But, even though the reason is that, where does the money come from?

Li Chen frowned and suddenly had the urge to find a few important officials in the court and search a few more families.

But this thought just flashed through.

It’s a pleasure to search a house, but it’s a pleasure to search a house all the time, but there must be a limit.

Since the reign of the country this year, there have been many mansions he killed. If he started a large-scale murder, it would have forced everyone in the court to Zhao Xuanji.

This is not in line with Li Chen's political interests.

"What day is today?" Li Chen asked.

"It's already the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month." Xu Changqing replied.

"That's five days left?"

Li Chen snorted coldly: "In five days, where did you ask me to give you 700,000 or 800,000 taels of silver?"

Xu Changqing took out a report from his arms like a magic trick and said, "Your Highness, this is the construction budget of the Zhao Palace. Please check it out."

Li Chen was stunned for a moment and signaled Wan Jiaojiao to bring the report up.

After receiving the report, Li Chen sneered at Xu Changqing: "Xu Changqing, you have thick eyebrows and big eyes, will you be scheming with me?"

First, the court was short of money, and it was urgently in a hurry. Then he immediately took out the construction budget table of the Zhao Palace. Isn’t this obvious that he wanted to give Zhao King Li Yinhu?

Li Chen was as if he was watching the fire, and he could see through Xu Changqing's little thoughts at first glance.

Xu Changqing understood it and knew that His Highness was not angry because it was politically correct to deal with King Zhao in front of the palace.

He laughed and Xu Changqing said, "Your Highness, this budget is really a bit high, and it is not in line with the rules."

Li Chen didn't say anything, and opened the report and took a look.

He did not look at the detailed items, but only looked at the final amount.

"Haha, a royal palace costs a full 1.1 million taels of silver."

Li Chen sneered: "Why, King Zhao wants to build a palace?"

This is naturally exaggerated.

Not to mention the imperial palace, even his Eastern Palace, the entire construction cost is no less than 8 million taels, and the specifications are definitely not comparable to that of the Zhao Palace, but this sentence is to express Li Chen's dissatisfaction.

"It's Zhao Tailai who is in charge of wealthy merchants in Beijing donating money to build together. This palace asked him to make money from Zhao Tailai, but who allowed him to find those merchants to raise money?"

Li Chen took the pen and changed the total budget amount from 1.1 million taels to 300,000 taels, and then threw the memorial to Xu Changqing.

“Batch according to this number.”

Xu Changqing took the report and saw his eyes straightened.

"Three, 300,000 taels?"

Xu Changqing swallowed, feeling that his highness was still cruel. If he continued to stab, he was afraid that the Zhao Mansion would not be anything but a framework.

"Enough."

Li Chen said lightly: "Now, refugees and disaster victims are everywhere. Their wages are cheap, and most of them can work with a full meal. The wages alone can save a lot. The court is nervous now. If you spend too much money to build a royal palace, how do the people view the court and how do you view the King of Zhao? This is the consideration of King Zhao."

"If you ask Zhao Tailai to send the extra money directly to the treasury, you can take stock of it yourself."

Li Chen narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "You can do this in person."

Xu Changqing asked subconsciously: "But if it were King Zhao and Zhao Tailai..."

"If you have any objections, ask them to come to the East Palace."
Chapter completed!