"Ning Tongyi, you are blocking the way of speech and suppressing your colleagues. You are just clinging to power and don't want others to take advantage of the military power in your hands! Now that Pluto is trying to bring chaos to the world, we should attack the devil to bring order to the world!"
"Fart! It's clear that someone has ulterior motives and wants to gain military power to achieve his own ulterior motives!"
"Who? You have the ability to name this person!"
"Hmph, do you even need to say it? Anyone with a brain can see it!"
The court was in chaos at this time. Li Chengfeng saw two gray-haired senior officials from the fourth rank, one desperately grabbing the other's gray beard, and the other desperately grabbing the other's remaining hair. He punched the opponent and kicked his legs desperately. In just a few blows, the two fell to the ground together, fighting and rolling, just like children fighting in the market.
Not only were they like this, there were even military generals in the field who were already gesticulating. The two of them were punching and kicking, and with just a few blows, their official hats were kicked away and their official robes were torn. There were actually people nearby who were applauding and clenching their teeth and cursing!
Li Chengfeng's eyes were opened and he was dazzled!
Zhao Bairen looked at the chaos in the court. He was so angry that he was shaking all over. He couldn't help but slap the armrest of the dragon chair and shouted angrily: "Enough... enough, enough!"
Unfortunately, his voice was hoarse. He was slapping the dragon chair and shouting at the top of his lungs, but he was silenced by the noise below. However, the eunuch, the eunuch in charge of etiquette, stepped forward and shouted in a sharp voice: "Quiet!!"
It must be said that this voice was like a hot knife stabbed into soft tofu, crisp and sharp. Everyone stopped immediately, came to their senses one by one, and quickly lowered their heads and retreated to their seats.
Zhao Bairen stood up and stared at them angrily: "Look, look at each of you! What a good minister, so official! Where is this place? Is this Caishikou? Is this a busy market? Every one of you is like this! He is a person with status and dignity, but in this hall, everyone is uttering obscene words and getting into fights, how unbecoming it is!!"
While they were talking, many ministers covered their torn official robes with red-faced hands. Some straightened their official hats, while many looked at each other with a sneer and secretly spat. Don't take Zhao Bairen's words seriously.
Zhao Bairen couldn't help but said: "Ning Tongyi! You are the minister of the Ministry of War, you speak! Why should you suppress the speech of officials!"
Ning Tongyi had been in a fight with someone before and was punched in return. He also kicked him several times. Now there are several dusty footprints on the red and purple official robes of several officials.
When Ning Tongyi heard the emperor's roll call, he straightened his appearance, took a step forward in a leisurely manner, and said, "Reporting to your majesty, what the priest of the Ministry of Rites said seemed to be concerned about the safety of Daqi's country, the country, and the country, but in fact it was alarmist. Monster words confuse the public! As the saying goes, there is nothing wrong in the world and no one is bothering themselves. The real threat to the country of Da Qi is not those monsters and ghosts, let alone the demon kings of plague. Otherwise, how could we, Da Qi, have been a country for five hundred years? Jiu Netherworld This is not the first time that the king wants to bring trouble to the world, but why has he failed so many times and never been able to succeed?"
Ning Tongyi was the core of the Crown Prince's officials. He was both a military attache and a clerk. He could be called both civil and military. He spoke clearly and clearly, with a loud and sonorous voice. His posture was neither humble nor arrogant, and his words were extremely contagious. Even Li Cheng People like Feng who know the inside story are infected by him.
Yes, after all these years, why has Jiuyou Pluto King never succeeded
Li Chengfeng also listened carefully, but heard Ning Tongyi continue to say: "Your Majesty, the troubles of Daqi are not outside, but inside! If the devil comes to the world, the world's spiritual sects will fight together! The soldiers and civilians of the world will work together. , how can we be afraid of the Nine Nether Pluto King? Pluto has never succeeded in the past thousands of years, and he will never succeed in the future! But if we, Daqi, are in chaos, we will destroy our city walls and bring about our own destruction!"
"Your Majesty!" Chen Watong, who had quarreled and scolded Ning Tongyi before, immediately came out and angrily said, "This is nonsense to deceive the public! I have been under the rule of Qi for five hundred years, the world has been peaceful, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, so how can we talk about chaos? ?”
Ning Tongyi sneered: "Chen Wotong, a fool like you who studies to death, why don't you move your noble feet, walk around and take a look? Instead of staying here singing and dancing. Is Shenjing daydreaming and working behind closed doors?"
Chen Wotong's face flushed and he shouted angrily: "How presumptuous! Your Majesty, Ning Tongyi is rude in front of the emperor and slanders the emperor's father. He should be punished with the crime of disrespect!"
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Zhao Bairen shouted with a head as big as a bucket: "That's enough! Ning Tongyi, finish your words!"
Ning Tongyi knelt down and kowtowed respectfully and said, "Thank you so much, Your Majesty! Even if Your Majesty doesn't let me speak today, I will tell you everything today!"
The officials of the prince's family all stared at Ning Tongyi. They all knew that this man with a strong and upright personality and always an outspoken personality was going to let off steam again!
Ning Tongyi stood up and took off his official hat first. He seemed to know that after a while, he might be in trouble. He looked at Chen Wotong and said: "Chen Yushi, I dare you to ask if you know fifty years." Now, how much is my Daqi’s tax?”
When Chen Watong heard this, he hesitated and sneered: "I'm not an official of the Ministry of Household Affairs, how can I know?"
Ning Tongyi sneered and said: "I am not an official of the Ministry of Revenue, but I know! Fifty years ago, the tax revenue of our Daqi was about 9.8 billion taels of silver! Do you know how much the tax revenue of our Daqi is now? ?”
Chen Wotong snorted coldly and said nothing.
Ning Tongyi said: "It's 2.8 billion taels of silver!"
There were some numbers that I didn’t know until I mentioned them, and everyone was shocked when I mentioned them.
"Huh? So much difference?"
"Yes, it has shrunk almost four times!"
"Where did the seventy-one taels of silver go?"
"That's right, where did it go?!"
As the emperor, Zhao Bairen naturally knew something. He sighed and said nothing.
Ning Tongyi continued: "Da Qi's tax revenue has shrunk sharply, but there are more and more places to spend money! The Tong'an tragedy needs to be suppressed, the Lingzhou civil uprising needs to be suppressed, and when the soldiers and horses are mobilized, they need food, grass and soldiers' pay. That money Where did they come from? There have been floods and plagues recently. People have fled and begged. Now there are still 20,000 refugees left in Taiyang City! This does not include the affected people in other towns! They are about to run out of food. If you don't have anything to eat, you'll run around. If you can't find anything to eat, you'll rise up and rebel! If you want to help these victims, all it takes is money!"
Ning Tongyi said to his fellow officials with a look of sorrow and indignation: "But where does the money come from? There are only 20 million taels in the national treasury now, which is not even enough for disaster relief! If this money is used for disaster relief, what will happen next?" All the officials in Yueshenjing have to go to the streets to beg for food!"
This sentence frightened everyone, and they all whispered to each other.
Chen Watong sneered: "What does this have to do with you blocking the way to speak?"
Ning Tongyi also sneered and said: "Of course it does! Today Daqi seems to be blooming like a brocade, but in fact it is boiling in flames and is in danger of overturning at any time! The most important thing to do now is to immediately stop the endless internal fighting in the court. , raise funds as soon as possible to relieve the victims! Instead of empty talk about catastrophes and grandstanding! Have you ever thought about what the manpower and material resources will bring to Daqi if all manpower and material resources are used in the crusade against Pluto according to what the Star Gazing Sacrifice said? A heavy burden? At present, the war in the southeast is still going on, but some people are trying to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble and seize military power! This is simply disregarding our country and the life and death of the people in the world! These people are traitors! National traitors! !”
Ning Tongyi cursed, and the court was silent for a while. Even a bold person like Li Chengfeng couldn't help but admire Ning Tongyi's courage!
How dare you expose the internal and external troubles of Da Qi bloody in front of Emperor Zhao Bairen like this!
Zhao Bairen frowned after hearing this. He looked at the prince who had been sitting upright and said, "Prince, is what he said true?"
After saying this, everyone held their breath, which meant that the internal struggle between the two parties had officially entered its climax!
Because His Majesty the Emperor's tone of questioning was clearly full of anger and dissatisfaction, no matter how the Prince answered at this time, the pot would fall on his head!
Because he is the prince overseeing the country! The country is in this state now, and he cannot escape the blame!
But everyone knows that the real culprit that caused the country to become like this is not the prince!
But why would a person as smart and powerful as the prince suddenly attack himself? What is his plan
Everyone was calmly waiting for the prince to speak and for his move.