Seeing that Lu Chen noticed the board in his hand, Xiao Yun had no intention of concealing it, but lifted it up so that Lu Chen could see it more clearly.

Lu Chen directly ignored the pair of white little hands and focused on the board.

After a moment, his mind suddenly moved, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.

Xiao Yun's lips opened lightly, and said in that unique soft timbre: "Since the demon queen came to the dynasty to take power, she has been committed to cultivating party henchmen, persecuting loyal and good people to eliminate dissidents, firmly controlling the government and government, and only caring about their own selfish desires and ignoring the world, so that the government is sluggish, the courtiers form parties for personal gain, greed has become commonplace, the people in the Quartet are in turmoil, and the country is shaken. ”

"For example, today's chaos is gradually emerging, although His Royal Highness the Holy King has martial arts to the sky, and the Cangming army is brave and invincible, but if we want to truly quell the turmoil, we cannot blindly rely on force, but also resume production as soon as possible, pay attention to the people's livelihood, let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and completely extinguish the root cause of the turmoil."

As she spoke, she sighed softly, and then said softly:

"Encourage production to produce enough agricultural tools, and now there is an urgent need to restore agricultural projects in various places, dredge rivers, restore fertile land, at the same time, due to the queen mother's long-term transfer of part of the funds used to repair the dams in Yuzhou and Suizhou, and the officials in charge of repairing are loose and slack, resulting in the Qingjiang River in recent years, it is necessary to strengthen the dams in Yuzhou and Suizhou as soon as possible, and organize manpower to dig auxiliary roads to drain and discharge floods, which require a large amount of silver, but now the treasury is empty, and the imperial court is powerless even if it has the heart."

Speaking of this, Xiao Yun's eyes slowly revealed a melancholy that was difficult to dissolve.

Lu Chen's eyes gradually became a little subtle.

He had heard a little about the current state of the treasury.

Although the treasury is not starving to death, it is not much better, and the income and expenditure of all ministries are now extremely tight, and they are eager to break a copper plate and use it as two.

The reason why he is facing such a dilemma is all because of the Queen Mother.

After overthrowing the Queen Mother and her henchmen, everyone thought that they could get a large sum of money to fill the treasury by raiding their homes, after all, the Queen Mother frequently stretched out her hand to the treasury, and there must be countless treasures hidden in the palace.

But when she actually did it, she found that there were not many treasures and elixirs in the queen mother's bedroom, which was far from the wealth she should have in the six years since she controlled the government and swallowed the world.

Thinking that she should have been extremely cautious, she obtained some kind of immortal treasure that could hold a large number of items, and put in it the amazing wealth that she had collected and accumulated by various means over the years.

Now that the Queen Mother has fled west, she must have taken away the wealth she has accumulated over the years, in order to find an opportunity to make a comeback, and although the Queen Mother's henchmen who are unable to escape have a lot of wealth, they cannot meet the huge expenditure of the Great Xia treasury that is now waiting to be developed.

It can be said that the Queen Mother's departure is equivalent to taking away the small half of the treasury of Daxia, and the resulting disasters can be imagined.

"So."

After a moment, Lu Chen withdrew his gaze.

"Xiao Shangshu is ready to suggest that His Majesty lower the specifications of the New Yuan Grand Ceremony, reduce or postpone the construction of the imperial tomb, repair the palaces in the inner palace, the Tianji Pavilion, the Wushuang City and other project expenditures, and at the same time temporarily increase labor and mobilize the people of neighboring states and counties to rush to the upper and middle reaches of the Qingjiang River for flood control?"

"Hmm."

Xiao Yun nodded with a somewhat gloomy face.

"Huaiyu, what do you think about this?"

Lu Chen said without hesitation: "Even if Your Majesty agrees with Xiao Shangshu's suggestion, this decree will not be passed from here!" ”

As an engineering matter, let alone an official document of Shangshu, even if it is the emperor's holy decree, as long as he has a sufficient legitimate reason, it can still be rejected.

If the emperor wants to forcibly give an order, it is simple, he only needs to remove him who is stubborn and rigid, and replace him with an obedient one.

After all, the emperor has the absolute right to appoint and dismiss things.

It's just that this is mostly a practice that only mediocre or mediocre emperors will take, and emperors who really want to make a difference and ambition will rarely do this, otherwise Lu Chen would not be so distressed.

Hearing this, although Xiao Yun frowned slightly, she quickly relaxed.

Lu Chen said: "The various projects are easy to say, after all, the most important thing at present is to restore the people's livelihood and control the floods at the same time, but the New Yuan Ceremony is also of great significance, it is related to the stability of the world, and the specifications must not be lowered, and the people of the world have experienced six years of chaos after the demon queen, and they are already exhausted and difficult to bear the burden, so we must not rashly increase the burden on the people of Li at this time!" ”

"At this time, they were conscripted and sent labor, so that there was no surplus food at home, and there was no half drop of oil and water in their stomachs, they rushed to the dam area and the flood discharge area, and one bad thing is to use human lives to fill the flood!"

"What's it called? This is called grass and human life! ”

Speaking of this, there was already a trace of gloom on his face.

"The people pay the most taxes, do the hardest and most tiring work, and when they have leisure, they have to be requisitioned by the government to do labor, bring their own grain to work for the government, and work hard for a year without slackening, but in the end there is no surplus grain, and the court eats the grain they grow, uses the taxes they pay, and enjoys their labor, but they can't even give them the most basic survival, what is the reason? Is there anything more cruel in the world? ”

Hearing this, Xiao Yun's face suddenly flashed with a gloomy color.

Looking at Lu Chen's eyes without a trace of impurities, a touch of reverence quietly flashed in her eyes, as if she was amazed that Lu Chen dared to say such a thing.

After a moment, she shook her head slightly, sighed, and then said helplessly:

"I know Huaiyu you are angry, but if you don't have enough manpower, you can't calm the flood, if the Qingjiang River bursts, countless fertile fields in the downstream states and counties will be destroyed overnight, so that there will be no harvest in the first half of the year, once the grain production is turbulent, it will cause a wide range of grain price fluctuations, the consequences are extremely serious, if there is another way, I will not move this kind of thought, but now the state is difficult, if you don't do this, the disaster will be greater, the lesser of two evils, I have nothing to do."

However, Lu Chen did not agree with this statement.

He shook his head and said with a solemn face: "I think there are other ways. ”

Hearing such firm words, Xiao Yun couldn't help but be stunned, and subconsciously asked, "What's the way?" ”

Lu Chen didn't answer, but asked instead, "Xiao Shangshu, do you believe it?" ”

Xiao Yun felt a little inexplicable, what does this have to do with whether he believes it or not?

Still, she nodded.

"Huaiyu has a pure heart, and in my heart I have always been a noble and commendable sincere gentleman, I naturally believe in Huaiyu you."

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but blush.

You know your own business.

Pure heart or something, he estimated that he had it when he was a child, and now he definitely doesn't.

Xiao Yun said this from the bottom of his heart, which made him a little embarrassed for a while.

However, his face was honed after all, and he quickly returned to normal.

"In that case."

He stretched out his hand, and in Xiao Yun's surprised gaze, he took the fluorene board in her hand, and then put his own fluorene board in her hand.

"I'll leave this matter to you."

Feeling the warm touch of the board with Lu Chen's name written in her hand, Xiao Yun couldn't help but be stunned.

Unconsciously, the two of them had already walked to the bottom of the steps of the Taiji Palace.

"Since you have found a problem, you can't treat it as if you haven't seen it, and it's ......"

Lu Chen took Xiao Yun's board and walked up the steps by himself.

"It is the duty of the official to speak out, especially this kind of advice that may anger His Majesty, and it is even more incumbent on him!"

This kind of good thing that can reduce the empress's favor, he naturally can't miss it.

Looking at Lu Chen's figure without hesitation, Xiao Yun inexplicably clenched the board in his hand.