Bachelor

Chapter 50 Crisis
"Just go?" Sun Songnian glared, "He Nian, you speak so lightly, why are you talking differently?"

Sun Henian was taken aback: "What do you mean, brother?"

"It's not interesting, why don't you pretend?" Sun Songnian, like Sun Hao, was straight-hearted, sitting on a chair, gasping for breath.

Sun Henian rubbed his temples with his hands, and smiled wryly: "They are both brothers, why should I pretend? I have been proud of Nighthawks for several times in succession, and my mind is very confused. You have to speak directly."

Sun Songnian then said: "As you said, He Nian, Mao Shangshu is also one of us, so he came to take care of him as a brother. Moreover, people from the cabinet nodded, and the officials can also speak. This has already been done. If you have enough, you will be successful. Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

However, Hades is easy, but the little ghost is hard to deal with.Ge old monks and bookmen have a good pass.It is not easy for the servants, ministers, principals, and anthologies of the Ministry of Officials.If there is a problem in one of the links, it will have to be put on hold for three to five months.The reason why I was in a hurry to transfer over was because the emperor was not in the capital, so no one would care about such matters.If the Son of Heaven returns to the north, once he pays attention to this matter, the person in charge of ceremonies dismisses it directly with a wink, and I will not have the chance to go to the Ministry of Rites to grow my hair.

Therefore, the entire bureaucracy needs to be managed.Even the father-in-law with the supervisor of ceremonies needs to send some money. "

"It turns out that's the case. I ignored it. Please forgive me, brother." Sun Henian came to his senses and asked: "How much money does brother need to pay from the public, but it's okay."

Sun Songnian had always been in awe of this younger brother, seeing Sun Henian nodding, he was happy in his heart, and said, "The official department needs about 5000 taels."

"Yes." 5000 taels is also a huge sum of money, enough to buy a small courtyard house in the capital, but compared to the position of a fifth-rank official in the Ministry of Rites, the price is very small; "You continue to say , is there anything else that needs to be done?"

"There are some troubles with the supervisor of ceremonies. You also know that the eunuch and the stewards are all the ones who put their hands in the coffin and ask for money. I have also inquired about it. To fill the vacancy of Yuanwailang, it is necessary 2 taels."

"Ah!" Sun Henian stood up abruptly, "2 taels, so much?"

"Why, are you reluctant to part with this money?" Sun Songnian was very dissatisfied: "Think about it in the year of the crane, although the vacancy of the Ministry of Rites, Wailang, is much less lucrative than that of your household department, but as long as you stay there for a few years, it will be worth it. The sum of expenses was earned back. When will our Huichang Hou Sun’s family be short of the 2 taels of silver, and it’s no joke if we tell it.”

"It's not that I can't give up the money." Sun Henian frowned, sat down again, and said, "Our Sun family seems to have a bright future on the surface, but in fact it has gradually become dilapidated in the past two years."

Speaking of this, Sun Henian sighed softly: "Brother, you are not in charge of the family and you don't know how expensive firewood is. The annual income of my Sun family's various manors combined is no more than ten thousand taels. I work in the household department and earn ten thousand a year. An extra two goes into the account. But even so, to support the expenses of the three houses in the capital, Jinan, and Zouping, and to support more than a thousand people in the Sun family, relying on this amount of money alone is already stretched far enough to make ends meet."

"That's right, it was because my family was in such a difficult situation that I thought of working in the Ministry of Rites to see if I could help my Sun family's worries." Sun Songnian still refused to give up: "He Nian, you said that you have no money, but in fact, I know better than anyone else. , you just got 5 taels of extra cash. The elder brother won't take any from you?"

Sun Henian was startled, and his complexion changed drastically: "Brother, speak in a low voice, the wall has ears, and someone carefully eavesdropped on it."

"Hehe, you really got 5 taels of silver." Sun Songnian smiled triumphantly.

"Aren't I also doing it for our Sun family?" Sun Henian smiled bitterly, and said again: "The money can't be moved for the time being, we have to wait. Wait for a year or so, and if there is nothing wrong, then we can use it."

"After a year or so, the day lily will be cold." Sun Songnian couldn't stop saying, "You are also in the Year of the Crane. You are the head of the household department, and you can swallow the extra money of 5 taels of silver. What are you afraid of?"

Sun Henian looked worried: "It's really hard to collect this money. To be honest, after getting it, I feel like a stick in my throat. I can't swallow it or spit it out. It's very uncomfortable."

Seeing his elder brother's puzzled expression, Sun Henian slowly explained the reason for the money.

It turns out that the emperor has repeatedly used troops in recent years, wasting a lot, and the treasury is so empty that he can run a horse.In order to raise money, the elders of the cabinet and the officials of the household department were also devastated, and were forced by the emperor to jump into the well.

If we don't come up with a solution as soon as possible, not only will everyone not be able to pay their jobs, but after careful investigation, the entire civil servant group with Yang Tinghe as the core is in danger of collapse.

To solve this financial crisis, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than "increasing income and reducing expenditure".

Yang Shoufu has already done a good job in reducing expenditure, and has also cut down a lot of unnecessary expenses.But even so, it still cannot improve the current poor financial situation.

Then, the article can only be done on open source.

The elders in the cabinet thought about it for a long time, and could only make a fuss about the land tax that was concealed and not reported in various places.

Generally speaking, in order to evade taxes, most people rely on their real estate in the names of people with tax-free privileges.For example, vassal princes from various places, famous scholars, local wealthy families...

The court elders did not dare to take the risk of offending the people of the world to make this matter bigger. They only did it on a small scale and raised a sum of money enough for the emperor to mess around in the south of the Yangtze River.

Among them, Sun Henian, who is in charge of Huguang taxation, contributed a lot and was praised by Yang Shoufu.

Today, Jiangnan is in a mess because of the war, and Huguang's financial resources are very important to the imperial court.

But because that place was so rich, there were so many feudal vassals: King Anlu, King Chu, King Hui, King Gui, King Ji, King Xing...these people were not easy to mess with.

Sun Henian also gritted his teeth this time and worked hard for half a year, and finally he's done.Not only did he successfully complete the task assigned by Yang Tinghe, but he also got a lot of benefits from it.

The 5 taels was borrowed by Sun Henian from King Xing Zhu Youzhu and the Lu family of the Huguang family attached to King Xing's family.The name is also high-sounding: to raise money and food for the emperor himself.

Of course, King Xingxian was not that easy to deal with.Sun Henian also didn't want to do anything wrong, and planned to keep the money in his hands for a while, and then wait for the limelight.If the matter subsides, you can get 5 taels of benefits.If things go wrong, the worst thing is to pay them back.All for the front line, this is the money spent by the emperor, what else can King Xing say?
After listening to Sun Henian's words, Sun Songnian didn't take it seriously: "It's just a little prince, it's no big deal to swallow him, don't tell me he still wants to confront the emperor, you are too careful." After the catastrophe, the emperor imposed many restrictions and surveillance on the vassal princes in various places, raising them as pigs and not allowing them to interfere in any politics.

Especially after the Rebellion of King Ning, in the eyes of the current emperor, his princes and relatives are all potential rebels, and they will be bored if they look at them more than once.Sun Henian went to trouble the princes, I am afraid that the emperor would be happy to see the success, and even applaud it?
Sun Songnian laughed at his younger brother a lot, and went on for a long time.

Sun Henian couldn't stand his elder brother Zhen's persuasion, and then thought about it, a little prince, he doesn't have to be afraid.After hesitating for a moment, he agreed to set aside 5 taels of the [-] taels for Sun Songnian to go to the government offices of various ministries.

For the two brothers, this is just a trivial matter and they don't think it will have any impact on the future of the Sun family.Even if someone came to check the whereabouts of the money in the future, no one would be able to find any clues as far as the messy account of the Ministry of Accounts was concerned.Sun Henian himself is a master accountant. The country's annual entry and exit of more than 300 million taels of silver, plus the accumulated old accounts, among the tens of millions of taels, is it not easy to balance the account of [-] taels of silver?
It's just that neither of them thought about the consequences of Sun Henian's offending King Xingxian.

If Sun Dan heard what he just said, he would probably vomit blood in a hurry.King Xing is indeed nothing special, but his son is.That is the future emperor, the emperor Jiajing who reigned for 45 years in the Ming Dynasty.

The two brothers were at a loss for the coming crisis.

(End of this chapter)