Stop acting, Your Majesty, the queen knows you're faking it

Chapter 438
"Get up." Yan Chujing seemed to have seen through his begging, and said with a slight glance at him, "However, the Ministry of Officials needs to dispatch officials to investigate the situation in Pingxing as soon as possible.

"How about this, two of you will go to Pingxing with the eldest son of the Marquis of An Ning today, and let me find out the real cause of the flood.

"Don't be like Zhifu Xu, who hastily said that there was too much rain."

"Yes, yes... I understand!" Seeing that His Majesty seemed to let him go, the servant of the Ministry of Officials couldn't help being overjoyed.The tense emotions suddenly relaxed, and he almost smiled.

Fortunately, he still had some control in his heart, knowing that he could not show his happy emotions at this moment no matter what.

Therefore, as soon as he got up, he hurriedly lowered his head, trying to hide his face as much as possible.

Heh, he was just letting him go for a while, and he was so happy...

Yan Chujing twitched the corners of his mouth imperceptibly, revealing a faint sarcastic smile.

But only for a moment, he quickly regained his composure, and turned to look at the officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry on the other side: "You guys also get up. Anyway, the flood has already happened. If I didn't figure out the specific situation, I will punish you. You are useless.

"The top priority is to contain the disaster and save more people.

"You two departments should also send people to quickly draw up a repair plan, raise money, and go south with the eldest son of Anning Marquis to deal with the flood."

"Here." The Ministry of Industry immediately agreed.

Anyway, for them, His Majesty's order is to send a few officials who are good at water conservancy projects to the south to plan and find a way, which is not difficult.

Work hard, they can.

But the household department was in a dilemma, and the head of the household department's servant almost burst into tears after hearing Yan Chujing's order: "Your Majesty, the household department really can't squeeze out extra relief money.

"After the war, the reconstruction of the north and the pension of the soldiers spent more than half of this year's taxes, and then Kyoto spent a lot of money to better irrigate the farmland and build water conservancy.

"In addition to your big wedding, officials' salaries and the normal expenses of the clan...

"This... not only is the income not enough to support the expenditure, it is even a little short, and it depends on embezzling the money saved in the past.

"But you also know that the treasury has long been strained due to the successive years of war in Dajing. If it hadn't been for the New Deal you implemented when you took the throne for a period of time, this... would not have lasted long ago.

"Nowadays in Pingxing alone, three states have suffered from floods, and other places still need money.

"We really... really have no money..."

After finishing speaking, the household servant buried his head deeply, as if he didn't dare to look at the emperor on the dragon chair anymore.

His performance like this also proves that the Ministry of Household Affairs really has no way to raise money.

If there was still a way to go, he wouldn't have the look of "I can't help it, if I want to be punished or scolded, I will do whatever I want" like now.

"Aside from this year's taxes, isn't there still money to be won from the battle?" Yan Chujing also knew about the situation of the Dajing treasury.

Therefore, he didn't attack the Ministry of Households immediately, but thought about it for him: "Isn't this the indemnity and annual tribute delivered by Beiyan have already arrived in Kyoto? Let's count the money and use it first. ?"

"Your Majesty, the items sent by Beiyan have already been counted two days ago and have been stored in the warehouse. It's just...it's just that most of the things they pay tribute to are resources that Dajing does not produce, as well as cattle and sheep fur..."

(End of this chapter)