Six hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver were like a big stone, smashing the seemingly calm ice on the capital court in the early spring, and the splashing water also brought out the mud and black fish!
Prince Qing Yikuang was a shameless person who took money for granted. He went out of the inner right gate and caught up with Yixuan in front of so many Sula eunuchs and Zhang Jing from the Military Aircraft Department.
"Brother...my good brother...you have to think about your brothers more when you have oil and water in your hands!"
Prince Chun was so stunned by the conflict this morning that he was speechless and his brain reaction became much slower.
"What? What oil and water?"
"Hey, my brother, please stop hiding it! Six hundred and fifty thousand taels, all of them have been put in your Yamen. The Nine Admirals' Mansion is your territory!"
"You have to ask me for money matters!"
Yixuan was so angry that veins popped up on her forehead, "You... you... what are you talking about? Are you crazy about money?"
"Is that my money? It's stolen property. After the case is settled, the money will be put into the national treasury!"
"Ouch...Brother, why are you still talking official to me? I understand the rules. No matter how little money we make in the future, we two brothers will get 40% or 40% if you don't do anything!"
"Hey, hey, hey... don't go, brother, we can do it in half!"
Yikuang was so shameless. He chased Prince Chun all the way without letting go and even whispered to do his work for him. "Brother, the past people have confused the eyes of future generations. Who doesn't understand this?"
"Whose yamen this money goes into will belong to whom in the end... Money will not be moved, only the accounts will be moved!"
"Put the money in your yamen, and then handle the case properly, find a few scapegoats to close the case... and then it will be easy to handle! In name, more than 600,000 yuan will be deported to the Ministry of Accounts, but we will never do anything. If you have money, just move the accounts!"
"Before you send the money, you must first send in the approval document for the money. You still have to collect enough for the 650,000 tael project!"
"Does the shed where the nine-door admirals and night patrol soldiers rest need to be repaired? It must be 70,000 taels anyway!"
"The Yonggu military camp outside the city is also dilapidated and leaking. Let's not repair it and build a new batch... 120,000 taels is almost enough..."
"The nine admirals have a total of more than 20,000 soldiers, but according to the rules, the full number is only 30,000. Why don't you take this opportunity to recruit a group of soldiers?"
"Bedding, cotton-padded clothes, swords, guns and sticks...what can't be paid for? It's no problem to write off two to three hundred thousand taels easily!"
"It's not easy to spend money. More than six hundred thousand taels is really not enough...Brother, don't look at me like that. In fact, brother, I can't make much money!"
"When the water gets wet, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Punishment are not allowed to settle accounts with you! The money can be approved smoothly if you don't hit Qiu Feng at that checkpoint!"
"How about Marshal Zeng, is he a good person or not? But when the Ministry of War reimburses the ministry expenses, doesn't he have to obediently pay for it?"
When the ministerial expenses were mentioned, Yixuan's face suddenly turned livid. This matter was a very embarrassing matter for the imperial court, and it was also the most ridiculous thing for the Han warlords.
Just six years ago, after Zeng Guofan destroyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he began to gradually reimburse military expenses to the Ministry of War!
But at this time, we encountered a problem that was difficult to get around, which could be regarded as a Shen Ke in the Qing Dynasty, and that was the 'ministry fee'!
What is ministry fee? To put it simply, it is the hard-earned money given to the scribes who settle accounts in various ministries!
Scriveners are just ordinary office workers. Their job is to copy and write, similar to the lowest clerks in the office. There are many people above them - the chief officer, the minister, the minister, the minister, and the minister. They are in charge of them.
The problem is that these officials rarely have professional financial knowledge, and they are even less willing to spend time and energy on boring accounts, so they pass the auditing responsibility to the clerks. If the scribe said yes, they would sign the review report agreeing to reimbursement; if the scribe said no, they would sign the disapproval opinion sheet.
Because the clerks in the Ministry of Household Affairs have this kind of power, they cannot reimburse them without paying "ministry fees". Almost anyone who wants to reimburse will encounter this kind of trouble. The way to solve the problem is to find connections, connect with others, and ask someone to "take care of it". ".
Not to manage officials, but to manage these small officials! Bribery to officials has other names everywhere!
Zeng Guofan also encountered the same problem. If you don't act according to the unspoken rules, you can't even think about reimbursement. But if you act according to the unspoken rules, the extra ministry expenses will eventually be shared by the common people!
The most terrible thing is that the fee is too high. According to the practice of the court at that time, the scribes had a huge appetite and asked for a kickback of 1.3 cents. The so-called "cent" means reimbursing one hundred taels for one tael. One cent and three cents means reimbursement of one hundred taels and one tael or three cents.
In other words, if the military expenditure is 10 million taels, these officials will have to take away 130,000 taels!
Zeng Guofan's first reimbursement of military expenses six years ago was as much as 40 million taels. These scribes are about to eat half a million!
Could five hundred thousand taels of silver fall from the sky? In the final analysis, it is ultimately shared by the provincial finance bureaus, and then falls on the heads of ordinary people.
It’s nothing more than more taxes and more fuel consumption!
Zeng Guofan refused to give this money to his life, but he knew very well that if he didn't give it to these scribes, they wouldn't work. If they don't sign the review form, you can't reimburse!
This is a bit like company finance in later generations. You take your bank account to claim reimbursement, but the cashier and accountant who handles the matter will not sign it for you. It is difficult for you to find the boss, and they will find fault with you and drag you to death!
Marshal Zeng had no choice but to ask someone to show mercy. At that time, he asked the Chief Envoy of Jiangning to negotiate privately with the clerks of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War, that is, to negotiate a price!
The commander-in-chief who has 500,000 Hunan troops is indeed very proud, and those scribes do not dare to offend such a warlord with a large number of troops!
What a shame, we actually negotiated to 80,000 taels in the end!
The commander-in-chief gives 80,000 taels to ensure that the 40 million military expenses will be reimbursed smoothly!
This incident caused a great uproar among the Hunan Army at that time, with heated discussions both inside and outside the court!
After all, Yixuan is a descendant of Aisin Gioro, and this dynasty is their family property. He actually does not want to see the court become so corrupt!
This 80,000 tael fee was like a thorn in his heart. He knew very well that this money had made all the Han warlords in the world look down on the imperial court!
There is not much awe left for the imperial court!
I didn't expect that Yikuang would not pick up any pot today, and brazenly talked about ministry expenses!
"That's enough! Yikuang, you are so shameless! You have completely lost the face of our ancestors!"
"Are you out of food or clothes? Are you obsessed with money?"
