Chapter 188: The National Treasury Can Be Replenished Again~
Zhang Yongping stood not far away with his head bowed respectfully, allowing people around him to stare at him with a calm expression.
Many people felt that the Zhang family would be greatly favored this time.
His sharp eyes have already fallen on the younger generations of the Zhang family. Although Zhang Xinji is going to get married in a year, the other younger generations of the Zhang family, especially Zhang Shuier, have not yet married.
If they could marry into the Zhang family, and once the emperor promoted Zhang Yongping again as he wished, wouldn't their in-laws also be able to benefit from it?
The emperor felt the gazes coming from all directions, and he glanced at everyone in the room with an expressionless and cold look.
How he decides is his business, what does a little girl like her know?
Does she think that since the Zhang family doesn't want to rebel, they really won't rebel?
How could she have any say in what happens in the court?
Lu Xinran was still busy flipping through Sun Linyuan's booklet. "Tongzi, can you help me remember the list? I want to write down all the people he stuffed into the various departments."
"Look, I'm trying to take a picture of it for you!"
The system responded quickly, so quickly that Lu Xinran subconsciously stopped moving.
"If you can take pictures, why can't you save all the brochures of these people for me, so I can go back and read them slowly?"
Turning them over one by one, the efficiency of eating melons is greatly improved!
"The content I captured can only be saved for six or seven hours, and if I use it too much, it will consume my health points. Don't we need to save it now?"
Lu Xinran was a little speechless. It turned out that this system was not completely useless. It just cost health points no matter what you used.
"Let's solve a few more cases, and when we have accumulated twenty years, I won't stop you from using any function you want."
Lu Xinran rolled her eyes helplessly, she finally realized that she was the only one who was truly naive!
[The Ministry of War was Sun Linyuan's base. The Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, the Doctor of the Ministry of War, and other minor officials of the seventh and eighth ranks were almost all in Sun Linyuan's hands.]
[These people would send gifts to their grandchildren every year and every festival, and the amount each time could not be less than two thousand taels. The gifts they received in recent years were probably more than the emperor’s treasury.]
[That's not right. The emperor even has a brothel, so his treasury must be very rich.]
emperor:"……"
Okay, case solved.
He finally got the answer to why his Zuichunlou lost business overnight.
That was the most profitable part of his private property, and with Chunlou he could collect information quietly and spread all the information he wanted to spread.
Now that Zuichunlou is gone...he can only open a new chunlou in another location!
However!
Is the Sun family really so wealthy?
Natural disasters have continued to hit the south of the Yangtze River this year. There were heavy rains in the summer, which caused riverbanks to burst in many places. There were heavy snowstorms in the winter, and many places were hit by disasters again.
Most of the money for disaster relief in the summer was embezzled by Song Junhe. The people were already displaced, and with the winter blizzard, only one in ten villages in the south of the Yangtze River remained alive.
Unfortunately, the whole country needs money, and the treasury is running out of money.
The Minister of Revenue was forced to sell his official position in exchange for money.
He was originally still hesitating whether to take money out of his own private treasury, but with the support of the Sun family, his private treasury should be able to be preserved.
The cold sweat on Sun Linyuan's forehead kept sliding down like raindrops. He had been a close minister to the emperor for so many years, how could he not understand the meaning of the emperor's look at him.
He could no longer keep his wealth or his official position.
He now hated himself for not being able to help but compromise whenever his wife felt sorry for their son.
If they had not agreed to bring Lu Xinran to their mansion to torture him, would they have been able to continue living a peaceful and carefree life?
The people from the Ministry of War standing in the back all looked pale; they had been tied up with the interests of the Sun family over the years and could no longer extricate themselves.
Whenever Sun Qihang encountered difficulties in suppressing the things he did, they were the ones who stepped in to help him find solutions.
If the Sun family goes bankrupt, won't they be the next to suffer?
As if in response to their thoughts, Lu Xinran's thoughts followed.
[Many people in Sun Qihang's Beastly Army know about this, and they have been instructed by Sun Linyuan. If they encounter someone who might be impeached by the historian, they will help one after another to suppress the matter.]
[It can be said that the Ministry of War is now under the jurisdiction of Sun Linyuan. It is estimated that the emperor's words are not as effective as his. ]
[These are the people who are causing trouble for Song Junyan. Although Song Junhe has fallen, judging by the emperor's intention, the position of crown prince will most likely be given to the second and third princes. Song Junyan has not shown any intention of usurping the throne, so he is excluded everywhere if he does not try to stop anyone.]
[Tsk, how miserable! As a prince, he still has to be tricked by these ministers. Is he too useless or is the emperor not only a scumbag husband but also a scumbag father?]
The emperor, who was criticized again, continued to remain expressionless, but his look became increasingly cold.
Everyone in the Ministry of War felt a chill down their spines. How could this annual meeting not be boring or lively? It was their death warrant!
[Let Tongzi write down these names for me, and then give them to Song Junyan. That should repay his life-saving grace, right?]
She muttered to herself, as for the legendary life-saving grace of repaying one's love with one's own body...what kind of feudal dregs is this!
[Let me see what other good things Sun Linyuan has done! This man is so restless, there must be something I have overlooked. ]
【Hey, what is this? 】
[Tsk, he really likes to use the tactic of whispering in one ear and out the other. However, the emperor fell for it, so it can be said that one is willing to fight and the other is willing to be beaten.]
[After Concubine Shu died, in order to pave the way for Song Junhe, he selected a girl from the clan who looked most like Concubine Chen, and learned all the tricks that Concubine Chen had used, and then managed to stuff her into the harem. ]
[The Ling Concubine who is climbing the harem the fastest is the one he stuffed in. ]
[The emperor was particularly pleased with her, thinking that she understood his thoughts and preferences like Chen Fei, and was also gentle and non-confrontational like Shu Fei outside the bed curtains.]
[He didn't even think about it. How could he not be satisfied with the look and behavior that were specially tailored for him? ]
The emperor continued to remain expressionless. As long as his expression remained unchanged, no one would know that he was digging the ground with his toes.
The Queen glanced at the Emperor with the corner of her eye. Over the years, she and the Emperor had drifted further and further apart, and she could no longer tell what he was thinking.
The Queen Mother sighed and shook her head slightly. Her son was good in every way except that he was always so confused when it came to matters between men and women.
Sun Linyuan's legs could no longer be controlled and he wanted to kneel down on the ground.
The emperor glanced at him coldly, but he managed to hold on, and with the support of his sons, he did not let himself fall to the ground.
Lu Xinran always complained about whatever he saw. He closed the emperor's booklet and then started to read the booklets about Sun Linyuan and his sons.
It’s not that the New Year’s Eve party would take a whole day. This amount of time is enough for her to eat all the gossips about everyone in the Sun family!
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My dears, happy Lantern Festival~