It was until early morning.
The cold winter is completely turned into a turbulent city that has been flying snow all over the sky.
With the wind and snow, carriages were also walking on the streets in the wind and snow, heading towards the Meridian Gate of the Palace.
In the Daheng Dynasty, court discussions are undoubtedly a familiar and unfamiliar term for civil and military officials.
Only a few months after the establishment of Daheng, it was a rare war in history. The emperor personally led his troops to fight for more than a year before returning to the capital.
In addition, the emperor's behavior is well known.
In the past Ming Dynasty, the emperor's will was not allowed to be detained without passing the cabinet and court.
But now, the emperor issued an order and almost never passed through the court. Even most of the matters have been given, and the following things have been done. Only when the emperor has finished the center of the court can we know it later.
In addition, many places under the jurisdiction of the court, which were originally the center of the world and determined the direction of the world, became a dispensable existence to some extent under the ignorance of the emperor.
Today's court discussion, with the sudden big scene yesterday, outside the Meridian Gate, carriages came and the atmosphere was obviously a bit strange after the ministers gathered.
In fact, although there were countless court officials following the rebellion during the rebellion, the influence of the court center was actually the least.
Replacement and promotion are enough to easily solve the vacancies of officials due to court officials following the rebellion.
Therefore, after the emperor returned to the capital and determined the plan to fill the government, the government center quickly returned to normal.
Therefore, in today's court discussion, many new faces appeared on the side of the civil servants who participated in the court discussion for the first time.
Some days ago, they were still leading troops in the army, but now they have changed into official robes. Some officials from various local provinces have entered the court for the first time or again.
But without exception, at this moment, the wind and snow are like a slump in pressure.
Without war, this big fight will definitely be a big deal. The assessment has not yet begun, and the officials of local prefectures and counties have not yet filled the vacancy. What is the emperor going to do...
In fact, it is easy to guess.
For some people, this court discussion is destined to be a court discussion, but a trial!
As soon as the time arrived, the city gate slowly opened in the snow.
The bell sounded really on the city tower.
At this moment, in the eyes of many court officials, this road to the center of government affairs and power seems to have become a path to hell.
Without retreating, unable to resist, he can only wait for the final judgment to come in affliction.
With snow covered, the officials slowly moved forward, leaving two chaotic steps on the snow.
On both sides of the team are soldiers of the imperial camp standing in armor and holding sharp edges.
The fire flashed in the wind and snow, and except for the creaking sound of stepping on the snow, everyone was silent. Not long ago, they disappeared completely due to the boiling excitement of the sect and the energies.
Chengtian Palace in the darkness seemed like a giant beast, crawling in the darkness, and its bloody fangs had already opened, as if they were about to devour everything.
The officials' expressions became more and more serious. After the team lined up, they were waiting for the will of the court in the wind and snow.
The emperor had already arrived in the hall. On the dragon throne, there were high seats of the emperor. Several eunuchs stood on one side with pallets in their hands. At this time, the emperor was flipping through the tax and expenditure account books counted by the inner court with great interest.
"Your Majesty, all the officials are already in the marquis outside the hall."
Wang Wu whispered to remind him, but the emperor still seemed to have never heard of it. He was still reading this book destined to be engraved in history and became an account book studied and analyzed by countless future generations.
In this way, Wang Wu did not dare to say anything more, stood aside and waited silently.
It was unknown how long it took for the emperor to read the account book and put it on the pallet held by the eunuch beside him.
"Let all officials come in."
The emperor spoke and then sat down with his sleeves.
With the eunuch's shout, the officials who had been stained with white frost finally stepped into the hall.
"Long live my emperor!"
The ministers visited and shouted.
"You are exempt from courtesy."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The ministers stood up and stood in a row.
But the emperor suddenly smiled brightly: "Don't rush to start the report, I have good news, I want to share it with you!"
As soon as these words were spoken, a series of surprised gazes immediately gathered on the emperor who showed a smile. Lai Zongdao and Liu Qiyuan looked at each other, and they were all obviously confused. Did they guess wrongly at the beginning of this?
"A few days ago, Ningbo Maritime Warehouse Department reported that from the establishment of Ningbo Maritime Warehouse Department in August to the beginning of October, in just three months, Ningbo Maritime Warehouse Department's tariff revenue reached nearly 600,000 taels!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the court, which had been extremely depressed, was immediately noisy!
To the court officials, they are naturally familiar with Ningbo's Maritime Bureau. After all, the complete overthrow of the sea ban caused a lot of trouble in the court.
Of course, this so-called storm is only limited to the court. After all, when the emperor made a decision, the emperor was personally expeditioned. When their memorial of advice arrived in front of the emperor's case, the decree had already been issued.
When Ningbo Maritime Affairs became a established fact, a group of court officials led by the Minister of Revenue had strongly demanded that Maritime Affairs have been subject to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue, but they were also rejected by the emperor.
As a result, the Maritime Bureau naturally broke away from the court's sight.
Who would have thought that this Maritime Warehouse would appear again and it would be like this situation.
Three months, more than 600,000 taels of silver!
This number...
Many court officials who already know about tax revenue also subconsciously compared it with the tax revenue in the first year of Zhaowu.
It's okay if it's not the same. After comparison, the court officials' expressions suddenly became different, either ugly, worried, or frightened...
The expressions of the two cabinet masters seemed extremely solemn.
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"Congratulations to your Majesty!"
No matter what I thought, there were soon congratulations from the whole court.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The emperor laughed: "In three months, it will reach more than 600,000 taels. I believe that in the next year, in a year, the silver tariffs will probably be as many as millions of taels."
"In this way, the court's taxes will definitely be enough to reach another level!"
As for this, the emperor seemed to have suddenly thought of something and said, "It is the end of the year, and the taxes in various places must have been counted clearly, right?"
"Report to Your Majesty, the taxes of the court have been calculated clearly, totaling..."
Just as Liu Qiyuan gritted his teeth and spoke, before he finished speaking, the emperor nodded and looked at Wang Wu of the inner court: "What is the tax revenue this year for each town and garrison?"
"Report to Your Majesty, the garrisons have handed over a total of 4.2 million stones of surplus grain. Later, due to the continuous war, they allocated 3.12 million stones of grain."
"There are a total of 7.523,600 taels of silver, 1.32 million stones of wheat, 8.23 ​​million stones of grain, 100,000 silk folded silk, 100,000 feet and 30 minutes of silk, 100,000 feet and 30,000 horses and grass... and the statistics on gold and silver seized in Liaodong were added. There were 520,000 taels of gold, 7.28 million taels of silver, and 1.32 million stones of grain..."
"A total of 3.25 million shi of grain were allocated to disaster relief in various places, 2.53 million taels of silver were allocated to 1.68 million taels of silver for repair in each town, and 530,000 shi were rebuilt to rebuild Liaodong. By now, 2.2 million shi and 2.82 million taels of silver were consumed..."
"There are also to calm the grain prices in various places, and a total of more than 1.36 million taels of silver..."
"In the war, military rations and rewards were provided to each department, not counting the food consumed by each garrison, but totaling 8.68 million stones and more than 1,232 million taels of silver!"
"There are also the two navy divisions of North Korea and the Denlai Jiangnan, and..."
"About statistics, due to this battle this year, the revenue and expenditure have completely lost control, and the treasury is deficit, and most of the tax revenue in the next few years will be used to fill the deficit..."
When the emperor heard this number, he naturally did not have much fluctuation in his expression. He was already familiar with these numbers.
The big part of money and food consumption is naturally this war that lasted for more than a year.
Under the huge internal and external troubles, the war is not just the war between the northern border against the Mongolian and the Later Jin Dynasty. There is almost no army idle, whether it is hundreds of thousands of battalions of soldiers or the garrisons spread all over the country.
The Daheng recorded a total of 1.18 million soldiers and generals. It is conceivable how terrifying it would be to supply such a huge army and carry out a war that lasted for more than a year!
Military rations are transferred as the troops move forward. The distance is still good. If the distance is long, if the grain and grass are transferred to North Korea, people eat horses and chew on the road. There are many places that are not considered a road at all. One hundred stones of grain are actually transported to the front line to supply the army, and less than ten stones are needed.
Just the supply of military rations, the seemingly huge income of money and grain taxes was not enough. At that time, part of them relied on the existence of money shops and merchants, from buying with silver to lending, and then to direct calls in the end. This is also the most important reason why the form of Jiangnan land was controlled from the beginning to controlling the overall situation, and later most of Jiangnan was directly out of control.
Before the previous control of the prosperous land in Jiangnan was completely overturned and rebuilt, it relied on checks and balances in economy and people's livelihood to achieve a barely balance.
With such a large amount of bloodletting in the north, the checks and balances of the people's livelihood economy in Jiangnan were naturally broken in an instant, which naturally led to the complete out of control of Jiangnan.
Moreover, the monthly military pay supply of hundreds of thousands of battalions is also an astronomical figure. Moreover, in this war, nearly 100,000 casualties were killed or injured. According to the regulations, as well as the support for the families of the dead and injured soldiers, the annual taxes were all used for supply, which may not be enough.
In fact, since the war ended and the reward has been completed, the pension has been difficult due to the huge financial deficit.
The tariffs of the Ningbo Maritime Warehouse almost didn't even enter the treasury, so they were thrown into the pit of pensions, and they didn't even catch a bubble.
The emperor was calm, but the ministers were in an uproar in the face of this number.
Just like the conclusion that Da Heng will perish under internal and external troubles!
Who doesn’t know that Daheng’s strong soldiers are invincible and unrivaled!
But this conclusion was still spread throughout the world and became the consensus of the world at that time!
The reason is that almost most people know that Daheng, who inherited the mess of the Ming Dynasty under numerous internal and external troubles, had no ability to maintain the original war in finance.
The original expectation of this war was that Daheng's strong army was invincible, and eventually collapsed under the problem of money and food!
Even though the battle situation was progressing more and more smoothly later, there were still many people with this idea.
Even though the situation of the war has come later, for many people, the biggest doubt is still how Daheng maintained this war.
Now that the data is in front of you, the facts seem to be clear.
What supported this war was never the treasury of the government center, but another military and political system outside the independence and court.
The efficiency of this system, which has been criticized by the world, is obviously far beyond the perception of the world.
All of them are on the frontier and in the war-torn places, but they have to bear the collapse of the sky!
In this comparison, the role of this court...
As such thoughts circulated, the uproar among the ministers continued for a moment, but it became strangely calmed down. An inexplicable depression also enveloped the entire court again.
"How about the taxes from the court?"
During this silence, the emperor chuckled, then looked at Liu Qiyuan, the Minister of Revenue, and spoke slowly.
At this moment, the emperor's indifferent voice seemed to Liu Qiyuan as a death talisman.
With that shocking pearl and jade in front of the imperial court, how could he have the face to say this unsightly number!
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After hesitating for a while, Liu Qiyuan bowed to the emperor and spoke slowly:
"In the past two years, Zhaowu collected more than 2.2 million stones of grain and 1.8 million taels of silver!"
"In a year, disaster relief consumed 800,000 stones of grain and 380,000 taels of silver. The Ministry of Industry has built the road from Tongzhou to Beijing. The original budget was 300,000 taels of silver, but now it consumed 600,000 taels of silver."
"The Ministry of Revenue dispatched land statistics, which cost 560,000 taels of silver..."
"besides……"
As words slowly came out, the heads of the ministers became lower and lower.
Pearls and jade are ahead, but tiles and stones are hard to be used.
The glory ahead is too great, and it is their turn to report, which is as if it is unbearable!
"Oh……"
When Liu Qiyuan finished reporting, the emperor couldn't help but chuckled: "It seems that my court officials and officials in the world are all great sages. They don't even want their salary, and they are still dedicated to the work of Daheng!"
As soon as this statement came out, the hall was silent like death. The civil and military officials, even the breathing sounds subconsciously slowed down.
"I'm here to calculate for you. The major border towns are only half of the land in Daheng world!"
The emperor stood up and looked like cold frost: "Half the Da Heng world has already supported Da Heng!"
"Tell me, what are the rest of the world doing?"
"Are you all greedily devouring the people's wealth and ointment, waiting for Daheng to overthrow, so that you can change your family immediately?"
"After several provinces, half of the world is not only unable to give me any help, but I will drag my back and not talk about any mistakes. In the end, even the salaries of officials are paid!"
"Tell me, what's the point of asking you!"
As soon as this statement came out, the silence was broken in an instant, and the ministers knelt down.
"Have your majesty calm down!"
"I'm calming down?"
The emperor was so angry that he laughed, and looked at Lai Zong and said to Liu Qiyuan and the others: "Come on, two elders, come and tell me, how should I calm my anger?"
"I am guilty!"
At this moment, Liu Qiyuan, the two cabinet masters from the Sect, were speechless. They took off their headbands and shouted, and they also knelt down and crawled!
"You don't need to say that you are guilty or not, it's not your final decision!"
The emperor shouted coldly and looked around his ministers: "I am afraid you have forgotten that the world has changed dynasties. Now it is not in the Ming Dynasty. This is Daheng, I am Emperor Zhaowu!"
"Do you think I dare not kill anyone?"
"His Majesty!"
Liu Qiyuan couldn't help but stand up and wanted to advise him.
"What, I have to advise me to slowly plan and not to lose people's hearts?"
The emperor didn't wait for Liu Qiyuan to say anything, and in one sentence, he blocked Liu Qiyuan so much that he had nothing to say.
"I have given you a chance, have you given you more than once?"
"I will give half of the world to you and others for management!"
"But what are you giving back to me and to this world?"
"You can't even pay the salary of officials?"
"Are you lying on the people and sucking blood?"
"Or you claim to be noble and superior. Millions of people are not people, but you are people?"
Liu Qiyuan opened his mouth, but he could not say anything at all.
The emperor said it was right. The emperor, when he was in power in the Ming Dynasty, and now, he has given them too many opportunities over the years.
If it weren't for their destruction, the emperor wouldn't have been forced to start a new life, and the emperor wouldn't have decided on the vassal states with endless disasters.
He knew that with his character today, he would not let His Majesty clean up the world. This emperor would definitely suppress the vassal states with endless disasters and would never return the world to the center of the court.
In this way, the court left over from the previous Ming Dynasty will only become more and more marginalized, and will eventually be completely replaced by Wu Xun.
In the end, everything left by the former Ming Dynasty, whether good or bad, will probably be ruthlessly swept away the garbage dump of history by Wu Xun.
This will be a general trend that Your Majesty may not be able to stop it.
In both public and private, he can no longer stop His Majesty's drastic moves.
Only by letting Your Majesty clean up the decay can the world return to the court and the civil and military officials avoid being completely unbalanced. The essence that should be retained can be smoothly continued to this Daheng year.
Under the expectations of the ministers, Liu Qi bowed and kowtowed, but did not say anything more.
"Don't worry, I will check it carefully and find it out one by one. Whoever sucks the blood of the people and whoever grees for the court's money will make them spit it out!"
"Give you a good life, but then don't live it!"
"Where is the Jinyiwei!"
The emperor drinks coldly!
"I'm here!"
Li Ruolian stood up and responded with his fists.
"This matter is left to the full jurisdiction of Duke Jingguo, the Jinyiwei is commanded by Duke Jingguo, and the General Staff will assist to thoroughly investigate the matter!"
"Whether any person involved in this case, no matter what position he holds or how many ranks he has, don't have any concerns. Just do whatever he should do!"
The emperor's words were like sharp blades, piercing into the hearts of civil and military officials one after another.
Everyone knows that the emperor is going to take serious action!
And what is the scene of the emperor acting really...
This capital city has been rumbling over and over again, and it has been clearly proved.
At this moment, many court officials had already seen a stain on the ground where they knelt down, and the pungent fishy smell slowly lingered in the hall.
"I will receive the order!"
The Duke of Jingguo and the commander of the Jinyiwei stood up, and the clanging voice was clearly heard.
The two cabinet masters subconsciously looked at each other, and finally, they sighed, and then silently lowered their heads.
Their hard-written former Ming ruling system, in this desperate daheng who was rushing forward, was incompatible and finally ushered in an inevitable fate...
After the court talks ended, the ministers dispersed, but most of them were as if they were mourning and criticized, and their faces were as if they were dead.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! A court discussion and a storm that poured the sky suddenly took shape, and it was too unexpected. Even now, there are still many court officials who have not reacted.
This storm that was pouring into heaven was instantly formed under the will of the emperor. Obviously, in a few days, it will completely sweep the entire Great Heng world from the capital.
The heads are rolling, the corpse is covered with blood!
As the news in the court ended, it naturally spread rapidly across the world under various channels.
I don’t know how the people in the world react, but this capital, which has almost never been calm over the years, has once again become turbulent under this news!
In this era, this era that has just changed from the Ming Dynasty to Daheng, the decay remains, and the inertial unspoken rules are still rampant.
Looking at the whole world, many officials dare to say that they are not greedy and have a reputation as an honest official, but behind the scenes, how many people can they really not greedy?
It’s nothing more than a problem of greed for more than greed.
There is greed for making a living, greed for satisfying one's own selfish desires, and there is also greed for greed simply for greed.
The boundaries between them are obviously difficult to distinguish under the great trend of the sky.
Who can guarantee that I can escape from the emperor's butcher knife by force, for only a hundred taels of silver.
Who can guarantee that if I greed tens of thousands of taels of silver, I can safely save my life and life under this great trend?
Under the butcher's knife, led by Wu Xun and Jinyiwei, these literati had no room for clarity, nor could they win over any relationship, nor could they guarantee their own wealth and life!
The nine gates of the capital were strictly sealed and guarded by the emperor's imperial guards. It seemed that the entire capital had become a huge jar!
And they are the ones in this jar!
The emperor held the knife and was about to lift them out of the jar one by one.
The family is destroyed and the family is confiscated and the family is destroyed!
For many people, it is already a fact that is close to you and is bound to happen.
People are turbulent and frightened, but under the careful arrangement of the emperor's seal, they can only turn into endless despair.
Chapter completed!