Before he died, Bo Bai used his last strength to tell Lao Zhu where his silver taels were. What made Lao Zhu sigh was that Bo Bai's own silver taels were less than 200,000 taels, and all his silver was used to improve the life of the Tatars and maintain the military needs of the Cangtou army. The only request of this poor old fellow on his death was to be kind to the Tatars, who rebelled only because they were oppressed too hard by the Ming Dynasty. As long as Da Ming can treat them a little kindly, no one will rebel.

Lao Zhu agreed to the poor old man's last request. Although he knew that he couldn't do this kind of thing at all. But this will make old Bo Bai go a little more peacefully.

However, Bo Bai told him about Dang Xin and Shi Jifang's silver treasury, which surprised Zhu Yidao: that Dang Xin privately withheld military salaries, smuggled arms, grain and grass, and resold gold and silver ornaments, and the silver treasury actually had more than three million taels of silver and silver tickets! There are also countless calligraphy and paintings, jade! Now it seems that there is hope to fill the deficit, Lao Zhu thought helplessly.

Regardless of Zhu Zhengse and Ye Mengxiong's headless and brainless raids-in fact, where the search for Bobai's remnants is, it is simply to loot silver everywhere - Lao Zhu went straight to the underground in the governor's backyard according to Bobai's prompts, and sure enough, he found those huge amounts of silver, silver tickets, calligraphy, paintings, and jade.

Wanli stared at these priceless treasures, not knowing what he was thinking; Lao Zhu asked Jiang Fei to send Jinyi Wei to quickly clear and sort out these things, and count how many treasures are worth it. He himself was in a daze holding a gin jug on the side.

"What are you thinking?" Wanli walked over with a gloomy face.

"I'm thinking, if military attachés are not afraid of death, and civil officials don't love money, what else can't be done in this world?" Zhu Yidao replied in a low voice.

"Military attachés are not afraid of death, civilian officials do not love money?! Ha ha...... That's a good idea! It's a pity that how many people can do it?! Wanli laughed, "Thousands of miles of officials are only for money!" I've heard this a long time ago, but I don't know, it turns out that they don't even pay attention to me for the sake of money! In their minds, I am not as valuable as this silver! If I were worth it, I'm afraid they would have exchanged it for silver a long time ago! ”

"These can be taken to the internal money, but the household department ...... Do you still have to take care of it? Lao Zhu didn't understand.

"Take care of the household?! When did all that waste take care of me?! This time, all the money was taken out of my inner pocket! I don't need them to know! Wanli waved his arm viciously, and Lao Zhu couldn't help but think of Hitler before the invasion of the Soviet Union.

"My lord! There's a secret door down there! A pack of wolves ran anxiously, and the secret door was so locked that it couldn't be opened.

"Get out of the way!" Wanli took out the May Fourth pistol very mightily, Lao Zhu saw that he hurriedly ran away, and instructed Wanli to shoot far away, while beckoning everyone to dodge quickly.

"Bump!"

When a gunshot rang out, how could this old-fashioned lock prevent the power of the 7.62mm bullet on May Fourth? When the secret door was opened, everyone's mouths opened in surprise at what was inside.

Inside turned out to be pieces of gold bars! The value of each piece is around fifty taels. Millions of taels of gold bars were neatly presented in front of everyone, and Lao Zhu couldn't help but be moved: If you want to fix so many gold bars, did Dang Xin rob the entire Ningxia Wei? !

Wanli's face turned from blue to purple again, and then to red. He looked at these gold bars with bloodshot eyes, walked over step by step, stood in the middle of the dark room, and finally stared at Zhu Yidao: "This is the good official I promoted, this is my money!" This is the treasury of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Lao Zhu was silent.

Several of Jiang Fei's wolves had worked as bookkeepers before, and they quickly counted that there were nearly 800,000 taels of gold bars stored here, equivalent to about 8 million taels of silver.

Eight million, plus more than three million just now, is a total of more than 10 million taels of silver. At the beginning of this year, Zhejiang, Nanzhili sent 3.25 million taels of silver, 31 million copper coins, and 4 million stones of grain to Taicang; The three prefectures of Beizhili and Shandong sent 1.2 million taels of silver to the military department, and the provinces sent 5.38 million taels of silver to the recruits. A governor Dang Xin, his greedy silver money has reached more than 10 million taels of silver! According to the investigation of the Fusi of Beizhen, any landlord in the south has at least one million dollars in silver at home. The treasury is so empty!

"How did the logistics come to such an extent?! The army is fighting on the front line, and it is necessary to organize logistics in the household departments and provinces, and its grain, grass and silver can only support a mere 100,000 people! And each of them is much richer than me! Do you know how much tax revenue Daming has in a year? I'm telling you, it's less than thirteen million taels! When I first became the emperor, I only had less than 100,000 taels! And Zhang Juzheng's eldest son got married, and he received at least six million taels in gifts! Where did all this money go?! They are so hidden at home! Now if I raid the bastards in the household department, no matter how bad it is, I can at least copy out my Ming year's taxes! Wanli shouted angrily at Lao Zhu in the dark room, Jiang Fei had already quietly gone out with the wolves, these were not things they should listen to.

Wanli has been holding back for more than ten years. Since he became the emperor at the age of ten, he has learned to understand a truth: the minister is very fierce, the government is very difficult to drop, and he himself can't do anything! What he has to do is only to balance the ministers as much as possible, and as for the money and food, the enrichment of the internal funds depends entirely on the faces of those people in the household department. It's funny to say, starting from Longqing to Wanli now, but whenever the royal family wants to spend, they can only rely on their own internal funds, and don't even want to count on the household department. They also won't give the royal family a penny more at all.

Wanli has been the emperor for more than ten years, and he hears much more scolding every day than he sings praises of virtue. He was originally afraid of Zhang Juzheng, so with the support of his mother, he got rid of Zhang Juzheng; But when Zhang Juzheng personally faced the ministers after his death, he found that he was scolded no less than Zhang Juzheng scolded himself before. And the more you scold, the more fierce it becomes. Wanli is now afraid of the cabinet and all the ministers.

So he wanted to avoid these scoldings, hide in the deep palace, and hide in his own dormitory, which seemed to be the best in the world.

Lao Zhu suddenly felt that Wanli was very pitiful. Compared to himself, he was just a prisoner, a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment by the Forbidden City.

"This can fill the house a lot, and hopefully there won't be any rebellion or anything like that! More than 10 million taels of silver can support the internal treasury for at least a few years! Lao Zhu kindly pointed to the gold bars stacked on the ground.

"Hmph, you can't let the cabinet know at all! Otherwise, I won't even want to get a point! They don't want to start with taxes, they want to deduct money from my hands! I have appointed mine supervisors and tax supervisors before, so I was not impeached by them? "Wanli looks obviously much more depressed.

"It can't be said that what the cabinet is doing in this matter is wrong, after all, those eunuchs, people who have no roots in the body, what else can they love except for money? Your Majesty, you might as well count on them, as well as the Cabinet. Lao Zhu also hit Wanli mercilessly.

"I don't want that anymore. Let Jiang Fei send some wolves to quietly escort these gold and silver back to Jingshi. The only thing I can trust now is you. Wanli snatched the gin jug from Lao Zhu's hand, "After this rebellion, you will go to Jingshi with me and accompany your Shen Hui!" I promised you! ”

His sentence "I want to believe that only you are the only one who can believe it" made Lao Zhu's back feel cold. It's not a good thing to be so trusted by an emperor. However, Lao Zhu firmly believes that he can hide farther than Wanli, although he is now in it. Isn't it just to avoid the government, you can still hide from Lao Tzu and the people as an emperor?!