Wanli 1592

Chapter 445

As the saying goes, people make money and birds die for food. Since ancient times, the most difficult thing to get is the wealth in the hands of others.

Even if this is illegal gain in the first place, but since it is in your hand and eaten in your stomach, it is your own. There is absolutely no reason to spit it out after eating it. If you want me to vomit, you will beat me and drive me away Knife, I will never allow it.

It was really not easy to get out the 10 taels of silver. It was dug out from their stomachs by the three elders who stared at their subordinates with resentful eyes.

Six ministries, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Punishment are the lowest, each paying 1 taels. The Ministry of Rites is important except for the imperial examinations, and at other times it is basically small and transparent, noble, and has no power, 2 taels.

The Household Department is the big steward of the finances, and you have to pay 2 taels for the Minister of the Household Department to be emotional and reasonable. The Ministry of Officials is the lifeblood of everyone. The officials of the Ministry of Officials are in charge of everyone's official positions, but they cannot control the cabinet. , Mr. Ge said, you have to pay honestly, 2 taels, the Ministry of War, nothing to say, 2 taels.

In this way, each of the six films was paid a sum of money to collect 10 taels.

"The imperial court has no money to fight the war and has to use our department's funds? What if there is no money to do things? What does your majesty think? How can there be such a stupid move?!"

An official from the official department was outraged.

"That's right! What does the imperial court have to do with us? We honestly use our salary to do things, so why should we pay for it? It's not us who killed people! This is the money for repairing the Yellow River embankment!"

A Ministry of Industry official also stood up and echoed.

"If we don't have money to fight, we have to pay for it. Then why does the emperor put so much silver in his pocket every year? Another advantage of mining tax is that Japan donates silver. The emperor has the most money in his pocket. Why doesn't he take it out himself? Want us to pay? Is there such a reason in this world?"

An official from the Ministry of Punishment also stood up to express his opinion, but was immediately stared at by a stern gaze, shivering all over his body, and stopped talking.

It was Song Yingchang who was looking at him.

The only one among the six books who has no complaints.

None of the six big bosses spoke. This is not a place for them to speak, and there is no need for them to speak. What they want to say is helped by their subordinates. They must maintain their demeanor in front of the elders. There was a lot of complaints inside, but I still didn't say what I shouldn't say.

Of course, their income is rich and lucrative, and 2 to [-] taels of silver is not a problem, but the people who work at the bottom all rely on these funds to make money to subsidize their families. There is no way who can make the salaries of Ming officials so low?

Everyone is an official and big man, and their lives are not as rich as a shopkeeper who runs a small restaurant. How can this be?So of course we need to get some extra income, and the extra income is not much, ranging from seven to eight thousand to as much as thirty to forty thousand, and everyone will share the funds and take them home for use.

In every family, there are old and young, and the old mother has to support the children, and there is a woman in the middle who needs money to be fed. It costs tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, which is perfectly normal. Well, no one blames anyone.

What?Dozens of taels of silver is enough for a family of three for a year?

That's mud legs!
We are noble scholars and masters!How can someone with a Jinshi background be compared with those mud-legged untouchables?

They eat rotten millet and pickled radishes, you let our Wenqu stars who came down from the sky eat these too?Is this what people eat?Not eating dragon liver and phoenix marrow is giving you face!If there is no meat, no fish, no oil and water for every meal, how can I eat it?

Does the child want a nanny?

Does my wife want supplements?

The prodigal daughter-in-law and those gorgeous concubines want rouge and gouache, right?
Do you need to do some filial piety during the holidays?

This is the basic skill of being an official!How can you live without tens of thousands of taels of silver?Just like this, you still have to deduct our funds, so how will you live this day!

The family's field is less than [-] mu, the old house has not been expanded by [-] or [-] rooms, the ancestral graves have not been repaired, and the silk and satin that the prodigal women want have not been bought, how do you let us live?

Are people still living this day?
The Wenqu stars in the room were all frowning, as if asking for [-] to [-] silver was like killing them.

But... this seems to be the administrative expenses of the department, right?
It doesn't matter, if there is no more, continue to ask the higher-ups, if you don't pay, you won't do anything!What?previous?The previous ones are all used up!Do not believe?Come, come, look, you need to pay 300 taels for travel expenses when you go out, and 500 taels for buying some cloth to make official uniforms... and so on and so on.

"During the war before, the dispatch of the navy was also the emperor's internal money. 30 taels of silver were thrown out as if it were not money. What was exchanged was more than 30? Emperor Zhu himself is the richest man in the world, why do we need people like that? Squeeze money out of the teeth and give it to him? It doesn't make sense!
He has so much mining tax and so much Japanese donated silver, why can't he use it?Isn't this world a big tomorrow?Isn't this the world of his Zhu family?He is not willing to spend money in his own world, and he still expects us to pay him?absurd!Is there such a reason in the world? "

An old man with a gray beard stood up tremblingly, made a divine comment, and won applause.

What else could Song Yingchang do?wry smile?sneer?
I can only smile.

Listening to these people talking, Song Yingchang always felt as if he was not in the human world but listening to the meeting of little ghosts in hell. People said that the king of Hades is easy to deal with little ghosts, and now I see that it is true. Small, with a big appetite, asking him for a tael of silver is like asking for his life.

Withdraw the money from these people, Ji Xin, you are going to be missed...

Song Yingchang couldn't help but think of the young general who talked and laughed happily with him on the Korean battlefield. Now his status is not the same.

However, this is all a superficial phenomenon. The Mu family in Yunnan was born as the adopted son of the Taizu, and there is a relationship in it. The Xiao family does not have this relationship, so there is one less guarantee. This time, the army is asking for money, which can be regarded as offending the officials of the six departments. After all, although the big head is with the emperor, Xiao Ruxun's life will not be easy.

But these are not what Song Yingchang needs to worry about. What Song Yingchang is worried about is another thing.

When he was in North Korea, Xiao Ruxun told him more than once that winter was getting colder and earlier, and if his memory was correct, the first day of frost this year would be exactly earlier than the first day of frost three years ago. for five days.

It was one day two years ago, three days a year ago, but five days this year.

Thinking of Xiao Ruxun's serious attitude when he talked about this matter back then, he still thought it was funny at the time, but now he felt chills all over his body.

(End of this chapter)