Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 1619
"Gold mine?!"

Lu Shengyuan, who was guarding the door, was startled by the roar coming from the big tent, and almost fell off the stool.

"What's the matter? What's the matter? Don't fight, peace is the most important thing!" He rushed in and yelled, and when he saw that everyone's eyes were on him, he realized that it was himself I misunderstood, touched my nose in embarrassment, and said, "I... I thought you guys didn't talk well, so you started fighting!"

"There was no fight, but I was a little surprised." Jin Jing cheerfully walked over and patted Lu Shengyuan on the shoulder, "I have to trouble General Lu to guard for a while, we have about half a stick of incense and the time is over."

"It's okay, it's okay, you guys talk slowly, don't worry, there's still one night anyway!"

Lu Shengyuan waved his hand indifferently, but Jin Miaomiao took the small teapot and took a plate of snacks from the table next to him, walked out joyfully, and sat back on his small bench.

"Tell me, why are you all so excited? You seem to have startled Lao Lu!" Yan Rong called Jin Jing and Jin Miaomiao to sit down, pulled Wei Zixin to sit next to him again, and said in a low voice , "Don't act like you haven't seen the world, okay? Isn't it just a gold mine? What's the fuss about?"

"Brother Ah Rong, what you said is wrong. Isn't it just a gold mine?" Jin Miaomiao rolled his eyes and said angrily, "You, if you are not in charge of the family, you don't know how expensive the money is. It's easy to say when you touch your lips."

"That is to say!" Jin Jing also nodded, "Lao Yan, that is a gold mine. Although it cannot be fully mined, as long as it is mined, it can solve Daxia's immediate troubles, right?"

"What do you mean?" Yan Rong frowned slightly, "If it can be mined, it will belong to His Majesty. Can it still enter the household department?"

"At the very least, the Ministry of Households must have a share." Jin Miaomiao sighed and looked at Yan Rong disapprovingly, "If the mining is successful, it can bring a considerable surplus to the national treasury and private treasury. Money, it’s not as stretched as it has been these years, is it? If you don’t say anything else, just think about our Shen Jiajun, except that the payment for the past two years has been paid by the treasury, but it hasn’t been fully paid, not even half, but This is already pretty good. Thinking about the previous ten or twenty years, when did we use the treasury to pay the salary? Isn’t it all the money paid by the Zhenguo Mansion and Wudinghou Mansion? With our own private property , and the trophies seized from Liao and Jin, and even the compensation silver for the soldiers who died in battle, are all based on these, right?"

"Speaking of it, that's true. For so many years, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs have seldom cared about us."

"Right? Everyone understands it in their hearts." Jin Miaomiao looked at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and Yan Rong, sighed softly, and said in a low voice, "Brother Arong, what do you think? Is that right?"

"According to the logic, it really shouldn't be done like this. It is very easy to turn the Shen family's army into private soldiers, causing the soldiers to only know the marshals and generals, but not the imperial power. This is very dangerous. But this is beyond our control. , isn't it?" Yan Rong looked at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, spread his hands, and said, "Isn't this an empty treasury? To put it bluntly, even the money for the compensation for those who died in battle in the past few years was paid by the two governments themselves. ? If you really count on the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War, you may not be able to get a copper coin, and their ability to cry poor is much better than their ability to collect money."

"This is the crux of the matter. They are not crying poor, they are really poor. There were many catastrophes in the past few years. Your Majesty and the first emperor sympathized with the suffering of the people and exempted most of the taxes. It is a fact that it is not rich. It is very bitter to say that you have not seen the situation in Beijing. Except for those who have their own ancestral property, they are still a bit richer. Those officials below the fifth rank are no better than ordinary people. How much better, and they even need subsidies from their own families to barely survive in Beijing."

"The household department is so poor?" Yan Rong frowned slightly, "It shouldn't be, if I remember correctly, a mine was discovered in the south two years ago, and mining has begun, and the days should be surplus, yes Bar?"

"It's still early!" Shen Cha sighed, "We can't inquire about the specific situation. We can only say that the household department is still very poor and can't take care of us at all. We can only rely on ourselves. Even if it is the two Some of the salaries paid to the frontier soldiers in [-] come from His Majesty's private treasury. There is no way to do this. No one wants such a situation to happen, right? Besides, we are not alone. Army, it’s actually the same situation. We’re living a pretty good life. Think about Liu Shuai’s side. Their expenses are much more than ours, right? They not only have to pay their own wages, but also I paid for the repair and maintenance costs of the warship by myself, and even after the warship was scrapped, I had to spend my own money to buy a new one.”

"No, it's not!" Yan Rong and Wei Zixin glanced at each other, both of them were shocked, "The warship has to figure out its own way? What the hell is the Ministry of War doing? How do they still have the face to stay in Beijing?"

"Thick-skinned!" Jin Jing twitched the corners of her mouth, showing a smirk, "Don't worry if you have too many debts, and don't worry if you have too many lice. As long as you don't let them give money, they will pretend that nothing happened."

"But, where did Shuai Liu find so much money?" As soon as the words came out, Yan Rong felt that he had made a mistake, and waved his hands at several people, "This is not what I should ask, you don't need to answer, just pretend you didn't hear. "

"Hey, it's not a secret, everyone knows it. Every time Liu Shuai and the others rob...oh, no, Liu Shuai owns all the property seized by counterattacking Japanese pirates and pirates. Although there were many voices of opposition before , mainly because of jealousy for those good things, but when Liu Shuai returned to Beijing to report on his duties, he displayed all the accounts of these years in the court hall, not only theirs, but also the expenditure accounts and income accounts of other frontier troops. Above the hall, let those jumping guys take a good look at who is taking the money, and whether there is so much money to steal." Shen Cha sighed, "After this time, the gossip in the hall has calmed down. , but..." She shrugged, with a helpless expression on her face, "This is just a temporary lull. When we are all old and the next generation goes up, if the situation is still like this, I'm afraid there will be another wave, right? Doing so will, after all, treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.”

"Understood." Yan Rong nodded, "Don't say that I concealed it on purpose. I know that Baiya Mountain was very young. If you didn't mention it, I would have forgotten it. As for the gold mine Son, I also heard from the villagers around Baiya Mountain and those sneaky guys on Baiya Mountain that they leaked their words, as for whether it is true or not, I can only say that I am [-]% sure."

"If it's a gold mine, it's a big deal. You can't just say it in front of us." Shen Haolin thought for a while, "General Yan, think about what you should say tonight, and go to my office tomorrow morning. Da Zhang, tell His Majesty everything you know."

"Yes, Marshal!"

(End of this chapter)