Shangguan Wan'er was shocked. When Chen Yuan sold two chunks of money, she already felt it was very expensive.

Unexpectedly, the emperor was even more ruthless and raised the price ten times as soon as he spoke.

If this is spread, the whole world will be shocked.

Thinking of this, Shangguan Wan'er gritted her teeth and said, "Your Majesty, isn't the price of twenty guan too high?"

"If it spreads, it may affect your reputation."

Wu Zetian waved his hand with a smile.

"You are just too cautious. If we don't do some things, others will do them too. Instead of letting others make money, we might as well do it ourselves."

"And, this matter has nothing to do with me. It's entirely because the boss of Tongtian number Chen Yuan is making huge profits."

"Didn't he say that this wine is specially sold to those wealthy families? Just feel free to sell it."

"These wealthy families are even richer than we thought!"

Speaking of this, Wu Zetian had no smile on his face. He stood up and came to the gate of the hall, with his hands on his back, looking at Luoyang City.

"Month ago, General Wang Xiaojie told me that the army has not paid any money for three months, and if the court cannot afford it."

"It may affect the showdown between the army and the main Turkic force."

"So I want to use Qingyuan County's method to pry open the hole from the money box of those wealthy families.

To resolve the financial crisis of our Great Zhou!"

Shangguan Wan'er looked angry.

In recent years, wealthy families have become increasingly unreasonable. They only care about making money by themselves and completely ignore the difficulties of the court.

When he called for donations, he only received 7,000 taels of silver, which even the servants of King Liang's family could not afford.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will go to prepare for Tongtian's shop now, and I must slaughter those big players!"

Wu Zetian nodded, "I will meet all officials in Shangyang Palace tomorrow, and you should know how to do it."

"I understand."

Shangguan Wan'er bowed and bowed, left the hall, and went to Luoyang City to prepare for Tongtian Shop.

Soon, Tongtian Store opened amid the sound of firecrackers.

Because there was royal support behind it, the noise was very loud, and fifty tables were placed on the flowing table alone.

For a time, Tongtian shops were talked about everywhere in Luoyang City.

"I advise you that there was a Tongtian shop on Tianjie yesterday. Do you know?" On the way to Shangyang Palace, Di Renjie looked at the old man beside him.

"I'm not only sure about it, but I not only know it, but also took a look, as if I were selling alcohol." Zhang Jianzhi smiled when he stroked his beard.

"Oh?" Di Renjie stopped and was surprised, "What wine shop is so popular?"

"I don't know this. I only heard that the boss is a young man named Chen Yuan. He sold a bottle of 20 stags of wine, and even the emperor said it was delicious."

"hiss!"

Di Renjie took a breath, looking disbelief.

"How much did you say?"

"Twenty taels."

Di Renjie's teeth hurt a little, "This Chen Yuan is so bold. In order to make money, he dared to pull His Majesty in."

"Let's go, there's a fun time in Shangyang Palace today."

....

Shangyang Palace, main hall.

The ministers stood on one side with Di Renjie and Wu Sansi, and paid a great ceremony to Wu Zetian.

After the ceremony, Wu Zetian did not let the ministers be as calm as usual.

Instead, he leaned on the dragon chaise, holding a transparent goblet in his hand, constantly shaking the purple liquid inside.

All the ministers were stunned and did not understand what the emperor intended.

After putting the wine on the dragon table, Wu Zetian said slowly.

"You all have a good time."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After the ministers stood up, the Minister of War Lu Wenqi took the lead in getting out of the queue: Your Majesty, the Ministry of War received a report from the Tang Dynasty from Helan Mountain Post last night.

General Wang Xiaojie fought fiercely with the main Turkic Tiger Division for several days, and the losses were severe. The court urgently needed to allocate 800,000 troops.

Otherwise, the army will be unable to fight again and will have to retreat.

boom!

As soon as these words came out, the whole palace was in an uproar.

No one expected that the front line would deteriorate so quickly, and the Turks who had fought three months ago were defeated one after another, and in a blink of an eye the army was about to retreat.

If this is the case, wouldn’t the previous achievements be wasted?

Wu Zetian sighed lightly.

Sure enough, what is coming is coming.

The soldiers on the front line were fighting bloody battles, but the court could not get the money. If the people of the world knew, what face would Wu Zetian have to face sitting on the dragon throne?

Therefore, wars must be fought and military supplies must be collected!

As soon as he thought of this, Wu Zetian turned his eyes to Shangguan Wan'er: I remember that there were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the palace, so I handed the money to the Ministry of War first.

Shangguan Wan'er was shocked and hurriedly fell to the ground, "Your Majesty, you must not, that's the money to build a palace and maintain your daily expenses."

"What if you give it to the Ministry of War?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, you are slapping our ministers in the face." While the ministers breathed a sigh of relief, they all pretended to be heartbroken.

They have money in their pockets, but they earned it themselves, so why should they hand it over to the court? The money in the palace is not the case.

That was allocated by the Ministry of Revenue from the treasury at the beginning of the year, and it should have been taken out.

Seeing several old ministers kneeling on the ground and crying loudly, a faint coldness flashed in Wu Zetian's eyes.

If it weren't for the investigation by the Meihua Inner Guard, she wouldn't have known that these old men were all rich people with a net worth of hundreds of thousands of taels.

He is richer than the emperor as her.

"I hope this batch of wine can make some money for myself, otherwise the palace will be unable to expose the blame."

Wu Zetian glanced at the minister, shook his sleeves and left. Before leaving, he also took away the bottle of wine placed on the table.

When the ministers saw this scene, they winked each other and tacitly withdrew from Shangyang Palace.

When he came outside, Zhang Bin, the Minister of Personnel, could not help it.

"Your Highness King Liang, what are you talking about in your hand? It looks like you are pretty baby."

Wu Sansi glanced at him and frowned. To be honest, he didn't know what was in the transparent cup.

But since the emperor likes it, this matter needs to be pondered.

At this time, Shangguan Wan'er walked past everyone, as if she was going to leave the palace to do business.

Seeing this, Wu Sansi rolled his eyes and took a step forward.

"Sir Neishe is going out to do business?"

Shangguan Wan'er smiled and nodded, "I'm not hiding it from the prince. Your Majesty has been very hungry recently, so he ordered the official to go out and buy it."

Greedy wine? Haven’t you heard that Your Majesty is willing to drink?

Many ministers were confused.

Wu Sansi pondered for a moment, took out a golden leaf from his sleeve and stuffed it into Shangguan Wan'er's hand.

"This is my wish. I'm sorry to tell me what wine does Your Majesty want to drink?"

"How can you be so embarrassed?"

While taking the golden leaves into her sleeve, Shangguan Wan'er shined an empty bottle of wine from the brocade box.

"This was discovered by Xia Guan at a Tongtian store yesterday when he was shopping."

"This wine tastes sweet and not overwhelming. Your Majesty drank two bottles in a row."

"Why don't you? Let's buy two more bottles while there are still goods."

When everyone saw Shangguan Wan'er, they didn't seem to be telling lies, and their thoughts suddenly became alive.

"No wonder I saw the wine glasses when I went to the morning court. It turned out that they were sold by Tongtian's store. If I bought them, I gave them to His Majesty..."

Wu Sansi's face changed and he bowed to everyone.

"Everyone, I have a step ahead and say goodbye!"

After saying that, he left with great strides.

The ministers reacted and followed.
Chapter completed!