After the Rebirth of the Red Chamber

After leaving Qianqing Palace, Bu Shangshu of Hubu complained: "The two princes are angry, why do you mix it up? This is good, Qi Ye is afraid that we are thinking about our Hubu, and there will be trouble in the future!"

The right servant belonged to the third prince, and if Shi Nai offended the seventh prince, he offended the third prince.He had always disliked Shi Nai, but now he was even more sarcastic: "Master Shi is so majestic that even the prince doesn't care about him."

Shi Nai ignored Zuo Shilang, and said to Bu Shangshu: "My lord, did you forget? Even if the seventh master wants to trouble the household department, it will be a matter of the future. However, the sixth master will go to the household department to handle errands this afternoon."

Bu Shangshu's eyelids twitched, and he kept silent, even the right servant swallowed back the sarcasm that was about to blurt out.

No matter whether they belong to the third prince or the ninth prince, they all work under the sixth prince.

The so-called "county officials are not as good as county officials" is the truth.

Shi Nai secretly sneered twice, then walked away.

——And regardless of whether the sixth prince will succeed to the throne in the future, as for the seventh prince who dares to insult his own brother, even if the sage suddenly loses his mind and really gives the throne to the third prince, he will be nothing good .

So, he is afraid of a hair wow!

After Shi Nai returned to the household department, he read the dossiers accumulated over the years as usual.Bu Shangshu and You Shilang almost came back with him, but they went back to their respective classrooms without saying hello to him.

Hu Zhan watched the two of them pass by Shi Nai's door, raised his eyebrows, and turned to ask Shi Nai, "Are you offending the two of them again?"

"What do you mean again?" Shi Nai felt wronged. "In the past, I was just impatient to make up the mud for the two of them. If this is called offending, then I can only blame them for being narrow-minded."

Hu Zhan chuckled: "So, did you really offend them this time? Come on, tell the subordinates, and the subordinates will also give you an idea." As he spoke, he winked at him.

A gentleman with a fluttering beard and a fairy air makes such a wretched movement, it is really eye-catching!

Shi Nai trembled all over, goosebumps had already dropped all over the floor.He pulled Hu Zhan's face away casually, and turned his head with a face that couldn't bear to look directly, "Go, go, go, go! I believe your evil, you are a gossip man!"

In the past, he also expected Hu Zhan's appearance, thinking that he was an arrogant gentleman like jade.

But the reality soon taught him: a person cannot be judged by his appearance, and the sea cannot be measured.

Shi Nai: I don’t trust faces anymore!

Hu Zhan didn't care either.He is very proud in front of those he is not familiar with and those who are not as good as him, but he is very casual in front of those who are capable and familiar.

"What's going on? This early in the morning, you offended both of you at once."

"What else could be going on?" Shi Nai laughed disdainfully, "Isn't it just that the two princes had a dispute, and the seventh prince spoke rudely, did I help the sixth prince speak out? They are afraid that the seventh prince will be implicated when he retaliates against me. If you see them, of course you have to hide.”

Hu Zhan couldn't help frowning: "My lord, it's not that the lower officials want to accuse you. You said you are fine, why do you want to have trouble with the seventh prince? He is the backbone of the Three Princes Party."

Shi Nai glanced at him meaningfully, then glanced at him again, until he couldn't hold back anymore, and then asked: "Do you think that the third prince has that great fortune?"

Hu Zhan showed a tacit smile, and said in a low voice: "It's good for us to understand this kind of thing. After all, the saint wants him to think that he has it, so he has it."

He looked around again to make sure that no one was passing the door at this moment, so he lowered his voice, "Besides, the current situation of the prince...huh?" He raised his eyebrows at Shi Nai, meaning : You know, right?

Shi Nai nodded, with a serious look on his face.

"That's why," Hu Zhan said, "Who wins the battle is still unknown. Look at the court, whoever is smarter is not hiding behind, wise and safe?"

"You're right." Shi Nai nodded, but his face couldn't help showing bitterness, "But, I'm different from you."

To be exact, it's their noble families, which are different from other prince-party members.

Speaking of this, Hu Zhan was also puzzled, "I don't know if I should ask a question or not."

Shi Nai glanced at him, and said directly for him: "You want to ask, why did our family vote for the prince so early?"

Hu Zhan smiled awkwardly, but nodded.It is indeed a bit presumptuous to ask about other people's private affairs.But he was really curious, the previous generation of patriarchs of these honorable families were not stupid, why did they vote for the prince who was still young at that time?

Shi Nai let out a long sigh, stretched out his hand and pointed upwards, "It's a fate!"

When he said this, Hu Zhan understood immediately.After understanding it, he couldn't help feeling that the saint was indeed a loving father to the prince, but he was too unkind to the historians, the Jia family and other dignitaries.

Now that the crown prince is seeing that he is going to die, there is still time for the others to withdraw. Shi Nai, Jia Jing and others, but the crown prince-party who is registered in the heart of the sage, is the kind that can't even run away.

"So Zhongqing, if you're fine, you'd better not post on my side."

Hu Zhan, courtesy name Zhongqing.

Hearing this, he was a little annoyed, "What do you mean, my lord? Is this the kind of person that the lower official is? Besides, the lower official has always been on good terms with the lord, so even if it's a severance of friendship now, someone who wants to bite me When the time comes, the mouth will never be soft."

This is true.After all, if you want to commit a crime, why not justify it?

Shi Nai was silent for a moment, then Hu suddenly said, "Forget it, let's not talk about it." He took out a file, "What do you think about the salt tax in the south of the Yangtze River? Why do I feel that these years are one year Less than a year?"

Not only is the money less and less every year, but every year the less money is very regular.Last year was [-]% less than the year before, and the year before last was [-]% less than the year before last.And so on, until five years ago.

In the previous years, the tax revenue was relatively stable. Sometimes it was hundreds of thousands more, and sometimes it was hundreds of thousands less, which was normal.

Hu Zhan didn't look at the file at all, but twirled his beard and smiled, and said: "Jiangnan is the headquarters of the Zhen family."

Shi Nai understood in seconds.

The old lady of the Zhen family is the nanny of the saint, and the Zhen family is the natal family of the Ninth Prince and the natal family of Concubine Zhen.

However, the annual salt tax is at least tens of millions of taels, and the Zhen family takes half of it, which is nearly 200 million taels.With such money, neither Concubine Zhen nor the Ninth Prince obviously couldn't afford it, nor dared to ask for so much.

Then, apart from using the money that the Zhen family has stolen, it can only be given to the saints.

But the entire treasury belongs to the saint. Why on earth did the saint have to ask the Zhen family to help him take it out first?

Doesn't this encourage the unhealthy tendencies of corruption in the DPRK and China?

Suddenly, Shi Nai's heart skipped a beat, and he raised his eyes to stare at Hu Zhan: "Zhongqing, what do you think is the most money-consuming thing in the court?"

"What else can there be?" Hu Zhan counted with his fingers, "Disaster relief and military equipment are the two things that consume the most money. The second is the large-scale construction, such as building palaces and mausoleums."

There was only one thought left in Shi Nai's mind:

——The prince is finished.

It should be said that the saint is worthy of being a saint, and he really planned for a rainy day. From such an early age, he has been guarding against such a day.

What is the use of the sage secretly saving so much money?

There is a national treasury for disaster relief, and the construction of mausoleums is also a state affair, and the treasury pays money.As for large-scale construction projects, the last time the sage was thinking about taking money from the national treasury, he obviously didn't plan to use that money.

That leaves only one possibility.

--arms.

If it is the military salary that is required on the surface, whether it is the frontier army or the forbidden army, the Ministry of Households has never been in arrears for one or two in a year.

Of course, after the money is taken out of the household department and then sent to the army, there is still a few percent left, and the officials of their household department can't control it.

But in any case, it is certain that there is no need for saints to subsidize in private.

That being the case, the sage must have secretly dispatched troops.

There are not many situations that require the emperor to secretly dispatch troops, and the most likely one is to counter the rebellion.

Now there are no powerful officials in the court, and there is no vassal king in the Great Xia, who can be defeated?

The more Shi Nai thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he suddenly jumped up: "No, I have to go see Liu Ye."

Hu Zhan was stunned: "What did you see Liu Ye doing? Liu Ye is still in Qing Palace right now."

Fortunately, Shi Nai's impulse was just a moment.Being interrupted by Hu Zhan, his feverish mind quickly cooled down.

This matter cannot pass the sixth master.

Sixth Lord has been in charge of the household department for three years, and Shi Nai is not sure whether he knows about the salt tax in the south of the Yangtze River.

It's fine if he doesn't know.If he knew, did he suspect the tricks in it?Did you tell the prince again?

It's not that Shi Nai is careless, it's just that before he ascended the throne, this master knew how to protect his life wisely.Moreover, the ending of the prince in the previous life was too tragic, it was hard not to let Shi Nai think too much.

"Zhongqing, you go back first, I have to think about it...Think about it..."

Hu Zhan looked at him worriedly, and reminded: "My lord, you must not be impulsive. You must know that things will be smooth when things are slow."

Shi Nai forced himself to show a calm smile: "I know, Zhongqing doesn't need to worry."

Hu Zhan was still worried, but seeing him like this, he had no choice but to go back to his classroom first.

As soon as he left, Shi Nai's expression collapsed.

——Of course he understands the truth that things go smoothly when things go slowly.

But the problem is, he can't delay this matter!

He unconsciously scratched the file, thinking about it for a long time, and felt that he still had to go to Jia Jing to discuss this matter.

Xianning Guogong Daihua once served as the admiral of the Nine Schools, and there are many old troops in the Forbidden Army.Now although Jia Jing has abandoned martial arts and pursued literature, but the soldiers in the army are concerned about the past, so it is not difficult to find someone to help bring a letter to the crown prince.

And he knew that Jia Jing would definitely help with this favor.