Zhuang Chengyi's face darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If they simply wanted to kill the Jin Kingdom, then it would be enough to spend one million guan of treasure money from the treasury. After all, the Privy Council has already approved this year's military expenditure, which is enough for them to fight several battles to destroy the country.

But if the officials want to personally conduct the expedition, it is not a million-dollar matter.

This involves a noun, rowing.

When the emperor marches on his own expedition, his retinue must have at least the imperial army to clear the way, and the Imperial Forest Army to guard the center. All civil and military officials must also send personnel to accompany the emperor to listen to the announcement. The local officials must be prepared to receive them, and all food, drink, and clothing must be prepared, and all along the way.

It's impossible to do anything other than marching, right? With the temperament of today's officials, he will be exempted from taxes wherever he goes. Maybe he will have to reward him with some money, wine, meat and so on.

In addition to the expenses along the way, it will cost even more money when the fight with Jinlu starts. Do you want to know the amount of ammunition in Jingkang that the killers in the army talk about? Do you want to know the concept of artillery cleaning?

It was all proposed by the government!

To put it bluntly, when the Privy Council sends generals to lead troops, they also have to consider the issue of ammunition supply. When the officials go on a personal expedition, they will only think about how to make the explosions more enjoyable. The original plan of one million guns will probably go to waste.

doubled several times.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Chengyi simply bowed and said: "As the saying goes, the son of a rich man will not sit in the hall. He is just a barbarian. He can be destroyed by sending a general and an army, so there is no need for the official to have the dignity of ten thousand chariots."

Leading the troops personally? Besides, now the treasury..."

"If your treasury has no money, I can use internal funds to withdraw it."

Zhao Huan interrupted Zhuang Chengyi's words with a smile and said: "I know that the treasury is empty. It is so empty that it can either run away from mice or horses, or even elephants, so I also understand the difficulties of the treasury."

Zhuang Chengyi suddenly felt something was wrong.

The mockery in the official's tone doesn't matter, he just thinks he is praising the minister, but after all, this war to destroy money is a national war, and it is not the official's turn to take money from the internal coffers, right?

It’s not like we don’t know how much money is in the treasury.

Furthermore, my name as Pixiu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, is somewhat untrue. The internal money in the hands of officials is really only money that can only be entered and cannot be taken out. If there is money in the internal money, then it is really rich, but the internal money is really rich.

He has always only allocated money to the Royal Academy in half with the treasury. The official himself is reluctant to even build a garden. How can he be willing to contribute money to the treasury for the Kingdom of Jin?

While he was thinking about it, Zhuang Chengyi suddenly felt a spiritual light coming from Tianling Gai. He felt like he was enlightened. It seemed that officials had said that there was a gold mine in Liaodong years earlier!

Okay, let me tell you why you are suddenly willing to use your internal funds to go out to attack the Golden Kingdom. It turns out that you are eyeing the gold mines in Liaodong!

If the national treasury does not spend money to conquer the Golden Kingdom, then after the Golden Kingdom is conquered, you should say that the money spent by the Golden Kingdom is internal funds, so this gold mine should also belong to the internal funds?

If you play such tricks in front of this minister, I'm afraid you are not thinking about eating peaches!

"There is money in the treasury!"

Zhuang Chengyi said confidently: "In the many years since I have been in charge of the treasury, I have saved some money. Two million yuan should not be a problem."

Li Gang looked at Zhuang Chengyi who was salivating and even wanted to swear to the sky that the treasury was rich. He felt as if he had been trampled by tens of thousands of horses for no reason, and he was confused in the mess.

Before entering the palace just now, Zhuang Pixiu seemed to have said the words "the treasury has no money," right? Just now, he seemed to have said it again?

This Zhuang Pixiu has always been so stingy that he can't wait to boil the beans before eating them. Why is he so damn rich all of a sudden?

Also, when it comes to destroying money, can we only consider the issue of money? What about face? There is no need to consider the issue of face?

It would be easier if the Privy Council sent someone to lead the army on an expedition. Then you can find any random excuse, even if the wild boars from the Jin Kingdom came over and destroyed the farmland of the Song Dynasty, but it seems that the official family looks like this.

If you are so determined to go on a military expedition in person, what kind of reason should you give?

The emperor personally led the troops to the expedition, but he still had to fight a war to destroy the country. If there was no justifiable reason, wouldn't it leave a stain on the history books?

Thinking of this, Li Gang simply stopped hiding it, and instead bowed directly and said: "I'm going to report to the officials. I thought I could let the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites come up with a reliable reason first."

Zhao Huan laughed loudly and asked: "I want to beat him, do I need any reason?"

"How can we allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the bed? Is this a good enough reason?"

"The Jin captives betrayed their allies and invaded the south, surrounded Bianjing with troops, disrespected the Heavenly Kingdom, and harmed our people of the Song Dynasty. Is this reason enough?"

"As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, I inherited the homeland of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, and sent troops to recover the four Han Dynasty Liaodong counties. Is this reason enough?"

"If these reasons are not enough, then I suspect that Jin State has illegally developed and possessed weapons of mass destruction. Is this reason enough?"

Li Gang thought to himself that this is all a mess.

"How can we allow others to sleep soundly beside the bed?" This sentence was said by Emperor Taizu when he wanted to kill the Southern Tang Dynasty. Now you just use it without changing a word?

It is true that Jin Lu betrayed the alliance, but if we really want to get to the bottom of it, I'm afraid the emperor is the one who doesn't care about it first, right?

The reason that the emperor of the Han Dynasty took over the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties is barely justified, but what kind of excuse is the weapon of mass destruction behind it?

If firecrackers and artillery can be regarded as weapons of mass destruction, then the firearms technology of the Jin Kingdom seems to have been learned from our Song Dynasty, right? It seems that you also sent people from the government to teach Jin Lu how to use

Is there a lot of saltpeter added to the gunpowder?

So, in the final analysis, the only reason is the one you said at the beginning, "What other reason do you need to hit him?", right?

Li Gang vaguely understood why the officials were more powerful than the emperor and even more powerful than so many emperors in history.

Although the emperor is "frivolous and cannot rule the world", he still wants to have some face. Officials, you don't have any face at all!?

"Okay, the matter of destroying gold is settled for now."

Just when Li Gang was secretly complaining, Zhao Huan then Gan Gang made an arbitrary decision: "We, the monarchs and ministers, will go to see the steam locomotive together tomorrow. When we come back, we will leave the prince to supervise the country. The queen mother and the empress will hang up the curtain, and Li Qing and Zhuang will

Your Majesty assists the government, and I personally lead the army to the expedition."
Chapter completed!