Jiajing almost glared at Xu Qian, but Xu Qian knew that Jiajing was not just the object of his eyes. His eyes had penetrated the void and looked at a group.
Jiajing is too smart. The smarter the person is, the more painful it is. It is precisely because of this intelligence that he has seen through the essence of the so-called imperial power. The imperial power is not a life-and-killing hand. Most of the time, this man is simply
Not the ruler of the dynasty, although he was nominally.
This is what Jiajing suffered. If it were other emperors, he would have hoped to be so relaxed. But for someone like Jiajing, all his vigorous energy could not be done by himself like Emperor Taizu, because Taizu built it.
The system has long been beyond recognition.
His source of information depends entirely on others, his ears and eyes are all on others, and all he can do is to make decisions based on the information obtained from others. Even so, he must obey other people's opinions.
If it were someone else, he would probably want to hide from this leisure, but Jiajing is different. At least Jiajing is not like this now. He claims to be smart and wants to do a big career at this time. Xu Qian believes that Jiajing will be in the second year.
Emperor Jiajing must be holding this idea.
But……
Jiajing had a sneer on his face, and this smile became more intimidating as he and Xu Qian went deeper. He suddenly grabbed Xu Qian's hand, looked at Xu Qian with a deep look, and said, "I can entrust you."
What a big deal?"
This tone actually carries a certain desire. How many people in this world want the emperor to entrust them with great things, but who in this world comes from the true heart? It is fake to entrust big things, and it is real to want to be promoted and make money.
With the emperor's trust, they immediately learned to deceive their superiors and hide their subordinates, and to obey their slander.
Jiajing's face was always cold, because he saw through many truths and had already swore that he would never trust anyone again.
Xu Qian...is an exception.
Jiajing saw himself in this young man. This young man was also selfish and even a little bit unscrupulous. However, he was very wise. Jiajing seemed to believe in his feelings this time. Although this person is also petty, he is not just eager for fame and fortune.
, this person is profit-oriented on the surface, but he must have his ideals deep down.
Jiajing even felt that this person's ideal coincided with his own. Of course, the most important thing was that Jiajing believed in his ability. Although it was his first meeting, Jiajing felt that this person knew him very well, even better than himself.
My understanding of myself is more thorough. This kind of confidant makes Jiajing, who has been frustrated for two years, suddenly feel refreshed.
When he asked this, Xu Qian's face hesitated for a moment.
It was ridiculous. The emperor asked him if he could entrust a big deal. Such a big deal came to the door, but Xu Qian actually hesitated.
Xu Qian naturally had his considerations. He knew too well Jiajing's character, so this person could not be easily entrusted. Of course, Xu Qian could choose to disobey lip service, but what would happen if he disobeyed lip service? Xu Qian might be able to hide this person for a day or two, but
How could Jiajing's intelligence be invisible?
Xu Qian's hesitation actually made Jiajing satisfied. He saw many people who made promises without hesitation. Often, such people are the most unreliable.
After a long time, Xu Qian sighed and said, "Are all the civil and military officials in the court enough to win the trust of His Majesty?"
Xu Qian of Jiajing Dynasty hooked up and said, "So you continue to follow me."
He did not explain much, but took Xu Qian to a side hall. The temple was remote, but there were several old eunuchs guarding here. When they saw Jiajing coming, these people seemed to be used to it and quickly knelt down to greet him.
Jiajing didn't even look at them, and there was a solemn thing on his face, and then led Xu Qian into the hall.
Rather than saying that this is a mourning hall, it is a very simple setting here, with the spirit tablets of the late emperor placed on the spiritual throne.
But it is wrong to say that it is the late emperor, because emperors have always had temple names, but this one only simply wrote the three words "Last emperor" exam.
Xu Qian immediately understood whose spiritual position was this. He glanced at Jiajing, saw Jiajing staring at the spiritual position in a daze, and then slowly said: "Did you see this three-character character for the test of the previous emperor? There is no such a previous emperor in the Taimiao, now
This person is still King Xingxian. I am already the emperor, but my father is my uncle. What's even more ridiculous is that the civil and military officials in the court you just mentioned would rather focus on competing with me to make the first decision.
The emperor is not willing to talk to me about government affairs. Last month, Hebei suffered a severe drought. The memorial only said that there were hunger. I asked them, what is hunger? It was a severe drought, why did the victims eat tree bark? But they were just perfunctory.
In the past, I was concerned about the name of the temple of the ancestors.”
Speaking of this, Jiajing narrowed his eyes and said, "I heard that there are kings on the island of Japan, but their kings never take charge. All the affairs of the country are from the shogunate, led by the general. According to my opinion, these people
I wish I could be a deaf and blind man so that the cabinet would become a shogunate and the cabinet scholar would be a general." He turned his back, smiled at Xu Qian, and said, "Why, don't you believe it?"
Xu Qian actually did not agree with Jiajing's malicious speculation. After all, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had not yet fallen to the position of Xu Jun. However, Xu Qian did see this trend and let this develop, it would only take time for the power to be subordinated to the cabinet.
He neither nodded nor shook his head, but just sighed and said, "Your Majesty is so serious."
Jiajing said: "What, you don't have a word to say to me?"
Xu Qian pondered for a moment and said, "If your Majesty wants to use his talents and intelligence, the first thing he needs to do is to be independent."
Jiajing held the Xiangkeng beside him, his chin hanged slightly, pondered for a moment, and said, "You continue talking."
Xu Qian said: "The cabinet naturally has the responsibilities of the cabinet, but the palace must also take over its own rights. For example, disaster relief requires the allocation of money and grain from the treasury. The treasury is placed under the Ministry of Revenue, and there is a cabinet above it. Your Majesty wants it.
As a result, at most, I just asked about it, and I still can’t interfere directly, but what if the court had to seek help from the palace?"
Jiajing seemed to have some understanding: "Are you talking to the internal treasury?"
Talking to smart people is easy to deal with, at least not so many reasons, Xu Qian smiled and said, "This is roughly the truth. Whoever has a bag of money will be more confident. If the foreign official doesn't explain the matter clearly, your Majesty will do this.
If you keep your money bag in it, who can do anything to His Majesty?”
Jiajing shook his head and sighed, "That's right, but all taxes, money and grain are filled into the national treasury. This is the law of the ancestors. If I advocate this, I am afraid that the whole world will do the right thing to me."
Xu Qian shook his head and said, "I don't mean this. I don't mean that the national treasury is insufficient, and the inner treasury is eliminated. The court only has so much taxes every year, so your Majesty does not need to put his ideas on this."
Jiajing pondered and said, "Do you have a way to accumulate wealth? My inner treasury is really tight, especially this year, after the severance of various places has been removed, the cost of the palace has been reduced repeatedly and it is still difficult to maintain."
Xu Qian said: "The method of gathering money is nothing more than to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, but the expenses in the palace are also huge. There are so many noble people, eunuchs, palace maids, and under the Imperial Horse Prison, they also have to raise soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year, which sounds quite good.
There are many. If it weren’t for the tributes offered from all over the country every year, I’m afraid the palace would have been difficult to maintain."
Xu Qian talked happily, and more importantly, this guy was very clear about the expenses in the palace. In fact, before coming, Xu Qian did his homework. Since Jiajing abolished the eunuch in custody, Xu Qian felt that
Something was wrong. He had specially studied the expenses in the palace, and finally concluded that if there was a saying of bankruptcy in this era, the palace would have gone bankrupt long ago.
Many people often mistakenly believe that the treasury income of tens of millions of taels of silver per year is specially used for the emperor alone. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. This expense involves a lot, from the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace to
The expenses of the local production bureaus, the Warriors Camp under the Imperial Horse Supervision, and even the expenses of the Zongling Mansion’s royal family are all included.
Just so much money, I have to support eunuchs, palace maids, royal family, and tens of thousands of officials. In some later dramas, there are always emperors who give people tens of thousands of taels of silver with a wave of their hand. This is for
It was just a joke in the Ming Dynasty. The rewards in the palace have always been very stingy. At most, they would give you a pair of silk and jade bi, because these things are often tributes, so you have to ask the palace to take out real money and silver to fight.
If you reward, even the emperor will have to scratch his head.
After discovering this, Xu Qian decided to use this as a fuss. He slowly said: "Your Majesty, a family of merchants can make millions of money in just a few decades. As the emperor, isn't even as good as a merchant? So
The students think that the most important thing about Your Majesty is to open up the source of money. Only by opening up the source of wealth can the treasury be abundant, and with a bag of money, the confidence in the palace will be more sufficient."
Jiajing couldn't help but smile and said, "You came up with this idea, there must be a good solution. What can you do?"
Xu Qian said: "There is actually one way to sell the imperial edict..."
Hearing this, Jiajing was stunned at first, then looked at Xu Qian fiercely. He could almost see that Xu Qian was clearly spending his time. What is the imperial edict? The imperial edict is the token of the emperor. How noble it is.
Use this to sell it? Wouldn't the prestige in this palace be gone? Jiajing would rather sell official positions and titles, but he would never have taken this idea to resell the imperial edict.
He couldn't help but curse, "You guy, you usually see you being a little clever, but who knew you had such a bad idea? Are you just a fun thing?"
Chapter 1 is here. Well, in the early morning, Xu Qian is not as hardworking as a tiger. You can reward the tiger with a few monthly tickets! (To be continued. Please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!)