Squeak –

The door was opened, and Concubine Jing stood at the door with a sad face, glanced at Wen Chen, and barely squeezed out a smile on her face.

"You're here, come in......"

There is no imaginary joy, more like a perfunctory thing.

Wen Chen entered the door and placed the food box on the table.

"Your Majesty said that Niangniang has been unwell recently, what is wrong with her?"

Concubine Jing sighed slightly, "Heart disease." ”

"Think what I thought?" Wen Chen laughed.

"Nonsense!" Concubine Jing glared at him complainingly.

"It's just some family matters."

"Let's hear it, maybe Weichen can solve it for Niangniang!" Wen Chen did not shy away from sitting beside Concubine Jing, and naturally took her little hand.

Anyway, the emperor and concubines are their own people, so they won't be jealous of each other, right?

Concubine Jing's cheeks were slightly red, "What can you do to solve the problem that Your Majesty can't solve......"

"Hey, I don't like to hear this, Your Majesty can't let the concubine have a child, didn't I do it too!"

"How can there be ......" Concubine Jing hurriedly pulled out the little hand in Wen Chen's arms, and moved the stool to the side a little shyly.

"What can the concubine say, what if you have an idea?" Wen Chen urged.

"Alas, my father's benefactor came to the door later......" Concubine Jing said helplessly.

"Wait!" Wen Chen raised his hand, "Let me guess, is it that this person is in the middle of the road, and he has no ability, and he wants to let his mother pull and beg for an official?" ”

Tan Yuanyuan's father, Tan Siwei, was originally a prime minister through the imperial examination step by step, and he was originally born as a poor scholar.

Concubine Jing shook her head, "If that's the case, then Your Majesty won't have to work hard." ”

"Oh?" Wen Chen was a little surprised, "Isn't it seeking retribution and coming to ask for benefits?" ”

"It's asking for benefits, but it's not an official position, it's money and food!" Concubine Jing said helplessly.

"This person's grandfather was optimistic about his father in every possible way when his father had not yet achieved fame, and he took good care of him on weekdays, and before his father entered Shangjing to catch the exam, he had written down an oath that if the descendants of the benefactor asked him in the future, he would definitely help!"

Asking for money and food, either fighting a war or disaster relief, in recent years, there has been no war in Dasheng......

Wen Chen touched his chin, "Qingzhou drought? ”

Concubine Jing covered her mouth in surprise, she didn't expect Wen Chen to guess the reason so quickly, "That's right, the son of my father's benefactor is now an official in Qingzhou, Qingzhou has been in drought for two consecutive years, the fields have not been harvested, and the people are starving all over the field, Qingzhou Mu has sent four waves of people to ask His Majesty for disaster relief money and food this year, but now the treasury is empty, how can it withstand this endless begging, Your Majesty has dealt with the first two times, and the fourth time is indeed no way at all......"

"Seeing that His Majesty did not let go, the Qingzhou Mu simply thought of a crooked idea, and sent Li Qing, who served under him, to open a gap from the palace for the reason of knowing the kindness of the court, and to publicize the matter of his father's favor from the Li family in Qingzhou, if this matter cannot be done, not only will the reputation of the deceased father of the palace be damaged, but even His Majesty's appointment of officials will be questioned by the people!"

Hiss...... Call......

"Wonderful!" Wen Chen couldn't help but admire, "This Qingzhou Mu is also a talent, and he actually came up with this method to deal with His Majesty!" ”

"What's wonderful?" Concubine Jing complained, "This time, Li Qing came and asked for two hundred and twenty thousand taels of disaster relief silver and 150,000 stone of relief grain. ”

"But that Li Qing is also a straight intestine, saying that there is not a penny of silver, money, grain and grass, or he will not leave in Shangjing City!"

Playing scoundrels?

Wen Chen smiled and shook his head, thinking that it was the little emperor's conscience just now, so he urged himself to come to Concubine Jing, but he didn't expect to throw a difficult problem to himself.

Alas, spoiling me is just a play!

"How many times did Your Majesty send a total of silver grain to Qingzhou a few times ago?"

Concubine Jing thought for a while, and said uncertainly, "The silver money is not less than 300,000 taels, and the grain and grass are also more than 200,000 stones, and I can't remember the specific amount......

Hearing this, Wen Chen snorted, "Okay, this matter is taken over below!" ”

"Is there a way to do this?" Concubine Jing said unexpectedly.

"Of course!" Wen Chen patted his chest, "Can such a trivial matter delay my family from eating?" ”

Concubine Jing shyly slapped away Wen Chen's salty pig hand, and whispered, "Don't let outsiders hear it, this palace is His Majesty's ......."

"Cut, Your Majesty is mine, let alone Niangniang?" Wen Chen approached and kissed Concubine Jing on the face while she was unprepared.

"Let's go, let's go out to eat first!"

At the dinner table, everyone had just eaten half of it when they saw Concubine Jing and Wen Chen arriving one after another.

Emperor Jingren raised his eyebrows, "So fast? ”

Wen Chen glanced at the Empress Dowager Qi, who was eating deliciously, and held back the yellow cavity that came to his mouth, "Your Majesty's business, Weichen naturally doesn't dare to slack off!" ”

"Godfather, Grandpa Qiu whispered to me just now, you went to do that, which one is that?" Ruyi asked while pulling the mutton in the bowl.

As soon as these words came out, there was a dead silence in the room.

Concubine Jing, who had not yet sat down, was even more ashamed and flushed.

"As long as you talk a lot, hurry up and eat your meal!" Wen Chen hated and scolded, he knew that this little girl would be in the country!

The old eunuch's face was flushed, and he quickly got up from the stool and knelt on the ground, "The old slave has no words, and I also ask Your Majesty and the Queen Mother to condemn the crime!" ”

Empress Qi stopped her chopsticks, swept her eyes over the embarrassed people, and sighed slightly, "In the future, you will have a snack, don't say this mess in front of the child, there is no sense of proportion at all!" ”

"Eat!"

"Yes, Queen Mother!" Everyone hurriedly agreed, and sat at the table without daring to say a word.

It was a good meal, but now it is full of embarrassing atmosphere, and what makes people even more headache is that the Queen Mother has an excellent appetite today, she doesn't put chopsticks, no one dares to say that she doesn't eat, and the time of noon is simply long and tormenting.

Finally, when the Queen Mother took a nap after dinner, it was estimated that she was afraid that everyone would bring Ruyi badly, and it may be that this girl was pleasing to the eye, so the Queen Mother proposed to take Ruyi to take a lunch break, and several people also happened to talk about business.

In the study, the three of them stand diagonally.

The little emperor was straightforward, looked at Wen Chen and asked, "What's the explanation?" ”

"Give!"

"How much?"

"Give as much as you want, the silver is not enough, the grain and grass will make up!" Wen Chen replied lightly.

The little emperor frowned, "Don't you say that I can't take out so much silver, even if I can get it, now the grain dealers around the country know that the imperial court is in urgent need of grain, and they have raised the price of grain by fifty percent, if you use silver to buy grain, it is not cost-effective!" ”

"Yes, besides, Your Majesty doesn't have any money here......" Concubine Jing added.

Wen Chen smiled slightly, "Who said they were going to buy grain?" I have a lot of grain all over the land, do I need to buy it? ”

The little emperor frowned and glanced at Concubine Jing, "Woo, was Lord Wen stimulated by something just now?" ”

Concubine Jing waved her hand again and again, "Don't dare!" ”

Wen Chen's face is black, these two people are driving too obscurely, right?

"The two of you, please come out with Weichen."

The two were puzzled and followed Wen Chen out of the study.

"Your Majesty, do you know what the average amount of silver taels spent by Dasheng's treasury each year in the past fifteen years?"

Emperor Jingren raised his eyebrows, as if he had thought of something, but he couldn't grasp the point, "In the past three years, it has been about ten million taels of silver per year. ”

Wen Chen bowed slightly, "That's right, to be precise, according to the data obtained by Wechen from the case file, in the past fifteen years, the annual financial expenditure has been about 10 million taels of silver, which is divided into two percent of the royal expenditure, three percent of the officials, less than fifty percent of the military expenditure, and the rest is disaster relief expenditure, more than 300,000 taels per year, less than 70,000 taels, and not used by a state, Weichen said so, Your Majesty should understand, right?" ”

Hearing Wen Chen's explanation, Concubine Jing was still at a loss, but the little emperor's face gradually became gloomy.

"Okay, you Yuan Qingshan, you have the courage to deceive me!"