"I have already thought about this. Si Huanian dare not say it out."

Zhao Shu knew that he must have used some method to ask Si Huanian to keep his condition secret.

The emperor's condition is the biggest secret. At the least, it causes turmoil in the government and the country at the worst.

To the outside world, Zhao Shu has always agreed to conceal it.

Now, I can only hide this situation first. In a few years, the prince will be able to stand alone.

The prince will get married in two or three years.

Probably, I can only survive until that time.

After the morning court, Zhao Yuanjing left several officials from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works to discuss the river repair work.

Every year, the autumn flood is a major event that the court attaches great importance to.

If you can't get it, you can easily cause thousands of people to farmland, houses, and displace them.

To build a river embankment requires hiring a large number of craftsmen, plus the money to buy materials, and the inevitable exploitation of officials at all levels. The cost of building river embankment that the court invested in every year is also huge.

This is a matter of discussing money.

The imperial court's silver was in the treasury and was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue.

The current Minister of Revenue is Jin Lan.

Jin Lan has a great memory, and all the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue are in his heart. He can tell the data the emperor needs without hesitation without looking at the account book.

The Minister of Works asked for a grant of two million taels of silver.

The right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue snorted coldly: "Mr. Shi is really a lion. Do we really think that our Ministry of Revenue is the God of Wealth, can we make money by ourselves?"

This Lord Shi is Wei Jintai's father-in-law.

Although he is old, he is in good spirits and speaks with great energy: "If you don't have enough money, building a river bank is equivalent to giving up halfway!"

"I have given all the money to your Ministry of Works, and I will eat dirt in other places?"

"alright."

Zhao Yuanjing raised his hand to stop their argument, looked at Jin Lan, and asked, "How many more can the treasury be allocated to the Ministry of Works at most?"

Jin Lan said: "Originally, the Ministry of Works allocated enough this year, but due to the war, a lot of money from the national treasury was consumed."

In order not to die, shells are consumed very much.

It's all silver.

This is also the reason why some officials do not agree to exchange for money for people. What is the use of leaving so many lives? It cannot be exchanged for the consumed money.

There are many places where the imperial court uses silver.

If you consume more here, you will naturally have less money to use there.

In the eyes of many superiors, the lives of the people and soldiers at the bottom are not worth the money and are not worth exchanging with expensive shells.

This also caused some forces in the court to question the Queen's decision. They felt that the Queen's use of expensive shells to exchange for the lives of lowly soldiers, which affected their interests.

In addition to this incident, many ministers in the court were dissatisfied with the decision of King Xiao Ziliang of Northern Qi.

Originally, there was a consensus between the inside and outside the court that the King of Northern Qi could not give birth, and the second prince would inevitably inherit the throne of Northern Qi in the future. In this way, Northern Qi was firmly controlled by the Great Zhou.

The Northern Qi generals could no longer restore the imperial royal family.

But now, Si Huanian, brought back by the Empress, claims to cure Xiao Ziliang's infertility. If he gives birth to a son, the King of Northern Qi will have no chance with the second prince in the future.

Northern Qi has become an uncertain factor again.

This goes against the will of many people.
Chapter completed!