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Chapter 647 Lou Shide Knows Gratitude

Man is a very strange creature.

His external performance is largely brought to him by his position. As long as he is given a position, he will match his behavior with his position in a very short time.

When a person is a small person, he may be submissive. Once he becomes a county magistrate the next day, believe me, within ten days, he will be able to control the county magistrate very well, regardless of whether he is a qualified county magistrate or not. Ling, at least, his behavior looks like a county magistrate.

This kind of simple identity change is a piece of cake for people like Lou Shide.

In addition to Zhan Shifu, Li Hong's East Palace also has Menxiafang, Rate Gengling, Servants, Left and Right Guards, Prince's Guests, and a library. transaction processing.

In addition to the departments and officials equipped by the imperial court, there were also the prince's doctor, Shuzi, Xianma, Sheren, Zhanshi, and Jialingcheng.

Once the prince is married, the imperial court must also provide the prince with six officials, eunuchs, maids, and arrange the inner court. In this way, the prince's east palace will become a small imperial court.

Li Hong placed a heavy bet on Lou Shide, and directly gave the position of Jia Lingcheng to Lou Shide, so that this official from the eighth rank became an official from the sixth rank in the Tang Dynasty.

Lou Shide with a round belly walked into the East Palace with leisurely steps, and after spending half a day in it, he wanted to flee in panic...

He had never heard of or seen such a poor prince.

In the huge East Palace, the money bank was empty, and the only things that could fill the warehouse were peppers, onions, beets, cabbage and a small amount of grain.

When Lou Shide was thinking about how to leave the East Palace and find his own way out, he met Prince Li Hong.

When seeing the prince, the prince was eating, when Lou Shide came in, the prince stopped eating immediately, and warmly invited him to eat together.

Such behavior should have been very rude, but when Lou Shide saw the prince's upright eyes and the enthusiasm from the heart, Lou Shide was invited to sit down.

The prince's lunch is very simple, a piece of mutton stewed with onions, a piece of fried tofu, a piece of cabbage fried with chili, and a piece of cabbage soup.

The food I eat is double rice steamed from white rice mixed with millet.

The prince enthusiastically pushed the only dish of stewed mutton with onion on the table in front of Lou Shide, and poured cabbage soup on the double rice by himself, which was very sweet.

These things cannot be faked.The sweet appearance of the prince's food cannot be faked.

Lou Shide watched the prince finish eating several dishes, and finally poured the cabbage soup into the rice bowl, soaked a little rice in the cabbage soup and ate clean.

After the prince finished his meal, of course Lou Shide also finished his meal. He learned from the prince and ate all the meat and vegetables.

Tang people don't talk when eating together, of course, this is not the case when eating in Yun's, because Li Hong talks the most nonsense when eating in Yun's.

Lou Shide looked around, looked at the dilapidated appearance of the East Palace and sighed: "The expenses of His Royal Highness are too simple."

Li Hong said with a smile: "What Lou Lingcheng said is very true. The Gu Wang is not a person who advocates simplicity. However, the East Palace is like this now, and the Gu Wang has no choice but to gain a good reputation for simplicity."

Lou Shide turned slightly towards Li Hong and said, "I heard that the crown prince had a fief when he was four years old. The legend doesn't match."

Li Hong said with a smile: "The land of the lonely king is rich and rich, and it produces a lot every year. It's a pity that our Tang Dynasty has a huge land, and there are always people in places who are in trouble. Therefore, when Hebei was hit by a disaster, the output of the land of the lonely king was taken away. We went to rescue the victims, there was a drought in Longyou, and the output from the Guwang’s fief was gone... In short, as long as there is still land in the world that needs relief, the output from the Guwang’s fief will be used to support it.”

Lou Shide frowned and said, "How can this be?"

Li Hong waved his hand heroically and said: "There is only one person in the East Palace now. As long as he has money and food to pay the salaries of his subordinates, the lonely king will be satisfied."

Lou Shide was a little moved by Li Hong's words, and couldn't help admonishing him: "Your Highness is the prince of the Tang Dynasty. If your majesty is not enough, you will not be able to make your subjects obey. You should act with restraint, and you must not damage the prestige of His Royal Highness to help the victims.

After a long time, those who took away His Highness's fief to collect interest will make more progress. Whenever there is a disaster, they will attack His Highness immediately.

In this way, in their eyes, His Highness is no longer my high-ranking Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, and they will only think that His Highness is weak and deceitful. "

Li Hong said with a smile: "It's nothing, as long as the money and food can be used on the people, the lonely king has no complaints.

Just like the two years of fief income was used by the queen mother to set up a maternity and infant hall, this is truly good governance. As long as this matter is handled well, my Tang Dynasty will live more mothers and babies.

King Gu thought that this matter could not be postponed. As for the cost of the East Palace, Lou Lingcheng didn’t need to worry too much. King King planted a lot of new crops in the East Palace, plus the lotus roots in Qujiang Pond, and after a year, he won a lot of money... "

Li Hong was able to answer every question, and he spoke endlessly, without concealment, without excuse, and without resentment, his eyes were full of the Tang court and the people of the Tang Dynasty, except himself.

At the time when the crown prince was right, Lou Shide already had a preliminary idea of ​​the young man in front of him who was knowledgeable, knowledgeable, and broad-minded. Ten years of good life.

When leaving the East Palace, the weeds on the wall that were originally an eyesore, now under the blowing of the north wind, also inexplicably produced a bit of heroism that would rather be bent than bent.

The first meeting with Li Hong made Lou Shide no longer resist the fact that he was forced to come to the East Palace as an official.

To be an official for the prince, the most terrifying thing is to meet a bastard prince. When you meet such a prince, you not only have to go against your will, but you also have to bear the consequences of the things you do indiscriminately under the command of the prince.

Now, at least half of the barriers in Lou Shide's heart have been put down. The prince is a very good boy. Although he is somewhat immature and aggressive when doing things, it is nothing. After everything has been done properly, what use are these subordinate officials for?
The most important point is that this prince is very good at listening to the advice of his subordinates, and he is not the kind of person who is stubborn and refuses to listen to any good words like swallowing an iron rod.

As for the prince's poverty, Lou Shide thought it was a big joke. As long as the prince was willing to say that he was short of money, within half a day, the East Palace treasury would be full of money.

And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is indeed poor. In the huge East Palace, except for some splendor that can be seen in the Crown Prince's bedroom, the rest of the place is dilapidated.

Of course, the crown prince also has a priceless martial arts arena. The value here refers to the various weapons in the martial arts arena, as well as the seven or eight priceless BMWs in the stables.

For this point, Lou Shide felt nothing. At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the emperors were all emperors on horseback. If the prince of the empire didn't know anything about Wu Xun, Lou Shide would look down on him.

After watching the prince performing martial arts, Lou Shide felt that the prince had really worked hard in martial arts.

As long as the crown prince can maintain his current state of mind, this Tang Dynasty will have at least a hundred years of prosperity to say, say.

Back in the mansion, his wife, You Shi, greeted him and asked, "Is your husband's first day of work going well?"

Lou Shide put his hands on the jade belt around his waist and said: "It looks good now, and the prince can be regarded as a benevolent king."

You Shi smiled all over his face: "That's good, that's good, I'm afraid that I will be confused and make my husband unhappy."

Lou Shide looked at Fa's wife and said sternly: "It's just this one time, if you dare to promise something I don't know about in the future, I will definitely not forgive you."

Youshi said embarrassingly: "I was also confused for a while, and I will definitely not do it in the future. Even if someone brings a basket of copper coins, I will not agree."

Lou Shide sighed, his wife is good everywhere, but she comes from a family of merchants and doesn't have much long-term insight.

It was agreed that he would not be bought by a basket of copper coins, but what if it was a basket of brocade, a basket of gold, a basket of pearls, and gems?

At that time, I have to be confused again.

Lou Shide originally wanted to be stricter. He recalled that since his wife married at the age of 14, she served her parents-in-law, helped her younger brother, and took care of the housework until she sent her parents-in-law away and the younger brother grew up. Although life was hard, But never complained.

This made Lou Shide feel that he owed his wife a lot.

How many words came to his lips and turned into a long sigh... This is his fate, it is his fate, Lou Shide's.

The crown prince gave himself a high enough official position and enough courtesy. Lou Shide even firmly believed that the crown prince could undress and feed his subordinates... In this case, he had to show that he was worthy of the crown prince. The talent of this kind of courtesy, otherwise, he would not be a qualified courtier.

At present, the first thing His Royal Highness needs to solve is the poverty of the East Palace.

Wanting to solve the prince's poverty problem is definitely not simply earning money. It is estimated that the prince has little interest in money.

For a place like the East Palace, supplies come first.

In the dead of night, his wife, children, and children were already asleep, but Lou Shide seemed to have a piece of fire stuck in his chest, which made him unable to fall asleep for a long time with his heart surging.

So, he got up in his clothes, came to the study, lit up the wick, sat at the desk and thought for a long time, then picked up a pen and wrote down the first memorial in his life on the paper-"The Minister Asks Longyou to Tuntian" sparse".

　see you tomorrow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)