Rong Xijue smiled, and the things that pressed on the bottom of her heart slightly affected her mood, and she was a little heavy.

Ling Xiang glanced at it and realized it, and when he was buried in the brocade tent, he raised his head obediently and asked, "Shall we talk well today?"

Rong Xijue smiled, but she didn't look like this very often, she stroked her face that could be broken, and said with a straight face: "So many things have happened, tomorrow will be early, rest assured." ”

"Your Highness is worried about the 200,000 troops outside the city?" Ling Xiang pulled him into the brocade quilt.

Rong Xijue stretched out his arms and hugged her in his arms, "Not only them, there are seven or eight hundred thousand soldiers and civilians outside the Yumen Pass." ”

In the past, Ling Xiang had heard that the Western Expeditionary Army supported millions of troops, but he didn't believe it, and when he heard him say that the army and the people were there, Fang woke up, "Do the soldiers outside the border still bring the people?"

"About half. ”

Ling Xiang drew inferences: "I know, is it that the household department can't pay the salary, and His Royal Highness is worried?"

Rong Xijue said: "That's true, although the military department has surveyed the number of soldiers, the household department has only issued military funds for the first month of entry. ”

More than half of the alien races of the Western Expeditionary Army entered the customs, all of them were outstanding in battle, and it was just a matter of not giving a reward, and it was said that they could not pay military salaries at the beginning of the dynasty, and it was indeed difficult to convince people.

"Years ago, Lu Mengen and others were already in turmoil, but the father did have difficulties, the abolished emperor did not know where to hide the many in-laws left by the eldest father, the New Year's tax has not arrived, the household department reported that it is only enough for the expenses of the yamen, and the civil officials also owe it, and the spring flood of the next year is coming, and the members of several provinces ask for the river, and the government departments of the imperial court are reaching out to ask for silver......"

Ling Xiang muttered: "The river in the south of the Yangtze River should indeed be repaired, and the first emperor did not pay much attention to mundane affairs in his later years. The officials have been delaying, and there are disasters every year, my mother's maid. Nine times out of ten, they were left to sell their homes after being hit by the floods. The relief of the imperial court is always insufficient, and the people are full of complaints, but they don't know that it is difficult to do both. ”

In the past, the Western Expeditionary Army relied on the conquest of Siyi, and obtained the wealth and exchanged food with the Jin merchants to make up for the lack of silver allocated by the imperial court.

Ling Xiang asked about the cost of military salaries.

Fang Zhixi's low-level infantry in the Western Expeditionary Army had enough silver for a month, and he also needed to consume more than a dozen stones of grain and salt a year. Naturally, there are more generals who go up to the small flag officer, so the silver alone will consume more than seven million taels. Coupled with grain, the total consumption should be more than 10 million taels of silver.

Although the Western Expeditionary Army is responsible for the defense of most of the territory of Western Xinjiang and Northern Xinjiang, Dayin also has local armies in Southern Xinjiang, Northeast China, and the whole country, etc., even if the monthly salary is only half of that of the Western Expeditionary Army. If it is paid in full. The total annual income of the imperial court was also completely insufficient.

What's more, there are various forms of donations instead of taxes and labor contributions, plus tax reductions and exemptions in disaster-stricken areas, and the annual income is less than half of what is expected.

Huge countries are even more unsustainable than ordinary people.

Ling Makeup listened to Rong Xijue say a few numbers in simple terms, that is, he was speechless, and exclaimed: "Even so, the cost in the palace is so extravagant. Isn't that enough?"

"It's really over, so I see the luxury of Grandpa Xia's mansion. I don't like it in my heart. ”

Ling Xiang quieted down, her heart was racing, the complicated things in the past seemed to be insignificant compared to the national affairs he had to worry about, there were some things she wanted to discuss with him, but she couldn't say it at the moment.

Rong Xijue said that she was sleepy, hugged her tighter and said: "Sleep, these are not things that women should worry about, and besides, you recommended Rong Chengqi, a veteran of the household department, to me, which is a great achievement." ”

Ling Xiang smiled in his arms, he had his own calculations, maybe she couldn't fill such a big hole in the court for a while, and the East Palace no longer asked him to bother but was confident that he could do it.

Rong Xijue wanted to activate Rong Chengqi immediately, and he couldn't wait for fifteen miles away.

Early in the morning of the sixth day of the first month of the first year of Yongshao, Ling Xiang bid farewell to the crown prince and dismissed the palace people with his hair down.

Gong E thought that she was going to sleep again, so they all retreated to the outside.

Ling Xiang lingered in front of the window.

On the window, there is a blue silk veil of entwined lotus hanging from the ground, and you can dimly see the morning light outside.

The weather in the south of the Yangtze River, the sun and snow melted without a trace in two days, and the two green pines behind the Qingque Hall were tall and vigorous, as if they were watching her wordlessly.

The irritable heart gradually settled down, she walked to the desk, poured some water from the teacup on the inkstone at the bottom of the flower, slowly grinded, and after a while, a pool of thick ink came out.

Picking up the pen, the most secret thing in her heart fell on the plain white paper, and she sat for a long time before finding a white envelope to close it.

She changed into a moon-white wide-sleeved dress by herself, and put her letter on her sleeves before she raised her voice.

Gong E rushed in, and Cheng Miao'er, who was in the head, saw her neatly dressed and walked towards her, and was stunned before hurriedly squatting down and saluting.

Ling Makeup raised her hand slightly, and walked straight to the dressing table in the second room.

Cheng Miaoer's craftsmanship is good, and her combed hair is quite satisfactory to her.

After finishing the makeup, he turned around in front of the mirror to take a photo, and the palace people praised him one after another.

While getting used to the environment, we must never forget our original intention!

The words are just passing in the air, others will only add to the cake, you stand on a high place, these will always be indispensable, but once they fall into the dust......

She stared at herself in the mirror, remembering the momentary decision.

Wang Shun sent instructions to pass on breakfast, Ling Xiang nodded, and immediately ordered the female official to invite Shangguan You.

Shangguan You had already said that he wanted to pick a child, and when he saw that someone came and said that Liangdi was invited, he quickly asked the scribes to move out a few stacks of yellow silk bookbooks and many account books, and asked the attendants to carry them up and go straight to the study.

The two errand grandmothers given by the first queen, one surnamed Zhu and the other surnamed Qi, heard that Liangdi wanted to be a director, so she came spontaneously.

The upper grandmother is in charge of the etiquette of the hostess, and the two grandmothers are solemn as masked faces, not very old, but the rules are not small.

If you talk about the difference, that is, Mama Zhu is slightly short, fat and round, and Mama Qi is tall and dry.

Ling makeup couldn't make the crown prince's study, under their Zhang Luo, only in the next room of the study, the west room used as a high-ranking official to be called to drink tea was set up, and a red sandalwood butterfly love flower silk yarn interstitial screen was placed in front of it.

Mama Zhu and Mama Qi stood on the left and right behind the throne of the incense branch wood carved lotus leaf lotus, very humming the taste of the two generals.

Ling Makeup didn't have the time to pay attention to them, Shangguan You might as well fight this battle, and thought that it was Ling Makeup who was setting up the score, so he was slightly unhappy in his heart, and immediately threw out two thick yellow books and said: "Ling Liangdi wants to take care of the affairs of the East Palace, and read these two books first." ”

Ling Makeup took it from Wei Jin's hand, opened a book, and saw that the first one on it was pasted with yellow silk and wrote, "The eighth day of the first month of December, the Tianchang Festival." ", the next day followed by the birthday of Xiao Xiahou, from the rank one by one, to the birthdays of the kings and princesses of the clan and their children, Lin Lin always remembered half of the book, and then the birthday and death sacrifice of the ancestors who entered the Fengxian Palace, and it was half a book. There are many people, and naturally every day of the month it is possible to bump into the birthday of a certain golden branch and jade leaf Tianhuang noble, and the East Palace is less congratulatory and rewarding, which is a big deal. (To be continued.) )

PS:Yesterday, I accidentally clicked on it and sent it immediately.,I sent an extra chapter of sadness.,It just so happens that I owe a and a family in front of me.,It's time to pay it back.。