"The king of Qi led his troops to break the thief army in Dong'e, beheaded 3,000, captured the rebel general Shen Zhi alive, and captured 22......,000 enemies"

"King Qi led his troops to break the thief army in Dongping, beheaded 2,000, beheaded the rebel general Xia Zhongjing, and captured 8,000 ...... enemy"

"The king of Qi led his troops to recover Yuncheng, beheaded 6,000, beheaded the rebel generals Zhang Cambodia Bai and Hou Wu, and captured 6,000 enemies ......"

"The king of Qi led his troops to plunder the formation, in the east of Shushan Lake, and joined forces with Yuan Keli, the governor of Shandong, to break the thief army of 100,000, captured the head of the rebel army, Xu Hongru, beheaded 9,070, and captured 84,000 enemies......"

"King Qi led his troops, Chen Canyu, the right prime minister of the rebel army in Juye, and Xu Heyu, the rebel general in Yu Jiaxiang, beheaded 6,050 and captured 32,000 enemies."

"By October 17, the rebels in Shandong had been cleared, and the officers and troops had beheaded a total of 33,632 and captured 170,000 enemies, of which the King of Qi led his troops to behead 27,002 and captured more than 153,000 enemies!"

On October 20 of the second year of the Apocalypse, along with a good news into the palace, the ministers above the Chang Dynasty only felt a hot pain on their faces.

What else did he say about capturing the enemy on the 20th, but the other side swept away the Shandong rebels in 14 days, and it is estimated that the remaining six days can sweep away the rebels in eastern Henan.

It's okay now, not to mention the blockage, but also gave Zhu Youzhen the opportunity to show his ability to lead the troops.

This kind of counterinsurgency speed has never been seen throughout the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this is because this is the first time that Da Ming has used so many cavalry in the counterinsurgency, and the opponent is just a group of mud legs, it is normal to win, but judging from the beheading and capture, the merits on the books are too good-looking......

Many Wenchen closed their mouths, looked at their noses and noses, and did not speak on the hall with a wat board, while Zhu Youxiao looked at the ministers, and then looked at the good news in his hand, and said at the corner of his mouth:

"King Qi's extermination of the rebels is just around the corner, and you can celebrate the King of Qi in advance."

"The first award of the king of Qi is by the general of the hussars, the second grade, and the official department makes a book."

"The Minister's Decree ......"

The new secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Zhang Wenda, should respond, and when Ye Xianggao heard this, he also spoke:

"Long live, although the rebels in the whole territory of Shandong have been pacified, there are still tens of thousands of rebels in Kaifeng and Guide in eastern Henan."

"In addition, there have been many rebellions in Chengdu, Sichuan, Huguang, Wuchang, and Xiangyang, all of which require local officials and troops to quell the rebellion."

"This matter can be handled by the cabinet." Zhu Youxiao responded, and then spoke:

"How are the provinces doing about the autumn tax payment?"

Zhu Youxiao was a little worried in his heart, this was mainly because the year before last and last year, Jiangnan's taxes could be handed over, all because Qi Jin and his son recruited troops in Zhejiang and indirectly inserted nails.

But this year, they did not arrange for the Qi family father and son to go to Zhejiang to recruit troops, so he was a little worried that the gentry in Jiangnan would make small moves.

However, Xing was frightened by the operation of the emperor stationing people in Zhejiang for two consecutive years, in order to prevent the emperor from continuing to use the form of "recruitment" to garrison troops, so this year's Jiangnan seems to be particularly calm.

"Long live the ......"

The matter in Jiangnan was naturally better opened by Zhu Guozuo of the Zhejiang Party, so he responded:

"Zhejiang's summer tax and autumn tax this year have been discounted and paid more than 1,264,000 taels, more than 384,000 taels have been retained, and 900,000 taels have been shipped."

"A total of more than 400,000 taels of additional silver were collected, all of which were shipped, and those who were shipped together with the autumn and summer taxes totaled more than 1,32,000 taels."

Excluding the exempt provinces of Liaodong, among the 14 provinces in the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang Province accounts for 3.32% of the summer tax and 10.76% of the autumn tax......

On paper, Zhejiang has a population of 10.78 million people, and a total of nearly 1.66 million taels has been received, which looks really good.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction, and then set his eyes on Ye Xianggao, motioning for him to talk about other provinces.

Ye Xianggao also knew this, and said:

"This year, the summer and autumn taxes of Nanzhili have been converted into more than 1,656,000 taels, 657,000 taels have been added, 400,000 taels have been retained, and more than 1,913,000 taels have been shipped."

"Jiangxi's summer and autumn taxes will be converted into more than 64,000 taels of summer tax wheat, and the autumn tax will be more than 120,000 37 taels of silver, and 2,465,000 stones of rice."

"Due to the Shandong earthquake at the beginning of the year, Nanzhili and Zhejiang allocated Changping grain, so more than 2.4 million stone rice in Jiangxi were sent to Nanzhili and Zhejiang.

After saying this, Ye Xianggao did not continue, but waited for the emperor's reaction.

However, Zhu Youxiao also knew that the Shandong earthquake had indeed exhausted the Changping and official grain of Nanzhili and Zhejiang, so there was no big reaction.

Seeing that the emperor did not react, Ye Xianggao also reported to the last few provinces one after another.

Shaanxi, Shanxi, Beizhili, Henan Province, a total of more than 4.2 million stones, more than 7.9 million stones, 786,000 taels of silver, 200,000 taels of retained, 1,450,000 stones of wheat, 2,040,000 stones.

Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi folded 1,090,000 taels of silver, shipped 2,070,000 stone meters, and retained 300,000 taels and 1,200,000 stone meters.

As for the remaining four provinces of Sichuan, Huguang, Guizhou, and Yunnan, needless to say, there will be no additional taxes and summer and autumn taxes this year.

Shandong provided its own disaster relief, and was exempted from the shell for a year, and there was no tax.

Therefore, the situation reported by the provinces is that the income of the households of the Ming Dynasty this year is 6,029,372,24 cents of silver, 12,435,000 stones of rice, and more than 4.2 million stones of wheat.

Compared with last year's tax revenue, this field is simply a five-fold discount.

Of course, there are reasons why Sichuan, Huguang, and Shandong, which are the major provinces of Tianfu, have not paid Tianfu.

But what is more important is that the Ming Dynasty used too many soldiers and too often.

Not to mention anything else, 300,000 main and auxiliary troops are fighting in Guizhou, and the five southwestern provinces are supplying, and Guangzhou is the same.

An earthquake in Shandong and Henan, a breach of the Yellow River, and the raising of the flag by the rebels, naturally there is not much to deliver.

More than 16 million stones of rice and wheat, and 6 million taels of silver, sounds good.

However, excluding the retention of the provinces, there are only more than 4 million taels of silver, and 8 million stones of rice and wheat can be transported to Shuntianfu.

In this way, it is easy to say that the cash is good, but the rice and wheat are not half of the previous year.

All the ministers did not speak again, and Zhu Youxiao frowned, because his internal income was only more than 5.2 million taels this year.

Of the 5,200,000 taels, more than 2 million taels of them were transported to the Inner Guards by the Imperial Horse Prison, otherwise the annual income of the Inner Guards this year would probably only be more than 2 million taels.

It can be said that an earthquake and the war in the southwest have messed up the finances of the Ming Dynasty.

With only more than 8 million stones, rice and wheat and more than 9 million taels of silver in his hand, at most the military salaries and salaries of the four towns in the northwest, officials in the DPRK and China, Tianxia Post Stations, and clans, there will be 2 or 3 million taels left.

It's only October, and there's still a full year left until next year's autumn harvest.

Spending a whole year with two or three million taels of silver can be said to be laughable.

"What about the income of the other five departments and the five temples......" Zhu Youxiao asked with a slight headache, and Ye Xianggao then responded:

"A total of more than 1,423,000 taels, and 780,000 stones of rice and wheat."

Few are better than no ......

Hearing that the income of the six ministries and five temples was only so much, Zhu Youxiao had a headache, because such an income still could not meet the expenses of the imperial court next year.

After all, no one knows if there will be any natural and man-made disasters next year.

The most important thing is that Zhu Youxiao knows that after the autumn harvest next year, he will immediately start such an important battle to recover Liaodong.

Not to mention anything else, hundreds of thousands of auxiliary soldiers will be given a million, or even two million taels at a time.

In addition, although Zhu Youjian had already packed a ticket for the food needed by the army and said that the Imperial Horse Supervisor could solve it by himself, Zhu Youxiao still needed to take precautions and make second-hand preparations.

Therefore, if you want not to delay the recovery of Liaodong next year, before the army is mobilized next year, the imperial court must have enough silver taels to pay taxes.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao could only frown and pinch his eyebrows, and at this time, someone suddenly spoke:

"Long live, on the side of the household department, the Imperial Horse Supervisor still owes more than 7,976,000 stone in taxes, which should be converted into 3,988,000 taels of silver according to the grain price of Beizhili."

Zhu Youxiao glanced at it, it was Wang Yingjiao, the head of the household, and he could only respond to this:

"Hmm...... I know about this matter, after the king of Qi set out on the expedition, Cao Huachun, the commander of the imperial horse supervisor, said that he would send it to the new silver treasury of the household department in the spring after folding the color. ”

"That's it, since the war is all right, stand down."

He waved his hand to signal the hundred officials to retreat, and the hundred officials also sang, and then withdrew from the main worship hall.

As for Zhu Youxiao, after the hundred officials retreated, he said to Wei Zhongxian next to him:

"Go to the Miaoqin Palace to pass on Cao Huachun, and let him go to the Heart Cultivation Hall to wait."

"Slave and maid order...... Wei Zhongxian responded honestly, and then instructed the other eunuchs to do errands, and he himself took the eunuch to send Zhu Youxiao back to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts.

Soon after returning to the Heart Cultivation Palace, Cao Huachun came to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Under the communication of the eunuch with him, Zhu Youxiao motioned for him to come in.

After a while, Cao Huachun entered the hall and knelt down to salute, and Zhu Youxiao, who was frowning while dealing with the music, also spoke:

"I sent you here to ask you how much the Imperial Horse Supervisor is doing this year."

Such an inquiry, for Cao Huachun, who often keeps accounts, almost didn't need to think before replying:

"Back to long live, the Imperial Horse Supervisor has earned a total of more than 27,644,000 stones this year, and after deducting the taxes owed to the household department, there are still more than 19,668,000 stones."

"How much?" Hearing this string of numbers, Zhu Youxiao stopped the pen in his hand, frowned and looked up to ask.

Helplessly, Cao Huachun reported it again, and such a number made everyone except Cao Huachun dumbfounded.

The co-author of the Imperial Horse Prison is now richer and more food than the imperial court, so it is no wonder that when the King of Qi was in Beijing, he was not panicked about money and food at all.

It turned out that he had food in his hands, and he didn't panic in his heart......

They were still immersed in the series of shocking numbers, and Cao Huachun continued:

"In addition to Tian Fu and Huangdian, the balance is more than 2,564,000 taels."

"At present, there are still 4,150,000 taels of silver in the treasury, and the total amount of grain in stock is more than 2,070,000 stones, including the autumn harvest."

Cao Huachun replied calmly, but once again shocked everyone.

What's more, Zhu Youxiao keenly grasped the word balance, and then thought of the more than two million taels of silver sent to the inner court by the imperial horse supervisor, as well as the silver allocated.

In this way, the amount of silver that passes through the hands of the Imperial Horse Supervisor every year has already exceeded 10 million taels.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was very curious about where the silver was spent, so he asked:

"What is the income of the Imperial Horse Warden, and what are the main expenses?"

"Long live the return...... Cao Huachun didn't feel inappropriate, because Zhu Youzhen had confessed, as long as the emperor asked, he could tell:

"The color of the imperial horse supervisor is calculated, and there are more than 22 million taels, of which the bulk is the grain trade."

"As for the expenditure, it is mainly the 16th Guards and 12th Gongwei Battalion of Shangzhi in 1 Beijing and 2 Provinces, as well as the 28th Battalion of the Outer Gongwei in Shanxi, the 44th Battalion in Liaodong, and the 3rd Guard in Daning."

"The military salaries of these horses need to be paid more than 5.4 million taels, and the food also needs to cost more than 2.7 million taels, so these alone need more than 8 million taels of silver."

"In addition, the expenses of the armor factory, the ordnance institute, and the Tianjin shipyard add up to more than two million taels."

"In addition to these, there is also support for Daning Sanwei Tun reclamation and transportation of military rations to Liaodong, and the total expenditure of these expenses is about three million taels."

"In this year's income, the silver taels that can be transferred at will are actually only more than 6 million taels, and the money transported to the south and the interior is 6.7 million taels, so there are only 2 or 3 million taels of silver that can be left."

Two million taels of silver......

Hearing this amount, even if he knew that it was the number after folding, it did not mean that the Imperial Horse Supervisor had obtained so much silver, but the shock that this amount brought to everyone was still indescribable.

You must know that before Zhu Youzhen reformed the Imperial Horse Prison, the Tian Fu of the Ming Dynasty was about 2,400 to 26 million stones.

According to the price of grain in Beizhili, it is 12 million taels to 13 million taels of silver.

Coupled with the income of the inner court, the six departments and the five temples, the finances after the Ming Dynasty are almost the same as the current imperial horse supervisors.

The current Imperial Horse Supervisor not only paid more than 3 million taels of silver directly to the state treasury, but also earned 22 million taels of silver per year.

Combined with the revenue of the state treasury, it is 46,700,000,000 taels.

In addition to the first 100 years of the Ming Dynasty, when can such a terrifying number of folds be reached?

Perhaps afraid that the emperor would think that this was the eternal income of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Cao Huachun also immediately explained:

"The fact that we can have such a high income this year is also due to the high grain prices in Liaodong, so the grain from the south to the north can only have such an income by stabilizing grain prices."

"At present, the grain price in Liaodong has been stabilized, and the situation will improve after the recovery of Liaodong next year, His Royal Highness said that the income of the Imperial Horse Supervisor should be suspended at about 12 million taels."

"If the problem of health centers in Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong is solved, the annual income should be increased to more than 14 million taels, and if the imperial stores are opened in the three provinces, the annual income can reach 15 million taels."

Cao Huachun explained honestly, but he didn't want to say that it didn't play a "modest" role at all, but stimulated Zhu Youxiao.

Only then did he know how terrifying his brother's ability to collect wealth was.

Since the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, the most powerful emperors who have amassed wealth are only the two emperors of Zhengde and Wanli.

Emperor Zhengde gained control of a part of the border army by opening imperial shops and running imperial villages.

However, because he was facing the entire pan-Jiangnan civilian force at that time, he was unable to quickly stabilize the situation.

However, Emperor Wanli, although he was facing a civil and official system that was split by Jiajing, his ability to collect money was really not good.

Compared with the two of them, Zhu Youzhen's way of accumulating money is a bit perverted.

Seized the military power that Emperor Zhengde wanted to seize, the military power did not rely on the border generals, but relied on his own training, in terms of the ability to control the soldiers and horses, Zhu Youzhen's ability was much higher than Zhu Houzhao.

Compared with Zhu Houzhao, who needs to face the monolithic pan-Jiangnan civil and official forces, Zhu Youzhen is facing a very good situation, and the pan-Jiangnan civilian forces have been divided for a hundred years, and it is difficult to join forces to deal with him.

In such a situation, by raising Donglin and attacking the five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, and Kunming, and then when the Donglin family was dominant, he chose to speak for the five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun in the court.

This balance of hands is played, so that the two factions of Wenchen have not regarded him as the same thing.

If it weren't for the battle of Liaoshen, Zhu Youzhen used Mangui to go out of the fortress, and prematurely exposed his strength, and then showed terrifying military power in the action of dismantling Shanxi and Beizhili, then it is estimated that the current two factions of civilian officials are still tearing each other apart, and there is no time to estimate Zhu Youzhen.

Thinking about it this way, Zhu Youzhen's methods are very terrifying.

He understood that opening Huangzhuang would disgust the common people and small and medium-sized landlords, rich peasants and other forces, so he chose to offend the already weak nobles to take action against the military tuntian and reopen up a source of wealth that had nothing to do with the people.

After that, he used the means of land division to win the hearts of the low-level military households and the hearts of the ordinary people who obtained land.

In this way, Zhu Youzhen has a huge foundation to support him.

On the surface, his power seems to be the power of the military, but under the power of the army is the power of the people.

Behind the hundreds of thousands of troops are millions of families of soldiers and soldiers, as well as millions of landless people.

If we want to move Zhu Youzhen, we must first cut off the connection between Zhu Youzhen and these more than 10 million people, so that he can be completely separated from the political center.

Who was the last time there was such a big base of support?

In an instant, a portrait in the Taimiao Temple flashed in Zhu Youxiao's mind.

That was Emperor Gao of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang.

The forces that support him are Huaixi Xungui who started with Zhu Yuanzhang, a disciple of Huaixi.

What kind of force is this? Even Zhu Yuanzhang himself spent more than 20 years to suppress this force to a situation of balancing with civil officials, and killed many arrogant and unruly famous generals and ministers.

Just ask me right now, who in the entire Ming Dynasty dares to say that the means are more decisive and ruthless than Zhu Yuanzhang?

There are no such people, and even Zhu Youzhen, who created this new interest force, can't stop at all.

Even if he announced his inauguration now, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and tens of millions of children under his command would not agree.

The general will carry him on, and what Zhu Youzhen can do is to suppress this force and let them understand their bottom line.

What's the bottom line?

"My brother...... There is too ...... There is the light of the Han Dynasty and the wind of Emperor Wu"

Zhu Youxiao analyzed everything in a short time, and finally wanted to say that Zhu Youzhen had the style of Emperor Taizu Gao, but he was afraid that this sentence would be vigilant after Wenchen knew it, so he could only replace the object of comparison with Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu can fight and treat heroes well, but the only drawback is that he did not restrain the rising powerful forces in his later years.

However, this is not to blame Liu Xiu, after all, the powerful forces in Liu Xiu's period were far inferior to those of Wuxun in the early Tang Dynasty and Huaixi Xun in the early Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to torture and kill.

What Liu Xiu didn't expect was that most of his children and grandchildren died early and had a short lifespan, so that Haoqiang grabbed several successive successes and rose rapidly.

But all this is not the original meaning of Zhu Youxiao's words.

The reason why he said this was because he understood that his younger brother would eventually go against the younger brother he thought of in his heart.

Zhu Youxiao thought very well, that is, to let his only younger brother be an idle king and spend his life in peace.

But in the situation where there were strong enemies outside, thieves inside, natural disasters, and human disasters under the attack of various forces, he still had to drag his younger brother into the water.

Zhu Youzhen has such a big force, which does not make Zhu Youxiao jealous, what he is worried about is Zhu Youzhen's future.

In order to balance such a force that started with the army and the land, the interests to be balanced will naturally also be based on the military merit and the land.

It's no wonder why Zhu Youzhen has been emphasizing reclamation and pioneering.

Only by opening up to the outside can we give the army military merits and give land to the military families.

If these are not satisfied, then don't think that this interest group can always be external, and one day they will be internal.

"Alright, you can step down......"

Zhu Youxiao's face was not sad or happy, but he was briefly surprised before, and he really did what Zhu Youzhen said in the past.

It's just that after he spoke, Cao Huachun paused, didn't get up, and seemed to have something to say.

"What? Did my brother explain anything? ”

Zhu Youxiao keenly sensed that something was wrong, and Cao Huachun hesitated for a few seconds before finally saying with difficulty:

"Your Highness said that the clan of the three provinces can be renovated in advance......"

"......" was spoken, and everyone was speechless, only their hearts were tight.

Wei Zhongxian's heart was even more turbulent, he went through everything in his mind these days, and finally came to the conclusion:

"No wonder the King of Qi took the initiative to lead the troops in this counterinsurgency meeting, it turned out that he was going to attack the clans of the three provinces......"

"Qin Fan is on the top of the side, his position is unstable, and he can't control the sideline, and when King Qi gives an order, I'm afraid he can't refute it."

"There are three kings of De, Lu and Heng in Shandong, but they are not big vassals, so when they sent troops, they deliberately promised to capture Xu Hongru alive."

"Xu Hongru is just an excuse, what we really have to do is to solve the most difficult to solve King Fu and King Zhou."

"Solve the rebels in Shandong first, and finally lead troops into Henan, then the operational place will be big......"

Wei Zhongxian swallowed his saliva, thinking of King Qi, who occasionally smiled at him on weekdays, when he actually had such a scheming, he also began to think carefully about whether he had offended the other party.

As for what Wei Zhongxian can think of, Zhu Youxiao can naturally think of it.

He sighed in his heart, thinking that his younger brother always did things like an antelope hanging on its horns, making people unable to think of his true intentions.

It can be said that this guy has applied the art of war to political action, and he can't even see through it.

I'm afraid that the Zhou Domain and the Fu Domain, as well as the three kings of Zheng, Tang, and Chong, will be reformed.

If you don't innovate, I'm afraid that the end will be that the king of Qi will suppress the thieves, let the thieves flee to the west and south, and besiege the clan princes......

I'm afraid that King Fu and King Zhou have already guessed their younger brother's thoughts and are starting to panic......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao didn't know why, and when he thought of his good third uncle's panicked appearance, the corners of his mouth unconsciously picked up.

"Zheng Niangniang, I really want to see it, and the expression on my face when I know that my good third uncle will be besieged by thieves......"

(End of chapter)