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Chapter 219 The Emperor Cries Poor?

Those who have some connections can still do things in the Da Nei Clan's Mansion, and those who have no skills can only get a pitiful monthly payment. widower.

This is not the worst. The worst thing is that once the princess unfortunately dies in front of the son-in-law, although the son-in-law is not required to be buried with him, the royal family will take back all rewards including the property of the son-in-law's mansion. , but the actual power is not as good as a small official in Chang'an City.

Most of those female officials are very filial to the powerful and powerful eunuchs in the palace. There are people in the palace who support them, so even if they are consorts or princesses, they don't pay much attention to them. After all, such two powerless and powerless The men and women in the world can't do anything to themselves no matter what.

And Gao Shida is in charge of the internal affairs and is the personal eunuch of the current emperor Li Yuan. Such a person has naturally become the object of pursuit of many female officials.

Gao Shida took the money from Princess Xiuqing's nuguang, so he naturally knew that Princess Xiuqing's female officer deliberately prevented the husband and wife from reuniting because they thought the bribe money given by the son-in-law was too little.

So when Gao Shida heard that Xiuhe County was looking for someone to find out the reason, he whispered a few words to Li Yuan, the villain first complained, saying that Princess Xiuqing wanted to see her son-in-law, if outsiders knew about it, they would inevitably say that Princess Xiuqing has no shame Secondly, Xue Guiren, Princess Xiuqing's son-in-law, often enters and leaves the palace without permission, which damages the majesty of the royal family, and the female official is just following the law.

Arriving in front of the Tenth Prince's Mansion, Princess Xiuhe seemed to recall the humiliation that sister Xiuqing had just said, and couldn't help empathizing with her, panting heavily.

He turned to look at Li Chengdao and said, "My nephew, that female officer is extremely arrogant and really hateful. You have to teach this arrogant slave a lesson for my aunt!"

Li Chengdao is a modern person, and he is full of disgust with the ancient people's concept of high and low classes. Now that he heard Xiuhe shouting like a slave, he suddenly felt even more unhappy.

Li Chengdao suddenly lowered his face, and said: "His Royal Highness, the king is here to investigate this matter thoroughly by the order of the Holy Majesty, and we must not rely on the princess's words alone!"

Princess Xiuhe could hear the cold tone in Li Chengdao's words, and naturally felt the change in Li Chengdao's mood. Princess Xiuhe didn't know why Li Chengdao suddenly changed his mind, so he could only stare at Li Chengdao for a while, seeing his indifferent expression , had no choice but to flick his sleeves, and said with a pretty face, "Okay, please remember what you said, His Royal Highness King Wu, and deal with it fairly.

After saying that, Princess Xiuhe turned around and walked angrily into the Tenth Prince's Mansion.

Here, Princess Xiuhe took Li Chengdao out of the imperial study and came to the gate of the ten kings' mansion. In the imperial study, Han Yixuan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry who was in charge of the construction of the Huangling Mausoleum, hurried back.

During the emperor's reign, apart from governing the country well, the most important thing was to build the mausoleum. Although he was the emperor, the emperor himself knew that sooner or later he would reach the end of his life.

As the saying goes, death is like life, since he was in charge of the world during his lifetime, how can he be careless after his death? Therefore, after many emperors succeed to the throne, although they are in their prime years, the most important thing is to build the imperial mausoleum and prepare for it. things behind.

Li Yuan was naturally no exception. What's more, after experiencing the changes in Li Shimin's Xuanwu Sect, Li Yuan felt that things in the world were unpredictable. He was already old, so he naturally had to think about this important matter.

"Yixuan, what's going on at the imperial mausoleum?" Li Chengdao looked at Han Yixuan and asked, "How much does the project cost? Is there still a shortage of silver?"

Since the establishment of the ICAC, anti-corruption has become the top priority of the Tang Dynasty. Originally, the construction of the imperial mausoleum was a fat job, and the cost of it was even more stupid and impossible to estimate.

But now, Han Yixuan really didn't dare to make a lot of money from it, but he was really diligent and conscientious, and he had the right to do political achievements.

Without layers of exploitation and corruption of the main personnel, the project money allocated by the imperial court is more than enough.After hearing about Li Yuan's culture, Han Yixuan hurriedly replied: "My Majesty, there is enough silver for the construction of the imperial mausoleum!"

Hearing this, Li Yuan nodded slightly and said: "Well, that's good. Seeing that this year is over, Chengdao will go to the Turks in the spring of next year. Nowadays, there are many natural disasters and man-made disasters in the world, and there are still many places to spend money!

The emperor cried for poverty?

Han Yixuan frowned slightly, this was the first time he had seen this situation, but soon Han Yixuan understood Li Yuan's intentions, your grandson will go to war next year, you are saving his military salary from me, right?

In fact, what Han Yixuan said was not entirely wrong. At this time, Li Yuan underestimated the earning ability of the COFCO Group established by Li Chengdao. He heard the report from the Ministry of Accounts a few days ago and learned that there was not much tax money left in the treasury. Now that the war is imminent, natural disasters and man-made disasters continue, and the imperial mausoleum is still being built here, so there are really a lot of places to spend money.

Li Yuan had calculated beforehand that if Li Chengdao went to the Turks, he would need at least 500 million taels of payment. Now that the state treasury has thrown out various expenditures, it is conservatively estimated that he can still take out 400 million taels. What can be saved from the imperial mausoleum is probably about the same.This is also the reason why Li Yuan ordered Han Yixuan to hurry back to the palace to meet him.

Han Yixuan simply thought that Li Yuan wanted to save part of the money used for the construction of the imperial mausoleum and use it for military pay. Thinking of this, Han Yixuan made a quick calculation. You are not allowed to make money in private, and if you save a little bit when buying materials, you should be able to save more than 50 million!
Thinking of this, Han Yixuan immediately raised his hand and saluted: "Your Majesty, I have carefully calculated that the imperial mausoleum was originally planned to cost 400 million taels of silver, but now several adults are running errands for the emperor and do not dare to be lazy or neglectful. The project is progressing very quickly. , and the craftsmen are all proud of serving the emperor, I estimate that I have 350 million taels for expenses, and the 50 taels saved will be used as military pay for His Highness King Wu!"

Hearing this, Li Yuan was overjoyed at first, couldn't help standing up from the dragon chair, and asked excitedly: "Really? Yixuan, are you sure that the cost of building the imperial mausoleum can be saved by 50 taels?"

But immediately, Li Yuan thought for a while, and questioned with a gloomy face: "Yixuan, don't you want to cut corners on this imperial mausoleum just to please me?"

Hearing this, Han Yixuan quickly fell to his knees and explained: "Your Majesty misunderstood, how dare I, because I underestimated the construction of the imperial mausoleum before, and overestimated the cost. Now the project has been nearly half completed. This minister has also carefully calculated, and it can save about 10 taels of silver, I dare not hide it, I wanted to take the time to come back and report to the Holy Majesty, it just so happened that the emperor summoned my minister today, so I was able to share the emperor's worries!"

(End of this chapter)