eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 371
In addition to murder, there is no money.

Silver, gold, silver tickets, treasures, antique calligraphy and paintings...these things are all there.

Wealth follows power, and the Forbidden City is the center of power in the world. Even if it is in the palace to eat wine vinegar, sugar sauce, flour and beans, it is not an ordinary place.

Can the sugar sauce and noodles eaten by the emperor and concubine be of average quality?

I don't know how many interests are involved in the process of purchasing.

So there is a lot of money copied from this meal. Even the least people have hundreds of taels of silver notes, most of which are concentrated in a few thousand taels. some.

And although there are unjust murders among them, most of them are inextricably linked with 'salt', so how poor can they be?

The key is that the number has increased, hundreds of thousands of taels, plus some rich ones, and there should be millions of taels of silver in the end.

With such a simple calculation, the accounts have been roughly drawn.

When Liu Jin came to report, he mentioned the figure of 315 million taels.

Zhu Houzhao recovered a bit, but his appetite was still weak, because the medicine was so bitter that his mouth was full of bitter taste, and everything he ate was bitter, so although his mental condition improved, it was only a little bit better.

The constant coughing made his voice hoarse.

At this moment, he could only lie straight on the bed, and said to Liu Jin, who was kneeling next to him, "All the money belongs to my internal coffers. I will take it out when the court and the people need it in the future. Liu Jin,"

"The servant is here."

"I'm just asking too much about this matter. You just need to understand how to deal with it."

Liu Jin was overjoyed, the emperor probably was really sick when he delegated power this time.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the servant will not make any mistakes!"

After Liu Jin left,

The emperor opened his eyes.

There should be more than that much money that was stolen.He understands, but he doesn't pursue it anymore.

When you are an emperor, if you have reached the point where you don't give the people below you a mouthful of soup, you will actually be alone in the end.

The money used to flow in the circle of ministers, he gave it to you, and you gave it to him, but now he is called the emperor to pick out 315 million taels at once, which is indeed not a small number.

And sometimes it's not Liu Jin who is taking it,
He only has one pair of hands, so he must rely on the people below to do so much work; he also only has a pair of eyes, so he can't see how much the people below are secretly hiding.

As for Liu Jin himself, it is about tens of thousands of taels, and he is brave enough to take it.

In fact, money is useful to Zhu Houzhao, but it is not good if he has too much savings.

In particular, two fortunes were made this year, one was Mei Kejia and Gu Dayong, who shipped 240 million taels of silver,

One is that the shipping department of the three cities implements an access system, and there are about 200 million taels of silver.But at the beginning, in order to implement the access system, the emperor promised that the money would only be used for disaster relief.This is also the reason why Min Gui felt that 5 taels was too low, and 20 taels was not high, so it was not included in the internal funds.

But it doesn't really matter. If there is a disaster in the world and the treasury has no money, Zhu Houzhao is not the kind of monarch who guards the money and watches the people starve to death.

So in the end it was his money.

In addition, he also has some savings, so there was a peak at the beginning of the year, with 440 million taels of silver in his internal funds.

Later, 100 million was allocated to Yang Yiqing, 35 to Wang Shouren, 30 to Liu Jian, and 20 to Wang Jia to build a new Ningbo city.

So rushing, resulting in only 250 million taels of silver at this time.

Of course, after the "sweeping dust" in the palace this time, they will get rich again.

And the salt merchants are still confiscating...the money there is even more scary.

When Zhu Houzhao closed his eyes and rested his mind, he was also thinking that he had to spend some money.As an emperor, it is beneficial to gather all the money in the world here, but it must be moderate, otherwise the people will be poor.

But spending money is easy, but spending it right is hard.If it is really just spent, there will not be much left to build a few palaces.

But he obviously won't.

In fact, I went to Zhao Prison to see Gu Zuo a few days ago,
On the way back to the palace, Zhu Houzhao suddenly thought of a word: special allowance.

Daming's official salary is indeed too low.

However, the overall increase in official salaries has unpredictable consequences.Moreover, the official group itself is a huge vested interest. Isn't it crazy to send money to him at this time?
They are doing well.

However, too low official salaries will actually cause good officials to become corrupt officials.The so-called high salary and honesty are not unreasonable.

In addition, the salary is too low and corruption has become a common phenomenon. Some cases are actually not easy to investigate. If we really want to talk about it, these people who he gradually promoted as the emperor are not corrupt at all?
I'm afraid it won't, otherwise you should eat bran swallowed vegetables every day.

And he can only pretend that he doesn't know, after all, it is still up to officials to manage the country.

This time, he was really worried that Gu Zuo had embezzled money from Yanke, then the case would be difficult, and he would have to struggle for a long time just to kill this person.

And the mechanism of special allowances can protect 'our own people' very well.

Rewarding him with a special allowance for his special merits, on the one hand, can relieve the real worries of the officials themselves, so that they have a material basis to reject corruption, and at the same time, it is a way to strengthen the imperial power, and it is also a way to build their own circle of people good means.

Because whether the special allowance is rewarded or not depends on the emperor's mood.

Of course, in this case, corruption will still exist, because people's hearts are always dissatisfied.Then there is no way, even the Buddha cannot save everyone.

No one disturbed the Qianqing Palace and it was quiet, which was also suitable for him to think about these things.

The rain stopped outside, the sun shone in,

Zhu Houzhao also felt uncomfortable lying down for a long time, so he wanted to get up and walk.

"Your Majesty!" Qiu Yun watched him get up slowly from the sidelines, was startled, approached and said, "Your Majesty should be called a slave."

"No need to help, I'm feeling better." If you have a cold, you don't need someone to help you.

Zhu Houzhao got up by himself. It was hot in summer, and he was not cold at all even in white single clothes.

Before he took two steps, he saw the girl named Kui Er coming in with a blue porcelain bowl. The bowl was beautiful, with green dragons embroidered on it. It was the medicine. It was really terrible.

Zhu Houzhao was about to retreat instinctively, "...Didn't you just finish drinking?"

Kui'er was a little afraid to look at the disheveled emperor.

It was Qiu Yun who picked it up, "Your Majesty, I know that you must be planning to summon officials to deal with state affairs in your heart. If you really want to do this, you must drink this medicine. Only in this way can you get better soon. Doctor Si, dont you agree."

Miss Kui'er's lips were rosy and shiny, and her cheeks were a little baby fat, which should be easy to pinch. She lowered her head and said, "Yes... good medicine is good for the disease. I hope your majesty can recover soon."

"Bring it." Zhu Houzhao didn't bother to listen to them talk so much, isn't it all about drinking.

He didn't say anything, closed his eyes, frowned, and swallowed everything down.

Then it was to find white water to drink.

"Ahem," Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but said with pain on his face, "When Confucius said that the good medicine tastes bitter and is good for the disease, he must have never tasted such a bad medicine."

Miss Kui'er couldn't help not laughing.

Qiu Yun put the bowl back on her plate, and said with a narrowed smile, "Miss Kui Er, don't be afraid, the medicine is bitter."

They looked at the emperor together and found that he was eating a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake. It was probably too bitter, so they looked for something sweet to eat.

"As long as it doesn't involve government affairs, His Majesty is very lenient in life, just look at it. Those outside, just don't listen or look at it."

Miss Kui'er took a sneak peek... In fact, what does the government have to do with these women.

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After the emperor fell ill here, the few people in the attendant's room were rarely free.

But Yan Song hadn't had an easy few days, and Xie Pi went home directly after Mr. Xie Ge returned to Beijing.

But he had nowhere to go, and he was not completely isolated from those eunuchs on weekdays, so he was afraid that he would be involved at this time.So I was worried for a few days, but fortunately everything was safe and sound.

The attendants knew that the emperor's decree had called Zhang Yong back.

This is actually a very connotative political move.

Because Zhang Yong is the eunuch guarding the northwest, he has great authority and responsibility.Because of the emperor's financial support and Yang Yiqing's vigorous rectification of the military affairs in the Northwest, the soldiers in the guard gradually became more and more powerful. In other words, the military power controlled by Yang Yiqing will become stronger with time.

From the perspective of the emperor and the frontier army, it goes without saying how important a guarding eunuch is.

But calling him back at such a time was obviously not what was planned.

Because after the Great Court Meeting in March, Zhang Yongcai returned to Guyuan with Yang Yiqing, and he will be there for at most two months now.

In other words, there must be something more important.

But what could it be?

All kinds of changes in the palace, when Zhang Yong came back a month later, the supervisor of ceremonies would take care of everything. At that time, the situation gradually calmed down. What can he do?
So in fact, when Yan Song received this order, he still couldn't figure out the emperor's holy will.

But he knew there must be some kind of divine intent.

Because the emperor returned to Qianqing Palace with anger at that time, since he was angry, he encountered something, and the actions he took after encountering something could be random?

At least this emperor is not such a temperament.

It wasn't until these few days that Yan Song slowly felt some shadows,

Because Liu Jin received too much authorization.

The emperor almost never let him do something so arbitrarily.

This is the deepest thought in the emperor's heart,
Yan Song didn't dare to think... Could this be intentional?

(End of this chapter)