Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

"My dear ministers, do you really think that I have the money? That is all earned by the Queen. Don't you feel embarrassed to ask the Queen to borrow money?"

Xiao Mo looked at his ministers with a smile on his face. It was the first time he heard of a minister asking the emperor to borrow money. In the past, it was always the emperor who asked the ministers for money.

The Minister of Justice Jiang Chenghai stood up and saluted respectfully.

"Your Majesty, I am helpless. Many of the prison doors in our Ministry of Justice have been in disrepair for many years. If we were to encounter someone with great kung fu skills, they could just split the door open with one palm."

"The weapons of our various yamen have not been replaced for many years. Some of the policemen's knives are rusty. The food for the yamen runners is still there. The Ministry of Justice has no money, and everyone can't eat meat once a month."

"These are just minor matters. Our Ministry of Justice has to investigate countless cases every year, and the funds are almost always insufficient. I have been asking Lord Lu for money for three consecutive years, but Lord Lu has refused to give me even a tael of silver."

"Today, I have no other choice but to come to Your Majesty to borrow money."

As soon as the Minister of Justice spoke, other officials followed suit. There were all kinds of reasons, but their goal was very clear: borrow money.

Listening to the complaints of the court officials, Xiao Mo didn't know what to say.

Every department has its own difficulties. Doesn’t he, the emperor, have any difficulties?

He knows better than anyone what the current situation of Tianqin State is.

But he only had so much silver in his vault, so of course he had to use it wisely.

"My dear ministers, please don't worry. You have come to the wrong person to ask me for money. The treasury is empty now. I have cut all the expenses for my harem. How can I lend you money?"

"By the way, if anyone mentions the idea of ​​selecting a concubine to fill the harem again, you can go and borrow money from that person."

"Hey, I'm ashamed to say that what I eat and use every day is all earned by the Queen. You can't ask me to borrow money from the Queen."

The court officials present were all dumbfounded. They never expected Xiao Mo to say that.

The court officials asked the queen to borrow money, and they would be too embarrassed to face anyone if this matter became known.

But Jiang Chenghai was a thick-skinned man, and he walked forward with a smile.

"The Empress and the Emperor are family, so there is no need to divide them so clearly. The money earned by the Empress should naturally be placed in the Emperor's treasury, and it is also natural for the Emperor to lend money directly to his subjects."

Xiao Mo was very pleased to hear Jiang Chenghai say this, but he still righteously refused to lend the money.

Everyone in the imperial study tried their best to persuade Xiao Mo but failed to borrow even a tael of silver. They all left temporarily like defeated roosters.

Jiang Chenghai had just returned to the Ministry of Justice and was about to complain to his colleagues when suddenly a young eunuch came over and handed him a list of items.

"Sir Jiang, the Emperor said that the Empress was making weapons and uniforms recently, and there happened to be some extra ones, so the Emperor asked to send some to Sir Jiang for emergency use."

"what?"

Jiang Chenghai stood up in shock and took the list of items from the eunuch.

Wow, in addition to some weapons and clothes, there are also all kinds of food and daily necessities, and even thousands of horses.

All these things, when added up, are worth at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, especially the thousands of horses that have passed through the hands of Empress Ye. They must be top-notch horses that are probably not available on the market.

For a moment, Jiang Chenghai quickly went over everything in his mind.

"Is this list of items unique to my Ministry of Justice? Or is it shared by all the officials who followed me to ask the Emperor to borrow money today?"

"This is specially given to Lord Jiang by the Emperor."

The young eunuch's words made Jiang Chenghai think more.

Why did he get this unique list of items?

He and Xiao Mo had no friendship before, so how could he give him benefits for no reason?

Suddenly, Jiang Chenghai had an idea, and he said in the imperial study that the emperor and the empress were one family, and there was no difference between them.

Is it because he said a few more words that Xiao Mo treated him like this?

It takes someone extraordinary man to become the Minister of Justice. Jiang Chenghai soon figured out the whole story and finally knew to what extent Xiao Mo doted on Ye Jintang.

He rubbed his hands excitedly and immediately asked the people around him to call the Minister of Rites Li An.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and Ang Lee has been worrying so much that he is almost going bald.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a major festival and is celebrated with great fanfare every year.

In the past two years, Li An had to tighten his belt to come up with money to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, but this year, even if he strangled himself to death, he couldn't come up with that much money.

"Master Jiang, are you kidding me? If you praise the Queen, she will have money for the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

"We are friends, how can I lie to you? If you don't believe me, just pretend I didn't say anything. Just figure out how to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on your own."

"You old bastard, I didn't say I didn't believe it, it's just that this matter is too unbelievable."

"Then go ahead and try it. It won't cost you any meat anyway."

"Okay, then I will go to see the emperor tomorrow."

Li An went home and thought for a long time but couldn't figure out how to praise Ye Jintang. Finally, it was his wife who helped him come up with an idea.

A Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is held during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the past, the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Household Department discussed it together. This year, it would be better to let the Queen preside over it. In this way, the Queen can also make decisions on other matters besides the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.

Li An thought about it for a long time and felt that this was feasible, so he did as his wife said the next day.

Originally, he thought that Xiao Mo could give him 100,000 taels of silver so that the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration could be settled. Unexpectedly, Xiao Mo waved his hand and allocated 200,000 taels of silver from the treasury, allowing Li An to discuss the Mid-Autumn Festival matters directly with the Queen.

After coming out of the imperial study, Li An happily went straight to the Ministry of Justice. What Jiang Chenghai said was absolutely right. As long as it was related to the empress, the new emperor would discuss anything.

Somehow the news spread, and some officials who were in urgent need of money went to Xiao Mo in a roundabout way to borrow money.

As the rumors said, anything related to the Queen can be resolved quickly.

After some time, after Ye Jintang confiscated all the private properties hidden in the dark of Empress Dowager Naruhito, she proposed to ban all private gambling houses in Tianqin and open state-owned gambling houses during a meeting in the Imperial Study, with all the income from the gambling houses going into the national treasury.

Such a bold proposal shocked all the ministers present and left them speechless for a long time.

Some people who had gambling houses at home wanted to stand up and oppose immediately, but when they thought of Xiao Mo's extraordinary love for Ye Jintang, they became a little timid. If they made things difficult for Ye Jintang now, they would be making things difficult for the emperor.

If you make things difficult for the emperor, wouldn't that be courting death?

Although the gambling house can make a lot of money, compared to one's own career, of course, the official career is more important.

"Your Majesty is wise. As far as I know, whether it is the gambling houses in the capital or in other cities, most of them are cheating and lending money at high interest rates. I don't know how many people are harmed. It would be great if the gambling houses could be brought under the control of the state."

Jiang Chenghai stepped forward and spoke righteous words.