Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Seeing that Lu Chen noticed the fluorene board in her hand, Xiao Yun had no intention of hiding it, but lifted it up so that Lu Chen could see it more clearly.

Lu Chen directly ignored the pair of white hands, focusing on the fluorene board.

After a while, his mind suddenly moved, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

Xiao Yun's vermilion lips parted lightly, and she said in that unique soft voice: "Since the time the Demon Empress came to rule the court, she has been devoting herself to cultivating party members, persecuting Zhongliang and eliminating dissidents, firmly controlling the government, only caring about her own selfish desires and disregarding the world, so that The government is slow, the courtiers are forming cliques for private interests, corruption is rampant, the people in all directions are in constant chaos, and the foundation of the country is shaken."

"Nowadays the world is becoming more and more chaotic. Although His Royal Highness the Holy King is skilled in martial arts and the Cangming army is brave and invincible, if you want to truly quell the turmoil, you cannot just rely on force. You must resume production as soon as possible, pay attention to people's livelihood, and let the people live and work in peace. root cause has been completely wiped out.”

As she spoke, she sighed softly, and then said softly:

"Encourage production to produce enough agricultural tools, and now it is urgent to restore agricultural projects in various places, dredge rivers, and restore good fields. Officials have been lax and slack, which has led to chaotic floods in Qingjiang in recent years. It is necessary to strengthen the dams in Yuzhou and Suizhou as soon as possible, and organize manpower to dig auxiliary roads to divert the floodwater. Willing and powerless.”

Speaking of this, Xiao Yun's eyes slowly revealed a melancholy that was difficult to dispel.

Lu Chen's eyes gradually became a little subtle.

He has heard a little about the current state of the treasury.

Although the rats in the national treasury are not starved to death, it is not much better. The income and expenditure of various ministries are extremely tight now, and they can't wait to split a copper plate and use it for two.

The reason for facing such a predicament is all because of the Queen Mother.

After overthrowing the Queen Mother and her cronies, everyone thought they could get a large amount of money to fill the treasury by ransacking their homes. After all, the Queen Mother frequently reached out to the treasury back then, so there must be countless treasures hidden in the palace.

But when I actually started to do it, I found that there were not many treasures and panacea in the Empress Dowager's bedroom, which was far from the wealth she should have had in the past six years of controlling the government and devouring the world.

Presumably she should be extremely cautious, and she got some kind of fairy treasure that can hold a lot of items, and put in it the amazing wealth collected and amassed by various means over the years.

Now that the empress dowager fled westward, she must have taken away the wealth she had accumulated over the years, in order to find a chance to make a comeback. Although the empress dowager's party members who were unable to escape had a wealth of wealth, they simply could not meet the huge expenditure of the Daxia treasury, which was now waiting for prosperity.

It can be said that the empress dowager's departure is equivalent to taking away the treasury of Daxia Xiaoban, and the disaster caused by it can be imagined.

"so."

After a while, Lu Chen looked away.

"Xiao Shangshu is going to suggest that His Majesty reduce the specifications of the New Yuan Grand Ceremony, reduce or suspend the construction of the imperial mausoleum, repair the various palaces in the inner palace, the Tianji Pavilion, and the Wushuang City. Flood control in the middle reaches?"

"Um."

Xiao Yun nodded with a gloomy expression.

"Huaiyu, what do you think about this?"

Lu Chen said without hesitation: "Even if His Majesty agrees with Xiao Shangshu's suggestion, this decree will never pass through here!"

As a matter of engineering, let alone a official document of the minister, even if it is the imperial decree of the emperor, as long as he has enough legitimate reasons, he can still reject it.

If the emperor wanted to forcibly issue an order, that would be easy, all he needed to do was remove the stubborn and rigid man and replace him with an obedient one.

After all, the emperor holds the absolute right to appoint and remove the matter.

It's just that most of these are actions that only mediocre or fatuous emperors would take. Emperors who really want to make a difference and aspirations seldom do this, otherwise Lu Chen would not be so distressed.

Hearing this, although Xiao Yun frowned slightly, they soon relaxed.

Lu Chen added: "The various projects are easy to talk about. After all, the most important thing right now is to restore people's livelihood and control floods. However, the New Yuan Ceremony is also of great significance. It is related to the stability of the world. The standards must not be lowered, and the people of the world have experienced six years The Demon Empress is in chaos and has long been exhausted and unable to bear the heavy burden. At this time, we must not rashly increase the burden on the common people!"

"At this time, forced labor is imposed, so that they rush to the dam area and the flood discharge area without any food left in their families and without a drop of oil and water in their stomachs. One bad thing is to use their lives to fill the flood water!"

"What's this called? It's called reckless disregard for human life!"

Having said that, there was already a hint of sullenness on his face.

"People pay the most taxes, do the hardest and most tiring work, and have to be conscripted by the government whenever they have leisure time. They bring their own food and go to the construction site to work for the government. They work tirelessly for a year, but in the end there is no surplus food. , while the imperial court eats the food they grow, uses the taxes they pay, and enjoys their labor, but cannot even give them the most basic survival. What is the reason? Is there any more cruel reason than this in the world? ?”

Hearing this, Xiao Yun's face suddenly flashed a touch of sadness.

Looking at Lu Chen's eyes without a trace of impurities, a touch of reverence flashed quietly in her eyes, as if she was amazed that Lu Chen dared to say such words.

After a while, she shook her head lightly, sighed, and then said helplessly:

"I know Huaiyu, you are upset, but without enough manpower, the flood cannot be quelled. If the Qingjiang River breaks its embankment, countless fertile fields in the downstream counties will be destroyed overnight, resulting in no harvest in the first half of the year. If there is turmoil, it will definitely cause large-scale fluctuations in food prices, and the consequences will be extremely serious. If there is another way, I will not move this kind of thinking, but now the country is in a difficult situation. If you don’t do this, the disaster will be even greater. Whichever is less, I have nothing to do."

However, Lu Chen did not agree with this statement.

He shook his head, and said solemnly: "I think there are other ways."

Hearing such firm words, Xiao Yun couldn't help but startled, and subconsciously asked: "What way?"

Lu Chen didn't answer, but asked instead: "Xiao Shangshu, do you believe me?"

Xiao Yun felt a little baffled, what does this have to do with belief or not?

Still, she nodded.

"Huaiyu has the heart of a child. In my heart, I have always been a noble, rare and sincere gentleman. I naturally believe in you, Huaiyu."

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but blush.

I know my own affairs.

He probably had the heart of a child when he was a child, but he definitely doesn't have it now.

Xiao Yun said this from the bottom of his heart, which made him a little embarrassed for a while.

However, his face was tempered after all, and he soon returned to normal.

"In that case."

He stretched out his hand, and under Xiao Yun's surprised gaze, he took the fluorene board from her hand, and then put his own fluorene board in her hand.

"Leave this matter to the next."

Feeling the warm touch of the fluorene board with Lu Chen's name written on it in her hand, Xiao Yun couldn't help but startled.

Before they knew it, the two of them had reached the steps of the gate of the Tai Chi Hall.

"Since the problem has been discovered, I can't pretend that I didn't see it, and"

Lu Chen took Xiao Yun's fluorene board, and walked up the steps on his own.

"It's the responsibility of the speaker to speak out, especially for such admonition that may offend His Majesty, it is even more obligatory for me!"

Naturally, he couldn't miss such a good thing that could lower the empress' favor.

Seeing Lu Chen's unhesitating figure, Xiao Yun inexplicably clenched the fluorene board in her hand.