Gonggong Wei smiled and said, "Her Royal Highness the princess is really smart. After the slave went to inquire about Lu Qian, he found that there were many rumors about her in the palace. It is said that he has always been the male pet of Concubine Li in the palace before."

"The stakes are high, is the information reliable?" Concubine Hua asked.

Father-in-law Wei said, "Niangniang, the slave is investigating. However, this kind of thing is also windless and waves!"

"Grandpa Wei, you must be careful not to startle the snake when you check! Once verified, report back to us! Moreover, I heard that Xia Wenzhi and that fake eunuch are also very close?" Princess Ning Ping asked with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Gonggong Wei nodded and said, "Your Royal Highness Princess, sure enough, your hands and eyes are up to the sky."

Princess Ning Ping smiled and said to Concubine Hua, "Queen Mother, it's really heaven that helps us. If Lu Qian's matter is confirmed, we can completely uproot Jingren Palace and Liyang Palace."

Concubine Hua nodded heavily, and said to Grandpa Wei, "Grandpa Wei, you can handle this matter well.!" Where you want to make money, tell me, Don't feel sorry for it."

Grandpa Wei nodded again and again.

...

Lu Qian sent Concubine Li away, and he was in a very good mood.

I went to see Tong Yao.

The doctor came to see it, saying that he was suffering from the wind and cold, and had prescribed some medicine to let people boil it.

Lu Qian instructed the other palace maids to take care of it.

So he shut himself up in the house.

Begin to formally plan your future.

Following

After a day of rest, Xia Wenzhi officially went to court.

The people in the entire court were so tacitly that they didn't say anything about how Xia Wenzhi came back from the dead.

"Your Majesty, a letter from my father. Yanyun Eight Cities has already taken over. And the troops stationed on the border of the Great Zhou are also withdrawing one after another. Father wants to ask Your Majesty if the Huo family army needs to be stationed at Yanmen Pass." Huo Yingluan bowed.

"Good... Hard old general! Since Da Zhou has taken a step back, forget it. Beiliang in the north is also eyeing the tiger. Let him go back to his old station." Xia Jiuyuan said.

Huo Yingluan bowed down and agreed.

Huo Xiaolin had this step, and he didn't want to continue fighting.

He also knew that in the battle of the Wei State that Xia Jiuyuan destroyed after he ascended the throne, although Great Xia, as the main attacking country, won, it also hurt his vitality.

On the contrary, Beiliang and Da Zhou, when they took advantage in the end, came to carve up a lot.

So, one trades off the other.

If a war is waged with the strength of Great Xia, it is good to win, but if it is lost, it will be a catastrophe.

After Huo Yingluan finished speaking, he stepped forward again and said, "Your Majesty, the minister still has Liu Shiqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Households."

Xia Jiuyuan sat down in his seat and said, "What's the matter?"

"The Ministry of War has repeatedly asked the Ministry of Household for military salaries, but the Ministry of Household has repeatedly shirked it! I suspect that Liu Shiqing is deliberately delaying! so as to cause a mutiny!" Huo Yingluan said sharply.

"But that's it!" Xia Jiuyuan looked at Liu Shiqing with a solemn expression.

Liu Shiqing stepped forward and replied, "Back to Your Majesty, this is indeed the case!" But the household really doesn't have any money!"

"When the minister took over the household department, the household department had already lost five million taels on its books! Two million taels were raised, one million of them were used for disaster relief, and the other one million taels were used for the construction of the salt refinery and the distribution of money from the officials!"

"There is still such a thing! What's going on with Hoku?" Xia Jiuyuan knew that there was a deficit in the household, but he didn't expect this deficit to be so big.

Huo Ku hurriedly stepped forward and replied, "Back to Your Majesty, last year's Great Summer disaster and famine, floods continued... The taxes can't be collected, and they come and go, and that's it. These are well documented... Since Liu Shangshu is now a household secretary, it should be him who will find a way."

"Hoku is right, Liu Shangshu! Now that you're the head of the household, don't you want me to find a way for you? Didn't you say that it is possible to issue treasury bonds? If we continue to issue treasury bonds, we must not be in arrears in our military salaries!" Xia Jiuyuan said sharply.

Liu Shiqing stepped forward and bowed down and said, "

Your Majesty, the issuance of treasury bonds can only solve the urgent need... If we don't change the stubborn disease of Great Xia, the deficit will become more and more serious."

"What kind of stubborn illness is it?" Xia Jiuyuan said.

Liu Shiqing frowned and took a deep breath.

looked at Huo Yingluan and said sharply, "Our stubborn disease in Great Xia is in the military department!"

There was an uproar in the entire hall.

Lu Qian continued

"We have an army of a million in Great Xia. And to feed this huge army, it will take twenty million taels of silver a year."

"And in the absence of natural disasters in the entire Great Xia, our tax revenue is only 25 million a year! Removing the two million taels to be supplied to the inner treasury, there is only a balance of three million taels! Three million taels, and it is necessary to pay the salaries of the officials of the whole country... It's already beyond our means. If you don't cure this stubborn disease! The Great Xia Empire will go bankrupt!"

These data were also learned only after Liu Shiqing took over the household department and checked it completely.

He actually admired Hoku a little, he was able to be greedy for ink in the face of this bad debt.

He really didn't know how Hoku did it.

"Your Majesty, what Liu Shiqing said is really ridiculous. When I was in power, I knew about these problems. But I didn't complain, I just tried my best to share your worries, and you only knew how to shirk your responsibility!" Hoku scoffed.

Liu Shiqing snorted coldly and said, "It's because when you were in your position, you didn't want to solve the problem fundamentally! Only the east wall will be demolished and the west wall will be repaired. will make Great Xia face such a tight financial situation!"

"Liu Shangshu, I want to hear how you solve it now! and not to hear you quarrel in the temple." Xia Jiuyuan didn't wait for Huo Ku to speak, so he stopped him.

Liu Shiqing frowned and said two words heavily: "Disarmament!"

"Fart! Liu Shiqing, what are your intentions? Now there is Beiliang in the north! In the south, there is the Great Zhou who covets the land of our Great Xia! Beyond the desert in the west, there is also the harassment of many small countries in the Western Regions! Do you want to kill us in Great Xia? Your heart is damned!" Huo Yingluan's face was extremely dark, and he said.

He never expected that Liu Shiqing would dare to propose such a method.

"Your Majesty! This Liu Shiqing is really a female cadre! I wonder if he's a female cadre sent from another country!"

"We, Great Xia, are a country with force! If it weren't for these soldiers, would there still be a sour Confucian like you, standing above the court?"

"That's right, Your Majesty! If another country invades, we need soldiers to guard the country for us! And not by this kind of sourness... I beg Your Majesty to dismiss this female minister!"

"The minister seconded! Remove and severely punish this female cadre!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

The generals stood up one after another, emotional, and their words became more and more intense.

And Li Xiaozheng's side is indeed no one to stand up!

Liu Shiqing was very rigid, did not flinch at all, but said more and more loudly, "You are the ministers of the country!" If one day it really can't pay the military salary, it will provoke a mutiny! That puts Great Xia in a situation from which there will be no return!"

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