Chapter 165: Conquest, Consumption of National Strength!
Morning.
Yang Qianxue stood alone in the side hall of the Xuanzheng Palace, and the palace attendants gave her a crown dress for the queen one by one.
Today is the first time for Yang Qianxue to face the government alone, and she can't help but be a little nervous.
In the quiet Xuanzheng Palace, hundreds of officials stood in five columns, all with solemn expressions.
Yang Qianxue quietly and calmly walked to the side of the dragon chair, and the hundred officials saw Yang Qianxue coming to the court alone, and they didn't know what to say for a while.
"Your Majesty is on a personal expedition, and the courtesy will be waived for the time being, so please go directly to the topic." Yang Qianxue said.
"Your Highness, this imperial expedition is very different from the past, Your Majesty is not only aiming to expand the territory, but also to include the vast number of people who originally belonged to the Qi country!"
"As a result, the chaos between the DPRK and China continues due to the settlement of the city, and almost everything is done in a special way, which is really inappropriate!"
"Please also ask Your Highness to give an order to expand the scale of Sinong Temple! The Si Nong Temple has full authority to follow up the logistics of the war, not only the food and grass needed by the soldiers on the expedition, but also the relief of various cities! All should be properly disposed of by Sinong Temple! ”
"In this way, we can eliminate the worries of Your Majesty when he drives the expedition!"
The person who spoke was Pang Chao, who was eager to unload the burden of logistics for Yang Jian, so that Yang Jian could fight with illness and make war achievements!
However, Yang Qianxue didn't think much about it, she just felt that what she said made sense.
"Masnon."
"The minister is here!" Ma Changchang stepped out of the front and took the lead in saying:
"The matter of helping the victims is faster than Weichen expected, and Wechen has already been raising rice and grain in a hurry, but the rice and grain collected are still scattered all over the place, and the total number of stones has reached tens of millions of stones!"
Speaking of this, Ma Yuan looked at Zhao Douqing, the secretary of the ministry:
"Lord Zhao, please also cooperate, temporarily add a few regular exams for our Sinong Temple, and select a large number of virtuous people into the Sisinong Temple, as long as the virtuous are in place, within ten days, the current chaos can be completely solved!"
Unconsciously, Yang Qianxue gradually adapted to facing the court alone, and gradually, the officials no longer focused on Yang Qianxue's gender and her interference in court politics.
As usual, the officials reported all the big and small affairs directly to Yang Qianxue, and Yang Qianxue made a decision on the spot, which did not cause public fierce criticism.
It's very good, but Yang Qianxue feels tired.
"Your Highness, Weichen dared to ask, Your Majesty's personal expedition this time, is it going to be a quick battle, or a long-term battle?"
Dugu Jialuo strengthened his courage a little, and then he stood up and spoke openly:
"The food stored in the Taifu Temple has been temporarily requisitioned, and the horses have also been requisitioned for logistics, and Wechen is worried that a large number of horses will be added during the war, and they may be able to make up for the lack now, but then the truce will be over, and now the newly purchased horses will be redundant."
Hearing this, Yang Qianxue smiled easily:
"The addition is, if it is redundant at that time, it is not impossible to transfer it to other temples."
……
After retreating, Dugu Jialuo hurriedly returned to Taifu Temple.
And the dozen or so officials walking behind her, some of them rolled their eyes at Dugu Jialuo's back:
"It's really not happy for women to be in power, and even the horses are put on the morning court to say, wasting everyone's time."
"This is not the first time that the big girls have been on the bridge, after a while, it will be good if they have experience in the court, we men, be generous, isn't it just a waste of time."
"Hmph, a woman is a woman, you can't get on the stage!"
Not far away, Pang Chao faintly heard the official of the Ministry of Officials, who was actually criticizing his sister-in-law behind his back?
Pang Chao sneered, muttered something, and walked away from the Xuanzheng Palace.
……
When Yang Qianxue returned to the inner hall, Ben had just breathed a sigh of relief for the nervousness of the first dynasty, and the supervisor of the Zhuzhu Prison followed from the main hall:
"Your Highness, I was embarrassed not to give face to Sinong Temple in front of the early dynasty, so I came to report to His Highness after retreating from the court."
"The minerals of the Zhuzhu Prison are not enough to mint coins, mainly because the Nasinong Temple is really rampant in asking for money!"
"Coinage is not a simple matter, the ore has to be smelted into copper water after complex smelting, and the stone mold of the coinage is also limited, to dig a stone mold, it takes a master to sweat like rain for nearly two hours!"
"Please also ask Your Highness to mention Si Nong Temple, Your Majesty ordered me to build a casting prison of tens of millions of treasures, ten thousand treasures, this amount will be full, before Your Majesty orders again, the construction and casting prison has no right to over-mint coins."
"Moreover, even if it could be overminted, the ore would have been depleted and there would be no more raw materials."
After the Zhuzhu Prison Supervisor finished speaking quite unceremoniously, he bowed and left the inner hall, and Yang Qianxue's head, which had just been swollen, was swollen again at this moment.
"The court servant, the edict of Master Ma of Sinong Temple."
"Yes!"
The court attendants hurriedly left, because they had just retired from the court, Ma Changchang had not been able to go far, and was ordered by the court attendants to go to the inner hall.
"Master Ma, after today, do you still have to apply for money?" Yang Qianxue inquired first.
"Back to Your Highness, at present, Sinong Temple has been implemented in sixty-eight states, and it is far from being fully implemented in one hundred and eight states in the country, and there are still forty states, plus Your Majesty is driving outside the imperial expedition, and the territory of my Great Zhou will inevitably continue to expand!"
"Naturally, we want to continue to apply for money, and the emperor personally conquered the Qi country, and ordered our Nong Temple to escort 30,000 stone of military rations and 5 million catties of salted meat every month, this meat, as well as the salt of this cured meat, are not a small expense."
Ma Changchang wiped his sweat and secretly slandered -
Do you think I'm consuming too much money?
But it's all for official use.
Yang Qianxue has no choice, there is no ore in the Zhuzhu Prison, and this Sinong Temple must indeed consume money on a large scale in order to implement it in the local area.
As a last resort, Yang Qianxue had to say bluntly:
"There is a shortage of ore in the construction and casting supervision, and the minting of coins will also be sluggish, Ma Sinong has presided over the Sinong Temple so far, and the money consumed should always be returned, right?"
"Huh?" Unexpectedly, Ma Changchang almost screamed:
"Reflow? Your Highness! The price of the unified purchase of grain is five dollars per liter, and the grain sold by the Food Department is also five dollars per liter! Not only is it not profitable here! I also need to subsidize manpower and sack money! ”
"And the surplus grain production is also used to raise meat and poultry according to His Majesty's orders!"
"The meat and poultry were originally growing gratifyingly, and they could be sold on a large scale, but at this time, His Majesty was personally on the expedition, and he had to escort five million catties of salted meat every month!"
"These five million catties are equivalent to 100,000 sheep! Or a million birds! It is equivalent to 300,000 stone grain and grass! Ten times more than the amount of grain and grass that is now being escorted to the front! ”
"Although Weichen supports the emperor's expedition, the expedition will inevitably consume national strength, isn't this just in front of you? And when the restructuring is in progress, the importance of the restructuring is even more important than opening up the territory! ”
Yang Qianxue is in a dilemma at the moment, on one side the ore is gone, which means that there is no money, and on the other hand, Sinong Temple cannot be stagnant.
"Got it, let's go down."
Yang Qianxue rubbed her braincase and meditated on a solution.
She remembered that the casting supervisor had also defaulted to ores......
How was it solved at that time?