Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

After the empress finished speaking, everyone looked at Lu Chen in unison.

Xiao Yun naturally knew what Lu Chen was about to say, but she couldn't help turning her head around and staring at the taller and taller figure.

With a little force in his hand, he tightly grasped the brand new fluorene board.

In the eyes of everyone, Lu Chen first took a deep breath, and then said solemnly:

"For the sake of the common people, Your Majesty, please suspend all the inner palace renovation projects except the Zichen Hall and Xuanqing Pavilion, reduce the scale of the Zilin Garden and the expense of medicine pills, and reduce the maintenance of the formations such as the Purple Great Formation, the Infinity Great Formation, and the Tianxing Great Formation. , to reduce the cost of spirit stones."

"Suspend the construction of the Imperial Mausoleum, Peerless City, Eternal Array, Tianxin Pavilion..."

As Lu Chen mentioned the imperial road projects that symbolized the supreme imperial power, almost every emperor would start to arrange and launch them at the beginning of his administration, everyone felt their scalps tingling for a while.

Even Xiao Yun was shocked.

She originally just wanted to propose to suspend the construction of those few two or three super-large projects that require a lot of money to build every year, such as the imperial tomb, to reduce the scale of some formations, embezzle some of the funds and spirit stones, and some of the construction needs of formations. materials used.

First collect the water control needs in the early stage, and if it is not enough later, find another way.

That alone made her uneasy.

You must know that these projects represent the authority and face of the emperor, and they have always been untouchable scales.

Not to mention anything else, almost every generation of emperors will start to build the imperial mausoleum, which has always been an imperial project that the emperor attaches great importance to.

Among them, the various heaven-level formations used to arrange the great formation of seeking immortals and the countless treasures of heaven and earth prepared to maintain the formation are all necessary for the emperor to continue to purchase in order to penetrate the heaven and earth in the imperial mausoleum with his remnant soul and pursue the immortal way a hundred years later. Yes, there is no room for stagnation at all.

After all, each formation to be arranged must be arranged according to the different seasons, spiritual veins, and astrology that will change every year, and must not be changed, otherwise the order is wrong, and the formation will be completely useless.

At most, it can only reduce the scale of the formation for ten years.

And the purpose of touching Renhuang Nilin is not for himself, but for those common people who can't see and touch, and only have the cold data in the yellow book.

Even Wu Yue, the extremely stingy Minister of the Household Department, dared not extend his hand to the emperor's almost routine large-scale projects, no matter how critical the state treasury was.

Because it will be really cold!

However, Lu Chen brought up most of the big projects linked to the imperial power, and directly asked to stop the work, and allocated all the money, food, spirit stones and those expensive formation materials, and used them for water control, and allocated them to the Ministry of Industry. for the development of people's livelihood.

At the same time, not only these big projects, Lu Chen even suggested to reduce the specifications of the various large formations in Ziji City, which is almost no different from directly reducing the five basic expenses of the Empress herself for basic necessities of life and cultivation.

Wrong the emperor first?

Do you find it difficult to live?

Xiao Yun never expected that Lu Chen would be so bold. Not only did she raise the strength of her proposal to a higher level, she turned the suspension into a suspension, and turned the transfer of some funds and materials into full embezzlement, and also turned the project's The number doubled.

This is for God!

"To do this to such a degree..."

She murmured softly, looking at Lu Chen with complicated eyes.

It took a while before Lu Chen finished talking about all the project items listed in his heart.

The moment the voice fell, the huge Tai Chi Hall suddenly became extremely silent, and needles could be heard.

All the courtiers involuntarily looked at Jiang Chengwan on the dragon chair, and even Jiang Chengdao, who had not seen him for many days, turned around to look.

However, the empress's beautiful little face is all hidden under the twelve jade beads, and at the same time, under the blessing of a small formation, everyone can't see her expression at this time, so naturally they can't guess what she said. What is the attitude.

At this time, Lu Chen continued: "I know that this matter is a bit difficult for His Majesty, but the floods in the two states must be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise countless people along the downstream coast are very likely to suffer from floods, and their lives will be devastated. Now the treasury is empty and the treasury is in difficulty. For the current plan, we can only use money, food and formation materials from the Emperor's Road Project for water control."

Speaking of this, he suddenly bowed heavily, cupped his hands in salute, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, please take care of the common people, and put the country and the country as the most important thing. This is what you are welcome to do."

The loud words echoed softly in the Tai Chi Hall.

Everyone held their breath in unison, waiting for the empress's upcoming thunderous wrath.

Just kidding, the emperor's way project is a direct manifestation of the emperor's supreme authority. It is related to all the interests of the emperor during his reign and a hundred years later. How can it be said that it can be moved?

who do you think You Are?

As for the people?

The ancient sages have said that the foundation of a country lies in the powerful people, that is, the cultivators, not the common people.

As long as the cultivator's heart is towards the imperial court, the world will not be so chaotic that it can't be controlled.

Besides, Yuzhou and Suizhou haven't broken the embankment yet? It's been like this for ten years, why did something happen this year?

Not to mention whether the dams in various places will burst this year, even if they burst, it would not be a catastrophe for the imperial court.

Even if it is a riot of the mob, it is enough to send the army directly to quell the chaos. Anyway, most of them are ordinary people, and the skinny people are basically impossible to be opponents of the regular army with various blessings.

Not only that, once the number of people in the riot area is reduced, resources can be redistributed to allow that area to enter the next development cycle.

Repeatedly.

It's been like this for so many years, so naturally it's not bad this time.

It is the way of heaven to rule chaos and change. They are just following the way, and they have nothing to care about.

And since it was not a disaster of overthrow, the emperor did not need to sacrifice his own interests.

Among the group of officials, Qian Yiqian, Zheng Zhong and others looked very solemn on the surface, but they were gloating in their hearts.

Sure enough, Lu Chen didn't need them to do anything, he would find his own death, and there was no need to do anything against him.

Isn't this going to be bad luck soon?

Jiang Chengdao, who was standing under the dragon chair, had no intention of speaking.

After all, the imperial project is Jiang Chengwan's own business, no matter what she thinks or decides, it has nothing to do with other people, including his elder brother.

So he just folded his arms, like a guest who was concentrating on watching a play, without saying a word.

pat...

The jade crystal on the Tongtian Crown shook slightly, making several crisp sounds.

But the empress leaned back a little, put her jade back against the armchair of the dragon chair, and at the same time stretched out her right hand, resting her elbow on the armrest, and supported her cheek with the back of her hand, looking very relaxed.

After a while, she slowly opened her mouth under the eyes of everyone with different expressions.

"Ready to play."

There was no angry reprimand, no questioning, no rebuttal, not even a bit of bargaining.

He agreed so simply and neatly.

Just like when Lu Chen asked for a retrial of Xia Yan's case, he did not hesitate at all.

The empress's unequivocal response instantly made all the courtiers' eyes widen, their faces full of surprise.

They knew that the Empress trusted Lu Chen a lot, but they never expected that she would favor her to such an extent.

At this moment, they completely refreshed the empress' understanding of Lu Chen's attitude.

At this time, Qian Yiqian and Zheng Zhong's expressions were as if they had eaten shit, and they were extremely uncomfortable.

Nima, no matter how much you favor and trust, there must be a limit, right?

Is Your Majesty planning to call Lu Chen into the palace to be the emperor in the future?