Chapter 460 Chongzhen's surprise to Quan Xu This is not that Hou Sui deliberately prevaricated, in fact, not to mention Chongzhen's reign, even during the reign of Tianqi, the finances of the imperial court have never been rich.When it comes to Wei Zhongxian, one of the most talked about topics is that Wei Zhongxian is corrupt and does all kinds of evil.There is no doubt about this, and in the late Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian was indeed like this.Although Wei Zhongxian is corrupt and corrupt, Wei Zhongxian also has merits, which cannot be denied.In people's impressions, most people think that Wei Zhongxian was constantly corrupt when he was powerful, which made the Ming Dynasty's treasury gradually empty, but, in fact, is Wei Zhongxian's corruption real?
You know, when Wei Zhongxian's house was raided, no money was found from Wei Zhongxian's house, where did Wei Zhongxian's mysterious treasure go?
The answer is very simple, the money embezzled by Gonggong Wei was partly enriched by the Emperor's inner treasury, and partly used by him to feed the army.When Apocalypse died, did he leave Chongzhen with a mess?
The answer is actually wrong, the peasant rebellion of the Apocalypse Dynasty is not far from a climate, and at the same time, Sun Chengzong has cultivated a large number of elite soldiers and strong generals, and has also left capable ministers.Although it is said that the imperial treasury is empty of more than 1.27 million taels, the inner treasury of the Apocalypse left Chongzhen more than 1.2 million taels of silver and tens of thousands of pieces of cloth, which add up to far more than 2 million taels.All this money is the credit of Grandpa Wei.The financial deficit of the Chongzhen Dynasty actually did not depend on the head of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.However, due to various shortcomings, the financial problems of the Chongzhen Dynasty are getting better and better day by day.It has fallen into a vicious circle, the fiscal gap requires tax increases, and the more taxes are raised, the more peasant rebellions there are, and the more money is needed for the imperial court to quell the rebellion......
Now Chongzhen wants to reward the Liaodong general soldiers Quan Xu and Lu Xiangsheng, and the ministers knelt down one after another: "Your Majesty, think twice, now the treasury is empty, ...... now" "The treasury is empty, the treasury is empty, you have nothing else to say except these words?"
”Chongzhen had a headache when he thought about the treasury, and with a wave of his big hand, he said sharply: "Move from Liaoyu!"
”In fact, Liaoyu is not only unique to the Chongzhen Dynasty, but from the 46th year of Wanli, except for a few areas such as Guizhou, the average per mu of land is levied nine cents of silver, totaling 5.2 million and 62 taels.At the time of the Apocalypse, it was also levied on the Guan, the salt and other miscellaneous silver taels.In the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), the field class was raised from nine cents to one cent and two cents, and more than 6,670,000 taels of silver were distributed.Liao salary is used for Liao affairs, and now Jiannu was beaten half to death by Quan Xu, and even Shenyang was taken back, in Chongzhen's view, Liao salary is not needed at all, after all, the military salary sent by the imperial court to Liaodong is only 290,000 taels of silver, as well as 170,000 stone grain, as well as some pickles, salt, cloth and other materials.These things are not looked down on by Quanxu, most of them are allocated to the Tianxiong Army, and a small part is used for infrastructure construction in southern Liaoning, and Quanxu used military pay to support a construction brigade of more than 40,000 people, and the roads and ditches in southern Liaoning were completed by this construction brigade.Although Chongzhen didn't know that Quan Xu only had 290,000 taels of silver, he knew that since Liaodong left the town, he had paid a total of more than 1.2 million taels of silver (on the books), and Quan Xu actually received only 610,000 taels of silver, barely half.Most of the money and grain was actually sent to the Liaoxi Jiangmen, and since Nurhachi rebelled and slaughtered Liaodong three times, the de facto Liaodong Jiangmen has perished, and the Liaodong Jiangmen headed by Li Chengliang died and fled, like Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, Mao Wenlong and others, can only be regarded as the remnants of the Liaodong Army.Liao salary of more than 7 million taels, when the country went out of the treasury, there were only 4.8 million taels left, and the specific amount allocated to the hands of the generals in Liaoxi, I am afraid that only Zu Dashou can know.Of course, among the ministers in the court, one is counted as one, and who doesn't benefit from the salary?
Zhou Yanru was shocked: "Your Majesty, don't do it!"
This salary is absolutely untouchable!
”"Guan Ningjun gets a salary of several million taels of silver every year, but this war has been pushed back and back, and the contribution is very small, I don't blame them for having already calculated, what else do they have to say about embezzling a little Liaoyu?
Besides, Jiannu was hit hard this time, and it will be difficult to recover within three years, and Liao's salary can also be cut by a part!
”Chongzhen's words are right, these truths are well known to the ministers, the problem is ......
They also have a share of the salary!
Seven million taels of Liao salary per year, and the annual financial income of the Ming Dynasty is only more than four million taels of silver.Now that Quan Xu has beaten Jiannu, Jiannu will not be able to make any waves in a few years, and Liaonu will naturally have to cut a little, and their income will naturally shrink......
Isn't that their life!
The ministers were sprinkling, rolling, and even threatening."
If Liao's salary is reduced, I'm afraid that Liaoxi will mutiny!""
That's right, I can give an order to General Quan, if the Guan Ning army mutinies, they will be put down together!"
Listening to Chongzhen's murderous words, the ministers didn't dare to speak anymore.If this is the case, I am afraid that Quan Xu is very happy to add more than 100,000 laborers to Liaodong, Guangning Province is developing well, last year, a small unit of the Guanning Army broke into Guangning Province, they are testing the reality of the Liaodong Army.As a result, the whole family army did not dispatch, and the Tianxiong army was dispatched to solve the battle with a rapid charge, capturing more than 800 cavalry of the Guanning army.These people were rudely thrown into the iron mine by Quan Xu to smash stones, and Zu Dashou didn't even dare to fart.Chongzhen saw that the ministers lowered their heads one by one, and knew what their idea was, and sneered: "If Zhong Aiqing has no opinions, just handle it accordingly......
Do things beautifully, otherwise, with Xiu Wubo's temper, it will be difficult for me to guarantee that he will not do anything drastic!
”At the mention of this stubble, the ministers couldn't help but shudder.Quan Xu is very unreasonable, as the development of Liaodong is getting better and better, the imperial court has sent many officials to Liaonan, and these officials want to learn from the Central Plains when they arrive in Liaonan.Don't do anything to make money, Quan Xu instructed the whole family army Xuan Yingwei to dispatch, and after getting the evidence, a public trial was conducted, and these officials were either beaten to death by the people, or hung on a tree by Quan Xu, tortured to death.The most terrible thing is that the bad things they did have also spread, and everyone in the world gritted their teeth and scolded them, such an official died in vain, and future generations will not be able to raise their heads in this life.That man's temper is notoriously hot, and no one wants to be hung on a tree.At this time, the good news of Quan Xu and Lu Xiangsheng also spread from the imperial court, defeating Jiannu, beheading more than 15,000 ranks, capturing 340,000 people, and rescuing 2.67 million captured people.According to the principle of the people's voluntariness, there are more than 20,000 people in Gyeonggi who are willing to return to their hometowns, and Quan Xu did not stop them, with the official commissioning of the 8,000 warships of the whole family army, the main warships of the second fleet of the Liaodong Naval Division, including eight Sea Shark class, and Dengzhou Shipyard built the Flying Fish 3 transport ship.This kind of flying fish ship is 3,000 material ships, displacement of more than 450 tons, this kind of transport ship is due to the Liaodong Army and the Dutch naval war only rushed to build, a total of 22 ships, plus the Zheng fleet captured in Liaodong, the current Liaodong Army Navy Division has four hunting submarines in later generations, as well as eight sea sharks, and more than 300 warships, surrendered Zheng transport ships totaled more than 1,500 ships.The current Liaodong Naval Division has replaced the Zheng clan as the new overlord of the sea.At this time, Cao Huachun was standing on the Sea Shark-level Huo Quai, and he was very shocked when he looked at the more than 300 large and small warships densely packed behind him."
Quan Shuai, the Liaodong Navy Division has built a lot of new warships in recent years!""
Not much!"
Quan Xu said half-truthfully: "This time, in order to transport the prisoners, as well as those people of Gyeonggi, I can only rent merchant ships, otherwise I can't afford to support them when I return to the capital by land!"
”These 20,000 or 30,000 people were tossed by Jiannu, and many of them were so thin that they could only use millet porridge or rice porridge to nourish their bodies and feed them, but it cost a lot of money.Cao Huachun groaned: "This water master?
”"Just these eight!"
Quan Xu pointed to the surrounding sea shark class and said: "These other seven warships, namely Wei Qing, Chen Tang, Li Jing, Su Lie, Li Ji, Di Qing, and Yue Fei, each warship has 8,000 materials, and is equipped with 24 smoothbore guns of 130 mm and 28 times the caliber, and they will not suffer a loss to the third-class warships of Shangxiyi!"
”In terms of firepower, the 130-millimeter 28-fold smoothbore gun had a brake, and its rate of fire and power far exceeded that of the artillery equipped by Xiyi.Although the Sea Shark only has 24 guns, it has Shenhuo III rockets.After exploration and development, the Shenhuo-3 rocket adopts the contact detonation method, and the improved booster gunpowder burns more fully, in order to pursue the range, this rocket artillery has a limit range of 3,000 meters.However, the effective range is about 1,500 meters.Nevertheless, the naval battle aspect could definitely surprise the Dutch.Just when Quan Xu was ready to rivet his strength and surprise the Dutch, Chongzhen also gave Quan Xu a surprise.When Huo Qu's sick docked at the Tianjin wharf, Quan Xu looked at the crowd of people on the wharf with a sluggish expression.The entire Tianjin wharf was already stuffed, and they basically couldn't go ashore, and the excited faces were a little distorted, and the sound that drowned everything made them feel a lot of emotion."
Daming Wansheng, Daming Wansheng......"
Yuan Zongdi sighed: "Good guys, if they can come up with this momentum to meet Jiannu, they will scare Jiannu away!"
”"Shut up, you're talking a lot!"
Quan Xu suddenly saw Huang Luo's umbrella in the crowd, that is, the honor guard of the emperor's travel.Could it be that Emperor Chongzhen came to Tianjin?
This is Chongzhen's surprise to Quan Xu - the emperor traveled more than 200 miles to welcome the heroes.