Zhu Youzhen actually already had a certain understanding of the situation on Guo Yunhou's side, especially the impact of this year's grain production reduction on Zhu Youzhen's own pocket, that is, the royal treasury, is actually not very big.

But for the household department, life is not so good.

Although Zhu Youzhen had already made a will to list the salaries of many new policy officials as expenses from the Ming royal treasury, but this could not stand the salary increase for officials for several years and several times since Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne!

Honesty does not necessarily guarantee the integrity of officials.

But if there is no money, then officials will definitely go to corruption to ensure their own survival.

Lao Zhu once made such a fool.

Corrupt officials cannot be killed, and they cannot be eliminated.

There are more and more places to spend money, but the agricultural tax system of the Ming Dynasty has not been effectively reformed, that is, whether the price of food rises or the price of food falls.

In the end, the people will choose the most beneficial way to pay the agricultural tax.

This is why Guo Yunhou has been in front of Zhu Youzhen in order to sell grain.

On the top of the main hall, Guo Yunhou clearly explained that the Ming treasury is now out of money, and he wants to ask Zhu Youzhen to take out the silver to give it to the household department, but Zhu Youzhen is willing to listen to Guo Yunhou.

But this does not mean that Zhu Youzhen is willing to allocate money to the household department.

"Guo Aiqing, if I understand correctly... Nowadays, the expenses of the household department are really not much, and even the expenses of the other six departments are taken from my royal treasury. This is true even for the officials of the New Deal in Beijing. ”

"Now the household department, no money?"

Zhu Youzhen's words mean that most of the expenses are now coming from the Ming royal treasury, how do you Guo Yunhou run the Ming treasury, and why is there no money?

But in fact, Zhu Youzhen's heart is very clear about how much money is in the Daming treasury.

Since the beginning of the large-scale disaster in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, agricultural taxes have been reduced or reduced to varying degrees across the country.

Originally, once the agricultural tax was reduced or reduced, the Ming royal treasury would bear the shortfall.

In other words, the total amount of agricultural tax collected by the household department will not change in any case.

At least you won't lose much.

But since Zhu Youzhen has repeatedly lightened the burden on the household.

So every time after the agricultural tax was reduced, Zhu Youzhen was unwilling to directly bear the shortfall of this part from the Ming royal treasury, but divided it in half with the household department.

As a result, the income of the household department is also plummeting.

Guo Yunhou's expression was a little helpless, but he had to find a way to get some money from the Ming Royal Treasury to the household department.

I had to say with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, the urgency of the household department today is really the incompetence of the ministers, but we must allocate money to the household department!" ”

"Even if it is borrowed by the minister, it is borrowed by the household department, and it can be returned to the Ming royal treasury when the next year is good."

Of course, the money has to be given, because Zhu Youzhen understands that the household department is really about to be unable to open the pot.

But Zhu Youzhen also knew that he couldn't give it so easily.

Otherwise, there are too many places to ask for money, especially next to Xue Fengxiang, who is staring at Guo Yunhou with his eyes.

Compared with the household department, the Ministry of Industry must ask for more money.

"The Daming Royal Treasury bears 5 million Daming Dragon Yuan, and it will be allocated to the Daming Treasury from now on, and I want to tell you that this silver does not need to be returned."

"But I also want to tell you that if you can't figure out the agricultural tax of the Ming Dynasty, then the household department will have to pay it sooner or later."

The problem of the household department is not that the income is too small, that is to say, fundamentally speaking, the abundance of grain can not reduce the price of grain too much in a short period of time, after all, the Ming Dynasty not only has official reserves, but also has the habit of the people who like to reserve a large amount of grain.

And in the household department, he took on a lot of things, and Zhu Youzhen thought that he didn't need to bear them.

It took a lot of time to make the household department unable to open the pot.

10 million dragon yuan is not enough, but Guo Yunhou has long been overjoyed.

After all, he didn't expect to get much money in the court.

Much of today's distress is due to the fluctuating price of food.

In addition, the difference in grain prices in different regions is too large, and it is difficult for the household departments to mobilize them for a while.

Even if it was given to the Daming Royal Grain Reserve Bureau, in fact, the pressure was still on the head of the household.

Because the grain depot of the Ming Royal Grain Reserve Bureau is not available in every place, but is generally set up around the most prosperous capital of each provincial capital.

If the environmental conditions around Fucheng cannot meet the requirements of grain reserves, then they will also choose to set up the Ming Royal Grain Reserve Grain Depot in other places.

In other words, if the household wants to sell grain to the Ming Royal Grain Reserve Bureau, it must also be delivered to the door.

This made it difficult for Guo Yunhou.

The matter between the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Agriculture and the God of Wealth Bi Ziyan has finally been explained.

Zhu Youzhen set his eyes on Xue Fengxiang, although he knew that the Ministry of Industry was a good place to spend money at the moment.

But some money has to be thrown.

I only heard Zhu Youzhen speak: "I haven't been to the Daming Ordnance General Bureau for a while, I don't know, how is the new artillery mass production plan going?" ”

Artillery is one of the sharpest weapons of this era.

If this range is simply delineated as a frontal battlefield, the battle between the two countries.

Then artillery will be the sharpest weapon, and there will be no one.

The development of Daming's new artillery came from the new books that Zhu Youzhen had exchanged in the Huaxia Library system in his mind.

75mm Field Gun

If this kind of artillery with a hydraulic pneumatic stationing and retreating device is recorded in the history books, it will take at least two hundred years before it appears.

However, compared with the Armstrong rear-loading gun, this field gun has been far ahead of the original new artillery in many aspects, first of all, the first point is the lightweight design of the gun.

Compared to the Ming Armstrong artillery, which often required a large number of Roman manual transportation, that is, the new artillery.

The advantages of this 75mm field gun are undoubtedly more pronounced.

In order to smoothly develop this new 75mm field gun, Zhu Youzhen also specially exchanged a series of supporting technologies, the most important of which is the related technology of forging good steel.

Historically, this artillery has become a standard operation for artillery casting in various countries since its inception, and it has been widely copied.

However, due to its good performance, it was delayed for a long time, and the shadow of this gun could still be seen in World War II in later generations.

When Xue Fengxiang heard Zhu Youzhen greet him, he immediately understood that His Majesty wanted to ask about the artillery in his heart.

Sure enough.