After I killed him for 9,000 years, he was reborn.

"Don't ask so many questions, little kid.

Dad has some important things to do and doesn't have time to accompany you, so it would be better for you to go and accompany your master early."

"Dad, next time you lie to me, can you look me in the eyes?"

Li Lianggong deliberately lowered his head and fiddled on the desk. Feeling somewhat guilty, he did not dare to look at his daughter Li Shiliu's eyes that seemed to see through everything.

“Is it because Lord Meng came to see you today?

Are things tough?

You want me to step aside for a while?"

Li Shiliu's sharp question made Li Lianggong sigh helplessly and put down the ink stick he was grinding.

"Dad is doing this for your own good.

This time is different from the past, Dad is really worried about your safety..."

"So you just want to send me away with a few words, let me play outside for a while, and come back after you finish the work at hand and the alarm is lifted, right?"

Li Shiliu Wuding's words actually made Li Lianggong, who had nowhere to hide, a little annoyed. His daughter was too smart and nothing could be hidden from him. What should he do?

"Dad is doing this for your own good. Since you have already guessed some of it, I don't need to hide it from you, so as to prevent you from having wild thoughts."

"Today, the old widower from the Dali Temple did come to see my father.

It was all about the case of the Minister of Works. The death of the Water Conservancy Supervisor of the Ministry of Works put an end to everything for him, but the mess left behind had to be cleaned up by everyone.

The emperor ordered that Shangshu Wang, who came from a centuries-old family, be sent to the Dali Temple. The old widower was very capable and Shangshu Wang confessed yesterday.

He revealed a lot of names, I can’t tell you the details, but they involved quite a few court ministers, royal relatives and princes.

The case involves too many people, and it is impossible for the emperor to arrest or kill all the people involved, but the lost silver must be recovered.

Although the old widower is capable, he is still inexperienced. He knows he can’t handle such a big pot, so he came to me this morning specifically for this matter.”

"Master Meng wants to drag my father down with him?"

"That's about it. I guess the emperor means the same thing. Otherwise, how could an old widower who has never dealt with me privately come to my house without even bringing a visiting card?

I was thinking that it must be no small matter for the Emperor to recover the losses caused by the Ministry of Works and the Water Conservancy Bureau, but the Emperor did not want to make it public and wanted us to do it quietly in private.

Instead of hiding the truth like this, it would be better to simply shift the target and make things bigger.

The old widower and I went to see the emperor..."

"Father is putting pressure on the emperor, hoping that he will agree to let you go to the ministers, meritorious nobles and royal relatives to ask for the money they owe to the national treasury?"

"..."

His daughter’s guess was so accurate that Li Lianggong was silent and didn’t know how to respond.

"The emperor agreed to your proposal and asked you and Meng Qisui to go to the ministers, meritorious nobles and royal relatives to ask for money, but he didn't plan to give you any manpower?"

"Yes, but the treasury is in arrears and we have to deal with it. Otherwise, the remaining silver in the treasury may not be enough to pay the officials in the court and the soldiers at the border.

Dad also knows that once this is done, I will offend a large number of people in the court. From now on, I can only be a loyal minister to the emperor, and I will no longer have any allies in the court."