My own family is so fucked up that I can't even open the pot, and I still have to give gifts to those barbarians in return.
If you don't want to be a tributary country to the Ming Dynasty, you don't have to do it. Anyway, labor and capital will hit your home sooner or later.
"Let's wait for a while before we talk. If the national treasury has tens of millions of taels of silver, I don't want to be stingy with that little money."
After hearing this, all the cabinet ministers no longer lingered on this topic.
"Taiyue, the national treasury left 200,000 taels as a precaution in case of disasters in the New Year. The other money was divided into two parts, and one part was distributed to the border officers and soldiers. This is the peak period for the Tatars to invade the border. Let the soldiers see the white money and live a good year with peace of mind."
At this time, the Mongolian grasslands are in short supply of various materials, and spring is the time when they invade the border the most.
Of course, Zhu Zaijing knew that part of the money would definitely be embezzled, and he had nothing to do about it for the time being. If they were embezzled, just be embezzled a little, as long as it was not excessive.
"The other part is to pay salaries to all officials. There are many who are owed wages. I can't pay them all for the time being, but I can't let you spend the New Year empty-handed!"
The court originally owed many officials salaries. In the 45th year of Jiajing, the national treasury suffered serious losses, and it was almost impossible to pay out the officials' money.
"I understand!"
"Attention!" Zhu Zaijing emphasized his tone, "It's 50%! 50% for border officers and 50% for officials."
He then warned, "If the soldiers are unprepared because they cannot get the money, and the Tatars break in, burn, kill and loot, then we will have to spend more money to appease the people at the border, and the Ministry of Household Affairs will have to figure out how to deal with this money. When the time comes, don’t come crying to me about poverty!”
Zhang Juzheng understood what the emperor meant and glanced at Xu Jie.
It means that you are the boss, and you will convey the spirit of the meeting to everyone later.
But Zhang Juzheng, who didn't really trust his teacher, decided to keep an eye on the people below himself.
After all, the emperor has made it clear that if there is a border crisis caused by corruption, labor and management will not care about it. You can figure it out yourself.
At that time, the most difficult thing will be myself, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance.
Xu Jie also understood that most of the people in the court were Qingliu, and he, the leader of Qingliu, had to warn them.
Zhu Zaijing understood that civil servants and eunuchs in various places would definitely take the money one by one. The money was not much, about 500,000 to 600,000 taels, and Zhu Zaijing could accept it as long as half of it was sent to the border officers.
If this limit is exceeded, labor and management will kill people!
"Another decree is that from now on, all regions will not offer anything to the imperial court. Whatever the imperial court needs will be purchased from the capital."
"Moreover, the rewards to the vassals in various places have also been stopped. The imperial edict clearly stated that the court has no money. Anyway, they are not living on the salary of the court. If the rewards are stopped for a few years, they will starve to death. If they starve to death, I will bear the blame. !”
F*ck, these feudal kings…
Sooner or later, labor and management will unwrap these super gift packages!
But then again, the only ones who are rich and powerful are those Zhu family members who have inherited royal titles. The other lower-level clans, such as Zhenguo lieutenants, Zhenguo generals, etc., the Zhu family members of these lower-level titles are not having a good life, and may even be Not as good as the common people.
In the late Ming Dynasty, many members of the lower-class Zhu family changed their names and became bandits, bandits, and even peasant soldiers.
Just because I can't live anymore.
According to the rules, they can't do anything but wait for the imperial salary to be alive.
But these powerless clans fear no one and don't care about anyone, so their salaries are basically deducted a lot.
And their salaries are actually very low, not much more.
Zhu Zaijing silently recorded these words in his heart. The reform of the clan system must be promoted quickly, and at least these lower-level clan members must be allowed to engage in business and the military.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, wasn't there a large group of vegetable sellers in the capital, and the shoe polishers were named Aixinjueluo?
"Also, the eunuchs and maids in the palace have to lay off a lot of people!" Zhu Zaijing frowned, "I looked at the list of the twelve eunuchs and the sixth bureau last night and found that there were too many people."
The Twelve Prisons are the twelve yamen established in the Ming Dynasty to manage the internal affairs of the royal family, and each has a eunuch who is in charge of the imperial examination. In the Ming Dynasty, the palace had ten supervisors: the Secretary of Ceremonies, the Internal Officials, the Imperial Supervisors, the Si She Jian, the Imperial Horse Supervisors, the Divine Palace Supervisors, the Shangshan Supervisors, the Shang Bao Supervisors, the Yinshou Supervisors, the Zhidian Supervisors, the Shangyi Supervisors, and the Duzhi Supervisors. There are two supervisors, each with eunuchs and other supervisors.
The six bureaus are all female officials in the palace, which are collectively called the six bureaus of Shang Gong, Shang Yi, Shang Fu, Shang Shi, Shang Bed and Shang Gong. In charge of the daily life of serving the emperor and concubines.
The number of palace maids and eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty was the largest in all dynasties.
That's a lot of money.
"There are even many old people who entered the palace during the Chenghua and Hongzhi years. They are buried up to their chins in loess and are still in the palace! What's the use of keeping these people? It's better to let them out so that their families and future generations can raise them comfortably. .”
Feng Bao on the side quickly responded, "Don't worry, Long Live Lord, I will give you a list of names tomorrow!"
"Um."
Zhu Zaijing handed over all the matters prepared before the meeting, and then let the cabinet go about their business.
After that, I prepared to catch up on some sleep. After all, there was a banquet to attend to in the evening, and I didn't get enough sleep for today's morning.
The body is the capital of revolution!
I still have to fight for 30 years and cannot leave the people of Ming Dynasty prematurely.
At this moment, everyone who had returned to the cabinet room was sitting in silence.
Everyone was filled with surprise and doubts about the new emperor.
"Prince Yu...oh no, what's wrong with your majesty? His temperament suddenly changed, and he seemed to be a different person?"
Gao Gong's self-questioning broke the silence.
"I am also very shocked. His Majesty was not of such a temper before. How could he just..."
Generally speaking, people will be at a loss when their roles suddenly change. They will be confused for a period of time, and their temperament will change drastically only after they gradually get used to their new roles.
After all, power and status can really change a person completely.
For example, Yan Song.
Can you believe that when Yan Song was young, he was a good young man who was praised by everyone in the court?
After that, he served as an official in Nanjing for nine years, and when he came back, he became the familiar Yan Ge Lao.
No one knows what he went through in Nanjing these nine years.
People only know that Yan Song, who was dissatisfied with the emperor's misbehavior and the eunuchs who disrupted the government, resigned from office and returned home. He worked hard for the people and the country, and was praised by everyone in the court. He died, and what came back was a standard traitor official in history.
Xu Jie originally felt that the emperor had been cowardly and useless before, and his temper was as docile as a sheep. He had just ascended the throne as emperor, and he must be panicked. He would definitely rely on himself, the chief minister of the cabinet, to help him handle government affairs.
But I didn't expect that the emperor would be as mature and calm as if he had been emperor for a long time, and there was no sign of being hasty in many of his actions.
This huge change and uncertainty frightened him.
Because of two reasons.
First, the Prince Yu whom he was familiar with seemed to have completely disappeared. As the saying goes, a familiar enemy is better than a strange friend. Everything he thought he knew about the emperor was about to be overturned.
Xu Jie thought he knew the new emperor very well, but now it seems that he was wrong.
I don't understand him, but the new emperor fully understands who he is. After all, his performance over the years has been seen by the new emperor.
But Cintiq's performance in the past few years seems to be just an act.
This feeling of being completely seen inside and out made him very uneasy.
Second, for this reason, Xu Jie hoped that he was wrong.
Because King Yu's temperament changed drastically after he ascended the throne, which reminded him of Jiajing.
Jiajing was also a very humble and polite person before he ascended the throne.
He was so polite and low-key that he gave all the officials the illusion that they could make the emperor follow them.
But everyone knows about the subsequent Great Ceremony Incident. The 15-year-old Jiajing faced off with the officials for three years.
Don't give in an inch!
"Is it true that like father, like son?" Xu Jie sighed.
