Spring and Temple.

Zhu Cihong, who looked haggard, looked at Qian Qianyi who was lying on his stomach, and scolded: "Since the beginning of the year, four million and six thousand taels have been before and after, right?" Together with the three million taels allocated by the state treasury, nearly eight million taels of silver...... Tell me, I have to recruit 80,000 new troops, how can I spend so much silver, not including grain? ”

Qian Qianyi kowtowed and said: "The minister is guilty, the minister is guilty, and the minister deserves death!" ”

"Tell me if you don't die, where is the money spent?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there is the food and salary standard of the king of Huiji County first, and now the imperial court recruits new soldiers, all of which imitate the food and salary supply of the Northern Expeditionary Army, so the salary alone is twice as high as in the past. Also, the soldiers clamored for meat on weekdays...... How can this be done? I have no choice but to eat meat for three days, Your Majesty, this is calculated, and it is estimated that eight million taels will not be able to last. Or...... Cut 20,000 people? Qian Qianyi looked helpless and sighed to Zhu Cihong.

"Full of nonsense!" Zhu Cihong said sharply, "The arrow is on the string, how can you not send it?" Now that the imperial court has more places in the six prefectures, all of them need garrisons, and the northern expedition across the river needs a large army, how can the army be reduced because of this little silver? ”

"But the financial resources of the imperial court ...... I can't stand it. The minister is useless, incapable of sharing the worries for His Majesty, please Your Majesty dismiss the minister's household secretary and choose another meritocrat! Qian Qianyi took off the crown of yarn on his head with dignity and put it on the upper left side of the front.

Zhu Cihong was choked, his face turned pale, and he saw that the anger of the thunder was about to erupt.

But Qian Qianyi looked directly at Zhu Cihong without changing his face.

Zhu Cihong trembled his fingers and pointed at Qian Qianyi, "You...... You....... ”

"You" for a long time, Zhu Cihong slowly put down his fingers, his face slowly softened, and he actually comforted: "I know that Aiqing is embarrassed, but this is a state affair, related to the great cause of the Northern Expedition, the first emperor looked at me in the sky, and also looked at Aiqing...... Or do you want to embezzle some more from the bank? ”

Qian Qianyi shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers are unwilling, but that the money and silver in this money village are all deposited by depositors all over the world, from last year to this year, the imperial court has embezzled more than 10 million taels of silver, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid it will ...... It will cause a big mess, and then the sky will be angry and resentful, and the ministers will ...... I'm afraid that I won't be able to wash it even if I jump into the Yellow River. Besides, Shoufu and others have been staring at the minister, if the minister obeys His Majesty's will and embezzles the money and silver, I am afraid that tomorrow it will be another snowflake-like impeachment ....... ”

"Qian Xiang, Qian Aiqing...... Take another million taels, just this once, how about not taking it as an example? "Zhu Cihong was already pleading, and when he left Shuntian Mansion, he understood what would happen if the army had no food, it was a chaotic army, no, bandits.

What a monarch and a minister, it's all a fart!

Qian Qianyi sighed: "Since Your Majesty has made a decision, the minister naturally has to obey the will, so ...... Then make another exception? ”

"Yes, yes, make an exception."

Seeing Qian Qianyi come out steadily, Zhu Cihong suddenly overturned the desk in front of him, and he hissed and howled.

Why? Why? Why?

I worked hard, I only slept three hours a day, and I was focused on government affairs, but what was the result?

Is there anything wrong with expanding the army?

Huguang and Jiangxi have more than six and a half prefectures, and the ministry has to garrison troops, right?

Liao Zhongping's department is Jingwei, and he must be transferred back, so there must be an army to replace him, right?

Taiping Hou Xia Wanchun also has to return to the original station, and there must be an army to replace it, right?

Furthermore, the Northern Expedition needs more troops, is it wrong for me to expand the army by 80,000?

Huang Daozhou, Qian Sule and other important ministers boycotted me in the court, that's all, now even this Qian Qianyi has come to fight against me, if it weren't for my hard protection that day, you would have been expelled from the court by Wu Zheng, I'm afraid you won't even have a place to stay in the capital.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong began to change direction, blaming Wu Zheng of Hangzhou Mansion.

This bastard, who doesn't know the way of ministers, took all the 120,000 people in the loyalty camp to Jiangnan.

If I were to leave 50,000, 6, 70,000 or 80,000, I wouldn't need to recruit good families around Gyeonggi again, which made the Manchu Dynasty civil and military refute my "poor soldiers" Not to mention, there was indeed a shortage of labor around Gyeonggi.

Zhu Cihong sat on the ground panting, at this time his face slowly improved, I am the son of heaven, the co-lord of the world, as long as I cross the river and the northern expedition and recover the lost land, then everything will be there.

Didn't Wu Zheng rise like this?

At that time, he only had Hangzhou as a place, didn't he also raise an army of 30,000?

I now have thirteen and a half lands and an army of 180,000, so there is nothing wrong with it.

I will never owe anything to the people of the world, and when the tax comes up, I will fill in the hole of misappropriation.

……。

It's a pity that although Zhu Cihong has been in exile for three years, he still doesn't eat fireworks in the world after all.

He repeatedly emulated his father's diligence and frugality, but he did not understand that the emperor did not need this.

The emperor of a country, if he can make the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment by relying on his own diligence and frugality, then his father does not have to hang himself on a crooked neck tree.

Zhu Cihong's complaining will only exacerbate the dissatisfaction with Wu Zheng in his heart, and will only tear apart the differences between himself and the courtiers, which will not help.

He didn't want to owe the people of the world, but he forgot that the tax balance of the Yixing Dynasty was only more than 3 million taels a year, and the embezzled depositors' silver had reached 10 million taels so far, how could he pay it back?

Let's not talk about the interest, let's talk about the principal, and you have to go without eating or drinking for three or four years to pay it off.

The newly recruited army had to take care of eating, drinking, and Lazar every day, and once they set out on the expedition, they had to fill it with a lot of silver, and they had to pay a large amount of compensation in case of casualties .......

I'm afraid that only a person like Zhu Cihong, who doesn't know firewood, rice, oil and salt, can naively think that he can pay it off.

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Ten miles of Qinhuai.

Gold powder towers, row upon row; Painting the boat Lingbo, the sound of oars and the shadow of lights.

A spectacle of dreamlike beauty.

On the bank of the Qinhuai River, to the south end of the Yan Bridge.

There is a river house building with three entrances and two courtyards, called Meixiang Building.

It is the residence of Liu Ruye, one of the legendary eight Yans of Qinhuai.

However, at this time, Liu Ru was also thirty-two years old, and the were half old.

can be said to be a, compared to Qian Qianyi's old help, it is also a tender bean sprout.

Qian Qianyi is now settled in this building, not that Qian Qianyi is so poor that he can't even afford to buy a mansion now.

On the contrary, Qian Qianyi has to be silver.

Qian Qianyi was writing hard at the desk, and Liu Ru was adding fragrance to the red sleeves on the side.

At this time, Liu Ruyi's maiden came in to report that a guest was visiting.

The name of the person who came was Huang Dazhan, the squire of the military department, and the eldest son of Huang Yuqi.

This Huang Yuqi has some origins, during the Apocalypse, Engongsheng, Chongzhen and Miao Zunsu established the "Jiangshang Nine Sons Society", advocating "Guangyan Road, Reform, and Zhengzheng", and Qian Qianyi had dealings, and the friendship was not bad.

He and Zhou Yanru studied together in the early years, one day the two discussed the world's affairs, the words were not speculative, Huang Yuqi picked up the inkstone on the table and threw it, but unfortunately he didn't hit, so he sighed, "I hate to kill this misguided country!" ”。

It is strange to say that after Zhou Yanru became an official in the court, he was really cowardly and greedy, and finally was ordered to commit suicide by Chongzhen for the crime of delaying the military aircraft.