In addition to killing people, they also confiscated no money.
Silver, gold, banknotes, treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings...all these things are available.
Wealth follows power, and the Forbidden City is the center of power in the world. Even the wine-vinegar noodle game where wine, vinegar, sugar sauce, noodles and other things are eaten in the palace is not an ordinary place.
Can the sugar sauce and noodles eaten by the emperor and concubines be of average quality?
I don’t know how many interests are involved in the purchasing process.
Therefore, not much money was obtained from this robbery. Even the smallest person had a few hundred taels of silver notes, and most of them were concentrated in a few thousand taels. If one was in a high position, including the discount of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, the net worth would be hundreds of thousands taels. There are also some.
And although there are unjust killings, most people are inextricably linked to 'salt'. How can they be so poor?
The key is that the quantity has increased, hundreds and thousands of taels, plus some rich people, so in the end, there should be millions of taels of silver.
With just such a simple calculation, I already have a rough idea of the accounts.
When Liu Jin came to report, he mentioned the figure of 3.15 million taels.
Zhu Houzhao recovered somewhat, but he still had a loss of appetite because the medicine was so bitter that his mouth was filled with bitterness and everything he ate tasted bitter. Therefore, although his mental condition had improved, it was only a small part of the improvement.
The constant coughing also made his voice a little hoarse.
At this time, he could only lie upright on the bed and said to Liu Jin who was kneeling next to him: "All the money will be put into my internal funds. I will take it out when the court and the people need it in the future. Liu Jin,"
"My slave is here."
"I don't want to ask more about this matter. You just need to understand how to deal with it."
Liu Jin was delighted. The emperor was probably ill because he delegated power this time.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, this slave will not make any mistakes!"
After Liu Jin left,
The emperor opened his eyes.
The amount of money stolen should be more than this. He understands, but he doesn't pursue it anymore.
As an emperor, if you reach the point where you don't even give a sip of soup to the people below you, you will actually end up alone.
This money originally circulated in the circle of ministers. He would give it to you and you would give it to him. Now, he, the emperor, can dig out 3.15 million taels at once, which is indeed not a small number.
And sometimes it’s not Liu Jin who’s taking it.
He only has one pair of hands, so he must still rely on the people below him to do so much work; and he only has one pair of eyes, so he cannot see how much the people below him are secretly hiding.
As for Liu Jin himself, the price is about tens of thousands taels. If he is brave enough, he will dare to take it.
In fact, money is useful to Zhu Houzhao, but it is not good if he has too much accumulated in his hands.
Especially this year, two fortunes were made. One was that Mei Kejia and Gu Dayong started shipping 2.4 million taels of silver.
One is that the shipping companies in the three cities implement an access system, and there are about 2 million taels of silver. However, in order to implement the admission system, the emperor promised that the money would only be used for disaster relief. This is also the reason why Min Gui feels that fifty thousand taels is too low, and two hundred thousand taels is not high, so this does not go into internal funds.
But in fact, it doesn't matter. If there is a disaster in the world and the national treasury is out of money, Zhu Houzhao is not the kind of monarch who guards money and watches the people starve to death.
So in the end it's still his money.
In addition, he also had some savings, so at the beginning of the year there was a peak of 4.4 million taels of silver.
Later, one million was allocated to Yang Yiqing, 350,000 to Wang Shouren, 300,000 to Liu Jian, and Wang Hao took away 200,000 to build the new city of Ningbo.
Therefore, the internal funds at this time were only 2.5 million taels of silver.
Of course, after this "cleaning up" in the palace, he will become rich again.
And the salt merchants are still confiscating it...the money there is even more frightening.
When Zhu Houzhao closed his eyes and rested, he was also thinking that he had to spend some money. As an emperor, it is beneficial to gather all the money in the world here, but it must be moderate, otherwise the people will be poor.
But spending money is easy, but spending it right is difficult. If you really just spend it, you won't have much left to build a few palaces.
But he obviously won't.
In fact, I went to Zhao Prison to visit Gu Zuo a few days ago.
On the way back to the palace, Zhu Houzhao suddenly remembered a word: special allowance.
The official salary of Ming Dynasty is indeed too low.
However, the actual consequences of increasing official salaries as a whole are unpredictable. Moreover, the official group itself is a huge group of vested interests. If you still pay them at this time, isn’t it crazy?
They are doing well.
However, if the official salary is too low, it will actually cause good officials to become corrupt officials. The so-called high salary to support integrity is not unreasonable.
In addition, the low salary has led to corruption becoming a common phenomenon, and some cases are not easy to check. If you really want to talk about it, are these people he slowly promoted as the emperor not corrupt at all?
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I'm afraid it won't, otherwise I should eat glutinous rice bran every day.
And he could only pretend that he didn't know. After all, he still had to rely on officials to manage the country.
This time he was really worried that Gu Zuo had embezzled salt and exchanged money, so it would be difficult to deal with the situation. He would have to struggle for a long time just whether to kill this person or not.
The special allowance mechanism can protect 'one's own people' very well.
Rewarding him with special allowances based on special merits can, on the one hand, relieve the officials themselves of real worries about daily necessities and provide them with the material basis to reject corruption. It is also a way to strengthen the imperial power and create their own circle of people. Good means.
Because whether special allowances are awarded or not depends on the emperor's mood.
Of course, in this case, corruption will still exist because people's hearts are always dissatisfied. Then there is nothing we can do. Even the Buddha cannot save everyone.
There was no one to disturb the Qianqing Palace and it was quiet, which was suitable for him to think about these things.
The rain outside stopped and the sun shone in,
Zhu Houzhao also felt uncomfortable lying down for a long time, so he wanted to get up and walk around.
"Your Majesty!" Qiu Yun watched from the side as he stood up slowly. He was startled, and when he got closer, he said, "Your Majesty should be your servant."
"No need to help me, I'm feeling better." If you have a cold, you don't need help.
Zhu Houzhao stood up by himself. It was hot in summer, and he was not cold at all even though he was wearing a white singlet.
He didn't take more than two steps when he saw the girl named Kui'er coming in with a blue porcelain bowl. The bowl was quite beautiful, with a blue dragon embroidered on it, which was the medicine. It was really fatal.
Zhu Houzhao instinctively wanted to retreat, "...didn't you just finish drinking?"
Kui'er didn't dare to look at the disheveled emperor.
It was Qiu Yun who went to take it, "Your Majesty, I know that you must be thinking about summoning officials earlier to handle state affairs. If this is the case, you really must drink this medicine. Only in this way can you get better as soon as possible. Doctor Si, dont you agree."
Miss Kui'er's lips were red and shiny, and her cheeks had a little baby fat. She looked like they should be easy to pinch. She lowered her head and said, "Yes... good medicine is bitter and good for the disease. I hope your majesty can recover soon."
"Bring it here." Zhu Houzhao didn't want to listen to what they were talking about. He just wanted to drink.
He didn't hesitate, closed his eyes, frowned, and took a deep breath.
Then I went to find the white water Gudong Gudong to drink.
"Ahem," Zhu Houzhao said with pain on his face, "When Confucius said that good medicine is bitter and good for diseases, he must have never tasted such a bad medicine today."
Miss Kui'er couldn't hold back her laughter.
Qiuyun put the bowl back on her plate and said with a squinted smile: "Miss Kui'er, don't be afraid, the medicine is inherently bitter."
They looked at the emperor together and found that he was twisting a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and eating it. It was probably too bitter, so they looked for something sweet to eat.
"As long as it doesn't involve government affairs, His Majesty is very tolerant in life, just look at it. Those outside, just don't listen or watch."
Miss Kui'er took a sneak peek... Actually, what does government affairs have to do with women like them?
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After the emperor fell ill, several people in the attendant's room rarely had time to spare.
But Yan Song's life was not easy these days. Xie Pi went home directly after Mr. Xie Ge returned to Beijing.
But he had nowhere to go, and he was not completely isolated from the eunuchs on weekdays. At this time, he was afraid that he would be involved. So I was worried for a few days, but fortunately everything was safe.
The attendants knew that the emperor's decree called Zhang Yong back.
This is actually a very meaningful political move.
Because Zhang Yong is the eunuch guarding the northwest, he has great powers and great responsibilities. Due to the emperor's financial support and Yang Yiqing's vigorous rectification of military affairs in the northwest, the military power of the guards gradually increased. In other words, the military power controlled by Yang Yiqing will become more powerful over time.
Judging from the situation of the emperor and the border army, it goes without saying how important a guard eunuch is.
But to recall him at this time was obviously not planned.
Because after the imperial meeting in March, Zhang Yongcai returned to Guyuan with Yang Yiqing, and he would be there for at most two months.
In other words, there must be something more important.
But what could it be?
All the changes in the palace had been sorted out when Zhang Yong came back a month later. By then, the situation had slowly calmed down. What could he do?
So in fact, when Yan Song received this order, he could never figure out the emperor's holy will.
But he knew there had to be some kind of divine meaning.
Because the emperor returned to Qianqing Palace in anger at that time. Since he was angry, he had encountered something, and the actions he took after encountering the incident could be random?
At least this emperor doesn't have such a temper.
It was only in the past few days that Yan Song slowly felt some shadows.
Because the authority Liu Jin received was too great.
The emperor almost never let him do anything so arbitrarily.
This is the deepest thought in the emperor's heart,
Yan Song didn't dare to think...could this actually be intentional?
