After rebirth, I joined forces with my mortal enemy to seek revenge.

Because the house was sealed off by the Wannian County Government as a murder scene, Pei Jiaoran had to temporarily move into Didian.

When the morning drum sounded at the fifth watch, Pei Jiaoran stood up in excitement. He washed himself with cold water and rode his horse into the palace through Zhuque Gate to go to court. After breakfast, enjoy a meal on the verandah.

"Hey, Minister Pei, what's wrong with your hand?" asked the Minister of Rites next to him.

When asked, Pei Jiaoran put down his chopsticks and shook his head, "I was accidentally injured yesterday when my home was robbed."

She finished her words. The imperial censors, who were originally staring at the different postures in the palace, looked over one after another with quite excited eyes.

"Thief?" The Minister of Rites became interested and approached her and asked, "Have you reported to the official position? This is not a trivial matter. Didn't Zuo Shence just kill the bandit some time ago? Here comes another thief."

"Perhaps I have offended someone. There is still something to do in the household department, so I will take the first step." Pei Jiaoran tilted his head and smiled at the imperial censors who were looking at him eagerly, then left.

Hube is still lively. Pei Jiaoran was summoned by the Minister of Household Affairs as soon as he arrived.

"Shilang Pei, I heard that you had a conflict with Lieutenant Tian yesterday." Shangshu Hubu scolded with a stern face: "Why are you so confused? How can you offend Lieutenant Shence! You offended him, Hubu What happens next? What do I do? What do others do?"

After hearing the scolding, Pei Jiaoran lowered his head and did not argue. The current Minister of Household Affairs has always been a fence-sitter. On the one hand, he is attached to Jia Gonglu, and on the other hand, he has made good friends with Wang Yu and others to seek a way out. So what he said today was to get himself out of the way, so as not to cause trouble to Lieutenant Shence when he was settling accounts.

Seeing Pei Jiaoran's appearance, the Minister of Revenue waved his hand impatiently, "Okay. Jin Wuwei just brought a bunch of stolen money over. Hurry up and take your people to calculate the stolen money."

Stepping out of the public house, officials from the Ministry of Revenue surrounded him. Although the door was closed, one could still hear the Minister of Revenue scolding her bloody from outside. Facing the sympathetic eyes of many people, Pei Jiaoran smiled slightly.

With Emperor Wei's temperament of cherishing his reputation, how could Zuo Shence tolerate Zuo Shence's disobedience many times.

"Have you heard, Minister?" Duzhi's secretary looked around and lowered his voice, "Yesterday, General Lu of the Jinwu Guards led his men to arrest the eunuch who was bullying the people in the palace market. Now the General of the Jinwu Guards has overstepped his authority. He was imprisoned in Jinwu Prison in name only." Shu Lingshi sighed, "I don't know why he wants to provoke those eunuchs."

"Shouldn't the palace market be abolished?" Pei Jiaoran glanced at him with a cold tone.

Shu Lingshi shook his head, "That's right. But palaces and markets have existed since ancient times, how can they be abolished so easily."

"Purchasing is not the right of the eunuch." Pei Jiaoran glanced at Jin Wuwei who came in with the stolen money, and said calmly: "Okay, you take someone to calculate the stolen money clearly."

"Here."

As soon as Shu Ling Shi left, Pei Jiaoran turned into his public room. Frowning, he sat in front of the desk and opened the account book sent by Bibu.

It was her idea to remove Gongshi, but she didn't expect that Zhang Rang would actually imprison Lu Zheng in Shence Prison for exceeding his authority. Although she intends to use Lu Zheng to gain power for herself, she is not willing to let him be implicated.

"Go to Hongwen Hall to find Mrs. Wu. Tell her that there will be a gathering at Chongyifang today." Pei Jiaoran ordered the servants outside the door.

After thinking for a while, Pei Jiaoran took a deep breath. Get up and go to Shence Gong's house.

When passing by the school grounds, I met Li Xiujing having fun with his soldiers. Pei Jiaoran did not stay, but directly asked the leading sergeant Shence to take her to see Lieutenant Liu.

"Hey, Miss Pei, why are you here? Could it be that you are here to see that brat Li Xiujing." Lieutenant Liu looked at her with a teasing look on his face and said, "He is fighting with someone, why don't you go and take a look?"

"No. I'm here to see you, Lieutenant." Knowing that Lieutenant Liu was a cheerful person, Pei Jiaoran strode up to him.

"What do you want to do? I heard that you are now the Minister of Household Affairs. Why don't you tell me about military expenditures." Lieutenant Liu poured a cup of tea for her, looking excited.

After taking a slow sip of tea, Pei Jiaoran sighed: "Even if Zhongna is abolished, it will not be able to support the operation of the entire treasury. Let alone allocating military funds for the Shence Army's expedition."

"It's so annoying. Where did these people get the money? Didn't Taichang Temple allocate the money?" Lieutenant Liu slapped his palm on the table and took a deep breath, "Pei Qingjia, the treasury really doesn't have the money to Are you providing it to the Shence Army for conquest?"

"Yes or no." Pei Jiaoran smiled, "The inner treasury should have accumulated a lot of money over the years by eating salt, iron, Jinfeng and Xuansuo. Furthermore, the Shence Army is the emperor's forbidden army. If the reward money can be made available from the inner treasury, , and the military expenses for the conquest were funded by Zuozang, so how come the national treasury cannot make ends meet?”

After saying this, Lieutenant Liu rolled his eyes at her. Does he not know that there is money in the inner treasury? Zuo Shence was previously in charge of Hui Yi. As far as he knew, in addition to self-enrichment, he also spent a lot of money to honor Zhang Rang. The purpose is to get more money from the inner treasury to reward Zuo Jun. Youjun could only watch helplessly, not to mention how pitiful he was.

"In order to make money, those losers from the Zuo Army secretly sold a lot of military quota to merchants so that they can make money from them." Lieutenant Liu glanced at her and saw doubts in her eyes, "I heard that brat said you wanted to fight a river. Shuo? You might as well try to recruit these merchants, maybe you can raise a lot of military expenses. By then it won't be easy to defeat He Shuo's gang."

Pei Jiaoran frowned upon hearing this. She believed that most of the merchants in Chang'an, exploited by Zuo Shence, were rich on the outside but not much on the inside. What's more, when taking into account the need for out-of-boundary food, every expenditure needs to be carefully calculated to ensure a smooth conquest and allow the conquest army to have nothing to worry about.

Lieutenant Liu stared at Pei Jiaoran and said loudly: "Why don't you speak again? If the businessman doesn't have enough money, can't he temporarily open some quotas for collection!"

"I'm afraid this is against the rules. The intervening tax and the money for removing strangers have already made the people suffer enough. If we add other items, it will only arouse their rebelliousness."

"This won't work, that won't work. Why are you doing such a good job?" Lieutenant Liu looked at her and said angrily: "Okay, just tell me how you can raise the military expenses for the Right Army. No matter what you do, I will They will all help you.”

Pei Jiaoran was waiting for his words.

It's hard for her to reach out to her inner treasury. The best way is to win over Lieutenant Liu to stand with her and make him understand that as long as the inner treasury is competing with the national treasury for profit. You Shence's army was unable to go out to conquer the capital and regain Heshuo.

So by cutting down the vassal and town troops to force Heshuo to rebel, can we get the Youshen Ce army to this point?

She wasn't sure about that. Because once it is conquered, it will be a constant consumption, and it is necessary to prevent the reduction of troops from arousing the rebelliousness of other vassal towns. However, as long as she can ensure that she can continuously provide military expenses to the Youshence Army and ensure that the interests of other vassals and towns will not be harmed, then the possibility of gaining support will be high.

As for how to operate this matter, she has no idea yet. There is only a general idea. First, we must ensure that the three towns of Heshuo are indeed rebellious.

"I really need Lieutenant Liu's help with something." Pei Jiaoran lowered his head and whispered.

"what's up?"

"Remove the eunuchs' right to purchase palaces and markets, and return them to the Ministry of Household Affairs." Pei Jiaoran raised his head and looked at him, "I heard that Lu Zheng of the Jinwu Guard was imprisoned by Zhang Jujun because he caught the eunuchs who oppressed the people. Ce Jing. Those eunuchs are acting arrogantly, damaging His Majesty’s reputation. I’m afraid Lu Zheng’s move is also to protect His Majesty, why not take this opportunity to give advice to Your Majesty, Lieutenant?”

"Stop the palace market? Return it to your household department. Can you get the money into the treasury?"

"Yes." Pei Jiaoran nodded.

Lieutenant Liu immediately beamed, "Then I will go to His Majesty later and tell him that it is time to punish them. Xiao Pei, if you can help me keep an eye on the treasury, I will keep an eye on that brat for you. If he dares to go out and get involved, You're a philanderer, I'll be the first to break his legs."

Pei Jiaoran smiled, "Lieutenant, can you help me go to Shence Prison to meet Lu Zheng."

"Easy to say."

After saying this, Lieutenant Liu called his cronies to take her to Shence Prison.

After thanking Lieutenant Liu, Pei Jiaoran turned and left.