There were a few sounds of clothes grinding, and only a neutral voice was heard: "Minister Shen Tingyang, meet His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Zhu Cihong sat on the pipe hat chair and said calmly: "No courtesy, sit down." ”

"Your Highness." Shen Tingyang sat down on the chair respectfully, without raising his head and squinting.

"Wumei Gong doesn't have to be restrained." Zhu Cihong got up, walked to the chair opposite Shen Tingyang and sat down again: "Wumei Gong is from Suzhou?" At that time, Chongming belonged to Suzhou Mansion, so Zhu Cihong said this.

Shen Tingyangrao has experienced strong winds and waves, and has also had the experience of facing saints, and now he hears His Royal Highness the Crown Prince call him a number, and he is also condescending, sitting opposite, the drum in his chest is thunderous, his head is buzzing, and he doesn't even dare to raise his head, only the sound should be.

"My mother is also from Suzhou, and you and I still have a hometown friendship." Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Tian Cunshan, go get a chilled drink, and cool off with Wumei Gong." ”

"Your Highness has tormented your subordinates." Shen Tingyang secretly took two breaths, and finally regained some clarity.

Zhu Cihong knew that he was so enthusiastic that it would make people panic. However, this fear is bound to fade as the relationship deepens, leaving only jokes for the future. Like Shen Tingyang, an important confidant with extremely low replaceability, Zhu Cihong is absolutely unwilling to fix the relationship between them only on the simple righteousness of "monarchs and ministers".

Zhu Cihong read Shen Tingyang's resume and knew that he was not a non-commissioned officer, but a member of the Guozi Prison, and was the first secretary in the cabinet. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Jianyu rejuvenated the army, Jinzhou was in an emergency, Shen Tingyang was given the official position of Hubu Langzhong, and went to Denglai, Shandong Province to plan the shipping grain and salary, and received the Jinzhou defenders.

Shen Tingyang is a serious person, and he is not as greedy as other officials, so he does this errand very well. Shi Kefa, who was the governor of Caoyun at the time, recommended it, and Emperor Chongzhen praised him and said: "The officials are as good as Shen Tingyang, why is it difficult to govern the world?" ”

At the beginning of this year, Shen Tingyang entered the Guozijian as a secretary, a rare high-ranking official who can do it, and it belongs to the clear stream, and it is not impossible to get involved in the cabinet in the future.

"Actually, I know Wumei Gong, and I started from Chongzhen's 12th year of "Please Advocate a Small Test of Shipping". Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "And the test results are good, which makes my father Bixia very pleased." ”

Shen Tingyang said helplessly: "If the sea really reopens, the consumption of grain can be reduced by at least seventy percent." ”

Such good governance has not been implemented in the end.

Zhu Cihong also regretted it. However, this is politics, and many times it is not about choosing the best, but about succumbing to the balance of interests. A Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, from north to south, feeds the Cao Ding Caofu and the Yaxing compradors, although there is no Cao gang in later generations, but a huge interest group has been formed.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft water, if the water transportation is changed to the sea, the imperial court can certainly spend less money and collect more grain, but how can the huge canal group be willing to watch its own interests suffer?

In the Ming Dynasty, it was the imperial history that impeached Shen Tingyang for his slimming and private interests - because the Shen family is the largest sand boat gang, and if it is abolished and the sea is changed, his family will be the biggest benefitee. In fact, if these officials are not instructed, who will rush out? The difference is that some people are alienated because of their affection, and some people are just because they took red envelopes.

"At that time, what the ministers talked about the most was the family background of Wumei Gong and whether the Caohe soldiers would make trouble." Zhu Cihong paused, saw that Shen Tingyang was silent, and said slowly: "I thought that the Heavenly Family and the Powerful Family were both prosperous and loss-making. As long as the treasury is full, the world is rich and wealthy, and it is the elephant of prosperity! ”

"Your Highness, this is a true insight!" Shen Tingyang agreed, but when he heard the prince mention his family background, he couldn't help but feel a lot nervous.

"If the trunk is scorched, how will the branches and leaves deal with themselves?" Zhu Cihong's tone changed: "Before, Bixia raised money from a wealthy family, and Wumei Gong also heard about it." ”

Shen Tingyang didn't dare to lie, so he had to nod, and secretly screamed in his heart: What are you afraid of, the prince finally wants to borrow silver!

The tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty is divided into summer and autumn, and from the seventh year of orthodoxy, the national tax collected is divided into Taicang and the inner treasury.

The inner warehouse has the inner carrier warehouse, the Guangji warehouse, the five warehouses of A, B, C, D, five, the stolen penalty warehouse, the Guanghui warehouse, the Guangying warehouse, the Tiancai library and the supply warehouse. Among the 12 warehouses, only the internal inventory is gold and silver, and the others are sulfur, saltpeter, cloth pigments and other physical objects.

The inner carrier depot is the inner treasury that the ministers are staring at.

In the eyes of the ministers, it is like a cornucopia, which is forever inexhaustible. In the Hongzhi, Jiajing, and Wanli dynasties, the emperor was able to move one million taels of silver from the treasury with strength, but when the emperor was weak, he could only be moved out by the ministers.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, he did not dig up silver from Taicang once, but continued to issue internal money, so that the courtiers knew that the household department had no money, and asked for money to find the emperor Bixia to issue internal money. Because the salaries of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division and the 26th Guards of Shangzhi are all supported by internal funds, as long as a commander brings the soldiers of the Beijing battalion out, he can confidently ask for the distribution of internal funds.

There are four main sources of internal money: gold and silver in the national tax, Taicang treasury, Huangzhuang Huangdian, and confiscation.

After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, the imperial court ran short every year, and it was more difficult to separate the gold and silver from the national tax than to cut the meat of the foreign ministers. The Taicang treasury has remained empty for a long time, and there is nothing to dig up.

After Wei Zhongxian was cut off, the annual income of tens of thousands of taels of silver from Huangzhuang and Huangdian also continued to shrink. As for the confiscation, Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka clan's stolen silver can only be regarded as mosquito meat for the entire empire. People in the world always think that the eunuch must be a huge greed, and there is also a legend in the market that Wei Zhongxian brought more than 40 cars of gold, silver and jewelry, but purely from the confiscated assets, Wei's money is not even enough to constitute a felony of greed, because the official is unwilling to disclose it publicly, so as not to use the eunuch party to prove that "the factory minister does not love money".

As for the boycott of the mine supervisor and the abolition of the weaving bureau, it has added to the economic situation of Ouchi.

Therefore, since the eleventh year, Chongzhen has raised donations from the lords and nobles several times, hoping to tide over the difficulties together. These wealthy families have put their belongings on the street and sold them cheaply, saying that they are innocent and have no money to donate to the country. The one who donated the most only donated 20,000 taels, which was Queen Zhou's father and Zhu Cihong's grandfather, Jiading Bo Zhou Kui.

Just 20,000 taels, including 5,000 taels of private money secretly taken out by Queen Zhou, I hope my father can set an example.

Zhu Cihong also has no good impression of his relatives because of this incident. Especially when he also knew that in another time and space, Zhou Kui was chased by the Dashun army, and a total of 700,000 taels were recovered.

And this grandfather also personally sent the prince's grandson to King Chuang.

"It's so bitter to think about!" Zhu Cihong patted lightly on the seat.

"Your Royal Highness......" Although Shen Tingyang was not named and asked to donate, he was burdened with a heavy name after all, but he unconsciously donated, and it was inevitable that he would be truthful. He didn't know that the prince was actually sighing about the "history" that had not yet happened, and he only thought that the prince had made up his mind to rip off a piece of his flesh today.

"I'll leave that at that." Zhu Cihong was alert in his heart, and immediately suppressed this negative emotion, revealing a solemn and affinity smile and said: "Father Bixia also owes thought, if those important ministers take out a hundred thousand taels, wouldn't they frankly admit that they are greedy beetles?" It's not necessarily that you don't want to give up the money. ”

"His Royal Highness is kind to people, which is admirable." Shen Tingyang did not relax, but just responded to the story.

"I urgently summoned Wumei Gong to come today, in fact, I have something important to inquire." Zhu Cihong returned to the topic.

"The minister knows everything."

"If you want to transport 50,000 people from Beijing to Jiangnan, how many boats will you need?" Zhu Cihong asked.

50,000 people! Shen Tingyang was taken aback, and looked up at the prince suspiciously. With so many people, it must be a big army, but why don't the army go to the northwest and east, and send it to the south of the Yangtze River? Could it be that the rumored matter of the Son of Heaven Nan Xing turned out to be true? He hid the shock in his heart, and his mind raced to calculate.

"Your Highness, a big sand boat can transport 100 people, and a small sand boat can also transport more than a dozen people to thirty or fifty people." Shen Tingyang said slowly: "If you use all big sand boats, you need five hundred, and if you use small boats at the same time, the number will be even larger." This is just transporting people, if there are goods with people, it will be counted separately. ”

"If you leave the port from Tianjin and land in Shanghai, how long will it take? How much does it cost per boat? ”

On the day of the trial voyage, the minister personally escorted the ship, and sailed from Huai'an on the first day of the first month of June, and arrived in Tianjin on June 15. Among them, it took five days to wait for the wind, and only ten days to actually travel. From Huai'an to Shanghai, there are still 800 miles away, and it will take about four days. Shen Tingyang finished counting the days, and said: "The voyage fee includes the cost of the shipwright, and each ship should use three taels of silver per day, if it is calculated according to 20 days, each ship will be six taels of silver, and the round trip will only be twelve taels." There are fewer people in the boat, and you can save some. ”

"Sea freight is cheap, and sure enough." Zhu Cihong bowed slightly: "Is it safe?" ”

"If you transport people, it is safer than transporting money and grain." Shen Tingyang said: "If it is money and grain, once the boat capsizes, it will drift away." If it is transporting people, as long as the rescue is timely, it may not be fine. ”

"If it is used in combination with large and small sand boats, and three or five more batches of people are transported, is the Jiangnan sand boat enough?" Zhu Cihong asked.

The prince only talked about shipping, and did not mention the matter of borrowing silver, which made Shen Tingyang suddenly feel a lot easier. He said: "Your Highness doesn't know, the wealthy people in Jiangnan often build several ships, and the middle class will also build one or two for backup, even if it is a low-class household, several families will build a small boat. There is a lot of water in the south of the Guyin, and the boat at home is like a chariot and horse in the north. If these 50,000 people can be divided into ten groups of 5,000 people each, the relatives of the ministers will be enough to bear the matter. ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said in Suzhou official dialect: "I know that Qing is a family in the south of the Yangtze River." ”

Shen Tingyang listened to the local sound of Suzhou, and saw that the prince was kind, and finally couldn't help asking: "Your Highness, how should these 50,000 people be settled?" ”

If it is the Son of Heaven, Nan Xing, he will naturally go to Nanjing, and there will be no problem of resettlement. Shen Tingyang used this kind of pretending to be stupid to explore the answer he wanted to know. He sincerely hoped that the emperor would be able to live in the south, so that the influence of the Jiangnan clan on the imperial court would greatly exceed that of the northerners.

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