After being divorced, my identity as a poet was exposed

The person who stepped into the imperial study and directly opposed Li Chenan was naturally Li Wenhou, the Minister of Household Affairs!

He stood in front of Li Chenan, his face dark.

"Your Majesty, do you know how many families there are in the slums?"

"I might as well tell you!"

"There are more than 43,000 households there!"

"The entire slum occupies two and a half percent of Kyoto, which is at least ten times larger than Huaishan County!"

"You want to move everyone there to Huaishan County, which means that more than 43,000 houses will be built in Huaishan County!"

"Do you know how big this place is when spread out?"

"This is equivalent to rebuilding a city!"

"How much silver does this cost?"

"Based on the most common wooden house, the cost of building a house is at least fifteen taels of silver!"

"My Emperor...can you calculate how much money is needed for more than 40,000 houses?"

"Of course they are happy to exchange them for their shabby houses. I ask you, what is the use of the imperial court taking over those shabby houses?"

"Who among the rest of the streets in Kyoto would live in that place?"

"Which blind businessman would open a shop in that place?"

"If Ningguo has too much money, it's just a good deed. But Your Majesty... don't you know how much money there is in the Ministry of Revenue?"

Looking at Li Wenhou's dark face and listening to his heartbreaking words, Li Chenan not only didn't feel angry, but suddenly laughed.

"why are you laughing?"

Li Wenhou felt that this emperor was so out of character!
He clearly thinks it out all the time!
There is no overall picture at all, let alone a detailed overall plan!

"I said a few words that I shouldn't have said."

"The emperor is the king of a country. At a very young age, he is just like the head of a family."

"The head of a family not only needs to earn money to support the family, but also knows how to spend it!"

"People say that if you don't have a family, you don't know how expensive food, salt, firewood, and rice are. You haven't started a family yet. I can understand that."

"I have something to say from my heart, your Majesty. No matter how much a family takes in, if it cannot keep up with its payments, it will eventually end up in debt!"

"What's more, our Ningguo family is still facing a situation where we have less money coming in and more money coming out!"

"Military expenditures must be spent, disaster victims must be provided relief, officials' salaries must be paid on time, roads must be repaired, and bridges must be erected..."

"I am so worried that I can't sleep every day!"

"Everyone is calculating how to spend that little money wisely!"

"You want to build the Academy of Sciences, and I am still on a mission to the State of Wu. If I were in the court, I would definitely oppose it!"

"How is this different from the late emperor's construction of Changle Palace?"

"In my opinion, it's just a different name!"

"Do you really think that just those folk craftsmen can create the science you call it?"

"wake up!"

"I don't understand science, but I know that those who study should study hard, those who farm should farm well, those who do business should do business well, and craftsmen..."

"Although they can create many things that people need in life, if they sell those so-called technologies to businessmen as you think... businessmen are not stupid!"

"You have already done this. I came back late, so I can't discredit you too much, so I have to hold my nose and admit it."

"When I came today, I heard that you were going to do such a ridiculous thing again..."

"My heart... hurts so much!"

"Since I'm here, since I've heard you, I will retaliate to my death!"

"Or, if you remove me from the post of Minister of Household Affairs, I will return to Guangling City and give lectures at Zhuxia Academy with my brother, and let you do whatever you want, out of sight and out of mind, you may be able to live for two more years!"

When Li Wenhou said this, Wen Boiyu couldn't sit still.

He looked at Li Chenan and said, "Master Li said this from the bottom of his heart. After all, he knows the household department best."

"Otherwise."

"The resettlement of the poor people in Huaishan County will be postponed for a few years. They can live in temporary work sheds when they go to work at the wharf in Huaishan County. The employer will naturally pay for the resettlement in order to build the wharf faster."

"In this way, the court does not need to pay any more money for this. We will do this after the treasury is full in a few years."

"how do you feel?"

Li Chenan waved his hand, rejecting Wen Boiyu's proposal.

He waved to Li Wenhou:
"Come on, come on, sit down and have a cup of tea first!"

"My lord, I don't want to drink tea!"

"Then just stand."

Li Chenan's face darkened and became serious.

He looked at Li Wenhou:
"You know how to cut costs, but you don't know how to increase revenue!"

"In my opinion, increasing revenue is more meaningful than reducing expenditure!"

"Where should we focus on cutting expenditures? Not on such a major plan for people's livelihood!"

Li Chenan knocked on the table and stared at Li Wenhou:
"You are really an old antique. If I don't explain my words clearly, you won't understand my intentions!"

"Let me tell you, the house I want to build in Huaishan County is not the kind of wooden house worth fifteen taels of silver!"

Wen Boyu was shocked. It seemed that the emperor was in conflict with Li Wenhou.

He could hardly use the word 'I', but now he used it in a very serious tone!

"What I want to build is a yard!"

"Almost those poor people have families, and a small house cannot meet their daily needs!"

"You have no idea what I am going to do!"

"You only look at the little money in your account and make calculations!"

Li Wenhou's face suddenly turned darker. At this time, he seemed to have forgotten that Li Chenan was the emperor of Ning State. He stiffened his neck and said directly:

"Okay, I'm just an old antique!"

"Let me ask you, people still know that a clever woman cannot make a meal without rice. What can you do without money?"

Li Chenan also stood up and looked at Li Wenhou. Wen Boyu also stood up at this moment, feeling a little panicked.

Because Li Wenhou has lost his sense of proportion now!
Li Chenan is the emperor!
No longer his nephew!
Just for pretending to be my father to the emperor, Li Chenan could chop off Li Wenhou's head when he was angry.

He was about to persuade him, but unexpectedly, Li Chenan stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Wenhou, without blaming him for "I":
"Then let me ask you, is the land in Huaishan County more valuable or the land in the slums now?!"

Li Wenhou choked and said for a moment:

"Could it be that you still want to push that place and turn it into farmland?!"

Li Chen is happy:
"Look, you are still not convinced that you are an old antique!"

"Open up the situation a little!"

"You only know farming?"

"Isn't it okay to plant a house?"

"Forgot how those houses and shops in Changle City were sold?"

"For those houses and shops, how much money did the Ministry of Accounts receive? How many things were solved?"

"Isn't it better than the food tax you spent all your energy and sleepless nights to collect?!"

Li Wenhou and Wen Boyu were shocked again.

Planting a house...

Does this work too?
With the facts of Changle City in front of us, it seems to really work!
However, this house can only be used for one crop, and it will be gone if sold. After all, it is not a chicken that can lay eggs all the time. (End of chapter)