"This 680,000 taels, and only the first batch of relief silver!"

"After settling the victims and clearing the fields and acres, there are also houses, livestock, and grain seeds for the victims."

"There's also the river dyke re-fortification and construction."

Ministry of Public Works Secretary Xia Xiang looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's face, carefully said, "Now can still come up with, but at the latest this silver, next year in the spring will be used, from where to allocate this sum, I also ask your majesty to show!"

Not when the family does not know the price of firewood and rice, although the Ming Dynasty is large, but the revenue of the state treasury has a clear place to go for each and every thing.

Zhu Yun Yun thought in his head, read those zhang zu and detailed table about the tax and finance of Daming. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been many wars. The country's supply of material resources to ensure the military advantage over the Northern Yuan, at the same time, Tubo, Yunnan and other places every year, there are more than a million of military expenditure.

Zhu Yuanzhang is a love of the people's emperor, not willing to increase the burden on the people, so the current support of the Ming Dynasty's finances, only the annual salt tax in the two Huaihuai, totaling about eight million taels. All other taxes are taken from the people and used for the people to recuperate.

After doing this math, there was really no money left at home.

"Some days ago, the capital city sent out stamps for sale and collected more than two hundred thousand dollars!" Zhu Yunyun think, opened his mouth and said, "The postal station to change the mail has also been clearly sent to the world, the grandchildren see, why not Yangzhou, Suzhou Hangzhou, Quanzhou and other places of commerce and trade, and successively open the sale. The proceeds of silver, as much as possible to Jiangxi relief."

"Money that doesn't fall into your own pocket is never money!" Zhu Yuanzhang pondered, "In case the money from the sale is not as satisfactory as it should be, it is still necessary to move the east wall and mend the west wall. Let's do things, can't hang on one rope, at least have to prepare two hands."

Military Zhu Yuanzhang is very bold, but people's livelihood is very careful.

The money from the stamps is only seeing the gains in the capital. The success or failure of other places he has not yet seen, the heart is naturally uneasy.

The hall of the Ming Empire, but was before and after the sum of a million and a half million dollars of disaster relief silver to be difficult. In the final analysis, Zhu Yuanzhang's governance is too positive, refusing to move in other places.

If it is a few hundred years later, the so-called ten full bloom, lack of silver there are ways. The court Ministry of Justice to sell the top, the officials to pay the crime of silver, customs became the emperor's private room. What to Jiangnan, repair the Yuanmingyuan, leveling the size and Zhuo Jinchuan, leveling the money in Mongolia are not all so come?

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up from the dragon chair, walked to the window of the main hall with his hands behind his back.

Outside the window, the sky, which was originally clear, slowly climbed up a trace of dark clouds, covering the sunlight and making the earth gloomy.

"Da Sun!" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly let out a sigh, "It's easy to fight the world, but it's hard to sit in it!"

To be able to let the stalwart-minded Zhu Yuanzhang let out such a sigh, thus showing that it is not good to be the leader of the Great Ming Empire.

"Pass the decree!" Zhu Yuanzhang continued, "with Jiujiang, Wuchang warehouse, allocated to Jiangxi Fuzhou Jianchang two provinces nine counties disaster relief food, seven hundred thousand stone. Ministry of household allocated disaster relief silver, seven hundred thousand two."

Said, Zhu Yuanzhang turned back, looked at the ministers, "first solve the immediate needs of the disaster area, the rest of these days we think of ways, the living will not let the urine suffocate." Said here, the words turn, the eyes become cold as a knife, "Let's put the ugly words in front, this is for the people in the disaster area of the money. Who wants to reach out, weigh his own head how heavy!"

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"I obey!" The ministers returned.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew by, and the curtains shook slightly. If there was a fine rain, it drifted into the window with the wind and landed on the bright floor tiles, passing in an instant.

Zhu Yunzhang looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's tightly furrowed brow, as well as the cold smile at the corner of his mouth, and knew that his heart was already annoyed to the extreme. The Daming Empire that he was so proud of and guarded so diligently for was actually still very fragile.

He is a person who is concerned about perfection, whether it is livelihood or military, he wants to do the best. But after unifying the world for more than twenty years, it is still not possible to achieve an eclectic balance.

Spending time together, Zhu Yunzhang from the heart has Zhu Yuanzhang as his own grandfather, see him so difficult, his own heart is also not good.

Thereupon, after thinking about it, Zhu Yunzhang walked to Zhu Yuanzhang's side, "Imperial grandfather, grandson has a few immature suggestions."

Zhu Yuanzhang and the gazes of the courtiers all looked over, the former barely smiled, "Da Sun, think what you want and say what you want, there are no outsiders here!"

"Regarding the silver for the disaster relief, grandson thought of a few ways." Zhu Yun slowly opened his mouth, "First, a few days ago, the stamps modeled after the Royal Grandfather's royal pen, one sold for a hundred taels, I heard that the capital has now speculated to a sky-high price of five hundred taels of silver."

"Sun's son thought, the subjects of the world love the Imperial Grandfather, since this is the case, why not the court take the lead and organize the gentry near the capital to make donations. Not letting them donate for nothing, those who donate more than a thousand taels, Imperial Grandpa can handwrite a letter of loyalty to the family."

"Spending one thousand taels to buy a pair of family heirlooms, my grandson thought that those wealthy people, would definitely break their heads to grab them, perhaps the threshold of the Ministry of Households could be stepped over!"

"I do not agree!" Liu Sango, the first to speak, "The emperor's handwritten book, how can it be easily sold to the people, so the court's face, the emperor's dignity, where is it? Furthermore, many of the country squires and property owners are lawbreakers, if they have His Majesty's handwriting in their homes, won't it be an extra talisman to keep them safe if they break the law in the future?"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Emily Liu is right! This is something that we don't agree with either."

Zhu Yunzhang sighed helplessly in his heart, the hierarchical stigma of this era is just too deep. The emperor's handwriting or imperial gift was a rare honor. These things were to be enshrined by the subjects in their homes and were not to be resold for generations, and they were recorded in the palace.

If the emperor's handwriting in exchange for money, the inspectorate of those imperial historians, as well as those bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, I am afraid to jump on the book. And Liu Sango a little said is also right, there is the emperor's calligraphy at home, or loyal family this kind of words, local officials are not good management.

Just ask, if a large family has this thing, face the officials directly take out, Hongwu Emperor's imperial pen here, who still dare to manage?

In fact, there are advantages and disadvantages of everything, the ancients do think about the disadvantages beforehand, and Zhu Yunyun's modern soul is to think about the benefits first, can't say who is right and who is wrong, the ancients are used to step by step, to maintain stability. And Zhu Yun Yun think is, flexible and fast results.

See Zhu Yunzhang some lost, Zhu Yuanzhang open mouth reluctantly consoled, "although not good, but big Sun you this brain bright, a short time to come up with this approach, has been rare." Said, and forced a smile, "You are still young, some things are not well thought out, don't blame you!"

Zhu Yunzhang slightly bowed, continued to speak, "Sun's son also has a second way, does imperial grandfather still remember what we saw in the city today?"

Zhu Yuanzhang is a bit puzzled, "You continue!"

"Today, I went out of the palace with my Imperial Grandfather and saw a gambling house in the city with a thriving business!" Zhu Yunzhang said to the ministers, "This second method is what was associated from this."

Saying this, Zhu Yunyun looked at the crowd's curious eyes and spoke, "Lottery!"

The ministers froze, they had studied hard for decades, this thing was unheard of.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, deep in contemplation.

"The people of the country are good gamblers, whether it's in the folk or the military, there are such bad habits. Since we can't prevent it, why don't we just block it rather than dredge it?" Zhu Yunyun continued, "Stamps are sold for two dollars a piece, lottery tickets can also be sold for two dollars a piece, and they can be sold every day!"

Said this, Zhu Yunyun walked to the front of the group of ministers, continued aloud, "Lottery, betting tickets also. Set up a B C D four types of jackpots, each with different prizes, such as the A prize of fifty taels ......"

Fu Youwen, the Minister of the Household, seemed to understand a little, and opened his mouth, "Then how to determine the winning prize?"

"Let me put it in layman's terms!" Zhu Yun Yun remembered the play of double color tickets in his previous life and spoke, "Lottery, set up twenty-four solar terms, twelve zodiac signs. Choose four numbers from the twenty-four solar terms, and two numbers from the twelve zodiac signs, and if you win them all together, it's the first prize!"

Seeing that the crowd still didn't understand, Zhu Yun Yun simply picked up a piece of paper and took a pen.