Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 309
In the main hall of Yongshou Palace, the doors and windows were closed.Emperor Jiajing was wrapped in a quilt, with half of his head exposed, sitting on the dragon couch.In front of the dragon couch, there are two heaters.

It was early spring, but Emperor Jiajing's body was as cold as ice.He knew that Li Shizhen was right, his time was numbered!

He Liu and Liu Dajin entered the main hall of Yongshou Palace.

"The minister (servant) pays homage to the emperor." The two said in unison.

Emperor Jiajing shuddered: "Liu Da, poke the stove to make the fire brighter!"

Liu Da took the order, picked up the cleaning rod, and poked the heater.

He Liu knelt in the hall for only a moment, and beads of sweat started to form on his forehead.

After stabbing the stove, Liu Da knelt down to His Highness.

Emperor Jiajing asked: "Have all those damn Taoist priests been secretly executed?"

Liu Da showed a fierce look: "Report to the emperor, all of them have been secretly executed!"

He Liu thought to himself: Liu Da's hands are too dark!There were seven to eight hundred Taoist priests in Chaotian Temple and Lingji Palace, and he killed them all when he said they would kill them.

Emperor Jiajing said: "Okay! You are still capable of doing things! Listen to me, I know that countless people are staring at my internal storage! Staring at my own money! I will not give this money to anyone! Dongchang and Jinyiwei are responsible for transporting all the silver taels in the internal storage to Wannian auspicious land, and they will be buried with me after a hundred years!"

Liu Da kowtowed: "The maidservant obeys the order."

He Liu was stunned: Tens of millions of taels of silver, countless treasures of jade, all buried in the dark mausoleum?You know, it's all the fat and anointing of the people!
He Liu seemed to want to leave some leeway for the silver in the internal transport warehouse, and he said, "I would like to report to the emperor, do you want the silver in the internal transport warehouse to be transported to Wannianjiu immediately? The emperor is in good health and has a long life. It will not be a problem in the last 100 years. It seems unlucky to go to the auspicious burial of ten thousand years ahead of time..."

Emperor Jiajing threw the quilt behind him with a "crack" and jumped to the ground like a big toad: "Are you going to wait for me to die before sending my money to Jidao? Those people are all staring at me. What about the silver! After I’m dead, they will definitely violate my last will. Move those silver coins back to their own homes!”

He Liuxin thought: Hai Rui scolded you for being greedy for money and good goods, so it really didn't wrong you!I would rather bury the money in the ground than let the court and the people benefit. Isn’t this greedy for money and what is it?Is this the tolerance that a king of a country should have?
Emperor Jiajing said: "He Liu, why, are you going to resist the order?"

He Liu hurriedly kowtowed: "I don't dare, dare to ask the emperor, when will the internal storage be opened?"

Emperor Jiajing sat on the dragon couch and said, "I asked Qin Tian to monitor and calculate it. It will be auspicious at noon three days later! Let's open the warehouse in three days! In the afternoon, the two of you go to check the accounts with Huang Jin first! When the time comes , transport a tael of silver less to ten thousand years auspicious, I will kill your heads!"

At night, in the study of Prince Yu's Mansion.

He Liu told King Yu and the others about Emperor Jiajing's will during the day and the amount of silver in stock that had been checked with Huang Jin.Gao Gong threw the teacup directly on the ground.

King Yu scolded Gao Gong angrily: "Gao Suqing, what are you doing?!"

Gao Gong stood up and paced back and forth in the study: "My lord, that's more than 300 million taels of silver! Including those antique jades and rare treasures, the total value is no less than 2000 million taels! In the 44th year of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty The annual tax silver of the two capitals and the thirteen provinces is 700 million taels. The total expenditure of the treasury is 960 million taels. In other words, the emperor wants to bury all the taxes and taxes of the Ming Dynasty in the soil for a whole year!"

Zhang Juzheng sighed: "Oh, we still hoped that after the Emperor Longyu passed away, the money in the inner carrier would benefit the common people. Once the emperor's decree came out, everything would be ruined!"

King Yu was furious when he heard the words, he scolded Zhang Juzheng: "Zhang Juzheng! Are you cursing my father to die early?"

Zhang Juzheng knew that he had slipped his words, he quickly fell to his knees and said, "Your Majesty, calm down, I deserve to die."

Concubine Li has always favored Zhang Juzheng.She quickly smoothed things over for Zhang Juzheng: "My lord, Zhang Butang also lost his word in a hurry, so don't get angry."

King Yu said: "Tell you! This king is a son, and he is looking forward to the longevity of his father! From now on, don't talk nonsense in front of this king!"

Zhang Juzheng kowtowed again to plead guilty.King Yu waved his hand: "Forget it, get up."

He Liu finally spoke: "When nearly 2000 million wealth is buried in the ground, everyone will feel distressed. My lord, to be honest, I originally planned to take risks and use some means to intercept part of the money when transporting the money, and let Xu Shoufu and Zhang Butang They made up some accounts and put them into the accounts of the treasury. But this time, there are people from Dongchang who escorted the silver to Wannianji. In front of Dongchang, I dare not do it, and I can't do any tricks!"

King Yu sighed and said, "Oh! This is always the father's will. The silver... just bury it."

He Liu could see that King Yu actually felt sorry for so much money being buried with the emperor.

Xu Jie, the chief minister of the cabinet, finally said, "I have a plan. Maybe it can prevent the emperor from transporting the silver from the inner treasury to Wannianji."

King Yu showed joy when he heard the words: "Master Xu will tell you the plan quickly."

Three days later, at noon, outside the door of the inner carrier warehouse.

Huang Jin, He Liu, and Liu Da stood in front of the inner storage warehouse.

Huang Jin shouted loudly: "The Emperor Fengtian Chengyun has a will! Open the warehouse door!"

Forty young eunuchs worked together to open the two huge warehouse doors.

He Liu scratched his nose, and what came out of the gate was a stench!
The world always loves to say the word "smelly money".Tens of millions of taels of silver are piled together and damp and moldy, the smell is really worse than the smell of rotting corpses.

He Liu, Huang Jin, and Liu Dajin went to the inner storage.

He Liu's eyes widened, and he opened his mouth in shock!He is the family confiscator of Jin Yiwei, and he thinks he has seen money.But he had never seen the spectacular sight of 300 million taels of silver neatly stacked on thousands of iron racks!
The inner carrier warehouse is a real mountain of gold and silver!
Standing under this huge silver mountain, He Liu seemed to see those starving people who died of cold and starvation in Wanping County; Fatty Xu described the five-year-old girl who was boiled in the pot of "changing children and eating"; Li Zipian said, Those people who ate Guanyin soil were bloated to death. . .

He Liu was single-handedly pulled up by Emperor Jiajing.But at this moment, he scolded Emperor Jiajing heavily in his heart: Faint Lord!

Not only He Liu was stunned, but Liu Day, governor of the East Factory, was also dumbfounded.It took a long time before Liu Dacai said: "Huang, Eunuch Huang. I only transferred [-] soldiers from the East Factory. To move so much money, I'm afraid... not enough?"

Huang Jin sighed: "Hey. Eunuch Liu and Sixth Master He, you should send people to transfer all the soldiers and warriors from Dongchang and Jinyiwei to the inner storage. Also, let Shuntian Mansion call for a thousand vehicles , no, three thousand carts."

At this moment, there was a loud cry from outside the inner carrier warehouse.The cries shook the heavens and the earth, as if hundreds of people were crying in unison.

Huang Jin asked, "What's the matter? Go, go out and have a look."

(End of this chapter)