Huangfu Jing could not fail to notice Feng Yinan's reluctance, but it was not his fault for being an Emperor with such shallow patience. Coveting a mere hundred thousand taels of silver, it was truly due to the national treasury's tight funds. Who could have imagined that he, as an Emperor, would be so poor? When the snow calamity hit, there wasn't enough silver in the treasury, so he even had to allocate two hundred thousand taels from his privy purse. Furthermore, every single policy benefiting the state and the people at Court required financial support, didn't they?