"Humph, if it weren't for the emperor's protection, would the Yan Party have been able to control the government for more than 20 years? In fact, it is wrong to say that the Yan Party controls the government, because the emperor is the one who really controls the government! As for the Yan Party, they are just the emperor's
Vassals, or in other words, they are just puppets used by the emperor to control the government! All they think about is how to flatter themselves, and they will not care about the life and death of the people! As Mr. Lin just said, even if they have woven enough silk, they can sell it
I don’t know how much of the profits gained from giving it to Nanyang merchants can actually be used for military pay! In the end, it’s the common people who are suffering!”
Li Jiuyuan said very sadly.
"Now that Liaodong is in urgent need, even if the imperial court takes the lion's share, the money should be used to pay the army to defeat the Tatars!"
Yang Dingyuan said doubtfully.
"Humph, the palace's spending is excessive, and it has to make up for last year's huge deficit. This money may not be enough!"
Li Jiuyuan said with a sneer.
"How many people are there in the palace? How much money can there be? How can you use so much money?"
Xu Changlin was very confused!
"Humph, there are so many places to spend money in the palace! The emperor is addicted to Taoism. It is said that he is preparing to build a Taoist temple in the palace. The budget of this Taoist temple alone will probably not be less than one million taels.
silver!"
"In addition, he also supports dozens of Taoist priests, and each Taoist priest's annual salary is thousands of taels of silver! Opening a furnace to make alchemy requires the use of many rare materials, and each time is a huge expense!"
"Also, there are so many empresses, eunuchs, and maids in the palace, totaling tens of thousands of people! Just eating and drinking for so many people is a huge expense! In addition, their lives are very luxurious. In winter,
Burn charcoal and 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 in color and looks like silver! Moreover, it does not smell like smoke when burned, and it heats up very quickly! In short,
This kind of carbon has many benefits, but the only disadvantage is that it is too expensive! One pound of silver can only buy five pounds of carbon!"
"Think about it, what kind of concept is this! Is this still burning charcoal? It's just like burning silver!"
"It is said that the palace spends millions of taels of silver just burning this kind of silver carbon every winter!"
"And silver carbon is just a small aspect of the luxurious life in the palace!"
"All these expenses in the palace are added up. What a huge number it is!"
"It is precisely because the palace spends too much money and it is difficult to move without money, so the emperor has to rely on Zhong Yan Dang to get money for him. Therefore, even if the emperor knows that Yan Dang is a traitor, he will turn a blind eye.
Eyes, no investigation! This is the real reason why the Yan Party has remained standing after so many years!"
Li Jiuyuan said heartbrokenly!
Listening to their conversation, Lin Xu felt very complicated!
Since the information he learned was very limited, he actually didn't know much about the current situation in the capital, and he didn't know much about people at the center of power such as the Emperor and Yan Shoucheng. Therefore, after listening to their conversation, he was
Yan Shoucheng got a rough outline of the emperor!
In fact, he originally knew that the imperial court was very corrupt, but he did not know that the imperial court was corrupt to this extent. It was not just the corruption of some treacherous ministers and corrupt officials, but the corruption from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, from the root!
In order to maintain his luxurious life, the emperor did not care whether the soldiers at the border could receive military pay, or whether the people in the south of the Yangtze River would have food to eat after converting rice to mulberry, or whether they would starve to death!
This is the feudal dynasty!
The wheel of history is rolling forward. How can this kind of feudal dynasty, which only cares about its own enjoyment and completely ignores the welfare of the people, not be swept into the garbage dump of history?! This chapter has been completed!