Now, apart from Jiang Sui, there are not many people she trusts the most. Perhaps only when Jiang Sui is by her side can she feel more at ease.
There was no time to delay in going to the border battlefield, and preparation time was short. Only three days after the imperial edict was issued, they were ready to go.
Helian Jing and Cheng Moyang put on their armor, and the emperor personally came to the gate of Kyoto to see them off, hoping that they would return in triumph.
On the battlefield in the border waters, the two sides had been in a standoff for a long time. Facing repeated provocations from the Russian soldiers, Daqing remained calm.
The goal is to put them within the territory of Daqing, and then, after some fake moves, we can seize the opportunity to negotiate with them and gain greater benefits.
Their goal is not to force the other party to cede land or pay compensation. They are not interested in the territory of Rakshasa. They are only interested in the hot weapons in their hands.
If we can get the production method, Daqing will dominate the area and maintain long-term peace and stability.
After Helian Jing and the others left, Jiang Sui moved to the East Palace with his son to accompany Xia Wanning as she prepared to give birth, and Anle also came over on his own initiative.
Anyway, she is alone now, so she might as well stay with her sister-in-law and sister-in-law. They are all interesting souls.
It just so happened that Fang Miao was there too, so the four of us could play mahjong together.
However, Xia Wanning's belly, who was pregnant with twins, looked really scary big.
She's due in a month, but she seems quite calm.
After all, she is the heroine, the future queen who will rule the country. Her mind and bearing are incomparable to those of ordinary women.
The positions you are in are different, and the responsibilities you bear are also different.
And Xiao Hechuan's stay in Kyoto doesn't mean he has nothing to do.
When Helian Jing goes to the battlefield, Helian Ting's side will definitely take action. They hope that Helian Jing will die on the front line and never come back, so that they can reap the benefits.
But all of this was already under the control of him and Helian Jing. The spies and assassins arranged by the Minister of War in the army were dealt with by Helian Jing and Cheng Moyang shortly after the army set out.
Now, what Xiao Hechuan has to do is to disintegrate the power of Helian Ting and the Minister of War in the court.
Over the years, Concubine De has never stopped her contacts with the Minister of War. As long as he can find something wrong with them and produce evidence, he doesn't believe that the emperor can remain indifferent.
At a young age, he had already reached the position of Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. The officials in the Ministry of Revenue were more or less dissatisfied with him, especially the Minister of Revenue, because this young man gave him a sense of oppression and crisis, and he had a feeling that he would be replaced sooner or later.
So he took the lead and made things difficult for Xiao Hechuan by refusing to issue any documents to him.
In the Ministry of Revenue, many matters had to go through layers of officials and the seals in their hands before they could finally be finalized.
Whenever Xiao Hechuan needed to go through the motions with the things he was doing, they would start to procrastinate, find all kinds of excuses, and make excuses to slow down his progress.
When the news of his incompetence reached the emperor's ears, it only proved that he was not capable enough.
But who is Xiao Hechuan? In his eyes, this kind of workplace bullying is nothing.
I have lived this life over again. After going through a lot of hardships in my previous life, I suffered a lot and already had the upper hand over these people's handles in advance.
The Ministry of Revenue is the institution that manages the country's money and grain. It has so much money and profit. How many officials in the Ministry of Revenue have clean hands?
The Minister of Revenue is the biggest blood-sucking worm.
He always acted like an honest official, traveled frugally and low-key, and ordered his family to keep a low profile as well, thinking that this way he would be able to prevent any leaks.
Little did he know that Xiao Hechuan already knew where his largest treasury was.
He has embezzled a huge amount of money during his years at the Ministry of Revenue.
But take it easy, Xiao Hechuan will not let any of them go.
No paperwork, right?
He had no choice but to tell his wife the address of his mistress and let her make a fuss about it.
You don't want to give me the key, right?
Then he could only tell everyone that he was cheated on and that he had raised his son for more than ten years in vain for someone else.
In addition, he would investigate all the money that each of them had embezzled. Following the emperor's order, he would review all the account books of the Ministry of Revenue over the years.
Many of the accounts were false, so they certainly wouldn't let Xiao Hechuan proceed smoothly. However, Xiao Hechuan had done this once in his previous life, so doing it again, having learned from his previous life's experience, was no problem at all.
It had only been a month since he arrived at the Ministry of Revenue, but he had already reorganized the ministry's accounts over the years. Those account books that didn't match added up to a thick pile. Some officials in the Ministry of Revenue were simply to blame, and all that awaited them was dismissal and investigation. Depending on the extent of their corruption, those who deserved it would have their property confiscated, those who deserved to be imprisoned would be imprisoned, or those who deserved to be exiled would be exiled.
Xiao Hechuan's thundering methods are astonishing.
At one time, five or six people in the Ministry of Revenue were dismissed and investigated. At that time, various positions in the Ministry of Revenue became vacant, and there was no one available in the Ministry of Revenue. Xiao Hechuan naturally took over this mess and was busy every day.
Because he had to deal with the mess they left behind, and at the same time he had to keep an eye on the movements of the Second Prince and the Fourth Prince.
There was another task. The emperor asked him to find some young people with noble character and strong ability, promote them, train them, and let these fresh blood be injected into the court to open up the Ren and Du meridians of the Daqing court and renew it.
These are all preparations for the future and for a better future for Daqing.
This is called talent reserve.
The most panicked person was the Minister of Revenue himself. Although the crime had not yet been traced to him, he had a vague premonition that his good days would not last long.
The Minister of Revenue, who was nearly sixty years old and had worked in the court for decades, was easily made to sweat profusely by a young man in his early twenties.
In order to get out of this situation safely, he used the most classic self-preservation tactic, which was to ask the emperor for permission to retire and return home on the grounds of his advanced age, and strongly recommend Xiao Hechuan to become the next Minister of Revenue.
In his opinion, the reason why Xiao Hechuan worked so hard and ruthlessly purged the Ministry of Households was just for his position, so he would just give it to him. Anyway, he had made enough money over the years.
The image he has established in the outside world has always been that of frugality and integrity, and everyone believes in him without a doubt.
But, will Xiao Hechuan let a parasite like him go easily?
Just before he proposed to the emperor in the court that he wanted to retire and return home, Xiao Hechuan walked out from the ranks of officials and spoke icy words at minus fifty degrees with his 37-degree mouth:
"Your Majesty, I want to report the Minister of Revenue, Ma Wenjie, for embezzling as much as 500,000 taels of silver since he took office. The evidence is irrefutable, please make a decision, Your Majesty!"
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