"Haha, you adults have misunderstood, Your Majesty is not only going to hold a court meeting, but also waiting for you in the main hall long before you came here."

Yang Gonggong smiled and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, hurry up and go in to see Your Majesty." ”

"Eh, Your Majesty has recovered?" Pei Ju's punch just now seemed to hit the cotton, but at this time, he was a little uncomfortable, and he stumbled to speak.

"Your Majesty is fine, how can you restore it?" Gonggong Yang cast a puzzled look at him.

Yang Guang's situation, that is the top secret in the palace.

Yang Gonggong has been by Yang Guang's side for so long, how can he not understand this big thing? Even if Pei Ju and the others knew that Gonggong Yang was prevaricating them, they couldn't say anything, so they quickly walked into the palace and went to the court.

When he came to the main hall, Yang Guang really sat on the dragon chair.

His complexion was much worse than before, but it was normal, and everyone glanced at each other vaguely, stopped talking, and walked to their positions one after another.

After all the courtiers came, a little eunuch beside Yang Guang who temporarily replaced Yang Gonggong shouted loudly: "Go to court!" ”

"Wait, meet Your Majesty!"

As the voice sounded, the ministers knelt down.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please get up." Yang Guang raised his hand, his voice was slightly lacking, and many people didn't even hear it clearly. When I see someone else standing up, I stand up with me.

Yang Guang probably sensed this situation, took a sip of the tea beside him, moistened his throat, and recovered a little.

"Your Majesty, I don't know why it wasn't held before?" Someone asked.

Yang Guang silently: "Because, I overslept." ”

Hearing this answer, many ministers' bodies trembled, and the corners of their mouths twitched. But if you think about it carefully, this style of speaking is indeed quite in line with Yang Guang's style.

"Okay, don't mention the previous things, let's hurry up with the topic of this court meeting."

Yang Guang didn't give everyone much time to discuss, and instead said calmly: "I plan to set up a regulatory department in the Great Sui, and its purpose is to supervise the corrupt officials in the Great Sui. ”

"Regulators?"

For the courtiers of the Great Sui, this name undoubtedly seemed very unfamiliar, and they had never heard of it before.

Including Qin Shubao, Shan Xiongxin, and Xu Maogong and others, they all appeared in a short trance.

"Your Majesty, I don't know what this regulatory department refers to?" Xu Maogong was the first to ask.

"Xue Yan, you can explain to them what the regulatory department is." Yang Guang motioned for Xue Yan to come out of the crowd.

Speaking of which, this is the first time Xue Yan has participated in a formal court meeting, and she is a little nervous, but she quickly overcame this, and under the gaze of many eyes, she talked eloquently, and repeated the content of the conversation between her and Yang Guang that day in a narrative way.

To the civil and military officials, the role and significance of the regulatory department were explained very clearly.

At the end of the words, Xue Yan couldn't hold back the excitement in her heart and said loudly: "Your Majesty wants to set up a regulatory department, and its purpose is nothing more than to make the world free of corruption and increase the cost of violating the law for those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, therefore, anyone who can understand His Majesty's good intentions should not oppose this matter." ”

"Unless, you have an affair with corrupt officials......"

As soon as these words came out, the ministers were awe-inspiring.

Including Yang Guang, he was also impressed by Xue Yan.

With such a big hat buttoned down, who would dare to take it?

You must know that when you become an official in the court, the most feared and feared thing is that someone will indiscriminately button your hat, which can be light or heavy, and you will be deposed from your official position and degraded to the common people, or you may have to exterminate your family.

As for Xue Yan's last sentence just now, it can be said that the art of language has been used to the extreme.

At this time, if someone raises objections to the regulatory authorities, they will respond to Xue Yan's speculation and make everyone mistakenly think that you are having an affair with corrupt officials.

And today's environment in Dasui, the attitude towards corruption and fraud is absolutely zero tolerance, and if you find that you will be punished together, no matter how deep your background is or how much power you have, you will be killed.

Therefore, for the implementation of the system of regulatory departments, Xue Yan has made great contributions in the court.

"Your Majesty's establishment of a regulatory department has your own consideration of the existing national conditions, and we dare not oppose it. However, Your Majesty, once a new department is added again, it will inevitably have to promote a large number of officials, will this be too huge for the financial burden of the Great Sui? ”

Hubu Shangshu stood up and said with a look of embarrassment: "It is true that the treasury was not short of silver before, but after all, a long time has passed, and with the continuous consumption every day, the current financial aspect is quite tight, and if you want to come up with so much silver to set up a regulatory department, it will inevitably be stretched." ”

"Lack of silver again?" Yang Guang's eyes widened: "How did you do this household secretary, why do you always jump out and cry to me every time I decide to do something?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's not that I'm crying poor, but I really can't help it!"

Hubu Shangshu had a bitter face, and said depressedly: "The silver of the treasury is fixed, only the outbreak, and no input, if you spend money like this, even if there are a hundred gold mountains and a hundred silver mountains, you will not be able to hold it......"

Hearing this, the anger that Yang Guang had just raised immediately immediately lowered again.

Because, he is also very aware of the situation of the treasury.

As Hubu Shangshu said, the current Great Sui really doesn't seem to have any income......

Most of the income of a country depends on taxes, and the Great Sui withdrew from Chang'an and stuck to the Jiangdu, and once this territory became smaller, the taxes that could be collected were naturally very few.

The original owner had been imposing heavy taxes in Jiangdu before, although it solved a certain urgent need, but in the end, it made people angry and resentful, making the people hate the Great Sui to the core.

Yang Guang came in time, determined to change all this, and the first thing he did was to abolish all the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. In this way, it can be regarded as barely regaining some people's hearts.

But!

Whether it should be said or not, such measures have also correspondingly cut off the financial resources of the Great Sui. In a sense, it is a matter of circumstance.

At this moment, Da Sui can only sit and eat the empty mountain, the silver that Yang Guang found back earlier has long been spent, after all, if a country wants to operate normally, it has to spend a lot of silver every day, and if it can persist until now, it can't be blamed on the Hubu Shangshu.

Even, his ability as a housekeeper is actually quite good, if he wants to change to someone who is not good at management, let alone half a year, he can't hold on for three months.

"When I first came, I was short of silver, and now that it's been so long, I still have to make trouble for silver, history is always so similar." Yang Guang secretly sighed, feeling that one head and two were big.

Seeing this, Hubu Shangshu immediately suggested: "Your Majesty, the people of Jiangdu are living a decent life now, or will we re-tax?" ”