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Chapter 643 I Want It All!

If Jia Liu has the right to sell the Forbidden City, he will definitely sell tickets to the Forbidden City part-time, so as to contribute to the construction of the treasury.

In the same way, as the governor of Zhili and the minister in charge of Jingling, it is impossible for him not to carry out reasonable development of Jingling.

Because Jia Liu always believes that the emperor is not qualified and has no right to bring the wealth created by the people underground.

He personally advocates thin burials.

When he is going to die in the future, he just takes some change of underwear with him and lies in the coffin.

At most, let the children and grandchildren burn more paper money for him, or burn more silver notes.

If you have money, what can you not buy there?

The Jingling maintenance project submitted by the Minister of Rites, Queenie, was finally approved in the court, because what happened in the country in the past two years was enough to prove that there was a big problem with Fengshui in the Qing Dynasty.

Whether it's the big or small Jinchuan wars, the Shandong religious rebellion, or the Huguang rebellion that has already corrupted the two provinces, it all shows that the Qing Empire is not good and is going downhill.

Of course, this is the obvious reason.

The deeper reason behind it is the chaos in the palace caused by the death of the empress dowager, and the ominous events all over the city.

If the holy grandfather's underground palace hadn't seeped water and ruined the feng shui of the Qing Dynasty, these things might not have happened.

What happened last year between Jingzhou Mancheng and Jingshi Mancheng caused the total number of Zhenman to drop by as much as 150,000, accounting for [-]% of the total population of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

God is sorry, the Qing Dynasty entered the customs and fought so many battles, and never lost more than a hundred thousand Manchurians!
So, it’s not that the feng shui of the Qing Dynasty is broken, what is it?
It is imperative to save the Qing Dynasty!

No matter how dissatisfied the princes are with Qianlong, they still respect the holy ancestor Kangxi.

Lao Fu, who wanted to be a tinkerer of the Qing Dynasty, had no reason to object. After all, if Feng Shui was really bad, it would have nothing to do with whether the Lao Twelve he touted could succeed in enthroning, and whether he could lead the Qing Dynasty to ZTE.

It is rare that all forces unanimously passed the Jingling maintenance project proposed by the Ministry of Rites.

It is not too late to mend the dead.

The old rich asked the Ministry of Households to allocate 25 taels, and the Guangchu Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs contributed 30 taels, a total of 55 taels were used for the redecoration of the house of the holy grandfather.

The Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs dispatched a joint working group to Jingling. The team was led by Xingxing from the Military Aircraft Department and Minister of the Ministry of Rites Quini; the deputy leaders were Minister of Industry Enming and Minister of Internal Affairs Jin Jian.

Enming had just been transferred from the post of Anhui inspector two months ago to Beijing and was promoted to be the second-rank minister. He was appointed by Lao Fu himself because Enming's Ama was Zhong Yin who was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.

Zhong Yin has a close relationship with Lao Fu, and is a political ally that Lao Fu managed to win over in the first half of the year. He is now serving as the lecturer of Jing Yan, the vice president of Santong Library and Siku Quanshu Library, and also serves as the Minister of the Interior of Zhenglan Banner Mongolia.

Zhong Yin supported Fu Zhongtang politically, and of course Fu Zhongtang wanted to reciprocate favors, so Enming, the inspector of the third rank, went to Beijing like a rocket from the local area to become the servant of the second rank.

Jin Jian was the first official to take refuge in Lao Fu. He was very influential in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was Lao Fu's main helper in controlling the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

When Jin Jian went to play in the alley, he was caught by the guards under Jia Liu, who was the admiral of the Nine Gates at the time. Later, he made up the identity of the small director of the Guangchu Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and paid a fine of 300 taels to get away.

I have to say, very quick-witted.

Before the joint working group left Beijing, Jia Liu received a secret letter from Lao Fu, without mentioning anything else, it just asked the imperial court to take the majority of the proceeds from the development of Jingling, and Jia Liu, who was a local snake, could only take a small share.

The reason is that there is no money in the national treasury, and Huguang uses silver like water every day, and official documents to urge payment and food are issued almost every three days.

Originally, it was possible to collect a sum of money by selling officials, but the Ministry of Officials replied that all official positions below the fifth rank had been sold, and even some official vacancies had been pre-sold 60 years before Qianlong.

The old rich was so angry that he greeted his good brothers and six sons on the spot.

It is unrealistic to make a large donation. The Empress Dowager just made a big donation when she celebrated her [-]th birthday. How long will it take to make another big donation? I am afraid that the prestige of the court will plummet.

There is no other way but to send a letter to the Lianghuai Salt Administration, requesting to mobilize salt merchants to donate, and to lend money to the court if they don't donate.

The other is to follow Heshen's opinion and start to promote the crime-discussing work across the country. Although this can't cure the root cause, it can at least solve the urgent need.

I have to say that He Shen is really a master of financial management. Under his auspices, the whole country received more than 140 million taels of criminal silver in May alone, and more than 170 million taels of silver in June. There is no amount in July and August, but it will definitely not Below 2 million two.

Lianghuai Salt Administration also borrowed or donated more than 3 million silver from salt merchants one after another, but as soon as the money was collected, it was all shipped to General Dingxi, Huguang, and the old rich didn't even see it.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, this year's military expenditure alone has reached more than 30 million taels.

If the war is delayed until next year, more than 50 million taels of silver may be needed.

Spending is no longer a horror, but a great horror.

Back then, it took five years to pacify the Zhun and Hui tribes with troops in the western frontier, and the money used was no more than 30 million taels.For soldiers in Burma, tens of millions of taels of silver are used, for troops in Jinchuan, more than 40 million taels of silver are used, plus the empress dowager’s [-]th and [-]th birthdays and funerals, the emperor’s several tours, and the empty state treasury can be described as a horse-drawn carriage. .

Otherwise, the Ministry of Household Affairs would not be able to squeeze out only 25 taels for the grandpa to repair the house.

Therefore, Lao Fu also set his sights on the underground palace of the holy grandfather.

According to the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the burial items in the underground palace of the Holy Ancestor are worth tens of millions of taels, and some of them are priceless treasures.

Not to mention taking out all of them, even if you take out half of them, it will last for a while.

Minister Enming of the Ministry of Industry and Minister of Internal Affairs Jin Jian came to supervise the maintenance project.

To put it bluntly, it depends on the situation.

Prevent the minister of the Ministry of Rites and the governor of Zhili from colluding with each other and engulfing the tens of millions of family property of the holy grandfather.

How much is the bulk?
What is the small head?
Jia Liu's journey to Jingling was troublesome, the land was his, the idea was his, so why should the income be given to the rich old man?

He also pointed out that Jingling's income was a blood transfusion for the development of Zhili.

The development of Tailing Mausoleum provided a large amount of funds for the Zhili New Deal.

Only 500 pieces of gold solid bricks are worth several million taels of silver. Although Lao Fu extorted a large sum of money, the total value of the rest of the valuable artifacts together with the remaining gold bricks is also 4 million taels.

It is because of the problem of market sales that many valuable artifacts cannot be realized at the moment, and it will take several years to digest them.

But sooner or later it will be sold.

Now that Zhili is engaged in projects everywhere and spends money everywhere, the development work of Jingling must be put on the chopping board.

There's no reason to dig up Zhao Si's grave, not his father's.

As soon as they arrived in Jingling, Queenie, who had already been notified, came to greet her.

This is the first time that brother-in-law and brother-in-law meet again after several months, and the joy on their faces is obvious to all.

Queenie looks much younger, I don't know if it's because sister Yu'er is so moist.

Jia Liu was very greedy, but he could only forcefully suppress the thought of going back to the old way.

Queenie, not an outsider.

"This time, Fu Zhongtang asked Enming and Jin Jian to come over and watch. The officials thought that the matter might be difficult to deal with. My lord had better discuss it with Fu Zhongtang. Is it [-] or [-]?"

Queenie suggested that my brother-in-law should reach an agreement with Fu Zhongtang on how to divide the spoils, so as to avoid vicious incidents affecting the security of the Qing Dynasty caused by uneven distribution of spoils.

"Share his grandma's claws!"

Jia Liu grabbed his chest with both hands, "I want them all!"

(End of this chapter)