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"Prepare the carriage, I'm going to enter the palace!"

Zhou Yi ordered the guards to prepare the carriage immediately.

At the same time, Dong Ping was taken outside the imperial study by Guo Ming.

"Lord Dong, the emperor is waiting for you, you can go in!" Wei Gao waited outside the door of the imperial study early, and when he saw Dong Ping coming, he immediately stepped forward and said.

"Thank you. ”

Dong Ping nodded.

Walking into the imperial study, Dong Ping felt cold, as if the whole person was falling into an ice cellar.

Hands and feet began to stiffen unconsciously.

"Weichen Dong Ping knocks on the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

Dong Ping bowed to Emperor Guangxiao through the screen.

"Come in. ”

With Emperor Guangxiao's words, Dong Ping also hurriedly got up and didn't dare to have any delay, and bypassed from behind the screen, Dong Ping saw Su Wangzhi on one side.

Seeing Su Wangzhi, Dong Ping immediately understood what the purpose of Emperor Guangxiao summoned him.

"Your Majesty!"

Dong Ping bowed forward slightly.

"Do you know what I mean when I called you over?" asked Emperor Guangxiao Xiang Dong Ping.

Although Dong Ping had already guessed what Emperor Guangxiao meant, it was better to pretend to be stupid at this time, Dong Ping shook his head, "Weichen doesn't know." ”

Dong Ping replied.

Emperor Guangxiao snorted coldly, and his expression became cold.

"I don't think you don't know, you know it very well. As soon as Emperor Guangxiao slapped the table, Dong Ping was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground, and Dong Ping was so frightened that he trembled.

At the same time, the sound of the door opening behind him was heard.

Soon four forbidden soldiers rushed out from behind the screen.

Dong Ping, who saw the forbidden army, became even more frightened, his face was pale and weak, and Dong Ping felt that he was already in a catastrophe.

"The emperor spares his life!"

Dong Ping begged Emperor Guangxiao to forgive him.

Seeing Dong Ping's intercession, Emperor Guangxiao waved his hand, and the forbidden army withdrew from the imperial study.

"Spare your life, it looks like you know what you're doing wrong?"

Emperor Guangxiao looked at Dong Ping on the ground, but Dong Ping did not speak.

"I once said that the imperial court must not treat soldiers badly, but how did you, the secretary of the military department, do it? What do you want to do when you delay the payment of the 200,000 military salaries of the Hundred Battles Army?"

Emperor Guangxiao asked in a low voice.

The voice is heavy and hoarse, giving it a feeling of oppression.

It makes you feel a little difficult to breathe when you hear this sound.

"Your Majesty, it's not that Wechen is unfavorable, but that the salary of the Ministry of War is not enough to support the salary of the Hundred Battles Army, and Wechen wants to wait until the military salary is raised for the Hundred Battles Army. ”

Dong Ping began to try to find a reason for himself.

Insufficient military pay?

Emperor Guangxiao frowned, what is the reason for this?

"Bastard, the imperial court takes out two-thirds of the tax revenue every year to pay the military salary, how can it not be enough?" Emperor Guangxiao asked Dong Ping, more than half of the tax revenue of the Great Zhou is more than enough for the military salary consumed by the Great Zhou now.

When Emperor Guangxiao ascended the throne and sat in the palace, the first thing was to reduce the taxes of the people and improve the lives of the people, and then the second thing was to use two-thirds of the annual taxes of the Great Zhou Dynasty to train soldiers and horses and put them into the army.

The remaining third is deposited in the national treasury.

Emperor Guangxiao himself is thrifty, and among the emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Guangxiao can be said to be the most incorruptible.

"The emperor is not enough, it is really not enough, last year the imperial court expanded 300,000 soldiers and horses, and it costs money to eat, grass and ordnance, and now my military department really has no money. ”

Dong Ping began to complain about Emperor Guangxiao, and he was also a poor person.

Emperor Guangxiao didn't expect that he wanted to ask Dong Ping, but he didn't expect that in the end, Dong Ping began to complain to himself. High-quality and free reading is in the Reading Pavilion.