"So, please follow me. The weather is cold and there is a special warm room for the assessment behind." Erhu led the young master to the assessment, and Shutong was stunned.

The crowds outside the door surrounded him more and more. They all wanted to see if Mr. Cui, who had been controversial, had the ability to pass the questions. Don’t be too loud and the wind was too low. In the end, it was also impossible to have a question. Then I would just be joking and just sensationalism.

In the palace, Emperor Li Er had moved his office into a newly built heated room to work. This is a local heating specially designed by Du Shaoqing for the palace. It is to dig out a passage on the ground to connect the heating stove. The heat passing through the underground passage, and the interior of the palace becomes warm.

Because the palaces in the palace are relatively large for office use, so the emperor cannot sit cross-legged on the kang, just work. If a small court meeting, dozens of ministers will sit cross-legged on the kang? How big is that kang? And a group of big men took off their shoes and sat cross-legged and chatted. If anyone had athlete's foot or something, God, the picture was so beautiful that I could not imagine.

After listening to his daughter Princess Changle’s complaints about a group of orphans, Li Er sighed. As the king of a country, he is the eldest son of the family. Any citizen who is hungry and cold cannot be separated from him. Fortunately, this loophole was discovered by his daughter and son-in-law in time, which was a great help to him.

He smiled and said to his daughter, "You have been kind since you were a child. I am very pleased that you and my wife can share my worries like this. It is better to leave the matter of taking care of orphans and beggars to you two. Your elder brother is now busy with winter heating nationwide and has no time to clone him. If he is assigned to other old ministers, he is afraid that they will have no time to clone him when they are busy with official business. If one is not good, it will be a life if it is delayed."

The princess explained her purpose: "Father, husband, we dare not be self-disciplined in this matter. It is better to do so in your name, your father, so as not to gossip others."

Li Er smiled and looked at Du Shaoqing, and cursed, "You are a kid who is very sensible, and you are afraid that I will criticize you? The great power is all here, and I can't tolerate you to gather these tens of thousands of people?"

Du Shaoqing smiled bitterly and explained: "The son-in-law thought that the kindness of the king changed the hearts of the people, and it was useless for me and Changle to come. This matter is either the father-in-law or the prince to do it."

Hearing this answer, Li Er laughed and pointed at Du Shaoqing and said, "No, I will leave this matter to you and Changle. Changle is my daughter, a princess of the Tang Dynasty, and it is okay to show kindness to the people on my behalf. Who said that reputation is useless? I want my daughter to be as famous as her aunt, Princess Pingyang, and maybe it can become a great story."

The princess was so moved that she almost burst into tears. Her aunt, Princess Pingyang, helped to conquer half of the country when the Tang Dynasty was launched and founded. However, she died young due to a battlefield arrow injury, but she left the reputation of a heroine.

Li Er got up and handed over the handkerchief to wipe his daughter's tears. When he thought of his second sister, he was indeed a little sad. When he recalled, if this sister had not died, he would probably not have killed each other too much.

"But I said it in advance. In this way, I will not be provided with the treasury. I will send someone to set a special place to support you in gathering beggars and elderly people. Well... the name is simply called Changle House, a Changle home built by Princess Changle for the people. Haha, with this name, it is easier to do things with a good reputation.

But you have to solve the problem of construction, money, grain, etc.." As soon as the topic changed, Li Er looked at Du Shaoqing jokingly.

Okay, this old fox has been doing it for a long time and it turns out that it is for this. No wonder he doesn't even want the people's hearts of tens of thousands of people. It turns out that he is stingy to save money. He really makes a good plan. Although it is in the name of Princess Changle, the princess is still the emperor's daughter after all, and the people's hearts belong to him. At the same time, he didn't spend a penny. Du Shaoqing admires the father-in-law's plan.

The princess wiped her tears and agreed repeatedly: "Don't worry, my father, knowing that the treasury is tight, my husband has arranged this matter, and we still have some money and food in our business."

Du Shaoqing wanted to cover his eyes and pull his wife. This prodigal woman said everything, can she also poke her family's wealth? But?

Sure enough, Li Er pointed at Du Shaoqing and cursed: "What? You kid still want to hide it? You have made a fortune in just half a year. Do you think I don't know? One tael of strong wine and one tael of silver are robbing money.

I heard that you already have 200,000 taels in your account. Do you know how much the treasury earns per year now? 300,000 taels! It’s not as good as your income alone, otherwise I would have put down my old face and cried with my daughter to be poor?"

He murmured in a low voice, "So is Duke Lu, why are he talking about everything?"

"It's not what Zhijie said. Chang'an is so big. I don't know what I have?" Li Er scolded.

Du Shaoqing didn't expect that a treasury was so poor, and he only earned 300,000 taels a year. So how did this country operate? Didn't it mean that all salt and iron income was controlled by the state?

What he didn't know was that the country did not compete for profit with the people. This was a political rule. The country immediately spent money after making money. It was more of a balanced operation taken from the people and used by the people. Although salt and iron make money, it was unimaginable that the Tang Dynasty invested in military aspects. Weapons, weapons, armor, and war horses were all bottomless pits.

"Father-in-law, you are always joking. You may not look down on your son-in-law's small amount of money. Our money is not as good as the uncle Lizhi's hair removal from his roots." Du Shaoqing quipped.

"Don't be sloppy, I'm good at it. If you want to be filial to you, will you give it? The Fuji family is a big family of thousands of people, and there are only a few people in your Du family. Who is rich?" Li Er retorted.

Du Shaoqing was speechless when he was refuted. He pulled his wife up and was about to run away. The reason for his farewell was, "Let's go home quickly, ma'am, let's go home quickly. My father-in-law is all asking for advice and we have fewer families, so you have to work hard to have more. Such a big thing cannot be delayed for a moment..."

Li Er was stunned by one sentence. The princess shook her husband's hand in shame, stamped her feet at Du Shaoqing and cursed: "What are you talking nonsense? You just came and left? You haven't paid homage to your mother yet."

The princess blushed and quickly went to see the queen, but the emperor cursed and called out Du Shaoqing: "You are so unscrupulous, you are so unscrupulous. Let's leave later and tell me about Liu'er's situation. Concubine Yang has to ask three times a day, and I'm so angry."

Seeing his daughter and son-in-law so harmoniously, Emperor Li was very relieved, and this was like a happy marriage. Apart from the couple, his other daughters and son-in-law were so scared that they spoke timidly and kept a distance from themselves, including many of his sons. They were well-behaved when they were young, and they became timid when they grew up. That feeling made the emperor feel more lonely.

It is precisely because of this that Emperor Li Er looked at Du Shaoqing's family and granddaughter Du Xuanxuan differently. Recently, he even recalled the intention to issue an order to enthrone Xiao Xuanxuan as a princess.
Chapter completed!