When Chu Qing woke up, the sun was three in the sky.
Fu San was still sleeping. Chu Qing was relieved when he saw that the third brother's face was not as pale as last night but rather rosy.
Touching Fu San's forehead with his hand, Chu Qing didn't know if the fever had subsided, so he tucked in the quilt and walked out of the class room quietly.
Outside the class room, Chen Yan was sitting on the steps and yawning.
Turning his head, Chen Yan showed a very flattering smile.
"Brother Xian, wake up."
Chu Qing frowned: "You want to borrow money?"
Chen Yan: “…”
"It doesn't cost me money, it doesn't cost me my life."
Chu Qing turned around and closed the door, then jumped down the steps with one leg.
Chen Yan walked forward diligently and helped Chu Qing: "Brother Xian's injury has improved a bit."
"Tell me, the injury you suffered four hours ago, do you feel better now?"
Chu Qing sat at the stone table with Chen Yan and rolled his eyes: "If you have something to say, just say it and don't beat around the bush. As long as it's not about borrowing money, everything else is easy to talk about."
"Check taxes."
Chen Yan did not mince words and asked straight to the point: "Your Majesty wants to check the taxes. He wants the Ministry of Households to check the taxes. The Ministry of Households is the main one, and Qianqiying is the supplement. That's what His Majesty said yesterday in the court. He entered the palace last night.
, Your Majesty also said that serious illnesses require strong medicine, but how to prepare this strong medicine, my foolish brother has no idea how to prepare it, and I don’t know if my wise brother has a good strategy."
Chu Qing was filled with emotions.
Tao Ruolin really got it right. When inspecting the Li family, Qianqiying was the main one, with the Household Department as the auxiliary. When inspecting the tax, the Household Department was the main one, with the Qianqiying as the auxiliary. They all had something to do with her, and it seemed that she had the right to speak.
, even the right to decide.
Chu Qing sighed silently.
An investigation into the Li family previously cost me half my life and almost killed Fu San's.
If you investigate all tax matters in the world, you are not making an enemy of the Li family.
"Logically speaking, I should refuse to participate in this kind of thing. At the very beginning, I thought about letting Tao Shaozhang be used as cannon fodder, and I would be the scumbag behind the scenes to muddy the muddy waters. That's why I agreed to you and agreed to Mr. Wei's investigation.
Tax, but now that I have surfaced, as the deputy commander of Qianqi Battalion, I should refuse to get involved in this kind of thing..."
After a pause, Chu Qing smiled bitterly and said, "But yesterday, I promised yesterday... I figured something out yesterday."
"What's the matter?"
"Do something, do something, maybe..." Chu Qing thought of the scene when Tao Ruolin and he high-fived each other, and laughed: "Maybe he will be famous forever."
Chen Yan's eyes burned: "I know my dear brother has a way."
Chu Qing asked thiefly: "I can make suggestions, that's fine, I can take the lead, but there's something I need to ask clearly."
"That's what my dear brother said."
"Will the Emperor protect me?"
"What does hood mean?"
"If I get into trouble, the emperor can protect me."
"Oh, Brother Yu, what do you think this is?"
"Well, that means you must be covering me?"
Chen Yan smiled and said: "It's not a big deal, just peace of mind."
"Don't do this with me. I'm just asking you, can the emperor protect me?"
"Hey, dear brother, you are too worried. You don't need to worry so much when you are doing errands for the emperor."
Chu Qing's face was full of doubts: "Why do you look more and more uneasy with your face? Don't talk nonsense and answer me directly. Will the emperor protect me?"
Chen Yan was unhappy: "You can't trust Brother Yu?"
"Stop talking nonsense. Either one word, yes, the emperor will protect me, or two words, no, the emperor will not protect me. Don't talk nonsense."
"Forehead…"
"Uh-huh, it's one word or two. You're not allowed to say the third word."
Chen Yan: "Don't make it."
Chu Qing: "..."
Chu Qing was so angry: "I really didn't realize that you are still the deputy commander of Northeast China?"
Chen Yan smiled bitterly: "It's not that Brother Yu didn't dare to agree easily, but that you have always been unconstrained in your actions, and you only talk about causing trouble. But whether the disaster is big or small, and who caused the trouble, Brother Yu has no idea. How can I dare to agree with you, let alone
Dare to promise on behalf of the emperor."
"Then Sayunara, you can go and play with yourselves. I'm going back to the Chu Mansion."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, tell me first, tell me first, then listen."
Chu Qing cleared his throat and was about to speak when he suddenly sniffed his nose: "What is this smell? It's so pungent?"
"It came from the dungeon."
"Oh." Chu Qing was happy: "Block up the dungeon door and the vents, the smell will come out."
"It's blocked, it's blocked." Chen Yan said with a bad smile: "Not only was it blocked, but several rows of torches were lit outside the dungeon cell. The smell, eh, makes me shed tears when entering."
"No wonder it smells like durian heated in a microwave. You are so bad."
"Each other."
The two looked at each other and smiled, then talked about business. Chu Qing said: "The reason for checking taxes is because the treasury is poor and there is no money, right."
"good."
"So this matter, in the final analysis, is to check taxes because there is no money. Manpower, material resources, and financial resources cannot be solved by the Ministry of Accounts alone. We have to do it step by step. Don't think about overturning it in one step. Let's start with
Come from the side, that is, right in front of your eyes."
Chen Yan thought thoughtfully: "Those fields and hidden houses in the lower counties of the capital?"
"What kind of house should you hide? You are a merchant."
"Merchant?" Chen Yan didn't know why: "But how much can merchants in Beijing conceal their tax returns? Even if they are merchants from all walks of life, they only account for 30%."
"I'll go!" Chu Qing didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Thirty percent, what idiot did you listen to say, just 30%?"
"Master Wei, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue."
Chu Qing: "..."
"Isn't it?"
"Uncle Wei Shi..." Chu Qing looked a little embarrassed: "Uncle Wei Shi must have been deceived. Merchants account for 30%. What a joke. Only ordinary people can squeeze out a few kilograms of oil and water, but most of it is merchants."
Chu Qing became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke, lowered his voice, and said with a bad smile: "I'm telling you, for this matter, it's useless to go to the Ministry of Finance. We have to go to Jingzhao Mansion and my dear Ma Rui. Give me a month."
, what I say, how come we come, we can definitely make a fortune."
"knock?"
"No, it is to eliminate harm for the people and promote Huoxiang's righteousness."
Chen Yan looked suspicious: "How many courtiers will he offend?"
"No, what's the matter with you? You're afraid of offending others when you become the deputy commander of the Thousand Cavalry Battalion. Were you so afraid of trouble before?"
"no."
"Then why are you so afraid of wolves in front of you and tigers in the back?"
Chen Yan said matter-of-factly: "Didn't no one know that I am the deputy commander of Qianqi Camp before?"
"No one knows now. They all think that I am the deputy commander of the Thousand Cavalry Battalion."
"That's right." Chen Yan smiled: "Then let's give them a good blow."
"Yes, you can teach me." Chu Qing stood up and skipped towards the moon gate: "Xiu, let's go with my brother to find my dear Ma Rui."
As soon as I arrived at the Moon Gate, I almost bumped into Changxian who had just ran into the government office.
Before Chu Qing could speak, Changxian quickly looked up and down, almost crying.
"Master Chu, Master Chu, how are you doing? This morning, the students learned that you had met an assassin, so they came in a hurry. Master Chu, you..."
Chu Qing shook up his braids and made a pose: "Twelve of them came, and Fu San and Bihua and I killed eleven of them. It's awesome."
Chen Yan was too embarrassed to expose him.
Fu San and Bi Hua, excluding Chu Qing, killed eleven of them. Oh yes, if you were included, they killed twelve. After all, you knocked Fu San unconscious.