Seeing Changsheng nodding, Datou felt sad in his heart, because not long ago Changsheng had personally said that digging graves would greatly harm his moral character. If he was not really desperate, Changsheng would never do this, not to mention that this would harm his moral character. Let’s just say that the eternal infamy of digging graves will definitely remain.
Knowing what the decision of immortality meant, Datou did not show any heaviness, but immediately agreed, "This is the best way. People are dead, and they don't want to give up their damn money. Why take it underground? It's better to dig it out." For the living.”
Yang Kai also knew that Changsheng was under a lot of psychological pressure. After Da Tou finished speaking, he immediately echoed, "What Da Tou said makes sense. As long as the body is not destroyed, taking out the buried gold and silver and using it for the people will not harm the peace of the world."
Chang Sheng could not hear the two of them comforting themselves, "Some things can be done, and some things cannot be done. What we want to do belongs to the latter in the eyes of the world. Don't you understand these current officials and scholars, they govern the country Anbang is bullshit. If you criticize and slander one of us, we must keep the wind under wraps, but we can’t let them know about it, otherwise we don’t know how they will scold us.”
After Chang Sheng finished speaking, Da Tou and Yang Kai nodded repeatedly.
While Chang Sheng was walking, he turned to look at Da Tou, "Just now you said we could raise another ten million taels?"
Datou nodded and said, "The Ni family's properties in all major states and counties have been given to Master Zhang to subsidize military supplies. We have a very limited amount left in our hands. If we add them all together, we can barely make up 10 million taels."
"Sell it and discount it as soon as possible," Changsheng said. "Send five million taels to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to meet the emperor's urgent needs. The rest will be put into the treasury of the household department to maintain the normal expenses of the three provinces and six departments."
"Aren't we going to keep any for ourselves?" Big Head grinned.
"Not staying." Changsheng shook his head.
"That won't work. You have to save some money for expenses." Datou shook his head repeatedly.
Seeing Chang Sheng frowning, Datou hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty, we only have this little money. If we don't keep any of it, what will we use it for in the future?"
"Leave one million taels in the palace." Yang Kai said.
Yang Kai rarely expresses his opinions on weekdays. Seeing him speak, Changsheng no longer objected, "I will leave this matter to you. I will go out tomorrow."
"My lord, where are you going?" Datou asked.
"I have to go to two places, first to the Taiping Temple in Mount Ashan," Changsheng said, "and then to Shuzhou."
Datou asked in confusion, "Why are you going to Taiping Temple? Didn't you ask me to send you your spiritual energy token there? If that old turtle experiences a catastrophe, he will use his spiritual energy token to invite you there."
Changsheng explained in a low voice, "The Taiping Taoist priest of Taiping Temple is indeed a turtle spirit. When he was condensing his inner elixir, he accidentally gave birth to a turtle treasure. This thing is extremely magical and can detect gold and silver buried deep in the ground." Jewelry, at the moment I don’t know whether the turtle treasure can only be used by Taiping Taoist himself, or can be used by others carrying it with him. If it is the former, I can only ask him to come out. If it is the latter, I want to borrow the turtle treasure. Come explore and find the gold and silver treasures underground.”
"Oh, there is such a treasure," Datou Da was interested. "If we can find the ownerless treasure, we won't have to dig graves."
Changsheng shook his head and said, "It's early spring now. Spring plowing and sowing requires money and food. Money and food are needed to provide relief to the flood victims. Money and food are also needed to provide military supplies and military pay. It's not enough to just rely on turtle treasures to find treasures. I have to go to Shuzhou. My master Back then, I took several senior brothers to explore numerous ancient tombs, but that day they only took away the ancient books from the tombs, leaving the gold and silver inside untouched."
After listening to Changsheng's explanation, Datou suddenly realized, "Do you want to ask your three senior brothers to do this?"
"Yes," Chang Sheng didn't want to sigh, but he couldn't help but sigh, "I don't want them to wade into this muddy water, but I really can't help it. We finally lured the Japanese pirates' masters back to Japan and won a little bit. Time cannot be wasted on raising money, so I will entrust the raising of money to them, and we must go out to find the earthly branches as soon as possible."
After Chang Sheng finished speaking, Yang Kai answered, "Your Majesty, the court can't do without you right now. If that doesn't work, Yu Yi Shi Xuanming and I will go search for the Earthly Branches. Our search is nothing more than to determine their location and leave behind... "
Yang Kai stopped when he said this, because he suddenly thought that neither he nor Yu Yishi Xuanming had been promoted to purple energy, and they could not leave any spiritual energy tokens after finding the Earthly Branches. Without the spiritual energy tokens, if the Earthly Branches were weak, they would If you attack, you won't be able to notify everyone on your side to protect you.
Changsheng said, "I must be present in person for this matter. I am a man of destiny, and my aura is different from ordinary people. This is the only way to win their trust. If I am not present, you cannot make them believe that you are out of good intentions. They are very Might attack you."
Chang Sheng paused for a moment before continuing, "Although our previous plan to bring tigers back to the mountains was effective, the Japanese pirates may not necessarily bring back all their masters. If some are left behind to continue searching, they will meet on a narrow road. You may not get an advantage."
After Chang Sheng finished speaking, Da Tou and Yang Kai did not answer the conversation. Chang Sheng's concerns were not unnecessary, as the situation he mentioned may indeed occur.
As they approached the palace gate, the three of them stopped talking. The leader of the imperial guard in charge of the west gate's defense noticed the three of them and hurriedly greeted them. After saluting, he informed Changsheng that Liu Tianlin originally ordered the Yulin Army to send their mounts back to the palace, but they stayed outside the south gate. Their mounts would not let outsiders get close to them, so they had no choice but to send people to feed and guard them on the spot.
After leaving the palace, the three of them circled the moat to the south gate. As expected, the Yulin Army sent people to guard their mounts. Not long ago, Yu Yi and Shi Xuanming had ridden their respective mounts. At this time, the only ones left outside the south gate were Young Master Black and Yang Kai's sweaty horse that was born last year, while the big-headed White Girl is squatting on the big willow tree in the southwest of the square.
It was late at night when the three returned to the palace with their mounts. Someone had informed the palace earlier that Changsheng had returned to Chang'an, so when the three returned to the palace, everyone in the palace was waiting eagerly outside the door.
Knowing that Chang Sheng was back, the palace had already prepared the ingredients. After Chang Sheng came back, they started cooking. Da Tou and Yu Yi had dinner, but Chang Sheng and Yang Kai didn't eat, so they ordered a few random things and the kitchen hurriedly cooked them. .
After the meal was ready, Yu Yi and Shi Xuanming still hadn't returned, so Chang Sheng and Yang Kai ate first. Datou stopped eating after dinner and went to the kitchen to ask for raw meat to feed Miss Bai.
After eating, before Yu Yi and Shi Xuanming came back, Changsheng ordered the cook to deliver the food to their room, and then the three of them went back to their respective quarters to lie down and rest.
Changsheng only slept for an hour before he got up. After bathing and changing clothes, he put on his court clothes and prepared to go to court. To be fair, the prince's five-dragon python robe looked noble and heroic, and the green dragon cloak made him more free and elegant. However, Changsheng was not as ambitious as he was young at this time. Ji Renchen was so proud of his success, but he was only under great pressure caused by the bad situation and being besieged on all sides.
Everyone in the world wants to be an official, but they don’t know that it’s not that easy to be an official. The higher the status, the greater the pressure, and it can even make him unable to breathe.
When he came to the front yard, Yang Kai had already changed into his official uniform and waited for a long time. The emperor's words were the imperial edict. After the emperor conferred the title of four generals, the three provinces and six ministries would receive the notice. The Ministry of Personnel would register and create a register, the Ministry of Household Affairs would issue salaries, and the official uniforms and accessories would be The hair is woven by the Ministry of Rites.
The military uniform of the third-grade general is also very handsome, but there is no excitement on Yang Kai's face. Firstly, he knows that it is not easy to be a general. Secondly, he has no relatives. The reason why a man works hard is not for personal reasons. The good clothes and food are more for the honor and disgrace of the family. Without the company of relatives, no matter how successful you are, it will be meaningless.
Chang Sheng and Yang Kai had just left the palace when they saw Yu Yi and Shi Xuanming riding back with tired faces. They needed to take the concubines and palace servants out of the prisons in the inner palace overnight and send them to the temple outside the city to settle down. , it takes a long time to go back and forth.
After a brief conversation with Yu Yi and Shi Xuanming, Chang Sheng and Yang Kai rode to court. In fact, they were not sure whether the emperor would go to court this morning, but even if the emperor did not go to court, they had to enter the palace. The emperor had just been rescued and was still in shock. , I will feel uneasy if I can’t see him.
Due to the good seal of information, the people in the city did not know that the emperor had been transferred to another contract, but they all knew that Qian Zhonglin, the provincial minister under the command of the imperial family, was killed last night. At this time, this was secretly discussed in the streets.
Regarding Qian Zhonglin, Changsheng originally regarded him as foolishly loyal, but now he no longer thinks so. Civil servants, like women, are jealous and do not want to see other officials being reused. He is loyal to the emperor. This old guy is not You may not know, but to say the least, even if Qian Zhonglin really suspected that he had disobedient intentions, he should not attack those veterans of the Western Regions. Those veterans of the Western Regions were brought back from the desert of the Western Regions. Punishing the veterans is indeed the right thing to do. It's a slap in the face, but this move will also make the emperor bear the infamy of being dishonest. This old guy really deserves to die, it's too late.
When they arrived at the palace, all the ministers came forward to greet Chang Sheng. After what happened yesterday, all civil and military officials saw two facts clearly. First, Chang Sheng and Zhang Shan were truly loyal ministers, and second, who were they? It is impossible to shake Changsheng's position in the emperor's heart.
These officials are not fools. They all know who did the assassination of Qian Zhonglin, but they can only pretend to be confused even if they know it. No one dares to mention it in front of Chang Sheng.
Changsheng had some good friends with the officials in the court. He first had a few words with the officials of various ministries, and then called Wu Yusheng aside to ask about the situation in the household department. Wu Yusheng had returned to the household department overnight yesterday to check the accounts, and he knew what was going on. All the money and food from the ministry had been allocated, and there was no hope of recovery. However, some of the money and food transferred from various local government departments to Luoyang and Xichuan had not yet arrived. Wu Yusheng had issued an order overnight, ordering all localities to urgently redirect the money and food to Chang'an, in order to gain breathing space for the court. opportunity...
