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

What's this?Some kind of ancient Dao pattern?

It doesn't look like it...

After recovering, her eyes were full of curiosity.

But she didn't ask immediately, and even her breathing slowed down a lot.

She walked to the gate of the palace, then waved to the outside, and asked the maid to prepare some supplements, then slowly walked back behind Lu Chen, quietly watching him immersed in his official duties.

Even though she couldn't understand what the dense symbols written by Lu Chen were, and didn't know what their functions and meanings were, she still didn't make a sound to disturb her.

Time seemed to have completely stopped at this moment.

White snow is flying outside the window, and from time to time a few strands of snowflakes float into the house in the strong wind, bringing extra decoration to the magnificent Zichen Palace, giving this majestic palace, which symbolizes the supreme imperial power, a touch of mundane air.

click...

Lu Chen's right hand suddenly trembled slightly, and the force caused the charcoal pencil in his hand to split instantly.

The crisp voice made the empress instantly react.

Seeing the charcoal pencil broken into several pieces, the empress thought he was tired and couldn't control his strength, so she planned to let him take a rest.

However, before she could speak, Lu Chen frowned suddenly, then raised his hand suddenly, and patted the table hard.

Bang!

The dull sound instantly resounded throughout the Zichen Palace.

"No reason!"

In the majestic voice, there was an indescribable anger.

"Why is Lu Qing angry?"

The Empress asked softly.

"But what's wrong with these papers?"

Lu Chen turned around, and suddenly saw the empress standing not far away, looking at him suspiciously.

"Sorry, Your Majesty."

He got up slowly, bowed slightly to the empress, and said apologetically: "The minister was angry just now, but he forgot that this is the Zichen Palace, which disturbed His Majesty, please punish him for his misbehavior."

The empress waved her hand: "Lu Qing didn't do it on purpose, there's no way to talk about the crime of disrespect, so don't worry about it."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

The empress was quite puzzled and said: "Lu Qing was so angry just now, did he find something inappropriate in these official documents?"

"Return to His Majesty."

Lu Chen said in a deep voice: "The reason why I lost my composure is not because of the official document itself, but because of the various problems reflected in the data inside."

"what is the problem?"

The Empress frowned slightly.

These official documents were all handed in after approval from the cabinet. If there were any problems, the cabinet ministers should make it clear to her.

but.

But Lu Chen, who has only been an official for a few months, has noticed a problem in his engineering career.

Is it the incompetence of the only remaining cabinet, or Lu Chen misunderstood something?

Lu Chen took a deep breath, and then, as if striking a big bell with all his strength, he said heavily: "If it is not resolved as soon as possible, it may lead to the collapse of the Great Xia!"

Hearing this, the female emperor's expression froze immediately.

The country will be subjugated one day...this is not something you say casually...

If it was someone else, the empress might wonder if the other party used such alarmist methods to win her attention.

But the person who said this was Lu Chen.

The sincere gentleman who has never just talked about it and has made outstanding achievements for the imperial court!

His words are believable!

Even if his words and suggestions sound a bit shocking, even the Arabian Nights.

After all, he has proved by facts several times that his seemingly unreasonable advice is actually correct!

Therefore, his opinion is very important, you have to listen carefully and consider it seriously!

He said that it would endanger the survival of Great Xia, which is very likely to be a big problem that shakes the foundation of the country.

"How to say?"

The Empress asked in a condensed voice.

"Your Majesty, please see."

Lu Chen picked up the brush from the side, dipped the ink twice, and then began to write down the amount in Daxia characters on another blank draft, facing the calculated result on the straw paper.

The Empress walked over as she said, leaned close to Lu Chen, and looked down at what Lu Chen had written.

I saw Lu Chen writing on the manuscript paper:

Daxia’s tax income last year: 870, 310, and seven guan.

Expenditure to support the royal family: more than 310 million...

Disaster relief expenditure: more than 210 million yuan...

Expenditure for repairing the imperial tomb: 310 yuan...

.......

Immediately afterwards, Lu Chen pointed to the item of royal family support with the largest expenditure above, and said to the empress in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the expenditure of royal family support accounts for more than [-]% of the annual financial expenditure, but such a huge expenditure, Yu Daxia The long-term stability of the country has almost no effect."

"Those royal families like King Yu took the money from the imperial court. Not only did they not consider the future of Great Xia, but they continued to ruin the country's destiny, domineering, oppressing the people, and using their titles to amass wealth and power without scruple, completely disregarding the life and death of the local people!"

As he spoke, his voice gradually revealed a wave of anger.

"The people are the foundation of the country. The tax revenue of the court comes from thousands of people. If our Great Xia wants to have a long-term peace and stability, it must be taken from the people and used for the people. The country's financial revenue and expenditure must not be excessively separated from the people's livelihood. Otherwise, it is shameless plunder!"

"If this expenditure is not adjusted quickly, and those moths are allowed to continue to erode the country's fortune, if this continues, my Daxia's [-]-mile country will definitely be defeated by them. By then, how can Daxia survive?"

Hearing this, seeing his cynical look, obviously agitated, the Empress couldn't help but feel her heart tighten.

However, she remembered that when Lu Chen was the governor of the two states, he had a fierce conflict with King Yu who was covering the sky with his hands in Yuzhou, and later he directly killed King Yu, which made the people of Yuzhou turn to the court and Yuzhou completely peaceful.

After such an experience, Lu Chen probably won't have a good impression of the royal family except her.

In fact, to be honest, she doesn't really have a good impression of the royal family.

These so-called relatives, while enjoying the support of the imperial court, caused chaos to the imperial court everywhere, making the people all over the place more and more disappointed with the imperial court.

Even hated, so that riots continued.

But...some things just don't happen the way you want them to be.

Even if she is the emperor.

For example, this is the royal family support system that has lasted for nearly a thousand years...

Thinking of this, the empress could not help but sigh.

"But...this is the ancestral system established by Emperor Taizu Hongwu..."

Hearing this, Lu Chen's expression turned cold.

"Your Majesty, do you think the ancestral system is important, or the survival of Great Xia?"

Hearing this, the empress couldn't help but startled.

Chapter 148

"I know that the national policy of supporting the clan will bring a heavy burden to the imperial court every year."

The Empress sighed again.

"However, preferential treatment of the royal family is the ancestral oath made by the emperor Taizu and the heaven and earth. If the state policy is acted rashly, it will disrespect the ancestors, make the Taizu lose the trust of the heaven and the earth, and may even cause the Taizu's immortal way to be broken. How can future generations do such a big unfilial thing?"

"Besides, 300 years ago, when the Great Xia was once again in danger of being overthrown, if the ancestor Emperor Guangwu had not had a lot of family wealth, he decisively dispersed his wealth to gather volunteers, and the surviving clans from all over the country would unite and gather under Emperor Guangwu to restore Taizu's career and return the world to the Jiang family. Daxia would have ceased to exist long ago. This was also the original intention of Emperor Taizu to establish this national policy."

Having said this, the empress' voice became a lot lower for no reason.

It has been several months since Lu Chen came to this world, so he naturally knows the history of Great Xia.

In fact, although it has been nearly a thousand years since the founding of the Great Xia, it has actually experienced two overthrows.

To put it simply, it is a bit similar to the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties of the Han Dynasty. After the fall of the Western Han Dynasty, the hero who had the blood of the previous royal family restored the foundation of the ancestors, allowing the completely decayed dynasty to be reborn after being completely destroyed.

It's just that during the change of imperial power in Daxia, no new dynasty was established.

If Great Xia were to perish, later generations would definitely not use the "Book of Xia" to compile the history of Xia, but would divide it into "Book of Xia", "Book of Zhongxia" and "Book of Later Xia" to distinguish this period of history.

Now the world is still surnamed Jiang, so naturally no one dares to divide the history of Daxia into three parts so rebelliously.

The empress said slowly: "Therefore, I can't move the national policy of preferential treatment of the royal family. I can only find ways to make up for the deficit in the treasury, and use various methods to control the number of royal families. Like the previous emperors, let as many royal families enter the Tao as possible, and let them be like King Yu, who was less concerned about the luck of the Tao, or even no longer reproduce."

For this method, Lu Chen only has one comment.

"Treating the symptoms, not the root cause."

He shook his head.

"The Great Xia has lasted for thousands of years, and each generation of the clan has enjoyed the support of the imperial court since childhood. Some even hold the power of life and death for the people. There are very few people who are willing to immerse themselves in hard work, and they are limited by their talents. , most of the clans could not enter the Taoism, and due to the restrictions of the clan law, they were unable to engage in the work of the four peoples. They had nothing to do and nothing to pursue. As a result, there were countless people who relied on the blood of the royal family to act recklessly and squander their money. These cowards were sucking blood and marrow all over Daxia. The number of parasitic parasites continues to surge, and the money, food and spirit stones that the court needs to spend every year on supporting the royal family will only increase rapidly and there will be no end."

"Let's not talk about whether the current imperial court's annual revenue accounts are tricky or not. The current tax revenue on the books alone can no longer support the huge expenditure of supporting the royal family. The national treasury is already showing signs of deficit. Even if the imperial court's annual revenue doubles, it will never be able to satisfy the bottomless pit of the clan's infinite expansion."

"Things have extremes but desires are infinite. It is impossible to control the infinite with the limit. When the imperial government's finances completely collapse, the world will fall into the chaos and chaos of 300 years ago. At that time, do we still expect a hero like Emperor Guangwu to stand up and restore the country?"

After talking so much in one breath, Lu Chen felt his mouth a little dry, so he picked up the teacup that had been left on the side for some time, and drank half of the tea left in it.

Hmm...it's normal, bitter yet sweet.

It's just that Gan seems to have gone too far this time.

But hearing what he said, the Empress' face was slightly shocked.

Lu Chen put down his teacup and continued: "It's impossible for a clan to rise up and rebuild the Great Xia every time the country falls. But if the Great Xia perishes, the Emperor Taizu will completely cut off the country's destiny, and the immortal way will collapse. At that time, it will not only be a matter of ancestral system or not."