After the empress finished speaking, everyone looked at Lu Chen.
Xiao Yun naturally knew what Lu Chen was going to say, but she still couldn't help but turned around and stared at the taller figure.
With a little force in his hand, he clenched the brand new fluorene board.
Under the gaze of everyone, Lu Chen first took a deep breath, and then said solemnly:
"For the sake of people's livelihood, please Your Majesty to postpone all inner palace repair projects except Zichen Hall and Xuanqing Pavilion, reduce the scale of Zilin Garden and elixir expenditure, and reduce the maintenance standards of Zijiji Formation, Wuji Formation, Tianxing Formation and other formations. , to reduce the cost of spiritual stones."
"Stop the construction of the Imperial Mausoleum, Wushuang City, Eternal Formation, Tianxin Pavilion..."
As Lu Chen spoke out about the imperial engineering projects that symbolized the supreme imperial power and that almost every emperor would arrange and launch at the beginning of his administration, everyone felt their scalps go numb.
Even Xiao Yun was shocked.
She originally just wanted to propose to postpone the construction of the few two or three large projects such as the imperial mausoleum that require a large amount of money to be built every year, reduce the scale of some formations, and misappropriate some of the funds and spiritual stones, as well as some of the needs for constructing the formations. Just the materials used.
First collect the initial water control needs, and if it is not enough later, think of another way.
This alone made her uneasy.
You must know that these projects represent the emperor's authority and face, and have always been untouchable.
Not to mention anything else, almost every generation of emperors started to build imperial mausoleums when they came to power. It has always been an imperial project that the emperors attached great importance to.
Among them, the various heaven-level formations used to set up the immortal-seeking formation and the countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures used to maintain the formation were all purchased by the emperor in order to use his residual soul to travel through the world and pursue the immortal path in the imperial mausoleum a hundred years later. There is no room for stagnation at all.
After all, every formation to be arranged must be arranged according to the different seasons, spiritual veins, and astrology that change every year, and must not be changed, otherwise the order will be wrong and the formation will be useless.
At most, it can only reduce the size of the formation for ten years.
Moreover, the purpose of touching the Human Emperor's reverse scale is not for himself, but for the common people who can't see or touch it, only the cold data on the yellow book.
Even Wu Yue, the extremely stingy Minister of the Ministry of Finance, did not dare to take action on the emperor's almost routine major projects, no matter how critical the treasury situation became.
Because it will really get cold!
However, Lu Chen proposed most of the major projects that were linked to imperial power, and directly demanded that the work be stopped. All money, food, spiritual stones, and expensive formation materials were transferred away, and they were used for water control and allocated to the Ministry of Industry. To develop people's livelihood.
At the same time, not only these major projects, Lu Chen also suggested reducing the specifications of various large formations in Ziji City. This is almost the same as directly reducing the five basic expenses of the empress's food, clothing, housing, transportation and cultivation.
First, do you want to aggrieve the emperor?
Do you find it difficult to live?
Xiao Yun never expected that Lu Chen would be so bold. Not only did she raise the intensity of her proposal to a whole new level, turning the suspension into a moratorium, turning part of the money and materials into misappropriation, she also changed the project's The quantity has doubled.
This is going to God!
"To actually get to this point..."
She murmured softly and looked at Lu Chen with complicated eyes.
After a while, Lu Chen finished talking about all the project items that he had listed in his mind.
The moment the words fell, the huge Tai Chi Hall suddenly became extremely silent, and you could hear a pin drop.
All the courtiers couldn't help but look at Jiang Chengwan on the dragon throne, and even Jiang Chengdao, who hadn't seen him for many days, turned around and looked back.
However, the empress' little face was completely hidden under the twelve jade rays. At the same time, with the blessing of a certain small formation, everyone could not see clearly what her expression was at this time, and naturally they could not guess her attitude towards this. .
At this time, Lu Chen continued: "I know that this matter is a bit difficult for Your Majesty, but the floods in the two states must be controlled as soon as possible, otherwise countless people along the downstream coast are very likely to suffer from floods, resulting in loss of life. Now the national treasury is empty and the national treasury is in dire straits. , for the current plan, we can only transfer money, food and formation materials from the Imperial Road Project for flood control."
Having said this, he suddenly bowed heavily, raised his hands in salute, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, please take care of the common people, put the country, the country, and the country first, and grant your request."
The powerful words echoed softly in the Tai Chi Hall.
Everyone held their breath in unison, waiting for the coming thunderous wrath of the empress.
Just kidding, the Imperial Road Project is a direct manifestation of the emperor's supreme authority. It is related to all the interests of the emperor during his reign and a hundred years later. How can it be moved just by talking?
who do you think You Are?
As for the people?
The ancient sages have said that the foundation of a country lies in its powerful people, that is, cultivators, not its common people.
As long as cultivators have their hearts set on the court, the world will not be in chaos.
Moreover, haven’t the banks of Yuzhou and Suizhou broken yet? It's been like this for ten years, why did something happen this year?
Not to mention whether the dams will burst this year, even if the dams burst, it will not be a disaster for the imperial court.
Even if the mob is in turmoil, just send troops to quell the chaos. Anyway, most of those people are just ordinary people, and it is basically impossible for the skinny people to be the opponents of the regular army supported by various large formations.
Not only that, once there are fewer people in the riot area, resources can be reallocated to allow that area to enter the next development cycle.
What goes around comes around.
It’s been this way for so many years, so naturally it’s no different this time.
The order of chaos and change is the ultimate principle of heaven. They are just following the way and there is nothing to care about.
And since it is not a disaster of overthrow, there is no need for the emperor to sacrifice his own interests.
Among the ministers, Qian Yiqian, Zheng Zhong and others looked solemn on the surface, but they were feeling gloating in their hearts.
Sure enough, Lu Chen would be seeking his own death without them taking action, so there was no need to do anything against him.
Isn’t this going to be bad luck soon?
At this time, Jiang Chengdao, who was standing under the dragon chair, had no intention of speaking.
After all, the Imperial Road Project is Jiang Chengwan's own business. No matter what she thinks or decides, it has nothing to do with anyone else, including his brother.
Therefore, he just folded his hands and said nothing, like an audience member concentrating on watching a play.
snap…
The jade glaze on the Tongtian Crown shook slightly and made several crisp sounds.
But the empress leaned back a little, leaning her jade back against the armrest of the dragon chair. At the same time, she stretched out her right hand, rested her elbow on the armrest, and supported her cheek with the back of her hand, looking very relaxed.
After a while, she slowly spoke under the eyes of everyone with different expressions.
"Accurate."
There was no angry reprimand, no questioning, not a word of rebuttal, not even a bit of bargaining.
He agreed so simply and neatly.
Just like Lu Chen did before when he asked for a retrial of Xia Yan's case, he didn't hesitate at all.
The empress's no-nonsense response instantly made all the courtiers below widen their eyes with surprise on their faces.
They knew that the empress trusted Lu Chen, but they never expected that she would trust him to such an extent.
At this moment, they completely refreshed the empress's understanding of Lu Chen's attitude.
Qian Yiqian and Zheng Zhong looked as if they had eaten shit and were extremely uncomfortable.
Damn it, no matter how favored you are, there must be a limit, right?
Is Your Majesty planning to summon Lu Chen to the palace to become emperor in the future?
