"Hmph, if it weren't for the protection of the emperor, would Yan Party be able to control the government for more than 20 years? In fact, it is not right to say that Yan Party controls the government, because it is the emperor who really controls the government! As for Yan Party, they are just the emperor's.
Vastrators, or rather, they are just puppets used by the emperor to control the government! What they think in their hearts is just how to charm the people, and how can they care about the lives and deaths of the people! As Mr. Lin said just now, even if they have weaved enough silk, they will sell them.
I don’t know how much profit I earned from the Nanyang merchants can actually be used for military pay! In the end, the people will suffer or the people!”
Li Jiuyuan said with great pain.
"Now that Liaodong is in an emergency, even if the court takes the big head, it should use the silver to pay military salaries to defeat the Tartars!"
Yang Dingyuan said in confusion.
"Hmph, the palace expenses are excessive, and we have to make up for the huge deficit last year. Only these silver may not be enough!"
Li Jiuyuan said with a sneer.
"How many people are there in the palace? How much money can we spend? How can we use so much money?"
Xu Changlin was very confused!
"Hmph, there are so many places to spend money in the palace! The emperor is addicted to practicing Taoism. It is said that he is preparing to build a Taoist temple in the palace. The budget for this Taoist temple alone will probably not be less than one million taels.
silver!"
"In addition, he also raised dozens of Taoist priests, and each Taoist priest had an annual salary of thousands of taels of silver! It takes a lot of rare materials to be used to start the furnace and refine the alchemy, and each time it is a huge expense!"
"Also, there are so many empresses, eunuchs, and palace maids in the palace, which add up to tens of thousands of people! So many people just eat, drink, defecate and urinate is a big expense! In addition, their lives are very luxurious, in winter,
Burn charcoal, make ice in summer..."
"I heard that the carbon burned in the palace is called silver carbon! It is said that this carbon is silver, and from the outside, it looks like silver! Moreover, it does not smell smoke when burned, and it keeps warm very quickly! In short,
There are many benefits to this kind of carbon, and the only disadvantage is that it is too expensive! Only one pound of silver can only buy five pounds of carbon!"
"Think about it, what does this mean? Is this still burning charcoal? It's just burning silver!"
"It is said that every winter, just burning this silver carbon in the palace costs millions of taels of silver!"
"And Yin Carbon is just a small aspect of luxury life in the palace!"
"All these expenses in the palace are added up in a row, what a huge number!"
"It is precisely because the palace spends too much money and it is hard to move without money, so the emperor must rely on the Yan Party to make money for him. Therefore, even if the emperor knows that Yan Party is a traitor, he will turn a blind eye to it.
I will not pursue my eyes! This is the real reason why Yan Dang has stood firm for so many years!"
Li Jiuyuan said heartbrokenly!
Listening to their conversation, Lin Xu's mood was very complicated!
Because the information he learned was very limited, he was actually not clear about the current situation in the capital, and he had no idea about the emperor, Yan Shoucheng and others who were at the center of power. Therefore, after listening to their conversation, he was considered to be
Yan Shoucheng got a rough outline of the emperor!
In fact, he knew that the court was very corrupt, but he didn't know that the court was actually corrupt to this extent. It was not only some treacherous ministers who were in power and some officials who were corrupt, but also from top to bottom, from inside to outside, from the root!
In order to maintain his extravagant life, the emperor actually did not care whether the soldiers on the border could pay military salaries, whether the people in Jiangnan had food to eat after changing rice into mulberry, or whether they would starve to death!
This is the feudal dynasty!
The wheel of history rolls forward. How could this feudal dynasty that only cares about one's own pleasure and completely ignores the warmth and warmth of the people not be swept into the garbage dump of history?! This chapter has been completed!