Liu Mingzhi finished reading the brief content of the letter in his hand, and his face showed a bitter feeling of being played but unable to do anything about it.
The three beauties looked at the uncertain expression on their husband's face and asked with concern: "Husband, are you okay? What was written in the letter?"
“Is this a letter from a spy?”
“Did something happen?”
Liu Mingzhi felt the care in the words of Qi Ya and the three sisters, and handed the letter to Qi Ya's hand with a long sigh.
“Sister Ya, the three of you can see for yourselves.”
Qi Ya and the other three were not polite, and directly held the letter and approached the candlelight beside them. After reading the brief content on the letter, the three sisters looked at each other in astonishment, with solemn expressions in their eyes.
light.
"how so?"
“My husband is indeed right. It seems that our every move is under the surveillance of spy agents.”
“I just don’t know whether there are spy agents around us, or they have planted hidden stakes outside the house. If it’s the former, there are spy agents around us all the time, which would be too scary.
The servants and maids in the mansion can’t be said to be too much, and they can’t be said to be too few. It’s probably not easy to find out the existence of the spy.”
Liu Mingzhi squinted his eyes slightly and pondered for a long time. He turned around and took the letter in Qi Ya's hand and placed it on the flickering candle. Looking at the ignited letter, Liu Mingzhi casually tossed it and threw it into the brazier under the table.
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"The film owner should have arranged for his spies to hide hidden stakes outside the house or elsewhere. When I came out of the study to find you, I kept carefully observing the surrounding environment. No maids saw my husband at all.
where are u.
It is also possible that there are hidden spies around the ancestral temple. Our whereabouts may have been exposed as soon as we showed up at the ancestral temple.
Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that there may be a spy in our home.
After all, there are many capable people and strangers in the world, and it is not too unusual for some martial arts practitioners to possess some unique hiding abilities.
Even if my husband’s hearing and eyesight are far beyond the innate realm of ordinary experts, I dare not say that no one can escape my husband’s perception.
The so-called innate masters are, after all, just people whose true energy is deeper than ordinary warriors, rather than omnipotent gods."
“Husband, what are you going to do next? I feel a little creepy when I think that our every move, word and deed may be under the eyes of others.”
“The same is true for me. I didn’t know about it before, but now that I know about it, I always feel a little cold on my back and feel uncomfortable all over.”
Liu Mingzhi frowned slightly and sighed: "Of course it's the same as before, just do whatever you want! With the enemy in darkness and me in the clear, my husband is helpless now!
Sister Ya, you don’t need to feel any psychological pressure. For now, they only dare to do some shameful tricks behind the scenes.
Just leave the other things to your husband, and you can continue to live your own lives happily."
The three women were silent for a while. In order not to put any pressure on their husbands, they had to force themselves to smile and nod.
“Sisters, I understand.”
Liu Mingzhi took off his robe and walked towards the screen: "Looking at the forced smiles on your faces, since something unhappy happened, I have no choice but to work hard to make you all happy.
It’s getting late, just rest here tonight at Lian’er’s place, let’s rest together.”
Hearing this, the three girls’ pretty faces immediately turned red. They blew out the candles on the table and shyly followed behind the screen.
Not long after, Qinglian’s boudoir, which was originally slightly cool due to the cool night, became full of spring.
The eighth day of April in the fifth year of Taiping.
More than a month has passed unknowingly since Young Master Liu's last night visit to the ancestral temple. Liu Mingzhi has never secretly explored the Li family ancestral temple since more than a month ago, and the spy agents have never appeared in large numbers again.
Then, it seemed as if everything came to an end quietly.
As the Ministry of War sent people to various state capitals to post notices from the court, the people in Dalong once again learned about the glorious achievements of the Western Expedition Army in destroying two small barbarian countries.
For a time, there was an endless stream of young men from various prefectures and prefectures in Dalong who wanted to join the army, making the Ministry of War and the offices of the Ministry of War in various prefectures very busy.
In order to handle these matters satisfactorily, Mr. Liu's uncle Song Yu, the Minister of War, frequently went to Mr. Liu, hoping that Liu Mingzhi would get an idea and hear how he planned to handle the matter properly.
Song Yu, the Minister of the Ministry of War, made a rough calculation based on the documents reported by officials of the Ministry of War offices in various prefectures. In just a few months, there are now no less than 900,000 young Dalong men in various prefectures in Dalong who have volunteered to join the army.
people.
If everyone agrees to enlist them in the army, there will be 900,000 new recruits!
However, judging from the current strength of the imperial treasury, let alone recruiting 900,000 recruits at once, the imperial court would not have that much confidence even if it only recruits 500,000 recruits!
It is true that taxes from the imperial treasury are doubling year by year, but 50% of the money and grain are used to support the construction of people's livelihood in Beifu and Xinfu.
In order to make the people's livelihood and administration of the two governments catch up with the level of the people in the inner government as soon as possible, the imperial treasury flows out a lot of money every year.
The national treasury seems to be increasingly abundant, but it is actually a powerful force on the outside!
Let alone recruiting another 900,000 new soldiers, even if he recruits another 300,000 new soldiers, Jiang Yuanming, the Minister of Household Affairs, would have to pester Liu Dashao in the court to cry for poverty.
Therefore, Song Yu, even though he was the Minister of the Ministry of War who had overall power over the Ministry of War, did not dare to make any decisions on such an important matter, so he could only harass Young Master Liu again and again.
In the Qinzheng Hall of the Imperial Palace, Mr. Liu was sitting on the dragon chair with a strange look on his face as he read through the documents presented by the Ministry of War.
Without the imperial court posting a notice to recruit new soldiers, more than 900,000 young and strong men suddenly volunteered to join the army. This is nothing short of a good thing.
This shows that the prestige of the imperial court in the eyes of the people has reached an extremely high level.
But if there are 900,000 young and strong young men all of a sudden, what should the court use to support them?
Master Liu's thoughts are surprisingly consistent with Song Yu's, because it is true that he is happy about this matter, but no matter how happy he is, he must consider the actual situation.
In terms of the troops and horses guarding the border in the north plus the troops and horses for the Western Expedition, the imperial court now supported nearly a million elite troops.
Although the national treasury is not overstretched to feed so many soldiers and horses, there are still some areas where savings can be made.
Recruiting nearly one million new soldiers is not an easy task for the current imperial court.
In a word, there is no shortage of young people in the world of Dalong, but the national treasury is short of money and food!
New recruits eat sweet potatoes and potatoes after joining the army. It's okay to manage them, but you can't let the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who are loyal to the country eat sweet potatoes and potatoes all the time, right?
In this case, solicitation is worse than no solicitation.
Moreover, 900,000 young and strong young men are a labor force of 900,000 to the Dalong court. With these young and strong labor force in production and operation, the revenue generated is a considerable amount of income for the national treasury.
With the current situation of Dalong, Liu Mingzhi doesn’t really want to recruit these recruits.
However, if there is no recruitment, it will inevitably dampen the young people's desire to serve the country.
Gently closing the document and placing it on the dragon table, Liu Mingzhi looked at Jiang Yuanming, the Minister of Household Affairs under the dragon table.
“The Ministry of Husbandry, you have heard what the Ministry of War has just reported, so how many more recruits do you think the imperial court should recruit?”
Jiang Yuanming heard Liu Dashao's inquiry and walked out holding the Chao Hut with a depressed expression.
“Report to Your Majesty, there is no money in the treasury.”
Jiang Yuanming is the same as before. If I don’t talk about anything else, I just want to cry. No matter what I say, I can sum it up in four words.