The treasury has always been the foundation of a dynasty.

This recital was presented by the local officials, mainly because there was a flood in Gangnam Province recently, which was quite serious. The Gangnam Provincial Observation Envoy presented seven or eight consecutive concerts within three days, stating the situation in the eyes of the disaster.

The rich region of the south of the Yangtze River and the land of fish and rice have always been the top priority of the tax revenue of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Now in the face of disaster, not only the farmland has been destroyed, but even some cities have been directly soaked in water, and the losses are huge.

The local officials quickly mobilized supplies, money and food, and sent people to rush to the disaster relief. The treasury of the Great Zhou Dynasty stored a large amount of silver taels and grain on weekdays to deal with such an emergency. The money in the treasury has been sent for disaster relief, and the minister has already set out, but the treasury is now stretched thin.

There is also a letter written by Ding Wenguang, the assassin of Liangzhou, saying that the military strength of Liangzhou is not enough, and the food and grass are seriously insufficient, and the soldiers and armor are old and very lacking, and they ask the imperial court to support the money and salary to resist the Northern Wilderness.

In addition to Liangzhou, the nearby state capitals, as if agreed, have played to the imperial court.

The content is all the same, asking for money. Without money, we scrambles in tattered clothes can't deal with the formidable Northern Wilderness Iron Cavalry.

They lied, although they also took into account the empress's feelings in their wording, and used a long story to tell their sufferings, but these people, one by one, are about to become rich people, which one of them will starve their own soldiers?

Tang Yun once sent a letter to the general Luo Jingyao, and it was to Ding Wenguang, the assassin of Liangzhou, at that time. In the entire Liangzhou City, Ding Wenguang's soldiers were the most arrogant, and he rode a horse on the street. A tight and neat chain mail was shining, and there was a horse pistol in his hand, as well as a Pu knife meteor hammer, etc., all of them were about to catch up with the forbidden army in the imperial city.

If you don't give money, it's better to do. These people will only pretend to fight and then retreat. Every feudal town has a strong city, and when the time comes, the walls will be clear, and the two tigers of the Northern Wilderness and the Great Zhou will fight.

There are three places in the Great Zhou that are heavily taxed, and now that Jiangnan Province is seriously flooded, it can only rely on the Guangdong waterway tax in Lingnan Province to support the national treasury. The 10 million taels of silver are almost the life-saving money of the Great Zhou treasury.

Several chief officials of the local officials and yamen are anxious like grasshoppers on the oil, although various provincial governments have recently sent taxes, but they are also drinking to quench their thirst. Every year the imperial court has huge expenses in all aspects, and the treasury needs to maintain a certain amount of storage. If some places are short of money and have no silver taels, it is the responsibility of the local officials.

What's more, these Western Regions feudal towns only recognize money.

"The battle situation on the front line is urgent, I will send Zuo Wuwei to support, but after all, there are not enough soldiers of Zuo Wuwei, and the key is to rely on those second ministers! I will give you three days to get the tax money back. ”

The Emperor's voice was unmistakable, even if the other party was a nine-headed demon dragon that he had never seen before. But this is also the reason for the existence of the Demon Hunting Division, if any demon beast can be dealt with by ordinary people, then there is no need for the Demon Hunting Division to exist.

Lu Pengyuan heard that something was wrong, he raised his head and looked at the empress blankly: "Your Majesty, I'm going to look for it too?" ”

The empress glared at the apricot eyes: "Aren't you idle every day and have nothing to do, the counterinsurgency in the Western Regions can't rely on you, don't you want to worry about this little thing?" ”

Lu Pengyuan hurriedly shrank his head: "The minister obeys the order." ”

The two of them hurriedly left from the Qianqiu Palace, where the evil atmosphere was very heavy, and the spacious hall was extremely depressing.

As soon as I went out, I happened to meet Xiao Qianqin bringing tea. Xiao Qianqin smeared some light makeup on her face, held tea in her hand, gave Tang Yun a slight salute, and walked in with a smile on her face.

Lu Pengyuan was surprised: "Brother Tang, how did you know Xiao Zhizhao?" Her iceberg face actually smiled, it's rare. ”

Tang Yun glanced at him: "Do you have a clue about the loss of tax silver?" ”

Lu Pengyuan's face was suddenly full of gloom: "Brother's good days are over, Brother Tang, I will rely on you this time." In three days, we couldn't find the tax money, but we were all done. ”

Tang Yun looked at the sky, and now, there are still no carrier pigeons flying over.

When he first entered the palace, Tang Yun had already ordered all the demon hunting divisions to give up all the work in their hands and go all out to track down the whereabouts of the nine-headed demon dragon, but so far, there was still no news.

Although the demon dragon is huge, it can soar thousands of miles into the air. If you want to find it, it's really not easy to find it.

"Even if you find out, what are you going to do?"

Seeing Lu Pengyuan's puzzled face, Tang Yun explained: "Nine-headed monsters, there are very few records in the Demon Hunting Division, Enlightened, Nine Infants, Nine Phoenixes, and Xiangliu, all of which are nine-headed bodies. However, these monsters, even if the entire Demon Hunting Division are all together, they are not opponents. ”

Lu Pengyuan wanted to say that with the addition of my right guard, it should be enough. But he's not a fool, these monsters aren't easy to mess with when they hear that name. Suddenly, Lu Pengyuan pulled his face down: "What should I do?" ”

"Let's go and see the scene again, if we can find some more clues."

Tang Yun walked outside the palace gate, and Lu Pengyuan followed.

The ban on the scene has not been lifted, but fortunately, this place is different from the main street of the Shendu, and there are not too many people here in normal times. Many of the carriages were stopped by the officials and told to go in the other direction.

The clean-up process was carried out in an intense and orderly manner, and the corpses of one hundred and twenty people were connected, let alone separated, and it was difficult to pull them up from the ground. Fortunately, there is no shortage of experienced catchers in Shendu Mansion, and a group of people are busy for half a day, which can be regarded as more than half of the cleanup.

Tang Yun paced back and forth, and Shendu Mansion Yin came over with a sweaty head. The new Shendu Mansion Yin is also a fat man, even better than his predecessor, and he walks staggeringly.

"Cui Fatzi, did you find any clues?" Lu Pengyuan asked when he saw him.

The fat man's name is Cui Houen, and the Cui family is also closely related to the royal family. The head of the Cui family is one of the few remaining Shangzhu countries today, and Cui Houen's sister Cui Xiaolian married King Yan and was named Princess Yan.

Cui Houen and Lu Pengyuan and others have been famous gentlemen in the capital since childhood, although the two of them are not very good in character, but after all, they are both from Cangyun Academy, plus after the famous family. When Lu Pengyuan was weak, he was awarded the post of General Xiaowei, as for Cui Houen, he originally did a good job as a local official, who knows how he was transferred to Shendu Mansion as the governor at once.

There are countless high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital, and no one takes him seriously as a petty official from the third grade.

Seeing Lu Pengyuan, Cui Fatzi said with a sad face: "Brother, why do you think I just got involved in such a thing?" ”

Lu Pengyuan patted Cui Fatzi's shoulder with deep sympathy: "Don't say it, our brother is now a grasshopper on a rope." Send out all the people of your god's capital, O you. ”

Cui Fatzi fanned the wind with his hand, and said with some irritation: "You said that there is something wrong with this demon dragon, a claw fell, not only was it killed, but this place was completely destroyed." It takes silver to build roads, and the bastards of the local officials are all Pixiu, and Lao Tzu didn't recognize it as soon as he left! ”

Tang Yun listened to Cui Fatzi's complaints, and he was always thinking in his heart.

This dragon, if it wants to kill, why did it scratch all the bricks and stones in the street?