"Being an official is not about fighting for power, nor is it just about family interests."
Zhao Jin's voice was very light, but every word formed a sharp blade, pressing against Sheng Shao's heart, "Using the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers as bargaining chips and threats."
The thin and sharp lips were light in color and even curved, "Whoever dares to do this, Gu, dares to take his life."
Sheng Shao was already sweating profusely and knelt down quickly, "Don't worry, Your Highness, I promise that I will never leak any information!"
As if he did not hear Sheng Shao's voice, Zhao Jin calmly picked up the pen and wrote a few lines.
After putting down the ink pen, he picked up his prince's jade seal and stamped it heavily on the rice paper.
"Take it." Zhao Jin picked up the paper and pushed it to the other side of the desk.
Sheng Shao didn't dare to get up. He walked to the desk on his knees, lowered his head, took the paper, and looked at it. Only then did he realize that he was asked to use the treasury.
Now Zhao Qian is seriously ill, and the national seal can only be used by your majesty. The prince supervises the country, and can only use the national seal when issuing decrees on important matters. On weekdays, the prince's jade seal is used.
With this piece of paper, Sheng Shao could legitimately use the money from the treasury to buy food.
"I obey my orders."
"Go down."
"yes."
Sheng Shao put the paper away properly and left the East Palace sweating profusely.
After Sheng Shao left, Bai Wu walked in.
"Your Highness, Minister of the Ministry of Finance, can you believe it?"
Zhao Jin's eyes paused slightly, moved away from the fold, and laughed, "He doesn't dare."
It’s not that I can believe it, but I don’t dare.
"Sheng Shao is not a good official who serves the country and the people. He is also greedy for profit and values his family."
Bai Wu frowned, "Then, why did Your Highness let him..."
"Since we need to use money from the treasury, we cannot bypass the account department."
Zhao Jin rubbed the fold in his hand with his fingertips, "Sheng Shao still has a bottom line. He knows in his heart that once the news leaks out and the wealthy family knows about it, the lives of hundreds of thousands of troops will be threatened."
"He has no way to guarantee that the aristocratic families will put their own interests behind the lives of hundreds of thousands of troops."
Zhao Jin's words were accompanied by a chill that penetrated into the cracks in Bai Wu's bones.
"They, the lives of hundreds of thousands of troops, they should..." Bai Wu was stunned, and his words were somewhat illogical.
That's hundreds of thousands of lives, and a big family wouldn't be so ridiculous.
"As long as there are a few such people in power, it is enough." Zhao Jin's eyes were filled with coldness, his lips opened and closed, and the sound coming out of his throat was mixed with a bit of disgust.
"Sheng Shao doesn't dare to bet. If he loses, he will be a sinner forever. He will never be able to forgive himself in this life."
"What I want is that he doesn't dare."
Bai Wu's eyes moved slightly, and he suddenly asked: "If His Highness was not satisfied with the original temptation, wouldn't he tell Sheng Shao about this?"
His voice was lowered, vaguely guessing Bai Wu's plan, "Your Highness, will you choose another person?"
"I will change to another person."
The two said in unison.
Zhao Jin was stunned for a moment and then laughed loudly: "Hahaha, that's right. Guhui will be replaced by another person. Sheng Shao is not the only one who can sit in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Finance."
"Now there won't be any problems with Hubu. You can ask Mo Shen and Seng Fan to come over."
"yes."
Seng Fan and the others arrived very quickly.
"See Your Highness."
"No gift."
"I asked you to come here mainly for three things."
Zhao Jin raised his eyes and said in a cold and low voice, "The first is to establish the Long Kingdom. I think you all already know the news about the war between the Zhao Kingdom and the Li Long Kingdom."
"Give Chen Xiao a copy of the news about establishing Long Kingdom to help him spy on the military situation of establishing Long Kingdom."
"Second," Zhao Jin leaned back on the seat with his shoulders straight, "keep an eye on the big family, and if there is any change, tell me immediately."
Zhao Jin narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a hint of hesitation in his tone, "As for the third item, you go to the south and look to see if there is any high-yielding grain."
In the history of China, in the south, there was Champa rice in ancient times, which had a large yield and could be cultivated two to three times a year.
No matter what, it will be better than the current rice.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Jin added: "Look for a kind of rice that can be planted two or three times a year."
"Also, check out the food situation in the south."
The thermal conditions in the south are better, and the grain output should be greater than in the north. However, Zhao Jin checked the taxes and found that the annual taxes paid in the south are less grain than those in the north.
Zhao Jin wanted to see if he could increase grain production and free up labor to develop business while ensuring food.
After all, in order to make a country rich and strengthen its army, it is necessary to make the country rich first so that it can have the money to strengthen its army, and a rich country needs to rely on commerce.
The third order left Seng Fan and Mo Shen confused, but Mo Shen still complied.
"Yes, Your Highness."
After the arrangements were made, Zhao Jin finished approving some of the papers and stood up to relax his muscles and bones.
After fighting several times with the guards of the East Palace in the martial arts arena, Zhao Jin finally decided to leave the martial arts arena.
"Your Highness." A eunuch walked forward quickly and handed Zhao Jin a sweat towel.
After Zhao Jin wiped the sweat from his forehead, neck and other places and threw the sweat towel back to the eunuch, he asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, do you want to eat?"
Hearing this, Zhao Jin paused slightly, looked up at the sky, turned around, and walked directly towards the entrance of the East Palace.
"I won't be dining in the East Palace today, let's go out to eat."
The eunuch said hurriedly: "Then I'll make arrangements right now."
"No need to arrange too many people, just go out for a meal."
Zhao Jin told him with a headache that he did not want to leave the palace with a whole escort team behind him.
This is really because he is afraid that others will not know his identity.
The eunuch frowned and said, "Your Highness, this is against the rules."
"Rules are dead, people are alive, just do as Gu says." Zhao Jin didn't give the other party much chance to argue. These people could always come up with a lot of ancestral rules to suppress him.
He quickly returned to his room and changed his clothes.
When Zhao Jin arrived at the gate of the East Palace, there were only seven or eight people standing next to the carriage. One was a eunuch in disguise who was waiting closely, and the others were guards of the East Palace.
Zhao Jin was satisfied, lifted up his robe and said, "Let's go."
He took people to the guest building with a clear purpose.
The carriage stopped at the guest building. When Zhao Jin got off the carriage, he only attracted the eyes of a few people. A few eyes flicked on his face for a few times and then moved away.
Yingke Building is the largest restaurant in Bianzhou City, and countless dignitaries come here.
Zhao Jin only brought seven or eight followers with him. Compared with those nobles who brought more than ten people with them when they went out, they looked very unremarkable.
"Whoa!" Zhao Jin was dressed in a light blue robe, and the folding fan in his hand was opened. He bent his eyes, pretending that there was nothing in his surroundings, and walked into the guest building.
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