Chapter 441 Hengfu cost

Therefore, Zhang Yuchan secretly glanced at Liu Peng and said softly: "I understand."

Liu Peng said with great interest: "Yu Chan'er, I guess you don't understand what I mean yet. What I mean is that if you say it's not secret, you will lose your ministers. If the ministers are not secret, you will be a disaster. If the matter is not secret, you will be a disaster. We are our own family and there are no taboos in normal times. Except for Sister Mengyu and Sister Qingyue, only you can come in to clean my study. Today Situ Nong Yu came to discuss things, and I didn't let Yu Chan'er go out, so don't let Yu Chan'er let me down."

Zhang Yuchan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She immediately said, "I really understand. I understand etiquette and law. I must not say what I shouldn't say."

In the Liu Mansion, Zhang Yuchan likes to use "ritual law" to talk about things, but her etiquette is not just about gentle breeze and drizzle. She will be punished and even drive people away directly. However, Liu Peng could also see that Zhang Yuchan was trapped in the big net of "ritual law" and could not extricate herself.

Therefore, Liu Peng nodded and said, "That's right. We are a family and there is nothing to hide. You have seen my body. What else can we not talk about? If you really want to know what, just ask me directly, and don't both of you carefully think about it!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yuchan's pretty face turned red. She had seen Liu Peng's body more than once, but that was Jiang Qingyue's fault.

She is Jiang Qingyue's maid, so she has always slept in the same room with Jiang Qingyue. When Jiang Qingyue was with Liu Peng, she not only did not drive her out, but also let her stay in her bed and listen and watch.

Although he once suffered a lot from being a brothel, Zhang Yuchan was still a real girl, so such a thing was really too exciting for Zhang Yuchan.

However, her education since childhood was all about the three obediences and four virtues, so she did not dare to go against Jiang Qingyue's intentions and was ready to serve Jiang Qingyue and Liu Peng at any time. So although she and Liu Peng had never slept in the same bed, she had once slept in the same room and had seen everything about Liu Peng. Therefore, Liu Peng and her did not regard each other as outsiders.

Therefore, although Zhang Yuchan's pretty face was pink, she felt that her mind suddenly opened: "I understand, young master, by the way, what are the young masters going to drink?"

"Drink chrysanthemum tea!" Liu Peng said with a smile: "I'll read today's official documents first."

However, Zhang Yuchan asked in an inauspicious voice: "Young Master."

"What's wrong?" Liu Peng said with great interest: "Yu Chan'er, what do you have to say?"

Zhang Yuchan immediately said, "Young Master, I just want to ask about our Zhucheng. Now we have such big moves in Changyi and Weixian. Will Zhucheng not be able to do anything, right?"

Zhang Yuchan is the legitimate daughter of the Zhang family in Zhucheng. She feels that she owes a lot to her family, so she is particularly concerned about the affairs of Zhucheng.

But Liu Peng smiled: "You and I are both my family. You are the first to know about any news, but it is indeed a big move to go to Zhucheng with 13312!"

Zhang Yuchan immediately asked, "What big move?"

Liu Peng replied: "Since the land rent in Hengwang Mansion has been reduced, should they also reduce their expenses?"

On the surface, the cost of the Hengwang Mansion has nothing to do with Zhucheng, but the Hengwang Mansion was established as a vassal of Qingzhou Mansion, so the daily cost of the Hengwang Mansion fell in Zhucheng and Rizhao counties under Qingzhou Mansion. "Every year, the cost of the Hengwang Mansion was 16,514 taels and three cents per cent."

But this six thousand taels are not all the expenses of the royal palace. All the expenses of civil and military officials, military academies, musicians, fighting level, civil school, and civil kitchen are provided by Qingzhou Prefecture. These expenses are almost ten thousand taels of silver. "The total amount of silver is 26,15 taels of silver, one cent and one cent, and this is all the food provided by the people."

For Qingzhou Prefecture, this is a large fiscal expenditure, which requires one of the few remaining rice expenditures in the prefecture. Although the officials of Qingzhou Prefecture always find ways to default on arrears and exemptions, the Hengwang Mansion is in great power. Although the amount of silver he receives is not as high as 26,000 taels per year, it is still as much as 24,000 taels.

In a poor place like Qingzhou Prefecture, 24,500 taels can do a lot of things. The Qingzhou Prefecture's financial resources he can move every year are far less than 24,500 taels of silver. Moreover, the Heng Palace will get this money regardless of the disaster year. Although this year is a major disaster that has not been encountered in hundreds of years, the Heng Palace only promised to erase the fraction of the money to get 20,000 taels of silver, but the remaining 6,000 taels of silver will be returned to the Heng Palace next year.

Therefore, the officials of Qingzhou Prefecture have always had a dream, which is to avoid spending the 26,000 taels of silver, and now Liu Peng has provided him with this opportunity.

Over the past 100 years, officials in Qingzhou Prefecture have been constantly demanding the reduction and exemption of the Hengwang Mansion, but the cost of the Hengwang Mansion has been rising. However, the situation is different this time. Liu Peng is preparing to let the officials of Qingzhou Prefecture and the gentry fire the first shot, and then let Xu Jin and Xu Dianshen take action.

Although he did not have a deep understanding of Emperor Wanli, Liu Peng knew that Emperor Wanli was an emperor who loved money very much. If he was asked to choose between the cost of the treasury and a vassal king, he would definitely choose the treasury as soon as possible.

Therefore, the Qingzhou Prefecture officials and gentry gave two options. Either Emperor Wanli took out more than 100,000 taels of silver from his own treasury to help Qingzhou Prefecture, or Qingzhou Prefecture temporarily stopped providing expenses to Henggong Prefecture.

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Yuchan became happy: "What does it mean to temporarily stop providing fees!"

Liu Peng immediately said: "The suspension for three years is held. This year, with the 44th year of Wanli, and the 45th year of the 46th year of Wanli, all the payments of 26,100 taels of silver to the Hengwang Mansion will be stopped. As for the previous arrears, all the debts will be cancelled. As for the 46th year of Wanli, we can only discuss them later!"

However, Zhang Yuchan remembered what Liu Peng had just talked to Situ Nongyu: "But he has not paid any money for three consecutive years. The Heng Palace wants to let us Zhucheng people pay in the future, which is a huge difficulty!"

Zhucheng and Rizhao counties should "send rice, salt and silver every year to "salt 16,514 taels and three cents per cent". Almost half of this 6,500 taels fall on Zhucheng County. Zhucheng County also needs to "use grain to change money, use money to change silver, and transfer it to the county", and the actual annual expenditure is even higher than 20,000 taels of silver.

The remaining 10,000 taels of consumption are also distributed to Zhucheng County, "this is all people's food supply 100 million yuan." Therefore, Zhucheng clearly has a very developed mountain silkworm industry, but it has always been trapped in dire straits.

Not to mention that no matter how many years have passed, both Qingzhou Prefecture and Rizhao have owed a shocking amount of silver to the Heng Palace. The Heng Palace relies on its royal relatives and often uses this amount of money as an excuse for them to collect excessive taxes.

Now Zhang Yuchan feels that Liu Peng is indeed his true benefactor. Thinking of the brothers, sisters and tribe members every year when the Heng Palace asks Zhucheng for money, the best friends are frowning every day, so she feels that even if there is no name or share, it doesn’t seem to be a problem: “Then can the young master do this?”

"The officials and masters of Qingzhou Prefecture can't do this, but I have this matter!"

In fact, it would be useless to have Liu Peng, but this time, Xu Jin and Xu Dianshen came to the East Three Palaces. The Heng Palace had been operating in the East Three Palaces for more than a hundred years, so Xu Jin was completely unscrupulous, so Liu Peng gave him such an idea to make an article about the preserved rice of the Heng Palace.

Xu Jin heard that he could use the amount of 26,000 taels of Heng's mansion per year as bargaining chips, so he suddenly became confident and prepared to use this matter to threaten Heng's mansion. He would not be afraid of Heng's mansion at that time, but he didn't know that there would be no turning back when he was fired. As long as this matter became a big deal, he would not be able to suppress this matter with his little Dianshen.

But in Zhang Yuchan's eyes, Liu Peng who said this sentence was not only domineering, but also extremely handsome. She suddenly became happy: "Young Master, I'll make chrysanthemum tea for you."

Time passes by inadvertently, and passes by inadvertently.

However, in the autumn of the 43rd year of Wanli, everyone in this autumn felt that it was very long, and it was like a year of living. In fact, the night was longer than the year of living. From the governor, the inspector, to the people of the Mi Xiaomin, everyone was working hard for the word "mi".

The natural disaster in Shandong has become extremely serious, and the government's warehousing grain has been exhausted. No matter where it is, there are news that refugees are starving to death. "The corpses are piled up like mountains" and "a family of several people cannot escape." In this case, news of civil unrest is everywhere.

Especially after August, the situation has evolved from a small-scale refugee snatch into hundreds of large-scale civil unrest. Now the Zhuangzi is very nervous: "Is the Yizhou Guard still under the control of the situation?"

Zhuang Diaozhi didn't expect to send his family to a big restaurant in Juzhou to visit relatives, but the family gave him such bad news.

The son of the family opposite immediately said, "Thanks to Mr. Liu from Dezhou, Linqing transported us 6,000 stones of grain. Otherwise, the entire Yizhou Prefecture would probably have twice as many refugees. Now the Yizhou Guard can barely suppress the situation, but if Phoenix Mountain continues like this, there will be a big mess!"

The family gave birth to a son to talk about a civil unrest in Mengyin, Yizhou. In fact, this is no longer an ordinary civil unrest. It is already "there are more than 2,000 people, and the flags of Phoenix Mountain were raised. The cannons were raised at dusk. The burning and robbery was caused by more than a thousand families."

Zhuang Diaozhi couldn't help but ask again: "Liu Haowen really raised the flag in Phoenix Mountain?"

Raising the flag seems like a small matter, but the actual meaning is completely different. This means that we must openly compete with the court, which is very serious.

The son of the family immediately replied: "Yes, the flag was raised, and more than 2,000 people gathered..."

Zhuang Tiaozhi couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that Liu Haowen, no one can save him. Now the situation in Yizhou Prefecture is so bad?"
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