"What's wrong with the waterwheel? I built one when I was twelve years old." Shengzi seemed to regard Li Lin as his close friend, and he was very proud: "If you don't believe it, you can still go to Xiaohuang Village to see it now.
, my water tanker is working there!”
After hearing this, Li Lin knew that the person in front of him was the person he was looking for: "Okay, then go home and discuss it with your family. I will leave this matter to you!"
"Is it really possible?" Shengzi immediately became excited and his eyes became bright. He blinked and looked at Li Lin, but soon the light in his eyes dimmed and he whispered: "But I can't read because I can't enter."
official."
"You can't read?"
"I can only understand the drawings, but I don't know the words."
Isn’t this amazing?
Li Lin smiled and then whispered: "It doesn't matter, even if you can't read, it's okay. As long as you can do it, I will use you."
"I can!" Shengzi immediately became determined.
He had been despised by many people because he could not read. He did not expect that he would not despise himself for not being able to read.
Li Lin patted him on the shoulder: "Prince General Xiang Ning has a lot of talent. Don't think too low of yourself. In fact, you are very good."
"I don't have parents, only my uncle. My aunt dislikes me living at home for free. I think if I leave, their family will be very happy." Shengzi told the truth.
No wonder.
Li Lin had felt strange before. Cai Quan himself was so repulsive about this matter, how could he recommend his nephew here? It turned out that there was such an inside story.
Li Lin was not interested in their family affairs: "Well, from now on you will follow me."
"Yes!" Shengzi nodded and immediately became Li Lin's follower.
Li Lin looked at Cai Quan with a smile but not a smile: "You are a good nephew, I want it!"
"Yes, I will send the deed of sale to the palace immediately." Cai Quan knelt on the ground.
A contract of sale?
After hearing this, Li Lin subconsciously looked towards Shengzi.
Obviously, when I gave birth to my son, I didn’t expect that my uncle would be so eager to sell me!
If there is a deed of sale, then he becomes the private property of the Prince Regent and is no longer a free person!
Originally, Li Lin wanted to refuse.
But when I thought that if there was a contract of sale, the child would have nothing to do with the Cai family, so I agreed: "Yeah."
"Farewell, Your Majesty!" Cai Quan didn't even look at his nephew during the whole process.
Compared with his own life safety and the black hair on his head, this nephew is really insignificant, and his death is not a pity!
After going out, looking at Shengzi's pitiful appearance of doubting his life, Li Lin smiled: "What? Are you sad?"
"I have no right to be sad. My parents have died and I have been living under someone else's roof since I was a child. Why do I have the right to be resentful?" Shengzi's tone was very calm, not at all what a nineteen-year-old boy should be like.
Too.
If the Cai family really cared about their nephew, why would they still not discuss marriage at the age of nineteen?
Li Lin smiled and squeezed his shoulder: "Don't feel sorry for yourself, you are awesome."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" She also thought about having a son.
In the Cai family, he will always be just a small laborer who keeps his head down and works hard. If he follows the regent, he might have a different future!
Thinking of this, he no longer felt uncomfortable, but suddenly became enlightened.
After returning to the palace and instructing the people below to take good care of the child, he turned around and entered the study.
"Go and ask Mr. Xu to come over." Li Lin sat there and started thinking.
Xu Yangcheng thought he would never be used again in this life.
Hearing that Li Lin called him, he came over in a hurry. The gentleman was getting dressed. He tidied up his somewhat messy robe before entering.
Entering the door, he bowed his hands and saluted. He looked like a handsome young man, full of bookishness.
Li Lin looked at him: "Sir, please excuse me. I have encountered a problem now."
"What's the matter with you, Your Majesty?"
"money."
Li Lin sighed.
Now that the national treasury is empty, it will definitely not be able to spend money to build this dam.
But if the dam is not built, floods will recur every year. Isn’t this a waste of time and money?
Well……
Xu Yangcheng never expected that he would be called over for such a tacky thing?
He wrinkled his eyebrows and hesitated for a moment before whispering: "I wonder how much money does the prince need?"
"About five hundred thousand taels."
Before making this picture, Li Lin actually made a budget.
The treasury can now provide up to 200,000 taels of spare money, and the rest needs to support the operation of various departments. This disaster relief requires 300,000 taels of silver, and he plans to blackmail all civil and military officials with another 100,000 taels!
But he also wants the five hundred thousand.
"What?" Xu Yang immediately asked, "Why does the prince need so much money?"
Li Lin looked at him: "You said we are a huge country in Daxia, how come we only have 200,000 in the treasury? Where did my father hide the rest of the money?"
He is not a fool, how could he really think that there is only so little money in the treasury?
This money was probably transferred by the old emperor to check and balance him.
Let everything go wrong for him in court.
If you have no money, don’t you mean you have nothing?
Xu Yangcheng shook his head: "I don't know."
"Jin Guo is extremely rich. Do you think it would be a bit of a loss for me to blackmail you?" Li Lin actually had a plan in mind.
What's the meaning?
Xu Yangcheng came up and said, "Your Majesty, this is no small matter."
"I heard that the ninth princess of the Jin Kingdom was favored by their old emperor. Do you think this princess is worth five hundred thousand?" Li Lin said to himself.
It's obvious that preparations and decisions have been made.
Knowing that persuasion was useless, Xu Yangcheng finally gave up: "Don't talk about 500,000, even if it is 800,000, the Emperor of Jin Kingdom will not blink an eye."
"It's just inside the Jinguo Imperial Palace. How do you steal people out?" Xu Yangcheng looked at him helplessly.
Li Lin looked at him with a smile: "I have to ask you, aren't you the smartest person in the entire palace?"
Whoever wants to be the smartest person should be regarded as such!
Xu Yangcheng spun around on the ground twice and finally came up with a solution: "As far as my subordinates know, this ninth princess, who has an out-of-character personality, likes juggling the most, so there will be a magic board performed in the palace on the first and fifteenth day of every lunar month!"
"You are really smart!" Li Lin chuckled.
He looked at Ling Yue'er beside him: "Among the secret guards, how many can do magic tricks?"
"What do you really plan to do, Your Majesty? What if the Emperor of Jin Kingdom comes over in anger?" Ling Yue'er looked at him worriedly.
Li Lin waved his hand and said calmly: "Don't worry about this. I have asked about it before. This Jin country is rich. As for the military, they are very weak. As long as it can be solved with money, they will never do it.
It will be solved by force."
Is this also the reason?
Isn't this bullying?
Although he joined the palace as a staff member, he still has the reserve that a scholar should have!
He looked at Li Lin, feeling helpless for a while.
When did this prince become a scoundrel?
"Your Majesty, this matter is not trivial. If it is discovered, how can we explain it?"
"Why was it discovered?"
Li Lin waved his hand.
He has already decided on this matter.
Apart from this method, he really couldn't find any better way to get so much money in a short period of time! This chapter has been completed!