"Shi Shi Zhang! What's going on!"

Emperor Liu Hong stared at Zhang Rang suddenly. "Zhang Wen is the Grand Secretary you recommended? He is in charge of the national treasury? I have no money to build a garden? I have no money to guard the border. Is this money? Where did he go? Is he full of his personal pockets? Or is he filial to you, the Central Eunuch?"

No wonder the emperor Liu Hong was angry... In his subconscious, he was the only one in the world who could fill his pockets and embezzle the treasury privately? Who is Zhang Wen? How dare he do this?

Just finished speaking...

Bang... Two times, Zhang Rang's head hit the ground again, and kowtowed one after another. In addition to the "headache", he felt dizzy... Even so, he still tried hard to calm himself down.

"Your Majesty... We... We don't know either!" Zhang Rang regretted it very much. It was said that scholars met soldiers, and they couldn't explain clearly... But I'm a squad, the soldier met the "account book"? Can he sort it out again?

Zhang Rang felt that his brain was really kicked by a donkey, so he recommended Zhang Wen... This was simply a mistake.

Zhang Wen... is also... it's a sinkhole.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty calms down. I will go to the warehouse now. I will urge you to urge Zhang Wen himself..." Zhang Rang kept explaining. "The border defense money can be collected, the Imperial College funds can be collected... and... and His Majesty's money to build a garden can be collected at all."

In the rage of the emperor, Zhang Rang said so...

Huang Pusong and Cai Yong looked at each other... After exchanging their eyes, they couldn't help but mutter in their hearts: "It seems that Dachang Qiu Cao Jie is right... Today is the best time to ask for money!"

Thinking of this, Cai Yong and Huang Pusong spoke repeatedly, trying to add another fire:

"Your Majesty... The Imperial College is about to start, and the teaching funds must be collected..."

"Your Majesty... The border guards and the Xianbei Hu cavalry are fighting fiercely. Don't have any money? I'm afraid I'll lose all the city gates..."

Hmm...

Emperor Liu Hong's head was almost blown up. "Shi Shi Zhang? Did you hear that? The funds of the Imperial College, the pay for the border guards... and the most important thing is the money I have to repair the East and West Guiyuan? Now, you can ask me for it..."

"Here...here..." Zhang Rang stood up tremblingly, and took a small step back... and said while retreating: "I...I must have been asking for money...money..."

From time to time, he glanced at the emperor with his eyes in his eyes. Seeing that the emperor was tense, he knew the importance of the relationship and thought to himself, otherwise... he would lend the money he had been constrained over the years to the treasury first... After passing this level, he would settle the score for Zhang Wen carefully.

Before he left, his butt seemed to hit a stone after a "bang".

"Ouch..."

Zhang Rang turned forward... The little yellow door beside him hurriedly helped Zhang Rang up... He patted the dust on his body and raised his eyes... He wanted to see which piece of miscellaneous parting was? Dare to hit him?

It would be fine if I didn’t look at it... I saw that it was not the new Grand Chief Agricultural Manager Zhang Wen? Who else could there be?

"You...why are you here?" Zhang Rang muttered in a low voice...

"Come and resign!" Zhang Wen raised his eyebrows and answered three words coldly.

"Resignation? What official? Do you know that our family is about to lose everything in order to protect you?" Zhang Rang's tone was cold... and there was a feeling of regret. "You... do you still have the face to resign?... You are so big-headed ghost, you are quitting your sister... Hurry up... Go back for me quickly!"

"Go back? Haha?" How could you know? Zhang Wen ignored Zhang Rang at all and laughed. "The Grand Secretary-General? Do you want to do it? Here I! I can't do it anymore!" After that... he waved his sleeves and walked straight towards the emperor Liu Hong...

"Oh..." Zhang Rang shook his long sleeves and hurriedly chased after him.

...

Step on the tread…

Solid and heavy steps are getting closer and closer...

A little eunuch took a step forward... and rushed to the emperor.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... The Grand Secretary's Farmer Zhang Wen broke in, saying it was... It was about Your Majesty's garden repair, so I can't stop you even if you stop!"

"Zhang Wen, the Grand Secretary?" Hearing this name, Emperor Liu Hong narrowed his eyes. "It's just right to look for him! He came here uninvited!"

While speaking, Zhang Wen had already walked to the emperor.

With a "pop" sound... Zhang Wen knelt on the ground. "Your Majesty..." After saluting, he realized that not only the emperor was Liu Hong, but also the Imperial College Chief Cai Yong and the Huns General Huang Pusong.

Huh... I breathed a long breath, and thought about it with my toes and knew that they were here to complain to the emperor... sued him, the Grand Marshal who was in charge of the imperial financial power!

Thinking of this, Zhang Wen smiled bitterly, but instead became much more calm.

"Isn't Zhang Aiqing here to cry for poverty?" Liu Hong glared at him coldly.

"Your Majesty, I won't cry..." Zhang Wen's somewhat dry throat and a hoarse voice came out. "I am here to resign... I can't do this Grand Minister's Agriculture..."

call out…

This sudden resignation caught Emperor Liu Hong off guard. Not only did he catch him off guard, but even Cai Yong and Huang Pusong were a little caught off guard... What do you mean? If you can't afford the money, you will resign... Don't you play like this?

Having said that? You quit cleanly, where did the Imperial College pay? Who will give the food and salary of the border guards? And His Majesty's garden? Isn't it completely stranded?

"Resigned? Why did you resign?" Liu Hong pointed to Zhang Wen's head and asked angrily. "Isn't it just money? A huge man? There is not even money for a garden in the treasury?"

The great Han Empire? How can I have money? Isn’t this funny? Although there have been constant natural disasters and man-made disasters over the years, I can always collect taxes every year...

These taxes are not used for border defense or education. Where are they used? Where are the accounts?

"Your Majesty? The treasury... is really...it's really not rich!" Zhang Wen said helplessly... "The accounts are listed with some treasury money, but... I really want to take it out? I'm afraid that it's less than 10% of the money in the account!"

"What?" Emperor Liu Hong paused... "What about the money? Where is the treasury's money?" It's related to money... The emperor is very sensitive... The treasury has no money? Where will he embezzle his private money in the future? How can he continue to replenish it?

"Your Majesty..." But Zhang Rang hurried back. "My... I can testify that when Lord Zhang Wen took over the position of the Grand Secretary, the treasury was penniless... This... these are all... all the confusing accounts made by former Grand Secretary Cao Song... In addition... In addition, Da Changqiu..."

It was just up to this point, and Zhang Rang planned to tell the matter between Cao Song and Cao Jie... Although the evidence of the crime was not found, it was better... Let him and Zhang Wen take the blame!

Who knew... he was just halfway through his words.

"Your Majesty..." A loud and sharp voice sounded, but it was not Da Changqiu who could be seen coming towards him. Shangshu Ling Cao Jie, who else could there be?

"Harle Cao is here?" When Liu Hong waved his hand, he seemed quite pleased...

No wonder, Cao Jie helped the emperor collect rent in the commercial street in Xiyuan... Liu Hong was quite happy about this and naturally favored Cao Jie even more. "Is Cao Hou here? Is it because of the matter of Kuyin?"

Of course it's...

All of this was the game he set up. The words of the little guy Cao Shu gradually became a chess game full of sky and earth. Everyone, including the emperor, was his and Xiao Cao Shuo's chess piece.

Cao Jie, one of the chess players now... has appeared.

"Your Majesty... I am just about to talk about the treasury! But I heard the nonsense of Mr. Zhang!"

Cao Jie bowed to Emperor Liu Hong and continued, "Speaking of this, Zhang Wen Grand Priest recommended by Zhang Changshi was born in a military rank and led troops to fight, but he still lacked some excuses for this civil service."

"I just went to the warehouse to take stock of it. Although there was not much money? But... there were quite a lot of tributes and utensils. Each utensil has a corresponding price. These can be replaced in the market... I want to replace them all, let alone His Majesty's garden, even military pay and Imperial College funds will not be owed..."

Speaking of this, Cao Jie paused and said something. "As for the price of each utensil? Not to mention that Lord Zhang Wen doesn't know, even the officials don't know... I'm afraid I will lose a lot of kuyin if I replace it rashly!"

"Who knows?" Emperor Liu Hong asked back.

"Former Grand Secretary Cao Song."

Cao Jie's tone was firm. "To put it bluntly, this treasury is far from as simple as imagined... The taxes paid by each state are not necessarily all money and food, and can also be deducted by utensils and currency... What's more, many beautiful palace maids, rare birds and beasts also deducted... These have been presented to Your Majesty."

"...So, Zhang Changshi said that the accounts are confused... That's true. Zhang Wen's Grand Secretary manages the treasury just means that the treasury is confused. But if Cao Song, a former Grand Secretary, was in charge of the treasury... the accounts were very clear and thorough... I remember that a few years ago... I have never had any arrears... Is this a debt not possible? Or is it not possible for people?"

Huh...this!

Zhang Rang's eyes that glared at Cao Jie were almost bursting out... But, in such anger... he felt like he was about to cry.

Cao Jie... This is simply serious nonsense...

After all, it’s not okay to slander Zhang Wen, whom he recommended? This is a damn... he doesn’t speak dirty words... but every word is heart-wrenching! It hurts... It hurts so much!

Well...it seems that because of Cao Jie's words, Emperor Liu Hong fell into deep thought...

Looking back a few years ago, when Cao Song was appointed as the Great Honglu, he was responsible for keeping the private money of Emperor Liu Hong... There were never any mistakes;

When he was the Grand Secretary of the People's Republic of China, he was in charge of the financial power of the empire. Not to mention other things... Military expenses, funds, and the expenses of the emperor's leisure and entertainment were not a problem...

How did Zhang Wenyi take over? The empire's treasury has become a loophole? In addition, the private money of his emperor Liu Hong has become precarious...

No! You must get rid of this situation quickly.

Otherwise, more and more court officials would have to worry about his emperor's private money... This money is earned by selling official positions and belongs to the emperor's personal ones. Who wants to move? There is no way...

I am not afraid of thieves stealing, no, I am not afraid of these officials stealing, I am just afraid of these officials thinking about them...

Thinking of this, Emperor Liu Hong nodded heavily.

"Zhang Wen? You have something to say."

"I am here... to resign!" Zhang Wen asked again... Without a diamond, I can't take over this porcelain job... How powerful is the Grand Secretary's position? That's someone else's... In his eyes, this is a pit, a huge deep pit!

"Okay..." Liu Hong nodded. "Transfer my will to remove Zhang Wen from his position as a Grand Secretary, and order Cao Song to be the Grand Secretary, and take office immediately. Within one month, I will see the construction of the East and West Guiyuan starts."

"Here..." Cao Jie, Cai Yong, and Huang Pusong agreed.

After all, this Grand Secretary’s official position... Cao Song? It’s still what everyone hopes to...

As the saying goes, the two benefits are the most important, and the two harms are the least important...

Others are in charge of the empire's financial power, and their officials, soldiers, and great scholars are hungry. If Cao Song is in charge of it... they can still have a meal!

These days, it’s great to have a meal!

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Chapter completed!