Li Yi touched the "Dongfeng" played by Li Xuan and chose a card to play: "Thirty thousand!"
Two days ago, the students of the School of Arithmetic began a tense account settlement. All the officials in the court were worried because of this matter. They had trouble sleeping and eating, and lost five pounds in two days. At this time, as a member of the School of Arithmetic, he
Dean, if you play mahjong in the college, it would be a bit outrageous.
Fortunately, the academy is not far from the palace, and Li Xuan has also been busy at the Academy of Sciences next door these days. In addition, the eldest princess is playing mahjong and there are three missing ones. Finally, she called the tsundere loli and just managed to get a table together.
"What a fool!"
The tsundere loli pushed down her wall of cards, her eyes curled up in laughter, "Give me money, give me money!"
Yongning stood next to Li Yi and gave her a copper coin in her hand with some distress. In half an hour, the copper coin in her hand was reduced by less than half.
While shuffling the cards, Li Mingzhu raised her head, glanced at Li Yi, and said slowly: "Today, more than ten courtiers reported illness and did not go to court. The morning court was over in less than a quarter of an hour."
She paused and said, "If we delay for a few more days, I'm afraid there will be less than half of the people in the court."
"The results will be announced tomorrow." Li Yi looked at the cards and was so surprised that he randomly played a south wind. Now he is waiting for the six-nine-barrel Hu card.
"Hu!"
The tsundere loli pushed down the card wall and said with a smile: "Give me money!"
After failing to play mahjong, he switched to playing poker. Li Yi and Tsundere Loli teamed up, and Li Xuan and Her Highness the Princess teamed up. After a while, the smile on Yongning's face brightened.
"Father, do you really intend to find out all corrupt officials?"
Just play cards well, look at how professional Li Xuan is, Her Royal Highness the Princess cannot do without the state affairs. Li Yi waved his hand and said: "How is it possible? If we really catch them all, I'm afraid the court will have to be cleaned inside and outside.
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Li Mingzhu's expression softened and asked: "Then why do you still need to check these accounts?"
"You'll know in the morning tomorrow." Li Yi arranged the cards and changed the subject: "How is your matter?"
"Everything went well." Li Mingzhu nodded and said: "According to what you said, a large piece of land was circled outside the city and a workshop was built. Most of the farmers near Kyoto sent over their school-age girls over thirteen years old.
Textile machines have also been improved, and soon, garment shops will open on a large scale in Kyoto."
"At that time, we need to subdivide the clothes. We need to separate the clothes for common people and the clothes for dignitaries and officials. The latter will take two more days of work and the workmanship will be more refined, and the price will be a hundred times more expensive."
"In addition, you send someone to take care of the military ration business with the generals. You are a princess, so it is easier to contact them. No one will gossip, so I will just collect the money..."
Li Xuan asked somewhat depressedly: "Why can Mingzhu do the military ration business, but I can't?"
Li Yi glanced at him. Is this guy stupid? Although he is half of the royal family, he is just the son of a prince. He has such a good relationship with the general and runs there every two days. What do the courtiers think?
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A smile suddenly appeared on Li Xuan's face. He no longer cared about this matter. He threw out a few cards and said: "Three with two, I only have one card left."
"I can't afford it."
Li Yi waved his hand, "Three twos and two threes, I can't afford it."
Li Mingzhu and his group would not take it even if they could afford it.
"King Zha!" Tsundere Loli threw out all the cards in her hand, "Shunzi, we won again..."
"Give me money, give me money!"
When it comes to playing cards and chess, there is no more reliable teammate than Tsundere Lolita. Yongning was busy collecting money. Li Xuan was a little discouraged. He thought of something and asked again: "Mingzhu, your birthday is coming soon. What do you want to do this year?"
What gift do you want?"
This way of asking is wrong. How can you directly ask someone what gift they want? When the time comes, just give him eight million taels of silver, which will definitely shock people's hearts than any other gift.
Tsundere Loli looked up at Li Yi and asked: "Sir, what gift are you planning to give to Sister Huang? My birthday is coming soon, so what you give me cannot be worse than Sister Huang's gift!"
"It will be kept secret for now."
Li Yi actually didn't know when Li Mingzhu's birthday was, but it happened to be in time this time and should be ready soon.
"Mingzhu and I were born on the same day." Li Xuan turned to look at Li Yi, his eyes seemed to have deep meaning.
Li Yi bowed his hands to him: "Happy birthday!"
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"The next day is already the second day."
In an official residence in Kyoto, a middle-aged man was pacing anxiously in the courtyard with several blisters on his mouth.
"Master, why don't you go to court tomorrow?" A woman walked out of the house and said worriedly.
The middle-aged man waved his hands impatiently and said, "If you don't go, if you don't go, just say I'm sick, very seriously!"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone came forward to report, "Go back to me, sir, someone is coming from the palace!"
The middle-aged man's face immediately turned pale, his legs softened, and he asked in a trembling voice: "Come..., how many have come?"
"One." The servant said, "Master, do you want to go see me?"
"See you, see you. Go ask him, what's the matter?" The middle-aged man waved his hand, walked quickly to the bed in the room, lay down, and wiped his face with two pieces of old ginger. He looked much weaker immediately.
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Not long after, the servant came in from outside again.
"Leaving?" the middle-aged man asked.
The servant replied: "Let's go."
The middle-aged man got up from the bed and asked, "What did he say?"
"The eunuch from the palace said that your Majesty has something important to announce to you tomorrow morning. He cannot ask for leave. Even if his life is hanging by a thread due to illness, he must be carried to the Golden Palace..."
The middle-aged man's vision went dark, and he fell limply on the bed.
At different times, there were many officials who also felt that their eyes were darkening.
In the past few days, the number of officials in the court has decreased by almost half. It seems that overnight, they all suffered from some kind of acute illness. Those who are sick cannot even go to court, and those who are sick can only recuperate at home.
His Majesty didn't say much about this. It seemed as if nothing had happened in the past two days. There was nothing unusual in the morning and evening.
However, on the second day, the eunuch was sent to inform those officials who reported illness that they were not allowed to ask for leave when they went to court tomorrow morning. The message was clearly conveyed that even if they died, they would die in the court hall.
Everyone knows that all the accounts sent to the School of Accountancy will be settled tomorrow, and then it will be time for His Majesty to settle accounts with them.
The various gates of Kyoto have been tightly guarded by the Forbidden Army. It is easy to enter the capital and difficult to leave. What's more, the areas near the homes of hundreds of officials in the imperial court are probably being closely watched by the Secret Service, as long as they make any unusual moves.
, I am afraid that someone from the Secret Service will come to the house soon to ask for a cup of tea.
Li Yi was not worried that someone in Kyoto would be unable to sleep again tonight, nor was he worried about whether their bodies could bear the stress after not sleeping well for many days. He looked at an oval glass bead handed over by Lao Fang. There were very few air bubbles in it.
No, although there is still a little bit of color, the impact is not big. Over the past month, after many improvements in equipment and processes, it has finally been pushed to this step.
It can finally be used to defraud money... and it can finally be used to benefit the vast number of female compatriots in Kyoto.
"The more we improve the process, the easier it will be to swindle money."
Li Yi handed the glass bead to Lao Fang and warned him again. At the same time, a carriage containing a box drove out from the School of Calculation and drove straight into the palace gate.
