East Warm Pavilion.

Lu Chonglou secretly glanced at Li Chi's face, and then quickly lowered his head again.

This little move did not escape Li Chi's eyes, so Li Chi couldn't help but smile.

"Just say whatever you want. I don't want you to speak. The face I hold back is ugly and I'm still hesitating."

Li Chi pushed the snacks on the table forward and signaled Lu Chonglou to eat and speak.

Lu Chonglou rubbed his hands and said in a low voice: "I am wondering if I can live until that day before the matter of Your Majesty is arranged. After all, I should be the number one target now. It is dangerous, too dangerous."

Li Chi smiled and said, "What do you want?"

Lu Chonglou carefully stretched out his hand from his cuff: "I want to ask His Majesty for some money."

Li Chi couldn't help it and burst out laughing with a squeak.

"I heard that your salary is basically nothing, and there is no big expense except buying books."

Speaking of this, Li Chi looked at Lu Chonglou and asked, "What do you want to ask me for money? How much do you want?"

Lu Chonglou gritted his teeth and said, "I have to give you more things to do such a dangerous errand, just... one thousand taels!"

Li Chi smiled and said, "Look at your petty look, you gritted your teeth and said it was one thousand taels. When you were so full of energy, I thought you would want hundreds of thousands taels."

Lu Chonglou hurriedly said, "It's not enough. I guess that one thousand taels should be enough."

Li Chi asked: "What the hell is it?"

Lu Chonglou said: "I... I want to marry Miss Zhao, but I don't have enough money to get married. I can't lose money if the bride is married properly. I still have to give enough betrothal gifts."

Li Chi said: "I'm going to marry someone so soon?"

Lu Chong said: "I really... like it."

Li Chi laughed and said, "You are a senior official of the court and a second-rank official. If someone knows about it, you don't even have enough money to marry a wife. People will not only laugh at you, but also laugh at me, and even laugh at Daning. If you have thought about it, I will let the Ministry of Revenue allocate funds to you and let the Ministry of Rites handle the money for you."

Lu Chonglou was shocked, and then hurriedly said, "I dare not do such a big deal. I think that at that time, I will only invite some friends, and of course His Majesty, just have a meal together. Miss Zhao doesn't want to be too arrogant. She always says she is worried that it will affect my reputation."

Li Chi: "What do you think about this kind of thing? You are the one who you like. You are the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who

He got up and moved: "I will allocate 3,000 taels of this silver from the Palace Interior Department. The marriage will be handed over to the people of the Ministry of Rites to handle it for you. You can take out a portion of the 3,000 taels to be a betrothal gift for the other girl, and you can live the rest of your life."

Speaking of this, he took off the bag hanging by his waist and poured everything inside on the table.

Lu Chonglou stretched out his head and looked at it. He had about a dozen taels of silver and his Majesty's seal.

This seal is not Daning's jade seal, but His Majesty's own.

Li Chi counted the broken silver, picked two large pieces and handed them to Lu Chonglou: "I personally sponsor you another ten taels of silver!"

Lu Chonglou sighed, and then said carefully: "Before this moment, I think I am very poor..."

Li Chi glared at him.

Then he laughed: "I will give you a piece of advice, remember... After getting married, don't leave all the money in this family to women to take care of."

After saying this, Li Chi smiled again, then lowered his voice and said, "I am waiting for Cao Lie to come back. After Cao Lie comes back, I will become richer."

Lu Chonglou laughed again with a thud.

The Emperor of Daning, the silver on his body was not more than fifteen taels in total.

"It's hard to deal with money now..."

Li Chi sighed, "I remember when I was in Jizhou, I went to the teahouse to sing songs and talk about a book. I didn't have much money to earn every day."

He said this and looked at Lu Chonglou: "If I was free and had nothing to do, it wouldn't be difficult to earn some private money in the teahouse."

Lu Chonglou: "Your Majesty...the reputation is really bad."

Li Chi nodded, thinking that it was right. His reputation as Guanyan could not spread throughout Daning, well... I'm shameless.

"His Majesty......"

Lu Chonglou looked at the broken silver on the table and couldn't bear to get it. He hesitated for a while and said, "Or what if I lend it to Your Majesty?"

Li Chi: "..."

Lu Chonglou said, "Your Majesty said you can lend me three thousand taels, and I can lend you five hundred taels. As long as your Majesty writes me a promissory note..."

Hearing these words, Li Chi's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had discovered something extraordinary, and the light in his eyes seemed to shine on a new continent.

As soon as he saw His Majesty's appearance, Lu Chonglou knew that something might be wrong. When His Majesty's eyes began to shine, it should be that His Majesty smelled the smell of silver.

Li Chi leaned forward and asked in a low voice: "I just said, are you allocating three thousand taels of silver from the Palace Interior Office?"

Lu Chonglou said: "Yes... Your Majesty said just now."

Li Chi said: "Is it enough?"

Lu Chonglou: "It's not useful."

Li Chi said: "It's good if you can't use it. Don't not be enough. I can't be stingy when doing things. Don't allocate you for a long time. The money is not enough. If it is spread, my reputation will be bad."

Lu Chonglou hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, if the Ministry of Rites handles the wedding, these three thousand taels of silver are actually not enough..."

Li Chi raised his hand and scratched his temples: "That's it... Then I'll give you three thousand taels, you get two thousand five, I'll deduct five hundred taels, this matter..."

Lu Chonglou raised his hand and swore: "This matter is known to heaven and earth, and Your Majesty knows to the ministers, and the words are not passed on to you! But... IOU?"

Li Chi laughed: "I think you are still sensible."

Lu Chonglou said: "I think it's really... distressing for Your Majesty to do so much effort for 500 taels of silver."

Li Chi glanced at him: "Five hundred taels? How long has it been since I seen the integer of one hundred taels?"

He returned to the other side of the seat, sat down and said, "What did you say to me just now? Borrow it from you?"

Lu Chonglou was shocked and thought to himself that the five hundred taels of silver had been lent out just now, but it might be gone soon.

Li Chi said: "You said just now that you are their number one target, so let me give you some money... This is wrong and you will be punished."

Lu Chonglou raised his hand to cover his face...

Li Chi said: "This was the idea you gave me at the beginning. I read the memorial of 5,000 words with no word left. Now I can recite it for you, but you said you are taking the blame for me?"

Lu Chonglou said, "Your Majesty, don't say anything more. I'll give the five hundred taels of silver to Your Majesty."

"deliver?"

Li Chi snorted: "What you gave me, I still have to remember your favor. It would be great if I just fined you, and I'll be confident that I'll take it."

Lu Chonglou said: "Your Majesty is justified now..."

Li Chi smiled and said, "You came up with this plan from beginning to end. Take advantage of the opportunity to train Xu Ji, so that he, the prime minister of Daning, can seem to be able to cover the sky with one hand."

"When he was in trouble too much, I took the prime minister of Daning and took this opportunity to tell the world that setting up a prime minister would harm but not benefit. Daning abolished the prime minister system and replaced it with the cabinet system..."

Li Chi looked at Lu Chonglou: "Why, you all came up with these bad ideas. Now you are pretending to be pitiful? The more I think about it, the more I feel I am losing."

Lu Chonglou grabbed Li Chi's hand and said in a crying voice: "Your Majesty, five hundred taels are enough, it must be enough. Your Majesty should not feel that you are losing."

He said as he looked at the scattered silver on the table, and his eyes meant, Your Majesty, you are such a poor person, five hundred taels are a huge sum of money for Your Majesty.

Li Chi glared at him: "Then do you think I should punish you five hundred taels?"

Lu Chonglou focused on the key point: "It should!"

Li Chi said: "This is almost the same. In this way, you can write me an IOU first."

Lu Chonglou was confused when he said this. Didn’t he just say that His Majesty had written an IOU for him?

Why did he have to write an IOU for His Majesty in a blink of an eye?

This ranged from lending five hundred taels to His Majesty to borrow five hundred taels from His Majesty, inside and outside, it seemed that one thousand taels of silver had disappeared.

Seeing Lu Chonglou's sad face, Li Chi smiled and said, "Who told you to bring money to me? How long has it been since I heard the word "silver". When I heard it, I felt itchy. If I didn't get some money, I would be like losing money."

Lu Chonglou said: "I remember, if I dare to bring the money in front of His Majesty again, I will hang my own branches in the southeast..."

Li Chi said: "Don't hang it in Weiyang Palace, I have to collect some money from you for renting a tree branch."

Lu Chonglou sighed.

This plan was indeed mentioned by Lu Chonglou and Li Chi at the time, and the five thousand words of the letter were indeed true.

Li Chi wanted to implement the cabinet system, but there has been no such precedent in the Central Plains Empire since ancient times.

Those who can see the first meaning think that Li Chi wants to use civil servants like Xu Ji to weaken military generals who have the power of following the dragon.

Those who can see the second meaning think that Li Chi did this to eradicate the hidden dangers of Daning, and Xu Ji himself is also the hidden dangers of Daning.

Lu Chonglou was the one who saw the third meaning, and he knew what Li Chi was thinking.

In this world, there are too many people who stick to the rules, and it can even be said to have completely occupied the mainstream.

If the prime minister system is abolished, who will be the first to stand up and oppose it?

Scholars are scholars in the world.

If the prime minister system is abolished, these scholars will feel that they have lost their goals in life. Although there are thousands of scholars in the world, there are only a few who can become prime ministers.

But they can make trouble, and scholars make trouble are the most terrible.
To be continued...