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

She turned her head slightly and looked at Wu Yue with a hint of anger in her eyes.

"Humph!"

Wu Yue snorted coldly.

"Of course you can say whatever you want about things that didn't happen. And you are the only one who can say this, so it's not trustworthy at all..."

Before he finished speaking, Qian Ying standing beside him suddenly made a move.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to vouch for Lu Geishi. What Lu Geishi said is absolutely true and absolutely true. Floods in Yu and Sui states are unavoidable. We should make early preparations and repair the dam as soon as possible. At the same time, we should try our best to prevent floods." Organize manpower to dig canals on a large scale to release floods to prevent flooding and cause loss of life. I hope Your Majesty will learn from this."

Seeing that someone actually came out to vouch for Lu Chen, and it was a minister standing next to him, a high-ranking official of the second rank, Wu Yue was suddenly shocked. When he realized what he was doing, he frowned suddenly and looked to the side with a dissatisfied look on his face.

The person who supported Lu Chen was naturally Xiao Yun, Minister of Industry.

She seemed unaware of Wu Yue's dissatisfied look and ignored it.

The other big guys just watched with their eyes, nose, and heart without saying a word, obviously not wanting to wade into this muddy water.

Seeing Xiao Yun's statement, Jiang Chengwan first raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and then suddenly thought of something, and his handsome brows wrinkled slightly inexplicably.

"Whatever you say."

Wu Yue flicked his sleeves and said in a bachelor's manner: "Anyway, the treasury is really out of money now. Don't say that I am unkind. I have just done some mental arithmetic, and at most I can only help you get three thousand coins out." , this is the result of me cutting down the expenses of other departments as much as possible. If you are determined to control the water, I can only help you here, and I can’t help you with anything else!"

"If you don't understand my difficulty, there's nothing I can do about it."

Hearing this, Jiang Chengwan became embarrassed for a moment.

She still knew something about the situation in the treasury. She thought that Wu Yue had been the right minister of household affairs for so many years. With his ability, as long as he firmly agreed to Lu Chen's decision, he would be able to think of a way to help get Shisui Institute. Required money.

But looking at the way he looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of being scalded by boiling water, Jiang Chengwan, who was extremely sensitive to people's hearts, suddenly felt that even if he was killed, he wouldn't be able to think of a way out.

"I know that the treasury is empty."

At this time, Lu Chen suddenly said: "Wu Shangshu can help me squeeze out three thousand dollars for water control. I am already satisfied and don't dare to expect anything else."

Wu Yue suddenly relaxed when he heard that Lu Chen didn't seem to be trying to embarrass himself.

If possible, he didn't want to be at odds with Lu Chen.

After all, everyone knew that Lu Chen was Empress Nobuyoshi's favorite.

And unlike ordinary favored ministers, this man had no intention of relying on the emperor's favor to do evil or cultivate accomplices to form cliques for personal gain. Instead, after gaining power, he still served the public and fulfilled his duties conscientiously.

His character is so noble that no one can find any fault with it.

But there is no way. As the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and the money bag of the imperial court, no one knows better than him what the current treasury is like.

He really couldn't get the money out.

"Then I'd like to thank Lu for your understanding."

Lu Chen cupped his hands towards him, and then he was too lazy to look at this old man who looked like a nagging aunt all day long, and turned to look at the empress.

"Your Majesty, the floods in the two states cannot be delayed. In addition, the Queen Mother has been in chaos for six years, all industries in the world are depressed, and the people are in extreme hardship..."

He read out all the text on Xiao Yunhuo's board at once.

In short, the meaning is that in order to restore people's livelihood, the Ministry of Industry now has many urgent projects related to people's livelihood to be done, and the government needs to allocate funds to start the construction as soon as possible so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment as soon as possible.

And every time Lu Chen mentioned a project that needed to be paid for and started as soon as possible, Wu Yue's black face turned darker.

If Lu Chen hadn't said before that he wouldn't embarrass him, he would probably want to shout now: You might as well kill me.

After finishing all the contents on the wat board, Lu Chen raised his head and looked at the empress with bright eyes.

"Wei Chen knows that the current situation in the country is difficult and there is no money in the national treasury, but what should be done must still be done without any delay."

Hearing this, the empress immediately realized that Lu Chen might have some suggestions or advice, so she said directly: "If Lu Qing has any ideas, you can just tell me. I will consider it at my discretion."

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I'm guilty!

There are so few today, I’m sorry to all the readers!

The main reason is that it's the end of the month and the company has lost a lot of settlement work. I was busy for most of the day and only had time to write a book at nine o'clock in the evening, which resulted in even less work today.

Sorry again!

By the way, I have tested the waters and passed the push. The fifth update I promised is about to be fulfilled. Tomorrow is the first day of the second round of push. I have just finished my work at the end of the month. I will use it all in one day to write the book. I will publish the chapters together at about 2:[-] p.m. , stay tuned.

Chapter 67

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

Xiao Yun naturally knew what Lu Chen was going to say, but she still couldn't help but turned around and stared at the taller figure.

With a little force in his hand, he clenched the brand new Wat board tightly.

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

"For the sake of people's livelihood, please Your Majesty to postpone all inner palace repair projects except Zichen Hall and Xuanqing Pavilion, reduce the scale of Zilin Garden and elixir expenditure, and reduce the maintenance standards of Zijiji Formation, Wuji Formation, Tianxing Formation and other formations. , to reduce the cost of spiritual stones.”

"Stop the construction of the Imperial Mausoleum, Wushuang City, Eternal Formation, Tianxin Pavilion..."

As Lu Chen spoke out about the imperial engineering projects that symbolized the supreme imperial power and that almost every emperor would arrange and launch at the beginning of his administration, everyone felt their scalps go numb.

Even Xiao Yun was shocked.

She originally just wanted to propose to postpone the construction of the few two or three large projects such as the imperial mausoleum that require a large amount of money to be built every year, reduce the scale of some formations, and misappropriate some of the funds and spiritual stones, as well as some of the needs for constructing the formations. Just the materials used.

First collect the initial water control needs, and if it is not enough later, think of another way.

This alone made her uneasy.

You must know that these projects represent the emperor's authority and face, and have always been untouchable.

Not to mention anything else, almost every generation of emperors started to build imperial mausoleums when they came to power. It has always been an imperial project that the emperors attached great importance to.

Among them, the various heaven-level formations used to set up the immortal-seeking formation and the countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures used to maintain the formation were all purchased by the emperor in order to use his residual soul to travel through the world and pursue the immortal path in the imperial mausoleum a hundred years later. There is no room for stagnation at all.

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

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

Moreover, the purpose of touching the Human Emperor's reverse scale is not for himself, but for the common people who can't see or touch it, only the cold data on the yellow book.

Even Wu Yue, the extremely stingy Minister of the Ministry of Finance, did not dare to take action on the emperor's almost routine major projects, no matter how critical the treasury situation became.

Because it will really get cold!

However, Lu Chen proposed most of the major projects that were linked to imperial power, and directly demanded that the work be stopped. All money, food, spiritual stones, and expensive formation materials were transferred away, and they were used for water control and allocated to the Ministry of Industry. To develop people's livelihood.

At the same time, not only these major projects, Lu Chen also suggested reducing the specifications of various large formations in Ziji City. This is almost the same as directly reducing the five basic expenses of the empress's food, clothing, housing, transportation and cultivation.

First, do you want to aggrieve the emperor?

Do you find it difficult to live?

Xiao Yun never expected that Lu Chen would be so bold. Not only did she raise the intensity of her proposal to a whole new level, turning the suspension into a moratorium, turning part of the money and materials into misappropriation, she also changed the project's The quantity has doubled.

This is going to God!

"To actually get to this point..."

She murmured softly and looked at Lu Chen with complicated eyes.

After a while, Lu Chen finished talking about all the project items that he had listed in his mind.

The moment the words fell, the huge Tai Chi Hall suddenly became extremely silent, and you could hear a pin drop.

All the courtiers couldn't help but look at Jiang Chengwan on the dragon throne, and even Jiang Chengdao, who hadn't seen him for many days, turned around and looked back.

However, the empress' little face was completely hidden under the twelve jade rays. At the same time, with the blessing of a certain small formation, everyone could not see clearly what her expression was at this time, and naturally they could not guess her attitude towards this. .

At this time, Lu Chen continued: "I know that this matter is a bit difficult for Your Majesty, but the floods in the two states must be controlled as soon as possible, otherwise countless people along the downstream coast are very likely to suffer from floods, resulting in loss of life. Now the national treasury is empty and the national treasury is in dire straits. , for the current plan, we can only transfer money, food and formation materials from the Imperial Road Project for flood control."

Having said this, he suddenly bowed heavily, raised his hands in salute, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, please take care of the common people, put the country, the country, and the country first, and grant your request."

The powerful words echoed softly in the Tai Chi Hall.

Everyone held their breath in unison, waiting for the coming thunderous wrath of the empress.

Just kidding, the Imperial Road 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 moved just by talking?

who do you think You Are?

As for the people?

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

As long as cultivators have their hearts set on the court, the world will not be in chaos.

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

Not to mention whether the dams will burst this year, even if the dams burst, it will not be a disaster for the imperial court.

Even if the mob is in turmoil, just send troops to quell the chaos. Anyway, most of those people are just ordinary people, and it is basically impossible for the skinny people to be the opponents of the regular army supported by various large formations.

Not only that, once there are fewer people in the riot area, resources can be reallocated to allow that area to enter the next development cycle.

Repeatedly.

It’s been this way for so many years, so naturally it’s no different this time.

The order of chaos and change is the ultimate principle of heaven. They are just following the way and there is nothing to care about.

And since it is not a disaster of overthrow, there is no need for the emperor to sacrifice his own interests.

Among the ministers, Qian Yiqian, Zheng Zhong and others looked solemn on the surface, but they were feeling gloating in their hearts.

Sure enough, Lu Chen would be seeking his own death without them taking action, so there was no need to do anything against him.

Isn't this going to be bad luck soon?

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

After all, the Imperial Road Project is Jiang Chengwan's own business. No matter what she thinks or decides, it has nothing to do with anyone else, including his brother.

Therefore, he just folded his hands and said nothing, like an audience member concentrating on watching a play.

pat...

The jade glaze on the Tongtian Crown shook slightly and made several crisp sounds.