Chapter 2324: Similarities and Differences in Guizi Scroll, Conditional Game

 After getting up, Feng Ziying finished washing up under Ping'er's service, and then took the first step to the long room.

 Shen Yixiu and the others had gotten up early, waiting for Feng Ziying.

Tong Niang rushed forward early, put her arms around Feng Ziying's neck and called her daddy. Her bruised face was so red that people couldn't help but want to kiss her. After not seeing each other for several months, Feng Ziying actually felt a little more worried. The connection of blood is really heartwarming.

He carried Tong Niang and went straight out. When he arrived at the second bedroom, he looked at Anlang, the son Yingchun gave birth to, and after teasing him, he went to the third bedroom.

Miaoyu and Xiuyan gave birth to their children only three days apart. Miaoyu gave birth to a sister, and Xiuyan gave birth to a younger brother.

 After all, there are four children in this mansion alone. If we include the three children of Wang Xifeng and Busia Mara outside, I can be considered worthy of the Feng family.

 Seven children, four boys and three girls. Even if they have three wives, on average, they can get one male heir.

The only regret is that the three wives Shen Yixiu, Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu did not give birth to male heirs. This is probably the biggest regret of everyone.

However, in Feng Ziying's view, this must be a matter of time. After returning from Liaodong, she probably won't go out again in a short time. She goes to work in the court during the day, and then she can work **** the three women at night. Strive to let the three women get what they want as soon as possible.

Miaoyu and Xiuyan's children also needed to be named. The book title was temporarily suspended, but the nicknames had to be chosen first. After pondering for a long time, Feng Ziying decided on the names Yingniang and Weilang.

Do the math, Tong Niang is born from Shen Yixiu, Su Niang is born from Busia Mara, Ying Niang is born from Miaoyu, Hu Zi is born from Wang Xifeng, Anlang is born from Yingchun, Busi Yama is born Bi Lang, who was born by Ra, and now Xiu Yan gave birth to Wei Lang, can almost sit at the table.

It was originally a happy time for the whole family, but it was always interrupted. People from the Ministry of War and the cabinet urging Feng Ziying were waiting at the door of the house. Baoxiang and Ruixiang knocked on the door one after another, and Yuanyang and Jinchuaner came to the house. He also came in twice to remind him. Feng Ziying was helpless and lazily went out and went straight to the Ministry of War.

Wang Wenyan accompanied Feng Ziying on the bus, and wanted to use this time to talk to Feng Ziying about other recent developments in Beijing.

“There is a lot of commotion among several families, which may have a lot to do with the poor situation of the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor, but the court does not seem to care much about these,..."

Wang Wenyan thought as he introduced it: "I feel, just a pure feeling, that after the results of the Liaodong War came out, it seemed that the negotiations between the imperial court and Nanjing suddenly accelerated..."

"Wen Yan, do you mean that the imperial court wants to reach a compromise with Prince Yi Zhong?" Feng Ziying said thoughtfully, "Before I went to Liaodong, I only knew that the imperial court was negotiating with Nanjing, but the conditions were very different, and everyone could still maintain a stalemate. , why is it that the situation in the Liaodong war has improved and victory has been achieved, but it feels like the court is compromising with Nanjing?"

"Sir, the Ministry of Finance can no longer support it. Haitong Bank has borrowed more than ten million taels of silver, which is so heavy that the Ministry of Finance can't breathe. There are also public debts. From the looks of it, it is estimated that we will have to continue borrowing, even if it is Now the imperial court has reached an agreement with Nanjing, but it will take half a year until the taxes from Jiangnan are released to Beijing. I estimate that it will be half a year later. When Nanjing and the imperial court go to war, Jiangnan will also provide money. Two years later, Jiangnan should have been released and turned over to the Ministry of Household Affairs. All taxes and taxes have been used up by Nanjing. In other words, what can be released to Beijing this year is what should have been paid this year, but what about last year and the year before? Then it can only turn into water, and look at the stalemate between Nanjing and the imperial court. , one of the important conditions is that taxes in Jiangnan may have to be reduced, which is also an important factor that prevents agreement."

Wang Wenyan sighed, just how long has it been? In just over a year, the imperial court has borrowed more than 10 million taels of silver from Haitong Bank, plus the 4 million taels of national bonds issued by the Ministry of Revenue. Now it is said that the Ministry of Revenue is preparing to continue to borrow money from Haitong Bank. Yinzhuang borrowed 3 million yuan and issued public bonds of 2 million yuan, which meant that the court's debt was almost 20 million taels of silver.

For such a large sum of money, the interest alone would cost more than 3 million taels per year. Even if the interest was discounted for the court loan, it would still cost an estimated 12,000 taels per year, which is 2.4 million taels.

The key point is that under the current circumstances, the court's taxes, let alone the repayment of principal and interest, cannot even maintain the status quo. It has to continue borrowing. Perhaps in three to five years, the court's debt may exceed 100 trillion yuan.

Wang Wenyan's words left Feng Ziying speechless. A penny is hard for a hero. The court has no money, so everything will come to a standstill, and it seems that his theory of borrowing has not been accepted by the cabinet ministers.

"Wen Yan, what do you think the court plans to do now?" Feng Ziying felt that Wang Wenyan should have matured a lot after following him for so long. He should not only master and analyze intelligence, but should go further and put forward his own ideas. Opinions and suggestions.

"Sir, do you think that if Prince Yi Zhong really succeeds to the throne, how much impact will it have on our Zhou Dynasty? I mean how big it will be compared to one of several princes, such as King Shou or King Lu. Difference?" Wang Wenyan asked.

Wang Wenyan asked this question so well that Feng Ziying couldn’t answer it for a while.

He also thought about how Prince Yi Zhong would be different from Emperor Yonglong after he succeeded to the throne. Would he be able to return to the power of Emperor Yonglong and control the government as he did in the early days of Emperor Yuanxi? It's obviously impossible.

The current cabinet is quite stable. It can be said that Ye Fang, Qi and Li are now working together in a relatively tacit understanding. The proportion of scholars from Jiangnan, Beidi and Huguang in the court is also relatively reasonable. If Prince Yi Zhong succeeds to the throne, then he will originally follow him The marginalized Jiangnan scholars such as Tang Binyin, Miao Changqi, Gu Tianjun, and Zhu Guozhen must have an explanation, and this will also become the focus of a game.

 Another factor is martial arts.

From the current point of view, Wu Xun began to be ignored in the later period of Emperor Yuan Xi. Emperor Yonglong continued this strategy. Wu Xun's power declined at an accelerated pace, and even in their last base, the army, they were weakened a lot.

The two major groups, Wu Jinshi and border wealthy families, quickly replaced the Wu Xun nobles and became the mainstream of power in the military. This is probably the main reason why people like Niu Jizong and Wang Ziteng joined Prince Yi Zhong.

If Prince Yitada succeeds to the throne, it will be a difficult problem how to deal with the marginalized Jiangnan scholars and the remaining martial arts forces.

In this case, what will be the difference in policies if Prince Uitsada and Prince Ju (King Lu) succeed to the throne? How will the court and cabinet view and respond?

 (End of this chapter)