Chapter 1635 Sacred Heart
"Emperor, Emperor." Wei Zhongxian rushed into the Ganqing Palace, and when he saw Tianqi, he shouted one after another.
Tianqi was looking at several memorials from Xuan Da, talking about money, food and military training. The young emperor frowned and was wondering where he could squeeze out hundreds of thousands of silver to Xuan Da.
Tianqi's eyebrows were about to fall, and he didn't figure out where the money could be moved out... He sighed and decided to leave this trouble to Wei Zhongxian, and asked Wei Zhongxian to find a way.
Recently, there have been many people in the court that they will impose an additional 50,000 yuan in a year, and use the name of suppression or training to levy the embarrassment of insufficient financial use in the court.
Originally, tens of millions had been received in a year, and industry, commerce and the people were under a heavy burden. This income was reduced by about one million at the beginning of Chongzhen's ascension. It also meant that the people relaxed their necks and gave them rest and rested. It had nothing to do with the so-called "maintaining the dynasty". After the chaos in the second year of Chongzhen, the insufficient national use became a real problem, so not only did the income be raised, but also added additional salary training and salary suppression. Even so, the national use was still a shortage.
Tianqi knew in his heart that the court received millions of dollars in the extra tax, and at least a considerable number was divided by local clerks and gentry families. The considerable noble eunuchs also had their own benefits, and the burden was passed on by these people to ordinary farmers. The court imposed two cents of dollars on one acre of land, and these people could double the amount.
Originally, he firmly opposed the matter of additional expedition, but recently the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works have been complaining that all military towns have to rebuild the border walls. This is something that can only be effective if the real money is smashed up... A fire road pier is 300 taels, and a enemy tower is 600 taels. A large castle needs two or three thousand taels to repair, and a decaying border wall that lasts 200 miles long will cost at least ten or two hundred thousand taels... Without silver, the matter of casting cannons is difficult to sustain. Without money, there is no way to buy copper, and without sufficient copper material. If the model is done in advance, there is no way to cast it. A clever woman cannot cook without rice. The emperor cannot send hungry soldiers to fight. Craftsmen cannot cast cannons and build weapons without copper materials and fine iron... The royal family sometimes "buys", but in fact it is just open robbery. Some things needed in the palace are handed over to big businesses in preparation. The royal family goes to the streets to rob. Of course, this kind of thing is too much, causing a rebound in public opinion. The royal family will pretend to punish a few people, and what should they do afterwards.
Emperor Shenzong's tax and mining sects are everywhere. Aren't they all making money for the emperor?
There is no way to do it without money. Tianqi has already leaned towards Jiazheng in his heart, but he is quite clear that this is a glass of poisonous wine! Now it is like a person who is thirsty, but at least he still has hope. If you persist, stand firm and keep walking straight, there may be an oasis ahead, so you can have a good time at that time.
If you are greedy for the poisonous wine in the middle of the journey, it will look cold and quench your thirst, and it will be delicious when you drink it. However, once you get a stomach up, the toxicity will occur and you may never reach the end again.
But this kind of persistence is really being consumed by reality little by little...
Seeing that it was Wei Zhongxian coming in, Tianqi frowned and said, "What's the matter?"
The weather is a bit hot, and Tianqi's expression is a little lazy. The palace frame is very high, but only the windows are open on the south side, so it is not very transparent. Although it is not stuffy, it is not as refreshing as it blows through the palace gate when passing by.
"Your Majesty, I'm so happy." Wei Zhongxian raised the memorial in his hand high, and took advantage of the opportunity to kneel down. When Tianqi took the memorial, Wei Zhongxian thumped his head on the smooth gold brick floor and said, "Your Majesty is so happy that I will defeat the enemy cavalry again in the Ming Dynasty. Sooner or later, one day, I will send a general to pacify Liaodong!"
Tianqi knew that Wei Zhongxian was just asking for good words, and pacifying Liao was of course the long-cherished wish of the wise ruler and minister. In the past ten years, from Emperor Shenzong to Emperor Guangzong, and then to Tianqi himself, how many times have they been worried about the Eastern Affairs? When the situation was very bad in the second year of Tianqi and only one was left to close the door, Emperor Tianqi didn’t know how many times he had woken up at night!
Many times, the emperor dreamed that a wolf-like iron cavalry swarmed in, broke the capital and blocked himself in the palace. The familiar eunuchs and ministers disappeared without a trace. The emperor wanted to hide alone, but he could not find a suitable place.
Whenever the emperor looked for a place to hide in the palace, he finally found that he could not avoid it. When he finally woke up in a nightmare, his fear and fear of the Donglu were reflected on his face. As the emperor and the king of billions of subjects, he was frightened by a group of rebellious barbarians, and the emperor himself looked down on himself.
"Another victory?" Tianqi took the memorial casually and opened it and read it.
The memorial was delivered to the capital in the name of the Liaodong Governor Yuan Chonghuan. It was a quick-speed horse. It was sent from Ningyuan to the capital in two days. The Titang official of the Ministry of War knew that it was the most urgent Liaodong Military Newspaper, so he did not dare to neglect it at all, so he immediately sent it from Huijimen to the inner court. After the Sili people took it, they immediately gave it to Wei Zhongxian. When they saw that it was a good news, Wei Zhongxian rushed over to make fun of it... Seeing the emperor's expression was faint, as if he was not very happy, Wei Zhongxian quickly said: "This time it was indeed a great victory. Ningyuan was nothing, Jinzhou was nothing, and the captive cavalry had not passed Ningyuan and had not robbed it. They were respectively frustrated under Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and the captive cavalry retreated."
"The people are the best!" Emperor Tianqi was still concerned about the refugees in Liaodong. He was once unable to rest day and night because of the Thirteen Mountains. More than 100,000 refugees hid on the mountain, without food and clothing, and could be captured by the East at any time and broke the defense line on the mountain. When the thought of whether it is young or young, whether it is a man or a young man, whether it is an octogenarian or a young child, the Emperor Tianqi was quite sad. Later, he reduced his meals and fun for this... When Hutchison appeared in the sky and successfully rescued the refugees in the mountain, although Hutchison was very surprised by the potential displayed by Hutchison and began to limit Hutchison's activities to the closing gate and Jiangnan, overall, Hutchison made great contributions in the emperor's heart. Before Zhang Han showed his true power in the north, the court only restricted Hutchison.
"The people are fine." Wei Zhongxian said seriously: "There were clues before the incident. Besides, there were only a hundred soldiers guarding the city of Linghe, Qiantun, etc., and the people had already retreated to Jinzhou and Ningyuan. The enemy cavalry rushed back and forth, and they were afraid that they had not even destroyed much of the houses and farmland."
Only then did Tianqi show a happy expression on his face. He nodded gently, nodded and stopped talking, but focused on Yuan Chonghuan's memorial.
A eunuch of Sili stood quietly behind the emperor to prepare for consultants.
Emperor Tianqi is Yuan Chonghuan's "Jinzhou Report of Certificates": "Relying on the power of heaven, retreating to the enemy to rescue the siege, and sacred concerns: Zhao Zhijiaofei, the general officer, reported the past, and on May 11, Jinzhou was surrounded on all sides, and three great battles were won three times; on the 25th day of the small battle, he fought every day, and was defeated. On the fourth day of the first day, the enemy re-entered soldiers to attack the city, using Western giant stone cannons, artillery, fire bullets and arrows, and damaged the soldiers outside the city. Following the night of Wugu, the troops were withdrawn from the east. He still camped in Xiaoling River, leaving elite troops to collect the rear. Taifu Ji and rank, and sent elite troops to defend the post. This is the service, if it were not for the power of the emperor, the rituals and supervision of the temple, and the Neizhen Ji
With the post, he led the general Zuo Fu, the deputy general Jin Guoqi and others to guard the important places of Jinzhou. How could he win by surprise? Now that he had rescued the siege, he was in a difficult situation. In fact, Zhenji fought hard. The secretly planned, governed, governed, and governed the army for several years, and encouraged the soldiers for several years. How could he keep the abandoned Xiacheng for six years, and the siege soldiers for one month, and obtain this strange victory. For this reason, he came to me. Seeing that the enemy came here, taking advantage of the power of victory in the East River, he had already come to see me Ning and Jin. Who knew that the emperor was so powerful that the army was revived, and the factory ministers were in charge of Jiamo, and everyone dared to die. He fought dozens of battles, and he escaped. He was indeed a martial art that had not been seen in decades!"
"I dare not take credit for me." Wei Zhongxian said with his head down: "Everything is the verdict of the Sacred Heart."
Chapter completed!