Chapter 267 is tricky (one more)
The emperor was also angry in his heart, but he didn't know who to turn this anger on, to himself? It is impossible for the emperor to admit that he was wrong, to General Pingxi's mansion? But every time the military salary is approved, he agrees to play it. To the Duke Huguo? These years, the Duke of the Protectorate kept a low profile and did not offend him. He knew exactly what was going on with the officers and soldiers of the Duke of the Protectorate.
The emperor's face changed, like pork belly, red and white, one after another, alternately.
The whole hall was completely silent, and the drop of a needle could be heard.
After a while, I heard the emperor's heavy breathing. The emperor covered his head and said to Feng Chang: "Go and find a way."
Naturally, he couldn't blame Feng Chang, after all, he agreed to every expenditure of the Ministry of Accounting, and Feng Chang, Minister of the Ministry of Accounting, did not make his own claims. Feng Chang himself has cried to him several times over the past few years that the household department cannot make ends meet, but he doesn't take it seriously. All his energy and thoughts were focused on suppressing the prince's reputation and power, and guarding against the Duke of Huguo.
Today is different from the past. Could it be that he is really like the first emperor in his later years, fighting against the Great Wei again, or is he just as powerless to deal with the Great Wei?
Feng Chang knelt on the ground and did not move, "Your Majesty, the old minister has thought of every possible way in the past few years. Unless the tax is increased, the old minister really can't figure out how to make the Ministry of Households generate money."
The emperor turned dark and remained silent.
Feng Chang said painfully: "Your Majesty, why don't you dismiss the old minister from his official position, the old minister really doesn't have the ability to sit in this position."
"Feng Chang!" The emperor was furious.
Feng Chang really cried, and wiped his tears with his sleeve, "Your Majesty, I have thought of everything I can think of. Unless General Pingxi's mansion spits out some, otherwise, there is really no other way but to increase taxes."
The emperor's hand bones burst out with blue veins, and he didn't need to think about how difficult it would be for Pingxi General Zhang Ping to spit out the real gold and silver that the East Palace had swallowed into his mouth.
Feng Chang was stunned for a moment, and said: "This old minister has also thought about this method, but if the news of asking wealthy households to collect donations reaches Dawei, Dawei will know that our treasury is empty and the army's salary is extremely short. If there is another war, we will not be able to deal with it in time."
The emperor was speechless, remembering that after seeing Ye Guixue today, he agreed with the king of Nanchu and Ye Guixue to let Su Rong dignifiedly confess, but how dare he dare in the current state of the treasury?
He was silent for a moment, and then called out, "Call to the prince."
Feng Chang bowed his head deeply, and he was no stranger to the strangeness. For so many years, whenever His Majesty had any difficult matters, he would go to the prince. If you want him to say that the prince devoted himself to becoming a prince, it was a bad luck for eight lifetimes.
Of course, he only dared to slander these words in his heart, even if he had ten thousand courage, he wouldn't dare to tell others.
The emperor waved to Feng Chang, "Get up first!"
Prince Yan Echo naturally also got a report from the secret guards, saying that after Ye Guixue came out of the palace, the eldest prince Yan Li stopped him along the street and took him to the restaurant. No matter what he did with Ye Guixue, he didn’t have any good intentions.
It is not easy for someone like Su Rong to be able to pass the gate of the King of Southern Chu, walk up to Su Rong, and let someone like Su Rong readily accept the marriage contract upon seeing him. Yan Li couldn't understand this, so he rashly approached the master and intercepted him ridiculously. No matter what he said to Ye Guixue, the result probably wasn't what he wanted.
So, Ye Guixue is here, Yan Huisheng is not too worried. After all, Su Rong is not someone who can be fooled by others. She dared to accept the olive branch from Ye Xiangfu, and Ye Guixue's 100,000 soldier talisman, so she had a certain ability to judge people.
Yan Huisheng was concerned about another matter, Xie Lin came out from the Duke Huguo's mansion, and was assassinated by people in the street with cold arrows.
In these years, although the Rui’an Palace has kept a low profile, it is still very useful for the King of Rui’an to automatically lower his sense of presence. His good father trusts the Rui’an Palace very much. .
No one dared to provoke him.
This is the first time that someone has shot him coldly to kill him. If Zhou Gu hadn't sent someone to protect him, Xie Lin would have died.
Yan echoed thinking about who did it, what exactly did Xie Lin inquire in the Duke Huguo's mansion, what was locked in the Duke Huguo's mansion for forgetting customs, even the old Huguogong and King Rui'an hadn't been interrogated, Xie Lin interrogated it?
But after the incident, there was no movement in the Rui'an Palace. King Rui'an took people to the Great Buddha Temple. Zhou Gu stayed in the mansion to suppress the panic. The dead man who committed suicide was thrown into the Jingzhaoyin Prison.
Yan Huisheng felt that he should meet Xie Lin, but no matter what, he had to avoid some people. Or he should go to the Duke Protector's Mansion to see Wangsu in person.
He was thinking, when he heard that someone from the palace had sent a message from His Majesty, asking the prince to enter the palace immediately.
Yan Huisheng could only suppress the matter for the time being, cleaned up and went to the palace.
In the palace, the emperor felt for the first time that his son came too slowly. While waiting for him, all kinds of oppression and indifference to him over the years jumped out of his mind. Although he didn't feel that he had done anything wrong, when all those things came up now, he also felt a little sorry for his son.
He didn't intend to change the crown prince, but unconsciously, he didn't want the crown prince's power and prestige to be too great, greater than him, so where would he be placed as an emperor? In the history books of Qianqiu, is it true that in this dynasty and this generation, only the crown prince Yan Huisheng is known, but the emperor Yanqi is unknown? This is what he cannot bear.
After Yan Huisheng arrived, he greeted the emperor, and then glanced at Feng Chang, Feng Chang quickly greeted His Highness the Crown Prince.
The emperor motioned Yan Huisheng to sit down, and said to him: "I met Ye Guixue today and discussed with him about Su Rong. He came to Daliang this time with the order of the King of Southern Chu."
The emperor briefly recounted the conversation between Ye Guixue and Yan Huisheng, but he didn't avoid Feng Chang. Feng Chang was shocked and thought that the rumors were true.
This identity and relationship are really too great, no wonder His Majesty and the old Huguogong both asked him for money.
(end of this chapter)