As soon as the eunuch left, Zhu Guoxiang went to the state government office.

"Hu Zhizhou, let's see." Zhu Guoxiang took out the imperial edict.

Hu Zhizhou performed very well last year. Huang Qianshan provoked civil unrest, and he followed the movement judge to suppress it, and then assisted in repairing the plank road throughout the process. Although the village soldiers made noise and he was almost beaten to death, he finally escaped.

After reading the imperial edict carefully, Hu Zhizhou said with a mournful face: "Xiangong Zhu, there is a drought this year, and the court has not reduced taxes. How can we raise 5,000 yuan to go to the Taoist temple? If we force taxes and levies, I'm afraid there will be mob troubles like last year.

It’s hard to calm down.”

Zhu Guoxiang sighed: "Of course I know what's going on, so I can only delay it as long as possible. The officials gave me eight thousand guans, but half of them were gone as soon as I left the capital. I still have to send out the eunuchs who will deliver the order, so I only have more than 3,000 in hand."

Passed."

Hu Zhizhou asked: "Why does Zhu Xianggong plan to delay this?"

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The outer walls of the Taoist temple can be painted casually, and the damaged statues inside can be repaired."

"I'll take care of this!" Hu Zhizhou agreed quickly.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Don't mention it to the superiors. Just say that Suling Palace has been repaired."

Hu Zhizhou bowed and said: "Xiang Gong Zhu is benevolent and righteous."

Really, if Zhu Guoxiang was not in charge of the project, any Taoist priest who came to supervise the construction would be able to drive the state and county officials into ecstasy.

Take the Taoist temple in Luoyang as an example. They actually killed farm cattle everywhere to collect their bones and grind them into powder. The officials who were forced to implement this had already become notorious and their spines were about to be broken by the common people.

Nearly 5,000 gu of project money was directly swallowed up by Zhu Guoxiang. He was short of money and could do many things.
Chapter completed!