1255 The Joy of Prosperity
Public funds aside, in fact, there are many royal properties. In particular, during his reign, Su Zu defeated Wang Dun's rebellion, and took advantage of the situation to sweep away all the industries operated by Wang Dun and his followers around Jiankang City, and completely incorporated them into the industries directly returned to the royal treasury.
The emperor is not keen on the throne, because he knows that he can't fight, and he may not be able to take care of it if he wins. But if it is as small as the amount of wealth in the portal, he is still confident that he can manage it.
How much is the royal estate, these have specific registration rules in Shaofu. The specific distribution of expenses is managed by many internal affairs officials such as Da Changqiu and the palace supervisor.
The emperor may not have much power in his hands, but if he only understands this, Shaofu and other officials will naturally not be embarrassed, and soon send someone to sort out a little book and send it to the garden. Of course, before that, it is inevitable to report to Luoyang Xingtai.
General Shen, who was far away in Luoyang, learned that the emperor intended to sort out the estate, and he couldn't help but be happy about it, but he didn't have any vigilant and jealous thoughts about it, and felt that the emperor had some idea of establishing authority from the inside out.
But even if the emperor has such intentions, it is not easy to achieve results, which is equivalent to creating a mature and stable political group with high executive power from scratch. If the emperor can still do it in the case of holding the edict in Xingtai, then the political wisdom is too high.
On the contrary, Shen Zhezi felt that this was an opportunity to clearly calculate the various interests of the industry in the garden and the foreign court, which was originally what someone suggested Shen Zhezi should do. Now that the emperor himself had such an idea, he also suggested that the officials who remained in Jiangdong cooperate.
In addition to the gardens and villas around Jiankang City, there are also many workshops, purchasing agencies, including mines and many other bulk industries in various counties.
It took the emperor a few months to sort out these industrial registers, and then gradually had a general impression of his wealth, and he was complacent about it.
However, although there are many of these industries, when it comes to profits, it is very strange. For example, one of them, it is clearly written in the book, Yuzhang has a hundreds of hectares of orange orchards, but the corresponding income is only more than 600 catties of oranges in season every year and the same amount of candied fruit into the garden.
No matter how much the emperor does not know the hardships of farming, he still has a general idea of how many oranges can grow on an orange tree, and how many orange trees can be planted in an orange orchard. Obviously, this account is not right.
There are many industries that do not match the volume and output, even if the emperor of some industries is not familiar with them, but after communicating with relatives and friends such as my sister and Shen Ahe, I gradually understand how many tricks are hidden in this.
On this point, it really does not show how corrupt the government of Jiangdong is. In fact, because of such an embarrassing situation of imperial power, several Jiangdong officials were deliberately avoided under the instruction of the general, just to prevent someone from using the topic to play a lazy and mean supply to the imperial family.
But now, with the emperor interested in his own industry, this has become a problem in front of him. But after so many years, the greasy entanglement has already formed an intricate chain of interests, with a young emperor living in the palace, how can he deal with those slippery officials inside and outside.
Moreover, General Shen also used the mouth of Princess Xingnan to clearly tell the emperor that it was impossible for Xingtai to exert pressure on this kind of rectification involving the property of the court. Because this topic is too delicate, once the depth of force is slightly out of control, it is very likely to evolve into a political trend of power and tyranny to suppress the king, and the situation in Jiangdong, which has not been stable for a long time, will be revived.
In fact, even if there are many cats in these industries, because of the huge amount of property in the garden, the annual income of the industry is also very amazing. Especially in the past few years after the change of Yuan Qitai, the annual amount of money and goods that can be collected in the inner library of the garden has reached hundreds of millions of dollars.
Such an astonishing income has far exceeded the emperor's own cognition. However, the officials of the Shaofu who were responsible for cooperating with the emperor's inventory of the industry talked about some old things in the early years, and when the late Zhongshu Ling Yu Liang was in charge of Taiwan affairs, the overall income of Taiwanese capital in Jiangdong was only between two or three billion yuan. And in the old years of his father's ancestor, the annual income of the garden was only between tens of millions of dollars.
The display of such contrasting figures also made the emperor more deeply feel what amazing changes the situation in Jiangdong had undergone in the past few years, and he couldn't help but be more impressed by his brother-in-law's ability to govern the world.
With an annual income of hundreds of millions of dollars, if you only talk about the gateway family assets, you have to say that you can be called the best rich in both the north and the south.
But although the income is large, the expenses are also large.
These many expenses are divided into several parts, and the first one is the various expenses such as food, clothing, and living in the garden. There are large-scale purchases in the garden at four o'clock every year, among which the most important spring and autumn robes amount to tens of millions of dollars, and the purchase of seasonal food is also as little as tens of thousands and as many as millions.
The cost of this alone is a huge amount of 20 million or 30 million dollars a year. When he saw this data, the emperor's eyes were round, he really didn't expect his past life to be so extravagant.
The cost is so huge, it's not that the emperor is so poor and extravagant, it's just that there are too many people in the palace. In the early years, there was a lot of turmoil in Jiangdong, and whenever there was chaos, there was no shortage of people who poured into the royal garden villas to escape the disaster.
Although there were many rectifications and dismissals after that, it was inevitable that they would be left behind. Until now, there are thousands of people in the palace alone. Regardless of whether so many people can use it or not, the inevitable hard consumption of food and clothing will naturally be high.
But that's not the biggest expense, the most important thing is the rewards, which have been spent on more than 50 million dollars in the past year alone!
The emperor himself is not a claustrophobic palace and does not see outsiders, and the relatives and nobles of the clan enter the festival at the fourth time of the spring and autumn, and the daily contact of the queen's relatives and women naturally need to reward some goods and gifts. The emperor himself occasionally summoned foreign court officials or relatives, and occasionally gave some gifts and rewards when he was in the mood, which were also small daily things.
But when these daily little things were summed up, the emperor realized how he spent a lot of money, and he was so generous that even he was afraid.
Originally, the emperor was quite complacent, because of the frequent visits of the clansmen, he felt that he was quite popular in the sect, but after seeing these accounts, he realized that those clansmen who came and went frequently were intimate with him, and they were slaughtering him as a fat sheep!
For example, Sima Xuan, the king of Pengcheng, who entered and exited the forbidden garden most frequently, entered and exited the garden as many as thirty or forty times last year, and came to report almost every three or five days, and this person alone moved out of the garden last year with a gift of more than 3 million yuan!
Thinking that not long ago, King Pengcheng came to complain that it was not easy to live in Gyeonggi, the price was high, and even the children had no money to discuss marriage, and the emperor was quite considerate to pack and send him some utensils in the garden.
Poor relatives who are similar to shamelessness abound, and the number of visits to the garden every year is as high as dozens of times, and as few as dozens of times. These people are diligent rats, and they move their wealth back to their homes again and again. If it weren't for the emperor's intention to check the family wealth, I don't know how long he would have been coaxed by these people!
And the poor relatives are not only from their Sima family, his father-in-law Wei Chong seems to be elegant and refined, but when the emperor saw that Wei Chong and his children had moved nearly 10 million yuan in the queen's Changqiu Palace last year, his good impression of this glamorous father-in-law disappeared.
"I'm really miserable, why do I think so much about thieves? The big thief plots my country's Zuo, and the thief plots my family! ”
After understanding his situation, the emperor was really sad and inexplicable, feeling that he was really unlucky, especially compared with his own brother-in-law, he married a famous lady, his sister had a lot of makeup, and it could be described as an IKEA room, but although Empress Wei was also called gentle, no matter how much makeup she had, the poor relatives of a large family behind her could not stand it.
After understanding his own situation, the emperor naturally had to think about how to rectify the family business, just as his sister taught him, open source and reduce expenditure, and do a good job in these two things, so that he can naturally enjoy wealth and prosperity.
The big thief emperor is unrestrained, but he can still deal with these little thieves, first of all, he issued an edict, saying that all the relatives and nobles of the clan can no longer be indiscriminate, ignore the prohibition, outside the four hours and eight festivals, can be exempted, so that the gift of favors can save a lot of money. Although he was indifferent to human affection, the emperor felt that these people were really limited in their treatment of human affection.
Another throttling is not to raise idlers, a large number of palace people are exempted from leaving the garden, and only a few hundred people are retained in the special garden, such as the necessary living, sprinkling, cleaning, repair, etc.
As for the various royal industries inside and outside, it is naturally difficult for the emperor to picket and purge those officials who are dependent on them and are greedy for ink, but he can also get rid of them. First of all, the workshops and purchasing residences set up in the counties of Jiangdong were all abolished and incorporated into the supervision of the county government office, and at the end of the spring and autumn period, the county directly imported them into the inner treasury.
Although the emperor can directly supervise the various industries in Jiankang, he does not have so much energy to effectively control them because they involve all aspects of everything. Especially some industries that he didn't know at all, he couldn't understand how many of the means were available in front of him.
But he is not without success, especially the technique of making pastry and food, which has never been put down over the years, and until now it can be said that he is a master of skill. From the selection of materials to the processing steps, to the quality of the final product, it can be said that no one can deceive him.
Since other industries are inevitably deceived by tricks, it is better to make a clear decision in the field that they are good at, so the emperor began to deploy all kinds of industries around Jiankang to this, and all those that have nothing to do with this are abolished.
Naturally, the cooperation of external forces is indispensable, and with the cooperation of General Shen, many Jiangdong families are also willing to replace those garden properties.
And when these industrial resources were integrated and allocated, another effect that the emperor had not expected before was soon revealed, that is, he had substantially controlled and even monopolized the entire Jiankang and even various pastries and pastries in the capital.
It can be said that he temporarily decided tonight that the price of buttermilk on the market needs to increase by 30% tomorrow, and tomorrow the entire Jiankang City, regardless of the Shishu, will sigh for this.
"The fun of Xingzhi, probably here! Jiankang is obtained, how can Luoyang be outside for a long time! ”
Finally found his own field of expertise, the emperor suddenly felt that the whole life has become colorful, although only in this industry criss-crossing, but the fun and sense of accomplishment of that kind of business also really made him intoxicated, keen to influence the world in his own way, huge wealth into the warehouse has become secondary.
The changes in the world may have their own tolerance in human feelings, but they are also inevitably indifferent. The emperor was able to enjoy himself, with his contentment and peace, and also from the protection and preferential treatment of Xingtai. But for some people, it is difficult to share these, such as Sima Yue, the second son of Su Zu, who migrated to Liyang from Huainan, but was actually just the second son of Su Zu who was imprisoned in Jiankang.
Since Qitai, although Sima Yue has migrated to the king of Liyang, he has lived in seclusion in the mansion all the year round, and his existence has been deliberately diluted by the world, and when his name makes waves again, it is because of his untimely death.