Chapter 162: Financial Dilemma

The central treasury of the empire was mainly divided into two types: the household treasury and the inner treasury. The nature of the Hubu Treasury is similar to that of the national treasury of later generations, and the nature of the Inner Treasury is that of the emperor and the imperial family, which is independent of the Hubu.

However, there is no clear boundary between the use of the two, for example, the funds for the renovation of the old palace or the construction of the new palace basically come from the household treasury, and the internal funds will also bear part of the expenses. The chaos in the distribution and use of finance was an important reason why the Great Zhao Empire's finances were on the verge of collapse several times after the founding of the country a hundred years ago.

In the last three hundred years, the empire has experienced several major financial crises, and both far-sighted and far-sighted monarchs have put their finances in order. However, these rectifications were all confined to the superficial level, and in a short period of time they achieved a certain effect, and it was not long before the empire's finances were once again in crisis, entering a cycle of death, and each time the financial crisis became more and more serious.

The empire has never fundamentally changed the original unreasonable financial system, so that by the time of Emperor Song Yuren, the empire's finances faced unprecedented poverty.

However, since Song Yuren succeeded to the throne, the empire's internal and external troubles have come and gone, which is tantamount to adding to the empire's embarrassing financial difficulties.

The financial problem is like a rope, which only binds Song Yuren's hands and feet, so that Song Yuren can't play to his heart's content, and he is bound to do anything.

The officials of the household department shouted in front of him all day long that there was no silver and no silver, and persuaded Song Yuren, who was already very thrifty, to be frugal and thrifty. Song Yuren wondered if it was difficult for the household to have no silver.

There is not much money left in the sentence, which expresses Song Yuren's helplessness. There was no silver in the household, and there was not much money left in the house. The Great Zhao Empire has come to this day, and the treasury can't even take out the silver to reward the soldiers who have won the battle, what an irony for a great empire!

"The autumn fu from all over the country is already on the way to liberation, and I will urge it again, and strive to get to Beijing as soon as possible. If I can't come up with the money to reward these soldiers, how can the soldiers be willing to die for my Da Zhao in the future?! ”

Song Yuren hit the idea on the autumn tax, which was a last resort. The autumn tax is mainly used to meet various expenses in the coming year, and the early use of the autumn tax is just a measure to tear down the east wall and make up for the west wall. This is after digging bricks from other places to fill the hole, and the hole will have to be filled next year.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid I'm ...... next year?" Zhao Ze did not forget to remind Song Yuren that there is still a lot of money to be used next year.

"I will find a way to cut down the expenses of this year's festival and move some money out."

Song Yuren pondered for a while and said.

Song Yuren raised his hand, drafted a document, got up early, and blew the slightly wet ink on the paper: "Big companion, put this document down, urge to decompress the autumn tax as soon as possible and go to Beijing, there are still more places to use silver." ”

The moment Song Yuren raised his hand, through the cuffs, Zhao Ze inadvertently caught a glimpse of Song Yuren's middle coat that he had sewn and repaired many times. Zhao Ze not only felt a little pantothenic acid in his heart.

"The slave obeys." Zhao Ze lowered his head, held the paperwork with both hands, and choked up.

Zhao Ze's lonely figure walked out of the main hall, and after Zhao Ze left, only Song Yuren was left in the huge palace. Song Yuren felt a little depressed, and a feeling of being alone filled his heart.

Song Yuren has long been accustomed to this feeling.

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Liaodong.

After the end of the war, both Zhao Liao and Zhao Liao were licking their wounds.

For Zhao after the victory of the Great War, the distribution of military merits was the first important thing.

Although the number of people participating in this war was small, the forces involved in the war were relatively complex, including the Qin army, Wu Tingzhen's Wu private soldiers, and He Tengxiao's Xiao cavalry battalion. How to cut this cake well and distribute military merit reasonably is very important, and the slightest carelessness may arouse dissatisfaction among all parties.

Fortunately, Peng Chaodong, the governor of Liaodong, was not greedy for merit, and he had no intention of taking all military merits for himself. Peng Chaodong has served as governor for more than 30 years, and he has made a lot of military achievements, and military achievements do not have much significance for him.

In terms of official position, Peng Chaodong is already a very powerful minister, and he is the most powerful governor of the empire in the past three hundred years. Peng Chaodong is the second most powerful person after Shoufu Xu Hongqian. The second assistant Lu Zongcheng's status in Song Yuren's mind is not as important as Peng Chaodong.

If you want to climb up further, Peng Chaodong will at most enter the cabinet to worship the first assistant. Since leaving the town of Liaodong, he has experienced so much, and after the Meng Gu Discussion and the failure, Peng Chaodong's heart to enter the cabinet has weakened a lot. It can also be said that he figured it out, Peng Chaodong has been a local governor for so many years, and he has long been accustomed to the position of governor, and suddenly changed to the chair of the cabinet chief, Peng Chaodong's ass may not be able to adapt for a while. Moreover, Peng Chaodong's ability to be a competent governor does not mean that he can be a competent first assistant.

This time the most deflated is Huang Yongtao, Huang Yongtao's Huang clan is the only big force in Liaodong that did not participate in the war this time. Since he did not participate in the war, the so-called military exploits are impossible, and Huang Yongtao can only watch the other companies divide up the military merits.

Zhao Liaodong confrontation, Zhao weak Liaoqiang has become the consensus of everyone in Liaodong, since Zhao is weak and Liaoqiang, Zhao has a great chance of victory. In this war, Zhao State rarely fought a beautiful battle, and the Liaodong Army can be said to be out of the limelight, but the armies of all the forces in Liaodong have more or less a share, but only he and the Huang clan have no share. This made Huang Yongtao feel gloomy.

Huang Yongtao was secretly annoyed, he knew that he would blindly get involved in the internal affairs of the He clan, and go out of town with Peng Peng Chaodong's Qin army, and follow the Qin army to pick up some military merits, at least not to fall into today's disgraced appearance.

Stealing chickens and rice again in Yunguam Island is not a recipe for rice, and this time there is no share in military merits. Huang Yongtao has never felt so cowardly. There was nothing to be happy about this victory for Huang.

The He civil strife has just ended, and it takes time to clean up the inside of the He people, and the He people have not yet woken up from the grief of the civil strife, and they are not very enthusiastic about this division of military achievements. Only He Tengxiao was sent to discuss the distribution of military merits. After all, in this war, the Zhao Liao War, only He Tengxiao's Xiao cavalry battalion directly intervened.

He Fangxiong is a sensible person, as long as the He family gets the share that belongs to the He family, it is enough, as long as this battle exploit is well deserved.

The hard battle of this field battle was mainly carried down by the Wu soldiers and the Qin army, the Qin army largely represented the center, and the local area always had to give more or less face to the center, Wu Tingzhen took the initiative to give the bulk of this battle to Peng Chaodong's Qin army. Without the Qin army's action, it is indeed impossible to swallow the 50,000 elites of the Liao army in one bite, at most to defeat the Liao army's southern army and crush the Liao's intention to advance south.

Peng Chaodong took the lead, and it would be shameless to gain an inch. After all, the Wu people suffered the heaviest casualties in this field battle, and the Wu tribe played a role of less than 20,000 people no less than the 50,000 Qin army. (To be continued.) )