Chapter 110 Let bygones be bygones

Xianyang Palace.

late at night.

The candles in Zhangtai Palace are still bright.

Ying Zheng was sitting behind the desk, with thick bamboo slips neatly placed on both sides of the desk.

Ever since Ying Zheng took over the power, he would hardly fall asleep if the weight of the memorial he corrected every night was less than 120 kilograms.

"Your Majesty, Lord Lu Yang wishes to see you."

"Xuan!"

When he heard the voice of the guards outside the door, Ying Zheng, who was correcting the memorial, didn't even raise his head.

"promise!"

The guards retreated after hearing this.

Soon.

I saw an old man with gray hair, wearing rich clothes, a big belly and a rather rich appearance walking in.

"Old minister, I see you, Your Majesty."

"It's so late at night, and my clan uncle isn't resting at home, so what's the point of coming to Xianyang Palace?"

After Ying Zheng finished correcting a memorial in his hand, he put down his brush and turned his attention to the person below who had some blood relations with him, but there were not many Ying clan members.

Yingshan River.

A concubine born to Ying Zheng's grandfather, King Qin Xiaowen, and his concubine, he was named 'Lord of Lu Yang' when he became an adult, but it was only a false title. Although he had a fief, he had no real power.

However, although he himself is nothing, the Ying family clan power represented behind Ying Shanhe can be regarded as the largest force in the entire Qin State.

If Lao Ai hadn't secretly given birth to a child with Zhao Ji, which violated the bottom line of the Ying clan's power, he wouldn't have died so quickly.

So when facing Ying Zheng.

Although Ying Shanhe maintained etiquette on the surface, there was not much respect in his expression.

"I'm here this time to sue someone."

Ying Shanhe hugs his hands.

When he heard Ying Shanhe's words, Ying Zheng didn't seem too surprised. He just said calmly: "I wonder who the uncle wants to sue?"

Ying Shanhe raised his head, looked at Ying Zheng, and said word by word: "Sheng Pingjun - Mo Jun!"

Ying Zheng raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? I wonder why my uncle wants to sue Lord Shengping?"

Ying Shanhe's eyes flashed sharply, and he said in a deep voice: "I want to sue him for framing and murdering my loyal minister of Great Qin..."

Snap!

Ying Shanhe didn't finish his words.

I saw a roll of bamboo slips suddenly flying out from the desk and falling directly at the feet of Ying Shanhe.

"Uncle Clan, if you have anything to say, you can talk about it after reading this memorial."

After throwing out the scroll of bamboo slips, Ying Zheng seemed to have no intention of continuing the conversation with Ying Shanhe. He picked up the brush again and lowered his head to correct the memorial.

Ying Zheng's attitude made Ying Shanhe feel slightly dissatisfied, but he did not show it. However, when he picked up the bamboo slips on the ground and took a look, his expression suddenly changed.

"this······"

"Uncle Clan, you are already old. I don't want to pursue the past matters, but it's time for Clan Uncle to have a good rest in the future."

Hearing the voice coming from behind the desk, Ying Shanhe's expression changed several times, and finally he folded his hands and saluted with an ugly face: "Old minister...resign."

When Ying Shanhe left, the entire Zhangtai Palace fell into silence again.

After a while.

I saw two figures slowly walking out of the inner hall.

One person was holding a long sword, wearing white clothes and a stern expression.

A man was wearing purple clothes, with handsome appearance and warm eyes.

The two of them were Gai Nie and Mo Jun.

"Isn't it strange why I didn't punish him?"

After correcting a memorial again, Ying Zheng slowly raised his head. When he saw the two people in front of him, his usually majestic expression rarely softened a little, and he asked.

"I think the king has made his own decision."

After hearing Ying Zheng's words, Mo Jun spoke without hesitation.

joke.

No matter how much money Mr. Lu Yang just embezzled or how many crimes he committed, his surname is "Ying" after all.

No matter what happens, it's not the outsider's turn, Mr. Mo, to judge what's right or wrong.

"Haha~~"

Ying Zheng was also amused by Mo Jun's appearance and said: "If I hadn't known Mo Qing for many years, I'm afraid I wouldn't have believed that Mo Qing is only seventeen this year. You are just like an old fox who has been immersed in the court for many years.

Same."

"But no matter how old the fox is, after all, if he wasn't the old fox, he probably wouldn't be able to help me take out these 400,000 gold coins from those people."

When he came to the last five words "four hundred thousand gold coins", Ying Zheng also slightly emphasized his tone.

to be honest.

Although Ying Zheng said before that he would give the task of making money to Mr. Mo, he did not expect that Mr. Mo could actually come up with 400,000 gold coins in such a short period of time.

What's more, he didn't expect that this money was actually taken out from the hands of his ministers.

Previously, twenty-seven noble families in Nanjun had taken out 200,000 gold coins and 800,000 shi of grain. Ying Zheng already felt ridiculous.

Unexpectedly.

In Xianyang, under the feet of King Qin, things could be even more ridiculous.

But I am afraid that even Ying Zheng would not have thought of this. This is not the most ridiculous thing. In the world of official history, at the end of Qin II, the rebel army commanded by Xiang Yu surrounded Xianyang. Because there was no food in the city, they were hungry until the soldiers guarding Xianyang lost their fighting ability.

, he conquered Xianyang City in one fell swoop.

But then, something happened that even Xiang Yu didn't expect.

After conquering Xianyang.

Xiang Yu led his army to raid the homes of all the nobles in Xianyang City, and found batches of staggering amounts of grain.

Later, after calculation, even if these stored grains were distributed to everyone in Xianyang City, it would be enough to last for more than ten years, or even twenty years.

This is the current situation.

The common people had no money, but the aristocrats and wealthy people had so much stockpiled food that they were left rotting in the granary in batches, and they were still unable to be eaten or used.

"Speaking of which, I heard that the tax evasion was able to be detected this time. It was Mo Qing who did it himself, comparing volumes of account books, and discovered the flaws. Is it possible that Mo Qing also knows a little bit about arithmetic?"

The word "understand a little" has almost become Lord Mo's mantra now, so even Ying Zheng couldn't help but tease him this time.

Mo Jun also heard Ying Zheng's teasing, so he said modestly, "I just felt that the previous arithmetic method was too troublesome, so I simply invented a simpler calculation method. It doesn't mean anything."

Ying Zheng: "······"

Gai Nie: "·······"

Ah, why do these words sound so ordinary?

Just because the existing arithmetic method is inconvenient, in order to make it easier to check accounts, I might as well create a new arithmetic method by myself.

Listen.

Is this still human language?

What a genius!

Can a genius do whatever he wants?

"Ahem~~ Since the arithmetic method invented by Mo Qing is simpler, I wonder if it can be taught to others to use?" After a while, Ying Zheng coughed twice and came back to his senses.

"I named this new arithmetic method [Arabic numerals], [Multiplication Table], and an auxiliary tool [abacus]."

"And the three items have now been taught to other people in the Zhizunai Shifu. It should be a lot easier to settle the accounts later."

"But the past accounts are just..."

Before Mo Jun finished speaking, Ying Zheng interrupted and said, "Let him let go of the past!"

Although Mr. Mo spent a whole month cleaning up the bad debts of the Sumaishi Mansion this time, in fact he only cleared part of it.

Why did Mr. Mo only find trouble for those twenty or thirty people before?

the reason is simple.
To be continued...