital, with the purpose of fighting me to the death!" A man sitting precariously said.

This man is also a figure with a head and a face in the rivers and lakes, the head of the Golden Phoenix Pavilion, Jin Lingyue. However, it is not so much that he has a head and a face in the rivers and lakes, but that he is spurned. As the leader of the killer organization, although there are not a few people who know his name, most of them avoid them Jinfeng Pavilion for fear of getting into trouble.

"What kind of shadow are you with, and whose martial arts are higher?" Wang Cheng asked.

"If I do do make a move, I'm afraid I'll still lose half a point to her. She is a well-known great grandmaster in the rivers and lakes, I have been stuck in the bottleneck of the top of the grandmaster for many years, but I have never been able to break through, maybe there is less chance after all." Mentioning this, Jin Lingyue was still full of unwillingness. Since he was a child, he has been a rare martial arts genius in the martial arts, and his talent is so high that others envy him. What it took others years to reach was easily broken through in less than a year.

In addition, with Jin Fengge as a backer, Jin Lingyue kept looking for someone to learn from in the process of cultivating martial arts, and he would not let go of the other party every time he fought with someone. If he wins, he will kill his opponent on the spot; If he is defeated, he will let the guards who are lying in ambush attack together, kidnap the opponent and imprison him in the dungeon of the Golden Phoenix Pavilion, and when his martial arts go to the next level, he will pull these imprisoned people out to compete again, and repeat the previous process.

Because such methods are too shameless and cruel, many martial arts students in the rivers and lakes no longer accept his challenge. Although there was no opponent for sparring, Jin Lingyue's internal cultivation was still improving day by day, until he reached the realm of a grandmaster, which was the farthest way his talent could help him go. It's a pity that the last bit of critical opportunity has not appeared for a long time, and Jin Lingyue has not been able to jump into the ranks of the great grandmasters so far, which is why he does not dare to face Liuying directly.

Wang Cheng didn't know much about kung fu, and he was not interested in practicing martial arts, so he changed the topic and said, "There are only three adult princes left in the capital today, Chen Yue, the king of Xiang, Chen Fang, the king of Jin, and Chen Jin, the king of Yu. Chen Jin stayed in the fiefdom all the year round, but because the Queen Mother was recalled to the capital for her 60th birthday, and the Queen Mother was ill, so he stayed in the Beijing Division, so he was not worried. Therefore, our real opponent is still Chen Fang's family."

"I'm definitely okay here, what does Prince Lian say?" Jin Lingyue asked.

"Although Prince Lian promised us on the surface, but in fact he also has a ghost in his heart, everyone knows that Chen Yue is not a virtuous king, and when His Majesty dies, it is unknown whether he will take the opportunity to usurp power and seize the throne, we must not be on guard!" Wang Cheng said solemnly.

"What's so difficult about this, it's really at that point, I'll just kill him myself." gold

Ling Yue seemed to be a little unimpressed by Wang Cheng's words.

"Do you think Prince Lian will wait until the last minute to make a move? Do you think Prince Lian will sit idly by and watch us take the entire court into your pocket? He may sell us at some point so that he can be the only one in the world! Everyone is calculating, it's up to us to see who is better!" Wang Cheng said with a fierce light in his eyes.

The capital, the palace of the king of Lian.

"In the past two months, how has the business with Jiangnan been doing?" The man in the black and gold costume asked.

As a royal nobleman, Prince Lian Chen Li's status is extremely lofty. In order to compete for the position of the prince back then, Chen Ming, the current son of heaven, killed a lot of his brothers, and Chen Li, as a loyal fan of Chen Ming, not only saved his life, but was also given the position of prince by Chen Ming, which can be described as infinite.

But with the end of the struggle for the throne and the new emperor ascending the throne, the situation gradually stabilized, and Prince Lian once again started to think about being the emperor. For the sake of this dream, he began to develop his power in secret, taking advantage of the open and secret struggle between Chen Ming and Wang Cheng in recent years, he successfully encircled some important ministers in the court for his own use, and relied on them to seek illegal benefits.

"Back to the prince, since we lost the iron ore in Wu'an, we can only take the risk of extracting some equipment from the armories in various places and selling them to the merchants in Jiangnan, although the profit is not as good as before, but it is still considerable." One of his men responded.

"Not enough, far from enough...... Prince Lian muttered.