"Just go by yourself?" Sun Songnian glared: "In the Year of the Crane, you said this so lightly, why did the family talk about two families?" ”

Sun Henian said: "What do you mean by my brother's words?" ”

"It's not interesting, so don't you pretend?" Sun Songnian, like Sun Hao, is also a straight intestine, sitting on a chair, panting with anger.

Sun Henian rubbed his temples with his hand and smiled bitterly: "It's all two brothers, what am I pretending?" After a few nighthawks in a row, my mind is very messy, and you have something to say. ”

Sun Songnian said: "As you said in the Year of the Crane, Mao Shangshu is also our own person, so we came to take care of him as a brother." Moreover, if someone from the cabinet nods, the officials can also talk, and this thing has been done. Everything is in place, only the east wind is owed.

However, Hades is better, and the imps are difficult. The old monks of the pavilion had a good time. The waiters, secretaries, directors, and anthologists of the Ministry of Officials had a hard time. If there is a problem in one of the links, it has to be put on hold for three or five months. The reason why I was in a hurry to transfer over was that the Son of Heaven was not in the capital, and no one cared about this kind of thing. If I wait for the Son of Heaven to return to the north, once he pays attention to this matter, a look will pass, and the person who is the celebrant will directly reject it, and I will not have a chance to go to the Ministry of Rites.

Therefore, the whole department needs to be dotted. Even the father-in-law with the celebrant also needed to send some silver. ”

"I see, I ignored it, and I ask my brother to forgive me." Sun Henian came to his senses and asked, "How much money does my brother need to spend from the public office, but it doesn't matter." ”

Sun Songnian has always been in awe of this younger brother, and when he saw Sun Henian nodding, he was happy in his heart, and said, "The officials need about five thousand taels." ”

"Yes." Five thousand taels is also a huge amount of money, enough to buy a small courtyard house in the capital, but compared to the position of a five-rank real power officer in the Ministry of Rites, this price is insignificant; "You go on, what else needs to be done?"

"There is some trouble over there, and you also know in the Year of the Crane, the eunuchs and stewards are all the ones who stretched out their hands in the coffin and asked for money. I also inquired, and it takes 20,000 taels to make up for the lack of a foreigner. ”

"Ahh Sun Henian stood up suddenly, "Twenty thousand taels, so many?" ”

"What, you're reluctant to pay this money?" Sun Songnian was very dissatisfied: "Think about it in the Year of the Crane, although the lack of the Wailang of the Ministry of Rites is much less than that of your household, as long as you stay in it for a few years, this expenditure will be earned." When did our Changhou Sun family have been short of 20,000 taels of silver, and it is not a joke to say it. ”

"It's not that I'm reluctant to pay for it." Sun Henian frowned, sat down again, and said, "Our Sun family looks infinitely beautiful on the surface, but in fact, it has gradually fallen into decay in the past two years. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Henian sighed softly: "Brother, you don't know the price of firewood and rice, and the annual income of my Sun family's manors is only more than 10,000 taels." When I was in the household department, I also had more than 10,000 taels in the account every year. But even so, the expenses of the three houses in Jingshi, Jinan, and Zouping have to support more than 1,000 people in the Sun family. ”

"That's right, it's because my family is so embarrassed that I thought of going to the Ministry of Rites to see if I can share the worries of my grandson's family." Sun Songnian still refused to give up: "In the Year of the Crane, you said that you had no money in hand, in fact, I know better than anyone else that you just got 50,000 taels of money." As a brother, you don't want to share a little from what you have? ”

Sun Henian was startled, and his face changed greatly: "My brother speaks quietly, the wall has ears, and he was carefully overheard by someone with a heart." ”

"Hehe, you really got 50,000 taels of silver." Sun Songnian smirked.

"Aren't I also for our grandson's family?" Sun Henian smiled bitterly and said, "That money can't be moved for the time being, so we have to wait." Wait for a year and a half, if it's really okay, you can use it. ”

"For a year and a half, the daylily will be cold by then." Sun Songnian couldn't stop talking: "You are also the year of the crane, a household chief, 50,000 taels of silver, swallow it, what are you afraid of?" ”

Sun Henian's face was worried: "This money is really hard to collect, to be honest, after I got it, I was also like a fish in my throat, I couldn't swallow it, I couldn't spit it out, and I was uncomfortable." ”

Seeing that his brother was puzzled, Sun Henian slowly said the reason for the money.

It turned out that in recent years, the Son of Heaven has used troops again and again, spending a lot of money, and the treasury is so empty that it can run horses. In order to raise money, the cabinet elders and the officials of the household department were also anxious, and they were forced by the emperor to jump into the well.

If we don't come up with a way as soon as possible, not only will everyone be unable to pay the difference, but once we investigate it carefully, the entire civilian-bureaucratic clique with Yang Tinghe as the core is also in danger of collapsing.

In order to solve this financial crisis, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than "open source and reduce expenditure".

Yang Shoufu has done a good job of throttling, and he has also cut many unnecessary expenses. But even so, it will not be possible to improve the current poor fiscal situation.

Then, the article can only be made on open source.

The cabinet elders thought about it and pondered for a long time, but they could only make a fuss about the Tian Fu that was concealed and not reported in various places.

Generally speaking, in order to evade taxes, most people rely on the names of people with tax exemption privileges. For example, the feudal kings of various places, the famous scholars, and the local wealthy......

The elders didn't dare to risk offending the people of the world to make this matter bigger, so they only did it on a small scale and raised enough money for the Son of Heaven to mess around in Jiangnan.

Among them, Sun Henian, who is in charge of Huguang taxation, has made a lot of contributions, and has also won praise from Yang Shoufu.

Nowadays, the Jiangnan side is in a mess because of the war, and Huguang's financial resources are very important to the imperial court.

But because that place is too rich, there are many feudal vassal kings: King Anlu, King Chu, King Hui, King Gui, King Ji, King Xing...... These people are not easy to mess with.

Sun Henian also gritted his teeth this time, and after being busy for half a year, he finally got it done. Not only did he successfully complete the tasks assigned by Yang Tinghe, but he also gained a lot of benefits from it.

These 50,000 taels were borrowed by Sun Henian from Xingwang Zhu Youqi and the Lu family, a vast clan of Hukuo who was attached to Xingwang's family. Nominally, it is also high-sounding: to raise money and food for the Son of Heaven.

Of course, King Xingxian is not such an easy person to deal with. Sun Henian didn't want to do anything desperately, and was ready to keep the money in his hands for a while and see the limelight. If the matter settles down, he will receive fifty thousand taels. If things don't go well, it's a big deal to pay them back. Everything is for the front line, this is the money spent by the Son of Heaven, what else can King Xing say?

After listening to Sun Henian's words, Sun Songnian disagreed: "It's just a little prince, it's not a big deal to swallow him, do you still want to confront him in front of the Son of Heaven, you are too careful." "The prince of the Ming Dynasty was actually very miserable, since the martyrdom, the emperor has many restrictions on the vassal kings in various places, a lot of surveillance, one by one as pigs to raise, not allowed them to intervene in any politics.

Especially after the rebellion of King Ning, in the minds of the current emperor, his princes and relatives are all potential thieves, and they are bored when they look at it. Sun Henian went to find trouble with the princes, but I am afraid that the emperor will be happy to see it, and even applaud, right?

Sun Songnian laughed at his younger brother with great shame, and grinded for a long time.

Sun Henian couldn't stand his brother's real lobbying, and thought about it again, a little prince, he doesn't have to be afraid. After hesitating for a moment, he agreed to set aside 30,000 taels from the 50,000 taels to Sun Songnian to go to various yamen activities.

For the two brothers, this is just a small matter, and they do not think that it will have any impact on the future of the Sun family. Even if someone comes to check the whereabouts of this money in the future, no one can find any clues as far as the messy account of the household department is concerned. Sun Henian himself is a master of making accounts, the country enters and exits more than 3 million taels of silver every year, plus the old accounts, among the tens of millions of taels, it is not easy to level the account of 50,000 silver?

It's just that neither of them thought about what kind of evil consequences Sun Henian would cause if he offended King Xingxian.

If Sun Dan heard what he said just now, he was afraid that he would vomit blood in a hurry. King Xing is really nothing remarkable, but his son is very powerful. That was the future emperor, Jiajing, the son of heaven who reigned for forty-five years in the Ming Dynasty.

The brothers are at a loss to know about the impending crisis.