lied to Kangxi

Chapter 517 The Proud Old Emperor

"Master, are you better?"

After several months of hard work, the five fingers of the old emperor's right hand can all be bent slowly, and Yuzhu also feels that the recovery is not bad.

The old emperor obviously saw hope, nodded and smiled and said: "It is indeed much better, fortunately with you."

Yuzhu wouldn't take credit for it, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his backhand, and said with a smile: "You are the real dragon emperor, you have the blessing of heaven."

Kangxi just loved to hear this. He raised his left hand, twirled his beard with a smile, and said, "If you want a reward, just say it."

While slowly strengthening his strength, Yu Zhu said with a smile: "When the 100th anniversary of Kangxi is celebrated, can you reward me with another shellfish?"

Kangxi was overjoyed, he laughed and said: "With your good words, I will reward you as a hereditary prince in the 80th year of Kangxi."

Yuzhu said with fun: "The prince is so gifted and precious. If you can give me a hereditary son, I will be satisfied."

"Haha, I will do what you want." Kangxi was very satisfied with Yuzhu's sense of proportion.

In the Qing Dynasty, although Beizi was considered a clan prince, in fact, his treatment was not much different from that of Zhen Guogong.

The real king, besides the prince, is the king of the county, and even Baylor has a taste of taste that is not worthy of the name.

When eating breakfast, Kangxi was so happy that he stopped tossing the quail eggs. He picked up a chopstick and put it in his mouth to chew slowly.

Yuzhu accompanied the old emperor to have breakfast every day. He knew in his heart that as he got older, the old emperor's food taste had changed from heavy oil and salt to light food.

In the past, it was impossible for the old emperor to touch the bland boiled chicken.

Yu Zhu was really hungry, he ate a lot of food.

Driven by Yuzhu, the old emperor drank a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup and ate two corn pastries.

After the meal was withdrawn, the old emperor led Yuzhu to the imperial gate to listen to the government.

It must be admitted that the old emperor was very diligent.As long as he was in the palace, when it wasn't raining, he would unshakably attend the imperial gate hearing every day.

Of course, the old emperor preferred to live in Changchun Garden.

In the Changchun Garden, the old emperor can sleep until the time he wants, and he doesn't have to worry about the morning affairs.

The emperors of all dynasties in the Qing Dynasty, except Yongzheng, liked to live in the garden.

Mainly, the emperors were afraid of the ancestral system established by Kangxi: when the emperor was in the palace, he had to listen to the government through the imperial gate.

It is also very interesting to say that the important ministers who participated in the imperial gate hearing were basically those people.

Yuzhu can see them every day, and they can see Yuzhu every day.

As long as he stood by the old emperor's side, Yu Zhu would adhere to a principle of not asking or answering.

The imperial gate is a decision-making meeting where the emperor consults with the ministers. What is actually exercised is the imperial power plus the power of the prime minister, which is extremely sensitive.

However, the more Yuzhu sticks to his duty, the more Kangxi likes to ask him, almost every day he asks him to speak and show his face.

After a long time, the important ministers were not fools, and they knew a terrible truth: in the two fields of making money and using troops, Yuzhu had a decisive influence on the old emperor's decision-making.

To be honest, this is what Yu Zhu wanted.

Serving by the old emperor's side, you have to stand up, and you can't show up everywhere, so you can only selectively become an authoritative expert in the field of making money and using troops.

Over time, no one, including the old emperor, dared to ignore Yuzhu's views when discussing financial revenue and expenditure issues.

Not to mention anything else, just the Dagukou Wharf can generate a net income of 800 million taels of silver for the old emperor's internal treasury in one year.

With so much pocket money, the old emperor's desire to overhaul the palace no longer has to look at the face of the household department.

In the past, as long as the old emperor wanted to repair the palace, the officials of the household department would scare Kangxi with the lack of silver in the household department.

Now, hehe, the old emperor used the money in his internal treasury to repair it however he wanted, and the old trolls in the household department could only stare blankly.

The old emperor took away the big head, so Yuzhu used to build a bigger boat to make more money for the inner treasury to lure the old emperor.

How should I put it, the old emperor is still very vigilant about building ships and going to sea.Usually, Yu Zhu had to persuade him more than ten times before the old emperor could agree once.

However, Yu Zhu was in no hurry.

As long as the old emperor continues to seek pleasure, Yuzhu's shipbuilding technology can only be delayed, not terminated.

What Yuzhu was most afraid of was that the old emperor wanted to close the Dagukou shipyard in a sudden fever.

In fact, wood and silver are all secondary.

If the technology seeds who followed the foreigners as apprentices were forcibly dismissed, the loss of Yuzhu climbing the technology tree would be immeasurable.

In modern times, the light of science and technology came from Europe, this is a fact.

Technology knows no borders.

Europe is temporarily advanced, what are you afraid of?
Yuzhu spent a lot of money to invite European craftsmen to come to the Dagukou Shipyard, just to learn from the barbarians and use their skills to control the barbarians.

Europeans are bandits everywhere, looting colonies all over the world.

Doesn't it depend on the strength of the boat?

For Yuzhu, coaxing the old emperor to support the progress of science and technology is the top priority.

"Yuzhu, the Household Department wants to borrow money from the internal treasury again, what do you think?" As long as money is involved, the old emperor would immediately think of Yuzhu, which almost became a conditioned reflex.

Yuzhu came out from behind the old emperor, cupped his hands and said: "If you don't clear the front account, you can't borrow the back account, that's the rule."

"Yes, how can there be any reason to borrow money all the time but never pay it back?" With Yu Zhu's tacit cooperation, the old emperor greatly overcame the addiction of creditors.

Because Yuzhu served as the left servant of the household department for a period of time, Mu Helun, the minister of the household department, also knew that arguing with Yuzhu about financial management was purely seeking abuse.

Now that Kangxi asked, Mu Helun had to answer. He thought for a while, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, you know exactly how much silver is in the third treasury of the household department. How can there be so much silver in the treasury today?" How many debts?" He started complaining.

The Kangxi Dynasty was always short of money. One was frequent wars, one was the emperor’s overhaul of the palace, and the other was that with the passage of time, land annexation intensified, resulting in the government’s financial revenue being always beyond its means.

Under the current conditions, if we want to solve the fiscal revenue problem once and for all, we must follow the fourth strategy.

Yuzhu knows better than anyone else that as long as the government doesn't make money from the family, the imperial treasury will always be empty.

Because the Junggar Khanate has been imminent, and the court must save silver and food to prepare for war.

In addition, natural disasters and man-made disasters occur frequently in various places, and the imperial court still needs money to prepare for shortages.

Objectively speaking, before the Yongzheng government began to spread the land into the mu, the biggest problem in the small peasant society was actually the continuous decrease in fiscal revenue, which made it unable to withstand long-term wars or occasional natural disasters.

In the Ming Dynasty, in order to resist the wild boar skins outside the customs, only a few million taels of silver were added to the Liao's salary, which caused a lot of complaints.

The ministers of the Donglin Party scolded Zhu Ming's emperor one after another, calling him an evil vampire.

Scholars from all over the country took advantage of the chaos and beat the mine supervisor and tax supervisor to death frequently.

In a word, the emperor of Ming Dynasty asked for money to suppress the rise of the wild boar skin, and the money that the Donglin Party was unwilling to get was snatched away by the emperor, it was as simple as that.

As a result, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, most of the Donglin Party's property became the spoils of the Eight Banners soldiers.

Last time, after Yuzhu went to the south of the Yangtze River, he once again dealt with evil hands and severely punished the Donglin party members.

Not to mention anything else, the money obtained from the house raids alone exceeded ten million taels.

All these silvers went into Kangxi's internal treasury for the future Northwest War.

Yuzhu didn't make money, but robbed Liu Taiqing, the number one beauty in the south of the Yangtze River, and brought her daughter Yan Xiaoqing back.

Before the appropriation of the people into the mu, the fiscal revenue of the imperial court was obviously inversely proportional to the amount of land owned by the scholar-bureaucrats.

Moreover, the poll tax that has been collected has led to a hidden population, at least reaching the level of tens of millions.

When the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, the population counted by the Jin Dynasty was the number of Dingkou households that could be taxed by the court. This is actually relatively accurate.

However, there are a large number of serfs hidden in the powerful farms in various places that do not pay taxes, and it is impossible to count these people clearly.

The old emperor's internal treasury was full of silver, and the officials of the household department had long been jealous. They had to help the old emperor spend a small amount of money.

As a result, the old emperor kept silent, but pushed Yu Zhu to the front desk, and started a lawsuit with the people from the household department.

Including Hubu Minister Mu Helun, all the people in the Hubu are together, and they are not Yuzhu's opponent.

In particular, when it comes to millions of silver, the people in the household department have to squat on the ground and use calculation chips to get it.

As for Yuzhu, he didn't even take a pen, and just relied on mental calculations, and he crushed the people in the household department.

Judgment is also judged!
After some wrangling, the household department successfully borrowed 50 taels of silver from the internal treasury.

As for Yuzhu, he also won the favorable conditions for the old emperor to have an annual interest rate of one-twentieth.

This is mainly because, whether it is the internal treasury or the national treasury, it is actually the emperor's silver.

It's just that the old emperor can spend the money in the inner treasury as he likes without looking at anyone.

If you want to use the money from the treasury, those veterans in the household department will definitely make things difficult for the old emperor.

In the thousands of years of history, although there have been many peasant uprisings, there have been many dynasties.

However, the general trend is that the imperial power is increasing day by day, and the power of ministers, that is, the power of ministers, continues to decline.

This change is actually in line with the laws of human nature.

No matter who it is, as long as they sit on the throne of the emperor, who doesn't want to decide the fate of others at will?

After the court was over, the old emperor felt refreshed and elated, Liu Yuzhu talked for another half an hour before letting him go.

After Yuzhu came out of the palace, as soon as he walked to the official sedan chair, he saw Wu Jiang approaching him and whispered, "My lord, Mu Wu who is next to Mu Helun, the Minister of the Household Department, just found the younger one, and said it was Mu Shangshu. I want to make an appointment to catch up with you."

As soon as Yuzhu heard it, he understood that Mu Helun was just a cover, and he must be the fourth child who was in charge of the household department and wanted to see him.

As long as the internal treasury continues to expand its silver reserves, the Ministry of Accounts will inevitably ask the internal treasury to borrow money to spend.

Although Yuzhu didn't specifically manage the inner treasury, he had an unparalleled influence on how the money in the inner treasury was used.

No matter who wants to borrow money from the inner treasury, no matter who it is, it must be beyond the jade pillar!

(End of this chapter)