Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Gu Simiao silently watched his fading back, until he completely disappeared into the night, then slowly turned and left.

After bidding farewell to Gu Simiao, Lu Chen, led by the eunuch, soon came to Zichen Palace.

At this moment, the empress, who had already changed into her dragon robe, was sitting on the dragon chair, concentrating on looking at the memorial on the table.

Immediately afterwards, the moment Lu Chen stepped into the hall, she put down the memorial in her hand and raised her head slightly.

"Here it is."

The moment Lu Chen's eyes met, the corner of the Empress's mouth slightly raised an imperceptible arc.

"Weichen see Your Majesty."

Lu Chen bowed slightly to salute.

Although they had only separated not long ago, they still had to have the etiquette when meeting the emperor.

"Lu Qing doesn't need to be too polite."

The empress waved her hand, then pointed to the stool beside the table that was specially placed by someone.

"Come, sit here."

Lu Chen looked at it, then frowned.

"Your Majesty, this...isn't very good..."

You're so close, are you a schoolgirl looking for guidance?

"It's okay, there are a few details, don't care."

After a pause, she added.

"The Holy King usually sits here when he assists me with official duties, so you don't have to worry about it, Lu Qing, just sit at ease."

"However, the Holy King has a noble status and has made great military exploits for His Majesty one after another, while the humble minister..."

Before finishing speaking, the Empress interrupted: "In my heart, you and the Holy King have the same meaning to me. They are both the pillars of my Great Xia kingdom. Therefore, you can do what the Holy King can do." You can do it, you can sit where the Holy King can sit.”

Hearing this, Lu Chen was speechless.

Stand shoulder to shoulder with the Holy King?

How can Lao Tzu, He De, be compared with this legendary general who is loyal and has made great contributions to the court?

Your Majesty, you think highly of me, don't you? !

Chapter 147 Ancestral System

In the end, Lu Chen still didn't sit next to the empress, but asked the empress to send someone a table, and was going to sit in an inconspicuous corner to work, not to overstep the threshold, and let the empress feel helpless.

Afterwards, the empress handed some official documents from the household department to Lu Chen.

"Qing Lu, these are the reports and applications for money and food from the Ministry of Households for supporting the royal family and nobles, repairing palaces and tombs, salaries, military salaries, disaster relief, appeasement of mobs, thieves and Japanese pirates, as well as the taxation of various places and the changes in acres of land in the world. To sum up, I asked the Ministry of Households to list the various income and expenditures in detail, so the number of audits that need to be audited is extremely complex. The cabinet has already audited it. During this period, you have to work hard, and the next officer will come to help me audit it every day. If there is no problem , help me criticize Zhu."

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help rolling his eyes in his heart.

Well, after the engineering and official departments, now I have to take over the most troublesome job of the household department.

He also conveniently did the work of the eunuch Bingbi.

Simply let my buddy do all the work of the six subjects by myself.

Increase the amount without increasing the price, Your Majesty, I really have you. I can't tell that you, a beautiful girl with delicate features, are actually a black-hearted capitalist.

I really have the style of your Taizu Emperor Hongwu.

Loved it.

Please increase the intensity, it is best to exhaust my buddy to death.

"correct!"

Just when Lu Chen was complaining in his heart, the empress suddenly remembered something, and said to Lu Chen:

"Lu Qing uses engineering to give him an overview of the affairs of the two departments. He went to Yuzhou to take charge of the military affairs of the two states before. Now he is also taking care of the affairs of the household department. It is a lot of work. I can't let you work in vain. This month, you can get ten times the salary. After processing the official documents of the household department, you can rest for a period of time. When you recover and feel that you can come back, come back to the court. I can't let you be exhausted."

Lu Chen: "..."

Well, the place where this girl can gather people's hearts is not only not dark inside, but very white on the contrary.

Simply spotless.

It would be nice if you could be a little bit more ruthless...

Lu Chen didn't feel much about ten times the salary.

After all, the salary of officials in Daxia is the lowest in all dynasties, ten times the salary, which is actually not much money.

The point is to rest.

You can rest as long as you want, and you can come back whenever you want.

Is there a better perk than this?

It's just that this kind of thing is not a good thing for Lu Chen.

Of course, as an upright gentleman with lofty aspirations and one heart for justice, he still had to refuse, but the Empress insisted, and she couldn't shirk it, so Lu Chen had no choice but to accept it with shame.

Anyway, you can come back whenever you want, it doesn't matter.

After receiving the official document handed over by the empress, Lu Chen put it on the corner of the table, then picked up the first one and read it.

Well, the expected style.

"Your Majesty, please give me some straw paper."

"Give."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Lu Chen put the straw paper on the table, and then prepared to pick up the pen.

"Come on."

The Empress suddenly called softly.

"Bring a few calculation chips over here, and in addition, announce a few experienced calculation officials to enter the palace to assist Lu Qing."

In this world, the way of sages and sages is the absolute mainstream, and everything else, except martial arts, is a small way.

Affected by this, there are very few practitioners who specialize in the way of counting.

After all, if you don't practice the way of sages, you won't even have the chance to be an official. If you specialize in the way of sages, you will not be able to improve in other ways after you fall into the shackles of citing scriptures and excerpts from chapters and sentences.

Of course, it is impossible for those who can enter the court to be officials not to learn the way of counting, but most of them do it concurrently, and they are not proficient in it. Few are proficient in this way.

The calculation methods that are widely circulated in the Great Xia are quite backward for Lu Chen. The speed of development is similar to the ancient times in his impression. It is very time-consuming and labor-intensive to calculate complicated data. It takes tens of hundreds of calculation officials to calculate for several days, and after a long and repeated review, the data can be submitted.

Not necessarily accurate.

This also makes it easier for some people to go up and down.

A light flashed in Lu Chen's eyes, and then he suddenly raised his head and said to the Empress, "Your Majesty, don't bother, I never need to count, and I don't need help from others, just give me a charcoal pencil."

Since the way of simply dying doesn't work, it's time to change the way of thinking.

Coincidentally, the figures in the official document in front of him, which involve various long-standing abuses of the Great Xia Empire, are a good entry point.

An entry point that can perfectly avoid system restrictions.

After hearing what he said, the Empress suddenly asked curiously: "No need to count? Then how should we count?"

"Your Majesty will know later."

Although confused, the Empress still asked people to do what Lu Chen said.

Not long after, the eunuch Xiao Lizi, who had met once before, walked in with a charcoal pencil.

"Lord Lu, here it is."

Lu Chen took the charcoal pencil and said casually, "Thank you."

Xiao Lizi was immediately flattered and felt respected.

However, the huge difference in status still made him wave his hands quickly, and said respectfully: "No thanks, no thanks, Mr. Lu, you are too polite, this servant is just following His Majesty's orders."

"Any contribution should be valued."

Lu Chen said indifferently: "Your Majesty will naturally thank His Majesty, but one yardstick counts for one yardstick. You are the one who does things, and I am the one who benefits. It's a very simple logic of cause and effect, isn't it?"

Hearing this, the Empress quietly looked at Lu Chen with a soft look.

To be so kind to an insignificant little eunuch, not to be contemptuous because of the other party's humble status, nor to shrink back because of the other party's strength and power, stick to the heart and be consistent.

Such a sincere and trustworthy gentleman is worthy of her trust.

Unconditional trust.

Xiao Lizi's shoulders trembled slightly, and then he saluted Lu Chen respectfully, then stepped back slowly and left Zichen Palace.

There are only Lu Chen and the empress in the huge Zichen Palace.

Lonely and widowed.

It's a pity that Lu Chen never knew what amorous feelings were, and he didn't feel the slightest charm. Instead, he wholeheartedly compared the income and expenditure details attached to the document, and wrote Arabic numerals on straw paper with a charcoal pen.

It didn't take long after that, and the other side of the straw paper, which had been drawn in advance, was gradually filled with dense numbers.

Although the empress sitting on the dragon chair seemed to be dealing with official documents, the corner of her eyes drifted from time to time to Lu Chen who was buried in her work.

Thinking about it carefully, this is the first time she's been alone with Lu Chen after knowing Lu Chen for so long.

Realizing this, she had a strange feeling for no reason.

As the Ninth Five-Year Lord who has the power to control the world, even in the face of the ruthless and scheming Queen Mother Zhao, he is a generation of heroes who can turn the corner from desperation.

No matter what she faced with everything, she could calmly deal with it, and she was as immovable as a mountain. Her breathing was usually very smooth, but at this moment, there was a moment of disorder.

Time passed minute by minute.

Unknowingly, the night outside was extremely thick, and the bright moonlight poured down, covering the earth with a layer of melancholy silver makeup.

The empress put down the last official document in her hand, then exhaled softly, stood up, and walked behind Lu Chen.

When she saw the ghost symbols in the forms with unclear meanings on Lu Chen's desk case, she couldn't help being slightly taken aback.