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Discussing state affairs, what must be discussed at night, for some reason, Yan Qin always feels that the regent has no good intentions.

But one thing is true, there are so many civil and military officials, although there are many disciples from poor families, but more of them are from aristocratic families, and those aristocratic families are much richer than the emperor.

Take the Xiao family before that, let’s copy a house, the family property is worth several million, but most of the Xiao family’s things are calligraphy, painting and antiques that are not easy to cash in, and there are not many bank notes and silver.

Moreover, the cash was used up after the house was ransacked, and it was used as Dayan's military salary this year.

Although there is no tough battle to fight now, he can't treat the soldiers stationed on the frontier badly.In particular, the regent had been staying in the frontier before, and he was well versed in the suffering of insufficient military pay, so he was a little more generous in this respect.

The approval document for military pay started after Yuanzheng's ten-day holiday. The approval document had been issued a few days ago, and it happened that there was some surplus silver in the treasury. Yan Qin spent the money with a stroke of his pen.

And because it is too far away from the capital, it takes a month to go back and forth, and the military salary is only sent out once a year, which is a large sum of money.It's all because of his bad memory, he doesn't remember the earthquake at all, he had to write all the notes of others before he remembered such a thing.

If he had known earlier, he would have had money by selling those things from the Xiao family.

Hey, he did it all over again twice, why didn't he know how to improve his memory.Yan Qin planned to wait for the regent to go out, so that he could dig out the little notebook he knew how to write when he was just reborn, and write down all the important things, at least to be able to plan ahead.

After reviewing the papers, Yan Qin summoned the Minister of the Household Department to confirm the current amount of money that can be spent in the treasury.

The Minister of the Household Department said a lot, and summed it up, the answer he gave him was also one word: "Poor!"

Yan Qin stared at the Minister of the Household Department for a long time, and asked him to send the account, but he didn't understand.His grandfather, and his father, who died young, may not be regarded as the wise kings who created a prosperous world, but the taxes recorded in the accounts every year are not small.

He looked at the account, and Dayan's yearly income is about 1000 million taels, and the total amount used for disaster relief every year is about 100 million taels.Local officials are all paid by the local government, and part of the tax paid has already been reduced or exempted, and there is no need for central appropriation.

As for him, he doesn't feel that he is a luxury.When I was not in charge of the family, I always felt as if I had enough money to spend.Ever since he took office, he felt that when he finally got money, it was gone with a bang, and he never heard a sound of money.

In this way, his cabinet ministers, his ministers of the household department, his ministers of the Ministry of rites, and ministers of the military department always cried to him that he was poor and said that there was not enough money.Judging from the accounts, they really don't have enough money. They need money for everything, and they have legitimate reasons for asking for money. Anyway, they don't have enough money every day.

Hubu Shangshu staged a classic crying poor in front of the little emperor, and after a quarter of an hour, he wiped away his old tears and walked out of the imperial study.Yan Qin glanced at the regent again, this time he looked at the regent with something else in his eyes.Of course, it is the kind of kind, warm eyes.

Yan Yuge has never been looked at by the little emperor with such eyes, and he couldn't understand the meaning of the little emperor's eyes for a while. He has always been very straightforward in front of the little emperor, and asked directly if he wanted to say: " Why does Your Majesty look at me like this?"

Yan Qin said with emotion: "Gu just thinks that Uncle Wang treats Gu really well."

How nice of the regent to never cry poor to him.Not only did he not cry for poverty, but he also knew how to give him gifts. Although on New Year’s Eve, the New Year’s money that the regent gave him was only a copper coin and a jade that didn’t look very valuable... But it was still a gift, compared to the ministers who only knew how to stretch out their hands How distinctive and fresh the Regent looked!

Although he didn't know why the little emperor suddenly expressed such emotion, Yan Yuge accepted the words very cooperatively: "Your Majesty's eyes are as bright as a torch, and I think so too."

Well, for the sake of fact, this time Yan Qin decided not to say that the regent is shameless, and next time he has a chance, he will say it three times at once.

All afternoon, Yan Qin was summoning ministers, and sure enough, like the Minister of the Household Department, there was no one who made him feel at ease.

The only Dugu Liu who can make him worry after all is still in Shanxidu County, comforting the victims and sharing the joys and sorrows with the victims.

For such an important person, Yan Qin did not dare to let him come back easily.He summoned the ministers who had been there all afternoon, and made some insinuations, all expressing his grief over the disaster, and he must follow His Majesty's will.

But when it comes to donating money, they say that there is an [-]-year-old mother in the family, a five-year-old child waiting to be fed, the salary given by the emperor, and the servants at home. They cannot starve their family members to death for the sake of the victims.

Of course, it's not that they don't donate money. They work hard, tighten their belts, and donate 500 taels to 1000 taels. It's all saved by saving money.

Each person donated 1000 taels, and hundreds of courtiers also donated 10 taels. It seemed that the amount was quite a lot, but this amount of money was far from enough for the victims.What's more, not everyone can give that much. For example, Tan Hualang, who just entered the court this year, is from a very poor family. , Yan Qin can't force donations.

I was in a bad mood all afternoon, I didn't even practice martial arts, so I went straight to dinner.

Yan Yuge stayed to eat with him as usual.Of course, his Xijie's faults have not changed at all, but because the regent came more often, the palace specially prepared a set of kitchen utensils for him.

After one afternoon, Yan Qin, who felt that he was so poor, faced a table of dishes, and suddenly said to Chang with a smile: "Tomorrow, I will order the imperial dining room to serve a few dishes for Gu Shao. There are only two people, how can we eat?" so much."

In fact, the dishes prepared for the little emperor were not too many, but the quantity was indeed large. Basically, Yan Qin would be full after eating one bite of each dish.

When the regent was eating with his tableware, Yan Yuge said in a low tone, "Uncle Wang's tableware was specially baked for you in the palace, and it cost a lot of money."

After being told by the little emperor, Yan Yuge slammed his hand holding the vegetables, and put a big chicken leg into the little emperor's bowl with his chopsticks: "Your Majesty, eat more meat to nourish your body." Chicken is not only fresh and tender , but also aphrodisiac.

Yan Qin used the chopsticks to pinch the drumsticks back again: "No, Uncle Wang is fine, just eat some vegetarian food."

He added a piece of white tofu to his bowl.

Thinking of the recipes he had made up for in his spare time these days, the regent hurriedly helped the little emperor get out the tofu.

How can the little emperor eat more of tofu, which makes people feel ashamed? A good young man is just the age when he should vent his youthful vigor. How can he suppress his normal needs with this disheartened food.

Is it impossible to learn from the monks in the temple?He glanced around the table, and then served the little emperor a small bowl of corn and pigeon soup in a delicate bowl.

The pigeons are carefully skimmed by the imperial dining room to ensure that they are not greasy at all.

"This one is also light, Your Majesty should eat more."

"..." Yan Qin didn't do this kind of behavior of picking up the food again, because he thought it was stupid, if he didn't eat the food, it would be cold.

Of course, in order for the little emperor to eat happily, the regent suggested: "How about this, there are a few cooks in the minister's family, and the food is very good. The minister always eats in the palace these days, why don't you let me cook?" They entered the palace to prepare food for His Majesty."

Chang Xiao who was waiting on the side suddenly interrupted and said: "Your Majesty, this is probably inappropriate." The regent is too much, it is not enough to intervene beside his master, and he has to send some women with bad conduct to be concubines. It's all right now, even the cook at home is going to enter the palace.

He sees, it must be that the regent thinks that the food in the palace is not used to, so he wants his cook to come in.

Yan Qin didn't directly object, but said in a low tone: "Gu still wants to reduce the number of people in the imperial dining room, and Uncle Wang still wants to send cooks in. It's not like Uncle Wang doesn't know that the national treasury is empty now, and Gu's private treasury is empty. It's pretty empty too."

The regent is really too shameless, shameless, shameless!Say important things three times!It's not enough for him to come to the palace every day to eat and drink and increase his expenses, and now even the cook has to come to eat and drink, obviously the regent is much richer than him!

When the first emperor was here, he rewarded the regent many things, but he did not receive as many rewards as the regent.

"My cook, of course, doesn't need His Majesty's money. How about I ask the accountant to count the money I owe Your Majesty for the meals tomorrow?"

Yan Qin immediately calculated the account in his mind, the food in the palace was exquisite, all of which were high-quality ingredients, plus the money for hiring the imperial chef, it was quite a lot for a day's meals.

Although he wanted the money very much, the dignity of a man made Yan Qin dispel this idea: "It's just an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks. There are many people, and a single person can still afford it."

"Since Your Majesty said so, then naturally I cannot disappoint Your Majesty."

Seeing the regent eating meat, Yan Qin's heart was broken, the abacus in his heart was rattling, the regent really ate a lot of money from him, he was so poor, he was almost unable to support him up.