Chapter 1,542 Zhu Biaos inner treasury was targeted
"The Emperor has arrived!"
Just when Anqing was immersed in enjoying the beautiful sunshine, Wang Yuedang walked in first and shouted loudly.
An Qing immediately stood up and turned around, seeing Zhu Biao striding into the yard.
"Bless me, my dear brother, why do you have time to see my little sister today?"
Han Du was playing the role of a strict father, supervising his three children. However, when he saw Zhu Biao coming, he knew that this strict father could no longer pretend to be a strict father today. So he led the three people forward to pay homage, "I pay homage to the Emperor and welcome him."
It’s too late, please forgive me, Your Majesty.”
Zhu Biao waved his hand, reached out and wiped the heads of Han Yingluo and Han Fuli, waved his hand and said, "Go and play, I have something to say to your father."
"Thank you, Your Majesty~" The three of them quickly bowed and ran away as if they had received an amnesty.
Han Du had no time to take care of the three children. He only glanced at them and then withdrew his gaze. He stretched out his hand towards Zhu Biao and said, "Your Majesty, please sit down. I wonder why your Majesty is here today?"
Zhu Biao sat down and looked at Han Du with a smile, "Don't you really know why I came here today? I heard that after you became a Duke, you stayed in the house without even leaving the house. What's going on?
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Han Du smiled slightly, took the tea from An Qing and handed it to Zhu Biao, saying, "Your Majesty, please have some tea!"
Zhu Biao took it, his eyes still fixed on Han Du, obviously waiting for Han Du's answer.
Han Du said, "I have just been granted the title of Duke. If I run around, it will be like showing off. Rather than being taken advantage of by someone who is interested, I might as well stay in the house and not go anywhere."
This is barely an explanation, to avoid suspicion. Zhu Biao frowned slightly, "But you can't not even attend the morning court, right?"
"Your Majesty, I am still taking a rest." Han Du reminded Zhu Biao that he was still on vacation.
You want me to attend your damn morning court during your vacation. What are you thinking?
When Zhu Biao saw that he had made up for his own losses, he couldn't help but said, "What about the Ministry of Husbandry? You are still the Minister of the Ministry of Husbandry. You can't just leave the Hubuchou department alone if it's such a big business, right?"
"Isn't the household department very good? There are no big mistakes." Han Du didn't take it seriously.
Zhu Shou hesitated, then put down the tea cup and said, "The Ministry of Revenue is not only related to the world's wealth, but also to the operation of the imperial court. You'd better take care of it yourself."
After that, Zhu Biao didn't explain, got up and left.
Han Du looked at Zhu Biao leaving strangely, and for a moment he even forgot to come forward to send Zhu Biao off.
Zhu Biao didn't pay attention to this. Instead, he saw Han Du lowering his head and thinking deeply, with a smile on his face.
Everyone, please go and try it soon.
The next day, Han Du came to Hubu.
"Call Wang Yuanji to me."
"Yes, sir." The clerk next to him immediately took orders to find Wang Yuanji.
"Wang Yuanji pays homage to your lord." As soon as Wang Yuanji entered the door, he quickly bowed and said, "Congratulations to your lord on being granted the title of Duke and becoming one of the Three Dukes of the Ming Dynasty."
Han Du waved his hand and sighed, "Okay, okay, there's no need to flatter me. Let me ask you, is there any mistake in the household department?"
Wang Yuanji straightened up with a smile. Hearing Han Du's words, he couldn't help but look strange and asked, "Why did the Lord say this? Everything in the household department is normal and there is nothing wrong. If the Lord doesn't believe it, Zhao Yu can be
Find it."
Han Du shook his head slightly and did not follow Wang Yuanji's words to confront Zhao Yu. His own students couldn't believe him, so who else could he believe?
"Then why did the emperor find me yesterday and say some strange things to me?"
Afterwards, Han Du briefly told Wang Yuanji what Zhu Biao had said to him yesterday.
After hearing this, Wang Yuanji pondered for a moment, and then laughed, "It turns out that the emperor went to find the father-in-law."
"What's going on?" Han Du confirmed from Wang Yuanji's attitude that there was indeed something he didn't know about.
Wang Yuanji stepped forward and picked up the top one from the pile of official documents piled on the table in front of Han Du. After taking a look at it, he handed it to Han Du, "Please take a look, sir. This is what the Ministry of War requested from the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate this year."
money."
Han Du glanced at Wang Yuanji in confusion, opened the official document, and after just one glance, his eyes were as wide as bells.
"Need 10 million guan of silver? What does the Ministry of War want to do? Replace their yamen with pure gold?"
Wang Yuanji picked up one official document after another and said with a wry smile, "It's not just the Ministry of War, this is 9 million guan from the Ministry of Industry, and this is 7 million guan from the Ministry of Personnel. Even the Ministry of Punishments and the Ministry of Rites, which spend the least every year,
Each of them also asked for 5 million yuan."
Han Du took one after another from Wang Yuanji's hand and read them one by one. Then he suddenly threw all the official documents on the desk and said angrily, "What do they want to do? Are they going to evacuate the household department?"
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Wang Yuanji said, "Sir, my target is not the household department. Even if the household department is emptied, we still won't be able to collect so much money."
Han Du raised his eyes and looked at Wang Yuanji.
Wang Yuanji smiled and pointed towards the palace and said, "What are you looking for?"
The mark is Ouchi! I don’t know who spread the news, saying that Ouchi’s bank is now filled with gold and silver. As soon as this news spread, people became excited."
Han Du understood. No wonder Zhu Biao ran to him yesterday and said so many weird things to him. His feeling was that his pocket was being stared at by these civil servants! As a result, he couldn't solve it by himself and didn't want to pay for it, so he took it.
Pull yourself out as a shield?
Is Zhu Biao rich? Of course he is. Lao Zhu's frugality left Zhu Biao with a huge internal treasury. According to Han Du's estimate, the gold and silver alone would not be less than 70 million yuan.
There are all kinds of treasures, that’s over 100 million.
But even if there is so much money, it is impossible to spend it like the Ministry of War! It costs tens of millions a year. Even if there is 100 million, how many years can it be spent?
What's more, it is obvious that Zhu Biao does not want to spend his own internal treasury.
Han Du lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his eyes and looked at Wang Yuanji and said, "Is there anything you can do?"
Wang Yuanji nodded with a smile and said, "The Ministry of Household Affairs has money allocated by various ministries over the years. Why not just allocate it according to the amount in previous years."
This is a way. The Ministry of Household Affairs has just completed a new tax system and taxes have been increased. If the amount is allocated according to previous years, there will definitely be a lot of surplus.
But Han Du also knew that for the court, having too much money balance was not a good thing.
Han Du pondered for a moment and shook his head slightly, "No, if we allocate the amount according to previous years, I am afraid that none of the ministries will be convinced. Moreover, they can also find various reasons to ask for more money, and then they will be noisy and bickering."
"Then what are you going to do?" Wang Yuanji asked in confusion.
If you want to spend more money, it will be even more difficult. Because each department has different importance and requires different money. When the time comes, there will be endless disputes about who has more and who has less.
Han Du thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Does the Ministry of Revenue record the market prices of various goods?"
Wang Yuanji nodded quickly, "This is true. Before the new tax system, the taxes paid by various provinces and counties were all in kind. Due to the discount, the Ministry of Household Affairs specially recorded the annual physical prices. However, it only recorded the main goods.
The price is impossible to cover everything.”
Han Du nodded slightly, "You don't need to cover everything, you just need to have the prices of the main goods. You can ask the Ministry of Finance to sort out the prices of last year's goods and organize them into sections. I can help."
"yes."
Wang Yuanji was very fast, and he sorted out all the prices of various commodities requested by Han Du in just three days. Even if the Ministry of Household Affairs originally had records, this was very efficient.
Quick.
The Ministry of Accounts has been suppressing the official letters allocating money from various ministries, which naturally quickly aroused dissatisfaction from the other five ministries.
One morning, Qi Tai from the Ministry of War took the lead in attacking.
"Your Majesty, I want to impeach Han Du, the Minister of Household Affairs."
Zhu Biao glanced at Han Du, who was wearing a ducal robe and standing at the forefront of the nobles with an expressionless face. Then he asked Qi Tai, "What does Qi Aiqing want to impeach?"
Qi Tai straightened up, cupped his hands and said, "The Ministry of War has handed over the official document on the need for money this year to the Ministry of Household Affairs, but nothing happened. I wanted to impeach Han Du and deliberately suppressed it and did not allocate money to the Ministry of War."
"I second the proposal~"
"I second the proposal~"
"I second the proposal~"
As soon as Qi Tai finished speaking, the other four ministers all stood up.
Zhu Biao naturally knew that it was not Han Du who refused to pay, but these people wanted to attract the attention of his inner treasury.
So they didn't ask Han Du, and just defended themselves and said, "The Duke of Zhen Guo has just returned from the war. I'm afraid it's too late to deal with household affairs. You can wait a little longer."
Zhu Biao wanted to use the "drag" trick, but how could Qitai miss such an opportunity?
"Your Majesty, I can wait, but the Ming Dynasty has added thirty new pastures this year. The construction of these pastures cannot wait! If there is no money, how can I build these pastures? Without pastures, how can the Ming Dynasty have war horses? If there are no war horses
, then how can the Ming Dynasty train cavalry? It involves the country, the country, and the country. I cannot bear such an important task, so please choose another talented person!"
"The ministers are not very talented and have little knowledge. I ask the emperor to choose someone more capable."
Qi Tai's words were instantly echoed by the other four ministers, and they all knelt down towards Zhu Biao.
Seeing these people threatening to resign, Zhu Biao's face turned dark. These people simply didn't even have the courage to show their face in order to take away the money from his inner treasury.
As a last resort, Zhu Biao had no choice but to put his hope in Han Du.
"Han Du, why doesn't the Ministry of Household Affairs allocate this year's money to various ministries?"
Han Du spread his hands and said with a smile, "Back to the emperor, although the taxes last year increased a lot, the increased part was used to increase the salaries of officials, and this part of the money has been settled and cannot be changed.
There are only 12 million guans left, but the Ministry of War alone has to allocate 10 million guans, and other ministries also have millions of guans. It is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. There really is not so much money to allocate to various ministries.
.If each ministry agrees to allocate the money according to the amount in previous years, then I can immediately allocate the money to each ministry."