Chapter 39 The Civil Officials Are Treacherous

"So much?"

In the Qianqing Palace, when Zhu Youxiao, who had just entered the Chang Dynasty, returned to the palace, he immediately received the material book handed over by Wang Chengen.

He had the same expression as Wang Chengen's original expression, but he didn't expect to need nearly 200,000 taels of expenses if he was equipped with 7,000 soldiers and horses, and still did not have weapons.

However, Wang Chengen also conveyed according to Zhu Youzhen's words:

"Long live, Your Highness said, these 200,000 taels are worth more than one million taels for Jiubian, please don't be reluctant."

"It's not that I am reluctant to ......" Zhu Youxiao heard his brother's words, and smiled helplessly:

"It's just that if you want to take out these things, I'm afraid you will have to have to fight with the cabinet, the six ministries, and the six departments."

"That's right," Zhu Youxiao said, and suddenly said:

"Tomorrow is the enthronement ceremony, tell my younger brother, go to bed early today, and tomorrow I will wait for him to hand me the jade bi and the son of heaven."

"The slave and maid will tell Your Highness as soon as they go back." Wang Chengen hurriedly saluted in response, and Zhu Youxiao also smiled and drew a circle with a vermilion pen, and then stamped and handed the document to Wang An.

After Wang An handed it to Wang Chengen, he saluted and slowly withdrew from the Qianqing Palace.

However, after Zhu Youxiao left, he smiled at Wang An and said:

"My younger brother rarely talks about political affairs on weekdays, but he is especially concerned about the affairs of Liaodong."

"I'm afraid that the Fifth Highness also wants to solve problems for Long Live Living, and the slave maid heard that these days, the Fifth Highness reads the military book every day until late at night, and often comes to the celebrant to ask about Liaodong." Since Wang An wants to be Zhu Youzhen's person, he naturally helps Zhu Youzhen speak.

"Oh? Why didn't anyone tell me? Hearing that his younger brother was working so hard for himself, Zhu Youxiao was relieved, but he was also afraid that Zhu Youzhen would be tired.

He turned his head to Wei Zhongxian, who was absent-minded on the side, and said, "Zhongxian, ask the imperial chef to get some nourishing meals and send them to the fifth brother of the emperor." ”

"The slave takes the command." Wei Zhongxian suddenly heard someone calling him, but fortunately he reacted quickly and said directly, if he was shaking, I am afraid that he would have to be reprimanded by Zhu Youxiao.

Wang An looked at Wei Zhongxian's appearance and was disgusted, but according to what Zhu Youzhen said, there was no sadness or joy on the surface, just standing next to Zhu Youxiao's imperial case, and dealing with the notes handed over by the cabinet with him.

The three eunuchs of the celebrant were responsible for checking the cabinet's recitals, and finally handed them over to Zhu Youxiao for approval, and Zhu Youxiao read most of them as recitals of the imperial history.

No, he had just processed four or five copies of the imperial history from various provinces, and before he had time to rest, he got a copy of the imperial history in Beijing, and the content of the opening made him frown.

[Ministers, inspect Guanglu Yushi, Wang Yuan, inspect the temple to enter the 240,000 taels, and the amount of external settlement is more than 263,000, and there are still 360,000 taels of arrears in foreign silver......]

"......" looked at the music in his hand, Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, then closed the music and turned his head to Wang An and asked:

"In addition to managing the supply of livestock in the palace, does Guanglu Temple's function still have revenue?"

"Yes." Seeing Zhu Youxiao ask this, Wang An, who had been in the same dynasty as the great eunuchs Feng Bao and Chen Ju, knew the way very well, so he explained:

"Under the rule of Guanglu Temple, there are four offices and one division, of which the Great Official Office is responsible for the supply of sacrifices, palace meals, festival feasts, banquets and rewards for the envoys of Fanbang."

"The Treasures Department was responsible for supplying the meat and fruits needed by the court, while the Good Foods Department was responsible for the supply of alcohol."

"The Department of Cattle is responsible for supplying the food, oil, sauce, plums, salt, etc., while the final department is responsible for raising the animals and slaughtering them according to the fatness of the animals."

"The annual income of Guanglu Temple is mainly among the annual income raised by various political envoys, and it is necessary to give Guanglu Temple a sum of income, as well as to the four offices of Guanglu Temple."

"Shanglin Yuan, the Inner Treasury and the Ministry of Industry and other related yamen also need to transfer their annual revenue."

"For example, in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, the Ministry of Industry gave Guanglu Temple more than 13 million catties of firewood and 1.22 million catties of charcoal."

"These items were received by Guanglu Temple, and the Ministry of Industry also made and sent 10,572 ordinary utensils, 800 wine bags, and 1,428 vermilion utensils."

"As for Shanglinyuan, it is necessary to supply Guanglu Temple with 18,000 geese, 1,000 ducks, 120,000 eggs, 6,000 chickens, 1,000 chickens, 800 cattle, 2,000 pigs, 500 sheep, more than 30,000 catties of pickled melons, eggplants, and radishes, 150 stone of walnuts, and 150 stone of chestnuts."

"This is only a part, for example, Guanglu Temple also takes materials from various warehouses in the inner government, such as 6,000 catties of white sesame seeds from the T-shaped warehouse, 2,000 catties of pepper from the Wuzi library, 18 million copper coins from the Tiancai Treasury, and 400 yuan in banknotes."

"The above are the additional annual income of Guanglu Temple, which can be calculated to be about 300,000 taels per year."

"As for Guanglu Temple itself, it only needs to slaughter 200 sheep every year, as well as a large amount of wine, and most of the livestock under the pastor is sold to the people, with an annual income of about 200,000 to 300,000 taels."

Wang Anyang's explanation of hundreds of words made Zhu Youxiao have a headache when he heard it, but when he heard that the pastor could actually earn more than 200,000 taels a year, he couldn't help asking:

"How much pasture land does the pastor have in his hands?"

"This ......" Wang An hesitated for a few seconds before bowing and saying:

"It's about 800,000 acres, but these lands are some wasteland at the foot of Yanshan Mountain in Jizhen, and the people are unwilling to reclaim it, so they are handed over to the priest for grazing."

"Then according to what you say, do you need to be punished for the extra silver taels owed by Guanglu Temple in these provinces?" Zhu Youxiao's brows kept frowning, after all, 360,000 taels is not a small amount.

But after hearing this, Wang An thought for a moment before bowing down and saying:

"Most of the silver taels that are released from the outside will be delayed, and when Emperor Shenzong was there, although he was also angry, he did not urge them, after all, the mountains are high and the road is far away."

"Humph!" Zhu Youxiao was very dissatisfied with this answer, and after snorting coldly, he threw the song Shu on the table, but after a few seconds, he regained his composure, and tried to suppress his anger and said:

"Take this Guanglu Temple's recital to the East Palace to the fifth brother of the emperor, and the Wenhua Hall to the cabinet elders to see if they can speed up the external solutions of the provinces."

"At present, Liao Zhen has a lot of salary, and if the silver is more than two days, the treasury will be empty for one day."

"You can't let me use my internal money to subsidize everything!" Zhu Youxiao used my self-title, which shows that he is very angry in his heart.

However, Wang An can also understand Zhu Youxiao, after all, the royal family's annual income is six million taels.

At the beginning of the year, Shenzong allocated 2 million taels to Jiubian, and then Guangzong allocated another 2 million taels, and Zhu Youxiao came to power and allocated another 1.5 million taels.

As soon as I asked about the household department and the household department, they said that they had no money, and the inner government saw emptiness, and even the palace meals were a little stretched.

If the money in Guanglu Temple can't arrive, not only will the people in the inner court have nothing to eat, but even the cabinet ministers and ministers of the six ministries who work in the outer court will not think about going to the big kitchen to eat.