The Emperor's Inner Treasury was managed by the Inner Ministry and stored in the Inner Treasury.

Cui Guozhang, who was the secretary of the Ministry of the People, also had no right to interfere, and the money in the emperor's treasury came from the tribute of the vassal states, as well as the income from the operation of the royal granges, mines, workshops, caravans, etc.

The inner chamberlain of the Inner Chamberlain Province stepped forward and reported to the emperor in detail the income and expenditure of the Inner Treasury. In general, the income of the inner treasury is still good, and the vassal states pay a lot of tribute, but it only accounts for a small part of the income of the inner treasury, and the main income of the emperor's inner treasury is a large number of imperial estates of the emperor, as well as the income of the royal handicraft workshops, and the income of the royal caravans.

Although the emperor had replaced a large number of Huangzhuang near Liujing to other roads and frontiers, he could replace more acres of land after replacement, after all, the land in Liujing was expensive. The royal workshop includes a large number of handmade goods, from gold and silver ornaments to clothing embroidery, to copper mirror combs, to iron pots, iron hoes, needlework scissors, and some flour medicine rouge, etc., in short, the royal handicraft workshop is very large, and there are special workshops in many major cities to produce all kinds of goods.

The Royal Handicraft Workshop has an excellent reputation for its skilled craftsmen and excellent quality goods, so the goods have always sold well and made more money. Previously, the emperor asked the province to establish the Anle Medical Center and Huimin Pharmacy, and now it has also opened hundreds of branches, which was originally a project to benefit the people and benefit the people, and the court was unwilling to do it, for fear of losing money. As a result, the emperor asked the internal servants to do it with the money from the inner treasury, and sent the eunuchs in the palace and the royal steward to do it, which was not only efficient, but also made a lot of money without losing money.

The pharmaceutical industry, no matter what era it is, is a very profitable business, even if the emperor specifically asked for parity to benefit the people, but compared with other medical halls and pharmacies after much more affordability, it is still very profitable.

The royal business was also very profitable caravans, the emperor had caravans of horses and caravans that walked in the frontier steppes, merchant fleets that sailed on the canals and the Yangtze River, and even maritime caravans that ran along the coast.

There are not only the Beihai merchant fleet running the Bohai Sea route, but also the South China Sea merchant fleet running from Jiangdu to Guangzhou and Jiaozhi.

In these years, all those who do trade are profitable transactions, and they are generally monopolized by the powerful, and the emperor does not care about competing with the people for profit or not, he personally deployed the trade routes of these caravans, fleets, and maritime merchants, and can make extremely large profits every year.

Although the emperor did not let the royal caravan evade taxes, he still truthfully declared and paid taxes, but after deducting the heavy industrial and commercial market taxes, the income was still extremely high.

Of course, the emperor had a high income, but he also had a lot of expenses.

Although the court is responsible for the use of the palace, there is a specified amount of court expenses, and this amount is determined by Luo Cheng, which is not high.

Therefore, the emperor has to use his own treasury to subsidize the palace expenses, all kinds of court purchases, and even rewards in the palace, and there are a lot of expenses and rewards for concubines and princesses.

According to the standards of this era, the princes will have to marry in the future, at least 10,000 yuan, and the princesses will have to marry at least 100,000 yuan.

This money has to be prepared in advance, and the court cannot be expected to pay for it, and the court's expenses in this regard are all fixed, at most one or two thousand, and there will be no more.

Therefore, if the emperor wants to make his princes and princesses more decent, he has to save his own money. Not to mention, when the princes grow up, they will have to divide the feudal domains, and the emperor will have to prepare the money and population for these princes to build the country, etc., which will also have to be paid from the inner treasury by themselves.

And usually filial piety to the emperor and the queen mother, rewarding the emperor's relatives, meritorious officials, these also have to be paid from the emperor's inner treasury.

In short, the reward takes up a lot of money. If it is rewarded in the name of the imperial court, it will be paid by the treasury, but if it is rewarded in the name of the emperor, the treasury will not pay it, and the emperor himself will have to pay it.

This in itself is also a rule set by the emperor himself before, to avoid the internal treasury not being divided, but also to be an example, lest the emperor embezzle the money of the treasury and squander it.

Fortunately, the emperor is a more profitable person, otherwise, the inner treasury would not be able to make ends meet at all.

Now the emperor asked how much money Neku still had.

The inner chamberlain in the province said proudly that there were more than 13 million yuan.

This is equivalent to more than 13 million yuan, including gold, silver, silk, money, etc.

After Cui Junsu heard this, he couldn't help but be envious, and even his eyes were a little red. He was in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the treasury was under his control, but the treasury was now empty enough to starve rats to death, but the emperor's inner treasury had more than 10 million yuan. Although the treasury of the Ministry of Civil Affairs has an income of tens of millions a year.

But they are all in this way, and they are all out there, all supported by those monopoly taxes, market taxes, and industrial and commercial taxes, but the expenditure is like flowing water, money and grain into the treasury, never saved, tax revenue increases every year, but every year the treasury has no money left, and now there is a big war this year, and even the poor owe money everywhere.

"Draw ten million from the inner treasury and give it to the treasury."

The Emperor said.

When Li Xuandao, the inner attendant, heard this, he was anxious.

"Your Majesty, the separation of the treasury and the treasury is the system that Your Majesty has set before. How can you just pull money out of the inner treasury like this now, shouldn't this be messed up? ”

The inner eunuch from the Li clan in Longxi insisted.

"Although the inner treasury is the emperor's private money, but now the imperial court is in urgent need of money, and the money from the inner treasury should also be used." Cui Junsu was willing to let go of more than 10 million yuan, and immediately quarreled with Li Shousu.

In the end, Li Xuandao had no choice, seeing that all the ministers were eager to rush up and rob him of all the money, so he had to retreat.

"As long as Your Majesty is willing, it is fine, but the Ministry of Civil Affairs has to write an IOU, and if you have borrowed, you have to pay it back, and you have to repay as much as you borrow." Li Xuandao insisted.

"Do you want money?" Cui Junsu refused.

When the emperor heard this, he laughed.

"I think there is some truth in Eunuch Li's words, the imperial court urgently needs money, and it can indeed be used from the inner treasury first, but it must be borrowed, otherwise the rules will be broken, otherwise in the future, the inner treasury will take it from the treasury if there is no money, and the treasury will take it from the inner treasury if there is no money, this is not a mess, so why should there be a division between the inner treasury and the treasury?"

"I see, this money not only has to be IOU, but also has to have interest."

Cui Junsu was even more puzzled, the court borrowed the emperor's money, and had to make an IOU?

Luo Cheng asked, "Neiku can lend 10 million yuan, but 10 million yuan is far from enough." ”

Hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in the army, a month's military salary and military expenditure, no less than 3 million. What's more, we have to solve the white strips in the hands of the soldiers and the people first, which is another expense of more than 10 million yuan.

At present, Korea, Yunnan, the Western Regions, and Qinghai are still using troops, and although there are not many soldiers and horses, the cost of maintaining an army of more than 20,000 people is also very high.

What's more, Su Dingfang also reported that it would cost at least hundreds of thousands of yuan to build two big cities by the Luojiang River, and build roads, military stations, and beacon forts, and build a big city.

"I took out 10,000,000 yuan from the inner treasury to lend it to the treasury, but it was far from enough, so I had to borrow from the people to the nobles, officials, and wealthy merchants."

As soon as he heard that the emperor said that he wanted to borrow money from the people, or to borrow from the noble officials, some people immediately raised their voices against it.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's inappropriate, and says it's borrowing, but what's the difference between it and apportionment, or even robbery? Wouldn't borrowing like this make the people of the world resentful and dissatisfied? ”

Luo Cheng looked up, but saw that it was Chen Shuda, the servant of the door, who stood up and spoke out against it.

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