The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 48
To Yun Ruochen's surprise, Prince Jing, who usually stays at home, went out.

"Father won't get involved in this matter, will he?"

Yun Ruochen was secretly worried about his father, but there was nothing he could do.Asking Prince Jing's long follower, he only said that the prince had gone out early in the morning, but his whereabouts were unknown.

Yun Ruochen had no choice but to go back to the house and wait for Prince Jing to return to the mansion for further discussion. Who knew that this wait would last until night.

"Chen'er, why haven't you slept yet?"

King Jing had just entered the room and took off his outer robe, before he had time to clean his face, he saw Yun Ruochen rushing over.

Prince Jing's mansion is the same as other mansions, the hostess and hostess live alone in one courtyard, while the side rooms have their own courtyards.

Some people's male masters often live in the outer courtyard because of their busy business affairs, but Prince Jing does not belong to this type - he really wants to have official duties, but unfortunately the emperor didn't give him this opportunity for the time being.

Due to the early death of the concubine Liang, the main courtyard has always been lived by Prince Jing himself, and it is usually very clean at night.Seeing his daughter running towards him suddenly, Prince Jing thought that something serious had happened at home, and his spirit tensed up.

Hearing that Yun Ruochen came to ask about the clan clans surrounding the Ministry of Rites and making trouble today, Prince Jing was slightly relieved.

"Oh, it's like this..."

After six months of "subtle influence", Prince Jing has become immune to his daughter's interest in getting involved in "business".

Subconsciously, he actually treats this daughter as a half-son. He only thinks that her daughter is caring and smart, and can often analyze things from a clever perspective. It is no big deal to discuss these things with her.

The matter is not complicated to say, but it involves a lot.Nothing more than the irreconcilable contradiction between the empty treasury and the huge expenditure——

The treasury is out of money, but the New Year is coming soon.

Emperor Yuan Qi finally made up his mind to immediately put on the agenda the reduction of clan expenses that had been delayed for a whole year.

In the past, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Ministry of Rites would distribute salaries to the imperial clan in Beijing.This year, the clan members waited and waited. Several days have passed since Xiaonian, but there is no news at all.

Some people couldn't help asking, but the officials of the Ministry of Rites only said that there was no note from the cabinet, and they couldn't make the decision.

The elders in the cabinet began to pretend to be dead, but whenever someone mentioned this matter in front of them, they began to lose their hearing intermittently, deaf, ah, deaf!Don't ask me!
To be honest, the families of the nobles of the clan all have their own capital, and no one would not be able to survive the New Year without this money and things.

But this kind of thing can't have a beginning!

Once you don't care about it this time and let people fool around, it will become a rule in the future.First of all, there are no things that should be there during the holidays, and then the annual salary and benefits that each family deserves will be further reduced...

How can this be tolerated?

So the clans in the capital began to visit each other, and they were very dissatisfied with the cabinet - in fact, no one knew it was the emperor's intention - this time.

"Actually, they didn't start arguing until today," Prince Jing said with a wry smile. "In the past, people came to the Ministry of Rites to make troubles intermittently. Since this morning, I don't know who initiated it first. Dozens of them have blocked the past together. The Ministry of Rites The people around me turned their backs on their backs, it's really..."

Prince Jing was a gentle person, he couldn't say anything harsh, but his expression clearly showed disapproval of these clans.

Although he is a prince, he grew up with neither his parents nor his mother, and he didn't enjoy much good treatment in half his life, so he couldn't understand the relatives who would die if they didn't get the royal salary.

Yun Ruochen already knew that his father's political sensitivity was extremely low.But she was well aware of how serious the family salary problem in Daqing was, and it was far from being as simple as Prince Jing saw.
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She was originally a high-achieving student in the Department of History. After coming to Daqing, she did not sit and watch the sky. Instead, she tried to understand the history and political ecology of the entire Daqing Dynasty from various channels available to her—she didn’t want to be so tired. Where is the too simple prince and father?
After the Taizu of this dynasty established the country, he inherited the old system of the previous generation and enfeoffed the kings, and endowed them with great political and military power.Not only that, but they were also specially given generous material treatment, with the purpose of relying on the clan to implement effective rule over the whole world.

Taizu's thinking is very simple, he is reliable.

He must be bad at mathematics, and did not take into account the factors of population growth and reproduction...

Yun Ruochen remembered that he had read an ancient fable.

A certain king fell in love with Go.He played a game with a good chess player, and declared that if the chess player won, he could make a wish, no matter how unreasonable, it would be granted.

The chess player really won, and then he made a strange wish.

"I hope His Majesty will reward me with a grain of rice."

"Just a grain of rice?" The king was deeply surprised.

"Yes, just put one grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard," said the inventor, "double it to two grains on the second square, double it to four grains on the third...and so on, each square is Double the previous square until the entire board is filled. This is my wish."

It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's just doubled again and again. Isn't the food in the entire kingdom enough to fill the entire chessboard?
The answer is, really not enough, far from enough.The result of the continuous increase in the number is a number that all human beings cannot bear...

This is the case with the clans in Daqing.

In the early days of the Daqing Dynasty, the clans once possessed huge local power, but with the unremitting efforts of several generations of emperors to cut down the vassals and prevent them, the princes and grandchildren gradually became a group of parasites who only knew to receive generous salaries and had nothing to do.

Locally, they merged land and got involved in commerce. However, although the imperial court could see these hidden dangers, they were powerless to stop them.

Emperor Yuan Qi was old and didn't bother to bother. His purpose of reducing the clan's salary this time was quite clear, just to renege on his debts.

"I just don't have any money, so you can figure it out"... This attitude is also a bachelor, which is in line with Emperor Yuan Qi's usual style...
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"Father," Yun Ruochen thought for a while and asked, "Do you know why they are making such a fuss today?"

"Ah. Because today the Ministry of Households has started to distribute annual salaries to officials."

Prince Jing spread his hands and sighed.

That's it!

Yun Ruochen almost sneered.

A bunch of silverfish, the family eats delicious food and spicy food, but they don’t have to produce. Seeing that the officials can receive the New Year’s benefits and they can’t receive it, it’s unbalanced?

"But father, Chen'er always feels that this matter is weird."

"eccentric?"

Prince Jing was startled, unable to keep up with his daughter's train of thought.Those people are used to being uncles, making trouble if they can't get it. Although it's too shameful, but... Where is the weirdness?
"Chen'er was thinking, it's too neat for all these people to rush into the street at the same time. I heard that the whole Royal Street is blocked."

"Father, do you think...they have an appointment? Or is there someone playing tricks behind their backs?"

　Make up for yesterday's update.keep writing.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)