Chapter 613

"It seems that I have been elevated!"

Wang Zhong has a headache sitting on the Dragon chair. It's difficult to start.

Fools can see that the previous emperors, who ate, drank and played, can live long. If anyone is smarter and wants to check something, I'm sorry, it's up to you.

Nowadays, only the eunuchs in the palace and the harem are obedient, and the officials outside are obedient.

In addition to the current dangerous situation, Wang Zhong also learned that this world is similar to the world of martial arts.

There is no aura here, but everyone has internal skills, such as eunuch he Taigao, who is a Wulin master who practices strong internal skills.

"Emperor, the old slave brought the treasury account book."

At this time, he Taigao shouted at the door.

"Come in."

"Yes!"

He Taigao stooped in and put a thick account book neatly on Wang Chong's table.

"I ask you, when you went to get the account book, did the people of the interior government embarrass you?"

According to the situation in the palace, Wang Chong didn't believe that no one in the house of internal affairs was corrupt and perverted the law, so he Taigao suddenly went to get the account book, and the house of internal affairs should not cooperate so much.

"If I go back to the emperor, no one will embarrass me when I go to the house of interior."

"Oh?"

This makes Wang Chong quite strange.

Opening the account books, although the original owner Luo Zhao was a confused king, he still knew the words.

"Three hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver, gold and silver... Silk... Grain............."

Many things are clearly recorded on the account book, but what makes Wang Zhong frown is that the emptiness of the National Treasury is so serious.

The national treasury of the whole country was left with only more than 300000 liang of silver.

You know, when he was a eunuch in the Dragon Dynasty, he remembered that the national treasury needed at least tens of millions of Liang to maintain the operation of the whole country.

Because there are too many places to spend money in the whole country, the military pay is a large part, and then the disaster relief, pay officials wages.

Wang Zhong really doesn't understand how these more than three hundred thousand Liang keep the country running.

"No wonder they will be burned in three years. It's no wonder that there is so little silver."

"Mate." Wang Zhong shouted.

"The old slave is here."

"Can I trust you?"

He Taigao hurriedly knelt down in panic: "the old slave was terrified."

"Get up and talk."

"Yes."

"You have been with me for some years, and you are the person I trust most."

Hearing this, he Taigao was excited and quickly said, "the old slave is the king's dog slave. The dog slave should not only be able to do things, but also be loyal."

This is what he Taigao said in his heart. No matter how powerful a eunuch is, no one can look down on a eunuch without the emperor.

Of course, Wang Chong was different at that time. At that time, he controlled the emperor by means.

Wang Zhong smiled and was very satisfied with he Taigao's statement, but he still wanted to beat it and said, "I suddenly felt that today, I will continue to play, and sooner or later, the country will change hands. At that time, I will definitely not live. As the person I trust most, I'm afraid you can't escape the relationship, so I decided not to play so much, partner, are you willing to help me?"

"Old slaves must go through fire and water."

"Well, you should understand that if I lose power, you will not be easy. If I regain power, I will not lose you."

"Thank you for your gift."

Say, he Taigao wants to kneel down again.

"You don't have to kneel. I'll forgive you for kneeling."

Don't kneel down. It's a great honor. You just need to bow down when you see the emperor in the future.

Wang Zhong can't give much benefit now, so he can only win the hearts of the people.

Of course, from the past memory, it must be no problem for him to be too loyal. Just now, Wang Zhong also hopes that he will work harder and be more loyal.

"You and I can't tell the third person what we say in the future, do you understand?"

"The old slave knows the benefits. Even if the old slave is put into the oil pot, the old slave must be tight lipped."

"Very good."

Wang Zhong was satisfied and threw the account book back. "If you send the account book back, you will say that you have misheard my will. What I want is the spring palace map, not the account book."

"Ah?" He Taigao doesn't understand why Wang Zhong did this.

Wang Zhong explained, "the contents of this account book must be true, but the expenses of silver must have been fake, and it's useless to ask for it."

Now Wang Zhong deliberately doesn't mention it, and he doesn't want to be known that he wants to investigate. After all, there are not many people he can trust in the palace now, and he doesn't want to be killed for no reason.

"These gangsters dare to bully the king, my Lord, and I will call the people of the house of internal affairs immediately."

"No need, this matter can't be done rashly. First do as I say, go."

"Yes."

He Taigao obeyed.

The news that Wang Chong just killed concubine Li spread like wildfire, and the whole harem knew it.

Wang Chong was still very bad. He didn't let someone collect Princess Li's body at the first time, so he let her hang it like this and wait for her to collect the body and bury it the next day.

For a time, the concubines were in danger. They didn't know what the emperor had done, and they even killed their favorite concubine Li.

In the harem, in addition to the emperor, the Empress Dowager is naturally the largest, followed by the queen.

However, according to Wang Zhong's memory, although the Empress Dowager was his biological mother, she was not a good person. She asked the original owner Luo Zhao to impose taxes on others several times to build her Phoenix Palace.

When the news of concubine Li's death reached the Empress Dowager Lu Huan's ears, Lu Huan frowned and said indifferently, "bastard, even if concubine Li is not right again, how can she be hanged at will and let her body hang in the house? If this is spread, how can my royal face exist?"

Although she is usually grumpy, she is good at flattering Lu Huan, so she is very popular with Lu Huan.

Now concubine Li was killed for no reason, and LV Huan was naturally angry.

"The Empress Dowager calmed down." The palace maid who reported the news knelt and said.

"Go and call the emperor."

"Yes."

The maid in waiting went out.

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"What we need to do now is to renovate the harem, and then earn money. With money, we can establish our own forces."

Wang Zhong sat on the Dragon chair, thinking.

The art of Kings lies in money and power.

With these two, whoever disobeys will die.

Someone scolded you? It's all right. I'm a tyrant.

Wang Zhong never cared about fame. The so-called fame was written by scholars. History was written by winners.

According to Wang Zhong's understanding, the Empress Dowager and the queen hold the harem.

The Empress Dowager is his mother, named Lu Huan. Although she is old, she is arrogant and domineering. If the Emperor didn't listen to her before, she must teach him a lesson.

In addition to her high position and weight, Lu Huan has so much power because she controls the most important eunuch department in the palace, the twelve eunuchs.

This department is the Yamen in charge of eunuchs in the palace. It has real power. Whoever disobeys, the twelve internal supervisors have the right to arrest.

The name of the administrator of the twelve internal prisons is Andrew. He followed empress dowager Lu Huan since childhood and listened to Lu Huan.

Another person in power in the harem is the queen.

The Queen's name is Zhao Luan. She is the daughter of a general. Thanks to her family's military power, Zhao Luan had an extraordinary position in the harem.

Unfortunately, the original owner Luo Zhao didn't like Zhao Luan, just because Zhao Luan was too tall, Luo Zhao thought that Zhao Luan, as a woman, how could she be taller than her husband, which didn't embarrass him?

Therefore, after Zhao Luan became the queen, Luo Zhao didn't even touch Zhao Luan.

It was also because of Zhao Luan's father that Zhao Luan became the queen.

A year ago, there was a rebellion on the border, and the two cities fell one after another. Luo Zhao was frightened and didn't know what to do.

Zhao ou, the father of Zhao Luan, a loyal minister, applied to go to war. In order to show his support, Luo Zhao married Zhao Luan at the suggestion of Empress Dowager Lu Huan.

And canonized Zhao Luan as empress.

In the end, Zhao ou and Zhao Jiajun turned the tide and killed all the rebels.

Unfortunately, Zhao Ou was old and seriously ill after the war, and a group of civil servants stood up to take credit. Confused emperor Luo Zhao gave those civil servants the great achievement of solving the rebellion.

Zhao Jiajun was thankless, and Zhao Ou vomited blood and died in a rage.

As soon as Zhao Ou died, the Zhao family army was divided up and down, coupled with the crackdown of a group of civil servants of the imperial court, the Zhao family army was so scattered.

After that, Zhao Luan, who was originally not liked by Luo Zhao, was even less valued after his father's death.

Especially after Zhao Luan saw that the Empress Dowager was extravagant and wasteful, and persuaded once, the Empress Dowager Lu Huan thought that Zhao Luan couldn't get on the table, and announced that Zhao Luan's monthly expenses would be halved, and only one palace maid would be left to serve.

This is tantamount to ignoring Zhao Luan.

Wang Zhong felt that if Lu Huan didn't think the waste was too much, she might have directly abandoned it.

"This queen mother is really a big trouble."

Perhaps what Lu Huan did was just for her enjoyment and face, but she hindered her reform of the harem.

"Zhao Luan is quite good. As the daughter of a general, she knows how to sympathize with the people and share her worries for the widow

Not to mention, after Wang Chong became emperor, the role entered quickly, and he was either me or widowed.

Thinking, a eunuch shouted at the door, "emperor, the Empress Dowager has an intention to let you see her in Feng palace."

I was thinking about how to deal with the empress dowager, but I didn't expect her to come.

After thinking about it, Wang reassessed it because of concubine Li.

Concubine Li is cunning. She knows that the Empress Dowager is the head of the harem. She flatters a lot on weekdays.

Now that concubine Li was killed by him, the Empress Dowager came to trouble.

"Empress mother, empress mother, do you know that our family name is about to change in this world? You are still embarrassing me for some trivial things. In that case, no wonder I am."

Wang Chong's eyes flashed a chill, and he said to the palace maid, "I'll go right away and ask the queen mother to wait a moment."

"Yes."

The palace maid went back. Wang Chong waited for a while, and he Taigao came back.

"Your Majesty, the treasury account books have been returned to the interior ministry."

"Are they not suspicious?"

"I don't think so. In order not to make them suspicious, the old slave bravely took several spring palace pictures of the interior ministry......"

The Ministry of internal affairs manages the national treasury. In addition to storing money and grain, there are also clothes, equipment and other items. It is natural that there is a spring palace map. After all, when the emperor was 12 or 13 years old, the palace maids would teach the emperor to learn the spring palace map. This is the role of the spring palace map.

"Very good, mate, I have one more thing to ask you. You said, if the queen mother dies, what will happen?"