Forcing me to keep vigil for your childhood sweetheart? Then I'll leave you.

But as soon as Prince Qing swallowed the two drops of wine, he felt a harsh and spicy sensation in his throat.

It feels like being burned by fire from the root of the tongue to the throat!

He immediately drank a few sips of ice water.

Who would have known that there was actually wine in the middle of the ice water!

Prince Qing, who could drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, blushed after drinking such a small amount of wine for the first time.

"Dad, you drank too little, didn't you?"

Chu Yaoyue, who was unaware of the situation, had a mocking look on her face.

But he didn't know that after drinking two drops of wine, he would end up looking for water everywhere just like Prince Qing.

"Did you put chili pepper in the wine?"

Chu Yaoyue pouted, her eyes showing some anger, "We haven't come to see you for so long, you can't play tricks on us like this!"

"What do you two think of my wine?"

But Lin Yi smiled slightly.

"I've seen strong liquor, but nothing as strong as yours."

Prince Qing frowned slightly, realizing that the matter was not simple. This kid Lin Yi probably didn't drown his sorrows in alcohol.

“This is a high-proof wine.”

"I bought all kinds of liquor in Liangzhou City and tasted them one by one."

Lin Yi began to explain the whole story to them.

He drank all the alcohol he could, and no amount of strong liquor was strong enough.

Or rather, he was dissatisfied.

"My liquor is almost pure wine, so two drops are enough to fill a whole pot."

Lin Yi smiled slightly as he spoke, "But this thing is not for drinking."

"If it's not for drinking, then is it for curing illnesses?"

Chu Yaoyue smiled. She had heard that the army would use some alcohol for disinfection, but the concentration of the alcohol was not enough, so hot water was more effective.

"Yes, it is used to treat diseases. This thing is the essence of wine."

"My name is Alcohol."

Lin Yi slowly explained, "If you want to drink it, you have to add water. If you don't want to drink it, you can use it for disinfection."

"Hmm... the alcohol in the army isn't as strong as this."

"If it's your strong liquor, it should be possible..."

Prince Qing stroked his beard and thought for a moment.

There are indeed various customs in the army, such as spraying knives with wine, but the wine is not strong enough and is not as good as boiled water.

In the end, wine is for drinking.

"I have twenty large jugs of alcohol."

"Shall we discuss the price?"

Lin Yi's words made Prince Qing feel a little moved.

If the alcohol is good, it can be mixed with water and drunk as wine, and it can also be used as a disinfectant by military doctors.

"Your Highness, this strong liquor has three treasures."

"First, it warms the body, second, it disinfects, and third, it can invigorate blood circulation and dissolve blood stasis..."

After Lin Yi explained, he began to explain the prices. "Nowadays, a dou of wine costs three hundred coins. Even so-called strong liquor costs five hundred coins a dou."

"This huge pot of mine is about eight dou. As for alcohol, it should be worth at least one dou and one liang of silver."

Lin Yi then quoted the price, "Eight taels of silver for one pot, a total of one hundred and sixty taels."

“It works well after using it, I will buy it again.”

Hearing this, Prince Qing looked puzzled and immediately asked, "You haven't been researching how to make strong liquor for these past few days?"

"That's natural. Wine is the essence of grain, and Niujia Village has plenty of grain, so it's natural to consider it."

Lin Yi said this with a relaxed smile, having long since gotten over the shadow of being caught.

Seeing him like this, Prince Qing felt relieved.

Chu Yaoyue was also pleasantly surprised. Lin Yi was still the same Lin Yi as before!

"As I said before, I can't make the final decision on military matters."

"Besides, now that the war has slowed down, there is more time to discuss."

Prince Qing said slowly, "I can buy these twenty pots from you first."

"Thank you, King Qing."

Lin Yi expressed his gratitude, "But please remind the General that this wine must be diluted with water before drinking. Otherwise, the concentration is too high and it can easily kill people."

After all, in the past life, even among the Russians, few could drink high-concentration pure alcohol from a bottle!

Prince Qing thought that the two drops were enough to burn his throat, so he nodded nervously.

Be sure to pay more attention when using it, otherwise you will definitely get hurt!

"By the way, Dad, since Lin Yi is doing business, why not tell us about that matter?"

Chu Yaoyue thought of the matter of the national treasury.

Prince Qing thought that what he thought made sense, so he told the story.

It turned out that there was a huge deficit in the imperial treasury. Coincidentally, there was a sudden snowstorm in the south. The emperor wanted to provide disaster relief but found that there was not enough silver, and then he discovered the deficit.

Several parties passed the buck, and multiple audits yielded nothing.

So the court thought of Prince Qing.

The accounts of the frontier troops were crystal clear. Over the years, Prince Qing had never embezzled a penny and devoted himself to managing the army.

Therefore, the emperor secretly sent the account book to Prince Qing, hoping that he could find out the problems with the accounts.

However, Prince Qing had his own account kept, so how could he find any clues in the account books of the Ministry of Revenue of the National Treasury?

"Lin Yi, let me remind you, this is a major court matter. If you dare to leak it, no one can protect you!"

After Prince Qing gave the reminder, he took out the account book and placed it on the table.

Lin Yi flipped through it casually and laughed.

"Why are you laughing?"

Prince Qing didn't believe that Lin Yi could see the problem.

"Yin Yang Account."

Lin Yi immediately replied, "This is a positive account. No matter how you check, you won't find any problems."

Upon hearing this, Prince Qing was immediately shocked.

"How do we check that?"

"It's impossible to get the secret account."

He thought for a while and asked slowly.

"The problem is very simple. Since it is a positive account, there must be false reporting."

"As long as we can deduct all the false reports, we can make a rough guess."

Lin Yi explained while taking a piece of paper to calculate.

As he turned the pages, the numbers added together made the King of Qin dizzy.

"Just looking at this single month's account book, the deficit should be one hundred thousand taels of silver."

"At this rate, the deficit for the year will be at least 1.2 million taels of silver."

Lin Yi’s words shocked Prince Qing even more.

Because the person who delivered the letter did say that the national treasury was short of at least one million taels!

"How did you get it?"

He immediately asked Lin Yi.

"Accounting has a fixed format, and all entries in and out of the account should be recorded one by one."

"And this account, a lot of the middle was added later, probably because we didn't expect to spend so much money at the beginning."

Lin Yi pointed to several problematic accounts and explained, "Based on this principle, I can assume that all accounts added later are false expenditures and income."

"There are probably some accounts that were falsely reported from the beginning, so I say that the deficit in this account book is at least 100,000 taels."

After hearing this explanation, Prince Qing nodded slightly.

"Wait a moment, I'll have someone get the rest of the accounts."

Prince Qing said this and went out to arrange for the servants to come with him to drive the car.

After a while, the servant in charge of driving came back and brought the remaining account books, a total of twelve, from December last year to November this year.

"Calculate all the accounts."

Prince Qing said, "If you have any difficulties and need money, just ask me!"

"I'm not short of money, I'm short of time."