Su Yin said angrily, "You also said that you are sincere to me. I am your woman. Normally, the Liao Kingdom has half of me. Why do I want to use some money to do something serious by myself, and you don't help me?"
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Yu Wensheng smiled bitterly, "Yin'er, if I told you that I don't have any money, would you believe it?"
Su Yin said in disbelief, "How is it possible? The whole world is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers. Although you Daliao did not unify the world, at least the tens of thousands of miles of land in Daliao belong to you Yuwen
It’s suitable for one person.”
Yu Wensheng smiled and said, "Which bastard said such a thing, that the whole world is not the king's land, you let him out, I promise not to beat him to death."
Su Yin was puzzled, "Does it mean that you can't make the decision over there?"
Yu Wensheng explained, "It's like this. The so-called country's money is not equal to the emperor's money. The division between the national treasury and the imperial treasury is very clear. When the Liao Kingdom was founded, it left part of the property for the royal family, including
The land, that is, the villages called Huangzhuang, all villagers are tenants of the royal family, houses, money, and tax rights of 500,000 households.
Those properties, land rents, house income plus the support money paid by 500,000 households in the town, amount to hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year. However, these silvers must be used for palace repairs, ancestral mausoleum repairs, and decoration inside and outside the palace.
The food and clothing expenses of the upper and lower families, and the support money for some clan members. You must know that after the founding of the Liao Dynasty for hundreds of years, the country has grown to more than 50,000 people. The food and clothing of these 50,000 people are all provided by the royal family.
, and so on and so forth... Therefore, there is often a problem of insufficient funds."
Su Yin found it very interesting. It was the first time he heard that the emperor was also short of money. "Then what do you do when you are short of funds? Lead the entire palace to tighten their belts?"
Yu Wensheng smiled and said, "How is that possible? Although the emperor holds great power, even if he has no money, he does not dare to blatantly touch the money in the treasury, because the money there is used to provide relief to the country and support the army. The emperor
If you touch the money inside, you are likely to be dissatisfied by all parties.
But we don’t have many choices. Generally, there are only two methods.
There is a kind of emperor who is really poor and crazy, so he starts selling his official positions, which is called donating official positions. Although I hate this kind of thing, this kind of thing has become a trend in Daliao, and there is nothing that can be done about it for a while.
It's forbidden. So I have to let it go for the time being.
The smarter ones are to use some tricks. For example, some emperors saw the weaknesses in the minds of ministers and simply claimed to the public that they believed in Buddhism, decided to show up as Buddhists, and walked into the royal temple to become a monk.
If you think about it, it was okay for the emperor to become a monk. The ministers were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. They asked for help once or twice, but were often kicked out by the emperor. Only later did the emperor tell them,
I became a monk because I believe in Buddhism. If you really want me to return to secular life, you must pay a ransom to the temple.
As a result, the ministers had no choice but to go to the treasury to collect enough money and give it to the temple to redeem the emperor.
But you must know that the royal temple itself is the private property of the emperor! This kind of thing is nothing more than the emperor asking his right hand to collect money for his left hand."