Chapter 874: silver problem
"This Wuyu really thinks of me." Xia Beibei just smiled lightly after receiving the biography of flying pigeons from Jun Wuyu.
"Bei Er, but Dongfang has arrived at Tucheng?" Sang Jinghong saw a pigeon flying out and came over to check the situation.
Xiajia Village was a complete mess. Three-thirds of the houses collapsed. Everyone didn't even have a place to live. They could only live in the homes of people they knew well and the houses didn't collapse.
And her family also took over the Xia Dao family, and several other families who used to be better than Sang Jinghong, all moved in.
"No, it's the Empress Dowager who asked me to go to Belvedere immediately." Xia Beibei put away the note and said.
"What? Empress Dowager, then you..." Sang Jinghong was quite surprised when she heard the words Empress Dowager.
In the past, when she listened to her granddaughter talking to Yu'er, she would always mention the queen mother or something. Unexpectedly, Belle could still know the queen mother.
"It's okay, Grandma, the Empress Dowager just asked me to help. Now that several cities are in disaster, I'm not selling food, so I just need it." Xia Beibei explained that Sang Jinghong's face was obviously a little flustered.
She knew that Wei Zui was confinement at the moment, and she had just given birth, so she definitely couldn't come out.
The matter of negotiating with the emperor is left to her alone.
"Grandma, I'm afraid I'm going to pack up and leave. You are here, be careful." She said.
"Hey, grandma has so many people here to take care of you, what can you worry about? The most important thing is outside matters." When Sang Jinghong heard what she said, her dangling heart was relieved.
The tragic situation of Xuedu was devastated. You can imagine it by looking at Xiajia Village. However, it is not bad. At least the corn and other grains in the fields outside can still be harvested, and they have not been destroyed.
"Okay, I'll clean up." Xia Beibei stood up.
Go to Belvedere, sooner rather than later.
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"Trash, a bunch of trash, what's the use of raising you ministers?" For a few days, the emperor, who was full of confidence, was facing in the imperial study when he asked for money but no money, but no food. Ministers vent their anger.
He promised the Queen Mother that he would definitely handle the earthquake.
However, when I asked the Ministry of Household, the treasury was like an extra-large bamboo basket catching water. The money could be spent as much as possible. After a few years, there was not even a few million taels of silver.
At first, he still didn’t believe it, so he had people check the accounts of the Ministry of Accounts, only to find out that the income in the account was far less than the account in the past few years.
If it wasn't for the empress dowager's mediation, many people in the palace would have to drink the northwest wind.
It's just that he didn't understand, where did Jun Wuyu come from to be able to pull out money in a bottomless pit.
"Where did the money come from to make up for these deficits in recent years?" He held the ledger in his hand and threw it at the head of the Minister of the Ministry of Housing, and asked sharply.
"Go back, go back to the emperor. In the past few years, the Empress Dowager used some unclaimed land on the outskirts of Belvedere to grow crops, and also mined a coal...coal mine in Mucheng, which was able to maintain...maintain the expenses of the household." Minister of the Ministry said without hesitation.
But these are all things that cannot be said to outsiders. Do you want to say that the treasury is empty in the dignified Dreamland?
"How come there are so many military supplies in the country every year?" the emperor asked.
One year's supply of military supplies can almost be worth more than half of the national treasury revenue. How could he not know that his army is actually sucking his own blood.
"Your Majesty, these are already the least, so... just like that, the Empress Dowager also sent Li Shangshu to Yuyuancheng, the valley, and asked Princess Bei of Tianyuan Mansion for many methods of self-sufficiency in the army, and it was maintained. "The Minister of the Ministry of Housing is simply about to cry without tears.
Does the emperor really think that governing a country is just a matter of lip service?
If it can be that simple, anyone in this world can take care of it.
"The Empress Dowager also took Weichen... Weichen bought many stores in Belvedere, Yuxiang City, Xiangcheng, Ningcheng and other cities in the name of the royal family, and all the income from these stores was also included in the national treasury. , but...but that's not enough to make ends meet."
"Huh..." If it wasn't for the hard enduring, the emperor would have turned the table over.
The queen mother, the queen mother, is this country his or the queen mother Jun Wuyu?
"Situ Shangshu, tell me, how did you maintain these expenses in the past?" he asked.
"Back to the emperor, in the past, the country...the country's army was divided into three, and the prince regent's own military supplies were always handled by himself, and the army...the rebel Jun Chengxian's army needs, most of them were also provided by him. He spends his own money, so... so..."
Situ Shangshu did not say any more.
Having said this, the emperor should understand that a country is not as simple as imagined.
Hearing Situ Shangshu's words, the emperor was like being hit with a sap in the back of his head, and he almost vomited to death.
Having said so much, that is to say, his country's army is not supported by the treasury, but by the financial resources of Young Lord Beitang, and Jun Xiancheng... That is to say, all the Jun family's family members are in Jun Wuyu's hands. Money is supporting it, isn't it?
That is to say, even if he wants to return the military power in Jun Wuyu's hands, he can't hold the military power, right?
"How about before, before!" Young Lord Beitang didn't hold one-third of the military power in the country for eight hundred years, and Jun Xiancheng didn't either. Could it be that before, soldiers were all hungry?
"Back to the emperor, the previous emperors of all dynasties had their own financial resources, but when they came to the emperor's place... they were broken." An old man finally stood up after hearing the emperor's question and whispered in the emperor's ear.
Hearing the words, the emperor had a bad breath stuck in his throat, so he could only give the old man a vicious look.
In other words, either continue to maintain the status quo, military power, and government affairs will continue to be in the hands of the Queen Mother, Jun Wuyu, or will he manage his own financial resources from now on?
"You all step back first. I will discuss this matter with the Queen Mother to see what to do." He could only attack a few ministers and let them go out first.
No wonder Jun Wuyu let go so easily, it seems that he is sure that he can't handle this matter.
He really can't afford it. Anyway, he's a cowardly puppet, so he doesn't need to care about the shame, he will go to Jun Wuyu now.
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"Niangniang, Niangniang, the emperor is rushing here with someone." Yan Hua hurried in and said to Jun Wuyu.
"Really?" Jun Wuyu just chuckled lightly, not much surprised.