Chapter 341: If you don’t have money, you’ll be in trouble
Seven days later.
There is heavy snowfall on the border of Tiancang Kingdom, and the earth seems to be covered with a layer of silver makeup. It is surrounded by a vast expanse of white. It is extremely beautiful at first glance.
The temperature across the border also began to drop sharply, becoming extremely cold.
In Gu Chan’s words, it’s so fucking cold today. The temperature dropped to seven or eight degrees below zero. It’s really freezing to death!
However, the weather is getting colder, but it cannot stop everyone’s enthusiasm to return to the border.
Most of the people who fled to Zhongyuan City had a bad life. Now that the border has been recovered, of course they want to come back as soon as possible to get their houses and properties back and live a good life in the future.
No, in the past seven days, all the people who had a bad life in Zhongyuan City have begun to pack up and return home.
Everyone was smiling from ear to ear along the way. Although the wind was biting and the weather was freezing, everyone felt warm in their hearts. After all, as long as they returned to the border, they could live in the same place as before. Now I can live a stable life in my own house.
Looking at Gu Chan and Xuanyuan Qing, they were not in a good mood at this time.
At noon that day, the two of them were sitting in the study room in the backyard of the county government office, warming themselves around a charcoal basin.
Qingluan Huofeng sat next to him, constantly adding charcoal to the charcoal basin to keep the fire burning brightly.
Qingluan said with a worried look, "Ninth Prince, tens of thousands of people have returned to the border now. If they come back and see the miserable situation at the border, wouldn't they be so uncomfortable that they die!"
" Yes! It's all the enemy's fault that destroyed the entire border beyond recognition. Although they fled, few houses in Wuheng County are intact now," Huo Feng also complained.
Not bad!
Ever since the enemy captured the border, they didn't care about it at all. It can be said that they have been doing random things everywhere, changing the originally good border beyond recognition.
Just last night, Gu Chan and Xuanyuan Qing had already made a rough estimate. If the border was to be completely restored to its previous vitality, the imperial court would have to allocate at least 5 billion taels of silver as a subsidy to restore the border. Complete recovery.
But the problem is that the imperial treasury is now empty. Let alone 5 billion taels, I am afraid that even 500 million taels will be difficult to get out.
Now we are faced with the problem of tens of thousands of people returning to their hometowns to settle down.
Don't mention how much Xuanyuan Qing's head hurts now.
Gu Chan said with a stiff face, "You are the ninth prince of Tiancang Kingdom. Now tens of thousands of people and the entire border of Tiancang Kingdom need help from the imperial court. You can't just sit here and say nothing! What if something happens later? The common people are back. It’s winter again. They have no food and no money. How can we let them freeze to death and starve to death?” The expenses for maintaining the various ministries in Kyoto are already very good, and I really can't ask my father for money." Xuanyuan Qing said with a grimace.
“…” Gu Chan.
Do it!
She now understands that it is not easy to be the emperor!
Now that he has become an emperor, the family still cannot afford to save the people of Li.
What the hell is this?
Speechless, Gu Chan stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and said, "Otherwise, let the wealthy gentry in Zhongyuan City donate some more and squeeze out the oil and water from them to help the border."
"The military pay for this war has already been squeezed to the point of hurting their flesh. I'm afraid it won't be easy to squeeze them again. And to put it bluntly, after this war, Zhongyuan City will also have to recover in the future. In addition, now that people are entering In winter, the entire Central Plains region also needs to breathe a sigh of relief." Xuanyuan Qing explained the truth.
Gu Chan was stunned when she heard this. After thinking about it carefully, she felt that what Xuanyuan Qing said made sense.
In the future, Zhongyuan City will also need development. We can’t empty Zhongyuan City to save the border! All the people in Zhongyuan City also need to survive. While taking care of the border, they must also take care of the other side. From a manager's perspective, this is called vision and pattern.
Obviously, she is still a little younger than Xuanyuan Qing and cannot be called a qualified manager.
After thinking about this, Gu Chan sighed and said, "Damn, it's troublesome to take care of people. I'd better go back to Zhongyuan City to open my medical clinic and feel more comfortable, so as not to worry about these things all day long."
"You have already reached this position. If you want to take off your burden easily, it will be impossible." Xuanyuan Qing said with a smile.
"Hmph! I can do whatever I want, and no one else can do anything to me." Gu Chan said disdainfully.
Xuanyuan Qing said with a sly look, "I wrote the memorial seven days ago and sent someone to send it to Kyoto at an urgent speed of 800 miles. I thought that in two days, my father would reward me for my merits. The imperial edict must be sent. You have made the first contribution. In addition to rewards, promotion and promotion are definitely indispensable. Do you think you can run away? "
"I said Xuanyuan Qing, can you not be like that? You thief? I told you to give the credit to the six men under me and let the emperor reward them based on their merit. Now, you are cheating on me again, right?" Gu Chan looked sullen and annoyed. explain.
"Haha..."
Xuanyuan Qing chuckled, feeling proud.
He didn't want to argue with Gu Chan at all. At the moment, he just wanted to keep Gu Chan and let her be used for his own purposes. As for what means and methods to use, it was not his concern, as long as the results satisfied him.
Gu Chan got up and left angrily, not wanting to stay with this scheming brat anymore.
Two days later in the afternoon.
Just as the common people have returned to the border one after another, they are each taking over their houses and fields and starting to make improvements.
The people sent by the emperor finally arrived at the border with the imperial edict.
The person who led the team this time was none other than the female sect leader of Renzong of Tianji Pavilion in Kyoto, Tiancang Kingdom.
She led a team of a hundred people. Each of these hundreds of people wore yellow jackets and had high physical skills. At first glance, they were at the level of Ouchi guards, not comparable to ordinary guards.
Moreover, this team of a hundred people was also pulling cartloads of large boxes. No one knew what was contained in these many large boxes.
After a team of a hundred people entered the county government office, the female sect leader was not in a hurry to announce the decree. Instead, she asked everyone to go to rest first. She also found a nice yard in the backyard and took a nice hot bath. , as if they were here for a vacation, not to declare a decree.
In the evening, Gu Chan and Xuanyuan Qing both sent people to prepare more than ten banquet tables and wait for her, but she didn't come to the banquet in time.
The two had no choice but to lead the generals and sit down in the front lobby to wait.
While waiting, Gu Chan asked in a low voice, "Ninth Prince, what is the name of this female sect leader?"
"What? Didn't you go to Kyoto before? Did you pass the Renzong trial? Why don't you know her name yet?" Xuanyuan Qing couldn't help but laugh.
Gu Chan scratched the back of his head and laughed awkwardly.
At that time, she was thinking about how to save her life all day long. How could she have the mood to care about the name of the female leader of Renzong!
(End of this chapter)