Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Chapter 326 You can feed dogs and create an invincible dog army! (Please subscribe!!)

When drinking nowadays, if you don’t go to Maotai, you will be embarrassed to invite others to dinner.

If you take a Hongqi brand carriage when you go out, it is not only comfortable and fast, but also very safe. It is said that it can't be damaged even if it is bombarded by artillery. The most important thing is that riding in this Hongqi brand carriage gives you dignity!

055 They have heard of Daxu’s name a lot.

Killing the Dongying Fleet, conquering the Dongying Japanese pirates, and sailing across the ocean. Among all the stories, 055 Daquna is the absolute protagonist!

I heard that Xinguo Gong Tanghe had one, and he sat patrolling along the coast every day. Just thinking about it makes it very majestic!

Of course, although the princes and grandsons all wanted to get the points, they still had to make sure they answered correctly, otherwise they would be embarrassed if they didn't get the points, so for a while the princes and grandsons began to calculate silently.

After a moment, someone raised his hand.

"Fourth brother-in-law, I figured it out!"

Ouyang Lun turned around and saw that it was none other than the representative of the liberal arts class - Prince Qing Zhu Zhuan.

The Sixteenth Prince Zhu Zhuan was only six years old, and he looked excited at the moment.

"Zhu Zhuan, let you tell me."

Ouyang Lun nodded.

"Fourth brother-in-law, there are currently twenty-two princes, twelve princesses, and more than ten grandsons and granddaughters of the Ming Dynasty. Calculated in this way, the annual salary of these royal families alone is a total of five hundred thousand dan. about!"

Zhu Zhen said slowly.

"The calculation is not bad." Ouyang Lun continued to ask: "Besides, what else did you think of?"

Um! ?

Zhu Zhuan was stunned and shook his head, "Replying to the fourth brother-in-law, I really can't think of anything to do with the clan's salary and whether the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed or not."

"Isn't it normal to receive a salary as a royal family?"

"It's normal to receive a salary, but you don't do anything, but you receive a salary that far exceeds that of a first-class official. This is not normal!" Ouyang Lun's tone became more serious, "There must be some of you who want to say that you are the king of the world. Family members, you should enjoy all this, I want to ask you, are you the ones who conquered the Zhu family?"

"Have you made any contributions to the Zhu family? Did you offer advice and suggestions? Or did you expand the territory?"

"No! None!"

"You are just moths adsorbed on the mountains of Daming River now!"

Being scolded by Ouyang Lun, the princes and grandsons were all filled with indignation.

"But we are still young now. When we grow up and go to the fiefdom, we will be able to manage the fiefdom and contribute to the Ming Dynasty! If I were to go to the border, I would definitely kill the enemy and guard the border, and open up the border for the Ming Dynasty. Expand the soil!" King Ning Zhu Quan said bravely.

"Yes, yes, I can say this. At least not all of you are moths and waste! But you should wait until you really do it before you come back to me! The fact that you are moths now is irrefutable and an indisputable fact. !" Ouyang Lun said solemnly.

"Aren't you very curious, does the fall of the Ming Dynasty have something to do with your salary? I will tell you now, and you all should listen to me!" Ouyang Lun said loudly:

"Just raising dozens of you will cost half a million dan. This is just the beginning!"

"You will grow up, get married, and have children, and your children will also have children. If this continues, the Zhu family will have more and more people. How much will it cost to support them by then?"

"Which one of you can figure it out?"

When Ouyang Lun raised this question, the princes and grandsons in the classroom were all stunned.

"Zhu Zhuan, can you figure it out?"

Zhu Zhu looked at Ouyang Lun blankly, trying to calculate in his mind, and finally shook his head helplessly, "Fourth brother-in-law, I...I...can't figure it out!"

"what about you?"

Ouyang Lun's eyes swept over the princes and grandsons present. All of them lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Ouyang Lun.

"Since you can't figure it out, I'll do it for you!"

"The royal family members have been constantly expanding. Hundreds of years later, the emperor's direct male descendants will be close to 10 people. Taking into account the collateral male descendants and related families, the number of financial support groups will exceed 100 million."

"As a clan surnamed Zhu, you are pampered, industrious, and can only wait for the people's support if you don't work. You are always standing in the latrine without shit. By then, two-thirds of the country's land will be occupied by clans like you. It became a heavy burden on the Ming Dynasty's finances.

Now you may think it's okay and you feel pretty good about yourself. After all, the clan has a small number and the financial burden is not big. But hundreds of years later, with the rapid expansion of the number of Zhu family descendants, the royal family's expenditure in the Ming Dynasty has reached tens of millions of taels of silver. , higher than all the taxes in the Ming Dynasty now. Even if the taxes in the Ming Dynasty increased at that time, the proportion was still huge, at least half! "

"Think carefully with your immature brains, if half of the national tax revenue is used to support clan members like you who do nothing, what future will the Ming Dynasty have?"

"What will be used to maintain the army, what will be used to pay salaries to Ming officials, and what will be used to build city walls and roads??"

"It is precisely because of the heavy burden of you royal family members that the financial resilience of the Ming Dynasty will be extremely poor in the future. If there are any natural disasters or accidents, the Ministry of Revenue will be in emergency, and the national treasury will be almost empty. Then there will be arrears of military pay, and finally arrears of military pay. It has become the norm, causing the soldiers in the army to be emaciated and have low morale. How can we expect such an army to fight?"

"The army is corrupt, its combat power is weak, and there are even phenomena of eating empty pay and drinking the blood of soldiers."

"If the army is like this, what about those officials who don't get paid? Of course, they are doing nothing, or they just "find a way" on their own, which directly leads to corruption."

“Once officials become corrupt, what will happen to people’s lives?”

Ouyang Lun became angrier as he talked.

After all, he is now a member of the Ming Dynasty, and he developed Beizhili by himself, but every time he thinks that the money he earns will be used to support these wastes, and more and more of these wastes will be raised, how can he feel like this? good!

This is also the reason why he cursed directly.

"You just calculated five hundred thousand shi, don't you think it's a small amount? After all, Ming Dynasty's annual tax revenue is tens of millions, these hundreds of thousands will not affect anything at all, but what if five hundred thousand turns into fifty million? "

"Where can I get this money? Does it fall from the sky?"

"You can't see the last generation of the Ming Dynasty, but your descendants can! Of course, some of you should have no descendants!"

Prince and grandson:.

The more Ouyang Lun scolds, the more he relieves his anger, and the more he relieves his anger, the more he curses.

"The emperor is picky about everyone, but he is extremely generous to you descendants, but you are more and more inferior to each other!"

"When I think of all the money spent on you, I get really annoyed, very annoyed!"

"Tell me, if this money is invested in national defense, science and technology, economy and other aspects to promote the development of Ming Dynasty, even if it is used to feed dogs, it can feed an invincible dog army. It is no better than giving it to you!"

Listening to Ouyang Lun's scolding, the princes and grandsons were completely confused.

Their heads were buzzing at the moment.

Even they themselves felt that what Ouyang Lun said was right, but they definitely couldn't admit it in this case!

If you really admit it, wouldn't you agree that they are worse than dogs?

The fourth uncle (fourth brother-in-law) may have gone too far.

"Do you think the only money the court spends on you is your salary? Fart!"

"Ever since you were born. No, when you were still in your mother's womb, you have been spending the court's money on various rewards and anti-fetal medicines. How can ordinary people be treated like you?"

"When you become adults, you will have to be given mansions, lands, industries, etc. Even if you marry, have children, live, grow old, sick, and die, all that will be paid for by the court!"

"You have food, clothing, housing, transportation, servants, and guards. If these were converted into money, I'm afraid it would be more than the salary you get directly!"

"You should decide according to your own conscience!"

"Damn it, I'm scolding you. I'm tired of talking. You can calculate your own expenses for a year. If anyone fails to calculate it today, get out of class will not be dismissed!" After saying that, Ouyang Lun turned around and left.

As soon as Ouyang Lun left, the classroom exploded.

"How should this be calculated?"

"I have always stretched out my hands with clothes and opened my mouth with food. I still remember how much I spent!"

"There are also those clothes, carriages, horses, servants, etc. I don't know the price at all."

"Uh-huh - I didn't study well in arithmetic class, I can't make it up at all!"

Ouyang Lun came back after drinking tea, and then ignored the princes and grandsons. Instead, he lay directly on the rocking chair and fell asleep soon.

Zhou Bao gently fanned Ouyang Lun with a fan.

Zhu Wenhai came to be among the princes and grandsons.

"Your Highnesses, what do you think?"

Zhu Wenhai's experience as a Zongren Mansion, although his official position was not large, before Ouyang Lun came to the Zongren Mansion, he was basically handling all the major and minor matters of the Zongren Mansion, so Zhu Wenhai was familiar with these princes and grandsons.

Seeing Zhu Wenhai coming, the princes and grandsons seemed to have seen a savior and quickly asked for help.

"Master Zhu, please help us! How can this be calculated?"

"Master Zhu, you have always calculated these before, so you must know how much each of us will spend, right?"

"Yes, Master Zhu must know this very well. Master Zhu, just follow us directly!"

"As long as you tell us, we will ask Father to give you a promotion!"

Seeing the requests of the princes and grandsons, if this had been put in the past, he would have said it directly, but his immediate boss Ouyang Lun was sleeping on the podium. It was obvious that he wanted them to make their own decisions. If he dared to help, the order The adults will definitely take care of him later.

"Ahem, Your Highnesses, Lord Zong Ling asked you to calculate your own expenses in a year. You should calculate it carefully. How can you ask the official? If the official tells you, this is equivalent to cheating!"

"No, no!"

Under great pressure, Zhu Wenhai rejected the requests of all the princes and grandsons.

"Zhu Wenhai, you are so brave!"

"You actually didn't even listen to our orders?"

"You are just a fifth-grade experienced person who is here to serve us. Just say what you say!"

At this moment, Ouyang Lun's voice sounded, "Zhu Wenhai, please help me watch this. If that person dares to cheat, he will be slapped with a five-point ban, and then he won't have any dinner!"

"Yes, Lord Zongling."

With Ouyang Lun's words, Zhu Wenhai suddenly became more confident, "Your Highnesses, you must have heard what Lord Zong Ling just said, please don't embarrass me!"

All the princes, princes and grandsons immediately ceased their activities.

Since there was no way to get the answer from Zhu Wenhai, the princes and grandsons could only calculate honestly.

But this is just like settling accounts, it involves many aspects and is very complicated.

It’s not long yet!

Some people make a mistake and end up having to start from scratch.

Ouyang Lun slept for a while, slowly opened his eyes, turned to Zhou Bao and asked, "How long have I been sleeping?"

"Master, you have been asleep for half an hour." Zhou Bao said truthfully.

"Half an hour. I'm still too tired recently!" Ouyang Lun shook his head, "By the way, have they all figured it out?"

Zhu Wenhai came over and said with a bad expression: "Master Zongling, it is too complicated to calculate the amount of one year. Many of these highnesses are four or five years old and have poor arithmetic ability."

"What's wrong with being four or five years old? I started memorizing multiplication tables when I was four or five years old!" Ouyang Lun said angrily.

After saying that, Ouyang Lun stood up and took a quick look. Except for Zhu Xiongying and a few others who were making difficult calculations, most of the princes and grandsons went crazy.

Seeing this situation, Ouyang Lun really couldn't stand it anymore.

"Zhou Bao, go and bring some boxes of banknotes, gold, silver and copper coins from the warehouse."

"Zhu Wenhai, go and get the account books of all kinds of supplies from the Zongren Mansion!"

"Yes!" Zhou Bao and Zhu Wenhai left quickly.

Soon the account books and several large boxes of money were brought over.

The movement quickly attracted the attention of the princes and grandsons.

"You are so stupid as pigs!"

"You should recognize the money in this box, right?"

"You just take the corresponding money from this box without spending any money. If you don't know the price of the materials, you can check it from this account book. In the end, the total is your approximate expenditure for a year!"

"If you still don't come, then you really don't deserve to eat!"

Ouyang Lun said with a look of disgust.

The princes and grandsons, who had been tortured crazy by the settlement of accounts for a long time, saw light in their eyes again after hearing Ouyang Lun's method!

Maybe they are not very good at arithmetic and not very familiar with material prices, but they are very familiar with money!

"let's start!"

"I'll take another nap. If you haven't figured it out yet when I wake up, then all of you should stop eating!"

After saying that, Ouyang Lun lay down on the rocking chair again.

And the princes and grandsons began their own calculations.

"I have to eat a little suckling pig every day. This costs one hundred taels of silver! I have to get one hundred taels!"

"I have to wear a new set of clothes every day. They must be made of the best silk and satin and the best embroidery workers. This one costs one hundred and fifty taels!"

"I have to buy a brand new carriage every year."

(End of this chapter)