Chapter 518: Increase revenue and reduce expenditure
Sanbao pondered for a moment and replied: "I'm afraid...it still needs a few days of work."
Li Chen raised his eyebrows and said: "Half a month has passed since the day he agreed to serve as an official. Look, Zheng Baorong also came from Weihaiwei. He arrived in the capital to take up his post the next day."
"Tantai Jingzhi means that no matter how slow your legs and feet are, and no matter how much luggage you have, you should be able to climb from Weihaiwei to Beijing in the past half month. How many more days will it take?"
Sanbao smiled bitterly and said: "This Mr. Mirror has twenty cartloads of books at home, and it took him six or seven days to sort them out."
"I heard that his other secluded places have many more books than this one, and they all have to be sorted out and brought to the capital."
"In addition, the news that he has become an official is now an open secret, and countless scholars and literati have come to congratulate him."
"Mr. Mirror walked along the way, surrounded by scholars. It is considered good to be able to travel thirty miles in one day."
Li Chen rubbed his temples and said: "This old master is really troublesome. It's hard to issue an order to force him to come to Beijing immediately for this kind of thing. But the current matter cannot be delayed."
As he spoke, Li Chen seemed to have thought of something. He stood up and walked to the bookshelf in the back row, climbed up the ladder and pulled out a book from the top of the bookshelf and handed it to Sanbao.
"Send this "Summary of the Heart" to Tantai Jingzhi."
"This book is a set of three. Only the Donggong Palace in the world has a complete set."
"A person like Tan Tai Jingzhi who loves books as much as his life will definitely be itching to get the remaining two copies after seeing this first one."
"If you ask someone to bring him a message, I will wait for this set of books for him for three days. If it doesn't take three days, I will give it to someone else."
Sanbao understood the idea and took the book and said respectfully: "Your Highness's calculations make this slave admire me."
"This level of flattery is not very good. Okay, let's go do things."
Li Chen sent away the three treasures. Li Chen couldn't help but feel a little headache when he looked at the memorial in his hand that was sent to him by the Ministry of Finance and was crying about poverty.
Although it is a fact that the cabinet is focused on intrigues and fights for power, and it is also a fact that it affects the imperial power, it has to be admitted that these old politicians really have nothing to say about running government affairs. Under the worst conditions, they can be regarded as supporting the country.
It takes a lot of effort to operate normally.
During this period, what Li Chen saw most was the memorials about the lack of money, lack of people, and lack of materials everywhere, begging the court to allocate money, give people, and provide materials.
This is because the natural disaster has subsided a little. When the natural disaster first broke out and he had no supervision over the country and no power to review memorials, the situation was bound to be worse. During that time, it was all supported by the cabinet.
From this perspective, Zhao Xuanji's ability to handle government affairs is truly the best in the current dynasty.
After thinking about it, Li Chen called Xu Changqing over.
Just call him this time.
"The emptiness of the national treasury is an ever-present problem. I have thought of many ways, but no matter how many homes are confiscated, it is just poison to quench thirst. You, the left minister of the household department, don't have any good ideas?" Li Chen asked.
Facing Li Chen's problem, Xu Changqing had a bitter look on his face. Throughout the dynasties, the Household Department was an inevitable institution, but there were so many problems that neither the heads of the Household Department nor the emperor could solve. How could he find a solution?
After thinking about it, Xu Changqing felt that he had no good solution, but when faced with the question from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he could not remain silent, so he had to bite the bullet and said: "I believe that many of the measures we have taken so far are indeed only temporary emergencies, but the court expenditures
Every day, so we still have to work hard on the four words of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure."
