"Lord Zhentai, the so-called clever woman is difficult to cook without rice, and food and salary are the basis of military preparation, recruiting militia, supplying armaments, and training troops to fight...... These all need to be paid, if there is no food, how can the subordinate officers reorganize the troops?! He also asked the people of Zhentai to allocate food and salary as soon as possible, so that the subordinate officers could reorganize the troops. ”

Soon after going to work in the morning, Zhu Ping'an appeared on time again in the office room of Lord Zhentai and asked for food and salary.

Twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, Zhu Ping'an came to report to the Lord on time and asked for food and salary. Today is the third day, and this is the fifth time Zhu Ping'an has come.

"Zihou, it's not that I don't allocate food and salary to you, but the court has not allocated food and salary to us according to the Prosecutor's Office. Zihou, when you inspected Taicang, you also knew that the imperial court's finances were tight, and the military towns in the north alone were barely maintained. In addition, some time ago, Zhu Bochen gave the military department to the incident, on the grounds that the residents outside the city of Beijing, the gathering of business travelers, and the increasingly troubled border were the reasons, please build the outer city of Beijing according to the site of Tucheng, and the holy lord has approved it and started construction. For this project, the household department paid 240,000 taels of silver, and the second military and engineering departments issued 180,000 taels of silver, totaling 420,000 taels. During this period, whether it was the capital or the locality, all the budget had to be conceded to the outer city of the Beijing Division, and a few days ago, I asked the imperial court for the regimental training salary one after another, but they were all suppressed and not paid. To be honest, Zihou, I'm more anxious than you. ”

After Zhu Ping'an came to the door for the fifth time to ask for food, Lord Zhentai explained helplessly.

"My lord, let's put the punishment according to the judge's huge yamen, can't even allocate a grain of food?"

Zhu Ping'an's mouth was dry when he spoke in the Taidai adults, and now he feels panicked when he opens his mouth.

"It's really no money, our yamen is not big, but there are many plates, up and down, inside and out, money has to be used, the court has limited funds, and now they are tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall, and they are encouraged to maintain."

Lord Zhentai spread out his hands and said helplessly.

"Lord Zhentai, then let's tear down a wall again, and also build a wall battlement for the military garrison regiment of Xiaguan."

Zhu Ping'an hit the snake and climbed with the pole, laughing.

When Lord Zhentai heard this, he couldn't help but point at Zhu Ping'an and smiled bitterly, "Zihou, it's not that it can be demolished." The yamen really has no money. Otherwise, if it's so thick, you should first recruit a militia group, and if you have people, your own officials can apply to the imperial court for food and salary, so that the reasons will be more sufficient. ”

"Lord Zhentai, the so-called soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, and the grain and grass go first, and the soldiers and horses go again. I'm pulling all the soldiers and horses out first, if I can't apply for food and salary, and I can't supply it, then how can it be good?! Throughout the ages, there have been countless mutinies and disasters caused by the failure to pay food and wages in a timely manner. ”

Zhu Ping'an smiled bitterly.

"If it's not so thick, you can see what I have in this house of value, you can take it and pawn it first......"

Lord Zhentai seemed to have no choice, stretched out his finger and pointed to the household in the room, and said to Zhu Ping'an.

Zhu Ping'an was speechless when he heard this, can I pawn the house in your room?! In a feudal society that pays attention to the superiority and inferiority, wouldn't I be poked in the back if I did this?! Aren't you looking for impeachment?!

Besides, the belongings in your room are of little value, at best they are only two pieces of silver.

After the tea time, Zhu Ping'an came out of the room of Lord Zhentai again, just like the previous times.

"What's the matter, I'll just say that Zhu Zihou will return in vain, right?! Chu Fatty, I am willing to lose the bet, and quickly get the silver. ”

Seeing this scene in the corridor outside, Zhang Chufeng couldn't help but smile and stretched out his hand to push Chu Xiong, urging.

"Alas. Liu Bei invited Wuhou Zhuge Liang out of the mountain three times, and the little brother Zhu had two more thoughts than Liu Bei, and he hadn't been able to ask for food and salary, he was really distressed to look at it......"

Chu Xiong smiled bitterly and took out a silver ticket with a denomination of ten taels from his sleeve, and stuffed it into Zhang Chufeng's palm in distress.

"Where's down there?" Zhuo Yan stretched out his hand without smiling.

"Alas, I'm going to tighten my belt again this month......" Chu Xiong took out another one with a painful look on his face and slapped it in Zhuo Yan's hand.

"Don't come to Chu Fatty! In our yamen, there is no one richer than you Chu Fat. Zhang Chufeng laughed.

Come on, Zhu Ping'an's behavior of applying for food and salary has become the object of their gamble......

In the afternoon, Zhu Ping'an went again, and returned in vain.

In the evening, Zhu Ping'an returned to the small courtyard of the assigned hall, and Hua'er and the demon girl Ruonan had already prepared dinner.

"Giggle...... Look at your appearance, and you will know that there is no food and wages. My dad has already sent someone back to say that they have already surrendered a cottage for you. Someone made a promise to ensure that we would eat the emperor's food and lead the army's salary...... Now it's not going to make us drink the northwest wind. ”

Seeing Zhu Ping'an's grizzled appearance, the demon girl Ruonan couldn't help but roll her eyes and sneered.

"Ruonan, my uncle is already lost enough, and you are still talking cool there." Hua'er glared at the demon girl Ruonan vigorously, and then stepped forward to serve Zhu Ping'an to change his regular clothes, clean his hands with water, and looked at Zhu Ping'an worriedly, while saying cautiously, "Uncle, don't listen to Ruonan's cool words, don't go to your heart, Hua'er believes in Uncle, Uncle will definitely be okay." ”

"It's okay, she's not all cool talk, I really haven't applied for food at the moment." Zhu Ping'an cleaned his hands on the basin of the painting, smiled slightly, and then looked at the demon girl Ruonan with a frank face, "Don't worry, I will never let you drink the northwest wind, I Zhu Ping'an promised that I will definitely fulfill it." ”

"I'm not rare, but they really came here to eat the emperor's food and lead the army's salary. They are not good people, and they do not have the noble feelings of dedicating themselves to the country and the people, if they do not have food, they will definitely not do it, and they will definitely make trouble when the time comes......" reminded the demon girl Ruonan.

"I know." Zhu Ping'an nodded.

"Uncle, I still have more than eighty taels here, as well as a lot of gold and silver jewelry, so take them all. I know, these are definitely not enough, but, uncle, don't worry, Miss is rich, tens of thousands of taels, and there are more of them, the lord favors Miss the most, as long as Miss speaks, the lord will agree......"

As she spoke, she took out a purse with body temperature from her arms and handed it to Zhu Ping'an without hesitation.

"No!" Zhu Ping'an smiled and shook his head, "I know Shu'er is rich, but don't ...... it"

"Why? It's all silver, so why not? The painting was puzzled.

"This group training is the group training of the imperial court, not our family's group training, and it must and can only be provided by the imperial court.

Zhu Ping'an explained simply.