During this time, Chongzhen copied several waves of homes, although he accumulated tens of millions of taels of silver, but in just a few months, these silvers were like sea water, and they were flowing out.If you really don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and if you don't know that the emperor doesn't know that silver doesn't go through flowers.Wei Zhongxian and others had just returned from the northwest and took another wave of grain with them to relieve the disaster.Zhao led the sect to rescue Chahar and also took away a lot of materials, and in order to maintain the normal operation of the Daming Money Village, it is indispensable to reserve silver.Chongzhen has become a poor bastard again!
Early in the morning, this is Chongzhen's favorite time, because this time period is the coolest, and Chongzhen in the Qianqing Palace has already gotten up early.First, they drank a cup of wood rhino dew, and then the little palace maids brought a lot of high-end toiletries, as well as willow toothbrushes, special tooth powder and other things.Chongzhen didn't have to move at all, he had his own little palace maids to help him wash up, and then these little palace maids gently and gently helped him put on the crown of court clothes.Today is the Great Dynasty Meeting, and Chongzhen's dress is also very grand, wrapped in three layers inside and three layers outside, and the momentum is there, but it's too hot.Even if there is a little eunuch who keeps fanning him, it is hot!
The steaming Chongzhen came to the place of the last court, and the military officials had been waiting for a long time, compared to Chongzhen's steaming, these ministers were quite leisurely.There is no way that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty are quite old as a whole, and they are not afraid of heat at all, and Zhang Weixian, who has just recovered from a serious illness, even got a small thin jacket to wear inside.At the Great Dynasty Meeting, the etiquette was naturally more complicated, and the ministers did not start to perform until they finished shouting long live.Wen Tiren stepped forward, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, recently, the southern provinces have been flooded in a row, the water is thousands of miles, and it is out of control, countless villages and towns and fields have been destroyed, countless victims have been homeless, and officials from various provinces have begged the imperial court to allocate money and food for disaster relief. ”Chongzhen has a headache and asks for money and food.Chongzhen really has no money on hand now, he looked at Fang Yuegong, "Fang Qing, how many silver taels are there in the treasury of the household department?"
Is it possible to spend some of the money and food for disaster relief?
”Fang Yuegong was originally low-headed, but when he saw Chongzhen named him, he didn't want to stand up, so he had to stand up, "Your Majesty, the household has less than one million taels of money and food, and the official's money this month has not been paid!"
”A million taels of silver sounds like a lot, but it is indeed not easy for Fang Zhengyue to rely on these silver coins to run a huge dynasty.Although the tax system has been decided, there are not many places where it is actually implemented, and the household department cannot collect any taxes at all.Chongzhen also learned from Wanli, and relied on the eunuchs to collect a lot of merchants' silver, so he had already provoked the anger of the heavens.Nowadays, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty have a high level of business, and they are more slippery than others when they play with the pen, and some even boast of Confucian merchants.These Confucian merchants vented their resentment against Chongzhen on paper, and the southeast coast and other places are full of Chongzhen's various romantic histories, pictorial books, etc., naturally all the things in these pictorial books are inappropriate for children.It even secretly spread to the capital.Although ordinary people worship Chongzhen, after all, their lives have been much better since the emperor came to power.But the psychology of fans is perverted, and the more they worship, the more they want to watch these things that are inappropriate for children.With a huge market, the merchants simply printed more unscrupulously, and Chongzhen was so busy now that he didn't bother to pay attention to these idle things.Damn, let you make money with me first, and when you're full, I'll serve you in a pot.Getting back to the point, although Chongzhen has found the next target, far water can't quench his thirst, and he needs money and food now!
Fang Yuegong thought for a while, and then said, "Your Majesty, I heard that there are still a lot of silver taels in the Daming Money Village, can you spend it on disaster relief first?"
”Xu Guangqi heard that he was going to move Daming Qianzhuang.He quit, and immediately said anxiously, "Your Majesty must not touch the money of the bank, otherwise when the people come to redeem the silver bills, the money bank will not be able to take out the silver, and the credit will be lost!"
”In fact, Chongzhen understands better than Xu Guangqi that the silver of Daming Qianzhuang cannot be moved, except for Daming Qianzhuang, the grain grown in Xinhuangzhuang cannot be moved, and he must ensure that the army has food.The feeling of having no money is really uncomfortable, I used to watch TV dramas, as long as there was a famine, a certain Qing official would definitely open a warehouse and release grain under huge pressure to help the people.Then the traitorous official will join the Qing Dynasty and release grain privately, and the crime deserves death!
The common people who lived because of the Qing officials will be filled with righteous indignation to write to the people for the Qing officials, and the final outcome must be to move the emperor, the Qing officials have been promoted, and the governments have learned from the Qing officials, opened official warehouses, and relieved the victims.But?
really traveled to the Ming Dynasty, and Chongzhen found out that the local government was poorer than the imperial court, and he still wanted them to open an official warehouse?
There's only rat in the official warehouse, right?
In the past, because of the wedding of King Fu, the Wanli Emperor apportioned silver taels to all provinces across the country, two thousand taels for poor provinces and tens of thousands of taels for rich provinces.Coupled with the silver raised by various departments of the imperial court, it was not easy to raise more than 300,000 taels of silver.A poor province like Guizhou, because it took 2,000 silver out, made Wanli bear the infamy of wanton expropriation.Chongzhen really wants to laugh at a province, and he is embarrassed to cry poor after donating 2,000 silver?
Two thousand silver, which is just the redemption money of Liu Ruyi and others on the bank of the Qinhuai River.A province is no better than a prostitute?
More than a dozen provinces raised 100,000 taels of silver, laughing to death, just this 100,000 taels of silver, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty at that time scolded Wanli for being poor in the world, and the king of Fufu!
Even some modern historians take this incident as a typical incident of Wanli's rampant conquest and extortion.Bah!
The group of prostitutes in Zhuyuan Quyuan in Nanjing can earn thousands of taels of silver a year, and the big businessmen, bureaucrats, and landlords who support prostitutes have even more silver.Wanli is called the poor world, the rich and blessed king?
To get back to the point, although Chongzhen does not think that Wanli is poor and the world is rich, but the local finances of the Ming Dynasty are really poor, and the poor are no better than a prostitute, and the local officials of the Ming Dynasty are really rich, richer than the imperial court.The local warehouse can't be counted on, and the household department can't be counted on, so it seems that it can only count on the Taifu Temple, which is known as the richest in the imperial court.Although Taifu Temple was extremely reluctant, it still deducted and searched and took out a million taels of silver, although this bit of silver was not enough for the refugees to eat for a few days, but it was enough for the refugees to live to the south of the Yangtze River!
Chongzhen has already shamelessly decided to lead Jiangnan to the water, and these refugees will be handed over to the Jiangnan magistrate to be responsible.Although the local governments of Jiangnan provinces have no money, there are many rich people in Jiangnan!