Chapter 840 The Female General Who Unarmed and Married (9)
King Qi went to the palace overnight to find Concubine Liu Xian. After the mother and son murmured for a long time, King Qi did not leave the palace after he came out. Instead, he knelt directly in front of the emperor's Chongming Hall, crying and shouting that his ministers were wronged, and crying and demanding.
See your father and tell him your grievances face to face.
The emperor, who was originally correcting memorials in the Chongming Hall, heard the cry of King Qi, and his worried face suddenly dropped.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Qi is kneeling outside the palace to ask for an audience."
The emperor's personal eunuch wiped the sweat from his forehead, came in from outside the palace with a trembling voice, bowed and said to the emperor.
"Hmph, let him kneel. I want to see how long he can kneel."
The emperor hated being threatened the most. In his opinion, if King Qi did this, he would step on his bottom line.
Hearing the emperor's words, the eunuch still didn't understand anything, so he quickly bowed and left, then walked to King Qi, bent down and said.
"His Royal Highness, King Qi, Your Majesty has an edict. If you want to kneel, just kneel! But, please, Your Highness, King Qi, please stop shouting, it is inappropriate."
The eunuch folded his hands and folded them in his sleeves, lowering his eyes and not looking at King Qi's face.
King Qi was choked by what the eunuch said and wanted to lose his temper, but he thought he was still outside Chongming Hall.
If you make a fuss, then all you have done will be in vain.
I could only give the eunuch a fierce look, and secretly spat in my heart, you slave dog.
Next, he followed what the eunuch said and closed his crying mouth, kneeling there, not daring to move.
It's just that time passes little by little.
King Qi's knees felt like they were about to break, but there was no movement in the Chongming Hall, as if he had been forgotten.
Covering it with his sleeves, King Qi secretly rubbed his knees, but it was of no use. He only felt like needles pricking his knees.
The longer he knelt, the more King Qi doubted whether the trick his mother and concubine mentioned before was really effective.
Don't wait until his father calls him in, but his legs are broken!
King Qi felt as if he was being roasted on a fire. He was terribly uncomfortable, but he could not leave at will.
If you leave now, let alone kneeling for nothing during this period of time, and if your father comes to blame you, you will really lose everything!
When the emperor was in Chongming Hall, he really forgot about his son kneeling outside.
A city came to report that the people under its jurisdiction ran to Jingzhou, causing many fields in the area to become barren.
The implication behind the words was to let the emperor take heavy responsibility for Jingzhou.
Seeing these words, the emperor felt very aggrieved. Could it be that he didn't want to take heavy responsibility for Jingzhou?
Now Shi Jiang still holds her father's 100,000 troops from northern Shanxi in her hands!
As an emperor, he not only cannot reprimand her, but also praises her.
After all, Shi Jiang had just defeated Hu Nu and signed a tribute treaty.
If Shi Jiang was ordered to be severely punished at this moment, I am afraid it would chill the hearts of all the generals.
Moreover, he also had a memorial sent by Shi Jiang.
The memorial asked the imperial court to deliver supplies to Jingzhou, but a hundred thousand troops were still waiting for the rice to be eaten!
But now in the national treasury, if the grain and grass that Shi Jiang asked for were sent over, almost half of the treasury would be empty.
He doesn't want to give it, and he doesn't want to give it.
Feeding the army of northern Shanxi with your own food and grass is to dig out their hearts.
Now that he saw someone taking part in Shijiang Yiben, the emperor suddenly had a plan in mind.
He wrote a righteous letter to Shi Jiang. Of course, it started with condolences, then praise, and then talked about the people fleeing to Jingzhou, and also said that the fields in each city were deserted due to the population fleeing, so
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The imperial court was also unable to collect food and fodder for the 100,000-strong army in northern Shanxi in time. Since the common people were in Jingzhou, it was up to Shi Jiang to find a way to be self-sufficient. Because of this incident, the original reward for Shi Jiang was also
The merits are equal to the demerits!
After receiving this bullshit imperial edict from the emperor, Jiang was thrown into the warehouse to gather dust when he turned around.
Today's Jingzhou City is full of people coming and going, and horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts are everywhere on the streets.
It was piled with all kinds of goods, and they were all caravans. After knowing that there were business opportunities here, they came one after another.
Sure enough, just as the rumors said, General Shi was very friendly to both the common people and businessmen.
There will be no charges for entering or exiting the city.
Not to mention, these caravans needed to collect the furs outside the customs, and the Jieduzhi's mansion had no difficulty in asking for benefits.
As long as the procedures provided by the merchant are complete and formal, the ultimatum can be issued quickly.
For this reason, more and more businessmen are coming here.
The businessmen coming and going naturally greatly boosted Jingzhou's economy.
Originally, the accountants at Jiedushi's residence thought that General Shi, as his daughter's family, was out of kindness and actually distributed money to the common people.
Although people from other cities have been attracted here, the money in the mansion's coffers is in short supply!
Only the general Chang Xiao and his men and horses kept going back and forth between the north and the south to keep the Jiedushi's mansion from being emptied of money.
But now, only three months have passed. The accounting gentlemen are busy calculating, and when they see the amount of money left, they can't help but breathe heavily!
"Mr. Liang, didn't we make a mistake in our calculation?"
There were five people sitting in the accounting room. You looked at me and I looked at you, with disbelief on their faces.
"Mr. Liu, the five of us have checked this account book for three days. There is absolutely no possibility of error."
Mr. Liang held the account book in front of him solemnly and said to Mr. Liu.
After hearing Mr. Liang's words, everyone suddenly fell silent.
After a long while, everyone's faces showed joy.
"If the calculation is correct, even if the imperial court no longer delivers food and grass, we in Jingzhou will not be afraid of starvation!"
"That's really great. Hurry up, Mr. Liang, and send this account book to the general as soon as possible."
After everyone was happy, they quickly said to Mr. Liang.
Hearing this, Mr. Liang touched his nose in embarrassment and his face turned red.
He had a very unpleasant quarrel with the general over the money issue. Of course, the main reason was that he was being arrogant and trying to show off to the general.
At that time, I heard the general say that within three months, the treasury would be filled with money, so he would not have to worry about money.
At that time, he didn't believe it at all.
Unexpectedly, the general's words really enriched the treasury of the Jiedushi government within three months.
Shi Jiang was writing the next planning plan for Jingzhou City on the desk. When he accidentally looked up, he saw Mr. Liang in the accounting room, looking over there, holding a stack of account books in his hand.
Blinking his eyes, Shi Jiang immediately realized why the old man was hiding outside the door and not daring to come in.
Shi Jiang couldn't help laughing when he thought of the old man's expression of pain on his face and unable to breathe when he distributed money to the people.