"Yes, Uncle."
Now the entire court was quiet, and no one dared to step forward and oppose it anymore.
At this moment, the emperor, sitting on the high throne, asked the ministers, "Do any of you ministers have any other opinions?"
If not, then proceed as I instructed yesterday.
All the ministers bowed repeatedly, saying, "Your Majesty's decree is hereby obeyed."
Everyone said that, but they were all cursing in their hearts.
Things have come to this point, who would dare to voice their opinions? Unless they also want to get beaten up.
The morning court session ended quickly, and Lord Wang returned to his residence with the help of his colleagues.
Su Muyao was left behind, as the emperor found the little girl increasingly pleasing to the eye.
"Yaoyao, how about you come to the morning court every day like the other ministers?"
Su Muyao rolled her eyes at the emperor: "I'm still a child, and you make me get up so early every day. I might not grow tall in the future."
Furthermore, as the emperor, he should display his authority; how can such indecisiveness inspire the respect of his ministers?
Xiao Dezi was suppressing a laugh. It was truly a sight to see the emperor, who was over fifty years old, being scolded by a young princess who was practically kneeling down in front of him.
This scene is absolutely hilarious.
Su Muyao looked at him with a look of disappointment and frustration. How could a monarch be allowed to be ridden on by his subjects?
If he can't stand on his own two feet, how can he rely on others? ╯▂╰
Just then, a guard came to report from outside the door.
Su Muyao originally wanted to go back directly, since there was something to report and she didn't know what it was, so it wouldn't be right for her to stay. She also didn't want to hear anything she shouldn't have.
“Yaoyao is one of our own. Stay and listen to what’s going on. Why are you in such a hurry to report?”
The emperor agreed to the report and then spoke, “Your Majesty, the heavy snow of the past few days has collapsed many houses. In addition, apart from those families who received grain seeds in the spring, the rest of the people are basically without food. Now, many people are homeless and have flocked to the capital.”
Upon hearing this, the emperor immediately stood up from his dragon throne. "How could this be?"
He said that if he remembered correctly, the drought had been solved by the Little Milk Group. Even if they didn't get the high-yield grains, weren't all the families still growing those grains? How come there's no grain left now?
"What about the food they grow themselves?"
Upon hearing this, the guard quickly replied, "Your Majesty, after paying for the original famine with the grain that has been distributed, each household will have very little left after paying their tax."
Every year, they start going up the mountain before winter even arrives to find food, dry it, and store it for the winter.
But winter came so quickly this year, with heavy snow falling so early. The grain they found simply wouldn't last through the cold season.
Upon hearing this, the emperor sighed inwardly. He never imagined that the heavy snow, which had only fallen for a few days, could be so severe.
We thought things would get better, but now we're back to square one.
Eunuch De, seemingly having thought of something, whispered to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the grain prices in the capital's grain stores are likely to start rising again."
This year, all the grain grown on the royal lands was distributed to the people as seed, and now the granaries are nearly empty.
Although Grandpa De's voice wasn't loud, Su Muyao, who was standing next to him, could hear it clearly.
Thinking that he had as much food as he wanted in his own space, he decided to take some out for the emperor's emergency use.
After all, she is now a part of this country. Although she has as much space as she wants, she can't just give it away for nothing.
After all, she understood the saying "a little kindness is appreciated, but too much kindness breeds resentment."
“Your Majesty, I believe it is right for the ministers to donate grain together. In addition, I am willing to give 100 more cartloads of grain to my uncle.”
“But the grain that my royal uncle has for 100 horse-drawn carriages must be included in the taxes of my shop in the future.”
The emperor was extremely grateful to hear this. He understood what the young princess meant and said that it should be counted as part of the shop's tax revenue.
In reality, it's a way of helping oneself, and only someone with such a mindset is worthy of being the queen of a nation.
No wonder the Empress has been trying to arrange her marriage with Yuan'er; it seems she really should consider it carefully.
Xiao Dezi, meanwhile, began calculating the grain. This cart could probably hold over 1,000 jin (500 kg), and 100 carts would be over 100,000 jin (50,000 kg) of grain.
This young princess can so easily produce tens of thousands of catties of grain. The national treasury doesn't even have tens of thousands of catties of grain now.
Where did she get so much food? But I shouldn't ask that myself.
The little princess is quite capable. If he angers this little brat, she might whip him a couple more times, which his old bones can't bear.
Even after Su Muyao left, the emperor's heart was still wandering. Tens of thousands of kilograms of grain were produced by this little girl without her saying a word.
"Little Dezi, do you think this little princess's family is wealthier than mine?"
Xiao Dezi found it difficult to respond to this, but in his heart he was thinking that, judging from the current situation, it was definitely much more than what you wanted.
But can he say that?
"Your Majesty, what are you saying? This little princess is also your subject. The entire dynasty belongs to you. Your status is so noble, why should you compare yourself to others?"
After hearing this, the emperor got up dejectedly and walked towards the empress's palace.
Xiao Dezi was subtly telling himself that he was the poorest person.
They are poor with a mountain of responsibilities, seemingly living a glamorous life on the surface but actually penniless.
They hadn't gone far when they saw a large group of eunuchs and servants chasing a wolf at breakneck speed.
"Oh dear, King Wolf, please don't run away! If you get lost, how can I explain it to the Emperor?"
The maid who was speaking cried out to Xiao Hui.
More than ten people couldn't catch a wolf.
The people who take care of the wolf have lived with it for a long time and know that the wolf is gentle and will never bite people randomly.
But today, the little prince struck the wolf twice with a stick. After the wolf was hit, the nanny beside the little prince knew that her young master had caused trouble, so she picked up the little prince and ran away.
After the wolf had completely destroyed the wooden fence, it couldn't find the cub that had attacked it.
Little Grey howled angrily, "You bad guys, get out of my way!"
But to others, these words sounded like the howling of wolves.
The emperor saw a gray wolf rush out of the crowd and run towards them from a distance, and Xiao Dezi was so frightened that he quickly stood in front of the emperor to block it.
"Your Majesty, let's go first. This wolf may have gone mad."
The emperor's bodyguards also flew down from the rooftop in unison.
Upon seeing this, the Emperor feared that the guards would kill the wolf, so he quickly shouted to them, "Don't hurt the wolf!"
As if he had just thought of something, Eunuch De hurriedly said to the servant beside him, "Xiao San, quickly go and invite the young princess back. She hasn't gone far and should still be in the palace. We need to hurry."
…
The eunuch named Xiao San hurriedly ran towards the palace gate. Just as Su Muyao stepped out of the palace gate and was about to get into the carriage, she was stopped by someone behind her.
"Little Princess, little Princess, please wait a moment."
Su Muyao heard someone calling her from behind, "Wait a minute."
Upon hearing the princess's instructions, the coachman quickly put away his whip; he was just a hair's breadth away from striking the horse's rump.
"Hoo hoo, hoo, Princess, His Majesty requests your return. The wolf has gone mad. Please go back and see what's going on?"
Upon hearing this, Su Muyao hurriedly followed the little eunuch back. She didn't know what had happened. Little Grey was always very docile, so why would it suddenly go crazy?
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