The red sun is rising, and the magnificent imperial city of Yan Kingdom is bathed in orange sunlight, and the loud and distant bells of the early dynasty are solemn and solemn.

In the Jinluan Palace, the civil and military officials who got up early in the dark had just finished kneeling, and the front officials of the palace who were holding the dust had already stretched their throats and began to read out the emperor's will: There is a book to start playing, and there is no book to retreat from the court!

As soon as the words of the former official of the hall fell, Shangguan Yun, who was at the front of the queue on the left, and was dressed in dazzling court clothes, took a step forward, "Minister, something is going on." ”

The young emperor wearing the golden crown of the double dragon seemed to pause, and the appearance of being hidden behind the bead curtain was not real, but his voice was quite clear and clear, "Aiqing, please speak." ”

"Your Majesty," Shangguan Yun raised his hand to the jade wat in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "There are water bandits in Jizhou and Huizhou all the year round, and the coastal people have suffered from displacement, so the minister implores the emperor to immediately order that the people be saved from fire and water and allow the local coastal defense to be strengthened, in order to exterminate the water bandits as soon as possible and return the people to live and work in peace and contentment." ”

"Oh?" The young king on the dragon chair groaned, his eyes wandered back and forth among the civil and military officials below, and immediately several people stood up in unison, knelt down and shouted in unison, "The ministers implore the emperor to give an order, allocate funds for disaster relief, and exterminate the water bandits!" ”

"Since this is the case, then, as Aiqing said, allocate ...... funds first"

"Your Majesty!" Before the emperor finished speaking, a voice full of energy suddenly interjected from the oblique ground, "The minister also has this participation." ”

"Uncle Xiangyang, please speak."

The young king seemed to have expected this to happen, and instead of the displeasure of being hastily interrupted, there was a faint smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Lord Shangguan is making a big fuss."

The king of Xiangyang, who has been standing at the front of the right row and is tied for first place with Shangguan Yun, has big ears and a red face, although he is over sixty years old, he still sounds like a bell, and he is full of energy and does not look old or weak.

Turning his head to look at Shangguan Yun, who was silent with his eyebrows furrowed, King Xiangyang took two steps forward and deliberately said to him, "Lord Shangguan, the so-called Jiangnan water bandits are just small people in the market who are fighting petty, and they are not to be afraid of the climate before they become successful, I believe that after a while, the local garrison will be able to solve it perfectly." Naturally, such a major matter as appropriation is just about to be used on the cutting edge. ”

"The prince is right, good steel is naturally used on the blade." Shangguan Yun raised his eyelids slightly, and calmly retorted, "But Xiaguan wants to ask the prince, 'the country is the people's priority', I don't know what the prince thinks of this sentence?" ”

"Lord Shangguan really knows this king." King Xiangyang raised his eyebrows, but he was not provoked by Shangguan Yun, but he just twisted his beard and smiled, "If it weren't for the country and the people, this king wouldn't say that Lord Shangguan you are making a big fuss." ”

"Oh?" The young king seemed to have aroused interest in the conversation between the two, and without waiting for Shangguan Yun's response, he grabbed the topic, "I wonder why Emperor Xiangyang said this?" ”

"Return to the emperor," the king of Xiangyang smiled, respectfully saluted today, and then said, "The minister thinks that the matter of allocating funds to help the coastal bandits can be temporarily postponed." Now that the treasury is empty, if all the money is used for coastal defense, what about the soldiers guarding the border gates? The military salary has not been paid for two seasons, and if it is delayed any longer, the ministers are afraid that the soldiers will ......"

The words stopped here, and the king of Xiangyang cleverly left a sentence at the end of the sentence and did not say anything about it, but the words were all the same meaning, and the summary was: dear nephew, dear boss, the salary cannot be delayed, and everything else is a trivial matter for the time being, and the salary should be sent back to others as soon as possible, so as not to force the people to rebel against the people and get angry and lift your dragon chair, and you will have no place to cry when the time comes.

And if there is a rebellion, the war is together, and it is the people of Li who will suffer—which is why he thinks Shangguan Yun is making a big fuss—the people of the two states will suffer together with the people of the whole country, and it will always be clear which is more important, right?

"This ......"

was reminded by the king of Xiangyang, the one on the dragon chair remembered that there was indeed such a thing, and after a little pondering, his face immediately became a little unpleasant: now he, the emperor's soldiers, has more than 100,000 yuan, and the two quarters of salary and silver are superimposed, and they can go around the imperial city!

If the treasury is sufficient, it will be forgotten, he can still not do the same thing, but when the emperor was in power, the two river basins were flooded, and the treasury had already been emptied for disaster relief every day. Finally, the flood calmed down a little, and the former emperor returned to the west because of overwork, and he, the newly appointed emperor, in order to gain a good reputation and earn the image of compassion for the people, naturally had to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors, and give the people a good benefit of tax exemption for X years, so the silver in the treasury has not been recovered, not to mention, and even the military salary that can rejuvenate the country and the country cannot be paid.

What a worrisome embarrassment!

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the military salary will be paid, and the allocation of funds for disaster relief cannot be delayed."

As a person in the imperial court, very few people will not know the importance of food to military security, and Shangguan Yun naturally knows the rules and doorways.

But even though he saw the emperor's embarrassment, he didn't want to give in to this matter, and after thinking about it for a while, he proposed a compromise method, "Now the minister has a plan, I don't know if the emperor will adopt it?" ”

At a critical moment, someone can help you come up with an idea to get out of trouble, and if you don't listen, you're really stupid.

In view of this, the young emperor blurted out almost reflexively, "What trick does Aiqing have, come quickly!" ”

"Back to the emperor," Shangguan Yun still had that indifferent look on his face, and calmly analyzed, "In the past, the embankment of the two river basins broke many times, causing countless victims and displacing the people. However, the distribution of military salaries is also imminent, according to the opinion of the ministers, the emperor may issue an edict that the generals' salaries will be converted into grain for the time being, and the silver distribution policy will be carried out after the treasury is full. Speaking of this, Shangguan Yun paused and added: "There are many people from Lianghe in the army, and they must be able to understand the love of the emperor and the emperor." ”

King Xiangyang scoffed at this, "If this is the case, then the same reason can be learned, the aid to the coastal victims can naturally be topped with grain first, not necessarily silver, right?" Lord Shangguan, what do you say? ”

"Weichen is just making a suggestion, as for the result, the emperor has to decide." Shangguan Yun played Tai Chi lightly, and unhurriedly pushed the problem to the highest decision-maker in the temple.

There was a faint smile on his face, which made the already perfect facial features more brilliant, and the whole person became more and more gentle.

"What Uncle Xiangyang and Aiqing said is not unreasonable,"

The named young emperor groaned slightly, thought about it, and then looked behind King Xiangyang, looking at the person who looked bored and yawning, the corners of his eyes twitched, but he still asked expectantly, "Uncle Changning, what do you think?" ”

"......" did not respond.

After yawning, a certain prince continued to play with his sleeve boringly, as if there was something interesting in it, and he looked at it over and over again.

The civil and military officials around all held their breath, pinching cold sweat and waiting to watch the show, all thinking that they didn't know when the one above would suddenly be furious, and then a holy decree would beat the prince of Changning into a common man and live on the streets.

It's a pity that to everyone's surprise, their top boss, the newly appointed emperor, seems to be extremely tolerant of King Changning, even if he sees his untidy appearance and disrespectful behavior, he doesn't have the slightest anger, just slightly raises his voice and shouts again: "Uncle Changning!" ”

"Huh?" Jiang Fenghao, who had been in the fugue for a long time, was coldly named, and as soon as he raised his head, he saw his nephew sitting on the dragon chair and his brothers and colleagues on the left and right all looking at him with a pity expression of 'you are looking for death', and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and replied lazily, "Your Majesty, what did you ask the minister just now?" ”

“……”

Great rebellion, contempt for the power of heaven, and die!

This is the most straightforward reaction in the hearts of the ministers.

Even the Ninety-Five Supreme on the dragon chair was deeply defeated by this unreasonable imperial uncle, and he had to briefly re-tell him the proposals of Shangguan Yun and the King of Xiangyang.

“…… Isn't it all the same thing? Jiang Fenghao stretched out his hand and scratched his chin, still looking listless, looking rather bored with half-squinted eyes, "The military salary will be paid, the silver for the bandits will be released, and the lives of the people will naturally be taken care of - the emptiness of the treasury is not a problem, I have a lot of rich businessmen in Dayan, the emperor, you will go down with a holy decree, and you are afraid that those who have money will not pay?" If you can't get the money you can get for the military salaries and the bandits, you can follow the method of Lord Shangguan, first convert the military salaries into food, and then promise to recover them at a high price when the treasury is full, and half of the silver saved can be allocated to assist the victims to exterminate the bandits. ”

I really don't know what to fight about, it's all full and have nothing to do.

The king of Xiangyang was silent, Shangguan Yun was also silent, and the ministers were silent.

However, the emperor's eyes lit up on the dragon chair, and he stubbornly resisted the urge to high-five, coughed twice to control his emotions, and said loudly, "That's very good!" So much better! ”

"Someone, pen and ink are waiting!"

"Wait!" King Xiangyang finally couldn't stand it anymore, "Your Majesty, are you sure you really want to make a holy decree?" ”

The Emperor paused, "Why not?" ”

Shangguan Yun silently stepped forward to take the stick of King Xiangyang and gave the rookie emperor popular science, "Your Majesty, on the day you ascended the throne, you issued an amnesty for three years of tax exemption in the world, and now if you issue an order to ask the rich businessmen to donate money...... I'm afraid it's not appropriate. "And it's very inappropriate.

Those rich people don't have brain problems, and they can make you willingly take out a lot of money to do good deeds in three or two sentences - not to mention that they are still used to save face for the emperor, they themselves may not even have to show their faces.

Who wants to do such a thankless task?

“…… What Aiqing said is extremely true! ”

The emperor was stunned, and then began to wipe all kinds of cold sweats: Amitabha, almost ruined his good image of being diligent and loving the people!

"What do you think?"

Now that the decree must not be issued, what should be done about the fund-raising?

"It's not easy, find someone to represent the court to deal with those people, just say it's a good deed to raise donations and leave a name?" Jiang Fenghao didn't stand up, and continued to have bad ideas with his hands around his chest.

King Xiangyang snorted and said with disdain, "Say it lightly!" With so many people in the DPRK and China, it is still a big question who to send to collect donations. ”

According to past experience, even the richest businessmen have no reason to contribute money and efforts for irrelevant things, and even if they are pressed by holy decrees, it does not prevent people from finding various reasons to refuse or only give less than one-fifth of the expected silver.

It's also a thankless job, and if you do it well, you can indeed get an official and become a knight, but if you don't do it well, your reputation will be stinky, and no one wants to take this risk.

Hit the nail on the head! It's not that easy.

Thinking of this, the newly appointed rookie emperor began to worry about it again, "Uncle Changning ......"

"Your Majesty, the minister has been a little unwell recently, the imperial doctor said that the minister can't go far away, can't talk much, and can't see people, and the minister wants to take a few days off from the emperor to go home to recuperate." Without waiting for the emperor to speak, Jiang Fenghao took the lead and talked for a long time without blushing and panting, and decided to pretend to be dead to the end, "I hope the emperor will approve it." ”

Hearing this, even Shangguan Yun, who had always been calm, couldn't help but choke twice, and King Xiangyang was brainstorming, eager to strangle this half-brother who could be his grandson on the spot.

Obviously you look so alive and healthy that you can't be healthier anymore, and you don't pretend to be sick and don't bring some food on your face, are you deliberately lying if you don't fucking show it?

Everyone else is blind!

"Ahem, since Emperor Chang Ning is sick, then forget about this matter, I will find another candidate."

As soon as the emperor's words came out, the ministers below immediately began to be calm.

The king of Xiangyang has a green face - someone is really blind!

"All the loves......"

Wherever the emperor's eyes flickered, the ministers he aimed at reflexively lowered their heads and drooped their shoulders, looking like 'I am too weak to withstand the destruction', and they couldn't wait to fall to the ground immediately, and then gasp with a white face and pretend that their lives will not be long.

In the end, after shaking around, the emperor who could never find the 'desired person' could only sigh helplessly, and then looked helplessly at the 'can't say much' King Changning, "Uncle Changning, do you have any good candidates?" ”

Jiang Fenghao spread his hands out, and his domineering side leaked, "Anyone can go, anyway, ministers can't go." ”

Depend on! Don't go to your fart idea!

The ministers complained wildly in their hearts, for fear that the emperor would send them to carry out this 'impossible' task, and they all began to pinch the embroidery needle in their hearts and curse while stabbing Jiang Fenghao, the villain.