Chapter 955: Don't give a penny

Yang Yi's palace is a distance from Tai Chi Palace, and it takes more than half an hour to ride a horse. However, there are almost no people riding horses in Chang'an. Unless it is an official emergency, even those playboys will not ride tall horses and swing across the market.

When Yang Yi had just succeeded to the throne, the Great Sui Dynasty was still such a beautiful society that was intoxicating.

The high profile of the children of aristocratic families will never be reflected in their domineering behavior, but will be a secret competition between the same class. It is undeniable that those from famous families look down on ordinary people, but will never show it stupidly. This is the difference between children of aristocratic families and rogues. In the previous dynasty, the two may have been highly coincidental, but in the Sui Dynasty, they were not like this.

Wu Yidao changed into clean clothes and did not choose to walk. Instead, he spent five big money to ride the city carriage near Tai Chi Palace, and then sorted out his clothes and walked into the huge building complex he had entered for the first time.

"stop"

Before entering the city gate, he was stopped by the people from the Great Inner Guards. The Hundred Houses of the Great Inner Guards, wearing brocade clothes, frowned and looked at Wu Yidao, then pointed to his right arm: "Pick this up."

Wu Yidao's right arm was wrapped with black veil.

"No"

Wu Yidao had no explanation, but just shook his head and refused.

"You can't enter the palace without taking this off."

"good"

Wu Yidao didn't argue anything and turned around and left.

It was as if nothing had happened. He returned to the palace as usual, but when he returned, he did not take the carriage again and walked all the way. After returning to the palace, he changed the clothes on his body, and then took a little girl from a little maid who could not speak the complete words and excitedly slap his arms when he saw him. Although the child was still so young, he looked particularly cute and beautiful.

"Sincere, aren't you going to the palace to face the saint? Why are you back so soon?"

The person asked him about a girl who looked like she was fifteen or sixteen years old, and she was the only little maid left in the yard. Like Wu Yidao, she was also the owner of the palace who was left here after moving into the palace. Whether it was the lively or deserted palace in the past, it seemed that people would not be particularly concerned about it.

A large mansion is actually a microcosm of a society.

Some people are favored, others lose power.

Wu Yidao entered the mansion for not long, which was shorter than the little maid named Xiu'e. In this huge courtyard, there were only three people left in Wu Yidao and the others. The patrol guards in the mansion were not counted. The guards sent a group of flying fish robes that were equally incompetent to guard, and they had almost no interaction with the three of them.

A so-called manager of the business, a daughter who is less than one year old in charge, and a little maid.

"nothing"

Wu Yidao shook his head and made his daughter laugh.

"By the way, I'm in charge... they didn't leave any money when they left, so we don't have much more to use."

Xiu'e looked at Wu Yidao with some sadness: "Your Majesty left so urgent when he entered the palace. After hearing this great event, everyone else was just crazy. After leaving us both, they left. They didn't tell us how to solve the food and clothing cost in the future and where to get the monthly silver."

"I see."

Wu Yidao fumbled through his cuff for a while and found some scattered silver: "You can use these first, and I will ask someone for the silver."

Xiu'e glanced at the little silver in her palm, and after a moment of silence, she couldn't help but say, "We are just abandoned. To put it nicely, they are left behind in the palace, but they are actually thrown into it. When His Majesty entered the palace, all the people in the palace were crazy, and I don't know how many people were stealing things out. There are still some valuable things in the mansion now, and those flying fish robes are not strictly taken care of, so it's really not possible..."

"It's really not possible without it."

Wu Yidao shook his head: "You don't need to worry about these things."

Xiu'e opened her mouth, and finally she just shook her head helplessly and walked away.

Wu Yidao put his daughter in a wooden car, and his daughter could stand with the railing of the car. He pushed the car to the cool place under the shade of the tree in the yard, and then looked for scissors to trim the garden. His daughter was very obedient in the car, playing by herself without crying or making a fuss. Such a small person was so admirable.

Wu Yidao looked up at the location of the sun, calculated the time, and called Xiu'e over and asked her to carry her daughter to the house.

He sat down by the flower pond, and the lines of the muscles on his arms exposed from his cuffs were very beautiful.

"Did you know someone will come to you?"

Someone asked, it was not far away.

Wu Yidao did not answer or turn around: "I know."

The footsteps came from behind and Wu Yidao found that this was a man wearing the iconic brocade clothes of the Great Inner Guards. He looked about the same age as him. He was of medium figure, not tall, not fat, white and clean, and his eyebrows were a little flat, but it did not affect his appearance.

"This matter is said to be big, it is said to be small."

The man in Jinyi pointed at himself: "My name is Hou Wenji, a Qianhu of the Great Inspector's Office. For you, a big thing may become a small thing after my report, and of course it may become a bigger thing. So I hope you can give me a particularly perfect answer, so perfect that I can satisfy Your Majesty without any modification."

Wu Yidao didn't say anything, and his face didn't change at all.

"I'm thinking, the reason why you entered the palace was because of your current bad virtue? A person like you is destined to be liked by his kind, and he has the ability, so if you have anything to do, you will be pushed out, but your kind will take advantage of it."

Under Hou Wenji's seemingly lazy expression, there seemed to be some fun: "I heard you were a businessman before?"

“So now”

Wu Yidao answered: "Whoever uses money to do business, no matter what he sells, even if he sells himself, he is a businessman."

"Makes"

Hou Wenji nodded: "It's interesting... I think people like you can be friends."

...

...

"How many years have you been in the mansion?"

The emperor, who was sitting cross-legged on the earthen kang of Dongguan Pavilion, looked at Wu Yidao lightly, and his eyes remained on the black veil on his right arm for a moment. The new emperor ascended the throne, but the person who met the emperor was wrapped in the black veil, which was a little disliked no matter what.

"Go back to Your Majesty, five months and four days a year."

"It's not too early to come in. Who sent you in?"

The emperor said.

Wu Yidao bowed his head: "The eldest prince"

His answer was so natural, without any hesitation.

"Who died in the family?"

The emperor did not ask about the eldest prince anymore, but pointed to the black veil on his right arm.

"wife"

Wu Yidao answered.

The emperor was silent for a while, lowered his head and continued to read the memorial: "You should know that being stopped at the gate of the palace may be a test of your ability. If you can't even pass this level, or you missed an opportunity to change your destiny. Not everyone will give you an opportunity to explain. Not everyone can enter my Donghunting Pavilion."

“Be good, do not do it.”

Wu Yidao's answer was particularly simple.

The emperor seemed to be slightly stunned, then raised his head and looked at Wu Yi again and said, "You came in with a purpose when you entered the mansion. It is already a good luck for a person like you to stay in the mansion. The reason why you and that maid were left behind is because neither of you have done anything too outrageous. I know clearly which person in the mansion came from and what they did, so I am sure that those who died will not be wronged, and those who did not die will not indulge them."

"You say you have the ability to do something but not to do it, then I ask you, why do you have to do things for the eldest prince?"

"Lack of money"

Wu Yidao replied: "I lost money in business, and my wife became sick and pregnant again."

"It might be strange if a person like you doesn't lose money in business."

The emperor shook his head: "It seems that you are not the person I need."

When he said this, the emperor seemed to have really lost interest in Wu Yidao.

"Business needs to be smooth, you need to judge the situation, you need to understand the general situation, you need to see the interests... These have nothing to do with you, please leave. I have already told you to pay the required silver in the mansion on a monthly basis."

The emperor waved his hand.

"How much money does your majesty need?"

Wu Yidao suddenly asked.

I don’t know what happened, but the emperor really couldn’t hate this person. Even though the emperor knew that this person had entered the mansion, it was arranged by the eldest prince. Perhaps it was because the two of them had some similarities, or perhaps it was Wu Yidao who stubbornly refused to take off the black veil from his right arm.

"a lot of"

The emperor did not expect that he would still pay attention to the man in front of him.

"I can't make small money, I can only make big money."

Wu Yidao knelt down and kowtowed.

“How big is it?”

The emperor asked, he did not stop Wu Yidao from claiming to be a minister.

Wu Yidao lowered his head and replied: "There are two kinds of wealth, one is real money and silver. This money is actually easy to make. I really lose money in business, and it is so much difficult to subsidize my family. But I remember the personality characteristics of everyone who does business with me, and the characteristics of every city I have visited. With these money, these are actually another kind of wealth, which is more precious than real money and silver."

"Your Majesty, the first kind of wealth can buy the second kind of wealth, and the second kind of wealth can expand the first kind of wealth infinitely."

"Is this why you chose the eldest prince?"

The emperor asked again.

"yes"

Wu Yidao's forehead touched the ground: "I didn't see clearly."

The emperor couldn't help laughing: "Even I didn't see clearly, let alone you? Because this loss of money is a natural disaster and has nothing to do with people."

Su Buwei, who was standing on the side of the earthen kang, looked at the man kneeling on the ground, and then remembered the man's name in his heart. Wu Paisheng was a eunuch who wanted to screen for memorials, so most of the time on weekdays, Su Buwei served the new emperor in the East Warehouse.

"I'll give you an errand first."

The emperor got off the earthen kang and walked to Wu Yidao: "You don't have anything very good to you, there are two things that make me very satisfied. First, you have your own persistence and don't change it easily. Second, you know how to choose and have a good eye."

Su Buwei also looked at Wu Yidao and thought to himself, why did this person see through the emperor's purpose of looking for him at first sight? Then he had the courage to ask His Majesty, you are short of money, what did you do?

"I do need money. All the expenses in the palace are now used by the savings in the mansion. Because I don't want people to say that I am extravagant behind my back, I am careful to use the money allocated by the Ministry of Revenue, for fear that those censors will let go of the verbal arrows. But I don't want to lose money for myself and the people who follow me, so I want to get some money subsidies."

"but……"

The emperor glanced at Wu Yi: "I won't give you capital because I don't have money. If you don't have the ability to get the money, then I will let you go back and continue to sweep the big yard of the royal palace."

"Don't give a penny?"

Wu Yidao raised his head and asked.

The emperor nodded: "I don't give a penny."
Chapter completed!