Chapter 19: Silence at the Beginning
Li Jin hurriedly flew down and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, there is no silver in our mansion anymore. The old slave really had no choice, so he had to dismiss all the people in the house before he could afford a little severance pay, and now in this house, only the old slave and the snow are left to serve His Highness. ”
"What? No money? Father-in-law Li, are you joking with Gu? The prince of Gutangtang can't even afford to pay a few eunuchs and palace maids?"
Chu Mo was stunned for a moment, and then his face was full of surprise, his eyes were about to log out, if he said this, who would dare to believe it?
I'm afraid that I will lose the face of Chu State.
Li Jin smiled: "Your Highness, you used to spend too much, and there was not much money left in the house, but a few days ago, you spent a lot of silver money for the Golden Jade Hall. We really can't open the pot in our house now, if Your Highness doesn't believe it, the old slave will go and bring the account book to His Highness for comparison. ”
As soon as these words came out, Chu Mo suddenly stopped.
Like, is that really the case?
But is it a blessing for Seon to lose his horse?
Didn't he still think about dismissing everyone in the East Palace before? Now it's okay, once and for all!
No matter how many other people's eyeliner there are, all of them can be sent away if the prince has no money, how good is it?
Why didn't you think of this trick in the first place?
Chu Mo squinted and laughed: "Li Jin did a good job. ”
"Oops!"
Xue Xue sniffed at the air, and suddenly shouted: "The porridge is paste, the porridge is paste, Your Highness blames you, why did you call me out if you have nothing to do? Don't you know that it is very rude to disturb others rashly when others are cooking?"
The snow was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and he didn't forget to glance at Chu Mo.
"Can you blame me for this?" Chu Mo shook his head and smiled.
It didn't take long for Xue Xue to run out of the kitchen with a steaming pot of porridge in his bare hands.
As he ran, he shouted: "Scalded, scalded!"
Then he ran to the courtyard, put a pot of steaming porridge on the stone table in front of Chu Mo, crossed his hands on his waist, and said proudly:
"Your Highness, try my craft, you are satisfied!"
Chu Mo was a little suspicious.
He didn't answer, but reached out and touched one of the ear of the pot.
It was so hot that he hurriedly withdrew his hand, and when he looked at his finger again, a small blister had already been burned.
"Take a look at Lonely!"
Chu Mo frowned and shouted at the snow beside him.
"What for?"
I don't know why the snow fell, but I still obediently stretched out my hand.
Chu Mo picked it up and looked at it, and was stunned for a while.
I thought that the stupid girl of Snow Falling would be so hot with her bare hands holding such a hot pot, and her hands must be full of blisters.
Just this look, but I found that the snowy palm was only slightly red.
"Does it hurt?" Chu Mo asked softly.
"How so?"
Xue Xue immediately withdrew his hand, and then suddenly slapped his palm on the stone bench next to him, full of momentum: "Your Highness, your red palm as this girl is practiced for nothing?"
Looking at her smug appearance, Li Jin on the side was full of black lines.
glared at her and scolded: "The mansion is so poor now, and you still destroy the property in the mansion at will?
"Huh?"
The snow wilted all at once......
Although the girl's hand was not burned, her porridge was unexpectedly mushy.
So, when serving porridge to the two, Li Jin only said that he was not hungry and wanted to save a little food for the house, so he took the opportunity to sneak to the roof.
Seeing the snowfall, the roots of his teeth were itchy, but he had no choice but to shift his gaze to Chu Mo.
"Your Highness, you have to eat all the porridge that this girl cooked so carefully. ”
Xue smiled sweetly, filled a large bowl, and placed it in front of Chu Mo diligently.
But looking at the smile on this girl's face, Chu Mo's heart suddenly broke out, and he suddenly had a bad premonition.
"Lonely ......"
As he spoke, he picked up the small bowl and tasted it gently, and his face was more exciting than the Sichuan opera face change in an instant!
He suddenly felt a little nostalgic for the Chinese medicine he had before......
"How's it going, is it delicious?"
Xue Xue lay on the table, looking at him with shining eyes, in his eyes, there was expectation, and there was a trace of anxiety.
Chu Mo's face was wonderful, and it took a while before he made an expression that was more ugly than crying.
"It's okay!"
"Really?"
When I heard the snowfall, I jumped up with joy.
"Hehe, I'll just say it! This girl's cooking skills must be no problem! I declare that from now on, this girl will be responsible for the meals in the prince's mansion!"
What?
Chu Mo was directly stunned, and he couldn't wait to grab the ground with his head.
Knowing this, he told the truth......
After having breakfast and resting for a while, Chu Mo began to cultivate again.
After a while, Li Jin came in with the account book and respectfully placed it in front of Chu Mo.
"Your Highness, this is a year's expenses in the palace, please check it out!"
Chu Mo snorted and looked at it casually.
I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.
In the Prince's Mansion, you can go to Emperor Chu every month to receive 5,000 taels of silver. In addition, the current queen, in private, will secretly send someone to send some silver taels to the prince's mansion.
This year alone, the income of the prince's mansion on the surface is 100,000 taels.
In addition to these, there are also some filial piety of court officials who only registered their names, but did not register the number, and this year, at least, there are 300,000 taels.
And Chu Mo is only seventeen years old this year, even if the annual expenses are added up to 100,000 taels, at least 200,000 taels will enter the account room of the prince's mansion that year.
In the past seventeen years, that's 3.4 million taels!
Definitely an astronomical sum!
Moreover, these are only Chu Mo's conservative estimates, and the actual amount of silver taels recorded in the accounts may be even more than this.
After all, the ceramic jade, bronze calligraphy and paintings that some officials have honored have not yet been counted.
Therefore, the income of the Prince's Mansion over the years is definitely more than more than three million taels.
However, Chu Mo looked at the latest expenses, and the sum was only fifteen thousand taels.
One of the expenses of 6,000 taels is the severance pay for those unqualified princes, and the other is the severance pay given by Li Jin to the female eunuchs of the prince's mansion, which is only 2,000 taels.
The cost of Jin Yutang is only seven thousand taels.
But even so, on the books of the Prince's Mansion at this moment, the silver money left in the mansion was only two hundred and fifty taels!
Go to Nima's two hundred and five, who is it to insult?!
"That short-lived thing is too loser, isn't it?"
Chu Mo slammed the ledger, his hands clenched tightly, and he gritted his teeth in his heart.
I can't wait to bring back the soul of the former prince and give this loser two big slaps in the face.
Over the years, almost five million taels of income have been squandered by this goods, and they have left 15,000 taels for themselves? !