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Chapter Thirty-Nine Our Family Has Been Displeased with Old Miscellaneous Hairs for a Long Time

Although these three "enough" sounds are shouted together, their meanings are completely different.

What Meng Yu means is, haven't you seen that the empress over there is so ugly that she is about to kill someone? Please stop saying a few words, let alone bring me with you.

What Zheng Xiu meant was, please stop praising her. If he knew this, how could he look so ugly? Let's just wait until the empress calms down, okay?

The empress' meaning was the simplest, because she simply didn't want to hear it.

Because she has never had a hand in the matter of measurement, nor has she cared about it.

It is even less possible to save this money and store it in the national treasury.

This meant that someone had touched her money again, and this time it was even more serious than the last time.

Last time I sucked Daxia's blood, but this time I'm definitely digging for Daxia's roots.

The empress almost squeezed out the word "cha" from between her teeth.

But there are naturally people around to arrange this matter.

"Since several contemporary great scholars know about this matter, they will probably not stay out of it, right?"

The empress's voice was so cold that there was no warmth at all, making people wonder if these words came from a human mouth.

The other great scholars naturally knew the seriousness of the matter, and even if the empress didn't say anything, they would take the initiative to ask for help.

After all, if there is a problem with weights and measures, then the problem must involve all aspects.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will send a message to the academy soon and ask my disciples to help handle this matter."

As Da Ru's statement ended, the empress turned her attention to Zheng Xiu again.

This is the imperial minister whom he personally appointed.

This time she was even thinking, if he hadn't been placed in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Industry, wouldn't things like this be possible?

But she soon understood that now was not the time to shirk responsibility. Naturally, the sooner something like this was discovered, the better.

Thinking of this, the empress gave her instructions again.

"Since you are the one who discovered what happened this time, I will still appoint you as the Imperial Envoy. This time, you will be granted permission to see a higher official. Anyone who dares to stop you will be killed without mercy!"

"The rest of the decree is the same as the last time. I opened all kinds of large formations and mobilized the manpower of each department."

"I don't want to let any fish slip through the net. I would rather kill the wrong one than let it go. I believe Li Yuan will do a good job in this regard."

After the empress said this, she signaled that he was a little tired and that he could go out.

Although her plan at the beginning was to discuss with these great scholars about the country-governing strategies she had just received.

But this sudden incident broke everything, and even stopped the army she was about to send to the south for reinforcements.

Zheng Qing, you are really capable, but my Daxia has been rotting for too long. I am really afraid that your fire will burn it to ashes before it can absorb nutrients again.

At this time, Eunuch Li Yuan, who had just arrived outside the palace gate, also saw Zheng Xiu who had just walked out, and immediately took two steps forward and asked.

"Master Zheng, what's going on? It's not been three days yet, why are you doing such a big move again?"

"The common people have never seen much of the world. If this happens all the time, they will be scared to death."

Looking at the worried Li Yuan, Zheng Xiu even felt a little emotional for a moment.

The Gonggun princes above the imperial court may not care as much about the people of Daxia as a eunuch.

Otherwise, as long as one official paid more attention to this matter of measuring tools, how could it have laid the foundation for twenty years of trouble.

"Eunuch Li, this matter is no small matter. I think the most suitable person to do it is you."

Zheng Xiu explained to Li Yuan while walking towards the Ministry of Works. The matter started from the Ministry of Works, so naturally there were the most clues.

As Zheng Xiu explained, Li Yuan gradually understood all this, and the more he understood, the more he gritted his teeth.

Because he came from among the common people, he knows best what the common people care about.

Don't say that the incompetent old man likes to talk about the situation between several countries.

That's because even a little bit of the international situation may cause turmoil in their lives.

During the previous war in the Daqian Empire, food was in short supply, so they began to collect food at high prices and collected all the food that could be collected around them.

However, many of the farmers who dug in the fields starved to death that winter just to earn a few more pennies.

Even if the court has stepped up disaster relief, how can it save everything?

What's more, these measuring tools involve all aspects of the people's clothing, food, housing and transportation.

Using thinned copper coins to buy less than one stone of rice, Daxia was cheated twice as long as one transaction was completed.

The problem is that this transaction is reasonable and no one can find anything.

It's like when eating a big pot of rice, you know clearly that someone is using chopsticks to reach over the pot to take the meat from your bowl, but you can only act as if you don't know anything.

It was simply heartbreaking and crazy to the extreme.

"First assistant, first assistant, this matter must be related to the first assistant!"

As if he suddenly thought of something, Li Yuan suddenly whispered like this, but Zheng Xiu heard it clearly.

"You said this matter is related to the chief minister, why?"

Zheng Xiu suddenly raised his head when he heard this. Although he had no grudge against the chief assistant, his predecessor had always wanted to find an opportunity to kill the chief assistant.

If this matter was really related to the chief assistant, he wouldn't mind taking the chief assistant down.

Twenty years ago, as soon as the Prime Minister entered the cabinet, he issued a decree to open night markets and revive the economy.

Although many people opposed this decree at the beginning, the chief minister insisted on implementing this policy despite all opinions.

Not even afraid of losing money, he took the initiative to build the first painted boat in Daxia for people's entertainment.

Later, people discovered that the night market could indeed develop the economy, relieve worries, and entertain people day and night, so the matter was not mentioned again.

But you must know that Daxia had already begun to decline at that time, and the people had no spare money for consumption.

But the officials have no problems. Not only do they have no problems, they can even spend huge sums of money.

Since the biggest beneficiaries are officials, the ones who go there to eat, drink and have fun are officials, the ones who can receive protection fees are officials, the ones who can rip off people openly are officials, and the ones who can use the taxes they get from night markets to spend money in night markets are officials. Then all officials will turn a blind eye to this matter.

After all, no one will have trouble with him. Even if there is a slight problem, he will not care about it and will even take the initiative to cover it up.

That is to say, since then, the circulation speed of Daxia currency has more than doubled, and people's purchasing power has also been partially improved.

If only the official weights and measures were changed, people would soon discover something was wrong.

If only the folk weights and measures were to change, there would be enough heads of people in one day.

But if the official and private weights and measures change at the same time, then people will at most think that their things are inaccurate.

So even if the mastermind of this matter is not the chief assistant, at least his connection is indispensable.

"So you mean to do something big?"
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