Chongzhen chat group

Chapter 69
Sure enough, after a while, there was a coughing sound, and Wu Wei, a doctor in the household department, stepped out and played loudly: "Last night, the prison of the Criminal Department was flooded, and the criminals escaped from the prison, causing turmoil in the capital. I implore your majesty to severely punish the relevant people. To be honest and disciplined!"

As soon as everyone heard this, they all turned to look at Qiao Yunsheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment.It can be seen that this is a counterattack.

In the original history, Qiao Yunsheng was arrested and imprisoned for this incident, and then sent to the frontier, where he died on the way.

The spearhead of this matter was directed at the Ministry of Criminal Affairs Minister, which is considered a major case.Civil and military officials all looked at the emperor again, wondering how to deal with it?Judging from the killing of Luo Zhanyuan just now, it is estimated that Qiao Yunsheng will be in trouble this time.

But Hu Guang didn't like what they wanted. He only listened to Jinkou Yuding: "There are many doubts about this matter. I have ordered Dongchang to investigate."

In fact, it wasn't that Hu Guang loved Qiao Yunsheng so much, but that Gao Yingyuan and others were involved in the prison case of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and it even involved the matter of Yongchang Bank.

The Yongchang bank is not only the property of Shanxi merchants, but there are many relationships behind it, and because Hu Guang is also interested in the prototype of this bank, he is considering nationalizing the bank, which will have a very big impact on Daming finance. benefit.

Therefore, before a series of matters were determined, Hu Guang temporarily decided to hold on to this matter.

After he came to a conclusion, he glanced at the civil and military officials below, and asked loudly: "I am most concerned about how to fill the national treasury. Does anyone have a good plan, such as Qing, is it possible that the only way is to send more people?"

The emperor didn't have any excuses, said something urgent, and brought the topic back in a simple and straightforward way, but all the courtiers had nothing to say.

Many of them began to wink again, or shook their heads to signal to their accomplices, and most of them wanted to bring up the matter of Shoufu again.

At this moment, with a cough, a person walked out from the front row of civil servants, bowed and played: "I have my own play!"

When Hu Guang heard the sound, he saw that it was Wen Tiren, and he thought to himself, why are you standing up now, at least do something, so that I have a reason to promote you!

But when he saw Wen Tiren's tired face and red eyes, he suddenly remembered that he didn't have much rest last night and was just worrying about Gao Yingyuan's affairs. It was so cold to other courtiers: "Wen Qing just come to me if you have something to do!"

All civil and military officials are basically human beings. As soon as they heard the emperor's voice, they knew that the emperor had a good impression of Wen Tiren, so they couldn't help being very surprised.

Wen Tiren bowed in response, and then played loudly: "I read history, and I got something occasionally, and I was very surprised by it, and I will report it to Your Majesty."

Hearing this, everyone was surprised.Didn't Wen Tiren want to talk about fiscal and taxation strategies? How did it get involved in reading history?

Hu Guang was also a little curious, but he was sure that Wen Tiren would not take his topic far away, so he had enough patience and nodded to signal Wen Tiren to continue.

Just listen to Wen Tiren playing loudly: ""Song History Shihuo Zhi" records: In the second year of Zhiping, the internal and external income was 13. This year, the accumulation of all roads is 29. Thousand 93, but the capital is not predicting."

"In addition, Zeng Gong Zengzi of the Song Dynasty has a saying: the annual income of the world, Huangyou and Zhiping are all more than [-] million yuan, and the annual expenses are also more than [-] million yuan. Since ancient times, the country has never been richer than this."

Speaking of this, Wen Tiren bowed to the emperor and explained: "Although the income of the Song Dynasty is mixed, it is accumulated by two stones. But the income of its court is far greater than that of our dynasty."

Just before, Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, had said that the annual income of the imperial court was less than 400 million taels.Therefore, what Wen Tiren said immediately caused a sensation.

"Papa" sounded again, and it was with great difficulty that the restless civil and military officials were quieted down.

Wen Tiren was already desperate at this time, only to hear him say again: "The territory and population of our dynasty are much larger than that of the former Song Dynasty. Logically speaking, the three items of salt, tea, and wine should also be far more expensive than the Song Dynasty. But... ..."

When he said this, he turned his head to look at the civil and military officials on both sides, and continued loudly: "The former Song Dynasty had an income of 4752 million taels in terms of salt, tea, and wine. But in my court, hehe, the salt tax was only about 250 million taels. The tea tax is even less, only more than 10 taels, of which 17 taels in Yunnan and about 6 taels in Zhejiang. As for wine, there is no..."

Immediately, all civil and military officials exploded again. According to etiquette, before going out to play, they had to cough in advance, but some civil officials couldn't wait to cough, and rushed to come out.

"I want to impeach Wen Tiren, a thief, in vain of the ancestral system..."

"The minister also wants to impeach. I don't know that tyranny is fiercer than a tiger. The Wen thief wants to..."

"..."

Noisy, almost can only listen to the beginning.

Wen Tiren was not afraid, but just looked at these colleagues coldly.In fact, he knew very well in his heart that if he said this, he would definitely offend his colleagues.

These things, others do not know.However, no one else has the guts to say this.Just now Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, denied all aspects of taxes as soon as he opened his mouth, saying this is not good, that is not good, and finally he only decided to increase the distribution.

If it had been changed before, Wen Tiren would not have dared to poke this hornet's nest.But it was different now, ever since he joined that inexplicable chat group, he knew that he had one more hole card than his colleagues.

The most important thing is that Hu Guang has given him a high degree of trust and is ready to reuse him.Moreover, at the beginning of today's big court meeting, the emperor even articulated the consequences of the court's lack of money in many ways, showing a firm determination that the treasury must be filled so that the court can do more for the people.

Wen Tiren had been standing there silently before, just looking for an opportunity to make a big splash.When other people are not in line with the emperor's wishes, he can naturally achieve his goal by saying these words in public.

At this time, he is determined to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.As Hu Guang said to him before, rejuvenate Daming together and leave a name in history.

As he expected, even if a group of officials attacked him, the emperor always stood by his side.After the "crack" sound of the whip sounded again, and the scene finally became quieter, Hu Guang stood up and said loudly: "The court meeting has been going on all morning, and only what Wen Qing said won my heart. Others People, etc., all learn from Wen Qing, do business with heart, and do more practical things to be serious! Pass the decree!"

Speaking of this, Hu Guang was very satisfied, and immediately announced loudly: "Wen Tiren is the young teacher and the prince Taishi Libu Shangshu Jianji Temple University scholar entered the cabinet to assist the government, and he is the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty."

Speaking of this, Hu Guang looked at the shocked expressions on the faces of many officials below, sneered in his heart, and threw out an even more shocking decree: "In addition, the vacancies for cabinet ministers will be recommended by Wen Qing. I, if I can work together to manage the finances of the court, for the officials, and for the well-being of the people of Ming Dynasty, I will definitely agree!"

(End of this chapter)