Whether there is a way or not, this matter is not something that Li Zou can just say. Wanyan Agutai also doesn't count it. It doesn't even matter what the Ming Emperor Zhu Jinsong said.

It only depends on what the history books say.

"Records of the Holy Emperor·Vasants" In February of the eighth year of the Holy Emperor, Li Zang of Korea rebelled. The superior was deeply worried about the Korean people and ordered the Zuo Army Governor's Mansion to punish the thieves. In April, the Li family's rebellion was suppressed and Korea was exterminated. Solon Camp

The commander of the capital sent Wanyan Agutai to capture Li Ni, and issued an order to kill Li Ni, saying: I don't hate you for rebelling, but I hate you for harming the people. I ordered you to be buried sparsely and not follow the etiquette of the princes. Dong Zi said: Use the right to attack the unjust.

This is the law of heaven. Believe it or not.

As Li Zhen was chopped up and fed to the dogs, Li Zhen led a group of Korean people who had their hearts set on the Ming Dynasty to the riverside and asked for help. The advancement of the entire Korean Chief Envoy suddenly accelerated a lot.

The first was to completely abolish the Bangzi language and writing that had been promoted during the reign of King Sejong of Bangzi. Then, the Bangzi books were widely collected and burned. Then, the people were moved to each other, and a large number of people were moved to the Chief Minister of Korea, and the Korean people were dispersed and relocated.

To the territory of Ming Dynasty.

Basically, they copied Zhu Yuanzhang's treatment of Dali, and then went further on the basis of it.

Of course, for Zhu Jinsong and many big bosses in the Ming Dynasty, the North Korean Chief Envoy could only be regarded as a small problem. The real big problem was the Ming Dynasty's treasury.

Liu Huaiwen could not figure out how the treasury starved rats to death.

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

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They just built a few railways, roads and bridges, built a few social schools, and fought a few wars. Half of Heshen and Zhongtang's family property, a full 40,000 taels of silver, was just gone?

Liu Huaiwen quit at that time.

"Forty million taels of silver, that's forty million taels of silver, not four million taels! Let alone forty thousand taels!"

Liu Huaiwen cried to Zhu Jinsong with runny nose and tears: "Forty million taels of silver can't even last two years. I, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, can no longer be a minister, and I have no shame to do so anymore."

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Song Yucheng, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, also had a slumped face and complained to Zhu Jinsong that the treasury was stingy: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry has planned the railways to be built in the coming year and the year after that. Seeing Nurgan Dusi and Wusi Zang announce

The railway in Weisi is about to be built, but his treasury is unwilling to allocate funds, and our Ministry of Industry is also having a hard time handling it."

The face of Meng Fanzhi, the Minister of Rites, was also not good-looking: "Your Majesty, social studies have indeed been improved. On average, each township can have two to three social studies, but it is far from the original plan of having one social study in every village.

The progress is still far behind.”

"Also, there is only one county school in each county now. But in a place as big as a county and with so many people, what can a county school do? Our Ministry of Rites plans to have one in every township.

There is a county school and a government school in every state, but the Ministry of Household Affairs does not allocate funds."

Liu Huaiwen immediately retorted: "You two old men! What did you two say when I tricked Your Majesty into taking away 40,000 taels of silver?"

"You old man from Song Dynasty said that as long as ten million taels of silver are needed, it will be enough to double the number of railways and highways and connect the entire Ming Dynasty into a network. Now? You have made the network weaved, but it is only a few

Line, is this net strong?"

"And you, old man Meng, at first you said that with only ten million taels of silver, the Ming Dynasty could have one million more social schools. But now? There are more social schools, but you also told me to build county schools.

!Do you think I look like silver, you bastard!"

Regarding Liu Huaiwen's angrily attacking the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Rites, Zeng Cheng, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty, and all the cabinet elders acted as if they had not heard anything at all. They just stood aside and watched.

He looked like he was cultivating immortality.

After quarreling with the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Rites, Liu Huaiwen continued to complain to Zhu Jinsong: "Forty million taels of silver, 10 million taels went to the Ministry of Rites, 10 million and 50 million taels all went to the Ministry of Works, and the Royal Academy wants another

After walking away with fifty million taels, the emperor continued to fight wars, and now the treasury is so empty that rats are running around!"

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

Liu Huaiwen stopped crying immediately and blinked his eyes and said: "Okay, okay, I know that the emperor cannot 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 surplus money in the treasury, but I have money in my internal funds?"

"We have to be reasonable, right? We agreed to divide the eighty million taels equally, and I will allocate the same amount to your treasury of 40,000 taels, but you can't always keep an eye on my treasury!"

"Besides, that's 40 million taels. At the end of last year, there was still more than 30 million taels left in the treasury. How come the 30 million taels were spent all in just a few months?"

"Don't tell me that I won't believe such an outrageous thing. Even if the deaf old dog comes in exchange for money, he won't 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 laughed angrily at these people.

No money in the treasury?

If we look at it from the books, there is indeed no money in the treasury now, because the remaining 30 million taels in the treasury have been turned into budgets for infrastructure projects such as railways, highways, bridges, rivers, social schools, etc.

However, this budget is for the next five years!

Counting from the day when we got Heshen and Zhongtang’s property, how long has it been until now? It’s a little more than a year, and the actual amount of money spent is only about ten million taels. In the national treasury,

Now I still have at least thirty million taels of silver!

There are also taxes of hundreds of millions of taels of silver every year, all of which are deposited in the national treasury!

Zhu Jinsong was almost furious - these people, especially Liu Huaiwen, couldn't just look at the money in the internal funds. As long as there was some extra money in the internal funds, they wanted to get it into the treasury!

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

The old man Qian Deaf always tries to turn the money from the treasury into his own. He Shen and Zhongtang are constantly working hard for this, but Zhu Jinsong is a group of big guys who are always calculating the internal money and trying to get it.

The money goes into the treasury.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Zhu Jinsong simply sat back on the chair and snorted coldly: "Anyway, there is no money in the internal funds, and the remaining money has to be kept as working capital. It is absolutely impossible to give it to

From your treasury.”

Seeing that he could no longer get any money from Zhu Jinsong, Liu Huaiwen simply stopped mentioning the matter. Instead, he changed the topic and started to bring the topic to the granary: "Your Majesty, this year's grain supply is expected to be in a few months.

It's coming down soon, and granaries in various places will be able to replace a batch of previously stored grains."

Zhu Jinsong didn't take Liu Huaiwen's abrupt change of topic seriously at all. He just snorted coldly and asked: "Then what? What does Uncle Huaiwen plan to do with these stored grains?"

Liu Huaiwen blinked and said: "I thought that these replaced grains could be used to make wine, and the residue left over from the wine could be made into feed - sell the wine to those European barbarians, and sell the feed 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 but curled his lips and said: "That's right. Where can we find new and delicious grains that have been stored in the granary for one or two years? In addition, the cattle and sheep shipped from the grassland at low prices are also

The common people are slowly raising more and more chickens, ducks, etc., so there will be less food to eat."

This is truly the first of its kind.

Ever since Zhu Jinsong rebelled, Ming Dynasty has been implementing the strategy of having food in hand and not panicking. The food in the granaries in various places only goes in and does not go out except when encountering disasters. In short, it is rushing to the land for a whole year.

Even if there is no harvest, a common person will not starve to death.

Regarding this standard, many big shots in the Ming Dynasty have also discussed it - there are more than 20 chief envoys in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the food in each place can guarantee the needs of the local people for a year, so as long as there is no

If a disaster occurs that covers the entire Ming Dynasty and lasts for several years, the country of the Ming Dynasty will be as stable as iron, and there will no longer be cannibalism.

However, these big bosses never imagined that one day they would be unable to finish their food supply.

Zeng Cheng's heart was moved, he looked at Ke Zhiming and asked, "May I ask Commander Ke, are the food prices among the people still stable?"

Ke Zhiming nodded and replied: "Since His Majesty ascended the throne, the price of food has basically been at two cents per catty or three cents per catty, and there has been no fluctuation."

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

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

Zeng Cheng thought carefully and replied: "Your Majesty, I think that either Commander Ke's information is wrong, or there is already a problem among the people!"

"In the 28th year of Qian De's reign, the price of grain was fourteen cents per catty. In the forty-ninth year of Qian's deafness, the price of grain was seventeen to eighteen cents per catty. Only in the tenth year of Qian De's reign, and during the Yongzheng period, did it

There have been times when food prices fell below ten cents."

"According to what Commander Ke said, the food we have in Ming Dynasty is only two or three cents a pound. The grain is so cheap that I am only afraid of the livelihood of the people..."

Zhu Jinsong was also shocked. He stood up from his chair suddenly, walked around and said, "That shouldn't be the case. Although the Ming Dynasty produces grain, what's the price of grain?"
Chapter completed!