Chapter 518 Increase revenue and reduce expenditure
Sanbao pondered for a moment and replied, "I'm afraid... it will take a few more days."
Li Chen raised his eyebrows and said, "It has been half a month since the day he promised to become an official. Look at Zheng Baorong, who was also from Weihaiwei, came to the capital the next day."
"Dan Tai Jingzhi is just that he has slow legs and more luggage. In the past half month, he should have climbed from Weihaiwei to the capital. How many days will it take?"
Sanbao smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Mirror has brought a full twenty cars of books at home, and it took a full six or seven days to sort them out."
"I heard that the books in his other seclusion places were much more than this one, and they all had to ask people to sort them out and bring them to the capital."
"In addition, the news of his official career is now an open secret, and countless scholars and literati have gone to congratulate him."
"Mr. Mirror has been walking along the way, and scholars have seen each other out of the way. It's great to be able to walk thirty miles a day."
Li Chen rubbed his temples and said, "This old master is really troublesome. It is difficult to give orders to force him to arrive in Beijing immediately, but the current affairs cannot be delayed."
As he said that, Li Chen seemed to have thought of something. He got up and walked to the back bookshelf, climbed up the ladder and pulled out a book from the top of the bookshelf and handed it to Sanbao.
"You send this book "Danxin Summary" to Dan Tai Jingzhi."
"There are three books in this book, and only the East Palace in the world contains a complete set."
"A person like Dan Tai Jingzhi who loves books as much as his life will inevitably feel itchy when he sees this first book."
"If you ask someone to bring him a message, I will wait for him for three days. In less than three days, I will send it to someone else."
The Three Treasures understood the gods, and after taking the book, he respectfully said: "Your Highness calculates, and I admire you."
"This flattery is not very good. OK, go and do your business."
Li Chen sent Sanbao away. Li Chen looked at the memorial that was crying for poverty from the Ministry of Revenue in his hand, and couldn't help but feel a little painful.
Although it is a fact that the cabinet focuses on intrigue and fighting for power and profit, it is also a fact that it affects the imperial power, it has to be admitted that these old politicians have indeed handled government affairs without saying anything. Under the worst conditions, they have worked hard to support the normal operation of the country.
During this period, Li Chen saw the most memorials that were short of money, people, and materials everywhere, and begged the court to allocate funds, give people and materials.
This was a little slower. When the natural disaster had just broken out and I had not had the power to supervise the country and I had no power to review the memorials, the situation must have been worse. During that period, it was supported by the cabinet.
From this perspective, Zhao Xuanji's ability to handle government affairs was the best in the dynasty.
After thinking about it, Li Chen still called Xu Changqing over.
This time I only called him alone.
"The emptiness of the national treasury has always existed. I have thought of many ways, but no matter how many homes I have copied, it is just a drinking poison to quench thirst. You, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, have no good ideas?" Li Chen asked.
Faced with Li Chen's problem, Xu Changqing looked bitter. The Ministry of Revenue was a certain institution in all dynasties, but there were so many problems that the supervisors and emperors could not solve, so where did he get the solution?
After thinking about it, Xu Changqing felt that he had no good idea, but in the face of the question from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he could not remain silent, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "I think that many of the measures we have taken at present are indeed just temporary emergency responses, but the court's expenses are on a daily basis, so we still have to work hard on the four words of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure."
Chapter completed!