Chapter 1285: Cry poor

Zhao Yuanjing said calmly: "Then fix it."

"It stands to reason that building a villa for the Queen Mother is also a duty

of filial piety as a courtier. It shouldn't have been rejected. But... the

accounts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs now have no one or two silver."

King Jin's fat face showed. Embarrassed, "Yesterday the prefect of Jiangnan

Weaving came to Beijing and asked the ministers to pay the 800,000 taels of

silver owed to them by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It hasn't settled

yet. This..."

"What?" Zhao Yuanjing sank his face, "You mean, now the House of Internal

Affairs does not only have a couple of silver dollars, and even owes Jiangnan

Weaving silver?"

Zhao Shu also showed surprise.

The House of Internal Affairs is the royal purse.

In other words, the royal family still owes the local money?

There are still two months to celebrate the New Year, but the Ministry of

Internal Affairs has no money, which means that the emperor and empress

dowagers want to make new clothes and buy a few pieces of jewelry for the new

year.

This is too much.

The emperor was angry, King Jin stood up hurriedly, and said in fear: "The

emperor calms down his anger."

Zhao Yuanjing said coldly: "King Jin, I ask you, where did all the silver of

the Internal Affairs Office go? Why do you owe the silver of Jiangnan

Weaving?"

In the past year since the emperor ascended the throne, life in the palace was

considered frugal, except for the grand ceremony of the emperor's ascension,

there were no decent activities.

Jiangnan Weaving was originally an organization dedicated to providing various

clothing fabrics to the royal family.

The number of concubines in the new imperial palace is pitiful, and because of

the queen, no extravagant and wasteful fashion has arisen, and most of the

clothes are prepared by the clothing department in the palace.

Even the clothes of the queen, except for the dress and phoenix robe, the

daily clothes are made by the ladies of the Fengyi Palace.

With such savings in the palace, how can I owe Jiangnan to make so much money?

It is impossible for Zhao Yuanjing not to be angry.

He knew that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had no money, but he did not

know that the deficit had reached this point.

King Jin knelt down and said: "The emperor calms down his anger, the minister

has an account book here, and I remember it clearly..."

He brought it over with a thick account book.

Zhao Yuanjing said angrily: "The ledger is not written by you dog minions. If

you make a false account, who can know?"

"Emperor Mingjian, how dare the ministers cheat on the account books?" King

Jin cried out for himself, "In the winter of Yuhe 18, the first emperor

canonized 57 concubines and built a warm winter garden. It cost a lot of

money, and the minister could not do anything. , I borrowed 2 million silver

from Jiangnan Weaving, and I still owe 800,000 dollars to this day...All these

are accounts to check!"

Zhao Yuanjing looked at him: "First Emperor?"

"Yes, these are all deficits left by the first emperor. After the emperor

ascended the throne, he added some money, but it was not enough to pay it

back." The king sighed, "The empress dowager forced the minister to build the

mountain villa, and Jiangnan weaving also needed silver. Money is everywhere,

and the minister can't do anything."

Zhao Yuanjing said: "So, is Uncle Wang Chin here to cry with me for money?"

King Jin bitterly.

Zhao Yuanjing looked at him coldly for a moment, and said, "This matter will

be discussed later. You go out first."

"The minister follows the decree."

King Alcohol squatted his head and withdrew.

Zhao Yuanjing looked gloomy, pinching the teacup's fingers, and slowly

tightening.

Yun Dai put her hand on the back of his hand and said softly: "The emperor,

it's just a few hundred thousand taels of silver, it doesn't matter."

"I am the King of Qi Jin." Zhao Yuanjing said, "I don't want to pay attention

to the silver that the first emperor owes. The problem is that the clan headed

by King Jin controls the internal affairs palace but empties it, which is

really hateful."

Speaking of it, the Ministry of Internal Affairs received a lot of money.

Royal Zhuangzi, various gold mines and copper mines, Zuoyiguan, Youyiguan,

Zhangjiakou, Shahukou and other various tariffs are also directly accounted

for by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

However, King Jin and other clans regarded the House of Internal Affairs as a

gold mine for their own pockets, deceiving the top and the bottom, greedy the

royal money, and instead forced the emperor to take the silver.

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