After Ma Mingyuan read out this year's income, there was a noise in the hall, most of the officials in the room were new to Zhu Hongsan's group, I didn't expect this dynasty to be so rich, it seems that I have found a good owner. Most of these officials are officials of the Ming Dynasty, and they all have some administrative ability, and they know that the slogans are useless, and in the end, money and food play a decisive role.

Hearing everyone's discussion, Zhu Hongsan said loudly: "Don't discuss, let's listen to Mr. Ma talk about this year's expenditure!" ”

Ma Mingyuan bowed down to accept the order, and then took out another excerpt and read: "Shenwu's income in the first year totaled 23.46 million silver dollars, and the most expenditure was the military department!" Ma Mingyuan said this, turned around and looked at Tong Yangjia, who was sitting opposite, Lao Tong directly gave him a roll of the eyes, and said in his heart, You can't help it, this is all approved by His Majesty, can you still cut off the supply of the army?

"At the beginning of the year, His Majesty ordered the expansion of the army, and the three divisions equipped with 9 million silver dollars, and the navy built three warships, which used 4 million silver dollars, and the whole army spent 5 million silver dollars on all kinds of money, the maintenance of weapons, the rewards for fighting, and the subsidies for disabled soldiers, and after the occupation of Nanjing, His Majesty ordered the establishment of a new main division in Wuchang and Yangzhou, and another 6 million silver dollars, but now the treasury has no money, and these 6 million silver dollars have not been allocated."

As soon as Ma Mingyuan's voice fell, there was another discussion in the house, this new army is too expensive, according to the kind of guard army in the former Ming Dynasty, only 110,000 taels of silver are needed per 10,000 people, this is still a variety of weapons and equipment in addition to a year's Yulu, that is, the most elite Liaodong iron cavalry, 10,000 people do not spend a million taels of silver, which has already counted two war horses for one person, plus five taels of silver per year. Unexpectedly, a division of 15,000 people of the Guangdong New Army would use 3 million silver dollars, which was more than twice that of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.

Among the ministers, there are those who are old in military affairs, and Zhu Dadian, who served as a bachelor of Hanlin, is one. Zhu Dadian is a Jinshi in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, successively served as the military department to the middle of the matter, the county order, the right to the imperial history, the governor of Shandong, when Dengzhou Kong Youde rebelled, it was Zhu Dadian who led people to quell the rebellion. However, Zhu Dadian has the ability, but the corruption is also very powerful, and in the end, the matter happened, and he was arrested and punished by Emperor Chongzhen's order, and his house was confiscated and ordered to be supervised. However, Zhu Dadian in history is much stronger than his colleagues who rushed to surrender to Li Chuang, Chongzhen did this to him, but when the Qing army attacked Jinhua, Zhu Dadian took several sons to defend the city, and after the city was broken, he was one of the few loyal ministers of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

However, in this time and space, the Qing army was pinned down by the righteous army in eastern Zhejiang, and how could they concentrate their forces to attack Jinhua, so Zhu Dadian survived. After Nanjing was liberated by Zhu Hongsan, Zhu Dadian was also promoted to the cabinet by the Zhejiang Party as a meritorious minister, and became one of the nine bachelors of Hanlin.

Zhu Dadian has been a leader of the army for a long time, and when he heard that the army spent so much money, he was just about to stand up and suggest that the emperor limit the army, Zhu Hongsan saw that Zhu Dadian had something to say, and preemptively said: "Zhu Dadian don't speak first, listen to Mr. Ma, and give you time to write and talk in a while!" ”

Ma Mingyuan then said: "Your Majesty, my lords! In addition to the Ministry of War, the bulk of the money is spent on your Yulu, everyone has received this year's Yulu, this year's Yulu of all officials of this dynasty will cost 5.2 million silver dollars! ”

Zhu Hongsan learned the lesson of Zhu Yuanzhang and advocated high salaries, maintenance and honesty, and the seven-grade officials at the county level paid 120 silver dollars a year, which was opened, and the county officials and Zoe officials did not count, and the county officials and secretaries in each room had state expenditures, so that 120 silver dollars could make a good life for the county family. Also take Zhu Dadian as an example, Zhu Dadian is one of the nine Qings, is the second grade, and the same level as the Shangshu of various departments, the amount of money he gets a year is 1,350 silver dollars, you must know that one stone is only one hundred catties of rice is only one or two and a half dollars of silver, if you eat which kind of rice transported from the South Seas is cheaper, so more than 1,000 silver dollars is a lot of income. Compared with high salaries, the previous gray income is gone, and now that the silver dollar has joined the circulation, the largest piece of gray income is gone, and the country is still relatively cheap.

Although these officials were all newly appointed after the occupation of Nanjing, Zhu Hongsan, in order to buy people's hearts, still ordered the Ministry of Personnel to give these officials a one-year salary. Of course, Zhu Hongsan, who was a member of the bureaucracy in later generations, knew that no matter what, these officials still had gray income, such as false invoices, accepting bribes, etc., which were Zhu Hongsan's fortes back then. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan didn't expect the moral quality of these stinky old nine under his command to be high, and at the same time he strengthened the supervision of Jinyiwei while maintaining a high salary.

When Ma Mingyuan read that the second largest place to spend money was Yulu, there was no discussion in the hall, after all, this involved their own interests, although most of the officials were wealthy, and more than a thousand silver dollars were nothing to them, but no matter how small the mosquito was, it was meat, so it was better not to object to this one.

Ma Mingyuan looked up at his colleagues around him, and then said, "The rest is disaster relief, factory construction, etc., which cost a total of 4.6 million silver dollars. You may calculate how to add 1,340,000 silver dollars, which is 1,340,000 from His Majesty's inner treasury this year. ”

However, the officials obviously regarded Ma Mingyuan's last sentence as a fart, the entire Ming Dynasty is your Zhu Hongsan's what kind of treasury and inner treasury are you playing. In the eyes of these stinky old nine people, the emperor can't have any inner treasury at all, and all the silver is the state treasury, that is, it must be managed by scholars.

Zhu Hongsan saw that after Ma Mingyuan finished speaking, he stood up and walked to the middle of the hall with his hands behind his back, and said: "Everyone has heard, now the treasury is going to run rats, a few cabinet members said about your budget plan for next year, see how much money you need, and then everyone will find a way to make money!" ”

The first to stand up was Tong Yangjia, who was in charge of the Ministry of War, although the Ministry of War has now been divided into three parts: the Military Aircraft Department, the Equipment Department, and the Logistics Department by Zhu Hongsan, and the most important rights to appoint and dismiss generals and train soldiers were transferred to the Military Aircraft Department, which was directly managed by the emperor. However, equipment and logistics are also two important departments, so the rights in Tong Yangjia's hands are still very important.

"Your Majesty, now that the war is still going on, and two-thirds of the entire country is not under Your Majesty's rule, this military affairs must not stop. Now our army is less than 200,000 people, and it is the weakest among the Manchus, King Gui and us, even King Gui has 450,000 armor. If he wanted to make an early northern expedition to the Central Plains and drive out the Tatars and restore China, the minister believed that the army should be at least twice as large as 600,000 in order to have the strength to fight. Of course, this goal does not need to be accomplished next year, so the minister requested that three divisions be established next year, in addition to the two newly established divisions in Wuchang and Yangzhou. In addition, most of the warships of the navy are concentrated in the Yangtze River, and there are only a dozen small boats on the Nanyang side, and the intelligence from Gu Jinyiwei that the Spaniards and English in the Nanyang are ready to move, ready to take advantage of the emptiness of our Ming Dynasty to recapture Luzon. Therefore, I ask the navy to build three more ships next year, no! Five warships will be needed to meet the defense mission of the South Seas! ”

Tong Yangjia This is really a lion's mouth, the newly established five divisions will cost fifteen million silver dollars, plus five warships, not counting the daily supplies of other armies, this will cost nearly 20 million silver dollars. The secretary of the Ministry of Finance is Wang Yunchang, and he couldn't help but be dissatisfied when he heard Tong Yangjia say this nonsense, and opened his mouth and said: "Tong Ge Lao said so light, the silver dollars are given to you, what should we do, I think Ma Ge Lao will retire directly, and Tong Ge Lao will take over, and the province will still need to report the budget!" ”

Gong Dacheng, the secretary of the logistics department behind Tong Yangjia and his cheap father-in-law, stood up and retorted: "It seems that Lord Wang is dissatisfied with His Majesty's Northern Expedition!" ”

Wang Yunchang heard that Gong Dacheng would button his hat indiscriminately, plus he was at the same level as Gong Dacheng, so he didn't have much respect for him, and scolded him directly: "You guy from a high background, don't give me a hat indiscriminately!" ”

Gong Dacheng used to be a person, and he made money in the ministry to get a magistrate, and he took advantage of the convenience of boarding Zhu Hongsan's chariot early to get into Shangshu, and now he heard that Wang Yunchang was here to expose the old man Gong Dacheng was very angry. However, Wang Yunchang's words aroused the resonance of other officials in the hall, most of them are Jinshi, and there are many Tanhua and Bangyan, Gong Dacheng, you are really not qualified to be an opportunist.

Gong Dacheng was angry when he saw the contemptuous glances of the officials around him, his ability was not bad at all, isn't it that he didn't study hard and didn't get admitted to the jinshi back then, this hateful wang yunchang actually said this about me.

Gong Dacheng scolded angrily in his heart: "Wang Yunchang, you are a son-in-law, the old man fought with you!" After Gong Dacheng finished speaking, he was going to work with Wang Yunchang when he left the class.

Wang Yunchang was also angry when he heard Gong Dacheng reveal his old bottom, in fact, Wang Yunchang was not a son-in-law, but in order to become an official, he found a daughter of a scholar in the court as his wife, although this is not a shame, but now Wang Yunchang, who is a scholar, is very disgusted to be mentioned.

Zhu Hongsan saw that the two of them were about to make a move, and stood up angrily and shouted: "Stop it, how can I say it, you are not allowed to fight during the court meeting, do you take Lao Tzu's words as a fart?" General Dahan listens to orders! If someone wants to beat me out with a stick, this is a court meeting, not your kitchen! ”

Zhu Hongsan spoke very strongly, Gong Dacheng and Wang Yunchang hurriedly bowed and saluted, and returned to their original positions to stand.

Zhu Dadian, one of the nine Qings, had something to say just now, and now he stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a book!" ”

Zhu Dadian is now the biggest official of the Zhejiang Party in the DPRK, and this face still has to be given. Zhu Hongsan hurriedly said: "Okay! Aiqing, please speak! ”