Chapter 9: Who's Going to Solve the Problem
"I didn't expect that now I would retreat as advance, and the situation set up against Li Zheng was actually resolved by him, and he also won over people's hearts."
Lin Yu's words made the "evidence" collected by Bing Chengfeng useless.
Lin Yu is the emperor after all, and his words will also make the officials in the court feel that he has changed.
It is quite possible that the officials who had been neutral would have sided with him and sided with him.
Is this Lin Yu from the past? Is this the puppet emperor of the past?
Similar to this question, in the short time of half a pillar of incense.
Wang Hetao had already asked twice in his heart.
The second time I asked, I was much more shocked than the first time, and I was shocked more than the first time.
"Hurry up and kneel down to thank Your Majesty for your grace not to kill!"
Wang Hetao took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, and said this sentence to Bing Chengfeng very coldly.
The sin of deceitful king can be said to be a great sin.
Lin Yu was guilty of bullying the king in his mouth, and when he said the four words, Bing Chengfeng was so frightened that he was about to pee his crotch.
It was only now that the whole person came back to his senses and kowtowed to the ground.
Originally, Bing Chengfeng was standing and Li Zheng was kneeling next to him, but now two people are kneeling on the ground at the same time.
Next to Bing Chengfeng, Li Zheng, who was kneeling, fell into his own thoughts.
"Li Shilang, how is the matter of the border bandits you arranged?"
Lin Yu, who sat down, picked the most comfortable position.
Leaning on the throne, stilting his legs, he asked casually.
Li Zheng, who was just about to stand up, knelt down again.
"Your Majesty is a minister, I'm sorry for you, it's a minister who is incompetent."
"The matter of suppressing bandits has been arranged, but the most critical point is that the minister has no way to solve it."
"What can be a rare defeat for Li Shilang?"
"Your Majesty, we don't have much silver in our treasury right now."
"And it takes a lot of military pay to suppress bandits, so it's hard to complete this matter!"
Speaking of this, Li Zheng sighed.
Lin Yu frowned slightly.
"I remember the renovation in the palace, I told them to stop, the treasury should be rich."
"How can it not be enough to suppress bandits?"
A look of embarrassment appeared on his face, and a smile appeared on the faces of Wang Hetao on the side.
It's just that the smiles on their faces are ill-intentioned.
The last time the Dog Emperor designed to me, now it's his turn.
Bing Chengfeng was secretly happy in his heart.
"Although the suppression of bandits is not comparable to the war between countries, the suppression of bandits requires a lot of silver taels."
"Since Your Majesty spoke, the minister has followed what Your Majesty said, and sold all the jewels."
"But after selling these jewels, we only raised a total of about three million taels......
Speaking of this, Li Zheng couldn't go on, and at the same time felt very self-reproachful, so he lowered his head and was silent there.
Lin Yu, who was sitting on the throne, was extremely surprised.
In the war between countries, Lin Yu knew that he would ask for a lot of money.
But he didn't expect that a mere bandit would need so much money, and the numbers were so terrifying.
However, there is no better solution to this problem, only to take money.
No matter what era you are, if you have money, you can't let people work for you.
"Li Aiqing doesn't have to blame herself for this matter, you can talk about it, how many silver taels do we need to prepare for this time to suppress bandits?" Li Zheng's reaction made Lin Yu can't help but start scolding the previous emperor again.
If he could, he would have pinned the previous emperor to the ground and beaten him severely.
Having a dynasty can be said to have the most wealth in the world.
But all this wealth has been lost, and now even more than three million taels have to be sold for jewelry to be able to make up.
Now there are often bandits wreaking havoc on their borders, and their people are in a state of dire straits.
He couldn't even get the money to solve the problem, and he made a loyal minister feel guilty about it.
When Lin Yu used to read those history books, he only knew that everyone was saying that the most defeated emperor was Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.
But now Lin Yu feels that Qianlong is not as good as this puppet emperor.
Li Zheng raised his head and replied.
"Back to Your Majesty, even if our team to suppress bandits shrinks their clothes and diets, the imperial court still needs to come up with at least 10 million taels of silver."
Li Zheng's words made Bing Chengfeng next to him very disdainful.
"It's really useless, if this matter is the official in charge, the official will definitely ask for 30 million taels."
"I don't know how to turn my brain, this money is not enough to collect taxes."
"In the end, the people will not scold them, but will only scold the emperor sitting on the throne."
"It's such a useless stupid thing, no wonder it's the only way to do it in this life."
Lin Yu raised his head slightly and looked around at the hundred officials in the court.
Finally, his gaze stopped on Wang Hetao's body.
Wang Hetao was suddenly furious, Bing Chengfeng had already been a scapegoat before.
Now I have come to collect it again, and I really use myself as a treasury.
"Do you have any good solutions to this problem?"
The officials glanced at each other, immediately lowered their heads, and said nothing.