After hearing this, Gu Bingqian lowered his head and rolled his eyes.
There has never been a time when the imperial court suppressed bandits and used them as money and food. Without money and food, it would have been impossible for those Qiu Ba in Liaodong to do their best for the court to suppress the rebellion.
Even if a large sum is captured in the future, more than half of it will end up in the hands of generals and officials. What the court will get is only one-tenth or two-tenths, and what is left may not be enough to feed the army.
"Someone's coming."
Tianqi also knew that what he just said were all angry words. It was simply impossible to send troops first to supplement the money and food needed by the army.
"My slave is here."
The little eunuch on the side came out.
Tianqi said: "Go and find me the Minister of Household Affairs."
The little eunuch bowed and bowed before retreating.
"Give Gu Aiqing a seat." Tianqi knew that Gu Bingqian wouldn't be able to leave for a while, so he asked the little eunuch waiting next to him to make an embroidery for Gu Bingqian.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Gu Bingqian bowed and saluted Tianqi, lifted his hem with his hand, and sat on the embroidered pier given by the young eunuch.
The warm tea brought by the palace maid was placed in Tianqi's hand.
Tianqi picked it up and took a sip. He sat on the dragon couch and slowly sipped the tea without saying a word.
But Gu Bingqian did not have this kind of treatment. He could only sit on the embroidered pier and watch motionlessly.
Tianqi didn't ask anyone to serve tea to Gu Bingqian.
For Gu Bingqian who caused such trouble, he was able to give Gu Bingqian a seat for the sake of the other party's chief assistant, forget about waiting for tea.
Li Qiyuan, the Minister of Household Affairs, was working in the Yamen. After receiving the oral instructions from the young eunuch, he immediately entered the palace with the young eunuch.
"My lord, please see Your Majesty." Li Qiyuan bowed towards Tianqi and saluted.
Li Qiyuan, who is already over sixty years old, has gray hair and beard, but he is in good spirits.
"Give Li Aiqing a seat." Tianqi ordered.
The young eunuch moved the embroidery pier for Li Qiyuan.
Li Qiyuan thanked Tianqi first, and then sat down carefully.
"The people have arrived. Gu Aiqing, please tell Li Aiqing yourself!" Tianqi handed over the trouble to Gu Bingqian. He picked up the bowl and sipped the tea slowly.
Only then did Li Qiyuan realize that his attack was related to Gu Bingqian and looked sideways at him.
"Li Shangshu, His Majesty has just agreed to send a large army to suppress the rebellion. The money and food needed for the army need to be prepared by Li Shangshu in advance. The departure time of the army cannot be delayed." Gu Bingqian said to Li Qiyuan directly.
Li Qiyuan frowned when he heard this and said: "Mr. Gu Ge, I remember that I have already said that the Ministry of Revenue really can't come up with money and food. The officials in the capital don't know how to get their salaries next month." Where to raise money?”
"Suppressing the rebellion is a major matter and cannot be delayed. Please give Li Shangshu a squeeze. After Xuanda's rebellion is quelled, all the proceeds will be transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs to ease the tension in the Ministry of Household Affairs." Gu Bingqian took out the seizures to stop Li Qiyuan's mouth. .
However, how could Li Qiyuan, who had been an official for so many years, be fooled by the pie drawn by Gu Bingqian.
He immediately said: "Old Gu Ge is in trouble for the lower official. In the great victory of Jinzhou, the Ministry of Revenue sent a lot of money and food to Liaodong. Now the lower official really can't get the money and food. Otherwise, let the army send troops to quell the rebellion first, so that the money and food can be used as money. , and the remaining part is being escorted back to Beijing."
With one move to part the wild horse's mane, he skillfully threw the question back to Gu Bingqian.
Gu Bingqian had no choice but to look for help at Tianqi, who was sitting on the dragon couch.
Putting down the Xuanda rebellion is what Tianqi wants to see, so at this time he knew that he had to speak out, so he said to Li Qiyuan: "Li Aiqing, you have been in charge of the Ministry of Revenue for so long, try to squeeze it together, at least you can It is necessary to ensure that the army can enter the propaganda and quell the rebellion normally."
"Your Majesty, it's not that I don't want to come up with money and food to quell the rebellion. I really can't come up with money and food. If Your Majesty thinks that someone can come up with money and food, I am willing to give up my position as Minister of Household Affairs." Li Qiyuan said almost forcing the palace. .
Tianqi frowned.
Naturally, Li Qiyuan would not really remove him from the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue just because he could not come up with money and grain. He just did not expect that the Ministry of Household Affairs would be so difficult that he could not even come up with money and grain to quell the rebellion.
Gu Bingqian on the side said at this time: "If the Ministry of Revenue can't come up with money and food to fight the rebellion, we have to find a way to solve it. Could it be that if the Ministry of Revenue doesn't have money and food, it will just let Xuanda be occupied by thieves."
"Of course I don't want to see thieves occupy Xuanda, but it is really difficult to solve the problem of money and food by relying on the Ministry of Revenue alone. Even if we temporarily increase wages, it will be too late." Li Qiyuan, who was talking to Gu Bingqian, glanced at Tianqi secretly.
"If the Ministry of Revenue can't solve it, then think of other ways to solve it. In short, the money and food needed by the army to suppress the rebellion must be solved." Gu Bingqian said firmly.
Li Qiyuan hesitated for a moment and said: "If you want to solve the problem of money and food, it is not impossible at all."
As he spoke, he looked at Tianqi.
"What method?" Gu Bingqian asked.
Li Qiyuan looked at Tianqi and said: "Please ask the Holy One to open the internal funds and temporarily lend part of it to the Ministry of Household Affairs to deliver the money and food needed for the army to suppress the rebellion."
Tianqi, who was drinking tea and watching the two people quarreling, didn't expect that the fire suddenly burned his body.
"Your Majesty, since the Ministry of Household Affairs can't come up with money and food, we can only borrow some money and food from internal funds." Gu Bingqian looked at Tianqi longingly.
Tianqi's face sank when he saw the two important ministers in front of him, and he said: "I don't have much internal money. The money and food needed to quell the rebel army should be settled by the Ministry of Household Affairs."
The money is his own
The little eunuch bowed to Tianqi, bowed and retreated slowly.
"What do you think of Datong's traitor Liu?" Tianqi suddenly asked Wei Zhongxian again.
Wei Zhongxian hesitated for a moment and then said: "I feel that the Liu bandits in Datong are not as big a threat as the slave bandits in Liaodong. Even the slave bandits were defeated by our Ming Dynasty. It is only a matter of time before the imperial court frees up its hands to destroy this Liu bandit."
"The great companion has spoken to my heart." Tianqi smiled and said, "There are so many slave thieves in Liaodong, but they were defeated by the Ming Dynasty in the end. Regardless of the temporary situation, the Liu thieves still occupied the Ming Dynasty and couldn't take action. Cheap."
"What the Emperor said is absolutely true." Wei Zhongxian agreed with a smile and secretly wiped the sweat from his palms on his clothes.
The matter of the great victory in Jinzhou has been kept hidden from the palace.
To this day, Qi and the middle and lower-level officials in the court really believe that the Ming army defeated an army of 100,000 slave thieves under Jinzhou City. Now even those who know this lie dare not expose it. Once exposed, I don’t know how many people will lose their heads.
It is not even impossible to cause turmoil in the Liaodong army.
Tianqi took a sip of tea and continued: "If the Liu thief can be recruited, it is best to let him go to Liaodong to fight against the slave thief. If not, then wait until the situation in Liaodong becomes favorable to the Ming Dynasty before dealing with this thief."
"It's all my fault that I didn't know this person well back then. If I had known about this man's ambition earlier, I should have led people to search this person's shops in the capital and arrested and punished all the thieves." Wei Zhongxian said righteously.
Tianqi waved his hand gently and said: "It's not Daban's fault for what happened back then. Even I was deceived by this thief. Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have recruited this thief in the first place. I should have killed this thief in one go." "
