Seeing Shen's consistent meaningful gaze, Shi Xing naturally knew what he should do.

"What the military department can take out will definitely be taken out to support Xiao Zhennan to resist the enemy, artillery, gunpowder, lead, arquebus, crossbow arrows, armor, what can be taken out of the arsenals in various places, the military department must take it, but the cost of this transportation, as well as the silver taels of the army, is not something that the military department can take out."

Shi Xing naturally supports Xiao Ruxun, and he can take out what the military department can take out, and fully support Xiao Ruxun to win the battle, but other problems are indeed not something he can do, and the funds of his military department are not used to distribute rewards and transportation, which are allocated from the treasury after accounting by the household department.

And now, Yang Junmin, the head of the household department, has been defeated, many bureaucrats in the household department are being isolated and reviewed, and the entire household department is in a temporary shutdown, no one is in charge, only a few small shrimps are still on duty, and they are anxious to cooperate with Cai Guozhen's investigation, and the situation is very embarrassing.

And the treasury is even more embarrassing, no one in the household department can go to work and make up for people, the key point is people, and China has not lacked officials since ancient times, but the key point of the treasury is silver, and there is really no silver in the treasury.

The front-line soldiers are fighting, they are fighting so desperately, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than for silver and promotion, promotion does not matter, the court has a position that can be promoted, but with the promotion of the position, the silver that must be increased is also indispensable.

In addition, it is the first level of merit, the dynasty stipulates that cutting off the head of the northern captives is the highest level of the first level of merit, during the Jiajing period, it was still thirty taels of silver and a northern captive head, and now it has risen to fifty taels of silver and a northern captive head, and the market is rising.

But Xiao Ruxun can fight, but he has never lost a battle, before the 100,000 northern captives were beaten on the ground by Xiao Ruxun, and more than 10,000 heads were hammered down, and later the north went to Datong to destroy several northern captives and southbound tribes, and there were thousands of warrior heads.

At present, there are a large number of captives from the north and south, and there is almost no doubt about winning the battle, and if you do it again, it will cost nearly 30,000 heads, and if you simply calculate the reward, it will be a matter of 1.5 million taels of silver!

Of course, there are also many people who choose to exchange their heads for promotions, for example, general generals and grassroots officers are more inclined to use their heads for promotions, and they will use silver to buy their heads from grassroots soldiers for promotion.

There are also robbers, some officers use their power to snatch the head in the hands of soldiers, this situation has happened several times in Xiao Ruxun's army, after Xiao Ruxun knew, the offending officer was beheaded by Xiao Ruxun in front of the whole army.

There were five offending officers, and one had a lot of military achievements, and then there was no more, and nothing like this ever happened again.

There are so many heads, counting the silver, it is really a huge amount of money, and I really want people to reduce the price and return to the level of the Jiajing era.

But the bigwigs all know that except for Xiao Ruxun, no other general in the dynasty can get so many heads, Xiao Ruxun is an example, there is only one.

Most generals may not be able to reach fifty heads a year, if you forcibly reduce the price, Xiao Ruxun will not be dissatisfied here, not to mention, the other generals will first complain, the army's heart will fluctuate, and when the time comes, they will also passively avoid the war, I am afraid that the loss will be greater.

So the matter of price reduction has not been considered, but even if it is not 1.5 million, hundreds of thousands of silver still have to be prepared, after all, if the army wins, it must be sacrificed, right?

Where does the money come from? The empty treasury?

Shen has always personally taken charge of the audit of the account books of the household department, and the information he has obtained so far is already shocking, and except for the part of the Jin bureaucrats, the other parts cannot be shown to the emperor, this is for sure, and in terms of what the Jin bureaucrats are doing so far, they are enough to punish the nine clans.

Don't say these words, silver is indeed an imminent matter, at this time the emperor is in a rage, no one dares to take this matter to ask the emperor to pay for the silver to sacrifice the army, for fear that the emperor will get rid of them in anger, which will eliminate the competition within the group.

Shen Cheng looked at the silent bosses and sighed.

Even if the Jin faction is eliminated, the other factions are not vegetarians, and they may not have the same heart as themselves, many things have to be their own pawns, they are working hard behind their backs to reap the benefits, and the leader is always the most eye-catching, now, they really can't avoid it.

"Let's raid the house!"

Shen Yi sighed again, and reluctantly took out the last resort: "Please Your Majesty, wear brocade clothes and guards to raid the house, and sell the antiques and jade obtained from the house, together with the silver obtained, and escort the border pass to the army!" ”

Raid the house.

This is something that every official doesn't want to hear but has to face, raiding the house is not something that can be done casually, it requires the permission of many bigwigs and the support of the emperor, this time in order to ensure military spending, Shen has always had to come up with such a trick.

Shen Li swallowed with difficulty.

The situation that has developed to the present level is something he could not have predicted, and in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, everyone seems to be a lot more impetuous.

"Is it really that far?"

Shen Cheng looked at Shen Li, and the meaning was very clear - to this point, don't you have a B number in your heart? My Shen Ge Lao?

Shen Li looked away in embarrassment.

He naturally had a number in his heart, and as for this question, he was really a little apprehensive about the fierce and violent methods of Shen Cheng and others.

How long has it been since Jingcha started to raid his house? Can you make a show to outsiders, don't let others think that you are poor and crazy to carry out this Jingcha, do you know that the current court and outside are afraid of your behavior?

Shen has always understood this, but he understands even more that if he fights a snake, he must be killed, and he can't give them a chance to survive, he must be killed with a stick, otherwise there will be many variables.

Now the factional alliance tied up with common interests only exists to liquidate the Jin faction, once the Jin faction is defeated, there will be a lot of filth between them, not to mention anything else, there is already filth now, and Shen has always begun to be vigilant.

As a last resort, he could only use the "sweat" money of the Jin bureaucrats who were raided to appease the morale of the army.

After all, at the moment the army comes first.

"At the moment, there is no other way, but to raise a sum of money for military expenses by raiding the family, otherwise, the 500,000 northern captives will not reason with us and fully support Xiao Zhennan! We must get through this hurdle, and when these northern captives are destroyed, the rest will be much easier. ”

Shen's consistent meaning is also very clear, everyone must work together to overcome the difficulties, and when the difficulties are over, the problem will not exist.

Because everyone can attack the Jin system and those profiteers in a righteous and bright way, the silver and wealth in their hands are called truly rich and rival the country.

At that time, even if everyone eats with a mouthful of oil, they will still be able to replenish the treasury with the remaining silver from the wealthy.

How could you not let Shen always think about it?