If we want to use one sentence to describe Yang Yiqing's current mood, it can only be said that the plot was overturned too quickly, and he had already fallen before he was mentally prepared.

Looking at the bright "Nine Thousand Taxis" on the IOU in front of him, Yang Yiqing felt bitter for the first time.

As we all know, the salaries of the Ming Dynasty officials were notoriously low. Compared with the Song Dynasty, the annual salary of a cabinet minister in the Ming Dynasty was even worse than that of a small county magistrate of the Song Dynasty. Of course, perhaps someone familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty would show that the officials in the court had many informal incomes, such as fire and money consumption.

The so-called fire consumption refers to the fact that when local officials collect money tax, they will collect more money on the grounds of exhaustion. These more money collected eventually fall into the pockets of the officials. Of course, local officials cannot take the money completely by themselves after collecting the money. They must also handle some money. This is the so-called levy. If the management is not in place, then his official position will come to an end.

But it should be clear that collecting fire and money is used to refer to the behavior of most officials. This does not mean that Yang Yiqing has also done so.

In the Ming Dynasty's philosophy of establishing the dynasty, officials should be gentlemen who abide by Confucian moral norms. Even if their salary is small, they will do their jobs impartially without regard for personal gain. Naturally, most people cannot do such a request. However, Yang Yiqing, who once impeached the corrupt general Wu'an Hou Zheng Hong five times and took the initiative to cut down the fees for guarding the central government, said that this was his always purpose of being an official.

If Yang Yiqing had money, why would his daughter be interested in Guqin and bidding with others and couldn't even get a thousand taels?

Nine Thousand Tails. Yang Yiqing silently calculated his salary. In addition, the little silver he saved after being an official for so many years was rewarded for his merits in defending the enemy. He probably had to save more than three years to pay the Nine Thousand Tails.

Yang Yiqing gritted his teeth and signed his name on the IOU, then dipped his thumb on the ink paste, and pressed his thumb print on the IOU.

When Jiang Xia saw Yang Yiqing signing the IOU, he was quite impressed. He smiled and took the IOU and carefully blew the ink dry, then folded the IOU and put it in his arms.

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Mr. Yang, you are the first second-rank official here to sign a contract. It's such an honor."

Yang Yiqing was amused and crying, but at this point he was unwilling to worry about it anymore. He just said sincerely: "Young Master Jiang, although I am a second-rank official, my salary is not too high. I just calculated that it may take more than three years to pay off the 9,000 taels of debt."

Jiang Xia was slightly stunned after hearing Yang Yiqing's words. He looked at Yang Yiqing carefully. Jiang Xia was sure that Yang Yiqing was not joking, nor did he deliberately shirk it. As the saying goes, the Qing magistrate for three years, with 100,000 snowflakes. Unexpectedly, a second-rank official would be worried about 9,000 taels.

Jiang Xia smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Yang, please forgive me for a bold guess. You are not just trying to stand out for the daughter of the country, right? Do you have any other things to find out?"

Through Jiang Xia's observation of Yang Yiqing, he felt that Yang Yiqing was not an unreasonable person. If he was really unreasonable, he could not use words to force him into a desperate situation where he had to sign an IOU. How could a person who was not unreasonable do an unreasonable behavior? There is only one truth, that is... (How come the foot of the famous detective Ke Fanxing?) He came here with such a big fanfare to find him for other purposes, so Jiang Xia asked.

When Jiang Xia asked this, Yang Yiqing was shocked. He almost forgot that he was interrupted by Jiang Xia. He came to Jiang Xia to ask how to solve the problem of insufficient money for the construction of border defense. This is the top priority. Compared with the mere nine thousand taels, this is nothing at all.

Thinking of this, Yang Yiqing immediately stood up and bowed to Jiang Xia and said, "Young Master Jiang is indeed extremely smart. Yang Yiqing came to have something important to ask for advice from the young master."

"If you want to ask, just ask. This is a troublesome thing. Why do you do such a big battle?" Jiang Xia rolled her eyes and spit out four words: "I'll ask for trouble."

Yang Yiqing's face turned red and did not take Jiang Xia's words, but directly raised his own question: "Young Master Jiang, I heard that you formed the Shanren Society and helped the current emperor solve the Henan disaster relief silver and the military pay of the northern border army. Is there any such thing?"

Jiang Xia nodded.

Yang Yiqing was immediately excited, and he looked happy and asked quickly: "Young Master Jiang, I have a question below to ask you for advice. The Governor of Gansui, Gansu, and Gansu are under the jurisdiction of Yansui, Ningxia and Gansu. These three places are fortresses to prevent the Mongols from invading the Central Plains, so I want to connect these three places into a line to build city defenses to prevent the Mongols from invading the Mongols. If this move is successful, it will at least ensure that the Mongols will not easily enter Gansui in the future.

But I calculated that it would take 800,000 taels of silver to build the city defense to my ideal appearance. Unfortunately, the court can only take out 300,000 taels now, and the remaining 500,000 taels..."

Yang Yiqing looked up at Jiang Xia. All he wanted to ask was that there were 500,000 taels left and I wonder if Jiang Xia would have a solution.

Jiang Xia was laughing and laughed when he heard this. He shook his head and said, "Do you think I have a mountain of gold and silver? If I had 500,000 taels of silver, I wouldn't give it to you to repair the city defense."

"Jiang Xia!" Yang Jingjing, who had not spoken, finally couldn't help but burst out. She said viciously: "My father asked you that you respect you, don't be ungrateful. I angered me, be careful that I will make you eunuch one day."

Jiang Xia glared at her eyes, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart: "When did the women in the Ming Dynasty become so fierce and speak so violently." Subconsciously, Jiang Xia clamped her legs tightly and felt a chill under her.

"Nothing!" Yang Yiqing shouted seriously, pointed to the door and said, "Go out!"

"Dad..." Yang Jingjing screamed in a coquettish manner, but Yang Yiqing was unmoved and still pointed at the door with a pale face.

Yang Jingjing knew that Yang Yiqing was really angry, so she stood up and prepared to walk out. But at this time, Jiang Xia shouted: "Slow!"

Yang Yiqing and Yang Jingjing were slightly stunned. Jiang Xia looked at Yang Jingjing up and down. His eyes were like a wolf scrutinizing his prey. Yang Jingjing felt uneasy. She looked at Jiang Xia and said, "What are you looking at? Look at me and I will dig your eyes off."

After Yang Jingjing said this, Jiang Xia really didn't look at her anymore. Instead, she turned her eyes to Yang Yiqing and said, "I do have a way to help you what Lord Yang said just now, but I have a condition."

"Oh? What are the conditions?" Yang Yiqing said excitedly: "Prince Jiang has any conditions. Please say that this matter is beneficial to the future and is a great merit. If Mr. Jiang can help you to facilitate it, no matter what the requirements are, you must do your best."

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Don't worry, my request is very simple. I will tell you how to do this, and you must let Ling Qianjin be a student for me for seven days."

"Student?" Yang Yiqing was slightly stunned.

Jiang Xia nodded with a smile: "I am a scholar. I have learned the etiquette of a gentleman in the Four Books and Five Classics. What I don't think of most in my life is that a beautiful woman becomes a shrew. As long as Lord Yang promises me, I will tell you immediately that what you should do."

Yang Yiqing was also stunned for a moment. He looked at Yang Jingjing, and there was a trace of intent in his struggled eyes.

Yang Jingjing was suddenly panicked. She held Yang Yiqing's arm and said, "Dad, I can agree to him. This guy is not a good thing at first glance. If you hand me over to him, wouldn't it be that way to give me the entrance?"

"Send the sheep into the tiger's mouth." Jiang Xia said lightly.

"Yes, sending sheep into the tiger's mouth. Dad... you can't do this."

Yang Yiqing stared at Jiang Xia's face, and Jiang Xia also looked at Yang Yiqing. Yang Yiqing saw that Jiang Xia's gaze was clear and strange. He thought for a while and said, "Mr. Jiang, my wife unfortunately died of labor when giving birth to a young girl. I am busy with official duties on weekdays, so I neglected to discipline my daughter. If Mr. Jiang is willing to teach me, it would be better. However, Mr. Jiang must be clear that I, Yang Yiqing, can only have such a daughter. If Mr. Jiang dares to bully her, then I, Yang Yiqing, will have to take your life even if I don't want it."

"Don't worry, I'll give you a skillful and charming daughter in seven days. But I can say that in front of you. If she doesn't listen to me, it's probably inevitable to suffer the pain of a ruler."

"Dad... don't." Yang Jingjing finally couldn't help but burst into tears.

Yang Yiqing suddenly felt soft and hesitated. Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Don't worry, Lord Yang, the daughter of the second-rank official, I will not have any presumption."

"Jiang Xia, if you want to say something more, I will kill you immediately!" Yang Jingjing shouted loudly.

Hearing Yang Jingjing's yell, Yang Yiqing himself felt that his daughter should be trained well. He thought that he could actually agree first, and then send a spy to closely monitor Jiang Xia and Yang Jingjing, so that he would be foolproof.

Thinking of this, Yang Yiqing gritted his teeth and nodded and said, "Okay, that little girl is annoyed Mr. Jiang to train him."

Jiang Xia waved his hand and said, "It's easy to say."

Jiang Xia looked at Yang Jingjing, her eyes flashed with faint light and said, "I will definitely treat Miss Yang well."

Yang Yiqing bowed and said, "Then please tell me about the construction of border defense..."

Jiang Xia said: "It's so simple now. To sum it up, there are only four words."

"Four words?"

"Yeah. Increase revenue and reduce expenditure."

"How to increase revenue? How to reduce expenditure in this way?" Yang Yiqing couldn't help asking.

Jiang Xia smiled and said to Yang Yiqing: "Mr. Yang, let me tell you what you need to spend on building city defense, and then I will tell you how to increase revenue in this way and reduce expenditure."

Yang Yiqing nodded and said, "Building city defense requires a lot of manpower, and then supplies..."
Chapter completed!