Zhou Peng, the secretary of the household department, took the initiative to resign, in addition to the fact that Lu Yuyan served as the supervisor of the household department, which made him feel a sense of humiliation, and the more important reason was that there was not much silver left in the household department.

After calculation, only the relief of the snow disaster in Hengzhou will require at least 3.5 million taels of silver, and nearly half of the silver deposited in the household department has been removed at once.

And the relocation of the capital to Youzhou and the enthronement ceremony cost silver, and after the discussion of Chu Yin and others, it will take at least nearly 10 million taels!

In the imperial study, Lu Yuyan sighed helplessly, "Your Majesty, after our ten-day count, the gap in the silver taels needed to move the capital is too large, and after the Hengzhou disaster relief silver is transferred, there are now less than five million taels left, which is not enough to support the needs of moving the capital, otherwise, it will ...... How about postponing the relocation of the capital? ”

Lu An pondered for a moment when he heard this, and shook his head, "In addition to the silver stored in the Hubu Silver Treasury, Xia Gang still has almost a million taels of silver left in the Inner Treasury, by the way, Yuyan, how much silver do we have ourselves?" ”

For more than two years, Lu An and Lu Yuyan did not make a lot of money in Danyang County by operating snowflake salt, rubber products, saltpeter ice and glassware.

Lu Yuyan took out an account book and put it in front of Lu An, "Originally, we earned almost more than three million taels, but a few months ago, because we wanted to make small black balls, we bought too many materials, and nearly half of them were consumed at once, and now there are more than 1.6 million taels of silver." ”

"If we add up our silver, the treasury silver of the household department and the silver stored in the inner government, the gap is still nearly two million taels, which is still not enough."

"Besides, I spent all this silver at once, in case the court needs it again, I'm afraid I won't be able to take out the silver."

"In addition, the monthly court officials can't help but prepare."

When Lu An heard this, his head was big.

If you don't sit in this position, stay in Danyang, and be at ease, where do you need to worry about money?

Since leaving the Light Smoke Pavilion and regaining his freedom, this was the first time he felt the difficulty of running out of money.

Fu Tianqi, the new secretary of the military department on the side, asked tentatively, "Your Majesty, before Xia Gang left the capital, didn't Zhang Zuo, the servant of the ministry, say that if the relocation is needed, their Zhang family and the Wang family can provide support, otherwise borrow this money from the Zhang family and the Wang family?" ”

Lu An immediately refused without thinking about it, "For the imperial court, the existence of the family is a tumor, and after the enthronement ceremony, I will inevitably open my hand to the family." ”

"If you borrow money from them at this time, the imperial court and the family will be more deeply bound, maybe the Gaoyang Wang clan and the Fuyang Zhang clan would like to ask them for help now."

"In this way, the household department only keeps one million taels, and the inner government also takes out half of the silver, plus our own silver, almost five million taels, and we will do it according to these silvers."

"Whether it is the relocation of the capital or the enthronement ceremony, it can be simple for the time being, and there is no need to waste so much money for the sake of superficial work."

"That's not going to work."

As soon as Lu An finished speaking, a hearty laugh came from outside the imperial study.

I saw Chu Yin and Lu Mancang walking in together.

"Chen Chuyin, Lu Mancang, see Your Majesty."

Seeing this, Lu An hurriedly got up, "Chu Xiang, Mrs. Lu, hurry up." ”

"Mrs. Lu, you just came back?"

After not seeing him for many days, Lu Mancang lost a lot of weight, compared with four years ago, he almost lost more than 100 pounds, and he was more energetic, and he could faintly see the shadow of the most beautiful man back then.

"Back to Your Majesty, after the minister received the order, he simply handed over the affairs of Suizhou, and rushed back non-stop."

"Since Your Majesty entered Beijing, all states and counties in the east and west of Suizhou have presented letters of surrender."

"Even Bohai County, which is far away on the eastern coast, has sent someone to send a letter of surrender, just waiting for His Majesty to send someone to receive it."

Lu An nodded.

In just three months, his little black ball is known to everyone in the world, unless you don't want to live, no one will give you Xia Gang a funeral.

"In addition, when the minister and Chu Xiang just walked outside the door, His Majesty's words were also heard by the minister."

"Your Majesty moved the capital and held the enthronement ceremony, but the top priority of our Daqian Empire, how can it be perfunctory?"

"Don't worry too much about the silver."

"After the minister took over Suizhou City, in the original Suiwang Mansion, he found a secret room, in which the treasures stored were at least three million taels of silver!"

"Hehe, I don't know if the secret room and the silver in it were left by Xia Gang when he was the king of Sui, or whether Pu Zhen had accumulated it for many years, but now the silver has been brought to the capital by the ministers to fill the treasury."

"With that silver, I believe it should be able to solve the urgent need, right?"

Lu An perked up when he heard this, "Yes, it's just the right time for Taifu to come back." ”

"Zhou Peng, the mediocre official, has resigned, and Taifu just happened to take over the household department."

"Originally, I still thought that I would let Yuyan stay in the household department and count the total amount of cultivated land and distribution in our Daqian, but now that Taifu is back, in addition to taking the key to the treasury, the most important thing is to do this well!"

Lu Mancang responded, "I am willing to serve Your Majesty." ”

"However, the re-clearing of acres of land and the registration of the book, the project is extremely huge, and the minister thinks that it will take at least five years or more to calculate clearly."

"Therefore, the minister suggested that the household department set up a separate Qingzhang Division to be responsible for this matter."

"If you want to save time, you need to divide the world's acres of land according to states and counties, and each state and county must set up a special Qingzhang Division to select capable and credible people to operate this matter."

"It is absolutely impossible to appoint officials from the DPRK and China, otherwise it is easy for officials and local powerful gentry to collude together, and it will be difficult to obtain real data as a result of Qingzhang."

"It's just that in this way, time is saved, but manpower and material resources are also consumed."

Lu An nodded, he naturally understood this truth.

In this period of agrarian society, the land is the cornerstone of the country's stability!

In all dynasties, Qingzhang acres of land are a thankless and difficult to complete huge project.

In addition to the consumption of manpower, material and financial resources mentioned by Lu Mancang, the most important thing is that this move will obviously touch the interests of the powerful family, and it is also easy to cause collusion between local officials and the powerful family and breed corruption.

However, now that Lu An has already sat in this position, he has already made up his mind that after the enthronement ceremony, the first thing to do is this matter!

"Taifu, you first prepare slowly according to what you just said, and as soon as the enthronement ceremony is over, you will start acting immediately."

"Otherwise, the uneven land will sooner or later become the source of chaos in the world!"