Chapter 116: The Black and White World
Emperor Jinghui's voice slowly spread throughout the hall with the oppression that only emperors have. The faces of the officials below turned pale in an instant, but Lin Qing almost laughed out loud.
These loyal officials who always said that they were doing things that were good for the country, now when Great Liang needed them, why didn't he see them contribute generously now?
A group of hypocrites who only spoke of compassion, duty, propriety and integrity...
Without waiting for Lin Qing to add oil to the fire for them, some tactful officials stood out and said loudly, "This subject is willing to dedicate this subject's meager strength for Great Liang. Your Majesty is benevolent. The soldiers of the northwest would certainly appreciate Your Majesty's intentions."
"Your Majesty is benevolent, the emperor's grace is mighty!" The officials felt very bitter because it was thanking the emperor's grace but using their money. However, they still knelt under the leadership of Lin Xian and expressed their loyalty to emperor Jinghui. Only now did emperor Jinghui's expression recover a bit.
The issue of raising army provisions was settled with a solution that no one had expected.
The officials hated Lin Qing even more.
All the officials wondered whether Lin Qing had taken the wrong medicine. There was actually a day that he would worry about the country? The more thoughtful ones suspected whether Lin Qing was brewing some conspiracy, waited for them to step into the trap and then beat them all at once.
While the officials at court were surprised and angry at the same time, they couldn't find the reason. Not only couldn't they find the reason, but they could also not find any excuse to accuse and scold Lin Qing because of this incident. Although, Lin Qing did nothing bad this time and the fact was that he helped the soldiers of the northwest, but if they didn't denounce the treacherous official Lin Qing, how could they show that they were loyal officials?
The thought was bizarre, but the officials didn't feel that it was strange at all. As long as Lin Qing was still here, they would use this excuse to attack him and they would be happy to continue like this.
Lin Qing defrauded them this time and it was the effortless kind that would make their hearts bleed. However, could they scold Lin Qing for defrauding them of their money?
Although, they really wanted to do that, but as long as they were not idiots, they wouldn't do that. If they did that, not only would they provoke ridicule from the people, but they would also offend Chen Jin and the entire frontier army of the northwest.
Consequently, they could only swallow these unspoken grievances. At least a thousand silver liang from each of them! Some important officials had to take out about ten thousand silver liang. Their hearts hurt!!
This was not the most annoying thing. What made the officials want to vomit blood was that emperor Jinghui handed this matter over to the Prefecture of Arrest that is under Lin Qing's command, to take care of! This way, they had to hand out real money!
What was the gang of assassins from the Prefecture of Arrest? That was an existence equivalent to the Embroidered Uniform Guard of the previous dynasty. Would such people reason with you?
What? Don't have money? Okay. There has been a homicide case in Liang capital recently. The Prefecture of Arrest suspects that the suspect had escaped into your yard and must go in to conduct a search!
What? Your house doesn't have a yard? Isn't that it?
What? It is only that kind where a few trees were planted? It actually took up such a large piece of land and isn't a yard? Search!
KAMU SEDANG MEMBACA
重生爱上九千岁
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