Emperor Jinghe paid great attention to his own reputation.

The ministers are simply unkind and forced themselves, so how could they submit?

Although he also knew that this group of people did not have any deep malice, he would never take the blame.

Thinking about what happened, he shook his head solemnly: "You all have this saying. When my great kang was established, Taizu had the teaching of "no one can stand without trust". This year, because of the invasion of foreign invasions, he originally planned to apply for 5,000 certificates, but many temples, nunnies and Taoist temples were actively purchased, and a total of more than 12,000 were sold.

In addition to the past few years, they have donated nearly 30 million taels of silver to Dakang, which is comparable to the sum of taxes for salt and porcelain every year. Do you still have the heart to let them bear the burden again and kill chickens to get eggs so far?”

Jing Hedi spoke sincerely.

This is indeed what he thought.

Apart from the concept of face, people are really more enthusiastic and hard to do.

Hearing this, several big shots nodded slightly and agreed with the emperor's statement.

Unexpectedly, Ge Songdao was heartbroken. He shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, although I am a little sorry for them, I have to do this! First, no one is richer than monks, nuns and Taoists. They have countless worshippers from good men and women every year, and there is no place to spend money, and they accumulate wealth in the world.

Second, monks, nuns and Taoist priests are the weakest. We collected their heavy taxes, and they had no strength to resist. If the same tax was added to the common people, merchants, and landlords and gentry, what would happen? It was unimaginable! But monks, nuns and Taoist priests had no problem at all!

Third, after collecting their certificates, they dare not say that they are unwilling to do so, otherwise they will have no kindness and the people will despise them! We can also give them some honors, such as inscriptions, such as additional seals, etc., and they will not suffer any losses!"

The tragic Emperor Jing He, who had just staged a tragic story, was speechless by Ge Songdao's shameless words.

Cao Yi also glanced at Ge Songdao without any trace.

This Ge Songdao is really amazing!

He knows how to make choices than Miao Yan, and is better at inspiring people and is more unscrupulous than Miao Yan.

If Liu Renhuai had not been blocked by such a person, and he would have become the prime minister, the court would have changed a lot.

Cao Yi himself was not worried.

At this age, his son made a big mistake - uh, he was arrested by Miao Yan, so he has been the prime minister for only two or three years.

Once things were sorted out, Liu Renhuai calmed down the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. The moment he entered Beijing, he had to retire and return to his hometown by himself.

But this is not bad either.

It can be considered a waste of money. Although the family’s wealth has been reduced by more than half, it is still a big landlord’s family, which is enough for future generations.

The key is that this historical book gives you a better reputation.

Honeycomb coal, sweet potatoes, and the current cement concrete... etc. No matter who made these, they were promoted to the world, but in their own hands, no matter how much they achieved, no one could erase them.

While he was thinking, there were many people who rebelled against each other.

Feng Yuqiang, a senator of the Hanlin Academy who had just praised the emperor, said: "Your Majesty, what Ge Xiang said is so much! At this moment, we cannot incite conflicts, so we just pointed at the soft persimmon and took the monks, nuns and Taoists to the surgery!"

Ma Haoqiu continued, "Well, we are not greedy. In the next three years, let them buy an additional certificate worth 30 million taels of silver every year! Tens of thousands of temples and Taoist temples across the country should be able to take out this amount of money!"

"Oh, there is no way to do this!" Zhong Chang continued, "After passing this level, let's see how to compensate them!"

OK!

Rebellion again!

The emperor looked at Nangong Ji, hoping that he would say a few words, but the old guy didn't look at the emperor at all, just stared at the ground.

"Since that's the case..."

There was no choice but to speak, "Everyone is planning one..."

While he was talking here, he heard a low voice outside the door: "Report to Your Majesty, there is an urgent memorial over Wenyuan Pavilion!"

Emergency memorial?

Emperor Jing He's heart was thrilled, he quickly stopped and signaled Zhao Shou to get it.

Zhao Shou took it over, and Emperor Jing held his breath, opened it and looked at it, but he was immediately stunned.

Then when he looked up and saw everyone looking at him, he suddenly felt a little smirking.

Everyone was so cold that his smile was made quite cold, Cao Yi said, "Your Majesty, what happened?"

Emperor Jinghe picked up the memorial. Cao Yi thought he wanted to show it to him and others, but Emperor Jinghe handed it to Zhao Shou: "Read it to all of you!"

"yes!"

Zhao Shou picked it up and read: "My minister of the Ministry of Rites Li Yan asked His Majesty that early this morning, the temples, nunnies, Taoist temples and other elders in the capital area sent a donation of one million taels of silver, and said that there will be donations of the same scale in the year. I hope the court can use them on the people who are suffering from military disasters.

According to what they mentioned, monks from all provinces will also hand over the donation to the yamen before the New Year and ask Your Majesty to accept it! I think this is because of your great kindness and education of the people, so that you have such blessings. It is really gratifying!"

Ge Song said: "!?"

Feng Yuqiang: "!?!?"

All the ministers: "!?!?"

One and two were all shocked.

The emperor asked Zhao Shou to read it out because he wanted to see their faces, especially Ge Songdao.

Seeing this, he laughed, "Everyone, this is not because I don't give the order! They have given it on their own initiative. You are embarrassed to force them to buy extra certificates, right?"

Ge Songdao had no time to pay attention to the emperor's evil tastes, and he sighed helplessly.

This is indeed not good.

If you force the temples and Taoist temples to buy certificates, they have something to say, I not only bought the application amount this year, but also donated so much money. You also have to force me to buy it. Is this forced?

In this way, the pressure on public opinion was completely placed on the court.

Everyone will sympathize with these monks, thinking that the court is too hungry and too unqualified.

As a shameless court, Dakang would definitely not be able to do such a thing, and even if they wanted to push hard, the emperor had sufficient reasons to refuse.

"Your Majesty, don't be busy with happiness. This is not a good thing at all!" Ma Haoqiu frowned and said, "Originally we could have increased 30 million taels a year, but in three years it would be 100 million taels of silver! Now they have taken the opportunity, and the loss is still the court! Where do we get so much money from?"

Jing Hedi's smile suddenly paused, and then turned into a bitter melon face, and his mood instantly became bad.

He was the one who saved monks, nuns, Taoists and other monks, but the one who was in a dilemma in the end was himself!

"We didn't have many ways to find money. Now that we have removed one of the most important projects, can we only use our brains on the Jiaen Order?" Feng Yuqiang immediately reacted and coughed lightly, "Anyway, they have made a lot of money with many commodities from Prince Yu's Mansion in the past two years. Now is the time for them to repay the world!"

Jing Hedi's face became even more ugly: "My dear friends, they... in fact, many of them are not very rich! Yes! There is small money, but big money is nothing! You can't let them really eat rice bran porridge, right? The royal family's face must be maintained!"

"Well, the poor royal family doesn't have to worry about it, but the rich should do their best!" Ge Songdao adjusted his mood, "Your Majesty, let's not mention anything else, Prince Yu's mansion still has at least more than 10 million taels of wealth, right?"

"It's Prince Yu's Mansion again!?"

The emperor was furious, "What are you doing? I pointed at the family to fetch her, right? Mingqi had been fined 10 million taels before, and she still came? Isn't this let them lose everything? No, no!!"

"Captain Yu had committed a heinous crime. If you buy a life of 10 million taels of silver, they won't lose." Cao Yi said slowly: "This time is different! Aren't we going to restore his title of prince with the birth of a prince? It's just right, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. If the Prince Yu's mansion can donate 10 million taels of silver, then it would be nice to announce the restoration of the title of Prince De on the first day of the new year!"

Jing Hedi was stunned, looking at Cao Yi with the same eyes as seeing a ghost.

This old thing is so bad!

How could I come up with such an inhuman way?

The other ministers were not surprised at all.

This was originally what they had agreed on before.

Dakang's current finance really cannot afford any extra money, and normal taxes cannot be increased, otherwise it will definitely arouse people's changes.

They even plan to reduce taxes in some places next year so that the people can recover faster.

So you have to find extra money or find a lot of money.

The monk's plan to have 100 million taels of silver failed, and he could only earn 30 million taels more in three years.

Then there is no compromise on the order to give grace to the royal family.

After all, this is the business of their royal family, and the people outside don’t think they are forcing them to donate money.

Even if it is forced, this is not much panic.

The people of the world have supported the children of the royal family for more than 80 years. Can they not be able to survive if they give back once or even a few more times?

That's too pretentious, right?!

Of course, they are not without strategies.

The chief elected the first "surgeon" to be the saint Prince Yu who has always been easy to speak and knows how to consider the world!

With Prince Yu's compassion for the world, even if it is difficult to take out ten million taels of silver, he will find a way to support it.

This is something that even a cold-hearted person like Ge Songdao would not doubt.

With the lead of Prince Yu, the descendants of the royal family will have a good driving effect when spending money, and their income will naturally increase much more than expected!

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Chapter completed!