Everything in the world is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers!
How many emperors have been deceived by this false and empty lie, and how many fools have believed it? In fact, there is no one in this world who can truly combine thousands of rights into one!
Even if you are an emperor, you still worry about money!
Just like ordinary people, people who can have enough food and clothing for three copper coins a day will never realize how short of money the emperor in the Jinluan Palace is!
There is no need to worry about the lack of money for the sake of the country and the public. It is very difficult to satisfy the emperor's own selfish desires alone!
Do the palace gardens need some repairs? Do you need to stock up on antique calligraphy and paintings? Where does the gold and silver used for praying in Taoist temples and temples come from?
If there was another hobby of cultivating immortals and refining alchemy, the money would be a bottomless pit!
The key is that the emperor must also have a group of die-hard loyalists, intelligence organizations, dead soldiers, spies, secret stakes...the money cannot be disclosed!
You must know that the imperial power and the power of the bureaucratic group are not only united, but more often they restrict competition with each other!
No matter how you avoid the struggle between the two forces, there will always be a conflict, and there will be winners and losers in conflicts. People want to win but don't want to lose.
If you want to win, you have to be prepared for everything. In the final analysis, money is the most important thing!
Money is controlled by whomever it is in. As long as it is separated by one layer, there will be another layer of inconvenience. Why did the emperor build an internal treasury? In the final analysis, it was because it was inconvenient to put the money in the Ministry of Revenue and spend it on his own. , and some of the excuses for spending money are really not good-looking and will be opposed by the court!
This reason is the same as why a unit should have a small treasury in later generations, because the small treasury will not be restricted by the financial system. Sometimes it can be reimbursed if there is no money, and money can be distributed anytime and anywhere!
How comfortable this life is!
The Internal Affairs Office of the Qing Dynasty was actually a variant of the Internal Treasury of the Ming Dynasty. Its important job was to help the emperor manage the private treasury!
But now Zhong Chun can't trust the Ministry of Internal Affairs, because the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are not his direct relatives, and the people inside cannot be trusted at all!
So no one knows where the money in Zaichun’s hands is hidden right now! The Ministry of Revenue doesn’t know, and neither does the Ministry of Internal Affairs!
Yi Xin stared at his nephew and thought to himself, "Do you admit it or not? If you admit it, then you have to give an explanation to the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"
"The country has its own rules, and wherever the money is placed, it is governed by the ancestral system!"
"But if you don't admit it, then you will cut off your own way to spend money in the future. You have to do everything secretly..."
"Ruling a country is not about supporting a family. It's not about living with a few hundred taels or a few thousand taels. What you will have to deal with in the future will be huge sums of money exceeding one million taels!"
"You can't hide such a large transfer of funds from anyone. When the lie is exposed, your reputation will be damaged, and the entire court will no longer trust you!"
"Zaichun, your hair is still very young. Are you going to fight me? I'll give you two at the beginning, but you'll suffer in the end!"
Zai Chunqi's chest heaved violently, "What's the matter? The audit found it on my head? What if I have this money? What if I don't... so what?"
Yinggui kowtowed, "Your Majesty, if you don't have this money, you should send an order to Shuntian Mansion and the Nine Sect Admirals to strictly investigate the sources of rumors in the market and arrest those who create rumors with ulterior motives!"
"But...if you really have this money, please ask your Majesty to clear the Household Department as soon as possible. There are too many places where the court has to spend money, too much..."
Bang! Zai Chun punched the throne, "How brave! In the more than 200 years of the Qing Dynasty, there is no rule that the Ministry of Revenue dares to ask for money from the inner treasury!"
"I won't say whether I have this money! Even if I do, you don't have the share you want! It's simply lawless!"
"Looking through the annual accounts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, how much money does your Ministry of Accounts send to the inner treasury? It's only more than 100,000 a year!"
"Look at the historical data. From the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, and then look at the Ming Dynasty, how much money was confiscated from the Ministry of Household Affairs in the inner treasury? I have already saved enough in the Qing Dynasty, but you still dare to reach out to me?"
Zai Chun's scolding was indeed correct. Compared with the previous Ming Dynasty, the inner treasury of the Qing Dynasty did not ask for much money from the court every year. On average, it was only about 100,000 taels a year!
Of course, this is not to say that the emperors of the Qing Dynasty lived very frugally, but that there were too many ways to get money from the emperor’s inner treasury, the Ministry of Internal Affairs!
There are imperial estates all over the country, and these taxes go directly to the Ministry of Internal Affairs without going to the Ministry of Household Affairs!
There are countless industries across the country under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and most of them are lucrative businesses, such as Cao Xueqin's family's Jiangning Weaving.
That was no ordinary yamen, it was a monopoly of high-end silk products in Jiangnan!
This is a monopoly business carried out by the emperor with the power of the state. Can a monopoly business not lead to huge profits?
There are also the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou before the Opium War, which were directly sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to manage them. The local tax system could only get a small head, and the big head still had to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs!
It was precisely because there were so many monopoly emperor companies all over the country that the Qing Dynasty's Ministry of Internal Affairs had enough money for the royal family to consume.
The actions of Yinggui and Baojun today are already Chi Guoguo's challenge to the dignity of the little emperor. Just imagine how the world would view an emperor who couldn't even keep the private money in his pocket!
God knows how much pressure Yi Xin exerted on these two people. Bao Jun and Ying Gui also took the risk. The two of them knelt on the ground without saying a word. It was very likely that they would kneel and die here if they did not achieve their goals.
Yi Xin glanced sideways behind him, and another group of Anzi got the order and jumped out!
"I'm surprised by what Your Majesty said! I have something to say!"
"Who are you?" Zai Chun yelled.
"Editor of the Hanlin Academy, Feng Fu, comes to see Your Majesty... Your Majesty, as the emperor, you are supported by the people of the world. When the national calamity strikes, you will naturally sacrifice your life to support the people of the world!"
"For the sake of the country and the country, and for the welfare of all the people, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were able to say that the emperor will guard the country and the king will die for the country!"
"Is Your Majesty not as good as the ancients? Is it possible that in the end you are reluctant to even part with a little money?"
"Besides, the Ministry of Finance can also borrow it from Lord Long Live! How can it be in vain?"
"You!" Zai Chun tilted his nose in anger and thought, "Excuse me?" Liu Bei has been borrowing money from Jingzhou a lot these days, but you still dare to ask me for it!
Li Hongzao and Weng Tonghe were both dumbfounded. Only then did they realize that Feng Fu had also been bribed by Guiziliu, and that Qingliu, a Hanchen in the Hanlin Academy, was also in cahoots with him.
Weng Tonghe saw that this was not good. He couldn't let the emperor misunderstand that he was also rebellious. He quickly glared at Feng Fu and said, "How brave! You, a small editor, have you forgotten your duty when you are asked to listen to politics?"
"I asked you to come here to compile records and prepare reports later! I didn't ask you to speak, so get out!"
"Let him say it!" Zai Chun suddenly burst out, "Today I have squeezed out all the treasure in your belly!"
"Who else! Anyone else who wants to say something, please come forward!"
