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Chapter 395 I'm Watching Here
After hearing Li Huan's words, Zhu Houzhao, who was extremely shocked in his heart, finally came back to his senses a little bit, and subconsciously raised his head to look at Li Huan.

Zhu Houzhao said almost instinctively: "Li Qing, is what you said true? You really confiscated gold and silver worth tens of millions of taels in Yangzhou Mansion this time?"

Even now, Zhu Houzhao, who is the emperor, still can't believe Li Huan's words.

It is really impossible for Zhu Houzhao to imagine such an astonishing number of tens of millions of taels of property, and that he was able to copy it from his home. You must know that the tax income of the huge Ming Dynasty is only a few million taels a year.

And in its internal treasury, thanks to the fact that Li Huan ransacked his family and wiped out his family several times in the past few years, and continuously sent gold and silver wealth to his internal treasury, it barely reached tens of millions.

It's just that not long ago, after a great war, not only the silver deposits in the national treasury were almost exhausted, but even Zhu Houzhao kept allocating gold and silver from the internal treasury to support Li Huan and Wang Yangming in fighting against the Tatars in the front. battle.

It can be said that after that battle, Daming really spent a lot of supplies. After all, Li Huan and Wang Yangming were at the front, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the war lasted for more than half a year.

There is nothing in the world that consumes gold and silver wealth more than war. It can be imagined that Daming won a great battle, and Daming actually lost a little bit of vitality.

At least as far as Zhu Houzhao knows, there were tens of millions of taels in the internal treasury before, but now there are only a few million taels left. As for the national treasury, it is also empty.

Up and down the court, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty are all worried about where to raise money to maintain the situation in the world.

Now that Li Huan suddenly told Zhu Houzhao that he had confiscated tens of millions of taels of gold and silver wealth from the Yangzhou government, it was reasonable for Zhu Houzhao to have such a reaction.

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's shocked and expectant look, Li Huan nodded slowly at Zhu Houzhao and said: "Return to Your Majesty, how dare I deceive Your Majesty about such matters, now I have transferred those gold and silver goods to the capital, and the carriages behind you There are gold and silver items worth millions of taels brought back first."

As he spoke, Li Huan chuckled and said, "If it wasn't for that, I would have accompanied His Majesty to the palace for a banquet. It really involved so much gold and silver. Don't worry."

"well!"

After hearing Li Huan's words, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help admiring, and even reached out to pat Li Huan's shoulder, and said with emotion: "I really didn't expect that the Qing family would bring me such a surprise." .”

Zhu Houzhao's hearty laughter came from the carriage, and just by hearing that laughter, one could tell how good Zhu Houzhao was in a good mood at the moment.

Outside the carriage, Zhang Huai, Lin Pingzhi and others were on the sidelines, and the royal guards protecting Li Huan and the emperor were naturally a little bit happy.

In the carriage, Zhu Houzhao looked at Li Huan with a sudden smile and said, "I can't wait to hear what Aiqing said, so I will go with Aiqing, and I will also see these gold and silver gifts with my own eyes." Into the library."

Zhu Houzhao's face was full of deep interest, let alone him, even any emperor would not be able to keep calm in the face of millions of gold and silver.

While speaking, the carriage creaked and arrived in front of the imperial city.

Qiu Ju, Gao Feng and others went to call to open the gate of the palace, and then a group of royal guards began to maintain order, driving the carriages into the imperial city continuously.

That is to say, the imperial city is vast, otherwise, it may not be able to accommodate hundreds of carts suddenly entering.

As the royal treasury, it naturally occupies a corner in the imperial city, and the defense is extremely tight.

After all, what is stored here is the royal private property, and the inner treasury is not only gold and silver, but also many priceless treasures.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao and Li Huan got out of the carriage together, and came to the front of the inner library surrounded by everyone.

At the same time, the carriages stopped one after another, and a group of Jin Yiwei stepped forward to lift the huge boxes from the carriages, and then a group of servants who were in charge of managing the inner warehouse went up. These boxes were carried into the inner warehouse beforehand, and they were prepared to be counted and recorded.

Soon there was a cry of exclamation from the inner vault, and even Li Huan, Zhu Houzhao and others standing at the door could hear it clearly.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help showing curiosity when he heard the exclamation. He walked into the inner warehouse first, and at the same time said to Li Huan: "Li Qing will go and have a look with me."

Li Huan and Zhu Houzhao entered the inner treasury together, while the rest stayed outside the inner treasury.

Walking into the inner warehouse, the space suddenly became much brighter, and a dozen or so servants, large and small, were opening many boxes that had been brought in.

And among these opened boxes were neatly placed ingots of gold, and the gold in each box exuded a dazzling golden light.

Even though these internal servants took care of the inner treasury for the emperor and were used to seeing many gold and silver treasures, they couldn't help being amazed when they suddenly saw the boxes of gold.

The value of gold is ten times that of silver, not to mention other things, just the dozens of boxes of gold in front of me are worth a lot.

Originally, these servants were still distressed by the silver that had been continuously moved out before, but now they looked at these large boxes of gold and silver that were brought in, and their faces were full of joy.

An elderly waiter screamed excitedly at the little waiter under him: "Hurry up, what are you doing in a daze, don't hurry up and make an inventory of our family, then make statistics and record them, and put them into the treasury. If there is anything wrong, we will They chopped off your heads."

Li Huan and Zhu Houzhao who just came in naturally saw such a scene, and Zhu Houzhao also saw the gold in the open box.

Even Zhu Houzhao couldn't help squinting his eyes, subconsciously took a few steps forward, and walked to a big box. The palm-sized gold ingots in the box looked so charming.

Such a box probably weighs no more than a thousand jins, and it is nearly ten thousand taels, worth nearly 10 taels of silver.

Although I have heard Li Huan say about the amount of gold and silver that was confiscated this time, it is just a number after all. Although it is the same excitement, if I really want to say it, it is more exciting to hold the real gold in my hand. Some.

After a while Zhu Houzhao let out a sigh of relief, threw the gold ingots in his hand into the box, his eyes fell on Li Huan and said slowly: "Li Qing, you said that the confiscated gold this time is as much as 150 million taels of silver, More than 2000 million taels, and countless other properties?"

Li Huan nodded slightly.

Zhu Houzhao laughed loudly and said, "I won't leave today, but just watch these gold and silver go into the inner treasury."

Li Huan couldn't help being stunned for a moment when he heard the words, obviously he didn't expect Zhu Houzhao to make such a decision.

But Zhu Houzhao had already found a place to sit there at the moment, watching with great interest the servants in charge of the inner treasury carrying boxes of gold into the inner treasury.

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's appearance as a money fanatic, Li Huan couldn't help smiling. No matter who persuades him at this moment, Zhu Houzhao probably won't leave.

Li Huan smiled slightly and said: "The minister then went to order his subordinates to not stop, even overnight, to transfer the many gold and silver belongings on the ship."

Dozens of large ships are full of confiscated property, and hundreds of large carts are just pulling things from one or two large ships. may not be able to do so.

Of course the most important thing right now is to bring those gold and silver items to the imperial city first, Li Huan is not a fool, he will definitely not be able to hide it from all the civil and military officials above the court when he returns this time.

With dozens of ships of all sizes and such a big movement, anyone who is not a fool would know that he must have brought back the wealth that was confiscated in Yangzhou Mansion.

It's just that these people don't know how much wealth he confiscated in Yangzhou Mansion, so these people didn't respond.

However, with so many large carts being transferred, anyone who is not a fool will definitely realize that he has confiscated a lot of wealth in Yangzhou Mansion this time, and the important officials in the court will definitely jump out to seize these properties.

Normally, part of the confiscated proceeds would definitely go to the national treasury, so if those important ministers above the court reacted, they would definitely come to the emperor to ask for an explanation.

What's more, the national treasury is empty now. Once the ministers come to look for the emperor, even the emperor will not be able to refuse.

Therefore, Li Huan knew very well that before these people could react, it was reasonable to put as much gold and silver as possible into the inner treasury.

After all, in Li Huan's view, once these gold and silver wealth enter the national treasury, it will not be so easy to use it at that time, but it will be included in the emperor's internal treasury. He would transfer from the internal treasury without hesitation. In contrast, Li Huan felt that it would be better for these wealth to go to the emperor's internal treasury.

Here, the Son of Heaven came out of the palace in micro-clothes to welcome Li Huan back to the city, and Li Huan entered the imperial city mightily with hundreds of carts. Such a big movement naturally spread at an extremely fast speed.

cabinet
Several elders were sitting there frowning one by one, and there were some memorials in front of them.

Wang Jia stroked his gray beard, looked up at Yang Tinghe, Zhang Cai, and Wang Yangming and said indifferently: "Everyone, the Ministry of Industry, please repair the river, Kaifeng in Henan was hit by a flood, and the court urgently needs relief for the victims. Due to the war, a large area of ​​autumn grain is not harvested, and all industries are withered. It is necessary for the imperial court to allocate money and grain to restore people's livelihood..."

Listening to Wang Jia's words, whether it was Zhang Cai, Yang Tinghe or Wang Yangming, they all had sad expressions on their faces.

What Wang Jia said are all the problems that the court is facing urgently to be solved. If these problems are not solved, it will inevitably lead to extremely serious consequences.

And if you want to solve these problems, it is actually not difficult. It is nothing more than reducing or exempting taxes, and the court mobilizes money and food for relief. In the final analysis, it is a question of money.

But the biggest problem right now is that the court has no money.

After a great battle, the national treasury, which was still relatively full, suddenly bottomed out, so that facing the current situation, the elders of the pavilion couldn't do anything about it.

As the saying goes, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, that is, no matter how many means they have, facing the empty treasury, they can't think of any effective solution for a while.

Seeing the expressions of several people, Wang Jia said indifferently: "Wang said before that the military is not beneficial to the country, but now it is good, a great war has cost countless people..."

Wang Yangming, who hadn't spoken all this time, couldn't help but frowned, looked at Wang Jia lightly and said, "My lord Wang said so, that means the imperial court shouldn't send troops to quell the Anhua king's rebellion, and should let the Tatars count in the northwest. Do you wantonly plunder the land of the province?"

Wang Jia glanced at Wang Yangming and said, "I didn't say that."

Seeing this, Yang Tinghe coughed lightly and said, "You two, the most important thing right now is how to raise money and food to solve the problem, instead of discussing these irrelevant matters here."

Wang Jia snorted coldly and said, "Anyway, I can't think of any solution. If you guys have any good ideas, you might as well speak up."

At this moment, Zhang Cai coughed lightly and said, "If I wait to invite the Son of Heaven, Your Majesty will send you the money from the internal money......"

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps, and an official appeared at the entrance of the hall, looking into the hall with his head.

Wang Jia glanced at the official and said immediately, "What's the matter in such a hurry?"

At the same time, several eyes fell on the official.

The official took a deep breath and said, "Old Huige, just now there is news that His Majesty left the palace in low clothes to welcome the champion back to Beijing in person."

"Absurd, really absurd, how can His Majesty leave the imperial city lightly with a body of ten thousand gold, if something happens to this, who can bear the responsibility."

Wang Jia's complexion changed involuntarily when he heard the words, and he patted the table with anger on his face and said.

Wang Jia's reaction made the official shrank his neck in fright.

Yang Tinghe first said to Wang Ji: "Brother Ji calm down, I will meet with His Majesty later and persuade His Majesty." While speaking, Yang Tinghe glanced at the official and said, "Is there anything else?"

The official hurriedly said: "Also, the Champion Hou returned this time, and together with hundreds of carts, he entered the imperial city in a mighty way. Many people saw it and said that the cart must be loaded with the Champion Hou. The property confiscated by the Yangzhou government..."

"what!"

Wang Jia, who was angry, jumped up all of a sudden, stared at the official with wide eyes and said, "What are you talking about, hundreds of carts?"

The official shrank his neck and subconsciously said: "The news from the people below is that they saw hundreds of carts entering the imperial city."

Zhang Cai took a deep breath, with a strange look in his eyes and said: "How can we forget this point, the Champion Marquis was killed in Yangzhou Mansion. I don't know how many tyrants have been ransacked by him. He must have brought him back this time. Its confiscated property in Yangzhou Mansion."

Yang Tinghe looked at Wang Yangming and said quietly: "The national treasury is empty. With such a large amount of property being filled into the national treasury, all the problems now can be solved easily. You are willing to come with me to meet the emperor."

[Bosses who have monthly tickets, please help me smash them down]

(End of this chapter)