As soon as the two of them sat down, Leng Yu couldn't wait to say:

"I just came back from the Ministry of Revenue. According to Lord Zhang's report, there are 8.5 million taels of cash available in the treasury. I think we can use the treasury's silver to resettle these victims."

Hearing this, Liu Dechang frowned,

"It's not a small number of people to resettle these victims. Now the emperor is seriously ill. We can't just make a decision. If the emperor blames it, you and I can't afford it."

"The emperor has issued an order that I will be in charge of all matters in the court. Besides, what's wrong with opening a warehouse for these disaster-stricken people? Take a step back and say that if the father really blames me, I'm alone

Just carry it."

"This is not something you can afford alone. The treasury's money is not allowed to be used easily, in case of emergency needs. Even if it is urgently needed in marching and war, it will only dare to use a very small part. Now there are so many disaster victims, why do you

If they rebuild their homes, it would not be a small amount!”

Leng Yu frowned, pondered for a while, and said seriously:

"There are many victims this time. If they are not resettled in time, it will inevitably cause unrest. If we want to resettle them reasonably, we have no other way, so we can only use the deposit of the treasury. General Liu is safe. All the consequences will be for me alone.

If you bear it, you won’t implicate others.”

After saying this, he turned his head with a serious expression, "Xiao Lingzi, call Ali."

"yes……"

After Xiao Lingzi received the order, he quickly walked out of the main hall.

Liu Dechang sighed there, shook his head and explained,

"I am so old and I am not afraid of being implicated. I just think it would be better to wait until the emperor wakes up before making a decision. This is the only way to ensure that everything is foolproof."

Leng Yu took a sip of tea, and the moment she put down the tea cup, she looked up at Liu Dechang.

"General Liu, you don't know anything. Lan'er said that the emperor's body will not recover until at least half a year. These victims cannot wait, and we cannot afford to wait. Now their daily food and drink costs are twice as high as we expected

The only way is to place them as soon as possible. I will make the decision on this matter. If any problems happen in the future, I will be responsible for it alone."

Seeing that he was speaking seriously, Liu Dechang did not refute anymore. He also knew that if he wanted to properly resettle these victims, there was no other way at the moment, so he could only take out the money from the treasury first.

After a while, Xiao Lingzi brought Ali with him. After performing the ceremony, Ali replied directly:

"Prince, as you ordered, I calculated it roughly. I settled these 30,000 disaster victims. On average, three people built a house. It would take 11,000 houses to be built. You should build them all according to your proposal.

The house suggests that although it can save a wall of materials, each room also costs fifteen taels of silver, so just building a house costs 165,000 taels."

“Well, what about the cost of water control and renovating the land?”

"The disaster-stricken land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is about 120,000 mu, and the cost of turning over land is about 35,000 taels. The cost of water control needs local measurement to be found out. I have made a conservative estimate, to build water conservancy, build river channels and embankments.

, It would cost 30,000 taels at least. There would be at least 180,000 taels for food and drinks for these people in three months. Each person would give five taels of silver for daily expenses, which would cost 150,000 taels.

Total calculation, it would take 560,000 taels to resettle these victims. In addition, you would take 600,000 taels to get the food, clothing and expenses for the officers and soldiers in the capital to travel back and forth, and you would need to take 600,000 taels from the national treasury to be enough."

This number made Liu Dechang take a breath,

"It takes so much? According to what you said, it almost uses one-tenth of the national treasury silver. This is not a small number!"

"I only use one-tenth of the treasury savings to resettle these victims. I think it is worth it. I will prepare now. If possible, I will take them away in Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

With this decision, Leng Yu immediately decided to enter the palace. He wanted to talk to Luo Lan first so that she would not be worried about it.

When he came to the Hall of Yangxin, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

Although it is already evening, there are still no less than ten princesses here, and the leaders are Concubine Li and Concubine Li.

Seeing Leng Yu coming, Liu Xi hurriedly welcomed him.

"Prince Yu, are you here?"

Leng Yu nodded with a frown and asked in a low voice:

"What's going on?"

Liu Xi shook his head helplessly and sighed.

"They insisted that Princess Yu wanted to harm the emperor and would kneel down here to death and ask for the emperor's orders. The old slave couldn't persuade him to go back. Look, what should I do?"

Leng Yu glanced at these people. Among them, except for Concubine Li and Concubine Li, the rest of them were looking around from time to time. From their expressions and actions, Leng Yu could see that they were

I don’t want to kneel here all the time, or rather, they were attracted by Concubine Li.

So he came to everyone and said with a serious expression:

"Why are all the ladies kneeling here?"

The dozen empresses looked up at her, and Concubine Li was the first to say:

"We learned that the emperor was imprisoned here by Princess Yu, and his life and death were unknown, so we were worried, so we wanted to go in and take a look, but Eunuch Liu didn't let us in. We couldn't, so we could only kneel here and wait..."

Leng Yu's face darkened, and he understood in his heart that it seemed that these women came to make trouble on purpose.

So he cleared his throat and said in a cold voice:

"The emperor is seriously ill. Princess Yu is treating the emperor. It is reasonable for Eunuch Liu to not let you see him. If you insist on kneeling here, please let me know. Where are you here? Arrange 200 Imperial Guards to guard here.

Whoever wants to go in will be killed."

Leaving this sentence, he frowned coldly, and said to Zhang Yuan:

"Zhang Yuan, Xiao Tanzi, you two are here to guard. Whoever dares to cause trouble will never let go."

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Tanzi hurriedly clasped their fists and replied:

"I understand."

Leng Yu looked at these empresses again and continued to say lukewarmly:

"The weather is cold and not cold, but it may be a little cold at night. It is also necessary for the empress to kneel here to show her concern for the emperor, but the emperor will be able to do so in seven days.

Wake up, you are kneeling here for seven days, and it is really embarrassing you. Where are you here? Prepare a few mats for the ladies and prepare some hot tea. By the way, there are many mosquitoes tonight, prepare a few plates of incense..."

Before he could finish his words, an empress stood up behind her.

"I have a back pain recently and can't kneel for a long time. I'll go back first, my ladies."

Seeing that someone left first, the rest of the people also stood up one after another, and walked away in shame without saying hello.

Concubine Li looked at the women who had escaped in the battle and wanted to stop her. Because Leng Yu was in front of her, she could only hate her teeth itched.

When only Concubine Li and Concubine Li remained here, Leng Yu suddenly sneered.

"Xiao Lingzi, we still have some serious work to do, so don't bother the two empresses to kneel down here."

After saying that, he looked at Eunuch Liu again.
Chapter completed!