The three points that Chen Yuansi said extinguished Ye Tian's anger.

Whether this Halloween feast can be done or not, what to do, and how much it will cost, is far from being as simple as she thought.

It is related to the views of courtiers and people near and far on the court, determines whether the official hats of thousands of ministers and foremen in the Ministry of Rites can be worn stably, and even affects the war situation thousands of miles away.

Especially this last point he said.

At the moment of the war, the last thing Ye Qianhuai wants to see now is a large-scale change in the six departments and hundreds of officials, which makes people's hearts scattered.

After being silent for a long time, Ye Qianhuai reached out and picked up the fold she threw away, she looked at the various regulations and expenses densely listed on it, and finally said: "Put it here first, I will give you an answer after reading it." ”

After everyone dispersed, Ye Tianhuai sat alone for half an hour looking at the fold in the Qinxian Palace.

She didn't believe in any that showed the might of heaven and intimidated her neighbors.

She is a person who has died once, which festival in the palace in her previous life was not a big event? Not only the New Year's Festival and the Longevity Festival are to be held, but even the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantern Festival, and Spring Festival are also large, and even the Queen's death day and Princess Shuyao's birthday are much more grand than in this life.

The result? Has it deterred the enemy?

There is no shortage of battles to be fought.

When Lu Yanchen raised his troops, the war letters of Jinchuan and Northern Qi were also sent to the palace one after another.

The money spent on organizing festivals would be much more useful if they could build more cannons and raise more troops than on expensive ingredients and dances.

What made her hesitate was not the question of whether the Halloween feast could deter neighboring countries.

Rather, it is the ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the servants of the inner court.

These are the people who serve her, who serve the royal family.

They didn't do anything wrong, and it can even be said that they took good care of Ye Qianhuai and the concubines and princesses in the harem, but Ye Tinghuai wanted to take away their jobs.

Ye Qianhuai was troubled.

Usually at this time, she would discuss with her teacher Lu Yanchen.

But now that he was far away in Yunzhou, there was obviously no way to solve her confusion immediately.

Ye Qian thought for a while, and instructed Li Baoquan, who was waiting at the door: "Li Baoquan, go to Taiqing Pavilion and ask Lin Yuxiu to come to see me." ”

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Lin Yuxiu didn't change much.

The thin body was wrapped in an indigo official uniform, the spine was straight, and under the long eyelashes were a pair of lonely cold eyes, and the thin lips were closed like the inquisitor's saber.

Ye Tianhuai and Lin Yuxiu asked for warmth.

After Du Jing's case was concluded, the Criminal Department was busy reviewing and approving the autumn verdict list and case files sent from all over the country every autumn, and Gu Shihai handed over the matter to another criminal department attendant to deal with it on the grounds that Lin Yuxiu did not know enough about these old cases not long after joining the Criminal Department, while Lin Yuxiu only needed to watch and study.

Most of these cases were cases that had been reported to the Criminal Department before, and the autumn decision was mainly due to the compliance of the trial process and whether the materials were complete or not, and Lin Yuxiu really couldn't intervene.

He was all at once idle.

As a result, Lin Yuxiu spent more time in the Taiqing Pavilion.

After the palace examination, the cabinet discussed that some of the contents of this book involved the secrets of the imperial court, so it stopped printing, and withdrew the book that had been sent out before, and asked to be recompiled and republished.

This matter fell on the head of Taiqing Pavilion.

Lin Yuxiu has been actively promoting this matter recently.

It can be seen that he is happier in Taiqing Pavilion than in the Criminal Department. Not only is the spirit of the whole person much better, but according to his own words, he has also made a lot of like-minded people.

Ye Tianhuai nodded with satisfaction.

Before, she was always worried that Lin Yuxiu would be such a high-profile entry, coupled with his outspoken temperament, he would make too many enemies in the officialdom and it would be difficult to gain a foothold.

Now it seems that Lin Yuxiu's emotional intelligence is still better than she imagined.

"Lin Qing, I called you today because I can't be sure about one thing, and I want to hear your opinion." Ye Qianhuai got to the point.

She showed Lin Yuxiu the plan for the Longevity Festival, and then relayed the opinions and suggestions of the cabinet to Lin Yuxiu today.

Lin Yuxiu's originally radiant gaze gradually cooled.

After listening to Ye Qianhuai's narration, Lin Yuxiu was silent and asked, "What are Your Majesty's plans?" ”

"I originally thought that this year's Wanshou Festival would be like the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it would be simple to hold a family banquet in the palace. However, when the cabinet said this, I felt that perhaps it would be better to continue the old system and keep the court and the palace banquet of foreign ministers, but the number of state officials entering Beijing could be reduced. With so many people coming to the capital, travel expenses and accommodation are great expenses. Ye Qian said.

After speaking, she looked up at Lin Yuxiu, as if waiting for his opinion.

Lin Yuxiu put the fold that Ye Qianhuai handed him back on the bookcase, took a few steps back, lowered his eyes and looked at the fold, but did not look at Ye Qianhuai.

But Ye Qianhuai felt that his eyes were colder, and his lips were tighter, like a blade out of the sheath.

"Your Majesty, when Wei Chen was sorting out the "Shunping Song Collection" recently, he saw an article about Yang Bocheng by the squire of the Criminal Department. Does Your Majesty know about Yang Bocheng's case? Lin Yuxiu asked.

"I know."

Yang Bocheng's case was the biggest corruption case in the Shunping period.

This man can be said to be a legend.

During Yang Bocheng's three-year tenure as governor of Yuezhou, the amount of ink greed reached 8 million taels of silver, which shocked the government and the opposition at that time. You must know that Yuezhou is a remote state and county, and it is full of miasma forests, and the cultivated land area is only one in a hundred.

However, in such a poor state where taxes are only one or two million silver a year, Yang Bocheng actually embezzled eight million taels in three years.

After his downfall, the Jingzhao officials sent to Yuezhou to raid his home looked at the countless precious utensils and silk silk found in his mansion, and everyone was dumbfounded.

Even in the Jingguan family, it is rare to see so many treasures.

It was later found out that Yang Bocheng was embezzling the money and grain allocated by Beijing to the state government for relief upwards, and on the other hand, he was privately taxing the people. The treasury of the Yuezhou Prefecture was all transferred to his mansion in his first year in office. Whenever Jingzhong came to Yuezhou to inspect, he would borrow money from the squires who were in cahoots with him on weekdays to make up for the deficit of the official bank. When the Jingguan left, he used the excuse that the money was used to honor the Jingguan, and in the end only returned a small part to the squires.

From the court to the squires to the common people, he was sucked all over again. In the past three years, the entire Yuezhou combined, there is no Yang Mansion rich as him.

After Yang Bocheng was punished, his account books were confiscated by the Criminal Department. Does Your Majesty know what is his biggest annual expense? Lin Yuxiu asked.

Ye Qianhuai shook his head.

"It is to enter Jingnagong on various festivals. The Ministry of Punishment has verified the amount, and this expenditure alone accounts for 6 to 70 percent of the total annual expenditure. ”

(End of chapter)