Bang!

Chai Rong threw a thick stack of account books in front of Ye Hua, his face looked very solemn, and he slowly said after a while: "Ye Qing, did you really spend so much?"

Ye Hua picked up the account book and did not rush to look through it. Instead, he asked, "Who handed it to His Majesty?"

"It's the prince!"

Chai Rong simply said: "It took the emperor half a year to calculate it for me. Look, is there any difference?" Obviously Chai Rong didn't believe that he would spend so much money, but the prince would not lie. Perhaps it was because the child was not capable and counted the number wrongly!

Chai Rong could only comfort himself like this.

Time passed by minute by minute, Ye Hua was looking through extremely fast. After Chai Rong finished drinking a cup of hot tea, Ye Hua put down the account book, "Your Majesty, if I did not calculate it wrong, Your Highness's account is only about one-third of the total expense!"

"What?"

Chai Rong was furious and stood up in anger.

He never believed that the accounts given by the prince were already amazing enough, and the actual amount was even more. Isn't this a joke? Tomorrow is the triumphal ceremony, and Chai Rong was ready to enjoy the joy of returning to victory. If it weren't for military expenses that made him angry, he wouldn't have been to Ye Hua's place in the middle of the night.

"Ye Qing, I want to kill Lu Duosun!"

Chai Rong gritted his teeth and was furious.

The treasury was empty, but he, the Minister of the branch, ran away. Do you think I dare not kill anyone? Chai Rong now has only one idea, which is to kill Lu Duosun, recover the accounts and fill the gap. In his thoughts, someone must have greed for the treasury money, otherwise this would not be the case!

Ye Hua shook his head helplessly. Although he wanted to kill Lu Duosun before, it was because of his idea of ​​beating the prince, but now if Lu Duosun is pursued because of the treasury case, Ye Hua would not agree.

"Your Majesty, I can say with confidence that Lu Duosun may have committed favoritism, but his property is definitely no more than 10,000 yuan!"

Chai Rong was so angry that he was still a polite official! Where did my money go? Did it fly?" Chai Rong slapped the table hard, his slap turned red.

"Please be careful not to be impatient, please tell me slowly!"

"I want you to say it quickly!" Chai Rong said with red eyes and impatiently: "I don't want to be a fool! Li Gu is dead, as the lesson of the past, whoever dares to touch my money bag will destroy his nine clans!"

Chai Rong's anger was unparalleled, and Ye Hua had no other way, so he could only tell the truth... The Western Regions War seemed to be fighting a battle with Hei Khan and the Saman United Army in the desert, plus some small battles. The time was very short, and no matter how much it cost, it would not end!

This is what most people think, but if you look at it carefully, you will have different conclusions... This war started with the cultivation of Shu Road.

"Your Majesty, it took nearly two years to build Shu Road to recruit millions of civilians. In order to mobilize civilians, the court sent Zhang Shi to force the equal land and distribute the land to the people... This is why millions of scattered military rations from the Western Regions War!"

Chai Rong frowned, "Of course I know this. It is natural for the people to give land and the people to go through labor service. What's more, they have confiscated the property of so many large households. If they build this Shu road, the treasury did not pay much money!"

"But the local area has lost money!"

Chai Rong immediately frowned, "What does it mean?"

Ye Hua sighed: "After all, time is too tight. After implementing equalization of land, many civilians were eager to cultivate their own land and were not willing to go to work. Indeed, there was a situation of fighting for labor... So the government offices in various places in Bashu reduced taxes and took out the usual storage of grain for construction sites to consume... More importantly, they purchased a lot of plowing ox from Dali and other places and distributed it to the people."

Chai Rong took a deep breath, "What happened?"

Ye Hua said: "Zhang Wei is a cadre official. He supervised the road to build but did not cause civil unrest. He completed it in advance. As far as I know, he paid wages to the civilians. Although the number was not large, it was also a huge expense... In addition, a Shu Road directly leads to Yizhou, and many roads and bridges to other prefectures and counties had to be built along the way to transport the food. All local governments tried their best. In those two years, the total number of civilians dispatched by Bashu was three million, not one million on the Shu Road!"

Chai Rong was stunned just by hearing Ye Hua have settled the account of a Shu Road.

Thinking about it, the Shu Kingdom had just been destroyed, and Li Gu and the officials of Bashu swept over wealth. The people of Bashu were about to change... In this case, if you want to build roads, implement equalization of land, and supply military rations... These are almost impossible tasks. To be accomplished, you must also do beautiful things. In addition to having officials, you must be willing to spend money!

Lu Duoxun was in charge of the affairs of the branch. He did not dare to leave the treasury accounts, so he reduced the taxes from Bashu. At the same time, he allocated a large amount of materials from Jinghu and even Jiangnan to Bashu... In order to save expenses, Lu Duoxun tried to distribute them in the form of physical goods, which was difficult for him. The old coarse cloth, old tea bricks, and even bacon in the Jiangnan treasury were transported away.

Many local officials scolded him behind his back, but at least they had dealt with it. They did not arouse civil unrest and completed the imperial deficit.

Although the things were transported away, the inventory in various places had to be replenished, so in about three years, more than half of the supplies sent to Kaifeng were reduced to Kaifeng.

This also explains the reason why Kaifeng treasury has nothing.

After the Shu Road was completed, the road to the Western Regions continued to be built, and then rescued the Guiyi army, pacified the Uighurs, fought against Tubo, and then fought to Khotan... It took more than a year to complete!

In other words, this war was not just the days of the battle, but it was really a battle for three years!

Especially when the army entered the Western Regions, one stone of grain was transported from Bashu to Liangzhou, about five dou left. When transported to the front line, only one or two dou left. That's fine, but in order to transport grain, is the loss of horses and carriages calculated, does the loss of livestock count, and does the casualties of people and civilians count... "Your Majesty, I just learned that there are 150,000 pack horses lost in various places, which is not considered the loss of cattle and horses in the local area."

"I also heard that in Wang Xianggong's duty room, there was a sand table with a road leading to the Western Regions, warehouses, military stations, and post stations along the way... In order to station troops, we dug wells, built houses, bedding, saddles, felts, and grass prepared..." Ye Hua was about to say further, and Chai Rong's head was three times bigger.

"Ye Qing, don't say it." The emperor was scared, "Ye Qing, I just want to ask you one thing, how much will it be if the various expenses are added together?"

"It depends on what Your Majesty wants to forget." Ye Hua said: "Your Majesty also knows that in order to support the battlefield, he invested in many workshops in Chang'an. Along the way, he also built many factories, including those who made carriages, those who produced cement, those who spun, and those who had to process meat..."

"stop!"

Chai Rong really didn't dare to listen, "All of it is included. How much did I spend on a war?"

Ye Hua stretched out his left hand and his index finger with his right hand.

"It's one thousand five...well no, it's five thousand one million coins?"

Ye Hua shrugged, "It's 150 million yuan!"

thump!

Chai Rong sat on the chair, stayed for a while, and slapped his forehead in pain.

"Ye Qing, why did he spend so much money? Can't you save it?"

Ye Hua said helplessly: "If Your Majesty wants to save money, he must force the civilians, force military rations, show off labor labor, and even allow local governments to offer horses and livestock for free... What is the result? I don't need to explain in detail?"

Of course it goes without saying.

Chai Rong immediately remembered one of his colleagues, Liu Che, the Great Emperor of Wu of Han!

In order to counterattack the Huns, Liu Che launched a long strategic counterattack. Taking the famous Battle of Mobei as an example, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing divided their troops into two groups and gathered tens of thousands of elite troops. Their forces were roughly the same as the Great Zhou attack on the Western Regions, and they were even less... They annihilated more than 90,000 Xiongnu people and eliminated border troubles in one fell swoop. The battle record was outstanding and famous in history.

However, for this war, the Han Dynasty lost tens of thousands of soldiers and more than 100,000 horses!

Emperor Wu of Han fought for years. In order to supply military expenditure, he had all his ideas. He sold salt and iron, taxed the rich, and even made white deer skin coins. He could be said to have all the means, but in the end he was: "The domestic waste is used, and the household registration is reduced by half."

No one can deny the greatness of Emperor Wu of Han, but we have to admit that wars are really costing money, especially large army expeditions.

Three minutes on stage, ten years of hard work off stage.

In order to ensure that the soldiers have a few days of battle, the price they have to pay in the rear is really uncalculable.

Moreover, Ye Hua has always advocated saving people's strength and not forcing people to recruit people. Even if he had to do it, he should give some money. It is natural to take care of the people, but the expenses are real.

Not to mention anything else, Fu San is known as the Female God of Wealth, why did she bear so much debt?

The reason is very simple. Jingzhao Mansion wants to build a quilt workshop. She wants to get money but has no cash in her hand. What should she do? She can only take over the industry in her hand or mortgage the loan.

Usually, she needs to pledge out two to three workshops to make up the money for one workshop.

We also have to hire skilled workers, carry looms, and purchase raw materials... If we even count these costs, the cost of more than 200 million will be paid for this war...

When Chai Rong heard Ye Hua calculate the same thing, his heart kept sinking, and finally smiled helplessly, "Ye Qing, if I had known that I would have spent so much, 80% of my troops would have not sent troops!"

"Don't!"

Ye Hua waved his hand quickly, "Your Majesty, thousands of miles of territory and millions of people in the Western Regions, if you don't send troops because you feel sorry for a little money, no matter your Majesty, or your ministers, you will be ridiculed by later generations."

Chai Rong grabbed his temple, "It's better to laugh at me than to be at the end of the country! Ye Qing, do you have any other way? Can you fill this hole?"

Ye Hua said: "Your Majesty, 150 million yuan will take two years of Dazhou to make it up. I wish you a bluntly, you can't pay back this debt, and you can't pay it back!"

"You want to be dependent on the debt?" Chai Rong suddenly felt energetic, "This idea is good. Go and check what wealthy families are owed. Go back and ask the embroiderer to approve them a charge and search the houses one by one!"

Ye Hua was so amazed and laughed. This is the emperor or the bandit!

"In fact, there is no need to be so troublesome. The court wants to get money, but it is still too slow to search the house."

"Oh? And there's a faster one?"

"Yes." Ye Hua said: "You can only issue paper money!"
Chapter completed!