After this round of marketing, Du Zhiyan's reputation has risen to a new level.

Customers with good reputation can settle monthly.

There are occasional door-to-door pick-and-choose activities, which saves customers time and boosts sales performance.

Du only said that the wind and water were prosperous, but the emperor was worried.

The emperor flipped through the new list of internal treasury sent by the Internal Affairs Office, and it was really not as good as last month, and there was less silver in the internal inventory.

"King Yue's 50,000 taels still have to be given." The emperor tied his hands and paced in the room: "Where are you going to get these five taels of silver now?" ”

Gao Rang also wondered: "Didn't Du Changzai say that the 50,000 taels still need to be considered?" ”

"I govern the country, it is related to the life and death of tens of millions of people, and the soldiers of the border fortress are particularly important, although I know some things, but I can move the whole body with one trigger, and I must not be reckless."

Sounds like there's some truth.

But what it meant, Gao Rang didn't understand.

"Call Du Changzai to me."

Du Zhiyan threw herself into the small kitchen to study her dishes, and the emperor asked Gao Rang to call her, Du Zhiyan was a little reluctant.

But it is important to do business, and it is also important to serve the emperor, after all, her first identity is the emperor's wife.

Let's do it quickly.

Bypassing the screen, Du only said that he lay straight on the brocade bed.

The curtain swayed, the fine yarn curtain mixed with gold and silver thread embroidered, whenever there is light through the curtain to the brocade bed, the light is as if filtered, become soft and gentle, because the gold and silver thread in the curtain is bright and dense, the brocade is on the sun is faint, the gold and silver thread jumps, although the tent is dark, the light of the gold and silver thread is luxurious and bright.

Du Zhiyan lay in this luxurious and bright light, reached out to unbuckle the buckle in his neck, revealing a white skin on his shoulders, and then closed his eyes and kicked his legs.

The dead appearance of being slaughtered is sufficient.

There is no mood at all, some are just perfunctory and routine.

The emperor waited for a while after the long case, and saw Du Zhiyan enter the hall, and the person who bypassed the screen disappeared.

Get up and take a look, good guy, she is lying in the brocade tent, and the posture of the emperor in a hurry and I am in a hurry to go back to the Yongfu Hall to sell food is almost written on my face.

Which woman in the harem of Chen Guo dares to perfunctory the emperor like this. Generally, when they are called to Taihe Palace, the concubines are all overjoyed and eager to beat gongs and drums.

Du only said that the person is coming, but this is dead, how to look at how wrong.

The emperor felt that he had been greatly insulted, and no one had ever perfunctory him so obviously, so he reached out and pinched Du Zhiyan's chin, and then moved it down to her neck, and stroked her collarbone, her collarbone was so thin, it seemed that it could be broken with a light press, her skin was so white, the gold and silver threads on the curtain were projected on her collarbone, the bright and dark light was floating in her chest, and her whole face was also shrouded in the light of the bright and intertwined.

"Du Zhiyan, do you want to send me a crime?"

"What charges?"

"Daytime."

Du sat up from the brocade bed with great words, buttoned the button with lightning speed, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and flicked it on his shoulder, and easily changed his innocent expression: "Your Majesty - how dare the concubine, the concubine doesn't mean that at all." The concubine is wronged, Your Majesty. ”

"Speak well, don't hold your throat."

"Your Majesty, the concubines don't dare."

"Since you don't want to serve me, why do you lie on the bed and undress?"

"Concubines. Don't you have to be like this when you enter Taihe Palace? ”

"Do you think I'm a faint king? I indulged in beauty, and I called you here for the sake of it." The emperor was a little angry.

His feelings towards Du Zhiyan are a bit complicated.

If you talk about beauty, Du Zhiyan is not the best in the harem.

If you talk about charm, Du Zhiyan has to stand aside.

But she has a kind of charm, probably the kind of woman who has entered the palace, but treats the emperor as nothing, and does not chase after her, but concentrates on running her career, this kind of woman makes it difficult for the emperor to handle. Besides, this woman has some brains when it comes to earning money. This is something that the concubines of the other palace do not have.

"Du Changzai, how much money have you earned by running a small kitchen?" The emperor sat behind the desk, holding a cup of tea in his hand, grinding the tea bowl with the tea lid, some leisurely, some scrutinizing.

Du Zhiyan had a string of sparks in her mind, she was wondering why the emperor wanted to ask this, could it be that the emperor wanted to collect her taxes?

couldn't figure out the emperor's thoughts, Du Zhiyan could only be conservative and say: "I earned a total of more than a dozen taels." ”

"Do you know that the crime of deceitful is a capital crime?"

As soon as Du Zhiyan's legs fell to the ground, he fell at the emperor's feet, and rubbed the emperor's thighs: "Your Majesty, the concubine was forced by the emperor's obscenity just now."

"Huh?"

"Forced by the emperor's heavenly prestige, he didn't react at once, and the concubine calculated carefully, ran a small kitchen, and earned a total of three hundred and ten taels of silver."

"How many days?"

"Thirty-five days."

The emperor counted through the calculations, and earned three hundred and ten taels of silver in thirty-five days, that is to say, eight or nine taels a day, excluding the capital expenses, there can be more than five taels left, according to five taels a day, thirty days in a month, that is, one hundred and fifty taels, twelve months a year, to say less two thousand taels.

To be his concubine, a year to save money and a full count, it is only a few dozen taels, and those princes and ministers, a year's salary, is only more than a hundred taels.

In contrast, it is no wonder that Du only said that he devoted himself to his career.

Since ancient times, it has been said that Jun En is like flowing water, and he will not look back when he goes east. No one can guarantee that they will always be favored, and once the harem woman loses her favor, the end will be very miserable.

It's different if you can earn silver, like Du Zhiyan, who is engaged in a career in the palace, has silver by her side, even if she forgets her in the corner, even if she is left out in the cold, she can bloom in the corner.

Other concubines can only live by the emperor, Du only said that she is different, she is not a vine, but a tree, a tree side by side with the emperor, although she relies on the emperor, but not completely dependent.

This made the emperor can't help but call her to study.

Even, the emperor showed her Neku's list.

Du Zhiyan read it from beginning to end, but it was only a few pages, not much content.

Du Zhiyan returned the list to the emperor: "The palace rules of Chen Guo indicate that the harem concubines are not allowed to interfere in politics. ”

"You've seen it all."

"Concubines. No. ”

"I don't see how you know it's politics."

This.

"Since I've read it, let's give my opinion." The emperor put down the teacup and waited with great interest to listen to Du Zhiyan's high talk.

You must know that at the end of each year, the household department inspects the inner treasury of the palace, and the three departments and six courts of the internal affairs department have to cooperate with the inspection.

It takes half a month to take inventory alone.

Look at the poor people in the palace now, it is estimated that the trial will be completed in less than two days.

When the time comes, the people of the household department will blow up the emperor's family bottom, and the ministers of civil and military affairs will not be allowed to rebel, after all, the first emperor said that there were one million taels of silver, and the first emperor only collapsed for a few years, and the inner treasury was poor like this, and the gang of supervisors and imperial historians had work to do.

So I have to get Du Zhiyan here, and I can give some advice.

Du Zhiyanzai carefully looked at the list and looked embarrassed.

The Emperor: "Tell me, what do you think?" ”

"I didn't expect the emperor to be so wise and raise such a big corrupt official, corrupt officials are moths of the country, and they have to be eliminated. Look at this corrupt official, not only greedy for silver, but also for gold bars, even women's hairpins, forbidden necklaces, and even some ornamental porcelain, which is really indignant to people and gods. ”

emperor

Seeing that the emperor didn't squeak, Du Zhiyan thought that the emperor was hesitating, and helped to make a move: "The emperor can also temporarily not move him, it will inevitably startle the snake, and when he is greedy enough for a certain amount, the emperor can confiscate his property, and it is not too late for the property to be confiscated, but it is just a corrupt official's family bill, the emperor does not have to worry, there have been corrupt officials in all dynasties, not to mention that according to the list, this corrupt official is just a small corrupt official, and his family background is very limited." ”

The emperor: "This is not a list of corrupt officials' property. ”

"That's?"

"It's a list from Ineku."

Du only said

"Your Majesty, you are so poor."

"What did you say?"

"The concubine is saying. Your Majesty, Hello and Honest"

Du didn't expect the palace to be so poor.

No wonder the emperor's eyes are hot on her little silver, the emperor won't want to confiscate her, right?

Chen Guo is a system of three provinces and six ministries, not to mention how many officials there are in the six ministries, but to say that the internal affairs of the government, in charge of court affairs, there are imperial tea rooms, imperial pharmacies, imperial offices, etc., under which there are more than 20 subordinate institutions, more than 300 officials, these people regardless of the size of the official position have a lot of money, a month is a lot of money.

What's more, civil and military officials, harem concubines, all of which are expenses.

With such a thin bill, it is really difficult for the emperor to maintain such a big Chen State.

The emperor stroked Du Zhiyan's hand, and his tone was very gentle: "Du Chang is here—"

"Your Majesty, there is still cooking on the pot in the Yongfu Palace, if the emperor wants to order something to eat, the concubines will go back and make it."

"You think of a way for me, and I'll let you go back."

It's not easy.

Du only said that he had a system, and he couldn't think of any kind of method.

Let's just think of a way.

The emperor: "You think of a way for me to scrape together 50,000 taels in a short time." ”

Du Zhiyan felt a glare in front of him.

Fifty thousand taels?

Isn't that a joke?

As for the bill of the inner library, where can I make up 50,000 taels?

As far as this requirement, the input system will collapse.

Du only clicked on the system, and sure enough, Xiaodian hesitated for a while before refreshing the page: "The method of making up 50,000 taels in a short time is written on the law of Chen Guo." ”

The system popped up a copy of Chen Guo's law, and just turned a page, Du couldn't turn it anymore.

There is a way to make up 50,000 taels on the homepage.

But behind these methods, all are the death penalty.

Du Zhiyan looked at the more than 500 points in the system, and suddenly had an idea.

"Xiaodian, can you exchange points for silver?" If the points can be exchanged for silver quickly, then 50,000 taels is not impossible, so won't it solve the emperor's urgent need? The emperor is happy and does not give himself a wife or a general to protect the country.

The screen flashed: "Host, there is no gold and silver exchange in the system." ”

It seems that it cannot be obtained by the system.

Time passed minute by minute, and the avocado fragrance was added twice.

The emperor also knows that this matter is difficult for a strong man. But he couldn't go directly to the Minister of Civil Affairs and Military Affairs.

The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs may be able to come up with one or two ideas, but whether it can be achieved is still unknown, once this matter is known by the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, the other side will definitely know about it, which will disturb the morale of the army.

The emperor is melancholy, these civil and military ministers, according to his gossip, there are corrupt people, and there are those who spoil concubines and kill wives.

Before Du Zhiyan came to Taihe Palace, he didn't know that the emperor was so poor.

Seeing that the emperor was so poor, Du Zhiyan was a little unbearable, as the saying goes, a husband and wife are kind for a hundred days, and it is also a matter of duty to give advice to the emperor.

Du only said that he put the bill on the case: "The concubine has a plan, but I don't know if it can be done." ”

"Speak up and I'll listen."

"The concubine asked the emperor, among the civil and military officials, are there corrupt people?"

"Yes."

"Does the emperor know who it is?"

"I naturally know, as the saying goes, three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, I know these courtiers very well, some of them are old ministers of the first emperor's dynasty, there are many guests, in order to stabilize the situation of the court, as long as it is not too much, I will also turn a blind eye."

That's easy to do.

Du Zhiyan pointed to the details on the bill:

Twenty pieces of azure peach-style washing, two pear pots of the official kiln of the hundred birds homing, six pieces of sun and moon jars of fish swimming in the river and sea, and two pieces of Longteng Jiuxiao white-background Guanyinzun

This is a monad of ceramics.

"River Boat Pavilion Map", "Tang Palace Maid", "Dragon and Phoenix Silk Painting", "Gong Gong Tu", "Deer King Bunsheng Map".

This is a list of calligraphy and paintings.

Four golden hairpins inlaid with red treasure butterflies, one phoenix hairpin with Nanzhu Biyi, six hairpins for auspicious celebrations, and four hairpins for the sun and moon Hengsheng longevity

This is the jewelry list.

Whether it is ceramics or jewelry, they are all official systems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with exquisite materials and delicate techniques, and those ceramics, some of which are still utensils from one or two hundred years ago, are rare and precious, and those jewelry, whether it is hairpins or bracelets, or gold and silver collars, are all made by the best craftsmen in Chen Guo.

"What do you mean?"

"Has the emperor ever heard of the Hongmen banquet and the release of military power with a glass of wine?"

The emperor nodded: "Hongmen Banquet, from "Historical Records: Xiang Yu Benji". It is about a banquet held by Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, the leaders of the two anti-Qin armies, at Hongmen, on the outskirts of Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Dynasty, after the fall of the Qin Dynasty. The poet once wrote a poem: The sea is boiling and the war is bitter, and the wind and clouds are sad. Four hundred years of Han want to open the foundation, Xiang Zhuang a sword and a false dance. As everyone knows, people's hearts go to violence, and the will of heaven returns to the Lord. King Xiang stepped on the Han soil on the soles of his feet, and looked at each other at the banquet without understanding. And the release of military power with a glass of wine was that Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was added by his subordinates in the yellow robe in the Chenqiao Mutiny and usurped the throne. On the ninth day of the seventh month of the second year of Jianlong, in order to prevent history from repeating itself, Zhao Kuangyin adopted Zhao Pu's suggestion and coerced and lured Shi Shouxin and other generals at a banquet, forcing them to hand over their military power and go home to retire, thus recovering the general's military power. ”

Du only said: "So, please ask the emperor to hold a New Year's banquet." ”

"New Year's Banquet? How so? ”

Du only said a few words to the emperor.

When the emperor heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise: "I think what you said makes some sense, but do I want to play in person?" I'm the pride of the Son of Heaven—"

"Ahem. Poor."

"Don't say it, I promise, and I'll do as you say. Three days later, on the twenty-ninth day of the year, the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, Shun held an annual banquet and called all the corrupt people and their wives, as well as several ministers who behaved remarkably, and Shun wanted to entertain them well. When the time comes, your Yongfu Hall will be responsible for five tables of banquets, and the meals should be more exquisite, not coarse, and the ingredients should be a little more expensive. ”

"That concubine has one condition."

"You say."