In the afternoon, the 'Beichuan' side affairs came, the army was short of salary, morale was lazy, and there were not a few soldiers who fell ill, so the emperor could issue an order to promote Wei Qing to the 'Hubu Shangshu', and his Cui levy taxes, and appoint Wei Tong to the governor of Beichuan, and immediately take office to appease the army.

This Wei Tong is one of the few living people who dare to speak, although he is not capable of his brother Wei Qing, but he is a person who dares to do things honestly, and the emperor's order for Wei Tong to go here also has the effect of prompting Wei Qing to seriously urge Wei Qing to pay taxes, after all, the errands of the two brothers are closely related, and Wei Qing does not dare to be lazy for his brother.

Wei Tong received the order without saying a word, simply packed up and set off, he was loyal and honest without any pomp, a big official traveled thousands of miles and only took a cloth bag with a change of clothes and set off, the emperor heard that he only admired in his heart, and wanted to reward some silver but couldn't take it, after all, the treasury was empty at the moment,' The internal treasury is not enough for the expenses in the palace, at this time, the soldiers of the border pass are waiting for the silver to eat, wear armor, any one or two silver, a penny is precious, for those who overthrew the heroes of Wu Jingguo, the emperor would rather pat them on the back, coax them and hope that they will not ask for a reward, if the reward is as little as a few thousand, it is often tens of thousands of taels of silver will be gone, it is not that the money can not be rewarded, but after the reward of the border soldiers' military salary, cotton clothes, armor, replacement of weapons, horses, forage, relief for the victims, arrears to officials, arrearsThe silver of "Dalong City", "Weaving Department" and so on is even tighter, and it is also desperate, and it is easier to make the border soldiers and others cold.

The emperor just promoted Wei Tong, the guards came to report to the 'Six Dragons Gang' of the Luo shopkeeper to see, the emperor was overjoyed, immediately ordered someone to bring the Luo shopkeeper, the palace door opened, not waiting for the Luo shopkeeper to salute, the emperor hurried over to help up, now in his heart the 'Six Dragons Gang' people are a little closer than themselves, the guards and eunuchs also know that in the emperor's heart, these martial arts people are more reliable than them, so they don't touch the mold, everything who wants to see the emperor's martial arts people will be reported first, as for whether to see it is the emperor's own business.

The emperor gave him a seat, and the shopkeeper Luo thanked him and sat down, and the emperor smiled: "It is said that the shopkeeper Luo is a busy man, how can I have time to see me here today?"

The shopkeeper Luo said: "Back to the emperor, the grass people were ordered by the helper to offer three things to the emperor. ”

"Oh, this makes me curious, the 'Dragon God' is invincible in the world, the 'Six Dragons Gang' is even richer, and the things that the 'Dragon God' Pai Luo personally gave to me must be extraordinary. The Emperor asked knowingly.

The shopkeeper Luo stood up and bowed down to hand over two booklets and a letter sealed with fire paint, the eunuch walked over to take it, handed it to the emperor, the emperor took it and casually flipped through the two pages, and said: "The account books of the 'Qinlong Tower' and the 'Huijin' money village in the capital, the 'Dragon God' is really a big deal, and I don't know whether I should accept such a heavy gift." Having said that, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, if the 'Dragon God' really ignored his hints, he didn't know how to ask for it.

Shopkeeper Luo didn't guess the emperor's thoughts, and said respectfully: "Don't dare to say anything, this should be the emperor's thing." ”

The emperor nodded, put down the two booklets, picked up the letter, and wondered, "This is?"

Shopkeeper Luo said: "This is Your Majesty's letterhead, and the grass people dare not snoop into it." ”

The emperor nodded, opened the letter, and slowly unfolded the folded paper inside, but seeing that the content of the letter was mostly some words of encouragement and encouragement, the emperor knew that this was Yun Lao's handwriting, and it was inconvenient for outsiders to carefully read the content of the letter, so he immediately folded the letter and put it away, looked at the shopkeeper Luo and asked, "What kind of conditions do you want?"

Shopkeeper Luo said: "I don't dare to negotiate terms with Your Majesty! The leader of our gang has a question that I want to ask Your Majesty, and I ask Your Majesty to make it clear." ”

The emperor said, "Shopkeeper Luo, please speak." ”

Shopkeeper Luo said: "The helper wants to ask Your Majesty, will Your Majesty continue to operate the 'Qinlong Building' and 'Huijin' Money Banks or sell them at a discount?"

"Of course it is......" The emperor was about to answer, but suddenly stopped, smiled and asked the shopkeeper Luo, "What about the opinion of the shopkeeper Luo?"

Shopkeeper Luo said: "It varies from time to time, from person to person, in the opinion of the grass people, the money village can still continue to operate, and it is more prudent to sell the cash at a discount for 'Qinlong Building', and the specific idea is to be taken by His Majesty himself." ”

The emperor asked, "How much silver can the 'Qinlong Tower' and the Qian Zhuang sell for in total?"

Shopkeeper Luo said: "'Qinlong Building' can be sold for about 2.7 million taels to 3 million taels, this price has shrunk by 20% according to last year, and 40% according to the year before last, which is less than half of the highest price. ”

The emperor frowned and said, "That's it?"

Shopkeeper Luo said: "In recent years...... The amount of cash needed is too large, and often those who want to buy it cannot afford it, and those who can afford it have their own business and may not be willing to spend this money, so there is no market, and if it is sold higher, it may not be worth the money, but it is difficult to sell it within a year or two unless you meet the right buyer. ”

The Emperor nodded and asked, "If I sell it, how much will I get?"

Shopkeeper Luo said: "All." ”

"I need to look at the account books and understand the profit and loss before replying to 'Dragon God'. The Emperor said quietly.

Shopkeeper Luo said: "Yes!"

"What's wrong with the 'Dragon God'?" the Emperor asked again.

The shopkeeper Luo said: "The question of the helper depends on His Majesty's answer, the helper said that a few months ago, a Taoist chief had asked him to help, he did not help and felt guilty, if the emperor is short of manpower in the future, the 'Six Dragons Gang' is willing to help, if Your Majesty does not have a suitable candidate, the restaurant and the Qianzhuang Gang can also operate or sell on behalf of him." ”

The emperor smiled and said, "Thank you for the kindness of the 'Dragon God', whether the restaurant and the money house are to be operated or sold will be sold and I will give you an answer after tomorrow." ”

Shopkeeper Luo said: "Yes, the grass people will come to see Your Majesty at this time the day after tomorrow." ”

The emperor said: "I'm tired of the shopkeeper Luo." ”

"Don't dare. Shopkeeper Luo said that he withdrew from the main hall and walked out of the palace under the guidance of the eunuch.

"'Dragon God', it turns out that whether I want to invite you to the court as an official and take control of the military power is the question you really want to ask. The emperor waited for Shopkeeper Luo to go away before muttering to himself.

Xu Nianen, who was standing quietly on the side, couldn't help but be surprised when he heard the emperor's words, his face was incredulous, and the emperor smiled and asked, "Don't you want to know how I plan to reply to the 'Dragon God'?"

Xu Nianen said: "Taizu Zu Xun, eunuchs are not allowed to participate in politics, and the little ones dare not speak falsely. ”

The emperor laughed and said, "I want to hear it but don't dare to ask, so I won't talk about it today." ”

Xu Nian'en smiled, in the past few months, the little emperor is the first light-hearted joke, and it is also one of the few real laughs of this child, for him, this emperor is not the high ninety-five, but the child he has seen since he was a child, his own child, he likes this child from the bottom of his heart, and hopes that this child can be safe and happy, he actually doesn't want his child to be the emperor, but he has no right to care about him and remember his identity more firmly - Eunuch, an identity that can be honored to the point where one person is above ten thousand people, or it can be humble to the point that everyone tramples on everyone and scolds everyone.

In the final analysis, a eunuch is a job of serving people, the difference is what people to serve, what to serve, it is not a noble or low, but in the world, there is a noble and lowly, as a eunuch Xu Nianen's heart is desolate, but also inferior, he always feels that he is shorter than normal people, although most normal people are not as powerful as him, but any normal person despite the surface respectfully call them a 'father-in-law' or even ' Ancestors', but they are scolding them eunuchs, eunuchs have been looked down upon since ancient times, especially by the so-called scholars, except for a very small number of eunuchs who have done great things, such as Sima Qian, such as Zheng He, most of the other eunuchs will be named notoriety, people are used to magnifying the mistakes of eunuchs, although some eunuchs are kind-hearted, diligent and hard-working, but few people really treat them as people, and there are few historians who are willing to say a good word for them, stepping on people is originally human nature, trampling is not a special skill that bad people have, but the bad roots that exist in almost everyone's bones。

This dynasty used to be one of the most willful eunuchs, he leaned towards the government and the opposition to do things resolutely, felt that a minister had a problem and caught it, everywhere he went, all the officials knelt down to greet him, sycophants, for filial piety to him did not refuse, but for corrupt officials he never let go of whether he had ever honored himself, and against himself and even impeached himself of good officials can still tolerate promotion, in the border war and quite a win, just because of offending the Manchu officials, impeachment continues, the emperor is quite helpless to have to depose and enable, and then depose and then enable, this eunuch is not a good person, nor can he talk about a wicked person, it should be quite controversial, but later generations only pick his fault, there is little mention of his past exploits, so nine out of ten people are scolding him.

Xu Nianen's inferiority complex has always existed in his heart, as he grows older, he feels more and more cold in life, the emperor is the only person he feels warm, maybe this is all the comfort in his life, so the emperor is happy and he is happy, the emperor is also sad, the emperor is the first to block in front of the emperor when he encounters danger, all this the emperor knows, so from childhood to adulthood 'emperor' is very good to him, so the emperor still believes in him unreservedly when he doesn't trust anyone, he feels very warm, very warm.