If Jia Liu had the power to sell the Forbidden City, he would definitely sell tickets to the Forbidden City part-time, thus contributing to the construction of the treasury.
In the same way, as the governor of Zhili and the minister in charge of Jingling, it is impossible for him not to carry out reasonable development of Jingling.
Because Jia Liu always believed that the emperor was not qualified and had no power to take the wealth created by the people underground.
He personally advocates a sparse burial.
If he dies in the future, he can just bring a few changes of underwear with him and lay them in the coffin.
At most, he can ask his children and grandchildren to burn more paper money or more banknotes for him.
If you have money, what can't you buy there?
The Jingling maintenance project submitted by Kuini, the Minister of Rites, was finally approved in the court, because what happened in the country in the past two years was enough to prove that there was a big problem with the Feng Shui of the Qing Dynasty.
Whether it is the Great and Small Jinchuan War, the Shandong Religious Rebellion, or the Huguang Rebellion that has now eroded the two provinces, it all shows that the Qing Empire has been in a bad year and is on the decline.
Of course, this is the obvious reason.
The deeper reason behind this is the palace chaos caused by the death of the Queen Mother and the ominous events throughout the city.
If there had been no water seepage in the underground palace of the Holy Ancestor, which would have damaged the Feng Shui of the Qing Dynasty, these things might not have happened.
What happened in Mancheng in Jingzhou and Mancheng in the capital last year caused the total number of real Manchus to drop by as much as 150,000, accounting for 10% of the total population of the Eight Banners in Manchuria.
What a pity, the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass and fought so many battles, but they never lost more than 100,000 Manchurians!
So, if it’s not that the feng shui of Qing Dynasty was broken, what was it?
It is urgent to save the Qing Dynasty!
No matter how dissatisfied the princes were with Qianlong, they still respected the holy ancestor Kangxi.
The old rich man who wanted to be the tinkerer of the Qing Dynasty had no reason to object. After all, if the feng shui was really bad, it would affect whether the Lao Twelve whom he favored could successfully ascend the throne and lead the Qing Dynasty to ZTE.
It is rare that all parties unanimously approved the maintenance of Jingling Mausoleum proposed by the Ministry of Rites.
It's not too late to mend the situation.
The old rich man asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate 250,000 taels, and the Guangshu Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to contribute 300,000 taels, for a total of 550,000 taels to be used to renovate the house of the Holy Ancestor.
The Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other units sent a joint working group to Jingling. The team was led by the Military Aircraft Department, Kuini, the Minister of Rites, and the deputy leaders were Enming, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Jin Jian, the minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Enming had just been promoted from the post of Inspector General of Anhui to Beijing two months ago and was promoted to the rank of Second Grade Minister. He was the general appointed by the old man himself because Enming's Arma was Zhong Yin who had served as the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.
Zhong Yin has a close relationship with Lao Fu, and is a political ally that Lao Fu managed to win over in the first half of the year. Now he serves as a lecturer at the economic feast, vice president of Santong Guan Siku Quanshu Guan, and concurrently serves as the governor of Mongolia in Zhenglan Banner and the minister of internal affairs.
In return, Zhong Yin supported Fu Zhongtang politically, and Fu Zhongtang certainly wanted to reciprocate the favor, so Enming, the third-rank inspector, rocketed from his place to Beijing to become the second-rank minister.
Jin Jian was the first official to join Lao Fu. He was very influential in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was the main helper for Lao Fu to control the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
When Jin Jian went to play in an alley, he was caught by the guards under Jia Liu, who was the governor of the Nine Gates at the time. Later, he made up his identity as a junior director of the Guangzhou Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and paid a fine of 300 taels to get through.
I have to say, he is very smart.
Before the joint working group left Beijing, Jia Liu received a secret letter from the old rich man. He asked the imperial court to take the lion's share of the proceeds from the development of Jingling. As a local snake, Jia Liu could only take the small part.
The reason is that the state treasury has no money, and the money in Huguang is like water every day, and the official documents to increase the salary and increase the amount of food are issued almost every three days. The old rich man, the actual head of the Qing Dynasty, is anxious.
Originally, I could raise a sum of money by selling my official positions, but the Ministry of Civil Affairs replied that all available positions from the fifth rank below had been sold, and even some official vacancies had been sold in advance until the 60th year of Qianlong's reign.
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This made the old rich man so angry that he greeted his six good brothers on the spot.
It is unrealistic to make a large donation. The Queen Mother just made a large donation when she celebrated her 80th birthday. It has been so long since she has to make a large donation again. I am afraid that the prestige of the court will plummet.
We had no choice but to send a document to the Lianghuai Salt Administration, asking salt merchants to mobilize donations, and those who refused to donate would lend money to the court.
The other thing is to follow Heshen's advice and start promoting crime-discussing bank work nationwide. Although this cannot cure the root cause, it can at least solve the urgent need.
It has to be said that He Shen is really a little expert in financial management. Under his leadership, the country collected more than 1.4 million taels of silver in May alone, and more than 1.7 million taels in June. There is no amount available for July and August, but it will definitely not be
Less than two million taels.
The Lianghuai Salt Administration also successively borrowed or donated more than three million taels of silver from salt merchants. However, as soon as the money was collected, it was all shipped to General Dingxi in Huguang, and the old rich man did not even see a hair.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, military expenditure alone this year has reached more than 30 million taels.
If the war is delayed until next year, more than 50 million taels of silver may be needed.
The expenses are no longer terrible, but terrible.
At that time, we used troops to pacify the Western Frontier, and it took five years to return to the two tribes, but only more than 30 million taels of silver were used. The army of Burma used tens of millions of taels of silver, and the army of Jinchuan used more than 40 million taels of money, plus the middle
The Queen Mother's seventieth and eightieth birthdays and funerals, the emperor's several parades, and the empty treasury can be described as a horse-drawn carriage.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate only 250,000 taels to build a house for the Holy Patriarch.
Therefore, the old rich man also set his sights on the underground palace of the Holy Ancestor.
According to the records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the items buried with the Holy Ancestor in the underground palace are worth tens of millions of taels, including some priceless treasures.
Not to mention taking out all of it, even taking half of it will last for a while.
Enming, the Minister of Industry, and Jin Jian, the Minister of Internal Affairs, came to supervise this maintenance project.
To put it bluntly, it depends on the situation.
To prevent the Minister of Rites from colluding with the Governor of Zhili, they jointly swallowed up the tens of millions of property of the Holy Patriarch.
How big is the head?
What's the size of a small head?
Jia Liu was unhappy on the way to Jingling. The territory was his and the ideas were his, so why should he give a big share of his income to the rich man?
He also pointed to Jingling’s income as a blood transfusion for Zhili Development Development.
The development of Tailing provided a large amount of funds for the Zhili New Deal.
Only 500 solid gold bricks are worth several million taels of silver. Although the old rich extorted a large sum of money, the other valuable artifacts, together with the remaining gold bricks, are worth a total of three to four million taels.
Just because of market problems, many valuable artifacts cannot be liquidated at the moment and will take several years to digest.
But sooner or later it will be sold.
Nowadays, Zhili is carrying out projects everywhere and spending money everywhere. The development work of Jinling must be put on the chopping board.
There is no reason to dig up Zhao Si’s grave but not his father’s.
As soon as he arrived in Jingling, Queenie, who had already been notified, came to greet him.
This was the first time that the brother-in-law and brother-in-law met again after several months, and the joy on their faces was obvious to all.
Queenie looks much younger. I wonder if it's because Sister Yu'er is so moisturized.
Jia Liu was very greedy, but he could only suppress his desire to return to the old path.
Queenie is not an outsider.
"This time Fu Zhongtang asked Enming and Jin Jian to come and watch. I think the matter may be difficult to handle. Your Excellency, it is best to discuss with Fu Zhongtang whether it is 37 or 46."
Queenie suggested that his brother-in-law reach an agreement with Fu Zhongtang on how to divide the spoils, so as to avoid the vicious events that would affect the public security of the Qing Dynasty due to uneven distribution of the spoils.
"Split his grandmother's claws!"
Jia Liu made a grabbing motion with both hands in front of his chest, "I want them all!"