Chapter 150: The Problem of Luck

Although Yu Qian made a series of decisions on the spot, putting the Yellow River Dagong in a secondary position, he put disaster relief in the main position.

But his decision was written into the folds and sent to Beijing in a flying book.

Zhu Qizhen saw Yu Qian's recital, and before he opened it, he felt a lot more relieved.

Some people feel like that's the case.

He wasn't even allowed to do anything, just his presence in certain places would give him a reassuring feeling. Yu Qian is such a person.

Since knowing that the Yellow River has burst, the low pressure in the Qianqing Palace has been relieved.

Zhu Qizhen opened Yu Qian's recital, and before he finished reading it, he began to sigh in his heart. Secretly said: "Cao Nai is really not as good as Yang Pu." ”

Sanyang is an old minister who cannot be copied in the history of the Ming Dynasty, especially Yang Shiqi, even if he pulls out all the first assistants of the Ming Dynasty, he can really determine that the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty is ranked above Yang Shiqi, but it is just Zhang Juzheng, who called Zhang Juzheng to do what he did, and he has exceeded the authority of a first assistant.

The rest of the first assistant, no matter how powerful he was, he didn't dare to say that he had surpassed Yang Shiqi.

In this matter, Zhu Qizhen was anxious about the Yellow River, and he was a little out of proportion in his actions. The first amount of money was allocated below, all in the name of repairing the river.

Of course, it's all silver anyway, and as long as the magistrate is not an idiot, he doesn't dare to let the people starve to death while having silver in his hand.

But there is always political risk.

However, Zhu Qizhen didn't feel that it was his fault.

This is a matter for the Cabinet.

Zhu Qizhen's control has always been a major policy, and many details are handled by the cabinet.

Actually, this Cao Nai may not know, but the more authoritative Zhu Qizhen is, the more such a problem will appear, Zhu Qizhen has to think twice about it, and think about what the extended meaning of this fart is.

Zhu Qizhen was bent on the Yellow River, and the people below naturally didn't dare to make more moves.

The reason why Cao Nai is not as good as Yang Pu is that Cao Nai is not as familiar with local conditions as Yang Pu, or Cao Nai is not as daring to insist on his own opinions as Yang Pu. It's not clear what to say.

Immediately, Zhu Qizhen took a closer look at Yu Qian's integration plan.

But there is nothing to say.

First, Zhu Qizhen is not so familiar with water control projects, and secondly, Zhu Qizhen also trusts Yu Qian, and he believes that Yu Qian can do this thing well.

So, I didn't look at the details at all. The only worry is that according to Yu Qian's method, the river repair fee is estimated to skyrocket to 20 million taels of silver.

It made Zhu Qizhen feel some toothache.

In fact, the biggest problem with cash-for-work and ordinary projects is whether manpower is given or not.

The general project is conscription, and the imperial court never pays for it, and even asks the people to bring their own dry food. The largest amount of earthwork of the project

It's free.

Now that the labor cost is being made up, the price is not going to soar.

Zhu Qizhen suddenly felt that his small treasury might not be able to resist this matter.

"Hey------" Zhu Qizhen sighed secretly in his heart, and he said to the eunuchs beside him: "Pass the order, from today onwards, all the use in the palace will be reduced, and all the palaces that are not needed will be sealed, find a mansion for King Yu, let him out of the palace, and let all the extra palace maids and eunuchs in the palace out." ”

"Yes." Fan Hong said immediately.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Say a word to the queen." ”

Fan Hong agreed.

Since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, in general, the cost is not large, he does not repair the palace, and he does not have a large number of concubines, even if he hunts, it is because he has clear political intentions. It's not for enjoyment.

Even so, the annual expenditure of the palace was more than two million taels.

Now Zhu Qizhen really feels that he doesn't have enough money at hand.

Open source and reduce expenditure.

Since open source is almost the same, there is only throttling.

Of course, there are some things that can be throttled, and some things that cannot be saved, such as the cost of raising soldiers and the salaries of hundreds of officials, which cannot be reduced.

The tile is in the north, weakening the armament, that is, self-destructing the Great Wall. And the civil officials who are not rich in the first place reduce their salaries, which is to force them to embezzle.

Where to throttle, Zhu Qizhen couldn't remember for a while.

But political signals need to be put out first.

Seeing that as the emperor, he reduced the palace room, released the palace maids, and reduced expenses.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen also knew that a large part of the palace's expenses could not be reduced, because many expensive ceremonies were not royal ceremonies, because they belonged to national celebrations.

Naturally, it must be magnificent, otherwise it will be a shame for Daming.

And it is impossible for Zhu Qizhen to really eat bran and drink thin.

If you can squeeze out 500,000 taels, it's not bad.

But the imperial court is so big, there must be a lot of places where expenses can be reduced, and the emperor has set an example, can't the people below show something?

It will take a few days for this signal to be released and feedback.

Zhu Qizhen continued to watch Yu Qian's recital.

Seeing Yu Qian turn to the canal, he immediately got up and pulled a roll of maps from the side, which was the map along the canal, and Zhu Qizhen took a closer look at the canal.

Suddenly, I saw a place and tapped it twice with my finger.

The Yellow River bursts upstream, and most of the downstream is about to dry up. The section of the canal from Huai'an to Xuzhou is based on the natural channel of the Yellow River.

This section of the river is five or six hundred miles long.

Without this river, the canal system would be missing a gap.

If you want to maintain the canal system, you have to build a large canal, and these hundreds of miles of river are first of all a big project, plus water diversion everywhere. Among them, the cost of the project is large, perhaps more than

It's not as big as the Yellow River now, but it won't be too little.

Zhu Qizhen suddenly felt some headaches.

What a headache.

No matter how unpleasant Zhu Qizhen looks at the canal, but even for the sake of Beijing's food security, the canal cannot be cut off, so this river, even if it is troublesome, Zhu Qizhen must be built.

And it is to be built as soon as possible.

Only then did he know why many people knew that the old course of the Yellow River was not good, but there were still many people who wanted to maintain the old course, and without him, it would be too expensive to open up a new channel.

Now more than 20 million taels have been opened, and if this river is added, it is estimated that it will be as many as several million taels.

In other words, the money that Zhu Qizhen was going to fight with the tile spurs, and he couldn't fight the tile spurs, so he had already spent it in a hurry.

Zhu Qizhen was depressed in his heart, needless to say, he pinched his eyebrows slightly to calm his mind. said: "Go to Wenyuan Pavilion to take a look, if Cao Shoufu is on duty, let him come over." ”

"Yes." A little eunuch said.

After a while, Cao Nai had arrived.

Zhu Qizhen handed Cao Nai's fold to Qian.

Cao Nai saw it carefully and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, Lord Yu is here, Your Majesty can feel at ease." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Mr. Yu is my sword in the sky, and if you are killed, Mr. Yu will naturally be safe." It's just that the situation is so embarrassing, how can Mr. teach me? ”

Cao Nai listened to Zhu Qizhen's words, and there was a trace of jealousy in his heart.

Even if Yu Qian is not the first assistant, there is no one who can replace his position in Zhu Qizhen's heart.

Cao Nai put away his thoughts that he shouldn't have, and said: "The minister has already thought about this matter, and I really want to report it to Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Qizhen was not surprised by this.

Because the choice of a new river channel, instead of blocking the breach and returning the Yellow River to the old course, this decision was not made by Zhu Qizhen alone, but was strongly supported by Cao Nai.

In fact, this decision was not supported by everyone in the imperial court.

The reason is very simple, in winter, spend one or two million taels of silver to plug the gap in the Yellow River and strengthen the river embankment. Even if it were to be renovated, it would not be more than a few million taels.

In terms of the use of money, the difference between these two plans is tens of millions of taels. Naturally, some people pointed out that this plan is simply a waste of money and labor.

However, the voice of opposition to this plan did not come directly to Zhu Qizhen, but to Cao Nai.

The emperor is never wrong, this is a political principle, even if the emperor is wrong, it is the responsibility of the ministers.

So Cao Nai must do something to suppress this matter. Failure to do so would threaten his political prestige.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen felt tricky, so he came to ask Cao Nai. He knew that Cao Nai would definitely have an idea, of course, whether this idea was good or not was another matter.