Chapter 556: Slaying the Wolf (4)
The confrontation between Liang Shicheng and Cai Jing made Zhao Ji a little dumbfounded, and even had a feeling of discomfort, for a qualified monarch, he should understand that as a politician of Liang Shicheng and Cai Jing's status, there is actually no preset position, and the view on a matter actually represents the profit and loss that this matter can bring them.
How could Zhao Ji not know this truth. But he didn't bother to think about it, in Zhao Ji's opinion, no matter how far the situation develops, he, the emperor, can control the situation steadily, and the basic starting point for him to deal with a matter is how much benefit this matter brings to him.
At that moment, Zhao Ji smiled and said: "Taishi is naturally the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, but Liang Shicheng's words are not unreasonable...... Everything has the right to do things, and now that the financial plan is so embarrassing, it is indeed necessary to use some extraordinary means, and the major affairs of the country are not good for money. If you don't come up with extraordinary measures, will this country's financial affairs be in Hudi? Taishi praised this Yang Ling's ability that day, and he had the meaning of helping him in the three divisions, but now why is he cautious? ”
In Zhao Ji's mind, of course, he was afraid of Yang Ling, but with the mutual adjustment of the Jinyang Army, although this jealousy did not disappear, it was almost gone, and Yang Ling and others were the best among the fortunate ministers, and they had nothing to do with the various factions in the DPRK and China, and they could not talk about any foundation at all, and they could be used freely.
Zhao Ji's words came out, in fact, he wanted Cai Jing to turn a corner and find a step down, so as not to miss his official family's plan to make money. According to Zhao Ji's understanding of Cai Jing, Cai Jing is always tactful in the matter of kings, but he didn't expect that Cai Jing didn't continue to cater to this today, but just arched his hand and said: "I think it's impossible for the minister's intention to be in the future, and I ask the sage to think twice." ”
Zhao Ji was a little unhappy, over the years, who dared to really disobey his mind? However, there was still no show on his face, and he smiled lightly: "It's just that the matter of three million yuan, the political affairs hall refuses to countersign it and thinks it's a rule, so it's just a matter of putting it aside for the time being, and we'll take a look at it later...... If there is any drawback, just stop it. ”
Liang Shicheng stood behind Zhao Ji, and immediately felt happy in his heart, but he couldn't help it, he didn't appear on the color, the political system of the Great Song Dynasty, at this moment, the restriction on the monarch's power has reached the minimum, usually such things, without the countersignature of the political affairs hall, how can it not be used as an example, now even if the political affairs hall refuses to countersign, Zhao Ji can still let this matter continue, everyone is just pretending to be confused, and few people can do the song of the horse.
The meaning of Zhao Ji's words is that no matter whether the government affairs hall is willing to cooperate or not, Yang Ling has three million forbidden army assets in his hands, and the matter used for operation is still like this, let's make do with it for a while.
Cai Jing silently listened to Zhao Ji's words, arched his hand, and didn't say anything.
Cai Jing's rare non-cooperative attitude today made Zhao Ji's originally good mood suddenly discounted, and the next thing to discuss was how much Yang Ling should take out the assets of the inner treasury these days to embellish the three divisions, Cai Jing is like this, Zhao Ji almost didn't want to mention this matter, and he didn't give the three divisions a penny.
Zhao Ji seemed to be sitting on the top, speaking righteously and strictly, Cai Jing, who was sitting at the bottom, and Liang Shicheng, who was standing beside him, were all only, and did not answer If Zhao Ji said that he was not greedy for money and goods, and did not covet enjoyment, then there would be no such person in the world, but he was right, in the past few years, because the facts of the national economy and financial planning were too embarrassing, Zhao Ji, as a king, had to allocate a large amount of money from his own treasury to spend it in the three divisions of the foreign dynasty.
For Zhao Ji and others, it is almost the same as the feeling of digging sores from meat, it is precisely because of this, so Zhao Ji, who has been poor for several years, has doubled the weight of wealth at this moment, and the three divisions are indeed full of holes at this moment, although there are more than 70 million yuan in a year, but compared with the peak period of the Great Song Dynasty, it has dropped by three percent, and the Great Song Dynasty uses money everywhere, everywhere, and the consumption is amazing.
The summer and autumn taxes, although they continue to be solved, but almost as soon as they are put into the warehouse, they will be released immediately, and they still owe a lot, and many things that must be done by the government cannot be done, and now the state finance can guarantee that the officials are serving, the army's food and salary, as well as the finishing of the road leading to Bianliang Cao in the south, the river work in other places, the repair and construction in various places, and the recuperation and relief in various places and the repair and repair of the city in Changping, etc., can be perfunctory, and can not be perfunctory, so they have to do it and watch, and they belong to the local finance within the scope of the transfer of local envoys. The retention ratio has reached the point where it can't be less, and everything is just struggling to support.
At this time of the Great Song Dynasty, it was like a machine that had been running for a hundred years, leaking air everywhere, making creaking noises everywhere, and it urgently needed to be refreshed and sorted out, but as the center, the resources mastered were the least over the years, but the people had accumulated a huge amount of wealth, which could not be turned there, and the differentiation between the rich and the poor was also intensifying, and this aggravation further deepened the degree of accumulation of private wealth.
In Zhao Ji and Liang Shicheng's mind, Zhao Ji is willing to pay money from the outside, Cai Jing is not immediately open his mouth, he always has to take more than half of the little accumulation that is easy to have in the inner treasury before he is willing to give up, Zhao Ji is also ready to bargain with Cai Jing, his bottom limit is that the current inner treasury is less than 1.5 million guan, at most half of it, even if Yang Ling still has two or three million yuan in the account this year, these top days will be given to the outer dynasty 30%.
Zhao Ji's original hand is naturally more than that, but in the past few years, he has been so poor that he is afraid, and during the war against Yan, tens of millions of dollars of Yan donations did not go into his private pocket, and he also pasted the last old foundation into it! These scholars and doctors, who are not middle-of-the-encompass, are compensating for their own emperor, and now, Zhao Ji is also hard to give up.
Today, Cai Jing's actions once again surprised Zhao Ji, Cai Jing bowed indifferently and said: "The sage's affection, the ministers would rather not feel it." However, since the sage will reconcile yin and yang, and entrust the matter of financial planning to the ministers, the ministers can only barely support it. The Son of Heaven does not count the four words, the minister often speaks with the sage in the inner library, and there is a lack of it for a long time, Yang Daren is a great talent, and he can do a little bit of the family affairs in Yingfengtian, and the minister is also very pleased, after all, the knowledge of people is not wrong, the Great Song Dynasty is rich in the four seas, and the Liao State was pacified, and the wishes of the ancestors and ancestors were fulfilled in one fell swoop. This is the foundation of the world's peace and quietness, the ministers can't be a little bit weak in this matter, they are already panicked, how can they let the sage's inner treasury supplement the three divisions' financial plans? Lord Yang should be blessed with the assets of the Heavenly Family, and at this moment, the three divisions dare not ask for a penny, if there is really anything important, then they will bother the saint. ”
The words came out of Cai Jing's mouth, which was both beautiful and magnificent, making Liang Shicheng, who was standing beside Zhao Ji, jealous and hateful, why didn't he have this kind of kung fu?
Zhao Ji heard that Cai Jing didn't want his money, and his heart was suddenly happy, and the dissatisfaction with Cai Jing just now suddenly disappeared, this Cai Jing is Cai Jing after all, although later because of too much power, he had to balance. But this Taishi has always known his mind the most, and his prestige is enough, he can control all parts of the government and the opposition, unlike him who has been in power for a few years, but has caused turmoil in the court, and everyone does their own thing, so that they can't have the slightest peace!
If he can always be so knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and he doesn't take power, and then he is the power minister who made the king jealous back then, let him die in the position of prime minister, it is not a big deal, the Great Song Dynasty has not yet such a heavy minister can die in the position of prime minister, if so, it is a good story.
At that moment, Zhao Ji wanted to shut up, there was no need to say anything, no one else wanted money, and he had to be interesting as a genius, so what would he do with more trouble? But he didn't expect that today's accidents were repeated, and Liang Shicheng, who had always been more knowledgeable and interesting than Cai Jing, should be flattered by the Son of Heaven several times more flattering than Cai Jing, but he said coldly next to him: "Taishi's words are indeed magnificent, but the two armies were transferred to each other for foreign affairs before, and it wasn't the sage Neiku who took the lion's shoulder?" If you don't open your mouth now, what will happen when the time comes, the saint will plan for the world, can he still hold it back? It's better to have something essential now, but the three divisions can't come up with the money, so let's say it quickly, and when the time comes, I will fight in front of the official family, and at that time, today's crown words in front of the Taishi Jun will inevitably be a little deceitful. ”
Zhao Ji glanced at Liang Shicheng unhappily, these two courtiers today really made him a little uncomfortable, and he was strange everywhere. However, Liang Shicheng is also right, some things can be avoided for a while, but they can't be avoided for a lifetime, and the three divisions are embarrassed, and he knows that he is the son of heaven who has a sum of money in his hand now, and when it comes to the end of the matter, he is not going to transfer to him. Since the topic has been brought up today, I will simply make it clear and make a conclusion at one time, so as to save what will happen in the future.
Cai Jing glanced at Liang Shicheng lightly, and arched his hand: "Sage Mingjian, how can there be no place for the three divisions to use money?" In the autumn alone, the workers on the left side of the Bianhe River will need two or three million yuan of labor materials, grain and vegetables, and the three divisions and offices cannot fully raise them now, and once the river workers are not treated in winter, the transportation will be greatly affected next year......
However, the minister's decision is to support it reluctantly, the reason why the center of the court has authority is nothing more than the power in this matter, if the court and the central government are in urgent need of a certain courtier to raise money for the court, where is the authority of the center, where is the balance of the court? The minister made up his mind and did not open his mouth to ask the sage Inner Treasury for an article, which is what he meant, and what he can support himself, he will support himself, and Lord Yang should provide the Inner Treasury with assets, which is limited to the Inner Treasury. One is to keep the heavenly family from being too scarce, and the other is that the authority of this center involving financial planning is still in the hands of the sage. ”
These words were said a little deeper, and Zhao Ji couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it, this is indeed a matter from the perspective of the prime minister. It's not as good as when Wang Hao and others were in power, what kind of headache is cured, foot pain is cured, everything can be perfunctory in the past, no one has ever thought so far-reaching. The truth of these words is deep, and he is thinking about his own king everywhere, it is really intimate to the extreme, and Zhao Ji is a little unhappy for a while, this time to guard against this old man, and finally let him go to the throne, even now he can't trust it wholeheartedly, is it a little too much.
In an instant, Zhao Ji smiled in his heart again, he was very complacent about his own wrist, if he hadn't beaten Cai Jing with Liang Shicheng, Wang Hao and others, how could he be so cautious and informed after he took over the phase? In the final analysis, it is still the ability that only he, a Ming Jun who may not come out in a hundred years.
Zhao Ji's mind twisted and turned, but in the end he went around to boasting and praising himself, but Liang Shicheng seemed to be determined to argue with Cai Jing everywhere today: "Taishi said it thoroughly, but some time ago, the two armies were transferred to each other, why do you still ask for the inner library?" At this time, it seems that he has forgotten the past, and there are inevitably some inconsistencies in words and deeds. ”
Cai Jing still only glanced back at Liang Shicheng weakly, and replied coldly: "Because this is a military matter!" ”
At this moment, his eyes suddenly shone brightly, and he no longer had the kind of decay that he had always shown in the Yanfu Palace: "At this moment, everything else can be perfunctory, and it can be barely supported, but in this military matter, nothing can come out!" The dynasty has been stable for more than 100 years, and the root is here to control the military with literature, and the military ministers and hundreds of thousands of military generals bow their heads to their ears and dare not make any changes! The current situation is no longer than before, the original court can suppress the military ministers of the marshal withered, and the Western Army and so on, the imperial court in this military affairs, has gradually dispatched difficulties, if there is a little bit of a response to the military affairs, once these martial artists are in chaos, then it will be a matter of regret! ”
Although Cai Jing is old, he has always been very well maintained, and his energy is good, not inferior to people in his fifties and sixties, although Liang Shicheng is more than twenty years younger than him, but as a Yin person, his vitality at this moment may not be as good as Cai Jing. However, at this moment, Cai Jing pays attention to cherishing blessings and cultivating his body, not only is he not as bold as he was more than ten years ago, but he has always been less emotional when he speaks, and it is a point to save a penny of vitality.
But at this moment, he raised his voice, and his old eyes were full of light, as if he was still in the heyday of Cai Taishi, who was once powerful in the world and the first powerful minister in the Great Song Dynasty: "Now the martial arts are still honest, but they have become a habit for a long time." (To be continued.) )