Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

"Your Majesty, the financial pressure on domestic funds is too great."

Inside the East Nuan Pavilion, Huang Daozhou's voice sounded, "If this continues, at most one year, the fiscal deficit formed by internal funds will be difficult to close.

As of the end of this year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs alone had a total of more than 490 million taels of various bonds due to be redeemed.

If your Majesty blindly asks for the current internal funds, everything will be settled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and even a lot of established financial resources will be transferred to other places, then the Ministry of Internal Affairs will probably shut down. "

It seems that there are too many things to do, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is really reaching its limit.

Emperor Chongzhen narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the agitated Huang Daozhou, he couldn't help feeling emotional in his heart.

Even if the Ministry of Internal Affairs gathers a large number of talents, facing the cruel reality, some things are still irreconcilable.

To be honest, Emperor Chongzhen also knew in his heart that the pressure he put on the Ministry of Internal Affairs was too great.

Even the big and small officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are paid extremely high salaries and have good prospects.

But correspondingly speaking, the responsibilities and burdens of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are much higher than those of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Financial pressure is a commonplace thing."

Emperor Chongzhen restrained his mind, looked at Huang Daozhou and the others, and said calmly: "The solution to the financial crisis is nothing more than increasing income and reducing expenditure. I know this, and so do the ministers.

Judging from the current situation, throttling is unrealistic.

In particular, none of the many previously defined arrangements can be easily abolished. If that is really the case, all the previous efforts will be in vain.

The only solution now is open source.

Wang Banban, ask Zhu Qing to read the memorial presented by Zheng Zhilong. It involves the capture of Wa Island. At present, the Han League and Huangming Maritime Trade Association have achieved some results. "

"The slaves obey the order."

Wang Chengen hurriedly bowed in response.

Qian Sule, Huang Daozhou and the others heard what the emperor said, you look at me, I look at you, showing different expressions.

Raid Wa Island?

When did this happen?

"Since Zheng Zhilong solved Liu Xiang's subordinates, I have issued secret decrees to Zheng Zhilong many times." When Qian Sule and the others gathered together and watched the memorial, Emperor Chongzhen lifted the sleeves of his robe and continued.

"It is necessary to gradually develop and monopolize the semi-closed sea trade routes of Wa Island, and dump all kinds of commodities that are popular in Ming Dynasty to various parts of Wa Island in batches.

To this day, Zheng Zhilong has not disappointed me and has initially achieved this result.

Such as tea, porcelain, silk, sucrose, colored glaze and other commodities, the scale of trade obtained is still not small. "

The Han League and the Huangming Maritime Trade Association have temporarily stored more than 300 million taels of silver?
If this money can be collected into internal funds, it can solve many things!

Qian Sule, Huang Daozhou and the others became emotional after reading the memorial in their hands. The temptation of this windfall was too great for them.

"Your Majesty, this sea trade income must be handed over to the internal funds as soon as possible." Huang Daozhou was emotional and bowed to Emperor Chongzhen.

"With this amount of money, after the handover to Xishan to recast the new money, the financial pressure in front of the internal funds can be more relieved."

"The Qing family doesn't need to be so excited."

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand to comfort him: "This money is already on the way to Beijing under escort, and it will arrive in the capital smoothly within ten days at the latest.

However, after recasting the new money, at least half of this money must be used for the construction of the military industry, and the existing financial pressure in the internal funds must be compensated through other means. "

"Your Majesty can't!"

When Qian Sule heard this, he couldn't hide his surprise, so he knelt down on the ground and bowed, "Your Majesty, you must think twice.

For a long time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs' inclination towards the military industry is an abnormal state.

Although in the past few days, the batch of military industries that were planned to be established have received a lot of orders from the outside world and earned a lot of money.

But there are a lot of debts, which are bad debts for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The fault is not because of this. The financial pressure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will definitely not be so great. "

"My minister agrees!"

"My minister agrees!"

Huang Daozhou and the others knelt down and bowed to each other.

The arms trade is indeed huge profits, this is a fact that everyone admits, but for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they want to maintain the arms trade, but do not want to expand the scale of trade.

Why?

Emperor Chongzhen was too absolute in his actions. He exchanged a lot of money earned from the arms trade with land or handed it over to local officials. to huge financial expenditures.

No one wants to put this on anyone's body.

The fault is that the financial pressure is too great, and Zodiac Zhou and the others will not be like this.

In fact, since the arms trade was officially opened, the Ming Dynasty has changed a lot. In the northern provinces alone, the military industry industry that was established, and the smelting and other industries driven by it have continued to expand in scale.

"You don't need to be so excited."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled, took out a memorial, and asked Wang Chengen to pass it to Qian Sule and the others, "A large-scale war is about to break out in North Korea.

This is the memorial submitted by Jin Xuan and the others at the front.

The Jianlu, headed by Mang Gurtai, was not satisfied with the occupied territory and launched an offensive against the Korean royal family. The current situation in North Korea can be described as extremely turbulent.

North Korea is a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, and there are foreign enemies invading and plundering at present. As the suzerain country, Ming Dynasty certainly cannot sit idly by.

Furthermore, North Korea is an extremely important area. Once it is snatched by Jianlu, it will inevitably threaten the safety of Liaodong.

Therefore, for a long time to come, the war in North Korea will require a large amount of munitions. For Ming, this is a challenge, but it is also an opportunity. "

Qian Sule, Huang Daozhou and the others, after hearing what the emperor had said, got up and got together one after another, looking through the memorabilia presented by Dongjiang Pinglu's front finger.

The expressions of each of them changed again.

If there was no such great financial pressure, according to their past temperament, they would not be willing to use some means to rob the interests of the vassal state.

This is against the prestige of the suzerain of the Ming Dynasty.

But now it's different.

Under the subtle influence of Emperor Chongzhen, these senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are thinking about how to maintain the huge expenditure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

People are going to change.

"I can assure you of one thing." Emperor Chongzhen looked around at the officials in the hall, and said calmly: "Some trade income involving North Korea will be collected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and I will not hand over this part of the income again. The financial pressure will be eased a lot accordingly.”