Chapter 259: Money, Too Much, How to Spend It
It's in the middle of the discussion.
Nei Shi Teng came to the door with a group of officials from the Zhisu Nei Shi Mansion.
Zhisu Neishi Mansion, one of the Jiuqing Mansions, is in charge of the world's agriculture, commerce, taxation, finance, etc., and can be said to be one of the extremely powerful mansions of the Qin State today.
below.
It has four important divisions: the Department of Commerce, the Department of Agriculture, the Treasury Office, and the Department of Taxation.
And a moment of effort.
Shaofu ordered Zhang Shaogong to also appear with people from Shaofu.
Shaofu is in charge of the world's mountains, rivers and seas, but in addition to these, it is more in charge of the world's construction and industrial workshops, including road administration.
There are countless departments under it.
Including the Department of Industry, the Department of Mining, the Department of Astrology, the Department of Medical Treatment and Maintenance, and many other departments.
This is also the two main bodies of today's deliberations, Jiuqing Mansion.
And other than that.
Also involved in today's deliberations in the DPRK is the Department of Education.
Although this is only two palaces and one department, the officials under it, and the officials who can directly meet the emperor, have more than 100 people.
Of course.
The reason why there are so many people is also because of the deliberations of the Inner Dynasty, Yingcheng mainly summoned the two Jiuqing Mansions of Zhisu Neishi Mansion and Shaofu, and the important officials who usually do not have to go to the court to discuss matters are here.
See almost.
Yingcheng didn't wait any longer, and said, "Today, I summoned the Zhisu Nei Shifu and Shaofu, and the Department of Education, mainly to solve one thing."
"What should I do with the money in the National Treasury Palace."
Yingcheng's voice just fell.
Nei Shi Teng frowned, his eyes searched at Feng Quji, and seeing that Feng Quji did not respond, he looked sideways at Feng En, the left mansion of the Zhisu Neishi Mansion.
If it is said that he is the prime minister to manage the affairs of the Su Nei Shi Mansion, then if he wants to move the National Treasury Mansion, he must go through the hands of Feng En, the commander of the Zuo Mansion.
Feng En replied with a frown, saying that he didn't know either.
Behind Nei Shi Teng, Ba Chen, Tian Zhen and others also whispered to each other.
Anyone who should know the money in the National Treasury knows it.
The matter has even been discussed privately.
Now that it's finally time to reveal this, it's inevitable to be excited and nervous.
"What should I do with so much money?"
Zhang Shaogong also muttered, and even shook his head uncontrollably.
Regardless of whether the National Treasury Mansion is under the Changfu or the Zhisu Inner History Office.
As long as there is money in the treasury, in the past, in addition to military spending, the largest investment was the Shaofu.
Shaofu built roads, palaces, and workshops to make idle people work.
It's just that this is not the same as it used to be.
The amount of money in the Treasury has never been so large.
He didn't know what to do with it.
And no one knows what Yingcheng is doing with all the money he is hoarding in the Treasury Mansion.
The officials in the entire council hall whispered their words.
But no one took the lead in responding to Yingcheng.
Listening to the buzzing sound, Yingcheng's eyes swept away, and he fell on Nei Shi Teng and said, "Nei Shi Qing might as well come and talk about it."
Suddenly, everyone's eyes fell on Ne Sten's body.
And Nei Shi Teng did not panic, and wanted to get up and reply, but Yingcheng raised his hand to signal him to sit and say, so he sat down and replied:
"Jianguo, Feng Gong, everyone!"
"On the orders of the prison state, the lower officials have ordered the minting workshops to start printing coins at full capacity since January 12."
"Mainly copper coins, so far, the number of coins in the National Treasury Palace."
When Nesteng said this, he paused slightly, and said, "A total of 70,000 yuan!"
Nesten's voice did not fall.
The sound of deep breathing appeared in the entire conference hall.
"Seventy thousand dollars, all in the treasury?"
Zhang Shaogong stared at Nei Shi Teng in surprise, and even asked a little numbly.
"Yes, there is only one in the National Treasury Mansion, Xianyang, and all this money is now in the National Treasury Mansion, and this does not include the county treasury." Nesten nodded.
"This, too much, too much, really too much!" Zhang Shaogong couldn't help but say three times in a row.
He knew that the Treasury was minting money these days, but he never thought that the Treasury was crazy and would mint so much money.
If this money were leaked, it would be a disaster.
"No matter how much this is spent, it will cause a flood of coins, which will seriously affect the stability of coins." The right mansion of the Shaofu made Li Fang couldn't help but say.
"yes, too much, really too much!"
"What's more, what is the court doing with so many coins, this governance of the world, it is not that the court can govern stability by printing countless coins, on the contrary, printing coins like this will make the world's coins disordered."
"How can there be so many?"
The entire council hall was also filled with all kinds of loud discussions.
They all felt that this matter was extremely outrageous.
Hearing the discussions of many ministers, Nesteng himself felt outrageous, but, "Everyone, please be quiet, let this official finish."
"The National Treasury is in charge of the world's finances, and it is not just the printing of coins and other receipts."
"It also includes the financial endowments handed over by the counties to the treasury, including land endowments, silver endowments, etc."
"It also includes the workshops operated by the Shaofu and the trading houses operated by the Zhisu Inner Shifu."
"And what I just said is only the coins printed by the coins of the coinage workshops in the hands of the imperial court."
"And in these months."
"The total amount of money that was carried out by the business houses was 50,000,000 yuan, the total amount of money that was subsumed by the counties was 10,000,000 yuan, and the total amount of money that the workshops operated by the Shaofu were classified under the money of the National Treasury."
"And the reason why there are so few is because!"
Nei Shi Teng's scalp was numb and looked around, and finally his eyes fell on Yingcheng, and he said extremely heavily: "It's because, since November last year, Shaofu has begun to attract investment and sell the workshops mastered by Shaofu."
"The Zhisu Inner History Mansion has carried out a large-scale rectification plan for the three major trading houses of the Hu family, the Zhuo family, and the Wu family."
"At the same time, the Zhisu Nai Shifu carried out a rectification of the National Treasury Office, separating the granary from the treasury, and now the National Treasury is only in terms of coins, excluding grain and grass."
"And because of the special matter of paper sales, the Zhisu Inner History Office has set up a paper department."
"Since February, paper has been sold for only 38 days, with a total income of 30,000 yuan, 10,000 gold per day, and this income is still increasing day by day, according to the paper department's forecast, paper sales will not stabilize until May, and so far, as the paper is transported farther away by various business travelers, this number will exponentially increase."
"By May, the paper income was at least 100,000 yuan, only a little more."
"These coins are still on the way to the National Treasury Office, and because there is no restriction on the types of coins sold on paper, the coins of the six countries can be traded in the past, and these coins will be re-melted into half a tael, which was not counted by the National Treasury Office before this collection."
Nesten's voice did not fall.
The entire chamber gasped.
Staring at Nesten in extreme shock.
And then.
His eyes gradually moved to Yingcheng.
The earnings of paper are terrifying.
And.
Paper is also a stable, long-term gain.
"Why is it so high?" Yang Chen, the new director of the Department of Industry, couldn't help but ask.
"Ahem!" Zheng Bachen, the commercial secretary who was in charge of the sale of paper, squinted at Yang Chen, and only felt that this Yang Chen was very ignorant.
Everyone knows about paper, but anyone who is a little more stable will not ask such a question.
"Yang Sizheng doesn't know." Ba Chen replied softly, "The imperial court banned the sale of bamboo slips and silk books, and controlled the felling of bamboo trees, bamboo slips and silk books, and other workshops, and confiscated the bamboo slips stored by various trading houses."
"After the decree was issued, there was basically no exception
Except for the government's own storage, you can't buy anything to write on the market."
"In addition, paper is sold at a price from near and far, and even if the amount of paper is extremely large, the supply exceeds the demand, and as long as there is, it will be swept away."
"Some wealthy nobles bought large quantities of paper from merchants close to Guanzhong, and transported them themselves to sell them far away."
"In addition, in the past, the giants of the Six Nations have hidden the currencies of the Six Nations for many generations, and there has been no way to deal with them, and this paper sale allows the equivalent of the currencies of the Six Nations to be traded."
"It can be said that all the gold and bronze today are in the Treasury Mansion."
Ba Chen just explained for Nesten.
And just after Ba Chen finished explaining.
Zhang Shaogong frowned and asked, "Doesn't that mean that the number of coins in the possession of the treasury has reached 130,000 yuan?"
"I'm dripping the sky, this, the old man has heard the cocoons in the mountains of coins in the Treasury Mansion these days, but I never thought that there would be so much."
"Ahem!" But Nesten couldn't help coughing and said, "Young man, this, in fact, these are all small heads."
"The real boss of the National Treasury Mansion, has the young prince forgotten about the rental!"
Hearing this, Zhang Shaogong was taken aback, and said in a stunned voice: "The leased coins are not counted?"
Sluggish.
The Shaofu is in charge of leasing copper, iron, salt lake mines, etc.
But.
All of this money is collected by the National Treasury.
He thought that the National Treasury should take this into account.
I never expected that.
There are no statistics!
Think of the income from leasing various mining industries in Shaofu.
I couldn't help but feel my scalp tingle again.
To know.
In the leasing of copper mines, salt mines, and lakes, the price is measured by eridium gold.
The salt mines in Hedong, Taiyuan, and Yanmen alone are 100,000 eridium gold, and this 100,000 eridium gold is 57.6 million yuan.
If this is not counted.
The current National Treasury Office, I can't imagine how much the fuck has in the end.
"The young prince doesn't know this!" Nesteng explained: "The matter of leasing, because of the large transaction, even the Li family, the Feng family, the Wang family, Qin Bohou and other noble families cannot come up with so much money at one time."
"Therefore, the discount count settlement is adopted. It is difficult to elaborate on the complexity of this, and the accounts are piled up, and if the young prince wants to know about it, he will need to go to the National Treasury Office to see the accounts in person, but after the calculation of the discount and the calculation of casting, the total amount of the lease is 80,000 yuan."
"That is to say, by May, the total amount of money available to the treasury is between 210,000 and 310,000 yuan."
Nesten's voice landed.
Be quiet.
In the entire council room, all the officials collectively fell silent.
Feng Quji's face was expressionless, and the Prime Minister's Mansion knew all these numbers.
Yingcheng also waited quietly, and he knew the number in his heart.
But.
Other officials.
All that's left is numbness.
"Supervising the country, the subordinate official has been an official for more than 40 years, and he has also been in the position of the Shaofu Mansion for eight years." Zhang Shaogong couldn't help but get up and look at Yingcheng and said, "But Xiaguan, there has never been, or rather, there has never been such a number of coins in the treasury mansion."
"Too much, really, too much!"
"This, how to deal with it, Xiaguan, I really don't know!"
Zhang Shaogong was numb.
He Zhang Shaogong is also in charge of Shaofu, and he is also a high-ranking person, he has never seen any scenes, and he has spent tens of millions of coins.
But.
Right now.
He panicked.
Don't know what to do.
"The lower officials don't want to depreciate themselves, since Your Majesty ruled the world, for eight years, the cost of the poor world has not been so much!" Zhang Shaogong couldn't help but say:
"And now, the treasury has so many coins, I really don't know how to spend it!"
Zhang Shaogong just finished speaking.
The Shaofu Zuofu next to him ordered Chu Xiao to also get up and said, "Prison Country, the lower officials are also the same as Fu Zheng."
"Such a number of coins, even if they were built by mercenary without conscription, are only a fraction of the amount spent on the treasury."
"How to spend it, the lower officials don't know."
Numbness.
Really numb.
To build Afang Palace, in charge of the construction of palaces in the world, he is also a person who has seen huge amounts of coins.
But.
"In the past, only some materials would be consumed." Chu Xiao said worriedly, "Don't say anything else, it's like the construction of Afang Palace."
"In the past, there was no need to spend money on conscription, the food was directly used by the imperial court to help with food, and the residence was run by the Shaofu Land, so it didn't cost any money."
"And the Shaofu directly supervises the construction of the workshop, and many materials do not need to cost money."
"In fact, so far, the money spent by Ah Fang Palace is less than a million dollars!"
"But now that he is in charge of the country, he has to spend the 210,000 yuan in the treasury, and he really can't figure out how to spend it."
Chu Xiao couldn't help but say bluntly.
Too much money is not necessarily a good thing.
Especially for the imperial court.
The more money you have, the harder it is to deal with.
Quite the opposite.
In his opinion.
What the imperial court really needs is to stabilize the people's livelihood, and the people will work, and the world will be naturally stable.
Once the court has more money, various problems will arise.
Like what.
Goose plucking!
Because if the imperial court wants to use 210,000 yuan to do things, it must be delegated layer by layer, and it must be controlled by thousands of miles, which is not something they can control.
Contrary.
Everything that is built is not based on money, even if officials want to pluck the goose, there is no way to pull it up.
Inside the Council Chamber.
Many officials in the two financial bodies of Great Qin Su, who have the largest daily needs, do not know what to do in the face of the astronomical amount of money in the treasury.
"To each express his own opinion, you don't have to be restrained." In the face of the panic and surprise of many officials, Yingcheng didn't seem to be aware of it: "Here, I must emphasize that."
"The 100,000 dollars in the National Treasury Palace, no matter what method is used, must be spent this year."
"If you have any good ideas, please speak them up and discuss them."
Yingcheng didn't believe these people, and he was really shocked that he didn't know one, two, three.
The matter of the coins of the National Treasury Office is almost known to the officials of Xianyang.
Even Micheng, who was outside the court, was asking, and the elders of the Meng clan were tempting, so he didn't believe it, these people didn't know how to spend it.
Especially.
Since the establishment of the employment relationship and the abolition of forced labor, the court officials will dislike the abundance of money and do not believe in ghosts.