Sturdy Countryside: Lord, Please Blow The Lamp

"This Wuyu really thought of me." Xia Beibei just smiled faintly after receiving Feige's message from Jun Wuyu.

"Bei Er, but Dongfang has arrived in Tucheng?" Sang Jinghong saw a pigeon flying out and came to check the situation.

Xiajia Village is in a mess, three-thirds of the houses have collapsed, and everyone doesn't even have a place to live, so they can only borrow and live in the houses of people they know well and whose houses haven't collapsed.

And her family also took Xia Dao's family over, and several other families who used to be close to Sang Jinghong all lived in.

"No, the Empress Dowager asked me to go to Belvedere immediately." Xia Beibei put the note away and said.

"What? Empress Dowager, then you..." Sang Jinghong was quite surprised when she heard the words "Empress Dowager".

In the past, when she listened to her granddaughter talking with Yu'er, she would always mention the queen mother or something. She never thought that Belle could still know the queen mother.

"It's okay, Grandma. The Empress Dowager just asked me to help. Now that several cities are suffering from disasters, I'm not a food seller, so I can use it." Seeing that Sang Jinghong's face was obviously flustered, Xia Beibei explained.

She knew that Wei Zui was in confinement right now, and she had just given birth, so she definitely couldn't come out.

The matter of negotiating with the emperor was left to her alone.

"Grandma, I'm afraid I'm going to pack up and leave. You are here, so be careful." She said.

"Hey, grandma has so many people here to take care of you, so why don't you worry about it? What matters outside is the most important thing." Hearing what she said, Sang Jinghong let go of her hanging heart.

The tragedy of Xuedu's disaster can be imagined by looking at Xiajia Village, but it's okay, at least the corn and other grains in the field outside can still be harvested, and they haven't been destroyed.

"Okay, I'll go clean up." Xia Beibei stood up.

It's better to go to Belvedere sooner rather than later.

...

"Trash, a bunch of trash, what's the use of raising you ministers?" For a few days, the confident emperor, who was asking for money and food, was confronting him in the imperial study. The ministers vent their anger.

He promised the Queen Mother that he would definitely handle the earthquake.

However, when I asked the Ministry of Household Affairs, the treasury was like a huge bamboo basket fishing for water, and I could spend as much money as I put in. After a few years, I didn't even have several million taels of silver.

At first, he still didn't believe it, so he had someone check the accounts of the account department, only to find out that the income in these years was far from the outflow.

If it weren't for the empress dowager's mediation, if there were many people in the palace, they would have to drink the northwest wind.

It's just that he didn't understand where Jun Wuyu got the ability to dig out money in a bottomless pit.

"Then where did the money come from to make up for these deficits in the past few years?" He held the account book in his hand, threw it over the head of the Minister of the Household Department, and asked sharply.

"Back, back to the emperor, in the past few years, the empress dowager has used some unowned land on the outskirts of Licheng to plant crops, and mined a coal...coal mine in Mucheng, so that she can maintain...the expenses of the household department." Bu Shangshu hesitated and said.

But these are things that cannot be mentioned to outsiders. Could it be said that the national treasury is actually empty?

"Why does the country need so much military supplies every year?" the emperor asked.

One year's military supplies can be equivalent to more than half of the treasury's income. How could he not know that his own army was actually sucking his own blood.

"Your Majesty, these are the least of them, just... just like that, the Empress Dowager sent Li Shangshu to Yuliu Xunyuan City, and asked Princess Bei of Tianyuan Mansion about many ways for the army to be self-sufficient. "Shangshu Hubu is about to cry but has no tears.

Does the emperor really think that governing a country is just a matter of talking about it?

If it can be so simple, anyone can take care of this world.

"The empress dowager also took Weichen... In the name of the royal family, Weichen bought many stores in Licheng, Yuxiangcheng, Xiangcheng, Ningcheng and other cities. All the income from these stores was also included in the national treasury. , but...but that is beyond the means."

"Phew..." If he hadn't tried his best to endure it, the emperor would have thrown the table over.

He keeps saying Queen Mother, Queen Mother, does this country belong to him, or Queen Mother Jun Wuyu?

"Shangshu Situ, tell me, how did you maintain these expenses in the past?" He asked.

"Returning to the emperor, in the past, the country... the country's military strength was divided into three, and the regent's own military supplies were always provided by himself, and the king... the rebel king inherited most of the military needs. He pays himself, so... so..."

Situ Shangshu didn't say any more.

Having said this, the emperor should understand that a country is not as simple as imagined.

Hearing Situ Shangshu's words, the emperor felt as if he had been hit in the back of the head with a sap, and almost vomited to death.

Having said so much, that is to say, the army of his country is not supported by the national treasury, but by the financial resources of Young Master Beitang, and the inheritance of Jun Xian... That is to say, all the Jun family's funds are now in Jun Wuyu's hands. Financial resources are supporting it, isn't it?

That is to say, even if he wants to return the military power in Jun Wuyu's hands now, he still can't hold the military power, can he?

"Then before, before!" Young Master Beitang didn't control one-third of the military power in the country for eight hundred years, and neither did Jun Xiancheng. Could it be that before, the soldiers were all hungry?

"Back to the emperor, the previous emperors of all dynasties had the financial resources to run their own business, but when they came to the first emperor... it was cut off." An old man finally stood up when he heard the emperor's question, and whispered in the emperor's ear.

Hearing this, the emperor's anger got stuck in his throat, and he could only give the old man a fierce look.

That is to say, either continue to maintain the status quo, military power, government affairs, all continue to be in the hands of the Queen Mother, Jun Wuyu, or, from now on, he will manage his own financial resources?

"You all retreat first, I will discuss this matter with the Queen Mother to see what to do." He could only attack a few ministers and let them go out first.

No wonder Jun Wuyu let go so easily, it seems that he is sure that he can't afford this kind of thing.

He really can't afford it anymore, he is a cowardly puppet anyway, and he doesn't need to care about losing face, he's going to find Jun Wuyu now.

...

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, His Majesty is leading people here in a hurry." Yan Hua hurried in and said to Jun Wuyu.

"Really?" Jun Wuyu just smiled faintly, not much surprised.