Datang Happy Landlord

Chapter 946;

Chapter 890; let him torment
"Is it so much a loss? It's too much."

Du Ru shook his head with a dark smile, and Fang Xuanling continued;
"It's not easy Your Majesty, Duke Li has only been to Lingnan for a few years? It's really good to be able to make these noises. I dare to say a word. In this world, there is no second person who can be like this. It's hard to do that."

"That's right, I don't want to, by the way, where is the road construction going?"

"Your Majesty, rest assured, starting from Chang'an, one-third of the official roads leading to all directions have been completed. Li's second house has contracted half of these official roads, and the remaining half is done by the Ministry of Industry of the court."

"half?"

Li Shimin was very dissatisfied with this data;
"Why is there only half of it? How did Li's second wife get so many craftsmen?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the road construction by the imperial court needs to be reviewed and approved by the three provinces and six ministries before it can be accepted by the Ministry of Industry. After that, it must be divided up so that each department can be responsible for it."

Li Shimin kept walking with his hands behind his back;

"It's really red tape that hurts people, but let those departments keep things simple."

Du Ruhui sighed helplessly;

"Your Majesty, it's not that you don't know that our faction is not the only one in the court, the others..."

"In addition, the silver money is always not keeping up with the use, and it stops and stops, which is not as good as Li's second wife."

"They have to spend money on Li's second wife, right? It's impossible to tell the craftsmen to work for nothing."

"Your Majesty, the word-of-mouth of Li's second wife is obvious to all in the world. The reputation is good, and no public money is owed. The craftsmen in the world work hard."

Li Shimin, who was walking back and forth, suddenly stopped;
"What's this called? The court won't renege on its debts, so why can't it be steadfast?"

Fang Xuanling stood aside and smiled wryly;
"Your Majesty, when we were fighting on the prairie, we owed the common people the fodder money and the common people's wages for transporting grain with animals, and we haven't settled yet."

"What's going on? After Li Yu's greenhouse planted high-yield and cultivated grain seeds, now all the people in the world are harvesting, and the court is not short of food and money. How come it has been a few years, and it still hasn't been honored?"

Li Shimin felt that his face was hot. He was an emperor, but his reputation among the people was not as good as that of a family, which made him unbearable.

So after Li Shimin complained, he immediately turned to Changsun Wuji;

"How did you, the Minister of the Ministry of Households, do it? How can you default on the hard-earned money of the people? The people risked their lives to deliver things to the grasslands. Why didn't you cash them in money?"

Changsun Wuji was also full of bitterness, so he could only explain patiently;

"Your Majesty, please listen to your minister."

"Say, I'm not going anywhere today, just listen to you explain the money owed to the people."

"Your Majesty, I don't want to default on the arrears, but my household department is a place where people can eat water. The money that comes and goes will not stay for long, and it will be scattered all over the world. The minister is also suffering."

"There was little income in the past? We have worked so hard to get the best of both worlds, and we can persevere through it."

"What about now? How much more income do you have now?"

"Now that there are more taxes from shopping malls, more liquor buyers, and more income from the Silk Road, you still want to tell me that you are short of money?"

Li Shimin's voice was a little louder, if he didn't know that Changsun Wuji was a man and would not embezzle the court's money, he would have lost his temper.

"Your Majesty, in the past few years, we have indeed made a lot of income, but our expenses are really scary. Your Majesty, you also know that before, we have been tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, just like to suppress the poisonous pressure, but did not dissipate.

In the past few years, we have been more relaxed, so we have to quickly deal with those that have not been resolved before, so it costs money like water. "

Li Shimin let out a long sigh, and he also knew that this was the truth, those who were squeezed before... really need to be resolved!

"Ugh!"

Du Ruhui didn't want to talk, because of his requests and propositions, the imperial court didn't dare to count the money spent on the army in the past few years, it was simply a huge amount, so Du Ruhui didn't want to talk.

But he couldn't refuse Changsun Wuji's request, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet.

"Your Majesty, there is a reason why the money from the household department is going fast. For example, the expenses of my military department are not a small amount. It took more than two years to replace the weapons and armor of the sixteen guards. Throw it in The money is worth the tax revenue of the past few decades."

"Not to mention that the current annual expenditure is not a small number. People eat horse chews, so the expenditure of the Ministry of Households is not without reason. Please check it out clearly."

Du Ruhui sympathized, and Fang Xuanling was too embarrassed to just stand and watch the joke!
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the three provinces, the six ministries, and the divisions are now completely renewed. Among other things, the official uniforms of the officials are neat and tidy, and all the yamen are full of the style of the state. All these things also need A lot of money was added to it.”

"What's more, since last year, we have to rebuild the world's official roads. The imperial court spent millions of dollars to start. Naturally, we can't make ends meet!"

"Ugh!"

"Wuji, I also know that it is not easy for you to be in charge of the world's money and food, and you have been wronged."

"The reward of eating the emperor and the matter of being loyal to the emperor are all things that the ministers dare not complain about, let alone injustice. It is very fortunate for the ministers to be able to honor their ancestors with the same emperor through the ages."

"Let's go, leave the matter of storage to the subordinates. Let's sit in the study."

"According to the order."

A few people followed the emperor all the way to the study, Li Shimin who had just sat down let out a sigh;
"Huh? Sending so many memorials again? It's not easy to be an emperor."

Li Shimin sighed and opened the top one. After reading for a while, he frowned!

"Look at it, too. I have come up with a new trick. I used the nine big ships to earn money and silk from the court, but it turned out that I sailed out to sea to seek the magic of immortality. It is ridiculous. Life Since ancient times, life, old age, sickness and death, how can there be any magic technique of immortality?"

Li Shimin curled his lips in disdain, and handed over the playbook of Minzhou City.

Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, and Changsun Wuji, the three important officials took turns to check.

Changsun Wuji finished it first;
"Your Majesty, please be at ease. Yu'er is a young man after all, so it's understandable that he has a lot of fun. Anyway, it's just spending some money to ask the subordinates to join in the fun. It's not a big deal. As long as Minzhou County is getting better and better, His Majesty will let it go." Let him play and play."

"Young? Wuji, don't think of him as a child anymore. He won the crown the year before last. He is an adult now, and he still messes around all day long. How can he be decent?"

Changsun Wuji is very close to Li Yu. It can be said that two-thirds of the business of the Changsun clan depends on Li Yu's miraculous operation. Leaning on Li Yu's body.

Although it's hard to say it clearly, Changsun Wuji's heart is very disapproving;
"You don't like him all day long, what's uncomfortable, what do you want? Is this to train him to be a saint? Or to train him as a successor?"

"Isn't it unreasonable! I gave you a huge amount of money to stabilize the precarious country, but you are still dissatisfied everywhere. What exactly do you want?"

Li Shimin disapproved of Li Yu's matter, but his own heart was turbulently seduced, and the words "immortality" kept playing in his mind in a loop.

Sun Simiao did not teach him the knowledge of Taoism, and the mysterious boss in his nine rooms, although he did not have the magic of longevity, he also found a strange way to live to such a great age, all of this was in Li Shimin's heart, and it was the other way around. compared to.

"No, I have to find some Taoist priests, such a great country, not to mention too much, it would be great to live a hundred years longer, isn't it just practicing alchemy, what a big deal? I offer a high price, what do you want? What, titles, money, power, women, I can satisfy those Taoist priests, I don't believe it, and I can't invite a Taoist with real ability to use for me?"

Li Yu could never have imagined that a report letter would lead to Li Shimin's journey to immortality. In history, Li Shimin suffered from erysipelas and lost his life. pregnancy……

"His Majesty?"

"Huh? Oh, Du Pushe, please tell me."

"What I just said is that the Duke of County Li sent people to sea, I'm afraid it's definitely not purely because of a whim, there must be something else hidden."

Fang Xuanling also nodded, and Li Shimin looked at his eldest grandson Wuji who lowered his head and did not want to speak.

"Wuji, what do you think?"

"Oh, back to your Majesty, I just feel that Yu'er is nothing more than a rare thing about overseas affairs, so I sent people there. At most, I just exchanged some business in other countries."

Li Shimin curled his lips and leaned back in the teacher's chair;

"Well, that should be the case. His heart is all about making money. Who in the world doesn't know? Is he a god of wealth? Of course he can make money by moving his butt."

"Du Pushe, I remember that his status and official position in your military department has not been taken away yet?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, when he was driven to Lingnan, the imperial court promoted him. Now he is a captain of the fifth rank, and he is also in charge of the barracks in Minzhou County, with a total of [-] troops."

"Well, his soldiers? Does your military department know something about their comings and goings? In the boat going out to sea..."

"Your Majesty, on the nine ships that went to sea, none of the imperial court soldiers were used, and all the clansmen from the upper third house of the Li family in Longxi went there."

"Oh, that's fine, let him make troubles, I don't bother to care about him, but the court's laws can't be broken a little bit, lest those who are staring at him come to me and talk long-windedly.

Speaking of major issues, Aiqing is the chief officer of the Ministry of War, and also holds the position of prime minister. In private, he is still his elder uncle, but he should be reminded that military affairs are the foundation of the country. Military training is a major event. "

"Abiding by the order! Don't worry, Your Majesty, there are many mentions in the letters of the ministers, reminding Li Da not to waste military affairs because of political affairs."

"So good."

"By the way, these days, why don't you see Shubao going to court?"

Du Ruhui was silent for a moment before reporting in a sad voice;
"Reporting to Your Majesty, General Qin's old injury has recurred, and he is in poor health. He told our Ministry of War for a long vacation, and he is recuperating and adjusting in the mansion."

Li Shimin's complexion changed, he had to be cautious, and he had to pay attention to this issue.

The Xuanjia army has always been controlled by members of the Jiufang clan, and those clan members are all Li Shimin does not want to be called to the light.

So besides the Xuanjia Forbidden Army, Li Shimin's second reliance is the Nanbeiya Forbidden Army and Qin Qiong's guard.

The military power of the three guards is all placed in Qin Qiong's hands. Qin Qiong is seriously ill, which means that the three guards are leaderless, not to mention that after a long period of vacancy, the forces of any faction will come to fight frantically.

Not to mention other factions, the former ministers of Prince Qin's Mansion have already begun to show some signs, and they are obviously also splitting up in secret, so Qin Qiong can't have an accident at this time.

Li Shimin has been suppressing Qin Qiong's official position and not promoting his title, the purpose is to keep Qin Qiong from being public and not arousing the grudges of faction forces!
This is one of the trump cards in Li Shimin's hands, fighting for half his life, as long as someone dares to show off in front of Li Shimin, he will send out the trump card general Qin Qiong to wipe out the opponent.

So Li Shimin stared at Qin Qiong's body and everything all the time.

"Have you invited a doctor to check?"

"I don't know the details and don't dare to talk nonsense, but I heard that I invited Master Sun, but it's a pity that Master Sun has gone out to travel around the world again."

"Where's Li Dalang? He has a lot of famous doctors in his hands, why don't you arrange it?"

Fang Xuanling hurried out to respond;
"Your Majesty, when Li Dalang traveled to Lingnan, he brought all the talented people under his Taoist sect. The masters of the four sects either traveled all over the world, or the distance was too far, so it was inconvenient to command and dispatch."

"That's his uncle, if he doesn't care, he will be notorious forever..."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I have already sent a letter to Li Dalang. I believe it will not be long before he will arrange for a medical expert to come back to Chang'an."

"It's almost there."

"Okay, okay, let's go here first, I'm a little tired."

"I'm waiting to retire."

"My loves, go slowly and don't see me off."

Li Shimin didn't rest, he was thinking about the physical condition of the number one assassin, and sent his subordinates away. He hurried out of the palace and came to Qin Qiong's mansion in person.

"Congratulations, His Majesty the Emperor."

"Exemption."

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor."

"Where's Shubao? Take me to see him."

"Wei. I would like to report to His Majesty the Emperor that my general is adopting him in a side courtyard. Please, Your Majesty."

"Lead the way."

"only."

Passing through the gate of the middle courtyard, Li Shimin smelled a strong smell of bitter medicine from a long distance. It is obvious that medicine is being boiled here every day, otherwise the smell of medicine would not be so strong.

Qin Qiong on the bed was meditating, and turned her head casually when she heard the movement;
"Your Majesty? I respectfully welcome Your Majesty..."

Seeing Qin Qiong struggling to sit up, Li Shimin sighed in his heart. It seems that his condition is really serious. The majestic killer who used to be a majestic general is now lying on the couch as skinny and weak...

Li Shimin quickly went up and held down the love general;
"You and my ministers still use these vain rituals?"

(End of this chapter)