Zhu Youjian actually didn't care whether his eldest brother and biological father were murdered by the traitors of the eunuchs who supported King Fu... although the deaths of these two people were very strange! But if they don't die, how can Zhu Youjian become the emperor? How can being a King of Xin, who has a father and an older brother, be compared with being an Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who has no father and no older brother?
Moreover, Zhu Youjian has not been liked by Emperor Taichang since he was a child - his biological mother was ordered to be killed by Emperor Taichang, who was still the prince at the time! Such a father will just die if he dies...
Of course, because the death of his father and brother was full of doubts, Zhu Youjian also had some psychological shadow on the Forbidden City. In his previous life, he had no choice. It was not until the Jiashen Incident that he was completely separated from the inner court and the siege of the ministers, but at the same time he also lost his power. .
And in this life, Zhu Youjian is able to fight, and the skills he has developed after decades of hard training are no joke! That's why he easily got rid of the inner court and nobles, and even wandered out of Beijing, which was like a trapped dragon pond or a tiger's den, to show off his skills outside.
However, Zhu Youjian delayed returning home until the winter of the first year of Chongzhen, not because he was afraid of following in the footsteps of his father and brother. But because money is a little tight again, the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian, has no money again... After working hard for more than half a year, he didn't make any money, so he didn't dare to go home to celebrate the New Year!
And the reason why I ran out of money was, of course, because I had been fighting for several months. This is a real weapon, with ten thousand taels of gold (get out)!
It has been less than six months since the imperial commander personally marched out of Beijing in June. Zhu Youjian has only defeated one Mongolian Khan, forced back one Houjin Khan, and collected the troops of three states and two Ordos. The land... has already emptied out a full internal transportation warehouse.
It was precisely because the inner transport warehouse was empty again that His Royal Highness Prince Fu of Luoyang was remembered by Zhu Youjian, his good nephew!
Who told Zhu Youjian to be a wise man who didn't know how to manage money and only knew how to confiscate homes?
In his previous life, he studied with Nizi for fifty years. He learned all kinds of skills and far surpassed Nizi in martial arts. However, he did not learn how to engage in finance or how to run a bank... Of course, the economy around Beijing It cannot be compared with Jiangnan, and the demand for financial services is not strong. If there is any need, it is nothing more than helping corrupt officials remit money to their hometown.
This kind of financial business cannot be done through a bank controlled by the royal family!
So in the hands of the villain, the money is the numbers on the accounts of Yanshan Bank and Shanghai Banking Corporation, while in the hands of Zhu Youjian, it is the "stones" in the internal transportation warehouse.
"Long live my Lord, I have checked all the incoming and outgoing accounts of the internal transportation warehouse since June one by one. I can't say that there are no problems at all, but generally they are correct..."
It was Shen Tingyang, the newly appointed right deputy envoy of the Inner Shipping Treasury, who was reporting the audit results to Zhu Yougao at the Chengyun Palace in the Imperial City of Xuanfu (formerly Gu Palace and Zhenguo Palace).
This "Director Shen" (actually he is not the chief rudder yet, his father is) came north with Qian Qianyi. The original purpose was to help Qian Qianyi move a cabinet boss - Qian Qianyi Only when you become a pavilion boss can you promote the shipping of rice, and only then can the Haisha Gang steal the business of the grain transport army (Caogang)!
Of course, there is no money to be made from water transportation itself, but you can make money by evading taxes by bringing goods. If the grain goes north through the canal, all it will escape is the twelve tax cards on the canal. But if the grain goes northward by sea, the benefits will be great... Not only will it avoid customs duties, but it will also allow Tianjin Guard to actually turn it on and off! From now on, all the rare goods from various countries in the East and West can be transported directly to Tianjin by the merchant ships of the Haisha Gang!
In addition, by transporting food for the imperial court, the Haisha Gang can legitimately build its own armed merchant fleet. They can also sail their own armed merchant ships to Zheng Yiguan's territory without paying protection fees!
Zheng Yiguan has recently been recruiting people for peace. He sent people to talk with Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, and Pang Tianshou, the eunuch of Nanjing, and they are almost done.
Once Zheng Yiguan is granted care, he will no longer have to live on the malaria-infested Damuan Island, and can return to his hometown of Quanzhou to develop in a legitimate way. Will he still dare to collect protection fees from the imperial court's grain transport ships? How dare you rob the court's grain transport ship if you don't give it?
Therefore, this grain shipping is of great benefit to the Haisha Gang!
Of course, the Haisha Gang alone cannot push this matter away. Also thinking about grain transportation by sea were the gentry and profiteers in several prefectures in the middle and lower reaches of the Huaihe River, especially those in Huai'an and Yangzhou.
Because the waterway flowing south of the Yellow River cannot cross the canal waterway (otherwise it will be silted up in a few years), the Yellow River cannot artificially dig a channel into the sea in Huaibei, and can only divert the Huaihe River into the sea. But this will cause the riverbed of the lower reaches of the Huaihe River and Hongze Lake to rise every year. Now Hongze Lake has become a "hanging lake". Once it floods, the sacred places of Huai and Yang will be destroyed.
And due to the serious siltation of the Huaihe River entrance, Huai'an's seawater channel is almost disappearing! This is very detrimental to Huai'an Prefecture - not only is it impossible to carry out overseas trade, but once the Huai River estuary is silted up, where will the Huai River water go?
This is really annoying!
But there are quite a few people who make a fortune and live by the canal!
Once the canal ends at Huaihe (there is no problem with the section south of the Huaihe River), can the state capitals along the canal north of the Huaihe River agree? Can the official who points to the canal to make a fortune agree? Can hundreds of thousands of grain transport troops agree?
Therefore, this matter is not easy to accomplish. People like Shen Tingyang can only rely on the Donglin Party, which is based in the southeast, to move forward.
As a result of the movement, Qian Qianyi only got a bachelor's degree from the Hanlin Academy, while Shen Tingyang rose to the top and became the right deputy envoy of the inner transport warehouse - this was a high-ranking official from the fifth rank, only better than Qian Qianyi. The Hanlin bachelor's degree was half a grade lower...
"They can all match up?" Zhu Youjian was still a little suspicious of this profiteer Shen Da, and frowned, "There are millions of silver deposits in the internal transportation warehouse. How much time does it take? Why is it all spent?"
"Long live my lord," the profiteer Shen said with a wry smile, "In June, there were still more than 6.525 million taels of silver in the internal transportation warehouse, but now there are only more than 1.5 million taels left..."
"There are so many flowers!" Zhu Youjian snorted, "Why did you spend so much?"
"The main reason is that we can't be defeated in the war..." Shen Tingyang said, "Long live my lord, we really don't have enough money to spend on this war! Especially since you used your soldiers like gods, and you led the soldiers under your command to kill so many There were so many Hulu heads, so many battles were won, and so much territory was seized..."
"You..." Zhu Youjian got a little angry when he heard this, "You mean that I won the war and impoverished the country?"
"Long live my lord," Mr. Shen, the profiteer, shook his head, "The country did not fight poverty, but the internal transport warehouse did it... Because the country is already poor, and the Ministry of Household Affairs cannot afford so much money for rewards and issuance. The subsidies for grain and hair transfer to the three prefectures and the cost of establishing two Orduo households with 20,000 households... these all have to be filled with money from the internal transportation treasury!"
"This, this, this..." Zhu Youjian was so anxious that he couldn't speak clearly, "Why do you want the internal transportation warehouse to pay for it? Whose idea was it?"
"Long live my Lord, it seems that this is your decree..."
"What? It's me..." Zhu Youjian thought for a moment, as if it was his order!
A while ago, he had been feeling that there was money in the internal transportation warehouse, and the cabinet had been complaining to him about poverty - the cabinet was really poor! Moreover, the money and food supplies from the cabinet have not yet been confiscated, and the expenditures have been listed item by item!
And most of the time the expenses are more than the income! Because the current Ming Dynasty does not have a financial system that can support the issuance of national debt, the deficit of the Ministry of Revenue can only be realized through arrears of official salaries and soldiers' pay.
In his previous life, Zhu Youjian had suffered enough from the payment of soldiers, so he strictly prohibited the household department from arrears, and did not dare to abolish the postmen. Even if there was a little surplus in the first year of Chongzhen, he still had to fill the holes in previous years... so It is impossible for the Ministry of Accounts to pay for Zhu Youjian's personal collection, and can only be advanced by the internal transportation warehouse.
If Zhu Youjian had won fewer battles, killed fewer Tatars, and seized less territory, the money in the inner treasury might still be enough to spend, but he was too good at fighting the problem!
And his "ability to fight", to put it bluntly, means he puts his money where his mouth is!
And Zhu Youjian plans to continue training with Huang Taiji next year, so he still has to spend a lot of money!
