The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Ever since Sheng Yuan really became the Minister of Revenue, he realized that one does not know how expensive fuel and rice are until one takes charge of the household!

Although he had served as the Minister of the Ministry of Finance before, he had never actually sat in this position. I never realized that the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue could be so busy.

It seems like the national treasury is always filled with hands reaching out to you to ask for money.

Everyone talks about increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, but if the expenditure reduction applies to other departments, don’t even think about it.

After much thought, the only thing that can be used is open source.

But how easy is it to open source?

This is not a business that they do in each prefecture or family. As long as there is profit, they will give it a try.

If you want to earn enough profit to support the needs of the national treasury, you have to focus on bulk business.

Sheng Yuan was not a person who would act recklessly. Although she had some ideas, she still referred to the income and expenditure records in the old files of the Ministry of Revenue.

After reading the archival records, Sheng Yuan’s first reaction was that it was really profitable to copy corrupt officials!
If this method was not unsustainable, she really wanted to suggest to the court to raid a number of large households at regular intervals and locations. This would make money faster than any other business.

Of course, that’s what she said; but if Sheng Yuan really handed the memorial to her sister, she would definitely not dare to do so.

She could guarantee that after the memorial was submitted, the first person to get angry would not be the censors, nor the nobles, powerful officials, or wealthy families, but her sister who had always loved her.

In order to avoid feeling uncomfortable, Sheng Yuan tried hard to suppress this tempting choice.

"Sir, the Minister of War is sitting in the front hall again."

The report from his subordinates made Sheng Yuan, who was preparing to carefully calculate the next quarter's funding, want to roar.

"Why is he here again?"

Sheng Yuan never knew that Minister Yan was actually such a tough guy.

"It is said that Lord An has previously agreed to their Ministry of War, saying that the funding will be 30% more than last season!"

"Who agreed to it? Mr. An... Mr. An? How is that possible? He must have heard it in a dream!"

Sheng Yuan didn't believe it. With Old An's stingy manner, let alone 30% more, even if it was more than half a percentage, it would be like cutting his flesh!

Still 30%! You can really fool people!
As if she was a three-year-old child?!

"Go and tell him that as long as there is evidence, our Ministry of Revenue can recognize it. But he just asked for 30% more, which is not a small number! Even if we allocate funds to him, there must be a reason, right? Minister An didn't explain to us before he resigned. Unless he asks Minister An to write a letter, it will be difficult for us to recognize it!"

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"What? You don't admit it?!" Yan Sunqing expected that it would be difficult to collect the debt this time, but he never imagined that Sheng Wenzhen really intended to default on the debt!
"Minister Yan, please don't be upset. It's not that my master doesn't admit it. It's just that our Ministry of Revenue has its own procedures. It's impossible for us to allocate funds just because someone says so! If we do this, I'm afraid everyone will come and talk about large amounts without any evidence!"

The official bowed his body and said with an apologetic smile: "Our master has also said that as long as you ask Lord An to write a voucher, our Ministry of Revenue can consider it. Maybe we can adjust the amount of funding based on the actual situation!" "Huh! That sounds really nice!" Yan Sunqing laughed angrily, and slammed his big hand like an iron palm on the table, and the teacup couldn't help but jump three times.

"Who among you doesn't know Lord An better than anyone else? He was slippery when he was in the Ministry of Revenue. He said something today and didn't say it tomorrow! If we really go to him, I'm afraid he will use the excuse of 'not interfering in matters outside of one's position' to make things worse!"

"Then..." The official smiled and spread his hands towards Yan Sunqing, "That's a matter between you and Lord An. No one else in the Ministry of Revenue knows about it. It's impossible for our Lord to handle it based on your one-sided statement!"

"What do you mean by one-sided statement?! An Laokou had promised our Shangshu in the first place!" Yan Sunqing stood up angrily, swung his sleeves and was about to go find Sheng Yuan to talk, "I won't waste time with you, you are not someone who can take charge! I'm going to find your Shangshu Sheng!"

"Minister Yan, don't be upset! Even if you find our master, we have to act according to the rules! It's useless for you to go there. Instead of wasting time, you might as well think about how to prove that Master An promised!"

"Ha! I understand!" Yan Sunqing paused on his way to find Sheng Yuan. He looked at the golden abacus that was as tall as a person in the corner of the hall and suddenly realized, "It must be Mr. An who made the promise for us! He didn't intend to keep his promise when he promised!"

"Ah?" Upon hearing this, the officials felt that this was indeed the style of their old minister, but how could they admit it casually?
What if Lord An really didn't intend to lie? !
He is a good official who does his job conscientiously and wholeheartedly. You can't just fabricate accusations against him out of thin air!

"This...why don't you have a good talk with Lord An?"

"Do I look like a fool? If you want to talk, you should talk to your current boss!"

"Well...if you say that, then our master is not here today!"

Yan Sunqing was originally very angry, but what the other party said made him laugh: "Have all the chief officials of your Ministry of Revenue practiced the art of invisibility? Or can they travel underground? As long as someone you don't want to see comes, can you perform a disappearance on the spot?"

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The subordinate didn't feel embarrassed when he heard this, and still said with a smile: "Minister Yan, you are joking. Our master is really not here... You know, Master Sheng is also the commander-in-chief of the Five Military Command Office! Who knows where he is now! How about you go there to look for him?"

"..." Although Yan Sunqing had seen many shameless officials from the Ministry of Revenue, he almost couldn't help himself when he heard him say this.

"Humph! I am of lowly rank and have no right to see your Minister Sheng. Fine! I will ask our Minister to come and talk to her!"

After saying this, Yan Sunqing didn't want to stay here for a moment, so he flicked his sleeves and left quickly.

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"Huh? Who is this? Why is he walking so angrily?!" An Yu just entered the Ministry of Revenue and passed by Yan Sunqing who had an angry face.

Turning his head to look at the other person's figure walking away, An Yu grabbed a clerk and asked him.

"Let the Marquis know that the man is the assistant minister who came to our Ministry of Revenue to request funding, Lord Yan, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War."

"Minister Yan?" An Yu scratched his head. He was too embarrassed to say that he had no impression of him. He smiled and said thank you, then let the other party go on with his work.

As an absent resident of the Ministry of Household Affairs, An Yu could enter and exit the Ministry freely and could find Shengyuan without notifying anyone.

"Sister Yuan, why don't you talk to the Queen and ask her to arrange a position for me in the Ministry of Revenue, even if it's just as a subordinate official!" As soon as he saw Sheng Yuan, An Yu immediately came over and talked about something he had been thinking about for a long time.

"If you want to be an official, just tell the Queen and she will let you choose any of the six ministries. Why do you have to sound so pitiful?" Sheng Yuan knew without even looking up that An Yu was up to something again. (End of this chapter)