The Empress Wants To Be Deposed! - Chapter 34

Song Jinning was playing horse cranes.

Apart from her, the other three people are Li Chengxuan, Queen Mother Song and Li Xiyan.

It’s good, the family sits on a horse sling together, regardless of who loses and who wins, is that all fat and water does not flow to outsiders’ fields?

However, Song Jinning is obviously a little out of state now, so she didn’t show the domineering that was when she fought with Li Chengxuan last time.

Li Chengxuan glanced at her calmly, then raised his hand and shot out a seven-tube.

Song Jinning was tortured by Song Jinning the last time he was hitting horse cranes. After returning, he ordered Zhou Jing to find him a deck of cards and someone who was proficient in horse cranes.

Although I don’t talk about daily practice, but I will try to figure it out from time to time. Up to now, he not only knows what card he is holding with a finger touch, but also counts the cards in other players’ hands.

In fact, he was thinking that next time he played cards with Song Jinning, he would take a few backs to fight back abuse and repay the ‘humiliation’ of that day. But just looking at the trance on Song Jinning’s face, he didn’t know what was going on, so he subconsciously shot Qitong out.

Song Jinning should want these seven tubes…

However, Song Jinning didn’t expect to eat his seven tubes at all, but directly reached out to draw cards, and then came out a twenty thousand.

“eat!”

It was the cheerful voice of the Queen Mother Song.

Then I saw the Empress Dowager Song reaching out and picking up this 20,000 yuan on the desktop, and then hitting a 10,000 yuan sheet when she returned her hand.

About this card made her feel happy to eat, and she started to joke.

“You don’t know, that princess Fu doesn’t know what’s going on these days, and I can’t wait to come to the palace of Ai’s family every day. And every time she comes, it takes a long time. The Ai’s family implies that it is expressly available, only to call someone. I swept her out of the house with a broom, but she just took root in the palace of Ai’s house, and just couldn’t leave.”

“The Ai family is really annoying her. Several times I want to scold her with a calm face, but thinking that she is also a relative of the emperor, after all, the Ai family can’t show her face too much. Thanks to the will of the emperor just now, After that, she finally won’t be dangling in front of Ai’s house every day. Ai’s house can also be cleaned a lot.”

But this matter is actually Jiang Wanqiu’s own death.

If she hadn’t said such clever words, Li Chengxuan wouldn’t have made that will at all.

Firstly, Li Chengxuan basically ignored the affairs of the harem. Secondly, before the death of the first emperor, he left a decree to let the Queen Mother Song and Li Chengxuan treat the Wei Taifei mother and son and others, so the Queen Mother Song and Li Chengxuan will not do anything to Fu Wangfu for the time being. Too ugly.

Li Xiyan was originally a little girl who didn’t talk much, and never talked about her behind her back; Song Jinning would not say that the heroine was not in front of the hero; as for Li Chengxuan, it was not that Jiang Wanqiu was in the corner of her eye, so None of the three took the words of the Queen Mother.

But what Jiang Wanqiu said about the allocation of military expenses and treasury silver…

Li Chengxuan played a card and went out, pondering for a while, then raised his head and asked the Queen Mother Song: “It’s useless for the sons and ministers. Is there a good way for the queen mother to have a shortage of money?”

The treasury has not been fully filled since the first emperor’s hands. But as an empire with a vast territory and vast territory, various things happen every year, and the money needed is countless.

Li Chengxuan remembers that during the years when the Empress Dowager Song took control of the court, major events such as the Sichuan earthquake, the bursting of the Yellow River, and the Northwest Rebellion took place, but they were all passed by the Empress Dowager Song. Therefore, she must be experienced in the matter of the shortage of coffers.

As for the courtiers in the court, although there are many clever ones, in the final analysis, how can the emperor and the courtiers think the same way when they consider one thing.

So this is why Li Chengxuan came to Shoukang Palace today. Was it the idea of ​​learning from the Queen Mother Song?

The Empress Dowager Song was grabbing a card in her hand, and she glanced at Li Chengxuan when she heard the words.

But soon she looked down at the card in her hand.

“Dongfeng!”

After playing a discarded card in the family, the Queen Mother Song said in a hurry: “The Ai family has now retired to the harem and has been living forever. The emperor should not come to the Ai family to ask about these things, but should go. Discuss with the courtiers.”

Li Chengxuan thought to himself, how can those courtiers let me use the bank silver to agree? Isn’t this really desperate, otherwise I won’t say this to you.

He continued: “Those courtiers are outsiders, how can they compare to the mother and son’s ministers as a family? When encountering these major events, the first thing the son’s ministers think of is the mother’s queen.”

This posture can be said to be very low. However, it is understandable that in order to get the Queen Mother to return to politics, he had done a great deal behind the scenes, but he had something to ask for now…

The Queen Mother still felt refreshed in her heart.

Little bastard, now you know that the past few years of Ai’s family were not easy, right? Humph, there are also times when you ask me!

After touching one of Li Xiyan’s eight-tubes, the Queen Mother Song changed hands and played a nine-tube.

But he didn’t directly answer Li Chengxuan’s words. Instead, he turned his head and looked at Song Jinning with a smile, and asked, “What do Ning’er think about this matter?”

Song Jinning, who has always been committed to treating herself as an invisible person, only draws cards and plays cards without making a sound: …

Labor and management don’t want to do politics! Don’t **** me, boss!

But these three eyes looked at her brightly like searchlights…

She had to say vaguely: “I have no idea.”

The Queen Mother of Song did not give up, and continued to ask: “Ning’er, what does Ning’er think about the method of frugality in the harem mentioned by Princess Fu just now?”

It’s not that the Queen Mother Song wanted to pull Song Jinning into politics, she was not stupid enough yet. It’s just that this frugal harem cost is only a drop in the money for disasters and military payments, and it is not of much use at all, but the meaning of these words from Jiang Wanqiu and Song Jinning is different.

For Yu Jiang Wanqiu, she is beyond the rules, but for Song Jinning, it is that she has a heart for the people.

Hearing the suffering of the people and the unstable borders, the queen, as the mother of a country, offered to save money on the harem and set an example. Can’t the people of the world say that the queen is benevolent? It’s better to let the Ministry of Internal Affairs purchase another batch of summer clothes and send them to the border later, saying that this was made by the queen led by the family members overnight. Then not only would Song Jinning’s good name spread to the border, but also the morale of the soldiers would rise. What?

The Queen Mother Song had a very good plan in her heart, but she did not expect that her niece would not play the cards according to common sense at all.

“Only the money saved in the harem is enough for what? It’s better to ask someone to check the servants, maybe there will be surprises.”

Song Jinning said she couldn’t help but was forced.

Didn’t you see that Jiang Wanqiu was trained by Li Chengxuan just after she said that insight? Is she still rushing to say that the idea is good, the idea is great, the idea is the best?

She had never thought about making Li Chengxuan feel good about her, but she didn’t have to rush to scold him like a self-abuse.

As for the sentence she just said, she thinks it should be possible.

Originally, what did you do with that little bit of money in the palace? Those in the Ministry of Internal Servant have a lot of oil and water in their hands.

In the past, when I watched TV series or unofficial history, I did not see the arrogance of those in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Relying on the emperor and others in the palace all day, not knowing the prices outside, dare to quote dozens of taels of silver for an egg? Putting a patch on any clothes says it costs tens of taels of silver to believe?

Then, the cost of a single imperial dining room can be reported to hundreds of thousands of taels or even millions of taels of silver each year. Not to mention that there are other Shangyi Bureaus in the palace, Shang Pharmacy, Shangshe Bureau and the like. All the necessary things need to be saved by the in-house staff. How much oil and water are there?

Anyway, just check those people.

Li Chengxuan was also slightly startled when he heard this.

He had never thought that there would be such a way to make money.

And this person is really clever, and he’s especially capable of inferring things by analogy.

Because a few days later, Song Jinning could hear that several officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs had conclusive evidence of corruption and had already been sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and all the assets obtained from the house confiscation were turned over to the state treasury.

At the same time, Li Chengxuan also made an order to purge officials from top to bottom.

In short, it is to investigate corrupt officials. Whenever it is found, all people are sent to jail, and all property is turned over to the treasury.

Of course, this investigation of corrupt officials is also selective.

One is the official with the most oil and water. Such as in charge of salt administration, iron administration and so on.

The second is that the screwdriver’s corpse position vegetarian meal usually doesn’t work well at all and only knows to make money, even if it is punished on the spot now, it will not have any impact.

As for the screwdriver, even though he made money, he also did practical work. The people who can’t leave his position for the time being, or the big names, have not moved his whole body for the time being.

Just like raising pigs, raise them again, and then kill them when the time is right.

Of course, if there are corrupt officials who don’t do practical things, they will endanger the tycoons in the village. When they are checked together, all their property will be turned over to the treasury.

Moreover, Li Chengxuan seemed to have learned how to diverge, thinking of other more powerful ways to make money.

Such as those wealthy businessmen who have a large amount of property in their hands, what they hope most is to have a good official lintel in the family.

In that case, if you find a courtier to instruct him to open an official account, it is natural that some wealthy businessmen are willing to pay for the money, even if the price is high.

After all, with money, the next one will yearn for power. According to the rules of the dynasty, merchants and their descendants were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

Of course, Li Chengxuan is not stupid, but very shrewd. The official posts given to those wealthy businessmen or wealthy businessmen are idle posts and cannot hold real power, so naturally they can’t do harm to the villagers.

He even thought about the future.

If the ruling and the people were violating the matter of betraying the officials, he would then pull the courtier out to deal with it and block your mouth.

At that time, the fault was the courtier’s, but because of his thorough observation and his unhesitating handling of the courtier, he became the wise king in everyone’s mind.

After Li Chengxuan’s various methods, the treasury suddenly became full. The disaster relief funds and military pay that had previously caused him a headache were all solved.

The courtiers were very surprised by this, and praised His Majesty Shengming (they did not know the matter of selling the official prince).

Individual officials who understood Li Chengxuan were also very impressed.

It must be no ordinary person to come up with these tricks.

As for Li Chengxuan, he tasted the pleasure and feeling of making money, and he liked to go to Song Jinning even more.

At least the courtiers in the court would never think of Song Jinning’s original idea.

Because they are empresses, and those people are courtiers, the two sides originally represented different interest groups, so when they look at the same issue, they both stand at different angles.

How could Song Jinning think that she could open the door to a new world for Li Chengxuan with just a casual word. On the contrary, she became a little impatient because the master came to her palace from time to time.