"That's it?"

"That's it......"

In the palace, Zhu Youzhen held the account book sent by Wang Chengen, and was in a trance.

He thought of a lot of ways to pay taxes next year, and finally thought about starting with the Imperial Horse Supervisor, after all, the Imperial Horse Supervisor still has a lot of grassland and cultivated land.

However, he waited for another half a month, and after the national funeral was halfway through, Wang Chengen delivered the account book to him.

Originally, he thought that his family was very rich, but after seeing the various pastures and acres on the account book, he didn't know what to say in an instant.

"424,600 acres of grassland, 687,423 acres of fields, 1,465,520 acres of Huangzhuang......"

Zhu Youzhen muttered about the various imperial horse supervisor data in the ledger, and wanted to slap the table angrily.

He was not a Qi Imperial Horse Supervisor, but thought of another department that was also responsible for raising horses, Taifu Temple......

It is also a horse breeding, the imperial horse supervisor is for the four guards and one to nourish the horses, and the Taifu Temple is a horse breeding institution of the imperial court.

Ma Zheng in the ancient feudal dynasty is a national event, horses are a military weapon, Zhu Youzhen's ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang once said: "Ma Zheng, is the country's importance." ”

Xia Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet during the Jiajing period, also said: "The major affairs of the country are in Rong, and the major affairs of Rong are in Ma." ”

Like the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Taifu Temple not only has to raise horses, but also can make money.

As one of the important sources of state finance in the Ming Dynasty, Taifu Temple has a large number of national financial resources because of the needs of managing horse administration...... Changying Library.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the reform of "enslavement and depreciation of silver" and the development of silver monetization, the financial resources held by Taifu Temple were also converted into silver income.

Therefore, from the beginning of the Longqing period, the horse administration system of Taifu Temple gradually changed from physical management to monetary management.

As a result, the original simple horse administration agency has derived the function of financial management, and has the nature of a financial institution.

If Zhu Youzhen remembers correctly, during the Hongzhi period, the Taifu Temple had more than 680,000 horse breeders, and the fields exceeded 16 million mu.

However, this is ten times the number of fields in the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Zhu Youzhen remembers that the highest annual tax payment is only 780,000 taels, and the perennial period of Wanli is only more than 400,000 taels.

Such a number is not as good as the Imperial Horse Supervisor in Zhu Youzhen's hands, so it is not difficult to imagine how greedy this group of guys is!

Zhu Youqi was itching, and he couldn't wait to take the people of the Imperial Horse Prison to copy the Taifu Temple, maybe he could copy out a few million taels.

But this kind of thinking is to think about it, and you can't really do it.

There was no way, he could only hold his breath and ask Wang Chengen: "Those confiscated mansions have all been sold?" ”

"I sold some of it, and got 48,600 taels of silver, and there are still 218,600 taels in the treasury of the Imperial Horse Prison."

"More than 200,000 taels ......" Zhu Youzhen was a little depressed, he couldn't do anything with this bit of silver.

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen could only get up and say: "Let's go, go to the Ministry of Industry to see how they want to repair the imperial mausoleum." ”

"Yes." Seeing this, Wang Chengen hurriedly asked people to arrange a carriage.

After all, it is a national funeral, and the elephant chariot cannot be sitting, but the carriage and human-powered sedan chair are still possible.

Soon the eunuchs and brocade guards of the Qinqin Palace were ready, and Zhu Youzhen also got into the carriage and prepared to go to the Ministry of Works outside the imperial city to have a look.

The prince's trip, although it is a state funeral, but the pomp and circumstance still have to be exquisite.

Fifty brocade guards in scarlet costumes wore wild goose swords on their waists, arched guards on both sides of the carriage, and Wang Chengen personally drove for Zhu Youzhen.

Soon, they walked out of the Ciqing Gate of the East Palace, and after being checked by the Tiger Ben Left Guard on duty in the East Palace, they hurriedly let them go.

At this time, a large square and a high wall entered Zhu Youzhen's eyes.

He glanced at the high walls of the Forbidden City, and then glanced at the Wenhua Hall not far away, thinking that his good imperial brother was still attending classes in the Wenhua Palace.

He closed the window and sat in the rickety carriage for a few minutes, after which it stopped.

When he opened the car window, the general on duty at Donghua Gate, who was about to inspect, was immediately startled, and hurriedly said:

"The last general doesn't know that the Fifth Highness is out of the palace, and he has offended the Fifth Highness, please forgive me."

"It's okay, hurry up and check, I'm still waiting to go out of the palace to the Ministry of Works." Zhu Youjian didn't care, the stricter the inspection, the more comfortable he lived in the palace.

Seeing this, the general on duty hurriedly checked the token and let people go all the way.

Zhu Youzhen's carriage quickly walked out of Donghua Gate and came to the street.

At this time, there was a bit of fireworks, but the residences around the Imperial City were all officials' mansions, so there was nothing to see.

Zhu Youzhen's pomp and circumstance can be said to be a grand kind during the national funeral, and people on the street can't help but look at them.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the people didn't pay much attention to the etiquette system stipulated by most of the imperial courts, and Zhu Youzhen didn't care, but looked at these people.

They are not as thin and ragged as in the photos of the late Qing Dynasty, on the contrary, some of the people carrying firewood and pushing carts are dressed appropriately.

Even if it's not new, it's carefully washed.

All this is because the great drought of the Xiaoice River has not yet come, and the people of Daming, even in the remote northwest and southwest regions, can still survive.

Zhu Youzhen asked a palace maid from Yunnan in the palace, and according to what she said, in some counties in Yunnan, she can also earn fifteen or sixteen yuan for a day's work.

Fifteen or sixteen wen can buy two catties of rice, half a catty of beef and mutton, and there are two or three wen left at the end, which is really good.

Similar to the capital, whether it is Shuntianfu or Yingtianfu, the salary is about 30 wen a day, and the palace maids and eunuchs who work for the royal family can occasionally get 50 or 60 wen.

Although prices are higher than those in Yunnan, they are not much higher.

Zhu Youzhen was interested, and asked a Jinyi Wei General Banner: "Eh! ”

"Your Highness is called a humble position?" Zongqi was stunned, and hurriedly responded while walking.

"Well, I'll ask you something." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile:

"What are the current prices in this capital? With what you are waiting for, is it enough to live? ”

"Uh...... This ......" Zongqi smiled bitterly and saluted Zhu Youzhen:

"Back to Your Highness, I will wait for the Jinyi Guard, if I am humble as the general banner, I can receive eighty stone taels a year, and I will exchange it for almost forty taels of silver."

"Forty taels a year, the monthly salary is 3 taels and 3 yuan."

"For example, there are six people in a lowly family, only one of them works for the court, and the old father and brother barely survive on two acres of thin land."

"These three taels of silver for a month, if you are a lowly person, as long as you don't look for flowers and ask willows, you will naturally be enough to spend."

"At present, 4 wen a pound of rice in the capital, only 20 wen a pound of high-quality pork, only 15 wen for high-quality mutton, 16 wen for beef, and 40 wen for a live chicken."

"Although three taels of silver is not much, the family of six lives more compactly, and they can eat meat every few days."