The Time Traveling Anchor and Her Eight Hundred Fence-Sitters

Chapter 121 Reasonable use of system rules

In fact, in the study of the Taifu Mansion, Xiao Haizhou did not mention what happened in Dongming Palace that day.

He just asked the staff in the mansion to settle the account with Liang Yuansheng.

An account of all expenses since the late emperor ascended the throne, including pacifying the Northern Di, repelling the Eastern invaders, developing water conservancy projects, and promoting agricultural studies.

When the late emperor was alive, he kept the country safe and maintained domestic stability.

The external situation was resolved, but before the internal situation could be stabilized, he passed away.

Outsiders only thought that Tianying was vast and the land was fertile, and that he had used force to suppress a number of small border countries. The annual tribute alone could stretch from the palace gate to ten miles outside the north city gate.

Little did they know that the national treasury had long been a rotten shell. Not to mention such a huge project as the Qixiushan Dam, even the military pay for the Northwest Camp was only stored for three months.

Of course, the problem of the empty treasury cannot be explained in just a few words.

Most of them were the hidden dangers left behind by the late emperor's relatives such as Prince Ning and Prince Ping when he was alive. Some were also the result of Cui Zhao and Fan Zhishan's secret collusion and self-enrichment.

In the past two years, Xiao Haizhou has gradually centralized financial power under the banner of regent, and has achieved initial results.

If Liang Yuansheng really approved Jiao Shixuan's memorial in the court, it goes without saying that Prince Ning's faction would definitely make some small moves in the middle and use the excuse of building a dam in Qixiu Mountain to make money again.

Making money is a small matter, losing power is a big matter.

The fear is that Prince Ning and the old ministers led by Fan Zhishan will join forces to catch Xiao Haizhou off guard and attack him from both sides.

If Xiao Haizhou lost the financial power of Tianying, Liang Yuansheng would definitely not have a good ending!

Liang Yuansheng was still young and had no idea that a small Qixiushan Dam would involve so many twists and turns.

He vaguely felt that Prince Ning was coming for him this time.

While Xiao Haizhou is away, test his bottom line and tolerance.

It was hard to imagine that once he approved Jiao Shixuan's memorial, he would put himself and Xiao Haizhou in an irreversible situation!

Liang Yuansheng left the Taifu Mansion in a daze. He didn't remember how he got back to Qianchen Palace. All he remembered was what Xiao Haizhou said to him alone, leaving everyone else behind:

"Your Majesty, you are a superior. Even though you are young, you still need to have your own opinions and rules.

If someone says something like that, and you mess up your own rules and do things that are not appropriate for your status, then what is the difference between you and a puppet?"

Liang Yuansheng closed his eyes in the darkness and dug his fingernails into his palms.

Do not!

I am the emperor of this great country. I cannot and will never be anyone's puppet! !

Even if it was Xiao Haizhou...it wouldn't work!!

After Zhao Mianmian returned home, she drank ginger tea for several days.

She didn't want to drink at first, but when the system settled the account that night, it directly increased her total gold coins by 70,000. She was so happy that she lost herself in an instant and drank up everything Yu Pu brought her.

After drinking ginger tea, Zhao Mianmian was quiet for two days.

But it was only for two days. On the third day, she took advantage of her nap time to sneak into the abandoned courtyard and continue eating melons.

He Zhaoxian and He Jianxing were talking peacefully at first, but as they were talking, He Zhaoxian slammed the table and started glaring.

"That old fox Liang Che really has a good plan! He actually took advantage of Xiao Haizhou's absence and asked Jiao Shixuan to take out the memorial for building the dam!"

"You haven't seen the memorial. Jiao Shixuan asked for 800,000 taels of silver for a worthless Qi Xiushan who is not even a human being! Did he really think that the silver in the national treasury was blown by the wind?!"

"Believe it or not, if His Majesty really approves this memorial, at least 400,000 taels will go into Prince Ning's pocket."

He Jianxing did not respond immediately. He paused, then lowered his voice and said:

"Although His Majesty is young, he is not stupid. He does not have the courage to bypass Xiao Haizhou and make the decision on his own regarding the 800,000 taels of silver."

"But then again, Xiao Haizhou has been watching the national treasury more closely than the prison in the past two years. If Prince Ning were to cheat out 800,000 taels of silver, he would probably turn against Your Majesty."

"Falling out? What's there to fall out with? This person's surname is Liang, not Xiao. Isn't it that Xiao Haizhou controls the government just to seize power and make profits for the Xiao family?

Could it be that you really want to learn from the ancient Cheng Huan, reform the civil service, benefit the people, and leave your name in history? ? "

After hearing what He Jianxing said, He Zhaoxian couldn't help but raise his voice twice. Zhao Mianmian's fingers trembled, and the chestnut crisp in her hand fell to the ground with a "crack".

Fortunately, the place where Zhao Mianmian was squatting was covered with weeds, and the chestnut crisps didn't make any sound when they fell to the ground, but just rolled twice, leaving Zhao Mianmian with a look of pain on her face.

Later, He Zhaoxian and He Jianxing talked about some things in the court. Zhao Mianmian was confused and soon her eyelids began to droop and she felt drowsy.

The audience in the live broadcast room were very excited, as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they refused to let Zhao Mianmian turn off the phone.

[Don't, don't sleep! Hang on, anchor! ]

[Host, can you please help me? How can you fall asleep at this time? !

You should know that these things are not what you want to hear. Do you expect to hear these gossips from the maids in your room? ? 】

[Besides, these are all related to Xiao Haizhou. Don’t you want to know why Xiao Haizhou can only live for four years? And after four years, who will take over the Xuanlin Guard? ? ]

Hearing the three words "Xuanlin Guard", Zhao Mianmian forced himself to be alert and listened to a few words reluctantly.

But after two sentences, she started pecking at rice again, as if she really couldn't bear it anymore.

Whenever Zhao Mianmian dozed off, the audience in the live broadcast room could only hear intermittently. By the end, some people couldn't stand it anymore and came up with a way to fix the BUG.

There is a free prop gift worth 1 gold coin in the live broadcast system.

Prop gifts are not valuable, but a system prompt will pop up when you receive them, forcing the public screen to light up for one minute.

Although it was only a short minute, Zhao Mianmian was unable to turn off the phone and end the broadcast.

In other words, at this minute, she would be extremely sleepy but unable to fall asleep.

So the audience in the live broadcast room were like they had discovered a new world, and they calculated the time to give Zhao Mianmian free gifts.

【Gold Coin+1】

The bright light from the system prompt stimulated Zhao Mianmian's consciousness, allowing her to stay awake for a short time.

A minute later, just when Zhao Mianmian was about to fall asleep, the next prop gift was delivered.

After receiving the prop gift, the system pops up a prompt again:

【Gold Coin+1】

Zhao Mianmian, who was about to turn off the phone, was forced to stay awake for another minute.

This went on intermittently for more than half an hour, until He Zhaoxian and He Jianxing finished their discussion and left the study. Only then did everyone reluctantly let Zhao Mianmian go back to sleep.

The audience in the live broadcast room heard enough gossip, but Zhao Mianmian was forced to overdraw her energy and slept from noon to night.

He was the kind that couldn't be woken up even if you called him, and the whole Linlan Courtyard was in chaos with fear.

It was not until midnight that Zhao Mianmian woke up because she was hungry.

Seeing Zhao Mianmian getting up from the bed in a daze and eating two large bowls of rice with a dull expression, Dong Zhu let out a breath and gave up the idea of going out to look for someone.

Having slept enough during the day, Zhao Mianmian couldn’t fall asleep no matter how hard she tried.

Pian Dongzhu was guarding under the bed again. She couldn't go anywhere. She could only stare at the curtains of the bunk bed and curse at the fathers in the live broadcast room in her heart:

[Do you guys play like this? ! ! ]

[I'm not a machine, don't I need to rest? ! ! ]

Barrage:

【(ˉ▽￣～) Cut~~】

[Who said before that a free gift is still a gift, and it’s a waste not to make money from it? ]

[What, now that you are rich and powerful, you don’t care about this piece of gold coin? ? ]

Zhao Mianmian:

【[○?｀Д′? ○]】

[No, no, how can you give rewards like this? ? ]

Barrage:

【Just tell me whether you have made any money! 】

Zhao Mianmian was so angry that she was about to go crazy: