Chapter 107: Repay the money, give food, and demote the title!
The old emperor is not crazy.
When we thoroughly investigated the three-foot sky in the south of the city a few years ago, the factory guards had basically investigated the food and money occupied by the imperial village.
At the same time, there is also part of the land in Dalai, including the imperial tombs, and part of the land left by Emperor Chunduan is in Beijing silk and satin shops, money shops and other real estate industries.
All of this is not counted. The money and grain that the Ministry of Revenue has lost over the years is not a small amount.
The deficit food is now in the kings' granaries, and the silver is used by them to win people's hearts.
Among the six officials, few of them accepted bribes from the kings.
This money must be back today.
At this time, the ministers realized that the old emperor was setting up a Hongmen Banquet today!
Li Dongyang looked unhappy.
He has never received any money from the kings.
I have never received the extra silver from the Ministry of Revenue.
He consciously had something to say.
"Supervisor Li, don't talk too much. Today I don't want your money. Someone will take your life in Pingming." The old emperor said earnestly, "After midnight, it will be forty-four years of Chengzhi. The New Year is here. We should not settle old accounts between the king and the ministers. We should look forward! Therefore, for the sake of the family and the whole country, we should return the money we took and get it back. Don't miss the grain we stole, and return it all. I will ask the factory guards to count it. If there is too much, it will not be enough. If there is too little, please get the money."
King Ning said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, when you enter the palace tonight, how can you bring money? It's better to be graceful for a few days..."
"Either pay back the money or lose your brain, and there is no room for negotiation." The old emperor ordered people, "I asked someone from the Imperial Horse Supervisor to listen to it. No matter whether the princes and ministers tonight, it would be impossible not to repay the money! The kings will pay less than 1,000 taels of silver and 10,000 kilograms of grain before dawn. The prince will dethrone the prince, and the prince will dethrone the general of the state, and so on. If you lose two thousand taels of silver and 20,000 kilograms of grain, then you will be demoted to two levels and spare no need to show your affection."
cabinet?
"I can still trust the cabinet a few people. They will not collude with everyone, oh?" The old emperor signaled to the cabinet.
The four of them were stunned and didn't know how to answer.
If you dissuade it, it would be "collusion with everyone".
otherwise?
That is "covering up"!
Who dares to admit this?
Do you still want a lifetime of fame?
Don't persuade?
At least a few Gui Xun died, and more than a dozen royal families. In a few days, I am afraid that there will be not many familiar officials in Fengtian Gate.
"Your Majesty, why bother to force this?" The more you think about it, the more you feel sad.
It seems that there is a lot of money to pay back.
I guess a lot of grain must be returned to it.
But that is his capital for the throne!
"King of Yue, listen to my advice," the old emperor said heartily, "If the general doesn't nod, even if you have a mountain of gold and silver, you can't resist the millions of troops under his command, which are like wolves and tigers."
The ministers were in an uproar.
Is the Western Army already a million troops?
"That's not, but the Beijing camp will raise no less than 300,000 troops, the East and West Factory, the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the Jinyiwei, Oh, there is also a navy, which is a small amount of millions." The old emperor was very pleased and nodded to confirm, "Although I ate some wine, I am very clear that there are still a million troops in total."
King Yue was dull and wanted to find Emperor Taizu Gao and asked him to take a look. Is the goods on the dragon throne still the descendants of the Zhu family?!
Liu Daxia couldn't bear it anymore and asked angrily: "Your Majesty said this, the world's military and horses were the Duke of Qin, what should we do?"
The old emperor rolled his eyes hard: "What are you doing to protect the corruption, rob the civil and military ministers and honors who are robbed openly?"
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How can he reason with you?
However, Liu Daxia supported the recovery of the money and the batch of food and grass.
In his opinion, if the batch of grain and grass is collected into the national treasury, the Ministry of War can immediately seize at least 30% of the troops in the Beijing camp.
The money is even more. The soldiers in northern Shaanxi and the important towns on the nine sides can be reorganized into large armies like the Western Army.
By then, the court will have more than 500,000 troops. If Wei Yang dares to invade the attack on the capital, King Zhongshun will definitely not be willing.
"Although this approach is not a gentleman to deceive him, it is not a thing, but this is also a helpless move. It is better to let that thief steal the world from Daming." Liu Daxia had a good idea.
His original plan was to tease the tiger beards of the Western Army on the first day of the Lunar New Year, let them come forward and take back the batch of food and grass swallowed by the kings and Guixuns, and then the Ministry of War quickly took action. As long as the emperor, the old man, could support him once, the Ministry of War could take the initiative and completely grasp the money and grain that was worthless.
But the old emperor ordered that all this large amount of money and grain be collected into the treasury, and the money that was invested in the treasury could still belong to the court?
Can the food received by the emperor from the treasury be mobilized by the Ministry of War?
"Once the emperor gets this batch of money and grain, he will definitely do his best to train the emperor's grandson. How can this be done?" The four people in the cabinet were very clear in their hearts that once the old emperor made up his mind to train the emperor's grandson, the Western Army will definitely intervene in the court. "With their strength, I'm afraid no one can stop it within twenty years."
At that time, even if the little emperor grows up, it will be a law to travel the Western army all over the world. The rules that our ancestors have been passed down for thousands of years may really come to a time when it should change. Who can stop them?
It is better to be King Xing. King Xing takes office, and he has to rely on the cabinet. Prince Xing will definitely become a wise king under the training of the civil servant group. By age, as long as he can survive the most prosperous stage of the Western Army, the future world will still be the world of the Zhu family and the civil servant group, and it has nothing to do with the Western Army!
Liu Daxia walked out with his beard and hair, knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, put on his black hat and said sternly: "Since it comes from the Ministry of Revenue, it should be handed over to the Ministry of Revenue. The use of the treasury will naturally be supplemented by the Ministry of Revenue. How can Your Majesty, the law of this ancestor, be invalidated overnight?"
"What I want to come back is my. I will spend whatever I want. Why don't you ask for it yourself?" The old emperor was funny, "Okay, what you mean is that I have dismissed you as the prime minister so that everyone in the world will be allowed to do so, especially the civil servants from all over the world who have been helped to dismiss the old minister who has just been helped to the cabinet. Or on New Year's Eve, you have a good reputation. I will be given the reputation of a tyrant monarch?"
This is a bit heartbroken.
Liu Daxia had no choice but to put away her black hat, but she knelt on the ground and couldn't hold her neck.
"Then let's kneel down. I ordered the investigation of the deficit case of the Ministry of Revenue. The six cabinet ministries have never done anything. Now that I have taken it back by myself, it naturally has nothing to do with you." The old emperor ordered, "Come on, come and call the ministers, kings, nobles, and everyone in the inner court to write down their own ideas, take my money and grain, and immediately hand it over to the Imperial Horse Supervisor for rumoring it out, and order the factory guards to come to the door overnight to ask for it."
If it wasn't written?
"I have a small notebook here that I have not written. If you compare it, you have all the people and the physical evidence. So I have to ask all the people in the capital to take a look at the faces of these corrupt officials and then deal with the crime of deceiving the king." The old emperor issued an edict.
The ministers cried loudly.
Either kill or money.
What did you choose?
But they didn't know that the old emperor's intention was not on these small characters at all.
The old emperor meant that the nobles of the kings and honors would either hand over the wealth they had accumulated over the years or reduce the vassals!
How many cuts?
Chapter completed!