Hou Xiaoman continued to answer seriously: "How dare you? I am a seventh-rank official in Shangfeng. How dare you ask a top retired veteran of the Four Dynasties?"
Including the Queen Mother's two sons, Yu Anxiong has indeed experienced four emperors, which is amazing!
Li Ke asked Hou Xiaoman to drink the water in the cup, and then continued to ask: "Then why does your family leader suspect that Mr. Yu has any evil intentions?"
Hou Xiaoman stretched out the cup angrily: "It's not my Shangfeng who is suspicious, it's my Shangfeng's Shangfeng who is suspicious."
"You are sophistry." Li Ke shouted, while leisurely refilling Hou Xiaoman's glass.
"It's not sophistry, it really isn't." Hou Xiao drank with a dry mouth: "I was forced to go to the peak."
"Yes." Li Ke was very satisfied, expressed sympathy for his family's climb, and then continued to ask: "Is there any official document or order for those who forced your family to climb?"
"No, I had a big drink with Shangfeng that day. I saw with my own eyes what kind of compass and warp weaving they were going to do..."
Li Ke reminded: "Luo Zhijing."
"Ah, yes." Hou Xiaoman patted his head: "It's Luo Zhijing."
It turns out that his family, Shangfeng and Shangfeng, wanted to catch Yu Anxiong and build their own "contributions." This kind of thing was very popular under the Queen Mother's rule.
"Hehehehe." Li Ke refilled Hou Xiaoman's glass with a smile on his face: "Then you will repay him truthfully."
A good story.
That day, Yu Anxiong pulled Li Ke into a quiet place in Datongfang. It was not that he had any evil intentions, but that the old guy Yu Anxiong had taken a liking to Li Ke's donkey and insisted that Li Ke lend it to him to ride on. a few days.
This is to rob the donkey by force. Did Li Ke agree?
Of course I don’t agree, but what else can I do if I don’t agree?
Li Ke, who was seriously injured and had not recovered, could not defeat Yu Anxiong, who had millions of corpses buried in his body. He was the top official of the Tang Dynasty.
As a result, he had no choice but to surrender the donkey and let the donkey suffer humiliation at the hands of the old and disrespectful "slave man."
Hateful.
"Tell me, can I beat a seventy-year-old man?" Li Ke looked at the sky with hatred, trying hard to squeeze out a tear: "Uuhuhu."
Hou Xiao drank another glass of water with a dry mouth and sympathized with Li Ke: "You can't beat Li Ke. You can't even beat me as brave as I am. Not to mention that His Majesty is still seriously injured... ah... ah, ah owe."
Li Ke hurriedly hid to avoid being infected with the cold by this boy.
"Hey, when socializing in spring and summer, you should pay attention to your health." Li Ke sent Hou Xiaoman out with a caring face, thinking to himself: I wonder if that old guy Yu can handle other people's Luo Zhi?
On the day Li Xiaoyi was exiled and set off, all the people in Datongfang were locked in the school by Lin Youdian to practice calligraphy. They were very good and no one went out.
Li Ke sighed, hoping that old guy Yu Anxiong could weather the storm...
The sky cleared, the sun fell into the yard, and an auspicious cloud floated by.
Li Ke was overjoyed, that old guy Yu Anxiong would definitely be able to weather the storm...
But suddenly.
Another shadow flew into the yard: "Follow me."
Li Ke gritted his teeth: "No, my injury is not healed."
"Are you leaving?"
"Not leaving."
A flash of stars almost turned Li Ke into a pile of ruins...
"Auntie, let's go quickly. The journey is too tiring."
"...Be careful with your skin." Fang Rou warned, and then continued to lead Li Ke towards the palace.
The palace is on the west side of the Daming Palace, and is only separated by a wall from the right guard station of the Daming Palace.
But, why does this world's most wealthy house not smell of money at all?
Li Ke was very puzzled. Shouldn't the palace look like gold floating everywhere?
"Be careful." Fang Rou helped Li Ke into a lonely main room with almost no furnishings.
Li Ke really wanted to be supported like this all the time. This was the closest moment to Fang Rou.
But “Oops.”
Fang Rou waved her hand and put Li Ke on the desk in the center of the main room: "Work."
Well, Li Ke lay down and unfolded the documents on the desk.
There are a lot of documents, a pile of them, all of which are minutes of various business affairs under the control of the palace.
The Tang Dynasty was light on corvee and low on taxes. Apart from the strict management of rent and transfer by the court, it did not set up any monopoly or tax on private goods such as cars, ships, salt and iron, etc.
Therefore, the palace's business scope is very broad, and there are many documents, even if they are just financial items summarized on the desk.
There are all kinds of items including gold and copper, carriages and horses, salt and iron, luxury goods, and various income items under the control of the royal palace. There are even sections involving finely crafted agricultural tools and various alcoholic beverages.
The historical overview of financial items filled a large stack of paper, listed very clearly from top to bottom, and were the culmination of months of careful calculations by palace experts.
The data is very large, and all of it is increasing year by year. The wealth of the Queen Mother's inner palace is increasing day by day, just like the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
Heroic, this is the confidence of the Queen Mother.
Li Ke watched it with gusto, of course, mainly because Fang Rou was waiting beside him, and he ate the pastry and sweet juice with gusto.
"Can you see the problem?" Fang Rou handed Li Ke another glass of sweet water.
The financial items are all confidential. Showing them to Li Ke is not for fun, but to analyze the problem and eliminate possible hidden dangers in the palace.
Where does the wealth of Wu Meiniang, who is so rich that rivals the country's, come from? Has it penetrated into the context of the palace?
The experts in the palace had no conclusion, so Fang Rou brought Li Ke, who "knows Wu Meiniang best" in the world, here to see if he could analyze any clues about Wu Meiniang.
But how easy is it to find Wu Meiniang based on data alone?
"Is there any progress with Li Zhi?" Li Ke asked thoughtfully.
"I don't know. Now Li Zhi's Wolf Analysis Office has nothing to do with my palace." Fang Rou replied calmly.
Now the Queen Mother has divided the affairs involving Wu Meiniang into two parts. The Analytical Wolf Department and the Royal Palace are investigating in parallel. There is no overlap between the two sides. They are reported to the Queen Mother in a single line and independently.
This division is also the result of the efforts of the head of the palace, Master Ye.
subtle.
That guy Li Zhi rose to the top too quickly, and the matters he was dealing with involved Li Shimin, so Master Ye didn't want to get too involved with him.
"Okay." Li Ke patted the unfolded document to express his understanding.
Of course I understand that a small school captain is just a small ant to the palace and the current Analysis Wolf Office. If you don't understand, what else can you do?
…
Where did Wu Meiniang's wealth come from?
It is difficult to tell from the documentary records in front of us, because according to the chronology, the number of each item of income is increasing without any downward trend.
This summary of the past years is a good list, and no problems can be found on a good list.
