"Go to war, okay, I don't have an opinion, anyway, I don't need to use the knife to be a book, but let me tell you, the treasury has long been able to run mice, and all the money in the treasury has been spent......"

"If you don't have money, you have to die, if you can't do it, I'll give you a white strip, and you give the soldier a white strip as a military salary!"

"What about the money? How did you run the household department? Why did the income of the Great Qing Kingdom of more than 10 million taels a year disappear? How much did you embezzle!"

"You fart, I'm sitting upright, every penny of money in the house is clean, you can ...... if you want to check the accounts"

......

No wonder as the saying goes, don't talk about money, talking about money hurts feelings! When the meeting unanimously agreed to take a tough stance on Japan, it will involve the issue of spending money.

Whether it is negotiation or mobilization, spending money is a must. The negotiator is equivalent to the Qincha sent abroad, which represents the face of the Qing Dynasty, and a full set of honor guards is indispensable.

Whether it is a warship rented from the United States or Britain, even if there is only one ship, the rent is not a small amount, and the minister of the Qin Mission's passage through these small countries for food and clothing cannot be overturned, or how to reflect the prestige of the kingdom.

After all the calculations, this visit to Japan will not be able to get down without a small 200,000 taels of silver.

Lao Lin of the household department went crazy all of a sudden, what did he say? It would cost 200,000 taels of silver to send a messenger to negotiate? Do you want to be shameless in the Ministry of Rites? I have no money, and I have no money anyway.

On the one hand, he asked for money, but he didn't have any money, and the two sides were already arguing, and in the end, it was mixed with Beijing scolding, and the eunuchs and palace maids around him were stunned.

Look at the military department Shangshu Zailing, this guy is even more annoying, he didn't speak, he actually took out an extremely small ivory abacus from his sleeve, crackled it on the coffee table and began to settle the account.

Yi? Turning his head to look at his distant nephew, he asked in surprise, "What are you?"

According to the intelligence, the Japanese shogunate and the southwest rebels have a total of 60,000 soldiers, even if Xiao Lotian is disabled, there are still 30,000 elites left......

"I heard that these soldiers are all Western-style armies formed by Japan, and the penetration rate of Western rifles has reached 80%, plus the garrisons in various parts of Japan, I think we will definitely not be able to move troops without bringing out 40,000 new troops......

"Forty thousand rifles, and bullets, and uniforms, and the silver of the opening and the silver of the officers' awards...... The cost of renting a civilian ship, the cost of finding a Western warship to escort the ship, and the cost of replenishment at sea......"

"Oh, I'll do the math again, and I'll miss the cost of the wound medicine...... "Zai Ling explained to Uncle Wang while calculating, on the surface, he was explaining to the prince, but in fact, everyone in the room could hear it.

Gradually, people stopped arguing, and one by one they craned their necks to listen to the secretary of the military department and settle the accounts, "Okay, the total number has finally come out......"

At this moment, there was a sudden flash of lightning in the sky, followed by a thunderbolt, and the entire Qiwanglou even shook, and the frightened faces of the two queen mothers turned pale.

After the thunder, several Hanlin who were sitting on the edge stood up and asked, "How much......?"

There was a noisy sound outside the window, and the raindrops the size of soybeans crackled down, and then looked at the few princes sitting next to Zai Ling, and now their faces were white.

"Nonsense! 40,000 soldiers actually want 7 million taels of military expenses! Zuo Jigao led 60,000 Hunan troops across the entire Qing Dynasty for tens of thousands of miles to Xinjiang, and the imperial court only approved 10 million taels of military expenses, and your 40,000 people will cost 7 million taels?"

With a bang, the hall completely exploded, and looking at Zai Ling one by one was like looking at a madman.

At this time, Zai Ling shrugged his shoulders: "That's no way, who let us have no navy in the Qing Dynasty? Zuo Jigao's way to Xinjiang is the territory of our Qing Dynasty, and everything can be raised on the spot, how can we raise money across the sea?"

Speaking of which, everyone is a little sad, the situation is stronger than people, and this cannot be made up for by words.

Just when the atmosphere in the hall was extremely depressing, a little eunuch suddenly rushed in from outside the hall, and his whole body was drenched by the rain, and he knelt on the ground and gasped.

"Empress Dowager Qiyu...... The prince and the ministers...... No...... Oh no!"

"What's wrong? Say it quickly...... What a gasp!" slammed the table with a bang.

"Oh no, a group of students surrounded the Imperial Academy, and an official of the Japanese State in the Qing Dynasty seems to be called Shintaro...... They were beaten to death by the students! The houses that the Japanese had rented for a long time were also burned down......"

"Ah!" The whole hall was full of exclamations, and Prince Yiyun hurriedly picked up his hat and walked out, "This king went to take a look, and he turned against them!"

Weng Tongyi couldn't sit still, he was the leader of Qingliu, and he had to protect these students, "The minister also went to see, and tried to persuade the ......" and then chased after him.

Jingshi Taixue is actually Guozijian, the specific location is a little west of the Lama Temple, since the Western Zhou Dynasty Taixue is the highest institution of learning for the country to cultivate intellectuals.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the importance of Taixue was not as important as before, due to the gradual rise of Western learning to the East and the increasingly serious phenomenon of selling official beards, it was difficult for students in Beijing Taixue to get good positions.

Not only that, the rise of the local governor's power has made the ancient Chinese staff politics begin to revivenation, even if you mix in the government and the Taoist platform, the influence may not be able to exceed a staff member around Zeng Guofan, these opposition politicians are attached to the Hanchen governor's power, and it is extremely easy to be an official.

The right way for the country to take scholars is getting narrower and narrower, so it is becoming more and more difficult for scholars to take the old road of the imperial examination, and the scale of today's Taixue students is not as good as one-third of the Kangqian period, and the sense of presence in Beijing is very low.

However, even if there was only one person in this group of students, the style of the literati still existed, and when the news of Emperor Tongzhi's assassination in Japan came, the call for sending troops to Japan and severely punishing the shogunate came out of their mouths.

These students gathered together in tandem to write to the ministers, and they were so indignant that they wanted to kick Japan upside down, and in the end, even Xiao Lotian refused to let go, demanding that the imperial court severely punish a crime of poor protection.

The students shouted fiercely, but it was impossible for the imperial court to listen to their opinions, and almost all the yamen and high-ranking officials rejected them thousands of miles away.

The students, whose emotions could not be vented, began to think about making trouble like a volcano about to erupt.

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