The empress's words fell, and everyone looked at Lu Chen together.

Xiao Yun naturally knew what Lu Chen was going to say, but she still involuntarily turned her head and looked at the taller and taller figure.

With a slight force in his hand, he clenched the brand-new board.

In the eyes of everyone, Lu Chen first took a deep breath, and then said solemnly:

"For the sake of the people's livelihood, please suspend all the inner palace renovation projects except for the Zichen Hall and the Xuanqing Pavilion, reduce the scale of the Zilin Garden and the expenditure on pills, and reduce the maintenance of the specifications of the Purple Extreme Array, the Infinite Array, the Tianxing Great Array and other formations, so as to reduce the use of spirit stones."

"Suspend the construction of the Imperial Tomb, the Peerless City, the Eternal Great Array, and the Tianxin Pavilion ......"

As Lu Chen said that the imperial road projects that symbolized the supreme imperial power and almost every emperor would start to arrange and start at the beginning of his pro-government were said by Lu Chen, everyone only felt a tingling in their scalps.

Even Xiao Yun was shocked.

Originally, she just wanted to propose to suspend the construction of those few two or three mega projects such as the Imperial Tomb, which required a large amount of money to be built every year, reduce the scale of the formation by a little, and embezzle some of the funds and spirit stones, as well as some of the materials needed to build the formation.

First make up the needs of water control in the early stage, and then find another way if it is not enough.

That alone made her nervous.

You must know that these projects represent the authority and face of the emperor, and they have always been untouchable.

Not to mention anything else, almost every generation of emperors will start to build the imperial mausoleum, which has always been an imperial road project that the emperor attaches great importance to.

Among them, the various heaven-level formations used to arrange the Great Immortal Seeking Array and the countless heavenly and earthly treasures used to maintain the Great Array were all added by the emperor in order to penetrate the world and pursue the immortal path in the imperial tomb with the remnant soul after a hundred years, and there was no room for stagnation at all.

After all, every formation to be arranged must be arranged according to the season, spiritual veins, and astrological phenomena that will change differently every year, and must not be changed, otherwise the order will be wrong and the formation will be completely wasted.

At most, it can only reduce the size of the formation for ten years.

And the purpose of touching the human emperor's scales is not for himself, but for the people who can't see or touch, only have cold data on the yellow book.

Even Wu Yue, the extremely stingy Hubu Shangshu, did not dare to extend his hand to the emperor's almost customary projects, no matter how critical the situation of the treasury was.

Because it's really cold!

However, Lu Chen put forward most of the major projects linked to the imperial power, and directly asked for the suspension of work, and allocated all the money, grain, spirit stones, and those high-priced formation materials, and used them for water control, as well as allocated to the Ministry of Industry for the development of people's livelihood.

At the same time, not only these big projects, Lu Chen even suggested lowering the specifications of the various large arrays in Purple Pole City, which was almost no different from directly cutting the five basic uses of the empress's own clothing, food, housing, transportation, and cultivation.

First of all, the emperor is wronged?

Do you find it hard to be alive?

Xiao Yun never thought that Lu Chen would be so bold, not only raising all her proposals by one level in terms of strength, turning the suspension into a suspension, and turning the transfer of some funds and materials into all misappropriation, but also doubling the number of projects.

This is to heaven!

"It's ...... to do this"

She muttered softly, and her gaze at Lu Chen was full of complexity.

After a while, Lu Chen finished finishing all the projects listed in his heart.

The moment the words fell, the huge Taiji Hall suddenly became extremely silent, and the needles could be heard.

The courtiers couldn't help but look at Jiang Chengwan on the dragon chair, and even Jiang Chengdao, who hadn't seen him for many days, turned around to look back.

However, the empress's small face was all hidden under the twelve jade lius, and at the same time, with the blessing of a certain small formation, everyone couldn't see what her expression was at this time, and naturally they couldn't guess what her attitude was.

At this time, Lu Chen continued: "Weichen knows that this matter is difficult for His Majesty, but the floods in the two states must be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise hundreds of people along the downstream coast are very likely to suffer from floods, so that their lives will be ruined, and now the treasury is empty, the treasury is difficult, for the sake of today, the only way to do this is to draw money and grain and array materials from the imperial road project for water control." ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly bowed heavily, bowed his hand, and raised his voice: "Please Your Majesty take care of the common people, take the Jiangshan Sheji as the priority, and be invited by the ministers." ”

The loud words echoed softly in the Taiji Hall.

Everyone held their breath in unison, waiting for the empress's coming thunderous wrath.

Just kidding, the imperial road project is a direct embodiment of the supreme authority of the emperor, and it is related to all the interests of the emperor during his reign and after a hundred years.

Who do you think you are?

As for the people?

The ancient sages all said that the foundation of the state lies in the powerful people, that is, the cultivators, not the people.

As long as the cultivator's heart is towards the imperial court, the world will not be out of control.

And Yuzhou and Suizhou haven't broken the embankment yet, right? It's been ten years like this, why is there an accident this year?

Not to mention whether the dams will burst this year, even if they do, it will not be a catastrophe for the imperial court.

Even if it is a mob of turmoil, it is enough to directly send troops over to quell the turmoil, anyway, most of those ordinary people are just ordinary people, and the scrawny people are basically impossible to be the opponents of the regular army with the blessings of various large arrays.

Not only that, but once there are fewer people in the riot area, it is time to reallocate resources and let that area enter the next cycle of development.

Cycle.

It's been like this for so many years, and naturally it's not bad this time.

The change of chaos is the principle of heaven, they are just following the avenue, there is nothing to care about.

And since it is not a disaster of overthrow, then there is no need for the emperor to sacrifice his own interests.

Among the ministers, Qian Yiqian, Zheng Zhong and others looked extremely solemn on the surface, but they gloated in their hearts.

Sure enough, Lu Chen's gang didn't need them to do anything at all, he would kill himself, and there was no need to do anything against him.

Isn't this about to be unlucky?

At this time, Jiang Chengdao, who was standing under the dragon chair, had no intention of speaking.

After all, the Imperial Road Project is Jiang Chengwan's own business, no matter what she thinks or decides, it has nothing to do with anyone else, including his brother.

Therefore, he just clasped his hands, like a guest watching the play, and did not say a word.

Smack...

The jade liu on the crown of heaven trembled slightly, making a few crisp sounds.

But the empress leaned back slightly, put her jade back against the chair of the dragon chair, and at the same time stretched out her right hand, her elbow against the armrest, and supported her cheek with the back of her hand, looking very relaxed.

After a while, she slowly spoke in the eyes of everyone with different expressions.

"Quasi-play."

There was no angry reprimand, no questioning, not a word of rebuttal, not even a little bargaining.

I just agreed neatly.

Just like when Lu Chen asked for a retrial of Xia Yan's case before, he did not hesitate at all.

The empress's unpromiscuous response instantly made the eyes of the courtiers below widen, and their faces were full of surprise.

They knew that the empress believed in Lu Chen, but they never thought that they would be so favored.

At this moment, they completely refreshed the empress's perception of Lu Chen's attitude.

Qian Yiqian and Zheng Zhong's faces were as if they had eaten at this time, and they were extremely uncomfortable.

Nima, no matter how much you pamper you, you have to have a limit, right?

Your Majesty, is this preparing to summon Lu Chen into the palace to be the emperor in the future?