I did evil in the feudal land, but I was called a virtuous king

Eunuch Hou kept his head down all the time. Isn't this what an old slave should listen to?

"Hou Gonggong, you can go back. I will send someone to send some silver to you someday." Li Xu waved his hand.

Eunuch Hou breathed a sigh of relief, and thanked repeatedly: "Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward."

After Eunuch Hou left, Li Xu waved, and a masked man appeared in the pavilion.

Li Xu didn't say much, just made a gesture of wiping his neck.

That night, Eunuch Hou died tragically in his room.

It is quite normal for a eunuch to die in the palace. The death of Eunuch Hou did not cause any disturbance, and he was sent out of the palace overnight wrapped in a broken straw mat.

……

Qingshui County.

Now is the slack period, a large number of people have poured into the county town, and the city is lively again.

There is no other reason, the prince is about to start re-planning and building the county, which requires a large number of workers.

Chapter 35

One of the things that the people in Qingshui County like to do most now is to work for the prince, because the prince gives too much, and the benefits are also the best.

Every time Ang Lee recruited workers, the recruitment office was always crowded.

This time Li An recruited carpenters first, and carpenters got the most wages.

In addition, a large number of strong and strong men were recruited.

Some people were sent to cut trees in the mountains to provide timber, some people demolished the old houses in the county town, and the carpenters were busy drawing blueprints for Li An to review.

After looking at the blueprints for a day, Li An finally selected a satisfactory blueprint, and immediately distributed the blueprint to the hands of many workers, and started to build the restaurant.

Recently, Tian Qi is very idle, because there are no major cases in the county.

The common people are busy farming, raising pigs, and helping Li An with work.

You must know that the county government was very busy in the past. For example, the owner's chickens ate the green vegetables in the west family's vegetable garden, and so on.

But now when encountering such a thing, the common people just ignore it and laugh it off. If you have the leisure to go to the county government, it is better to go to the county to work and earn more wages.

It's not that the common people's vision suddenly became brighter, but that they were poor before, and even the vegetables in the field were precious rations related to life.

Now Li An is vigorously developing agriculture. After two seasons of cultivation, no one has saved more than a dozen shi of grain, and Ping An Bank has saved a few taels or even a dozen taels or dozens of taels of silver.

If you have money in your hands, you will be generous, and you don't care about a small loss.

Neighborhood relations in Qingshui County are unprecedentedly harmonious.

The county government had nothing to do, so Tian Qi went to Li An's side, first to see if there was anything he could do to help, and second, to follow Li An's ass and secretly learn some useful knowledge.

Tian Qi looked at the blueprints and said enviously, "My lord's restaurant is very grand, much more grand than my county government."

Hearing this, Li An gave Tian Qi a white look: "Old Tian, ​​I didn't mean you, you are too picky. In the past, the county government had no money and you just let it go. Now that the county government treasury has money, you don't want to rebuild it. Your county office?"

"After all, it is the largest administrative agency in the county. You have to make it a little more dignified. It will save face."

Tian Qi looked at Li An helplessly. The prince said it was easy. When there was no king in southern Xinjiang, he could apply to his superiors to use part of the tax revenue to build the county government.

Now that Li An is the king of Nanjiang, all the taxes in Nanjiang are Li An's private property. If Li An doesn't say anything, does he dare to touch the money?

As the prince loves money like his life, if he dares to embezzle a tael of silver, the prince will reward himself with a meal.

"My lord, I don't have any money." Tian Qi had a bitter face.

"Wow, old Tian, ​​I always thought that I was shameless enough, but I didn't expect you to be even more shameless than me?" Li An looked at Tian Qi exaggeratedly.

"You just collected so much taxes this season, and you actually cried poor with me? Do you want the king to pay you to repair the county government? Didn't you just live with you for a few months? You won't be relying on me, right? ?”

Tian Qi was nearly speechless by Li An's words, and whispered: "My lord, you are the king of Southern Xinjiang. All taxes in Southern Xinjiang, except for the imperial court, are your personal property. If you don't speak up, who will dare to touch you?" money?"

"Is there such a good thing?" Li An looked at Liu Yiyi.

Liu Yiyi nodded.

Li An's face drooped in an instant. He said earlier that all the taxes and taxes of the fief belonged to him, so he would not have to bother to get these things.

Just took the taxes from all over the southern Xinjiang, went to the practice palace to find a beautiful concubine, and went to play and sing every night.

Because originally his purpose was to be a happy king who doesn't care about world affairs.

"That's not right." Li An suddenly remembered something, and immediately looked at Tian Qi: "You said that the taxes and taxes in southern Xinjiang belong to this king, so this king is now in Qingshui County, have the taxes from other places been sent to Qingshui County?"

Tian Qi shook his head: "No taxes have been sent to Qingshui County, and it makes sense that other disaster-stricken counties have not sent them, but not all places in southern Xinjiang can't collect taxes like Qingshui County before?"

"Old Tian, ​​go and find out for me. If I let the king know which grandson dares to embezzle the money from the king, won't the king cut off his dog's head?"

Li An was really angry, as the saying goes, play after play and play around, don't make fun of his money.

Tian Qi nodded and ran down quickly.

Not long after, Tian Qi ran back quickly.

"My lord, I know why."

"Why?"

"I heard that the Rong people in the north are about to move around, and there is a possibility of crossing the Great Wall and going south at any time. The Ministry of Households has collected all the taxes belonging to the prince as a reserve for war!"

"Hey!" Li An was very angry: "There are so many kings in the whole country, how many are taxed?"

"Only you, my lord." Tian Qi shrank his neck, "I heard that it's because you are very capable, my lord, and those who are capable work harder."

"I'm going to f*ck the able one to work harder, which grandson said that? I have the ability, so I want me to support an army that doesn't belong to me?"

Li An gritted his teeth.

"My lord, it seems that His Majesty said it..." Tian Qi said in a low voice.

Li An's expression was a little stiff, "So it's my father, it's okay."

After finishing speaking, he gave Tian Qi a threatening look: "You didn't hear anything just now, and I didn't say anything either."

Tian Qi nodded like a little chicken pecking at rice. Naturally, he would not be so stupid as to say what the prince said just now. Those words were enough to kill his head.

Since the old emperor was eyeing his own money, Li An had nothing to say, and this matter didn't have much impact on him, after all, he didn't expect to get rich by collecting taxes.

What Li An didn't know was that the old emperor didn't just want to cheat his son.

He also has his own deep meaning, using Li An's money to prepare for the war, if the Rong people really go south in the future, after the Dahua soldiers win the battle, Li An, who provided the funds behind the scenes, will naturally be the one who has contributed the most.

At that time, if he lets Li An inherit the throne, there will naturally be a lot less opposition.

Moreover, he also left Li An with taxes from Qingshui County, which was enough for Li An to eat and drink.

Li An stopped talking about taxes, Tian Qi rubbed his hands behind Li An's back, hesitant to speak.

"Old Tian, ​​if you have something to say, just say it, you make me a little scared." Li An gave Tian Qi a blank look.

"Hey." Tian Qi smiled, rubbed his hands and continued: "My lord, I want to apply for some funds from you to rebuild the county government."

Nowadays, Qingshui County's economy is developing rapidly, and brand new attics have sprung up. Even the public toilets in the county are better than his county government. The old county government is really too shabby.

The county magistrates of other counties have teased him a lot because of this, and he has long wanted to renovate the county government office.

Li An gave Tian Qi a blank look: "That's all?"

"If you want to repair it, you can repair it, don't repair it on the original basis, just tear it down and rebuild it." Li An said proudly with a big wave of his hand.

"Thank you, my lord." Tian Qi was overjoyed, and then looked at Li An with a troubled face: "If the county government is completely demolished, where will the officials go to work?"

"Aren't there still so many empty houses? Just find a few to live in. Don't be so rigid."

……

Three days later, with the sound of several explosions, the Qingshui county government office was reduced to ruins. I didn't know that I thought it was the enemy who broke in.

Chapter 36 Jealous

The urban planning of Qingshui County is in full swing, Tian Qi is busy every day, not only to care about the construction progress of the county government, but also to help keep an eye on Li An's restaurant.

As for Li An, at the moment he is in the box of Hongxingfang, lying leisurely on the beauty's big white legs, eating grapes while listening to a little song leisurely.

"My lord, why don't we stay overnight in Hongxingfang tonight, our sisters have been thinking about it day and night, and all we think about is the lord."

The beauty's charming voice came, and her jade finger brushed across Li An's chest.

"It's fine to stay overnight, Yiyi is watching me at the door of the house every night, if I don't go back, she has to rush into Hongxingfang to ask for someone."

Li An smiled lightly.

In today's Qingshui County, who doesn't know Miss Liu who often follows the prince, if you want to ask who is the most envied woman in Qingshui County, it must be Liu Yiyi.

"My lord cares so much about Miss Liu, could it be that he has fallen in love with Miss Liu?" A beautiful woman's voice was full of jealousy.

"What are you talking about, Yiyi is only 16 years old, a little girl." Li An waved his hand casually.

"The age of 16 is the most delicate grade for girls in the cardamom age. If the prince really likes Miss Liu, then now is the best grade."

"That's why you don't understand." Li An sat up, "You don't know that it's good to be single. As long as I'm single, I can drink flower wine wherever I want. How happy is it?"

"But even if you get married, it won't affect the prince to drink flower wine?" A beauty looked at Li An puzzled.

Don't say that Li An is a noble prince, even if Li An is just a commoner, even if he has a family and a career, no one can control him if he wants to drink flower wine.

In Dahua, women are always just men's vassals, even if they are regular wives, they can't give pointers to their husbands' style.

"That's why you don't understand." Li An smiled.

He naturally knows this. Although he doesn't think he is a good person, he is a person with a moral bottom line and has his own principles.

If he really gets married and starts a business, he will no longer go to the land of smoke and willows to have fun. This is called a sense of responsibility.

Li An admired Wang Hu more for this point. It has to be said that Wang Hu's awareness in this aspect is really high.

"Let's not talk about that, I'm thirsty, who can help me quench my thirst?"

Hearing this, a woman picked up the wine glass and slowly eased off her dress.

"The slave family serves the prince to drink."

……

Li An was drinking, when an angry voice came from downstairs: "The guards at Yuyiguan are getting more and more excessive, their appetite is getting bigger and bigger, if this continues, you don't need to go to Nanling Kingdom to do business up.

Risking life and death for a trip, all the money earned went into the pockets of these officials! "

Looking along, it was a man dressed as a businessman who was holding a flagon and making a sound of anger.

Before he finished speaking, another man dressed as a businessman quickly stopped him: "Boss Gou, you've drunk too much, don't talk nonsense."

"Let go of me, I didn't drink too much." Boss Gou was still yelling loudly: "Instead of giving all the money to those officials and ruffians, I might as well give all the money to the prince, at least the prince's money is used for practical purposes. He is thinking of the people.

In the future, if I stop doing business, I will buy a piece of land in Qingshui County, and my family will not starve to death! "

Boss Gou became more and more excited as he talked, and the bustard appeared in the lobby with a group of thugs.

"Throw people out for me quickly. If you drink too much, you dare to talk nonsense in my Red Apricot Workshop. If you disturb the prince's elegance, who of you will be able to bear it?"

While the thugs were carrying him out, the bustard saluted in the direction of Li An's box with an apologetic expression on his face.

At this moment, Li An was pinching his chin and fell into deep thought. He took out a few taels of silver and put them on the table. Li An tidied up his clothes: "That's all for today. The king will come back another day."

Now Li An doesn't go whoring for nothing when he comes to Hongxingfang, and he will leave silver taels every time.

The main reason was that he was afraid that he would owe more money to Hongxingfang. The old bustard found the Ping An Bank, and Liu Yiyi would tell him again...

Back at Ping An Bank, as Li An guessed, Liu Yiyi was standing at the door waiting for him to come back.

Seeing Li An appearing, Liu Yiyi hurried up to meet him. As soon as she reached Li An, Liu Yiyi said helplessly, "Your Highness went to Hongxingfang again?"

"How do you know?" Li An was surprised.

"My lord has a smell."

"Does it smell?" Li An frowned, pulled his clothes to smell, but there was no smell.

"My lord, go back to the house, I've sent someone to prepare dinner." Liu Yiyi said and led the way, Li An always felt that the little girl was jealous and angry.

"Yiyi, are you angry?"

"No." Liu Yiyi replied flatly.