"What do you mean?" The queen mother's face seemed to be coated with a thin layer of autumn frost, "The household has no money?" ”

"Yes," Bao Jun knelt in the East Warm Pavilion of the Yangxin Palace, and replied respectfully, "Over the years, I have bought warships, built schools, and sent additional officials, and the household department is really embarrassed, but fortunately, the queen mother and the emperor are all saved, and the cost in the palace is much less than when the emperor was there, so this silver is released like a stream, and it can still be supported by struggling, but if you want to build a railway and build a train, the slaves are really helpless." ∷，”

"Is this the case?" The Empress Dowager Cixi closed her eyes, opened them again, and said to Prince Gong, who was standing beside him behind the beaded curtain.

"Back to the Queen Mother's words, Bao Jun is right, last year the household department released 70 million taels of silver, which is far more than the previous dynasty, but now our expenses are also large, in addition to the daily Ding Yin Cheng Lu River Gong Haitang, there are 10 million taels of warships purchased every year, 8 million grain and grass rewards for quelling the rebellion, millions of purchases of muskets, and the final payment paid to the Russians to buy the Golden State. This Lin Lin finally calculated, this money is just enough, this is also the queen mother and the emperor's virtue and politics, which has greatly changed the situation of Yin eating grain in the past, but now, "Prince Gong frowned slightly, "According to the budget calculated by foreign craftsmen, this first step will cost tens of millions, our Chinese craftsmen don't understand these things, everything has to be purchased from outside, even steel has to be shipped from Britain, this cost is not great, according to Muyanga's meaning, the railway freight has been built, In the past few years, I am afraid that this money will not be recovered, and Chonghou Shangzi said that the land price in Tianjin has become thirty percent more expensive in the past few days, and there is no market for these lands. All of them are between Dagukou and Tianjin. ”

"This noble meaning, Jin doesn't need a train very much, but he said it or not," the Empress Dowager Cixi said categorically, Hou is not close to him, so he came to dismantle the stage so soon. "What does this land price mean when it rises, is it to make money from the country?"

"Yes."

I really thought too much, the Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't help but roll her eyes, and thought it was the compensation for demolition and land acquisition in the future? No matter how much the price of land rises, it is only an official document from the Ministry of Communications, of course, there is no such dictatorship now, and his governing style is not meat for everyone to eat, "The center of this matter has been decided." The will has been made clear, and then you tell me that the household department has no money? ”

"The minions (ministers) are terrified."

"Baojun, you are good at managing money," the Empress Dowager Cixi said slowly, "what do you say to get money?" ”

"Back to the Queen Mother's words, the slave thought. It is nothing more than the four words of open source and cost reduction, which is very rare now. Emperor Wenzong and the Empress Dowager set the matter of the gold in the past, and now it has been for the sake of the country, if there is no money, the south is rebellious, and the rebellion in the west must not be so quickly quelled," Bao Jun first patted the queen mother's ass. "But now this other silver is hard to find, so the slave thinks that if the open source fails, it will have to be throttled."

"Oh? So can you save some of the money in your talk? ”

"That can only be saved somewhere else." Bao Jun said slowly, "This silver has to be cut a little bit out of the Eight Banners Ding Silver in order to put up the train shelf." ”

The Empress Dowager thought for a while and didn't speak, and then spoke, "Baojun, are you going to take the path of Sushun?" ”

"What? Slaves don't dare! Bao Jun hurriedly leaned down.

"You still don't dare?" The Queen Mother sneered, "I see that you are very bold, these Eight Banners disciples are the foundation of the Central Plains of the Dingding Dynasty of the National Dynasty, and now it has only been more than a hundred years, can you just think about bullying them all?" Besides, most of the children of the Eight Banners are on errands, and most of them are not at home, although this Ding Yin is distributed to each person's head, it can also be used to supplement the family, if they are all sheathed by you, then if these people don't come to your house to make trouble, the palace will do you! Sushun is a lesson from the past! ”

The Queen Mother suddenly became angry, scared Bao Jun sweating profusely, nourishing the body, living and moving, the Queen Mother has been in power for so many years, and the momentum is something that ordinary people can bear.

"The Queen Mother forgives her sins," Prince Gong hurriedly said, "Although Bao Jun has violated the foundation of the dynasty, in the end he dares to do anything, his heart can be used, please let the Queen Mother know it." ”

"Naturally, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't know that he wasn't a corpse vegetarian, the palace would still allow him to stay in the position of the head of the household!" The Empress Dowager Cixi turned her face and said to Prince Gong, "Is that what the Military Aircraft Department means?" ”

"The meaning of the Military Aircraft Department, you might as well let the Ministry of Communications raise it by itself," Prince Gong bent down and said, "The accounts of the Ministry of Household are clearly written, this silver is indeed not much, there is more than one million silver left, to prepare for this year's autumn flood, as well as the summer drought, if there are other accidents, this silver is not enough, can only go to the silver collected this year in advance, Bao Jun has no choice." Please also ask the Queen Mother to be clear. ”

"This is a matter of the Qinzheng Palace, so naturally it doesn't matter," the Queen Mother said unhappily, but she was patient, "But what money can you raise by raising yourself?!" The household department has to allocate a little bit more or less," the queen mother was saying, and the eunuch of the internal affairs department took a long flat box and came up, and the people from the military aircraft department brushed it together, and suddenly came six hundred miles to expedite it...... I'm afraid it's not a good thing!

The Queen Mother frowned slightly, took the box from Ruyi's hand, and as soon as she opened it, a little impatience and depression turned into a ball of anger, "What! The Queen Mother screamed.

"The Queen Mother?" The Minister of Military Aircraft outside the curtain looked at each other, and Prince Gong hurriedly asked.

Until the excerpt, the Queen Mother had no choice but to close her eyes, "The Ministry of Communications raised its own expenses, and ordered the soldiers and horses of the Fengtai Camp to be on guard immediately, and the king of Yizheng, Bai Yanhu jumped out again, and Jiuquan rebelled outside Yumen Pass, and has captured two county seats." The Queen Mother lamented, "The spring breeze does not pass through the Yumen Pass, and the army does not know when it will arrive in Jiuquan, and after the rebellion is suppressed, I don't know the Year of the Monkey." The Queen Mother's voice sounded anxious and annoyed, and there was no way at this time, so I had to put the railway matter aside first.

In the sixth year of Tongzhi, Bai Yanhu, who had disappeared for a year, reappeared and wreaked havoc in the Jiuquan area of Gansu Province, but this was not the worst news, in May, the Kokand Khanate Akmejit (White Mosque) Berke Aguba, established the "Hongfu Khanate" (also known as the "Bidurat Khanate") in Kashgar, captured Kucha Korla, and invaded southern Xinjiang. The Northwest Frontier was in turmoil. (To be continued......)

ps: I asked for a monthly pass at the beginning of the month.