Chapter 413: No Money? Then Hold an Auction!

The next day, there will be a court meeting.

After the King of Han returned to Beijing, he held morning court every day.

After all, he, the Prince of Han, was the prisoner appointed by His Majesty the Emperor himself.

Familiar venues, familiar faces, and familiar smells.

Zhu Gaoxu was sitting on the small bench, and was about to speak directly to Wang Zha, reinstate Officer Jiegong Bao to his post, and give the Cheng and Zhu Jin gentry a hard blow.

Unexpectedly, Xia Yuanji, the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly came out, holding the fluorene board and preparing to speak.

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu saw Xia Yuanji coming out of the queue, he suddenly started to murmur in his heart.

This old guy has been silent before, but now he suddenly comes out and wants to say something?

Damn it, is it possible...

"Your Highness the King of Han, the Ministry of Revenue is out of money and the treasury is empty!"

Concise and to the point, very insightful!

Zhu Gaoxu was dumbfounded and stood up suddenly in shock.

"You fart! Because of the new salt law, the imperial court was filled with an unknown amount of grain, and then it was promoted by the Ming Dynasty Bank. Where did all that money go?"

Faced with the rebuke from Prince Han, Xia Yuanji remained calm and began to talk as usual.

"Shuntianxin has to be repaired, right?"

"Should the "Yongle Dadian" be compiled?"

"Your Majesty, the Northern Expedition needs to be supplied with food and supplies, right?"

"Does it cost money to renovate salt fields and mountains in various places?"

"There is also the release of the kings, the food, grass and baggage, and the relocation of the families, wives and children of the 30,000 soldiers..."

There was silence in the main hall, and everyone was quietly watching Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Household Affairs, the emperor's little abacus, calculating the expenses with his fingers.

He had to admit that every expenditure he mentioned would cost a huge amount of money!

What's more, these projects are all being carried out at the same time. Even if the Ming Dynasty guarded a few mountains of gold and silver, it would not be enough!

Let’s not talk about anything else, but the Emperor’s Northern Expedition.

Last year, His Majesty the Emperor launched his Northern Expedition, claiming to have an army of 500,000 troops to march north to Mongolia.

The figure of 500,000 may be false, but it is false because there are only 100,000 soldiers to fight, and because the auxiliary soldiers and civilians used by the imperial court in the Northern Expedition to transport grain, grass and baggage to the front line, there are really as many as 400,000!

Do these 400,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilians need food, water, and accommodation?

Just transporting grain and grass cost them a huge amount of money!

In the same way, Prince Han waved his hand and released all the princes from the clan, throwing them out to expand territory for the Ming Dynasty!

Although these princes did not send out troops at the same time, they were not much different before and after. By now, they have basically set foot on the new soil of the outside world!

They are not mere commanders. Each of them also has six guards and 30,000 soldiers. This works out to about 500,000 guards garrisoned!

Before this 500,000-strong army leaves, you must provide them with enough rations, as well as armor and equipment!

After all, they went to fight for the Ming Dynasty and expand their territory, not to kill the overseas barbarians!

In addition, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the families, wives and children of these 500,000 soldiers will also be sent to the new lands they conquered one after another to become the first batch of subjects of the overseas kings and help the overseas kings in their overseas affairs. Stand firmly on the new soil.

Even if this group of people is the most basic family of three, there are still millions of people in the damn place, not to mention that most of them have to bring their parents, so there are still several million people!

Such a large-scale migration would cost astronomical amounts of food and accommodation along the way.

Therefore, Xia Yuanji is really not crying about poverty now, but because the national treasury really has no money.

Well, just a few days after finally living a prosperous life, he was ruined by the prodigal son Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Han Dynasty!

When he thought of this, Xia Yuanji stared at Zhu Gaoxu with evil eyes.

This King of Han, like his own father, is a prodigal!

Moreover, this thief Prince Han is even more prodigal than his own father!

Such a full treasury was completely destroyed by him.

When Zhu Gaoxu saw the little abacus clenching his fingers, he experienced the feelings of Emperor Yongle for the first time.

Headache!

What a headache!

So much money, all gone?

As for the reserves in the Ming Dynasty bank, Zhu Gaoxu knew that he could not act rashly, otherwise it would lead to the collapse of the entire Ming Dynasty's economy.

And judging by the look on the old guy Xia Yuanji's face, he's not an ant on the hot pot, so I guess things haven't gotten that bad yet.

Even Zhu Gaoxu had some doubts. The "no money" that Lao Xia Tou said was just that the money was not as abundant as before, and he began to live a tight life.

But no matter what, Emperor Yongle's calculation jumped out and said that he had no money, so Zhu Gaoxu, the Han prince who oversaw the country, had to deal with it!

After all, making money is the most important task of Emperor Yongle's supervision!

It’s just this money, how to get it now?

People have been using the new salt law for several years at a time. Is it possible that we should clean up those salt dealers now? Even leeks are not cut like this. It would be too ugly to eat!

Zhu Gaoxu held his chin and thought for a long time, then turned to look at Gu Zuo and Gu Penzi.

"Gu Penzi, do you have any information from the Procuratorate recently? Is there any huge corruption?"

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty said: "???"

What?

What do you want to do?

Zhu Gaoxu, you uncle!

Are you still a fucking human being?

As soon as the national treasury runs out of money, do you think of looting the homes of corrupt officials?

How come they are trying every possible means to get such a small amount of money from Mo, and they are all working as laborers for you?

Not being a son of a human being, losing one’s heart, losing one’s conscience, losing one’s…

Gu Zuo forced out a smile that was uglier than crying and shook his head subconsciously.

Are you kidding me? If there really was such huge corruption, the procuratorate would have taken action long ago, okay?

After all, if the Metropolitan Procuratorate punishes corrupt officials, he can still get part of the profits. Now I don’t know how many censors are staring at the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty!

"Gu Penzi, I'm not telling you that you can't even find a huge corrupt person. Your procuratorate is a bit passive and sabotaging!"

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty said: "!!!"

Listen!

Is this human language?

Is what Zhu Gaoxu said humanly?

There are no corrupt officials in the fucking land, shouldn't you be happy?

This is the best achievement of the Metropolitan Procuratorate’s successful anti-corruption campaign!

Zhu Gaoxu could only fall into deep thought, and suddenly he remembered something, which came from Jia Liang's reminder that day.

"Ahem, Jin Zhong, have you agreed on the price? Let's hold a tasting meeting, let the kings send envoys to participate, bid for those prisoners and scholars, and rank them according to their official positions and titles. This matter is Leave it to the Ministry of Household Affairs, Old Xia Tou, do you understand what I mean?!"

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty said: "!!!"

Oh my god!

Zhu Gaoxu, you uncle!

You are really going crazy!

If it’s not enough to sell people, what kind of auction should be held?

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Killing people is heart-breaking and extremely harmful!

Xia Yuanji was dumbfounded. He never thought that he was just reminding Han Wang Zhu Gaoxu that there was not much money and food in the treasury, and this thief Han Wang immediately came up with such a dirty trick!

Are you still a human being?

And why leave it to me?

"Ahem, Your Highness the King of Han, let's talk about this..."

"What, you don't want the money anymore?"

"want!"