virtuous king

I took Liu Yanqing up the mountain for a meal to worship the mountain god. There were chicken, fish and vegetables, and the combination of meat and vegetables was just right, and a small pot of warm wine was also given.

Before leaving, the short mountain god with a mustache pulled me and cried until my nose burst into tears, choked up and said: "Mr. Xing, please do me a favor, this snowstorm will soon seal the mountain Well, Xiaoxian doesn't have much left to eat, you, you must never bring anyone here again...!!!"

I stood on the spot and listened to the mountain god cry, laughed dryly for a while, then turned my head to greet Liu Yanqing and said, "Yanqing, finish eating, I'll go back after eating."

Liu Yanqing unhurriedly picked a piece of fish meat and threw it into his mouth, and replied, "Yes."

When we went back, He Yunli and Zhou Quan had already finished eating, and Liu Yanqing and I entered the house step by step. When Zhou Quan saw me, his already ugly face turned greener, but his official rank was much lower than mine, even though he was reluctant to do so. , and had no choice but to stand up and salute with a straight face: "Your Highness, sit here."

Before I had time to respond, Liu Yanqing, who had rarely spoken since entering the city, suddenly took a step forward, and said in a whisper, "Lord Zhou, do you still remember me?"

I turned my head to look at Liu Yanqing, and saw that he was hesitating to speak with his lips tightly pursed, he was wondering, and then I heard him continue: "I am... I am Liu Yanqing, the Juren of Chuhe Seven Years , Back then, you also bought my calligraphy and paintings, and gave me 20 taels of silver as a toll to Beijing."

No, there are thousands of coincidences in the world, and today I encountered one - no wonder Liu Yanqing always defended himself in front of me intentionally or unintentionally, it turned out that these two people were old acquaintances, and Liu Yanqing is an out-and-out Fuzhou native!

Hearing Liu Yanqing's words, Zhou Quan frowned first, then grinned, and finally lifted up his robe and knelt down with a plop: "Yanqing, I've been waiting for you to come back! I'm sorry for my old bones...I didn't You can keep your sister, and watch her being kidnapped in broad daylight—"

Liu Yanqing glanced at me, bent down to support Zhou Quan with both hands, and said sincerely: "What did Mr. Zhou say, don't blame yourself, Yinyin is doing well now, and I am doing well, I didn't expect this time It's a surprise to see Mr. Zhou again in the south!"

Zhou Quan laughed loudly and said: "Yes, yes, back then I saw that you were someone who could achieve great things. How about it, I guess I'm right, that is, you can go south with He Shangshu of the household department to provide disaster relief. It must be luck..."

Zhou Quan laughed halfway, and from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of me rubbing my forehead with my hand, the corners of my grinning mouth froze suddenly, and I stuttered when I spoke again: "He, he, you, you...Yanqing!"

Liu Yanqing lowered his head under Zhou Quan's astonished gaze, and said in embarrassment: "Ashamed, as Mr. Zhou saw, I am not an official."

Zhou Quan took a look at me, then at Liu Yanqing, who was much thinner than two years ago, stared and held back for a long time, and said for a long time, "Oh..."

The word alas is more intriguing than the folk song with nine turns and eighteen turns in the mouth of the big girl, and it makes my skin feel hot.

No, no, why should I have a feverish face? Zhang Yuan and Prince Chu Jiu are the two beasts who tied Liu Yanqing's sister, and it's not me.

I stood on the sidelines watching their fellow reunion, listening to their gossip, for a while, finally managed to calm down, and said melancholy: "Hey, you two, the memories are almost gone, let's talk about some serious business."

Liu Yanqing groaned, and shut his mouth obediently, I looked at Zhou Quan opposite, Liu Yanqing's eyes were full of sympathy, and the root of my tongue suddenly turned sour, I said: "Master Zhou, although you are a fellow, but you are so good Staring at Yan Qing with all eyes, this king has to think too much."

Zhou Quan gritted his teeth and gave me a gouged look, and said aggrievedly, "Your Highness, forgive me."

I nodded in satisfaction, chuckled lightly and said, "This is the most... hiss—"

He Yunli and Zhouquan were startled by my sudden howl and trembled, and looked up at me in unison.I was watched by the two of them together, laughed a few times, and secretly pulled Liu Yanqing's hand on the soft flesh of my lower back.

Zhou Quan, you read that right, isn’t Liu Yanqing the one who can accomplish great things, not to mention his great achievements in killing the real King Qi a year ago, but only to talk about the frequent bruises and bruises on my fake King Qi, which one is not him masterpiece?

Liu Yanqing, Uncle Liu, is really a person who cannot be offended.

I rubbed my lower back with one hand and grinned my teeth: "Master Zhou, how is the disaster situation in Fuzhou? Can the people affected by the disaster have houses to live in and food to eat?"

Zhou Quan stared blankly with his mouth open for a while, then just followed my overly jumping brain circuit, folded his sleeves and frowned and replied: "Return to Your Highness, not all of them. I am ashamed, I failed to govern Fuzhou well."

I said, "What do you mean by incomplete?"

Zhou Quan said: "Some people's houses were damaged by the heavy snow, and they can't be repaired. They can only be rebuilt. It's just the money to build the houses..."

I said: "Didn't this king bring a lot of money?"

Zhou Quan looked at me and sighed: "Your Highness doesn't know something. Not only the house is broken, but many things have been damaged by freezing. The little money allocated by the court alone may not be enough."

This is something I never thought of.

As soon as Zhou Quan's voice fell, I felt worried, and He Yunli was more worried than me: "Then what should I do, it's winter, so many people can't be allowed to freeze outside..."

He Yunli didn't finish what he said, but I understood it—now, the post-disaster reconstruction work is imminent, and there is no need to delay it. If it is delayed for a day, more people may die, and there is no guarantee that the plague will break out.

Just not enough money.

People say that wisdom can be born in a hurry, and this is true. I walked around the room twice, and suddenly remembered a buddy who studied economics. That buddy liked to show off most of the time. Knowledge, one of them, seems to be called Guojuan, and it is said that this thing can be used to borrow money from the society in the name of the country.Although I don't understand it very well, I can draw a ladle like a gourd and issue a dozen or twenty first to test the water.

After making up my mind, I stood still and clapped my hands, and said with burning eyes: "Zhou Quan, hurry up and find all the famous merchants in the city for me, I have something to explain to them!"

Zhou Quan hesitated and said: "Your Highness, could it be that you want to..."

I nodded and said: "Exactly, this king wants to borrow money from them this time, but it's not for nothing. This king will issue them a national certificate, and the next year will be up to the court to return them with interest."

Zhou Quan listened to me explain the process of issuing national papers, his eyes lit up, and he hesitated for a while and said: "This...will they agree to exchange real money for a few pieces of paper?"

I said: "There will always be one or two who agree, let's just treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor."

Zhou Quan bowed his body and said yes, then hurriedly retreated.

After half a day, fourteen or five big merchants stood in front of me side by side. At a glance, there were tall and short, fat and thin, and the only thing in common was probably money.

I sat in the top position, patiently told them about the disaster, and then carefully explained about the betrayal of the country, and promised again and again that the imperial court would not treat them badly when they received taxes in the coming year. In the end, I held the table and was polite He raised his voice and asked: "Everyone understands? Are you willing to buy it?"

There was a moment of silence, the room was as quiet as if there was no one alive.

I said again: "I don't want you to pay for nothing, and I will return it to you in the next year. Don't you believe that I have the king as a guarantee?"

Liu Yanqing at the side pursed his lips and smiled, leaned over and whispered to me: "It's wrong, it's wrong, with you as the guarantor, they don't even dare to pay."

I was taken aback for a moment, and quickly changed my words: "Master He and Master Zhou are both guarantors, do you have any questions?"

"Your Highness."

After waiting for a long time, a short and thin man finally came out of the team, Liu Yanqing, Zhou Quan, He Yunli and me, for a while, all four pairs of eyes looked at him, hoping that he would lead a good leader, But he didn't want this man to ponder for a moment, and then complained in a hoarse voice.

"Forgive me, Your Highness. It's not that we don't want to buy it. It's just that... there's really a snowstorm, and everyone doesn't have much money left. They can't afford it even if they want to!"

He couldn’t afford it even if he wanted to. I sat in the grand master’s chair and listened to his speech. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of a grease stain on his sleeve. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. Xiang Xiang, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he cursed in his heart, put his mother's fart.

"What about the rest?"

"Boss Li is right, we really have no money..."

"This natural disaster is too severe, and everyone is poor."

"Isn't it? We have a lot of property, and we can support a lot of people. If we really count it, we are not as happy as those ordinary people."

"Yeah yeah……"

Without a stick of incense, more than a dozen merchants resigned under the pretext of an accident at home, leaving me alone to sit and think about life.

"Your Highness, let's drink a cup of tea to reduce the fire..."

Probably because my expression was too ferocious at the moment, He Yunli, who has always been indifferent to me, offered tea to me for the first time, looking around, He Yunli's hand holding the teacup even trembled a little.

"Your Highness, this road is blocked, we can think of other ways..."

idea?What else can I think of?Is it possible to write a letter asking the court to allocate additional funds, and then send it here all the way?

If this is the case, I am afraid that the winter will be over by the time the silver is delivered.

After all, the money for repairing Fuzhou still has to come from Fuzhou.

I stared at He Yunli's hands that were trembling more and more, grinded my back molars and said each word: "A group of grandchildren still want to play this kind of trick of working together with this king... Very good, this king has been for a long time Stop killing chickens..."

"Zhouquan is going to prepare the sedan chair, and He Yunli is going to transfer troops. I am in a bad mood today, and I want to copy some big ones!"

The author has something to say:

Crying and waiting for the weekend, tomorrow I have to get up early again, and I have nothing to love 〒_〒 If I like it, I will add it to my collection. It would be even more perfect if I clicked into the column to adopt the author~~~ That’s right, I’m just so shameless No skin, hehehe