"Let them in!" Chongzhen ordered lightly.
With the sound of footsteps, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Fan Jingwen, walked in with Xie Sanbin and Wang Jiayan.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty!" Fan Jingwen said first, "Wang Yongji led the Ping Liao army to not only successfully recapture Jinzhou, but also severely damaged the Jian Nu. This is truly a great victory that our dynasty has never seen before!"
"Hahaha, this is indeed a great victory!" Chongzhen deliberately laughed out loud: "If you want a reward, give me a big reward!"
When it comes to appreciating calligraphy, Xie Sanbin's eyes, who was standing next to him, dimmed instantly.
He was the Minister of Revenue, in charge of the Ming Dynasty's treasury money and grain.
He could count the money in the treasury on his fingers.
There is simply not enough money in the national treasury to give out rewards now!
In order to avoid being noticed by Chongzhen, Xie Sanbin lowered his head and did not look at Chongzhen, just like a student who was about to be questioned by his teacher.
"The commander-in-chief is wise in employing troops, and the soldiers are fighting bravely on the battlefield. They deserve rewards!" Fan Jingwen echoed.
"Wang Jiayan," Chongzhen ordered, "The Ministry of War must calculate the reward and pension silver for the Ping Liao Army according to the system! The money that should be given must be given, and it must not be given less or not given. Of course, it cannot be given more, after all, the court has its own rules."
"I accept your order!" Wang Jiayan bowed and said with a smile, "The attack on Jinzhou this time is due to the contributions of both the Ping Liao army and the people in the city! If they hadn't risked their lives to start an uprising in the city, it would have been hard to tell when we would have captured Jinzhou. I think if this trend continues, the recovery of Liaodong is just around the corner."
"The righteous will have many supporters, God bless the Ming Dynasty!" Wang Jiayan expressed his heartfelt emotion.
After he finished speaking, Wang Chengen was the only one in the Qianqing Palace who laughed and agreed, while the others stood there quietly without saying a word.
Wang Jiayan glanced at Fan Jingwen, then secretly glanced at Chongzhen.
I don’t know what they are thinking.
Fan Jingwen sighed and looked up at Chongzhen.
Chongzhen was also looking at him at this time.
The king and his minister looked at each other and instantly understood what the other was thinking.
Chongzhen and Fan Jingwen thought the same thing. During the Battle of Jinzhou, the Jiannu were careless and lost the city, so they would definitely not make the same mistake again.
In order to minimize the risks, the Jiannu would even raise their knives against the Han people in the city at critical moments.
(During the Opium War, when Hai Ling, the deputy governor of the Bordered White Banner, heard that the British army was about to arrive in Zhenjiang, he was afraid that the Han people in the city would collude with the British army, so he massacred the Han people in the city before the British army arrived (no matter who they were, they were all shot to death with bird guns))
The Jiannu people always regarded the lives of Han people as worthless. After the incident in Jinzhou, one can imagine the fate of the people in Liaodong in the future.
Wang Jiayan had no awareness of this, so he thought that the recovery of Liaodong was just around the corner.
Since Chongzhen and Fan Jingwen did not respond to Wang Jiayan's words, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became cold.
Wang Jiayan himself was a little embarrassed because of this.
Chongzhen waved his hand towards Wang Jiayan and said, "While Minister Wang's idea is good, the actual situation may not be so good."
"Your Majesty..." Wang Jiayan wanted to explain something.
"Minister Wang, you'd better quickly calculate the reward and pension for the army that pacifies Liao." Chongzhen interrupted Wang Jiayan's thoughts.
"Yes!" Wang Jiayan blushed and lowered his head.
Chongzhen looked at Xie Sanbin: "Minister Xie?"
Xie Sanbin trembled all over and saluted hurriedly: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty is here!"
"How is the currency reform going?" Chongzhen asked.
Xie Sanbing suddenly felt his scalp tighten.
What you fear will come true.
Ever since he became the Minister of Revenue, he has been worrying about currency reform every day.
Because he found that implementing currency reform was more difficult than he had imagined.
The source of resistance is neither the lower classes nor ordinary businessmen, but the interest groups represented by the literati.
For them, exchanging the silver in their hands for Ming Yuanbao would not only result in loss of profits, but also mean bowing to the court.
If it is just a loss of short-term interests, the literati will not have much resistance.
After all, money can be earned again if it is lost.
The key is to bow to the court!
This means that they have to keep giving money to the imperial court, and what they lose is their long-term interests.
Therefore, the prominent gentry and businessmen in Jiangnan united and refused to implement the new monetary policy.
Xie Sanbin understood this, and Chongzhen also understood this.
The more the gentry did this, the more determined Chongzhen was to implement the currency reform.
The first thing is to make the gentry bow their heads.
The second is to take the opportunity to find out the wealth of the gentry and lay the groundwork for future property confiscations...
When confiscating property, Chongzhen only confiscated the property of the rich.
Those without money were sidelined; Chongzhen had no interest in them.
After Chongzhen traveled through time, he never thought about being a good person, and good people cannot become emperors.
Facing Chongzhen's question, Xie Sanbin calmed himself and replied, "The progress... is acceptable! In Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Guangdong, which had previously made slow progress, local gentry, merchants and common people are gradually exchanging their silver for Ming Yuanbao under the promotion of local officials."
"As for Fujian... the progress is still slow because the local gentry and merchants are not very cooperative."
"Is there any targeted method?" Chongzhen asked.
"As the saying goes, the beginning is always the hardest. As long as someone takes the lead, the rest will be much easier. So I plan to send someone to Fujian to contact a few famous local gentry or businessmen, give them certain benefits, and let them take the lead in promoting currency reform." Xie Sanbin replied.
"As long as there is a way." Chongzhen nodded.
Just when Xie Sanbin was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Chongzhen asked again: "Minister Xie, you proposed to send people to Jiangnan to inspect the salt to make up for the deficit in the national treasury. It is already mid-September, and the New Year's Day is just two and a half months away. How is the salt inspection going?"
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