Driven by the big times and trends, no one wants to stay out of it. Everyone is trying to catch up with the trend.
As a trendsetter, Li Xingchen sat under the huge map, holding several memorials in his hands and chanting.
Perhaps no one would have expected that His Majesty the Emperor is carefully calculating this year's revenue.
Compared with last year, this year is not a good harvest year. After all, the snow in winter was a bit heavy, and the ground temperature did not rise during spring plowing. The summer harvest can only be said to be quite satisfactory, but at least it did not bring any trouble. This is what Li Xingchen should
Fortunately, the Han Dynasty has been fighting for a long time, and the subsequent war around Guanzhong and even the Central Plains should continue until the beginning of next spring or even the beginning of summer, so Li Xingchen must make careful calculations about the money and food he has now.
After all, he can't hope that everything will go well during the autumn harvest, let alone that next year will be a good harvest year.
Li Xingchen could never discount the food and salary in the army. Even after the Battle of Guanzhong, he still needed to reward the meritorious soldiers in the Battle of Guanzhong.
Therefore, all the gold and silver treasures that he could collect now were gathered together as rewards, which naturally included the confiscated Northern Zhou treasury.
What made Li Xingchen sigh was that Yang Jian was Yang Jian after all. Although Comrade Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was not impoverished, he did not have anything valuable at home, so he still had to rely on looting Yuwen.
Yang Lihua knelt down next to Li Xinchen and studied his ink for him.
Seeing Li Xingchen fussing over everything, she didn't know whether she should laugh or sigh.
In his imagination, Li Xinchen should be a heroic figure with unparalleled arrogance, but the Li Xinchen sitting in front of him is more like a businessman who is always willing to spend money, even including the small treasury of his harem concubines.
For example, the list he is currently listing contains the private money of Xiao Xiang and others. If he really cannot collect that much money temporarily, Li Xingchen will definitely not mind grabbing his wives' private money.
No matter how thin the mosquito legs are, they are still just meat.
However, Yang Lihua could only sigh in the end, maybe such an emperor is the real emperor. Just like Yuwen, who enjoys life as arrogantly and extravagantly, it is naturally impossible for him to dominate the world in the end.
Li Xingchen is not like a great hero, but like his own father. His father also requires diligence and frugality at home, and uses the money he saves on important things.
"Do the Taiwei's Mansion and the Ministry of Industry really think that I am a bottomless pit, and can I conjure up so much money for them?" Li Xingchen slammed the memorial on the table, but still spread it out again angrily, and dipped his pen in ink, but
Realizing that there was almost no ink left, he immediately looked over and said, "Grind the ink, why not grind the ink?"
Yang Lihua was startled. She was a little lost in thought just now when she looked at Li Xingchen, and she actually forgot about her work.
Li Xingchen angrily approved the memorial as "accurate".
He also knew that the Ministry of Industry and the Taiwei Mansion were also trying their best to reduce expenses, but there were too many problems before the Han Dynasty. The army needed food and pay, the generals needed rewards, the city needed repairs, and all kinds of weapons and equipment were consumed.
All need to be supplemented
During the joint presentation, Yang Su and Wu Ping had already stated that they did not want any reward, and Pei Zilie and Xiao Shilian also expressed similar intentions, but the remaining people Li Xingchen could not ignore it. After all, not everyone's loyalty is just words.
You can get it just by talking about it, but you still need enough rewards to maintain it. Even if they have clearly said that they don't need it, Li Xingchen can't ignore it.
Originally, everyone fought in all directions just to get promoted and make a fortune. If Li Xingchen couldn't even satisfy this, these people would naturally lose their fighting spirit.
"This is still barely manageable." Li Xingchen muttered.
It just so happened that a batch of Shu brocade was shipped from Chengdu to enrich the inner palace, so I took them out to fill it up. At least there was no need to go under Xiao Xiang's pillow to search for her private money.
"Your Majesty, would you like some snacks?" Seeing Li Xingchen put down the memorial, Yang Lihua stood up, wiped her hands, and brought over a plate of snacks.
"That's fine." Li Xingchen grabbed a piece himself and handed one to her, "You can try it too."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
"Why are you so polite?" Li Xingchen said with a smile, "Tell me, what should I do now that I have no money?"
Yang Lihua didn't expect that Li Xingchen would ask her this question, and she didn't react for a while.
She originally thought that Li Xinchen wanted to occupy her directly. The so-called female official was just a way of saying it to the outside world. After she really followed Li Xinchen, she could not do whatever she wanted to do.
However, in the past few days, Li Xinchen did not do anything to her, not even touching her. It seemed that Yang Lihua was really just a female official, to make up for the fact that neither Zhang Lihua nor Kong was with Li Xinchen, and there was no one to help her deal with it.
Documentary vacancies.
There were a lot of things going on with Li Xinchen, because Li Xinchen sent Secretary Supervisor Huang Qi out and asked him to supervise various matters in Chang'an City on behalf of the emperor, which was quite a bit like a central inspection team. After all, it was impossible for Li Xinchen to keep Huang Qi by his side.
Even if Li Xinchen is willing to work as a secretary for a lifetime, this young man will sooner or later get tired of the life of Li Xinchen's little follower, so Li Xinchen also plans to let him experience it first.
Therefore, more things naturally fell on Yang Lihua, the female official of the inner court, and she was so busy now that she almost forgot the "greedy" look Li Xingchen showed when he first met her.
On the contrary, Li Xingchen did not refuse the other daughter sent by the Yang family. Last night, Yang Lihua listened to her sister's cries and screams outside and had an indescribable feeling.
Yang Miao is Yang Jian's youngest daughter. Unlike her sister, when she was born, Yang Jian had already established a firm foothold in the court and no longer needed to contact important officials through marriage, so her growth was almost worry-free.
Wuyou, who has been favored by his sisters and brothers for a long time, dreams of marrying a great hero in the future.
The reality is naturally still cruel. As Yang Jian's daughter, she eventually became a gift used by the Yang family to survive. However, Li Xinchen can definitely be regarded as a hero who fulfills all her fantasies, so when Yang Lihua saw her sister in the morning, she was having sex with Li Xinchen
The playful sister was very happy.
This made her feel even more disappointed.
Human beings are inherently strange creatures. When they realize that they are not taken seriously, they instead want to work hard to express themselves.
Now that Li Xingchen suddenly asked her this question, Yang Lihua suddenly became energetic. After all, she still had a sense of presence here with Li Xingchen.