Chapter 038: It's all about money
In the face of the anger of the Son of Heaven, Zhao Xing lost his gains and losses, and did not have the idea of taking the opportunity to take the position, so he did not kneel down in fear, and asked stubbornly: "Jinyiwei, Royal Eagle Dog, since it is a Royal Eagle Dog, who gave him the right to investigate the case, interrogate the case, and talk to himself?" Not an emperor yet? So, is it not the royal family or who is causing the flood of Jinyiwei's rights today? ”
Looking at the shocked Chongzhen, Zhao Xing said earnestly: "Whether it is the Jinyi Guard or the eunuchs in the palace, in fact, they are all royal eagle dogs, since everyone is a royal eagle dog, therefore, it is heaven and hell in a word." Wei Zhongxian's rights are overwhelming, in fact, why eradicate and expand? It's not you, the Son of Heaven, in a word? Although Wei Zhongxian looks like he is in power, you sent a powerless little eunuch, a holy decree, not just arrest and hang the inn? ”
This sentence, for Chongzhen, is really deafening.
Because no one had ever said anything like that to him. When the eunuchs were overthrown, everyone, including Chongzhen, thought it was a very difficult problem. After all, it is Wei Zhongxian, this eunuch party is intertwined, colluding with the internal and external courts, looking at the huge power, it is extremely difficult to defeat them. For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen prepared for half a year, tentatively removed Wei Zhongxian's right-hand man, and finally took Wei Zhongxian.
The result? It's just a word from Emperor Chongzhen, Wei Zhongxian obediently went to the imperial tomb to guard the tomb, and then added a holy decree, Wei Zhongxian hanged himself halfway.
Zhao Xing looked at Chongzhen's face before he said again: "In fact, the destruction of the eunuch party is not the credit of the Donglin party, but your majesty." Because there is no need to make a big move like Donglin advertised everywhere, as long as you go down with a holy decree at that time, Wei Zhongxian and his dog will be obediently arrested. What does the Donglin Party member who stands on top of the court and make his own merits have to do with him? ”
Then he added: "Jinyiwei and Dongchang, just like Wei Zhongxian, are actually just a dog under the emperor, the dog chain is ultimately in the hands of the emperor, we will bite whoever you let us bite." As for giving up on us, there is no need for the emperor to make such a big move, as long as the emperor says a word now, dismiss Dongchang and Jinyiwei, will Dongchang and Jinyiwei dare to resist? ”
I can't say it anymore, just say it again, and let Emperor Chongzhen think about the rest of the things.
No longer pretending to look at the case in his hand, Chongzhen quietly looked at his hands.
Zhao Xing didn't say, just waited.
"However, the number of 150,000 brocade clothes and guards in the world is too big, the monthly expenses are 500,000, and the East Factory has 100,000 employees, and the monthly expenses are not less than 300,000.
Zhao Xing understood, in fact, what he said before was all nonsense, because of the abolition of Jinyiwei, Chongzhen also knew that it was a stupid thing to cut off his arm, in fact, the real reason was that he couldn't bear it.
Wei Zhongxian is an expert at making money, so when the apocalypse is apocalypse, he has plenty of money, and he still has money to pay military salaries to the factory guards and Beijing camps every year, and he can also give some rewards to the hungry and cold border troops, and he also continuously sends money and grain to the front line in western Liaoning, and can also dredge the lower rivers, relieve the famine in various places, and give a little reward to the descendants of the Zhu family who beg along the streets in various places.
But now Wang Chengen, one is that after the foreign minister defeated Wei Zhongxian, he stared at him deadly, so that he no longer dared to make money in the name of Wei Zhongxian. At the same time, Wang Chengen really doesn't have Wei Zhongxian's cheekiness to make money.
Originally, the largest income of the royal family, such as the tea tax of no less than four million per year, Donglin said, that is the evil government that pits the tea farmers, as you want to be the son of the saint, how can you harm the little tea farmers in order to meet the needs of the royal family? It must be stopped. Chongzhen stopped.
The annual salt tax is not less than five million, Donglin said, as you want to be the son of the saint, how can you just meet the needs of the royal family, so you have pushed up the price of salt, so that the people have a light diet, the people are miserable, and the bad government must be stopped. Chongzhen stopped.
Then there is the sea tax, that is, the city of the ship, they proposed to the emperor that the "forbidden sea" should be restored, the Wanli Emperor opened the sea to prohibit the eunuchs from collecting taxes is a serious violation of the ancestral system, is a great evil government, at the same time, so many good things go to the sea, of course, it arouses the greed of the pirates, and also by the way let the coastal pirates run rampant, this is of course not good, you look at this continuous natural disasters also prove the extreme injustice of the sea tax.
As a saint of tomorrow, how can you attract thieves in order to meet the needs of the royal family, and so many good things of the Ming Dynasty have flowed overseas, and the people of the Ming Dynasty cannot be allowed to enjoy it, it is a bad government, and it must be stopped. Chongzhen thought it was right, so in the first year of Chongzhen, he began to ban the sea. Since the sea is forbidden, there is no need for the city to exist anymore, so from this time on, the sea tax of the city and the sea of five or six million per year, which was originally the largest amount of money, is gone.
Also, every year, the Ming treasury is divided into thirty percent of the tax, and the treasury is so poor that the rats have moved, as you want to be the son of the saint, how can you not think about the national finances in order to meet the needs of the royal family alone, this, forget it. Chongzhen thought that the country was in a difficult situation, and he should be thrifty, so this sum was gone.
Now, there is only a little income left from the Huangzhuang, and because of poor management, it is losing money every year.
But what about the expenses?
The provision of 100,000 palace female eunuchs and the old and young imperial concubines and concubines of the harem is a large expense.
The restoration of the Huangling Tomb and the annual sacrifice are indispensable.
The rewards of the border army and officials at all levels for the New Year's festival are fixed funds, in fact, now the border army has started from the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and no longer pays silver, so they are counting on this royal reward to live.
The salary of 200,000 forbidden troops, this country does not care, it is from the emperor.
The salary of 150,000 brocade guards must be paid.
100,000 East Factory's Yulu is indispensable.
Yuan Chonghuan in Liaoxi in front of him needed 4 million to build a city and 150,000 Guanning iron cavalry every year, which could never be deducted, but the treasury had no money, so it could only be paid in advance by internal funds.
The suppression of bandits in the south, the repair of rivers, the payment of officials, and so on, the state treasury has no money, and it can only be spent by internal funds.
As a result, the 20 million silver left by the original brother to Chongzhen in the inner house was seen in a blink of an eye. But the open source can't be opened, Donglin looks at it, so let's throttle.
Where to throttle? If you do the math, it is the notorious Dongchang Jinyi Wei who was criticized by hundreds of officials.
In this way, the reason why Chongzhen did not oppose the abolition of the factory guard, but he still hesitated, in fact, he did not know the role of the factory guard, in fact, it was all money.
Now that Zhao Xing knows the reason, of course he has to say his own way.