Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 235 The price of food is wrong
Whether there is a way or no way, this matter is not something that can be counted by Li Yan's words, and Wanyan Agutai's words are also not counted, not even Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

That's what the history books say.

In February of the eighth year of the Holy Emperor, Li Zong rebelled in North Korea, deeply worried about the people of North Korea, and ordered the left army's governor's office to hunt down the thieves.The commander of the Sauron Camp, Wanyan Agutai, captured Li Ni, and ordered Li Ni to be punished, saying: "I don't hate you for rebelling, but I hate you for killing the people."To order a thin burial does not follow the etiquette of the princes.Dong Zi said: It is the law of heaven to use the Tao to defeat the incompetent.Believe me.

After Li Yan was chopped up and fed to the dogs, Li led all the Korean people who were devoted to Daming to the riverside to demand an attachment.

The first is to completely abolish the Bangzi language and characters that were promoted during the period of Bangzi Sejong. Then the Bangzi books were widely collected and burned, and then the people were relocated to each other. To Daming's territory.

Basically, it is copying Zhu Yuanzhang's way of dealing with Dali, and then going a step further on its basis.

Of course, for Zhu Jinsong and many bigwigs in the Ming court, the North Korean chief envoy can only be regarded as a small problem, and the real big problem is the treasury of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Huaiwen couldn't figure out how the treasury starved the rats to death anyway.

When prices in Ming Dynasty did not skyrocket, workers' expenditures were at a normal level, and the spring tax for the eighth year of the Holy Emperor was much higher than the autumn tax for the seventh year of the Holy Emperor, the national treasury became empty again. .

Just built a few railways, roads and bridges, built a few social schools, and fought a few more battles by the way. Half of Heshen and Zhongtang's family property, a full 4 taels of silver, is gone?
Liu Huaiwen quit at that time.

"Forty million taels of silver, that's forty million taels of silver, not four million taels! It's not even 400 taels!"

Liu Huaiwen cried to Zhu Jinsong with snot and tears: "Forty million taels of silver, even after two years, I can't be the Minister of the Ministry of Households, and I don't have the face to do it any longer. .”

Song Yucheng, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, also had a bad face, and complained to Zhu Jinsong that the treasury was stingy: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry has already planned the railway to be built in the next year and the year after. Weisi’s railway is about to be completed, but his treasury is unwilling to allocate money, and our Ministry of Industry is also very difficult to handle.”

Meng Fanzhi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, also had an ugly face: "Your Majesty, I have indeed studied social studies. On average, each township can have two or three social schools, but every village far away from the original plan has a social school. The progress is still far behind.”

"Also, there is only one county school in every county now, but in a place as big as a county, with so many people, what can one school do? Our Ministry of Rites plans to have one school in every township. For county schools, every prefecture has a prefectural school, but the Ministry of Household Affairs doesn’t allocate money.”

Liu Huaiwen immediately yelled back: "You two old men! When the old man cheated from His Majesty... When he wanted to take [-] million taels of silver, what did you two say?"

"You Song old man said that as long as [-] million taels of silver is enough to double the number of railways and roads and connect the whole of Ming Dynasty into a net, now? I asked you to weave the net, but it's just a few line, is this net strong?"

"And you old man Meng. At the beginning, you said that you only needed ten million taels of silver, and Daming would be able to create a million more social schools. Now? There are more social schools, but you told the old man that you want to build county schools. ! Do you think this old man looks like silver, bastard!"

Regarding Liu Huaiwen's anger against the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites, Zeng Cheng, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and the elders of the cabinet did not seem to have heard it at all, and just stood aside, looking at the nose and nose It looks like he is cultivating immortality.

After finishing off the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites, Liu Huaiwen continued to cry to Zhu Jinsong: "Forty million taels of silver, ten million taels went to the Ministry of Rites, and 5000 million and 5000 million taels went to the Ministry of Industry. The Royal Academy has to leave again. With [-] million taels, the emperor is still fighting non-stop, and now the treasury is so empty that the mouse is running away!"

Zhu Jinsong laughed, looked at Liu Huaiwen and said: "Then how about this, I will allocate another ten million taels from the internal funds to the treasury later, okay?"

Liu Huaiwen stopped crying immediately, blinked his eyes and said: "Okay, okay, I know that the emperor can't bear to see the treasury empty."

Zhu Jinsong slammed the table and said angrily: "I can't bear it! Uncle Huaiwen, you don't have any money in the treasury, but I have money in my internal funds?"

"Let's be reasonable, right? We agreed to divide [-] taels equally, and I allocated [-] taels to your treasury, but you can't keep staring at my treasury!"

"Besides, it was [-] million taels of silver. At the end of last year, there were still more than [-] million taels of silver left in the treasury. Why did you spend all [-] million taels of silver in the past few months?"

"Such an outrageous thing, don't say that I won't believe it, even if the money is exchanged, the deaf old dog will not believe it, right?"

Liu Huaiwen chuckled and stopped talking. Even Song Yucheng and Meng Fanzhi, like Zeng Cheng and other cabinet ministers, began to bow their heads and cultivate immortality.

Zhu Jinsong was laughed angrily by these people.

No money in the treasury?
If you look at it from the books, there is indeed no money in the treasury now, because the remaining [-] million taels in the treasury have become budgets for infrastructure projects such as railways, roads, bridges, rivers, and social sciences.

However, this budget is for the next five years!
Counting from the day when Heshen and Zhongtang's property was obtained, how long has it been since then?It takes a little more than a year to spend a lot of money, and the real money spent is about [-] million taels, and there are at least [-] million taels in the treasury now!
There is also a tax of hundreds of millions of taels of silver every year, and all of this money is stored in the treasury!
Zhu Jinsong was almost pissed off - these people, especially Liu Huaiwen, they can't just look at the money in their internal funds, as long as they have some spare money in their internal funds, they want to get it into the national treasury!

From this point of view, Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is far worse than Qian Deaf.

People who are deaf and old are trying to turn the treasury money into their own. Heshen and Zhongtang are working hard for this, but Zhu Jinsong is a group of bigwigs who are always calculating the internal funds and want to transfer the internal money. The money in the pocket becomes the treasury.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, Zhu Jinsong simply sat back on the chair and said with a cold snort: "Anyway, there is no money in the internal money, and the remaining money has to be reserved as working capital. Your treasury."

Seeing that Zhu Jinsong couldn't get any money here, Liu Huaiwen simply didn't bring up the matter anymore. Instead, he changed the subject and began to bring the topic to the granary: "Your Majesty, this year's grain is only a few months away. It’s about to come down, and the granaries in various places can replace a batch of previously stored grain.”

Zhu Jinsong didn't care about Liu Huaiwen's blunt behavior of changing the subject. He just snorted coldly and asked, "And then? What does Uncle Huaiwen plan to do with the stored food?"

Liu Huaiwen blinked his eyes and said: "I thought that the stored grains that were replaced could be used to make wine, and the dregs left over from wine making could be made into fodder—sell the wine to those barbarians in Europe, and sell the fodder to the people of Ming Dynasty at a low price. It’s much better than selling it at a low price.”

Speaking of this, Liu Huaiwen couldn't help curling his lips again, and said: "That's right, how can there be fresh food that has been stored in the granary for a year or two? In addition, the cattle and sheep brought in at a low price from the grassland are still delicious. There are more and more chickens and ducks raised by the common people, and this food is not enough to eat."

This is really the first time in the world.

Since Zhu Jinsong rebelled until now, Daming has been implementing the strategy of having food in hand and not panicking. The food in the granaries in various places only sees in and out except for disasters. No grain harvest will not starve to death by the standard of a common people.

Regarding this standard, all the bigwigs in the Ming Dynasty Hall have also discussed it-there are more than 20 chief ministers in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the food in each place can guarantee the needs of the local people for a year. Covering the entire Ming Dynasty and causing disasters for several years, the country of the Ming Dynasty will be as stable as iron, and there will be no more cannibalism.

But these bigwigs never imagined that there would be a day when there would be more food than they could eat.

Zeng Cheng's heart moved, he looked at Ke Zhiming and asked, "May I ask Commander Ke, is the price of grain among the people still stable?"

Ke Zhiming nodded, and replied: "Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, the price of grain has basically been at two or three Wen a catty, and there has been no ups and downs."

Zeng Cheng was shocked, and after confirming with Ke Zhiming that it was the price of rice, Zeng Cheng's face became a little ugly.

Seeing that something was wrong with Zeng Cheng, Zhu Jinsong couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

Zeng Cheng thought about it and replied: "Your Majesty Qizuo, I think that either Commander Ke's information is wrong, or there is something wrong with the people!"

"For 28 years when Qian was deaf, the price of grain was 49 Wen a catty. For [-] years, the price of grain was [-] Wen to [-] Wen a catty. Only when the chaff was thin for ten years, and during the Yongzheng period, there were times lower than The price of grain at ten cents."

"According to what Commander Ke said, the current food in my Ming Dynasty is only two or three Wen a catty, and the grain is so cheap, I am only afraid of the people's livelihood..."

Zhu Jinsong was also startled, stood up abruptly from his chair, paced and said, "It shouldn't be, although Daming produces grain, but what is the price of grain?"

Zhu Jinsong turned his attention to Ke Zhiming again: "What about the people? How is the life of the people?"

(End of this chapter)