Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 82 The God of Wealth's New Idea
"Xia Yuanji has met His Royal Highness."

As soon as he entered the door, Xia Yuanji behaved quite formally, which was also the characteristic of this person.

In fact, it's a bit strange to say that those veteran officials are basically rigid people, such as Jin Zhong, Xia Yuanji...

Uh... It seems that Xia Yuanji shouldn't be counted, this person should be classified into the column where oil and salt are not included.

"Xia Shangshu is free of courtesy." Zhu Zhanhe did not dare to trust the person in front of him.

Not only him, even if you replace his father or uncle, you still dare not trust him.

"Xia Shangshu took time out of his busy schedule to come here, presumably there is something to do? Otherwise, the affairs of the Ministry of Accounts may make you unable to keep your heels off the ground."

"His Royal Highness guessed right." Xia Yuanji smiled and sat down following Zhu Zhanhe's gesture.

He likes to talk to smart people, because there are too many idiots asking him for money on weekdays, which annoys him.

"Wei Zhe (Xia Yuanji, courtesy name Wei Zhe) came here this time because he may need to ask His Royal Highness for help, and I hope His Royal Highness will not hesitate to help."

"Xia Shangshu, please tell me." Zhu Zhanhe stretched out his hand to signal, and at the same time let Zhu Ling lead the servants away.

"I'm ashamed to say that His Royal Highness the King of Han came to me repeatedly because of the compensation for the casualties of the Northern Expedition, but right now there is really no money in the treasury, so the compensation cannot be paid on time."

Xia Yuanji bowed slightly to take the tea pushed by Zhu Zhanhe, and then began to "pour bitter water".

"Speaking of which, Wei Zhe would also like to thank His Royal Highness. If His Highness hadn't dealt with the officials and profiteers in Yangzhou who were smuggling with pirates, I'm afraid we won't be able to get enough compensation for the soldiers next year."

"Hey..." Seeing that something was wrong, Zhu Zhanhe quickly stopped.

"Xia Shangshu, although I am the heir of the King of Han, I can't help you boasting so much. Don't you know that others don't know about dealing with corrupt officials and profiteers? The one who handed over to you is Ji Gang, the commander of Jin Yiwei!"

"It's okay for others to give me a high hat because they don't understand the situation. You shouldn't!"

"Yes yes yes, I made a slip of the tongue and was disturbed by rumors." Xia Yuanji hurriedly apologized after hearing the words.

"I came here this time to ask His Royal Highness to help, to appease the families of those casualties."

"Comfort the families of the soldiers?" Zhu Zhanhe was stunned, and looked at Xia Yuanji with surprise on his face.

"If I remember correctly, Jin Yiwei sent a batch of food and money after they dealt with those people in Yangzhou, and it should have already entered the treasury."

"Since we have food and money, the distribution of pensions should not be a problem."

"Besides, our Ming Dynasty adopts a two-tax system. The summer tax is collected in August every year, and the autumn grain tax is collected in the second month of the autumn harvest. Now the autumn grain tax is not much different even if it has not been put into the warehouse, right?"

"Your Highness is right." Xia Yuanji exclaimed in admiration, he didn't expect that a child like Zhu Zhanhe knew so much.

"At present, the autumn grain tax has almost been collected, and Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Songjiang and other places close to Yingtian have already been put into storage. There is indeed no shortage of grain."

"However, Wei Zhe came here today because there is another way to replace the previous pension payment, and His Royal Highness needs to come forward."

"Oh?" Zhu Zhanhe became interested.

"Appreciate further details."

"Then please don't worry, Your Highness, and wait for Wei Zhe to tell you about it slowly." Xia Yuanji took a sip from the teacup, and then began to talk about it.

"Your Highness, you also participated in this Northern Expedition, and made great contributions in the Northern Expedition. Naturally, you should know that during this Northern Expedition, I captured a lot, including horses, cattle and sheep."

"War horses should undoubtedly belong to the Ministry of War. After all, this is a rule that has never changed. In addition, there are three other things that need to be dealt with: cattle, sheep and poor horses."

"Nail horses need to be allocated to the post station, and the rest are going to be sold. These rogue horses have always been the target of merchants. After all, their caravans need a lot of rogue horses."

A poor horse is a horse that cannot run fast and cannot be used as a war horse, but it is no problem for transportation. Merchants like this kind of horse very much.

One is that, as Xia Yuanji said, the caravan needs to use rough horses for transportation, and the other is that when buying rough horses, you can also brush your face in front of the court. Although the court doesn't care, you can talk to someone Some officials hit the line.

"At present, the sale of the poor horses has been properly arranged, and it is estimated that it will be completed in February next year. The rest is the problem of cattle and sheep."

Xia Yuanji looked at Zhu Zhanhe's thoughtful look, and felt a little nervous, because he was about to get to the point.

"I don't know if His Highness Shizi has ever heard about the Ministry of Households requisitioning the horse farm of the Ministry of Military Affairs?"

"I've heard about it." Zhu Zhanhe nodded, but he didn't pretend to be ignorant.

"In fact, this is intentional, because many of the cattle and sheep seized this time are with cubs. As long as they persist for three to six months, there will be a lot of extra income, so I made this bad plan."

"If we can persist in the past, the revenue of the national treasury will increase a lot next year."

"Xia Shangshu is indeed a good method. If you say that you are the only Xia Shangshu in Ming Dynasty who can manage the household department well, no wonder Grandpa praises you so much."

Zhu Zhanhe laughed when he heard the words, and even put a high hat on Xia Yuanji, but what followed was a 360-degree change.

"But it has nothing to do with me, does it? Why did Xia Shangshu find me?"

"I'm ashamed to say that, Your Royal Highness, you may not know that even if it is only raised for three to six months, it takes a lot of money to feed this cow and sheep."

"Sheep don't matter. Those without cubs can be sold directly. Anyway, these sheep are basically bought, killed and sold, but not cattle."

Zhu Zhanhe nodded deeply when he heard the words.

Cattle are the only farming livestock in this era, not to mention eating beef, and even killing cattle has to be reported to the government first.

In the Ming Dynasty, the private slaughter of farm cattle was punished with one hundred sticks. Even if the cattle died of illness, if they were not reported to the government, they would be whipped (whipped) forty if they were discovered.

"Actually, Wei Zhe can understand His Royal Highness's anxiety before. After all, the casualties are the pillars of the family, and they are related to the life of the whole family."

Looking at Zhu Zhanhe's appearance, Xia Yuanji felt that there was something for him, so he hurriedly struck while the iron was hot.

"However, because of this, Wei Zhe thought of a way, which is to use the captured cattle to temporarily deduct the pensions of the soldiers."

"Deduction? Temporarily?" Zhu Zhanhe was taken aback when he heard this.

"Yes, it's a temporary deduction!" Xia Yuanji nodded quickly and began to explain.

"The imperial court will put nose rings on those prairie cattle, and select those who are relatively docile and can be farm cattle to raise for them. They will be taken back after the early rice and wheat harvest in the coming year."

"When the cattle are distributed, the imperial court will first issue part of the pension, and when the cattle are returned next year, the imperial court will distribute the rest of the pension together!"

　hi hi hi!I am coming again!

　
(End of this chapter)