The First Tyrant of Daxia

Early in the morning, Qin Yun woke up.

Yan'er lay limp on the bed. She was a decent and innocent girl. It was her first time last night, so how could she resist Qin Yun?

"You don't have to wait for me to change clothes. I grant you a privilege. You don't have to do anything for the next few days. Just have a good rest." Qin Yun was quite concerned and gave some domineering orders.

Yan'er nodded flattered, her beautiful hair draped over her fair shoulders. She was even more beautiful than yesterday, no longer so immature, but full of mature charm.

She curled up in her quilt, well-behaved and sensible, and obeyed Qin Yun's words.

Afterwards, Qin Yun, who was itching to have fun with her again, simply indulged himself in her pleasure, and only after he was satisfied did he let the palace maids come in to help her dress and put on makeup.

Yan'er, the personal maid of Concubine Shu, suddenly transformed herself into the object of flattery by all the palace maids.

According to convention, there is a morning court session every two days, so Qin Yun can skip the morning court session today.

He came to the imperial study feeling refreshed, and even his steps seemed to be breeze.

In his previous life, it was not easy to find a clean woman, and it was even more difficult to find an original one, but he clearly saw the red color on the quilt last night.

All men understand this sense of accomplishment.

"Your Majesty, Lord Guo Ziyun requests to see you." Eunuch Xi lowered his head and whispered in Qin Yun's ear.

"Guo Ziyun?"

Qin Yun looked quite surprised: "You came so early?"

Eunuch Xi smiled and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Guo entered the palace at dawn and has been waiting outside. I advised him to come back later, but Lord Guo refused to listen and said he had something to report."

It was probably about disaster relief and investigating corruption, so Qin Yun immediately said, "Go, invite Lord Guo in!"

"Yes!" said Eunuch Xi.

After a while, Guo Ziyun entered the imperial study and brought several files with him.

Qin Yun gave him a seat on the pear blossom chair and ordered someone to make him a cup of tea.

This old fellow Guo Ziyun was also an honest and upright type. He knelt on the ground and expressed his gratitude endlessly.

"Your Majesty, the money and food are already on the way, escorted by the Ministry of War. It is estimated that it will arrive in Guanzhong in one day. It will be enough to solve the urgent problem."

Qin Yun nodded. He knew about this when he read the memorial earlier. "Mr. Guo, you have worked hard and made great contributions. I will reward you when the disaster in Guanzhong is over."

Guo Ziyun stood up and bowed again: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace."

Qin Yun was speechless. He really couldn't stand others kneeling in front of him all the time. He bowed his head himself, and it was very tiring to help him up.

"Your Majesty, there is one more important thing." Guo Ziyun handed over the file with both hands.

Qin Yun's eyes lit up, the highlight was about to begin.

"These three volumes are some treasury records that I secretly investigated under the pretext of disaster relief. More than half of the expenses are outrageous, even to the point of being hard to believe," Guo Ziyun said seriously.

Qin Yun took the file, opened it and took a closer look.

The expenditure, time and purpose of the funds are clearly marked above.

For example, on New Year's Eve last year, the emperor held a banquet to entertain his ministers, and the expenditure on food and drinks was as high as seven thousand taels of silver.

For example, the renovation of the Moon-Watching Tower in the Imperial Garden cost 10,000 taels of silver.

"Grass!"

Qin Yun cursed. This was not an unbelievable expense. This was simply treating others as fools!

Can you spend seven thousand taels on a New Year’s Eve dinner?

Even if you drink all the deer blood and eat all the gold, you won't need that much, right?

There are only a few ministers among them, and the most likely ones who can enter the palace for meals are less than one or two hundred, right?

In addition, ten thousand taels of silver were used to renovate an attic. Even if Qin Yun didn't know much about the prices in Daxia, he still felt it was outrageous!

There were special workers to repair the palace, and many of the stones and wood materials did not cost any money, so where did the ten thousand taels go?

I guess just building a few more Moon-Watching Towers would be enough, right?

"Check, check for me!"

"Who handled all this money?" Qin Yun's face looked grim, and his dragon body trembled slightly!

The ministers eat the emperor's food and receive salaries, but in the end they are not satisfied. They even want to cheat the court and engage in corruption. It is simply lawless!

Guo Ziyun said: "Your Majesty, I don't know about this. After all, I don't have that much authority."

"But what is certain is that it was the Ministry of Revenue that allocated the money. The Ministry of Revenue cannot escape responsibility for allocating such an outrageous amount of money!"

Qin Yun was furious and shouted: "Xishun!"

Eunuch Xi immediately trotted over and knelt down.

"Go! Go outside the palace and call the Minister of Finance Wang Wei to me!"

"Yes!" Seeing that His Majesty was furious, Eunuch Xi did not dare to stay any longer. He immediately took the order and a team of carriages and horses and the imperial guards to invite people.

It's approaching noon.

Wang Wei has arrived.

He came to the imperial study and saw Guo Ziyun, his eyes lingering for a moment.

Then he knelt down and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty."

Qin Yun was drinking iced sour plum soup. He put down the small white bowl with lace and said with an unhappy look, "Lord Wang, take a look at this."

Eunuch Xi handed over the file.

Wang Wei frowned, looking suspicious. He picked up the file and saw that it was filled with records of national treasury expenditures.

At that moment, he understood instantly.

His eyes inadvertently swept towards Guo Ziyun with a hint of viciousness. In the current court, someone actually dared to report him!

"Your Majesty, this is unfair!"

He immediately looked aggrieved, cried out in pain, and knelt on the ground, unable to get up.

Qin Yun raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Unjust, how is it wrong? Could it be that the record above is wrong?"

Wang Wei clasped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the expenses recorded in this file are true, and these things did happen, but this old minister has absolutely not embezzled the national treasury or enriched himself!"

"This money was indeed spent. Your Majesty, you said at the beginning that the renovation of Wangyue Tower must use Tengjin Stone and agate from the Western Regions. It cost a lot of money to buy these two things from outside."

"And last year on New Year's Eve, you reviewed all the expenses and nodded your approval. You even thought it was too shabby, so you asked people to buy a lot of delicacies to make a table of 1,000 dishes, symbolizing the longevity of the Great Xia."

Qin Yun was stunned for a moment. When he thought of his predecessor, he felt that this guy was capable of doing such a thing.

Guo Ziyun's expression also looked a little strange. Did His Majesty know about this?

"Even so, your Ministry of Revenue is not doing its job well. You actually allocated funds for such a large expenditure?"

"What if the national treasury can't allocate money one day?" Qin Yun said calmly.

Wang Wei put his forehead to the ground and replied perfectly: "The whole world belongs to your Majesty. What's wrong with your Majesty wanting to use some money?"

"Don't even mention a few thousand taels of silver. As long as Your Majesty asks for it, I will allocate tens of millions of taels of silver!"

The voice was so passionate and deafening!

Qin Yun was stunned.

This old fox is showing his loyalty!

It's not easy to deal with! He cursed in his heart.

Guo Ziyun's eyes were somewhat helpless. Qin Yun had indeed agreed to many absurd things in the past. It would be extremely difficult to investigate corruption, and he couldn't investigate His Majesty as well.

After all, Qin Yun should bear the main responsibility.

After saying this, Wang Wei cleverly and skillfully turned the gun around and attacked Qin Yun.

"Your Majesty, I have always been loyal to you. I don't know where you heard these rumors. Someone actually slandered my loyalty to you!"

"This file was copied. Could it be that someone from the Ministry of Revenue submitted it?"

Wang Wei glanced at Guo Ziyun beside him and said meaningfully, "If you are not from the Ministry of Revenue, then taking out this file would violate the laws of Daxia!"

"If you are guilty, you should be thrown into prison and await your punishment!"

When Guo Ziyun heard this, his face changed drastically, his eyes were filled with fear, and he staggered back a few steps!