Jinyi champion

Chapter 582

Sun Jiao's initial understanding of Tang Yin was that he was a poor scholar who relied on currying favor with the superiors of Prince Xing's family, so he probably didn't have much ability.

Now he felt that this Tang Yin was not simple.

Among the officials of Xingwang's mansion brought by the new emperor, there are only a handful of them who can influence the civilian forces in the court, and Tang Yin is definitely one of the best.

When Tang Yin was leaving, Sun Jiao personally sent him out. On the way, Sun Jiao suddenly thought of something and asked, "Your Majesty is raising money and food from the people. Bohu will handle this matter?"

"No."

Tang Yin shook his head.

"Who did that?"

Sun Jiao also wanted to know, is there any capable person around the emperor who can actually produce hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at a time?
Tang Yin kept secret, and smiled apologetically: "Mr. Sun will know in the future. Oh, by the way, I heard that Ling Ai and Zhu Hao's wedding is coming soon, so let me say congratulations first."

Originally, he thought Tang Yin was pretty good, but when he turned his head, Sun Jiao felt that this guy was ignorant of current affairs.

Don't you know that I don't like this marriage very much?

But what did Tang Yin mean when he suddenly mentioned Zhu Hao?Sun Jiao couldn't help pondering carefully, could it be that the matter of raising money and food had something to do with Zhu Hao?

Then he dismissed the thought.

Even if Zhu Hao really has the ability to work for the new emperor, he still can't make hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at once. He is just a young man with a bit of strategy, or a means of communicating with others, but he will definitely not be able to change so much money!
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cabinet.

Jiang Mian handed over to Yang Tinghe a memorial from Shanxi.

After Yang Tinghe finished reading, a black line seemed to be pressed on his face, and a gloomy air rushed over his face.

Jiang Mian said: "Your Majesty has bypassed the Household Department and the court, and sent people to the northwest to transfer money and food. Some people say that Your Majesty has a precedent for re-opening grain in the Northwest... Now some merchants ask the Household Department how the salt will be distributed in the coming year. .”

Yang Tinghe remained silent.

Mao Ji walked over: "There is another news that His Majesty sent people to collect money and food from the people, especially from merchants in Huizhou and other places. This is tantamount to exploiting the people. Or someone secretly promised these merchants some benefits , put the court in an inhumane and unrighteous situation.”

Su Xigui took the lead in finding merchants to transfer grain to the northwest. Even if Zhu Si didn't mention this matter in the court, the local people would have noticed it.

After all, there are all kinds of official documents and dispatch documents, as well as dispatch documents from the Ministry of Household Affairs. It is clear that the emperor bypassed many officials of the court to do things.

Originally, the civil official group wanted to give the little emperor a bad rap with the money and food issue, but it turned out that the little emperor taught them a good lesson.

Without you, I can still fill the gaps in money and food.

The cabinet couldn't think of any way for the emperor to solve such a large shortage of money and food. Thinking of the emperor's intention to restore the old system of salt imports in the northwest, the people in the cabinet would naturally think that the emperor used "tricks" to deceive those merchants and deceive them. If you get money and food to make up for the holes, the Ministry of Households still has to return it in the end.

The emperor is responsible for borrowing, and the court is responsible for returning.

Jiang Mian cautiously said: "This situation cannot be allowed to continue...Your Majesty has no eyes on the imperial court, and naturally he will also have no ministers such as me in his eyes. The court cannot let His Majesty do whatever he wants..."

The emperor was addicted to pleasure, and the ministers objected, but in fact they were very happy in their hearts, so that everything can be decided by us.

Once the emperor is diligent and always skips the ministers to do things, even if everything is done in the end, the ministers will be worried.

Yang Tinghe finally spoke: "Tell the situation to the household department, and the household department will invite you tomorrow, and the court will clarify the matter!"

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Yang Tinghe couldn't just sit back and watch the little emperor mess around, but Yang Tinghe himself didn't even think about how to solve this sudden problem.

Now let's make sure that the emperor can't make random promises.

But the problem is that it is not even clear who is in charge of this matter, how the money was gathered, and how much money was raised, which means that the civil servants are always passive in this matter.

Just before the incident was about to break out in the court, Zhu Si had already noticed the hidden danger. Unfortunately, he was unable to leave the palace recently, because the Empress Dowager Jiang strictly restricted his son from going out of the palace to prevent him from encountering accidents, and at the same time prevent his son from indulging in pleasures outside the palace. thing.

So Zhu Si could only let Zhang Zuo go out of the palace to find Zhu Hao to discuss countermeasures.

Zhang Zuo said: "At present, including the money and food promised by the imperial court, it is worth about [-] taels of silver, but if someone secretly makes trouble in the future and says that this figure is not enough... I am afraid that everything will still be controlled by Mr. Yang Ge. Now I don't know what they will do. What means."

Zhang Zuo was a little anxious.

It was a good job at first, and the money and food were transferred to the northwest secretly. After the transfer was basically completed, Zhu Si told the ministers in the court hall that he had completed the matter and taught the group of civil officials who thought they could do it well. a feeling of.

Now there are twists and turns, the local people got the news, and the report came up, exposing everything.

Civil officials know in advance and will respond accordingly.

Zhu Hao said with a smile: "Eunuch Zhang, don't worry, I think Mr. Yang Ge and the others should be more concerned about the source of the money than the specific figures."

Tang Yin on the side asked: "Zhu Hao, I haven't asked you all this time, how do you know that the transfer of money and food worth [-] taels of silver from the Northwest is enough?"

The imperial court has not yet calculated a specific figure for the gap. The cost of the Northwest has always been a hole, and the devil knows how much food will be needed to fill the hole.

In other words, the size of this hole is variable. If it gets bigger, even [-] million taels of silver is not enough. Now we just need a number that can be accepted by the northwest region and can solve the urgent need.

However, Zhu Hao seemed to insist that [-] taels of silver would be enough to solve the trouble, which Tang Yin and others did not understand.

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "It's calculated."

"How to calculate the algorithm?"

Tang Yin continued to ask.

Zhu Hao said: "Just add up the gaps of all parties, wouldn't there be an approximate number?"

Tang Yin frowned.

Are you teaching me arithmetic?

If it were really so easy to calculate, the court would not have to argue every time, and just find a tent to add one more, so why bother with these moths?
Tang Yindao: "Speaking of which, I went to see Sun Butang the day before yesterday, and he mentioned this matter in front of me, as if saying... at least three hundred thousand taels of silver is needed."

"more or less."

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "He said the minimum number that can be saved if possible, but the demand is often greater than this. It should be no problem if it is added to [-] taels of silver."

"Oh."

Tang Yin didn't say anything more.

Zhu Hao naturally had a secret in his heart.

Zhu Hao didn't have to do the calculation of the shortage of money and food in the Northwest at all. He did it according to the historical summary, or in history, the historian helped him calculate it before the spring of the first year of Jiajing.

Historically, at the beginning of the first year of Jiajing, the imperial court appointed Li Yue as the left servant of the Ministry of War and the censor of the right capital. The Tatar army, which had gathered [-] people to attack, was repulsed.

Of course, the [-] taels of silver was allocated to the Northwest in the name of the Inner Palace after the next year's budget.

It just made the emperor earn a good reputation. In fact, none of the money went into the treasury of the inner government, and Yang Tinghe didn't intend to let the [-] taels of silver really be at the disposal of the new emperor.

As far as Zhu Hao is concerned, you all help me to calculate the accounts, and I can use it as a ready-made. Since you think that [-] taels of silver is enough in history, you can't say [-] taels of silver, you insist on adding it to [-] Two silvers?
You can add as much as you want, and this will give me the opportunity to calculate. If you dare to ask for more, I will dare to check, and finally hit you in the face with specific figures.

I know that [-] taels of silver is enough, but if you insist on making troubles for the emperor by increasing the budget in the court, it is because you give me a chance to use the evidence to fight back against you.

If Zhu Hao wanted to come, Yang Tinghe would not normally join him.

It needs to be solved. Now the emperor has raised money to deal with the difficulties. The Ministry of Households does not need to allocate too much money. This is a good thing. As the chief steward of the court, Yang Tinghe is also worried about the lack of money and food. How can he provide for himself? Reason for trouble?

Didn't Yang Tinghe know that the result of indiscriminately increasing the amount of money and food was that the damage caused to the enemy was far worse than the trouble he caused himself?

"I'm here to make a plan for His Majesty, so that His Majesty can deal with it according to this after returning."

What Zhu Hao meant was that there is no need for you, Zhang Zuo, to pass on the message. I will directly write a script for the new emperor.

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The court meeting the next day.

Just as Zhu Hao expected, people from Yang Tinghe's faction were only interested in the origin of this batch of money and food. They really wanted to know what the emperor did to get a huge amount of money and food at one time.

The topic was proposed by Qin Jin, the left servant of the household department.

Zhu Si cleared his doubts: "Previously, Governor Cangchang has reported many times that it is difficult for the imperial court to allocate more money and grain to the Northwest, so I want to use the relationship of the late emperor to raise a batch of money and grain from some familiar merchants. This is to solve the shortage of money and food in the three sides and other places.

"Because this matter may not be successful, and it will take a certain amount of time to prepare, I have not said it for the time being. I want to wait until the matter is completed or not, and when there are specific figures reported, I will mention it to you.

"But who knows that now that you have asked, then I'll just say it straight... So far, including the money and food that the court mentioned in the court earlier, the total value of the money and food exceeds [-] taels, which is already [-] yuan. In practice, most of them were transported from the south of the Yangtze River to the north. Huang Shangshu of the Southern Household Department made great contributions to it, and a lot of money and food were obtained through his mediation."

After the emperor said this, the ministers present couldn't help talking about it.

Originally they thought that what the emperor said was pure nonsense, but when the emperor mentioned Huang Zan's name, many people felt that everything seemed reasonable.

When Emperor Zhengde took Xuanfu as his home and the expenses in the northwest increased greatly, the imperial court relied on Huang Zan, the right servant of the household department, to solve the problem satisfactorily.

Later, when Emperor Zhengde went south, the army lingered in Nanjing and did not return. When the army was short of pay, it was Huang Zan who transferred the Minister of the Nanjing Household Department to solve the problem.

Huang Zan is simply a machine for making money.

It seems that where there is him, there is no shortage of silver. The emperor wants silver, and Huang Zan is not competent to raise money.

(End of this chapter)