The Reborn Wife is Farming

Qi Xiuyuan got angry, so he directly asked Eunuch Wan to go back to the imperial study and put the two boxes on the main hall, saying: "This is an IOU for Mr. An to borrow money from the people for my internal treasury, and my internal treasury is all subsidized." treasury."

After the court was quiet, it was not a secret that Fan Zijin borrowed money from wealthy businessmen to enrich the national treasury.

There were tears in Qi Xiuyuan's eyes, and a cold light flashed in the tears, he said word by word: "For Daqi, for this country, I not only dragged my two younger brothers to fill in my private house together, even the Queen, Mu's The dowry has been filled in, and the national treasury has been getting richer for more than five years since the founding of the country, but the ministers are all staring at my internal treasury, so what is the use of such an incompetent person?"

Thunder Fury!

The courtier immediately knelt down.

Qi Xiuyuan sat on the dragon chair and looked down at them with cold eyes, "Mr. An owed me a huge debt. This is what I owe him, and the treasury also owes me. When does the Ministry of Household Affairs plan to return the money?"

All the ministers bowed their heads deeply. If the money is paid back, the national treasury will be empty again. What about the next military expenditure and water conservancy construction?

"Master of the Household Department, since the first year of Taikang, the Household Department has owed grain seeds to Mu's Harvest Grain Shop on credit. When do you plan to return the money?"

Everyone lowered their heads. As we all know, Fengshou Grain Shop is the dowry of Rongjun Princess. It seems that this country should not support the country with a woman's dowry, but no one dared to speak at this time.

Qi Xiuyuan stared at them coldly, and Lei Ting asked furiously, "Last year's salt and iron proceeds, this year's commercial tax, road donation, grain tax, and population tax, where did you spend them all?"

Rong Xuan took the lead and knelt down, and said: "My Majesty, they are all in the treasury, but because we need to allocate funds to build water conservancy projects, and the Yellow River will also be dredged, so we need to save some money."

"Don't worry, just stare at my internal treasury?"

"Your servant is guilty." Rong Xuan pleaded guilty, he had already reminded Qi Xiuyuan to separate the treasury from the internal treasury, so as not to feed the appetite of the officials, and stare at the emperor's internal treasury all the time.

But at that time, Qi Xiuyuan was full of enthusiasm, and felt that the whole world belonged to him, and there was really no need to distinguish it too clearly, but he didn't know who made him aware of it.

Although he was scolded, Rong Xuan didn't feel bad. He had long disliked those officials who only stared at the emperor's internal treasury. It would be good to teach them a lesson this time.

Qi Xiuyuan was very angry this time, except for the last time Fan Zijin was in danger at sea, this was the second time he was furious, and the courtiers once again remembered that this emperor was the emperor on horseback, not a Wen emperor like Emperor Jingyan from the previous dynasty.

The emperor would kick people on the spot when he was angry.

Qi Xiuyuan emphatically dispatched several household officials, and asked people to put two large boxes on the side of the dragon chair, one on the left and one on the right, and go to court every day. As long as the courtiers looked up, they could see it and remember it. This country is still in negative equity, and their treasury still owes a lot of money.

The emperor didn't care about losing face, and the courtiers underneath were also very helpless. When they went to court every day, especially the Minister of the Ministry of Households, they always felt that there was a sword hanging around their necks.

The most intuitive effect of these two large boxes is that the cost of water conservancy construction and Yellow River dredging applied by the Ministry of Industry has been reduced by nearly one-fifth.

Qi Xiuyuan went to court for three consecutive days with a sullen face. On the fourth day, the head of the household department and the internal treasury finally calculated the amount owed by the national treasury. Qi Xiuyuan forced the household department to write him an IOU. Complete separation, the treasury is the treasury of the country, of which money, grain and rice can only be used by the common people, the emperor, the royal family and various officials are not allowed to embezzle loans, and the internal treasury is the private property of the emperor and the royal family, the prince leaves the mansion, the princess marries, all expenses From the internal library.

Qi Xiuyuan wrote it as an imperial decree and stored it in the Royal Pavilion of Shangshufang, which means that future generations must not change and violate this decree.

But the courtiers were not angry at all, on the contrary, they were very happy, because the imperial decree clearly stated that all the expenses of the royal family should be paid from the inner treasury. For the treasury and the Ministry of Households, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

During the previous reign of Emperor Jingyan, his extravagant expenses and the expenses of the royal family’s children accounted for one-third of the national treasury. This shows that the royal family spent a lot. Now that Emperor Taikang is frugal, it does not mean that his descendants will also be frugal. , he was able to make this holy will, which is to coat the national treasury with a protective film in a hundred years.

The courtiers were complacent, but they didn't know that Qi Xiuyuan was also guarding against the ministers and workers. In the previous dynasty, not only the emperor took money from the treasury, but also ministers. They also often borrowed money from the Ministry of Households with IOUs, most of which were borrowed but not repaid.

Emperor Jingyan was stupid and unwilling to offend his courtiers for the money, lest everyone would tell him to spend it extravagantly, but Qi Xiuyuan wanted to cut off everyone's way. Things can only be used for the people.

People of insight in the court noticed the deep meaning of the emperor's edict, but they didn't say anything, and the officials were complacent.

After Qi Xiuyuan separated the treasury and the internal treasury, he found out the documents that needed money. The first thing was Qi Haoran's application for funding to buy cannons.

Now the Ministry of Households no longer blindly shouts about being poor, and the officials at the bottom no longer imply that the emperor should pay the money or let the king of Rongjun pay the money himself. Instead, they began to refute the functionality of the cannon, proving from all aspects that my Daqi is fundamental. There is no need to spend huge sums of money on a cannon.

The Ministry of Household said that they can only give the Ministry of War so much money, including military pay, food, grass and clothing, etc. As for whether the Ministry of War can squeeze out a little from this money to buy cannons for King Rong, they don't care.

The officials of the Ministry of War looked at each other, and the Minister of the Ministry of War remembered the description in the letter that King Rongjun gave him, and wanted to buy cannons with money, and felt sorry for the money. Thinking that King Rongjun had already paid the deposit in advance, he made a few vague words and skipped it, anyway King Rong didn't care much about money, and had supported the army a lot before.

Qi Xiuyuan saw it and sneered in his heart.

It doesn't matter if he suffers, since this Da Qi belongs to him anyway, but it's not okay to let his younger brother suffer. If he wants to, he can still be happy. Haoran is obviously not happy now. reason.

Qi Xiuyuan remembered what Haoran said in his letter, if the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Finance don't give money, the royal family will build one themselves, and if they want to develop it in the future, they will have to spend a lot of money to buy it back.

Qi Xiuyuan thought of the third and fourth princes who were not long after birth, and felt that in the future the children would have to spend money to divide the government, so there is nothing wrong with building an arsenal.

The emperor didn't pressure them to allocate funds to Rongjun King, and everyone felt relieved, but they didn't know that Qi Xiuyuan wrote to Qi Haoran after returning to the imperial study, asking him to choose a place to build an arsenal, and he paid the money, and the shares belonged to the two brothers And Zijin's.

He also called Chief Manager Zhu and asked him to sort out the money in the internal treasury, pay back Fan Zijin's debts to those rich merchants, and then send Qi Haoran 50,000 taels of silver. One-third of the former treasury's money went in one go.