Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 39

"so much?"

In the Qianqing Palace, when Zhu Youxiao, who had just entered the Chang Dynasty, returned to the palace, he immediately received the material document from Wang Chengen.

He had the same expression as Wang Cheng'en back then. He didn't expect that with [-] soldiers and horses and no weapons, nearly [-] taels of expenditure would be needed.

However, Wang Chengen also conveyed according to Zhu Youjian's words:

"Long live, Your Highness said, the value of spending two hundred thousand taels is more valuable than spending one million taels to Jiubian. Please don't be reluctant, long live."

"It's not that I can't bear it..." Zhu Youxiao said with a helpless smile when he heard his younger brother's words:
"It's just that if these things are to be brought out, I'm afraid I have to wrestle with the cabinet, the Sixth Ministry, and the Sixth Division."

"By the way," Zhu Youxiao said, and suddenly said:

"Tomorrow is the enthronement ceremony. Tell my brother, go to bed early today, and tomorrow I will wait for him to hand me the jade bi and the emperor's scorpion."

"The servant will tell His Highness immediately when I get back." Wang Chengen quickly responded with a salute, and Zhu Youxiao also smiled and drew a circle with a vermilion pen when he saw this, and then stamped the document and handed it to Wang An.

After Wang An passed it on to Wang Chengen, he saluted and slowly exited the Qianqing Palace.

But Zhu Youxiao said to Wang An with a smile after he left:
"My younger brother rarely talks about political affairs on weekdays, but he is especially concerned about Liaodong affairs."

"His Highness the Fifth Highness probably also wants to solve problems for Long Live. I heard that, these days, His Highness Fifth Highness reads military books every day until late at night, and often comes to the Liaojian to inquire about the affairs of Liaodong." Since Wang An is going to be Zhu Youjian's People, naturally helped Zhu Youjian speak.

"Oh? Why didn't anyone tell me?" Hearing that his younger brother worked so hard for himself, Zhu Youxiao felt relieved, but he was also afraid that Zhu Youjian would be exhausted.

He turned his head to Wei Zhongxian, who was absent-minded, and said, "Zhongxian, ask the imperial chef to prepare some nutritious meals and send them to the fifth brother of the emperor."

"Your maidservant takes orders." Wei Zhongxian suddenly heard someone calling him, but fortunately he reacted quickly and directly said he took orders. If he was in a daze, he might have to be reprimanded by Zhu Youxiao.

Looking at Wei Zhongxian's appearance, Wang An was disgusted in his heart, but according to what Zhu Youjian said, he was neither sad nor happy on the surface, but stood next to Zhu Youxiao's imperial case, and worked with him on the memorials handed over by the cabinet.

The three eunuchs of the Supervisor of Rituals were responsible for reviewing the cabinet's memorials, and finally handed them over to Zhu Youxiao for approval, and Zhu Youxiao read most of the memorials of the imperial censor alone.

No, he had just processed four or five memorials from the censors of various provinces, and before he had time to rest, he got a copy of the memorials from the censors in Beijing, and the content he opened made him frown endlessly.

[Chen, inspector Guanglu censor, Wang Yuan, the monastery's quota is [-] taels, and the amount of foreign settlement is too much in arrears. It is strange that the current year's use has reached [-] taels, and there are still [-] foreign settlements. Ten thousand taels in arrears...]

"..." Looking at the memorial in his hand, Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, then closed the memorial, turned his head and asked Wang An:
"In addition to the function of Guanglu Temple to manage the supply of livestock in the palace, does it also have annual income?"

"Yes." Seeing Zhu Youxiao asking this question, Wang An, who had been in the same dynasty with the eunuchs Feng Bao and Chen Ju, knew the way very well, so he explained:
"Under the rule of Guanglu Temple, there are four departments and one department. Among them, the Daguan Department is responsible for supplying sacrifices, court meals, festive feasts, and banquet rewards for foreign envoys."

"The Department of Delicacy is responsible for supplying the meat and fruits needed by the court, while the Department of Fine Brewing is responsible for supplying drinks."

"The Department of Foodstuffs is responsible for supplying glutinous rice, oil, sauce, plums, salt, etc., and the last animal department is responsible for raising livestock and slaughtering them according to their fatness."

"The annual revenue of Guanglu Temple is mainly from the annual increase of the annual revenue of the various chief envoys, which needs to be given to Guanglu Temple as well as to the four departments under Guanglu Temple."

"Shanglinyuan, Neifu Treasury, Ministry of Industry and other related yamen also need to transfer annual revenue."

"For example, in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, the Ministry of Industry gave Guanglu Temple more than [-] million catties of firewood and [-] million catties of charcoal."

"These items were used by Guanglu Temple. In addition, the Ministry of Industry also made and sent 10572 ordinary utensils, 800 wine bags, and 1428 vermilion utensils."

"As for Shanglin Garden, it needs to supply Guanglu Temple with [-] raw geese, [-] domestic ducks, [-] eggs, [-] chickens, [-] long-line chickens, [-] cattle, and pigs. Two thousand, five hundred sheep, more than [-] catties of pickled melons, eggplants, and radishes, one hundred and fifty stones of walnuts, and one hundred and fifty stones of chestnuts."

"This is just a part. For example, Guanglu Temple also takes materials from various treasuries in the inner government. For example, the Tingzi Treasury takes [-] catties of white sesame seeds, the Wuzi Treasury takes [-] catties of pepper, and the Tiancai Treasury takes [-] million copper coins. Baiguan."

"The above are the additional annual income of Guanglu Temple, which can be calculated to be more than [-] taels per year."

"As for Guanglu Temple itself, it only needs to slaughter [-] sheep every year and a lot of wine. Most of the livestock under Si Musi are sold to the people, and the annual income is around [-] to [-] taels. "

Wang Anyang's eloquent explanation of hundreds of words gave Zhu Youxiao a headache, but when he heard that Si Musi actually earned more than [-] taels a year, he couldn't help asking:

"How many pastures and fields are in Si Musi's hands?"

"This..." Wang An hesitated for a few seconds before bowing and saying:
"It's about [-] mu, but these lands are some wastelands at the foot of Yanshan Mountain in Ji Town. The people don't want to cultivate them, so they hand them over to Simusi for grazing."

"According to what you said, does the extra silver taels owed by the provinces to Guanglu Temple need to be punished?" Zhu Youxiao kept frowning. After all, three hundred and sixty thousand taels was not a small sum.

But after hearing this, Wang An thought for a moment before bowing and saying:
"Most of the silver taels that are released will be delayed. When Emperor Shenzong was around, although he was also annoyed, he didn't urge them. After all, the mountains are high and the roads are far away."

"Huh!" Zhu Youxiao was very dissatisfied with this answer, and after a cold snort, he threw the playbook on the table, but after a few seconds he regained his composure, and tried to suppress his anger and said:
"Take this memorial from Guanglu Temple to the East Palace and show it to the fifth younger brother of the emperor and the Wenhua Palace to the cabinet boss Fangge to see if it can speed up the speed of foreign affairs in various provinces."

"Currently Liao Town has a lot of salaries, and if the money is delayed for a day, the treasury will be empty for a day."

"You can't let me subsidize everything with internal funds!" Zhu Youxiao used my self-proclaimed name, which shows that he is very angry inside.

But Wang An can also understand Zhu Youxiao, after all, the royal family's annual income is only six million taels.

At the beginning of the year, Shenzong allocated [-] million taels to Jiubian, and then Guangzong allocated another [-] million taels, and when Zhu Youxiao came to power, he allocated another [-] million taels.

When asked about the household department, the household department said that there is no money, and the internal funds are empty, and even the palace meals are a bit stretched.

If the money from Guanglu Temple does not arrive, not only the people in the inner court will have no food to eat, but even the cabinet ministers and ministers of the six ministries working in the outer court will not even think about going to the big chef to eat.

(End of this chapter)