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"Is there any news of the enemy Gulie?" Yang Yi asked seemingly unintentionally.

"My lord, not yet." Ma Hanqing replied truthfully.

Yang Yi handed over the reins to the subordinates of the other courtyard and took the lead to go inside, in fact, he also knew that this thousands of miles away, separated by a green ridge, the news from the Persian side could not come so quickly.

Now there is no news, then there will be no more news this year, after the winter, the snow covers the mountains, the towering green ridges are difficult to climb, the east and west business travel is extinct, and now the news of Persia is basically spread by business travel.

The situation in the Persian homeland is now complicated, the forces of all parties are entangled, and Yang Yi has no bottom in his heart about whether the enemy Gulie can sweep the Persian homeland, although the enemy Martyr Department is also from the Difficult River, but the enemy Gulie is not Hulegu after all, and this western expedition is not a repeat of the Mongolian Western Expedition.

It's just that he has high hopes for Di Gulie and has given so much support, so it is inevitable that he will have some expectations, so he will ask first.

Ma Hanqing was half a step behind, and Yang Yi walked towards the flower hall of the other courtyard, he hesitated for a moment, and said: "My lord, my subordinates are worried that the imperial court will reduce the financial budget of the staff pavilion this year, and I hope that the adults can fight for the staff pavilion in this matter, my lord knows best, although the battle between Liaodong and the Western Regions has been fought, but due to the expansion of the Great Song Dynasty border many times, the scope of the staff pavilion's reprimand has expanded a lot, and the personnel cannot be reduced, and many places need to build secret letters to ensure the transmission of news, my lord, You have to at least keep the original 500,000 yuan for the staff pavilion! ”

Ma Hanqing finished speaking impatiently, and waited dryly for Yang Yi's reply.

Yang Yi was a little funny, and as soon as Ma Hanqing came back, he went to Beizhuang. I guess this is what he is most anxious about.

After entering the winter, it is almost time for the various departments of the imperial court to submit their budgets for the coming year. The academy was similar to the emperor's staff, with a small staff. The work in charge is also relatively simple, mainly to give advice to the emperor and draft major edicts, basically not involving specific government affairs, and the financial budget is very simple, that is, to report the salaries of the subordinates, so Yang Yi does not have to bother with the budget application report of the department at all.

However, other departments are different, especially those such as the Ministry of Industry, Taifu Temple, and the Ministry of Justice, and the budget application is very troublesome.

The staff pavilion is actually like the military. The budget received in wartime will definitely be more, and after entering peacetime, it is normal to cut some budgets, and Ma Hanqing's worries are by no means groundless.

The two of them entered the hall and took off the big hat full of snowflakes, and Xiao Ai took a few maid rings and immediately busied himself with the hot tea.

Yang Yi leaned back on the Taishi chair and exhaled comfortably, before he said: "I want to ask for more budget, this is a technical job, and the budget of the staff pavilion should not be cut in the past three or two years." But this is just your idea and mine, whether the ministers of the DPRK and China can agree with this idea depends on how well you do in your budget application report;

At the final budget review meeting of the Government Affairs Hall, I will speak for the Staff Secretariat. The problem is that your budget request has to be audited by the Audit Division, which is an independent audit. Nominally, even Your Majesty can't intervene, and I can't help you. ”

Ma Hanqing suddenly looked bitter when he heard this. He is Yang Yi's confidant, and he knows that Yang Yi's mind has been mostly on the outside in the past two years. It is true that the Audit Division does not have his people;

Moreover, it is not false that even the emperor cannot interfere in the financial audit process of the Audit Department, at least that was the case when the Audit Department was first established;

Although the Audit Department only has the power to audit, the power to approve the budget rests with the final council of the Imperial Council composed of the Emperor and the Governor. But if you can't even pass the audit department, your budget request report will not reach the government office.

Therefore, what Yang Yi said to Ma Hanqing was not a prevarication.

Ma Hanqing smiled bitterly: "My lord, you made this budget, you always have some way, right?" You also know that in the past two years, due to the wars of all parties, the court has not deducted the funds of the staff pavilion in the slightest, and at that time, there were many foreign affairs, and the subordinates did not have time to think about this. ”

"Hahaha, I was born in sorrow and died in peace."

Yang Yile, in the past two years, no one has expected the Staff Pavilion to provide timely information, and even used the Staff Pavilion to thwart the siege of Shangjing by the Chang Jurisdiction, in this case, the budget of the Staff Pavilion in the past two years naturally does not have to worry about Ma Hanqing, if you don't think about these things, you will naturally have no experience.

However, Yang Yi did not want to interfere in the audit work of the Audit Department, when he introduced the financial budget system, in addition to making the financial expenditure of the Great Song Dynasty more reasonable and orderly, the deeper reason was to restrict the monarchy;

If the chief official of the audit department and the prime minister of the court are responsible people, then the financial power of the Great Song Dynasty will be basically stripped from the hands of the emperor;

If the emperor wants to build a palace, unless you use the domestic currency, you must also pass the audit of the audit department and the approval of the government affairs hall.

The independent audit power of the Audit Department is exactly what Yang Yi is trying to protect, so how can he himself break this rule?

But Ma Hanqing's worries are indeed justified, according to the current situation, the financial budget of the staff pavilion will definitely be reduced, and Yang Yi himself does not want to reduce the funds of the staff pavilion at present, so as not to affect his next deployment.

In later generations, in order to make more money, arms dealers would urge the government to wage war abroad; If the military wants to get more money, it will create tensions and create threats from other countries.

In ancient China, there were more generals who raised bandits and self-respect, and Ma Hanqing would not understand these simple methods, but without Yang Yi's consent, he had just played a trick of fox and fake tiger power in the Western Regions, and now if Yang Yi nodded, he would not dare to play with his wrists again, which was very likely to arouse Yang Yi's disgust, and then doubt his credibility and loyalty.

Yang Yi was still quite satisfied with his approach, the staff pavilion was like a monster, this monster was made by him, Yang Yi didn't want to see him get out of his grasp.

He thought for a while and said: "Han Qing, a few days ago, I came into contact with a big businessman named Lu Yongzan of the Tubo Wusi Department, and his family has established some business contacts with him, and is going to set up a business house in Luo, you can send some people to Luo, I suspect that the Tubo tribes will unite due to the strong pressure of my Great Song Dynasty;

Once the Tubo people are reunited, the consequences are unimaginable, when the former Tang Dynasty, Hexi, Longyou, and even the entire Western Regions fell under the iron hooves of the Tubo people. ”

Ma Hanqing was overjoyed when he heard this, and Yang Yi pointed out a clear path for him: the Tibetan threat theory!

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PS: Thank you for the support of the three book friends of Xia Han and Ye → who are still arrogant and Qingshui Liu'an, thank you.

(To be continued.) )