Min Ruoying, who returned to the inner study, still had pale face, and his hands were trembling slightly. In the court, he could hardly control himself and punched the arrogant envoy of Ming Dynasty to kill him on the spot. When did he have ever been insulted like this? A small minister of the Ministry of Rites actually pointed at his nose and questioned him about Ma Chao in front of the civil and military officials of the Great Chu Dynasty, and accused him of destroying the alliance between Chu and the Ming Dynasty and pushing the alliance between the two countries into a dangerous situation of breaking up.

He really used the power of the prehistoric world to prevent himself from having an attack on the spot.

He was still angry and grabbed the paperweight beast on the table with one hand and smashed it hard to the ground. With a loud bang, the paperweight beast was smashed into pieces, which also scared the chief minister Ma Xiangdong, Minister of War Lian Bo, and the new Minister of Revenue Zhang Chen and others who came in behind him.

"Where did he get the courage? You say, where did he get the courage?" He looked at his important minister in a qilin and asked sternly.

All the ministers bowed their heads and all kept silent. The so-called humiliation of the ministers, the great shame that Min Ruoying suffered today, did they also empathize with it? But what can I do? A weak country has no diplomacy. Now they have deeply understood the true meaning of this sentence. The Chu State now has huge support from the Ming State in all directions, and even when the Ming Dynasty fought a huge war with Qin State, this support never stopped. It is precisely because of these support that Chu State has the power to wipe out the rebellion in the country and launch a counterattack in Jinghu at the same time.

Now there are only two prefectures and counties left in the eastern six counties and have not been taken back. At this time, it would be more than worth the loss to anger the Ming Dynasty. The State of Chu also needs the Ming Dynasty to provide strong support in terms of money, weapons, etc. to complete the final blow.

This time, he accepted Ma Chao because Min Ruoying wanted to control Bian Wushuang more firmly. With Bian Wushuang's victory in the Jinghu War Zone, the popularity of people increased, and his desire became stronger. In his opinion, Bian Wushuang was indeed better and more capable than Cheng Wuben. Such a person naturally had to be firmly controlled in his palm. Secondly, it was because of the imperial concubine's pleading that the imperial concubine was the eldest princess of Qin and Ma Chao's brother, and gave birth to a prince for herself. Min Ruoying could not help but give her this face. Thirdly, he thought Qin Feng would not care about such a Qin prince who destroyed the country and destroyed the family. Didn't the prince of Yue escape to Qi? How could Qin Feng not behave?

But he obviously did not guess Qin Feng's idea. Qin Feng might not care about Ma Chao's life and death, but he could not tolerate Min Ruoying using Ma Chao to control Bian Wushuang and let Bian Wushuang become a pawn in his hand. If Min Ruoying succeeds, then Qin Feng and Bian Wushuang's agreement will likely be no longer possible. And Bian Wushuang, who had pinched the soft scepter, would have to become a knife in Min Ruoying's hand.

Min Ruoying naturally didn't know all this. In his opinion, Qin Feng was a typical bully of the weak and fearing the strong. He had no choice but to deal with Qi, so he ignored Wu Jing and ruthlessly stabbed Chu.

He really didn't give him any face! Not only did he enter Anyang County privately, collude with Bian Wenhao, kill Ma Chao in front of the important officials of the Great Chu, but he also sent someone to scold him in court. It was unbearable, even the person who was a muddy person still had a lot of local nature.

"Without the butcher Zhang, I can't eat the pig with hair!" He looked at his important officials fiercely, "With their support, we can't defeat the six eastern counties? Lianbo, do you think, can you?"

Lian Bo's body trembled for a moment, and he looked up at Min Ruoying: "Your Majesty, this is not only a problem for the six eastern counties, but also a problem of domestic rebellion."

"What I ask you now is, can you take down the six eastern counties?" Min Ruoying raised her voice.

"Your Majesty, Bian Wushuang's memorial said that although Zhou Jiyun lost his troops, he still had strength. Now he retreated to Kunling County, with more strict defense. If he wanted to recover the lost territory, he might have to fight hard for a long time." Speaking of this, his head lowered and his voice was smaller: "In the memorial, he also asked for more weapons and the reward silver that should be issued after the last war."

"Zhang Chen, how much money is left in the treasury? Bian Wushuang will give him as much as he wants. I have only one requirement, which is to quickly take down Kunling County, completely recover the six eastern counties, and rebuild the eastern defense line. Then our Dachu can completely enter the era of reconstruction."

The Minister of Revenue Zhang Chen, whose head was lower than Lianbo, was drooping, and his face was bitter, "Your Majesty, there is no money in the treasury."

Min Ruoying widened her eyes and looked at Zhang Chen incredibly: "What did you say? There is no money in our Great Chu treasury?"

"Your Majesty, in the battle of Qi that year, our Great Chu can be said to be in full swing. Since then, our national treasury has never had any surplus." Zhang Chen's voice was a little trembling. He knew very well that what Min Ruoying didn't want to mention the defeat of Luzhou that year, but now he has to talk about this matter.

Sure enough, Min Ruoying's face immediately turned dark and she looked at him fiercely.

"Your Majesty, since then, Qi State attacked Jinghu fiercely. Cheng Dazhi mobilized the whole country to build the Jinghu defense line. The taxes collected every year were sent directly to the Jinghu front line without entering the gate of the treasury. Later, although the Jinghu front line was stable, the years of wars, military pay, weapons, food, and annual expenses were still astronomical. It was only this that could be supported, but the rebellion that broke up everywhere in the country made us worse. It took money to eliminate the rebellion.

The rebellion places mean that there is no income. As time goes by, the country's income has been decreasing year by year. In recent years, if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty, we would not even be able to pay the salaries of officials." Zhang Chen said the more courageous he became: "Your Majesty, I had already negotiated the next loan with Changlong Bank. This money could allow us to support the previous month and solve Bian Wushuang's military expenditure problem, but because of the Ma Chao incident, Changlong Bank had already stopped the amount."

"Your Majesty, the Ming people have also stopped the export of weapons to us. A new batch of weapons and equipment that should have arrived in Quanzhou ten days ago was heard that they had returned to Ming Kingdom and did not arrive in the port. Bian Wushuang was waiting for the arrival of this batch of new weapons to launch a new attack on Kunling County, but I am afraid that it will be delayed now."

Min Ruoying sat back on the chair dejectedly and looked at Zhang Chen and said, "Zhang Chen, there was a report from the inner guard that Qin Feng's Ming court issued a national debt volume every year to borrow money from the domestic people. And using this method, a large amount of money can be accumulated every year. Can we imitate it?"

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Chen smiled bitterly: "The Ming Dynasty was able to do this because they would pay off last year's loans and pay interest on time every year. If the people buy bonds, they are making money, but we may not be able to do it."

"Why can't we do it? We can also pay interest!" Min Ruoying shouted.

Zhang Chen lowered his head and said nothing, but Min Ruoying also suddenly realized that the current situation of Chu State can afford interest? I am afraid that I can't even pay the capital. The Ming State can do this because of the long-term national credit, and where does the Chu State get its credit now?

"If it really doesn't work, then arrest a group of businessmen who are unkind and corrupt officials, and can always raise a lot of money!" Min Ruoying said with gritted teeth.

"Your Majesty, we have used this trick in the past and raised a lot of money, but since then, those people deposited a lot of money into Changlong Bank. Their business transactions no longer use cash transactions, but use a bill of exchange. Last year, we caught a few cash banks, and the only one hundred taels of taels of cash we found in their homes. We also asked Changlong Bank to investigate the accounts of these people, but Changlong Bank refused to implement them under the pretext of the Ming Dynasty's laws and regulations."

"Then check them." Min Ruoying said sternly.

"Your Majesty, this will cause disputes between the two countries. Although Changlong Bank is privately owned, it has a close connection with the Ming Dynasty court. If Changlong Bank is sealed, we will lose more than we get." Zhang Chen shook his head and sighed. If the Great Chu was strong, he would naturally not be afraid, but now he is all involved and mobilizes his whole body. Even though they know that Changlong Bank is helping the evildoer, they have no choice.

Min Ruoying looked at his important officials blankly: "What do you mean is that I want to bear this tone? I still have to give in to them?"

The chief minister Ma Xiangdong, who had never spoken, stood in front of Min Ruoying: "Your Majesty, a real man can bend and stretch, endure temporary humiliation, and bring about a vast sky. Today, the envoy of Ming Kingdom did not say anything to death. I turned around and went to the inn to apologize to him. The Ma Chao incident was just that His Majesty was thinking about the husband and wife relationship with the imperial concubine, not to have any dirty things with Ming Kingdom, and to find out their words and see what Qin Feng wanted? The Ming people did not want to completely turn against us. They had just conquered Qin and needed time to digest it, while Qi Kingdom was still

However, it is the enemy of both of us, and they also need the Mingchu Alliance. As long as this big foundation exists, everything can be discussed. We need to get more loans to recover Kunling County and quell the domestic rebellion. Now, the recovery of Kunling County is in front of us. As long as we have a little more effort, we can achieve the goal. The domestic rebellion is being wiped out one by one, and most of the rebellions have returned to peace. As long as these two problems are resolved, we will have the confidence to negotiate with them equally, but now we can only endure it."

"What you mean is that I still have to punish the Imperial Concubine?" Min Ruoying said sternly.

"Your Majesty, someone always needs to pay the price for this matter and punish the imperial concubine a little. If the anger of the Ming people can be eliminated and the support of the Ming people is again worth it. Now is the most difficult time and the most critical time for us. Seeing that everything is developing towards the benefit, we must not interrupt this process!"
Chapter completed!