Bai Tan said sternly: "Today in Tianshui City, everyone from top to bottom is red-eyed. Your Majesty takes the lead in forming cliques for personal gains and forcing your subordinates to take sides! Officials can only flatter you, farmers do not cultivate the land well, businessmen do not do business well, everyone

He racked his brains to buy land in the new city, even if the whole family borrowed money!"

"Qi Shuan's family is so immoral that the interest rates on loans have risen to nine cents!" He exhaled heavily: "How can the capital's eastward expansion, which is so good, cause the country to go crazy? How can the country be embarrassed if this continues?"

Qingyang asked him: "What's the problem?"

Bai Tan made the point in one sentence: "Of course it's your Majesty! He has become blinded by his sharp orders, can't tell the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and can't listen to unfavorable advice. In the past month, seven officials wrote to criticize the eastward expansion of the capital, and your Majesty actually reprimanded him.

Demoted three of them."

"There's gotta be someone -" he took a deep breath, "there's got to be someone who can stand up, put things right, and bring things back on track!"

"General Bai is right to be worried." Qingyang said calmly, "One hundred and eighty years ago, this scene was also staged in Bejia. At that time, the bureaucracy was redundant and the treasury was in deficit, but Lingxu City needed to be built eastward again.

There were a series of major projects including moving the Chong'en Mountain, rebuilding the Xushan Formation, and renovating the Heavenly Palace. At the same time, we also fought several wars with outsiders that year. Alas, for such a big empire, money needs to be spent everywhere, and where does the money come from?

Woolen cloth?"

Bai Tan shook his head and expressed ignorance. He had been to Lingxu City and knew that commerce there was highly developed and farming had long been no longer the mainstay. There were many ways of playing that were unheard of by outsiders, and they were so advanced that they seemed to be in another world.
Chapter completed!