Chapter 67 What to do if you have no money?

Youdao means that if you don't become a householder, you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive.

Zhu Gaoxu had never thought that the imperial court would be short of money before. Even though Xia Yuanji always seemed to be very picky about the issue of money and food, Zhu Gaoxu never felt that way.

But now, he discovered that the court might really be out of money.

He used to think that the Ming Dynasty conquered the grasslands in the north, conquered Annan in the south, compiled the "Yongle Dadian", moved the capital to Shuntian, and Zheng He went to the West. Which dynasty without money would dare to do this?

But now he suddenly realized that the evidence he used to prove that the imperial court had money now became evidence that the imperial court had no money.

In other words, the court may have become out of money because of these things.

Of course, it is said that it has no money, but it is impossible for such a large dynasty to really have no money. It just has a sum of money that it will not use easily.

There is a word called Yin Chi Mao Liang, which refers to the situation of having to eat at home, and today's Ming Dynasty naturally cannot spend all the money, and must leave some money to deal with emergencies.

For example, war, and relief after natural disasters.

"What should we do!?" Zhu Gaoxu's tone instantly rose several degrees.

"The pensions for the soldiers must be given out, right? This is not a reward. Just delay the reward as long as it is delayed. It won't affect anything anyway, but this is a pension!"

"Whoever goes to the battlefield is not the young man in the family. Life without the backbone of the family is already difficult. If we don't provide them with pensions, what's the difference between that and letting them die!?"

When he said this, Zhu Gaoxu was really angry.

It can be said that like a military general, he is a man who earns his living and merits on horseback, so he naturally hates this situation.

He, Zhu Gaoxu, never thought of himself as a good person. He had done things like embezzling soldiers' pay and stealing and confiscating soldiers, but he never used his brains on pensions for wounded and wounded soldiers.

Although not much, he still has principles.

Stealing and seizing can be said to be a problem faced by 99% of military generals. The old man also acquiesced, because after the generals broke into the city and destroyed the enemy, they would loot it and secretly put some in their pockets. This was an unspoken rule.

Zhu Gaoxu had also been greedy for military pay, but he would make up for it later with seizures, and then go to the old man to get scolded or beaten.

All in all, he doesn't think he's a good person, but he doesn't think he's a bad person either.

At the very least, he won't touch the money that the soldiers fought for with their lives.

"Don't worry..." Zhu Zhanhe had now come to his senses. He comforted his father perfunctorily, and then fell into deep thought.

At first, he just thought that the old man was playing with balance. The military generals made great achievements with this Northern Expedition. After all, they destroyed the entire Tatars. If there were no checks and balances, he would probably have his tail raised in the future.

At the same time, when checking and balancing military generals, we must not forget the civilian officials. After all, if a military general has made such a great contribution and is suppressed in the end, this result will probably make the civilian officials even more arrogant.

Therefore, the old man gave Prince Zhu Gaochi, the leader of the civil official camp, and Han Wang Zhu Gaoxu, the leader of the general camp, something extremely uncomfortable to do, so that they could understand their situation and restrain their arrogance.

But now it seems that this is not the case, or it should be said that it is not just the case.

In the past, Zhu Zhanhe only thought that the old man's actions of conquering the South and the North, building the Yongle Grand Ceremony, moving the capital to Shuntian and supporting the Western Ocean were very courageous and forward-looking. But now that he has entered this situation, he has discovered that it is not just that.

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In the early Ming Dynasty, the grain output was not high. The yields of the main food crops, rice and wheat, were basically about two to three hundred kilograms per mu. Four to five hundred kilograms was the top-notch yield.

In addition, the level of development is not enough, so the court's annual tax revenue is only more than one thousand, or at most 20 million taels.

Under almost fixed taxation, we have done so many money-consuming things, and we can also stabilize the internal affairs, at least not to the point where we have to live in poverty. This is already a remarkable achievement.

But this is not very friendly to Zhu Zhanhe today.

Since the old man gave the order, it proves that there must be a solution to the matter. At least there will be a way to survive safely despite some losses.

This method obviously does not follow the arrangements of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Firstly, the Ministry of Household Affairs cannot provide much money now, at least not the money to pay out all the pensions at once. Secondly, once it is handed over to the Ministry of Household Affairs, the pension will not be available.

Eighty percent of the time it will be delayed.

As Zhu Gaoxu said, pensions are different from rewards. Pensions are what the casualties will rely on for a long time in the future, unlike rewards, which are the icing on the cake.

For the families of the wounded and wounded soldiers, pensions are like charcoal in the snow. Without the charcoal, they will freeze to death.

But what should be done?

Money, money……

No, it's not just money, food, cloth, etc., whether it's food as hard currency or finished and semi-finished products produced by cash crops that are just needed, are all acceptable.

So, where to find it?

"Who has money..." Zhu Zhanhe pinched his chin and murmured with dull eyes.

"Who has money? Who has no money except the common people in this world?" Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but talk to him after hearing his son's murmur.

"The court, nobles, officials, nobles, businessmen, which one of these people has no money?"

"Businessman?" Zhu Zhanhe was stunned for a moment, but then his eyes shone with light.

"Yes! Businessman!"

Zhu Zhanhe clapped his hands suddenly, which startled Zhu Gaoxu.

"What's wrong with the businessman?" Zhu Gaoxu was confused.

"You want businessmen to pay? Stop making trouble!"

"Merchants have always valued profits over righteousness. Let alone getting free money, even if the imperial court sends people to ask for it, they have to exchange it for some benefits, such as salt and so on."

"Don't want to get money for nothing?" Zhu Zhanhe chuckled, with a very unnatural look on his face.

"But if so, what if I can make them get money for nothing?"

"What do you want to do?" Zhu Gaoxu sat upright and asked nervously.

"This is no longer on the grassland. You can't act as recklessly as before!"

Zhu Gaoxu felt very nervous when he looked at his son who was exuding a strong smell of blood.

He had only seen this kind of behavior in his son once, and that was in the grassland, and that was when the three guards of Wuliangha were built in Beijing.

Zhu Zhanhe at that time was different from the first time he was sent by the old man to build the Jingguan. It was the second time he built the Jingguan, or in other words, raised the Jingguan.

At that time, he had an aura that ordinary people didn't have. Even though he was just a child, it still made people shudder.

What does that feel like?

Zhu Gaoxu probably thought that you suddenly broke into a room and found a child eating the limbs of several adults, with blood all over his face.
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