Chapter 828 Lots of Plug-ins 149
For example, there is a memorial written like this, which is the food and salary for border customs. The Ministry of Household Affairs has detailed food and salary expenditures that can be checked.
The prince of Anjiang County saw that the food and salary was over a million taels, and it was not just given once a year, but such a large amount of food and salary could only be used for one month. In other words, military expenditures were spent in one year. It actually cost 12 million taels. At that time, I felt that this was too much. After all, the imperial court's annual fiscal revenue was only 20 million taels, and 60% of it was spent on military expenses. How could the remaining money be enough for various expenses?
The Prince of Anjiang County felt something was wrong, so he took a look at the detailed expenditures of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and then found that the expenditures were too outrageous.
For example, one of them says that the price of horse materials for horses is XXX taels per horse.
Anyone who knows the prices outside will know that there is something wrong with this memorial.
The previous emperor grew up in the deep palace, so he might not know it, but Prince Anjiang lived outside, how could he not know it?
Prince Anjiang also had horses in the palace before, and they were all intensively bred. The price of horse feed he gave to the horses, the servants in the palace would definitely get kickbacks, so it was very high. It is estimated to be several times the normal price. times.
However, when he gave the horse feed to Bianguan, he looked at the number of horses in Bianguan, and then calculated the consumption of each horse. It turned out that it was a hundred times higher than the horse feed from his palace!
Because he understands Ma Liang, he can tell that something is wrong, but he only knows the subtleties. There must be big problems with other things that he doesn't understand. It can't be the only one that he understands that has problems.
The price of horse feed can be increased a hundred times on the basis of the already high price of the intensively bred horses in his palace. If other things are to be the same, it is no wonder. The annual border customs expenditure is more than 10 million. The reason is very simple. There is definitely something fishy here, and it is probably all about profit transfer. The official in charge of this aspect reported 12 million to the court, and then everyone from top to bottom would get a little bit, and the border generals also followed. It's hard to imagine how much horse material will be distributed to each cavalry. No wonder when he was outside, he heard the cries of soldiers who used to be in the border pass and are now in the Beijing camp, saying that the border pass is too hard, and it's hard to imagine. He was often in arrears with pay, but fortunately he became a small boss. Later, the general he followed was transferred to the capital, and he was pulled over by the other party, so his life became easier. After all, whoever is short of money will not be short of the capital camp.
And when they were at the border, it was estimated that whether they were people or horses, they received very little, which caused these people to complain incessantly.
Every small boss has complained about suffering. It is not difficult to imagine what the situation of those big soldiers will be like.
How much combat effectiveness can such an army that has not enough to eat and is in arrears with food and wages have? No wonder they were beaten miserably by the barbarians every year - no, even these brutal beatings were probably due to some tricks, just to make people miserable so that the court would give them more money to recruit troops.
In fact, they had soldiers and horses, but they divided the money among themselves.
The prince of Anjiang County told Linlang about this discovery and asked whether he should ask them about the horse feed. After all, he really knew about this matter.
But Linlang stopped him and said: "They will have a reason, and it will be in vain if you ask."
Maybe those people will cause trouble, and then the anger will be in vain. Don't make the Prince of Anjiang County so angry that you are always angry like this.
Because she didn’t want Prince Anjiang to be offended, Linlang said this. Of course, after all, if Prince Anjiang still wanted to question him, Linlang wouldn’t stop him. After all, she was just making suggestions. Whether he insists on it or not is the matter of Prince Anjiang.
The prince of Anjiang County said: "This is obviously wrong, can you still find a reason?"
Prince Anjiang, who had not had much contact with this situation, obviously had no idea how cunning humans could be and how outrageous reasons they could come up with. Linlang said: "Of course they can find it - they want to say that their horses are war horses, and the food is naturally more expensive, or that they need to eat special forage. If they don't eat this forage, something will happen to the horse, and your majesty can afford it." Is it responsible? And this specialized fodder is different from ordinary fodder. It is naturally more expensive. The price is very reasonable and there is no corruption. How will your Majesty deal with it? ?”
There is such a case in modern times. A cup costs 1,200 yuan, and a bag of screws costs 90,000 yuan, which is hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of times higher than the normal price. , but people investigated and said that there is no problem, they are all dedicated, and they have to be at this price. If you buy them outside, if something goes wrong, are you responsible?
Modern people have such great wisdom. It is impossible for people in this era not to have such great wisdom. Can the emperor find out the clue?
There was also such a thing in ancient times. In one dynasty, the eggs that the emperor ate cost ten taels of silver each. An egg outside cost only one or two cents. The price was tens of thousands of times higher than that outside. The people who handled it didn’t know how much it cost. How much money can be made, and the emperor still has nothing to do? The reason people are looking for is this: the eggs we eat are bad eggs, and the eggs we give as tribute to the palace are good eggs, so they are expensive, which is normal.
As soon as Linlang said these words, Prince Anjiang, who lacked imagination, was immediately silenced.
He really can’t find a reason, unless he screams that the price is wrong, slaughters all the garbage, and replaces it with the normal price, but it is difficult to predict what changes will occur at the border. After all, it has touched the interests of too many people, and it is unknown whether he will be knocked down.
He is not afraid of being bombed down, but he is afraid that he will not be able to return to his previous life, but will clean up their family, which would be bad.
So after hearing what Linlang said, Prince Anjiang gave up the idea of questioning the horse material issue, and was ready to wait until the time came to bring it up again.
After all, even Linlang knows that using such excuses to prevaricate himself, not to mention those old foxes from the past, will give him even more reasons. Even if he questions, it will be useless. It is better not to ask for it. It's humiliating.
Linlang saw that the Prince of Anjiang County had no intention of questioning the ministers about this matter after listening to her words, but he was obviously a little depressed, so he said: "Your Majesty, don't be disappointed and discouraged. Slowly replace those bad ministers with The better thing is. "
Linlang was not afraid to say this. Walls have ears, because they were talking in private, and the palace maid and eunuch were far away and could not hear them.
After hearing this, Prince Anjiang nodded and said: "This is the only way."
Although Prince Anjiang agreed, he was thinking in his heart, what would happen if these people were replaced? It's so easy. How can he have the ability to replace these people? Moreover, even if If it were to be replaced, he would not be able to mention the people he would arrange. Even if he could mention them, how could he know which people were good and which were bad? Good people and bad people would not be written on their faces unless In the future, he will have his own power and be able to investigate and know which people are good and can be promoted.
But that will probably be a long time later. Anyway, it is a bit difficult for him to form his own power now.