"He's trying to bring the waters of evil to our household! What good is it to force us to die! If you do this, you don't have to save any face, it's all the same! ”

As Li Luan, who is the servant of the household department, most of the accounts of the household department are almost all seen by him, and it is obvious that Zhang Hengjiang caught them off guard with this hand!

Li Luan slumped on the chair, everyone was silent, Zhang Hengjiang's hand was too ruthless, even if Emperor Qingwen pressed the matter, the knife on their heads was still there.

"Master Li, this matter is not your business alone." Wei Xian slowly picked up the teacup, he took a sip of tea and said, "The sky is falling, and Gong Ge Lao is on top." ”

"Gong Ge Lao?" Li Luan smiled bitterly: "Will anyone stand up to it when the sky falls?" At the beginning of the year, a squire died in the Ministry of Works, did anyone stand up to it? ”

No one can save them, the sky is falling, and they are all ants, who cares who sits in this position?

Wei Xian couldn't find the words to comfort Li Luan for a while, he was silent, everyone was silent, they were waiting for someone.

The six cabinet members, except for Zhang Hengjiang, gathered five people in the second assistant Yin Zhizeng's house today, and it is rare for the cabinet with two factions to be harmonious, but there are not many smiles on the faces of these people.

"Gong Ge is here." Sun Qiumin, who was sitting next to the door, saw Gong Sui at a glance.

Gong Sui is old, but he is in good spirits, his steps are steady, and the little boy who follows him is out of breath.

"Gong Ge Lao." The ministers on both sides of the seats immediately stood up and gave up their hands, and Gong Sui waved his hand to signal that these people did not need to be polite.

Gong Sui sat silently on the right side of the seat, and his face was not very good.

Zhang Hengjiang's hand is really amazing, and he almost ended their cabinet.

"How could such a thing happen?" Sun Qiumin whispered: "Zhang Hengjiang is crazy, right?" What's in it for him to do that? When the cabinet and the celebrant were liquidated a few years ago, the Ministry of Industry had the most loopholes, and it was only because we went around that we had to smooth out the accounts, and now he actually wants to bite us! ”

"It's not the first time that their Ministry of Industry has had bad debts, and Zhao Han, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, who died at the beginning of the year, was pulled out of the top cylinder." Li Luan gritted his teeth: "Now he is coming to bite our top cylinder!" ”

Sun Qiumin sneered, this matter has little to do with their Ministry of Rites, and the account book is not in his hand, he is not good to comment.

Gong Sui, who was sitting at the top, closed his eyes tiredly, and his eyebrows were full of indelible wrinkles.

"Mingji." Gong Sui opened his eyes and looked at Yin Zhizeng: "You are the head of the household, what do you think of this matter." ”

The people who can sit in the cabinet are all dragons and phoenixes among the people, one is shrewd, and everyone immediately puts their eyes on Yin Zhizeng, the head of the household department.

"If you don't want money, you need to die!" Yin Zhizeng threw down the teacup in his hand: "How much silver is in the treasury?" Everyone knows in their hearts, the year before last, the drought in the northwest, the canal and river combing, the north of the Tatar attack, the south of the city to do trade to clear the Japanese Kou, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War took turns to ask for money, not to mention the reward in the palace like flowing water, where is there so much money!"

Yin Zhizeng smiled bitterly and said to Gong Sui: "Gong Ge Lao, you are a member of the military department, and after years of border wars, the military expenditure on the nine sides has increased year by year, and Ge Lao, you know better than us how much money the treasury has. ”

The crowd fell silent again.

Yin Zhizeng's voice was hoarse: "What can I do?" I am in charge of Daming's treasury, and I am also in charge of the household department, and they all say that I am in charge of the entire Daming's income and expenditure and taxes? But am I really in charge? The Ministry of Industry wants money to build a river embankment, the Ministry of War wants to build warships, and the people of the city department want to go to sea to trade, all of which are money? But where is the money? Last year, the total amount of money received from the state treasury was less than 8 million taels of silver, and nearly 2 million taels were allocated to repair the river embankment. ”

He clapped his hands: "Two million taels, two million taels!" Now he Zhang Hengjiang will let us allocate money again, where is the money! ”

"The world has not tasted no wealth, and has it not been without financial management?" Gong Sui sighed: "The country's financial endowment, the national economy is always in the household department, the camp is always in the Ministry of Industry, every year the suburban temple sacrifices, the inner government for B, the supervision bureau weaving, the year of reward, everywhere needs silver, everywhere is difficult. ”

Yin Zhizeng sat down, his expression was ugly, and even more ugly than his expression was Li Luan, the waiter of the household department.

"Last year, the tax revenue of the two capitals and 13 provinces was reduced by nearly 10 percent." Li Luan stretched out his hand and pointed to the ground under his feet: "The tax revenue in the suburbs of Kyoto alone is nearly half. ”

Everyone in the audience was in an uproar, but after thinking about it, they were silent, why is there less tax? Those clan vassal kings frantically occupied the farmland, and the original land cultivation had to pay taxes, but now it is occupied by the clan, and they do not pay taxes according to the law, and this part of the money is gone.

Where did the money in the treasury go, the two of them knew better than anyone sitting here that the expenditure on the construction of the Ministry of Industry and the military expenditure of the Ministry of War was only a small amount, and most of the expenditure was in the clan!

Could they take the account book and question Emperor Qingwen? Ask Emperor Qingwen why the silver is gone?

Can they ask?

The answer is no.

"It's useless to talk about that." Li Luan, who had not spoken, spoke: "Now, how are we going to fill this hole." ”

"As you know, the heavy rain in the south has not stopped, and once the rain stops, the waters on both sides of the levee will rise, the levee will be washed away, the fertile land will be flooded, and the people will have no food to eat, and they will be in chaos." Li Luan said in a deep voice: "Now this is not only a matter of our household, Zhang Hengjiang is not afraid of death, he is at most a head on top, but we are different!" If the people are in chaos, they will be in trouble and even occupy the mountains as thieves, and the military department will not be peaceful! ”

Wei Xian said: "The household department of Nanzhili has recently been checking the yellow book, and I heard the news from the celebrant that the merchant registration may be increased, but the number of commercial registrations has yet to be agreed, and there are operational points in this. ”

"I don't think so." Sun Qiumin, who had been watching all the time, opened his mouth: "Just a few businessmen can make up this hole?" ”

"I think it's fine." Li Luan was really anxious: "The political envoys of Shanxi and Zhejiang are the protégés of Yin Ge, and this matter is feasible. ”

Sun Qiumin strongly objected, believing that this matter needed to be thought twice.

"Since this is brought up by Banzai, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for us to do things later." Sun Qiumin said: "The dogs of the East Factory and the West Factory Jinyiwei are all staring at us. ”

Li Luan sneered: "Lord Sun, now your eyebrows are on fire!" ”

Sun Qiumin's little Jiujiu in his heart, the cabinet knows that Sun Qiumin is relying on the Jindi salt merchants to spend money and silver all the way to the Ministry of Rites, and he, like Zhang Hengjiang, protects the interests of businessmen.

If they let them knock down this pole, they might have to move to the Sun family, so Sun Qiumin was in a hurry.

"Don't make any noise!" Gong Sui, who was sitting at the top, slowly opened his eyes: "It's useless to say more now, Zhang Hengjiang has already bitten up, and there is no way out." ”

Gong Sui motioned for Li Luan to help him up, and he said with his hands behind his back: "Just trouble Yin Ge Lao to write a letter to the political envoys of Shanxi and Zhejiang to clarify the main points, here I will leave this old face to have a relationship with Cao Bo, after all, we can't run away from them." ”

The four cabinet members got up and bowed to Gong Sui.

"Remember, it's an emergency." Gong Sui walked out of the gate slowly, his back seemed to be a little hunched again.

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