In fact, Zuo Prime Minister Cheng Yuanfeng spoke to the official family this time, and he thought he was justified. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The household department of the Great Song Dynasty can now be called the poor department.

More than half of the financial revenue of the Great Song Dynasty has been "hidden" in the small treasury of the official family, and the remaining part goes into the "imperial treasury", and a part of it is retained in the place where the four great consuls are located, leaving only a small amount of disposable income for the household department.

It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, without a stable income guarantee and the right to approve expenditures, and it is difficult to ask the head of the household department to formulate a unified national revenue and expenditure system, so there are often chaotic and deficit fiscal results.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the motive for the establishment of the Inner Treasury and the Imperial Treasury was ostensibly to ensure the needs of military affairs and supplement the lack of state finances.

Although the design of this separate system has the need for war and the original intention of the state reserves, it should fundamentally be the idea that the officials and the central government want to personally control the largest share of financial power and want everything to be "benevolent from themselves."

In a feudal state, finance, the army, and officials are one of the three major foundations of power, and officials want to control money and buy people's hearts, but they do not want to bear direct expenditures, causing their small coffers to dry up.

This led to the strange phenomenon that most of the state income in the Southern Song Dynasty went into sectors with no regular expenditures.

What's more, Pingzhang Jia Rudao can still firmly control the official family's treasury and the imperial treasury, and often wields the big stick of money to beat people.

The Lu Wende military group in Xiangfan City, because he usually talks about Pingzhang Jia, can get abundant material guarantees every year, and at the same time, he promotes the law in the army, and sweeps the army generals in the name of anti-corruption!

For example, how many results have been caused by the promotion of the Public Land Law? !

Therefore, Cheng Yuanfeng, Prime Minister of Zuo, took this opportunity to show that we are not puppet officials who are willing to be controlled by others! We also have to have our own say in finances!!

As for the sea salt on the big island of Liuqiu, I have heard that it is only a few hundred stones. But that's not the point, it's the goal to show that we have the right to speak, and we can't let you arbitrarily do it!

The ministers began to stand in line, and as a result, Pingzhang Jia seemed to be sad to see that more than half of them supported the opinion of Zuo Cheng Yuanfeng.

The ministers also had their own concerns about the large number of official vaults.

The so-called internal storage, the Great Song Dynasty's description of the function of the internal storage is "the gold and silk stored in the inner treasury for the use of the military." This shows that the purpose of the internal expenditure is the cost of military affairs, not the expenses of the officials themselves.

The main flow of expenditures for this treasury was to supply the expenses of the inner court, subsidize the clan, subsidize the national army, and provide relief for famines.

Due to the lack of institutional constraints, the so-called cost of supplying the inner court basically depends on the consciousness of the officials themselves and their understanding of "reasonable expenses".

In ancient times, filial piety ruled the world. Of course, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty did this to win him a good reputation, but behind the filial piety of the Emperor Taishang was actually the entire Great Song Dynasty

As for subsidizing the clan. The Great Song Dynasty has always been known for treating the clan well, and there is no budget target for this part of the cost. As the population multiplied, the number of clans grew.

As for the subsidy to the national army and the relief of the famine, it seems to make sense, but how much of this part of the expenditure is based on reasonable needs and does not overlap with the expenditure of the household department?

This is also a confused account, all based on the words of the official.

Because absolutely no one dares to question the decision of the official family or conduct a full audit of the expenditure of this fee afterwards!

For example, suddenly there is a arquebus camp in front of the Gozen! I've heard that it costs a lot more than other forbidden armies!!

As the de facto most financially powerful sector of the country. Due to the separation from the supervision of the expenditure system, even the most frugal emperor, the wise official who claims to spend all the money on state projects, may not escape the suspicion of misusing funds------ not to mention that now, this official family is now fully relying on Pingzhang Jia Dao!

The entire court became a place for him to perform alone. Therefore, many ministers naturally support Zuo Cheng Yuanfeng.

For a while, the scene was a little chaotic.

The official Zhao Yu was a little panicked, and he threw a look of help at his senior minister, Jia Yidao------

Pingzhang Jia seemed to scold Zuo Cheng Yuanfeng in his heart, you see that he has a white beard and trembles slightly!

This is the person who eats the prime minister's meal, smashes the prime minister's bowl, and does not pay attention to the rules of officialdom!!

But his face was full of spring breeze------ wasn't it just a few hundred stones of sea salt!

Pingzhang Jia seemed to make a decision that he regretted very much afterwards, because he didn't know that there was so much salt in that place on the island of Liuqiu------- so he decided to stabilize the overall situation first, and then slowly clean them up later.

He took a step back, and also asked the official family to let go of the sea salt franchise on the island, and the official Zhao Yu nodded in agreement.

At this time, there was a sense of peace in the court.

The monarchs and ministers are all smiling and feasting, and the same is true of Pingzhang Jia's appearance, but his heart is full of hatred, and many seeds of revenge have been planted.

Because the official Zhao Yu handed over the sea salt management of Liuqiu Island to the household department according to everyone's request, the official Zhao Yu was praised by the ministers for the first time.

As for Pingzhang Jia Rudao, in the minds of a considerable number of ministers, he is a powerful minister who has been beaten once by a righteous person, and many people are happy.

The official Zhao Yu then issued the so-called refined salt to everyone, he said that he had used this thing, there was no bitter taste, it was really the essence of salt.

In this way, the whole court was filled with joy.

Then the official Zhao Yu drove to the imperial village outside Hangzhou, and at this time all the ministers and the Empress Dowager Xie followed.

Empress Dowager Xie usually doesn't come out easily.

She previously refused the ministers' request to ask her to listen to the government, and she didn't criticize the government of the official Zhao Yu, but she couldn't help but say that she still cared about him in her heart, and she never saw the ministers have any praise for the officials, and there were some false rumors outside the palace, which was really unbeautiful.

Two days ago, I suddenly heard that some ministers praised him, thinking that he was the king of general knowledge.

Of course she was happy.

This time, I heard Pingzhang Jia say that this grain seed can double the rice yield, she has lived in the countryside since she was a child, and of course she knows that if the yield of this rice can really be like this, what this will mean to the entire Great Song Dynasty.

Such a big event, after she received the request, she set up Luan and drove to the imperial village outside the city together.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, in order to show that they were diligent and thrifty, loved the people and attached great importance to agricultural affairs, they set up the Guanjia Hall and the Silkworm Palace in the imperial palace.

In the Guanjia Hall of the back garden, the official family of the Great Song Dynasty planted rice in front of the palace every year and harvested it after autumn.

As the mother of a country, the queen holds a silkworm ceremony in the silkworm palace every spring and completes the entire silkworm raising process.

But there are no two palaces in the palace of Lin'an, think about it, in order to save space and money, the prince's east palace was not built separately, but connected with the palace of the emperor and the queen. (To be continued.) )