Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2001 Inside and Outside the Palace ([-]) "Deal!"

"Since it is Rusheng Pill, I wonder if Yuma can make the emperor's son take it?"

As soon as Xu Lingjiu said this, Li Wenjin's expression changed drastically.His hand holding Rusheng Pill trembled and almost dropped the pill.

Then he collected himself, held the pill and showed it to Xu Lingjiu, and said in his mouth: "You want our family to feed this medicine to the emperor's son? Okay, but... you can eat it first and let us eat it." Let's take a look, how about it?" Then he handed the pill in his hand to Xu Lingjiu.

"Hahahaha." Xu Lingjiu laughed, and then took the pill under Li Wenjin's stern eyes, and threw it into his mouth, his throat rolled, and it seemed that he had really swallowed it.

But Li Wenjin obviously didn't believe it. He was also someone who had seen the world, so he deliberately asked, "How does Mr. Xu's medicine taste?"

Xu Lingjiu smiled, and said, "The medicine is the medicine, so naturally it tastes like the Holy Pill."

Li Wenjin snorted softly, and said: "If this pill is like that pill, the imperial concubine would have to take it for several days, and it's okay for the imperial hospital. Why is Mr. Xu so eager?"

At this moment, Li Wenjin could tell from Xu Lingjiu's words just now that he had indeed swallowed the "Rusheng Pill" alive, which shows that the medicine should be non-toxic.However, from the point of view of the purpose, there must be something wrong with this medicine, otherwise why would you, Xu, change the medicine?

"Ming people don't talk dark words, Mr. Xu, since you and the masters behind the scenes want to cooperate with our family, they naturally know that our family will almost never refuse money, but our family must have something to say first... Whether it is What kind of transaction, our family must know the details, and we must not be sold and count the money." Li Wenjin stared at Xu Lingjiu, still coldly said.

Xu Lingjiu still looked harmless to humans and animals, raised the porcelain bottle in his hand, and said, "Yu Ma should have noticed that this medicine is exactly the same as Rusheng Pill, regardless of shape, color, smell, and taste. No difference, and no toxicity.

Of course, Yu Maxin has doubts, and I can understand it. Today, I might as well explain it more clearly: even if this medicine is handed over to the imperial hospital for inspection, or let any ordinary person try the medicine, it will never make people feel uncomfortable, let alone Said to be poisoned. "

Li Wenjin's thoughts turned, and at the same time, he subconsciously stretched out his hand to ask for the porcelain bottle again, and poured out the Rusheng Pill in his hand to observe carefully.

He looked and smelled it, not only squeezed it, but even cut one of them in half with his nails and looked closely at the cut surface, but he still didn't see anything wrong.

Then he thought about it again, and finally realized that what Xu Lingjiu said just now was very suspicious-"or let any ordinary person try the medicine".

Why did Xu Lingjiu insist on specifying "ordinary people"?Is it non-toxic for ordinary people to take it, but children with jaundice should not take it?
If this is the case, then there must be other medicinal ingredients added to this medicine. Otherwise, how could it change the properties of the medicine and turn the Rusheng Pill, which was originally used to treat jaundice, into a medicine that cannot be taken when jaundice occurs?However, it is obvious that the added ingredients do not require a large dose, and they are likely to be colorless and odorless, so that the fake ones can be confused with the real ones.

Li Wenjin suddenly felt that the power behind this incident was too great, so big that he, who often boasted of being bold, felt a little chills down his spine.The probability of jaundice in newborns is indeed very high, but it would be too deliberate to think in advance of preparing a seemingly common but different drug for a newborn to harm him.

It can only be said that the person who promoted this conspiracy must have been preparing for this matter for a long, long time. Not only is his plan intertwined, but it is also difficult to distinguish the true from the false.

They used themselves to obtain the defense map and time rotation table of Kunning Palace, which is to pull themselves into the thief ship.After they were already trapped in it and it was impossible to separate the relationship, they threw out another "cooperation" and gave this special "Rushen Pill" to the emperor's son to take to achieve their goal.

Because this bottle of "Rusheng Pill" is of great importance, they also know that they must have concerns, so they have already planned to make this pill enough to make it look like the real one, even if it is too hospital, it is afraid that there is no problem, so everyone's All suspicions were dismissed.

Under such circumstances, even if the Dong Chuang incident happens in the future, since no reason can be found in the end, even if the emperor's son dies young, it may only be regarded as an accident. It is God's will, and no one needs to be responsible for it.

The only problem is...

"Mr. Xu, our family doesn't care about this bottle of medicine for the time being, but we must remind you: You must know that the emperor's son will call our family uncle and grandpa no matter what."

"20 taels." Xu Lingjiu didn't hesitate at all, and actually offered an offer directly.

Li Wenjin's heart skipped a beat, but he snorted, turned his head away, and said indifferently: "As far as our family knows, the palace has already made preparations for the crown prince canonization ceremony."

"25 taels." Xu Lingjiu said.

"Our family also heard that the emperor was very satisfied after asking Gao Rixin to help repair the three halls, and now he plans to ask Gao Rixin to help rebuild the Zhongcui Palace so that the crown prince can have a separate life in a few years. You don’t have to stay in Kunning Palace all the time.”

"30 taels." Xu Lingjiu said again.

Li Wenjin smiled, and took the time to say: "Our family remembered that the imperial concubine was in bed yesterday..."

"35 million taels."

"By the way, Mr. Xu, do you know that the Empress Dowager Rensheng's phoenix body has been discordant recently? Although she hasn't improved in the past few days, she goes to Kunning Palace every day to see the emperor's son. It would be great..."

Xu Lingjiu didn't blink, and said, "40 taels."

Li Wenjin's breathing was obviously a lot heavier, and he thought about it again and again, and finally said: "Our family remembered something..."

"Li Yuma." Xu Lingjiu shook his head, waved his hand to stop him and said, "How about this, the price is 50 taels, how about not talking more?"

"Deal!" Li Wenjin slapped his thigh: "Our family will settle this matter—are you sure the medicine can't be found out?"

Xu Lingjiu showed a confident smile: "If you can find out, Li Yuma, you are in a bad situation, but don't you and the princes behind you are doomed?"

"Well, that's the truth." Li Wenjin nodded, agreeing with this statement.

He really thought so, because the medicine was so similar to the Rusheng Pill, even if the truth came out, he could pretend that he was indeed taking the Rusheng Pill for the emperor's son.With his special status, it might be possible to get rid of the suspicion by saying so, and in the end it would be "although the capital crime is spared, the living crime cannot escape".

For Li Wenjin, as long as the death penalty can be avoided, the "living crime" is not a problem at all, but if the elder sister Li Empress Dowager Li is still in the Palace of Compassion, this living crime can at best have a symbolic meaning, and it will not make him suffer at all. how bitter.

50 taels!What is this concept?A cow in the capital is only eight taels of silver, and the monthly salary of a first-rank official in the dignified court is only more than sixty taels after conversion. [Note: But more officials get more. Taking Gao Yushi as an example, he can get a salary for each of the Taifu, Wenhuadian University Bachelor, and Household Secretary.Of course, the bachelors among them are only the fifth rank, and although their status is high, their salary is very low. ]
If this kind of "small money" comparison is boring, then it may be more obvious to look at the warships of the Jinghua Liangyang Fleet: the cost of a single armed transport ship is 5.5 taels, the cost of a single second-level cruiser is 12 taels, and the cost of a single first-class cruiser is 16. Ten thousand taels, the cost of a single third-tier battleship is 24 taels... Even Jinghua's current most expensive battleship, the single cost of a second-tier battleship is only 35 taels.

With 50 taels, nine armed transport ships can already be built, and they can directly form a maritime trade formation. The firepower is even so strong that no escort is needed in 99% of the East and South China Seas—unless the two ocean fleets want to beat it.

If the previous 20 taels are added, almost thirteen armed transport ships can be built.How to say this scale... If you drive to Japan now, the Japanese naval forces that were beaten and disabled in North Korea probably wouldn't dare to fight.

In order to buy Li Wenjin, the Jiangnan chaebols actually spent 70 taels, which shows how much they invested this time.Such a huge investment also shows that they really will not give up if they fail to achieve their goals this time.

At this time, Gao Yushi didn't know that the emperor's son was in danger, and he had a lot of things to do now.Leaving aside the public, private and private interests of the three strategic directions, the household department will have to settle accounts as the year approaches, and prepare next year's financial budget. Both income and expenditure must be done, and the workload is enormous.

Although clearing accounts and making budgets do not need to be highly pragmatic, but in terms of income, he always has to explain a lot of possible changes in the next year, which needs to be calculated with the officials below.As for the expenditure budget, it is even more troublesome, and you have to argue with the yamen of various ministries one by one.

Any yamen hopes that their budget will be more or more, while the Ministry of Household Affairs is the other way around. It is a little less to give a little, so that the income will not be as high as the expenditure, and a deficit will arise.

Although the financial system of the Ming Dynasty has undergone several rounds of highly pragmatic reforms, it is obviously far from reaching the level of later generations. In essence, it is still based on the principle of "living within one's means". Therefore, for things like deficits, it is the same as Seeing the God of Plague is almost the same, as far as you can avoid it.

Being highly pragmatic in managing finances also has something in common with wars. He likes to keep enough "reserves", that is, try to try to leave enough flexible funds for emergencies.This makes the household department always have to fight with other ministries at the end of each year. Many officials of the household department are now making rapid progress in the skill of eloquence. Let's go" vibe.

That day, he had just led some staff members to argue with the Ministry of Industry for two hours. It was already lunch time, and he was about to temporarily "truce" to fill his stomach, when he suddenly received a secret report from his servant.

After opening it, Gao Yushi couldn't help frowning.

I saw a line of words written on the secret report: Yuma came to Guangjinfang again this morning.
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PS: This chapter is a bit difficult to write. At the beginning, I checked the prescription for a long time... Later, I thought that if I made a mistake, I might as well not write it, so I scrapped the 1K+ manuscript, and finally thought about it.

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