When Lord Lu was hesitating, the messenger came to report, "Li Tongzhi asked to see him outside the door." ”

Lord Lu muttered in his heart: What is he doing here?

"Hurry up, please." Lord Lu hurriedly beckoned and said.

In an instant, Li Tongzhi walked in with square steps, bowed his hand and said, "Xiaguan Li Nanjin will see Lord Lu." ”

Lord Lu, who was standing in front of the table, looked at him and smiled and said, "Sit, sit." He pointed to the hat chair in the first place on the left.

"Master Xie." Li Nanjin walked over and saw Lord Lu sitting down, so he lifted his official robe and sat down for a third of the time.

"Tea!" Lord Lu raised his voice.

"No, no." Li Nanjin hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I'm not thirsty." ”

The messenger outside the door had already entered, and Lord Lu waved him to retreat.

"Trouble Lord Lu to retreat, okay?" Li Nanjin hesitated and said.

Hold back left and right? Lord Lu raised his eyebrows lightly, raised his voice and said, "You all go down!" ”

"Yes!" The officers outside the gate and in the courtyard withdrew.

"Master Li has something to say." Lord Lu looked at Li Nanjin with a gentle face and said.

"We've been working together for a year!" Li Nanjin said.

"Yes!" Lord Lu nodded with a smile when he heard this, "Thank you for your cooperation in the past year." ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." Li Nanjin stood up and arched his hand, "This is Lord Lu's leadership." ”

"Sit, let's sit down and talk." Lord Lu pointed to the official hat and chair behind him.

"I'm here to ......," Li Nanjin pursed his lips and said embarrassedly, "Is this cotton harvest going well?" ”

Everyone is in the same government, can you not know if the harvest is going smoothly?

Lord Lu's dark eyes flashed at him and said honestly, "It's not going well. ”

"Those rich families in the city are so hateful, they are ten percent higher than the price offered by the imperial court." Li Nanjin said angrily with a dark face, "And those croppers, who gave them cotton seeds, who taught them how to grow cotton." Indignantly, he added, "During the spring ploughing, the whole of our government was accompanied by the fields, which was something that had never happened before, and it was really ungrateful." It's worth the sun we bask in for the mud legs! ”

Lord Lu stroked his forehead and waited patiently for him to enter the topic.

"But we can't compete with the people." Li Nanjin tugged at the corners of his lips and said with a smile.

The corners of Lord Lu's mouth twitched when he heard this, he had just said this before a cup of tea.

Now it sounds so harsh.

"It's really eye-catching to watch them make a lot of money." Li Nanjin smashed his mouth and said with drool.

"What do you mean?" Lord Lu leaned back and leaned back in his chair, squinting slightly at him and said.

"There's no reason to let those low-end merchants make money!" Li Nanjin looked at him with bottomless dark eyes and said.

"Let the government issue a decree that the rich in the city are not allowed to buy cotton." Hearing this, Lord Lu raised his sword eyebrows and looked at him lightly and said.

"Where can this be?" Li Nanjin hurriedly shook his head and said, "This has a bad reputation for adults, and they compete with the people." ”

"The government also knows about it, so I can only watch them buy it on a large scale." Lord Lu leaned forward, put one hand on the table and sighed softly.

Li Nanjin's dark eyes flashed with joy, "Lord Lu, don't worry. Is there a way for the lower officials? ”

"Oh!" Lord Lu stretched out his voice, and his dark eyes looked at him eagerly with green light and said.

"Let's do it together!" Li Nanjin stared at Lord Lu without blinking and said.

As soon as these words came out, Lord Lu tried his best to maintain the calm on the surface, and his left hand placed under the table was almost crushed.

Lord Lu swallowed his saliva, pretended to look at Li Nanjin ignorantly and said, "I don't know what Lord Li means by doing it together?" Can you elaborate? ”

"It's easy! They have money, we have cotton, how good it is to sell them! Li Nanjin looked at him with greedy eyes and said.

Lord Lu was already shocked by his words, and there was no longer any slight emotion on his face.

Lord Lu looked at him exaggeratedly and said in surprise, "Where do I have cotton!" The palm of his hand clapped his hand and said, "I'm still in a hurry to harvest enough cotton!" Pointing to the corners of his mouth, he said, "Look at the anxiety that I blistered, and I couldn't sleep all night, all night." ”

"The cotton that came in from the government warehouse!" Li Nanjin said simply and relaxedly.

"The treasury?" Lord Lu shook his head like a rattle, "That's not good, use the treasury privately, that's ......" said with his index finger across his throat, "I want to kill my head." He said with a pale face, "The cotton and grain in the treasury have to be handed over." He looked at him in horror and said, "Don't die, dare to hit his idea." ”

"We are also worried about the emperor!" Li Nanjin said eloquently.

"Share worries for the emperor?" Lord Lu pursed his lips and snorted coldly, "This is a loss of public fat and private interests, jewelry and private pockets, are you fooling the ghost?" Worry about the emperor? ”

"The court is short of money! Looking at the Di Bao, it was either flooded or drought, and there was still a war with the north, and there was no shortage of silver anywhere. How nice it would be for us to exchange it for silver! Li Nanjin looked at him frantically and said.

"The emperor himself won't!" Lord Lu arched his hand towards the north and said, "We can use it to solve problems." The imperial court is short of money, but even less in kind. Sometimes there is no silver to buy food. ”

"Is it inconvenient for the emperor to come forward for some of these things?" Li Nanjin arched his hand towards the north and said, "As courtiers, we have to share the emperor's worries, don't we?" ”

A good courtier shared the emperor's worries, Lord Lu clenched his fists, he had known each other for more than a year, why didn't he see it!

The heart is so black, so black, it's really asking for money and dying!

Lord Lu said in a panic, "This can't work, no, we can't do the thing of losing our heads!" Absolutely not, there is no impermeable wall in this world. Black eyes flashed at him and said, "In order to make money, we can't put our lives in it!" If you have a life to make money, you don't have a life to spend, what do you want? No, absolutely not. ”

Li Nanjin was overjoyed when he heard this, he likes silver, okay! Very good!

Li Nanjin stood up and said with sincere fear, "Lord Lu's lesson is that the lower officials never dare to fight the idea of the treasury. ”

"Sit, sit down and talk." Lord Lu looked at him with a gentle face, and pointed to the official hat chair behind him.

Li Nanjin was relieved in his heart, and humbly admitted his mistake, "Xia Guan is really carried away by the money earned by those low-end merchants. He said bitterly, "I really see that they only have small profits in their hearts and no great righteousness." ”

Lord Lu laughed angrily in his heart, he really admired the mouth of the literati, and the black ones were all white.

Looking at the appearance of worrying about the country and the people, Lord Lu was a little disgusted.