The more Xiao Chen talked, the more excited he became.
Even if you owe military pay, you still owe it, but living people can owe it. You have to allocate the pensions for thousands of soldiers who were killed or wounded, right?
If you don't give me this money, then I really don't dare to go back.
I'm afraid that when their heroic spirits come to me and cry, I won't be able to see them!
Xiao Chen was impassioned, expressed his feelings directly, and continued to question Chen Wenqi, "These are in addition to the subsidy money promised by the emperor. Now that you, Mr. Chen, can't even come up with the subsidy money, what can I, the governor, do?"
Just now Zhou Weichu and Xu Haiming kept talking to me about regulations, so let me ask you two adults, is it regulations to pay back debts?
Is the payment of military pay a regulation? Is the pension for fallen soldiers a regulation?
Isn't it regulation to detain hundreds of thousands of people in Yanyun County to point out the food that can save their lives and fill their stomachs?
Besides, in the beginning, I went to other people’s homes with IOUs to collect debts, and I’m afraid you know best how many people I offended, Mr. Zhou Weichu. I guess many people must have gone to you to complain about me, right?
You are the censor of Zuodu, and you can do anything if you hear rumors, so I guess you also handed over these memorials to impeach me to the emperor, right?
Haha, if the emperor hadn't trusted me and cared for me, I wouldn't have had to resign, and I would have been sent to prison to await my punishment. How could I have the honor of sitting across from you in the court to discuss matters?
The emperor said that I had a childish temper, and the prince said that I was trying to control my anger. Now I would like to ask all of you here, what would happen if you changed places with me?
Xiao Chen's words made everyone speechless, because what he said was all the truth, and every word was heartbreaking!
"Your Majesty, if we are discussing the law in this way, in my opinion, there is no need to discuss it. I do not dare to live up to the grace of God, nor do I dare to show my temper. I will set off back tomorrow to be loyal to the Emperor with all my flesh and blood.
That's all." Xiao Chen said that he was extremely disappointed, his heart was cold, and he was discouraged. He could love someone.
"Master Xiao doesn't let me speak." Chen Wenqi said with a bitter smile, "It's as if everyone is relaxed just because you have difficulties..."
"It's not that I don't let you talk, I don't let you fart!" Xiao Chen finally got angry, "Do you think I don't know if your household department has any money? The tax cash collected a year ago is at least 20 million taels!
The arrears paid by the governors and governors in various places are also tens of millions of taels, right?"
"Do you dare to say that the war in Minzhou was all wasted? I fought hard with the tribes in northern Xinjiang for half a year in Yanyun County, and I did a lot of things to appease the place. The total cost was less than 10 million taels of silver, Feng
King Yang spent fifty or sixty million taels of silver in less than a month?"
Xiao Chen couldn't help but not be angry.
Damn it, I fought alone to recapture Yanyun County with thousands of old and weak soldiers, without support, without military pay, or even without food and grass. I spent a total of five million taels of silver.
Li Feng, the king of Fengyang, had tens of thousands of elite soldiers. He had strong soldiers and horses, sufficient food and wages, and reinforcements. With local support and only local operations, he spent tens of millions to repel Xiao Xinghan's more than 10,000 lone troops who penetrated deep into the rabble?
First of all, I will definitely not spend so much money. If so much money is really spent, the matter will be even bigger. From now on, no one on the frontier will sacrifice their lives for you, Da Zhou. If you have any battles, you will be left to Fengyang.
The king went to fight.
Otherwise, they will all end up like Xiao Chen!
"Xiao Chen, if you have something to say, why are you scolding people?" Li Shi saw Chen Wenqi's face turned pale with anger, and hurried out to talk to him.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. Your Majesty, please forgive me. Mr. Chen, please forgive me. I shouldn't have scolded you. If you feel offended, just scold me back. Otherwise, I can scold you myself. What I just said was just bullshit."
! I shut up, you can talk, tell me all your difficulties, I am all ears!" Xiao Chen started to officially go crazy.
You don’t give me the power to appoint and remove officials, and you don’t give me any money. You just ask me to work for you, and ask me to help you regain Shunfeng Port. Go ahead and live your mother’s Qingqiu dream!
"I didn't say no money, I just talked about the difficulties of our household department." Chen Wenqi did not get angry, which shows that his mind is deep and unfathomable.
"The Emperor has an edict. No matter how difficult it is, the Ministry of Revenue must find a way, but it cannot take out too much at once, let alone pay back all the debts you just mentioned, Mr. Xiao. It is not that it will not be paid, but it needs to be paid in installments.
Come and pay it back, let's do this, I will allocate two million taels to you first to solve your urgent needs..." This is to test Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen closed his mouth tightly, his face was gloomy, and he didn't want to talk to him at all.
"Two million is a bit too little. Wen Qi, please think of a way to add more." Li Shidu couldn't stand listening anymore.
"The prince has spoken, and I have no choice but to do whatever it takes and sell the iron to get three million taels." Li Shi's words were only worth one million taels.
"Haha, it seems that the household department is really difficult." Li Shi was unhappy and his words were thorny.
"No matter how difficult it is, we have to come to Yanyun County. I think we should give Xiao Chen five million taels first." Li Wanjiang frowned and said, "Xiao Chen, you must also understand my difficulties."
"My lord, I obey the order." Xiao Chen reluctantly surrendered.
"I will exempt you from taxes in Yanyun County for another three years. In addition, I will not take a penny from the mutual trade income. It is all at your disposal." Li Wanjiang said again.
"My Lord, thank you for your kindness!" Xiao Chen's face finally showed a smile like Ichino's.
It’s really not easy.
"It's not that I'm partial and unwilling to give money to Yanyun County. In fact, Yanyun County will have many places to spend money in the future... I want to regain Shunfeng Port, what do you think?" Li Wanjiang said.
Ah? Everyone was shocked when they heard this. If they didn't say they were going to discuss Yanyun County, why did they involve Shunfeng Port?
Oh, that's right, Shunfeng Port belongs to Yanyun County.
Because Shunfeng Port has been occupied by the Russians for a long time, everyone has kind of forgotten...
But I don’t know how to recover it?
"At present, the war in Minzhou County is over. I can mobilize the navy to go north. In addition, I want to mobilize a total of 20,000 elite troops from Wolong Pass and Yanyunguan Pass to enter Yanyun County to attack Ross stationed in Shunfeng Port from both land and water directions.
The fleet launches an attack." Li Wanjiang said.
Since the emperor has made it so specific, it seems that his determination to regain Shunfeng Port by force has been determined and cannot be changed.
Shunfeng Port will definitely be recovered, it is just a matter of sooner or later. There is no doubt about this, but it is also necessary to find the right time.
Now is a good time to say it's good, but not a good time to say it's bad.
Fortunately, Xiao Chen recovered the entire territory of Yanyun County and stabilized the tribes in northern Xinjiang, so that he could directly fight against the Rus without any worries.
The bad thing is that the strength of the navy in Dazhou is still very weak. I am afraid that it is no match for the Ross fleet. In addition, if this battle is lost, there will be nothing to say. If they win, the Ross people will definitely not give up. If they brazenly send their army south,
If we officially start a war with the Great Zhou Dynasty.