That is to say, the taxes and silver that the local government wanted to pay to the imperial court were all paid in the account, but the imperial court did not receive them.

Li Guang's revelation made the faces of many ministers in the court more and more solemn.

Zhao Shuo directly raised his interest.

"Li Aiqing, tell me, why is this happening?"

"After all, most of the places where I want to collect taxes are the Lianghuai and Liangjiang of the Great Song Dynasty, is there a war in the south? Or is there a famine in the South? ”

Zhao Shuo made a pun on this.

The ministers felt that the emperor was about to be ruthless against a large number of officials again.

Li Guang said: "Back to Your Majesty, there is no war in the south, let alone famine. Wei Chen felt that it was the officials below who were perfunctory and did nothing. ”

"Wechen is worried that the tax and silver will not be collected, and the salaries of the front-line soldiers will ......"

Li Guang wanted to speak and stopped.

Righteous words look around.

The ministers in the court put on a posture that they had nothing to do with themselves, and no one stood up to analyze the power.

But now the area where the Jin people and the Great Song Dynasty have fought on the northern front is white-hot.

There is no way that these officials are unaware.

It stands to reason that when the country is in danger, even if those places have not paid taxes, they should report the specific existence of information to the Ministry of Households.

But until now, Li Guang has not received a single letter of debriefing.

This exposed a problem, the grassroots officials of the Great Song Dynasty had to lie flat.

Already intend to do nothing.

The more he thought about it, the more angry Li Guang became, bowed and bowed, and then said: "Your Majesty, Weichen feels that those officials are in their positions and do not seek political affairs, and they are obviously representatives of lazy government. ”

"This shows that the official assessment on the side of the Ministry of Officials is in vain, and Weichen implores Your Majesty to punish the Ministry of Officials for negligence and dereliction of duty."

Okay.

You are all above the court, pretending to be deaf and dumb in front of Your Majesty.

Then I'll get straight to the crux of the matter.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Guang finished saying this, Jiang Rong, the servant of the ministry, couldn't stand.

He hurriedly bowed to the emperor and explained: "Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with the ministry, Weichen has already done an investigation, however, there is a reason for the incident. ”

Zhao Shuo sat up, frowned and asked, "The officials are collectively silent and ignore the government and politics, what is the reason in the final analysis?" ”

Jiang Rong said: "Your Majesty, Weichen urged officials from all over the country half a month ago to ask them to pay taxes as soon as possible. ”

"But those officials said that the imperial court had not given them a fortune for half a year, so they deducted the taxes and silver that needed to be reported to the imperial court in various places, and only waited for the matter to stabilize before taking their own money."

Jiang Rong found that the emperor's face was wrong, and hurriedly said: "For this reason, Weichen also reprimanded them, but those officials were huge, and they collectively scolded Weichen, saying that Weichen, as a minister, was a serious dereliction of duty not to speak for them. ”

Now, Weichen wants to be assessed, but he has no choice. Almost the officials below were full of complaints, and Wei Chen couldn't speak at all, so he begged His Majesty to investigate. ”

Jiang Rong also defended himself.

And he showed an innocent look.

In front of everyone, he directly detained this black cauldron on the emperor's head.

Zhao Shuo's face turned pale when he heard this, and he said word by word: "The imperial court focuses on the northern military towns, and after delaying the military town for half a year, they don't care about national politics?" So what do I want them to do? ”

"The official is lazy and lazy, and he doesn't do what he does, and according to the assessment of the officials, he should be stripped of his top veil."

"But you have used charitable means to cause the situation to expand."

"What do I want you to do?"

Jiang Rong didn't expect Zhao Shuo to reply to himself like this, and hurriedly bowed down and explained: "Your Majesty, it was Weichen who was not decisive in doing things, and asked Your Majesty to forgive him, but Weichen also hoped that the household department could issue the officials with money, after all, they were all officials of the imperial court, and the household department did not issue money, but they came to make things difficult for Weichen." ”

"Weichen also took the opportunity to dissuade the officials and warned them, as Song ministers, that even if they are hungry, they must share their worries for His Majesty and work hard for the country."

"But how can those officials have such an awareness? They went on strike one after another, and it is estimated that many people waited for the court to take away their black yarn hats, and then received the arrears and left. ”

Jiang Rong's words are murderous.

Thoroughly washed the black spots on his body.

directly deducted the pot to Zhang Huaili.

So much so that Zhao Shuo, who was sitting on the dragon chair, also followed Zhang Huaili to become a backstabber.

Jiang Rong's words represent the voice of the vast majority of officials.

Yes, after all, starvation is a worry for His Majesty.

When this matter spreads, doesn't this mean that Zhao Shuo is not sympathetic to the lower officials?

Everyone knew it, and they didn't dare to look at the emperor with questioning eyes, but everyone threw unceremonious targeted glances at Zhang Huaili.

Standing among the hundreds of officials, Zhang Huaili, who was already scorching fire, also caught fire namelessly after hearing this.

Staring at the dark circles under his eyes, he walked out, bowed to His Majesty, and then glanced at Jiang Rong.

said in a tone that was both helpless and angry: "Tobe, no money." ”

Zhang Huaili replied crisply.

What can Zhao Shuo do?

He reused Zhang Huaili as the housekeeper of the Great Song Dynasty.

During this time, Zhang Huaili allocated all the silver and silver in the household department in accordance with Zhao Shuo's arrangement.

Almost all the resources at the disposal of the imperial court were sent to the northern front.

Now the treasury is really out of money.

It can be said that the embarrassed person is not only Zhang Huaili, but also Zhao Shuo.

It's like the boss of a large group is still sitting in the office, and the project department below is arguing with the finance department.

The project department wants to strike and find the finance department to settle wages.

Finance is the boss's henchman, and silently prepared a black pot for the boss with a sentence of no money.

Seeking, at this moment the psychological shadow area of the boss !!

When Jiang Rong heard this, Zhang Huaili was digging a pit for himself.

Let yourself blame the emperor.

So he also blew up on the spot.

"Master Zhang, what do you mean by this? My court's Hubu Shangshu is you, except for such a big thing, how can you push it over with a word? ”

"This year, there are no officials in various places, and they can't even afford to hire officials."

"Even if there are accounts, they are accounts that can be counted everywhere, but who will collect the money? Don't you have to rely on those officials? Now that they are striking one by one, isn't the core of this matter the inaction of your household department, which has angered the majority of officials, and now let them embarrass their own officials? ”

"Jiang Rong, you keep saying that your officials are not responsible, why don't you want to think about the people you have assessed?"

"Now the country is in danger, and everyone is responsible. Aren't the officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee also unpaid? Isn't Your Majesty also shrinking your clothes and eating? ”

Zhang Huaili tirelessly said: "Now that the Jin army has gone south, it is impossible for me to give up between the DPRK and the Jin Kingdom. ”