"Second brother, since you are on duty today, take him to take the seal test. The weather has been cloudy these days, and I have injured my back."

King Zhongshun said to Li Yao, but he might know something, so he added a little more: "Bring him here after the exam. I will take him into the palace to meet the emperor. The emperor wants to see him."

When Li Yao heard this, his originally bright eyes suddenly dimmed. He frowned and glanced at Jia Qiang with disgust, got up and got off the kang, and went out.

Jia Qiang bowed to Prince Zhongshun and then went out.

As he walked down the corridor, he felt Jia Qiang following him. Li Yao stopped and turned around, snorted coldly, looked at him sideways and said with disdain: "It's really unreasonable, even the slaves are shaking now. Don't you want to bow to the official? You are not the one." Don’t you want to be an official? Why are you so busy taking the exam now?”

Jia Qiang looked at Li Yao with a hint of wantonness and said with a smile: "If there is no official letter from the clan, do you think I am willing to come?"

"presumptuous!!"

Although Li Yao is only the prince of the clan, he is still the emperor's prince. Even the princes of the clan would not look down on him. He never thought that a sycophant would dare to talk to him like this.

In Li Yao's eyes, or in the eyes of most people, Jia Qiang is just an ignorant young man who has had bad luck and has no foothold.

If he had not caught the eye of the Supreme Emperor, had not received those few words of praise, and had not received the words "good minister" from the Supreme Emperor as a token of appreciation, he would not even be as valuable as a dog in the palace.

And this ignorant young man dared to be disrespectful to him.

Jia Qiang looked at Li Yao and sneered: "Although the prince is the king of the county, he is not qualified to call me a slave."

When the officials in charge of the sect's mansion and Bi Tie Shi and other officials around saw this scene, they all turned pale with fright and panicked.

Li Yao laughed angrily and said: "Okay, okay! My eyes have been opened today. It's not that I have never seen someone arrogant, but this is the first time I've seen someone as arrogant as you! Someone, give it to me." Press and hold..."

Before the word "fight" came out of his mouth, his eyes suddenly condensed, and the anger on his face dissipated and turned into a look of suspicion. He looked at Jia Qiang and said coldly: "I almost fell into your trap... You really did. Don’t you want to accept this title?”

Jia Qiang twitched the corner of her mouth, regretting in her heart that she had indeed made people easy. He cupped his hands and said, "The prince is joking. Is there any reason to not want the family property of a prince's palace?"

Li Yao looked at Jia Qiang again and again and sneered: "You are not arrogant and arrogant on the surface, you are arrogant and arrogant in your heart! How dare you play tricks on me?"

Seeing that the words had reached this point, Jia Qiang simply stopped blocking her words, put away her false smile, looked at Li Yao and said, "Your Majesty is angry with me because of the incident involving the Bai family in Yangzhou. I'm just asking for a way out, so there's no need to be arrogant." furious?"

Hearing that he actually directly revealed the affairs of the Bai family, Li Yao sneered and said: "The Bai family of Yangzhou, even the emperor and the emperor, have shown their filial piety. You, an ignorant and arrogant child, have brought trouble to the entire Bai family with unfounded crimes, and you still have the nerve to talk about it." The word "to express anger"?"

Jia Qiang sighed after hearing this, shook her head and said: "The Bai family was destroyed because of the sins of the family, which cannot be tolerated by heaven! In order to compete for the benefits of the salt field, the Bai family destroyed several families. The law is the cycle of heaven, and retribution will not be satisfactory. The Holy Emperor is above , How can we allow such thieves to go unpunished? I am just a white person with no official title. Even if I have the intention, how can I destroy a whole family? Your Majesty's words are wrong."

Li Yao saw from the corner of his eye that there were more and more people from the sect's mansion around him, and their faces were getting more and more ugly. He snorted coldly and said, "What you said is quite right. Heaven's cycle of retribution is not good, and whoever destroys a sect will be punished sooner or later. It’s his own head! Let’s see, my king, how long you can be arrogant!”

…

Half an hour later, Jia Qiang returned to the main hall with a calm expression.

Prince Zhongshun took the examination document from Li Yao, frowned after looking at it, looked sideways at Jia Qiang, and asked: "You are also a serious great-great-grandson of Ning Kingdom after Wu Xun. Even if you are not as good as your ancestors in martial arts, you can still You can't have fifteen arrows without even hitting a hair, right?" After saying that, he threw the examination documents on the kang table in anger.

Jia Qiang did not feel ashamed, and said neither humble nor arrogantly: "Returning to the prince, because I never thought that I would be crowned one day, I have always studied literature and have never practiced archery or archery."

When Prince Zhongshun Li You heard this, he narrowed his eyes slightly and actually smiled and said: "Whether it is good to study literature or have some knowledge of writing and calligraphy, it is safer than riding a bow and horse and shooting. Among the nobles, in terms of martial arts, who can compare with Jia Daishan?" ?The twenty-fourth rank of the six great princes of Yuanping, Jia Daishan can hit him from beginning to end with a silver spear, but the result is that he will die early and become a pile of smelly meat? So it is better to study literature, at least live longer. "

Although he said this with a smile, there was no hint of kindness in the meaning.

Obviously, Li You and Jia Daishan probably have a very unpleasant past...

Although Jia Qiang has always wanted to separate from Xifu, his surname is Jia. If he allows others to insult Jia Daishan now, if word spreads, he will never be a good person again.

Therefore, Jia Qiang raised her head, looked at King Zhongshun's white hair, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, what you said is wrong. I am studying literature, not to live longer, but to understand reason and know loyalty and filial piety. The ancestors of Rongguo had unparalleled martial arts. Although he died young, he died for the sake of the country and the country, and for the sake of the Li family. As the royal family leader, the prince should have respect for his ancestors despite his noble status. Otherwise, he would give up all his blood and serve the country. Conquering the world, but in the end being regarded as a piece of rotten meat by the Heavenly Family, where is the justice of Heaven?!"

Looking at the awe-inspiring and resolute Jia Qiang, Zhongshun Wangchengfu is much deeper than Li Yao, how could he easily drop the topic? He smiled and said: "I believe in Buddhism, and Buddhists all pay attention to the theory of stinky skin. I will borrow one or two of them. You are such a arrogant person." , but it’s just to accuse this king. That’s all, I will take you into the palace today and ignore you. We will talk about it later.”

Having said that, he got up and got off the kang. Under the service of two chamberlains, he put on the dark green Nine Dragon Chuan Yun cloak and took a sedan chair to the palace.

…

Daming Palace, Yangxin Palace.

Emperor Long'an frowned and looked at the 17-18-year-old young man who was crying in the palace, and shouted: "I will send people to the medicine warehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get some good medicine and give it to Lin Ruhai, the Minister of Household Affairs. You are resisting, what do you want to do? Isn't that right? Have you squandered all the money in your inner treasury?"

This young man is Li Xuan, the fifth son of Emperor Long'an, and the daughter of Empress Yin, together with the emperor's eldest son, Prince Bao Li Jing.

Although they share the same mother, the eldest son of the emperor, Prince Bao Li Jing, has a cold temperament and is feared by both the government and the public. He works as an errand in the Ministry of War and has a somewhat delicate relationship with several princes and princes.

But the fifth son of the emperor, Li Xuan, has a completely different character.

This man is famous for his greed and stubbornness, and he loves wealth, food, fine clothes, and antiques... He is a stubborn master who is well-known in the capital.

Originally, according to Emperor Long'an's temperament, this traitorous son should be beaten to death.

It's just that among the children, this youngest son is the youngest and has been raised by his side. He is also the only prince who dares to get close to him, so it is inevitable that he will be favored.

Seeing that he was good at collecting money, I gave him the Ministry of Internal Affairs that had been taken back from Prince Ning and asked him to be the prince's minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, I didn't expect that something went wrong.

Even if Emperor Long'an favored him, he would never allow such a thing to happen.

Li Xuan, who was kneeling on the ground, frightened half to death when he heard this, and said with a face full of injustice: "Father, my son really wants to die unjustly. Even if I bump into a guest, I don't dare to take your money! This inner treasury

I don’t have much silver left, but after spending so much in the next year, how can I have the money to buy so many medicinal materials? There are still some good medicines in the medicine warehouse, but those medicines are all for the Supreme Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and my father.

The queen mother, the concubines in the palace, and the concubines have all left behind, so they can barely make do with it, and there is really not a single extra cent left!"

When Emperor Long'an heard this, his face looked a little ugly and he said, "Where is the silver that was sent to the treasury just a few years ago?"

Li Xuan stretched his hand to his waist and actually took out an abacus with gold-framed jade beads the size of a palm. He started dialing the numbers three times and five divided by two, and muttered: "Father, Yangzhou was deported to Beijing years ago.

Not counting the belongings, antiques, land deeds, door shops and other items that could not be converted into cash at the moment, just talking about silver, there were a total of 4.8 million taels. Due to the severe deficit of the household department, my father made a decree to transfer 280,000 taels.

One hundred thousand taels, there are still two million taels left. But last year, in order to relieve the victims of the severe drought in Shandong, the emperor emptied his inner treasury and borrowed it from the emperor's grandfather, the emperor's grandmother, the Yin family, and the Mei family.

1.2 million taels of silver. After my father got the new silver, he immediately paid back the money he owed. There were only 800,000 taels left. But after the new year, not only rewards will be given from everywhere in the palace, but also to the garrison.

The 12th Regiment Camp in Beijing also rewarded them with silver and winter clothes... after all, it was empty again!"

The Ministry of Internal Affairs actually has a lot of input. The Ministry of Accounts alone allocates more than 600,000 taels of silver each year.

The rest, such as Huangzhuang, Guanwai Gold Mine, Northeast Deer Antler and Ginseng, Jiangning Weaving, Jingdezhen Porcelain Organ Kiln and even Shanhaiguan, Guangzhou Customs, Jimo Customs and other customs money, are all put into the inner treasury.

But the Ministry of Internal Affairs has more places to spend money.

In such a huge imperial city, not to mention the members of the royal family, there are also concubines, maids, eunuchs, guards, etc. in the palace, totaling over ten thousand people.

These people's food, clothing, housing and transportation all depend on the expenses of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It would be naive to think that there are only people.

In addition to the more than 10,000 most exquisite people in the world, there are countless rare and exotic beasts in the Shangsi Courtyard, representing various kinds of destiny and auspicious beasts, which is another huge expense.

In addition, there are Guangchu Department, Duyu Department, Ceremony Department, Accounting Department, Construction Department, Qingfeng Department...

All together, there are "seven departments and three courtyards", all serving the palace, and every place is a bottomless pit that swallows gold without blinking an eye.

Those styles, those etiquette that show the wealth of the heavenly family, which one does not require a lot of money to create?

It is said that emperors are rich all over the world, but in all dynasties, there are only a handful of people who have truly lived a wealthy life.

When Emperor Long'an was suffering from a shortage of silver in his internal treasury, someone from Huangmen came to ask for help:

"Prince Zhongshun Li You and Jia Qiang came to see him."

Emperor Long'an raised his eyebrows when he heard this and said: "Xuan."

Then he asked Li Xuan to get up and stand aside.

Not long after, Prince Zhongshun Li You came in leading a handsome young man.

After the two of them bowed to each other, Emperor Long'an first called out King Zhongshun and asked, "How's the exam going?"

Li You took out the official document of the imperial examination, and Emperor Long'an motioned to the fifth emperor Li Xuan to take it and present it to him.

After Li Xuan took over, he subconsciously looked down and then burst out laughing.

However, under Emperor Long'an's dagger-like gaze, he quickly shut up and presented Jia Qiang's test results with a strange expression.

Emperor Long'an glanced at it after taking over, frowned and glared at Jia Qiang. In the document, Tibi changed the name of the cavalry shooting from 15 to 0 to 15 to 10, and the infantry shot from 15 to 10, changed it to 10. The passing line for 12 out of 5.

The rest of the exam scores for Art of War, Military Strategy, etc. were all changed from zero to pass for general...

Finally, he put down the ink pen and snorted coldly: "Since you have attacked the martial lord in the future, you should practice your ancestors' abilities more. I don't expect you to be able to honor your ancestors, and don't embarrass yourself and go too far!"

What else could Jia Qiang say, just follow the rules and follow the rules. Emperor Long'an said again: "Enfeature him as a powerful general of the third class, and grant him the title of Embroidered Clothes Guard Qianhu... Commander of the five-city army and horses in East City, please kneel down."

Jia Qiang: "..."
Chapter completed!