Iron Rooster cautiously raised his head and glanced at Fan Jinyan, and replied hesitantly: "Actually, in fact, there are four million and seven thousand taels of silver in the treasury. ”

Crash

Suddenly the whole house was shocked.

It's not that I'm surprised that there is so much silver in the treasury, but I'm surprised that this old boy dares to hide it in front of Fan Jinyan, and there won't be any small treasury that hasn't been said, right?

When Fan Jinyan appointed him as the Minister of Finance, he knew that this old boy was not a person who dared to mess around, but he thought it was funny, he actually played tricks with himself, and he was stunned to hide a whole million in front of himself.

Thinking of this, Fan Jinyan patted the shoulder of the Minister of Finance, who was still trembling, and said with a smile: "You are really an iron rooster, and the ghost eyes have hit Lao Tzu's head, I can't see it, you are really rich!" ”

"Hou Ye, Hou Ye, Xia Guan" The more Fan Jinyan said this, the more frightened the Minister of Finance became, and his words became unfavorable.

However, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Fan Jinyan waving his hand, "Don't fix those useless ones, let's talk about it!" How much can you take out? ”

"Fifty, six hundred thousand, no, seven hundred thousand." After speaking, he said with a sad face: "Master Hou, there is really only so much. ”

In fact, Fan Jinyan's original idea was to allocate 300,000 yuan, but he didn't expect this old boy to become honest, and it was twice as much as he expected.

However, it is also very strange that the government treasury has more than 4.7 million, and it can only squeeze out 600,000, can Qiongzhou spend so much?

You must know that when the Ming Dynasty still ruled the mainland completely, the annual income was only a mere 300 and less than 4 million taels, so it was enough for a large country, and Qiongzhou, which was only a few thousandths of the Central Plains, was not needed?

In response to Fan Jinyan's question, the finance minister gave a complete answer.

The government treasury is 4.7 million taels, of which 1 million is the budget for the construction of the railway that has been planned, and 500,000 taels will be allocated to the expenses of the Qiongzhou and Annam shipyards. One million taels is the budget allocated to the Western State immigration area for the next year (ironclad plan, few people know about it. The 500,000 yuan is allocated to public officials and soldiers on land and sea. In this way, three million taels went out, and one million taels of the remaining 1.7 million taels must not be used casually, in order to prevent emergencies.

Therefore, the bottom line of the iron rooster is 700,000 taels.

No matter how much, it is estimated that this old boy would rather resign than agree.

Fan Jinyan nodded, originally wanted to replace the iron rooster, but now he felt that his character could at least control his bad habit of spending money lavishly, and he couldn't help but be very satisfied with the iron rooster.

Really Nima is a difficult master to serve.

In the end, Fan Jinyan only allocated 300,000 taels of silver from the government treasury as military expenses to fund the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Hunan.

Among them, there is only one place in Yunnan, and he plans to give Mu Tianbo 100,000 taels, after all, there is Annan next to it.

In addition to funding military spending, Fan Jinyan also ordered that 50,000 pieces of cotton armor and 50,000 steel knives, spears, bows and arrows in stock be transported to Yunnan through warships to fully support Mu Tianbo's fight against the Manchu Tartars

However, his actions caused dissatisfaction between the two people.

The first one is His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, Chongzhen.

Only half of the Ming Dynasty remains, but it is the richest half, and the treasury is much richer, but it still can't stand the squandering of the war.

Therefore, like the Ming Dynasty that once had a complete territory, Chongzhen is now beginning to lack silver again, and even the military salary is almost unaffordable, in addition to apportionment, that is, the tax is increased year by year, the tax is getting less and less year by year, the life of the common people is getting harder and harder year by year, and the soldiers are ringing silver is also less and less every month, and even sometimes it will be issued once every few months, and many people don't even get the ringing silver, so they die on the battlefield. And the silver and bereavement benefits they deserve are naturally taken care of by their superiors and put into their own pockets.

The soldiers are still holding on, for what? It's just for a full bite of food, and the blood of the Han people.

However, Fan Jinyan's move was like giving Chongzhen a resounding slap in the face.

The ringing silver of the imperial army was actually issued by a courtier.

Is the army his Fan Jinyan's army? Or the army of the imperial court?

No matter how much of this money can go to the hands of the soldiers, his great name is deeply imprinted in the hearts of the soldiers.

At the same time, there is another person who is very unhappy.

Naturally, it was the former emperor of the Great Shun Empire, and the current Shunming King Li Zicheng.

It stands to reason that he has been fighting for more than ten years, and he has looted countless jewels in Beijing, so he should not be short of money.

In fact, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, he fled all the way south, although he brought a large amount of jewelry with him.

However, along the way, because of the war, it was constantly discarded, and soldiers kept running away, and there were also soldiers who kept running away with jewels and silver.

In addition, he later entered Sichuan, and it also cost a lot of money to buy peace from Zhang Xianzhong.

Later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered Sichuan, because it could not be taken away, there were many burials, and they were prepared to be used as funds for the restoration of the country in the future.

Therefore, Li Zicheng did not really bring much silver money and jewelry with him, most of them were given to his soldiers in order to buy people's hearts.

The 50,000 soldiers recruited this time were basically forcibly conscripted into the army in the form of a strong man.

almost didn't directly give Huo Huoguang the strong man in Leizhou.

It was really in response to the later generations' reliance on him, and God gave him countless opportunities, but the peasant army that would only destroy, not build, would never be victorious.

This time, Fan Jinyan sent 80,000 taels of silver to Guangxi, but not a penny fell into Li Zicheng's pocket, which made him angry and even more greedy for the wealth of Qiongzhou.

In his opinion, Qiongzhou is a chicken that will give birth to gold ingots, as long as he wins Qiongzhou, it is equivalent to winning countless wealth, and returning to the supreme throne will no longer be a dream.

However, Li Zicheng, who had sunk several times, also began to become more shrewd, and while speeding up the training of soldiers, he sent people to Qiongzhou.

What the hell does Li Zicheng want to fight?

What is the plan to build a bridge in the strait between Leizhou and Qiongzhou?

(To be continued.) )