"Xia Yuanji has seen His Royal Highness the Prince."

As soon as he entered the door, Xia Yuanji was quite formal etiquette, which is also a characteristic of this person.

In fact, it's a bit strange to say that those veteran officials are basically more rigid people, such as Jin Zhong, such as Xia Yuanji......

Belch...... Xia Yuanji doesn't seem to be counted, this person should be classified in the column where oil and salt are not included.

"Xia Shangshu is exempt." For the person in front of him, Zhu Zhanyan didn't dare to hold it up.

Not only him, but you don't dare to raise him even if you replace his father and uncle.

"Xia Shangshu took time out of his busy schedule to come, there must be something wrong, right? Otherwise, I'm afraid that the affairs of the household department will be able to make your busy heels fall to the ground. ”

"His Royal Highness guessed right." Xia Yuanji had a smile on his face and sat down with Zhu Zhanyan's gesture.

He likes to talk to smart people, because there are so many fools who ask him for money on weekdays that he is annoyed.

"Wei Zhe (Xia Yuanji, the word Wei Zhe) came here this time because there is something that may need to be helped by His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, and I hope His Royal Highness the Prince will not hesitate to help."

"Xia Shangshu, please speak." Zhu Zhanyan stretched out his hand to signal, and at the same time asked Zhu Ling to leave with his subordinates.

"I'm ashamed to say that a few days ago, His Royal Highness the King of Han repeatedly came to find him because of the compensation for the casualties of the Northern Expedition, but now there is really no money in the treasury, and the pension cannot be issued on time."

Xia Yuanji bowed slightly and took the tea pushed by Zhu Zhanyan, and then began to "pour bitter water".

"Speaking of which, Wei Zhe would also like to thank His Royal Highness the Prince, if it weren't for His Royal Highness the Prince to dispose of the officials and profiteers who were fornicating with the Japanese in Yangzhou, I am afraid that he would not be able to make up the pensions for the soldiers by next year."

......Seeing that things were wrong, Zhu Zhanyan hurriedly shouted to stop.

"Xia Shangshu, although I am the prince of the Han Dynasty, I can't help but praise you so much, don't you know about this deal with corrupt officials and profiteers? The one who handed over to you is Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard! ”

"People don't understand the situation, so it's okay to put a high hat on me, you shouldn't!"

"Yes, yes, it's a gaffe, and I've been disturbed by rumors." Hearing this, Xia Yuanji hurriedly apologized.

"I came here this time to ask His Royal Highness the Prince to help and appease the families of those casualties."

"Pacify the families of the soldiers?" Zhu Zhanyan was stunned, and looked at Xia Yuanji with a face full of surprise.

"If I'm not mistaken, after the Jinyi Guard dealt with those people in Yangzhou, they sent a batch of food and money, which should have been put into the treasury."

"Now that we have food and money, the distribution of bereavement pensions should not be a problem."

"Besides, our Daming Dynasty adopts a two-tax system, the summer tax is levied in August every year, and the autumn grain tax is levied in the second month of the autumn harvest.

"Your Highness is right." Xia Yuanji was amazed, he didn't expect Zhu Zhanyan to know so much about a child.

"At present, the autumn grain tax has almost been collected, and Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Songjiang and other places close to Yingtian have been put into storage, and there is indeed no shortage of grain."

"But today, Wei Zhe came here to have another way to replace the previous bereavement pension, and he needs to let His Royal Highness the Prince come forward."

"Oh?" Zhu Zhanyan was interested.

"I want to hear about it."

"Then please don't worry, Your Royal Highness, wait for Wei Zhe to tell you about this slowly." Xia Yuanji took a sip of the teacup, and then opened it to tell the story.

"Your Highness, you have also participated in this Northern Expedition, and you have also made great contributions in the Northern Expedition, so naturally you should know that this Northern Expedition has captured a lot of Ming Dynasty, and there are all kinds of war horses, cattle and sheep."

"Among them, there is no doubt that the war horse should belong to the Ministry of War, after all, this is a rule that has never changed, in addition to the cattle, sheep and horses, these three things need to be dealt with."

"Some of the horses need to be divided into the post station, and the rest are intended to be sold, and these horses have always been the target of the merchants, after all, their caravans need a large number of horses."

A horse is a horse that can't run fast, and you can't use a combat horse, but it's okay to use it for transportation, and merchants like this kind of horse very much.

First, as Xia Yuanji said, the transportation of caravans requires the use of horses, and secondly, when buying horses, you can also brush your face in front of the court, although the court doesn't care, but maybe you can catch up with some officials.

"At present, the sale of the horses has been arranged, and it is speculated that it will be completed in February next year, and the rest is a matter of cattle and sheep."

Xia Yuanji looked at Zhu Zhanyan with a thoughtful look, and he was a little nervous in his heart, because he was about to get to the point.

"I wonder if His Royal Highness has heard about the requisition of the military department horse farm by the household department?"

"I've heard of it." Zhu Zhanyan nodded, but he didn't pretend not to know.

"In fact, this is intentional, because many of the cattle and sheep in this seizure are with cubs, as long as they persist for three months to half a year, there will be a lot of additional income, so this decision is made in the next step."

"If we can hold on to the past, the revenue of the national treasury will increase a lot next year."

"Xia Shangshu is really a good means, if you want to say that this Ming Dynasty is afraid that only Xia Shangshu can manage the household department well, no wonder grandpa praises you."

Zhu Zhanyan laughed when he heard this, and brought a high hat to Xia Yuanji, but what followed was a 360-degree change.

"But it has nothing to do with me, does it? Why did Xia Shangshu find me? ”

"I'm ashamed to say it, Your Royal Highness may not know that even if it is only raised for three to six months, this cow and sheep will need to spend a lot of money to feed."

"It doesn't matter if the sheep don't have cubs, they can be sold directly, anyway, these sheep are basically bought, killed, and then sold, but cattle can't."

Zhu Zhanyan nodded appreciatively when he heard this.

Cattle are the only farming livestock in this era, let alone eating beef, and even killing cattle has to go to the government to report first.

Privately slaughtering cattle is punishable by a hundred canes in the Ming Dynasty, even if the cattle are sick and dead, if they do not go to the government to report, they will be flogged (whipped) forty after being discovered.

"In fact, His Royal Highness the King of Han was anxious before, Wei Zhe can also understand it, after all, the casualties are the pillars of the family, and they are related to the life of the family."

Xia Yuanji looked at Zhu Zhanyan's appearance and felt that there was a door, so he hurriedly struck while the iron was hot.

"But because of this, Wei Zhe thought of a way, that is, to use the captured cattle to temporarily offset the soldiers' pensions."

"Deduction? Temporarily? Zhu Zhanyan was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

"Yes, it's a temporary deduction!" Natsuhara nodded hurriedly and began to explain.

"The imperial court will put nose rings on those grassland cattle, select those with a relatively docile temperament and can be used as farming cattle for them to raise, and wait for the early rice and wheat harvest in the following year to take them back."

"When the cattle are distributed, the court will first issue part of the pension, and when the cattle are returned in the next year, the court will also distribute the remaining pensions!"