Bianliang, imperial palace, Zichen Hall.

Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the palace will hold a formal Mid-Autumn Festival ceremony, which is similar to New Year's Day.

In addition to officials above the fourth rank in Beijing and the wife of the imperial decree would come to the palace to congratulate, envoys from all countries would also come to the palace to congratulate the officials and the queen on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

However, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is obviously not so happy.

In the Zichen Palace, the atmosphere was a bit solemn. Whether the ministers were sincere or performed, they all looked angry.

Only the envoy of Liao Kingdom, Yelu Dedu, stood in the middle of the hall, and said with a fearless look on his face:

"Your Majesty, you have increased the annual monies to one million taels of silver, 500,000 pieces of silk and 200,000 dan of tea. This is the decision of the monarch of our country for the friendship between the two countries and considering it repeatedly. For the wealthy Southern Dynasty, these annual monies are just a drop in the bucket and are not worth mentioning. I believe Your Majesty will not disagree."

Zuodu Censor Wu Xinlin stood up all of a sudden:

"Since it is for the sake of friendship between the two countries, the Liao Kingdom has made its own decision and has more than doubled the annual monies without authorization. Is there such a friendly law? This is a robbery, and our dynasty will never agree!"

Yelu Dedu glanced at Wu Xinlin, then continued to face Emperor Yuan Jing in the main position and said:

"The Censor Wu said this. This year, our country has encountered a drought that has not been encountered in a century. As a brother country, why is it a robbery to help me? Isn't my brotherly respectful brotherly? Isn't it the Confucianism that you respect?"

Wu Xinlin snorted coldly: "If there is an unreasonable request, our court will never agree. The wolf ambition of Liao Kingdom is abominable!"

Yelu Dedu was not angry either, but just said lightly: "Will the Zhou Kingdom not be afraid of our Liao Kingdom drinking horses in the Yellow River?"

The deputy commander of the Imperial Army, Lu Zhizhai, left the class and cursed angrily:

"Then you can try it. I will wait for you to millions of soldiers. The official family cannot agree to such unreasonable requests!"

The court had already become a quarrel, and Cui Miyuan had been standing in the first row without saying a word. No one knew what his attitude was? Should he refuse to do it with a tough decision or begging for the whole thing?

Chai Ziyun pretended to be careless and looked back at the old fox, snorted lightly, and went out to play:

"The official, Liao Kingdom is affected by disaster, so there is no such reason. Moreover, once the annual monies are formulated, they will be sent every year. The silver and silk tea will be several million trump cards a year. This is also a huge financial burden for our country. Please think twice!"

Chai Ziyun is preparing for political speculation. Anyway, "anti-Liao" is political correctness. He wants to win over the centrists in the court, and of course he wants to erect his own "anti-Liao pioneer".

Sure enough, when he heard that the eldest prince was opposed, at least half of the ministers in the court came out to support him.

"I'm going to discuss it."

Chai Ziyun looked proud, because these ministers indeed included many "clear streams". These ministers used to be close to him, but now they tend to stand on his side.

Prime Minister Cui did not speak, but his gangsters jumped out on their own initiative. Zhao Hongguang, the Minister of Revenue and one of the four tigers, came out and said:

"The Duke Cheng Guo said this is a bad thing. The Liao Kingdom and our dynasty have been in peace for decades. Although there are occasional small conflicts, they are generally peaceful. Now the Liao Kingdom is in trouble. If our dynasty does not lend a helping hand, it is contrary to morality.

Confucius said, "Do you have no faith in your friendship? Is it not familiar with us? Since we are a brotherly country, how can we sit still? How can we let the people in the world view our dynasty? How can we make the barbarians submit to each other? How can we reflect the spirit of our great power?"

Lu Zhixiao snorted as soon as he heard this:

"I don't like to hear what Zhao Shangshu said. I have always been relying on beating to subdue the foreign countries and the barbarians. I have never heard of spending money to make them surrender. This will only encourage their greed and treat our dynasty as a surrender.

Officials and officials think that this year's monies do not need to be increased. It is better to allocate them to the imperial guards and border troops to renovate their military ambitions to prevent the Liao Dynasty's wolfish ambitions. The Liao people are not trustworthy. They will have one million taels today and two million taels next year. Will my Great Zhou be blackmailed by them forever?"

As soon as Lu Zhixiao said this, it attracted a lot of cheers from the military officers in the palace.

Zhao Hongguang smiled and said, "Give the silver to the border army? Give the imperial guards? I'm afraid that one or two taels of silver would be good if one or two taels of silver was spent on those soldiers."

Now it was the civil servants' turn to laugh.

The civil and military officials did not care about the emperor sitting above them, and did not care whether the envoys of the Liao Kingdom would be exposed to their family sluts.

Emperor Jing of Yuan sat on his head. If he looked carefully, he would find that he was shaking his head gently.

He is a social phobia patient, but not a fool, and he understands it in his heart.

To increase the annual monies, it means raising a tiger as a disaster and raising an enemy.

But if you give the money to the army, it means that you will never return the meat bun to beat the dog. Now all the civil and military officials in the court are not greedy? Which one really has a family and country in your heart?

His eyes passed by Prime Minister Cui,

Emperor Jing of Yuan knew in his heart that this prime minister was not a "war pro-sect". Everything he did was to protect his position and the interests of the Cui clan of Qinghe, so fighting between the two countries would never be his choice.

Once the two countries fight, some ugly faces that are covered up may be exposed.

Besides, if you are defeated by the time, there will always be someone responsible, either the Privy Council or the Prime Minister. The problem is that Cui Miyuan is now in two positions and will definitely not be able to escape.

So Prime Minister Cui will not take risks, nor will he dare to take risks. He will eventually choose to compromise and increase the annual monies.

Emperor Jing of Yuan looked at his adopted son again.

Emperor Jing of Yuan Dynasty understood the current crisis in the court, but he was powerless and had no intention to change it. Without this courage, his temper was even more Taoist than Taoism.

But he also wanted to find a decisive successor with a strong heart and reorganize the court after he ascended the throne. Therefore, this "prince" candidate must be a prince with a strong personality and some skills that will not be easily influenced by others.

This is also the reason why he did not choose Chai Zijin. He thought Chai Zijin belonged to the kind of good baby, obedient, but too soft like him.

But now he felt that his good wishes might be disappointed, because he and the queen had discovered that the eldest prince Chai Ziyun was more intelligent, not trained enough, and had too small a situation.

It seems that there is no potential for a "wise ruler".

But there is no way. His official family is over fifty years old and has a relatively weak body. He is no longer allowed to train the third batch of adopted sons. He can't wait for ten or twenty years.

So what should Liao Kingdom do? Whatever you want.

This is the inner thought of the emperor. I have to say that the Great Zhou Dynasty is about to end.

The emperor was not in charge, the prince and the prime minister were fighting for power, civil officials and military officials were desperately greedy for money, the soldiers died of poverty and the people died of suffering. In this so-called prosperous era, they were actually full of holes and were unbearable to the eyes.

Liao Kingdom dared to make such an rude request, which means that they had seen through it long ago
Chapter completed!