Chen Wenqi turned a deaf ear to everyone's doubts and continued to read: "The governors of other provinces and the officials under them owe a total of 30 million taels of silver, the generals of the garrisons in various places owe a total of 30 million taels of silver, and the officials of the imperial court owe a total of 20 million taels of silver......

This time, the big guys were all silent.

I really don't know it, but I'm shocked when I say it!

I only know that the treasury has a lot of foreign debt, and I really didn't expect that there would be so much!

Actually, there have always been so many.

It's just that the previous Hubu Shangshu was dazed and incompetent, and when he reported the inventory money to Li Wanjiang, he regarded those IOUs as cash.

So much so that after Li Wanjiang learned that most of the so-called treasury silver were IOUs, he almost fainted in anger!

Only then did he remove the confused official and let the shrewd Chen Wenqi replace him.

That being the case, what else is there to say?

Ask for an account!

Easy to say.

Who's going to ask for it? How?

This is a chore that will offend people to death, and you can exhaust yourself to death!

"Since the big guys also think that they should clear their arrears, but I don't know which Aiqing is willing to share my worries?" Li Wanjiang is actually waiting for everyone to say this.

The people who were pulling their necks and shouting for accounts just now felt bad, and they all lowered their heads and shrunk their necks, avoiding the emperor's eager gaze.

"The minister is willing to share the emperor's worries!" Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Zhu Xiaochuan could only bite the bullet.

"You are the Governor of the Jinyi Guard, and you are responsible for the safety and security of the Imperial Palace, how can you be distracted by other things? Inappropriate. Li Wanjiang directly vetoed it.

"This is a matter for the household department, so I will leave it to the ministers to handle it." Chen Wenqi also stepped forward.

"It's not appropriate, everything in the household department is complicated, and you have to take care of it, if you patronize the accounts, can you do other things?" Li Wanjiang shook his head again and again.

Several responsible ministers came out to express their willingness to share the worries of our emperor, but Li Wanjiang refused all for various reasons.

Xiao Chen's bystanders were clear, and said in his heart that Li Wanjiang probably wanted to hand over this drudgery to the crown prince Li Xian, right? Because for such a while, Li Wanjiang glared at the prince several times.

His eyes gradually became sharper.

But the prince can pretend not to see it, keep his head down thoughtfully, and don't know what he is thinking?

In fact, smart people like Wang Anbang also guessed what Li Wanjiang meant, and they all threw hinting glances at the prince.

You're almost your name, and you're still in a daze here.

Wake up, it's your turn!

"Prince, who do you think is the most appropriate person to send for this errand?" Seeing that the prince had been pretending to be confused with him, Li Wanjiang could only name him directly.

"Back to my father's words, the courtiers think that Chen Wenqi is very suitable." As soon as Li Xian's words came out, everyone changed color.

The heart says are you deaf or stupid? You didn't hear what the emperor said just now!

"You have been a prince for so long, and you haven't done a few serious things, you only know how to carry a cage and walk birds around the kiln, no wonder Chen Jisheng participates in you! I'll leave this matter to you, and you will be limited to get all the arrears back within half a year, and retire! ”

This is not the first time that Li Wanjiang has been in the court, the ministers have scolded the prince before, and Xiao Chen alone has witnessed it twice.

In fact, Li Wanjiang could have said this to Li Xian in private, but he had to say it in the court......

It can be seen that their father and son are suspicious of each other, and it has reached a very serious point.

Li Wanjiang didn't chat privately with his own son, but after he dispersed, he summoned Xiao Chen.

It's still about Liu Ruyun's relatives.

In the words, he must be careful when he goes, and he must not let anything go wrong with my concubine, after all, my wife was stabbed, and there is a lesson from the past.

My wife is not insured in the palace, and I don't know what will happen when I go out.

Outside of the words, he asked him to monitor Liu Ruyun's every move, such as who did he meet on the road? What are you talking about? How long have you been talking......

And after arriving in Burma, you should pay attention to the interaction between the king of Burma and Liu Ruyun, and try not to let Liu Ruyun have too much contact with her family, let alone contact in private!

Xiao Chen received the decree one by one, saying that the emperor, you can rest assured, Concubine Liu, she will never have an accident!

This minion can use his head to vouch for it, if something happens to Liu Guifei...... The minions will certainly not come back.

It's impossible to come back.

came out of the emperor's dormitory, hurriedly asked Wei Yuntian to go to the Imperial Prison, and told those Jinyi guards who were executed to show mercy to their subordinates, saying that the old wound on Chen Jisheng's ass was just right, and he couldn't give it any more dry mess!

Also, you find a house outside and settle him down.

Why?

Just because we have to do things from the beginning to the end, save people to the end, and send the Buddha to the West...... It's not you, kid, why do you talk so much? Hurry up!

When I returned to the Yamen of Xichang, I called everyone together for a meeting, and this time it was really a meeting, because it was not a big deal, but it was a troublesome matter.

It is necessary to plan the route first, so that people can be sent to inform the provincial government departments along the way to do a good job of reception and security work in advance.

Of course, we can't follow the published route completely, and we must have both fiction and reality, so as to ensure safety.

In addition, Li Wanjiang must also have rewards, and these gifts also need Xiao Chen to prepare.

How many carts, how many cars, how many retinues, how many escorts are needed...... Xiao Chen had to ask in person, because Li Wanjiang had already issued an order to let him be fully responsible for this matter, so he had to worry about everything.

Fortunately, his subordinates are capable, he only needs to move his mouth, and the specific things Zhuge Xiaosheng, Ye Baiqing and others can do it for him properly.

That's a bother, too!

He had a headache at the thought of going so far, and he wondered if it would be too late to invent a few steam cars now?

While they were discussing, Li Hong and Liu Wenzheng broke in, one full of lawsuits and the other beaming.

Li Hong went to the palace today to ask for a sum of money to renovate the treasure money division that was destroyed by the fire and a large part of the palace wall.

But before he could ask for money, the emperor cried poor first, and finally brushed his sleeves away, and there was no chance to take out the folds in his sleeves.

Although it is a small lottery, what should I do about this errand?

The budget needs 100,000 taels of silver, but the household department only gives 20,000 taels, what about kidding?

Chen Wenqi is very difficult to get along with, and Ma Wuming, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, asked for leave to take care of things at home due to illness, not to mention that he is a waiter and it is not easy to be hard with Chen Wenqi......

It's really sad to die.

"It won't take 100,000 taels of silver to rebuild the treasure money division and repair the palace wall, right?" Xiao Chen listened to him complain about his grievances, but felt that he was wrong.

"Alas...... Brother Xiao, you don't know, you just count the money for those materials, but what about labor? It's all small, the most critical transport! Do you know how much silver it costs to bring in so much timber and bricks? ”

"That's it, but this fire also burned down the Rende Temple in the palace, and the emperor decreed that it should be repaired within two months! Those stone steps are carved from a large stone, and the whole girder needed for the main hall weighs tens of thousands of catties......"