Qi Xiuyuan was angry, and he directly asked Eunuch Wan to go back to the imperial study to carry the two boxes and put them on the hall, saying, "This is the IOU that Eunuch An Guo borrowed money from the people for my inner treasury, and my inner treasury is all subsidized. Treasury."

  The court was quiet, and it was no secret that Fan Zijin borrowed money from wealthy businessmen to supplement the treasury.

Qi Xiuyuan had tears in his eyes, and cold light flashed in his tears again, and he said word by word: "For the sake of Da Qi and this country, I not only dragged my two younger brothers to fill the private room together, but even the queen and Mu's family. The dowry has been filled in, the state treasury has been enriched more than five years after the founding of the country, but all the ministers are now staring at my inner treasury, what is the use of such an incompetent generation?"

   Thunder Fury!

  The courtier immediately knelt down.

  Qi Xiu sat on the dragon chair looking down at them with cold eyes from afar, "An Guogong owes me a huge debt. This is what I owe him, and the treasury also owes me. When does the Ministry of Household plan to return the money?"

  All the ministers bowed their heads deeply. If the money is returned, the treasury will be empty again. What about the next military expenditure and water conservancy construction?

   "The Minister of the Household, since the first year of Taikang, the Household has owed grain seeds to Mu's Harvest Grain Shop on credit. When do you plan to repay this amount?"

   Everyone's heads are lower. As we all know, the Harvest Grain Shop is the dowry of Princess Rongjun. It seems that this country should not take a woman's dowry to support the country, but no one dared to speak at this time.

  Qi Xiuyuan stared at them coldly, and Lei Ting asked angrily, "Where did you spend last year's salt and iron income, this year's business tax, road donation, grain tax, and human tax?"

  Rongxuan took the lead and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, they are all in the treasury, but because of the need to allocate funds to build water conservancy projects, the Yellow River has to be dredged, so we need to save some money."

   "Did you just stare at my internal library without using it?"

   "The ministers are guilty." Rong Xuan pleaded guilty. He had already reminded Qi Xiuyuan to separate the treasury and the inner treasury so as not to increase the appetite of the officials.

   But at that time, Qi Xiuyuan was full of enthusiasm and felt that the whole world was his own.

   Although he was scolded, Rong Xuan was not uncomfortable. He had long disliked those officials who only stared at the emperor's inner treasury. It would be good to teach them a lesson this time.

  Qi Xiuyuan was very angry this time. Except for the last time Fan Zijin was in danger at sea, this was the second time he was angry. It reminded the courtiers that this emperor was Emperor Ma, not Emperor Jingyan of the previous dynasty.

   This emperor would kick people on the spot when he was angry.

Qi Xiuyuan focused on a few household officials, and asked people to put two large boxes on the left and one on the side of the dragon chair. They went to court every day. As long as the courtiers looked up, they could see it, and they could remember it. The country is still in negative equity, and their treasury still owes a lot of money.

  The emperor didn't care about losing face, and the courtiers under him were helpless. Every day he went to court, especially the minister of the household, he always felt that there was a sword hanging from his neck.

   The most intuitive effect of these two large boxes is that the water conservancy construction and Yellow River dredging costs applied by the Ministry of Industry are reduced by nearly one-fifth.

Qi Xiuyuan went to court for three consecutive days with a sullen face. On the fourth day, Zhu Da, the director of the Ministry of Household and Inner Treasury, finally calculated the amount owed to the State Treasury. Qi Xiuyuan forced the Ministry of Household to write an IOU for him, and only then did he announce that the Inner Treasury of the State Treasury Completely separated, the treasury is the treasury of the country, in which money, grain and rice can only be used for the common people, the emperor, the royal family and officials are not allowed to misappropriate loans, while the inner treasury is the private property of the emperor and the royal family, the prince leaves the house, the princess marry outside, all expenses From the internal library.

  Qi Xiuyuan wrote it as an imperial decree and stored it in the imperial pavilion of Shangshufang, which means that future generations may not change or violate this order.

But the courtiers were not angry at all, but rather happy, because the imperial decree clearly stated that all the expenses of the royal family would be paid from the inner treasury, which was a decompression for the treasury, even if money could no longer be taken from the emperor's inner treasury, this move For the treasury and the Ministry of households, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

When Emperor Jingyan was in the previous dynasty, his extravagant expenditure and the expenses of the royal family's children accounted for one-third of the national treasury expenditure. This shows that the royal family's expenditure is huge. Now that Emperor Taikang is frugal, it does not mean that his descendants will also be frugal. , he was able to establish this holy will, that is, to coat a protective film for the treasury a hundred years later.

  The courtiers were complacent, but they did not know that Qi Xiuyuan was also guarding against the servants. In the previous dynasty, it was not only the emperor who took money from the treasury, but also the ministers. They also often borrowed money from the Ministry of Household IOUs, most of which were borrowed but not repaid.

Emperor Jingyan was in a daze and was unwilling to offend the courtiers for this money, lest everyone would accuse him of spending extravagantly, but Qi Xiuyuan had to cut everyone's way. Things can only be used by the people.

  The people of insight in the court sensed the deep meaning of the emperor's imperial decree, but they didn't say anything, and let the officials feel complacent.

   And after Qi Xiuyuan separated the treasury and the inner treasury, he found out the documents that needed to be spent. The first one was Qi Haoran's application for funding to buy cannons.

This time, the Ministry of Household is no longer blindly calling for poverty, and the officials below it no longer suggest that the emperor should pay or let the King of Rongjun pay himself. There's no need to spend a fortune on a cannon.

  The Ministry of Household said that they can only give the Ministry of War so much money, including military salaries, food, grass, quilts, etc. As for whether the Ministry of War can squeeze a little out of this money to buy cannons for King Rongjun, they have no control.

The officials of the Ministry of War looked at each other in dismay. The Minister of War remembered the description in the letter from Prince Rongjun to him. He wanted to buy cannons for the money, but he was distressed about the money. Thinking that Prince Rongjun had paid the deposit in advance, he made a few vague words and skipped it. Anyway, King Rong didn't care much about money, and he had supported the army a lot before.

   Qi Xiuyuan saw it in his eyes and sneered in his heart.

It doesn’t matter if he suffers a loss. Anyway, this Daqi belongs to him, but it’s not good for his younger brother to suffer. If he is happy, he can be happy. Haoran is obviously not happy now. the truth.

  Qi Xiuyuan remembered what Haoran said in Haoran's letter, if the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households don't give money, the royal family will make one by themselves. If they want to develop it in the future, they will have to spend a lot of money to buy it back.

  Qi Xiuyuan thought of the third and fourth princes who had just been born, and felt that the children would have to spend money in the future, so there is nothing wrong with building an arsenal.

The emperor did not press them to allocate funds to King Rongjun, everyone felt relieved, but Qi Xiuyuan wrote a letter to Qi Haoran after returning to the imperial study, asking him to choose a place to build an arsenal, he would pay the money, and the shares would count as their brothers And Zijin's.

He also called Director Zhu Da and asked him to manage the silver in the inner treasury, repay Fan Zijin's debt to those wealthy businessmen, and then have him send Qi Haoran 50,000 taels of silver. One third of the money from the previous treasury went away at once.