Chapter 26 The two armies go to war, but the shells turn into fireworks, gg!
Prime Minister Shangguan ordered someone to put out the territory map of the Jokhang Kingdom, as well as the internal and military confidential documents of the Jokhang Kingdom, and after the three little emperors sat down, the Prime Minister of Shangguan retreated, originally the Prime Minister of Shangguan also wanted Su Ruanmei to avoid it, but the little emperor said that Su Ruanmei was his lucky star, and he was loyal to him, and he wanted to stay and maybe put forward some pertinent opinions, so Shangguan Prime Minister reluctantly nodded.
"Your Majesty, now that you are ready to return to the palace, it is time for you to get acquainted with my Zhao's military, political, diplomatic, humanities, geography and ......."
Before Prime Minister Shangguan finished speaking, the little emperor said impatiently.
"Prime Minister Shangguan, I will gradually become familiar with these things, so you should pick up something important and talk about it. For example, how big is the current power of King Zheng in the court, what are the enemy countries of the Jokhang Kingdom, and how much silver is still in my treasury. ”
After the little emperor finished speaking, Prime Minister Shangguan was a little embarrassed.
Su Ruanmei saw Prime Minister Shangguan's worries, so she explained to Prime Minister Shangguan with a smile.
"Your Majesty means that after he returns to the palace, what kind of talents can be reused to serve the country, and whether the country's borders have been stable in recent years, whether the people live and work in peace and contentment, and whether the treasury is balanced."
After Su Ruanmei finished speaking, Prime Minister Shangguan stroked his beard and nodded slightly.
"It's still Miss Su who knows His Majesty's intentions."
After the Prime Minister Shangguan finished speaking, he took out a recital, which recorded some talents that the Prime Minister Shangguan wanted to recommend, which were in the vacant positions in the three provinces and six ministries, the little emperor took a cursory look, but he didn't know these people, the little emperor turned his head to listen to Su Ruanmei's opinion, and Su Ruanmei just nodded to the little emperor implicitly, and the little emperor handed it back to Shangguan Prime Minister and said with a smile.
"Since they are recommended by the prime minister, these people must be the pillars of the country, and I will definitely reuse them."
Prime Minister Shangguan listened to the little emperor's promise, and stroked his beard with a smile.
Then Prime Minister Shangguan told the little emperor about the border problem, Qin Hu also joined the discussion, and Su Ruanmei took up several national treasury accounts on the table when she had nothing to do, and carefully reviewed them.
"Hmph, I don't want this small Buyeo country to be so arrogant, not only robbing our merchant ships, but also killing our fishermen, I must let them see the power of my Jokhang Kingdom, spread my will, and we will start a full-scale war against Buyeo when we go back."
After listening to the report of the prime minister of Shangguan, the little emperor suddenly slapped the table angrily, which made Su Ruanmei, who was reading carefully, stand up in fright, and when Su Ruanmei came back to her senses, she also angrily patted the back of the little emperor's head with her hand.
"Concubine Su, what are you nervous about?"
After Su Ruanmei finished filming, she found that she seemed to have committed it again, so she pretended to touch the little emperor's head twice, and then said hesitantly.
"Your Majesty, your hair crown seems to be crooked, and the concubine will help you get it."
Shangguan Cheng saw that Su Ruanmei was holding the treasury account book in her hand, and it had already been turned over halfway, so he asked Su Ruanmei with great interest.
"Miss Su, do you still have research on money and grain arithmetic?"
Su Ruanmei listened to Prime Minister Shangguan's question, and immediately nodded.
"I understand a little, just now His Majesty was thinking about starting a war with Buyeo, I don't think it's time yet."
After Su Ruanmei finished speaking, Prime Minister Shangguan stroked his beard, and Qin Hu and the little emperor showed a trace of displeasure.
"Although the Jokhang Kingdom has a vast territory and abundant products, but in recent years, the income of the treasury has been unable to make ends meet every year, I just looked at your accounts, if the Jokhang Kingdom is regarded as a group company, I am afraid that she would have gone bankrupt long ago."
When Prime Minister Shangguan heard the word bankruptcy, he was a little confused.
"Bankruptcy in our case means closing the door."
Although Prime Minister Shangguan felt that it was very reasonable after listening to Su Ruanmei's words, it seemed a little inappropriate to use the metaphor of closing the door to a country.
"That's true, but I don't know if Miss Su has some opinions on this."
When Qin Hu and the little emperor heard this, they also frowned, they didn't expect that the current Jokhang Kingdom would be so poor.
"Through the analysis of your accounts, there are three main reasons for the imbalance of the Jokhang Kingdom's revenue and expenditure, first, agriculture is the main source of tax revenue, but this tax item is extremely unstable, take the past three years, either natural disasters or floods, not to mention the income, it is very good to be able to barely flat, the second tax is commerce, although business can get some money, but the business of the Jokhang Kingdom does not seem to be developed, so it is not much better than agriculture. The third is that some other taxes are vague at all, although there seems to be some income, but it is also very small. It is obviously difficult for a country to have such a small income and to support such a large bureaucratic system, and the most terrible thing is that this King Zheng actually borrowed so much money from the treasury and did not pay it back, which is obviously the rhythm of dragging the country down. ”
After Su Ruanmei finished speaking, the little emperor also said indignantly.
"This King Zheng is really not a thing, I have to clean him up when I go back."
Prime Minister Shangguan sighed when he heard Su Ruanmei's words.
"Miss Su, what you see is only what is on the books, in fact, there are many complicated problems hidden in it, which is why the old minister is in a hurry to let Your Majesty become proficient in government affairs as soon as possible. Lao Chen is now in the last years of the wind and candle, I am afraid that time is not much, the future of this Jokhang Kingdom needs Your Majesty to take over personally, simply Your Majesty, you have met a strange woman like Miss Su, I want to come ......"
Before Prime Minister Shangguan finished speaking, a herald hurriedly opened the door of the cabin.
"Report, Prime Minister Qi, a large number of Buyeo warships have appeared thirty nautical miles not far away, they follow closely and don't know what they want, and they hope that the Prime Minister will show them."
When the four of them walked up to the splint, they saw dozens of Buyeo warships approaching Shangguan Chengcheng's warships.
"What are these Buyeo people going to do, thinking that they must have some ulterior motives."
After Qin Hu finished speaking, the little emperor asked Prime Minister Shangguan again.
"Prime Minister, if we really start a war with the Buyeo people, what are the chances of victory?"
After the little emperor finished speaking, Prime Minister Shangguan was a little embarrassed, but Su Ruanmei expressed her opinion.
"There are at least thirty warships on the opposite side, although they are much smaller than our warships in terms of size, but if the other side adopts wolf pack tactics and rushes up, then our three warships will be easily captured by the other party, not to mention that the other party's ships are small and sail fast, even if we want to abandon the ship and escape, we are afraid that it will be more than lucky."
The little emperor became a little nervous when he heard this.
"How about that?"
Prime Minister Shangguan stroked his beard when he heard the little emperor's question.
"Fortunately, we have a lot of shells and a long range, and if we are lucky enough to hit the enemy's main warship, we may be able to make the enemy retreat."