Princess, he is rich enough to rival the country

After all, the matter of Gu Mingrong did not affect Qin Lu in any way.

Instead, it was Gu Hongji, because he got a lot of shame in Prince Li's mansion, and this matter was spread all over the city, and everyone knew about it.

While feeling ashamed, he didn't even look good towards Aunt Chang.

Aunt Chang was struggling in the back house of the Hou Mansion because of Gu Hongji's upcoming remarriage.

Now that something like this happened, the relationship with Gu Hongji who had just eased up became tense again, and life became more and more sad.

The relationship between Gu Hongji and Aunt Chang is completely out of the concern of Gu Yanshu, who is currently enjoying a successful love career.

Knowing Aunt Chang's current situation, Gu Yanshu just laughed it off and didn't take it to heart at all.

For Gu Yanshu, there are more important things to do.

With the passage of time these days, the imperial court has become more and more aware of the situation in Shaocheng.

The Second Prince and the Minister of the Household Department have also arrived in Shaocheng in haste.

But in just a few days, everyone in the court found that things were much more difficult than they imagined.

The mood of the people in Shaocheng is more unstable than they imagined.

As soon as the second prince and the servant of the household department arrived, they were attacked by the victims, and the second prince was also injured.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems to be understandable.

After all, the snow disaster in Shaocheng this time was caused by the inaction of officials in Shaocheng.

And after the snow disaster, the government didn't try its best to make up for the mistakes in their work, and they even acted like they had nothing to do with themselves.

In the end, the situation became more and more serious.

It is normal for the victims to vent their anger.

If this is replaced by other experienced officials, it may be able to appease the emotions of the victims.

But in the disaster relief team this time, the person with the highest status is the second prince.

Although the second prince didn't have a high sense of presence in the court, he followed the first prince all the time, and didn't seem to have any right to speak.

But anyway, he is also a prince, a nobleman, pampered and pampered since he was a child, when did he suffer such grievances and insults?

In a fit of anger, he directly arrested the victims of the disturbance, and said that attacking the royal family was a felony against the nine clans.

This kind of action undoubtedly directly stabbed the hornet's nest, directly causing the anger in the hearts of the victims to reach its peak.

As a result, disaster relief has stalled.

After the second prince's actions were reported back to the court, the eldest prince and the emperor were almost thrown down with anger.

Seeing that the emperor was about to take his anger out on him, the eldest prince pleaded guilty and made multiple guarantees, which was worth it in exchange for a chance to make amends.

Afterwards, the eldest prince didn't even dare to rest for a moment, so he set off directly to Shaocheng to clean up the mess left by the second prince.

Although Gu Yanshu felt that the eldest prince was not very smart in his previous confrontations with the eldest prince.

But he can be called the most promising prince with Qin Lu as the most promising successor, so he naturally has two talents.

Within two days after the eldest prince arrived in Shaocheng, he calmed down the emotions of the victims.

From the emperor's reaction later, it is not difficult to see that the emperor is very satisfied with the eldest prince's actions.

Even the time to go to court that day was much shorter.

Just when everyone felt that the disaster relief work was on the right track, and all they needed to do was proceed step by step according to the original plan.

On the side of the eldest prince, another problem was exposed——

Not enough money.

That's right, there is not enough money!

Since ancient times, disaster relief has been an extremely expensive matter.

Provide food, clothing and housing for the victims, treat the sick victims, and rebuild houses for the victims.

No matter where it is, it needs a lot of silver money as support.

Tianqi's national treasury was not full at all, and the relief funds allocated by the imperial court were not very large at the beginning.

That small sum of money for disaster relief, but after a few days of work, it seemed a little tight.

After the emperor received the news, although he didn't think much about it, he sent an additional sum of disaster relief funds to Shaocheng.

However, from the amount of the second disaster relief fund given by the emperor, and the reaction after the money was given, all the officials in the court clearly realized a fact:

I am afraid that there is not much money in the treasury.

And when he realized this, Qin Lu's mood also became unhappy.

After all, judging from past experience, in this case, the next unlucky person is the Ministry of War and the army.

If this batch of disaster relief funds is not enough, then the imperial court may reduce the amount of money in the army this year to use for disaster relief.

Thinking of those soldiers waiting to be fed under his hands, it's no wonder Qin Lu's mood improved!

Sure enough, on the second day after the second tranche of disaster relief funds was allocated, some officials suggested that this year's conscription could be cancelled.

Because judging from the situation of Tianqi in the past two years, whether the conscription or not will not affect the tranquility of the frontier.

Moreover, the abolition of conscription can also save a lot of expenses.

Now that the disaster in Shaocheng is urgent, this money is naturally needed even more.

This proposal has won the approval and response of many officials.

Some people agree, and naturally some people oppose it.

After all, conscription at the beginning of the new year is a tradition of Tianqi for nearly a hundred years. Except for the two years when the national treasury bottomed out during the reign of the late emperor, it has never stopped.

Although the national treasury is a little tight due to the snow disaster in Shaocheng, it is not yet at the end of the ropes and the conscription should be cancelled.

For a while, the two parties held their own opinions in the court hall and argued endlessly. It can be said that the public is right and the woman is right.

When it was time to end the session, this matter could not be discussed to a conclusion.

Although it has not yet been determined whether the conscription will be canceled this year, there are many well-informed people who have vaguely heard the wind.

Gu Yanshu is no exception.

"Cancel conscription?" Gu Yanshu looked at Qin Lu with astonishment, "Is it confirmed?"

"Father hasn't made a statement yet," Qin Lu shook his head slightly, but then added, "Just looking at Father's reaction, it's probably close to ten."

The emperor has been on the throne for more than [-] years, and the courtiers have some understanding of his temperament.

Even though the two sides seemed to be in a tie today, judging from the emperor's expression and reaction when he went down to court, he was more inclined to cancel the conscription.

"But didn't your lord say that there is a shortage of people in the army right now?"

Gu Yanshu frowned slightly, his face was a little ugly.

On the day of returning home in the second day of junior high school, because of Gu Mingrong's matter, Gu Yanshu originally planned to ask Qin Lu about the conscription but did not ask.

But Gu Yanli is Gu Yanshu's elder brother after all, after the matter subsided, Gu Yanshu naturally did not forget to ask Gu Yanli a question.

At that time, Qin Lu had analyzed the matter of conscription with Gu Yanshu.

It is said that the border of Tianqi seems to be stable in the past two years, but in fact it is full of crises.

Although in the past few years, many neighboring countries have become more peaceful after losing battles.

But Tianqi's foundation is still shallow, and his frequent victories only appeared in recent years after Qin Lu was born.

And those who were defeated by Qin Lu seemed to be afraid of being beaten, but in fact they were only temporarily dormant, waiting for their health and rest before making a comeback.

Even according to Qin Lu's analysis, it may have been the past two years for these people to point their swords at Tianqi again.

Therefore, Qin Lu is also very optimistic about Gu Yanli's desire to join the army.

Qin Lu even said that he plans to present to the emperor this year and reorganize a sharp army. If Gu Yanli is capable enough, this may be a very good opportunity for him.

Gu Yanshu did not hide Qin Lu's words from Gu Yanli.

After knowing the news, Gu Yanli was still very happy, saying that he would definitely seize this opportunity, strive to join this elite army, and make some achievements by himself.

At that time, let Gu Hongji see that even without the Marquis of Cheng'en's Mansion, even without the little protection from his ancestors, he can still do something by himself.

As a result, it was only two days later that they said they would cancel this year's conscription?

Qin Lu's expression was not relaxed, and he sighed slightly:

"Having said that, in the eyes of my father and other courtiers, Tianqi's border is now stable, and conscription is not only useless, but will also increase the burden on the treasury."

The so-called interlacing is like a mountain, those undercurrents that are hidden under the calm surface, the emperor and civil servants are not indifferent, but they don't understand at all.

Even if Qin Lu is willing to explain, I am afraid they will not believe it, they will only think that this is Qin Lu's unwillingness to cancel the conscription.

Gu Yanshu rubbed his chin and stroked his train of thought, and immediately found the key point:

"According to the prince, if the treasury is not tight, the ministers should not object to the conscription?"

"Ah."

Qin Lu nodded. After all, even if they don't know the real situation in the frontier, there are still many people who oppose this matter.

Gu Yanshu suddenly smiled lightly:

"In that case, let's fill up the national treasury, it's fine."

"It's not easy either."

The expression on Qin Lu's face not only did not ease in the slightest, but even became a little tense.

Tianqi's treasury has been empty for decades, how easy is it to fill it up?This year, there is an extra expense for Shaocheng.

The difficulty of filling the treasury is obviously far greater than persuading the father to give up the idea of ​​canceling conscription.

Just when Qin Lu was thinking about how to let the courtiers and the emperor understand the danger of the frontier at this time, he heard Gu Yanshu's extremely relaxed voice:

"What's the problem? Leave this matter to me, my lord!"

"Princess has a way?" It's not that Qin Lu doesn't want to believe Gu Yanshu, but that this matter is indeed beyond Qin Lu's expectation.

"If not, I wouldn't have said that." Gu Yanshu smiled slightly, and gave Qin Lu an affirmative answer.

Although reason told Qin Lu that this was impossible, Qin Lu subconsciously chose to believe it when he saw the confident expression on Gu Yanshu's face.

As for the specific method, Gu Yanshu did not tell Qin Lu.

He only showed a slightly mysterious smile to Qin Lu, and then replied:

"Tomorrow, the prince will naturally know."

Afterwards, Gu Yanshu ordered Xingren to harness the carriage and go out.

According to Xingren's later report, Gu Yanshu first went to Yaoyue Pavilion and Guiyuanju, and then to Taoranju.

If he didn't go to a place, he would call the shopkeeper to talk alone for a while, and then read the account book.

In the end, he went to Wen Qingxiao's small courtyard again, as if to discuss something with Wen Qingxiao.

After listening to Xing Ren's report, Qin Lu thought for a while, but couldn't come up with a clue.

After all, Guiyuanju, Yaoyue Pavilion, and even Taoranju, although they have indeed made a lot of profits these days, because they have only reopened for a short time, the accumulated funds are actually not much.

About this point, I just talked to Qin Lu a few days ago.

Therefore, Qin Lu is still very clear about how much Gu Yanshu's family background has now.

Although there is a lot, there is still a lot of gaps in terms of making the national treasury full.

Not to mention that his concubine's unwillingness to suffer, let him return all his wealth to the national treasury, unless the sun rises from the west.

After thinking to no avail, Qin Lu finally chose to give up.

Around the next day, you will know Gu Yanshu's method.

The next day.

The court was still arguing about whether to cancel this year's conscription, and the emperor did not make an immediate decision just like yesterday.

But from his expression and his speech in the early court, it can be found that the emperor may have made a decision in his heart, but he is still short of the last fire.

Regarding this point, the officials of the First Prince's faction naturally liked it very much.

After all, everyone knew that canceling the conscription was reducing King Li's strength.

But what everyone didn't understand was.

His Royal Highness Li Wang, who was still strongly opposed yesterday, became less anxious today.

It seems that the abolition of conscription is not within the scope of his concern.

And when the officials in the early court were puzzled by Qin Lu's performance, today's "Kyoto Daily" gradually spread in the capital.

When it comes to "Kyoto Daily", I have to mention the performance of the daily in Beijing these days.

Today coincides with the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, and it is also the tenth day that the daily newspaper is published in Kyoto.

Even though the daily newspaper has only been published in Beijing for ten days, but because of the good start on the first day of the Lunar New Year, it has already reached the point where no one knows, no one knows.

Just ask any ordinary person in Beijing, and they can say a few words about the "Kyoto Daily".

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Take a look at the writers who have written for the "Kyoto Daily" in the past ten days!

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With such pervasive propaganda and the tap water of the students, it took only three days for the "Kyoto Daily News" to gain a firm foothold in Kyoto.

Not to mention the blessing of the newly opened daily communication area on the second and third floors of Guiyuanju.

If you haven’t read the daily newspaper, you would be ashamed to tell your classmates that you keep abreast of current affairs and study hard!

However, today, people in the capital found that there seemed to be something different about the "Kingto Daily".

Take a closer look, it turns out that today's daily newspaper has one more supplement than usual.

The people at the newspaper office said that this supplement is the "Kyoto Daily"'s feedback to everyone, and the increase will not increase the price!

In other words, although today's daily newspaper has an extra issue compared to usual, it still sells for five cents!

Hearing this, the students who often buy daily newspapers are naturally very happy.

After all, who doesn't want this kind of cheap Baide?

Ordinary people who don't usually buy daily newspapers, after hearing the news, couldn't resist going to the newspaper office to buy a copy!

After all, the people in the newspaper office said that this supplement is not available every day as a reward, and when the next feedback is made, I don't know when it will be!

In addition, people also found that this supplement is not like the main issue, which only has text descriptions, but on the basis of text descriptions, pictures are also added.

I don't know who drew this picture, but the skills are so deep and so vivid that you can almost know what the painter wants to express as soon as you see the picture.

In other words, even illiterate people can understand the contents of this supplement through these pictures.

Hearing this, those people who have never bought a daily newspaper couldn't sit still!

You must know that this daily newspaper is one of the most popular items in Beijing right now!

Every time they hear others mention it, they are extremely curious and yearning.

But five cents, for ordinary families, is not a small amount of money that can be wasted casually.

If they can read and write, it is not a big deal to occasionally draw five cents to catch up with the trend and buy a daily newspaper to read back.

But they are illiterate, and they can't read the daily newspaper after buying it, and they can't eat or drink it. Isn't it a waste?

Now, when they hear a supplement that can be understood even if they are illiterate, many of these people choose to spend five cents to buy a copy.

Adding these factors together, there are actually more people buying daily newspapers today than on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

But until noon, when the last customer who came to buy a daily newspaper was sent away, there were still dozens of daily newspapers left in the newspaper office.

If a careful person discovers this, they will know that Today's Newspaper has increased the number of prints.

It's a pity that everyone's attention is now on the content of the daily newspaper.

Since the supplement is an extra novelty, many people naturally focus on the supplement.

After reading it, the common people discovered that the picture in this supplement was actually about the snow disaster in Shaocheng!

Almost everyone in Beijing knew about the news of the snow disaster in Shaocheng.

After all, the emperor hurriedly called all the ministers into the palace in the early morning of the first day of the new year, and then went uncharacteristically, going to court one after another during the Chinese New Year. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that something big had happened.

In order to prevent the people in Beijing from thinking wildly and causing turmoil, the imperial court finally stood up and posted a notice, and the daily newspaper also published the news.

But at most the common people only knew that there was a snowstorm in Shaocheng.

More, I don't know, and the court didn't say anything.

However, now in this supplement, the news about the snow disaster in Shaocheng is obviously described more clearly.

There are pictures of houses overwhelmed by snow, victims who lost their houses due to the snowstorm, and even pictures of victims who have no food to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies.

In addition, there are even corpses everywhere. It is not difficult to see from the clothes of the corpses on the ground and the snow beside them that these people were frozen to death.

Kyoto is the most prosperous city in Tianqi, and most of the people in Kyoto have better living conditions than those in other cities.

Where have these common people seen such a scene?

When they saw this, many people had unbearable expressions on their faces.

Even some emotionally sensitive ladies and students had tears in their eyes.

But then looking down, many people's expressions eased.

Because the following content is that the emperor received the news and urgently called all the adults into the palace to discuss the matter.

In the end, the eldest prince and many officials were sent to Shaocheng for disaster relief.

The eldest prince and the officials of the household department were very concerned about this matter, and traveled day and night, and rushed to Shaocheng at the fastest speed.

From the content in the picture, it is not difficult to see that after the relief team arrived, the life of the people in Shaocheng obviously became better.

The clothes on their bodies have become thicker, they can drink hot porridge, and even the sick victims have been treated.

Seeing this, many people had gratified smiles on their faces.

Just when everyone thought that with the help of Chaotang, the situation in Shaocheng would gradually improve, the content in the picture began to deteriorate rapidly.

The national treasury is in a hurry, and the court has no money!

The disaster relief team had to reduce the supply of hot porridge to the victims in order to reduce expenses, and even the clothing for shelter from the cold began to be tight.

How can people accept such a situation?

People quickly flipped backwards, wanting to see the same reversal as at the beginning.

However, on the last page of the supplement, there is no reversal. What is there is just the two pictures in the front of the people's clothes and food, and frozen corpses everywhere.

Almost anyone can understand what this means:

If the imperial court's disaster relief money cannot continue to be supplied, then the disaster victims in Shaocheng will return to their original appearance before the imperial court's disaster relief team arrived.

How can this be accepted?

It is said that what the eyes see is the most shocking.

This picture looks like it was written by everyone. Although it is not detailed, it is very real with only a few strokes, which makes people feel very substituting.

Looking at those two pictures, everyone seemed to see the people of Shaocheng freezing to death in front of them.

Immediately, someone emotionally sensitive cried out:

"Why is that?"

"That's right! It's obviously getting better! Why is this happening?"

Of course, in addition to these people, there are also sane ones:

"The imperial court probably has no choice, after all, the treasury is indeed not full."

It is no secret that Tianqi's treasury is not full.

Before that, almost all the people didn't care much about this.

After all, although the national treasury was empty, the emperor was kind and did not increase taxes because of it, and the soldiers did not let Tianqi perish.

But after reading the current supplement and knowing the consequences of the emptiness of the national treasury, everyone seems to have become unacceptable to the emptiness of the national treasury.

There is no way to avoid natural disasters.

If a disaster occurs, the court's help is needed, but if the treasury is empty, the court's help seems to become limited.

Today is Shaocheng, it is a snow disaster, what about tomorrow?What will it be?

What will happen if the imperial court cannot spend enough money to solve the disaster when the disaster strikes the capital?

Just when everyone was in doubt, someone suddenly called out in surprise:

"Look at this! Look at the last page of the main issue of the dailies!"

Hearing this voice, many people flipped through the newspaper and looked at the title page that the man said.

I saw a few large characters written on it——

"Unite as one, fight the disaster together, extend a helping hand to the people of Shaocheng, and do your part for the imperial court's disaster relief!"