Xie Xun stood in the corridor and suddenly heard a baby crying. Mrs. Liu gave birth. The new life born in the snowstorm seemed to bring light and hope, and a smile appeared on Xie Xun's lips.
Feng Yu smiled. She sat in front of the stove. The firelight reflected her snow-white face. A smile dyed her eyebrows. She looked soft and well-behaved. Xie Xun's heart dropped.
Feiying and Chunlu arrived with Dr. Zhou. Mrs. Liu was weak and bleeding after giving birth. Dr. Zhou was a gynecologist and was dragged to the delivery room for treatment by Aunt Yang.
Xie Xun stopped staying and took Fei Ying to make repairs.
That night, the north of the city was rebuilt in the snowstorm, busy but orderly. Feng Yu stayed up until dawn, but because of her high fever, she was strictly not allowed to stay in the north of the city by Dr. Zhou. Chun Lu stayed to continue to coordinate and deal with the aftermath, and Zhang Da escorted her.
Feng Yu returned to Feng Mansion.
Xie Xun requisitioned a private house as a temporary government office and was reviewing the Kyoto Guard's account books. It was snowing heavily and it was obviously the middle of winter, but Zhang Boxi was sweating. The Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Households were temporarily unable to control the north of the city. The repairs were expensive and Feng could not be allowed to do so.
It was a matter for the imperial court that Yu was the only one to provide the money. Xie Xun wanted to use Kyoto Guard's warehouse, but when he checked the accounts, he found that Kyoto Guard's account balance was only over one thousand taels.
Zhang Boxi led the people to repair and repair for a day, and was hungry and cold. Under Xie Xun's eyes like a knife, he cried and complained, "Little Marquis, Kyoto Guard has a bad reputation. The people are complaining and everyone looks down on it. Gong Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue is also slippery.
, watching people order dishes, every time they ask for payment, they push back and forth, either spring plowing or autumn plowing, or they make excuses that they need to repair the palace. In the end, the Ministry of Revenue does not have the money to send it to the Kyoto Guard. In order to pay the salary, Mr. Li and I can't even advance it privately.
Little money. Why did the Kyoto guards bully the people and dominate the market? They were forced to do nothing. If the national treasury was rich, Gong Shangshu would be very merciful. If there was a shortage, we wouldn't be able to get wages for three months, and there would be more than a thousand taels on the books.
It’s all leftover from the daily diet and downsizing.”
Xie Xun counted the numbers recorded in the account book, "The banquet at Peony House for the commander cost three hundred taels? If I remember correctly, it cost one hundred taels that day, and it was paid for by me. Are you sure that I won't check the accounts?"
Zhang Boxi felt a chill in his neck and said, "I must have been drunk that day and made a stupid account. But it's true, Mr. Marquis, that the Ministry of Accounts delayed the account and refused to pay. Everyone said that the Kyoto Guard was on the hook."
, don’t do anything. Everyone is working hard and there is no salary to get, who wants to be like a cow or a horse.”
Xie Xun has heard about this. There was a natural disaster this summer. Not to mention that the Kyoto Guards could not pay their salaries. Lin Sheng said that the Imperial Army almost lost their money. It is said that Mr. Gong of the Ministry of Revenue scolded him countless times in the house. Who wants to do this to the minister?
He wanted to retire and return to his hometown. During the two months of natural disasters in the summer, more than a dozen officials blocked the door of his house, and he complained about poverty every day in court.
In the end, Mr. Lin Ge came up with a way to borrow money from several aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen from Jiangnan to tide over the difficulties. The wealthy businessmen from Jiangnan and Jiangbei raised a total of 500,000 taels. The aristocratic families only had 100,000 taels in the beginning.
Later, the wealthy businessmen from Liangjiang raised more donations than they did, and the boss of Lin Ge became angry, and several famous families successively donated another 600,000 taels.
The imperial court said it was a loan, but everyone knew that the loan was never repaid, and the attitude was quite bad. If the money was not repaid, it could provide resources and protection. The resources the imperial court could provide to the wealthy merchants in Liangjiang were quite considerable. The resources it could provide to the aristocratic families were stretched thin, so the aristocratic families
No one is willing to fill this hole.
But the capital of the 10,000-person Kyoto Guard only amounted to more than 1,000 taels. Xie Xun really didn't expect how he would pay next month's salary. At this juncture, it was difficult for the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate funds.
The former commander who was dismissed and Zhang Boxi were definitely not clean. They might have been greedy for money, but the amount of greed was limited. The Kyoto Guard was too poor.
Xie Xun did not embarrass Zhang Boxi and said calmly, "The current repairs will cost money. Brothers, we need money for food and accommodation and the purchase of medicinal materials these days. Call all the children of the aristocratic family over and mobilize them to collect donations and keep accounts. After the snow disaster, I will
Hou personally asked the Ministry of Household Affairs for money and solved the urgent needs first."
Zhang Boxi's heart went cold as he listened to the howling wind outside. He wanted to advance money again, most likely to beat the dog with meat buns and never come back. Xie Xun had given orders, so he could only follow them.
Xie Xun called Fei Ying and Nuanyang over, "How much money can I pay for my private account?"
Fei Ying is the captain of the guard, and Nuanyang is in charge of money and money. He calculated it carefully and said sadly, "Master, it's not that I can't bear it. You really have no money, and you can only afford four hundred taels at most."
"Is this prince so poor?"
Nuanyang opened his big innocent eyes and settled the accounts with Xie Xun, "Master, don't forget, although you are the heir apparent, you don't care about money. The second son of the Hou Mansion is in charge of all the money. Every penny is spent carefully.
In Ningzhou, in order to pay for the army, the second young master has sold his private property for a huge sum, leaving only a little ancestral property. After you returned home, in order to play the role of a romantic young man who spends a lot of money, you sold two more manor houses, and the guards had to spend money to provide pensions.
You also have to pay back the money. You want to buy jewelry for your wives before New Year's Eve but you are short of money. We all have to sell ancestral property to make ends meet, so how can you have any private accounts?"
Xie Xun, "..."
But money was urgently needed for repairs in front of him. Xie Xun closed his eyes to rest and rubbed his temples, "The seven aristocratic families have just robbed. Who will do the robbery this time?"
Nuanyang provided Xie Xun with a new idea, "Master, the third girl can afford to support our Kyoto Guard, she is so rich."
"Not good!" Xie Xun said hypocritically, "She has contributed money and efforts to Chengbei for three consecutive years."
He always catches a sheep, and he feels a little guilty as he is as thick-skinned as the young marquis.
Fei Ying said, "Master, you can give the girl an IOU first and wait for the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate funds before paying it back to her."
Nuanyang murmured that the funding allocated by the Ministry of Household Affairs was just a piece of cake, and there was no hope for it.
"Good idea, Nuanyang, you go and borrow money from the third girl." A penny stumped the heroic man. Although the young prince regarded money as garbage and never cared about pleasure, he now also realized the difficulty of having no money.
After Nuanyang left, Xie Xun stayed still for a long time, looking at the wind and snow outside, and asked Fei Ying without giving up, "Our Marquis Mansion is so poor that we are selling our ancestral property?"
Fei Ying thought for a moment and replied, "Second Young Master sold all the property that was used to spend money instead of producing it. The ladies manage the ancestral property and the profits are huge, but they can't stop Ningzhou from burning money like water. If one day Ningzhou ceases the war.
, we will be rich.”
Xie Xun thought, no wonder the second brother said that the Northern Barbarians must be conquered, otherwise our whole family will live on the streets.
Chunlu's eyes became round when she heard that Nuanyang borrowed one million taels. And Nuanyang took the IOU signed and sealed by Xie Xun. Chunlu looked at Nuanyang's smiling face and said, "I have to ask the girl."
"Come on, Sister Chunlu, you have to tell us carefully. The Marquis will definitely repay this money." Nuanyang opened his eyes and lied, "Our Marquis family has a rich fortune, and we will definitely pay it back."