After listening to Lin Bai's words, Zhao Pu shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Lord Lin, what you say can really be compared to Emperor Jin Hui's 'Why don't you eat minced meat'. Household re-dialing? What to dial? Do you know how much money you have in the treasury? You don't know, you don't know at all. ”

Listening to Zhao Pu's words, Li Guanqi was also a little moved, and said in a deep voice: "350,000 disaster victims! It only takes 200,000 taels of grain for three months, plus freight and the like, and if you buy high-quality brown rice, 500,000 taels of silver should be enough! Can't the treasury even get this little money? ”

"That's right! My Daqian Dynasty earns 20 million taels a year, can't I even take out 500,000 taels of disaster relief silver? Lin Bai said indignantly.

Zhao Pu shook his head slightly and said: "Li Chen rebelled, the imperial court dispatched 200,000 troops, people eat horses and chew, how much is it a day?" Lord Lin, the money is really like flowing water, this battle has been fought for nearly a year! ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Pu stretched out his finger and pointed at Qin Minzhong, and said sadly, "Look at Qin Xiang!" Seeing that the person who is only fifty years old, his hair has turned gray, and he is so thin that he only has skin and bones! Why is this happening? He is a clever woman who is difficult to cook without rice, and he has worked hard to maintain it, and the treasury has long been empty, do you know? ”

"But didn't the household department still allocate disaster relief funds? I am not chasing after the wind and shadows, there is no wind and waves, I sent someone to inspect their account books, and all the disaster relief food money went into a money bank called Tall Fat Man! Lin Bai said angrily, "That's the disaster relief money from the imperial court, why did it go into a private bank?" ”

"Lord Lin, who is Gao Xianxian, Your Majesty knows better! If it weren't for the tall fat man you said, the victims wouldn't have been saved! Zhao Pu said with a wry smile, "Not bad! The household department has allocated money! However, the household department only allocated 50,000 taels. This is already the limit of Tobe! The 50,000 taels went into Gao Xianxian's money bank, but what came out was 100,000 taels! It was these 100,000 taels that bought the rice bran and wheat bran eaten by the 350,000 victims! ”

"You're quibbling! If it weren't for the corruption! How could the imperial court be overstretched, even this disaster relief money has been deducted everywhere! Lin Bai still refuses to give up!

Seeing that Lin Bai said that someone had deducted the disaster relief money, Li Guanqi's face turned cold. looked at Zhao Pu and said, "Is this true?" ”

Zhao Pu nodded and said, "Back to Your Majesty, there is indeed such a thing!" ”

Li Guanqi was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that what Lin Bai said was actually true, and Zhao Pu would admit it directly, and listening to Zhao Pu's tone, those officials who withheld disaster relief funds were obviously not punished. He looked at Qin Minzhong and Dongfang Rui again, and from the expressions on their faces, he knew that they also knew about it. It seems that the Central Government has its own considerations.

Lin Bai has always been jealous and hateful, he didn't have the same idea as Li Guanqi, as soon as he heard Zhao Pu admit it, he immediately shouted angrily: "Lord Zhao, since the fact that local officials have withheld disaster relief funds, and your central government also knows about it, why do you turn a blind eye? Are you worthy of the victims? ”

Zhao Pu said in a deep voice: "Lord Lin! Please be calm. It is true that officials withheld disaster relief funds. But I would like to ask Lord Lin, thousands of victims. Who's going to give them relief food? Did you send it, or did I send it? Still have to rely on those officials, big and small? Feed them. They're willing to die! ”

"It's really an ancient theory, and there is a big reason for corruption and bribery?" Lin Bai was annoyed!

"This is a bloody fact, in exchange for a great truth!" Zhao Pu also did not give in, "Lord Lin is the imperial history, and he can only focus on the ethics of officials, but what the Central Mansion should care about is the people of the world." I can't help but think about it more thoroughly! ”

Lin Bai shook his head again and again and said, "Eat the king, worry about the king." Bit by bit, it's all people's fat and people's ointment. How can you bear to pluck food out of the mouths of the hungry? ”

Zhao Pu smiled bitterly and said, "Lord Lin, what you see is that we are picking food out of the mouths of the victims, but what I see is that the 350,000 victims have food. Although the food was not good, he did not starve to death! ”

"You are still cleverly arguing, it is because of the existence of these corrupt officials that the victims will eat the rice bran and wheat bran that only livestock eat, if they are all clean officials, they will eat better!" Lin Bai still refused to give up his opinion.

Zhao Pu let out a wry smile again and said, "Lord Lin, do you think that our Central Mansion doesn't want the officials in the world to be as honest as water?" But throughout the ages, how many clean officials and how many corrupt officials have been? ”

Lin Bai was stunned, but still didn't admit it: "Qing officials are like rare, and corrupt officials are like the sand of the Yellow River!" ”

"Yes, then we don't rely on them, who do we rely on?" Zhao Pu spread his hands and said, "We are not opposed to reforming the rule of officials, but nine out of ten officials in the world are corrupt. Who will do the work for the people? ”

"What is your intention in defending corrupt officials? Did you take any benefits from them? Lin Bai glared at Zhao Pu and shouted angrily.

"Enough!" Li Guanqi stopped Lin Bai's rampage again in a timely manner, glared at him and said, "There is nothing wrong with what the Central Mansion has done in this matter!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Qin Min and the others said in unison.

Lin Bai was anxious, and said angrily: "There is nothing wrong with the Central Mansion? It is precisely because of the laissez-faire of the central government that the corruption of the officials below has become commonplace! So that the people are always living in dire straits. The Great Qian Dynasty has been founded for 100 years, but today, which country does not have tens of thousands of hungry people? In addition to the relatively wealthy Jiangnan Province, Lingnan, Jiannan, Shannan, and Longyou provinces, there are many things for the common people to eat the last meal but not the next meal! Like you, sitting in the Central Mansion every day, looking at the folds handed by the lower heads, you think that the world is peaceful? Your Majesty, the Central Mansion is in the same stream, please punish it severely! ”

"In my opinion, it is not the Central Mansion that should be severely punished, but you who do not know the general situation, sell your reputation and reputation, and blindly mess around!" Li Guanqi said angrily, "I want someone who can really solve problems, not just know how to shout slogans." You said that Zhao Pu and they sit in the central mansion every day, and they only understand things from the excerpts, but they have gone deep into the front line of the disaster area, what about you? In my opinion, you should not participate in this meeting first, and retreat!---Wait for the decree of punishment! ”

"Your Majesty!" Lin Bai shouted angrily.

"Let's go down!" Li Guanqi waved his hand impatiently. (To be continued......)