Chapter 34: See Shen Lan (Father-in-law)
But this princess didn't want to come in, so she only stood at the door, and Shen Ergongzi slept comfortably inside.
During this period, I didn't wake up and wanted her to come in.
Since the princess didn't say anything, it was not easy for them to say it, after all, their identity was already embarrassing in the matter between the young couple, and it would be a bit of a snake to interfere again.
When Yu Yanbing entered the door, he saw that Shen Jinhan was still sleeping on the couch, and there was no one waiting for him, so he stepped forward and called softly: "Second son...... Wake up!! ”
Shen Jin Han buried his face tiredly, slept for a while, suddenly sat up, and asked, "Why are you?" Huairong! ”
"Guarding downstairs, second son...... Why did you sleep here all night? And this dress isn't yours, right? Yu Yanbing asked in amazement. It's so ...... out there. It must have been the princess outside.
"Someone sent it." Shen Jin Han moved his shoulders and arms, took the fox fur he was wearing out, and asked, "Big brother asked you to call me?" ”
"It's the prince." Yu Yanbing said, "I received the letter early in the morning, and the thirty-six ministries took advantage of the time when the prince returned to the capital to attack again, and I will enter the palace to discuss it in detail later. If you can't go back this time, I'm afraid ......"
Shen Jin Han wiped his face with the water, and immediately stepped out of the door. When he went downstairs, he saw Wen Huairong next to a beauty, he stepped down a few steps, snatched the plate from behind, and threw the pastry into his mouth.
Wen Huairong looked at him and said, "...... Is it so fast, waking up to starve ghosts and reincarnating? ”
Shen Jin swallowed it cleanly, smiled at him, raised his arm directly on his shoulder, led people out, and said, "Huairong, what happened last night ......"
Wen Huairong looked at him.
He said flirtatiously: "How can there be an overnight feud? I forgot to sleep. Let's go, the second son will take you to meet someone. ”
Wen Huairong slapped him away with the scabbard and said, "Second son, don't take the opportunity to ask me cheap, I hold a grudge." ”
"But I don't remember."
The Golden Luang Hall brings together many people.
Wen Yongsi stayed motionless next to him, and the prince was not afraid of danger in his seat. Use his eyes to figure out Song Cheng's expression first, and then move to others, watching Wen Yongsi try his best to pretend to be dignified. I couldn't help but shake my head.
"Now the matter of the Yellow Gate has stabilized for the time being. The rest of the ministers had to be presented to the prince first. Song Chengxian said to the prince, "The accounts can be read, His Royal Highness the Prince?" ”
Wen Yongsi was holding the beauty and listening to the pipa last night, so he didn't know what the accounts were, so he suddenly moved his buttocks weakly, but he didn't ask himself, he asked the prince, and said: "I have no problem with the accounts, but whether the circulation of this money is too big." ”
Gu Hong, who was kneeling behind, was originally expressionless, but when he heard this, he slowly frowned. "There's a lot of money, but the accounts are not wrong."
That is, someone deliberately increased the number of accounts.
Song Cheng waited for a while, and saw that the prince had no intention of speaking again, so he said: "Now that the autumn frost is heavy, if Yanbei wants to use troops, he must submit a military salary advance from Jincheng." Lord Wang, how much does it take this time? ”
Shen Lan smiled and said, "I haven't been sick for a long time, and the important military affairs have long been entrusted to Jin Yang. Jin Yang, how much silver is missing, you will tell the prince. ”
Shen Jinyang kowtowed and said: "The 36th Department of Biansha Zhongsenge was ordered to rob the market at this moment, because the winter snow is about to fall, and the grain of all departments in Biansha is running out, so they can only rob the mutual market. If in previous years, Yanbei Juntian supplied itself, and did not need the support of the imperial court. But this year, in the rebellion of the fake prime minister, His Majesty was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and the 36th Department of Bian Sha wanted to take advantage of the situation. If you want to send troops, you must not only expel them, but also garrison them to defend them. I have submitted the required amount to the Household Department. ”
The new head of the household department took out the fold, and Shuanglu forwarded it to the prince and Wen Yongsi.
Wen Yongsi looked at it for a moment and thought, "Three million taels, what's so difficult about this?" I usually drink wine and eat meat, and I have more money than this, so the soldiers don't want to be cold and starving. ”
Although Tobe didn't say anything, the prince knew. Last year, the previous vacancy has not been filled, plus this year's expenses, those things on the autumn hunting ground, I am afraid that there is not so much money in the treasury all of a sudden.
Prince: "This money...... Can you still take it out? ”
Wen Yongsi said: "One or two million taels will always do." ”
Qian Jin kowtowed and said, "This ...... His Royal Highness the Prince, difficult! ”
Qiu Jiajun, General Fu and Lou Dashuai were dispatched in the autumn hunt, and 200,000 taels were spent successively, and this year's expenditure was 540,000 taels. The rest of the country's money now has to be paid to the officials of Jincheng and small in arrears. At the end of the year, the officials will also celebrate the New Year.
This is definitely not possible without one or two million taels, and only 600,000 taels can be allocated to Yanbei Tieqi. ”
Wen Yongsi really didn't expect that the country would also have a poor day. I usually spend money so lavishly, and I don't see a shortage of money, but now, why are you poor?
The crown prince Wen Qingxiao originally wanted to sell Yan Bei a favor, which could be regarded as appeasing Shen Jin Han and allowing him to marry Wen Huairong with peace of mind. But who knows that there is no money, this is really not checked, I was shocked when I checked, when did this deficit of so much silver start?
There are really no conditions when you usually spend money, how did you disappear before, and now you can't come up with just 1 million taels of silver.
The Jinluan Hall was silent for a moment.
Gu Hong suddenly said: "Prince, Weichen has a way. ”
Wen Qingxiao was thinking about how to get the money together, when suddenly he said this and said, "You say, you say." ”
Gu Hong said: "Prime Minister Lu Cheng is an upright person and will never embezzle a penny, but when the imposter is in power, he clearly marks the price of some idle differences, and he does not refuse to come, and the money collected every year is also a large amount. There are also former household servants, who took advantage of the gap in procurement to make a lot of money. These two people are in prison, so it is better to take money from the two of them to subsidize the military salary. ”
Are you going to raid your house so soon?
The prince is a little embarrassed, although the prime minister is fake, the real prime minister has not been found, the prime minister's wife, the eldest princess, after all, is her aunt, and it is not good to take someone to raid her aunt's house, and if the eldest princess is tough and refuses to make it difficult for both sides.
As soon as Wen Yongsi heard that he was going to raid his home, he suddenly became excited and eager to try, he already felt that he had no sense of existence, and the problems of these known authors were all solved by Huairong, so they couldn't find fault, but although he was a straw bag, he also wanted to make a difference.
Haven't said it yet?
Song Cheng pondered for a moment and said: "It's not proper, the review of Dali Temple has not yet ended, how can you cross the law and be sentenced directly?" ”
Gu Hong said: "At an extraordinary moment, it is also forced to be helpless. Jincheng can wait for the review, but the Biansha cavalry will not wait, and they can't let the Yanbei Iron Cavalry go to war on an empty stomach. The leaders of the thirty-six divisions are always staring at us, and if they lose their defenses, it will be more than three million silver that can be replenished. ”
Song Cheng was still hesitating, and the prince looked at Shen Jinyang's expression and could only agree. The matter has come to this point, there is nothing to say, Prime Minister Lu Cheng took everything he ate from the court.
When he came out, Shen Jinyang said to Lou Dashuai, who had been silent just now: "Is Donghai okay?" ”
Lou Dashuai looked up at the rain outside the eaves and said, "Congbai is still in the border county, and the relatives in the East China will naturally not move." It's just that you Yanbei have less main generals, and it will inevitably be tricky, so you can think of any way to bring Shen Er back when you come back this time. I'm afraid this is the only chance you can take him back, and it won't be long before he changes his identity, but it won't be so easy to go back. ”
Shen Jinyang stood for a while and sighed: "This is Jin Han's fate, if he, a wolf, is destined to be trapped in a cage for the rest of his life, then we can only accept our fate." ”
Lou Dashuai said: "No matter how the situation in Jincheng changes, the duty of a general is to defend the country. Jin Yang, it is rare to be talented, and it is not easy to cultivate. Yanbei is the border of Great Xia, if you don't choose a successor, it will only be bad for Yanbei. Your father is already old, and his newborn daughter can't be kept by his side, Shen Jin Han is doomed, he can only stay in this golden city like a scholar's cage, if someone can help him, maybe he can help him get out of here? ”
To be a strong general and become the iron wall of Great Xia is the original intention of each of them.
But a person will always get old, and if he puts the life of the whole army on one person, it will be just a few years, more than ten years, or even decades, and the Yanbei Iron Cavalry will become Shen Jinyang.
That was the case with his father.
As a result, when he was old and no longer as brave as he had been back then, their mother was arrested. used to threaten his father, but his father's heart was like an iron wall, and he didn't agree. Let lose their mother at such a young age, and pity their sister will always be like a living dead. Sleep in that cold bed.
If one day Yanbei Tieqi loses Shen Jinyang, what will happen to such an army that has been on the battlefield for decades?
Will it be the same as my father back then?
Will they threaten themselves with their wives and children? How will you decide when the time comes?
But who is the best candidate?
It will not only help him get out of this place, but also reassure His Majesty that the power is in his hands.
"I know you have high hopes for Shen Jinhan." Lou Dashuai stepped down the steps and turned back slowly, "But he is destined not to fly out of Jincheng." You set this gaze on him, all these years, even if you don't say it, he doesn't notice it? You expect a point, and he suffers a point. Yanbei is not his wings, but his cage. Jin Yang, you and I have been friends for many years, I advise you, choose someone else. ”
Who else can you choose? His daughter?
"Pick someone else? How is this possible? ”
From the moment he came back to see that princess Wen Huairong, he knew that Shen Jinhan's redemption was coming, this princess's eyes were completely devoid of what he saw in the eyes of others, he couldn't see through it at all, on such a plain face, there was no story at all in her eyes, very calm and indifferent.
Regarding the rumors of this princess Wen Huairong, he also knows a little about it, and she told others that she is a demon who crawled out of hell after being reborn in blood, even if it is a demon? If you can help him get out of this place, that's enough.
Shen Jin Han seemed to have forgotten last night's gaffe, and he took Wen Huairong through the street together, causing the vendors on both sides to complain. When he arrived at the palace gate, he saw the carriage of his own palace.
Yuan Zhao lifted the curtain for Shen Lan and said, "The second son is here." ”
Shen Lan propped his knees and looked out, his eyes passed through his youngest son, and he saw Wen Huairong holding him. He paused, but didn't say anything, and when Shen Jinhan arrived, he saw the injury on Shen Jinhan's face again, and then asked, "What did you do last night?" ”
"I'm going to eat and drink." Shen Jin Han reined in his horse, held the horsewhip and laughed, "Forget the hour, it's too late to wake up." Dad, are things done? ”
Shen Lan bowed his head and said, "Behind you is ......"
The autumn wind suddenly hit his face, brushing Wen Huairong's sideburns. She turned her head to meet Shen Lan's gaze, shivering for no reason, and the knuckles holding Shen Jin Han's clothes were uncomfortably closed.