Chapter 568: The Treasury Is Empty
The two sat together for a while, Duan Bailan got up to clean up, and instantly felt refreshed, he suddenly fainted, but he was actually asleep, and after such a long rest, he could be regarded as recovering.
The two walked out of the dormitory together, ready to eat something to fill their stomachs first, Liu Nianru finally remembered the little beggar Wei Ming who picked up, so he asked Wang Shuo to go and bring it.
On the round table in the magnificent palace, there are precious delicacies, such as diced pheasant, vinegared mandarin duck, yellow flower osmanthus fish, marinated turtle dove, Yipin fragrant pot, diced meat eggplant, stewed edamame, jade belt shrimp, Buddha jumping over the wall and so on.
There are also a variety of local dishes Qixing fish, West Lake Dongpo meat, eight sledgehammers, hot kidney flowers, money sea cucumbers, called flower chicken, Jinling meatballs, Shili ginkgo, steamed lamb, chestnut duck, eight generations of fish, steamed bear paws and so on......
There is everything, and it is full of bells to see people, and when Wei Ming saw this scene when he arrived, his eyes almost couldn't move.
That's too much...... He had never even seen such a delicious dish!
Wei Ming, who had been hungry for a long time and hadn't eaten enough, looked at the dishes on the table and swallowed his saliva.
Liu Nianru smiled and looked at the young man in front of him, the appearance of thirteen or fourteen, but he still had a height of more than one meter seven, he was arranged by Wang Shuo to wash and change into clean clothes, standing next to him with a tall figure, his immature face had not yet opened, but he could still see that he had a good foundation, and he would inevitably grow into a handsome guy in the future.
However, the skin was scarred by the cold wind, and there were some dense bruises all over the hands, and he was treated inhumanely at a glance, but he still insisted on living neither humble nor arrogant when he saw the food he dreamed of, and he was a good child.
"Don't stand, you come here, eat it yourself, you can eat all of this." Liu Nianru beckoned to Wei Ming and shouted to the table to take a seat.
Wei Ming was restrained for a while, and then looked at Liu Nianru and his group fixedly, and only after finding that there was no malicious intent, but after his eyes touched Duan Bailan, he didn't dare to move.
This man's momentum is so powerful, is he the emperor?
Wei Ming lowered his head, not daring to look directly at the present day, he was lucky enough to see the Ninety-Five, oh my God!
Duan Bailan glanced at Wei Ming and turned to Liu Nianru: "This is the kid you said, but he has some guts, but it's not enough, you see that he doesn't even dare to look at me now!" ”
Liu Nianru smiled when she heard this, and turned her head to Wei Ming to comfort: "You don't have to be afraid of him, now that we sit at the same table to eat, everyone is equal, and he won't do anything to you." ”
Wei Ming cautiously coveted Duan Bailan at this time, equal?
It is a great blessing for the Ninety-Five to eat at the same table with him, how dare he say anything equal or unequal to others.
But with Liu Nianru's assurance, he still carefully moved the dishes and chopsticks, and a piece of food immediately aroused his long-dormant taste buds, and the person who insisted on chewing slowly at the beginning quickly devoured it.
Liu Nianru smiled silently, this child is a child, and he will definitely make a difference one day.
I just don't know if he wants to practice martial arts or go to literature? Liu Nianru thought about this question.
"Your Majesty, the minister has something important to report!" Suddenly, an eager voice came from outside the door, and Tobe Squire walked in with a hunched over.
Duan Bailan nodded and put down the dishes and chopsticks: "What's the matter?" ”
It would not be a trivial matter for the minister to come and report overnight, so he had no opinion at all about the minister's passage to his place of eating.
The Tobe squire glanced at the environment, and was slightly surprised when he saw Liu Nianru, but he didn't say anything and talked about himself.
"Doctor Xi came with good news, saying that an antidote has been developed, but the cost of this antidote is too high, and it will take a lot of money from the treasury to promote it widely." The more he spoke, the quieter he became.
At the moment of the epidemic, the treasury has spent a lot some time ago, but the implementation of this antidote requires more silver taels.
Duan Bailan frowned and asked, "How much does it cost!" ”
The Tobe waiter pursed his lips and stretched out a hand to compare a five-word, "Fifty million taels!" Gold! ”
Duan Bailan: "......"
He knew the problem of the treasury, the treasury was basically empty as early as the reign of the first emperor, there was not much money left, and as soon as he ascended the throne, he encountered a plague, and the treasury was even more miserable, and he could no longer hold on.
If these 50 million taels of gold had been placed in the past, there would have been no problem at all, but now there are at most 20 million taels of gold in the treasury, and it will have to be scraped together to reduce the expenses of the palaces and the courtiers.
Liu Nianru saw that Duan Bailan's face was not very good, and immediately realized that something was wrong, it seemed that Da'an Guo was very poor!
"You go down first, and as much as there is left in the treasury, I will allocate as much as I want, and I will figure out how to do the rest!" Duan Bailan rubbed his head and instructed the household servant.
Tobe Shirou bowed, "Yes." After leaving the palace.
The plague affects all the people, so the plague must not be less money.
Liu Nianru patted Duan Bai Lan on the shoulder, and suddenly said: "Bai Lan, there is no silver in this palace, but in fact, the real money of the country is in the hands of the major businessmen of the people. ”
Duan Bailan's eyes lit up, and then dimmed again, "Having said that, I can't order a merchant to pay money just because the treasury is empty, what's the difference between this and depriving the people of fat." ”
Liu Nianru also frowned, this is indeed a problem, Duan Bailan has just ascended the throne, and it is the time when the people's hearts are needed the most, if this kind of strategy is used, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the people, and when the time comes, there will be the impact of the plague, which may inevitably make the people complain, and Duan Bailan will lose the people's hearts at that time.
The originally joyful dinner suddenly fell into a sluggish atmosphere, and Wei Ming, who was silent on the side, didn't know what he thought, and his eyes lit up.
He had already understood what Duan Bailan and Liu Nianru were saying, and he also understood what the situation was now.
Businessman?
The light in Wei Ming's eyes dimmed, like a man-eating scorpion, full of a dangerous atmosphere.
"Sister Liu, I have a way!" Wei Ming raised his hand, and his immature voice echoed at the dinner table.
Duan Bailan and Liu Nianru should come over.
"What method, you tell me!" Liu Nianru asked Wei Ming to say that after all, she never thought that a displaced little beggar would understand these things.
But it's always wrong to dampen a child's enthusiasm, and the light in Wei Ming's eyes makes her always have the illusion that this child is not ordinary.
Duan Bailan also nodded, motioning for Wei Ming to speak his mind.
Wei Ming looked at the two people in front of him, suppressed his nervousness, and slowly opened his mouth......