"Another two million taels of treasury will be allocated to the Ministry of Revenue for disaster relief! I will exempt Henan from Liao pay this year and taxes from Guangyuan for the third year. I would rather poor myself than suffer the people!"

Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment and replied.

"Your Majesty can show the sun and the moon!"

Wang Yingjiao breathed a sigh of relief and then spoke sincerely.

He knew that asking the emperor to pay the silver would definitely make the emperor unhappy, but he had no choice. When he thought of the disaster-stricken people and seeing His Majesty the current emperor so generous, he couldn't help but want to ask for some disaster relief money for the people.

So far.

The four ministers of the four ministers who originally wanted to show the emperor that the court's financial difficulties were difficult, did not expect to receive a large wave of funding from the treasury, which would improve the financial dilemma of their own departments much.

After Zhang Heming, the Minister of War, returned to the army, Xu Shilin asked him excitedly: "How is it, Grand Sima, the Minister of the Four Ministers have successively submitted memorials to the court's lack of wealth. Has Your Majesty abandoned the Liao strategy that supported Xiong Tingbi?"

Zhang Heming laughed: "No, Your Majesty directly allocated a large amount of treasury to the four ministries, and our Ministry of War will have nearly 6 million taels!"

After hearing this, Xu Shilin was quite disappointed and said, "This did not make the emperor give up his support for Xiong Tingbi!"

"Who made Your Majesty still generous now? He just confiscated some families, and the foundation for the temple's mining tax collection is still there! But it is hard to say in the future. The emperor should not have much money to train troops and raise too many factory guards. I am not inconvenient to come forward and say hello to the subordinates. Is there any floating thing that should be floating? The emperor does not dare to break with our civil servants now. Naturally, he will not let the factory guards investigate it hard. Otherwise, he will force us civil servants to get a card of the world's grain tax. What can he pay military salaries? Can he still take out millions of civil servants?!"

After Zhang Heming said a little annoyedly, he thought to himself: "The emperor's money is not profitable! Anyway, the country is not my family! Who made you, the tyrant, not take us civil officials seriously! We civil officials also need to govern the country. Is it okay not to give some benefits? Just give some salary?"

"Late son understands!"

Xu Shilin replied and laughed.

Neither of them took greed too seriously.

After all, corruption in the administration of the Ming Dynasty has become a common phenomenon.

What's more, the Ministry of War is in charge of the promotion and selection of military officials and military pay. Therefore, even if the civil servants of the Ministry of War are corrupt, the military officers under them dare not make trouble.

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"Emperor! As for me, the civil servants in the court have ulterior motives. They clearly ask for money for the people and soldiers. In fact, they want to force you to change your mind and let you not become a soldier!"

Wei Zhongxian only gritted his teeth to Zhu Youxiao after these ministers left to express his loyalty.

Zhu Youxiao said with a serious expression: "I heard that the administration of the Ming Dynasty is very bad now, and the greed is very serious. Before leaving the capital, the military pay will be reduced by 20% or 30%, or even half of it will be reduced directly. The civil servants call this a drift? I will issue an order to prohibit all departments from drifting without official silver. Then you go to the East Factory to investigate carefully. Once you find out anything, you will confiscate the house and ask for punishment! Don't blame me for not punishing me for not teaching at that time!"

"I obey the order!"

Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed and immediately replied, "He naturally knew what kind of civil servants in the world were, and it was not difficult to find out what they were.

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"The officials in the court have done too much. If so many treasurys are needed, there will inevitably be major corruption cases in the future. Your Majesty is not without a way to make money now, so he will naturally dare to fight with civil officials all over the world!"

After reading the newspaper, Sun Chengzong immediately came to the yarn mill and asked his confidant Xu Yue: "What do you say on the Western Fan? How much cotton yarn can they swallow?"

Xu Yue was the one who built an official cotton yarn mill in Shanghai, Songjiang.

It is impossible for Sun Chengzong to open a cotton yarn mill directly in Jiangnan.

This will affect his official reputation and will easily be impeached by others for the crime of taking profit from the people, and will also easily arouse the vigilance and disgust of local officials and gentry.

Therefore, Sun Chengzong only hired Xu Yue, a juren from his clan, as his aide through Xu Guangqi's recommendation, and then Xu Yue set up an official cotton yarn mill in Shanghai.

It is claimed that the newly built yarn mill is the Xu family's industry.

The cotton mill is also called Xu's Shaxing.

Because Xu Yue received Xu Guangqi's instructions, he knew that this was something that brought wealth to his Xu family, so he was naturally very active.

At this time, after Sun Chengzong asked, Xu Yue hurriedly replied: "They said that they would collect as much yarn as we spin."

After hearing this, Sun Chengzong was quite surprised: "Is that true?"

"That's right! You don't know that these Western gentry are all very generous. For the Ming Dynasty cotton yarn, raw silk, porcelain, and tea, I bought as much as I came. Their silver seemed to be spent. According to students' inquiries, they were actually pirates and robbed a lot of gold and silver in the Americas! So I was so worried about how to spend it! Last year, I only bought our yarn worth three million taels. It seemed that they were not peaceful over the years, so there were fewer ships coming. In the past few years, the major gentry in Jiangnan had made a bigger deal with them, otherwise there wouldn't be so much silver to get a whip for Mr. Zhang Wenzheng, right?"

After hearing this, Sun Chengzong said, "Since that's the case, your Xu family will recruit another group of yarn workers. You must be honest, not smart and reliable. It is best for your tribe to keep confidentiality measures. In addition, don't tell them that they are making profits for the court. Just say that your Xu family wants to expand their industry. Do you expect how much more profit can be increased?"

"Although the recent ships are fewer than in previous years, students can take the ship to Batavia City (Jakarta) and Haojing (Macao). Hongmao Fan and Furangji built cities and traded in these two places. There are many Western merchants receiving goods there, but most of our merchants are unwilling to go there and wait for them to receive goods themselves. The main reason is that the expenses on the road are large, and they also charge tariffs, but we can go. After all, a yarn worker in our yarn mill operates eight spinning yarn at the same time, which is much lower than other cotton yarn merchants. Even if we take goods here, we can make a profit even if we lose the tariffs and the expenses on the road. At that time, we can increase the profit of yarn to the court of six million!

However, if our Xu family does not collect soil yarn and only collects cotton yarn from the court to go to sea, it will increase the profit of two million taels. If the price of yarn is reduced, the Western family can only collect our yarn, and that will be even more! The minister is not a student who speaks nonsense. Our yarn mill is now one person can operate eight spinning spinning at the same time. The cost is one of the eight yarn produced by other yarn merchants. If the price is reduced, the profits of the yarn in the world will be from the court!”

Xu Yue said, looking at the row of spinning spindles in front of him excitedly.

Sun Chengzong knew that Xu Yue was explicitly saying that the price cut could make the court profit significantly, but in fact he wanted to make his Xu family gain more profits.

But Sun Chengzong did not agree and said, "Tushi, you have to continue to collect the turquoise, so as not to go bankrupt by the common people who make a living by spinning. Anyway, there are so many people in the Western Fans that charge as much as possible, so I won't discuss the price of turquoise. Otherwise, although your Xu family is a local prominent family, they will not allow your Xu family to lose money if they really make money! Don't kill them all unless you have to."

Xu Yue nodded: "What the Fuchen said is, students remember it!"
Chapter completed!