When Zhao Yu was busy stir-frying in the kitchen, he inadvertently thought of the bizarre dream he had had. She was about to tell Xu Ke about it, but she suddenly heard the hearty laughter of an old man outside the kitchen, the laughter was heroic in the vicissitudes of life, and she could hear it without looking, it was Qiu Mingli who was on duty to go home.

"Mr. Qiu, you're back!" Zhao Yu saw Qiu Mingli enter the kitchen, and hurriedly turned around and saluted the master.

"Sir is here!" Xu Ke put down the firewood in his hand, and also got up and bowed to Qiu Mingli.

Qiu Mingli smiled and said: "Shibei should be impressed for three days, no disease, the old man and you have only seen each other for three days, and you have learned to help Xiaoyu cook?"

Zhao Yu's face turned red when he heard this, and he hurriedly lowered his head and continued to scoop water.

Xu Ke said with a smile: "Mr. made fun of it, I followed Miss Xiaoyu to learn vegetables without illness, but I just learned a little bit of fur." He then thought to himself, I stayed in the kitchen for a long time, and I just helped her make a fire, can this fire be regarded as cooking?

Qiu Mingli beckoned to Xu Ke, and the two left the kitchen one after the other, and returned to the front hall to sit down.

Qiu Mingli had just sat down, and before he had time to take a sip of hot tea, he said to Xu Ke: "No disease, you came just in time today, I have something to look for you." If you don't come, the old man plans to go to your Xu Mansion and ask you for three glasses of wine!"

Xu Ke then asked, "Mr. is coming to me?" Is there something urgent?"

At this time, the child who came back with Qiu Mingli was safe, and brought a bowl of freshly brewed Huayu tea to the master. Qiu Mingli picked up the tea bowl, regardless of the hot tea, and drank several sips in a row, and then said:

"There's nothing urgent, but I heard that you had a meeting together early this morning, how about it?

When Xu Ke heard this, he immediately shook his head and sighed: "Ahem! At today's morning meeting, a group of people quarreled in the council hall for a long time, and in the end, they didn't come up with a reason. In my opinion, such a collegiate discussion is just a waste of time, and it is completely useless in solving the case!"

Qiu Mingli asked, "Did His Royal Highness King Zhao say anything?"

Xu Ke still shook his head and said, "Your Highness didn't say anything, he heard Shen Huan and Cheng Kezhong arguing, so he hurriedly ended the collegial discussion and went out alone." ”

"Oh...... King Zhao didn't say anything?" Qiu Mingli asked again: "Then what are Shen Huan and Master Cheng arguing about in today's meeting hall?"

"Ahem! These two people are arguing, it's nothing more than how to settle those homeless beggars...... so Xu Ke simply told Qiu Mingli everything he heard and saw in the Tsing Yi Wei Council Hall today.

After listening to Qiu Mingli, he pondered for a long time before he sighed:

"It seems that His Royal Highness King Zhao has really encountered a problem!"

Xu Ke also immediately said: "Yes, don't hide it, Mr. I came here today without illness, and I also want to ask Mr. How to settle those displaced people in Chang'an City, does Mr. have a way?"

"Hmm...... What to do with these displaced people, this is ...... It's a bit tricky...... Let me think about it, think about it......" Qiu Mingli said as he picked up the teacup and drank tea.

"Sir, don't think about it yet, it's already time, hurry up and eat!"

At this time, Zhao Yu and Ping'an had already walked into the front hall with food plates, and in the blink of an eye, she had prepared all the meals, and served them one by one to the front hall and placed them on the square table.

"Okay, no disease, you've been waiting for a long time today, let's have dinner first, and talk while eating!" Qiu Mingli immediately pulled Xu Ke to sit at the square table, and Ping An had already poured wine for both of them and prepared dishes and chopsticks.

"Ping'an, Xiaoyu, and that Uncle Joy, you can also come and eat together!" Xu Ke greeted Zhao Yu in front of the hall.

It's just that no matter how enthusiastic Xu Ke is, Zhao Yu just shook his head and smiled, still refusing to eat at the same table with his master.

Seeing Xu Kewu staring at Zhao Yu's distant back, Qiu Mingli asked with a smile, "What's wrong...... No disease, do you like our Xiaoyu girl, if you like it, I will ask her to go to your Xu Mansion tomorrow to help, you let her be a maid, or do other things, you can do whatever you want...... Hehehe!"

"Sir!" Xu Ke listened to Qiu Mingli's teasing, and immediately looked embarrassed, he hurriedly withdrew his eyes, lowered his head, and picked up his wine glass to drink for himself.

"What's the matter? The old man said what was on your mind, and you didn't even want to touch a glass of wine with the old man?" Qiu Mingli raised his glass, and then quipped.

Xu Ke embarrassed his face, hurriedly raised his glass and touched Qiu Mingli slightly, raised his neck and drank it all, and then he asked:

"Mr. Qiu, according to Dai Zhou of Dali Temple, there are more than 1,600 displaced people scattered all over Chang'an City. For these people, the imperial court should have allocated silver to settle them, but I heard that now my treasury has little silver, is this true?"

Qiu Mingli saw that Xu Ke changed the topic coldly, and he went around to the treasury silver, he couldn't help but be a little stunned, but this topic was exactly the "main topic" he wanted to state today, so he put down his chopsticks and sighed:

"There is no disease, the old man really does not hide it, and now the deposit of the treasury of my great cadres has become a problem even for the officials! The old man has been busy thinking about it these days, calculating and calculating, calculating how to raise enough money for officials next month!"

Xu Ke took a mouthful of green vegetables and put them in his mouth, only to feel that they were tender and delicious, compared to the cooking of Deyuelou, although it felt light, but the tongue twisted was all fragrant, he ate it well, so he took several dishes in a row, and opened his mouth to chew it.

Qiu Mingli stroked his long beard in his hand and sighed to himself: "Speaking of which, you may not believe it, but even the old man never thought that I have a great deal in the world, with 32 provinces and 128 prefectures in the country, and a total of more than 20 million households, and the state treasury is so empty......!

"Teacher......" Xu Ke took a sip of wine and asked, "The state pays so much tax every year, plus the tribute from Fanbang, where does all that silver go?"

Qiu Mingli said: "You don't know, there was a great drought last year, and four provinces and 16 prefectures in the country were the most affected, and the harvest in other places was not very good! Except for the Jiangnan and Lingnan provinces, where 80 percent of the taxes were still collected, most of the other provinces could not even collect half of the taxes. As for the disaster-stricken four provinces and sixteen prefectures, not only did they not receive anything, but the imperial court also allocated millions of taels of silver for disaster relief. The emperor has always loved the people like a son, and when he saw that the people were poor, he couldn't bear to collect them, and for those states and counties that were greatly affected, he also exempted them from paying taxes for two years. Taxes were discounted, and disaster relief cost a lot of money, but the salaries of the officials and the soldiers had to be paid as scheduled. If you think about it again, where is the surplus silver in the treasury?!"

Xu Ke saw that once Qiu Mingli talked about the current situation of the treasury, his face couldn't help but be full of worry, and the chopsticks in front of him didn't move, so he hurriedly raised his glass and persuaded:

"Sir, although there is no silver in the treasury, we still have to eat, don't we? Xiaoyu's cooking is so delicious, sir, quickly pick up the chopsticks and eat more! If Mr. Ruoqiu doesn't fill his stomach, how can he have the strength to raise the officials' silver?"

Qiu Mingli couldn't help but smile when he heard this, it was already night, he was busy all day, and his stomach was already hungry, so he immediately raised his glass and took a sip with Xu Ke, and finally picked up the chopsticks, and sent the fried vegetables, dried amaranth bamboo shoots, steamed pumpkin, lichen turtle broth and other dishes carefully cooked by Zhao Yu to his mouth one after another. While chewing carefully and swallowing slowly, he also secretly admired Xiao Yu, this girl, whether she is sick today, the dishes she makes are particularly delicious!

The two drank and ate, and after a while, Xu Ke said again: "Mr. Qiu, I heard that on the third day of the third month of March, the emperor gave the noble concubine Niangniang a birthday, and feasted the ministers in Xingqing Palace that night. The monarchs and ministers sang and danced all night long, the delicacies of the mountains and seas were delicacies on the banquet, and the emperor rewarded countless concubines, and the cost of this scene was no less than 100,000 taels of silver! Didn't the emperor have a lot of silver? How could Mr. sigh for the bitterness today?"

Qiu Mingli took a mouthful of food and put it in his mouth, and said with a wry smile: "That's the emperor using the silver from the inner treasury to make a birthday, which has nothing to do with the treasury!"

Xu Ke said curiously: "The teacher said that the emperor is outside the treasury, and he has set up an 'inner treasury' in the palace? So the students are strange, where does the silver come from?"

Qiu Mingli smiled bitterly twice and said, "What about the inner money, a small part is the tribute of Fanbang, and most of them ...... Naturally, it also comes from taxation. ”

Xu Ke blurted out: "Since it comes from taxes, it should be recorded in the treasury! Nowadays, even the officials are so tight, why doesn't the emperor allocate silver taels from the internal treasury to solve the urgent need?"

Qiu Mingli shook his head and smiled: "How can the emperor be willing to use his own silver to give money to the officials?"

Xu Ke was puzzled: "This is strange, the officials are the emperor's officials, the people are the emperor's people, and even the entire world is the emperor's! Isn't the emperor's home my country's country?

According to what Xu Ke thought at this moment, since the emperor still had money in reserve, he should not only allocate officials to the government, but also take out tens of thousands of taels of silver to accommodate and resettle those displaced people in Chang'an City.

Qiu Mingli shook his head again and again, he no longer answered, but picked up the chopsticks again, just lowered his head to eat and drink, and after a while, he raised his glass and took a big sip with Xu Ke, and the words changed sharply, and said:

"No disease, whether it is the emperor's internal treasury or the treasury of the great cadres, you don't need to worry about these things! You can talk about it first, now there are monsters in Chang'an City, and the people are so frightened that they dare not go out at night, and now eight young men have died one after another, next, what methods do you plan to use to catch that monster?"

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