"Your Majesty, do you know? The moment you fell into the water, you frightened your concubine! ”

"I know it all!"

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has grounded her concubines for a month, and the concubines don't miss ......the emperor day and night."

"............" Zhang Lingyang.

"Your Majesty, these days, the concubines burn incense every day............"

"............" Zhang Lingyang

"The Emperor's ............"

Zhang Lingyang finally got impatient, and turned the noble concubine's body to look directly at him: "Ai Concubine, I remember the last time you told me that you learned a few new tricks?" Why don't you try it tonight? ”

"Your Majesty?" Concubine Gao snorted, threw a wink at Zhang Lingyang, got up and squatted down in front of Zhang Lingyang......

"Hiss......" Zhang Lingyang gasped, "Concubine Ai, your teeth are on my feet!" ”

Concubine Gao looked up at Zhang Lingyang, her eyes were full of rain, and she was very resentful.

Zhang Lingyang touched the noble concubine's hair: "Don't stop, continue!" ”

……

Early the next morning, Zhang Lingyang was awakened by the movement outside.

Looking at the warm fragrant nephrite in his arms, Zhang Lingyang felt a little reluctant in his heart.

But the time for the dynasty has come, but Zhang Lingyang does not dare to delay.

was about to get up, but he didn't want to alarm the noble concubine.

Rubbing her sleepy eyes, the noble concubine said, "The concubine will wait for the emperor to get up!" ”

As she spoke, the noble concubine wanted to get dressed and get up.

Zhang Lingyang stretched out his hand to stop him: "Concubine Ai was tired last night, so I don't have to get up, I can just come by myself!" ”

"Emperor Xie!" With a happy smile on her face, the noble concubine lay back in the bed.

After freshening up and dressing under the service of a group of palace maids, Zhang Lingyang returned to the bedside again, looked at the noble concubine and said, "Wait for me to come back and have breakfast together!" ”

"Hmm!"

Looking at the delicate red lips of the noble concubine, Zhang Lingyang was about to kiss it, but somehow, he suddenly thought of what happened last night and immediately dispelled this idea.

Looking at the courtiers arguing fiercely below, Zhang Lingyang was very impatient in his heart.

Through this period of early dynasties, Zhang Lingyang has discovered some patterns.

First of all, the beginning of the early dynasty must have been to report on some militaristic affairs from the frontier.

Then, it was a place in the country that was affected by the disaster, and the imperial court was asked to relieve the victims.

After these matters are dealt with, then someone will impeach a certain official in a certain place for corrupting and perverting the law, and another official in a certain place will act recklessly.

After the ministers in the hall finished copying, the two court bigwigs continued to quarrel, Sun Dingan impeached Zhang Zhiyuan for shielding his protégé, and Zhang Zhiyuan impeached Sun Dingan for recommending the deceased.

Anyway, it's noisy every day, and it's more lively than the vegetable market.

However, through this, Zhang Lingyang also knows who is who is who's protégé, who is who, and who is the relationship with whom.

Of course, at the end of the quarrel, Zhang Lingyang would often say "This matter will be discussed later, and retreat from the court" to end the day's morning court.

Every day, there is no new tricks, and Zhang Lingyang is a little tired.

Today's early dynasty is as always, with no exceptions.

An hour later, Zhang Lingyang finally survived the early dynasty and returned to the harem.

After having breakfast in the company of the noble concubine, Zhang Lingyang said to the little Fuzi who was waiting on the side: "Little Fuzi, when will the construction of my Heart Nourishing Palace start?" ”

In fact, Zhang Lingyang had already had the idea of rebuilding the Heart Cultivation Palace.

It's just because I've been 'sick' before that I haven't asked about it.

Xiao Fuzi replied: "Back to the emperor, the slave has already informed the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry has calculated that a total of 200,000 taels of silver will be needed to rebuild the Heart Cultivation Palace. Originally, the servants wanted to withdraw silver from the household department, but the household department deduced that the treasury did not have so much silver, and asked His Majesty to allocate the silver from the internal treasury. ”

"Huh? ......" Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Zhang Lingyang remembered that Zhang Zhiyuan, the first assistant of the previous cabinet, once said that after the hard work of the emperor, the treasury was very sufficient, and why did it become insufficient when it came to the household department?

"I'm afraid there's something strange here!" Thinking like this in his heart, Zhang Lingyang said to Xiaofuzi: "Quickly spread the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhang Zhiyuan, the prince of Ningguo, Ding'an, and Li Wenxuan, the head of the household department, to come to meet him. ”

"Yes!"

After Xiaofuzi retired for half an hour, Zhang Zhiyuan, Sun Dingan, and Li Wenxuan came to the palace one after another.

"Minister Zhang Zhiyuan/Sun Dingan/Li Wenxuan has seen Your Majesty."

"All the ministers are flat!" After letting the three of them get up, Zhang Lingyang looked at Xiao Fuzi again: "Xiao Fuzi, give the three adults a seat." ”

After the three of them sat down, Zhang Lingyang said: "Three Aiqing, I wanted to rebuild the Heart Nourishing Palace before, but when I arrived at the household department, I said that the money was insufficient, I don't know why?" If I remember correctly, Zhang Aiqing said before that the emperor worked hard to govern the country, and the treasury was very rich. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Lingyang glanced at Zhang Zhiyuan without a trace.

Li Wenxuan, the secretary of the household department, replied: "Back to the emperor, at present, the household department only has one million taels of silver, and it also has to provide silver to the frontier soldiers and prevent natural disasters in the locality, so this million taels of silver cannot be acted rashly under any circumstances." What's more, the Ministry of Industry asked for 200,000 taels of silver for one mouth, and Shu Weichen was incompetent and couldn't agree. ”

"What? The household only has a million taels of silver? Listening to Li Wenxuan's words, Zhang Lingyang looked a little incredulous, and then looked at Zhang Zhiyuan: "Zhang Aiqing, is it true?" ”

Zhang Zhiyuan nodded and said, "Back to Your Majesty, it's true." Although the emperor made great efforts, the annual tax revenue of the national treasury was only five million taels. ”

"Didn't you tell me before that the treasury of the household department was very rich?"

Zhang Zhiyuan explained: "Back to Your Majesty, the reason why the minister said this is because at the beginning of the emperor's accession to the throne, the annual tax revenue of the Great Zhou Dynasty was only more than 2 million taels, and after the emperor's hard work, the tax revenue more than doubled, so the minister said so." ”

Seeing that Zhang Zhiyuan actually answered like this, Zhang Lingyang's eyes were full of suspicion, and then he looked at Sun Dingan.

Sun Dingan replied: "Back to Your Majesty, what Elder Zhang Ge said is indeed true!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Zhiyuan's political opponent Sun Ding'an said this, Zhang Lingyang had nothing to say, waved his hand and said, "I know, you all go down!" ”

"Wait for the resignation!"

After the three of them went out, Zhang Lingyang called Xiaofuzi: "Xiaofuzi, come here!" ”

Hearing Zhang Lingyang call himself, Xiao Fuzi hurriedly ran over and asked, "The slave is here, what do you have to say?" ”

Zhang Lingyang asked: "Xiaofuzi, I ask you, how much silver do I have in my internal funds?" ”

Xiao Fuzi replied: "Back to Long Live Lord, there are a total of 10 million taels of silver in the house. ”

"So much?" Zhang Lingyang was shocked in his heart.

Xiao Fuzi said: "Long live Lord, this is actually not much, you must know that the monthly expenses in this palace are not less than 200,000 taels." ”

After thinking about it carefully, Zhang Lingyang felt that what Xiaofuzi said was right.

In the entire palace, there are no less than 10,000 eunuchs and palace maids alone, plus the expenses of the harem concubines, 200,000 taels of silver is already estimated at a small amount.

And once it comes across a big festival or something, the silver can really flow out like flowing water.

So don't look at 10 million taels of silver, it's a lot, but it really can't afford to spend much.

As for saving the use of the harem?

Zhang Lingyang really can't afford to be so ruthless, how can he say that these concubines in the harem are already his women.

And he is the son of heaven, and he still wants to let his women save money, do you want Zhang Lingyang's face? Do you want royal face?

Not daring to think about it, Zhang Lingyang asked again: "Xiaofuzi, what are the main incomes of this internal fund?" ”

Xiao Fuzi replied: "Back to Long Live Lord, the income mainly comes from the income of the Huangzhuang and the tributes from various places and vassal countries, but since the first emperor canceled the tributes from various places, the bulk of the income is mainly from the Huangzhuang. ”

"Huangzhuang has so much income every year?" Zhang Lingyang felt a little incredulous, "But why is the tax revenue of the household department less than five million?" ”

As soon as he spoke, Zhang Lingyang felt that he was being laughed at by his own words.

The gentry of the Great Zhou Dynasty did not have to pay taxes and grain, that is, the imperial court could only collect taxes from the people every year.

What's more, the Great Zhou Dynasty also had the same system as the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Great Zhou Dynasty did not levy commercial taxes.

In other words, the taxes of the whole world are counting on the one-third of an acre of land in the people's homes.

It is good to say that in the event of natural and man-made disasters, it is good to sell land and sell land, and selling children and daughters is the norm.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lingyang naturally understood why the eighteen provinces of Dazhou and the hundreds of millions of people had such a small amount of taxes.