With a few sounds of clothes grinding, only a full voice was heard: "My dear Chen Tingyang, pay homage to His Highness the Crown Prince!"

Zhu Cixuan sat on the hood chair and said calmly: "Don't give me a gift, I'll give you a seat."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Chen Tingyang sat down in the seat respectfully, without raising his head and looking at him.

"Mr. Wumei is not necessary to be restrained." Zhu Cixuan stood up and walked to the chair opposite Chen Tingyang and sat again: "Mr. Wumei is from Suzhou?" At that time, Chongming belonged to Suzhou Prefecture, so Zhu Cixuan said this.

Even though Chen Tingyang had experienced strong storms, he had also had the experience of facing a saint. Now he heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say that he was calling him a trumpet and was still arrogant and sat opposite him. He was bulging and thunder in his chest and buzzing his head. He didn't even dare to raise his head, but he could only respond repeatedly.

"My mother is also from Suzhou, and you and I still have a family friendship." Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "Tian Cunshan, go and get iced drinks to relieve the heat with Wumei Gong."

"Your Highness is a vain." Chen Tingyang took a secret breath and finally recovered from some tranquility.

Zhu Ciyang knew that he was so enthusiastic would make people frightened. However, this fear would gradually fade as the relationship deepened, leaving only jokes in the future. Zhu Ciyang, who was extremely low in substitutability, would never be willing to fix his relationship with each other on the simple principle of "monarch and minister".

Zhu Cilang read Chen Tingyang's resume and knew that he was not a Jinshi officer, but a student from the Imperial College. He was the first to serve as the Secretary of the Cabinet. In the 15th year of Chongzhen, Jianlu raised troops and Jinzhou was in a hurry. Chen Tingyang was appointed as the doctor of the Ministry of Revenue and went to Denglai, Shandong to plan sea transportation of food and money, and to receive Jinzhou's defenders.

Chen Tingyang was serious about his work and did not have the habit of being greedy like other officials. He did this job very well. Shi Kefa, who was the governor of the grain transportation at that time, submitted a memorial and recommended it. Emperor Chongzhen praised him and said: "As long as Chen Tingyang is, why is it difficult to cure the world?"

At the beginning of this year, Chen Tingyang joined the Imperial College as a businessman. A rare high-ranking official who was a student of the Imperial College and was a Qingliu, so it would not be impossible to enter the Gejiao in the future.

"Actually, I know Wumei Gong, but it started with the "Please Advocate the Small Trial of Sea Transportation" in the 12th year of Chongzhen." Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "And the test voyage was good, which made His Majesty very pleased."

Chen Tingyang said helplessly: "If the shipping is really reopened, the food consumption will be at least 70% less."

Such good governance was ultimately unsuccessful.

Zhu Cilang was also very regretful. However, this is politics. In many cases, it is not about choosing the best item, but about having to succumb to the balance of interests. A Grand Canal from north to south, feeds the Caoding Huofu and the comprador of Yaxing. Although there is no such Caogang as later generations, a huge interest group has been formed.

The so-called "living the mountains and water" is the one who relies on water to harvest water. If the canal transportation is converted into the sea, the court can certainly spend less money and collect more grain, but how could the huge canal group be willing to see its own interests suffer?

The censor impeached Chen Tingyang to lose weight in public and private - because the Shen family is the largest sand boat gang, if the grain is abolished and sea, his family is the winner of the greatest interests. In fact, if these officials are not instructed, who would jump out in a hurry? The difference is that some people complain about their mercy because of their mercy, and some people just because they received red envelopes.

"What the mediocre officials said most at that time was the family background of Wumei Gong and whether the soldiers in Caohe would cause trouble." Zhu Cilang paused, and saw that Chen Tingyang was silent, and slowly said: "I think that the Tian family and the Shi family were prosperous and both prosperous and both lost. The big rivers rose and the small rivers were full. As long as the national treasury was full, the world was rich and rich, which was the sign of prosperity!"

"Your Highness is a true insight!" Chen Tingyang agreed quite well, but when he heard the prince mention his family background, he couldn't help but feel much nervous.

"If the main trunk is burnt, how can the branches and leaves be handled by themselves?" Zhu Cilang changed his voice: "Your Majesty has also heard of the fact that your Majesty raised money from wealthy families."

Chen Tingyang did not dare to lie, so he nodded and secretly shouted in his heart: Whatever you are afraid of, the prince finally has to borrow money!

The taxes in the Ming Dynasty were divided into summer and autumn. Starting from the seventh year of Zhengtong, the national taxes collected were divided into Taicang and the inner treasury.

The inner warehouse includes the inner transportation warehouse, the Guangji warehouse, the A, B, C, Ding and Wu warehouse, the stolen punishment warehouse, the Guanghui warehouse, the Guangying warehouse, the Tiancai warehouse and the supply warehouse. Among these twelve warehouses, only the inner transportation warehouse is gold and silver, and the others are sulfur, saltpeter, cloth pigment and other physical objects.

The inner transportation treasury is the inner treasury that the ministers are staring at.

In the eyes of ministers, it was like a treasure pot that could never be taken out and used inexhaustible. In the Hongzhi, Jiajing and Wanli dynasties, the emperor was able to bring millions of taels of silver from the national treasury with strength, but when the emperor was weak, he could only be moved by the ministers.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, he did not dig out any money from Taicang, but instead kept distributing the treasury, so that the court officials knew that the Ministry of Revenue had no money and asked His Majesty the Emperor to distribute the treasury. Because the military pay of the three major camps of the capital and the twenty-six guards of the Shangzhi Dynasty were supported by the treasury, as long as the commander brought the troops from the Beijing camp out, he could just ask for the issuance of the treasury.

There are four main sources of the treasury: gold, flowers and silver in the national taxation, Taicang treasury, imperial villages and imperial shops, and confiscations.

After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, the imperial court was in deficit every year, and it was more difficult to divide gold, flowers and silver from the national taxes than to cut off the meat of foreign ministers. The Taicang treasury maintained an empty state for a long time and could not be dug.

After Wei Zhongxian was cut off, the annual income of tens of thousands of taels of silver in the imperial village and imperial shop continued to shrink. As for the confiscation, the stolen silver of Wei Zhongxian and Keshi can only be regarded as mosquito meat for the entire empire. People always think that powerful officials must be corruption, and there are legends in the market that Wei Zhongxian brought more than 40 carts of gold, silver and jewelry. However, just from the confiscated assets, the money of Wei's family was not even enough to constitute a serious crime of corruption, so the official is unwilling to disclose it publicly to avoid the eunuch party from using it to prove that "the factory ministers do not love money."

As for the cancellation of the mining supervision and the layoff of the weaving bureau, it has even added to the economic situation in Otaku.

So starting from the eleventh year, Chongzhen raised donations from his honorary ministers and relatives several times, hoping to survive the difficulties together. These wealthy families put the family affairs on the streets and sold them at a low price, indicating that they were innocent and had no money to donate to the country. The one who donated the most only donated 20,000 taels was the father of Queen Zhou, Zhu Cixuan's grandfather, and Jiading Bo Zhou Kui.

Only 20,000 taels, including the 5,000 taels of private money that Queen Zhou secretly took out. I hope my father can set an example.

Because of this, Zhu Cixuan had no favoritism for his relatives. In particular, he knew that in another time and space, Zhou Kui was recovered by the Dashun Army, and a total of 700,000 taels were chased.

Moreover, this grandfather personally sent the prince and grandson to the King of Chuang.

"It's so painful to think about it!" Zhu Cixuan gently patted the seat.

"Your Highness..." Although Chen Tingyang was not named and asked to donate his salary, he was still worthy of his reputation, but he did not consciously donate, which inevitably made a real contribution. He didn't know that the prince was actually sighing at the "history" that had not happened yet, and only thought that the prince had made up his mind to cut him a piece of meat today.

"I won't talk about this." Zhu Cixuan was alert in his heart, and immediately stopped this negative emotion, showing a solemn and friendly smile, "Your Majesty, my father, don't you think about it. If those important officials took out more than 100,000 taels, wouldn't they admit that they were greedy? They might not be reluctant to let go of the money."

"Your Highness uses kindness to save people, which is something that makes people admire." Chen Tingyang did not relax, but just responded to the story.

"Today, Wu Mei Gong was summoned to come, but there was something important to ask for." Zhu Cixuan returned to the main topic.

"I know everything but say."

"If you want to transport 50,000 people from the capital to Jiangnan, how many ships will be used?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

Fifty thousand people! Chen Tingyang was shocked and looked up at the prince in confusion. There were so many people, it must be a large army, but the army did not go to the northwest or east, why did it be sent to Jiangnan? Is it true that the rumored emperor Nan Xing was actually? He covered up the shock in his heart and calculated quickly in his mind.

"Your Highness, a big sand boat can transport a hundred people, and a small sand boat can transport more than ten people to thirty or fifty people." Chen Tingyang said slowly: "If you use all the big sand boats, you need five hundred and small boats, the number will be larger. This is just a transporter. If you have goods with people, you have to calculate it separately."

"If you leave the port from Tianjin and log in to Shanghai, how much time will it take? How much does each ship cost?"

"During the trial flight that day, I personally took the boat from Huai'an to sea on the first day of June and arrived in Tianjin on June 15. Among them, the rush took five days and the actual journey was only ten days. From Huai'an to Shanghai, there were still 800 miles away, and it took about four days." Chen Tingyang finished his calculations and said: "The cost includes the expenses of the ship workers. Each ship should use three cents of silver per day. If calculated based on twenty days, each ship would cost six taels of silver, and the round trip was only twelve taels. There were few people in the small boat, so I could save some."

"Save money on shipping, it turns out." Zhu Cixuan said with a slight nose: "Is it safe?"

"If it is a transporter, it is safer than transporting money and grain." Chen Tingyang said: "If it is a transporter, it will be drifted away once the ship capsizes. If it is a transporter, as long as the rescue is timely, there may not be any problem."

"If sand ships are used in combination with large and small sand ships, they will be transported in three or five batches. Is sand ships in Jiangnan enough?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

The prince only talked about shipping and did not mention borrowing money, which made Chen Tingyang feel much more relaxed. He said: "Your Highness doesn't know that the rich people in the south of the Yangtze River often build several ships, and the middle-class people will build one or two ships for backup. Even the lower-class families will gather to build a small boat. Because there are too many water in the south of the Yangtze River, the house is like a carriage from the north. If these 50,000 people can be divided into ten batches, each batch of 5,000 people, my relatives will be enough to take on this matter."

Zhu Cilang smiled and said in Suzhou Mandarin: "I know you are a member of Jiangnan."

Chen Tingyang listened to the local accent of Suzhou and saw the prince being kind again, he finally couldn't help asking: "Your Highness, how should these 50,000 people be placed?"
Chapter completed!