As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the palace immediately became solemn.

The Taoist Zhaijiao does not just involve inviting a few people to dance with the gods. In addition to burning some paper money, it also requires various sacrifices, and even more, it must be accompanied by ambergris.

These all cost a large amount of money. No matter how much money the inner treasury has, it cannot support the expenses of fasting and feasting day after day.

When Jiajing heard that it was about silver, his tone became more serious: "Didn't I already order the Ministry of Accounts to allocate one hundred thousand taels of Taicang silver to the inner treasury?"

The Ming Dynasty was divided into the inner treasury and the outer treasury. Among them, the inner transport treasury was where gold and silver were stored and used to provide salaries to military officials in Beijing and Nanjing. It is also what is often called the "inner treasury" today.

Since the first year of Zhengtong, the inner treasury is no longer responsible for the salaries of military officials in Nanjing. Except for the more than 100,000 taels of salary that need to be provided to the capital for military officials, the rest are for imperial use.

The money and grain in the inner treasury mainly come from the annual grain exchange for silver, and the other is the stolen silver confiscated from the officials whose income fluctuates greatly. Finally, the Taicang silver, Taipu Temple silver and Guanglu Temple silver are extracted for "impairing the public and enriching private interests".

Because of this, the inner treasury has become the emperor's personal treasury, mainly handling the emperor's affairs.

Nowadays, the silver taels in the inner treasury have been squandered again. Jiajing also has the idea of ​​​​Taicang silver and orders the Ministry of Accounts to allocate 100,000 taels of Taicang silver to the inner treasury.

If you meet an upright minister and face Jiajing's behavior of "harming the public and enriching your private life", I am afraid that you will have to argue with reason.

It's just that the Emperor Jiajing of the current dynasty was never a man of reason. Since he firmly controlled the personnel power, officials who dared to challenge him were usually deprived of their status or even had their heads chopped off.

What Jiajing did was not only "harming the public and enriching private interests", but actually used the income of the imperial court for his own use.

From the construction of the outer city of Beijing to the construction of the Chengtian Palace, to countless Taoist buildings every year, and the Xianling Hall in the pipeline, the expenditures on the projects are already far higher than those of the previous emperors.

Now the Account Department is asked to transfer 100,000 taels of silver from the warehouse into the internal treasury. This is just a routine operation.

"Your Majesty, my servant went to the Ministry of Finance today, but the Ministry of Finance said that there is no silver in Taicang at the moment, so I asked the servant to give it a few more days! The servant also said that the God of Fire, the ancestor Wang Lingguan's Christmas auspicious dojo cannot be delayed, but they said

There are still more than ten days left, but the Ministry of Finance refuses to release the money, and..." Sun Long, who was kneeling on the ground, shook things out like beans from a bamboo tube.

Jiajing's face couldn't help but darken. He knew that it was not easy for Hu Bei these years, but he didn't like this attitude, but he immediately said angrily: "Say!"

"I quietly inquired about it. The left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Ma Sen, is going to escort the military pay to Datong. The Ministry of Revenue... The Ministry of Revenue can clearly allocate the money to us first, and the military pay can be postponed!" Sun Long complained softly.

this……

Chen Hong, who was standing nearby, turned to look at Sun Long who was kneeling on the ground. He was very sure that Lin Haoran had dug up the ancestral grave of this guy's family.

Not to mention that there are still more than ten days before the Zhaijiao, the Ministry of Household Affairs only said that it would be postponed for a few days. As a result, this guy was exposed about the general's pay, and he should be punished. If there is a mutiny because of the delay in military pay, this guy should be punished thousands of times.

Thousands of cuts.

Chen Hong gritted his teeth, but chose to stand up and said: "Your Majesty, Sun Long's words may be exaggerated. The Ministry of Revenue chose to escort the military pay to Datong. This move may have another long-term plan!"

"The Emperor is the greatest in the world, what long-term plan can be more important than the Emperor's affairs?" Sun Long and Chen Hong had had a feud in the past, and this time they retorted.

Huang Jin, who was standing nearby, looked at this scene and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

However, the dispute between the two could not continue. Jiajing once again threw out his classic words: "The clouds are in the sky and the water is in the bottle! Sun Long, please give the Ministry of Finance a few more days. If you miss my thing,

, then let me get lost!"

"Yes!" Sun Long nodded excitedly.

In his heart, Chen Hong actually wanted to help Lin Haoran secretly, so that he would not fall into trouble with the one hundred thousand taels. But with Sun Long's interference, the emperor had already made up his mind, and he only hoped that Lin Haoran would be happy for himself.

There is no airtight wall in the world, and the news here spread quickly.

Xu Jie had just attended the fasting festival with the emperor and had already changed his clothes and was getting ready to go to bed. When he heard the news, unexpected joy appeared on his face.

Originally, Lin Haoran could not do this, and the emperor would not blame Lin Haoran too much. After all, the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty had already been here, and it would take time to transport summer grain to Beijing, so it was understandable that he could not raise more than 100,000 taels in the short term.

But by chance, Sun Long revealed that Lin Haoran had given priority to silver coins over Datong soldiers' pay, thus angering the current emperor.

Wu Shan was also on duty in Xiyuan tonight. Although he had returned from participating in the Zhai Jiao Festival, he was still reading some information with the lamp on because he was responsible for editing "Chengtian Dazhi".

The summer insects outside kept chirping. When they suddenly stopped, they knew that a visitor had appeared, but someone slipped a letter through the crack of the door.

Wu Shan confirmed the mark on the letter, and after reading the content, he directly burned the letter and repaired it to his son-in-law.

He also did not expect that because of an instigation by a eunuch, his son-in-law would be in crisis again, and he might lose his throne as Minister of the Ministry of Finance.

The next day, the sun rose three poles.

Xu Fan woke up in his concubine Liu's bed, stretching his limbs contentedly. Hearing the noise, Liu led the maid in to wash and dress him.

Although Xu Fan is the young minister of Taichang Temple, Taichang Temple is actually an idle yamen. Even if he doesn't show up for a day, no business will come to him.

It's not that he wants his son to take precedence over his father, but there are actually many officials like him. Many officials only show their faces to the yamen in the afternoon, and it is common for them to not go to the yamen at all for several days.

After dinner, Xu Fan walked slowly towards the front yard, preparing to take a sedan to the Yamen of Taichang Temple, and then go to Xiyuan to talk to his father about his daughter.

Just when he was about to get into the sedan, there was a sudden sound of staggering footsteps outside the door, and a servant ran over in a panic and said: "My lord, what's wrong, our goods were stopped at Chongwenmen.

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Xu Fan suddenly changed his color, and immediately asked fiercely: "Whoever dares to take advantage of the courage of a bear's heart and a leopard's heart and dare to stop my goods, is it possible that he is risking his life?"

Beginning in the Chenghua period, the imperial court officially established a customs tax at Chongwenmen, from which all goods entering the city were required to pay commercial taxes.

It's just that this is a tax levied on ordinary merchants. He is the eldest son of the first minister of the dynasty, a dignified and dignified fourth-rank Taichang Temple minister, Shaoqing. Which unsightly tax official dares to impose commercial taxes on his goods?
Chapter completed!