Playfulness and extravagance are like twin brothers, always following each other and never abandoning, especially for Li You.

Do you still remember the legendary Emperor Yang of Sui, the king of the fallen country? In order to run to Yangzhou, thousands of miles away, to appreciate the strange Qionghua, Emperor Yang of Sui did not hesitate to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to dig the Grand Canal. To say that the emperor is the emperor, no matter how difficult things are, they can make their wishes come true. Emperor Yang of Sui, who had fulfilled his wishes, not only arrived in Yangzhou as he wished, but also stayed in that beautiful city and never returned. It's not that I don't want to come back, it's that I can't come back at all. Because, he died, he was killed by his subordinates, and the dead man could not come back.

Compared with Emperor Yang of Sui, Li You doesn't seem to have such a big way, so he has not made such an earth-shattering move as the digging of the Grand Canal. However, Li You, who is extravagant by nature, either drinks or holds a banquet every day; It's not cockfighting, it's duck shooting; is not to dredge the fish algae pond, or to drive the Huaqing Palace; It's not playing polo, it's playing women...... Silver, a lot of silver, flowed out like water, Li You didn't feel distressed at all, and he didn't even blink an eye.

Li You just spends all his time drinking, the key is that he still has to pull others to luxury with him. The others here, first of all, are his mother, Empress Dowager Guo. Actually, this is also understandable, after all, it was his own mother, no matter what, it doesn't seem to be a big mistake to make his own mother live a more comfortable and luxurious life. At least, it shows that Li You's child is filial, of course, there is only one object of Li You's filial piety, and that is his mother. As for the father who is about to rot into mud, hum, I'm sorry, I don't have that mood.

It's just a matter of letting the queen mother accompany him to the fullest luxury, the key is that Li You is a child with a sense of equality, so he hopes that the ministers will live a good life like him, in order to achieve this goal, Li You chose to reward, unbridled reward, gold, silver and jewelry will be rewarded when he says he will be rewarded, and he will not even burp. Actually, this is understandable, after all, people work hard to give you work and sell your life, not to make your wife and children's life more comfortable! Only by letting them make a little fortune from time to time, make some extra money, and have some unexpected joy, can they have the energy to do their work, right?

It's just that the monarch and minister, mother and son are luxurious together, as long as you have money, others can neither control nor dare to manage it. The problem is, there is no money, not that the emperor has no money, it is that the treasury has no money. Of course, no matter how much money the treasury has, it can't let the emperor lack money, but Comrade Li You is also a master who can spend money in particular. In the long run, how can the finances of the empire stand it?

Since you don't have any money, find a way to make it rich. Don't say it, there are really ways, and there are two: one is open source, and the other is naturally throttling.

The so-called open source, of course, is to increase income, where does this extra money come from? From the pockets of the common people, of course! Since you are a citizen of Datang, you have to obey the call of Datang, let you pay the money, let you pay as much as you want, as long as you don't starve to death, it's OK, what so much nonsense!

The so-called throttling, the festival is naturally not the Manchu minister, not the queen mother, not the emperor. So, who are the people who are feasting? Of course, those bitter soldiers. The towns are in wait, the four seas are peaceful, what are you doing with so many soldiers? Have a casual meal? The empire's finances are so difficult, just let them retire from the army, by the way, there is no need to arrange work, just let them be self-reliant!

Time is like flowing water, reluctant to give up day and night, and before you know it, the seasons have changed. The falling flowers swaying with the wind have long been scattered into mud and dust, and the flying flotsam fluttering in the air has probably been with the wind until the night Langxi, and the fifteenth year of Yuanhe has not passed, and the "Yuanhe Zhongxing" that has opened and closed has long been like a spring dream without a trace.