37 There are many monks and little porridge

After the dispersal of the dynasty, the emperor went to the Jingtai Palace of the Queen Mother sullenly, and after saying hello, he just sat down to drink tea, biting a piece of dim sum in his mouth, and he didn't chew it for a long time, looking out the window blankly, and he didn't know what the dim sum tasted in his mouth, and he didn't know that the tea on the table was already cold......

When the queen mother saw the emperor like this, she knew that there must be something going on in the early dynasty today, her son pretended to be indifferent to everything in front of outsiders, but he did not hide any emotions in front of himself, and he would say anything to this mother, but today he didn't say a word, his face was full of sadness, but he didn't know what was wrong, so he had to say: "Zhizi Mo Ruomu, what do you have on your mind to tell me as a mother, even if I, the queen mother, can't help you anything, but I, a mother, can at least listen to my son's complaints." You didn't say a word, did Tsukasa say something? ”

"Humph! He said something, which can solve the current dilemma, but I, who is the emperor, can ignore the face of the Ninety-Five Emperor and let him say what is what. The Emperor snorted coldly and said.

"What kind of predicament has the imperial court encountered?" The Queen Mother asked.

"The treasury has exceeded expectations, and they are already eating food in Yin, and what is even more odious is that under the guise of holding a big wedding for me, they are filling their own pockets, greedy for ink, building a lot of construction, spending money like dirt, and ruining it, but they are all people's fat and people's ointment. Hum! They all put the reputation of spending money on me, what to build a palace and marry a princess, hum! I have confessed to all this, but how much you have spent, how much you have taken, the emperor is above, and the gods have seen it, you have stuffed the benefits into your own pockets, and then buckled this basin on my body! Yuwen Hu crusaded against the Qi State several times, and returned defeated, the loss was huge, and the national strength was gradually declining, and those moths under his hands were arrogant and lascivious, and in the long run, the country that his father had worked so hard to build would be destroyed in their hands! The Emperor lowered his voice, but roared lowly.

"Hey-" The Queen Mother sighed and comforted: "In the past ten years, although there have often been wars, but my Great Zhou country is still stable, and the people have never experienced the suffering of war. My Da Zhou's family, now he Yuwen is in charge, if it is not good, I will not blame your head, you also said, the emperor and the gods are above, and everyone has a mirror in their hearts. It's useless for you to be anxious now, don't worry, although Da Situ Lianghe listened to Yuwen Hu, he was still shrewd and capable, otherwise after all these years, he would not have managed my granary treasury in order, and they would have a way. ”

"What can be done, except to exploit the people, tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, when will it be so improvised?" The Emperor still disdained them.

What to do? Now except for the Queen Mother, there is not even one to talk to, let alone discuss such a big matter, the queen? Since the incident of beating the princess, the emperor became angry with the Turks and ignored him. Concubine Yang? Ay...... Who else? General Qin Cheng? Princess? None of them seem to be the ones who are planning to solve this militaristic matter. By the way, didn't you just recruit Taketake? Forget it, a calculating strategist, such a big thing, I'm afraid there is nothing to do, besides, it's really inconvenient to leave the palace. The emperor suddenly felt that he, the king of a country, was so helpless.

After nightfall, the mansion of the Duke of Jin, Shanhai Hall. Tonight's ministers seem to be starting to stay up late.

Yuwen Hu had already taken off his crown, sitting in front of a huge jade carved mountain and river map in the middle, with a low-footed table in front of him, with pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other things. Behind Yuwen's protection stood Gonggong Xiao, holding a large seal in his hand.

In the center, there are two rows of opposite desks, on which are placed thick books, on the left are the underground palace Situ Lianghe, the summer palace Sima Han Zhi, Sima Yu Wenxun, the winter palace Sikong Cui Shi, and on the right is the spring palace master Bo Yuanxin, the autumn palace master Kou Lu Zheng, Si Kou Yu Wenshen, and the heavenly palace doctor Ximen Bai.

The heavenly palace is lit by candles like daylight, and those who sit here are the real rulers of the Great Zhou, and the decrees of the Great Zhou are all decided here.

"Okay, in the morning, I bother you to draw up a plan for the budget for the next six months of each palace, you have been busy all afternoon, and you should have a number in your heart." Yuwen Hu glanced at everyone present and took the lead in speaking.

Several people below laughed dryly, but did not go to pick up Tsukazai's words. Because now everyone is thinking about an account in their hearts.

"Well, let's start, let's talk about the places where to spend money in the second half of the year, what can be slowed down, what can be withdrawn, what can be approved, now let the prince stamp it, and the second half of the year will be implemented. Which of you says first? Yuwen Wu asked.

The prince and the second prince below all squinted, looking at the table in front of them, and had no intention of speaking, and the six ministers saw that the two above had no intention of speaking, so they had to look at me and I looked at you, and they didn't mean to open their mouths first. Yubungo, who was at the top, closed his eyes and waited quietly......

"Okay, since you are all so humble, then we have to say it first." Zong Bo Yuanxin was the first to speak, because the Spring Palace is different from other palaces, the palace is only responsible for the etiquette rules and court etiquette of royal state affairs, and the money that should be spent, even if you don't ask for it, Tsukasa will definitely give it, because no country is willing to ignore the etiquette, and other places, even if they want money, there is no reason.

In addition, he originally hoped that more things were better than less, and he was the royal family of the previous dynasty, because he supported King Wen Yuwentai to enjoy today's illustrious honor, and the glory and wealth were endless, and it was useless to fight for scalp blood, so he said lightly: "In the morning, Tsukazai has already given an order, and I have also asked someone to estimate that there are a total of fifty-eight sons of Northern Qi, Southern Chen, Turkic, and Tuyuhun, and each reward of gold, jade, brocade, etc. needs 8,000 taels of silver, In this way, 456,000 taels of silver are needed. There is also the cost of draft girls from the people, each country's mission rewards ten, the fifty show girls need to choose one out of five hundred, and all kinds of food and clothing also need more than 50,000 taels, therefore, my Spring Palace only needs 500,000 taels of silver, plus some other normal expenses, hehe, the Spring Palace needs 530,000 taels here, Zhugong, I don't know if this number can be passed? ”

After listening to the number reported by Zongbo Yuanxin, everyone nodded, indicating that they had no objections, Liang He saw this, and said: "The number reported by Zongbo is also appropriate, and everyone has no opinions, so please trouble the prince to stamp it." ”

"Okay." Shizi Yu Wenxun said, and then Xiao Gonggong took a copy of the note from the desk in front of Yuan Xin, and respectfully placed it on the desk of the prince, Yu Wenxun opened the note, spread it on the desk, picked up the seal of the Heavenly Palace with both hands, dyed it with vermilion ink, and covered it at the end of the note.

"I still envy Lao Yuan, I don't have to speak, Tsukasa is enkuan, in order to entertain the guests from all over the world, there is no one missing." Sima Han of the summer palace said with a smile: "It's not like this summer palace, hundreds of thousands of mouths to eat, hundreds of thousands of knives to sharpen, hundreds of thousands of horses to feed, Brother Liang has already calculated in the morning, the military salary and grain and grass in the first half of the year totaled 3.6 million taels of silver, and the second half of the year is still conservative at this number, however, according to Da Situ, when the land of Jingxiang in the south is waterlogged in the rainy season this year, the Northern Qi will take advantage of the situation to enter, therefore, the northeast ......"

"Huh? Brother Han, why don't I sound right? Before Xia Gong Han Zhi's words were finished, he was interrupted by Da Situ Lianghe.

"What's wrong?" Han Zhi asked.

Da Situ Lianghe replied: "Of course it's not right, according to what the old man said, when the land of Jingxiang in the south is waterlogged in the rainy season this year, the Northern Qi will take advantage of the void to enter, will the Northern Qi take advantage of the void to enter, is it my Liang someone who has the final say?" The movement of the Northern Qi Dynasty is just the assumption of the old man based on the waterlogging in the rainy season, the imperial court will allocate money, food and manpower for disaster relief, whether the Northern Qi Dynasty comes or not depends on the decision of the Gao family, not the assumption of someone from me! ”

"Eh-hehehe, the lower official lost his words, the lower official lost his words, the lower official will compensate you for it, it should be a hypothesis, assuming that the Northern Qi will march into the army, hehehe......" Han Zhi saw that Da Situ was more serious, so he immediately changed his words, although Da Sima Dugu did not accept the seal, Han Zhi and Yu Wenxun were in charge of the Sima Mansion in the Summer Palace, but he was still just a middle doctor from the nine lives, not as good as the big Situ who was nine lives, so his words were still more cautious. Everyone looked at Da Situ Liang and Zhen and secretly laughed, but they all agreed in their hearts that this was an old slippery head!

"Good! Then go on," Han Zhizheng said: "If the Northern Qi Dynasty comes, the border between my Great Zhou and the Northern Qi is long, and the garrisons in various places are difficult to care about each other, so they can only defend their own section. However, at the beginning of this year, the city wall of the Danzhou section of the northeast defense line collapsed due to ground movement, although the underground palace Situ cooperated with my summer palace and the winter palace to allocate manpower and financial resources to rebuild, but in the past few months, because the money and food have not been allocated in time, so that the process is slow, the bitter cold land of Danzhou, in early October, has entered the winter, dripping into ice, everything is dormant, and people can't get on the city wall at all. Therefore, the main body of the city wall must be completed in the remaining five months, otherwise it will have to wait until March of the following year, that is to say, if it cannot be completed this year, the Danzhou section of the northeast defense line of our Great Zhou will be completely opened in four months. Although it is unlikely that the Northern Qi will attack in the cold winter of Layue, who can guarantee it? In order to ensure everything, the main body of the Danzhou city wall must be built this year! ”