"Your Majesty, the list of Jin merchants is here, you can take a look."

In the Qianqing Palace, Wang Chengen walked in quickly, holding in his hand the details of Cao Huachun's house after returning from Shanxi.

Zhu Youjian buried his head in a large pile of notebooks and did not lift it, and threw out a sentence.

"Read it."

"Yes." Wang Chengen unfolded the book, and the words were clear: "Counting the 17 merchants of the Shanxi Jin Dynasty who copied Moxi, they obtained a total of more than 243.6 million taels of dirty silver, more than 2.27 million taels of gold, and 3,940 pieces of jewelry and jade......

Wang Chengen reported nearly half a cup of tea before reading it all, and when he raised his head, he found that Zhu Youzhen was also looking at him, with a little disbelief in his eyes.

This kind of surprised expression was the first time Wang Chengen saw it on Zhu Youzhen's face.

"How much silver did you just say?"

"More than 243,600,000."

Zhu Youzhen chuckled, his shoulders shook uncontrollably, and then the laughter became louder and louder.

"When I first ascended the throne, the country's tax revenue was only two million taels, two million taels! A Shanxi Jin merchant gang can actually copy out a hundred years of treasury revenue! ”

got hundreds of millions of taels of silver, but Zhu Youzhen was not happy, on the contrary, he was very angry, and felt sad for the Ming Dynasty and the original owner of his body.

Isn't it a joke that the country is so poor, but the local businessmen are all very rich?

Zhu Youzhen suddenly thought of a record he saw when he looked through the Ming Shilu a few days ago.

It shows that when Emperor Zhu Yijun of Shenzong Wanli first ascended the throne, a candidate in Nanzhili bribed

The examiner bought fame and was killed for fraud in the imperial examination, and his family was implicated and his family was raided.

It's just a small local merchant who copied a lot of silver from his house.

600,000 taels!

And that year, Li Chengliang sent troops to attack the Jianzhou Jurchen commanders Wang Gao and Jue Chang'an, that is, Nurhachi's grandfather and maternal grandfather, and the military salary allocated by the imperial court to Liaodong was only 200,000 taels!

What is this called?

It shows that since the time of Wanli, the imperial court has been unable to collect taxes from the people.

The country is gradually sliding into the abyss.

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen didn't speak, Wang Chengen was a little worried in his heart, and whispered a sentence.

"Your Majesty, will this money go to the treasury or to the treasury?"

Zhu Youzhen came back to his senses, but he did not hesitate: "Keep 1,000 or 20 million in the internal treasury, and send the rest to the treasury. ”

"Yes, the slave will do it." Wang Chengen was about to retreat, but was stopped by Zhu Youzhen.

"You can just let the household department handle this matter, I gave them so much silver, and let the celebrant come to run errands?"

Wang Chengen couldn't help but smile and nodded: "What Your Majesty said is reasonable." ”

Zhu Youzhen hummed, then remembered something and asked.

"By the way, I remember you seem to have said that I have a lot of imperial villages, right?"

"Ah, yes."

Zhu Youzhen rummaged through the backlog of records on the table for a while, and found a copy of the household department and gave it to Wang Chengen: "This is the transcript of Xie Xiangnan, the right attendant of the household department, and he made several suggestions to me and the new policy, one of which is to hope that I can transfer the more than 40,000 hectares of Huangzhuang to the local government.

The government will come forward to hand over these acres of land to the landless people in the form of rent and sale, so that the people's livelihood and production can be restored as soon as possible, and the risk of chaos and turmoil among the displaced people can be reduced. ”

Wang Chengen hurriedly waved his hand: "Your Majesty, whether this imperial village is kept or sold, where do slaves and maids dare to have something to say." ”

"You are the master of ceremonies, and the imperial property of the emperor is taken care of by the master of ceremonies, but you are my big housekeeper, where can I do it without asking your opinion?" Zhu Youzhen smiled: "It doesn't matter if you are in charge of the inner court, or if you have so many mouths for eating, you know better than me how to spend this money and how to use it, so of course I want to ask you."

If you think it is feasible, then according to this Xie Xiangnan's opinion, my imperial village will not be left, and it is also a good thing to be able to help the country. ”

"Your Majesty is benevolent."

"Good to be obedient and don't talk much."

Although Zhu Youzhen said this, he still had an overflowing smile on his face: "What are the places to spend money now?" ”

Wang Chengen pondered for a while, and said: "The expenses of the inner court, the monthly money and silver of the slaves and maids, the money for making new clothes every year, and the clear account of this year's peace ceremony, the annual big festival will come out of the inner court.

The cost of this is roughly estimated by the slave maid, about 200,000 taels. ”

"So little?" Zhu Youzhen was stunned.

He thought it would have to be a lot of money.

Wang Chengen suddenly smiled bitterly, and bowed in the direction of Kunning Palace: "Your Majesty, you only have one queen mother in the harem now, of course this money is not spent, and when you choose a concubine in the future, with the birth of a prince and princess, the cost of this inner court will inevitably accumulate." ”

"Well, that makes sense." Zhu Youzhen pinched his chin and nodded approvingly: "The daughter-in-law has many children, and the cost is really large, not to mention that the child is big, and the palace has to build a mansion, what prince's mansion and princess's mansion, and the palace has to spend money to support it every year, where can this cost be small?"

I don't dare to spend this money like this, I must save where I can save it, otherwise I will spend millions of dollars every year, and spread it out like this, I don't know how many people will talk about it behind their backs. ”

Wang Chengen listened to it suddenly, and hurriedly stopped: "Your Majesty, this money should also be spent, but you don't dare to save it." ”

"That's all for later, let's talk about it then."

Zhu Youzhen didn't delay much on this topic, and continued to follow the previous train of thought and said: "The inner treasury and the treasury are separated, and the inner court can't reach out and ask the state for the amount of money spent, and now the imperial property has been transformed into Chinese cotton and Zhonggang."

Huangzhuang also has to be returned to the country, and we have to think of some way to get money in the future. ”

Wang Chengen muttered in a low voice.

"This Huangzhuang Huang's property was originally the way for the ancestors and the ancestors to make money, and in the end, it was not all sent to the household by you."

"What do you say?"

Zhu Youzhen didn't listen to the truth, so he asked.

Wang Chengen repeated it again, and finally said something with a little personal emotion.

"In this case, it is better to simply make it clear to the household department that how much of the annual state income goes to the internal funds."

"Let the household department raise me and the royal family, and in the future, with their faces, they will not be satisfied with the publicity of the world."

Zhu Youzhen shook his head: "The most difficult thing in this world is to serve other people's rice bowls, I am an emperor, how can I reach out and take silver from the treasury, don't we still have tens of millions of taels in the treasury now, plus this time I intercepted 20 million from the Jin merchants' house, so much money, what kind of business are you afraid of starving?"

I don't dare to brag about other cows, and when it comes to business, the group of officials in the household department are not as good as me. ”

Wang Chengen's eyes immediately lit up: "Your Majesty has an idea?" ”

"Well, there's a lucrative deal, but it's not the time yet."

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand: "Rong Zhen will sell it first, anyway, you can give me a good look at this silver, and it will be of great use in the future." ”

"Yes, the slave has written it down."

"By the way, there is one more thing, you let Sun Chuanting come here." Zhu Youzhen groaned: "Zheng Zhilong has just won a great victory in Kinmen, I can't help but say that I have to settle his heart, and in the future, I will also point to him to open the sea and expand the territory for me and our Ming Dynasty." ”

Wang Chengen nodded again and again, and immediately turned around to do it.

Zhu Youzhen lowered his head again to approve the book, but the smile on his face became more and more brilliant.

No, according to the memory of reading novels in his previous life, this plot, how can it be his turn, it's smooth sailing, right?