lied to Kangxi

Chapter 984

At this moment, if someone looks down at the earth from the sky, they will be surprised to find: on the official road from Tianjin to Zhangjiakou, there are long gray dragons marching mightily towards the north.

Almost at the same time, the Hubu warehouse in Tongzhou and the Tianjin section of the canal had also been fully taken over by the new army.

In war, what is fought is money and food.

The army has no food to eat, so where is the combat effectiveness?

The pack horses have no fodder, how can the artillery be dragged?

Even during World War II, the German army in the blitzkrieg needed more than just fuel.

There are also millions of pack horses responsible for transporting logistical supplies.

Yuzhu met Sun Zhaji, Man Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs, in the signing room of Nanxun Hall.

Yuzhu can be said to be very clear about Sun Zhaji's background.

This man was attached to Manchuria with the Red Banner, and he was able to be transferred from Minister of Industry to Minister of Household, thanks to the vigorous promotion of Song Zhu, the former chief Manchurian scholar.

"Sun Gong, have you received the order from the imperial court?" Yuzhu looked at Sun Zhaji expressionlessly.

Sun Zhaji didn't dare to stand firm, so he had to whisper, "To tell you the truth, my lord, where did the household department get the 400 million taels of silver in deposit? Take a look... Take a look..." After analyzing a lot of necessary expenses .

In the end, after much calculation, the Ministry of Households not only had no money to allocate, but needed Yu Zhu to bring back the money to fill the pit.

Yuzhu knew it well, what Sun Zhaji said was the truth.

After the death of Emperor Daxing, the household department first allocated 400 million taels of money for the funeral.Later, an additional 200 million taels was added.

The Qing Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety. In order to embody filial piety, the funeral of Emperor Daxing was done in an extremely luxurious way.

Not to mention anything else, just the total number of lamas, monks and Taoist priests invited has broken through the [-] mark.

Basically, all major temples and Taoist temples near the capital were emptied.

Previously, the Northwest had been using troops, and the expenditure was extremely huge.

More importantly, the Qiufu from Jiangnan has not yet been deported to Beijing, and mice can indeed run away in the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Yuzhu is in charge of the transfer department, so he naturally knows the reality of the household department.

"Both the fourteenth and the fourth have rebelled against the imperial court, and the banner people in Beijing should also share the difficulties with the imperial court." As soon as Yuzhu said this, Sun Zhaji's expression changed drastically.

Sun Zhaji never imagined in his wildest dreams that Yuzhu would dare to propose the flag salary.

Banner pay, commonly known in the folk: hardcore crops.

Of the hundreds of thousands of bannermen in Beijing, less than [-]% actually receive banner salaries.

In fact, the standard of living of ordinary banner people is not even as good as that of some hardworking small businessmen.

Usually want to eat meat?nonexistent.

Ordinary bannermen are not allowed to do business, farm their own fields, or open small workshops.

To put it bluntly, the imperial court just wanted to force ordinary bannermen to practice bow and horse, and then work for the imperial court.

However, the positions in the Beijing Eight Banners Army are always limited.As time goes by, there will be as many bannermen as there are idlers.

"My lord, I'm afraid this is inappropriate?" Sun Zhaji himself was a Manchurian bannerman, and he knew very well that the fate of offending all the bannermen must be extremely miserable.

Yuzhu smiled slightly and said, "Grandfather Sun, ordinary bannermen will not be affected in any way, and they can receive them as they please. But, for bannermen with nobles, they can defer the distribution of hard-core crops for a few months."

After the Qing army entered the customs, various customs of the slave society remained among the soldiers of the Eight Banners.

Ordinary bannermen, on the surface, enjoy superior treatment.

In fact, as long as the population of ordinary bannermen is slightly larger, they will be so poor that they can only eat poor food.

Sun Zhaji understood, what Yu Zhu meant was to seize the hard-core crops of the princes and nobles first.

Hey, good guy, isn't this going to poke a hornet's nest?

However, after Sun Zhaji calmed down a little, he pondered for a while, and immediately understood Yuzhu's sinister intentions.

As a foreign relative, Yu Zhu was appointed as the king of politics. Among the banner people, there are many opponents as you can imagine.

However, at this time when the fourteenth and fourth sons were fighting together, the princes and princes of Manchuria and the royal family were in a difficult situation. Who would dare to oppose it openly?

Sun Zhaji had been the Secretary of the Household Department for many years. He did some mental calculations and said, "If Youjue's banner salary is suspended, 200 million taels of silver can be set aside in a short period of time."

Yuzhu nodded with a smile. Sun Zhaji, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, has nothing to say about his professionalism.

"All projects of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will suspend the transfer of funds." Yuzhu's words shocked Sun Zhaji again.

Well, no one dared to stop the various shady projects of the Ministry of Internal Affairs before.

Unexpectedly, just after Yuzhu became the king of the government, he cut off the source of income for the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

To be honest, Sun Zhaji has long been bored with those vampires in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

For the princes outside, building a small pavilion costs at most a thousand taels of silver.

The gang of animals in the Ministry of Internal Affairs cost tens of thousands of taels of silver with a single mouth.

Sun Zhaji restrained the dark emotions in his heart, blinked, and said, "My lord, is this appropriate?"

His subtext is, can the empress dowager and emperor in the palace agree?
Yuzhu waved his hand and said: "Mother, Empress Dowager and Emperor, I will explain it myself, you don't need to worry too much."

A big stone in Sun Zhaji's heart immediately fell to the ground.

Yuzhu is now the king of politics, who would dare to publicly oppose his decision?

It was Yu Zhu who made the decision, and Sun Zhaji was just the executor. The princes of the banner and the Shura of the House of Internal Affairs, if they wanted to hate, they would hate Yu Zhu.

After careful calculation by Sun Zhaji, after the major projects of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were stopped, the Ministry of Household Affairs had an additional 300 million taels of silver.

The court wanted Yuzhu to send troops, but Yuzhu offered 800 million taels of silver.

However, the imperial court really ran out of money, so they could only give half of it to Yuzhu.

Even if it is halved, the household department has no money.

After some twists and turns, Yu Zhu got 500 million taels of silver.

However, this 500 million taels of silver is like pulling a tooth out of a tiger's mouth!

The Fourteenth and Fourth Brothers turned against each other at the same time, the princes of the Eight Banners would rather stay in the Hall of Mental Cultivation and talk about it all day long than really contribute.

The reason is actually very simple, no matter if it is the fourteenth or the fourth, whoever becomes the big deal in the end, the hard-core crops of the Eight Banners princes, it is impossible to give half a penny.

The basis of the rule of the Qing Dynasty was the bannermen, especially the Manchurian bannermen!

Sacrificing the interests of others is all you need to say. Anyway, a dead fellow Daoist will never die a poor daoist.

Sacrifice your own interests and live a hard life with the royal family, can you agree?

Hey, as soon as the news got out, many princes and nobles from Manchuria knelt down in front of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, crying poorly.

"Lafayette, there is a large population in the servant's mansion, and the expenses are astonishingly high..."

"Empress Dowager, this servant has borrowed a large sum of money, and is expecting to pay back part of it immediately after payment..."

"Old Zuer, the Bannerman is the foundation of my Qing dynasty, I can't just let that little bastard out there mess around..."

If Emperor Chongzhen, who racked his brains and only got 20 taels of silver, saw this scene, how would he feel?
In the Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager Cikang is fine, she drinks tea when she should drink tea, and eats snacks when she should have snacks.

However, the little emperor who came here to show his filial piety could not sit still.

"Ernie, I don't quite understand. It's just a temporary suspension for a few months. Why are they not happy?" The little emperor pretended to be puzzled.

The Empress Dowager Cikang glanced at the little emperor, this little guy is a precocious ghost, how could he not understand the twists and turns?
"Emperor, your fourth brother and your fourteenth brother raised troops to make trouble one after another. If, I mean if, they become a big deal, what will happen to those people kneeling outside?" Ci Kang didn't answer the little emperor directly. However, he used rhetorical questions to enlighten him from the side.

If the little emperor didn't understand these things, how could he openly beg the queen mother and agree to Yu Zhu's request?

There are so many people kneeling outside, which shows that it is impossible for Manchurian bannermen to obey Yuzhu sincerely.

Given time, if Yuzhu was boiled to death, the little emperor would turn around one day.

This is not fantasy, but fact with precedent.

That's what Emperor Shunzhi did.In the end, Dorgon was survived smoothly, and he took the opportunity to take power by himself.

The emperor's father, Lord Kangxi, did the same thing.Finally, Oboi was captured wisely.

Throughout the history books, when Huo Guang was in power, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was a puppet emperor who sang puppet shows.

If the old fourteenth successfully entered the capital, the first one to be slaughtered must be the little emperor.

"Emperor, the one who opened the city gate for the rebels during the Jingnan battle in the previous Ming Dynasty was the most honored among the nobles."

The Empress Dowager Cikang didn't read many Chinese books, and Yuzhu actually taught her to say this secretly.

The little emperor read a lot, and he vaguely remembered that it was none other than Cao Guogong Li Jinglong who opened the Nanjing Jinchuan Gate for Zhu Di.

Li Jinglong's father, Li Wenzhong, is Zhu Chongba's nephew, and he is considered a proper relative of the emperor.

The little emperor frowned, thought for a while, and then understood everything!

Frontal enemies are not scary, such as Yuzhu, Laosi, Laosi, Laoba and others.

What is really scary is the "Li Jinglong" of the Qing Dynasty hidden in the capital.

With this realization, the little emperor fell right into Yuzhu's arms!

Outside the Palace of Compassion and Ning, more and more Manchu nobles came to kneel and cry.

However, the more people crying outside, the colder the little emperor's heart became.

Because, he has completely understood one thing, it doesn't matter whether the emperor is dead or not, and their own five melons and seven dates must be guaranteed to be safe.

Lier is such a Lier!

However, the princes and nobles outside, after all, there are so many people!
Seeing the little emperor fidgeting and looking outside the hall frequently, the Empress Dowager Cikang smiled and deliberately prodded him, "Even if the Hall of Mental Cultivation collapses, what does it have to do with those people outside?"

The little emperor couldn't help clenching his fists, hum, one day, an eye for an eye, blood for blood.

For thousands of years, the rich and powerful with vested interests have always had the same face.

Even if the sky is falling, their personal benefits cannot be missed.

The representative figure among them is Qing Wang Yikuang in the late Qing Dynasty.

Qing Wang Yikuang was afraid of being poor when he was young, but once he took power, he would become even more greedy.

Without the protection of Prince Qing Yikuang, how could Yuan Xiangcheng rise so fast?

(End of this chapter)