"Brother Jiu, what is the matter with your visit to Kyoto this time?" Yan Mou asked curiously.

Yuan Yuan smiled faintly and said, "I came this time to propose marriage to Your Majesty."

"Request to Your Majesty? Brother Jiu, do you want to ask to marry the princess?" Yan Mou asked curiously.

Yuan Yuan nodded and said, "That's right, ask to marry Her Royal Highness the eldest princess."

"If you marry the eldest princess, you have a relationship with the queen. Wouldn't the Jiaodong Yuan family go to the next level?" Yan Mou said flatteringly.

Yuan Yuan nodded and said, "I haven't handed over my father's marriage proposal yet, and I don't know if Your Majesty will allow it."

Yan Mou raised his eyebrows and said, "Your Majesty promised the eldest princess to Xie Hanzi that fool before, but now that you are a talent like Brother Jiu, Your Majesty will definitely agree."

"I will go to the palace tomorrow to submit a marriage proposal, and at that time, I hope that the Taishi will help me with a good word or two." Yuan Yuan said.

Yan Mou slapped his chest with a thumping sound, and said again and again that there was no problem.

After a few pleasantries, Yan Mou left.

Seeing Yan Mou leaving, Yuan Qing said to Yuan Yuan, "Brother, this Yan Mou is stupid and stupid in my opinion, and he can't even handle that kid, are you sure you want to use him?"

Yuan Yuan said to Yuan Qing on the side, "Yan Mou is just too arrogant, after all, he is the grandson of the Taishi, the only seedling of the Taishi Mansion, and it is not surprising that he is arrogant. As long as we control him, that old fox will bow to us."

Yuan Qing nodded.

Yuan Yuan continued, "There is also something for you to check, the person behind Xie Hanzi, have you found it?"

Yuan Qing shook his head and said, "Brother, I've checked it out. There are no special people. The one he has the most contact with is Guan Chong and the third princess! Could it be that he's pretending to be stupid?"

Yuan Yuan also shook his head and said, "It's not pretending to be Han, if he is pretending to be Han, there is no need to pretend to come to our Great Xia!" He's just a fool, but when things go wrong, there must be a demon, this fool has been foolish for half his life, and what he has done during this time is quite methodical. There must be someone behind the scenes. Has Guan Chong checked it?"

Yuan Qing also nodded and said, "I've checked, there's nothing abnormal. I suspect it's the third princess, but now the three princesses are all locked up together by the Queen Mother..."

"It's okay, I'll have the opportunity to deal with Kyoto in the future!" Yuan Yuan said with a slight smile.

...

Following

Above the court.

Xie Xunfeng stood behind the princes and found that there were a few more people in the court.

A person is Yan Taishi, the head of the hundred officials, and Yan Mou's grandfather.

Yan Taishi's status is very transcendent.

In the emperor's absence, it is the emperor's rights that are exercised.

It can be said that the emperor is the most trusted person.

When Taishi Yan entered the main hall, he glared at Xie Xunfeng, obviously knowing that he had bullied his grandson.

The other one did not wear official uniforms, nor was he a prince.

Xie Xunfeng heard Heilong say yesterday that this person should be the eldest son of the Yuan family in Jiaodong.

The person who is most likely to inherit the Yuan family industry in Jiaodong in the future.

With Xiao Shentian coming out, Baiguanshan shouted long live.

"Today is the first early dynasty after Master Yan returned to the court, can Master Yan have something to do?" Xiao Shentian said to Master Yan.

Taishi Yan bowed to Xiao Shentian and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the old minister does have something to do. In the severe drought in Yuzhou, Lao Chen has asked the household department to allocate money and grain for disaster relief several times, but the household department is always prevaricating... Now on the land of Yuzhou, there are people starving to death every day!"

After Xiao Shentian listened, he looked at Wu Guozhang.

Wu Guozhang's face froze, and he stepped forward and said, "Back to Your Majesty! The wars in the frontier for many years, as well as the frequent natural disasters in various places, the household department has no extra money, and it is really impossible to spare money for disaster relief. Master Yan, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and you are inevitably a little embarrassed."

Taishi Yan was very smart, and after asking the question, he didn't say much.

Xiao Shentian looked at Chao

None of the hundreds of officials in the hall took over, and asked Taishi Yan, "Taishi Yan, how much money do you need for disaster relief?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the drought in Yuzhou has affected 800,000 people. If you want to survive this famine, you need to say less a million taels of gold." Taishi Yan opened his mouth and said.

Xiao Shentian said to Wu Guozhang, "Wu Guozhang, how much money does the household still have?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there are less than two million taels of gold left in total. Moreover, the army's salary will be paid immediately, and these two million taels of gold will be used as military expenses. And even if there are two million taels, it is not enough. The minister still has to find a way to raise it. If it is used for disaster relief, it will not be able to pay military salaries at that time, and I am afraid that it will cause a mutiny! So these two million taels of gold can't be moved..."Wu Guozhang said.

"Then tune from my inner library!" Xiao Shentian frowned slightly and said.

"Your Majesty, your inner treasury is also out of money. The military expenses used in this Northern Expedition are the money of His Majesty's Inner Treasury... Now the palaces are already cutting back on food and clothing... In the use of the money in the inner treasury, I am afraid that the food and clothing in the palace will become a problem." Wu Guozhang said with a bad face

Xiao Shentian's face was not good-looking when he saw this, and he did know that Great Xia's finances were tight every year.

His eyes looked at the hundred officials in the hall.

None of the officials dared to look at Xiao Shentian.

"What's wrong? All dumb? Could it be that we, a huge country, can't even get a million taels of gold?" Xiao Shentian said with a little anger.

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