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Volume 1 Dragon Trapped in the Shoal Chapter 72 Various Reasons

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    Zhu Changluo frowned and said that he had no opinion, which was a lie.  This partiality is too much!  You should at least ask for your own opinion first, right?  Even if you are the emperor and the father, you can't do it so obviously in front of so many people, right?

    However, at least Zhu Yijun didn¡¯t forget to say that he would give some compensation.

    After listening to Zhu Yijun's words, Zhu Changluo's heart moved. It didn't matter if he was being hypocritical or sincere.  As the emperor, since you have spoken out, as long as you don't make excessive demands that ask you to make yourself the heir apparent, you shouldn't refuse ordinary small requests, right?  For example I want that purple lion!  This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I was just worried about how to get that good horse!

    "Exchanging a pigeon for a Dawan horse that travels eight hundred times a day is not a loss-making deal no matter how you calculate it!"

    "Since it is a reward from my father, I would be disrespectful to refuse it." Zhu Changluo saluted with no politeness at all. He didn't want it to be just a casual comment from Zhu Yijun's mouth. If he refused, he would be really lost.  This is a rare opportunity.

    "My son has no special requirements. I just have some special preferences for horses. I think the Dawan horse just now is good and I like it very much. If my father is willing to part with me, can I give it to him?"  A purple lion as a reward to your son?"

    Zhu Yijun smiled, this son was not as down-to-earth and cute as Xun'er, but he was not polite and asked for the Dawan horse that he had never ridden before.

    However, Zhu Yijun did not want to refuse Zhu Changluo's request. The Dawan horse was just one of many royal horses. Although it was considered the best, it had a bit of a fierce temper.  Ten years ago, Zhu Yijun would have thought about taming it himself. After all, that would be a very fulfilling thing.  But in the past few years, he had some problems with his waist. In addition, he had gained a lot of weight over the years, so he gradually lost interest in galloping immediately.

    ¡°Now that you¡¯ve asked, take it if you want it!¡± Zhu Yijun waved his hand casually and said nonchalantly.

    "Thank you, Father!" Zhu Changluo said excitedly.

    Zhu Changxun curled his lips in disdain and couldn't understand why that idiot's son wanted a horse. It would be more fun to raise a bird or cat as a pet.

    The willow-cutting scene here is almost done, and then Zhu Yijun takes everyone to watch the dragon boat race in the palace.  However, Zhu Changluo did not follow him. He knew that Zhu Yijun wouldn't care too much whether he went or not. If he could come to meet the occasion today, he would have achieved his goal, and no one would gossip about him being rude.  Next, instead of watching a boring dragon boat race, it would be better to go to the Licao Paddock and ride the newly acquired purple lion to get familiar with it.

    Xiyuan is located on the west side of the palace and consists of Beihai, Zhonghai and Nanhai. It covers a vast area, with Beihai alone covering 70 hectares.  As the main imperial garden of the Ming Dynasty, it was an important place for emperors to travel, live, and handle government affairs.  It's just that Zhu Yijun doesn't come here often on weekdays. He usually stays in Qianqing Palace and Wenhua Palace and rarely goes out.

    It¡¯s not far from Xiyuan to Licaolanchang. Go straight east out of Lingxing Gate, and there is an imperial city in the middle.

    When he arrived at the Licao Penchang, Zhu Changluo did not rush to ride the purple lion. Instead, he sat down at Fengyu Pavilion and asked Zou Yi next to him: "Have there been any major events recently?"

    Zou Yi thought for a moment and then said: "As for what big thing it is, I just heard about something from the Ministry of War. Does Your Highness still remember what I said about the Hetao Ministry of Color Map violating the border again in February?"

    "Oh?" Zhu Changluo suddenly became interested: "Last time, didn't the Governor of Shaanxi come up to Minato and say that he wanted to beat up Bu Se Tu? My father even specially allocated money from the inner treasury. Is it possible that the result will be achieved so soon?"

    Zou Yi smiled and nodded: "That's right, Your Highness. After Bu Setu invaded the border again, Governor Li Wen and Chief Military Officer Ma Gui personally led an army of 15,000 to attack. Guerrilla General Yan Fengshi and others set out from Hongshan.  It is the middle road; General Wang Tianxing and others set out from Gaojiabao and Shenmu Mountain as the left army; General Sun Chaoliang and others set out from Dingbian and Anbian Pingshan as the right army; Li Wen and Ma Gui bypassed Buse Tubei  They laid an ambush for hundreds of miles out of the border gate and formed a siege on Busetu. After this battle, Busetu was almost completely destroyed. Our Ming Dynasty captured nearly 5,000 horses, camels, cattle and sheep, and captured nearly 1,000 people.  "

    "Yeah!" Zhu Changluo smiled and nodded: "It's time to teach them some lessons long ago, lest those nomadic tribes still think that I, Ming Dynasty, are a fat piece of meat and can come and leave whenever they want!"

    "Haha, Your Highness is right! Normally, these Tatars would not dare to do this. But in recent years, our Ming Dynasty has used troops one after another. We are busy suppressing the Kuaibai Rebellion in Ningxia, and sending large armies to Korea to fight against the Japanese.  And those chieftains in the southwest also surrendered and rebelled.Because of the unrest and frequent disasters in recent years, those Tatars dared to offend Huwei.  "Zou Yi said.

    Zhu Changluo thought about it, and it made sense. Not to mention the Ming Dynasty's continuous use of troops in recent years, the climate was also very abnormal, much colder than what he remembered in later generations.  Natural disasters also come one after another, either severe droughts or floods, making people unable to live in peace.  He knew that this was brought about by a small glacier that was rare in thousands of years.

    In order to use troops and provide disaster relief in several places, the Ming Dynasty spent money like water and consumed a lot of savings, so many unnecessary wars were avoided if possible, such as the invasion of nomads!  As long as it was not a large-scale robbery, the Ming Dynasty would often turn a blind eye.  It¡¯s not that the Ming Dynasty didn¡¯t teach them a lesson, it¡¯s that the Ministry of Revenue was really powerless and could no longer afford enough military spending to fight another war!

    It¡¯s a bit ridiculous to say it. The Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, a large population, rich resources, and people live a prosperous life. How could the imperial court be so poor that it couldn¡¯t spend enough money to fight a war?

    ?Actually, this is completely true!  Since leaving the cabinet to study, Zhu Changluo has had some contact with ministers, so he has some understanding of the current situation of the Ming Dynasty.  Let¡¯s just talk about the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty in these years. To be honest, Zhang Juzheng was pretty good in the early Wanli period. He implemented the famous whipping method on the basis of clearing land and verifying household registrations - all kinds of taxes and levies were collected.  The names, including force difference, silver difference, miscellaneous difference, etc., are combined into one type, which is classified as land tax, calculated according to the land area, and collected uniformly. It is also allowed that except for grain, it can be converted into silver and paid.

    The imperial court has really saved a lot of money in the past ten years!

    Zhu Changluo once specifically asked the ministers of the cabinet and other ministries, and learned from this that after Zhang Juzheng's death, the national grain reserves could meet the needs of nine years; there were more than 6 million taels of silver in Taicang, and more than 4 million taels of silver in Taipu Temple.  Two, there are 2.5 million taels of silver in the Nanjing treasury, and the silver deposits of each province are between 150,000 and 800,000 taels!

    "Compared to Zhang Juzheng's income and expenditure in the years after his death and the living standard of Ming Dynasty, this is an amazing number!

    Since the death of Zhang Juzheng, due to the passivity and opposition of the officials, the whip method has ceased to exist in name only.  However, Taicang still has an income of about three million taels every year in these years. However, compared with the annual income, in order to maintain the normal operation of this huge empire, Taicang's normal expenditures other than war have increased every year in these years.  Between three million and four million taels!  This creates a problem where the annual expenses exceed the income!  In other words, as the national treasury, the Ministry of Revenue's warehouse has to repay money every year!

    Yang Junmin, the current Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, once complained to Zhu Changluo that due to frequent natural disasters in recent years, the warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue has been running into deficits ranging from hundreds of thousands of taels to millions of taels every year!  As for the funds for the war, they were not spent from the Ministry of Household Affairs at all, and the Ministry of Household Affairs no longer had that ability.  Whether it was the expedition to conquer the Southwest Chieftains or the pacification of the Kuaibai Rebellion in Ningxia, or the Korean War where money was flowing like water, all expenses were withdrawn from the Taipu Temple silver deposit and the Nanjing National Treasury silver!

    So now the nomads in the north are frequently invading the border - they guess it is because the Ming Dynasty cannot take care of them in its external military deployment!  In fact, the Ming Dynasty's treasury is empty. As long as there is no large-scale border invasion, the Ming Dynasty does not want to use weapons lightly and has no money to fight!

    Just like this time, Hetao Bu Se Tu violated the law again. In order to hit him hard, when the Ministry of Finance could not get out the money and the Taipu Temple kept the money for other wars, Zhu Yijun finally came out from the inner treasury of the palace.  money, that is to say, he used private money that was nominally his to fight the war!

    Zhu Changluo has actually been thinking about why this situation happened to the majestic boss empire?
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