"Your Majesty, this is not for you."
Li Yi stood under the pavilion and explained.
"Even the world belongs to me. What else doesn't belong to me?" The old emperor waved his hand and said, "Don't dawdle like a woman. Bring it up quickly."
It was a birthday gift for the princess. If the old emperor had the face to blacken this, he would have nothing to say.
Li Yi took the brocade box from the guard's hand, walked to the pavilion, and put it on the table in the middle.
Jing Emperor looked curious and said, "Open it for me to see."
"Your Majesty, let's forget it." Li Yi looked at the bow tied with colorful ribbons at the top and hesitated. "This is a gift for the Princess Royal. It took me a lot of effort to wrap it like this."
Jing Emperor picked up the teacup and waved his hand impatiently. "Open it when I tell you to. Just wrap it up later."
Li Yi had no choice but to untie the ribbon and put it aside. He said, "I will open it. Your Majesty, you have to be mentally prepared."
"Why do you talk so much nonsense today …" Jing Emperor took a sip of tea and glanced at him.
Li Yi moved the box a little further away and opened the lid. At the moment when Jing Emperor spat out a mouthful of tea, he quickly closed the lid and turned around with the brocade box in his arms.
The old emperor was still blinded by the thing in the box. Fortunately, he moved fast enough. The price of the glazed statue that had been sprayed with tea might be discounted.
However, his clothes could be sold appropriately in the future. The clothes that had been sprayed with tea by the emperor had a special commemorative meaning. It was absolutely not excessive to sell it for a thousand taels of silver.
"Open it, open it …" Jing Emperor put down the teacup and stood up from the stone bench. His eyes were bright.
"Your Majesty, don't get excited." Li Yi put the box on the table and opened the lid again.
Jing Di stood up and bent over. He saw that there was a glass statue of a woman about two feet tall in the box. The woman was dressed in a palace dress and looked very lifelike. Even her expression was very vivid. Most of the statue was transparent and the patterns on the dress were clearly visible. It was colorful and under the sunlight, there seemed to be light flowing and it was very dazzling.
As an emperor, he had seen countless treasures. Although he had never seen such a large and exquisite glass statue, he quickly calmed down and asked suspiciously, "Is this really a gift for MIngzhu? When did you become so generous?"
Li Yi closed the lid and wrapped the ribbon again. He said, "I have always been generous to my friends. A mere glass statue is nothing to me."
Emperor Jing looked at him and asked, "It is said that colored glass is a gift from the heavens. It is extremely rare even in the palace. How did you get such a large piece of colored glass and carve it into the shape of MIngzhu?"
Li Yi put the box to one side and said, "I came to the palace this time to tell His Majesty about this matter."
"This matter is not urgent. I have other things to ask you." Jing Di waved his hand and a guard behind him spread a white cloth on the table. There was a grid on the cloth and it looked very familiar.
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"What did the monk say to His Majesty?"
A few feet away from the pavilion, the middle-aged Taoist stood next to Chang De and looked at him and asked.
"I just came over."
Chang De said lightly. He turned his head to look at the middle-aged Taoist priest and said, "I don't care what Monk Tan Yin says to His Majesty, but his medical skills are something that even the Imperial Physician Order is inferior to. As for you, surnamed Yuan, if you offer any pills to His Majesty again, not only will I not let you off, I will also not let your Dao Sect off."
"Chief Steward Chang's temper is exactly the same as it was decades ago." The middle-aged Taoist was not angry at Chang De's rebuke at all. He said, "I apologize for what happened last time. At that time, I was traveling far away from the capital and did not know about it. If not, I would not have let the disciples of Taoism do such a thing."
"You don't have to apologize to me." Chang De said coldly, "If it was not for His Majesty's benevolence, do you think your Taoism could continue to be stable?"
"When it comes to His Majesty's health, it seems that you, Chief Steward Chang, have a greater responsibility, right?" The middle-aged Taoist looked at him and said, "After all, the late Emperor entrusted His Majesty to you, Chief Steward Chang …"
The guards under the pavilion inexplicably felt a little cold. After wrapping their clothes tightly, they looked at the pavilion again.
Accompanying Li Yi to eat could be said to be experienced, but this was the first time he played with the emperor.
The old Emperor actually played beast chess, and the chess pieces were made of white jade. Li Yi had forced the old Emperor's leopard into a desperate situation. The old Emperor looked at him and said with a smile, "A momentary failure is not really a failure. Sometimes, giving up some things can often lead to greater gains."
He casually moved a chess piece, and Li Yi found that his elephant had been forced into a corner.
Li Yi smiled and said, "Only when you're in a desperate situation will you be able to survive. Sometimes, if you don't push yourself, you won't know how much potential you have."
"Your Majesty, eat this official's Flying Elephant!"
"How dare you!" A trace of anger appeared on Emperor Jing's face. "You dare to play chess with me … In that case, don't blame me for the Earth Drilling Mouse!"
"Your Majesty, how about this move of Jumping Tiger!"
"No matter how good you are at jumping, can you escape from my inescapable net?"
"Come out, the universe's super invincible Celestial Hound!"
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"I lost?"
"Yes, Your Majesty lost. Once the Celestial Hound comes out, who can compete with it?"
"How did my Celestial Hound die just now?"
"It was bitten to death by my tiger."
"Isn't it the universe's super invincible Celestial Hound?"
"Your Majesty, when you use this move, you should shout to be the Celestial Hound. If you don't shout, it's the Chinese countryside dog …"
"So you're saying that I really lost?"
"Your Majesty really lost."
Emperor Jing put down the chess piece and said, "A few days ago, the academy expelled a total of thirteen students, all of whom were the children of influential families. There has been a discussion in the imperial court that we cannot give excessive preferential treatment to the children of poor families. Otherwise, it will be unfair. I want to choose ten more from the children of the aristocratic families. You should make some arrangements in advance."
"Okay."
Li Yi nodded. This time, the Cui and Qin families would not send their children into the fire pit. If there were any with the surname Qin or Cui, he could rope them in. After all, it was better not to have a family that did not care about the lives of their clansmen …
Emperor Jing nodded slightly and said, "In the last account investigation, I did not want to disturb the foundation of the imperial court, so I did not kill the officials who voluntarily handed over the stolen money. These days, some officials in the imperial court have proposed to establish a system of 'atonement silver'. That is, according to the seriousness of the official's crime, a certain amount of money can be used to exempt a certain amount of punishment. This can solve the problem of the state treasury being empty. What do you think?"
Li Yi packed up the chess pieces and said, "Once the 'atonement silver' is used, the Jing Kingdom will not be far from being destroyed."
Emperor Jing frowned and asked, "Is it that serious?"
He could not tell him that in another world, the most corrupt official in history, He Shen, proposed this system. Although it made the pockets of the Emperor and himself full, the country decayed a lot and accelerated the destruction of the Qing Dynasty …
That was how the Qing Dynasty was destroyed. If the Jing Kingdom dared to do this, it would be destroyed sooner or later!
Emperor Jing sighed and said, "Although a large amount of money came into the state treasury a few days ago, the deficit was too big before. Moreover, we allocated thirty thousand taels to the Arithmetic School. We still can't make ends meet …"
Li Yi raised his head and looked at him. Was thirty thousand taels the main point? Moreover, he had helped him save that thirty thousand taels and left it in the Arithmetic School as a start-up fund for future projects. The stingy old Emperor, Old Xue, asked for a hundred thousand taels. Why did he not let go of the Arithmetic School?
Li Yi sighed and said, "Your Majesty does not need to worry. There is a solution to the problem of the state treasury being empty."
"Really?" Emperor Jing looked up at him and asked, "You have a way to solve the problem of the state treasury being empty?"
"I will not hide it from Your Majesty. Today, I came to solve Your Majesty's problem."
Li Yi nodded. At this moment, he felt like a fraud.
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