dream of red mansion

Chapter 555
Emperor Zhengqing was considered a diligent emperor, and usually after he came down to court, he would go to the South Study Room to approve papers for an afternoon.

Today is no exception, but he also summoned Lin Ruhai.

"Lin Aiqing, I ordered you to check the revenue of the national treasury this year, have you checked it out?"

Lin Ruhai is the secretary of the household department he just promoted, and he asked him to clean up the accounts in order to make Lin Ruhai familiar with government affairs as soon as possible.

"Returning to the emperor, this year's annual revenue has been fully sorted out. All taxes in the country, excluding the part retained by local governments and tax bureaus for personal use, the total cash in the treasury is 740 taels."

Emperor Zhengqing frowned, and said, "So little? It's more than six million less than last year."

Lin Ruhai explained: "This year's flood in the middle reaches of the Yellow River is worse than in previous years, and large areas of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places are affected; Zhejiang is severely drought, and the fields in 48 counties of the five prefectures in southern Zhejiang are almost devoid of crops. These places have been exempted by His Majesty. Taxes and agricultural taxes are mainly reduced by nearly two million taels in these two places. The tax revenues of other provinces and localities are stable, and the differences are complementary. The main gap comes from commercial taxes. This year, almost all types of commercial taxes have declined. The largest, this item alone is more than two million taels less than last year."

"Okay, I see."

Emperor Zhengqing felt a little unhappy.He still wants to do a lot of big things next year, but the treasury revenue is actually so much less.

"The salt tax has been reduced so much, how much has it been reduced in the two Huaihe Rivers in the middle?"

Lin Ruhai glanced at Emperor Zhengqing, and said flatly, "Half."

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Emperor Zhengqing took a few cases and scolded angrily: "This Huang Shipeng, I'm going to take his skin off!"

After Lin Ruhai left office, it was this man named Huang Shipeng who took over the Lianghuai patrol salt censor yamen.

Lin Ruhai said, "I think that if His Majesty convicts Lord Huang because of this, he may feel wronged. Salt merchants have always been cunning. I have been in the south of the Yangtze River for eight years, and I dare not say that I am fully familiar with their methods. It can be done slowly. Now Mr. Huang can guarantee that the salt tax collected is only less than 100 million taels less than last year. It can be seen that Mr. Huang must have been sleeping all night and exhausting his thoughts. You know, Mr. Huang The amount collected is much higher than when Wei Chen first arrived in Jiangnan."

Emperor Zhengqing thought for a while, and finally accepted Lin Ruhai's plea, and said: "I also know that he is a loyal person, that's all, he won't say anything, but the other three are unforgivable. Originally, the annual salt tax is more expensive than that." Lianghuai is much less, and dare to lose so much this year, damn it!"

Lin Ruhai did not speak for them this time, and said: "Mostly they guessed that Mr. Huang must not collect enough tax money, so they dared to slack off. The family should be less, and if they get together a few times, they will lose so much."

"Hmph, why don't I understand their thoughts, do you think the court is so easy to fool? This time I will not tolerate it! I will issue an edict to dismiss the three of them and investigate them, as a warning to others."

"Your Majesty, please think twice. I only have four salt censors in total. If three of them are cut off at once, I am afraid it will cause turmoil in the salt industry, and the salt tax collection next year will also be greatly disadvantageous. Please consider how to deal with it at your majesty's discretion. "

Emperor Zhengqing's eyes were gloomy and uncertain. Regarding this kind of dereliction of duty, he wished to kill them all.But he also knew that Lin Ruhai was right to worry.

"What Aiqing said is reasonable, but even so, I have to give a warning. Among the three families, which one has the most gaps?"

Lin Ruhai said: "Changlu."

"Okay, then I will confiscate Changlu Xunyan Yushi's house and exile."

After Emperor Zhengqing said this, he seemed to feel refreshed, and he laughed when he saw Lin Ruhai: "With Ruhai by my side, the long-standing constraints I have had in dealing with government affairs seem to have disappeared. It's like a helping hand. It seems that transferring Ruhai to the capital is something I should have done a long time ago."

Lin Ruhai knelt down and said, "Your Majesty loves me so much, but my humble minister is terrified."

"Get up."

Emperor Zhengqing only expressed his feelings for a while, seeing that Lin Ruhai didn't dare to talk to him about the friendship when he was young, he didn't force him, he just said: "From now on, I hope Aiqing will put more thought into the matter of the household department. Now the Russian Cossacks are ready to move, war It may explode at any time, and I want a sufficient treasury.

In the future, Ai Qing will try her best to reject any unnecessary expenses, and if necessary, she will also need to reduce them as appropriate.For those who are not convinced, let them just submit the letter, and I will support you. "

"Yes, Wei Chen takes orders."

Lin Ruhai bowed to accept the order, but thought in his mind: Everyone in the court guessed His Majesty's attitude towards the Cossack soldiers' accusation of Tatar, and His Majesty has never expressed his thoughts. As for the case, now it seems that His Majesty is the one who will lead the battle.

"Princess Star and Moon Arrives"

As soon as the eunuch's voice came down, a crisp voice came:

"Brother Emperor!"

Emperor Zhengqing looked at Princess Xingyu who walked in, with a smile on his face.

Although Lin Ruhai hadn't been in Beijing all year round, he had heard of Princess Xingyue's great reputation, so he didn't look around and said, "If Your Majesty has no other orders, I will take my leave first."

"Well, let's go."

After Lin Ruhai bowed again, he turned around and wanted to leave, but who would have thought that Princess Xingyue who had just walked beside him actually stopped him, and said arrogantly: "You are Lin Ruhai?"

"Xingyue, don't be rude." Emperor Zhengqing said.

Lin Ruhai replied: "It's the humble minister, I don't know what the princess ordered."

Xingyue first made a face at Emperor Zhengqing, then looked at Lin Ruhai and said, "I heard that you adopted a adopted son, what's his name. I forgot what it was called, but I heard that he is a playboy who steals chickens all day long. Dog, you have done all kinds of bad things. This princess is very angry, and I ordered you to discipline him after you go back."

"Hehe..." Emperor Zhengqing smiled on it.

What is this ghostly girl thinking?

Lin Ruhai was a little surprised, wondering how this princess in the deep palace knew about his relationship with Jia Qing.But he had a clear mind. Although he couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Princess Xingyue's gourd for a while, seeing that Emperor Zhengqing didn't mind Xingyue talking to him, he said: "The wicked son is stubborn, I don't know how to offend the princess, my humble minister Make an apology to the princess on his behalf. As for discipline, I wonder how the princess wants me to be disciplined?"

"Oh, I said it all because I heard it from others. It's not because I offended me. In short, after you go back, you should discipline him well. It's best to open his ass to see if he dares to be complacent."

After finishing speaking, Princess Xingyue ignored Lin Ruhai, walked quickly to Emperor Zhengqing, and said, "Brother Emperor, why are you still here? No wonder I couldn't find you everywhere in the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

Lin Ruhai shook his head behind, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, I will take my leave."

"Remember what I told you!"

Lin Ruhai: "."

After Lin Ruhai left, Emperor Zhengqing smiled and said, "Why, is our Xingyue still angry about what happened last time?"

"No!"

"Hehe, who told you to always bully others, so that they are afraid to come to see you."

The last time Princess Xingyue saw the blueprint of the Princess Mansion that Jia Qing planned for him, she was really overjoyed at that time, she even put aside the past "grievances" for the time being, and secretly sent her little eunuch to call Jia Qing into the palace, saying that she There are still a few ideas that I want to share with Jia Qing, so that he can re-plan the design
Unexpectedly, the little eunuch who came back replied to Jia Qing: [-]. I did not draw the drawings; , dare not enter the palace without authorization.

At that time, Princess Xingyue was very angry.

Later, he learned from Emperor Zhengqing that Jia Qing went to the palace to plead guilty to Emperor Zhengqing that day, told Emperor Zhengqing what happened, and said that he had offended the princess and asked Emperor Zhengqing to punish him.

Isn't this equivalent to suing her in disguise?

It just doesn't make sense.Princess Xingyue begged Emperor Zhengqing to punish Jia Qing severely.

Emperor Zhengqing thought it was just Princess Xingyue's nonsense, and Jia Qing was afraid of Princess Xingyue, so he deliberately avoided her. This is also the duty of a courtier, so why blame Jia Qing for this?
Unable to bear Xingyue's coquetry, he ordered Jia Qing to study behind closed doors for three days to punish the crime of disrespect to the princess.

"I've never bullied him, it's him who bullied me again and again, okay! Hmph, I don't know what kind of ability he has, he deceived you and the emperor, and he won't help me!"

Regarding Princess Xingyue's words, Emperor Zhengqing naturally smiled.For a while, I wondered if Xingyue would be too spoiled, she was used to throwing the responsibility on others, and she didn't know why she was looking for her. It would be fine if she married a courtier in the future. No one would dare to bully her if she was under his protection. He was a little worried about marrying into a foreign country.

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