Chapter 942： aware

When Mu Yangling and Qi Haoran came out behind Fan Zijin, their faces were expressionless, but their hearts were actually very mysterious, so we can talk about it?

directly reduced from 50,000 to 20,000, and even the deposit was directly reduced from 20,000 taels to 5,000 taels?

The couple sat upright in the carriage and secretly looked at Fan Zijin's face.

Fan Zijin talked too much just now. As soon as he got on the carriage, he picked up the teapot on the low table and poured two cups of tea. Then he had time to teach Qi Haoran a lesson. Andre asked for 60,000 yuan, but he only pressed 50,000 yuan in one mouthful. It's not that he has no money in his pocket, is it that he still plans to take it in one bite?

is simply a prodigal!

Fan Zijin is also very disdainful of Mu Yangling, Qi Haoran is the reason she doesn't manage well, she also saves on small things, and spends more money than Haoran on big things. The shop is simply not good at housekeeping, so in the end, Mu Yangling was also scolded.

The couple looked at each other, thinking of the 30,000 taels who had just been dragged back into their pockets, and listened to the training silently.

Fan Zijin trained the two as grandsons, and the carriage stopped at the entrance of Fan's house, he jumped out of the carriage, and said to the two people in the carriage, "Then you can find a way for the 20,000 taels, I won't borrow a single penny here. He glanced at Qi Haoran and asked, "You can't do it, you won't let the Minister of War to block the Minister of Household? There's no reason to keep asking you to pay in advance. Now the little bears and the others are still young, it's nothing, in another ten years." In eight years, the little bear is about to get married, will you still have a family business by then?"

Fan Zijin walks away after teaching others.

Mu Yangling also glanced at Qi Haoran and said, "Zijin is right."

Qi Haoran said with a pleasing smile: "I'll write a book and a letter when I go back, but the deposit is not waiting, so you can give me 5,000 taels."

Mu Yangling said cheerfully: "This is no problem, what if the household department still doesn't allocate money after the new year?"

"If he doesn't give money, this cannon will belong to our family. We will disassemble it and study it ourselves. Hmph, when the time comes when the cannon will be built and sold to them, no one will ask me to give them the blueprint."

Mu Yangling saw the seriousness flashing in Qi Haoran's eyes, so he thought about it and said, "But it seems that it is not good for you to build an arms factory as a prince."

Qi Haoran looked at her with contempt, "A-Ling, have you forgotten who owns the world now? My lord is the royal family now, and this arms-making workshop will naturally be placed under the royal family's name. In name, even if you are the king of the county, you can't use iron ore privately."

Qi Haoran sneered, "Now my master is dedicated to the imperial court and is willing to subsidize it. If they go too far, it's a big deal for our royal family to do it by ourselves. At that time, the Ministry of War still has to buy guns from us. At this price, there is no Zijin to help me. You still have to pay."

"If the Ministry of War didn't purchase cannons, wouldn't we produce them for nothing?"

Qi Haoran looked at her with an idiot's eyes, and the grievances of being scolded by Zijin just now disappeared, "Zijin also said that I am the most stupid, obviously you are, sitting on the dragon chair my elder brother, my nephew, my grandnephew, an edict. Let the Ministry of War equip artillery, do they dare to equip it?"

Mu Yangling was looked at by Qi Haoran with contempt, and suddenly felt so stupid.

She thought about the prospect of the munitions factory, and when she woke up, she said happily: "This is not bad, just don't ask for money from the Ministry of War, isn't it just money to buy cannons and research and development? I'll pay for it. , and ask big brother for some more, we will build a royal arsenal."

Qi Haoran was silent for a while, and said earnestly: "A-Ling, eldest brother must be the emperor first before we are the emperor. We are trying to pry the eldest brother's feet. Haven't you always been for the country? We have to make the Ministry of War unjust, We can be ruthless, otherwise the imperial arsenal will be built in the future and the imperial court will have to make a scene."

Mu Yangling was aggrieved, "Didn't you say you should do it alone?"

"That's on the premise that the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household do not allocate money..."

Mu Yangling rolled his eyes and said, "Then you need to apply more. How much money did our family put into the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households, but they haven't paid it back yet. Also, it used to be because the country was just founded and the treasury was empty. It’s okay for us and eldest brother Jin to use private money to make up for it, but now we want to separate the national treasury and the inner treasury. You should also tell the eldest brother that we can no longer use the inner treasury to subsidize the national treasury. Keep your hands tight, and you can’t let the courtiers develop anything and everything. They are all staring at the emperor's inner treasury."

"As ministers, they should think about doing things for the common people and sharing their worries for the king. When they are short of money, they will find the emperor's brother and Zijin. Are they doing things for the emperor's brother, or are we supporting them in vain?" Mu Yangling was even more worried. The only thing is that the national treasury and the inner treasury are not divided. In the future, it is possible that state affairs and family affairs will not be divided. Qi Xiuyuan is thrifty and self-disciplined, but his descendants may not have this determination. Money, I'm afraid it will be troubled again.

Isn't it because the emperors of Dazhou often used the money from the treasury to build gardens and spend extravagantly?

If the emperor could only use his own internal treasury, no matter how extravagant he was, his influence on the people would be limited.

But don't say this to Qi Haoran, lest the two have to argue again.

Qi Haoran thought about it for a while, and also felt that the courtiers had relied too much on the emperor's internal treasury in the past two years. In the evening, he not only asked for money from the Ministry of War, but also sent a letter to Qi Xiuyuan, telling him about his purchase of cannons. A Ling's words, Xinwei said aggrievedly, they have no money, Zijin has no money to lend him, so your internal library has to leave some for them...

Qi Xiuyuan was silent for a long time after receiving the letter. When he went to court the next day, he first took out Qi Haoran's application for funding, and there was a quarrel. The Sinong Temple needs food and farming tools for research, which requires money, the Ministry of Industry wants to build water conservancy projects, and even more money, the Ministry of War wants soldiers’ salaries, food, grass, quilts, and clothing, all of which require money, even the Ministry of Rites said that they must sacrifice to the sky for the winter solstice Be prepared, ask for money.

And the Ministry of Household is just two words, no money!

Everyone looked at Qi Xiuyuan with vague expectation.

Qi Xiuyuan stared blankly, but his heart seemed to be tightly held by someone's hands, twitching and hurting. According to the past, he would definitely ask the Ministry of Household to list the materials and money that can be given to each department first, and I will use it if it is not enough. Replenish the internal library.

And where does the money from the inner treasury come from?

Zijin is filled in.

Where does Zijin's money come from?

Proceeds from doing business and borrowing from wealthy merchants. Now, Zijin still owes a lot of money to outsiders. Even if he doesn't need to fill the inner treasury now, he will not be able to pay it back for a while.

In the past, it was a last resort to use the internal treasury to supplement the national treasury. He could not force the common people who could not pay the tax, or increase the tax rate of merchants, which would only make Daqi, which was already full of refugees, more refugees, and the country would become more chaotic, so he They could only grit their teeth and let the three brothers fill in their private rooms.

For the sake of Daqi, he even used his sister-in-law's dowry, and now that the treasury has eased, these courtiers are still staring at his inner treasury!