Historically, Emperor Chongzhen really had no choice, although the country was large, but the annual household department in charge of Taicang, that is, the regular tax and silver income of the treasury, totaled only more than three million taels. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

During the Apocalypse, Liao was levied, and nearly two million taels of silver were collected every year. That's almost all the money that the court can receive every year.

However, even if the whole is added up, it is only five or six million taels, and if you deduct the salaries of hundreds of thousands of officials and the annual rewards of hundreds of thousands of clans, even if the rest do nothing, all of them are used as military salaries, it is still far from enough.

Although he copied the family wealth of Wei Zhongxian and others this year and harvested a large amount of silver, he could still withstand it in a year or two, but it is definitely not a long-term solution to get money by copying his family.

Zhu Daming was more fortunate than Zhu Youzhen, Wei Zhongxian, Tian Ergeng, Wang Tiqian and others did not lose much of the Tibetan silver accumulated over the years, and almost all of them were transported into the inner treasury.

According to Wang Chengen's report not long ago, preliminary calculations show that the backbone of the eunuch party in Beijing has copied a total of 36 companies, and the cash alone has already collected as much as 16 million taels, which is more than the treasury revenue in three years in history.

If you count those mansions, farm properties, and countless kinds of gold, silver, copper, jade and other physical objects, the harvest of this big raid is enough for Zhu Daming to spend several years lavishly.

Therefore, Zhu Daming is not worried about the issue of money, what he is worried about is the issue of issuing it to the soldiers.

Seeing that the emperor was sometimes happy, sometimes frowning, Lu Shanji, who was standing behind Sun Chengzong and the others, took a step forward, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, what the towns on the nine sides are really lacking now is not silver, but food. In recent years, there have been a few droughts in various parts of the nine borders, and many farmlands have failed to harvest or even abandoned, and the price of grain has increased several times compared with the Wanli period, although the salary of the soldiers of the nine sides is not low, but still can not buy much grain.

"Weichen thinks that the crux of the nine-sided shortage of wages is the price, the most fundamental of which is the price of grain, if the supply of rice and grain is sufficient, the problem of the nine-sided shortage of wages will not worsen, but if the drought continues, continue to lack of grain, the minister is afraid that His Majesty has more silver, can not satisfy the appetite of the nine sides. This is a little bit of Weichen's superficial opinion, please Your Majesty to be clear. ”

Lu Shanji's words made Zhu Daming's heart move, so he looked at Lu Shanji and said, "What Lu Aiqing said, I also know." It's just that natural disasters are beyond human resistance, and the border land is barren and the border people are displaced, and I am deeply saddened.

"Nowadays, the price of grain in Jiubian is much higher than that in Jiangnan, but unfortunately although there is no shortage of grain in Jiangnan, there are not many merchants who are willing to travel thousands of miles to Jiubian. Is there a way to do this? ”

Lu Shanji bowed and replied: "Your Majesty please restart the opening of the Chinese law, and those who transport grain to the towns of the nine borders will exchange the grain for the salt of the imperial court." The salt merchants and grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are profit-seeking, and they will come in groups, so that there is no shortage of grain on the nine sides, and the price of salt can also fall. ”

Zhu Daming has also heard of the opening of the Ming Dynasty, but he doesn't know how to operate, and now that he heard Lu Shanji mention it, after thinking about it for a while, he said to Sun Chengzong: "Sun Aiqing, I see that what Lu Qing said is very reasonable." Since the implementation of the Law on the Opening of China can kill two birds with one stone, then the Military Aircraft Department will draw up a charter, which will be implemented immediately after I approve it. ”

Sun Chengzong was also very happy to see that Lu Shanji's opinion was accepted by the emperor.

After all, when the opening of the Chinese law was abolished, the main reason was that the inner court used the emperor's banner to buy salt to make profits, and as for the price of grain in the nine sides, the eunuchs in the inner court didn't care about it.

And the Wanli Emperor in his later years was only worried about the emptiness of the inner treasury, since the salt was brought to the eunuchs of the inner court to be sold, the inner treasury could directly increase his income, and of course he did not care about the storage and abolition of the opening of the Chinese law.

It's just that today's salt introduction is in charge of the inner court, and restarting the opening of the Chinese law is equivalent to grabbing silver from the inner treasury, although the emperor still doesn't understand, but Wang Chengen, who is standing on the side, is very clear.

Sun Chengzong looked at the emperor, then at Wang Chengen, and saw that Wang Chengen lowered his eyebrows and was pleasing to his eyes, as if the old monk had settled down, thought about it again, and said: "Your Majesty can restart the opening of the Chinese law, and it will be able to alleviate the trouble caused by the shortage of salaries on the nine sides, but from the forty-fifth year of Wanli, the imperial court abolished the opening of the Chinese law, although the name of the world's salt administration belongs to the household department, but the salt is controlled by the inner court and sold directly to merchants."

"When Wei Zhongxian's party was in turmoil, the world's salt politics and salt introduction were all from Wei Zhongxian's henchmen, and Taicang could not share a cent. Now although Wei Zhongxian has subdued the law, the salt law has been really bad. If Your Majesty restarts the opening of the Chinese law, then the minister asks Your Majesty to reset the imperial history of the salt patrol and restart the law of civil system, official collection, and commercial sales, otherwise it may be difficult to truly implement the opening of the Chinese law. ”

As soon as Zhu Daming heard it, it turned out that Emperor Wanli abolished the Kaizhong Law in order to take back the power of salt administration in his original hands to the inner court, so as to increase the income of the inner court.

Although Zhu Daming didn't think of this, he didn't care about it, this time he copied a large amount of silver, so that he had a little bottom in his heart, although the income of salt introduction is not expensive, but the Daming country is more important, if there is no Daming country, the emperor's inner treasury has more silver, what is the use.

Thinking of this, Zhu Daming said slowly: "The income of the inner court is important, but it is even more important to encourage merchants to transport grain to the nine sides and stabilize the prices of the nine sides. In my opinion, the resetting of the imperial history of the salt patrol and sorting out the salt policy should also be written into the excerpt of the resumption of the opening of the Chinese law, and I will forward it to the cabinet and announce it to the world.

"Take Lu Shanji as the minister of the salt patrol imperial Shi Qincha, inspect Shandong, Lianghuai, Jiangnan and other places of salt transportation envoys, I give you Shang Fang sword, everything that is not conducive to the restart of the opening of the middle law, all abolished, all those that are conducive to the opening of the middle law, will be implemented, if there is corruption in the salt law in various places, all beheaded, half of the dirty silver obtained will be returned to the inner treasury, half of the state use."

Lu Shanji saw that the emperor not only agreed to his proposal to restart the opening of the Chinese law, but also directly handed over the task of cleaning up the salt administration to him, and he was also excited at the moment.

Lu Shanji, who has passed the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, originally thought that the pinnacle of his life was to follow Sun Chengzong's supervisor Ji Liao back then, but he didn't expect to return to his hometown and live idle for two years, and then he met an emperor who valued him so much.

Don't hesitate at the moment, hurry up and thank you verbally, and shout long live.

Zhu Daming saw that the time in the military aircraft department was not short, so he said to everyone: "Today, all things are major events of the country, and before the will of the imperial court is made public, the secretary and others must not be passed on." "The ministers promised.

Zhu Daming asked again who else had something to say, but the ministers were speechless.

In the end, Zhu Daming got up and said to Zhang Weixian: "Qing is an important minister of the country, and he is in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies for me, and verifying that there are actually soldiers in Beijing and the towns on the nine borders, which is not only the basis for the imperial court to make up for the arrears, but also the internal affairs of the Qing. After Qing returns, he must immediately draft a statement, and within three days, he will make it clear to the world. ”

Although the British public Zhang Weixian felt quite troubled in his heart, he didn't dare to say anything, just bowed down and promised.