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Towards the end of the year, the government hall will hold a regular meeting of the governor every day to summarize the gains and losses of the government for the year and discuss the work plan for the coming year. ,!

The first time Yang Yi came to attend a meeting of the Political Affairs Hall after returning to Beijing, he met the Governor of the Audit Department, He Bonian, to make an audit report.

Although the Audit Department is under the jurisdiction of Shangshu Province, He Bonian is the first time to enter this sacred hall to report on his work, and he is inevitably a little nervous in the face of Empress Dowager Liu and Mantang Zaizhi at close range.

"Queen Mother, ladies and gentlemen, the total budget submitted by the ministries for the coming year is 196,263,000 yuan, and after careful examination by the Audit Department, there are many inaccuracies in the financial budgets of the various ministries, so a total of 61 million yuan has been cut .........."

The specific audit data is too long, and if He Bonian reads them one by one, I am afraid that he will not be able to read them all in two days, so he only reports some large budget expenditures.

However, when Yang Yi heard that he had cut 61 million taels at once, he knew that there was a big problem with the financial budgets submitted by various ministries.

This is the first time that various departments of the imperial court have made financial budgets, and it is inevitable that some people have the heart to test the water, and there must be a lot of false reports, but the audit department has cut so much at once, which is still greatly beyond Yang Yi's expectations.

This shows that the various departments lack a pioneering vision and have a perfunctory mentality in the work arrangements for the coming year.

According to this calculation, the normal expenditure of the imperial court next year will be only 130 million yuan, and according to the financial and taxation report submitted by the Ministry of Households, this year's annual income will total more than 280 million yuan, and if nothing else, next year's annual income will probably reach 300 million yuan.

In this way, most of the money will be stranded in the treasury, and now the economy of the Great Song Dynasty is mainly driven by government consumption, and too much money is stranded in the treasury, which is very unfavorable to the sustainable development of the economy.

At the same time, considering that there is likely to be a big war in the north next year, and the northwest is not calm, there will definitely be huge temporary expenditures in terms of military spending at that time, so Yang Yi did not rush to say this.

Waiting for He Bonian to withdraw, Yang Yi spoke first: "Queen Mother, ladies and gentlemen, this Hedong earthquake, the materials that the imperial court had hoarded in Hedong before have all been exhausted, in order not to affect the original strategic plan, it is still necessary to make up for the consumed materials in Hedong as soon as possible after the beginning of spring." ”

After hearing this, Zhang Dian and the others all nodded in approval of the matter.

Empress Dowager Liu said calmly: "This time, Yang Qing went to Hedong for disaster relief, quelled the Mengqijia Rebellion in one fell swoop, and resettled more than 100,000 victims in Hedong in a timely manner, so that they would not freeze to death and starve to death, Yang Qing worked hard."

Yang Yi got up and said: "The queen mother is serious, the food of the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, the minister does not dare to say the word hard work." ”

"Yang Qing, you went to Hedong for disaster relief this time, although you have merit, but you are also reckless, without the permission of the imperial court, you killed the Hedong transfer envoy Xiang Chaoran and a group of officials involved in the case, which caused an extremely bad impact, and now there are as many as 100 copies of the impeachment of you, can you be guilty?"

"Back to the Queen Mother, the minister is guilty." Yang Yi didn't explain much, and looked like he was at his disposal.

Liu Qingjing couldn't help but feel a little angry in her heart, to be honest, Yang Yi committed a big crime, and now there are dozens of impeachment notes against Yang Yi on her desk, she chose to raise this matter in the political hall, just to give him a chance to explain, after all, there are few people here, and Zhang Dian and others are good friends with him, but they never thought that this enemy was a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water.

In desperation, she had no choice but to turn her head to Zhang Dian and the others and asked: "Prime ministers, Yang Yi is good at killing Hedong transfer envoy Xiang Chaoran, how do you think this matter should be handled?" ”

Cai Jing and Yang Yi have the closest relationship, the last time the Great Song Dynasty had a money shortage, or Yang Yi helped him out of the siege, at this time he was the first to speak out for Yang Yi to defend Yang Yi and said: "Queen Mother, Xiang Chaoran secretly hid weapons, through foreign countries, the evidence is conclusive, this is a capital crime, this case implicated many officials, at that time the disaster relief work in Hedong was urgent, Yang University in order to stabilize the situation in Hedong, save more than 100,000 victims in fire and water, will be Xiang Chaoran and others according to the law, understandable." ”

Liu Qingjing nodded, and turned to look at Zhang Dan, who slowly said: "Although Yang Yi has contributed to the court, but killing all the way is against the laws of the court. ”

As long as Yang Yi was not investigated for the crime of trespassing, Liu Qingjing didn't think much about it, and decided according to Zhang's plan.

Yang Yi was angry in his heart, in addition to the scholar of Hallym University, he also had a Privy Council sent by decree, and the two sums of money add up to more than 3,000 yuan a year, which is as much as one million yuan when converted into RMB.

So much money was confiscated by Zhang Peel with a clever word, is there any reason for this?

Zhang Papi is clearly deliberately rectifying people this time, it was this old guy who let me go to Hedong at the beginning, and he said that Hedong depends on you, bullshit, now that the situation has settled down, he actually played the trick of going up the house and pumping the ladder with me.

It's too dark, this old guy is obviously jealous of my family's money;

Yang Yi is unhappy, my family is not bad for these thousands of times, but am I easy? How dangerous it is to rush to the east of the river in the wind and snow, and have to personally carry a knife to attack the city, how dangerous it is, now that the rebellion has been quelled, the people who have been resettled will not only not have any credit, but also have to be punished for a year's wages, and I have become Yang Bai for me.

The puffed up Scholar Yang did not say a word in the subsequent meeting, and his eyes were as sharp as throwing knives when he occasionally looked at Zhang Dian.

When everyone finished talking about today's political affairs and was about to return to the government, Yang Yi said: "Queen Mother, this time the minister is in Hedong to try the case of Xiang Chaoran, and I learned that Xiang Chaoran and others actually sold grenades to Liao at a high price of fifty yuan, and it is precisely because of such huge profits that Xiang Chaoran and others will take risks;

The minister thought about it for a while, the Liao State is now being forced step by step by the head of the long jurisdiction, and our dynasty does not want to see the Liao State rout too early, so the minister feels that the court does not take precautions to sell some grenades to the Liao State, which is a matter of killing three birds with one stone, even if it is sold for twenty or thirty times, it can also add a large amount of income to the treasury, and at the same time, it can make the Liao State support for a longer time. In addition, the Liao State has a channel for trading with our DPRK, which is also conducive to putting an end to arbitrary behaviors such as Xiang Chaoran. ”

A while ago, in order to avoid the defeat of the Liao State too quickly, the Great Song Dynasty took great pains, and if it sold some weapons to the Liao State to support it for a longer time, it would be a good strategy.

The Privy Council envoy Xu Jiang said: "Scholar Yang's idea is good, but once the grenade is sold to the Liao State, the Liao State may be able to imitate gunpowder, which will definitely have a major impact on the current situation of the Liao State, and at that time, it will be very unfavorable to our dynasty." ”

Yang Yi immediately explained: "Although the concerns of the Xu Shufu envoy are reasonable, even if we don't sell it, it will be difficult to put an end to the private sale of the transcendent and the like, and even if the Liao State really imitates gunpowder, but there is no flintlock pistol, what they can make is only a defensive weapon like a grenade, and the northern grasslands are mainly cavalry as a battle, and grenades are only suitable for defending the city, and they cannot play a decisive role." So we really don't have to worry too much. “

Yang Yi struggled before and after, and finally persuaded Zhang Dian and others to sell some weapons to the Liao State appropriately, this is indeed a matter of killing three birds with one stone, not that he deliberately did it in order to please the princess of Yue Kingdom, in fact, gunpowder is a thing that cannot be kept secret for a long time, rather than letting people get it from other channels, it is better to make more money as soon as possible.

After the meeting dispersed, Yang Yi came to Zhang Dian's signing room, and just wanted to ask the teacher for the crime, but Zhang Duan first said with a smile: "Ren Zhi, I heard that you were happy to get a thousand gold a few days ago, and Ren Zhi now has a son and daughter under his knees, congratulations."

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person when you reach out.

However, this convention is not suitable for Yang Yi.

He said with a fierce look in his eyes: "Old man Zhang, do you also know that I have children and daughters under my knees?" You say, I want to feed a big family, it's easy for me, you punished me for a year with a word, does this make my family eat the northwest wind this year? ”

Zhang Dian smiled and said nothing, insisting on not taking his stubble, Yang Yi was even more angry, and said coldly: "Old man Zhang, don't be complacent, from now on, my family will go to your house to eat." ”

Zhang Dian glanced at him, still smiling.

"Okay, okay, old man Zhang, you're still invulnerable, aren't you? It's not tight, I don't believe that Xiao Yaozi is also invulnerable, he is good to see. ”

When Zhang Dun, whose heart was like stone, heard this, his beard couldn't help but tremble, he couldn't know more clearly, Yang Yi bullied the juniors, and that method was enough to make people stunned, and his good grandson might be in trouble this time.

"Ren Zhi, don't think I don't know, your family gave the child an umbilical cord yesterday, and I'm afraid the gift will be more than 10,000."

Yang Yi was not afraid at all, and sneered: "You can control how much you receive, I have many relatives, and my relatives have money, even if you send a million, what will hinder you?" So far, none of my relatives have relied on me to be an official, which shows that I have not abused my power for personal gain. ”

When Zhang Dian heard this, he couldn't help but roll his eyes secretly, you didn't help your relatives find officials, that's because your family has no relatives at all.

"Ren Zhi, aside from the gifts you receive, count your family, your mother is a three-grade fate, your mother is a three-grade fate, and what is called Qingniang also got a seven-grade fate, even your three-year-old eldest son has a seven-grade fortune, even if you don't receive a seven-grade fortune for ten years, can you still be hungry for your family?"

I don't know if I don't know this, I was shocked when I counted it, but it's really true, there are really a lot of people in my family, thinking of this, Scholar Yang was overjoyed for a while.

Punish it, punish it, punish me one, there are four more at home, two three-grade, two seven-grade, catch Ming'er every month I personally go to the grain yard to get Yulu, and I will receive four copies as soon as I receive it, I am angry with you.

Scholar Yang laughed three times, raised his head and chest, walked out of Shangshu Province in eight directions, and returned to his academy and raised Erlang's legs and hummed a small song.

Humming and humming, Scholar Yang suddenly realized that something was wrong.

No, it's too wrong, my family's Qingniang, my mother, my wife, my son led Yulu that I also earned by merit before, shouldn't this be a reason to punish me for Yulu?

Okay, Old Man Zhang, I was almost fooled by you, you wait, see how I clean up your eldest grandson.

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