Chapter 2571: Towards my natal family

"I already expected this. Si Huanian didn't dare to say it."

Zhao Shu knew what method he must have used to tell Si Huanian to keep his

condition secret.

The emperor’s illness is the greatest secret, ranging from turbulence between

the government and the opposition to the state.

Externally, Zhao Shu has always agreed to conceal.

Now this situation can only be concealed first. In a few years, the prince

will be old, so he can talk about it alone.

The prince is thirteen this year and will be married in two or three years.

Probably, it can only last until then.

After the end of the early dynasty, Zhao Yuanjing retained several officials

from the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry to discuss

matters concerning the construction of the river.

The autumn flood every year is a major event that the court attaches great

importance to.

Failure to obtain it will easily cause thousands of people’s farmland, houses

and houses to be flooded and displaced.

Repairing the river embankment requires hiring a large number of craftsmen,

plus the money to buy materials, and the unavoidable layers of exploitation by

officials of all levels. The cost of repairing the river embankment invested

by the imperial court every year is also huge.

This meeting is a matter of negotiating money.

The money of the imperial court was in the treasury and was in the control of

the household department.

Today's Hubu Shangshu is Jin Lan.

Jin Lan has an outstanding memory, and all the accounts of the household

department are in his heart. You don't need to read the account book, you can

tell the data that the emperor needs without hesitation.

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu asked for an appropriation of two million

taels of silver.

The right servant of the Ministry of Households snorted coldly: "Master Shi is

really a lion's mouth. We really think that the Ministry of Households is the

God of Wealth. Can we make money by ourselves?"

This Master Shi is Wei Jintai's old man.

Although he is old, he is in good spirits and full of anger in his speech: "If

you don't have enough money, repairing the river embankment is like giving up

halfway!"

"All the money has been given to the Ministry of Engineering, and other places

will eat dirt?"

"All right."

Zhao Yuanjing raised his hand to stop their argument, looked at Jin Lan, and

asked, "How much can the treasury allocate to the Ministry of Industry?"

Jin Lan said: "Originally, this year's Ministry of Industry's funding was

sufficient, but due to the war, a lot of treasury money was consumed."

For the sake of immortality, the consumption of shells is huge.

This is all silver.

This is also the reason why some officials do not approve of the exchange of

silver. What's the use of leaving so many lives? It can't be exchanged for the

money spent.

The court used silver in many places.

There is a lot of consumption here. Naturally there is less silver available

there.

In the eyes of many superiors, the lives of the people and soldiers at the

bottom are not worth money and are not worth replacing with expensive shells.

This also caused some forces in the DPRK to question the Queen's decision.

They felt that the Empress Empress’s exchange of expensive shells for the

lives of lowly soldiers affected their interests.

In addition to this incident, many ministers in the DPRK were dissatisfied

with the decision of the Northern Qi King Xiao Ziliang.

Originally, there was a consensus both inside and outside the dynasty that the

king of Northern Qi could not have children, and in the future it will be the

second prince to inherit the throne of Northern Qi. In this way, Bei Qi was

firmly controlled by Da Zhou.

Northern Qi will never be able to restore the imperial royal family.

But now, the Si Huanian brought back by the queen's empress claimed to be able

to cure Xiao Ziliang's infertility. If he gave birth to a son, the king of

Northern Qi would not have a chance with the second prince in the future.

Northern Qi has become an uncertain factor again.

This goes against the wishes of many people.

This made many people suspect that the empress's heart was still towards her

own family. Otherwise, why not let your second son be the king of Northern Qi,

but you have to work hard to let Xiao Ziliang give birth to a son?