Zhenguan Xiaoxian Wang Li Shen Li Shimin

Li Chengqian is worthy of being the son of Li Shimin. The power of genes is indeed strong. When it comes to paying money, Li Chengqian's bloodline seems to awaken immediately.

My mind is much more flexible than usual.

“I didn’t ask you to donate in my name, and the donation was also voluntary on your part.

If you don't want to, you can tell Aye now and tell him that you don't want to donate to the victims.

Anyway, you pay for it yourself, I won’t give you any extra money.”

Li Chengqian straightened his neck, with an expression that said, "If you have the ability, why don't you donate?"

"Oh, you are so heartless, if it weren't for you, how could I have donated 50,000 strings of cash.

You know, I said at the beginning that it was a direct punishment."

Li Shen stood up angrily and pointed at Li Chengqian and shouted.

If he were asked to say he would not donate, he would be beaten to death.

He said this in front of all the civil and military officials in the court. Now that you say you won't donate, aren't you teasing the king?

How could his father forgive him?

But no matter what he said, Li Chengqian remained unmoved, and said calmly, as if he was doing this for your own good:

"Tenth brother, isn't this also for your own good? If you are fined for one year, it will be at least 100,000 strings of cash. If it is two years, it will be even more.

The coal you donated this time was only about 50,000 or 60,000 tubes.

Don’t you know which side is lighter and which side is heavier?

You should thank me.”

Li Shen roared after hearing this:

"I thank you...Brother, don't you know that I have not had any salary since ancient times?

Now I don’t even know when my salary will be deducted.

I am afraid that I may not be able to receive a salary during my lifetime. To me, a salary is the same as having nothing.

Besides, it’s just a punishment now, but the salary is still in my hands, and the prince’s fertile land, corvee labor, and slaves are all there.

It was just a fine, less than two thousand strings of coins per month, and only twenty thousand strings of coins per year.

Only 40,000 strings of cash were earned in two years.

Which side is lighter and which side is heavier?"

"Uh......"

Li Chengqian was speechless after hearing what Li Shen said.

He didn't think of this.

The salary was separate. The prince had thousands of acres of fertile land, as well as corvée labor and slaves. The fine was just a nominal fiefdom.

Moreover, Li Shen also said that he didn't care about the salary deduction since he couldn't receive his salary anyway.

"Um... Tenth brother, I still have official business to attend to, so you can go back first if you have nothing else to do."

Finally Li Chengqian found an excuse.

He felt that he could not say any more, and besides, he would probably have to pay for the money donated by Li Shen himself.

"Humph, you also know that you are in the wrong, right? Do you think that you should pay for this money?"

Li Shen asked with a snort.

"I can't afford it. You know, my brother's East Palace is very poor. A lot of money has been used to build academies and train talents.

How can I give you any money?"

Li Chengqian shook his head repeatedly.

"Impossible, I gave you a total of 500,000 strings of cash this year, and you still say you have no money?

Believe it or not, I asked Aye to raid your East Palace."

Li Shencai didn't believe what Li Chengqian said. He gave all the 300,000 strings of cash he cheated from his father to Li Chengqian.

How could he have no money? He didn't build a manor or anything.

"Copy my East Palace? Why?"

Li Chengqian said disdainfully, "Is it so easy to copy the Eastern Palace? This is related to the national system."

"Because you took bribes privately."

Li Shen said in a decisive tone.

"Haha, when have I ever accepted a bribe? Are you kidding me?"

Li Chengqian was so angry that he laughed. He had always been careful in his actions and did not even dare to accept gifts from officials below him. How could he accept bribes?

"You forgot that you accepted 300,000 stolen money from me.

Do you think Aye will take this opportunity to confiscate all your money in the East Palace?"

"Humph, Aye already knows about this. I was punished by Aye for this three hundred thousand.

This alone won’t work.”

Li Chengqian would not fall for Li Shen's tricks. He had taken the blame for Li Shen without knowing the reason and was beaten up by Li Shimin.

Li Shen was stunned after hearing this. He had forgotten that Li Chengqian had been beaten.

Indeed, how can one be punished twice for the same crime?

"Tenth brother, do you have anything else to say? Why don't you go to the harem and talk to Aye?"

"No need. I have a lot of things to do in the palace, so I'll take my leave now."

When it came to going to the harem, Li Shen was a little scared.

Li Chengqian and Li Shen were escorted to the outside of Liangyi Hall, and Li Shen bowed again.

"Brother, you are busy. Please wait. I will take my leave."

"Tenth brother, don't forget what you promised me."

Li Chengqian gave a reminder.

Li Shen nodded to indicate that he remembered it, then turned and left.

He didn't want to stay in the palace for even a second longer.

After running out of the palace, Li Shen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He rode his horse back to Prince Ji's mansion immediately.

After returning to the study, Li Shen summoned Wang Xuance and Lu Dingniang.

"See you, Your Majesty."

Wang Xuance bowed when he arrived.

"Well, let's sit down and talk."

Li Shen nodded, then recounted what happened in the court today, and finally asked:

"What do you think about this?"

"My Lord, it is obvious that the Prince of Jin was behind this, and that Censor Sun was just a pawn.

And Li Yifu should be considered as the support. "

Wang Xuance said.

"I also speculate that this is related to Li Zhi, because Li Yifu is the Supervisory Censor of the Prince of Jin's Palace."

Li Shen also agreed with Wang Xuance's point of view.

"My Lord, what are you going to do?"

Li Shen shook his head.

“Forget it, we still have to give the prince face, so we will just act according to the original plan, this way it won’t be too much.

This king really doesn't like fighting and killing.

It would be nice to make some money in peace."

What he disliked most was intrigue and fighting.

Isn't it good to make some money and live a carefree life? These people are all mentally ill.

"Then I will go and prepare."

Wang Xuance stood up.

"Wait, there is one more thing. Didn't I agree to donate coal? You need to assist the princess in completing this task.

We have coal ready-made, madam. Just send someone to notify the carriage company and ask them to go and get it.

Xuan Ce, you will be responsible for going to the government to get a pass, and then sending people to connect with the affected counties and cities.

Let them send people to distribute it to the disaster-stricken people.

But tell them one thing, this is a donation from the king, if anyone dares to embezzle, the king will not be easily offended. "

Without Wang Hongfu, this kind of thing could only be done by Lu Dingniang, and Lu Dingniang was not very familiar with it, so she needed Wang Xuance's cooperation.

"Don't worry, my dear, I will definitely get things done."

Lu Dingniang said softly.

"I will definitely assist the princess and complete the disaster relief work."

Wang Xuance also accepted the order.

“Well, this king naturally believes that you have this ability.

By the way, Xuan Ce, how many days has Wang Hongfu been gone?"

Li Shen suddenly asked.

Wang Xuance thought for a moment and replied:

"Your Majesty, including today, Shopkeeper Wang has been gone for eight days."

Li Shen counted on his fingers.

"It's been eight days. Calculating the time, we should have arrived at Xizhou by now, right?"