Seeing Daoguang's permission, Wang Ding then said: "Xiangfu burst the embankment more than 80 zhang, the water is open, the waves are several zhang high, the yellow water is endless, and the villages are not seen everywhere, it can be seen that the water is fierce, with the experience of Weichen, at least forty or fifty prefectures and counties will be affected, and I implore the emperor to allocate silver and two from Huguang, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to buy grain for relief as soon as possible." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"If the Yellow River bursts, the canal will be affected." Pan Shien followed: "I sincerely pray that the emperor will decree that the grain in Anhui and Henan will be delivered to the nearest local prefectures and counties for relief of the victims." ”

Listening to the words of the two people, Mu Zhang'a realized that the bursting of the Yellow River was not trivial, and he was afraid that it was a rare disaster, so he reacted very quickly, and hurriedly followed: "Your Majesty, at this time when the Yingyi are invading the coast, we must make every effort to help the victims of the disaster and make proper resettlement, so as not to cause trouble." ”

Daoguang slowly glanced at the three of them, and said in a deep voice: "Dingjiu, the auspicious charm bursts the embankment, what is the impact of the canal?" ”

Wang Ding not only served as the governor of Henan, but also presided over the innovation of river affairs, and was very familiar with river affairs, and immediately said without thinking: "Back to the emperor, Xiangfu broke the embankment, and the water poured into Hongze Lake, the most direct impact is that the downstream will be cut off, and the canal from Xuzhou to Huai'an must be transported by the Yellow River, and the normal water level will not be guaranteed and cannot be navigated." ”

Hearing this, even the most sluggish Zaiquan realized the seriousness of the problem, the canal was cut off, and the Yingyi fleet blocked the ocean, which meant that the shipping between Jingshi and Jiangnan would be cut off, which was not a trivial matter.

Daoguang six years, the most direct reason is the Gaojiayan embankment burst, the canal water potential is low, heavy transport to the north has become a problem, now the sea is restless, the grain shipping does not dare to think at all, silent for a long time, a solemn face of Daoguang only said in a deep voice: "How long does it take to block the Xiangfu embankment, how much silver is consumed?" ”

Wang Ding didn't dare to answer rashly about this, and only after a while did he think about it: "Weichen doesn't know the specific situation, he doesn't dare to say anything, the yellow water is flooding, the material transportation is difficult, and the time spent on silver is several times that of ordinary ....... ”

Daoguang slowed down his tone and said, "But it's okay to say it, the imperial court is also prepared." ”

Hearing this, Wang Ding said boldly: "Based on the experience of Weichen, it is roughly estimated that the silver consumption will be at least four or five million taels, and it will take three or four months. ”

Hegongyin alone costs four or five million? This is still a rough estimate, plus disaster relief, without a thousand or eight million silver, it is simply not enough to cope with it! Daoguang's face became extremely ugly, his eyes stayed on Mu Zhang'a for a while and then turned to Zaiquan, paused slightly, he looked out the window, he was really not in the mood to ask about the progress of the Hubu Bank Treasury deficit case at the moment, he knew very well in his heart that to recover the more than 8 million deficits, it was not possible to recover it in a short time, and it was difficult to quench his thirst from far water.

Seeing that Daoguang was silent, Mu Zhang'a, who was good at figuring out Daoguang's thoughts, kowtowed lightly and said: "The catastrophic flood in Henan, the slaves prayed to the emperor for a special donation. ”

The so-called big donation is in addition to the regular donation, because of temporary actions such as war, famine, major river engineering projects and other special donations, hearing Mu Zhang'a proposed a big donation, Wang Ding said in a deep voice: "River work, relief often millions or even tens of millions, how much silver can be raised by big donations?" One hundred thousand taels a year is tantamount to a drop in the bucket, and Weichen prays for the emperor to issue treasury bonds! ”

Issuance of government bonds? Daoguang seems to see a glimmer of light in the darkness, how can he forget that there is still a way to issue treasury bonds? Yuan Qi is not allowed to monopolize the money industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he has subconsciously no hope for the issuance of treasury bonds, and now the domestic and foreign difficulties, the treasury is empty to the point of unsustainable, but everywhere needs a large sum of silver, perhaps the issuance of treasury bonds is the only way, as for the formation of Yuan Qi tail big and unfallable, that is a matter of the future, first the current difficulties in the past.

Listening to Wang Ding's suggestion to issue treasury bonds, Zaiquan also intended to sell Yuan Qi's favors, and also hoped to ease the relationship with the Han Yuan, and immediately echoed: "The minister thinks that the issuance of treasury bonds is the right way, and he also asks the emperor to learn about it." ”

Seeing that Zaiquan actually supported Wang Ding, Mu Zhang'a was shocked, this is not a good sign, and just as he was about to speak, Daoguang had already spoken: "Yuan Qi is still capable of undertaking national debts now?" ”

Wang Ding bowed slightly and said: "If you can unify the money industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang......." ”

"Never!" Mu Zhang'a hurriedly objected: "Jiangsu and Zhejiang are important places for the imperial court's wealth, how can they allow Yuan Qi to monopolize the money industry, and the servants implore the emperor to be careful." ”

Daoguang glanced at him, ignored it, and said with a slight groan: "Dingjiu continued." ”

"Your Majesty, the Hubu Bank lacks both abundant funds and talents." Wang Ding said slowly: "If you can join hands with Yuan Qi...... The joint establishment of banks by the government and businessmen and the monopoly of the money industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was not a shortcut for the imperial court. ”

A government-business joint bank? Daoguang was very interested, and hurriedly asked, "Can Dingjiu have a detailed charter?" ”

"Your Majesty, this matter has to be discussed with Yuan Qi by the Ministry of Households." Wang Ding said slowly: "However, Weichen secretly thinks that the government and business joint bank, the number of shares is secondary, mainly the focus is on supervision, if the Yuanqi Bank can be placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Households, not to mention the unification of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is the unification of all provinces of the Qing Dynasty, and the imperial court is also happy to see it." ”

That's a good idea, but how to regulate? How can it be effectively regulated? Daoguang also didn't know anything about this, but he was quite moved by this suggestion, and he groaned slightly, before he said: "Dingjiu sent a letter to Wu Qijun of Jiangning Hubu Bank, and asked him to discuss with Yi Zhizu and reply as soon as possible." ”

"Wechen obeys." After Wang Ding finished speaking, he raised his body and said, "I'm afraid that this matter will not be able to reach a result in a short period of time." ”

Daoguang nodded slightly: "Regarding the issuance of treasury bonds in Jiangning, you might as well talk to Wu Qijun with him to see what difficulties Yuan Qi has." ”

"Wechen obeys." Wang Ding hurriedly bowed and said.

Seeing this situation, Mu Zhang'a was very anxious, once Yuan Qi opened an exchange in Jiangning and undertook large amounts of treasury bonds again, it would be equivalent to taking root in Jiangnan, and if he wanted to curb Yuan Qi in the future, he was afraid that it would not be an ordinary difficulty, he reacted very quickly, and hurriedly kowtowed, and said: "Your Majesty, if there is no war in Jiangnan, only the floods in Henan, even if no treasury bonds are issued, the imperial court can turn over." ”

Daoguang stared at him for a long time before he said in a deep voice: "Yingyi is raising troops again, why did you come?" Indemnity of 20 million! Cut the ground! No war in Gangnam? Can you get Yingyi to retreat? ”

Hearing Daoguang's fierce words, Mu Zhang'a was even frightened into a cold sweat, and hurriedly kowtowed: "The Yingyi fleet has appeared on the surface of the Dengzhou Ocean, and it is obvious that it intends to attack the ....... Tianjin. ”

Daoguang was also puzzled about this, and he said in annoyance: "Kneel down." ”

Yishan, Monk Greenqin's 800 miles of expedited was only one day late, and it was sent to the duty room of the military aircraft department of the Old Summer Palace in the afternoon of the next day. ”

Qi Zhongtang, Qi Junzao is the new Minister of Military Aircraft, after reading the excerpt, he understood what Pan Shien meant, the emperor only mentioned yesterday that the Ministry of Households and Yuan Qi jointly set up a bank, this is for him to submit this expedited express, however, for the government and business to jointly set up a bank, he also has no clue.

Just as he was hesitating, Pan Shien had already gotten up and paced over, and said, "Let's go, just report the disaster by the way." ”

The two of them left the duty room and went all the way to the Qinzheng Palace, Qi Junzao couldn't help but say: "How much financial resources does Yuan Qi have, it seems that he has endless silver?" ”

Hearing this, Pan Shien said with a smile: "Shu Ying has been in the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate before, and he didn't pay much attention to Yuan Qi, but now he is in charge of the household department, so he can pay more attention to Yuan Qi." After a pause, he continued: "It's true that Yuanqi has abundant funds, but he can't withstand such a toss, it is easy to know that he is good at dancing with long sleeves, if Shu Ying can snare him to the household department, it will be much easier." ”

What does this mean? Qi Junzao was a little puzzled, Yi Zhizhi is now a Shanghai Taoist and a counselor, how can he leave Jiangnan? As soon as he thought about it, he thought of the matter of the government and business co-operating with the bank, and it was a good idea to use this opportunity to let Yi Zhizhi hang a false title in the household department.

Thinking of this, he smiled and said: "Yi Zhizhi is a rare economic talent, but at the moment it is only a four-grade Shanghai Dao, and he is also young, so it is not easy to settle him in the household department, at such an age, he can't be given a waiter." ”

"Now that the imperial court is in urgent need of economic talents, why bother?" Pan Shien said slowly: "Besides, if Jiangnan can win a big victory this time, it is easy to be satisfied with the reward for meritorious deeds, and it is possible to have three grades, or even two grades." ”

This is really possible, Qi Junzao pondered for a while, and then said: "Does the emperor intend to summon him to Beijing?" ”

"When Yuanqi was first founded, Wang Zhongtang wanted to promote him, but he was refused."

The two came to the outside of the Qinzheng Hall as they spoke, handed over the sign, and then they were led in. ”

As soon as he heard that it was eight hundred miles expedited, Daoguang's heart sank, there was no good news in the eight hundred miles expedited these days, and he took the fold and opened it, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, although it was not good news, but it was quite gratifying to him, but at the same time, he was also deeply worried, which could make Yishan and Monk Greenqin in Xuzhou worry that the imperial court would give up the battle of Jiangning because of the floods in Henan, which shows the seriousness of the disaster.

He glanced at Pan Shien and said, "Is there any new news about the disaster in Henan?" ”

"Back to the emperor." Pan Shien said: "According to the statistics of urgent mail received so far, there have been eleven disaster-stricken counties in Anhui, Henan. ”

Daoguang sighed lightly: "It seems that this disaster is far better than in the past. Glancing at Qi Junzao, he said slowly: "The silver treasury is the sum of the world's wealth, and it is the foundation of the imperial court, and the impact of this case is not small. ”

The Ministry of Internal Affairs belongs to the imperial family, since the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the state finance and the imperial finance are strictly distinguished, and they are under the management of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the general Ministry of Household Affairs will allocate 650,000 taels of permanent funds every year to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the two will no longer be involved in each other.

Daoguang advocated frugality, and as soon as he ascended the throne, he drastically reduced the tributes paid to various places, reducing the annual expenses of the court to 200,000 taels, and led by example, taking the lead in using ordinary brushes and inkstones, and no more than four dishes per meal; It is stipulated that except for the queen mother, emperor, and empress, no one else is allowed to eat meat except on festivals.

At the empress's birthday banquet, he specially approved the slaughter of two pigs in the imperial dining room and entertained the courtiers who came to congratulate them with halogen noodles, which was still extraordinarily gracious, because he clearly stipulated: Wanshou Festival (the emperor's birthday), Qianqiu Festival (the empress's birthday), and the celebration banquets on Chinese New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Shangyuan (Lantern Festival), and the winter solstice were all canceled, and the birthday banquet for the empress was an exception.

Daoguang is harsh on others, but also on himself, in addition to the dragon robe, the clothes are worn out and patched and then worn, and he is privately nicknamed "the first emperor in history".

Now that the Emperor of the Gate Picking Door took out four million taels of silver from his own pocket to enrich the household treasury, Qi Junzao's eyes turned red instantly, and he was about to kowtow, but Daoguang waved his hand and said: "This is borrowed, and the household will be rich in the future, and what must be returned will be returned." ”

Do you want to return the co-authorship? Qi Junzao was stunned, and then he thought of it, look at this situation, the Year of the Monkey and Ma Yue can afford it, anyway, it will not be in his office, so he immediately hurriedly kowtowed, and said dryly: "The emperor is ....... Shengrui." ”

"That's it." Daoguang waved his hand, a smile appeared on his face, looking at the excerpt of Yishan and Seng Lingqin, he was really in a good mood, Yuan Qi could not hesitate to bear the military expenditure in Jiangnan when the imperial court was in danger, which made him feel more relieved than Yuan Qi to undertake tens of millions of national debts.

Pan Shien hadn't seen Daoguang smile for some days, so he naturally knew why he was in a good mood, and immediately joked: "Yuan Qi is really a model for the business group, if the Qing business group is like Yuan Qi, how can it be just English." ”

Daoguang said with a smile: "The imperial court can't afford to supply Jiangnan's military expenses, and it's rare that Yuan Qi has this intention." As he spoke, he looked at Qi Junzao and said: "Of the four million taels of silver allocated, two million will be transferred to Jiangning Hubu Bank in case of emergency. ”

Qi Junzao hurriedly kowtowed: "Weichen obeys the order." ”

"Kneel down." Daoguang sent the two away, and picked up the fold to take a closer look, because of the scale of Yuanqi's group training and the combat power shown, he has always been very wary of Yuanqi, so that Lin Zexu is the superintendent of Hangzhou, and Yi Zhixin is the counselor of military affairs, he has the meaning of temptation, but he didn't expect a big flood in Henan, but let him see clearly that Yi Zhizhi can support the imperial court so sparingly, what else is Yuanqi not worried about?

After thinking about it, he thought of the flood in Henan again, this time it may be a huge flood, I don't know how much silver it will cost, the imperial court's investment in river work for a year is really heart-wrenching, perhaps, he should really consider building a railway, if you don't need the court to pay money, why not? Not to mention the others, just build a railway from Hangzhou to Beijing, the imperial court will save seven or eight million taels a year, as well as the huge freight of grain, these two things add up, the imperial court can save at least more than 10 million taels of silver a year, more than 10 million taels, how much can be done! (To be continued.) )