Besides, in the East Pavilion of the Carrier Palace, Tianlang called someone to send Yan Qiheng, the head of the household, Yan Qiheng naturally knew what was going on, but he had already made up his mind in his heart, and when he came to the palace, he bowed down with a big bow.

At this time, Tianlang was sitting opposite Yan Qiheng with a copy of "The Book of Rites" in his hand, reading it with taste, as if he had not noticed Yan Qiheng's arrival. Pang Tianshou, who was standing on the side, didn't remind him, but just asked Yan Qiheng to kneel like that.

When Yan Qiheng knelt on the ground for a pillar of incense, his knees began to sore; At the time of two incense sticks, the black-eyed Ren'er began to whirl; During the time of the three incense sticks, my whole body seemed to be soaked by heavy rain.

Tianlang asked Pang Tianshou without raising his head or eyes, "Why did Lord Yan come so slowly?" Is it the same as me, I can't open the pot at home, so I don't have the strength to walk? ”

Pang Tianshou replied cautiously: "Back to Long Live Lord, Lord Yan just arrived, and saw that Long Live Lord was reading, so he didn't dare to disturb." ”

Yan Qiheng secretly scolded Pang Tianshou, you old thing, I'm almost numb from my knees, you still say I just arrived?

Tianlang put down the book, looked at Yan Qiheng, who was kneeling on the ground without saying a word, and said coldly, "Get up, I don't deserve you to kneel, you should kneel to the sky, kneel to the ground, and kneel in the middle to send you the person who sent you Yulu." I'm a poor ghost, I can't afford to support you. ”

"Panic!" Yan Qiheng replied in shock.

"Frightened, are you hungry? If you're hungry too, how about we join hands and go out to beg for food together? ”

"Your Majesty why did you say this, you should worry about the king, if Your Majesty wants to say something to the minister, the minister will obey the order."

Tianlang smiled faintly, whether he really obeyed orders or not was another matter, but Yan Qiheng's cowardice still seemed to have not been overcome. Tianlang picked up a note that Qianqian had just passed from the palace in his hand, and it was about the palace division in the palace that Du Heng said that Yan Qiheng refused to allocate it.

Tianlang took this note, gathered it into a ball and threw it to Yan Qiheng, "If you really obey orders, why do I need to ask you to come here?" Yan Qiheng, I don't know something, the note says, you see, the palace told me that the palace branch at the beginning of the year only allocated 2,000 taels, and even the Empress Dowager Cining's annual example was not available. Didn't you forget about me, my father, and the big family in the harem?

Think about it again, and think about whether there is still such a family as me in this world. If you forget, I don't blame you, you can remember it well in the future, but I have to go to your house for dinner, seven plates and eight bowls, you can't be wronged by my five internal organs temple.

You may also prevaricate with the lack of state funds of the imperial court, the money and grain collected in the first half of the year, in addition to the purchase of land, as well as the expenditure of various prefectures and counties and the imperial court, the rest is equivalent to at least 300,000 taels of silver, if you still say that you have no money, then you are deliberately deceiving the king, this should be killed! If I kill you, I'm afraid no one will question this reason. ”

Yan Qiheng sweated on his forehead, he originally discussed with Qu Shiyun and others through policy channels, rejecting Tianlang's move to reach out and ask for money, disgusting him, and letting the emperor and the green demon queen also know that they knew about the existence of the civil official group of the dynasty, but they didn't play cards according to common sense at all, and the finance minister of the household department was nervous at the beginning of the year, and he couldn't take out the palace to settle the account.

From the small note coming out of the palace, it can be seen that there must still be a shadow of the green goblin behind this scene. It's really yin enough, so he narrowed the impact surface, and only locked the target on his head, and he really refused to take out the palace to allocate it to Du Heng, and he was honest. Even if the emperor wants to do it himself, I'm afraid Qu Shiyun has no reason to refute it, not to mention that the Metropolitan Procuratorate will definitely use the topic to play a moment according to the emperor's intentions and pull out a layer of skin on his own.

Yan Qiheng sighed, it turned out that it was not that the emperor and the queen did not take the palace money seriously, and it was by no means that he had to wait until He Duheng and He female officials sued him before he remembered this matter in hindsight, but kept this matter for himself as a pigtail, just waiting for the critical moment to bring himself into the army.

Yan Qiheng didn't know that a catastrophe was coming, and hurriedly said: "The minister immediately allocated money to the palace, and all the arrears in the past must be made up." ”

Tianlang sneered again, "It's all made up, isn't it?" So did you Yan Qiheng think that the Zhu Ming Dynasty was redundant to the dynasty and could fend for himself, if it was none of his business, no one would care if he starved to death in the palace?

Now you feel that you are in trouble, just a sentence, you can make up the palace points, is it that the household department belongs to your Yan Qiheng family, you say interception, even the palace points can be intercepted, you say that you can make up at any time, right? ”

Tianlang's words, his tone became heavier and heavier, Yan Qiheng got up and saluted Tianlang, his expression was full of anxiety, "Your Majesty, don't be angry, Rong Chen told the truth, the minister is not as disloyal as Your Majesty thinks."

In the spring and summer of last year, when he was planning to allocate money to the next year, the first assistant Lord He was still fighting in Changsha, and His Majesty had no time to take care of this matter because of the Qing army's southern expedition, so the minister wanted to wait until Lord He had approved it before allocating the rest of the silver to the inner treasury.

The minister was afraid that the palace would be in a hurry to use the money, so he took it upon himself to advance two thousand taels of silver. Unexpectedly, the battle became bigger and bigger, our army lost troops in Yuezhou and Changsha in front, and killed hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers, which required a large amount of silver to compensate, and His Majesty went to Zhaoqing first, and then conquered Huguang in person.

The second assistant, Lord Qu Shiyun, asked the ministers to divert the silver that they were going to give to the harem for bereavement. However, after His Majesty's triumphant return, he did not wait for the ministers to meet him, and as soon as he reported it, he once again issued an edict praising the meritorious generals, and the edict had been issued.

At this point, the national treasury is already empty, if it is not for the new arrival of summer grain, the income of hundreds of officials at the end of the year will not be available. However, Your Majesty should not worry, because due to a great victory, our dynasty has stabilized the three political divisions of Huguang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong, and has opened up Fujian, Yunnan, and Guizhou. This summer's tax increase is not more than one or two times, and the household department is in the process of counting, and if His Majesty needs it urgently, the minister will immediately allocate it to the inner treasury. ”

After listening to Yan Qiheng's explanation, Tianlang also felt that he should soften his tone, after all, what he really wanted was not just those palace points, so he stretched his face, "Okay, you should also know, I am definitely not angry because of lack of money, I only care about whether you Yan Qiheng cares about the affairs of the heavenly family." ”

Yan Qiheng replied: "The affairs of the heavenly family are all state affairs, how dare the ministers be contemptuous. ”

"Then the drought in Shanxi and Shaanxi is a matter, do you think I should do something for the people there?"