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Chapter 744 National Debt (1)

 "Cao, the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, would like to report on the list; he is begging for bones:

I heard that the fox died on the hill, and the horse followed the wind. The beasts still love their homeland, and the fallen leaves also want to return to their roots. Now I am seventy-seven years old. My blood is exhausted, my hair and teeth are missing, I am dying, and my soul is abandoned. I am old and sick.

If you are sleepy, how can you not rely on the thoughts of Feng Shouqiu?

I am an old man, working hard in Qiongzhou, not seeking knowledge and success in the court, but only wishing for peace in the world and well-being of the people. Your Majesty does not regard ministers as dishonest, and appointed ministers as household ministers, envoys in charge of salt affairs, and taxation. For seventeen years, I have endured hard work.

, worked hard, and finally made the price of salt low, benefiting the people; taxes were clear, and people lived in peace and contentment. Such a rule can only be achieved when the Holy Emperor is in the dynasty.

When your Majesty meets his ministers, he treats them like dogs and horses. If he meets an official, he treats them like an official and a disciple. Your Majesty treats his ministers as ministers, how dare I not repay him wholeheartedly? However, time is long and life is long.

He is short-lived and often afraid of old age, and his body is left without food, so he begs for his bones and dies of old age in a hundred acres of land near Lingao. If you are favored, your majesty will treat your ministers as generously as heaven!

I have been greatly favored by the country! I am old and foolish, risking my life in silence. Your Majesty is talented and decisive, wise and wise, and has a resolute nature. He would rather break than bend. However, the king is as tall as a mountain! If the authority is too much, the officials and the people will be afraid and dare not speak out.

, for fear of losing one's words and deceiving the listeners; and he also does everything by himself, which causes five toils and seven injuries, most of which hurts the mind. You must not forget to eat every day and stay awake at night. In addition, internal and external ministers and workers have their own responsibilities, and they need to write books and worry about their work.

The holy bow is to trap all civil and military officials in disloyalty. Your Majesty is able to appoint talents and choose the good and follow them. The wise will do their best, the brave will do their best, the benevolent will spread their benefits, and the believers will follow their loyalty. Use both civil and military forces, and bow your head.

Governance. Why bother thinking so hard just to do the work of a hundred officials?

I can't serve the Holy Lord with my declining body. I only wish to be born in my hometown and entertain my grandchildren. Thinking about the past, vividly remembering it, sighing and feeling sad, I would like to record it here."
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Zhu Hengjia couldn't help but sigh when he saw the memorial written by Cao Deng, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, requesting to become an official.

This old man is also a strange person. He is the governor of Lingao County, Qiongzhou Prefecture. When he was in charge of the country in Guangxi, because he was a commoner, his reputation was not upright, and few scholars with meritorious status came to join him.

He took a boat across the sea and sailed to Guilin to join him; most of the people who came to join him were young or middle-aged, but he was sixty years old. He was so old, yet so addicted to officialdom. Weird! Weird!

I appointed him a minor official from the seventh rank: Salt Class Tiju and Deputy Tiju. It was good for him. There were three fires when the new official took office. The first fire was burned on my head and he taught me the "Precepts".

"Struggle with the People for Salt Consumption" and insisted on canceling the salt monopoly of the Jingjiang Prince in Guilin. In anger, I asked him to rectify the salt affairs. Salt affairs have always been a big problem. I originally thought that if he could not complete the task, he would cut it off.

He killed him. Unexpectedly, this man really had a few tricks up his sleeve. It didn’t take him long to manage the salt administration clearly, and he became a chicken that laid golden eggs for me. Weird! Weird!

Seventeen years passed in a flash. The old man was seventy-seven years old. He was well past the age when "a doctor becomes an official at seventy" in the "Book of Rites". He really couldn't do anything anymore. So he asked me to return to Qiongzhou to retire.

Seventy years is rare in life, so let him retire and return to his hometown!

Zhu Hengjia emotionally commented in the memorial: "Regardless of your age, you are diligent in the royal family and work hard without complaint. Thank you for your hard work! You must return to your hometown to take care of your life. You must take good care of your body!"

He also gave Cao Dengbang a python robe, gold and silver wine vessels, and wrote eight characters for him: "You will be strong when you are old, and you will be loyal to the country."

When I heard that Cao was about to become an official, old friends such as Gu Yi, the bachelor of the university, She Li, the censor of Youdu, Zhao Daxi, the commander of Jinyiweidu, came to see him off.

But when I saw that the old man's entire possessions were only one carriage, I couldn't help but admire him very much. This man, who was a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Household Affairs and was in charge of such a fat job as salt affairs, unexpectedly turned out to be so incorruptible!

Gu Yi led the crowd to rush to Cao Dengban and bowed his hands, "Have a good journey, Mr. Cao, please take good care of yourself!"

"Cao's lifelong wish was to make salt available to the people all over the world. Now his wish has been fulfilled, and he will die with no regrets. I am so happy! Mr. Ge, my colleagues, take care! Cao is going." Cao Dengbang returned the gift.

, ordered to hurry up.

The carriage quickly disappeared into the dust, and he walked quietly, just as he came quietly, waving his hand and not taking away a single cloud.

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After Cao Shilang left, there were still others who came after him. In the Ming Dynasty, if there were officials, there would be no need to worry about having no one to do them.

Zhu Hengjia appointed Jiang Wende, the former right minister of the household department, as the left minister of the household department, and Tang Zhen as the right minister of the household department.

Tang Zhen once proposed in "Qianshu" that "the country must be rich before the people", "fields and markets are juxtaposed, farmers and merchants are called together", and "money is used instead of silver", etc., which are all very practical.

Zhu Hengjia felt that this man was someone who understood economics, so he promoted him to the right minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, in charge of minting, Ming Dynasty Bank and other affairs.

The old emperor had a headache recently. He thought that after taking Nerchinsk, the war with the Rakshasa people would be over. Unexpectedly, Tsar Alexei was a bloody man who refused to admit defeat and gathered in the Lake Baikal area again.

Nearly ten thousand soldiers and horses, it seems, they still want to fight with me.

Fighting in northern Xinjiang is no better than in the south. Long-distance transportation costs a lot of money. Even though both sides have only dispatched more than 10,000 troops, the military expenditures spent are staggering, and the national treasury is empty. We desperately need to understand

Economically raise money for me. Money! Money! Money! A penny would kill a heroic man!

Forced by money, the old emperor summoned several cabinet elders: Guan Shouzhen, Sun Jinding, Su Guansheng, Zheng Feng, Gu Yi, as well as Zhang Xiaoqi, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, Jiang Wende, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Tang Zhen, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, to hold a financial meeting.

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"The national treasury is short of daily necessities. Do you have any good ideas?" Zhu Hengjia asked with a sad face.

There was silence in the hall, and you could hear a pin drop.

Seeing that no one was willing to speak, Zhu Hengjia became anxious, "What? Are you unwilling to share my worries?"

Finally, someone spoke up. Jiang Wende, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, said: "I thought we could mint more copper coins, and the Ming Dynasty Bank could also print some more silver notes."

"It's inappropriate. If this is the case, it will easily lead to low money and hurt the people, high prices, and boiling public resentment." Guan Shouzhen, Sun Jinding, Su Guansheng, Zheng Feng, Gu Yi, Zhang Xiaoqi, and Tang Zhen objected in unison.

Zhu Hengjia nodded and issued money indiscriminately. Although it could quickly solve the financial crisis, the consequences would be extremely serious. It would cause inflation, make money worthless, and make people's lives difficult. A few days ago, the Jin Yiwei secretly reported that the Russian Czar Allel In order to make money, Kexie minted more copper coins, which triggered a "copper coin riot" and killed many people before it calmed down. The important ministers of the imperial court still had the foresight to do this!

"Too many copper coins are minted and too many silver notes are issued, which will make the money cheap and hurt the people. How can I bear it? This matter must not be done!"

After rejecting this suggestion, silence returned to the hall. It was very quiet, as if the voices just now were all hallucinations.


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