Chapter 195 I'm thinking about it
"Your Majesty, the Grand Prime Minister wants to see you."
In Longtuge, the officials were reviewing Zha Zi, and a eunuch came in to report.
"Let him come in." The official put down his pen after hearing this.
The eunuch bowed and retreated. After a while, Han Zhang walked in.
"My lord, pay homage to Your Majesty!" Han Zhang bowed and saluted.
"No courtesy, please sit down." The official waved his hand.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After Han Zhang thanked him, he took out a zhazi and said: "Your Majesty, this is the zhazi about the northern military expenditure after checking with all the ministers."< br>
Eunuch Liu stepped forward to take the zhazi and brought it to the official's house.
The official took it and started looking at it, while Han Zhang sat down, took the tea from the palace maid, and tasted it slowly.
"Why do you need so much money?" The official frowned.
"Your Majesty, the northern border city has not been repaired for many years. It is dilapidated and needs repairing, so it costs more. I and all the ministers compiled the calculations from the border inspections." Han Zhang said.
Hearing this, the official rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, pondered for a while, and asked, "Can the treasury take it out?"
Although the official had no intention of fighting, He still knows the importance of border armament.
Everything else is easy to say. The city wall must be reinforced and repaired. Otherwise, if the Liao Kingdom attacks, how will it be defended?
“If you can’t get it, at least half of it is still vacant.” Han Zhang said.
“Such a big difference?” The official frowned and asked, “Can we find a way to save some?”
Zha Zizhong’s estimate of military expenditure is more than two million taels, half of which is the shortfall. There are more than one million taels.
"Your Majesty, I also know that the national treasury is tight, and this is already the minimum requirement after verification." Han Zhang said.
"Then can we temporarily appropriate it from another place?" the official said.
An empty treasury does not mean there is no money, but a lot of money has already been put to good use.
If the treasury doesn’t even have this little money, it’s going to be over.
"Your Majesty, it is difficult to move anything else. It is still early for the autumn harvest. Once moved, it will cause a chain reaction." Han Zhang said.
The officials gathered together and threw it on the imperial case. They had a headache and said, "Is there no other way?"
"It's not impossible. If His Royal Highness is willing to come up with some, the problem will be solved." Han Zhang said.
The official was silent for a while after hearing this, and said: "I know this, you can go back first."
"I retire!" Han Zhang stood up, saluted, and retreated.
The official family has a headache. He also knows Han Zhang’s purpose, which is to let Zhao Xing get the money, but Han Zhang has no selfish motives.
The official rubbed his brows and was about to order someone to find Zhao Xing when a eunuch came in and saluted: "Your Majesty, Your Highness the Crown Prince wishes to see you."
"Let him come in."
It really said that Cao Cao had arrived. He was looking for Zhao Xing, but Zhao Xing came by himself.
"My son pays homage to my father!"
After a while, Zhao Xing walked into the hall, bowed and saluted.
"No courtesy!" The official waved his hand and asked someone to sit down for Zhao Xing. After he sat down, he asked: "Did you accompany the princess back home this morning?"
"Gone." Zhao Xing nodded.
"Yes."
The official nodded slightly and asked, "What do you want when you come to the palace at this time?"
"Father, my son and I have something to do. I need to talk to you about important things alone," Zhao Xing said with a serious expression.
Hearing this, the official sent everyone away and asked, "What happened?"
This was the first time he saw Zhao Xing looking so serious.
"Father..."
Zhao Xing told him how King Yan gave him a woman, bribed the eunuchs of the East Palace to find out the news about the East Palace, and today he even asked people to send poison to the East Palace.
"Do you have..."
The official wanted to ask Zhao Xing if he had any evidence, but stopped mid-sentence.
It is impossible for Zhao Xing to come to him to tell this kind of thing without evidence.
The official sighed deeply: "For the throne, why do you do this?"
Hearing this, Zhao Xing shook his head slightly. Since ancient times, it has not been uncommon for sons to kill their fathers for the throne, brother. Cannibalism is not uncommon.
What is this?
The reason why the officials lamented like this was because King Yong assassinated him before, and King Yan wanted to poison him later. Both of them were his nephews.
"Alas." The official sighed, looking a bit older, and said, "Where's the poison? Did you bring it?" "I brought it." Zhao Xing took out the porcelain bottle from his sleeve and gave it to him. Go to your father.
The official took it and put it on the table, and said: "I will ask someone to go back with you in a while. You hand everyone over to them. You don't have to worry about the rest. "
"Yes!" Zhao Xing bowed and said, "If my father has nothing else to do, I will leave."
The nephew wants to kill his son, and he has to deal with his nephew. Come on, this kind of thing would not be uncomfortable for other emperors.
But the official family is kind-hearted and treats their ministers like this, let alone his nephew.
Zhao Xing knew that his father felt uncomfortable, but he had no way to comfort him.
"Wait." The official picked up the zhazi on the table and said, "Look at this zhazi."
Zhao Xing took it, unfolded it, looked at it, and asked: "But the treasury is out of money?"
Zhazi has not been sent to the East Palace in the recent period.
But his father asked him to read a piece of information about the budget for repairing border cities, and he guessed a lot.
My father is a typical emperor who values civility and not military affairs.
The Zhazi sent to the East Palace before were all related to government affairs.
Zhao Zi regarding military affairs was not given to Zhao Xing.
Zhao Xing once asked, what his father said was that as a prince, he should learn more about governing the country.
Showing this to him now is just because I don’t have enough money and I want to ask him for it.
"Well, after checking with the Grand Prime Minister and all the other Prime Ministers, there is still half the gap. You should have a lot of money there, so take two million taels and give it to the treasury." Official Jia said.
Zhao Xing: "..."
The budget on the post is two million and three hundred thousand taels. If you say half of the difference, isn't it just over one million? Good guy, it's two million. Two, I really thought that his money was brought by the strong wind.
"Father, there are not so many sons and ministers." Zhao Xing said with a bitter smile.
"Don't come!" The official glared and said, "I heard that you are bringing money to the East Palace one by one, and the warehouse of the East Palace can no longer hold it. You said it was useful before, but I didn't force you to hand over the money to the treasury. , not to mention taking over your business. Now that the treasury is empty, since you, the prince, have money, why don’t you take it out?”
Zhao Xing knows that there are things he can’t hide from his father, and if he refuses now, he might The emperor was about to forcibly close his business.
I thought for a while and said, "Father, I can give Qian to Erchen, but how to give it and how much to give, I have to let the Grand Prime Minister come to Erchen to talk about it."
"What do you mean? "The officials didn't understand what Zhao Xing meant for a while.
"Father, the public is public, the private is private. All the money is the private property of the ministers. The court needs money, and the ministers are willing to give it. But the father cannot ask the ministers for this money, it must be given. The grand minister comes to ask for it, but he can't pay for it and still be taken for granted.
I don't have any other intentions, I just want to explain something clearly to the Grand Prime Minister. "Zhao Xing said.
It is certain that the court is short of money, but it is not necessarily true that there is no other way.
If Zhao Xing also has no money, doesn't the border city have no money? Repaired?
The reason why Han Zhang wants him to pay is just because he has money.
If Zhao Xing agrees casually, things like this will definitely happen in the future.
Zhao Xing is not stingy with money, but he cannot agree to this easily.
"I will tell the Grand Master later, you go back first." The official said after pondering for a while.
Now that Zhao Xing has relented, he is happy to follow Zhao Xing's wishes on this matter.
"My son, please retire!" Zhao Xing bowed and retreated.
The official looked at his son's leaving figure with a smile. Although Zhao Xing was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he had a tall and straight figure due to his years of martial arts practice.
"Fu'er is strong and will definitely not be like me in the future." The official murmured to himself.
Zhao Xing went out, and Eunuch Liu walked in.
The sound of slight footsteps interrupted the official's thoughts.
The smile on the official's face slowly faded, and he said: "Send someone to follow the prince to the East Palace. The prince will inform them of the details. Find Duke Wei!"
"Yes. !" Eunuch Liu responded.
.........
Zhao Xing returned to the East Palace, handed over the eunuch and the two women sent by King Yan to the people sent by his father to take them away, and ignored the matter.
Even if King Yan notices something, he can't run away now.
As for rebellion, it is even more impossible.
If that idiot King Yong hadn’t attacked Rong Feiyan, King Yan wouldn’t have had any chance to rebel.
Even with the help of the Rong family, he barely controlled the palace and Bianjing City, and was easily pacified by Zhao Zongquan and his men.
Otherwise, Bianjing City was so majestic and tightly guarded, it would not have been pacified so quickly.
The current King Yan may not even be able to mobilize any troops, let alone rebellion.
(End of this chapter)