Hongyu saw that Xiao Rongshen was gone, so she came in to serve Yuan Jia and helped her untie the rope in her hand. Hongyu blushed a little, and she didn't know what kind of quirk the prince was.

Yuan Jia rubbed his wrist: "Where did Your Highness go?"

Hongyu lowered her head: "It seems that Gao Xiangguo is here, waiting for His Highness in the study." ”

"Gao Xiangguo? What is he doing here?" Yuan Jia had a disgruntled look on his face, the old guy had interrupted his good deeds several times.

Hongyu scratched her head: "It seems to be talking about Donglin Prefecture, I heard that the third lady of our family opened a mine in Donglin and found a gold mine." ”

Yuanjia had a gloomy face, it was really hateful, why was everything good happened by Wei Yuanxi?

......

Won-hee sneezed and rubbed his nose: "Who is talking about me?"

"Me?" Rong Zhan pushed the door in.

Yuan Xi balled the badly written rice paper in his hand and smashed it on Rong Zhan: "You are talking nonsense again." ”

Rong Zhan leaned over and saw a Helan stone inkstone on Yuanxi's table full of ink, and the ground was full of crumpled paper balls, so he asked, "What are you writing?"

"Congratulatory watch!" Yuan Xi put his pen on the pen mountain: "I have to write a congratulatory note to the emperor quickly about the gold mine." ”

Rong Zhan nodded: "This matter really has to be faster." ”

Won-hee has been writing all morning, but he doesn't have a single one that satisfies him, so he simply doesn't write it. Sitting at the table, he poured a bowl of Da Hong Pao, and said while drinking: "It just so happens that you are here, I still have something to discuss with you." ”

She lifted the teapot and poured a bowl for Rong Zhan: "A few days ago, the salt envoy told me that there was a lot of official salt left. ”

"Left?" Rong Zhan was a little puzzled, but in an instant, he thought of a business scripture: "It's good to have the left, take it to other state capitals, and make a sum of silver." ”

"Stupid. Yuan Xi pinched his face: "The official salt is purchased according to the population, and there are so many left, doesn't it explain the problem?"

"What's the problem?" Rong Zhan didn't understand: "It means that the people don't buy it? Or do you want to reduce the price? Our Donglin Prefecture has just been rebuilt, and the people are generally poor, so we should support it more." ”

Yuan Xi glanced at him: "If you don't eat salt, you will get sick, and when the time comes, you will have to spend money to buy medicine to cure the disease, who will be stupid? Besides, the price of salt is also set according to the people's affordability, and it is not expensive at all." ”

"Then I don't know. Rong Zhan took a sip of tea: "Tell me about it?"

"This actually shows that some people are selling illicit salt in Donglin Prefecture. ”

"Illegal salt?" Rong Zhan's eyes widened.

"Private salt is cheaper than official salt, and the common people go to buy private salt, so there will be a large surplus of official salt. Yuan Xi was confused: "Salt and iron are all official income, and it is a large amount, if this income is less, then the sect master's mansion will have no money to raise soldiers, so when and how long will the emperor want the new army to be built?"

Rong Zhan nodded: "This is a troublesome matter. ”

"Actually, in Yuexi, I also bought illicit salt. The salt I prepared for the imperial physician was private salt, and the government in the western part of the country colluded with the traders who bought the illegal salt, and the bulk of the sellers' dividends went to the officials themselves. ”

Rong Zhan was stunned when he heard this, the government and businessmen colluded to resell illegal salt, this kind of thing is simply unheard of, secretly saying that salt and iron are the income of the official family, who will let the bulk of the official salt not make money, and run to make any profits from private salt?

"No way. Rong Zhan shook his head innocently: "Isn't this stupid?"

"Are you stupid, is the official's money important, or is the private family's silver important? If you can get the silver in your purse, even if it is less, it is still your own, and no matter how much the government's income is, it is also the government's. Got it?"

Seeing that Rong Zhan didn't understand, Yuan Xi shook his head and simply didn't say any more: "In short, in the next few days, we will stare at the checkpoints along the road to death, catch those who sell illegal salt, and deal with them according to the law." ”

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Gao Bingyan took out a secret letter from his arms, unfolded it and handed it to Xiao Rongshen: "Your Highness, Donglin Prefecture has dug up a gold mine, and I heard that Wei Yuanxi is going to report the good news to the emperor." ”

Xiao Rongshen grimaced and tightened his nose: "I told you when they were going to open the mine before, and asked those old ministers to try their best to stop it, what did you all do?

Gao Bingyan lowered his head: "Your Highness taught me that you are to blame those old ministers for not doing things well." ”

Those old ministers are all in their prime, and it is difficult for them to be able to sit and demonstrate under the sun for so long. Xiao Rongshen sighed and waved his hand: "That's it, if you want to say that you have done your best,"

"The emperor is now more and more partial to the surnamed Wei, opening a mine will destroy the feng shui dragon qi, in case it moves the dragon vein of our Great Chu, it will endanger our Great Chu. Gao Bingyan also sighed.

"So, Gao Xiangguo, is there anything new?" Xiao Rongshen turned his head to look at him.

Gao Bingyan smiled, thinking of his masterpiece, he was quite proud. Selling illicit salt, what a crime this is, the government's ineffective supervision will lead to the government's treasury exceeding its income, second, it will delay the establishment of the new army, and third, the emperor will reprimand them.

"Your Highness, the three shares of private salt have entered the territory of Donglin in batches, and now the official salt cannot be sold, and there is no income from salt and iron, so see what they take and hand it over to the treasury. With this crime, they just deducted the credit for discovering the gold mine. ”

Xiao Rongshen raised his eyebrows, this is still an idea.

"If you buy illicit salt, people won't check it?"

Gao Bingyan smiled slyly: "Your Highness, don't worry, this time the guarantee is seamless, and the minister asked those salt dealers to mix the private salt with water, mix it with the wine jar, transport it to Donglin Prefecture, and then roast the salt out by fire." ”

Xiao Rongshen was stunned for a moment, and then smiled treacherously, such a trick, even if Wei Yuanxi wanted to break his head, I am afraid he would not be able to think of it. He patted Gao Bingyan twice on the shoulder: "Gao Xiangguo, there is a long way to go!"

Gao Bingyan took advantage of the situation and bowed to Xiao Rongshen's ear: "Your Highness, there is a new thing in the cabinet today, is Your Highness interested in going to see it?"

Xiao Rongshen has been stuffy in the house for the past few days, and he has long been suffocated, and after listening to him, he hurriedly went to the cabinet with him.

"What's new?" Xiao Rongshen asked as he followed Gao Bingyan to the private room upstairs.

Gao Bingyan stopped at the door of a side room, pushed the door open, and a young girl sat at the table inside.

Xiao Rongshen was stunned: "Isn't this the frost girl in the upper cabinet?"

Gao Bingyan said with a smile: "Your Highness's good eyesight is the frost." ”

"What do you mean?" Xiao Rongshen didn't quite understand.

"Your Highness, yesterday the sixth master ransomed the Flowing Frost girl and spent 10,000 taels of silver. Gao Bingyan said in a low voice: "The sixth master said that he is going to pick up people today." ”

"I don't understand. Xiao Rongshen said bluntly.

"The old minister knew that His Royal Highness liked to listen to the little songs of the Flowing Frost Girl, so he spent 20,000 taels of silver to buy her first time. Gao Bingyan said, laughing shamelessly.

"Huh?" Xiao Rongshen was still a little stunned, this gift came suddenly, which made Xiao Rongshen a little unmistakable for a while.

"Your Highness, why don't you enjoy it, although the Flowing Frost girl has been singing for so many years, she is still a yellow flower girl. Gao Bingyan covered his mouth and said: "You can't cheapen this good thing Sixth Master!"

Xiao Rongshen was so excited by his words that he couldn't help but walk into the room.

Gao Bingyan covered his mouth and smiled, and turned into another room. The singer who accompanied the wine had already changed into a pink dress, put her arms around his neck, and sat in his arms.

There was a chaotic tearing sound in the next room, and when I heard the cry of the frost, the singer who accompanied the wine changed her face and wanted to go out to have a look. Gao Bingyan grabbed her waist from behind and hugged her to his lap: "Little beauty, you shouldn't care about this kind of thing." ”

Xiao Rongshen tossed for a full hour, tearing all the dresses of Liushuang, and Liushuang lay on the floor exhausted, staring at the lattice door in despair. The door was only three or five meters away from her, but she couldn't get out of these three or five meters. Thinking of the words that the sixth master promised himself, Liushuang was very aggrieved, a singer who broke the melon, can she still go to the palace of Baojun to be a maid?

Xiao Rongshen seemed to guess her thoughts, and whispered in her ear: "Some things can never be changed. ”

Flowing Frost stared at him for a moment, biting her lip.

Falling into the dust was not what she wanted, until yesterday, she was still a clean body, an innocent person, and now, as if in another world, everything is very different. Liushuang pulled out a sharp hairpin from her head and stabbed Xiao Rongshen violently, but unfortunately her strength was too small, and her wrist was grabbed by Xiao Rongshen.

"Frost, Frost girl?" suddenly there was a sound of light footsteps outside the door, and the voice was a girl, sixteen or seventeen years old. Xiao Rongshen sneered, and another one came.

Liushuang opened his mouth, only emitted one syllable, and was held down by Xiao Rongshen.

Outside the door is Yuan Yue, a few days ago I heard the sixth master Xiao Rongrun say that he wanted to redeem a woman named Liushuang in the upper cabinet, and said that he wanted her to help take care of it for two days. At that time, in the name of the maid sent by the Wei Mansion to the king of Baojun, let Liushuang enter the palace. That's why Rong Run redeemed Liushuang yesterday, and today Yuanyue came to see her.

Hearing a voice in the room, Yuan Yue knocked on the door: "Miss Flowing Frost, are you there?"

Inside the door, Liushuang struggled hard, and finally grabbed a chance to speak, she shouted fiercely: "Second Miss, run!"

"What's wrong?" Tsukito was startled.

Before she could react, the lattice door had already opened, and a tall, muscular, half-clad young man suddenly stood in front of her. Yuan Yue was taken aback, isn't this the person Wei Yuanjia married?

"And, and the prince of the county, the people's daughter participates in the prince. "Yuan Yue gave a salute.

was recognized by her, Xiao Rongshen looked at her carefully, her appearance was quite beautiful, and compared with Yuan Jia, she was completely different.

"Who are you?"

"The folk girl is Wei Yuanjia's sister Wei Yuanyue. ”

"You are Wei Yuanxi's second sister?" Xiao Rongshen raised his eyebrows.

"Yes. Yuan Yue replied timidly, she glanced down, there was a woman lying on the ground, there was no good meat on her body, either green or red, she shivered.

"What are you looking at?" Xiao Rong touched his chest and looked at Yuan Yue with a smile.