I am the king of the dead

Chapter 249 The household lamp has only one wick

"What crooked idea did you think of?" Sun Zhong frowned and looked at Sun Jizong.

His eldest son has increasingly shown the same idiot characteristics as Zhao Hui, Zhao Jin, Kong Yanjin, and King Guangtong.

Sun Jizong said in a low voice: "We can contact the Oirats, Tatars, and Wulianghas."

Sun Zhong stared at Sun Jizong with staring eyes, and became a little dazed. He stood up abruptly, looked left and right, and was about to pick up the vase on the table and smash this idiot son to death!

"Father, father! You can't kill relatives righteously! Father, father, listen to my explanation!" Seeing this posture, Sun Jizong rushed behind the table, holding on to the table, ready to escape at any time.

The entire main hall of Huichangbo Mansion immediately became loving and filial.

"You idiot!" The vase in Sun Zhong's hand fell to the ground with a bang, pointed at Sun Jizong with trembling hands, and cursed sharply: "Sooner or later, I will be pissed off by you!"

Sun Zhong suddenly felt a pain in his heart, squatted on the ground, his face turned pale.

"Dad, dad! What's the matter with you!" Sun Jizong hurried over, helped Sun Zhong up, and let him have a good rest.

Sun Zhong leaned on the back of the chair, and it took him a long time to recover. He was almost stunned to death by his son.

This is so out of breath.

"Honestly, have you communicated with the Wala people?" Sun Zhong leaned on the back of the chair and looked at the beam on the roof. He was just like that beam. He is now the pillar of the Sun family. If After he died, this Sun Jizong might destroy the Sun family.

Sun Jizong hurriedly said: "No, absolutely not! Daddy, calm down. I am a filial son. If Daddy doesn't tell me, how can my son dare?"

"Really?" Sun Zhong stared at Sun Jizong and asked: "I can tell you, this kind of foreign affairs is the most likely to cause accidents. Once a hole is caught, the whole line will be fooled immediately. I can persuade you You, don't mess around."

"Well, the child knows the seriousness, dad, calm down." Sun Jizong continued.

Sun Zhong finally recovered his breath, took a deep breath and said, "Never do stupid things, otherwise nothing will be accomplished."

"It's stupid to flirt with Wala."

"Money is not important. As long as you are a relative of the emperor, you have money and opportunities. For the sake of this little benefit, you will put yourself in it!"

"Isn't Kong Yanjin a living example? My son, you should be smarter!"

After Sun Zhong finished speaking, he walked towards the flowers and plants he raised.

Sun Jizong copied an Analects, walked out of the main hall, and walked to the corridor in the backyard. He seemed to be tidying up flowers and plants. He looked around, and a figure came over the wall and handed a letter to Sun Jizong.

The man said in a low voice: "The high official wants something."

Sun Jizong asked in a low voice, "Has anyone seen you?"

"There is absolutely no one else, I am extremely careful, there are at least three Jinyi guards watching at Huichangbo Mansion." The person bowed his head again and said.

Sun Jizong nodded and took out a pack of silver ingots from his sleeve and said, "This is for you."

"Thank you for your generous reward!" The man weighed the weight of the silver and said excitedly.

But when the person turned around, Sun Jizong took out a half-foot-long dagger from his sleeve, stabbed it into the opponent's back heart, grabbed the opponent's mouth with his hand, and prevented the opponent from screaming. Come, don't let the other party struggle to escape.

After waiting for a while, the bag of silver fell to the ground, and the blood on the ground pooled into small streams and flowed into the garden.

The three servants obviously knew that this kind of thing would happen. The two took the deceased from the side and buried them in the grass in the backyard. One cleaned up the blood outside the corridor in the backyard. The whole process was smooth and flowing, obviously not the first time. This is the first time to do such a thing.

"The flowers will be even more lush next year." Sun Jizong opened the silver bag and gave it to the three servants. They are all raised by the mansion. They grew up in the Huichangbo Mansion, and they are trustworthy.

"This guy even bit me! Bad luck."

Sun Jizong opened the letter, translated Yinwen into Yangwen, then compared the Analects of Confucius, and hurriedly dug out the contents of the letter. After reading it, he picked up the fire folder, lit the letter, and buried it on top of the corpse together.

The letter from the prairie mainly said that there have been frequent night activities recently, and I want Uncle Huichang to use his strength to find out information.

The person who wrote the letter was Han Zheng, Liu Yu's adoptive father and Han Ling's biological father. They made the Wang Gongchang assassination case and were arrested and sent to the imperial hospital.

Of course, Sun Jizong had his father behind his back and had contact with the Wala people, but it was only through Hanzheng.

The sender has already come to Huichangbo Mansion for the second time, and cannot use it for the third time.

As long as you give some silver taels, someone will naturally take it, avoid Jin Yiwei's sight, and send the letter to Huichangbo Mansion.

Ever since Emperor Taizu Gao set up the Iron Book Army, how to avoid the sight of Jin Yiwei and send shady things to various government offices has become a technical task.

There are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, which has been the case since ancient times.

Sun Jizong didn't plan to reply this time, it was too dangerous.

Moreover, everyone knows what the emperor wants to do.

The emperor wants to fight Jining, and there is a series of actions related to the Shunshengchuan horse farm, the restoration of the old army garrison, the Hetao garrison, and the construction of the city.

The Great Emperor did not hide his actions at all, and even the marching route was clear, because the roads were all repaired.

The Great Emperor's use of troops was to crush them with hard power, and even required the cooperation of the Datong Guards and the Xuanfu Guards.

Let's stay in Jining first, as long as they fight, they won't be able to last for half a day.

Even Sun Jizong knew that the emperor could not lose, because the emperor had already thought about the relocation.

It is indeed a saying often said by military strategists to be lenient in anticipating the enemy, and to consider defeat before victories are considered.

But the emperor has the money to fight like this!

The emperor only minted coins for a month and pulled 300 silver coins to Taicang and [-] silver coins to Taicang. Recently, he confiscated the Confucian mansion, and there were more than [-] silver carts transported to the capital!
The Bingzhan Bureau, Wanggong Factory, and Shijing Factory worked non-stop day and night, burning fire and striking iron continuously, and even Wugang vehicles were built more than [-] vehicles.

In order to fight Jining, the Emperor Ming prepared more than 500 million taels of supplies, and he needed money to kill Wala alive and stay in Jining, with less than 3 troops.

Emperor Taizong Wen made five Northern Expeditions, and only hit 200 million taels of silver in total.

Today, His Majesty wants to use 500 million taels to fight Jining, which has 3 people left behind...

Isn't this bullying?
"Hurry up and find out about the military situation, are you still going to touch it? Stupid!" Sun Jizong sighed, why are there so many stupid people in the world?

If you insist on touching the emperor head-on, that is His Majesty the Great Emperor who unites the world.

Today, Your Majesty, this is a bloody expense.

At this time, Zhu Qiyu was holding a salt and iron meeting with the ministers, and the discussion was exactly what Sun Jizong was thinking about.

Zhu Qiyu said very puzzled: "Why do you think that the wood, stone, gunpowder, peasants, rice beams, and silver coins we invested in this attack on Jining will be in vain?"

"Why do you think you will lose? No matter from which angle you look at it! After conquering the territory, it is a money-making business!"

"I don't understand at all, why do you think those places are not worth investing in? Those mineral deposits and land are already completely worth it."

"It's worth the grazing alone."

Xuanfu Gongshi, Mizhou Shipsi, attacking Jining, restoring the military settlements in the Hongwu and Yongle years, and restoring control of the Hetao Plain all required huge investment.

But it is clear that the courtiers have great interests in this matter, and they are not clear.

"Where did we talk about last time?" Zhu Qiyu asked suspiciously.

Hu Yi bowed his head and said: "I said last time that the country advances when the people advance;

"Your Majesty has the virtue of loving life, and he cares about the living beings. If the people ask for twice the cost, they will live in peace; if they double it, they will know etiquette and shame. If they double it, they will be invincible in the world."

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "That's right, we talked about the relationship between labor compensation and national development."

He originally thought that the issue of seigniorage should be discussed today. Daming now only has seigniorage, and there are 40 silver coins for grain rent and 40 silver coins for high taxes a year.

Regarding the problem of the courtiers' loss of precious metals, Zhu Qiyu is ready to fight with them. As long as the operation is done properly, Daming can be rich by minting coins.

But before he discussed this issue, he realized that even the Ming Dukes who participated in the Salt and Iron Conference held a clear opposition to this.

For the matter of accumulating wealth, they adhere to the concept of increasing income and reducing expenditure, but this kind of cutting expenditure has already been deducted like a miser in terms of national investment.

Be vigilant about open source, and do things with the mentality of saving a penny is a penny for throttling.

Jin Lian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, said rather puzzled: "The rice and sorghum we prepared this time, if calculated on the basis of half a silver coin for each peasant husband, we prepared nearly 500 million silver coins this time for conquest and strategy. The entire Hetao Plain."

"Wen Linlang of the Imperial Academy has already impeached and impeached the people and ruined their wealth. The wars killed many soldiers, exhausted the people's financial resources, spent extravagant lives, and the world was empty and wasted, and the people were displaced."

Xia Heng, Minister of Taipusi, also sighed and said: "Only in Xuanfu Gongshi, the price of horses is 20 silver coins per year. Taipusi has been scolded by the people, saying that we take the silver coins minted by His Majesty and scatter them all over the country. Go beyond the Great Wall and say that our Taipu Temple should all be sent to the Tai Hospital!"

Xia Heng has been under a lot of pressure recently, because Xuanfu's tribute market needs to be settled with silver coins, and Daming is not enough. Are you going to Xuanfu Temple to distribute coins?
Is it because there is Tongwala in the Taipu Temple, should we investigate and deal with it, and send all the Taipu Temple to the Tai Hospital for observation and observation.

Du branch ambassador Wang Hu sighed and said: "Mizhou Shipping Department makes money, but the entire Mizhou Shipping Department, including Jiaozhou and other places, all grow wantonly like weeds, just building warehouses, reorganizing ports, building mutual markets, etc. It takes 50 silver coins."

"We were also scolded, saying that we had deceived His Majesty, and also provoked the pirates, saying that we were as familiar with the Japanese as Kong Yanjin."

Jin Lian added: "In the case of the censor and the minister, someone has already handed in a memorial, saying that all the members of the household department are connected with the Japanese, and the officials and thieves should be sent to the imperial hospital."

"The minister is terrified."

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "I have read those memorials, and they are just discussing whether it is worthwhile or not. How can it be as terrible as you said?"

There are indeed some memorials recently, expressing their concerns about the huge cost of the Ming Dynasty's campaign against Jining.

This is also normal, it's just a sequela of Xingwenwuwu.

Zhu Qiyu sighed, sat up straight and said: "Jin Shangshu, you belong to Pixiu! You can only go in and out! Just like a miser, if two bulbs of lamp grass are lit in a lamp, don't worry, I'm afraid it will waste oil. , You must cut off one to rest assured."

"The landlords of Ming Dynasty made silver ingots and buried them in the pigsty, hoping that future generations can use them when they need them."

"Jin Shangshu put our Daming's silver in Taicang, exactly the same!"

"Save it up, does it look good when stacked?"

Jin Lian was not moved at all. This is a salt and iron meeting, which is a place to discuss financial affairs. He nodded and said: "Your Majesty said that the minister is a brave man, and the minister is a brave man. He said that the minister is a miser, and the minister is a miser."

"But the household department, my minister, just opens half the door."

"Hubu's lamp does have only one wick, Your Majesty Shengming."

The financial affairs of the imperial court of Ming Dynasty finally improved a bit. Jin Lian wanted to guard the purse, which was his responsibility to the imperial court, and even more so to the emperor.

Zhu Qiyu sat up straight and said, "Okay, but Shijing Factory is better than we thought. Its investment and return exceeded our expectations. Isn't this the best proof?"

Jin Lian still shook his head and said, "Then your Majesty said it was a revelation, the lamp in the household department has only one wick."

Seeing the reaction of the ministers, Zhu Qiyu knew it too. He took a deep breath and said, "I finally know why I gave up Annan in the first place, abandoned Jiaozhi, gave up Jiaozhi succession and announced the political secretary."

"At first, I thought it was an inevitable reason for the prosperity of culture and martial arts, but now it seems that you feel that the food in that place is tasteless, and it is a pity to abandon it."

Zhu Qiyu flipped through his notebook of the Salt and Iron Conference, and said with a sigh: "Today we will have a good discussion on how to make money!"

　Here Yan Jiansheng stretched out two fingers before he died, because there were two wicks in the lamp, and when one was pinched, Yan Jiansheng died.

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