"Your Majesty is back to the palace!"

Chudu.

Palace.

Several eunuchs hurried to a side hall, shouting at the top of their voices.

Soon, there was a rush of footsteps and a strange, creaking sound in the side hall.

"Huh? What's going on? ”

Yang Fan rode a big horse, followed by many generals, all the way to the palace.

"Looking at the behavior of these eunuchs, it seems a little strange. Your Majesty, there must be some unsightly things in that side hall! ”

Guo Jia pointed to the eunuchs and said.

"What? In my harem, there are no other men except me, how can there be unsightly things? ”

Yang Fan's face changed, and he hurriedly drove the horse forward.

He returned to Chudu this time, after a long absence, he really missed the concubines in the harem very much, oh no, he especially missed Chudu, the place where he was born and raised, especially the queen Chu Qianqian, who shared the joys and sorrows with him, so he was very fast, and he neatly placed the soldiers and horses outside the city, and rushed back to the palace with the generals.

I didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing as soon as I came back, who was it? Which concubine? What dog thing would dare to sneak into the harem? And these eunuchs are so cooperative?

I'm going to kill these people alive!

Yang Fan drove the horse, the speed was extremely fast, and there were several powerful generals behind him, and he rushed to the gate of the side hall in the blink of an eye.

"Ahh Your Majesty, you can't go in! ”

Suddenly, several eunuchs plopped and knelt in front to block Yang Fan.

"Get out!"

Yang Fan was also stunned for a moment, a group of eunuchs without birds dared to stop themselves? It's so tired!

The eunuchs were yelled at by Yang Fan, and they were immediately frightened, and they didn't dare to continue to stop Yang Fan at this time, so they could only let Yang Fan in.

Yang Fan hurriedly pushed open the gate of the side hall, took the generals, carried the machete, and walked in viciously.

"Something! The thief actually stole from me? I'm really impatient! ”

"Ahh

There were countless women's screams in the hall, and Yang Fan was about to cut people, but he was suddenly stunned, shocked by the scene in the hall.

I saw that in the main hall, looms were lined up all over the place, and hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs, including the three palaces and six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines, were hastily covering these looms with cloth, as well as the newly woven gauze, all of which were carefully hidden.

Among them, Yang Fan even saw his queen Chu Qianqian, who, like all the palace maids and concubines around, wore uniform cloth clothes, and the clothes were as simple and simple as those worn by civilians.

Seeing Yang Fan break in, Chu Qianqian was also a little panicked, hurriedly put the gauze in her hand on the table next to her, trotted forward, and knelt at Yang Fan's feet.

"The concubine has seen Your Majesty! His Majesty suddenly returned to the palace, and the concubines did not have time to greet him, and asked His Majesty for forgiveness! ”

The rest of the concubines, palace maids, and eunuchs also knelt down one after another, looking at Yang Fan in panic.

"Huh? Aifei, what are you doing here? ”

Yang Fan stared at the loom that filled the hall and said in surprise.

"Ah......h

Chu Qianqian hesitated a little and said.

"The concubine knows that His Majesty has the best face, if he finds that the concubine and others are weaving, they will definitely have a dull face, and feel that the concubine is embarrassed, and if it spreads, some people may say that His Majesty is stingy and actually let the harem concubine weave cloth herself, so I want to hide these things before your majesty comes back, but unfortunately, it is still a step late, and Your Majesty came back too quickly."

Chu Qianqian said as she observed Yang Fan's expression, really afraid of accidentally making Yang Fan angry.

Men have good faces, let alone the emperor?

"What's so embarrassing about this, it's just a false name, I don't care, but I really won't let the concubines do such rough work."

Yang Fan looked at Chu Qianqian and said.

"But I still want to ask, so decent, why does Concubine Ai weave cloth in the palace, even if she weaves cloth, just let her subordinates do these dirty work, why does Concubine Ai do it herself?"

Yang Fan's face was full of puzzlement, not only him, but also the group of old and rough generals behind him, all of whom looked incomprehensible.

"Ahh No, it's nothing......" Chu Qianqian twisted and pinched, not daring to say.

"Come on! You said! ”

Yang Fan saw that Chu Qianqian didn't say anything, so he simply didn't force it, and casually pointed to a palace maid next to him.

The palace maid didn't dare to disobey Yang Fan, and when she saw that Yang Fan had ordered herself, she hurriedly panicked.

"Your Majesty, the queen mother took us to weave, of course, to sell it for money."

"Sell for money? Why do you want to weave and sell it for money? ”

"Because I'm poor!"

The palace maid told the truth.

"What? Poor? Is our Chu country very poor? Oh yes, it's really poor, but is it so poor that the queen will go out to weave and sell it for money? ”

Yang Fan's face was puzzled.

The palace maid glanced at Chu Qianqian, and then looked at Yang Fan, she couldn't afford to offend on both sides, and she didn't dare to say something, and she didn't know it completely, so she could only be at a loss in place.

"Ahem, ahem!"

"Your Majesty, let's let the ministers come to me."

At this time, Yu Qian stood up.

"Oh? Yu-sama? Okay, come on. ”

Yang Fan looked at Yu Qian.

Yu Qian sighed and said.

"Your Majesty, do you know that our Chu State is fighting in the southeast, northwest, and west these days, fighting against the beast tide in the south and attacking the White Lotus Sect, facing Li Sidao in the north against the Rong Kingdom, and there are still Xiban who have repeatedly invaded in the west, although Nanli in the east has not fought, it is also ready to move, and we have to send troops to wait for it at the border."

"Fighting a war is not only about fighting and killing, but also about money, food, and people."

"Fighting a war is consuming silver, food, people, horses, and all kinds of materials all the time, every day of fighting is the cost of one day, like our Chu State, which is surrounded by enemies on all sides, it is even more, the cost is an astonishing number. This is still Your Majesty can always inexplicably recruit a large group of elite generals who do not need to be trained, otherwise, there will be a large amount of recruitment fees, training fees, armor food and clothing fees, each of which is astronomical. ”

"And our Great Chu, the country is weak and the people are poor, and we can afford this kind of battle, not because of the surplus of the national treasury, but because Wei Zhongxian Factory has been copying the house day and night, but this kind of copying is a one-time thing, and you can't copy it for a second time in a short time after copying, and now, there are not many rich families in our Chu country, and the remaining few families have also fled."

"Your Majesty's distribution of the fields and shops to the poor people is indeed beneficial in the long run, but there will be no harvest in a short time, the harvest is too far, and the war is too close, so we are poor."

Yu Qian made a long speech, and said that Yang Fan and the other big bosses were stunned, they didn't understand, why did they have so many ideas about fighting, didn't they just rush up and do it?

But Yang Fan understood.

"Before the next wave of money and grain is collected from the people who have been allocated land and shops, we have no normal source of funds at all!"

"That's right! Therefore, the queen mother was also forced to helplessly, this time she purchased a loom, personally took the palace concubine to weave, and the money earned to subsidize the government and government, although it was a drop in the bucket, but this heart, but let us go up and down, inside and outside the court are quite moved, everyone gradually because of the queen mother, formed a thrifty wind. ”

Yu Qian said with emotion.

"I understand, I will find a way to deal with the matter of money and food."

Yang Fan also sighed, hurriedly stepped forward, and helped Chu Qianqian up.

"Aifei, no matter how poor you are, why should you be like this? It's good to let the people below do these things. ”

Chu Qianqian put her head in Yang Fan's arms.

"The concubine also wants to share the worries for His Majesty, I heard that His Majesty ran overnight and couldn't close his eyes for several days, in comparison, the concubine's suffering is nothing."

"Concubine Ai has worked hard."

Yang Fan reached out to hug Chu Qianqian, gently stroked her hair, and a ruthlessness suddenly appeared in his eyes.

Da Chu does not have normal capital income now.

However, there is also abnormal income.

Yu Qian had a sentence just now, which was very good.

Fighting a war is indeed not only about fighting and killing, but also about money, food, and people.

This is a good statement, but it is not entirely true.

Fighting, in fact, is more about fighting and killing!

……