After the failed attempt to pretend to be dead, the sickly child was favored by the treacherous mini

Estimate, guess.

Silver, silver ounces.

Officials who are used to exaggerating things can't even give a definite answer now, which means that there is great uncertainty everywhere.

But no matter how uncertain it was, Xia Hong could only choose to build warships, drive out the Japanese pirates, and make Eastern Japan a vassal state of Daxia.

No, the Eastern Wo who wanted to spend so much money on Xia Hong should be exterminated and their entire clan should be razed to the ground.

The silver that is lacking on the battlefield is the most urgent silver. A slight delay will mean that 100,000 soldiers will have to sleep in the open air, and the Eastern Japanese will take advantage of the situation and invade.

If he is not careful, the plan will fail and Xia Hong will be accused of being a king who lost his country.

And even Shen Jinmo could not take the blame for Xia Hong.

"Draft an imperial decree. Han Shu and Han Zhou commanded the first battle well. Han Shu will be promoted to the second-rank General Zhendong and Han Zhou to the third-rank General Anyuan. The rest of the soldiers will be rewarded according to their merits."

"Eastern Japan is just a small country in the eastern border. It is now difficult for them to destroy the bandits in one fell swoop due to the lack of warships. I order them to destroy the enemy and pacify the bandits within six months after the warships are mass-produced, so as to comfort the hearts of my subjects of Daxia."

The imperial edict was written out soon. Xia Hong held the imperial edict and the account book in his hands and made a decision.

"The 200,000 taels of silver currently in the national treasury will all be sent to the Eastern Frontier battlefield for use as a special silver for warship research."

"For the daily food and clothing expenses of the Tiger Power Army, I will give another 50,000 taels from my private treasury. At the same time, I will order the governor of Dongjun to give all the silver for monthly military supplies to the Tiger Power Army."

Marquis Zhongqin listened to Xia Hong's imperial edict, closed his eyes, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

At this critical juncture, Xia Hong actually thought of asking the Huwei Army to ask the local army for military pay?

How long will it take for the Tiger Army, which is on the march and fighting every day and cannot farm in the war zone, to consume 50,000 silver coins?

Over the years, Xia Hong has been using the silver from his private treasury for his own private affairs, and has turned the national treasury into an empty treasury. Even now, he is still so stingy?

The two children of Marquis Zhongqin are now fighting on the battlefield. Most of the generals of the Huwei Army were trained by Marquis Zhongqin.

Finally, despite his grief and leg pain, Marquis Zhongqin knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, with an army of 100,000 and a salary of 50,000, we can only last for a month at most."

The silence fermented in the darkness, lasting so long that it suffocated everyone.

Xia Hong stepped down from the dragon chair and helped Marquis Zhongqin up: "If Marquis Zhongqin is worried about the front line, you can prepare a little silver to help the Tiger Power Army get through the difficult times."

The Marquis of Zhongqin comes from a family of military generals, and Xia Hong believes that the wealth accumulated by such a family over the generations cannot be wasted.

Marquis Zhongqin only has these two children, so it is worth it even if he has to spend all his money on them.

His sharp eyes suddenly fell on the fur edge of Marquis Zhongqin's clothes. Xia Hong suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen the patch on the elbow of Marquis Zhongqin when he rolled up his sleeves.

The Mansion of Marquis Zhongqin seemed to have been really poor for quite some time.

Those words just now seemed to have hurt the old minister's heart.

Breaking free from Xia Hong's support, the Marquis of Zhongqin knelt down again: "This old minister begs the emperor to search the Marquis of Zhongqin's mansion. I will admit any crime."

Only when Xia Hong saw it himself could he understand how poor the Marquis Zhongqin's Mansion was now.

Xia Hong was confused by what Zhongqin Hou said, and the curve of his mouth revealed a rare embarrassment.

His eyes fell on the Minister of War. If it weren't for that bastard withholding the military pay of the Tiger Power Army, how could the Mansion of the Marquis of Zhongqin be so poor?

"I was joking with Marquis Han, don't take it to heart. I will find a way to pay for the silver, and I will definitely not withhold the rations of the soldiers on the front line."

Sure enough, extreme honesty is an invincible weapon.

After obtaining Xia Hong's permission, all the officials crawled out of the Golden Palace.

After walking out of the palace, I still dared not relax the breath in my heart.

Even someone like Marquis Zhongqin, who was almost out of touch with the court, had to be exploited. These officials immediately thought of the natural disaster of last year.

Otherwise, should they just kneel down in front of Xia Hong and let Xia Hong confiscate their property?

Of course, this idea is just a thought.

It was indeed because Marquis Zhongqin had no money that he dared to let Xia Hong go and search the house.

But the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War are both lucrative positions, and the officials in these two departments are really kept fat and strong.

Rather than having their property confiscated, they would rather be threatened to hand over some money.

Just think of it as buying a few more houses for those unfilial sons in the family. It's nothing serious.

It was quite dark, and the warm spring night was still a little chilly.

Xia Hong felt a little confused. Even though he was wearing a cloak, he still didn't feel warm enough.

After walking out of the Golden Palace with Shen Jinmo, Xia Hong hesitated for a while, but still chose to walk into the bedroom and hold Zhong Yuanyuan's hand.

There was an extra person beside him. Even though he didn't say anything, when Xia Hong walked out of the golden palace again, he no longer felt cold.

With Zhong Yuanyuan around, Xia Hong always felt that he had more confidence.

He beat Xia Qi.

Therefore, any small country that Xia Qi could conquer, he could also crush.

"That's nearly 10 million taels of silver spent in three years. I've been on the throne for so long, and I've never seen so much silver before."

"Now, in order to deal with these bandits, we have to drain the national strength of Daxia?"

In fact, the silver notes in Xia Hong’s private treasury were much more than the 10 million taels.

But how could Xia Hong be willing to give away most of the banknotes in his private treasury?

Xia Hong felt very regretful, but he didn't want to show it.

If he had not been greedy for that little bit of military funds back then and had let Marquis Zhongqin annihilate the Eastern Japanese, how could this have happened?

Zhong Yuanyuan took the lantern from her personal maid and waved her hand. All the servants, including Eunuch Lin, retreated.

"What does Yuanyuan think?"

Zhong Yuanyuan glanced at Xia Hong, raised an arc in the moonlight, shook the lantern, and said nothing.

If Zhong Yuanyuan gets involved in the affairs of the court once, she will face endless suspicion from Xia Hong in the future.

If you can't hit the target with one strike, any unnecessary action will do more harm than good.

He walked slowly, but his eyes stayed on Zhong Yuanyuan for a long time.

Xia Hong felt more at ease: "Wang Heng, how do you think we can get out of this predicament?"

Dingxi County relied on the handle of the Imperial Guard to coerce the officials and finally obtained the first batch of silver for disaster relief.

Faced with such a natural disaster, Xia Hong not only did not suffer any loss, but he even had more than 400,000 taels of silver in his private treasury.

If Shen Jinmo can solve the problems in Dingxi County, then he can naturally solve the problems in the Eastern Territory as well.

Shen Jinmo looked up and made eye contact with Xia Hong for a moment, then lowered his head and raised it again to look forward.

Shen Jinmo understood that the excuse of high value should not be used, and it was impossible for Shen Jinmo to collect nearly 10 million taels of silver by this excuse.

The three of them walked around the Imperial Garden for most of the day before Shen Jinmo spoke his first words of the day: "Perhaps, confiscating the property is a good idea."

"Whose house do you think we should rob?"