Poor family mother and son

Chapter 1015 Financial Crisis ([-])

Chu Qing marked the location of the iron mine on the map, and gave it a name: Xinghai mining area, because this mining area was found because Chu Xinghai found a piece of malachite.

As for the size of the mining area and whether there are copper mines, further exploration is needed.

But there are iron ores for sure. Those iron ores are not difficult to identify, and the Chu family kid probably can recognize them.

As for more professional prospecting knowledge, Chu Qing did not have it, so he couldn't give any advice.

It is clear that time is tight, and the current traffic depends on legs, and the Chinese New Year will be in a few days.

We should hurry back to the sweet potato base, tell the Chu family about the plan, listen to suggestions, and improve them.

After the Chinese New Year, Chu Qing will return to Daxuan, and there are still many Chu family members in Daxuan.

In fact, the Chu family is still safe for the time being, because the court has received news that the Chu family is donating money, grain, and people for disaster relief, while searching and rescuing Chu Qing, so that the court can't say anything too harsh.

Although the so-called "grain delivery" was just a cover, the real food was transported to the island by Chu Yuan, and only the vermicelli transported from the island was used to support the disaster area.

However, it was not without noise.

The cause of this noise was that the Chu family sent someone to contact Hu Hengqiu, and sent him 80 taels of silver bills to be handed over to the emperor, saying that this was the harvest of this year.

Five years ago, Chu Qing was able to hand over a million taels of silver to the emperor. Five years later, even if Chu Qing didn't double it, it should at least exceed a million taels, right?Why only 80 taels?
Now is the time to spend money, but I just donated 10 taels! ——This is the idea of ​​the emperor.

But Hu Hengqiu told the emperor the original words of the Chu family: "Chu Qing resigned from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, and also lost the income of cotton and wool spinning, which is a big item;

Also, Chuqing's salt field was designated as the salt supply area for the imperial court, so Chu Qing didn't get much profit from the salt field;

Therefore, at present, Chu Qing can only rely on her warehouse and a few stores in Kyoto to make profits, and the rest is income from soybean oil. "

The emperor wanted to say, didn't she still have cement and glass?Those are more profitable!

But it cannot be said that those are not within the scope of tax payment agreed between the emperor and Chu Qing, and the cement and glass are not listed in Chu Qing's name, and are jointly owned by his workers.

The emperor only granted certain privileges to Chu Qing in terms of salt and iron, but not elsewhere.

Chu Qing's warehouse mainly deals in grain, daily necessities, and iron products, and the sales of iron products do not account for the mainstream. Chu Qing wants to distribute the entire income of the warehouse to the emperor in proportion, which is already very exploited.

Because the emperor received less money from Chu Qing, and there would be no more money in the future, he felt even more distressed about the 10 taels he donated.

It is said that the emperor has collected money from Chu Qing in recent years, but there is not much left in the emperor's private treasury.

For the emperor, the rewards given to the imperial family did not account for much of his private treasury. The real big expenditure was the subsidy to the imperial family.

The clan is now more and more populous, and more and more greedy. If the emperor does not give them real power and official positions, they will ask for money and land.

We all have the same ancestors, the so-called one person ascends to heaven, if you become the emperor, don't you care about your uncles, uncles, aunts, uncles and uncles?Don't care about nephews, nephews and grandnieces?
Theoretically, the national treasury is only responsible for the expenses of the clan's daily life and ceremonial supplies, but it can't support people taking concubines and having children when they have nothing to do.

Every time a child was born in the clan, as long as it had the same surname as the emperor, the imperial court had to give a share of money. Regardless of the emperor's bunch of daughters-in-law, there were only about [-] children born, and only half of them were boys.

However, the "production rate" of the clan was much higher than that of the emperor. Especially after the war with Donglun Kingdom, Daxuan was very peaceful for several years, the economy also improved a lot, and the clan was "prosperous."

In this way, the national treasury is already overwhelmed, and they are unwilling to pay extra silver taels. It is almost said that your clan should find some serious work, and don't make people when you are idle.

But for the clan, making people is to make money, and making money is the business.

The courtiers strongly opposed the increasing expenditure of Zonglu year after year, so the emperor had to subsidize it from his own private treasury.

Now is the time to spend money again, or long-term use of money, can the emperor not be in a hurry!

The disaster caused by the "eight winds" is already so serious, and now it is even worse-the plague is prevalent in many inland areas in the south.

Disaster relief is only a small amount of money. After the disaster, there will still be large project expenditures such as repairing dikes and dams, cleaning rivers and canals, and reducing taxes for several consecutive years in the disaster-stricken areas. This means that the national treasury will not be able to make ends meet in the next few years.

In addition, in order to guard against the invasion of the country of Vos, the military expenditure is another large expenditure.

In this way, the emperor could not help but bring up the issue of silver taels again at the court meeting.

With such a large funding gap, the courtiers naturally couldn't come up with feasible suggestions, so someone thought of Chu Qing——

"Your Majesty, the salt field was completely submerged, and the loss was huge. The guardian must not absolve himself of responsibility!"

"That's right! If it wasn't for negligence and laziness, how could the salt field be wiped out in an instant!"

"As long as you are loyal to your duties and take care of the saltworks, maybe not only will the saltworks not suffer losses, but you can also prevent problems before they happen!"

"The minister seconded the proposal! The minister believes that the person in charge of the saltworks should bear all the losses!"

"My minister agrees!"

The voice of seconding was endless, Hong Liang endured and endured, he couldn't hold back, and roared: "Bafeng, can you prevent problems before they happen? If you have this ability, I think Bafeng was brought on by you!"

Chu Qing's whereabouts are still unknown, and his life and death are uncertain. Even if he is not worried, he should still be a human being, so he won't frame her like this, right?
Although it was to defend Chu Qing, Hong Liang's words brought out a new moth——

"Mr. Hong's words are unreasonable! I don't have this ability, but it doesn't mean that others don't..."

"Yes, although I haven't heard of anyone who can attract the eight winds, I have heard that someone can turn the eight winds!"

"Yeah, I've also heard that the evil wind doesn't enter Linyang County... Is that what you said?"

"No, the original saying is 'someone is towning Linyang County, and the evil wind can't blow up'!"

Hong Liang was angry.

He has never heard of this news, and it is still not as good as the information channels of these guys!

"Is there still no whereabouts of Marquis Linyang?" the emperor asked.

Hu Hengqiu immediately appeared from behind the pillar: "Not yet."

"Didn't you run away because of the bad situation?" A courtier said, "His son doesn't seem to have moved."

Hong Liang immediately snapped back: "Have the eight winds blown into your head? Marquis Linyang has such a huge family fortune, is it worth running away?"

Courtier: "Then tell me, why hasn't she shown up after all these days?"

Hong Liang: "Didn't it be said that she was in a hurry to rescue the disaster and went out to sea by boat, but was swept away by the wind and waves?"

Courtier: "Cheat ghosts? Who said this? Is there any evidence?"

Hong Liang immediately looked at Hu Hengqiu, before Hu Hengqiu could speak, the courtier spoke again: "Even if it is the secret investigation department, it is nothing more than the news from the people in Linyanghou's mansion, right?

In addition to their family members, are there other witnesses and physical evidence? "

Hong Liang was dumbfounded: Where else can we ask for physical evidence?Do you want it with the eight winds, or with the waves?
(End of this chapter)