dismissed a large number of eunuchs and palace maids.The expenses in the palace were much less at once, and the money and food saved could not only support the hungry people in the northwest, but also improve the lives of the remaining eunuchs and palace maids.As we all know, a large amount of money and grain in the Ming Dynasty were concentrated in the southeast region, even the court was also poor.Not to mention ordinary eunuchs and palace maids?
It can be said that he is doing the hardest and most tiring work, but he is the worst salary, with little food and clothing, and no dignity.Chongzhen waved his pen.In the future, each eunuch and palace maid can receive two sets of clothes with good materials every quarter, and the palace maid will also send head and face jewelry and incense powder.As for the diet?
In fact, two thousand eunuchs and palace maids slaughtered two pigs a day is enough for them to eat and drink well, but before the Guanglu Temple used 100,000 head of livestock, ordinary eunuchs and palace maids didn't even see a single oil meat all year round.Now that Guanglu Temple has been withdrawn, a large number of eunuchs and palace maids have been dismissed, and the remaining eunuchs and palace maids are not well-dressed and decently dressed.In addition, Chongzhen's specially taught modern physical training and etiquette training have made the temperament of these eunuchs and palace maids change dramatically.Now the entire Forbidden City has revealed a different texture, and the minister who entered the palace shouted, this is the royal weather, Tianwei Hehe!
Since then, Chongzhen has known the benefits of money, when he used to read history books, Chongzhen was so frugal that he wore a patched dragon robe to the court, but he was ridiculed by the Donglin people, and he did not look like a human king.This bunch of."
The Emperor."
Wang Chengen came over to report with joy, "The old slave has calculated, after abolishing Guanglu Temple and dismissing the redundant eunuchs and palace maids, the inner court has saved 500,000 taels of silver?"
Are they all sent to the Northwest?
”Chongzhen thought for a moment."500,000 taels is not enough, allocate another 500,000 taels of silver from my inner treasury, and send all of them to the northwest, so that Gao Shiming and Zhang Guoyuan will escort them."
Gao Shiming and Zhang Guoyuan are also eunuchs in the inner court, and they do not have particularly great power, and they are also very low-key on weekdays, but these two low-key eunuchs were martyred with Fang Huazheng when they died in the Ming Dynasty.Chongzhen sometimes really feels that the minister's integrity is not as good as a eunuch, although there are many eunuchs who defect to the enemy, but there are more martyrs.Wang Chengen was a little surprised, how could Chongzhen know about Zhang Guoyuan?
This guy is just an ordinary eunuch, honest and honest, neither liked by the leader nor has any good errands.The last time he dismissed the eunuch palace maid, Wang Chengen had already included him in the dismissal list, but the emperor didn't know why he personally crossed out his name.Now he has handed over the responsibility of Yunyin to him?
Although Wang Chengen was puzzled, he didn't dare to ask, just respectfully Qi Qi Chongzhen."
Emperor, now that there is a great drought in the northwest and the grain is not harvested, I am afraid that the grain is expensive and the silver is cheap, and no matter how much silver we transport, we can't exchange much food!
Why don't you go directly to the grain-producing area and buy the grain and ship it directly?
”The batch of grain that Fanghua was transporting before was the grain that was exchanged for the Jiangnan area with the confiscated family property of the Fuwang Mansion.However, this time Chongzhen is not ready to change grain, just transport silver directly, now the situation in the northwest is becoming more and more severe, if the silver is exchanged for grain, I don't know how much time it will take to delay back and forth.Moreover, the volume of grain is larger, more civilian service is needed to transport, and the consumption on the road is also large, but I am afraid that when it is transported to the northwest, most of it will also be eaten.Chongzhen patted Wang Chengen on the shoulder and smiled faintly, "Wang Daban doesn't need to worry, I have my own way, you help me bring a message, so that Gao Shiming and Zhang Guoyuan can come to see me quickly." ”"Yes!"
Wang Chengen excitedly ran to deliver the decree.By the way, Chongzhen thinks that Fang Huazheng is now relieving the hungry people in the northwest, and he hasn't come back for so long, and he doesn't know what happened now?
Chongzhen closed his eyes and meditated on Fang Huazheng, and after a while, a screen appeared in front of him, which was a small northwest suburb.The whole sky was gray because of the great drought, the air was dry, the smoke was filled, and the pedestrians on the road were listless.Fang Huazheng's soup kitchen is set up in an open space, and seven or eight greenhouses are boiling rice porridge day and night, but it is still not enough, and the porridge shed is surrounded by countless refugees.Chongzhen also found that there were at least a dozen groups of refugees flocking to here in the distance, and now the drought is getting more and more serious, the red land is thousands of miles, the grass and trees do not exist, and it can't last long by relying on Fang Huazheng's porridge shack, even if Gao Shiming and Zhang Guoyuan arrive, they still can't check for long.However, the most terrifying thing is that there seems to be a particularly strange group of displaced people not far from the porridge shack?
Although they were also dressed in shabby, they did not have vegetables on their faces.Individual homeless people have fierce eyes, their foreheads are blue and violent, and they seem to have swords hidden in their sleeves?
At first glance, it is a fierce person with blood added to the knife.Has there been a change of small shareholders so soon?
Chongzhen suddenly found that with the current financial resources of the imperial court, it was simply impossible to suppress the people's uprising.Tens of millions of people in the northwest have to eat every day, and even if they fill in all the money and grain collected during this time, it will not be enough.It seems that the only way to change the strategy is to change the strategy.Suppress and soothe.At this moment, Wang Chengen brought Gao Shiming and Zhang Guoyuan over to receive the order, but saw Wang Chengen followed by two cowering figures.At this time, Gao Shiming was just a small eunuch leader, and Zhang Guoyuan was just an ordinary eunuch, and they didn't know why the emperor suddenly summoned them?
The two of them were already frightened and couldn't walk.Wang Chengen took the two of them to kneel down to meet Chongzhen, "Slave and maid see Your Majesty, long live!"
Banzai!
Hooray!
”Chongzhen nodded, "You all get up, Gao Shiming, Zhang Guoyuan, I have an important matter for you to do." ”Gao Shiming and Zhang Guoyuan were in turmoil, and they glanced at each other, their eyes full of surprise.Chongzhen stood up and said majestically."
Gao Shiming and Zhang Guoyuan obeyed the order, I ordered you to carry one million taels of silver, and immediately rush to the northwest to appease the victims, and all the silver to buy grain from local rich families on the spot.Gao Shiming and Zhang Guoyuan froze, and then they knelt on the ground excitedly and shouted long live.The emperor is giving them the opportunity to make contributions, although it is also very dangerous to go to the northwest to thousands of rivers and mountains, but if they can come back alive, this credit is enough for them to be famous for eternity.Chongzhen then said to Wang Chengen, "Wang Daban, you go and pass Cao Huachun to see me again, hurry up." ”Taking advantage of Cao Huachun's preoccupation yet, Chongzhen went to the side hall, he closed his eyes and browsed the system mall, there was one more thing in it.Compress cookies!
This is a great artifact of marching battle!
The system produces an upgraded version of compressed biscuits, one piece is enough for ten adults to eat for a day.