"F * ck, I thought it was something. I didn't expect it to be an IOU.”
"Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter. God Li is too good at making things work. Look at the empress's expression.”
"Indeed, I guess she didn't expect it to be an IOU.”
The Chinese netizens laughed out loud at this IOU.
"Borrow…a note?"
The empress slowly raised her head and met Li Jin Nian's gaze.
"It's an IOU."
"Take a look at the details." Li Jin Nian nodded.”
"Hmm…"
The empress replied with great difficulty.
She had signed many things in her life.
He had never signed an IOU.
Indeed, no one dared to make her sign such a thing.
This was because the entire world belonged to her, and the entire Da Feng was hers.
How could he say the word "owe"?
However, since Li Jin Nian wanted her to sign it, she would just sign it.
The empress glanced at the IOU and roughly understood what it meant.
Li Jin Nian led three thousand troops to attack the Xiongnu, which would definitely require a large amount of military expenses, especially food and weapons.
Although the imperial court had a military factory, materials needed to be purchased.
The invasion of the Xiongnu was indeed adding insult to injury to the already poor empress.
"Minister Li, it's signed."
The empress immediately picked up the Imperial Jade Seal and stamped it with a seal.
This thing was more useful than a signature.
"Yes."
Li Jin Nian took a look and kept the IOU after confirming that it was correct.
"Minister Li, with so much money, how are we going to pay it back?”
The empress looked at him in distress.
"You're stumped by this little money?”
Li Jin Nian said unhappily.
According to the standard of 50 wen per soldier per day, 3,000 soldiers would be 150,000 wen per day, which was 1,500 taels of silver.
According to the calculation of thirty days, it was forty-five thousand taels of silver, which was equivalent to four thousand five hundred taels of gold.
It did seem like a lot, but if converted to the currency of the future, it would be about 8.1 million Chinese dollars.
Any rich businessman could afford this amount of money.
This amount of money was not even enough to buy a slightly larger house in a first-tier city in Xia country.
One had to know that the empress was the emperor of Dafeng. If an emperor couldn't fork out such a small amount of money, it could only be said that it was going to be wasted on a dog.
"Four thousand five hundred taels is indeed a lot.”
the empress sighed.
It was only when she had just ascended the throne that she had lived a few days of luxury.
Later on, the money in the national treasury became lesser and lesser, and she, the emperor, became poorer and poorer.
The worst thing was that she didn't even know where the problem was.
"Do you know how many things you just copied from Zhang Qian's house?”
Li Jin Nian asked.
"How much?"
At the mention of this, the empress instantly became spirited.
"Five thousand taels of gold and a pile of gold, silver, jade, silk, and antique calligraphy.”
"There are also more than ten house deeds and a hundred acres of fertile land outside the city.”
Li Jin Nian said truthfully.
This was also what someone had reported to him when he returned to the city just now.
" So many???"
the empress said in surprise.
One had to know that Zhang Qian's annual salary was three to four hundred silver taels.
This meant that his family property was obtained through corruption.
"Zhang Qian's greed is definitely not small, but it's not like there are no people who are more greedy than him.”
"What about Yan Zhen's family? Their family should have more."
the empress asked.
"I haven't finished copying yet. I heard from Lord Su that the officials in charge of looting the house were dumbfounded. There were dozens of boxes of gold buried under Yan Zhen's house.”
"Yan Zhen, that bastard. Zhen really wants to skin him alive!”
The empress knew that Yan Zhen was a greedy person, but she didn't expect him to be this greedy.
"And this is only the tip of the iceberg. There are a hundred officials in the court alone, and at least half of them are corrupt.”
"If we confiscate all their houses, the sum of money added together will definitely be an astronomical figure.”
Li Jin Nian said.
The empress didn't say anything, but her eyes lit up. Li Jin Nian roughly knew what she was thinking.
"Don't think too much. Although this amount of money is not small, it's actually nothing to the operation of a huge national machine.”
"Do you know how much salary you owe? There were also many ministers who owed their salaries, and many livelihood projects had also stagnated because the national treasury could not allocate money.”
"With the money we've confiscated, we'll first pay off all our debts and then do a good job in the people's livelihood.”
Li Jin Nian said.
He was afraid that the empress would get carried away when she saw the sudden increase in money.
Therefore, there was a need to beat them up.
"Sigh, zhen was indeed too ridiculous in the past. I managed Da Feng into a mess.”
the empress said in embarrassment.
"Do you think that everything will be fine without the Xiongnu invasion?”
"I can tell you with certainty that even if there is no foreign invasion, in at most three to five years, there will be a peasant uprising. At that time, Dafeng will also perish.”
Li Jin Nian said coldly.
The empress felt a little uncomfortable. She looked at him and was speechless for a moment.
"Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it."
"Back then, Emperor Gaozu rebelled because the previous emperor was fatuous and unreasonable, and the commoners could not even eat their fill.”
"The fact that Emperor Gaozu was able to establish a country was inseparable from the support of the people.”
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"But now, you are constantly losing the hearts of the people. If this continues, you will be overthrown by the people sooner or later.”
Li Jin Nian said to her.
He would need at least twenty to thirty days to return from his expedition to the Xiongnu.
He wanted to give the empress a good warning and make her behave herself. In fact, she didn't even have to do anything and just listen to Wang Pingchang.
"Understood, Minister Li. Zhen will definitely repent.”
the empress said seriously.
"Yes."
Li Jin Nian replied lightly.
"Minister Li, I still have a question to ask.”
"Go ahead."
"How can we make the country rich and powerful?”
"This question is very complicated. You won't understand even if I tell you.”
Li Jin Nian said without hesitation.
"Oh."
The empress wasn't angry when she heard this. She just felt a little sad.
A strong sense of defeat filled her heart.
"So I'm really a good-for-nothing.”
She sighed in her heart.
"Don't think so far ahead. Let's solve the problem at hand first. After we eliminate the foreign enemies, we can consider our own development.”
Li Jin Nian glanced at her.
"Yes."
The empress nodded.
"Also, you can't just randomly raid a house. Otherwise, it'll easily make people panic and it's not conducive to political stability.”
Perhaps it was because he was going to be away for a period of time, Li Jin Nian told the empress a lot.
The main reason was that he was not at ease with her.
The empress felt it herself.
In the past, Li Jin Nian had never said so much to her.
"Minister Li, don't worry. When you're away, I will ask Chief Wang for his opinion before making a decision.”
the empress said.
"Mm, that's good."
Li Jin Nian nodded.
After being scolded by him for a few days, the empress had indeed become much more sensible.
It seemed that he had been scolded less.
Because the previous emperor passed away early, the empress ascended the throne when she was eight years old.
That was why he had become like this.
Although Wang Pingchang was very capable, he definitely wouldn't dare to scold the empress.
Li Jin Nian was the only one who could scold the empress as if she was his grandson.
"Is there anything else you need me to cooperate with?”
the empress asked.
"No more."
Li Jin Nian shook his head.
"Then Minister Li, go and do your own things first. I won't delay your time.”
"Yes."
Li Jin Nian replied.
He pretended to turn around and leave.
However, the moment he turned around, he stopped and looked at the empress."
"Don't worry about the money. When I come back, I'll fill the national treasury with gold and silver treasures in minutes.”
"Good!"
Upon hearing his words, the empress was so excited that her delicate body trembled slightly. Even her eyes could not help but turn slightly red.
"I'm leaving."
After saying this, Li Jin Nian walked out without looking back.
The empress looked at his back and couldn't calm down for a long time.
After an unknown period of time, a gust of wind blew past and closed the door of the royal study automatically.
Only then did she sit down again.
"Why don't we give the throne to Minister Li?”
"He's obviously more suitable for this position than me.”
The empress sat alone in the royal study and muttered to herself.
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