Douluo's golden dragon reverses the world

Chapter 395 Bleeding
"The empire's finances have been strained in recent years. If you easily expand its armaments, it will be self-defeating!"

"It's ridiculous!" The man on the opposite side flicked his sleeves violently, and retorted: "I am a majestic Heaven Dou Empire, sitting on the most extensive and fertile land in the mainland, with vast land and abundant resources, why can't I even support mere military expenses?"

However, once he said this, Song Yuanming laughed, but the smile was very cold and mocking: "Hehe, what you said is true, my Tiandou Empire has a vast land and resources, and every year there are nearly ten million golden souls just for tax revenue How can it not support "mere" military expenditures?"

According to the description in the original book, one Golden Soul Coin is equal to the annual income of an ordinary family of three. If it is converted into modern currency, it is about 1000, and [-] million Golden Soul Coins is about one trillion. Not a small sum of money...

Suddenly, Song Yuanming's gaze circled all the people present, but the strange thing was that when his gaze fell on them, their gazes kept dodging one by one.

Anyone can see that there is a ghost in his heart.

"This question... I think, maybe many adults here should know better than this old man..."

"Hmph, let alone the empire's finances, if according to Lord Song's words, isn't the face of your majesty and the empire not important?!"

"Then let me ask you, which one is more important, face or life and death!?"

Perhaps it was to divert the topic of "finance". In an instant, a series of debates erupted in the entire hall.

"That's enough! I called you here to discuss policies, not to quarrel!"

Emperor Xue Ye's shout had an effect, and the whole hall instantly became quiet, even quieter than before.

Seeing each one of them shrinking their heads, Emperor Xue Ye felt a sharp pain in his heart.

Why the Tiandou Empire's finances have frequent problems, he probably knows this matter better than anyone else, but there are some things that are really helpless, because the official environment of the Tiandou Empire is too complicated, and the nobles have basically been ruled by a line of interest. The chains are firmly bound together. If you really want to rectify, I am afraid that more than [-]% of the nobles will be uprooted, and more than [-]% of the nobles will directly undergo a major exchange!

This is not alarmist talk, the corruption of the Heaven Dou Empire has been going on for many years, even dating back to the founding period.

In addition, if each generation of kings wants to succeed in enthroning, they must win over the ministers. Therefore, the interests of each generation of empires and ministers are basically locked together.

Emperor Xueye was no exception. Therefore, even though he knew where the cancer in the Tiandou Empire was, he was powerless and had no intention of changing it. He could only pray that his descendants could reverse this situation.

In comparison, the Star Luo Empire is much better, because their throne is obtained by fighting, and the royal family holds absolute control over the army and finances. Except for the Zhu family, they don't need to consider anyone's opinion at all, but Even for the Zhu family, it was only because of the special connection between the white tiger martial soul and the ghost civet martial soul.

"call--!"

Emperor Xue Ye pinched his brows with a headache, and let out a long breath of relief.

Then, he looked at Xue Qinghe, the "son" who satisfied him, and said in a much gentler tone: "Qinghe, what do you think? Father, should I get back this face..."

Face, yes, face.

The so-called majesty is actually nothing more than a matter of face in the end.

"..." Hearing this, Xue Qinghe shook his head and asked, "My father already has the answer in his heart, so why should I ask my son?"

"..."

Emperor Xueye said nothing, apparently acquiescing, and then whispered: "Then what do you think my father should do?"

"Tracing back to the source, there must be two words—"

Xue Qinghe slowly stretched out two fingers, and said solemnly: "The strong one!"

"Moreover, it must be a strong man with absolute strength!"

"..."

"Then what do you think, how should we get such a strong man, and we must make him loyal enough?"

"This... my son thinks, father should already have the answer in his heart." Staring at the old face of Emperor Xue Ye, Xue Qinghe said seriously: "Furthermore, father should be more familiar with the art of controlling people than my son. As for how to do it specifically, this son-in-law will no longer play tricks, but only hopes that "he" can become the most solid backing of the empire in the future, just as the father thinks."

After finishing speaking, Xue Qinghe cupped his hands to Emperor Xue Ye and said nothing more.

"..."

The hall suddenly became silent, and no one spoke for a long time. In the huge hall, only the sound of Emperor Xue Ye's fingers gently tapping the dragon chair was left.

After a long while, finally, Emperor Xue Ye spoke: "Qinghe..."

"My son is..."

"You go to the treasure house of the palace yourself, and take out that vast sea and universe cover..."

"The Vast Sea Cosmos Cover!!?"

As soon as Emperor Xue Ye said those words, there was a gasp in the hall.

Obviously, after hearing the name of this thing, they were all shocked.

Immediately, there was a burst of voices of opposition: "Your Majesty, absolutely not! The Vast Sea Cosmic Cover is the treasure left by the late emperor! How can it be given away so easily!? No matter how talented Long Tian is, he can Giving him the Vast Sea Cosmos Cover is too much, please think twice, Your Majesty!"

"Yes! Your Majesty, please think again!"

"..."

Hearing the objections expressed by many ministers, Emperor Xue Ye remained silent.

In fact, he was also frantically tangled in his heart. This could be seen from the look of pain he showed when he said the five words "Boundless Sea Universe Cover".

If he had no other choice, how could he be willing to give away this national treasure passed down from his ancestors?

It's a sacrifice, but worth it.

Xue Qinghe was equally astonished when he heard that Emperor Xue Ye said that he was going to take out the Vast Sea Universe Mask.

Although he didn't know what it was, it was something that had been handed down since the beginning of the founding of the country. It was regarded as a national treasure by successive Tiandou emperors. Its preciousness was naturally self-evident.

He also didn't expect that Emperor Xueye would bleed so heavily.

"I've made up my mind, you don't need to persuade me anymore."

Hearing voices of disapproval and persuasion, Emperor Xue Ye finally tried his best to reject all opinions and settled the case.

Reluctant to bear children, unable to tie wolves, and want to gain something, naturally have to pay some price, empty-handed white wolf is not feasible here.

Taking people with soft hands and eating people with short mouths can only successfully catch the desired prey if it is unacceptable enough.

Everyone still wanted to say something, but seeing Emperor Xue Ye's determined face, it was hard to say anything.

(End of this chapter)