Happy Little Scholar

"bump!"

Li Yi touched the "East Wind" 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 about this matter. They had trouble sleeping and eating, and lost five kilograms in two days. At this time, as a member of the School of Arithmetic, he Dean, if you play mahjong in the academy, it would be a bit outrageous.

Fortunately, the academy is not far from the palace. 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 available tomorrow." Li Yi looked at the cards and was so curious that he casually played a south wind. Now he is waiting for the six-nine-barrel Hu cards.

"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 was with Tsundere Loli, and Li Xuan was with Her Royal Highness. After a while, the smile on Yongning's face brightened.

"Father, do you really plan 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 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. "

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 put his cards in order 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 thirteen-year-old girls. 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, and separate the clothes for civilians and those 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? ?

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 kind of question 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.

The 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!"

"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, "Sir, someone is coming from the palace!"

The middle-aged man's face immediately turned pale, his legs went weak, 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, 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. .

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 tomorrow morning, His Majesty has important things to announce, and you cannot ask for leave. Even if you are sick and your life is hanging by a thread, you must be carried to the Golden Palace..."

The middle-aged man's eyes went dark, and he fell weakly on the bed.

At different times, there were many officials who also felt black in front of their eyes.

In the past few days, almost half of the officials in the court have been reduced. It seems that overnight, they have all suffered from some acute disease. The sick can't even go to court, and the sick can only recuperate at home.

And His Majesty didn't say much about it. It seems that nothing has happened in the past two days. There is nothing unusual in the court.

Only on the second day, the eunuchs were sent to inform those officials who reported illness that they were not allowed to ask for leave when they went to court early tomorrow morning. The meaning was very clear, even if they died, they had to die in the court.

Everyone knew that all the accounts sent to the Academy of Accounting would be settled tomorrow, and then it was time for His Majesty to settle accounts with them.

All the gates of Kyoto have been tightly guarded by the imperial guards. It is easy to enter the capital but difficult to leave. Moreover, the homes of the officials in the court are probably being closely watched by the Secret Service. As long as they have any abnormal behavior, the Secret Service will come to the house to ask for a cup of tea.

Li Yi is not worried that someone in Kyoto will not be able to sleep tonight, nor is he worried that their bodies can bear it after not sleeping well for many days. Looking at the oval glass bead handed over by Lao Fang, the bubbles in it are almost gone. Although there is still a little color, the impact is not great. Over the past month, after many equipment and process improvements, it has finally been pushed to this step.

Finally, it can be used to cheat money..., finally, it can be used to benefit the vast number of female compatriots in Kyoto.

"If you improve the process, it will be easier to cheat money."

Li Yi handed the glass bead to Lao Fang and reminded him again. At the same time, a carriage loaded with boxes drove out of the Academy of Mathematics and drove straight into the palace gate.