Chapter 326 Imagination

Li Chen raised his head and looked at Wu Huaishi who suddenly stood up with great confusion, wondering why he was so panicked.

"Where is it? General Wu asked who is where?"

Facing his stupid look, Wu Huaishi realized his gaffe and asked: "Isn't Shiba Lang afraid?"

"Afraid? Why...are you afraid?" Li Chan said dejectedly, thinking that he has lived to this point in his life and has become the laughing stock of the world, what else is there to be afraid of?

"It was in order to support Prince Shou and you as the heir apparent that the case of three common people was brought about. If the emperor's grandson were still alive, wouldn't you be the first person he wanted to take revenge on?"

"revenge?"

Li Xuan didn't know what revenge was, and thought of the hatred he had for taking his wife in a self-deprecating way. He was so humiliated and humiliated that he never thought of revenge. In the imperial family, who cares about grudges, only power. If you have the power, you can do whatever you want, if you don't have the power, you have to accept whatever comes. That's all.

But the eunuch in front of him had a narrow-minded character and was determined to retaliate. His eyes contained forbearance, cruelty, and malice like a poisonous bee, which stung Li Han and scared him so much that he ducked back.

"But even if he is alive...how can he seek revenge from me?" Li Xuan said: "He is the son of a traitor. Even if he is alive, he will still be imprisoned."

With these words, he seemed to have found his backbone, and added: "Moreover, brother said that this matter was absolutely impossible. Li Qian must have died back then, and Xue Baida must have lied to him."

Wu Huaishi's eyes flashed, thinking.

He was also sure that Li Qian was dead, but in this case, why did Xue Bai want to trace the past events?

Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind, and his pupils dilated instantly as if he had been shocked by electricity.

Although he knew that this idea was absurd, it suddenly made him realize that everything would make sense.

No wonder, Xue Bai and Princess Hezheng are innocent...

Seeing Wu Huaishi's eyes rolling around and being silent for a long time, Li Chen couldn't help but curiously asked: "What is General Wu still thinking about?"

"If it's fake, why did Xue Bai lie to King Ruyang?" Wu Huaishi lowered his voice and said, "Has Shiba Lang ever thought that maybe Xue Bai is the fish that slipped through the net?"

"This is...impossible. Are you telling a ghost story?"

Li Quan finally felt afraid. He had not dealt with Xue Bai many times, but he knew that Xue Bai was a very capable person. In just a few years, he became a new noble in the court and managed both Li Heng and Li Linfu.

, he does not want to be an enemy of such a person.

But as Wu Huaishi said, if Xue Bai is really Li Qian, the first target of revenge will be him.

"I know why Xue Bai went to Yeting. It must be to meet someone related to the three common people case. If it's not Princess E, then it's Princess Boping."

"What?"

"The old slave is saying that what Xue Bai did was not groundless. He has been deliberately plotting rebellion."

Li Chen felt that Wu Huaishi was crazy and what he said was nonsense. He said: "No one would do this unless he is looking for death. If I were Li Qian..."

"If you were Li Qian, would you find a place to hide? But Xue Bai is not you!" Seeing that he could not wake up Li Qian, Wu Huaishi became angry and said: "Xue Bai is willing to give up everything for power, and he can always give up

Risking your life, you use your thoughts to control his thoughts, what kind of person are you..."

Halfway through his words, he suddenly stopped talking.

But that tone had deeply hurt Li Chen.

Li Chen knew that Wu Huaishi looked down upon him. Even if anyone in the world had to choose to accept his fate, the world still looked down upon him.

It should be said that countless people who are more cowardly than him deeply despise his cowardice.

No one can empathize with him.

Li Chen sat down slumped, lowered his head feebly, and said: "It has nothing to do with me. I am just a useless person who was imprisoned by my father. Who cares who Li Qian is and what Xue Bai wants to do?"

Jiji used the method like this, Wu Huaishi laughed slightly, and then whispered again.

"You don't know, Shishiro? Xue Bai and the imperial concubine are already living alone..."

"What?!"

"Don't you understand? He is humiliating you. In order to take revenge and regain everything that his grandfather lost, he will do anything."

Li Chen's heart was filled with confusion and his expression changed.

Finally, he asked slowly: "What does General Wu want me to do?"

"What does the old slave want you to do? This matter has nothing to do with the old slave. It's just that I found out about it and reminded Shishiro to 'strike first' and report it to the saint as soon as possible..."

Li Chen was at a loss.

His father who insulted him deeply had completely destroyed his personality. When he encountered anything, he was like standing in a ruins without knowing where to go. Therefore, he easily fell into Wu Huaishi's inciting anger.

In the eyes.

He dare not resent the saint, but he can take revenge and vent his anger when he meets someone he can afford.

~~

Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

Today, Jia Chang, the prodigy chicken boy, came to visit him, so Li Xiu set up wine in the court to entertain him.

"It's weird, Juro is actually free to sit with me today?" Jia Chang was a little flattered and said with a smile: "In the past two years, Juro always said that the prime minister's office is busy with affairs."

"It used to be." Li Xiu said: "In the past, I didn't know how to employ people, so I had to work hard by myself."

"Oh?" Jia Chang couldn't help but be curious, "Juro has recruited a lot of talents recently?"

It was impossible for Li Xiu to tell people that his grandpa was sick so he would stop beating and scolding him frequently, or that Xue Bai could share many of his problems for him, so he waved his hands and did not answer, and only talked about his recent insights.

"That's not the case, but my state of mind is different. I used to always think about what the prime minister's son would be like, but recently I realized that life is so fleeting, and fame and wealth are always endless."

"This is not like what Li Juro said."

"Actually, I have always been like this, but in the past, I lived in the shell of 'Li Julang'. I was still dealing with official documents under the lamp at three and four o'clock, and had no time to rest until the cockcrow at five o'clock. As a result, my grandfather was still dissatisfied. But once I figured it out...

…I finally had time to visit Master Qi Xuan a few days ago and asked him to take my pulse. Only then did I realize that I am no longer young. I am weak in energy and spleen, and have low energy. It is time for me to recuperate.”

"Yes." Jia Chang is also good at maintaining health. He nodded repeatedly and said, "I see that the circles under Juro's eyes are no longer dark today, and his complexion has improved a lot."

"I went to bed early for five days in a row. When I had some free time, my mind became much clearer."

Li Xiu smiled calmly and said, "What's more important is that I have a sense of control over the life I live."

Jia Chang didn't know where he learned this rhetoric, but it was very fresh to him.

…

A few walls away from the courtyard, Xue Bai was reviewing official documents on behalf of Li Xiu under the supervision of Li Tengkong.

Of course, these are not important matters. They are nothing more than Li Xiu trying to save some time and hand over some of the most tedious and insignificant matters to Xue Bai. Most of them are money accounting in various places, criminal cases in prefectures and counties, etc., which are troublesome to deal with.

If something goes wrong, Li Linfu will scold him.

Li Xiu was not good at this, and was worried about doing it, so he did it with twice the result and half the effort, but Xue Bai was very good at it, did it quickly, and never made any mistakes.

In fact, Xue Bai also encountered many problems that he didn't know how to solve. He would collect them every time and ask Li Linfu about them.

But the biggest difference between Xue Bai and Li Xiu is that Li Linfu would scold Li Xiu, but he knew that scolding Xue Bai was useless, so he was too lazy to scold and only answered businesslikely.

"Isn't the amount of rations for the Shuofang Army this year wrong?"

While approving the official document, Xue Bai suddenly murmured.

Li Tengkong was sitting aside and asked, "Is it missing?"

"yes."

Xue Bai took the abacus and fiddled with it a few times awkwardly. Li Tengkong took the abacus and whispered: "I'll do it, whatever you say."

"As far as I know, there are 64,700 soldiers in Shuofang. Each soldier eats two liters of food a day, which is seven stones and two buckets a year, and the millet is converted into twelve stones. In addition, there are 14,300 horses.

One hundred horses, each horse eats one bushel of millet per day in winter and spring, and eighteen shi of millet per year..."

Xue Bai spoke quickly, and Li Tengkong calculated quickly. His slender and beautiful fingers moved the abacus beads, and the abacus "crackled" for a while.

After he listed a long list of numbers, he pondered: "Based on this calculation, every year we need food and fodder for soldiers and horses..."

"One million two hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred stones." Li Tengkong said.

"Now that the military system of the government has been defeated, the soldiers are not good at farming, and they are working in the fields. The tax revenue is only more than 200,000 dan. Therefore, the imperial court will pay 1.05 million dan this year."

"good."

"But look, this official letter from the Hebian envoy says that the grain will be 120,000 dan."

"There are also those from the household department."

"The Ministry of Revenue only paid 318,600 shi." Xue Bai said, "I remember."

Li Tengkong said: "This still does not mean that this year's payment is wrong. The autumn grain has not been delivered yet."

"But compared to this time in previous years, it is already a full 470,000 dan less."

Xue Bai said, putting the official document aside and said: "Keep this too, I will ask your grandpa later."

Afterwards, he turned around and saw Li Tengkong looking at him with those bright eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"No wonder you do these things ten times more smoothly than my brother, but how did you write down these?"
To be continued...