Yin Jiheng's advice was immediately opposed by everyone, and the two Si Cheng didn't want to give him a good look in the imperial study. Chen Jingxing, the www.biquge.info of Pen, Fun, and Pavilion, also felt that something was wrong, so he asked them to retreat first without saying whether he was okay, and then he discussed with Lu Yuanzhi and the two Si Cheng.

Chen Jingxing sat behind the dragon case, looked at the excerpts of the household department, frowned and thought about something.

The three people in front of him, Xiangguo Lu Yuanzhi, Yang Longxing, the left division, and Xun Gaoyang, the right division, were all heroes who helped Chen Jingxing in the battle for the throne before he ascended the throne. After the new emperor ascended the throne, Lu Yuanzhi vigorously excluded dissidents, and many former allies who might threaten his status were not spared, and even Gu Qingxuan, who was the closest to him back then, did not end well, but Yang Longxing and Xun Gaoyang were like heavenly officials to first-class Sicheng, each leading three departments, and the reason for this is also intriguing.

Or the simplest reason is that they will not threaten Lu Yuanzhi, even if these two people are high-powered, they will not threaten the Lu family. It is not so much that they are the heroes of the new emperor, but that they are Lu Yuanzhi's henchmen, and they are two henchmen who have no ambition and are easy to satisfy.

Yang Longxing, the left secretary who is in charge of the three departments of officials, households, and rites, is from a slightly cold background, loyal and amiable on the surface, but in fact he is treacherous and slippery, and he can't afford to be early without profit, and he is very good at flattery, and he has no great talent and vision, and the means are under the way, there is no bottom line, and it is rumored that his career depends on pimping for high-ranking officials, and later he fell to Lu Yuanzhi, and he was able to get to this day step by step by showing sincerity in every way.

In charge of soldiers, engineers, The right division of the third criminal department, Cheng Xun Gaoyang, is not as dark as Yang Longxing, but there are a lot of personal problems, he comes from the official eunuch family, he has always admired vanity, good official pedigree, exclusive fun, although it is not ambiguous to do the right thing, but his people have no official ethics in private, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling all kinds of hobbies, especially gambling, whether it is socializing with people or in the casino, every time he spends a lot of money wantonly, as early as many years ago, the ancestral foundation was ruined, although there are many items, he can't bear to squander like this, even if the official is not rich now。

Therefore, after listening to Yin Jiheng's advice to ban the official year-end Fuyin, he was the first to oppose it, which shows that his family is already stretched.

At this time, Chen Jingxing faced them and asked them what their opinions were, Xun Gaoyang said some, but they couldn't solve the near danger, Yang Longxing really had no plan in his chest, and he said some nonsense to prevaricate the emperor. Only Lu Yuanzhi didn't speak, he looked down at the account book handed over by the palace secretary, which clearly recorded every expense of the people in the palace, including the emperor, and his face became more and more bad.

Chen Jingxing asked him for the second time: "Xiangguo, what advice do you have, and how can we fill the emptiness of the treasury?"

Lu Yuanzhi was a little breathless, lost his mind for a while, closed the account book heavily, forgot about anything else, pointed to the account book and looked at Chen Jingxing and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Have you forgotten the instructions of the previous emperor? Be honest and self-denying, and never spend money on it! Now, Your Majesty is so extravagant and extravagant! How can the treasury not be empty!"

Chen Jingxing got up angrily: "Xiangguo is blaming me? How can I waste money? Is it my fault that the treasury is empty! Don't mention the first emperor to me! The first emperor will tell me like that, because he knows that the treasury of Daqi is no longer extravagant! To put it bluntly, what the former emperor left to me is a mess!"

The three of them knelt down together, and Lu Yuanzhi realized that he had just gone too far.

Chen Jingxing's anger was aroused, and he was out of control, and he shook his sleeves and said: "Years of expeditions, large-scale construction projects, and continuous natural disasters! When the emperor was here, how could Daqi be able to recuperate for a moment? How much military resources did it take to fight wars in successive years? In addition to the floods and droughts in various places, when would it be too peaceful? Where should no money be spent! Daqi's treasury began to be unable to make ends meet a few years ago! How could losses be avoided year after year?

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Later, the two Si Cheng and Lu Yuanzhi finally survived the emperor's anger, and came out of the imperial study after being trained. Lu Yuanzhi thought deeply, and began to say nothing again, the two Si Cheng only cared about complaining about Yin Jiheng's advice before, and later saw that his face had been bad, so they stopped and asked him for countermeasures.

Yang Longxing said: "Xiangguo, according to the opinion of the lower officials, the emptiness of the treasury is not a temporary crisis, but a long-standing and too many ills, if you want to turn the tide at this time, I am afraid it will not be easy, the lower officials feel that they might as well try to solve the top priority first, that is, to build the Tianyi Altar." ”

Xun Gaoyang echoed: "Yes, Xiangguo, it has been three years since the original sacrifice to the heavenly temple was abandoned, and the construction has not started until His Majesty ascended the throne, and it has suffered from this wave of twists and turns, it really can't be delayed any longer, Your Majesty will naturally be anxious, the sacrifice to the sky is the first major event after the new emperors ascended the throne, but now it has been delayed again and again, the sacrifice to the sky is the new emperor by the Son of Heaven, and the ceremony of the people coming to the court, and then drag it down so that those friends of the country think of our Daqi?"

"What do you think?" Lu Yuanzhi looked at the two people on the left and right, and said angrily: "Let them kneel and watch!"

Yang Longxing said: "Eh, don't laugh at Xiangguo, don't you ask Xiangguo what you think?"

Lu Yuanzhi knew that these two people would only pass the buck when they encountered trouble, and he didn't expect them to share their worries and solve problems, so he said straightly: "What do you think? The old man doesn't have any high opinions, and if he wants to take the idea to go to His Majesty to ask for credit, he wants to go himself!"

Lu Yuanzhi left without giving them a good face, and the two of them were depressed. After the separation, Xun Gaoyang ran into Dong Yehong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who followed up on the palace road.

Dong Yehong also heard about Yin Jiheng's proposal to ban the official Fuyin, and at this time he was also displeased, blowing his beard and glaring at Xun Gaoyang about Yin Jiheng, and said sarcastically: "This Doctor Yin really doesn't hurt to stand and talk, thinking that everyone has such a big family business like their Yin family?" Like us, although we are officials in the court, we can get a few salaries, we still have the old and the young to support at home, we often socialize, and we don't have a few pieces of silver left in our hands all year round, so we are waiting for the New Year's Eve to be distributed.

Xun Gaoyang said: "This is not right, if the petty officials say that Fuyin is close to the New Year, I still believe it, but Dong Shangshu, you are a second-grade master, and you are still living such a shabby?" ”

Dong Yehong approached him and said, "Lord Si Cheng, didn't you ask knowingly? I don't need to refer to the Fuyin New Year, but don't those petty officials all point to walking around after receiving the Fuyin? I don't care if I don't have Fuyin alone, but they are gone, who should I take? How much less will I get into the account for the New Year? Lord Si Cheng, won't you just take this path? If the people below don't pay respect, how much will we lose!"

What he said was the little abacus in the hearts of most officials, Xun Gaoyang naturally thought like this for a long time, but he didn't say it, and after listening to him, he only smiled tacitly with him.

Later, he remembered something, and wondered: "I can't figure it out, could it be that Dr. Yin really doesn't get into the oil and salt? He is a clean official in the Great Qi court? He even took the initiative to ban Fuyin, does he never accept the respect below?"

Dong Yehong approached him again, smiled sarcastically, and said, "This Lord Si Cheng doesn't know, right? Doctor Yin doesn't care about this little profit at all, he has a lot of business under his hands, and he has a lot of oil and water." ”

"Business, eh, he has a throne with him, I know that, but hasn't his fiefdom already become a poor land? He can't point to the food, what else? Are you saying he has other deals?" Xun Gaoyang lowered his head and shrugged his shoulders and whispered to him.

Dong Yehong patted his forehead and said, "Eh, does Lord Si Cheng know whose name is the Ruyi Restaurant in Chang'an City?"

Xun Gaoyang said: "Ruyi Restaurant turned out to be really his asset......? But the restaurant can't make any money, right?"

"What about Ruyi Fang?" Dong Yehong glanced at him and said in a low voice, these three words made Xun Gaoyang completely blind, and he continued: "Lord Si Cheng is also a frequent visitor to Ruyi Fang, and he never knows who the boss behind Ruyi Fang is when he is there every day?"