The Peerless Demon of Martial Arts

Chapter 638
No one in the dynasty has any excuses, but Wei Huaitai was too shameless this time, so Li Tianxing had no choice but to stop him from stepping down.

Such a remark made other officials not dare to talk too much.

Li Tianxing said from the eunuch beside him: "Send him back to the mansion, don't make a fool of yourself here."

Unexpectedly, Wei Huaitai pushed his father-in-law away: "Even if there is something wrong with me, it is something that the imperial court should take care of. You are just a reckless fool, what ability do you have to be the emperor."

Li Tianxing stood up angrily: "Okay! Then I will make this bet with you! If I can fill the treasury within half a year, you can't do it again."

Wei Huaitai was also furious: "Okay, I'll make this bet with you. If you can fill the treasury and see money in half a year, I will recognize you as the emperor."

A newly enthroned emperor high-fived a dismissed minister and made a bet, which is very strange.

After Wei Huaitai left, the ministers were all speechless.

Li Tianxing was quite benevolent, he let Emperor Wen live in his former residence, and gave him a gold medal for avoiding death, no one can kill him.But the emperor sounds domineering, this seat is really not made by humans, all kinds of taxes and troubles, military use in the northwest, food and payment in the south of the Yangtze River, and corruption cases of some ministers, all kinds of contradictions are entangled, which is a headache.

Emperor Wen adhered to the principle of governing by doing nothing, so he didn't even go to court at all, and played with his concubines all day long.Li Tianxing is determined to rectify the imperial court and restore the world to a peaceful and prosperous world.On the first day he came to court, he promulgated new regulations to reduce the tax burden, and arranged for envoys to go to the northwest to temporarily adjust the war in the northwest to give the court a buffer time.

Wei Huaitai returned to the Taoist mansion, still angry, and told the master what happened in the court.In Master's opinion, this is a good thing.

"Good thing? Are you out of your mind?"

The master said: "General, don't be impatient. From the perspective of a villain, this matter is indeed good. You don't know Li Tianxing well. He is more suitable for governing the world than Emperor Wen. More importantly, he will not do anything to you. .If he really intends to deal with you, what you said in court today could kill you."

"Hmph, I'm afraid he won't succeed. I've lost this friend for nothing."

The master said: "Don't worry too much, the general. Don't you still have a bet? In front of so many civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty, and it was Li Tianxing who said it himself, once he can't fill the treasury and solve the current problems, then the emperor will not pay attention." It’s not right. We’d better watch the fire from the other side.”

"That's all it takes."

...In the palace, Li Tianxing sat upright with Xingran, Purple Winged Bat, and Puppet, and 300 dishes were served in front of him. This was all the ostentation of the former Emperor Wen. He spent more than [-] taels of silver for a meal. What a luxury.

"Eunuch Lu."

Eunuch Lu hurriedly knelt down: "The emperor just needs to call my servant Xiao Luzi, and if you have any orders, just accept them."

Looking at the table full of food, Li Tianxing couldn't eat any more: "From now on, I only need three dishes for each meal."

"Ah? This is the rule established by Emperor Wen, and it is the face that the emperor should have."

"Didn't you hear what I said?"

"Slave—I got it." Eunuch Lu greeted the two eunuchs to come in: "Go, hurry up and remove this table of food, leaving two vegetables and one meat, the emperor doesn't like ostentation."

Xingran touched his arm: "You can do it, it's quite frugal."

Puppet Sha felt it was a pity: "There are so many delicious foods... Hey, but we are really enjoying the blessings with Brother Li, if we say that we can be emperors."

Do you think it would be good to be an emperor?This is just the beginning.

While eating, Li Tianxing was still reading the playbooks, which were piled up like a mountain. Emperor Wen didn't read any of them, so is this worthy of being an emperor?Open the first memorial book, it is about the flood, AH caused a flood, and more than 3000 people drowned and starved to death, and most of them were homeless. This matter has been dragged on for almost two months. And there are several playbooks.

"This fatuous emperor!" Li Tian said angrily, "Look, so many people died of starvation, yet he still has the heart to sleep with his concubine in his arms."

The Purple Winged Bat was flipping through a memorial book. On it was the tax of Jiangnan, which was 20 taels more than last year. The total here is 400 million taels, which is equal to one-third of the annual income of the imperial court.But it was too little. Li Tianxing passed by Jiangnan several times, and all the officials there were very rich. If you pick any one, they are all rich. If they say that their family property is only 100 million taels, that is to underestimate them.

Rescue the emergency, not the poor, and solve the AH flood first, which is the top priority.

"Has anyone from AH come?" Li Tianxing asked.

The eunuch replied: "Governor of AH Chen Jishan has been in Beijing for a long time, waiting for His Majesty's summons at any time."

"Let him come here at once."

After a meal, in the study, Chen Jishan knelt down and kowtowed: "My minister Chen Jishan kowtows to His Majesty, long live, long live, long live."

"Okay, don't come to that fake set, let me ask you, how long has the AH flood been?"

Mr. Chen said: "Every year there are, and every year they die. I have been governor of AH for four years, and every year there are papers, but every year I can't get a solution. I am worried."

In other words, since Emperor Daxing, I have never heard of the flood in AH.The emperors of this generation are all scumbags, watching the people freeze to death, drown, and starve to death, but they don't even fart.How could such a court survive.

"How much money do you need for disaster relief?"

Mr. Chen said: "After careful calculation, it will cost about 800 million taels of silver together with the repair of the embankment and the resettlement of the victims."

"so much?"

"Yes, there were not so many in the first place, but in recent years, they have not been properly dealt with, resulting in more and more disasters every year, so more and more houses collapse."

Trouble, the court can't afford that much money now.

However, the matter of Li Tianxing messing around with Tian Cewei and raising money couldn't help him.He intends to be a rascal once, and it's not bad to be a rascal emperor.Order people to issue an edict to sell officials publicly. All the government and officials in the country can come to buy officials. Anyone who wants to be a fourth-rank official has a vacancy of 100 million taels of silver, a third-rank official is 200 million taels, and a second-rank official is 400 million taels, and 500 million taels for first-rank officials.

This is the fastest way to raise money, and you can still remember which guys were corrupt in the bottom, and then buy officials when they come up.But he couldn't do it himself, someone had to do it, so he thought of Eunuch Lu.

"Xiao Luzi, I have something to ask you to do."

Eunuch Lu immediately knelt down, panicking: "The emperor is really a slave, if you have anything to do, just tell me."

Li Tianxing handed over what he had written, and you can read it yourself.Eunuch Lu opened the imperial decree and quickly scanned his eyes twice: "Your servant understands, this matter is not difficult to handle."

"Aren't you going to ask me why I did this?"

"The power of the sky is unpredictable. The emperor's thoughts are not what the slaves should know. The slaves only need to do things for the emperor."

Good minion, temper to buddies.

As soon as the news of the eunuch selling an official came out, the capital was shocked inside and outside the capital. Most people said that the emperor benefited from it. They also said that Li Tianxing himself was a gangster who was lucky to steal from the court, but even if he became the emperor, he was still a gangster. It is reasonable to think of such a thing.

(End of this chapter)