The officials, who were still arguing fiercely and holding their own opinions, hurriedly paused when they saw Sun Shangshu of the household department coming out of the ranks.

They all looked at Sun Qiancai.

"What is this Lord Sun going to do? Every time he speaks, nothing good happens. ”

"Yes, Sun Shangshu used to be from the faction of King Wei, but after His Majesty ascended the throne, he belonged to the neutral faction, and now he wants to come out to be a demon."

The two officials whispered a private discussion.

Eldest Sun Yi also frowned slightly at this time.

Generally, the contents of what the ministers want to say in the early days are discussed in advance, and his secret disk will also report to them the recent movements of the various parties.

It's just that this Sun Qian's appearance is completely unexpected by her.

After thinking about the pros and cons for a moment, Changsun Yi still waved his hand downward.

"Xuan."

Sun Qiancai ignored the eyes of others and went straight to the point.

"Your Majesty, according to the accounting of my household department, there is now a serious shortage of financial taxes in the imperial court, and one million taels of silver were allocated for disaster relief in Linzhou, and now my Ming treasury is empty. If Zheng and Jing start a war with our Ming Dynasty at this time, we are afraid that we will not even be able to supply the soldiers' salaries, grain and grass! ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall fell into a dead silence.

Really!

Sun Qiancai, the head of the household, every time he reports, there must be no good thing!

Many ministers, you glared at me, I looked at you, and made eye contact, "What to do?" You go up and say? "How do I know? Why don't you go up? ”

Then they finally frowned and glanced at each other, which meant "Let's see what he says first, and then wait and see what happens." "Okay. ”

Lin Yanchen stood on it, seeing the small movements of the officials below clearly, and couldn't help but sigh.

"It's worthy of the old oilmen who are mixed in the officialdom, they don't have any skills, and they really can't see what they are communicating."

And the eldest Sun Yi had no intention of paying attention to these, and silently calculated Sun Qiancai's intentions in his heart.

"Then according to Sun Shangshu's opinion, what should I do?"

It means that when you ask a problem, you have to explain the solution, right?

Sun Qiancai seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and he did not panic in the face of the emperor's questioning.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that replenishing the treasury is nothing more than open source and throttling. The open source thing is slow and difficult, and it should not be completed in the near future, so the only way is to throttle! ”

As soon as the words fell, someone jumped out.

After all, Sun Qiancai's intention in saying this is already obvious, this is to pluck their wool!

The first person to jump out was the professional troll in the Six Branches.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks this matter is inappropriate! Compared with Zheng and Jing, the annual income of our officials is nearly 30% lower, if we cut money from our officials, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of Ming officials! ”

After the six departments finished the group, someone immediately followed up and continued to output.

"Yes, Your Majesty, there are eighty old mothers on the courtiers, and there are wives, sons and daughters, and the ministers are already frugal on weekdays, if they reduce their salaries again, I am afraid that my family will starve to death!"

"Your Majesty, so are the ministers!"

"Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister also seconded it!"

……

"Enough! Is there still an emperor in your eyes! ”

Faced with the ministers chattering for a long time for their own interests, the eldest grandson angrily slapped the table case and angrily reprimanded the officials.

"Do you all know the enthusiastic advice at this time?! Why haven't I seen you mention statecraft on weekdays! Why didn't I see you out of the list when I wanted to deal with the drought in Linzhou! I want to train my troops, why didn't I see you out of the ranks when I went north! ”

"A bunch of moths who only know how to suck the blood of the imperial court! What do I want you to do? I only care about personal gains and losses, and I don't care about the lives and deaths of the people in the world, what use do I want you to do?!! ”

Changsun Yi was really angry this time, on weekdays, these people made some small actions, and she chose to turn a blind eye.

After all, the court always has to employ people, as long as she can do things, she can tolerate small greed and small bribes.

But just now Sun Shangshu just said the word throttling, and he felt that the imperial court was going to move their cake, and they all jumped up one by one.

And it looks like almost all officials.

It is conceivable how corrupt the Ming Dynasty is today! What a miasma of officialdom!

How does this make her not angry!

How to ignore it again!

"The ministers are guilty, and please calm your majesty's anger!"

"Your Majesty, please calm your anger!"

When the ministers saw that the emperor was really angry, no one dared to hit the muzzle of the gun, and knelt down to plead for mercy.

Seeing this, Changsun Yi finally put down the hand he had just raised, and sighed silently in his heart.

The emperor has no real power, and many times he is helpless.

After all, the law does not hold the people accountable, and the ministers present are united, and it doesn't matter how angry she is, unless you have the absolute right to speak.

If one person does not obey, kill another. When the three did not comply, they killed the three of them.

A group of people didn't follow, and they were all cut down over there!

Pity...... All of this is empty talk until now.

Eldest Sun Yi no longer looked at these ministers, turned his head and continued to ask Sun Qiancai.

"Sun Shangshu, you go on, how to throttle?"

What else? The wool has to be plucked from the sheep.

Lin Yanchen pursed his lips disdainfully.

He was originally eating melons to watch the excitement, but just now he was really scared by Changsun Yi.

But I also sympathize with this emperor in my heart.

With no real power, he could only be furious by the incompetence of these ministers, and he yelled for a long time, and in the end, there was no substantive punishment at all.

Even if it falls, it will be difficult to actually implement it.

The obstacles are too great.

Lin Yanchen thinks that he and the emperor are now both prosperous and loss-making.

If he wants to live a nourishing and stable life, he must help the little emperor grasp the real power.

And the so-called real power, in the final analysis, the core is still money and soldiers, that is, financial power and military power.

Now that the treasury is empty, the emperor's personal small treasury is estimated to not have much inventory, and he still has a secret saucer division to raise, and I am afraid that the monthly expenditure is not a small amount.

Military power was even more difficult, and the only soldiers and horses that the emperor could mobilize at present were the 120,000 forbidden troops in Kyoto.

But this is still a bit inadequate compared to the military power in the hands of traitors like Zhao Rui.

After all, Zhao Rui blocked arrows for the eldest grandson De back then, and was made an exception to be named a duke, that is, the Duke of Zhao Guo.

Xiangyanzhou is its fiefdom, and Yanzhou is located in the east of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no external pressure, so Zhao Rui, the 200,000 ironclad army in Yanzhou, can be completely freely transferred.

Recovering military power is easy to say, but it is difficult to implement.

Lin Yanchen knows this, so he thinks that if he wants to help the emperor solve the dilemma, he must start from the financial aspect.

There are two things that are needed to develop finance.

The first is to fill the national treasury, which is not only to prepare for the war of the three countries in advance, but also to recruit troops and horses to expand the army and cultivate combat strength.

The second is to make private money, because this part of the money can be transferred by the emperor at will, which is extremely important here.