peasant girl allure

Chapter 289
in the hall

Prime Minister Li only found out yesterday evening that the Ministry of Industry is going to build four bridges on the Huai River at the same time!

Build four bridges over the Huai River!What a big deal!

And as the only prime minister in this dynasty, he can be said to be under one person and above ten thousand people, and he didn't know this until the construction of the first bridge started!

This is simply outrageous!

The people in the Ministry of Industry don't pay much attention to him as the prime minister!
Such a big deal!Don't ask him for an opinion!Work has already started without telling him!He was not even invited to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony!

Where is his face!

snort!The construction of the bridge started without the consent and consultation of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty!How can this work!

"Your Majesty, most sections of the Huaijiang River are less than one mile wide, and some are even more than one mile wide! The world calls them moats and ditches! Building a bridge on the Huaijiang River is even harder than reaching the blue sky! I think it should go down immediately. The decree ordered the Ministry of Industry to suspend work, so as not to waste people and money!" Prime Minister Li said with certainty.

As soon as Prime Minister Li finished speaking, all civil and military officials joined in!

joke!All the money in the treasury has been spent by the Ministry of Industry!Such great political achievements have been taken by them, so what money do they use to earn political achievements?
"Your Majesty, is it possible for Qingtian to climb up? No! So there is no possibility that the bridge over the Huaijiang River will be built! Your Majesty has just started, so you have to call it a stop! The loss will not be too serious! This is absolutely impossible. How much manpower and material resources will be wasted every day if it continues! Not only the treasury cannot bear it, but also we need to prevent the people from complaining!"

"Your Majesty, the weather is not beautiful. God has not rained for a long time. After a severe drought, there must be floods. This is the country's eventful autumn. Every penny in the treasury must be used wisely. Building a bridge on the Huaijiang River is inevitable. It’s different from throwing money directly into the river and not getting it back! After a natural disaster, if the people know that most of the money is spent on bridge repairs, resulting in insufficient money for disaster relief, how should we, as parents and officials, face the people? Your Majesty, please think twice!”

"Your Majesty, I feel that building a bridge on the Huaijiang River is of great significance economically, politically, and historically. This is a major event that will benefit the present and benefit the future! If it can be built, such a great achievement will be recorded in the annals of history." Paint it with strong colors on it! Such a major event should be done, but I believe that it needs to be done according to one's ability, so it is enough to build only one bridge, and it is really a great achievement to build four bridges at the same time!" The minister also said: Individual talents know how to promote first and then suppress.

"emperor……"

"Okay! Your family thinks that building a bridge on the Huaijiang River is impossible, a waste of manpower and material resources, and a waste of money and people, right?" Your Majesty, his head hurts from their arguing.

"I think this is an unwise move. The treasury's money shoulders the heavy responsibility of the people of our court to live and work in peace and contentment and the stability and peace of Minze country. We really can't just consider one place. The sage said: Those who have a country and a family don't worry about being widowed but not worrying about it." Even, I don’t suffer from poverty but anxiety. I have a vast number of people in the court, and the emperor can’t treat one more favorably than another! I implore the emperor to take back the order!” Prime Minister Li said with a sense of righteousness and awe in his heart.

"The behavior of the Ministry of Industry is really suspected of deceiving the world and stealing its name. I beg the emperor to investigate clearly."

"I understand, but you don't have to worry. I only paid for the cost of a bridge for the Ministry of Industry. Besides, Li Shangshu and the sixth prince have always been reliable in their work. The bridge should be able to be built." The emperor said.

"The national treasury only allocated money for one bridge? What about the other three bridges?" Prime Minister Li was stunned.

Where did those people from the Ministry of Industry get so much money to build bridges.

After the three bridges are built, it will cost several 10 taels!

It is impossible for the sixth prince to come up with several 10 taels all at once!
etc!If all four bridges are successfully built, it will be a great achievement, and the vacancy for Prime Minister You may no longer be empty.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry has always been at odds with him, if he is allowed to be on an equal footing with him, then he will be extremely aggrieved in the days to come.

Prime Minister Li secretly glanced at the emperor on the dragon chair: Could it be that the remaining three bridges are the money that the emperor gave out from his private treasury?

Have you been too early recently?Made the emperor fear him?
So take this opportunity to promote the minister of the Ministry of Industry to restrain yourself?

He thought about the emperor's behavior towards him recently, except that his son made a concubine, he blamed himself, and there was nothing wrong with it.

But the king's heart is unpredictable, and being with you is like accompanying a tiger, so you have to be more careful in the future.

"The other three bridges were donated by the sixth prince, Di Shaowei, and Shengping Hou." After the emperor finished speaking, he began to admire the expressions of all the officials.

Sure enough, they all blushed!
The emperor continued: "The national treasury is only responsible for the cost of the Jingning Huaijiang Bridge. After the bridge is completed, road and bridge tolls will be charged for crossing the bridge. You can rest assured that if the money is thrown on the Huaijiang River, it will never look back! Wait for the bridge!" After the completion of the project, don’t forget to pay or give a reward when the family of the ministers cross the bridge, so that the money from the treasury can be recovered within a few years.”

Li Chengxiang not only blushed when he heard this, he was a little ashamed.

No wonder he didn't know about such a big event beforehand.

Didn't the sixth prince deliberately embarrass himself?

All civil and military officials said embarrassingly that they would never cross the bridge without paying money.

But what does the emperor mean by this?Could it be that someone in the mansion took the official road and did not pay the road and bridge tolls, and the emperor found out?When you go back, you have to beat and beat, and you must not associate yourself with the term "corrupt officials" because of these few pennies.

The Jingning Huaijiang Bridge is a bridge built on the Huaijiang River that flows through Jingning County!
Jingning County and the Imperial Capital City face each other across the river. After the Jingning Huaijiang Bridge is completed, people in the two cities must pass through the Jingning Huaijiang Bridge if they do not choose to take a boat.

Of the four bridges on the Huaijiang River, the Jingning Huaijiang Bridge definitely has the largest passenger flow. Even if the road and bridge tolls are only a penny or two, they gather sand into a tower, and thousands of people cross the river every day. Are you worried that the money for this bridge will not be earned back? !
Anyway, every businessman who operates passenger ships on the Huaijiang River is very rich.

And the facts have proved that don't underestimate these road and bridge fees. Since the sixth prince proposed to use cement to build official roads and collect tolls, the people from the household department were surprised when they summed up the money at the end of last year.

After the official roads across the country are repaired, the income will be even more substantial.

The civil and military officials began to talk again, praising the benefits of these bridges after they were completed, and praising how the sixth prince and others cared about the country and loved the people like their own children.

He also said that his family background is frivolous and his sleeves are light, so he can't afford so much money, but after the bridge is repaired, he must walk the bridge a few more times and pay more road and bridge tolls to add bricks and tiles to the Jingning Huaijiang Bridge!
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