The face saint is definitely going to face the saint, after all, he was originally returning to Beijing under the guise of reporting on his work.

According to the system, there is only one object for the governor to report on his work, and that is the emperor himself. Of course, sometimes the emperor does not necessarily have to listen to a certain governor to communicate directly with him, and in this case, he will entrust the cabinet to accept the governor's report on behalf of the emperor. Normally, it would be the first assistant to intervene, but that was the exception after all – but this kind of exception in history has almost become the norm during the so-called "Wanli slack" period, and that is another matter.

The current governor's debriefing is basically received by the emperor in person, so Gao Pragmatic must be in front of the saint, but Zhu Yijun is so anxious that he directly sent the commander of Dongchang to pick him up into the palace when he just returned to Beijing and didn't even sit at home for a while, which is more surprising.

This illustrates...... There is an urgency.

Soon, a team of Dongchang Fanzi and Jinyi guards formed a joint escort, surrounded by Chen Ju and Gao Shipra's two green sedan chairs and drove towards the palace. Gao Pragmatic's team of Fu Biao temporarily "stepped down" and was allowed to go back to the palace to rest first, and then go outside the palace to wait for Gao Pragmatic to return to his home after having a meal.

After entering the palace gate, Gao Pragmatic and Chen Ju got off the sedan chair according to the rules - neither of them had privileges such as "riding horses in the Forbidden City" and "riding in the Forbidden City", so they could only walk when they entered the palace.

However, it is also convenient for the two to have some exchanges about the recent situation and today's face saint.

Putting aside the recent situation, when the two of them talked about today's face saint, Chen Ju said in a deep voice as he walked: "Speaking of which, what does the emperor want to say to you today, our family really doesn't have an accurate number, but when our family left the palace, I thought about it, and I think that the most likely thing is the country of King Lu and the war in Yunnan, but which one or both of them are included, but it is not clear." ”

Gao pragmatically nodded silently, but only frowned slightly and thought, but did not speak.

When Chen Ju saw it, he was afraid that he would not be prepared, so he reminded: "Truth-seeking, our family has always known your ability, although there are many capable people in the world, when you can say that others are passing through the world, it is all polite words." Only for you, our family really thinks you have such ability. ”

Gao Shishi knew that his words were definitely not untargeted, and he definitely didn't finish speaking, so he just smiled bitterly and said: "Wanhua Xiu has to make fun of me, how can I be so powerful." ”

"What's the teasing? Our words are more true than gold. Chen Ju said, but his face was worried, and he sighed: "But the situation is different today, our family is afraid that the emperor will really put the two troublesome things of King Lu's country and the war in Yunnan in front of you, so you will agree without saying a word...... You don't know, these two things are in a lot of trouble right now, and if you mix them up, they may be even more troublesome. ”

Gao Shishi was really a little surprised at this moment, and asked: "Why do you say this, and ask Wanhua for some advice." ”

"Where can you talk about any guidance? Our family has a few pounds and a few taels to know ourselves, and when it comes to these two things, I'm just afraid that I don't know the root of it. Chen Ju paused for a moment and asked, "Well, these two things are quite complicated, which one is better for us to talk about first?" ”

Gao Shishi's eyes flashed, and he said, "Then let's talk about the country of King Lu first." ”

"Well, okay, let's talk about this first." Chen Ju scratched his head and said, "The matter of King Lu's country is related to the reputation of the emperor, and it is also related to the ...... of Cining Palace These truth-seekings are all known, so we won't mention them much. ”

Gao pragmatically nodded simply.

Chen Ju continued: "The trouble is mainly in the silver. You know the truth, a few years ago, King Lu's wedding, according to the system, the prince set a gift, gold stop fifty taels, pearl ten taels, how much did it cost? 3,869 taels of gold, 8,700 pieces of blue rubies, more than 85,000 pearls of all kinds, and more than 24,800 coral pearls......

This incident made the outer court very unhappy at that time, the former Guo Yuanfu was persuaded by the court, and the foreign court spokesman also said that his old man's words were not harsh enough, and then a large number of people were sparse, and there were no less than ten people who were angry with their words. [Note: The above data is from the "Records of the Divine Sect."] ]

Gao Pragmatic was still in Jingshi when this happened, so he was naturally clear, but he didn't intervene at that time, and now he naturally didn't want to say anything, so he just nodded.

Chen Ju continued: "In fact, this money is not big, because jewelry and other things do not come entirely from purchasing, and some of them are Zhuchi Imperial Tribute, which is taken out of the inner money, and the real money spent by the household is more than 100,000 taels. But how to say it...... For the household, this is indeed an additional expense, and it is certain that the household department is not happy. ”

"But then when the Luwang Mansion was built, there was trouble again." Chen Ju said bitterly: "The emperor approved the land of a thousand hectares of Lu Wangfu, and used a thousand salt to lead (not a thousand taels) to use hired labor. This caused trouble again, because the outer court reported that Weihui City was only six miles away, and the size of the palace was even greater than that of Weihui City. Building the palace in this way is equivalent to rebuilding two or even three Weihui cities, even if there are a thousand salt leads, the cost of hiring workers is not enough, not to mention that there are countless building materials, and I don't know where it comes from. ”

Gao Pragmatic interjected this time: "I've been to Weihui City, it's really not big. ”

"That's not the point." Chen Ju smiled bitterly: "The emperor refused to give in, and continued to let the subordinates estimate according to the scale mentioned before, and the results calculated that the construction of the Luwang Mansion would cost 600,000 taels." At this time, the household department disagreed, saying that even according to the fee given during the Jiajing period, 200,000 taels was already considered a grace of heaven, and the 600,000 taels were not extravagant? ”

Gao Pragmatic coughed lightly and did not say anything. To tell the truth, the cost of the Chinese-style palace is indeed expensive, you must know that his white jade building is almost all white marble, the scale is a copy of the French Fontainebleau Palace, and its construction cost is only more than 20,000 taels.

In fact, the palace is expensive, mainly in the use of those high-grade giant wood, that is from the southwest border thousands of miles away, wood prices and freight are terrible - high-quality timber is expensive, look at Jinghua shipbuilding at every turn a ship tens of thousands of taels, hundreds of thousands of taels to know.

But having said that, the cost of the palace was 600,000 taels...... It is indeed too amazing, and it is estimated that the scale of this palace is larger, I am afraid that it is larger than the entire Jianxinzhai that has been expanded several times - you must know that Jianxinzhai now has several departments of the Jinghua Craftsman School, and at the same time can accommodate about 10,000 families stationed and trained (just the scale, I have never really let go of so many people).

Gao Pragmatic didn't speak at all this time, so he could only say: "600,000 taels...... Indeed, there are a lot of them. ”

Chen Ju coughed lightly, looked left and right, waved his hand to keep his entourage away, and then whispered: "Truth, our family told you, this is not a ...... I don't know who gave King Lu the idea, but later King Lu played a lawsuit against King Jing's left farmland, house, salt shop, salt tax, lake water rent, mining tax, etc. The outer court naturally disagreed, but the emperor approved it again, and the reason was that 'the vice president is friendly and sympathetic'. ”

King Jing is Zhu Zaizhen, Jiajing's fourth son, the same age as Zhu Zaizhen, only one month younger - the lord who had a son with Longqing to compete for the throne. This old brother was crowned King Jing in the eighteenth year of Jiajing, and died in the De'an Palace, on the ninth day of the first month of the forty-fourth year of Jiajing.

Since he was able to compete for the throne with Longqing, who was still King Yu, the scale of the industry under his name in the past was naturally not small, and King Lu asked for this property, and the outer court would of course feel that King Lu was insatiable.

Gao Shishi sighed and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Yes, why not?" Chen Ju also sighed and said with a wry smile: "In the country of King Lu, the Empress Dowager Cisheng is afraid of her son, and she doesn't know how to tell the emperor, anyway, the emperor later approved 200,000 taels, saying that it was to buy jewelry for King Lu to decorate the palace." ”

Gao pragmatic held his forehead with his hand: "That is equivalent to spending 800,000 taels on repairing the Wangfu?" ”

Chen Ju rolled his eyes and said, "You're too polite, it's not eight hundred thousand, it's one million." ”

"Huh?" Gao pragmatically said, I am not so bad at math, how did this million come from? Fly Lu

Chen Ju explained: "Originally, it was said that 600,000 taels would be repaired in the palace, but later King Lu sent someone to see it, and the report said that the decoration was simple and it was uninhabitable, so 600,000 taels was not enough, so the emperor had to add another 200,000 taels to it...... That's a million taels. ”

At this moment, even Gao Pragmatic can only roll his eyes.

Chen Ju put on a bitter gourd face and said: "The key is that the time of this matter is not coincidental, last year and this year, we fought a war in the Ming Dynasty, and it was all money, but the money for this war could not be saved, and the household department was so poor that they had to catch and sell all the rats in Taicang...... It's just that in this way, how to fill the hole in Luwangfu? ”

Gao pragmatic pinched his eyebrows, and said secretly: How do I know how to fill it, this million taels of miles, it is estimated that there will be 400,000 taels of "holes" alone, and the internal government has cut a lot because of the Huangzhuang, plus last year also subsidized some border army meritorious rewards, and now it is estimated that there will be no money.

Then Gao pragmatic thought with some disgust: Zhu Yihua, this kid is indeed a little greedy, King Jing's inheritance is a lot, although King Jing's palace can't get it, but other properties have been "transferred" to his name, where at least the value of more than six or seven hundred thousand taels, maybe more.

Besides, the palace built by 600,000 taels is actually "uninhabitable", you are really good.

Now Gao Pragmatic knows Chen Ju's worries, he is afraid that he will bear this deficit, and Zhu Yijun may develop the mentality of "looking for Gao Pragmatic if he doesn't look for it" in the future.

And then there is the fact that the outer court may also be dissatisfied with him because of this - although the outer court will consider the money itself, it is more worried about Zhu Yijun's attitude towards spending money, whether they are noisy or noisy, they hope that the emperor will not spend money indiscriminately.

Under such circumstances, if he had been pragmatic enough to fill in this hole, the outer court might think that he had undermined the control of the entire civil bureaucracy over the emperor and connived at the emperor's "misdeeds."

Gao Shishi sighed and said, "I understand what Wanhua means...... What is the trouble in Yunnan? ”

"In Yunnan's affairs, the first trouble is money." Chen Ju smiled bitterly: "The imperial court is really out of money, if Yunnan fights again, this year's hundred officials are afraid that they will have to be given and owed again." A few days ago, the cabinet convened the household department and the military department to make a calculation: if Yunnan only clings to a few dangerous points and forces Burma to retreat without any major battles, then the cost will only be 40,000 or 50,000 taels of silver;

However, if Yunnan insisted on holding on to the danger at the same time, and also sent Liu Wei and Deng Zilong to take the initiative to attack according to the ideas of Yunnan Fuchen, even if it did not penetrate into the territory of Burma, but only drove the Burmese people out of the border, the money would be at least more than 100,000 taels;

If this battle is even bigger, for example, let Liu Wei and Deng Zilong go straight to Huanglong, and plough the court to sweep the caves - let's not say whether the two of them can do it, just say that a big battle of this scale and such a distance will cost more than 200,000 taels. Seeking the truth, these 200,000 taels are not counting the reward after the triumph...... You say, can this battle be fought in Yunnan? ”

This time, Gao Pragmatic really frowned.

As Chen Ju said before, the money for fighting a war is the most unsaved, and if this thing is saved, it will cause a big incident, at least the front will be defeated, and at worst, the army will mutiny, which will have serious consequences and cannot afford it at all.

It's not as good as repairing the Lu Palace, this year's money is not enough, if you have to adhere to this standard, it's great to keep King Lu in Beijing for some more time, whether it's a year or two, or even three or five years, if you get it together, you can't die if you repair it again, Gao Pragmatic doesn't think that Empress Dowager Li can take this opportunity to go back to the stage.

But the key problem at the moment is that the household department is empty, and Daming is not interested in borrowing money to fight, that is, this war has been declared a failure before it starts, how the hell is this playing? According to the meaning of the household department, then this battle can only be fought, that is, the so-called just holding a few dangers will be over - probably the household department thinks that forty or fifty thousand taels of silver can still find a way to make up?

But if this battle is not fought, he will be pragmatic and unwilling.

When he was still in office in Guangxi, he had already begun to think about the battle of Ming and Burma, but when he really wanted to go to war, he couldn't afford to fight? That's a beep for the dog......

The most troublesome thing is that now it seems that even Chen Ju, his hardcore ally, does not support Yunnan to fight.

Niang Xipi, can you not see Yunnan as a border wilderness, that is the "core territory" of the Ming Dynasty, okay?

Putin the Great said well, there is no negotiation on the territorial issue, only war!

Seeing that Gao was silent for a long time, Chen Ju couldn't help but get nervous, and asked: "Seeking truth, you won't really support Yunnan for a big fight, right?" We know that you are far-sighted, if you insist on fighting, there must be a reason to fight, but the problem is that there is no money to fight at the moment...... Or, let's delay it for a few years, and then fight when the treasury has a surplus in a few years? There is a way for a gentleman to take revenge, ten years is not too late! ”

Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "If you follow this idea, you will have no money to fight in a few years." ”

"Oh?" Chen Ju was stunned: "Why is that?" When King Lu's matter is over, won't the court be relieved? ”

"I'm afraid I won't be able to ease this breath for a while." Gao pragmatic said unceremoniously: "The Xihuaidong system is only one step away, once the situation allows, Liaodong may start a full-scale war against the Tumen, and then that battle will not be a town in Liaodong, at least Jizhen will definitely move...... How much do you think it will cost? ”

Uh, what's that......

Chen Juxin said: According to the kind of fighting style you used in the Monan War, at least 500,000 taels will definitely not be enough, and 1 million taels may be barely enough.

However, Chen Ju also knew that if the Jiliao army took the initiative to attack the Tumen, it might mean that it was the final battle of the "West Huaidong System", and the meaning of this was definitely not the same level as other battles, because Mongolia was the primary target of the Ming Dynasty for two hundred years after all, and no one could be compared with Mongolia.

Let's put it this way, if you fight other people, the household department may push back and block, and if you fight Mongolia, especially if it is still the "final battle", the household department will temporarily suspend all the income of officials across the country, and they will also grit their teeth and say "fight"!

It's just that...... Since the governor of Liaodong said that Liaodong may have a big war at any time, if the war in Yunnan is to be delayed, I really don't know how long it will take to delay.

Although Chen Ju really can't understand the importance of Yunnan, after all, he is a eunuch who has been by the emperor's side for many years.

Chen Dugong couldn't help but feel distressed, scratched his head vigorously, and sighed: "It's a big trouble now......"

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