"No matter how tight you are, this little money will definitely not be enough. It's barely been the past two years, and now that the army has almost taken back Jiangnan, we still haven't found a way to live. The household always says that there is no money, if you don't give us silver, my sister is about to give birth, but she is worse than us, according to the rule, it should be a thousand taels of silver per year, since her marriage to the present, she has not received a tael of silver. If it weren't for the rewards that the old queen gave us at the wedding, I'm afraid we would only be able to wear some old clothes and eat some coarse tea and light rice in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Sister, is our life really the life of a royal family? ”

"Don't worry, you really think of yourself as a man's wife, there is no silver at home, you should have told the head of the house earlier, my sister is inconvenient now, so you should find the emperor to say, but you have endured it until now. Nagging me and I'll be able to conjure up silver for you? ”

Hearing Fang Zhi say this, Du Heng felt very aggrieved, "Okay, even you don't help me, look at the head of our family, is he a person who can take care of things?" You let him get the money? Isn't all the silver he got captured on the battlefield? But you see that every time he comes back, he is injured, and I feel distressed before it's too late, who wants to force him to go to the battlefield? ”

"Good sister, don't be sad about me, it's right to find a way to get through the difficulties together."

The two of them were pondering enthusiastically and sorrowfully, when they saw Mo Xiang hurrying over, as the most trusted palace maids around the queen, even Du Heng and Fang Zhi had to give some face.

"What's going on? My sister's body is inconvenient, and now it's the time when she needs people around her, so she still works with you to pass the word? Fang Zhi asked in a warm voice.

"The two girls, there is an urgent matter, and the queen mother invited the two girls to the main hall to discuss."

Du Heng and Fang Zhi didn't ask much, got up and went to the main hall with Mo Xiang.

At this time, in the main hall, Qianqian sat facing south, leaning on the collapse, Yu Qing'er and a group of female officials had all arrived.

The two saluted Qianqian, and then greeted each other with Yu Qing'er, and then came to the upper left and stood beside Qianqian.

Qianqian didn't seem to be in a good mood, even with Yu Qing'er and the female officials, Du Heng and Fang Zhi didn't dare to laugh, hung their heads and didn't speak, just waiting for Qianqian to speak.

"The body of this palace is becoming more and more inconvenient, and the small court of our woman's family in the palace has not been to it for many days, with Du Heng financial management, director Fang Zhi, and Qing'er doing things, and all aspects are still in order, which also makes the double body of this palace not have to work hard."

Qianqian paused, her tone changed from cordial to solemn, and continued, "But today, I have to call you all over, and this palace will talk about it himself." In this first case, the emperor has recently seized all the time to expand the army and train his troops, hoping that before the next fighter plane comes, the army will be able to fight another battle to the fullest.

Originally, there was an emperor in the court, these things are not what our palace should be concerned about, but the emperor needs silver to expand the armament war, this year's drought in the northwest of the Central Plains, the emperor wants to let Chen Youlong in Xiangyang to accept the Jiangbei victims, which also needs food, but he said these things in the court today, but was jointly rejected by the cabinet and the household department. ”

Qianqian just said a word, and the two legs moved very uncomfortably, Fang Zhi went over and bent over, put her legs on the collapse, and put her fingers on them, Qianqian's calves were a little swollen, Fang Zhi gently and gently pressed for her, raised her eyes and asked her, "Is there a way for my sister to do this?" If you tell us what to do, just say it. ”

Qianqian continued noncommittally, "In the afternoon, the emperor announced that Yan Qiheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, went to the East Pavilion of the Carrier Hall to discuss this matter, but these moral perfectionists are afraid that they have already made up their hearts, and I believe that they will not be able to talk about a result."

In fact, the tax money in the first half of the year has reached the household department, Guangxi Province is 180,000 taels, Yunnan, Huguang a total of 100,000 taels, Yunnan was mostly in the hands of Sun Kewang, Huguang in the hands of the Qing army, this tax is also reasonable, Jiangxi 120,000 taels, the situation is similar to Huguang, but

It is slightly better than Huguang, Guangdong is 250,000 taels, and the total half-year tax revenue of the five political departments is 650,000 taels.

Half of the money will be used to buy the land and divide it equally among the people.

However, the Juntian order was also executed, and the money was spent, but the fields could not really be distributed to the people. It's nothing more than a few more fictitious household registrations to enrich Ma Rulong's fields. It is a great irony that our palace is frugal in terms of food and clothing, but we spend money to help this group of people buy land and land. ”

Fang Zhi continued her words, "In history, every Son of Heaven will promote the rise of a group of upstarts in the court, these people under the guise of the Son of Heaven's close ministers, misinterpret the will of the new policy of the imperial court, and fill their own pockets. ”

Du Heng pouted and retorted to his sister disapprovingly, "Xining's change of law may not be wrong, after the death of Song Shenzong, Empress Dowager Gao and Sima Guang's Yuanyou may not be good, before I was in charge of the Inner Court, I was not the same as you, because of what happened to Su Dongpo, I had some ill feelings towards Wang Anshi who hurt him,?"

Wang Anshi's Xining reform, although he was scolded by the literati at that time and later generations, but who in later generations has seen the disadvantages of changing the law? Isn't it the same as everyone else? But in fact, the Xining reform method caused the treasury of the Shenzong Dynasty to grow to enough silver for the entire country to spend twenty years, isn't this enough?

His Fangtian Tax Law and the Emperor and his sister's Juntian Law are also the same purpose, both to curb land annexation, and Wang Anshi's reform has also achieved results in this regard, but it has not been finally implemented. ”

Fang Zhi glanced at Du Heng, smiled and was silent, Du Heng continued, "Compared with today's current situation, my sister can see the clue, the Xining change of law back then moved the interests of the scholars, and the Jingtian system will make the scholars no longer able to hide the land and not report it to the court, and they will no longer be able to expand their own land, of course the scholars will scold Wang Anshi."

But the current situation of the national dynasty is naturally quite inferior to the Song Shenzong period, and the change has reached the point where it must be changed, so no matter what my sister tells me to do, I will do my best to do it. ”

Seeing that Du Heng's attitude was so resolute, Qianqian also nodded secretly, thinking that she didn't care about anything else except calculating the money for the palace on weekdays, but when it came to major events, she was much more transparent than Fang Zhi.