Chapter 523: Silver

Opening Weimi's eyes, the Emperor of the Apocalypse showed a comfortable smile on his face, looking at Empress Zhang lying beside him like a kitten, the smile on the face of the Emperor of the Apocalypse became even stronger. Thinking about last night's events, the Emperor of the Apocalypse felt a little ridiculous, he hadn't been so out of shape for a long time.

After looking around and seeing that there was no one, the Emperor of the Apocalypse slowly got out of bed. Without disturbing the sleeping Empress Zhang, the Emperor of the Apocalypse slowly walked out. Unexpectedly, as soon as I arrived in the outer hall, I saw Wang Chengen, and the face of the Emperor of the Apocalypse smiled, and said: Wait for me to change clothes! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen hurriedly walked over, smiling and waiting for the Emperor of the Apocalypse, while telling the eunuchs and palace maids to be careful.

After freshening up and having breakfast, the Emperor of the Apocalypse began to repeat what he had been doing. Although there is a cabinet and a celebrant supervisor, the Emperor of the Apocalypse still doesn't want to be lazy, and some things are more reassuring to see for himself.

After looking through a few twists and turns, the Emperor of the Apocalypse finally saw a more important fold on his face, and the one who wrote the book was Zhou Jiamo, the secretary of the ministry. Gently opened the fold, only to see that it was written: Request for compensation of the official's debt.

sighed helplessly, I originally thought that I had done a lot of things, but for the first time, the Emperor of the Apocalypse found that he had too many things to do, and he had a long way to go!

Skimming the sycophants in front of him, the Emperor of the Apocalypse's gaze fell directly on the business behind. The above topic is just a clichΓ©, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the landlord's family has no surplus grain, and these officials are not having a good time.

The psychology of the Emperor of the Apocalypse is very clear, for example, in the Ming Dynasty, many and most officials can't rely on Yulu to come up, but there are still many people who still have to rely on these Yulu to eat. In many Qingshui Yamen, if Yu Lu is not paid, these people may not be able to survive this year.

In this recital, Zhou Jiamo, the secretary of the ministry, hoped that the Emperor of the Apocalypse would distribute this year's stipend in full. can make up some of the arrears of the imperial court. Although Zhang Juzheng reformed in the early years of Wanli and once reversed the political decline, Emperor Wanli also became a rich emperor.

This Wanli Emperor is also a thrifty lord, and the imperial court no longer owes much money to officials, but the three major levies of Wanli have cost countless silver dollars in the treasury. In this way, the originally abundant treasury already owed a lot of money in the hands of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

However, the Emperor of the Apocalypse punished corrupt officials. The salt tax was re-established, and by the end of this year, there were 12,000,000,000 taels of silver in the state treasury. This year, a total of 8 million taels of silver was obtained from the treasury of the family, and the rest went into the inner treasury of the Emperor of the Apocalypse. As for the salt tax, the state treasury collected a total of 16 million taels in half a year, and the government and the opposition were stunned.

After a year's expenditure of the Ming Dynasty, the treasury still had 1,200 taels of silver, which was something that I never dared to think of before. After this incident, the government and the opposition all admired the Emperor of the Apocalypse. The praise of the Holy Ming is very loud.

However, with money, the matter came, and all the officials of the imperial court set their eyes on it, and the officials were naturally no exception. In Zhou Jiamo's recital, Zhou Jiamo applied for 2.3 million taels of silver tattoo like the Emperor of the Apocalypse, which was used to distribute money and New Year's subsidies to officials at all levels, and the most important thing was to make up for the money owed to officials before.

Sighing softly, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was still very grateful to Zhang Juzheng in his heart, if he hadn't done Zhang Juzheng's reform. I would never have such a good situation. Although the three major people have suffered a great loss of national strength, they are much better than the Jiajing Dynasty. That's when it was difficult.

Looking at the votes of the cabinet below, the Emperor of the Apocalypse could only smile bitterly and shook his head, saying a lot of useless nonsense, the central idea is one meaning, accurate!

However, the Emperor of the Apocalypse knew that such an excerpt did not dare to write anything else, and the treasury had no money before. No one will make a fuss. If anyone makes trouble, they will be labeled as ignorant of the general situation. But now that the treasury has money, if we don't hand out the officials' money, I'm afraid things will be very troublesome. The cabinet didn't want to provoke the royal historians led by the Inspectorate, for those mad dogs. The cabinet is definitely to worship ghosts and gods.

Thinking of those corrupt officials with fat brains, the Emperor of the Apocalypse hated that he had to make a fortune, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse himself knew that things could not be done like this. Thinking of those officials who couldn't open the pot, the Emperor of the Apocalypse glanced back at Wang Chengen and said, "This piece of music was sent to the celebrant to be clothed in red, and I got it!" ”

Wang Chengen immediately bowed respectfully, and said with a smile on his face: "Yes, the emperor can rest assured, the slave will do it!" ”

Retracting his gaze, the Emperor of the Apocalypse continued to flip through the folds in his hand, many of them were small things, and big things had to do with money. After taking care of the matter, the Emperor of the Apocalypse rubbed his swollen forehead, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse felt that he felt a lot better.

"Your Majesty, drink tea!" Seeing that the Emperor of the Apocalypse seemed to have handled it well, Wang Chengen hurriedly held a bowl of tea in front of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is the tea prepared by the slaves, and the temperature is just right now!" ”

Taking the tea handed over by Wang Chengen, the Emperor of the Apocalypse took a sip lightly and said, "Is there anything important in these folds?" You pick it out and give it to me. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen replied respectfully, and slowly flipped the twists and turns on the side, these are all the folds taken from the celebrant supervisor, Wang Chengen has already seen them in his heart.

As the personal eunuch of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Wang Chengen naturally has advantages that others do not have, basically whatever the Emperor of the Apocalypse asks, Wang Chengen can give an answer.

"Your Majesty, this recital is from the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Yuan Yingtai Yuan, which means that many palaces in the palace are in disrepair, and now the treasury has money, I hope to repair the palaces in the palace! About two million taels of silver are needed, and the cabinet vote is intended to be approved! Wang Chengen looked at the Emperor of the Apocalypse cautiously, but the expression on his face did not change in the slightest.

Emperor Apocalypse's brows suddenly furrowed, Yuan Yingtai has done a very good job since he became the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, whether it is governing the Yellow River or other things. Although he knew that Yuan Yingtai didn't know about military affairs, the Emperor of the Apocalypse didn't want everyone to be an all-rounder.

The impression of Yuan Yingtai is not bad, but the Emperor of the Apocalypse can't understand how there can be such a sycophancy. Although the Emperor of the Apocalypse traveled through the later generations, he couldn't figure it out.

The ministers of the Ming Dynasty knew very well that the treasury had no money, and when they had money, they naturally had to spend it where it should be. But the emperor can't ignore it here, otherwise he will be pressed a hat without a monarch. At that time, Emperor Jiajing had a dispute with his ministers because he wanted to repair the palace, and the ministers hoped to use the money to govern the country, but the emperor wanted to build his own burned palace.

In the end, it was the ministers who backed down, and since then, the tradition has remained. If the treasury has no money, let's not talk about it, if you have money, you must give it to the emperor to spend a little, and Yuan Yingtai naturally wants to go to this trick.

Without thinking about it, the Emperor of the Apocalypse shook his head, glanced at Wang Chengen, and said, "How much silver is still in my inner treasury?" "Because of his personality, the Emperor of the Apocalypse is not as concerned about how much money he has like other emperors.

"Back to the emperor, because by the end of the year, the silver of the Longchang had already come, and the salt alone made a profit of 26 million taels, and the rest of the income was about 4 million taels, totaling about 30 million taels. The silver obtained by copying the house is 16 million taels, and there are about 24 million taels in the original inner treasury, and now the emperor's inner treasury has about 70 million taels of silver! Wang Chengen was naturally extremely familiar with these and said it without hesitation.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse was stunned for a moment, although he knew that the Ming Dynasty was not without silver, but this silver also came too much! After thinking about the information of later generations, the Emperor of the Apocalypse knew that it was not that there was too much silver, but that he was poor. He shook his head with a wry smile, and asked with a serious face: "Long Chang brought so much silver, won't it affect the operation of the Long Chang?" ”

"Back to the emperor, Nubei has already asked, they have already set aside the money to be spent next year, and there will be no mistakes!" Wang Chengen's expression did not change in the slightest, and he bowed.

nodded, since this was the case, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was naturally relieved. After a slight ponder, the Emperor of the Apocalypse said with a serious face: "Since there is no shortage of money in the inner treasury, don't use the money from the treasury to repair the palace, use the silver from the inner treasury!" ”

"The Emperor Shengming!" Wang Chengen naturally would not object, now that there is silver in the inner treasury, these two million taels naturally don't take it to heart. What's more, this is the money for the repair of the palace, and no one dares to say anything.

Putting down the fold in his hand, Wang Chengen picked up another fold, but this time he didn't open it, but respectfully said to the Emperor of the Apocalypse: "Your Majesty, this is the secret fold of Lord Luo Sigong Luo, the commander of the Jinyi Guard!" As he spoke, he respectfully handed it to the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

Reaching out to take the fold, the Emperor of the Apocalypse looked at it slowly, but soon the Emperor of the Apocalypse sighed softly. This is Luo Sigong's request to punish the White Lotus Sect traitors and Jiannu, the case has almost been tried, and Luo Sigong hopes that the Emperor of the Apocalypse will issue an order.

Luo Sigong's tone was very cautious, for fear of angering the Emperor of the Apocalypse, in fact, all these people should be executed at Ling Chi, but Luo Sigong didn't dare to take this idea. You must know that there is a saintess of the White Lotus Sect here, and this is where Luo Sigong can't make up his mind.

That delicate face flashed in his mind, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was a god for a while, although the Emperor of the Apocalypse had countless women around him, but these were all sent in, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse had no right to choose. The Holy Maiden of the White Lotus Sect is different, she is the first woman to have a good impression after the Emperor of the Apocalypse came to this world, but the Emperor of the Apocalypse did not think about it for too long, and said to Wang Chengen on the side: "Wang Chengen, what do you think is appropriate for this matter?" (To be continued......)