Bright Moon and Breeze (12) (First release at https://www.clewxc.com)
Bright Moon and Breeze(12)
When the post about admiring peonies and peonies came over, Lin Yutong suddenly realized that it was already mid-April.
The post was sent from the palace of Concubine Zheng. The concubine is going to hold a flower viewing banquet in the palace.
Hao Chunmei received the post and sent it over now, "so that the princess will know that there is a flower viewing party every April, and the princess should also prepare reed leaf glutinous rice buns, and that's all. I have to give some outside the palace."
Outside the palace? Give it to your parents’ family!
This is dispensable. Since the Fourth Master has taken the Jin Yiwei into his hands, it has been very convenient for him to enter and exit the palace. Many things have to be done by outsiders. As the Lin family is the in-law family, of course he went to visit. First of all, they have a close relationship.
Second, there is a shortage of people to use it!
But there's still that problem. He's young, so even the Lin family won't trust the Fourth Master too much.
This problem really cannot be solved by time! Therefore, the fourth master did not make things too difficult for the Lin family, and he had to ask others to do anything. He gave the Lin family money and asked the Lin family to help with two things.
First, the Lin family has many old friends, and they are all people who have traveled around to study. They are well-informed and have news from all over the world. Just pay attention to two points, one is where the disaster occurred, and the extent of the disaster. The other is the various places.
The situation of the feudal king.
The only trouble for the vassal king is that they have soldiers. According to the regulations, the minimum number cannot be less than three thousand, and the maximum number cannot be more than nineteen thousand. Although they are all under the management of the Ministry of War, the imperial court has not been able to issue pay for many years.
.What did those vassal kings do with their money? Those who were capable raised troops, and those who were not capable kept money. There were also border guards, because the royal court did not pay them in time, and they were almost like "warlords".
Today's Ming Dynasty is like a powder keg. If something goes wrong at all, it will explode!
Therefore, you must be careful every step you take.
In addition to paying attention to these trends, the second thing that Fourth Master requested was grain seeds! Nowadays, sweet potatoes have not been planted on a large scale, and corn has not yet reached the stage of popularity. The key is potatoes that are particularly drought-resistant, and this stuff has only just emerged. Xiao
During the Ice Age, food crops were also extremely important during severe droughts and floods.
These two matters did not involve anything too fatal, but they were also extremely important matters. For the first time, Lin Baowen was very cautious, but he still agreed.
Only Lin Yu was in Jin Yiwei. When the fourth master came out, he called Lin Yu alone to question him. There were also complex factions in Jin Yiwei. How to win Jin Yiwei into his own hands was the most important thing. This requires a pair of eyes to help.
He went to see it.
Overall, they are in the cautious contact stage and things are going well.
Because of this, she has no interest in the favors passed between these female relatives.
Hao Chunmei asked again, "Do you want to give some to Wang Cai's family?"
How come you, a female official, are so free?
Of course, I don't blame others. The female official is responsible for the affairs of the female family members. But this is not the way the female official in Lin Yutong's imagination is used. She can't say anything now, she can only try to guide her.
Therefore, she directly interrupted, "The flowers in our garden have just sprouted. It was so cold this spring. How come Concubine Zheng's peonies are also blooming, and peonies are also blooming..."
"They were raised on the heated kang. With the good weather, they can be moved out."
Warm Kang! Thinking of this, Lin Yutong stood up immediately. She thought of a person. Such a person must be taken seriously! He cannot be buried! But where can I find this person?
"Grind my ink for me." Lin Yutong put down what he was doing and wrote a letter to Lin Baowen, asking him for a favor. This letter had to be sent back to the Lin family and delivered to Lin Baowen personally.
What are you writing a letter for?
"Find someone named Song Yingxing." According to his age, this person should be in his thirties. It is the best time of life! This is a scientist! It is a waste to ask scientists to waste time on the road to the imperial examination! Therefore, even if it is given
The biological father's letter was carefully worded. He expressed his great importance to this person, and then he sent Hao Chunmei, "Ask the kitchen to pack some glutinous rice buns, and you can deliver them to me. Give this letter to my father,
Please make every effort to find this person!"
Who is this person?
He is a person who has a stake in the world's jobs!
Yes! As soon as we said it was about the livelihood of the people in the world, something happened again. In May, there was a lot of noise outside. It was Guanglu Temple who sent cinnabar wine, realgar wine, and Puchang wine. The palace wanted to drink these during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Drink and eat rice dumplings! Now that the fourth master has the power, there are more people to fawn over. In the past, the other side would help buy what they wanted. Now, if the other side has whatever it has, they are eager to give it to themselves.
This is the difference.
In this East Palace, no one fawned over me, and no one cared about me. They just treated me with indifference and said nothing.
Even Wang Cairen is like this. He has never been here once, and has not seen him to say hello. I don't know who listened to the gossip, and asked people to mention it to the fourth master twice, saying that he should respect his elder brother. The fourth master didn't know at all.
She ignored him and retreated.
The attitude outside represents the progress of Fourth Master's acquisition of Jin Yiwei. Generally speaking, it should be smooth.
The weather was getting hot, and Tongtong was discussing with the people at the Clothing Bureau how to make clothes, and things were being delivered outside. She turned around and said, "It is important that the clothes are simple, and do not want complicated colors. The more plain, the better..."
…Neither the prince nor I like those annoying things…”
Just as he was talking, Fourth Master came back in a hurry, "Liaodong..."
Before he finished speaking, he found that there were quite a few people in the room. Lin Yutong waved his hand and asked people to get out first, then went over to pull him, "There's a fight over in Liaodong? Is Fushun lost?"
Um!
Didn't you already know this? Why are you in such a hurry?
The Fourth Master sighed, "There was widespread famine outside the Pass last year...otherwise, why would there be an uprising this year?"
Yes! Houjin due to natural disasters is also suffering from a comprehensive disaster and cannot survive! They are already in the north and cannot go further north because they cannot survive! It is extremely cold in the north at this time, and people are always running
The place where they can survive has disappeared. The people cannot survive. If they don't go out, conflicts will accumulate internally. Therefore, at this stage, this battle must be fought.
It is an inevitable trend to transform one contradiction into another.
In the final analysis, there is only one problem at the root, and that is - the problem of eating!
Fourth Master added: "I just got the news that there was a heavy snowfall in Shaanxi and countless people and animals froze to death. No one has detailed statistics..."
It's snowing again! This year there is a leap month in April. In April, there was a heavy snowfall. One thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine army horses froze to death, and 25 sergeants froze to death. This is from the garrison.
News. It turns out that this snow has only been falling for less than a month. It’s April, and it’s snowing heavily again, freezing people and animals to death?
Lin Yutong looked at the sky outside. After the Qingming Festival, it was almost the Dragon Boat Festival. In this season, Shaanxi had two consecutive snowfalls that could freeze people to death.
The bad news was not over yet. Fourth Master was walking around in the hall: "We just happened to catch up with the Shanxi earthquake, which killed and injured more than 5,000 people and affected more than 40 states and counties..." Based on this data, it is speculated that the earthquake should be above level six, level seven.
It seems to be below the level. The key is that the impact is too wide. Houses collapsed and livestock were injured. In addition, Shanxi and Shaanxi are close to each other. There is heavy snow in Shaanxi, so the temperature must be low. In Shanxi, which is next to it, there is no snow. The temperature can
Is it high? The house collapsed and there was no place to take shelter from the cold. The number of deaths caused by other diseases after the disaster may not be less than the number of direct casualties from the disaster.
Lin Yutong's heart clenched in knots, "Disaster relief...can't we provide food?"
Fourth Master nodded, "I asked someone to inquire, and the warehouse is empty. If this warehouse is not considered a place, it is mainly Jingcang, Tongcang..."
Well! Jingcang is located in the capital, and Tongcang is located in Tongzhou.
The fourth master stood up, pointed to the pen and paper, and motioned Tongtong to write down the data: "The Jingcang should store 2.3 million shi of new grain every year, but now, there is a total of 5.8615 million shi of grain in the granary.
One hundred stones is only two years' worth. Tongzhou Granary should store 720,000 new stones every year, but now there are only more than 365,800 stones in the granary, which is half of the new reserves every year..."
In other words, there was no stock of the previous grain, and the new stock last year was not enough, only half.
Yes! Fourth Master shook his head: "Such a huge shortfall was not created overnight, or in a year or two."
Where is Taicang? How much is left in Taicang? There is no food. Look at the money. If it doesn’t work, you have to buy it from rich households.
The fourth master couldn't say enough: "Taicang's savings were quite sufficient in the early years! But since the expedition to the East to fight against the Japanese, just these few battles have cost more than 12 million taels of silver in various expenses.
After that, there wasn't much left. Three years ago, Empress Dowager Li passed away, and the funeral costs were not small. Immediately afterwards, King Fu wanted to fief the land, and a lot of land was allocated. After that, King Rui came again
, King Hui, it’s time for King Gui to get married..."
Although King Rui did not marry, he took the money to marry his wife.
Fourth Master told Tongtong a figure, "Weddings and funerals, just these things, cost more than 700,000 taels." It doesn't sound like much, "but Taicang's annual revenue is only more than 3.7 million taels."
Two, this money was originally intended to provide side payments, but now no matter what the expenses are, the money is taken from Taicang’s reserves, which means that even a golden mountain has been dug out!"
Just as he was talking, Zhou Bao hurried in and handed a pamphlet, "Your Majesty, I just asked someone to find this." The fourth master took it and glanced at it, then handed it to Tongtong, "It's from Taicang.
Some data on the side..."
Tongtong took it and looked at it, "Taicang's annual revenue is 3.89 million, and it only costs 3.81 million taels for side payments. All kinds of treasury expenses and miscellaneous expenses, the total cost...
...around 400,000 taels...If you think about it this way...that's not right! We can't even make ends meet!" Every year, the expenditure exceeds the income by more than 300,000 taels.
Being unable to make ends meet means that you don’t save any more money every year, and you still have to make ends meet from Taicang!
Lin Yutong's brows became tighter as he flipped through the pages, "This expense has increased too much! Look at this, it's the account for the sixth year of Wanli. It provided money and food for each treasury, and a total of 876,300 was spent.
Seventy-five taels of silver. But after twenty years, to twenty-seven years... or even thirty years, the cost became 2,557,247 taels. This internal contribution
Expenses account for two-thirds of Taicang's annual revenue..."
So how do you get the border wages?
The payment is insufficient, you owe it!
Lin Yutong was confused. How did the Ming Dynasty work? It’s a miracle that it has survived to this day! She continued to read back, "The borders of the Ming Dynasty are...nine sides and thirteen towns, right?"
right!
The fourth master looked at Tongtong, who kept moving his fingers on the account book: "The expenses here are getting bigger and bigger... Look at the data from Longqing, it costs a total of 2.39 million silver every year.
Up or down, less than 2,400,000. As of now, the amount of silver required for payment is reported to be mixed. This is the latest data. The required amount of silver is 3,819,020.
Nine taels...an increase of one-third."
She slapped the account book on the table and stopped looking at it! As she looked over and over, everyone's heart went cold. Disaster relief must come from here, various expenses in the palace must come from here, and the bulk of the side payments must come from here.
Get it from here!
Take, take, take! What the heck! Not counting the wages owed over the years, just this one, Liaodong has lost Fushun. If you don’t pay, who will help you fight the war? But what will you get if you pay? Here you need pay, and there you need pay.
To provide disaster relief.
What should I do? Even if the Great Luo Immortal comes, he can’t make money!
Money can still be raised, but the most important thing in getting food for disaster relief is speed! There is no food in the granaries in the capital, so where can there be food in the warehouses below? With the snowstorm this month, there will definitely be no summer grain harvest, but where can we get the food?
Will it pass with luck?
There’s nothing nearby that can be mobilized! There’s no food left to mobilize!
Moreover, there is a shortage of officials! There is no one there who can make statistics on the specific disaster situation. Except for the specific data reported by the army, the people who were affected by the disaster only said that countless people and animals froze to death, but there is no specific information. Where can people start?
Woolen cloth?!
Fourth Master rubbed his forehead and said, "Let's talk about disaster relief first. I'll go to Hongde Hall."
Where does food come from?
"South Zhili! All the regulations in Yingtian are the same as those in the capital. There is a Jingcang here, and there is a Jingcang in Yingtian. I don't believe it. Yingtian is located in the south of the Yangtze River. How can it have no storage?" It's not yet time to receive summer grain.
We have been hit by a disaster. It will take half a year from now until the autumn harvest! No matter how many people will die, the Fourth Master said and walked out, "I wonder if I can go there in person..."
Go to disaster relief?
Um!
That's fine! Lin Yutong brought clothes for Fourth Master, but the shitty weather has changed again! During the Dragon Boat Festival, we were just discussing making summer clothes. After talking for a few words, we had to wear a cloak again when we went out.
While tying the fourth master's belt, she asked in a low voice, "What about the salary? Where to raise it?"
"Either ask officials from various ministries to donate money, or sell their official positions to raise money! Donating money is useless! I'm afraid you will have to sell your official positions to raise money in the end. Anyway, there are many vacancies for officials. Selling your official position and raising money will kill two birds with one stone. It can make up for it.
Many people think that this is a solution to the problem if there is no vacancy and money can be collected." The Fourth Master raised his hand to take the tea and took another sip, and then said: "The border salary is not only money, there must also be a shortage of food. Should be
There is so little food in the sky, I’m not sure how to grab it.”
After saying that, he stuffed the teacup into Tongtong and left in a hurry.
After the talents left, Cui Shangyi came, "...it's for the Dragon Boat Festival East Palace banquet for the female family members..." After saying that, he took out a list, "Please take a look at the princess, if there is anything you want to add or subtract from the dishes... In addition,
The princess can invite any female family members she wants to the palace. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has personally ordered that they must be perfect... Guanglu Temple has transported a lot of birds..."
What's wrong with the bird? Lin Yutong listened a little absent-mindedly and couldn't make contact for a while.
Cui Yingyue whispered: "His Royal Highness does not like tofu made from beans. Tofu made from bird brains is extremely delicious..."
Yes! Everyone in the palace loves to eat it.
Lin Yutong blinked, then blinked again. After standing up, he raised his hand and lifted the coffee table...
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