Chapter 47

There were two lamps left in the room, and the light in Ba Bu's bed was dim and soft.

After only half a month of not seeing each other, Hua Yang noticed that Chen Jingzong's arm seemed to be thicker than before.

She couldn't help touching it: "Have you been practicing every day recently?"

Chen Jingzong: "Well, those soldiers are almost abolished, and I can set an example. Why, don't you like it?"

If you like Hua Yang, you won't admit it, so you pushed him and said, "There is an envelope in the left drawer of the dresser, open it and have a look."

Chen Jingzong looked at her and smiled: "Don't you miss me so much, write a letter to entrust lovesickness?"

Hua Yang gave him a hard look.

Chen Jingzong kissed her neck again, and then got out of bed to get the letter.

Such a slender and strong body, no matter how you hold it under the quilt, it is not enough to look at Hua Yang openly, so he turned around and lay with his back facing him.

Chen Jingzong took out the envelope, got into the bed, pulled her back into his arms with one hand, held the envelope in the other hand, and bit the seal with his teeth.

Looking inside, it turned out to be a stack of banknotes.

He looked at Hua Yang: "The Jade Guanyin has already made a move?"

Hua Yang: "Yes, Wu Run made a special trip to Yueyang to find wealthy merchants there to sell them. The total price is 20,000 taels. If it wasn't for the rush of time, he should be able to sell more."

Chen Jingzong frowned upon hearing this.

The Chen family has no background, and it was only because of an old man that they became a master. Even so, the family style of the Chen family is still simple. Chen Jingzong has lived for so many years, and only after marrying Hua Yang can he see some jewelry every dayAnd precious silk and satin, for example, the Sichuan brocade mattress she likes to use, even if he doesn't have the right to sleep without taking a bath.

When he saw the two gifts from King Xiang earlier, Chen Jingzong couldn't appreciate the specific value. He only guessed that they were good things, which could be sold for about a thousand taels of silver.

Who would have thought that among the two pieces, Jade Guanyin, which Hua Yang didn't like very much, could sell for 20,000 taels!

Wouldn't the original painting by Huizong from the previous dynasty be more expensive?

King Xiang was willing to give Hua Yang tens of thousands of taels of silver, which only shows that the interests he wants to keep may be hundreds of thousands, millions or even tens of millions of taels!

He was silent for too long, Hua Yang raised his head, saw his face clearly, Hua Yang could guess what he was thinking, and said with a bit of sarcasm: "Officials still know how to use their power to exploit the people, let alone the vassal kings everywhere.Just a certain generation of vassal kings can amass a strong net worth. After several generations of accumulation, the wealth can be imagined. If you choose a vassal king at random, the things in the treasure house of the palace may be better than others.through the treasury."

When the emperor's grandfather was in power, the treasury was not only clean, but it was in short supply every year. Fortunately, the father was a good person, and the treasury was able to leave some surplus in these years, but it was tight.

"Okay, don't mention that, how much money do you want to spend at the guard?" Hua Yang patted his chest lightly.

The vassal king is a problem left by the grandpa of the great ancestor. The previous emperors have had a headache, but they have to raise them. Even the ancestors can't help it. She and Chen Jingzong don't worry about it.

Chen Jingzong held her hand, looked at the bank notes again, and said: "Give me one thousand taels, it can solve the current problem of the guard for the time being, and when I return the military land that was privately swallowed by those people, rely on the military landThe guards will be able to operate normally with the production and the military salary allocated by the imperial court."

Xiang Baoshan is right in saying that it is not a long-term way to rely on selfishness to benefit the public.

Hua Yang: "There are more than five thousand soldiers, is one thousand taels too little?"

Chen Jingzong: "You and I have only been married for more than a year, and my son-in-law's annual salary is exactly one thousand taels. If I take more, those people will suspect that you subsidize me. Isn't the previous play for nothing?"

Hua Yang blinked, and joked, "Didn't you remind me by beating around the bush that you still have a thousand taels of salary with me?"

Chen Jingzong threw away the envelope, turned around and pressed her under him: "Even you are mine, how could I care about those things outside of me."

Hua Yang pouted: "Who is yours? Just like a wife who makes a mistake will be divorced by her husband. You have to behave well so that you can be my consort for a long time."

Chen Jingzong: "How do you count as a good performance? Let you become a fairy three times like just now..."

Hua Yang covered his dog's mouth!

The next day, it was almost noon when Hua Yang woke up.

My body was so sore that didn't feel so tired after kicking a thousand shuttlecocks in a row.

It was Chen Jingzong who rang the bell and didn't want to come in.

She was surprised: "You didn't go to the guard?"

Chen Jingzong: "I passed out last night. With such a serious injury, I can't justify not asking for three days off."

Hua Yang was speechless!

At this time, the news that the son-in-law had successfully returned to Ning Yuan and hadn't left all morning had already reached the ears of everyone who cared about the matter.

At the magistrate's yamen, Yu Xiu asked her husband, "Then shall I still use it today?"

Chen Bozong: "No, the two of them should be reconciled. If you are really worried, you can go and have a look after the fourth brother goes to the guard again."

Yu Xiu nodded.

In Xiangwang Mansion, Xiangwang thought about Chen Jingzong's performance last night from beginning to end, and suddenly let out a sneer.

Falling out of favor, being injured and then regaining favor, he is too familiar with this method, many beauties in the backyard have used it!Although Chen Jingzong didn't want to borrow soldiers to enslave him, he still liked the beauty princess in his heart, so when he heard that the princess might have a crush on a certain actor, he immediately pretended to be sick and took the opportunity to go back to Ning Yuan, and then relied on his handsome face,The stalwart body pleases the princess. Men and women are the same in that kind of thing. When the body is comfortable, you can say anything!

Damn the fourth son of the Chen family, he paid tens of thousands of taels of silver here, and Chen Jingzong took all the benefits of his love. He not only won face with the guard, but also won benefits with the princess!

After the resentment was over, King Xiang walked to the mirror, looked at his plump figure and unexaggeratedly handsome face, and sighed regretfully.

As long as he is also a handsome man, what's the matter with Chen Jingzong?

Lingzhou Guard, Xiang Baoshan and others were waiting for news early in the morning, when Ning Yuan sent someone over, saying that the son-in-law would be recuperating for three days.They both breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally reconciled, if the son-in-law stays in the guard, they will also suffer!

When King Xiang let down his vigilance, Hua Yang quietly wrote a letter to his father. Attached to the letter was the authentic Huizong painting and the envelope containing the nineteen thousand taels of silver.

In the imperial study room, Emperor Jingshun was very happy. This time, his daughter only wrote him a letter from home, and it seemed that he even brought him a gift!

He picked up the letter first.

However, Emperor Jingshun never expected that his daughter greeted him in the first sentence, and the second sentence became "Father, the son-in-law bullied me too much!"

With just these few words, Emperor Jingshun became angry, as if he saw his daughter's pitiful face that had suffered a great grievance!

What a good Chen Jingzong, he didn't dislike Chen Jingzong, who was a brute without fame, and reluctantly agreed to this marriage purely because of the face of Chen Tingjian and Empress Qi. Chen Jingzong dared to bully his favorite princess!

Chest rose and fell, Emperor Jingshun continued to look down with a sullen face.

This letter can be summed up in four paragraphs:

"Father, Uncle Xiang Wang is so kind to me, he gave me two treasures, and he just wanted to temporarily borrow more than a thousand soldiers from the guard. Of course, my daughter is willing to grant it."

"Father, the son-in-law is such a jerk, he even told me the truth that feudal lords can't transfer troops, and even forced me to return the gift, otherwise he won't go back to Ning Yuan!"

"Father, my daughter has been in a cold war with the son-in-law for half a month, and she is still angry, but the son-in-law was injured and fell into a coma all night. My daughter couldn't bear to see him pitiful, so she sold Jade Guanyin and wanted to give him the silver ticket., let him use it as military supplies, which can be regarded as paying for Uncle Wang’s previous borrowing of soldiers. The son-in-law was actually very angry, saying that many soldiers didn’t even have winter clothes to keep out the cold, so he only took one thousand taels for emergency, and the restHe's not rare."

"Father, it is not rare for him to be noble, and neither is his daughter. Let me honor you with flowers and present Buddha. I just ask my father to make the decision for me. I will teach my son-in-law a lesson. It is all his fault that I will lose face with Uncle Wang!"

Emperor Jingshun read the letter back and forth three times, and then looked at the two presents, the banknotes were nothing, and the other treasure was actually an authentic Huizong work!

The shot is the authentic Huizong, King Xiang is really rich!

Emperor Jingshun remembered when he was still the prince. At that time, the imperial court was short of money for many years.Anxious, he didn't know, he was so worried that he couldn't sleep all night.But those vassal kings never took out some money to help the court tide over difficulties, they just urged the court to pay them the salaries they deserved!

Especially this King Xiang, an official from the Lingzhou government handed him a son to join him before. Emperor Jingshun didn't pursue it for the sake of his clan. King Xiang didn't know how to repent, and even dared to transfer troops from the guard!

He dared to mobilize troops to build a garden today, but would he dare to mobilize troops to do something else tomorrow?

The most hateful thing is that King Xiang, a man of his age, dared to take advantage of his daughter's innocence and kindness, and almost broke the relationship between his daughter and his son-in-law!

In the whole matter, in Emperor Jingshun's opinion, the daughter was right, and the son-in-law was even better, and only King Xiang was a sinner!

Emperor Jingshun really wanted to call King Xiang to the capital to scold him, but unfortunately, if King Xiang was held accountable for such a trivial matter, what would the other vassals think?

The head of a famous family needs to be fair and convincing to the public. He should also uphold this way when dealing with the vassals. If he acts arbitrarily based on his status as the emperor, and chills the hearts of the vassals, he may be shaken.Country.At the beginning, the certain ancestor who wanted to withdraw from the feudal clan lost even the throne. To whom did he lose it? To their grandpa Cheng who was still the prince of the feudal clan at the beginning!

Grandfather Cheng doesn't allow others to withdraw the feudal clan. If their descendants touch any feudal king easily, they will hit Grandfather Cheng in the face!

All kinds of emotions passed through my heart, and finally turned into a heavy sigh.

After calming down, Emperor Jingshun began to write a reply letter to his daughter, gently reminding his daughter to avoid contact with King Xiang, and then praised his son-in-law for his uprightness inherited from Chen Tingjian, telling his daughter not to get angry with his son-in-law again.

After writing the letter, Emperor Jingshun walked to the window with his hands behind his back, imagining the guards scattered all over the place.

Local officials can be greedy, and vassal kings can be greedy too, but these silverfish can't destroy the imperial court's millions of troops!

If the soldiers can't even wear cotton clothes to keep out the cold, and they are transferred to slavery for nothing, who would want to serve the country loyally?Otherwise, it is the blessing of the ancestors!

"Call the Minister of the Ministry of War to see me!"

He wants to send several teams to inspect the guards in various places. He wants to see what kind of soldiers the imperial court pays such a large amount of military salary every year.

However, he will give officials from all over the country three months to prepare. If he is willing to make up for it, he will let the past go. If he continues to be greedy, he will not be soft.