Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 126 Is it worth the money?
"..."

Emperor Hongzhi was speechless for a while, even though he already knew that this Zhou Jing came for his own money.

Since the Xishan Coal Industry started to make money last year, Zhou Jing is no longer the Minister of the Household Department of Daming. He has become a mouse of Emperor Hongzhi's money, and he used various reasons to take Emperor Hongzhi's money every day.

Xishan Coal Industry is indeed making money. Emperor Hongzhi knows this very well, and everyone knows it too, but making money is money. Zhou Jing stared at his internal money every day this week, which made Emperor Hongzhi very unhappy.

Of course, what is even more unpleasant is that in addition to staring at their own money, the officials also wrote letters to Emperor Hongzhi every day, asking Emperor Hongzhi to be diligent and thrifty, to refrain from extravagance and frugality, and to keep asking Emperor Hongzhi to reduce his own expenses and spend the money saved used to support the treasury.

The emperor is also a human being. Emperor Hongzhi is already very thrifty. He only has one wife, and the expenses of the harem are reduced to the extreme. Many clothes of this queen are still patched and mended.

Emperor Hongzhi neither cultivated gardens nor liked extravagance and waste. He had always been very frugal, but he was called to be frugal every day, and then the money he saved was taken away by them for various reasons.

This Zhou Jing is the number one mouse that picks up money, nothing else. The ability to cry poorly in front of Emperor Hongzhi twice in three days is so strong that Emperor Hongzhi wants to give this Zhou Jing a nickname, Zhou Papi, It was the emperor's skin that was peeled off.

"Master Zhou, you can't say that. This clairvoyance can see far away. It's perfect for military investigation. There is no news now. It's just Guotai Min'an, Haiyan Heqing, which also shows that I am convinced by Daming Wei. Four Seas."

Xie Qian also stood up and said that he was the one who formulated the regulations on the use of clairvoyance, and now Zhou Jing actually described this clairvoyance as a children's toy. Isn't this slapping himself in the face? Naturally, he couldn't bear it.

"Master Xie is right. Since I am a Ming Dynasty, the country is peaceful and the people are peaceful, and Haiyan Heqing is, there is no need to spend a lot of money on this military."

"The 2 taels of silver to buy 2000 clairvoyances is unreasonable anyway. If you can make meritorious deeds, there is nothing to say. Now that you have not made an inch of merit, I have conquered the world, and there is no need to spend more silver. Put it on the military."

Liu Jian and Xie Qian spoke for Emperor Hongzhi one after another, and Zhou Jing is still unyielding this week. If you don't give me the 2 taels of silver today, I will not give up.

Of course, we can also know from his words that in the Ming Dynasty, the literati controlled everything, but in the military, which is related to the safety of the country, they kept trying to cut expenditures and suppress the generals. Reduce military spending.

This is also an important reason for the plummeting combat effectiveness of the Ming army. After the Tumu Fort change, the civil servants completely controlled the court's discourse power and military power.

In order to further suppress the military generals and honorable forces, these civil servants have tried every means and tried every means, and cutting military expenditures is nothing more than the most conventional means.

In the past, the military power of the Ming Dynasty army belonged to the emperor, and the emperor had the final say on the military expenditure, so all aspects were guaranteed, from weapon manufacturing to all aspects of the army, etc. Before the civil fort change, the Ming Dynasty army The fighting power is very strong.

From time to time, you can go to the grassland for a stroll, and flee thousands of miles north of the Tatars and Walas, and bow your head to surrender, but after the Tumu Fortress change, the situation immediately reversed.

Although Yu Jin defended the capital and protected the country of Daming during the Tumu Fortress Change, the military power was completely controlled by the literati, and the subsequent emperors did not take all the military power into their own hands.

The literati took power, suppressed the nobles of military generals, cut military expenditures, and did not have enough funds. The weapons they made were getting worse and worse. The artillery and firecrackers of the Shenjiying, which used to be rampant in the world, were so powerful that the soldiers I would rather fight the enemy with a knife than use artillery and firecrackers.

In addition, the treatment of soldiers is getting worse and worse, especially when the Hongzhi Dynasty changed "Kailiang Nazhong" to "Kaiyin Nazhong", salt merchants only need to pay silver to the court to get salt, and no longer need to transport grain to Bianzhen can only get the queen of Yanyin.

The border town system of the entire Ming Dynasty began to collapse completely. Many times, the border town troops could not even have enough to eat. a more dire financial crisis.

Of course, this kind of crisis has not yet fully manifested, Zhou Jing and other civil servants are still trying to find ways to reduce military expenditures, and construct their dream of Confucianism of ruling the country with virtue and filial piety.

"The 2 taels of silver came from inside..."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhou Jing, then looked at several other ministers, and sighed helplessly in his heart. He didn't know whether he succeeded or failed when he was the emperor.

But before he finished speaking, a little yellow door hurriedly came over with a memorial and said: "Your Majesty, the border town is a great victory, the border town is a great victory~"

As soon as everyone heard it, they immediately became energetic one by one, and Emperor Hongzhi quickly changed his words and said, "Read~"

"Your Majesty, Li Jieqi, recently the little prince gathered [-] cavalry to go south to the border. The troops were divided into two groups, and they pretended to attack Datong along the way. The battalion was [-] miles away, and the flames of war were all over the sky. However, it was all false. Fortunately, I have the magic weapon clairvoyance. , Seeing through the little prince's scheme, the minister sent many nights and scouts to carry out a large-scale investigation, relying on the magic weapon clairvoyance, finally found that the little prince's main attack direction is Taiyuan."

"Follow the general's tactics, lure the enemy deep, set up an ambush, severely injure the little prince, and kill tens of thousands of enemies..."

This is a memorial to the victory from the border town, and as Xiao Huang's goalkeeper Li Jie read out the memorial, all the people present couldn't help but smile, and at the same time, they were all false alarms.

The little prince is the overlord of the prairie. He has always been resourceful and uses his troops like a god. Last year, in May of the [-]th year of Hongzhi, he was also in charge of Datong, and the capital was shaken even for dozens of miles.

I didn't expect that this time, not only did he return without success, but he also lost his troops and returned in defeat. An invisible crisis was also resolved.

Otherwise, once the little prince opened the gap and entered the hinterland of Ming Dynasty, he didn't know how many people would die and how much property would be lost. One must know that this is the most difficult winter, and the little prince must go south to the border to plunder supplies for the winter.

"That's great~"

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help clapping his hands happily. Throughout the winter, Emperor Hongzhi was worried about this matter, worrying about the border town all the time, and now he finally heard the good news first.

"The little prince has been seriously injured, and he can finally sleep peacefully this winter."

Emperor Hongzhi breathed a sigh of relief. The colder the weather, the more worried he was about the northern nomads moving south. In the past, he had heard a lot of bad news every year.

Such and such a place was breached, how many people were looted by bandits, how many people were massacred, etc., this year was the first to hear the good news, which really made Emperor Hongzhi very happy.

"This Li Jie is very good. He stabilized the Xuan Mansion last year, and now he has made great contributions. He must be rewarded heavily~"

"Your Majesty, Li Jie should indeed be rewarded, but just now Li Jie mentioned clairvoyance many times in his memorial. He said that it was because of clairvoyance that he was able to see through the little prince's schemes and find out where the little prince's real main force was. Only by laying an ambush can we seriously injure the little prince."

"It can be seen that the clairvoyance is also indispensable, and its role in the military is very huge."

Xie Qian looked at Zhou Jing and said very loudly.

The meaning in his words is very clear, and at the same time, he kept looking at Zhou Jing when he said this, as if he was saying to Zhou Jing, is the money worth it?
Is this clairvoyance a children's toy?
As for Zhou Jing, the arrogance just now was completely gone. He lowered his head, remained silent, his face was red, as if he had been slapped several times, and his mind was still buzzing. .

　I am so tired of writing~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)