"Hmm. Ah? Your Majesty Liu Mingzhi has met the third princess!"
Liu Mingzhi saw the third princess who was playing shuttlecock with a group of palace maids. Suddenly, the shuttlecock looked at him tenderly and said, "You're here and you didn't react. What's going on?"
He could be sure and certain that he was not wrong. It was not a tit-for-tat confrontation in the past, but a real tenderness.
Is this the young master who didn't wake up or the third princess took the wrong medicine? Why is the painting style so weird?
"No need to be polite, are you here to see my father?"
"I am indeed here to meet the Holy Spirit!"
"Father is preparing to go to court, please go in quickly!"
"Okay!" The third princess, Liu Mingzhi, who looked a little nervous, saluted hurriedly: "I excuse you!"
"Little Master, let's go quickly. It's too late for His Majesty to go to court!"
Young Master Liu was a bit panicked and pulled Fan towards the royal study room. It was so weird, so weird that it made people feel uneasy. Is this the same Third Princess who used to feel uncomfortable even if she didn't confront him?
A drastic change in temperament is bound to involve fraud, so be on guard against it.
Liu Mingzhi couldn't help but secretly guess whether this little girl had thought of some conspiracy to deal with him, otherwise it would be impossible to explain what just happened.
"Princess, let's continue playing shuttlecock!"
"Okay, come together!"
"Hey princess, did you drop your stuff?"
The third princess looked at the palace maid in confusion and said to herself: "No, I came out without bringing anything with me!"
"Princess, look there is a letter here. Didn't you drop it?"
The third princess lowered her head and bent down to look at the letter at her feet and picked it up. She looked at the unsigned blank envelope and looked at the maids around her: "Did any of you drop something?"
"The princess is not ours!"
"Yes, princess, we are all in the palace and have no chance to go out, how can we write a letter!"
"Princess, will Sir Liu lose it?"
The third princess looked at the letter in her hand blankly: "If he lost it, why wasn't it signed?"
"Needless to say, I must have wanted to give it in person so I didn't sign it!"
"Princess, did Lord Liu want to write you a letter, but he just didn't have the nerve to write it to you and pretended to drop it at your feet?"
"That's right, apart from Master Liu, there is no other monk who looks like an idiot. This letter can't be lost by that monk, right?"
The third princess looked at the envelope in her hand curiously: "What if it's for someone else? It's not good to read someone else's letter!"
"Is it signed? If you don't look at it, how can you tell who it belongs to?"
"Princess, if you can't open it due to your status, let your slaves do it for you!"
"Forget it, let me see for myself, princess!"
The third princess gently opened the envelope and took out the letter and started to read it. Mu Ran saw that the third princess's face was red and hot. She put the letter away and looked at the palace maids: "You guys go ahead, I'm not feeling well. I'll go ahead."
gone back!"
A bunch of uterine women were left at a loss!
Liu Mingzhi walked to Fan from the imperial study holding a thick ultimatum and banknotes: "Your Majesty has to go to court later, so it is inconvenient to waste time here, but the customs clearance ultimatum has been approved, and
It has been stamped with the imperial seal passed down from the country, and I have given you a horse to help you on your way, and ten thousand taels of silver to provide you with food, clothing, housing, and transportation. You have traveled westward for eighty-eight thousand miles. The journey is difficult and dangerous, so Master, cherish it all the way!"
Liao Fan took the customs clearance document and bowed: "Thank you so much, poor monk, and thank you, Donor Liu!"
"Take care of yourself!"
"Eunuch Fu, thank you for sending Master Fan out of the palace. I have to go to court!"
"Don't worry Lord Liu, this is our responsibility!"
"Amitabha, farewell!"
"Hey, little master, you haven't brought your banknote with you yet!"
"Amitabha, the monks of Dabei Temple never accept any incense. The poor monk is afraid that gold and silver and other common things will damage the monk's mind. The poor monk devotes himself to the Buddha. It is better to give these properties to those in need. Go west and make three meals.
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Liu Mingzhi looked at the gold and silver in his hands and Liao Fan, who was wearing plain Zen clothes and followed Fu Hai away and sighed.
"You are the real master! You live up to your reputation!"
Looking around at the quiet imperial study room, Liu Mingzhi stuffed the banknote into his arms: "In that case, let me, a common man, bear it!"
"uh-huh!"
Liu Mingzhi's face froze and he looked at the emperor who stood beside him at some point and said in dragon robes and a flat crown on his head: "Your Majesty, I'm going to die!"
"Well!" Li Zheng stretched out his hand and looked at Young Master Liu without saying anything!
"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this? I don't understand!"
"Um?"
"Why don't you go back, E Chen?" He looked angrily and took out the banknotes he had collected and handed them to Li Zheng. He thought he could get some extra income, but he didn't expect to be discovered by the emperor!
Li Zheng put away the banknote with satisfaction: "Is it really okay for you to trick a monk like this? A man goes to Tianzhu on a long road through mountains and high mountains, and there are high snow-capped mountains and deserts in the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions. Are you sure he can come back?"
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"Your Majesty, I am all here for the dragon!"
"Don't you have a heat stroke? Today is the Ping Dynasty. It's not very important. We are just discussing some irrelevant things. You have a heat stroke and you don't want to rest at home and go to the palace just to ask for a customs clearance document for the monk?"
"Um, when did your Majesty suffer from heat stroke? I am studying at home how to grow sweet potatoes with a higher yield, namely sweet potatoes. Maybe the messenger didn't hear clearly and misunderstood that I have suffered from heat stroke. How could I have suffered from heat stroke in the middle of winter!"
The emperor looked narrowly at the eloquent Liu Mingzhi: "Okay, just make up nonsense for me. If it weren't for your merits in disaster relief, I would slap you at least thirty times!"
"I'm telling the truth, how could I be that kind of person!"
"The case in Qingzhou Prefecture was handled well, but there were too many killings. You beheaded 80% of the officials in Qingzhou Prefecture in public. There were many civil and military memorials to impeach you. They said you were an executioner and killed people without blinking an eye. Even Xia
The censors all complained a lot, but luckily I suppressed it. I didn’t expect that the case in Qingzhou Prefecture was not caused by the Bailian bandits but by these officials in order to keep Wushamao, and even I was deceived!"
"Alas, Your Majesty doesn't know the situation in Qingzhou Prefecture. He killed thirty thousand people for their own selfish purposes. How can the people be angry if they don't kill them for such evil deeds? What happened in Qingzhou has been rising again and again. I'm sorry.
I accidentally learned that there is another problem with the Shanhaiguan mutual market. I came to the palace today just to report the matter to His Majesty!"
"What happened to the Shanhaiguan mutual market? The tax revenue of the Ministry of Revenue is stable, and there are no participation documents in the Yushitai. Businessmen are eager to go north. Everything is fine. In just a few months, an additional 30,000 cattle have been added to the border. The Ministry of Revenue has
I’m having a headache how to distribute these bullocks!”
"Your Majesty, the income situation is indeed good. However, it seems good now that the officials of the mutual market have privately raised the price. However, border trade and exchange of goods is a century-old plan. We cannot just focus on the small profits at the moment. If these people are allowed to do whatever they want, the border trade will exist in name only.
, in the final analysis, it is Dalong’s interests that are harmed. The taxes reported by these officials are the taxes set by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the silver they embezzled may not be less than ten million taels!"
Li Zheng looked at Liu Mingzhi with wide eyes: "Is what you said true?"
"Your Majesty also knows that I have some friendship with Huyan Yu from the Huyan tribe. It was from his mouth that I learned this. Your Majesty, think about it. The price of twenty taels of silver for a bullock is a difference of nearly fifty taels.
The money disappeared out of thin air. Thirty thousand bullocks were worth nearly 20 million taels of silver. Even if the three companies divided up Dalong, the officials in the mutual market would still be able to share at least 5 million taels of silver. This was just the coal business, grain, leather, salt and iron.
, tea, and how much will the various taxes be?”
After listening to this, Li Zheng realized that things had gone beyond his expectation. Tens of millions of taels of silver was not a small sum!
"Old Zhou, summon all civil and military officials to transform the dynasty into a great dynasty!"