"It's a pity you don't have a chance to correct your mistakes!"

After saying that, with a wave of his hand, the dragon guard directly dragged Chen Zhou, who was shouting and scolding, out of the hall!

The next moment, terrible screams rang out one after another, and it didn't take long for a dragon guard with blood-stained clothes to kneel and salute.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the criminal minister Chen Zhou has been killed!"

"Well done!"

Zhao Han let out a vicious breath and narrowed his eyes comfortably.

"Didn't Chen Zhou say that the treasury was empty and he refused to hand over the money and grain? Father-in-law Leng, take someone to raid his house! Bengong wants to see how many things he has been greedy for so many years! ”

"Yes!" Father-in-law Leng bowed his head and responded, "Your Majesty, what should Chen Zhou's family do?" ”

"Within the three clans, adult men are all sent to the frontier to serve in the army, and it just so happens that now that the war is tight, they can still play a useful role!"

"As for the adult women, they are all sent to the military tent to be military ji, and the rest of the people who are not useful are thrown to the northwest grassland by the main palace! Leave it to its own devices! ”

"Yes!"

Leng Gonggong was about to leave, but Zhao Han stopped him again.

"You go and call the household servant to the palace, I want to see if this household is rotten from the bones!"

As Gonggong Leng began to raid his house and arrest people with a large number of dragon guards, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty knew the news that Chen Zhou was killed by Zhao Hancane.

When they first heard the news, many people felt that they had heard it wrong.

Who is Chen Zhou? It's one of the six.,The book of the household! He is an important minister in charge of the country's money and food!

But such an extremely important person was actually killed!

The reaction of other officials Zhao Han didn't want to care, he was looking at Leng Yunfeng, the household servant who had been running all the way and came to meet him.

"Leng Yunfeng, the servant of the Weichen Household Department, meet His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Leng Yunfeng didn't dare to slack off, as soon as he entered the main hall, he knelt down with a thud and kowtowed!

Looking at Leng Yunfeng, who was only in his twenties below, Zhao Han remembered that he was the champion of the previous years, because the backstage was hard enough, and he himself had this ability, so he could quickly climb to the position of the household servant.

It's a pity that there is a Chen Zhou who is older than him and harder than him in the background, and his career is basically over.

But now I can't say for sure.

Looking at Leng Yunfeng, who was as obedient as a sheep below, Zhao Han supported his chin with one hand and said lightly: "Just now, Chen Zhou died, what do you think?" ”

Leng Yunfeng trembled, when he came, he passed by Chen's mansion, heard the terrible cry inside, and also heard the news that Chen Zhou was killed by a cane.

Now that the prince has brought up this matter again, I really don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but this may be his chance, the opportunity he has been waiting for for years!

In the middle of his thoughts, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said respectfully: "Weichen thinks that Chen Zhouda committed a crime of disobedience and was killed by His Royal Highness the Prince's order, and he deserved it!" ”

is worthy of being a champion, and his brain is smarter than others!

Zhao Han nodded with satisfaction and smiled: "Yes, he is a smart person!" Do you know what I called you for? ”

Leng Yunfeng didn't dare to get up, still kneeling and said: "Weichen doesn't know, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the supervisor of the country, and seeing you is like seeing His Majesty the Emperor, so no matter what you call Weichen for, Weichen will do it!" ”

Not bad!

These words did not mean to slap the sycophant, but Zhao Han was comfortable with this sycophant, and he was satisfied!

Now that the party is seriously strife, the first assistant Ye Huai has bad intentions, and if he wants to reverse this situation, he must find a group of courtiers who are only loyal to him.

Thinking about it this way, Leng Yunfeng is very suitable, he can climb to this position in his twenties, which shows that he is smart and ambitious.

In addition, he has been suppressed by Chen Zhou, who belongs to Ye Huai's party, for all these years, I am afraid that he has already accumulated grievances in his heart for a long time, and it is no more suitable!

Thinking of this, Zhao Han stretched out his hand and threw it in front of him.

"Check it out!"

Leng Yunfeng raised his head at this time, respectfully picked up the fold, and just glanced at him, he knew why Zhao Han called him over.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the disaster in Shuinan County has been a long time, and several copies have been written in the past month!"

"If the disaster has been going on for a long time, why don't you provide relief?"

Do you want to see those people starving to death?

Leng Yunfeng said helplessly: "His Royal Highness the Prince, it's not that you don't provide disaster relief, it's really that the treasury is empty, and you have no heart!" ”

"In the first half of the year, there was a locust plague in the north, and in order to provide relief, the state treasury has spent most of its money, and now the state treasury is only 2 million taels of silver, and some local officials' money has not been distributed for several months!"

"But the disaster in Shuinan County is too serious, and after the disaster relief, a dam will be built, and there is a great possibility that there will be epidemics after the flood, and there will be no relief without eight million taels of silver!"

There are only two million taels of silver left in the treasury? How can it be so little?

Zhao Han's brows tightened, "This palace remembers that Dajiang's annual tax revenue is eighty million taels of silver!" Where did all this money go? ”

Hearing this, Leng Yunfeng beat a drum in his heart, and the next words were not something he could say.

But thinking that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he gritted his teeth and said, "Your Highness, now that the tax revenue of the treasury has long been gone, there are no 80 million taels of silver!" ”

"Since last year, the vassal kings in various places have made excuses to cry poor and refuse to pay taxes!"

What's more, he turned to the treasury to ask for money, and lost the tax supply of the vassal king, and the treasury tax revenue was only 30 million taels of silver! In addition, the war on the frontier is now tight, military spending has intensified, and there are also locust plagues in the north for disaster relief, and officials are given money ......"

That's why there is so much money left in the treasury.

Vassal King!

Zhao Han's eyes narrowed, the existence of the vassal king was a tumor! These vassal kings set up private armies in their respective fiefdoms, which was equivalent to a state within a state!

In the memory of his previous life, there was basically no good end to the dynasty with vassal kings!

But having said that, Zhao Han didn't have the idea of moving those vassal kings now, and now his situation was precarious, just these ministers in the court were enough for him to worry for a while, not to mention those vassal kings who had strong self-respect and strength!

As long as he shows the slightest idea of wanting to cut down the feudal domain now, I'm afraid that these feudal kings will sharpen their heads and squeeze over to kill him!

It seems that we still need to get money and food from other places.

Now there are probably only two places where you can get money and food.

One is corrupt officials, corrupt officials abuse their power for personal gain, and their wealth may not be less.

There is also a kind of person who is a businessman, and it is no exaggeration to say that some businessmen are rich enough to rival the country!

Thinking of this, he had an idea in his heart, and asked in a deep voice, "What is the price of grain now?" ”

"Your Highness, because of the locust plague in the north in the first half of the year, the price of grain has risen, and ten cents can buy a bucket of new rice."

"But since the serious flooding in Jiangnan, the price of grain has soared rapidly, and now it takes 40 wen to buy a bucket of rice, which is still broken rice in poor condition!"

It is self-evident who is behind the crazy rise in food prices!

A cold light flashed in Zhao Han's eyes, and he shouted, "Someone! ”