"Your Majesty, long live long live, long live!"

Lin Hai was radiant and not the slightest frightened, and shouted excitedly when he knelt down at Xu Jing.

Compared with Sun Shan, Xu Jing has a much better impression of this blood relative of the same clan.

"Give a seat."

Xu Jing had a gentle attitude and motioned for the eunuch to bring a stool.

"Your Majesty, you must have summoned Wei Chen for the treasury, right? Don't know where you want to start? ”

Lin Hai had a smile on his face, and Weichen looked up at Xu Jing and asked in a low voice.

"Where? Let's start with this twist and turn! ”

Xu Jing pointed to the ground and said.

Lin Hai bent down to pick up the recital and looked through it carefully, his expression was gloomy: "This matter has been played by state officials in various places as early as March, and there are forty recitals related to the bursting of the Yellow River. ”

"Why not disaster relief?"

Xu Jing frowned slightly, the Yellow River burst its banks, and the livelihood of millions of dawns was involved at every turn, but such a major event was delayed again and again, and the anger in his heart became more and more difficult to suppress.

"It's not that the imperial court is unwilling, it's that the treasury is empty and unable to help."

Lin Hai shook his head, quite helpless.

"The treasury of the Great Cadre has been depleted to such a point?"

Xu Jing frowned and asked.

Lin Hai nodded 1510 and told the truth: "Now the treasury is less than three million taels of silver, and this is still achieved by deducting the official salary of Beijing and replacing it with cloth." ”

"These numbers are not enough to pay half of the salaries of the soldiers on the frontier. Not to mention giving relief to the victims. ”

"So little? I remember that the tax revenue of Daqian was a huge amount of 30 million taels of silver a year, why was this the only thing left in the treasury? ”

Xu Jing frowned and continued to ask.

Lin Hai smiled bitterly: "In recent years, the first emperor's health has deteriorated, and the cost of pruning the imperial tomb has reached millions, plus the drought in various places has been difficult for many years, and the tax revenue has long been less than 10 million. ”

"But the most important thing is ........"

Saying this, Lin Hai glanced up at Xu Jing and didn't dare to continue.

Because every word that follows will touch the interests of a behemoth.

And these exists for a long time, dating back several dynasties, and some are close to a hundred years.

None of them can be offended by the Lin family.

"Say!"

Xu Jing scolded and interrupted Lin Hai's hesitation.

Lin Hai gritted his teeth and said those one by one: "First, the government military system, at the beginning of its creation, it was to reduce the expenditure of the treasury by integrating military and agriculture, serving as soldiers in wartime and farmers in leisure time. ”

"But now, the military land has long been forcibly occupied by the gentry from all over the country and classified as private land."

"The second is tax exemption, since the beginning of our great cadres, we have established a tax exemption system for show people. The original intention was to increase the seeds of reading. ”

"But as soon as this move came out, for several generations, it has made countless high-ranking officials restrain their private land to avoid paying taxes, so they have raised countless noble lords."

"The third is the vassal king!"

Xu Jing listened to this, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Now it seems that Daqian is just full of devastation? I'm afraid that it has already rotted and nourished countless mosquitoes.

But all of these are tricky and troublesome.

For the first two, if Xu Jing wants to uproot them, the time it takes is by no means one or two decades.

As for the vassal kings, they have existed since the founding of the country.

According to the law of the Great Qianguo, after the vassal king became a vassal domain, the land to which he belonged had independent military administration and taxation, and he only needed to pay a certain amount of annual payments every year.

It has been 300 years since the founding of the Great Qian, and these vassal kings have been passed down from generation to generation, and they have long been deeply rooted in the local area.

It takes time and energy to uproot it.

What's more, this group of vassal kings held military power, and if they rashly cut the feudal domain, they were afraid that they would provoke all over the country to rise up in the name of King Qin.

Therefore, what Lin Hai said is that all the diseases are deeply rooted in the immediate disaster relief and are not beneficial.

Between thoughts, Xu Jing got up and paced back and forth.

"You write down the names of a few officials who are most closely related to the Shi clan, and I will let Dongchang take people."

After a while, Xu Jing slowly spoke.

The first thing that Xu Jing, who was short of money and anxious at the moment, was that those nobles and tycoons would inevitably collude with Beijing officials if they wanted to avoid supervision.

These Beijing officials, who are deeply involved in it, must have a lot of wealth in their hands.

This kind of person is the best object for Xu Jing to collect gold and silver at present.

"By the way, what is the market price of oil, grain and rice now?"

Immediately, Xu Jing remembered that the more troubled the times, the richer a person is, and that is a businessman who is known for treachery.

"The price of what these people need has already ballooned. At the beginning of the year, a bucket of new rice is only a penny, and the price of rice has already soared in the middle of the year. ”

"What's even more hateful is that most of the big dry rice grain is concentrated in the hands of four grain merchants. A few days ago, the household department went to borrow grain by the will of the imperial court, and several people shirked the emptiness of the granary and there was no rice. In fact, there are more than ten granaries outside the city that are almost capped! ”

Lin Hai was very angry when he talked about this group of wealthy businessmen, and scolded again and again.

"Uncle Seven, the position of the head of the household department is now vacant, please take it."

Xu Jing's voice changed, and he talked about the vacant household book now.

"Minister, never give up!"

Lin Hai was stunned, his face flushed, and he immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously and shouted.

Although he was related to Xu Jing, he didn't dare to covet the head of the household.

In charge of the world's tax revenue, such a heavy power is not at all expected by outsiders.

Once he sits in such a position, he is in charge of tens of thousands of border gates, but tens of thousands of generals will have to treat him with three points.

In Lin Hai's opinion, such a high position should be handed over to his confidants, not his own relatives, who have never even met a few times.

"Seventh Uncle, tonight I have a banquet for four grain merchants, and please be sure to leave you behind."

Xu Jing put away the emperor's aura, personally helped Lin Hai up and said with a smile.

"Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness, the minister still has a plan for Your Majesty to raise a lot of gold and silver in a short period of time!"

Lin Hai trembled, still not out of the excitement of his sudden promotion to a high position, he struck while the iron was hot and offered another plan: "The eight bureaus of the twenty-four yamen in the inner court are far beyond imagination, if Your Majesty is willing to investigate thoroughly, ......"

"Eight innings...... Can Grandpa Cao have such a thing? ”

Xu Jing's eyes gradually became cold, and he looked at Gonggong Cao, who was silent on the side.

"The slave is in charge of the twelve prisons, and he doesn't know much about the four divisions and eight bureaus. These internal affairs are controlled by the queen's mother. ”

Father-in-law Cao was sweating profusely, for fear that he would also be cut off by Xu Jing.

"Don't panic, I just want you to hand over the list of directors of the eight rounds."

Xu Jing chuckled, reassuring the murderous hall a little.

"Wechen..... The minister retired first. ”

When Lin Hai saw this scene, his joy was swept away.

Where is the unfathomable nature of such a mind in the sea?

Xu Jing didn't stop him, just nodded slightly.

"Your Majesty, there is one more important matter."

Gonggong Cao wiped the sweat from his head and carefully stood beside Xu Jing to speak.

Xu Jing picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip: "Say." ”

"According to the report from Jinyiwei, the Jiaozhi mission recently entered Beijing and made friends with hundreds of officials, hoping to promote the borrowing of troops."

Gonggong Cao whispered what he knew in detail.

"How long have you been here?"

Now that Emperor Daqian has died, Xu Jing's foundation is unstable, and the situation in Beijing has long been extremely complicated.

At this juncture, a group of foreign envoys actually ran out, which undoubtedly stirred up the already muddy pool even more chaotic.