Chapter 303 Xu Changqing Crying Poor

"Are you not afraid of causing rebound or public anger?"

Long Tiande said in a deep voice.

Long Huaiyu smiled and said, "A person like this will be either the emperor of the ages or a tyrant who will be destroyed by the country."

Long Huaiyu bowed to Long Tiande and said, "So, father, we should go on this trip."

"He killed someone and sent a message again. The implication is that he is not planning to take the second path yet, at least there is room for compromise. So what's the harm in giving him this face when we go to the capital and the East Palace?

, is what we really want to take down.”

Long Tiande frowned and said, "But if he goes, wouldn't he admit defeat and he will slaughter it at will?"

Long Huaiyu said proudly: "Don't worry, if you have a child here, even if he respects him as the prince, don't try to control us at will."

"Since I have understood his mind, he will not be able to gain the upper hand everywhere, and the child has his own way to deal with him."

Long Tiande smiled happily and said, "Okay, since you have such confidence, then when will you and my father and son go to the East Palace together? "

"immediately!"

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"Your Highness, the treasury is empty again."

Looking at Xu Changqing, who was standing in Xizheng Hall with his hands spreading out and looking frowning, Li Chen felt that his temple was hurting a lot.

Close your eyes slightly, wave your hand to signal Wan Jiaojiao to rub her swollen temples. Li Chen said, "Xu Changqing, your Ministry of Revenue is a bottomless pit. The tens of millions of taels of silver that I raided from the house a few months ago

You can see a sound when you go in. It’s only been a long time now, and you told me that you have no money again?"

Xu Changqing said with a sad face: "Your Highness, you know that the court now needs money everywhere. The minister is already careful and is cutting off some unnecessary expenses again and again, but it is still difficult to do so."

"Not mentioning anything else, the disaster relief funds from all over the country have been spent on most of the deposits in the past two months. With the natural disaster, taxes from all over the country cannot be collected at all. Moreover, the emperor issued a decree last year, and any disaster-stricken person who was affected by the disaster was issued.

In provinces, taxes and labor service have been reduced by 50%, which has reduced the suffering of the victims for three years. This is only the second year, so there is naturally no tax revenue."

"On the one hand, there is no account, and on the other hand, there is a huge amount of expenditure. Now it is difficult for the court to pay salaries to officials until the end of the year."

Xu Changqing secretly glanced at Li Chen's face and said boldly: "The end of the year is approaching. According to the usual practice, the New Year gifts of the officials will be distributed to the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month. The account of the Wei Messenger has made a rough calculation.

There is still a gap of about 700,000 to 800,000 taels..."

"What kind of New Year gift costs so much money!"

Li Chen opened his eyes and said angrily: "Seventy or eight hundred thousand taels, how much is enough to do?"

Xu Changqing hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, the total number seems to be large, but there are more officials. If it is divided into each official, there are not many. In previous years, the court was even more difficult, at most, the New Year ceremony was slightly reduced, but in the end, it was still

Yes, but it has not been distributed since last year. Many officials themselves are not easy. The court owed a lot of salaries and has not been distributed yet. The end of the year is approaching, so officials will never let them borrow money for the New Year?"

Li Chen groaned. Although he was extremely unhappy, he also knew that what Xu Changqing said was the truth.

The corruption of an official is endless and endless. Li Chen never expected to create a court where everyone is honest and every official is unrealistic.

However, to eliminate large-scale corruption and bottomless corruption, there is still hope through institutional and supervision transformation.

But fundamentally, it is necessary to solve the survival problems of officials themselves.

Seeing that the family can’t get out of the way, can you still expect the officials to be honest?
Chapter completed!