732 Household Department arrears
If you don't know the price of firewood and rice, the Qing Dynasty is indeed a large country with a large population, and the annual treasury income of tens of millions of taels is considered a huge amount of money in any country, but there are many people who come in and go out.
Now even the most ferocious Qingliu Hanlin has a lot less firepower, although most of them are nerds with different economies, but anyway, after so many years in the court, they know a little more than those students, and fighting is not a joke, it is to move money and food.
Cixi saw that the atmosphere was a little cold, and her eyes immediately stood up, "I don't care what method you use, anyway, the emperor can't make a mistake, this is the only seedling with the most correct bloodline in the Qing Dynasty...... A seedling in a thousand acres, the first emperor is just such a child!"
"Hehe, there is a long hair in the south, you are willing to spend money when you shout and shout and kill, and you are willing to spend money just like the rebellion in Gansu and Shaanxi, and the rebellion of Agubai in Xinjiang! Zuo Zongtang took away 10 million taels of military expenses, and now Your Majesty is in danger, but the court can't even take out a single piece of silver slag?"
Cixi is really a little broken, she knows that she is getting farther and farther away from the center of power, and this Great Qing Kingdom has nothing to do with her, and now the only hope is her son.
In her calculations, as long as she survives until her son is in power, he still has to get close to his mother, after all, he crawled out of his own intestines, and Ci'an will push out of the center of power sooner or later, and she can afford to wait.
Therefore, she knew that there was no money in the treasury and no new army in the hands of the military department, but she didn't care, and being able to add some support to Ci'an was the happiest thing for her.
The people present listened to Cixi's undeceptible sarcasm, and their faces were embarrassed, especially Ci'an was very disappointed in this sister, and he really regretted his connivance with her in the past, and now he is so ignorant.
But after all, she is a bitter master, and her sons have been assassinated, and her mood is understandable, so no one refuted her.
Cixi is a typical person who is a little crazy today, and when she saw Prime Minister Fuqing, who had not said a word from the memory to the present, a nameless fire rose in her heart.
She secretly scolded in her heart, this pair of dog men and women are doing such unscrupulous things openly and secretly on Jingshan, when everyone is blind?
Do you want to bow your head and pretend to be your grandson? No way, the mourning family will never let you go!
Cixi looked at Qing Sanye's burly figure, and then at his manly and tough face, and involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of dry saliva.
Damn, this Ci'an is really prodigal enough to hook up with such a good man. Look at Yi's soft lying appearance, it's not as good as Fuqing's body, how energetic this night is!
Cixi thought about the men who were close to her, and Rong Lu's appearance could be compared with Fuqing, but Rong Lu's waste actually used his crooked brain in the Xin You year, so he was relegated to Xi'an to become a general, if he was still in Sijiu City, it would be able to solve the hunger and thirst in the heart of the Queen Mother of the West.
It didn't go well, it didn't go well everywhere, and an evil fire in her heart attacked everywhere, and Cixi decided that she couldn't make the enemy happy if she wasn't happy.
"Why are you dumb when you speak...... Hehe, Fuqing! Qing Sanye, what kind of god are you? You didn't say a word at today's meeting!"
When Fuqing heard this strange voice, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "The slave can't tolerate a word of you, please don't torture the slave...... The slave didn't say a word, but because the errand didn't involve the military department, he didn't dare to say anything......"
"Don't you dare to say anything? What a person who doesn't dare to say anything! The errand of the military department is none of your business, but you have taken care of a lot of the errand of this household department...... You can take out six million taels of silver to repair this Beihai and Jingshan, and now Your Majesty is in trouble, you are pretending to be dumb for me here!"
The roaring Cixi frightened Fuqing's face turned white, "Slave...... Minion...... How dare the minions get involved in the errand of the household, the minion is just a matchmaker, so that Lotte & Co. accepts part of the household debt, that's all!"
"Okay! You Qing Sanye has a lot of ability, and the debt of six million taels will be filled in when he says it...... Lord Lin, tell me how much white money is still in arrears from the household department?"
Hubu Lin Shangshu subconsciously glanced at Yi, and said in his heart that he was really sleepy and came to the pillow, just now they were discussing this method in the pine forest, and they played the idea of Lotte Foreign Bank.
According to Lin Shangshu's method, since Lotte Bank can accept the debt of six million, and it is not difficult, why not give them more treasury bonds, anyway, Lotte Bank and the bank also have a way to sell it.
But they also knew that if they wanted to take silver from the hands of merchants, especially from the hands of the Ryukyu Domain, this reputation was really not good, and besides, Xiao Letian's temper was also stinky, and if he really turned his face, the army of the imperial court really couldn't beat others.
Therefore, Yi and Lao Lin were sad and thought for a long time, but they didn't come up with a good way to squeeze Fuqing. But I never expected Cixi to fire the first shot today, which was too timely.
"Empress Dowager Qi, the problem of household debt has begun to rise since the Daoguang period, especially after Daoguang 20 years and the British War, the treasury deficit has become more and more serious, but at that time it can still be maintained to some extent......"
"But since the Changmao Disaster in the southern half of the country, our Qing Dynasty's money bags have been completely leaked, and the annual deficit of the household department is more than three or four million taels, and the money and grain sent to Beijing by the provinces are less than half of those in previous years......"
"That's enough, you babble endlessly, I'll ask you how many white stripes you have......" Cixi was so angry that she almost snapped her nail cover.
"Thirty million...... Back to the Queen Mother, the household department now owes 30 million taels of tax money and grain over the years!"
With a bang, the whole Qiwang Tower completely exploded, and no one expected that the hole in the household would be so big. In fact, they didn't know that Hubu Shangshu was actually playing a word game, he calculated the loophole according to the level of taxation before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the treasury had received more than 30 million taels less than before the war for more than ten years, not counting the reparations to the outside world.
But the account can't be calculated like this, the southern Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has built the capital of Jinling, and several provinces have become enemy countries, so how can the taxes of the 'enemy country' in those years be added to the hole of the Qing Dynasty's household department?
Falling into the old forest of the household department gave the imperial court a room for bargaining, and according to his calculations, as long as the Qing Dynasty now has an extra 10 million taels of rich money to turn around, all the financial difficulties will be solved.
Note: Headache, headache, headache! It's the 17th of this month, but the number of subscriptions to the main station is less than one-third of last month, and I really don't know what to do.
Who can't afford to spend a dime a day on subscriptions? I went to see pirated copies, and in the end, there was no one in the genuine version, isn't this just forcing Xinjing to cut off this book!
Friends who watch pirated versions, think about it, if the genuine version is not updated, where can you go to see pirated versions?
Everyone shouts that there is a book shortage, but who caused this book shortage?