Chapter 377: Borrowing Silver

Who would have thought that a great empire, a great empire that once regarded itself as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, would be reduced to the point where his treasury was only 428,621 taels of silver?

This figure was a negligible fraction in the heyday of the Great Zhao Dynasty, and now the household finance of the Great Zhao has reached the point of being accurate to the point of using two. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"What can Su Aiqing do?" Song Yuren stared at Su Ke eagerly, hoping that Su Ke would come up with some ideas.

Su Ke thought to himself, you have no idea for a dignified Emperor Zhao, what idea can I have as a subordinate. Su Ke almost glared at Song Yuren. He, the head of the household, is not under great pressure. If he were an ordinary person, it is estimated that he would have already had a nervous breakdown in Su Ke's position.

"I don't know." Su Ke sighed and said, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, what can he do?

Since it came to this, Song Yuren had no choice but to find out, and he didn't care about the prestige that an emperor should have, and said in the main hall: "Is there any good way to get money, Su Aiqing just said that it doesn't matter, I will definitely support Su Aiqing." ”

After Song Yuren said this, Su Ke couldn't help but feel surprised, and the other heads of the household couldn't help but be stunned. What Song Yuren said is like what an emperor should say.

The first to return to normalcy was Su Ke, Su Ke knew Song Yuren and Song Yuren's hardships. It's not a last resort, how could Song Yuren, an emperor, say such a thing?

Su Ke stood there and didn't know what to say, and after thinking about it for a long time, Su Ke said to Song Yuren: "The emperor can follow the example of Emperor Muzong to persuade his ministers to donate silver and borrow silver." ”

When Su Ke said this, his voice was as small as a mosquito, and it seemed that only he could hear it.

Rao is Su Ke's voice was so small, Song Yuren still caught Su Ke's words and heard Su Ke's words clearly. Because Song Yuren listened too seriously.

There is a reason why Su Ke said these words in a very small voice. It is one thing for the emperor to borrow silver from the minister, and the court still owes the ministers below, and Song Yuren borrowed silver from the ministers below at this time, which is really a loss of face.

What's more important is that Emperor Muzong's reputation back then was surprisingly poor, and even the imperial court did not shy away from positioning Emperor Muzong as a faint monarch. As a negative teaching material for the later Great Zhao Emperors, it educated the later Great Zhao monarchs.

Emperor Muzong had a bad record, and borrowing silver from his ministers was also one of Emperor Muzong's bad deeds. Back then, the army of the Menggu tribe besieged Jingshi City, and the treasury was similarly empty, but the emptiness at that time was a little different from the emptiness today.

When Emperor Muzong ascended the throne, the treasury of Dazhao could be said to be full, in just a dozen years after Emperor Muzong ascended the throne. Da Zhao's treasury has already bottomed out. As for why it bottomed out, the reason is also very simple, all the originally rich financial reserves were lost by Emperor Muzong, the emperor of the loser. Emperor Muzong also won the title of the most defeated emperor of Great Zhao.

The Muzong period can be regarded as a turning point for the Great Zhao, before the Emperor Muzong, the Great Zhao never encountered a major financial crisis, and only after the arrival of the Emperor Muzong, there were several major financial crises intermittently.

During this period, although there were capable ministers and retaliatory emperors who carried out measures to revive the Great Zhao, they did not fundamentally change the decline of the Great Zhao.

Speaking of borrowing money from the minister, this matter is even more criticized by Da Zhao's minister.

At the beginning, when the army of the Menggu tribe besieged Jingshi City, Emperor Mu Zong couldn't take anything to reward the army, and at this time, when Mu Zong went to the treasury to find the silver to reward the army, he found that all the treasury mansions in the Jingshi City were empty.

There is no way, the army of hundreds of thousands is in Jingshi City, and the army of the Menggu tribe is eyeing outside the city. There was no way, and in desperation, Emperor Muzong took an astonishing move that no one had ever done before.

This measure was to borrow money from the ministers, and when Emperor Muzong proposed this measure at the court meeting, it can be said that the Manchu Dynasty was shocked by both civil and military affairs. Even the Jingshi City is in an uproar.

But fortunately, although Emperor Muzong was a faint monarch at that time, the prestige of the Great Zhao Dynasty in the world was still very high. So although Emperor Muzong lost the face of the royal family, he finally borrowed the money.

Relying on this borrowed money, the Great Zhao court finally survived and left the crisis.

But the last problem comes, borrowing money always has to be repaid. Since Emperor Muzong borrowed money from his subordinates when he needed it. After the war was over, it was normal for the ministers to collect debts from Emperor Muzong.

As the saying goes, it's easy to borrow money and it's hard to repay, and when it came time to repay the money, Emperor Muzong threw off the scoundrel. It is an open secret that the retainers have gray income, and that the gray income is much higher than that of the normal one. It's just that no one is going to stab it, and in fact, the ministers can't be blamed for it.

Da Zhao is generous to the clan, but in comparison, he is quite stingy with civil and military officials. Every official's income is barely enough to support his family. Many officials live on grey income every year.

Emperor Muzong himself was well aware of this. At this time, Emperor Muzong pretended to be confused, looking selfless, and asked these ministers how you could get so much money for a year. This question really stopped these ministers.

These ministers can't tell Emperor Muzong in a grand manner that all this money is my gray income, and I am greedy for it. was asked by Emperor Muzong like this, and the ministers in the hall were immediately speechless, not knowing what to say.

In the end, Emperor Muzong even used the power of Jinyiwei and the Detective Factory to intensify his efforts, not only did not return the borrowed silver, but even set off a large prison to confiscate the officials' property to replenish the treasury. For a time, the Manchu Dynasty was in full swing.

With this precedent, it is difficult to say whether Song Yuren can borrow money from the ministers now. After all, once bitten by a snake for ten years, I was afraid of the well rope. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will not remember the ugly things that Emperor Muzong did back then.

However, Su Ke came up with this idea because Song Yuren and Emperor Muzong had different ideas. After all, Emperor Muzong was a mediocre king. And Song Yuren is not, not only is it not, but Song Yuren also has the atmosphere of a British master.

Song Yuren should be able to borrow money from the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, Su Ke thought.

Of course, Su Ke also made this decision as a last resort. There's a better way, who's going to come up with this bad idea?

Song Yuren hesitated a little, Su Ke did give an idea, but this idea made him a little difficult to accept. Although Emperor Muzong said that he was the ancestor of Song Yuren, Song Yuren was very disgusted with this notorious ancestor, for fear of following in the footsteps of this ancestor.

Borrowing money from the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, Song Yuren is really difficult to speak. (To be continued.) )