Xu Wuli said this number, let alone Su Laochang and Shi Zhen, Xu Huai couldn't believe it and thought he had heard it awkwardly.

"It should be this number!" Xu Wu'an, Yan Xiaoyi and others didn't know what expressions they should be appropriate, and they smiled bitterly, "We thought we had heard it a little bit, so we grabbed Jiao Pan and asked several times! Jiao Pan came back, in addition to the secret report from Zhou Jing, there was also a letter from Wang Bing's grandpa!"

Yuan Lei led a team of elite troops to sneak into Tongxu County and took Jiangshi's family to the south. However, in order to prevent the target from being too big and the Chihu people were aware of it, Zhou Jing, who was in Bianliang, could only arrange Jiangshi's family to leave Beijing in batches.

At this time, it was the first batch of craftsmen's family to go south. Yuan Lei had to continue to stay in Tongxu, and it was relatively safer to go south from Tongxu. Yuan Lei arranged for his military officials to take people to escort the craftsmen's family to go south, so as not to stay in Tongxu's festival.

Xu Huai walked towards the yatang with a gloomy face.

Su Laochang still murmured to himself: "This number is too outrageous! How much is the imperial court earning in a year? How could it be possible to collect so much gold and silver?"

Shi Zhen looked at the hazy sky with his hands behind his back.

He was quite clear about the wealth and taxes in the court.

The total amount of money, grain, silk, etc. in the Yue Sui period is about 50 million to 60 million. This number seems huge, but this number includes the world's wealth and wealth.

The taxes levyed by prefectures and counties are usually divided into three parts: "Liuzhou", "sending envoys" and "upon offerings". "Liuzhou" means leaving part of the money and grain in prefectures and counties for use, and "sending envoys" to Lushi for use. Only the last part is escorted to Zhongjingzhong. The annual income of the central government is about 1,23 million guan per year.

However, the silver in Dayue is expensive and the money is cheap. If the annual income of the central center is converted into silver, it may be less than 8 million taels.

The Chihu people asked for five hundred taels of gold and fifty million taels of gold and silver, which was enough to reach the annual income of the center for more than ten or twenty years.

Xu Huai walked into the yatang, and Jiao Pan, the escort officer, was in the yatang. Guo Jun and Tang Pan were asking him in detail about the details of the trip.

Seeing Xu Huai coming in, Guo Junjue and Tang Pan patted the long case and shouted: "It's really a big deal!"

"This time, escort a few craftsmen over? Come and invite them to meet him." After Xu Huai sat at the Central Chief's case, he asked someone to invite all the craftsmen who went south to meet him.

Tang Pan handed Xu Huai the secret report brought back by Jiao Pan and the letter Wang Bing.

The Chihu people blocked Bianliang very strictly. Zhou Jing would not risk sending people back to Chushan unless it was a special situation. However, after he arrived in Bianliang, he recorded all the happenings in the court one by one, and a thick stack of letters and newspapers were tightly wrapped with oil-soaked paper.

Xu Huai was silently disassembling the oil-immersed paper. After sitting in the long case, he first read more than twenty pages of letters one by one, and then took out Wang Bing's letters.

In the letter, Wang Bing also made a general statement about some of the things that happened in the court during this period, and finally expressed that he had known what Xu Huai wanted Lu Xiong to send back.

Xu Huai handed the letter from Wang Bing to Shi Zhen, and Su Laochang and others passed it on.

"The letter of Wang Xiang did not mention the claim of the Chihu people..." Su Laochang read Wang Bing's letter and looked up and said, "He couldn't help but expect the claim of claiming was a false story.

"The King of Kings is ashamed to mention this matter in his letter!" Xu Huaishen sighed and said.

"The problem is that the barbarians are asking for a lot of prices, so the court cannot agree to each other, right? Think about the fact that the imperial court formed an alliance with the Khitans more than a hundred years ago, and they made a brotherly country to pay 200,000 taels of silver every year, and the backbone of the people in the world has been poked for many years!" Su Laochang still couldn't believe that this was true.

Guo Junsen sat on the ground in front of Xu Huai's case. He had not digested such amazing news yet and said, "Even if there are cartilage eggs in the court, where can we raise so much gold and silver? It is far from enough to empty the national treasury? Mr. Shi, how much gold and silver can you bring out in the court?"

"The annual income of the central center is equivalent to only seven or eight million taels of silver, and the annual expenditure is complex and the savings are extremely limited. This time, Chihu invaded the south, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the capital participated in the defense, and the court also gave more rewards to inspire morale. There should be very few left in the national treasury!" Shi Zhen said.

"I just said that even if the court has boneless cartilage eggs on their knees, they can't take out so much gold and silver to fill the bottomless pit of the Hulu!" Guo Junzong said, "In my opinion, these cartilage eggs should realize that the road to seek peace cannot be achieved at all, so they can only fight with one's own risk!"

Shi Zhen smiled bitterly and pushed Wang Bing's letter forward.

Su Laochang and Guo Jun were both stunned and excited. They were not sure what Shi Zhen’s move meant.

"The trust of Wang Xiang is extremely dull, and there is no sign of any turmoil. If the court no longer seeks peace and decides to fight the barbarians to the death, how could Wang Xiang's letter be so calm?" Shi Zhen smiled bitterly, "The sorrow is greater than death!"

"..." Su Laochang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Now the national treasury is empty. Could it be that the barbarians would not have to enter the city to capture them? The court would help the barbarians shave three feet of the ground in Bianliang City to search for gold and silver?"

At this time, Jiao Pan came in and reported that he had invited three craftsmen from the south.

These three craftsmen are all familiar to Shi Zhen, and were invited by Shi Zhen to come to Chushan.

However, when everyone first heard such shocking news, no one could feel happy.

After a brief greeting, Xu Huai invited three craftsmen to sit down and asked about the situation in Beijing.

"On the day we left Bianliang, we heard news that the officials had issued an order to plunder gold and silver throughout the city to fulfill the wishes of the barbarians, and even stipulated that all princes and ministers should pay a certain amount of gold and silver. Shi Zhen invited us to leave Beijing, but we still hesitated for a long time, and we were too concerned about it. Now we are glad that we left the city one day earlier and did not suffer. Zhou Wenli and they should have left Bianliang one day later than us, but we waited for three days in Tongxu, but no one came over. I guess it would be more difficult to leave the city again when the whole city was searching..." Dajiang Zhuang, a big martial arts case in the Yantioxue was over 60 years old. His black and thin face seemed to have a chapped bark. His voice was hoarse and Zhou Jing had not had time to find out or wrote some details in the letter.

"Even if you search the whole city, you can't get enough of this number - and the Chihu people cannot give you a deadline," Shi Zhen asked solemnly, "Will you hear any other rumor?"

There are some news in Beijing that Zhou Jing has not yet established enough hidden channels and is difficult to find out; even many news are difficult to distinguish between true and false, and can only rely on post-event analysis.

However, there are thousands of officials in the ministry, supervisory and ministerial affairs, who have been rooted in Bianliang for generations, and have close contact with each other. The news dissemination network woven in Bianliang is much deeper than the world imagines. Even the most hidden things in Gongwei cannot be hidden from their eyes and ears.

Zhuang Shouxin found it difficult to say many things. He didn't know if he wanted to keep the imperial court and hide his hatred for the noble official. Seeing Shi Zhen, Xu Huaizhuo seemed to him. He hesitated for a while before sighing bitterly and said, "I just heard that I may not be able to do it."

"I'd like to ask everyone to tell you everything. We can bear the bad news." Xu Huai said with politeness.

Zhuang Shouxin said: "I heard that the Hulu blackmail was very tight, and it seemed that the amount of gold and silver was not enough, so it could be used to pay the royal women. However, in addition to claiming the gold and silver and ceding the military town, the Hulu also requested an additional 'two princesses, four princesses, four clan girls, two thousand female musicians, three thousand craftsmen of various colors'. This is not related to the royal women who deserved the number, and it is an extra. I hope that Zhou Wenli and his family have already hidden their families with their help from Zhou's lieutenant, otherwise it might be difficult to escape this disaster."

"What!" Guo Junzong suddenly stood up and took down the cases in front of him. The paper, pen, inkstone and ink on it were "rather" blew the ground. He was so angry that he kicked the cases at the door of the Yatang and cursed, "What the hell is this?"

Tang Pan and Xu Xin'an's eyes were red, and it was only at this moment that it was really hard to imagine that this would be true.

"This..." Mr. Su stuttered for a long time before asking, "It is impossible for Wang Xiang to remain silent on these things, right? Wang Xiang's letter is not mentioned at all. Zhou Jing didn't write anything in the letter newspaper. What's going on?"

"When we left Bianliang, the Zhou Zhengwei had not seen the people in the prime minister's mansion for several days. He was busy arranging us to leave Bianliang, and no one was going to collect various information," said Zhuang Shouxin. "We also heard rumors about many things, but we didn't know the truth and the truth was even more ashamed of the external rumor. Wang Xiang would not be indifferent. On the third day of the Hu envoy's entry into the city, I heard that a soldier attacked the camp of the envoys in the east of Zhongmu City at night, but it seemed that some people in the court were afraid that this would anger the Hu envoys, and sent someone to inform the Hu envoys. They heard that the soldiers were completely wiped out by the captive soldiers! After that, except for Mr. Lu, we didn't hear any news about Wang Xiang again except for Mr. Lu who came to send a letter from Wang Xiang to Zhou Zhengwei, we did not hear any news about Wang Xiang again!"

"This is asking for peace! This is asking for peace! The great Yue, the great Yue!"

Su Laochang slapped himself hard and shouted in a sarcasm.

"I can't stand it!" Tang Pan shouted and walked out of the yamen hall with Xu Xin'an.
Chapter completed!