"Thank you, Your Highness."

After Xiaochuanzi served tea to the two of them, Xu Changqing and Zhao Heshan thanked them, then took a sip from their teacups.

Not too deep, just express my meaning.

If your leader asks someone to serve you tea and you don't drink a sip, doesn't that mean you're not giving your leader face?

Even someone as upright as Zhao Heshan would not be fooled by such a trivial matter. It is human nature, and the proper etiquette is not lacking even among the people, let alone in this Xi Zheng Palace.

"Zhao Heshan."

After the two put down their teacups, Li Chen first raised the topic to Zhao Heshan.

"You return to the capital from the local area and take charge of the household department. This job seems to be a big step up, but in fact, this position is really difficult to sit in. You may burn your buttocks. The current situation in the imperial court

It’s not that you don’t know that we just fought a big battle. Although we won, the benefits have not yet been recovered. Whether we can get them and how much we can get are still unknown. If the mission did not negotiate well in the past, there is a high probability that

The war will continue, so we cannot rely on war reparations to solve all problems."

"But the imperial court spends a lot of money every day. Just after the natural disaster last year, most of the taxes were reduced or exempted in several provinces, resulting in a significant reduction in the tax collected last year. However, various places are still dragging their feet in paying.

According to the rules, at the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, all provinces should pay the tax for the year, but now less than half has arrived. Several provinces have been complaining about poverty since the beginning of autumn. You can say anything. Maybe there are some people in them.

It is really difficult for the country and the region to collect taxes, but the court also has to wait for the rice to be put into the pot. It cannot compromise just because it is poor. It will really become a crying child with milk. Other provinces have followed suit, and the court has taken

What expenses?”

"Secondly, this year's heavy snowfall has not stopped yet, and the snow disaster has already started to appear. Once a disaster occurs, the imperial court must provide disaster relief. Once disaster relief occurs, countless money will flow out in vain, so you, the Minister of Household Affairs,

In fact, it was roasted on the fire."

Li Chen's words made Xu Changqing feel sad.

Before today's meeting, these were all the difficulties that made him lose his hair every day, and he couldn't eat or sleep. He was always dreaming about how to spend money, how to make money, and how to manage the treasury's purse. Now he is hearing these about

The words disaster relief and taxes make my brain go crazy.

In fact, Li Chen still has a major problem that he hasn't said yet.

That is the huge deficit of national debt and banks.

Although getting two million taels of silver from Zhao Xuanji can be regarded as overcoming the biggest crisis, if we want to completely fill this hole, there is still a gap of at least three to four million taels of silver, just to pay the national debt once it is due.

You need to prepare more than 2.8 million taels of silver for sex.

This matter has not been mentioned, but it does not mean that it does not exist.

Li Chen knew it well, and Xu Changqing and Zhao Heshan were also like Mingjing.

Zhao Heshan smiled bitterly and said: "I have thought about all the things here, but I still can't figure out a clue for a while, so I came to the East Palace to ask for help from His Highness."

"Don't look for me."

Li Chen spread his hands and said: "If this job is easy to handle, Xu Changqing will look like he has aged five or six years this year? His face is wrinkled. I can't find anything to do with you. At best, I can think of ways to assist you, but the specifics are

You still have to rely on yourself to solve it."
Chapter completed!