This world is not black or white. In fact, almost no one is pure black or pure white. Most people live in gray, but some are whiter and some are blacker.

If you want to live a good life in this world, you have to adapt to this gray area.

Li Xin probably knew a little about what the military weapon surveillance looks like today. Zhao Zheng, who was polite in front of him, looked like another in front of those craftsmen. He had done most of the things that could make money by deducting wages, taking rebates from iron ore, and so on. Of course, he had to send money to the officials of the Ministry of War. After all, the money from the military weapon surveillance had to flow from the Ministry of War.

With Li Xin's current status, it was only a matter of one sentence to replace Zhao De, but he was too lazy to do this. After all, this was not what he should be in charge of.

This is something the emperor should take care of.

There are too many unfair things in the world, and Li Xin can't control it. He doesn't care about it even if he doesn't touch his bottom line.

However, there must be verbal reminders, at least Zhao De must be slightly restrained in this matter, otherwise if the matter is done, he, the Minister of War, will be embarrassed.

Zhao De respectfully sent Li Xin to the gate of the military weapon supervision.

Li Xin sat in the carriage driven by Chen Shiliu and closed his eyes again.

There is something strange about this. If the emperor had started preparing for the Northern Expedition three years ago, then the military weapon surveillance would not have been completely unchanged until now. At least there should be a lot of reserves.

But the military weapon surveillance in the capital didn't have any reserves. If Zhao De hadn't deceived him, then...

Li Xin took a deep breath and glanced at the north side.

Then the weapons in the former capital of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the north have mostly piled up like mountains.

Thinking about this, Li Xin slowly let out a sigh and no longer worry about this matter. After all, the matter of the Northern Expedition was not his own business. What he had to do now was to do a good job in the Ministry of War.

The military weapon surveillance has been settled, and the other thing is to purchase Zhurong wine. The Imperial Wine Department, which is responsible for brewing Zhurong wine, is a royal business. At present, one of the eunuchs in the eight surveillances of the inner court is being managed. Since it is the emperor's own business, things will be much easier to handle. Just give some money symbolically and ask them to deliver the wine to the Ministry of War.

Anyway, it is impossible for the Ministry of War to buy wine from the Imperial Liquor Department at the market price. At this price, do you like to sell it or not.

If I don’t sell it, I won’t want it.

As long as Li Xin maintains this attitude, it is impossible for the Yujiu Shi to refuse to give in. After all, this is their boss who wants to fight the north, and it is not Li Xin's Ministry of War to fight the north.

After getting over the military weapon surveillance, Li Xin returned to the Jing'an Marquis Mansion. When he walked to the door of the mansion, he saw that the Yulin Guard had already started to move money to his house. Obviously, the note Li Xin wrote to Xie Dai worked.

Or, the Ministry of Revenue gave face.

Marquis Jing'an narrowed his eyes and walked towards Xie Dai who was commanding with his hands behind his back.

"General Xie Lang, has the Ministry of Revenue issued the money?"

Xie Dai quickly turned around and said respectfully: "Return to the Marquis, the Ministry of Revenue has allocated the money. At the latest tomorrow afternoon, the number of people in the humble position will be clear."

Li Xin patted Xie Dai on the shoulder and smiled slightly: "Well done."

"Tomorrow afternoon, the people from the Military Arts Prison will come back to the Marquis' Mansion to collect money. At that time, General Xie Lang will hand over clearly. As for the military Arts Prison's armor, swords and crossbows, the official also asked the Military Arts Prison to prepare. When the money here is calculated clearly, General Xie Lang will take these 400 brothers to Yunzhou City."

Speaking of this, Li Xin smiled and said, "But so many things, it is probably not enough for you, the Duwei Battalion. I will say to Your Majesty, and your Yulin Guard's right camp will escort these things to the north together."

Xie Dai was stunned.

He looked at Li Xin blankly and asked blankly: "Marty Li, aren't these people from the Ministry of War doing this... How can I ask my Yulin Guard to escort military funds..."

Li Xin's face was not blushing, and he said lazily: "This matter has offended the Ministry of War. So I won't bother the men of the Ministry of War. Just Yulinwei will do it himself, so I have to rest assured."

"What, General Xie Lang is not willing?"

Xie Dai shook his head repeatedly and said, "No...it's just a little sudden."

Marquis Jing'an said with a smile: "It's a good thing to go to the north. At that time, I was ordered to escort things to Yunzhou City. After I came back, I was promoted to the next level. General Xie Lang and others came back from the north. Maybe they would be General Yulin Guard."

Xie Dai smiled bitterly, lowered his head to Li Xin and said, "Thank you, Marquis, for your good words."

Li Xin smiled and walked into his house with his hands behind his back.

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The next morning, when Li Xin had just finished his fist stance and was about to sit down and rest for a while, a servant from the marquis's mansion sent an invitation to Li Xin.

It was not an invitation to a marriage, but a simple old man who asked Li Xin to go to the mansion to talk.

Li Xin took the invitation and looked around and finally decided to go out. The reason was very simple. The owner of the invitation was someone he was not easy to refuse.

Zhang Qu.

The current Shangshu Zuo Pushe, the prime minister among the three ministers, and the most powerful civil servant in the Taikang court, was no doubt about it.

Although such a big man is not as powerful as Li Xin's master Ye Shenggao, he has surpassed Ye Sheng a lot in terms of authority. Such a court boss asked Li Xin to go to his house, so Li Xin would give him face to go there.

After stuffing the invitation into his sleeve, Li Xin did not choose to take the carriage, but took out his ink horse from the backyard and turned over the horse.

This Mo Zhi horse was Li Xin's brother of the Wu Yun horse. Wu Yun was seriously injured that night because of the Renchen Palace. He had passed away a few years ago. This Mo Zhi horse is the most majestic horse in the Jing'an Marquis' Mansion.

After Li Xin turned over and turned to Chen Shiliu and said, "If a person named Zhao comes to his house later, let him wait for me in the side hall, and I will come back at most in the afternoon."

Chen Shiliu nodded respectfully: "I understand, marquis."

Only then did Li Xin ride out of the Jing'an Marquis Mansion, turn his horse's head, leave Yonglefang and walk towards Mingdefang next door.

Yes, this civil servant leader of the Great Jin Dynasty and the leader of the literary world of Shilin, Haoran Gong did not live in Yonglefang, but in Mingdefang, which was the second most recent. It was not because Zhang Qu was not qualified, but because this old man was low-key.

In the entire Yonglefang, including the Jing'an Marquis Mansion and the Duke of Chen, the status of Zhang Qu and Zhang Haoran can still be the leader in the court.

Such a person no longer needs to rely on where to show his identity. On the contrary, because he lives in Mingdefang, his status in Mingdefang has to be greatly improved.

Li Xin soon arrived at the door of Zhang's mansion in Mingdefang. After handing over the invitation from Zhang's mansion, the servants of Zhang's mansion saluted Li Xin respectfully and took him to the living room to serve tea. After Li Xin sat for a while, an old man with gray hair and beard slowly walked into the living room from the backyard.

Li Xin got up and bowed to the old man: "My younger generation, Li Xin, have met Haoran Gong."

In terms of grade, Li Xin is not inferior to Zhang Qu, and is even higher, so he talks about seniority here, which is considered to give Old Man Zhang a respect.

Zhang Qu glanced at Li Xin and said with a smile: "Marty Li is here so fast."
Chapter completed!