The gold, silver and jewelry rewarded by the emperor were collected in the treasury, and Ming Lanying remembered the account books of the previous years, and as soon as the collection came up every year, she made up for the gap everywhere, and the treasury silver was cleaner than her face.

However, she has not seen it in the past few years, but judging from the few boxes of silver that the emperor rewarded her, the treasury is at least no worse than in previous years.

A large box of account books was carried back to the house, Ming Lanying was not placed in the study, but directly in her bedroom, on the other side of the bedroom was Xiaoxuan window and bookcase, and the light was enough for her.

The wolf cub is guarding this yard, and it doesn't like to move when it's hot, so it's just right to nest in the house and look at the ledger.

Now that Ming Lanying doesn't have to enter the palace every day, Ning'er is also very happy, and she doesn't accompany Ye Jielu to the Praetorian Guard camp, just accompany her at home.

With a clue about the accounts, Ming Lanying concentrated on touching the melons along the vine, tied in the pile of manuscript papers every day, and wrote stacks and stacks of calculation papers, and Ning'er helped her tear up these calculation papers and soak them in water every day before dinner.

Ning Er asked what this was for, and Ming Lanying touched his little head, "This is to prevent people from getting some secrets from these calculation papers, soaking in water and stirring them up can make paper again, and you can save a sum of paper money." ”

Waste paper is crushed and soaked in water for three to seven days, beaten into a smooth pulp, evenly spread on the dense mesh yarn, spread a piece of old paper, rolled out with a rolling pin, and the water in the pulp is rolled out, and finally dried and formed. Recycled paper is easy to make and can be used, which is also a little trick that she accidentally knew in her previous life.

Ning Er looked at her with reverence, "Mother is so amazing!"

Ming Lanying looked at the scraps of paper in the almost half tank, It is manual work to do recycled paper shaking and pulping, She has to be busy checking the accounts every day, Ning'er can only help tear the paper, and the follow-up operations will be handed over to others to do, but looking at Ning'er's eyes with anticipation, Minglanying can't, so she has to find someone to take him to play.

The emperor asked Ye Jielu to find out the party officials of the Ming family in the household department for three months, and he was not good at staying at home every day, so he began to go to the military camp every day to order and return at sunset.

Hebai hasn't come back yet, the people in the house are all carefully left, there is no idler, thinking about it, Ming Lanying thought of the Taiyi mentioned by Ye Jielu, the leader of the pro-guards.

Ye Jielu said that if he wanted to find Taiyi, just go and talk to the guards, the guards in the house are not arranged much, every time they enter the courtyard, there are four, plus the four at the gate, there are a total of twenty-four guards.

Ming Lanying put down the account book, took Ning Er to find the guards guarding outside the courtyard, and opened her mouth to find Taiyi.

The guards looked at her wrongly, they didn't expect her to know this, and saluted respectfully, "Please wait a moment, Madame." ”

The guard disappeared around the corner for a moment, and brought back a tall black-clothed masked man, with half-length black hair tied up high, black clothes, black pants, black boots and black belt, tightly wrapped from head to toe, revealing only a pair of light brown eyes.

Shaved shoulders, narrow waist and long legs, visually measuring 1.85 meters, the overall body shape looks unexpectedly thin, and the temperament around the body is light and weird, obviously the person is in front of him, if you don't pay attention, it is difficult for people to notice him, and the sense of existence is very low.

The masked man was extremely fast but walked silently, and in the blink of an eye, he came to the two of them, knelt down on one knee and bowed his head, "Taiyi see Madame, little boy." ”

Ming Lanying was stunned, Ning Er saw such a strange person for the first time, and she hid behind Ming Lanying a little uncomfortably.

"Get up." Ming Lanying looked at Taiyi in shock, and asked in surprise: "Why do you wear night clothes in broad daylight?" ”

Taiyi was silent, covering his face, Ming Lanying couldn't see his expression clearly, and the guard next to him explained: "Mrs. Hui, the leader has always been guarding in the dark, and the night clothes are ...... Convenient. ”

Ming Lanying sighed, it turned out that she was doing something that was not visible, she also thought that there was really someone who wore night clothes in broad daylight, although he had a special temperament, as if he had no sense of existence, but there was a person running around in night clothes in broad daylight, how to look at it was very strange.

Ming Lanying rubbed Ning'er's little head, "Ning'er, this is Uncle Taiyi, don't be afraid, it's someone your father trusts." ”

Ning Er took Ming Lanying's hand and shouted "Uncle Taiyi".

The light brown eyes stared at Ning Er quietly, and her voice was clear and undulating, like a calm flowing spring, "...... It's my brother. ”

"Brother Taiyi!"

Taiyi's voice is good, Ning'er is not afraid, and smiled sweetly, the mother said that she would not hit the smiling person, just smile when you meet for the first time.

Ming Lanying thought that he couldn't speak, so she looked at him twice in surprise, so she handed over the matter of recycled paper to him, let him do it, and take Ning'er to play.

After Taiyi knew this, he paused and nodded slowly, "...... Be. ”

Ming Lanying glanced at him in surprise again, always wondering if the leader of the pro-guard team was half a beat slow to react, or the reflex arc was too long?

"By the way, since you take Ning'er to make recycled paper, don't wear night clothes, it's a little strange in the daytime, and you change your regular clothes in the yard during the day."

“…… Yes, the subordinate went down to prepare the tool. ”

The shredded paper in the jar had been soaked for four or five days, and it was soft and rotten into an unknown object, and the ink was blurred and mixed with the white paper, which was a little disgusting.

Ning'er and the wolf cub lay next to the tank together and waited for Taiyi, while Ming Lanying took a wooden stick and tinkered there, thinking that she would have to filter it again to generate white paper.

Just thinking about how to filter, Taiyi asked someone to carry a bunch of things in, Ming Lanying glanced at it with satisfaction, and Taiyi, who changed into a dark green regular suit, looked less gloomy, but his face was still covered with a dark green mask, and he still only showed a pair of indifferent light brown eyes, but he felt that he would be a handsome boy.

The wolf cub curled up in a ball and hid behind the tank, the guards came and went in a hurry, put down their things and left, and the wolf cub came out again and frightened Taiyi one by one.

Gazing at the snow wolf for a moment, he glanced at Ming Lanying with admiration, and said secretly: It's not a loss, it's a lady, the wolf should be played and spoiled!

"Okay, the things are ready, and then it's up to you to play, Ning'er, study papermaking in the yard with Brother Taiyi, and my mother will look at the account book."

"Good!"

Ming Lanying explained the steps one by one, and the rest was for them to explore by themselves, because she hadn't done it herself, and she only knew the general logic.

Relieved to hand over Ning'er to Taiyi, Ming Lanying went back to the house by herself and continued to read the account book, leaving one big and two small big eyes in the yard staring at each other.

Ning'er and Snow Wolf looked at Taiyi at the same time, "Brother Taiyi will do it, right?" ”

"Whoa?"

The pressure was given to Taiyi's side for a while, Taiyi clenched his fists, he was a secret guard with one as ten, assassination, assassination, news hunting, and making money, he could make money, and papermaking involved a blind spot in knowledge.

"Wait a minute, little boy."

Ning Er blinked, saw Taiyi disappear over the courtyard wall, looked at the wide open courtyard gate, and then looked at the high courtyard wall.

"Cub, Brother Taiyi can fly just like Aunt Hebai! Isn't it true that knights don't like to walk through the door? ”

"Whew!" The wolf cub didn't understand, but the wolf cub envied.

After a while, Taiyi turned back again, knelt down on one knee in front of Ning Er, and said in a deep voice: "My subordinates are willing to give it a try for the little boy." ”

Ning Er was a little unaccustomed to sticking to the snow wolf cub, even if sometimes his father and mother were not in the house, the subordinates in the house would appear to take care of him, but when he saw him, he was also told not to make a big salute, so Taiyi's immobile big salute made him a little flattered.

"Ah, well, Brother Taiyi, come on......"

After the spring rains, it slowly enters the summer, and the summer in the capital is not windy, and it seems more sultry.

Taiyi in the yard inquired with his colleagues, and had some knowledge of making recycled paper, as long as it was done today, he had one more skill, rolled up his sleeves and stirred the pulp in full swing.

Ming Lanying occasionally raised her head and glanced outside through the window lattice, too bored, Ning Er and the wolf cub communicated with each other for a long time, and they could basically face each other, and shook their heads funny.

A day passed, Ming Lanying buried in the account book and calculation paper and never came out, Ning Er saw that Taiyi had stirred the pulp for a day, and tried it herself, Taiyi would not take the child, so she carefully protected Ning Er, for fear that he would not be able to stir the fracture.

When Ye Jielu came back in the evening with the sunset, he didn't see the two women waiting for him in the front hall, and he didn't see him in the kitchen and dining room, so he went to the yard in confusion, and saw that in the empty yard, in addition to a swing, there were two more large vats, a large wooden barrel pool, and a pile of wooden shelves.

Ning Er stood on the bench holding a big wooden stick, laboriously stirring the things in the vat, and Tai Yi, the leader of the pro-guard team, was wearing dark green regular clothes, hurriedly turning around Ning Er.

Taiyi sensed the extra familiar aura, and hurriedly turned around and saluted, "Master." ”

Ye Jielu hummed lightly, "What are you doing?" ”

Ning Er heard the sound and looked back, it was Ye Jielu who had come back from the dust, and her little eyes lit up, "Daddy, we are making recycled paper, taught by my mother!" ”

Ye Juelu raised his eyebrows, looking at Ning Er's happy face, he was also happy, but he didn't expect Ming Lanying to call Taiyi to take care of the child, although it was a bit of a feeling of killing chickens with a knife, but the two of them were happy, and Taiyi was very happy to watch.

Glancing at the half-open window, "Your mother hasn't come out yet?" ”

Ning'er then remembered that she was having a good time and forgot to accompany her mother, so she hurriedly threw down the wooden stick and trotted into the house, "My mother hasn't drunk enough eight glasses of water today!" ”

The law of eight cups of water was taught to him by Ming Lanying, at first he coaxed him to drink when he saw that Ning'er didn't like to drink water, but now it has become Ning'er supervising her to drink water.

Ye Jielu waved his hand to Taiyi, Taiyi bowed his head, and Ning'er led the half-closed Minglan Ying out, and he didn't forget to chatter.

"Ning'er didn't accompany her mother for a while, and her mother forgot to drink water."

Ming Lanying was helplessly educated by her son, and she was a little dizzy after looking at the number of days, but she didn't find Ye Juelu standing in the yard, and asked, "What time is it?" Is your daddy back? ”

"Daddy?"

Ning Er glanced at Ye Jielu who was standing in the yard, and shook Ming Lanying's hand, "Mother, Daddy is here!" ”

"I'm back." Ye Jielu sighed helplessly, stepped forward and grabbed her hand on the other side, "Let's go have dinner." ”

Ming Lanying came back to her senses after realizing it, and she didn't notice the hand she was holding, "You're back, I just happened to have something to tell you, and I always felt that there was something strange about the accounts." ”

"Well, talk while eating."

At the dinner table, Ming Lanying only remembered to drink the soup in her hand when she talked about the strangeness of the account book, and the meals were all eaten by Ning Er and Ye Jielu with a pair of chopsticks, and they didn't remember what they ate after a meal.

Ye Jielu listened to this, and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Are you saying that since ten years ago, the total tax revenue in the capital has begun to slowly increase?" ”

"I haven't looked at the account books in recent years, but in the accounts from ten years ago to six years ago, I found that in just four years, the commercial and civilian taxes in the capital have gradually increased, and compared with previous years, it is like there are more people out of thin air." Ming Lanying was inexplicably a little supportive, and took a sip of tea to press, "According to your rules, those who do business, pass by, and live in the capital must pay all kinds of taxes. ”

"Those who do business in the capital will have a document and have to pay commercial tax, including city tax, passing tax, etc., and the tax rate is different. Those who pass through the capital need to pay tariffs, which are calculated according to the two out of 100 of their own extreme bags, which are not registered in detail, and it is difficult to find the source. ”

"Those who settle in the capital and move to the household registration must be registered with the government office, and then the government government will go to the original ancestral home to confirm, and after allowing the settlement, they must first pay a settlement fee before they are officially settled, and then pay a residence tax every year, calculated according to the annual income of five out of a hundred, which is registered and can find the source."

Ming Lanying breathed a sigh of relief and continued in a deep voice: "The strange thing is that the budget of that short period of four years has increased several times more than a year every year, and the tariffs and commercial taxes have gradually increased with a slow fluctuation trend every month, as if a bunch of people suddenly appeared, appearing in the capital for living and consuming one by one, but there is no relevant source to investigate. ”

“…… The Ministry of Household Relocation and Settlement Fees is also registered, but the number is within the normal range, but the housing tax has increased strangely, and it is not the kind of increase that the people live well, but there will suddenly be more people every month...... But there is no source, as if they live here all year round......"

"I'm looking at the total amount of tax collected by the household department, which may be what I think about ...... too much."

Ning Er listened ignorantly, but saw that the more the father and mother talked, the more strange their faces became, and they leaned on Ye Jielu's arm with some concern, and wanted to say something but couldn't help yawning, and the wolf cub lying at his feet also yawned loudly.

Ming Lanying realized that it was time to go to bed, and rubbed Ning'er's little face, "It's time to sleep, Ning'er and Daddy will go wash and sleep together." ”

Ye Jielu picked up the sleepy Ning'er, and also raised his hand and gently rubbed Ming Lanying's head, "I'll check, don't think about it, I'm here." ”

Ming Lanying was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned her head to avoid the hand above her head, "I didn't think much about it, I was just doing my part." ”

Ye Jielu's fingers were slightly together, gently rubbing his fingertips to taste the fine and soft hair he had just touched, and hummed lightly.

Ming Lanying stroked the wolf cub, she couldn't hold the wolf cub now, so she could only let it get up and walk by itself, and the family of four returned to the yard to rest.

Before falling asleep, Ming Lanying thought in a daze, suddenly there was a trend of population increase ten years ago, could it be that every family in the capital suddenly had multiple births?

Thank you for the collection of the tickets sent by the babies.,If there's something wrong with the writing, you must say.,Because sometimes I don't know if the logic is right.,Just think it's set in the text_(:зゝ∠)_

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