Chapter 94 The Wrath of the Emperor
Ganqing Palace.
"Eight million?"
His Majesty the Emperor said in a roaring tone.
"Long live, the donation of the three dukes who have sent to the palace is one million. At present, the thirteen marquis and twenty-two uncles each pledged 200,000 yuan. Li Jinzhong and the Jing camp were moving silver from the various deeds. I think all of them will be transported into the palace tomorrow morning. Let's hear what Li Jinzhong said, these silvers are not too difficult to collect. It took only one hour from the Xiangcheng Bo Mansion, and they opened the cellar and moved them out directly. I don't know if there is any left inside.
That is, it takes some time to transport it to the palace. After all, there is too much silver and vehicles need to be raised."
Sun Xian said carefully.
He didn't dare to look up, and he could tell his Majesty the Emperor's mood at this moment by listening to the breathing sound.
"My Ministry of Revenue still has 300,000 taels of silver, one of my earls casually took out 200,000 taels, one of my treasurys still has 500,000 taels of silver, one of my dukes casually took out 400,000 taels, and my country's total income per year is only 10 million taels of silver, and my nobles in the capital can easily take out 8 million taels?
Not too difficult to get it all together?
I have to pay them a salary every year and give them a reward every year?
I sent a few tax supervisors out, but they couldn't stand it. I was competing for profit with the people, I was a foolish monarch, and I plundered the world and thought it was for their own use.
Who can tell me how their family business, which is rich and powerful, came from?”
His Majesty the Emperor really roared.
Now even Concubine Zheng dared not speak.
It is obvious that His Majesty the Emperor was so excited that he was a little too ruthless.
He was originally a money-loving person...
Of course, he loves money because money can prevent him from being controlled by civil servants, but he is also a person who cherishes his reputation. Otherwise, he would not have almost died and told the ministers that he would recall the tax prison. He just wanted the ministers to write him a good reputation after death, but he immediately broke his promise without his death.
It can be said that he always feels shame about his behavior of making money.
But he had to make money.
After all, he is also a rational person and knows that he cannot control the court if he does not make money.
In the end, he was suffering from conflicts and always gave them as favorable treatment as possible in order to coax the civil and military officials who were dissatisfied with it...
The peak of the official tax exemption quota was created later.
First-rank Beijing officials are exempted from taxes, and even eighth-rank Beijing officials can have 2,700 acres of taxes. To put it bluntly, he feels that he is ashamed to make money, but he has to make money. Then he tries to give the officials some benefits, so you can cure me a few less. However, when you see, he is nothing. People can make money better than him, and he is not stupid. A group of nobles who have actually no real power can make money one by one, and they can make money one by one, let alone those real officials who have great power.
Just he is still ashamed of making money?
Is it necessary to be ashamed? He has only restrained a few!
"Long Sui, then Yang Feng asked if the fundraising will continue. The six million he wanted was enough. The extra ones he had calculated the inner treasury. He didn't want the two million, and kept them all for use for Long Sui."
Sun Xian said carefully.
"Continue, of course!"
Wanli said without hesitation.
"Long live, this may cause resentment from the ministers. These nobles donated it. After all, it was not the original intention of Long live. They all understood that, not to mention that the inner treasury had obtained two million, so it would be better to stop when it was better to appease the ministers."
Tian Yi said quickly.
He can still remain sane.
It's stopped now, and the emperor was at most complained. After all, the nobles also understood that the emperor could do nothing in this situation.
The emperor is also a victim.
They certainly won't really hate the emperor.
But if Yang Feng wanted to continue, the fool understood that it was the emperor who ordered him later. Yang Feng said many times that he wanted six million, and it was already more than eight million, so it would be wrong to still collect it.
"What's scary about me? Do they dare to let me fall into the water?"
Wanli sneered.
But he did wake up a little.
It's not impossible.
but……
"Tell Yang Feng that those who are officials in Beijing are nothing more than self-sufficiency. Even if there are industries, they are mostly in other places. They are too embarrassed to ask them to donate in a hurry. Therefore, they only need to raise funds from local officials in the capital, and there is no need to raise funds from those who are officials in Beijing. In addition, they will issue an order. Since the army in the capital is rewarded, in order to avoid favoring one or the other, they will reward each of the personal army and guards together."
He said.
"Twenty taels?"
Sun Xian said in shock.
"Save it half!"
Wanli said.
The 26 guards in the personal army have theoretically exceeded 100,000, and a person with ten taels will cost one million.
Sun Xian quickly went out to convey an oral order to Yang Feng, and Tian Yi also went out to issue an order to reward his personal guards. This did not require passing through the cabinet, and he just issued a decree.
"Long live, after this level, we have to think of a solution.
Actually, I think that Yang Feng is crazy and crazy, but he is not unavailable for the Lord of Life. At least one day, Wansui is short of money. He can really get the money immediately, but he is much better than those tax supervisors. When those tax supervisors go out, they will scold him. If he goes out to get the money, he will scold him. But he is a traitor and is not afraid of others scolding him. Only after the tax supervisor gets 40% of the money. If he is just a share of it, he will only give it."
Concubine Zheng said charmingly.
"But how can he deal with it when he becomes bigger?"
Wanli said.
“How can he become bigger after offending so many people?
If he really had any ambitions, wouldn't these people who had been blackmailed by him fight to the death?
Besides, what he relies on is that the court cannot defeat him. If His Majesty really has an army that can fight, are you still afraid that he will not succeed? The generals of the Jiubian are indeed unreliable. If you have money, you will immediately forget your loyalty. They all openly do not work with him, but let their servants follow him. They are all birds of a feather.
But these million troops of the Ming Dynasty were not as good as these generals.
Couldn't all the southern soldiers he brought to Beijing before? Moreover, the Southern Military Army was in Jiangnan and was not afraid of learning from those generals. Before, we were just owed wages. Then, if we don't owe wages, wouldn't we be loyal? Qi Jiguang is gone, but he still has descendants and generals. Let his descendants and generals use his military skills to train an elite force. As long as he doesn't escape or surrender, then he won't be able to come and go freely in the capital.
As long as he is not free to come and go in this capital, we don’t have to be afraid of him.”
Concubine Zheng said with a smile.
"Qi Jiguang, why do I always rely on him?"
Wanli said angrily.
"Long live, now you don't think about anything else. We have indeed been able to get through this time. Are you not afraid that he will come again next year?"
Chapter completed!