Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, but there is not much festive atmosphere in the capital.

The drought in the north was worse than expected, including the 600-mile rush from Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, and Hebei provinces to the capital.

It is said that Wen Tongxuan has not returned home in the Yamen of the Ministry of Household for seven days, and the silver and grain warehouses of the Ministry of Household are really going to starve to death of rats this time.

The two mansions of Ningrong raised another 60,000 taels of silver, which Jia Cong sent to the household department to repay the arrears.

As soon as he finished counting the silver and sent it to the silver vault, Jia Cong heard someone behind him shouting to him.

"Hey, Brother Cong, why did you come to the household department?"

Looking back, Liu Hong, the fourth prince, walked over accompanied by Wen Tongxuan.

Jia Congzuo bowed and said: "Meet the Fourth Highness, meet the Minister of Finance." ”

"Your Highness doesn't know that Xiao Jia Lang is here to repay the silver."

Wen Tongxuan's sense of Ning Rong and the two mansions skyrocketed, and the first one to propose to return the silver owed was Ning Rongjia's family, and the most neat one was also Ning Rongjia's family.

He flipped through the account book in his hand and sighed: "Today, Ning Guofu has returned the 430,000 taels of silver owed, and there are 120,000 taels left. Rongguofu returned the 430,000 taels of silver owed, and there were 180,000 taels left. It was to build a provincial garden for the virtuous concubine, and she didn't come to the household department to borrow a penny. Unlike the Zhou family, who took the people's fat and the people's anointment to show their family's holy grace......"

"Wen Qing, be cautious!"

Liu Hong also had to be reminded that the decree of the provincial relatives was the decree of his grandfather and his son, and borrowing money from the household department was the rule set by his grandfather after repeated orders, Wen Tongxuan scolded the two supremes in one sentence.

Seeing that Wen Tongxuan was still holding his neck, Liu Hong could only change the topic and ask: "How many silver taels and grain are still in the household department?" ”

Saying that, he also stretched out his hand to get the account book in Wen Tongxuan's hand, intending to see the situation and prepare for disaster relief after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

As soon as it came to the silver of the household, Wen Tongxuan immediately became alert. He snapped the ledger he had been holding in his hand and stuffed it directly into the placket of his clothes.

This action skillfully makes people feel distressed.

"Back to Your Highness, the household has no money, and there is not much food left, if Your Highness wants to use silver, it is best to go to Your Majesty's side to have a look. The minister heard that there were no less than six million taels of silver in the treasury. ”

Jia Cong thought of the conversation between the household officials that he had just overheard, and the old Pixiu had been collecting wool from the inner treasury this year.

There was not much money on the silver treasury on the surface, but in fact, a secret room had been built a long time ago, and the wooden boxes inside were filled with large and small silver ingots.

Liu Hong didn't believe this at all, he Lao Tzu had reminded him that Lao Pixiu's white strips in the Qinzheng Hall were full of a box, and he took away one million taels of silver yesterday.

"Is there really no money in the household?"

"No, no, I don't believe that the minister will take His Highness into the treasury to have a look?"

Liu Hong was eager to try and looked in the direction of the silver vault.

Jia Cong had to step forward and remind: "Fourth brother, if you want to enter the silver vault, you must go in with a strip of stripes, and come out with stripes ......."

"What is the one who goes in and the one who goes out?"

Liu Hong didn't react at once, and at this moment, the household official who was carrying the silver walked out of it, covered in red fruits, and the forbidden army went up and down his hands and touched his body to check.

Jia Cong pointed in the direction of the silver vault and said with a wry smile: "It's such a red striped ......."

When Liu Hong saw this scene, he immediately shuddered: "How can there be such a rule?" This palace is not exempt? ”

"This rule is the rule that our Minister of Finance made when he entered the Ministry of Household Affairs in the forty-sixth year of Zhaowu to prevent the rats from stealing silver. Lord Wen became famous by taking off one step back then, and became the most reassuring God of Wealth in Great Xia. ”

Jia Cong's explanation stunned Liu Hong, he looked at Wen Tongxuan, who was proud on the side, in disbelief, and asked in surprise: "Wen Qing, have you taken it off?" ”

Wen Tongxuan is the son of a family of eight classics, and the Jinshi archway at home has been repaired from ten miles away to the front of the gate of the Wen family.

Shilin model Wen Tongxuan, how could he do such a ...... Shame on you!

"Of course, the rules set by the ministers themselves must be implemented first. Otherwise, would this rule still be enforced? ”

Wen Tongxuan made a gesture of extension and invited: "Your Highness, you just happened to be here today, do you want to ask Your Highness to go with your ministers to check?" ”

Liu Hong immediately shook his head violently, Wen Tongxuan snickered vaguely, Jia Cong secretly cursed the old fox in his heart, and was immediately dragged away by Liu Hong.

"It's terrible, I didn't expect there to be such a rule in the Tobe Treasury!"

Liu Hong took Jia Cong through the imperial city, went straight to the inner and walked towards the Dragon Head Palace, and sighed again and again along the way: "No wonder the emperor's grandfather is so respectful, this is a ruthless man!" ”

"The fourth brother shouldn't have seen the scene of him rolling around in the Qinzheng Palace to ask for silver, for Lord Wen, as long as he can ask for silver, what is it to strip naked......"

Whew!

As soon as the person arrived at the gate of the Dragon Head Palace, Jia Cong was thrown to the ground by the golden gradient of the flower arm tattoo, and holding Jia Cong's brain melon seeds was a ......

"Hong'er, didn't you get the silver?"

The old man has been in a lot better recently, and he can already walk around with the support of the palace people.

When he was walking around the Taiye Pool with the big cat, the big cat's ears suddenly moved, and he rushed to the door of the Dragon Head Palace.

When he walked slowly, he happened to hear the two of them talking about the old Pixiu Wen Tongxuan of the household.

After Liu Hong told what he had seen and heard in the household, Jia Cong finally broke free from the arms of the big cat.

The Emperor laughed: "I told you a long time ago, I want to get silver from Wen Tongxuan, unless my father can allocate twice the money from the inner treasury to the household." ”

"That's right...... Grandfather, time waits for no one, so my grandson will go to the Qinzheng Palace to find his father. ”

Liu Hong's mind is now full of the disaster relief signals of Shuntian Mansion, and he is in a hurry to ask Raja Cong to go to the Qinzheng Palace.

Unexpectedly, the Emperor waved his hand and said, "You go, the little fat man stays, I have something to say to him." ”

Jia Cong was a little unclear, but Liu Hong had already walked out of the gate of Longshou Palace with the little eunuch in great stride.

……

Under the shade of the trees by the pool, incense drives away mosquitoes, the old man lies on a rocking chair and enjoys the calm, and the big cat by the pool is using its tail as bait, quietly waiting for the silly koi to take the bait.

Jia Cong waited for a long time and didn't see the old man speak, and couldn't help asking, "Sage master, do you have any orders to leave me?" ”

"If you don't say it, I'll forget ......"

The old man raised his hand, and the people in the palace who were originally nearby retreated one after another, and there was no one except Dai Quan.

"Are you in the Chanei Division?"

Jia Cong nodded and said truthfully: "The minister is indeed in Xia Jiang of the Cha Nei Mansion Division, and the minister's father and uncle told me yesterday not to let the minister get involved in this matter. Kechen always felt that the appearance of the Inner Mansion Division was very strange, and that Xia Jiang gave the minister an extremely uncomfortable feeling. If you don't check it out, you won't be able to sleep well. ”

The old man raised his eyes and stared at Jia Cong's eyes for a long time. Then he smiled and said: "You are a sincere child, then the Neifu Division and Xia Jiang are the bait thrown by the fourth child, so don't mix it blindly." ”

"Bait thrown by His Majesty?"

"The palace has been mixed with sand, and it must be sifted out to be at ease. Xia Jiang is an ambitious person, and the fourth child will give him huge power, do you say that the sand mixed in the palace will covet these powers? ”

Jia Cong nodded again and again, how could those people not be greedy for such a power organ as the Ministry of Internal Affairs?

And Xia Jiang's ambition is not small, he will definitely try his best to expand his power, which will have room for others to be used.

Liu Ji touched Jia Cong's brain, and sighed: "Little fat man, learn more from your uncle, don't take action easily if you don't understand." ”

Jia Cong smiled bitterly: "I'm worried about Your Majesty...... I am worried that His Majesty has set a precedent for eunuchs to interfere in politics in this dynasty, and not everyone is a loyal person like Gonggong Dai and Gonggong Xia. That Xia Jiang lied to me yesterday! ”

"Thank you Xiao Jia Lang for complimenting, the old slave didn't expect to be praised for his loyalty."

A smile appeared on Dai Quan's face, and Liu Ji also smiled.

"You old thing, who is not a loyal minister, who else is not a loyal minister?"

Jia Cong complimented: "Yes, yes, yes, what the monarch and the minister have to say is the sage and Dai's father-in-law." ”

"Alright, don't say any compliments."

A sound of long live sounded outside the gate of the Dragon Head Palace, Liu Ji stopped the discussion about the Inner Mansion Division, and looked up, sure enough, it was Emperor Liu Heng and Liu Hong, the fourth prince who had just gone to ask for silver.

Liu Heng's face was very bad, as if someone owed him money......

"Grandfather Huang, you give your grandson a comment, why don't you need silver for this disaster relief? The father was good, so he gave his grandson 100,000 taels of silver, tell me, where is this enough? ”

Well, what a silver thing!

Jia Cong hurriedly moved a chair with Dai Quan and put refreshments on the table for the three generations of the royal family to discuss the matter of silver.

I saw Liu Heng glaring at his stupid son: "You really have no money in the household department?" Wen Lao Pifu deliberately sent you to me, and the silver in the household department is at least five million taels, not counting the silver he hidden. ”

Jia Cong poured a cup of tea at the right time, Liu Heng smelled the fragrance of tea, and the anger in his heart decreased by three points.

Alas!

"The silver in the inner treasury can't be moved anymore, Xu Qing is about to start implementing the new law, Lin Ruhai is also building a new salt farm, the sailor wants silver, and the city boss also needs silver."

Liu Heng crossed his fingers and counted the accounts for his stupid son: "Do you guess why Old Pifu Wen hit the idea of Neiku?" It's not a ...... to open the sea."

"No, father, isn't Wen Tongxuan not opposed to opening the sea?"

"Of course he is not against opening the sea, but he is against the royal formation of a fleet to go to the Western Ocean!"

The news that the royal family was going to form a huge fleet to go to the West had already spread in the capital, and seventy or eighty percent of the officials in the DPRK and China were opposed.

In particular, Wen Tongxuan, who was in charge of the household department, fired at the emperor on the spot, saying that the emperor's move was a faint move to waste the people's financial resources.

Not only did he not allocate a penny to the Ministry of Industry, but he also killed the Ministry of Household Affairs for having no money to build sea ships.

Early yesterday morning, he ran to the Qinzheng Hall in a hurry and made a fuss, and forcibly took out one million taels of silver from the emperor's pocket......

"He is now guarding the treasury of the household, and everything that asks for money is paid to his father, so that the purpose is to spend all the money in the inner treasury, so that the fleet will go to sea halfway."

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