"Your Majesty, the war in the south is tight, please ask Your Majesty to quickly allocate 100,000 taels of military salaries, so that the southern soldiers can feel the court's love for them, and then bravely kill the enemy and swear to serve Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, it's really not that our household is procrastinating, it's really the old minister's household that looks tall, but there is really no money, you say that the old minister has no money, how to allocate money to the south. ”

"Li Hong, do you dare to say that you have no money?"

"Why don't I dare to say that my household department has no money?"

"Don't think I don't know, a few days ago, the household department just entered the tax bank in the first quarter of this year, could it be that this money was embezzled by you Li Hong?"

"Wang Yongji, you spew blood!"

"I'm spurting blood, you're going to take out the money!"

Looking at the noisy courtiers below, Wang Mang gradually came back to his senses and gradually understood his situation.

Just a moment and a half ago, Wang Mang was still a green uncle on a blue planet, but after waking up, he came to this court for some reason, more precisely, on the dragon bed, as soon as he opened his eyes, he was cleaned up by a group of little eunuchs and little palace maids, who were dressed and washed their faces, and then they were carried to this court by a group of strong men and eight bridges.

As the little eunuch beside him pointed out his voice and said to the court in an eighty-degree high voice, "Your Majesty has gone to the court, there is something to play, and there is nothing to retreat from!", Wang Mang's ears were drowned out by the buzzing sound of the courtiers.

I'm really not dreaming? I'm really becoming an emperor?

Wang Mang shook his head, feeling that this was really like a dream, although his name was the same as that of a certain emperor in history who plotted to usurp the throne, but he really never thought that one day he could really become an emperor, and he became an emperor so easily.

All over the world, all belong to the king's land, the power of the world, all in the palm of your hand, a word can decide the life and death of hundreds of millions of people, and there are 3,600 beauties in the harem......

Wang Mang unconsciously entered the fantasy, until he felt that he was being shaken, and when he looked up, he saw a little eunuch with a jade crown looking down at him, and whispered: "Your Majesty......"

"Huh?" Wang Mang thought about the majesty of the emperor he had seen in film and television dramas before, and snorted.

"Your Majesty, Lord Wang is waiting for you......"

"What are you waiting for?" Wang Mang was confused.

"The Ministry of War wants 100,000 taels from the Ministry of Households. ”

"Oh. Wang Mang immediately understood that the main agenda of today's court meeting, the issue of solving the issue of 100,000 taels of military salaries for the war in the south, is also an issue from the beginning of the quarrel to the present.

Although he has not been sitting here for a long time, Wang Mang still knows that both parties still know, one side is Wang Yongji, the secretary of the military department, who has led the troops to fight for decades, and can be said to be a representative of the military.

Although Wang Mang has never been an emperor, he is also a small leader who has worked in the administrative organ for more than ten years, although he has never seen such a big official, but the world is as black as a crow, and the truth is always the same.

"Li Shangshu, what Wang Shangshu said about the first quarter of tax silver that the household department just entered the treasury a few days ago is true?" Wang Mang pondered for a moment and asked the white-looking officials in the court.

This white-faced official is Li Hong, the head of the household department, who eats white and fat, and is in line with the situation of the household department, just looking at the appearance of the household department, it can be thought that the country's finances should be still good.

"Your Majesty, the tax silver for the first quarter has indeed been put into the treasury. Li Hong nodded, and then said: "But Your Majesty, all this money has a place to go, a master, and every sum is useful." ”

Before Wang Mang could speak, Wang Yongji asked loudly: "Then what is the use of what you say?"

"In the first quarter, the household department put 1.2 million taels of silver into the warehouse, of which 200,000 taels were to pay the first quarter's wages to the hundred officials, 200,000 taels were to make up the wages owed to the 100 officials last year, 300,000 taels were used for the post-war reconstruction of the lost land recovered from the rebels in the south, 200,000 taels were used for river dredging and reinforcement, 200,000 taels were used to renovate the city walls around the capital, and the remaining 100,000 taels were used to repair the Yihe Garden. Li Hong said: "These money were set at the beginning of the year, and the money was agreed by everyone on the list, in short, my household department has no money." ”

"Can the salaries of the hundred officials not be paid for the time being?" Wang Yongji asked what he wanted to ask for Wang Mang.

"Don't send it?" Li Hong sneered: "The imperial court has been financially tight in recent years, and it has been in arrears of nearly one million taels of wages for hundreds of officials, but I know that many officials in the imperial court went to the Chenghuang Temple to sell calligraphy and paintings during the Chinese New Year last year. ”

"Lord Wang, this money was discussed at the beginning of the year, but it can't be moved, otherwise it is really difficult for our officials to explain to the officials, and in the past two years, our officials have been scolded by the officials. Zhang Jian, the secretary of the ministry, was the oldest of the officials in the court, and at this time he also stood up and said slowly: "Last year, our court didn't pay salaries to the big guys for a year, and this year we can't drag it out anymore, we can't let the world laugh at the fact that our court can't even pay salaries." ”

"What about the 300,000 taels rebuilt after the war?"

"This money is for the disaster victims, if these disaster victims are not easy to soothe themselves, maybe one day those White Lotus Sect disciples will be fanned again. ”

"Where's the river money?"

"It's spring, it's summer floods soon, and if we don't fix the river now, we may repeat the disaster of the year before last. ”

"What about the money to build the walls?"

"Lord Wang, who dares to touch this money, have you forgotten how those grassland people wreaked havoc in the capital last year. ”

"This is not good, that is not good, then we must not drag the salaries of the southern soldiers, and we must not let the bloody soldiers of the southern war go hungry and fight with the rebels!" Wang Yongji shouted.

"Wang Shangshu, you must not lose your honor in front of Your Majesty!" Zhao Xin, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said in a low voice.

"Lord Zhao, aren't I in a hurry?" Wang Yongji sighed, turned to look at Wang Mang and said: "Your Majesty, the war in the south really can't be delayed any longer, our court is just so far away now, the soldiers in the south will completely clear out the rebels in one go, and give Your Majesty a good day." ”

Wang Mang looked at Wang Yongji, and said in his heart, my family, I am not the God of Wealth, you look at me in vain, and I can't change money, you ask me for money, who do I ask for money? I, an emperor, can't I make money for everyone by myself, right? Aren't all ministers thinking of ways to make money for the emperor?

Why is this reality so far from what I thought?

Wang Mang looked at Wang Yongji and said: "Wang Shangshu, this south really lacks these 100,000 taels, without these 100,000 taels, these soldiers will really be hungry?"

"My Majesty, the old minister also received a letter from the south yesterday, it was really unclothed, hungry, just from that text, the old minister felt the hardships of the life of the southern soldiers!"

It's really fake, it's the same as the real thing.

Wang Mang blinked his eyes, thought for a while, looked at Li Hong and said, "Li Shangshu, that Yiheyuan ......"

As soon as Wang Mang spoke, he felt that something was wrong, because the entire court was silent after he spoke.