Chapter 8 Unhappy Zhu Youzhen (Asking for Recommendation Votes and Collections)

When Zhu Youzhen first ascended the throne, he was naturally full of scenery and excitement. He took the jade seal in his hand and looked at it, touched it and touched it, and almost fell asleep with the jade seal in his arms.

What made him even happier was that Zhu Youzhen had only been cultivating through the jade seal for only three days, and he had broken through by borrowing the emperor's aura in the jade seal. This is really a double happiness, which makes Zhu Youzhen happy.

Zhu Youzhen continued to cultivate at this speed, and he would be able to break through the Zhuyuan Realm in less than half a month, and then his strength would be further enhanced, Daming's luck would be stronger, and the Taizu contract would be stronger.

However, it didn't make Zhu Youzhen happy for too long, and Guo Yunhou, the secretary of the household department, made him unhappy with an excerpt, the reason is very simple, Guo Yunhou said on the excerpt that the treasury has no money!

Zhu Youzhen didn't dare to be careless about this, and planned to ask Guo Yunhou to ask.

The next day, Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, had the honor of becoming the first minister to be awarded a solo match after the new emperor ascended the throne.

"Minister Guo Yunhou has seen Your Majesty. Guo Yunhou said.

"Aiqing is flat!"

Xiao Dezi, give Guo Aiqing a seat. ”

After Zhu Youzhen signaled Guo Yunhou to get up, he instructed Xiao Dezi, the little eunuch who was accompanying him, to move a stool for Guo Yunhou.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. ”

Guo Yunhou didn't dare to accept the seat given to him by the Son of Heaven, he was trembling, he only dared to drop half of his buttocks, and it looked even more uncomfortable to sit than to stand.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen smiled casually: "Aiqing doesn't have to be nervous, the reason why I summoned Aiqing is just to ask Aiqing how much money the treasury still has." ”

When Guo Yunhou heard this, his mood relaxed slightly, and he replied: "Back to Your Majesty, there are still one million spirit stones in the household at present, which is not enough to support until the end of the year, and I also ask Your Majesty to pull out one million spirit stones from the internal treasury to pay off the food and salary owed to Liao Town this year." ”

"There are only one million spirit stones in the household department, isn't there 20 million in the treasury every year?" Zhu Youzhen was really shocked, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was only a million spirit stones, and rats could not only make holes, but also settle down!

Guo Yunhou explained: "It is true, the financial revenue of the dynasty is 5 million, plus the grain paid by the field, the total income is 20 million, and the annual income of the national treasury is large, and the expenses are also large!"

For example, every year, 10 million spirit stones are provided to the soldiers of the Nine Sides, and Liaodong Town alone has to provide 5 million taels of food.

In addition, tens of thousands of officials of the country and the DPRK were also distributed to them, and natural disasters were dealt with in various places.

As a result, there is not much silver left in the household department, and now the household department still owes Liaodong Town a million spirit stones. ”

Listening to Guo Yunhou talk about Zhu Youzhen in Liaodong Town, he was furious, since the rise of the Jurchens, the imperial court spent an average of five million taels of food and salary on Liaodong Town every year.

And it is still rising year by year, as a result, Liaodong Town did not even dare to fight in the field, but raised a warlord-like Jiangmen group.

Although the Donglin Party was the biggest reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, in Zhu Youzhen's view, the Liaodong Jiangmen group, which did not dare to fight field battles, and the warlord group that did not obey the dispatch of the imperial court, were no worse than the Donglin Party in the cause of the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially the big traitor Wu Sangui, he is the one who opens and closes the Qing soldiers to enter the customs, and the shame of the nation!

The Ming Dynasty sent an average of 5 million taels of grain to Liaodong Town every year, and in more than 20 years, the silver spent was more than 100 million taels, and more than 100 million military expenses.

But how did Liaodong Jiangmen do it?

They regarded more than 100,000 Liaodong soldiers as domestic servants, and nearly one million Liaodong refugees who cultivated land for them as cultivators.

It was just a matter of dividing up the military spending, and they also blatantly started a business with Houjin, and various contraband such as salt, iron, and grain were continuously imported into Houjin, and they were willing to be the logistics minister of Houjin.

Zhu Youzhen believes that it is precisely because of the huge burden of Liaodong Town that the Ming Dynasty, which can be called a behemoth, was brought down.

If the Liaodong Army had pacified the Jurchen troubles as soon as possible, then there would have been no need to frequently increase the Liao's salary and cause the common people to not survive, and if the common people could survive, they would not have formed a huge army of displaced people.

Without the exile army, the capital would not have been breached, and the Ming Dynasty would not have come to an abrupt end in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

Liaodong Town seems to be a huge bloodsucking worm lying on Daming's body, absorbing the grain and salary collected by Daming from all over the country.

Now the Liaodong Army has long been beaten by the Houjin, in order to cover up its incompetence, the Liaodong Army has trumpeted the bullshit "Jurchen is not satisfied with ten thousand, and it is invincible when it is full of ten thousand".

When the lie is told a thousand times, ten thousand times, everyone believes the lie, so that this lie has really achieved the name of Houjin invincible.

For the Houjin, there was no more lovely pig opponent than the Liaodong Army, they not only played the role of the logistics department of the Houjin, but also transported salt and iron grain to the Houjin.

He also made a big splash for the Houjin, so that the Houjin, which was obviously just a local separatist force, became a weighty Qing State that competed for the world and was on an equal footing with the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen knew about the incompetence of the Liaodong Army, how could he heed Guo Yunhou's request and take out millions of spirit stones from his own internal money to spoil the Liaodong Army?

Don't even think about it!

He would rather take out this money and allocate it to Dongjiang Town, at least Dongjiang Town has captured much more Jurchen heads than the Liaodong Army.

Moreover, Dongjiang Town is used to being poor, if he takes out a million spirit stones and allocates them to the Dongjiang Army, it will be a solid charcoal in the snow, and he will immediately win the heartfelt support of Dongjiang Town from Mao Wenlong to the soldiers and soldiers, and the cost performance is undoubtedly higher.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen immediately said: "Liaodong Town consumes five million taels of silver from the national treasury every year, but it can't protect the territory and the people, and it is a big disappointment.

I decided that from the first year of Chongzhen, the grain salary in Liaodong Town would be reduced to three million, and as for the million dollars owed this year, there was no need to pay them out.

They don't even dare to go out of the city to fight, and they still have the face to make trouble with me?"

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen made the decision to reduce the food and salary of the Liaodong Army so hastily, Guo Yunhou had to persuade him hard: "Your Majesty, although Liaodong Town spends a lot of money and food, it is precisely because of the iron-like Ningjin defense line that the security of the Liaoxi Corridor and the Gyeonggi region can be maintained.

Gyeonggi is a matter of national security, and the minister sees that this money still has to be spent. ”

What is the use of that? It is not too easy for the Qing soldiers to break through!

In history, in October of the second year of Chongzhen, the Houjin Demon Clan spared the Ningjin defense line, passed through Mongolia, and approached the Beijing Division, shaking the world.

It is precisely because of this that the prestige of the Ming Dynasty has been greatly reduced, and the acts of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country by the Jin merchants have become more and more arrogant, and the arrogance of the Later Golden Demon Clan has become more and more arrogant. The Ming Dynasty also gradually declined, and finally died at the hands of Li Zicheng!

In short, it's a sentence, I can believe anyone, but I can't believe in Liaodong Group!

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