Happy Little Scholar

Chapter 618: A charlatan

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"Your Majesty, this is not for you."

Li Yi stood under the pavilion and explained.

"Even this world belongs to me, what else is not mine?" The old emperor waved his hand and said, "Don't wait around like a woman, get it quickly."

Just bring it up. This thing is a birthday gift for Her Royal Highness the Princess. If the old emperor has the nerve to shame even this, he has nothing to say.

Li Yi took the brocade box from the guard's hand, walked up to the pavilion, and placed it on the table in the middle.

Emperor Jing had a look of curiosity on his face and said, "Open it and let me take a look."

"Your Majesty, let's forget it." Li Yi looked at the bow tied with a colorful ribbon on the top and hesitated, "This is a gift for the eldest princess. It took a lot of effort for me to wrap it up like this."

Emperor Jing picked up the tea cup and waved his hand impatiently: "Open it if you want, and wrap it up later."

Li Yi had no choice but to take off the ribbon, put it aside, and said, "I opened it. Your Majesty, you must be mentally prepared."

"Why are you talking so much nonsense today..." Emperor Jing took a sip of tea and glanced at him.

Li Yi moved the box a little further, opened the lid, and when Emperor Jing spit out a sip of tea, he quickly closed the lid and turned around with the brocade box in his arms.

The old emperor was still blinded by what was in the box. Fortunately, he moved quickly enough. The price of the glass statue that had been sprayed with tea might be slightly discounted.

However, his clothes can be used properly in the future. As the clothes that were sprayed with tea today, they have great commemorative significance. It is definitely not excessive to sell them for 800 taels of silver.

"Open it, open it..." Emperor Jing put down the tea cup and stood up from the stone bench, his eyes shining brightly.

"Your Majesty, don't get excited." Li Yi put the box on the table and opened the lid again.

Emperor Jing stood up and leaned over. Inside the box was a glazed statue of a woman about two feet tall. The woman was dressed in palace attire, lifelike, and even her expressions were vividly depicted. Most of the statue was transparent, and the clothing was The patterns are clearly visible and colorful. Under the sunlight, they seem to have flowing brilliance and are extremely dazzling.

After all, he is an emperor and has seen countless treasures. Although he has never seen such a large and exquisite glass statue, he quickly calmed down and asked with some suspicion: "Is this really your gift to the Pearl?" "When did you become so generous?"

Li Yi closed the lid, wrapped the ribbon again, and said, "I have always been generous to my friends. It's just a glazed statue, it's nothing."

Emperor Jing looked at him and asked: "It is said that colored glaze is a gift from heaven. It is extremely rare even in the palace. How did you get such a large piece of colored glaze and carve it like a pearl?"

Li Yi put the box aside and said, "I came to the palace this time just to tell your majesty about this matter."

"It's not urgent. I have other things to ask you." Emperor Jing waved his hand, and a guard behind him spread a white cloth on the table. The cloth was painted with grids, which looked very familiar.

"What did the monk say to His Majesty just now?"

A few feet away from the pavilion, a middle-aged Taoist priest stood beside Chang De, looked at him and asked.

"I just came here too."

Chang De said lightly, looked back at the middle-aged Taoist priest, and said: "I can't control what Monk Tanyin said to Your Majesty, but his medical skills are even inferior to those of the imperial physician. As for your surname Yuan , If you pay tribute to your Majesty for any pills again, not only will I not let you go, but your Taoist sect will also not let you go. "

"Mr. Chang's temper is exactly the same as it was decades ago." In response to Chang De's rebuke, the middle-aged Taoist priest was not angry at all, and said: "Pindao was wrong about you last time. At that time, Pindao left Beijing. Yuanyou didn’t know about this, otherwise he wouldn’t have allowed the Taoist disciples to do such a thing.”

"You don't have to apologize to me." Chang De said coldly: "If it weren't for Your Majesty's kindness, do you think your sect can continue to be stable?"

"When it comes to His Majesty's body, it seems that you, Manager Chang, have a greater responsibility, right?" The middle-aged Taoist priest looked at him and said, "After all, the late emperor entrusted His Majesty to you, Manager Chang..."

The guards under the pavilion felt a little chilly for no reason. After wrapping their clothes tightly, they looked at the pavilion again.

Li Yi had experienced eating with him before, but this was his first time playing with him.

The old emperor actually also played animal chess. The chess pieces were made of white jade. Li Yi forced the old emperor's leopard into a desperate situation. The old emperor glanced at him and said with a smile: "A momentary failure is not really a failure. Sometimes, giving up Something can often lead to greater gains.”

He moved a chess piece casually, and Li Yicai discovered that his bishop had been forced into a blind corner.

Li Yi smiled and said: "You can survive in desperate situations. Sometimes, if you don't push yourself, you won't know that you have such great potential."

"Your Majesty, take advantage of me and move Dumbo!"

"Bold!" A hint of anger appeared on Emperor Jing's face, "You dare to cheat when you play chess with me... In this case, don't blame me for being a burrowing rat!"

"Your Majesty, how about this Tigger move!"

"No matter how much you jump, can you escape my dragnet?"

"Come out, the super invincible roaring dog of the universe!"

"Did I lose?"

"Well, your majesty has lost. Who can compete with Roaring Sky Dog when it comes out?"

"How did my Roaring Sky Dog die just now?"

"It was bitten to death by my tiger."

"Isn't it the super invincible Roaring Sky Dog in the universe?"

"Your majesty, when you use this move, you have to shout it out to be Roaring Sky Dog. If you don't shout it out, it will be Chinese rural dog..."

"So, I really lost?"

"Your majesty really lost."

Emperor Jing put down the chess piece and said, "The academy has expelled thirteen students a few days ago. They are all children of the rich and powerful. There has been discussion in the court that children from poor families should not be treated too much, otherwise it would be unfair. I want to select ten more from the children of officials and aristocratic families. You should make some arrangements in advance."

"Okay."

Li Yi nodded. This time, the Cui and Qin families should not send their children to the fire pit again. If there are people with the surname Qin and Cui coming in, they can be won over. After all, even the clan members It's better not to have a family that doesn't care about their lives...

Emperor Jing nodded slightly and said, "I didn't want to disrupt the foundation of the court last time I checked the accounts. I didn't kill all the officials who voluntarily handed over the stolen money. These days, some officials in the court proposed to establish a "redemption silver" system, that is, according to the severity of the official's crime, different amounts of silver can be used to exempt certain penalties, which can solve the worry of the treasury being empty. What do you think?"

Li Yi said while packing up the chess pieces, "Once the "redemption silver" is released, the Jing Kingdom will soon be destroyed."

Emperor Jing frowned and asked, "Is it so serious?"

I can't tell him that in another world, this system proposed by Heshen, the greatest corrupt official in history, made the emperor and himself rich, but the country became much more corrupt and accelerated the demise of the Qing Dynasty...

This is how the Qing Dynasty perished. If the Jing Kingdom dares to do this, it will be finished sooner or later!

Emperor Jing sighed and said, "Although the national treasury received a large amount of silver a few days ago, it was in deficit before, and 30,000 taels were allocated to the School of Calculation, but it still has some deficits..."

Li Yi looked up at him. Is 30,000 taels the key point? Moreover, he also saved that 30,000 taels for him and kept it in the School of Calculation as the start-up capital for various projects in the future. The stingy old emperor, Old Man Xue, also asked for 100,000 taels. Why did he hold on to the School of Calculation?

Li Yi sighed and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry. There are solutions to the deficit of the national treasury."

"Really?" Emperor Jing looked up at him and asked, "Do you have a way to solve the deficit of the national treasury?"

"To be honest with your majesty, I came here today to solve your majesty's worries."

Li Yi nodded. At this moment, he felt like a charlatan.

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