Huang Laosi was delighted.
Chu Qing was also satisfied and left with Fu San.
But when the two people walked out of the Jingyi Hall, the smile on Emperor Chang Chengyou's face disappeared without a trace, and finally turned into a sigh.
Sun An looked at the pamphlet in Laosi's hand with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Sun An."
"The old slave is here."
"What do you think?"
Sun An quickly laughed along with him: "Although I don't know how much food it will cost to do this, Commander Chu will definitely get the money and food back since he has said it..."
Huang Laosi interrupted impatiently: "Do you really think that once I see the money, I will ignore everything?"
"Yes, the old slave is..."
Sun An was stunned for a moment, then quickly changed his words: "Of course I don't think so, your Majesty must have other deep intentions."
"I like money more than anyone else. Now I have 417,290 862 coins in my inner treasury, waiting for you to make up for the half-year salary that was deducted from you the day before yesterday. There are four hundred and seventy-seven thousand, three hundred and sixteen thousand and eight hundred and sixty-two articles. I don’t care too much about this money, and I never remember such detailed figures. How about you collect it for me? Let’s give it a round number. You can pay more in salary deductions and make it up to 420,000 yuan.”
Sun An was dumbfounded.
Is this... a complete one?
After a rough calculation, Sun An knew clearly that this was not just a round-up, but another deduction from our family salary, and it was not based on "years", but "lifetimes". He was less than three months a month. Guaranteed salary.
Huang Laosi looked at the booklet in his hand again, showing a somewhat helpless expression.
"If the court officials don't allow it, I will first use the money from the inner treasury to treat the military personnel favorably. At least, I will give the relatives of the military personnel who died in the battle something to rely on and something to live on."
Sun An's expression changed slightly: "Then, Your Majesty...you won't be drafting?"
"It's a joke, my country, my army, what is important and what is light, you can't even tell the difference between light and heavy."
Sun An's expression changed. Looking at the emperor's profile, he suddenly felt that the image of the fourth child had become extremely taller.
Huang Laosi smiled slightly again.
"Although I can't draft now and invest 400,000 guan, in the future, Lao Shi can get me 1.2 million guan, 1.2 million guan, hahahaha, all the beauties in the world will come to my bed... All the way into the palace, hahahaha."
Sun An also smiled.
Being with his fourth son all year round, Sun An knew in his heart that the emperor actually didn't care about the draft that he talked about every day, at least not as much as he seemed on the surface.
Because since becoming the prince, countless aristocratic families and courtiers have given those beauties to the fourth child, but the fourth child almost always wants to cash them in, and the cash discounted money was used to supplement the army during the prince's period. As for the After becoming the emperor, he almost never received beauties, unless these beauties had "dowries", such as Zhuangzi or good property in their names. Rather than loving beauties, Lao Si loved money. He took these beauties for the sake of money. In the palace.
Nowadays, no one gives beautiful women to the fourth child, because everyone has learned the lesson, and the Li family has learned from the past. After the Li family was attacked by Chu Qing, the whole family was slaughtered, but the house was not ransacked.
At that time, the courtiers were quite surprised. They thought that the fourth child was very righteous. For the Li family's crime, it was not an exaggeration to confiscate the house and kill the nine clans. However, the fourth child was showing mercy outside the law, which moved many courtiers.
Later, everyone realized that the fourth child did not confiscate the house because he wanted to "take it all for himself"!
You must know that if a house is confiscated, half or even more than half of it will be deposited into the national treasury, and it also depends on the crime.
The Li family was not raided, but the whole family was slaughtered, and only Concubine Shu was left. All the assets in the name of the Li family became Concubine Shu. You don't need to think about it to know that Concubine Shu's belongs to the fourth child.
It's okay to give beautiful women as gifts, but the main reason is that I'm afraid of being noticed by the fourth child. The fourth child will first marry a female relative of your family, then kill your whole family, and legally and reasonably occupy your family's property. The routine is very saucy, and you don't have to share the spoils with the court.
Since the inner treasury had money, the fourth child has also paid great attention to the disaster situation in various states. Sun An has no doubt that if the national treasury cannot provide money for disaster relief, the fourth child will definitely allocate money from the inner treasury.
"Na Fu San, you are right. The army is the pillar of my great prosperity. Land, in the hands of the people, will be taken away by aristocratic families. But in the hands of the army, in the hands of the army, which is highly valued by the country, the aristocratic family, Don't dare to take it away. If you take it, the army will kill them, and I will also send them a butcher's knife. The army is the foundation of a country, and the people are the root of a prosperous age."
The fourth child looked at the pamphlet in his hand and murmured: "Money, money, is still money, money, money and food are all money. Only when I have money, and when the country has money, can we have the hope of such a prosperous age. Loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, oh, for the common people, there is no courtesy, justice and shame when there is no rice to cook. For the army, there is no salary, how can they serve the country? And being loyal to the emperor, mentioning patriotism is a joke!”
Opening the booklet again, Lao Si read it word by word, extremely seriously.
Sun An was convinced.
This is why he has been deducted from his salary for eight lifetimes and has never complained, at least on the surface.
He understands Chang Chengyou, and in some aspects, he even understands the fourth child better than Chang Ao, his own father.
The fourth child never shied away from his background as a general on horseback, leading troops in battles. When he mentioned it, the fourth child always beamed with joy.
But when it comes to governing the country and enriching the national treasury, the fourth child always looks like he is asking for advice humbly. This is why Wei Changfeng, who has a bad temper and beats courtiers many times, is so favored by the emperor. As long as you can make money, you can do whatever you want!
Even if everyone like Fu San was facing the risk of being beheaded with every word he said, Lao Si still didn't really get angry, and threw the so-called emperor's majesty and face out of the sky.
Lao Si will humbly accept anything that is good for the country, beneficial to the people, and truly considers the military. Even if some people say something that offends Tian Yan, Lao Si still doesn't care.
Qin Gang, who followed Chang Ao wholeheartedly back then, still follows Lao Si wholeheartedly now, precisely because he knows how much Lao Si attaches importance to the military.
Chu Qing had arrested so many people, but there were almost no senior generals in the Ministry of War, because these generals knew that Lao Si was a person who really cared about the army and truly sympathized with the army. Senior generals are highly consistent with Lao Si, so almost all of them are poor, and they will not be caught by the Thousand Cavalry Battalion.
"Four hundred thousand guan is just a drop in the bucket. If you want to treat the army well and treat the army well for a long time, I'm afraid millions or even tens of millions of guan will not be enough."
The fourth child looked at the booklet, first sighed, and then looked thoughtful.
"Lao Shi said that he had never been involved in the law revision, especially the military matters. They were all thought up by Fu San. Between the lines, it seems that everything costs money and food, but I have another look. Only then can you understand the deep meaning of the three blessings."
"What does your Majesty mean?"
"Money and food are just one of them. What Fu San wants to tell me and what he asks me to do is to give the soldiers dignity!"
"dignity?"
"Don't be ashamed to serve in the army, you should be proud to serve in the army, be loved by the people, and respected by the country. This is what Fu San wants me to understand. If the monarch and his ministers can do it, the court can do it, and the world can do it, no matter what Within a few years, there was no longer any forced recruitment of troops by the state government. Instead, the people were eager to join the army. If a family had a male serving in the army, it would be envied and arrogant. When others mentioned it, they would be full of praise and praise. word."
Although Sun An had never joined the army because of insufficient hard conditions, he had been accompanying Lao Si and spent a lot of time in various military camps. After thinking about it deeply, he couldn't help but say yes again and again.
Yes, if the people take the initiative to join the army and can’t wait to join the army, such a warrior who dares to fight, the whole camp will be full of Xiongzhi warriors. In Dachang, why not worry about conquering the neighboring countries that are not subject to them? Who in the world will dare to raise the flag and stand on their own? Bad things.
A young eunuch came in and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has come to report that Mr. Chu Wensheng, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, has arrived in Heixian County. Can he enter the capital early tomorrow morning?"
"What?" Lao Si's expression changed drastically: "It's so fast. Is there any military report?"
"The Ministry of War said there was no such thing. He just came quickly from Hexian County to report it, and Mr. Chu escorted hundreds of prison cars."
Sun An was stunned.
The fourth child's expression was not much better: "Did you really ask him to complete this errand?!"
He has been thinking about this matter these days. It has been so long and there is still no news. He is afraid that Chu Wensheng will die in Nanguan again.
Just then the Emperor arrived, followed by a little leopard, grinning.
"Old Ten, where is Old Ten? Didn't Sun Ping say that Old Ten has entered the palace? Why don't you come and see me? Are you stirring up trouble again and instigating my uncle and nephew?"
"Chu Wensheng is back." Huang Laosi looked excited: "It's done, it must be done. The one who came back with the prison car is Chu Wensheng, Yongye, my unparalleled general."
"You're back already?" Upon hearing this, Chang Ao was also happy and laughed three times: "Awesome, I gave you a girl in exchange for it, hahahahahaha."
Huang Laosi: "..."
