Li Baiyu held up the ink pen and took a sneak peek at the stunned Liu Dashao who smacked his lips helplessly, another victim of his father!
Unexpectedly, Gouzi... My father has changed. He spits sweet fragrance at him every day and yells at me. Now I see my extremely favored brother-in-law and he has become his father's victim. Li Baiyu I finally felt more comfortable.
Typical schadenfreude.
"Father, my son is even poorer. You don't know. He is so poor that he almost took his official robe to a pawn shop and asked Yan'er to pawn it for money!"
Young Master Liu suddenly burst into tears, but not a single tear fell.
Li Zheng and the Crown Prince were caught off guard and were startled. They looked at Young Master Liu in astonishment, looking as miserable as if he were mourning for an heir. His face was a little unnatural.
The corners of Li Zheng's eyes twitched. Young Master Liu was so shameless that he felt ashamed of himself!
Li Baiyu's ink pen flickered, and his face became gloomy as he looked at the ink marks on the memorial.
Damn it, my prince has provoked someone! You all have trouble with me, right? This memorial will be issued the day after tomorrow. What should I do with such a large ink mark?
"I think my father has seen the Hoe people here, and I learned the art of cannon casting from them!"
"However, when I first heard what the Hoeers said, I was skeptical, thinking how could there be such a powerful thing in the world!"
"But I know very well that if you want to explore the results, you must do it on your own. In order to cast these fifty cannons and the required ammunition, you will lose all your money and almost sell your sons and daughters!"
"All the coal was spent, and all the property my father gave me to start my own business was completely consumed. My son's salary was barely enough to support the family. I had no choice but to shamelessly go to Zhurun, the Marquis of Guan Nei, to borrow it. I bought six million taels of silver to continue research!"
"This is all the money I borrowed with shamelessness. I may seem like a good person, but who would have thought that I actually owe six million taels of silver!"
"The son-in-law's wife, Mrs. Liu Qiyun, has not been willing to use rouge and gouache for a whole year. In order to reduce the pressure on the son-in-law, the wife of Fu Zhengping, Mrs. Liu's Li Yan, had to put aside the dignity of her daughter's family and go to the queen mother to beg for some clothes to wear!"
"My concubine Qinglian and the others dare not go out for a stroll, for fear that their shoes will be worn out and increase my burden!"
"There are several children who are crying for food and can only eat porridge and water. The wet nurse is not willing to spend money to hire one to provide them with more nutrition! Several children are so hungry that they have yellow faces and thin bodies!"
Young Master Liu raised his sleeves: "Father's dragon robe still has patches to use! I don't even want to use patches on my son's clothes, just to save two pieces of cloth for my son Chenggan to use as diapers!"
"When I had not established my own business, I kept pretending to be poor. Now that I have established my own business, I have shown my cards and stopped pretending. I am really poor. You can tell it at a glance without even pretending!"
"My father is poor and still needs subsidies from the state treasury, but my son is poor and has no one to support him!"
"It took 30 million silver to cast fifty cannons and thousands of shells. I dare not report it without on-the-spot testing, for fear that my colleagues in the court would accuse me of making wild and monstrous words to confuse the public and deceive the king's heart!"
"We can only take advantage of the opportunity of the Western Expedition to test the power of artillery. However, once the cannon is fired, gold is worth ten thousand taels, but during the Western Expedition, the cost of shells was as high as three million taels of snowflakes and silver!"
"My son is using all his family property to serve his father! Just when I was thinking of taking some time to ask my father to reimburse my expenses to support my family, my father unexpectedly focused on my son's artillery and wanted to have sex for free. .......Can’t get any money!"
"If my mother didn't feel sorry for my son, and secretly gave him some money she had saved, which is one hundred and twenty-three taels and six copper coins, I remember it clearly. If my mother didn't love my son so deeply, I would have been there long ago. I took my family with me to beg for a living."
"I think that when I am approaching my thirties, I still have to rely on my mother to support me. I am so ashamed. How can I have the face to meet the ancestors of the Liu family!"
"God, is there any truth in this world?"
This time it was Li Baiyu who was stunned, and Li Zheng's face twitched.
Mr. Liu and Mr. Li Zheng were dumbfounded when they heard the constant complaining words from Mr. Liu's little mouth.
Li Zheng swallowed his saliva and looked at Mr. Liu who looked miserable. Is it so miserable?
She wears a Sichuan brocade woven jacket worth three hundred taels, a Fuyao-pointed emerald cloud smoke pleated skirt worth about one hundred taels of silver, walking shoes with golden threads on the clouds, a snow-white clouded leopard skin cloak, and a jasper-inlaid gold hairpin on her head.
This outfit is worth at least a thousand taels of silver, which is more than enough.
The clothes the three princesses wore when they entered the palace flashed in Li Zheng's mind.
Li Zheng's face turned a little red. If Yan'er hadn't just entered the palace and I saw it clearly, I would have believed you!
A single outfit is enough to cover the expenses of an ordinary person's family for nearly ten years. You and I are crying about poverty. I'm afraid you are treating me like a fool and fooling me!
If you don't have money, your concubine won't be able to afford a few rooms.
Li Zheng rubbed his forehead with a darkened face.
"Come on, don't pretend to be poor, and I won't complain. Open the skylight and speak frankly. I won't force you, but don't bullshit me either. You and I, my husband-in-law, give me a good time. How can you use firepower? Support Wu Guogong in his northern expedition. It’s okay to have some money, but don’t talk too loudly!”
"Twelve million taels for the fifty artillery pieces. We don't have any shells right now. Let's get some and give them three million taels before we go on the expedition. This is an honest price given by me out of consideration for being both a monarch and a son-in-law!" "
"Your damn artillery is made of pure gold. The artillery shells and shells together cost half of the tax revenue of the treasury. You dare to ask for 15 million silver for something made of iron. Pure gold is not worth the price!"
Li Zheng suddenly stood up and looked at Young Master Liu furiously!
"Father, it's not like this. What I gave you is an honest price. You can't let me keep the money spent on researching artillery. You can't really bankrupt your family by working hard for the dragon, right? Marquis of Guannei There is still a foreign debt of six million taels over there. If my father doesn’t believe it, I will get the account book right away!”
"Then where do you want me to get the fucking fifteen million taels of silver? I'll sell the palace!"
All the imperial dignity and royal dignity were forgotten by Li Zheng, and he was just spitting out fragrance.
The face of an emperor is worthless in front of fifteen million taels of silver.
As long as we don't talk about money, it won't be a problem if you let me pretend to be otherworldly.
When it comes to money, I admit that I am a scoundrel.
"It's not like selling the palace. Even if the artillery cannon costs five million taels at least, my father can't let me pay for the money to make the cannonballs. When the cannon goes off, the gold is ten thousand taels, and every shot fired is silver, isn't it? I blew it with my mouth!"
"There is no money. The national treasury only has four million taels. The tax money for several years has not been confiscated. The Northern Expedition will consume a lot of money. Where can I get money for you?"
Young Master Liu closed his eyes and muttered for a while, looking at Li Zheng faintly.
"Father, the treasury should have nine million taels of silver!"
"How did you know..."
Li Zheng looked at Mr. Liu helplessly, and he was so angry that he was confused. Liu Mingzhi was the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. He knew how much money the treasury had than himself, the emperor!
"You have to leave some emergency cash for the national treasury! Once the war starts, you know better than anyone how much money is spent on transporting grain and grass to the soldiers. There won't be much money left at all!"
Young Master Liu looked at Li Zheng coyly: "Father, the share of the coal business in the past few years has been estimated at 12 million taels of silver by the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"
"Bullshit, there are only more than 800 left... What do you mean, Liu Mingzhi, you bastard, you are not afraid of God's punishment, but you are thinking about the coffin book of my father-in-law and me. You want me to be exposed in the wilderness a hundred years later." ?"
"Long live my father! Long live my father!"
"Stop trying to bullshit me! If I were really able to live forever, I wouldn't be in a hurry to go to the West and march north. I would have to endure them to death! Besides, the inner treasury is my private money. It doesn't make sense. Use my private money to subsidize the national treasury! I am already in my forties this year and have only a few years left to live. You are not so shameless as to take my coffin book. You are my son-in-law, and I will marry Yaner. I’ll treat you as your wife, isn’t this kindness enough?”
"Father, when it comes to our relationship, we have to have a good time talking about it!"
"In the past, you went to the south of the Yangtze River incognito. How much money you saved for the court through your favors. How much money was saved by horseshoes. How much money was saved by the telescope for the training of scouts. How much money was transferred from the border trade. How much money did the coal business have? Boxes of banknotes were sent to the palace, and those were banknotes, so my son didn’t say anything!"
Li Zheng took a few deep breaths: "That's all, let's just pretend that my coffin can no longer hold it. Instead of covering the coffin, I will give 3 million taels to Liu Chengfeng. The two sisters Liu Yiyi will upgrade their titles to one level in exchange for your 50. A cannon plus enough shells!”
"Five million taels don't require a title!"
"Get out of here!"
"Is your son studying the consumption of artillery before?"
"I'll write a note for you and return it to you when the tax revenue comes in from the treasury!"
"Your Highness, please lend me a writing brush!"
In the blink of an eye, Young Master Liu took out a piece of rice paper and a brush and lay face down in front of Li Zheng's dragon case.
"Father, you're done!"
Li Zheng looked at Young Master Liu with a darkened face: "Is it really written? I am a man of gold and gold!"
Liu Mingzhi's expression turned bitter: "Father, don't you plan to default on your debt?"
Li Zheng groaned and took Liu Mingzhi's brush with a dark expression.
"I'm writing, you can live your whole life holding on to your money, or you'll be crushed to death!"
"Don't talk about crushing me to death, I'm happy to smash you to death!"
The brush was flying in one fell swoop, and Li Zheng threw the rice paper to Liu Mingzhi helplessly.
"get out!"
Liu Mingzhi checked it carefully, nodded with satisfaction, and spread the rice paper in front of Li Zheng again.
"Father, seal!"
"you............."
"My father, my son, and my subjects have a hard life!"
"Isn't it enough for me to cover it? Liu Mingzhi, believe it or not, if anyone else besides you dares to bargain with me like this, the grass on the grave will be three to five feet high and sway in the wind!"
"My son, I believe, this is not the reason why our father-in-law and son-in-law have a deep love for each other!"
Liu Mingzhi's eyes were fixed on the IOU and he couldn't bear to move away. The cost of researching artillery by himself was considered a return!
"My son, please retire!"
"Go away, by the way, before you cry for poverty next time, put the Donghai white jade worth 20,000 taels of silver in your waist at home. Don't treat me like a fool, ha!"
"Forehead.........."
Liu Mingzhi scratched his head angrily: "Father, my father gave this to me before I established my own business. I will give it back to him after my son returns. A man of seven feet must be self-reliant and self-reliant!"
"Yes! If you are ambitious, Yan'er will change into a maid's clothes before returning to the palace next time! A poor person wears Shu brocade. Do you know that I also want to be so poor?"
"Yes, yes, I promise to pay attention, sir! What about the three million taels of silver notes?"
"Old Zhou, you quickly took him to the Treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and paid him three million taels of silver. I don't want to see him!"
"Obey...obey the order!"
The chief manager had an extremely weird expression on his face and walked towards Young Master Liu while clutching his fly whisk.
"Prince-in-law, come with us!"
"Father, I have resigned, and I have a job with the general manager!"
After a long time, Li Baiyu put down the ink pen in his hand and walked hesitantly to Li Zheng: "Father, brother-in-law..."
"I never mentioned the disaster relief in Qingzhou, the suppression of bandits in the south of the Yangtze River, or the military exploits of various countries in the Western Regions. I only talked about money."
"What my father means is..."
Li Zheng suddenly laughed and patted Li Baiyu's shoulder meaningfully.
"Isn't it bad to be greedy for money? I'm going to your mother's place, so you keep busy!"
The prince looked at his father's back and nodded understandingly!
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