Red Mansion Royal Cat

Chapter 199 Wenqing, you took off?

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, but there is not much festive atmosphere in the capital.

The drought in the north is more serious than expected, including the [-]-mile rush to the capital from the four provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi and Hebei without stopping.

It is said that Wen Tongxuan has not returned home for seven days in the yamen of the household department, and the bank and grain depot of the household department are really going to starve to death this time.

Ningrong and Rongfu raised another 6 taels of silver, which Jia Cong sent to the Ministry of Households to repay the owed silver.

As soon as the money was counted and sent to the bank, Jia Cong heard someone calling him behind him.

"Hey, brother Cong, why did you come to the household department?"

Looking back, the Fourth Prince Liu Hong came over accompanied by Wen Tongxuan.

Jia Cong made a bow and said, "I greet the Fourth Highness, and the Minister of Finance."

"Your Highness doesn't know something, but Xiao Jia Lang said that this is to pay back the money."

Wen Tongxuan's perception of Ningrong and Rong's two houses rose sharply. The first one to ask for the repayment of the owed money was Ningrong's Jia's family, and the one who repaid it most quickly was also Ningrong's Jia's family.

He flipped through the ledger in his hand, and sighed: "As of today, Ningguo Mansion has repaid 43 taels of owed silver, leaving 12 taels. Rongguo Mansion has returned 43 taels of owed silver, leaving 18 taels. It is for Xian The imperial concubine did not even come to the household department to borrow a penny for the construction of the family-sentence garden. Unlike the Zhou family, who used the people's fat and people's anointing to show their family's holy favor..."

"Wenqing, speak carefully!"

Liu Hong also had to remind him that the decree of visiting relatives was the decree of his grandfather and his father, and borrowing money from the household department was a rule set by his grandfather's repeated decrees. insulted.

Seeing that Wen Tongxuan was still scratching his head, Liu Hong could only change the subject and asked, "How much silver and grain are there in the household department?"

As he spoke, he reached out to get the ledger in Wen Tongxuan's hand, intending to check the situation and prepare for disaster relief after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Wen Tongxuan immediately became vigilant when he mentioned the money from the household department.He snapped the ledger that he had been holding in his hand shut, and stuffed it directly into his lapel.

This action is so skillful that it makes people feel distressed.

"Back to Your Highness, the household department is out of money, and there is not much food left. If Your Highness wants to use silver, it is best to go to His Majesty to have a look. I heard that there are no less than 600 million taels of silver in stock."

Jia Cong thought of the conversation he overheard just now among the officials of the household department. The old Pixiu had been collecting wool from the inner treasury this year.

There is not much money on the surface of the silver treasury, but in fact, a secret room has been built long ago, and the wooden boxes inside are filled with large and small silver ingots.

Liu Hong didn't believe this at all. He had reminded him that the old Pixiu's white strips in the Palace of Qinzheng were full of boxes, and yesterday he took away 100 million taels of silver.

"The household department really has no money?"

"No, no, the unbelieving minister took His Highness into the bank to have a look?"

Liu Hong was eager to try, and looked in the direction of the bank.

Jia Cong had no choice but to remind him: "Fourth brother, if you want to enter the bank, you must go in naked and come out naked..."

"Why go in naked and come out naked?"

Liu Hong didn't realize it all at once, but just at this time, the household official who moved the money came out from the inside, completely naked, and even the imperial guards went up and down their hands to check his body.

Jia Cong pointed in the direction of the bank, and said with a wry smile, "That's the kind of nakedness..."

When Liu Hong saw this scene, he immediately shuddered: "How can there be such a rule? I can't avoid it, too?"

"This rule is the rule formulated by our Minister of Finance when he entered the Ministry of Household Affairs in Zhaowu 46, to prevent Shushu from stealing money. Master Wen became famous back then and became the most reassuring God of Wealth in Daxia. .”

Jia Cong's explanation stunned Liu Hong. He looked at the proud Wen Tongxuan in disbelief, and asked in surprise, "Wen Qing, have you ever taken it off?"

Wen Tongxuan is a son of a serious family, and the Jinshi archway in his family has been built from ten miles away to the gate of Wen's family.

Wen Tongxuan, a model of Shilin, how could he do such...shameful things!
"The rules set by the minister himself, of course, must be practiced first. Otherwise, can the rules still be enforced?"

Wen Tongxuan made a motion to extend the invitation, and invited: "Your Highness, you just came today, why don't you invite Your Highness to go with you for inspection?"

Liu Hong immediately shook his head violently, Wen Tongxuan secretly smirked, Jia Cong cursed the old fox in his heart, and was immediately dragged away by Liu Hong.

"It's too scary. I didn't expect such rules to exist in the Bank of the Ministry of Finance!"

Liu Hong took Jia Cong through the imperial city, and walked straight into the palace to the Dragon Head Palace. Along the way, he sighed repeatedly: "No wonder the emperor's grandfather admires him so much, he is a ruthless person!"

"Fourth brother probably has never seen the scene of him begging for money in the Qinzheng Hall. To Mr. Wen, as long as he can ask for money, it's nothing to take off his clothes..."

Ow!

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the Dragon Head Palace, Jia Cong was thrown to the ground by the golden gradient of the flower arm tattoo, holding Jia Cong's brain for a while...

"Hong'er, did you fail to get the money?"

The old man's health has improved a lot recently, and he can already walk around with the support of the palace servants.

When he was taking the big cat for a walk around the Taiye Pond, the big cat's ears moved suddenly, and it rushed towards the gate of the Dragon Head Palace.

When he came leisurely, he happened to hear the two talking about Wen Tongxuan, the old Pixiu of the household department.

After Liu Hong told what he had seen and heard in the household department, Jia Cong finally broke free from the embrace of the big cat.

The Supreme Emperor laughed loudly: "I told you a long time ago that I want to get money from Wen Tongxuan, unless your father can allocate twice the money from the internal treasury to the household department."

"This is...Grandfather, time waits for no one, grandson will go to Qinzheng Hall to find the emperor."

Now Liu Hong's mind is full of Shuntian Mansion's disaster relief instructions, and he is in a hurry to ask Raja Cong to go to Qinzheng Hall.

Unexpectedly, the Supreme Emperor waved his hand and said: "You go, the little fat man stays, I have something to say to him."

Jia Cong was a little confused, but Liu Hong led the little eunuch out of the gate of Longshou Palace in strides.

……

Under the shade of the trees by the Taiye Pool, the incense drove away the mosquitoes. The old man lay on the rocking chair and enjoyed the peace. The big cat by the pool was using its tail as bait, quietly waiting for the silly koi to take the bait .

Jia Cong waited for a long time but the old man did not speak, and couldn't help asking: "Master Saint, do you have any orders for me?"

"If you don't tell me, I'll forget..."

The old man raised his hand, and the servants who were nearby retreated one after another, and there was no one around except Dai Quan.

"Are you checking the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

Jia Cong nodded, and said truthfully: "I am indeed investigating Xia Jiang of the Inner House Secretary. My father and uncle told me yesterday not to let me get involved in this matter. But I always feel that the appearance of the Inner House Secretary is very strange. It's strange, that Xia Jiang gave Chen an extremely uncomfortable feeling. If you don't check it out, you won't be able to sleep well."

The old man raised his eyes and stared into Jia Cong's eyes for a long time.Then he smiled and said, "You're an honest boy. The Neifusi and Xia Jiang are the bait thrown by the fourth child, so don't get meddled."

"The bait thrown by His Majesty?"

"The palace has been mixed with sand, and you have to sieve it out to be at ease. Xia Jiang is an ambitious man, and if the fourth brother gives him great power, do you think the sand mixed in the palace will be greedy for these powers?"

Jia Cong nodded again and again, how could those people not be envious of such a powerful authority as the Neifusi?

Moreover, Xia Jiang's ambition is not small, he will definitely try his best to expand his power, and this will give him room to be used by others.

Liu Ji touched Jia Cong's head, and sighed: "Little fat man, learn more from your cousin, and don't take action easily if you don't understand."

Jia Cong smiled wryly and said, "I'm worried about your majesty... I'm worried that your majesty has set a precedent for eunuchs in this dynasty. Not everyone is a loyal person like Eunuch Dai and Eunuch Xia. That Xia Jiang lied to me yesterday! "

"Thank you, General Jia Lang, for your compliment. The old slave never expected to be praised for his loyalty."

A smile appeared on Dai Quan's face, and Liu Ji smiled too.

"You old bastard, you have followed me through the wind and rain all your life, who else is it if you are not a loyal minister?"

Jia Cong complimented: "Extremely extreme, what the emperor and his ministers are talking about is the sage and Eunuch Dai."

"Okay, less compliments."

There was a sound of long live outside the gate of Longshou Palace. Liu Ji stopped the discussion about the Inner Palace and looked up. It really was the emperor Liu Heng and the fourth prince Liu Hong who had just gone to ask for money.

Liu Heng's complexion was very bad, as if someone owed him money...

"Grandfather, why don't you need money for this disaster relief when you judge the grandson? The father is lucky, so he gave the grandson 10 taels of silver. Tell me, how is this enough?"

Well, it's really a matter of money!

Jia Cong quickly brought a chair with Dai Quan, and set up refreshments for the three generations of the royal family to discuss the matter of money.

I saw Liu Heng glaring at his silly son: "You really think that the household department has no money? Mr. Wen sent you to me on purpose. The household department has at least 500 million taels of silver in deposit, which is not counted as his possession." risen silver."

Jia Cong poured a cup of tea at the right time, and Liu Heng smelled the aroma of the tea, and the anger in his heart eased a little.

Ugh!
"The money in the internal treasury can no longer be moved. Xu Qing is about to implement the new law, and Lin Ruhai is also building a new saltworks. The Navy wants money, and the Shipbuilding Department also wants money."

Liu Heng snapped his fingers and settled the score for his silly son: "Why do you think old man Wen made a plan for the internal treasury? It wasn't because of Kaihai..."

"No, father, isn't Wen Tongxuan not opposed to Kaihai?"

"Of course he doesn't object to opening the sea, but he opposes the royal fleet to sail to the West!"

The news that the royal family is going to set up a huge fleet to go to the west has already spread in the capital, and [-] to [-]% of the officials in the court are against it.

In particular, Wen Tongxuan, who was in charge of the household department, fired at the emperor on the spot, saying that the emperor's move was a foolish move that wasted people's resources and financial resources.

Not only did they not allocate a penny to the Ministry of Industry, but they also killed the Ministry of Households because they had no money to build sea-going ships.

Yesterday morning, he ran to Qinzheng Hall in a hurry and made a big fuss, abruptly taking 100 million taels of silver from the emperor's pocket...

"He is now guarding the treasury of the household department, and all the things that require money are paid to the father. The purpose is to spend all the money in the internal treasury, so that the fleet's going to sea will be abandoned halfway."

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