Chapter 618: Big Money

Several bigwigs were speechless by his laughter.

Lu Huiqing said: "Zi'an, the imperial court plans to let you go to the Zhiding Mansion with the servants of the Ministry of Officials......

In the past, the system of six ministries in three provinces was officials, households, rituals, soldiers, criminals, and workers. The official is the head, so the official department is the head. In the Tang Dynasty, it was often possible for the officials to preside over the post of prime minister. Of course, in the Song Dynasty, they were only substantive officials, and most of them were honorary or paid, for example, when Han Qi went down, he had a lot of first-class official positions, what was the prince, what was in the waiter, but it did not mean that he had the corresponding rights. But for Wang Ju, it is also very good to have this real official. is almost an official of the same rank as Kaifeng Mansion Yin, and if he is hung up on several other positions, then the salary and benefits will soon enter the Wanguan era.

So this is the real Lu Huiqing.

In the past, before Lu Huiqing took the throne, he tried to find a friend, and he had a good relationship with Wang Ju.

has ascended to the throne, but he has always had a good relationship with Wang Ju, and he knows the depth of Wang Ju, so he is worried that Wang Ju's return to the capital may pose a direct threat to him, after all, he is ambitious now.

However, as long as she is not in the capital, Lu Huiqing doesn't care, and maybe she will take care of her.

Zhang Dian is very unhappy, can he get it?

This is the path of cultivation for most powerful ministers, suppressing political opponents, squeezing competitors, and co-opting those who are not dangerous to themselves but are loyal......

Of course, Wang Ju couldn't offend Lu Huiqing, and said: "Lu Xianggong, when the Western Xia invaded Gyeongju, to be honest, I may not have much confidence in my heart to defeat them. After all, there are so many enemies that I have rarely encountered since the founding of the DPRK. Extraordinary times require extraordinary means. Therefore, before I resign, I repeatedly asked the princes. In case I have some places in Gyeongju that transgress the system. I beg your forgiveness. As a result, I was lucky to defeat the enemy, but I was deducted from raising soldiers and buying the hearts of the army and the people. What does that mean, I want to rebel against it. And the court is full of civil and military officials, and few people speak for me, on the contrary, they all attack in groups. Therefore, His Majesty, the princes, since leaving Gyeongju. I don't want to touch the military power again. Forgive me for disappointing you. ”

Wang Jue said: "Wang Zi'an, take state affairs first. ”

It's not about state affairs, but that incident has passed in the past, and at that time, for this matter, so many ministers, including the emperor's teacher Sun Gu, if they mentioned it repeatedly, it would be too much.

Lao Wang is kind, Wang Ju understands, but he really doesn't want to go to Hebei.

However, it is just right. Following Lao Wang's words, Wang Ju said: "Wang Xianggong." In fact, it doesn't matter, there is no two days, and there can only be one official family. ”

This sentence finally made Zhao Ji a little happy.

"But the minister cannot have one. Why does the Qiangua finally say that the dragons have no leader, and they are lucky? In the Qiangua, the dragon is the lord and the prince, while the Zhou is the heaven and the emperor is the sky. Therefore, if the dragon wants to leap into the sky, it will regret it. However, if the dragons in the world have a head, like the Spring and Autumn Five Tyrants, the Zhou royal family will inevitably decline, so the dragons have no leader, and they are lucky. ”

Whether this is the case or not, everyone is a little skeptical, so many Confucians often vaguely mention this sentence when interpreting this sentence.

"Now there are no candidates, but there are ministers, whether it is economic, water conservancy, people's livelihood or military, you can't expect a certain courtier, especially the military, then there will be the danger that the Son of Heaven will be subject to the people's ministers. Therefore, the state needs to consciously cultivate more courtiers who are good at military affairs. In terms of military ability, ministers are not the best, such as Wang Xianggong. ”

"Zi'an, I don't know much about Hebei." Wang Shao said immediately.

"If you give Wang Xianggong a year to get acquainted, will you understand Hebei, and will you be afraid of Khitan?"

Don't say a year, give half a year, Wang Shao will not be afraid of the Khitan, not to mention the defeat of the Liao army, at least let them return in vain. But if your brain is broken, you can't do it, and if you don't do it, you will be sent to Hebei again? Therefore, Wang Shao immediately closed his mouth.

"In addition to Wang Xianggong, there is also Zhang Zhifu, and then transfer Miao and Liu Changzuo to Hebei to train the army, Hebei is strong, not looking at the face of Liao, it is not a long-term strategy."

"Zhang Qianfu?"

"Your Majesty, it's Zhang Zhifu," Wang Ju said, in fact, he didn't want Zhang Qi to leave Hangzhou, but what should he do, did he leave Quanzhou to go to Hebei? Then he said: "This is military, and then such as economic talent, Xue Xiangye, it is a pity to put it in Dingzhou." can be literate and martial, decisive and daring, and Zhang Zihou is also. Farmland water conservancy, Cheng Shimeng and Cheng Fang. These people are all outstanding at the moment, and I hope that His Majesty will reuse them. ”

Several people's faces were a little ugly together.

Others don't care, it's important for Cheng Fang.

Wang Ju didn't see the change in their expressions, the people of the Zhanghe River and other water conservancy projects have not been officially calculated, and the evidence is insufficient, so it is not time to seek justice.

He continued: "Therefore, the Zhending Mansion can be replaced by Zhang Zhifu, but Quanzhou is temporarily inseparable from Weichen. ”

"Huh?"

"Your Majesty, can you bring the account book of the five years of Neiku Yuxiang for everyone to watch?"

Generally, the income of the inner treasury, as the emperor, does not want the ministers to see it, otherwise the ministers will have the idea of this inner treasury every day.

However, it seems that it doesn't hurt to take out the part of the incense alone.

Zhao Ji thought about it for a while, and whispered a few words to a yellow door beside him, and the yellow door went down to get this Rongxiang's account book. But after a while, Zhao Ji regretted it.

Wang Ju said again: "Can you summon the officials of the Third Division to take a look at the commercial tax account books of the Fujian Road Zhuzhou Army in the past few years?" ”

"I don't know if I'm not there," Zhao said bitterly. That fire burned not only a lot of wealth, but also a lot of cases, including the books of state capitals.

But Zhao Ji also wanted to know why Quanzhou couldn't do without Wang Ju for the time being, so he ordered someone to go to Sansi to get the relevant account books.

The first thing he brought was the account book of the inner treasury, Zhao Ji was also curious, he was the emperor after all, just look through the account book, it is also a big account book, it is impossible to look through the account books of all specific industries, then don't do anything, look at the account book all day long.

But he was confused when he saw it, and muttered, "How can this be? ”

Originally, the main income of the inner library was the royal property, such as the imperial fields, the royal orchards, flower beds, and the royal workshops. The second is the exchange of money and silk silver in the capital. The third is to mint money, but this piece is more vague. Sometimes the three divisions and the eastern government also have the right to mint money. The fourth is incense. The main thing is the spice pearl jade of the city. The fifth is the city's shipping division. Sixth, there are some pit mines that belong to the inner reservoir.

Wang Ju originally handed over the kapok to the inner library for operation. But soon Wang Anshi was placed under the jurisdiction of the Third Division.

That sucrose, because it was mixed with private shares, Wang Anshi was not easy to collect. But it's not easy to say, if Wang Ju didn't make a fuss that time, maybe Wang Anshi would also receive the third division, after all, its income is getting more and more, and it is already worth "recovering".

But after Xue Xiang's adjustment, part of the pit. and the income of the city division except for the incense, all of which are presided over by Xue Xiang, in fact, it is operated by the three divisions.

Therefore, there was an edict after Han Jiang became prime minister, and the accounting department of the three divisions was set up to calculate the number of household registration, people, taxes, field affairs, pit metallurgy, river crossing, housing and garden, etc., the rent, annual income and the number of money and valley in and out of the road. As for whether or not the post can be deposed, the outline of the national plan can be examined.

That is, to coordinate the world's taxes, field affairs, pit mines. If it is promoted to the whole country, it can still do well, one in and one out, that year will increase countless revenues for the imperial court in disguise.

In fact, this edict was to expand Xue Xiang's overall planning of the finances of Jiangnan Jiulu to the whole country.

However, in this way, there is no doubt that a part of the income of the inner treasury has been embezzled.

Therefore, Zhao Ji knew that the surplus of the treasury had changed a little bit in the past few years, and it had increased a part of it in the past two years, increasing here and decreasing there, and the increase was not too big, so he didn't pay attention to it.

It wasn't until these dozen or so account books were opened that I understood the reason, that is, the increase in Rongxiang's income.

This year's accounts have not been settled, but last year's accounts have been settled, and compared with previous years, the income has increased by more than 6 million yuan.

Specifically, it can be seen that it is not the city that is operating, and that the statement is not correct, but it is accurate that the inner library pays the city port division money and silver silk goods, and then the city port division uses them to exchange spices and pearls to the maritime merchants, and then transfers them to the inner warehouse, which is sold by the inner warehouse. Therefore, to see the great contribution of the city's ship, it depends on the number of spices and pearls bought back by the city's ship.

This is easy to see, and you can see it at a glance, Quanzhou accounts for nearly seventy percent of it!

And it's more than quadrupled compared to previous years.

That is to say, Quanzhou alone brought at least 4 million yuan of income to the country last year.

That's not a small amount of money.

Think about how much money a seedling loan has collected in a year?

Wang Ju smiled slightly and said, "If there is no accident, there will be an increase in income of more than 1.5 million yuan this year." ”

"All from the Borderlands?" Zhao Ji regretted it a little, this account book was taken out, and the ministers estimated that they would all be eyeing it in the future.

But it's not the borderlands, it's him...... I'm tempted too!

Actually, it's that easy?

First, the risk at sea, Wang Ju has taken a lot of precautions, and there are still shipwrecks, so he continues to let people improve the ship. However, even if it is improved, shipwrecks are still unavoidable.

Second, if they are put on islands on both sides of the equator, it is estimated that only half of them will survive in a year. Even if Wang Ju brought them to the temperate zone, the people of Fujian Road were at ease on both sides of the equator. And let them bring some soybeans, make more tofu to eat, and also transport some apples to them, and let them eat more fruits with high vitamin content such as oranges. But there are still a few people who are not adapted.

Third, the terrible malaria, Wang Ju also took some preventive measures, such as transporting a lot of mosquito nets to them, so that they could reduce mosquito bites, and try to break up the residence, but malaria still occurs. On a particular island, there are many spices and many sandalwood trees, but because of the large number of mosquitoes, it has caused a large area of malaria. If you can't bear it, then you have to give it up!

Fourth, there are bloodsucking insects in some areas, and Wang Ju also taught, let the people go to the unfamiliar rivers to bathe less and eat less raw water, but it's hot, why don't the people go into the water to bathe?

Fifth, that is, the local indigenous people, each safe haven, not only need a good haven, but also have a cultivated area, then there must be plains and rivers, of course, those dense rainforest areas, there is no need to cultivate now, just such a small number of people, why bother. However, there are also indigenous people in these areas, although they are very backward and not as terrible as the legend says, but there will inevitably be conflicts and battles, and people will die. However, fortunately, Wang Ju led the way, and he would not rather give away friends than domestic slaves like most scholars and doctors in the Song Dynasty, and adopted all the methods of later Westerners, who were more cruel and decisive, and used captives to do dangerous occupations. I can't say anything about that.

Sixth, is to open up, not like Fujian Road, no matter how bitter it is, it is basically opened up, but all over there must be developed, from scratch, and it is a strange environment, and many areas have far more poisons than the Central Plains, sometimes even a spider can bite people to death.

Finally, there is a more important one, it is not that the people are unwilling to leave their homes, that they can use means to bewitch, and they don't really want to move millions of households, the main thing is the attitude of the imperial court. If there is a lot of migration, what will the imperial court think?

Therefore, it is still a difficult road to pioneering.

It's just that under the command of Wang's giant fingers, many unnecessary twists and turns have been avoided.

At the same time, most of the migrants were so poor that they could no longer be poor, and half of them were almost desperate people, although there was danger, but the harvest was great, and at the beginning, it was almost a huge profit, and there was enough profit to support it, so the people did not complain, on the contrary, they all felt that they had a better future.

If the government does it......

And there are too many secrets over there, and Wang Ju doesn't want the court to know.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, those who open mines are not as good as those who transport ore, and those who transport mines are not as good as those who sell ores." If it is true that they can settle the people on the other side, their roots are in the Central Plains, and His Majesty can send officials to govern them, or they can divide these places on the map of the Song Dynasty. But now it's better to do nothing......"

"Your Majesty, what Wang Zi'an said is extremely true," Wu Chong said immediately.

Aren't you too messy to change the law?

"Is there a lot of spice over there?"

"I don't know the specifics, some places have it, some places don't. In some places, there are many indigenous people, and even if they can make a profit, they must get out of the way. And the scope is too vast, now only a part of the exploration has been explored, and on the farther shore, there are some better land, about ten times the area of our dynasty, and more than two-thirds of the other land is sparsely populated. Even if the densely populated place is at most equivalent to Lingnan in our dynasty, civilization is backward. If these places were to be explored, it would take at least a few decades. However, this fertile land of the desert can be left to future generations. After all, our dynasty is too densely populated, and even if the people cruelly drown their children alive, the population is still growing rapidly. If there is no land to evacuate, we will not be able to support so many people in the future, and the country will be in danger. ”

"But it......'s too far away," Wang Qi sighed.

Wang Ju is reasonable, and there are many benefits, although tens of thousands of people have migrated, but with this income, what else can be said. Moreover, these are extremely poor people, not to mention tens of thousands of households, even one million extremely poor people cannot contribute 4 million yuan of income a year. Although it is the income of the inner treasury, the inner treasury is also the income of the state, but one is jointly dispatched by the emperor and the prime minister, and the other is only dispatched by the emperor. But with income, even in the inner treasury, it is also beneficial to the state.

But on the other side of the ocean, one round trip a year, if it is far away, maybe one round trip every two years, how to care?

Wang Ju was happy in his heart, as long as everyone recognized it, it would be easy to do.

This is also a key point, if the imperial court does not agree to the migration, don't mention any difficulties, just suspend it!

"Yes, I'm also thinking of a way...... "Think of a ghost, maybe Wang Ju may let the court "govern" in the future, but now he won't do this stupid thing, and then Wang Ju said: "Not only this income, but also ......"

The latter income is not negligible...... (To be continued......)