When war is fought, spending money is like running water.

Now that the war has stopped, how can it be like running water to spend money?

This made Zhu Kaishan, the head of the household, depressed.

Especially three days later, when Zhou An, the minister of the military cabinet, came to the household department with a list, Zhu Kaishan's mood was even worse.

"Ten million taels of silver, Zhou Junge, your military pavilion is not crazy, right?" Looking at the number on the list, Zhu Kaishan couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

"Whether you're crazy or not, you won't know if you look closely!" Zhou An said calmly.

After reading the list in detail several times, Zhu Kaishan confirmed that Zhou An was indeed not crazy, but he, the head of the household, was going crazy.

After 100,000 cattle and sheep are returned to the herdsmen, a cow or sheep will be subsidized to the herdsmen for two taels of silver, which will cost 200,000 taels of silver.

And 5,000 of them died along the way, according to the average price of ten taels of silver and then a premium of 30 taels of thirteen taels of silver, which cost 65,000 taels of silver.

In this way, but like cattle and horses, it will cost 265,000 taels of silver.

For the rest, the construction of several permanent military camps in the Persian Gulf that could accommodate 100,000 people would cost at least one million taels of silver.

Transporting 50,000 prisoners of war from West Asia to Anzhou also cost more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Now these add up to almost 1.5 million taels of silver.

And these are just small heads, and the big ones are to reward the families of those who have died with meritorious service.

An army of 300,000 people, even if it is ten taels of silver per person, the reward alone is as high as three million taels of silver.

Some people may say that ten taels of silver per person is a bit much.

Is it really a lot?

They paid for it with their lives.

In this battle of the Western Expedition, there were 300,000 troops, and about 50,000 soldiers were killed.

It looks like the percentage of casualties is high, close to one in six.

But in fact, the casualties on the side of the Europa coalition are even higher, not counting the captured soldiers, the number of people killed on the battlefield on the side of the Europa coalition is no less than 80,000.

On the side of the Great Zhou, 50,000 fallen soldiers, calculated according to one person of one hundred taels of silver, there are also five million taels of silver.

plus some miscellaneous things, 10 million taels of silver is only a lot more.

In fact, at the beginning of Zhang Lingyang's succession, the soldiers who returned from the battle did not have so many rewards.

Take the first year of Tai'an and the second year of Tai'an, the battle of Western Xinjiang commanded by Ma Jinzhong as an example, the reward plus the pension silver at that time did not exceed one million taels in total.

Mainly with the increasing revenue of the national treasury, especially with the establishment of the military cabinet, the military has more and more power to speak in the imperial court, and the treatment of the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty is getting better and better.

"Can Zhou Junge give a few days of grace first?" After reading the detailed list, Zhu Kaishan discussed, "Now the treasury and silver together are only this amount.

If it is all allocated to your military cabinet, I am afraid that there is no need to do other things. ”

"Then half of it will be allocated first, and the remaining half will be allocated by your household department in a month!" After thinking about it, Zhou An said.

"I'm afraid!" Zhu Kaishan shook his head and said, "Now the household department will allocate a maximum of two million taels of silver to the military pavilion, and next month will allocate three million taels of silver, and the remaining five million taels of silver will be paid off in full within half a year!" ”

Seeing that Zhou An's face was a little gloomy, Zhu Kaishan smiled bitterly: "Now the imperial court spends money like running water, and the treasury silver of the household department can't be kept at all, so I ask Zhou Junge to be more considerate." ”

"The old man is considerate of your household, so who understands those soldiers who fought on the battlefield?

The old man will give you three months at most, and if after three months, your household department can't allocate any money, then the old man will go to find Your Majesty! Zhou An 'threatened'.

Zhou An also had no choice, according to the past practice, when the soldiers returned from the battle, the imperial court would allocate rewards and pensions to the soldiers as soon as possible.

But now that the household department is doing this, Zhou An can't explain to the soldiers at all.

Zhu Kaishan also had his own difficulties, so after listening to Zhou An's words, he could only reply lightly: "Since this is the case, then Zhou Junge should go to His Majesty to reason!" ”

Zhang Lingyang formulated a huge five-year plan, and now is a critical time, all parties are in urgent need of silver, and Zhu Kaishan, the head of the household, is even more eager to break one or two pieces of silver into two halves.

Although there are still 10 million taels of silver in the household department, this is used by the household department to press the bottom of the box, where is it willing to allocate it.

Therefore, no matter who came to ask Zhu Kaishan for silver, before the new tax was paid, Zhu Kaishan said that he would not allocate anything.

If others can't, Zhou An, the military cabinet minister, will naturally be no exception.

Seeing Zhu Kaishan return to himself like this, Zhou An really went to the palace angrily to see Zhang Lingyang.

After understanding what happened, Zhang Lingyang couldn't laugh or cry.

Because how to say it?

Zhou An and Zhu Kaishan did nothing wrong.

The soldiers who returned from the Western Expedition continued to reward and compensate for the silver, Zhou An did not do anything wrong, and the household department did not have any silver, so it could not be allocated, and Zhu Kaishan did not do anything wrong.

Summoning Zhu Kaishan, Zhang Lingyang inquired in detail about the actual financial situation of the imperial court.

After understanding, Zhang Lingyang said: "I first allocated 10 million taels of silver to the military pavilion from the internal treasury, which can be regarded as borrowing from me in the name of the household department.

However, the household department also has to ensure that the ten million taels of silver will be repaid within three years, and I will also charge an additional interest of one million taels of silver. I don't know what Zhu Aiqing thinks? ”

The treasury is the treasury, and the treasury is the treasury, in fact, long before the capital was moved to Luoyang, the royal treasury did not take a tael of silver from the treasury.

Zhang Lingyang's purpose in doing this is obvious, that is, to separate his private money from the finances of the imperial court, so that the imperial court does not care how he wants to spend his money.

For this, the imperial court is naturally also happy.

After all, if the royal family did not take the silver from the treasury, it would be a great good thing for the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

Just like those famous faint kings in history, they all took the money of the court and enjoyed their own pleasures, and the court naturally did not want to see such a king.

So back then, when Zhang Lingyang put forward this suggestion, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military raised their hands in agreement.

Fools don't approve of it!

But what?

What the Manchu Dynasty didn't expect was that their king was so business-minded, and in just a few years, he had earned such a big family.

At the beginning of Zhang Lingyang's succession, the royal treasury had as much as 10 million taels of silver, and when the capital was moved to Luoyang, Zhang Lingyang played a small trick.

What kind of tricks?

The money used to build the new capital Luoyang was all paid in.

In this way, when the Manchu Dynasty civil and military and the gentry from all over the country moved the capital to Luoyang with Zhang Lingyang, they had to buy houses and houses to live in Luoyang City.

But this price has increased several times compared with the beginning of construction.

In this way, Zhang Lingyang has made a lot of money......