C3791 (1/2)
The Prince Kung had made up his mind today to counterattack Zai Chun. The empress candidate and the person who opposed industrialization were all just appetizers.
The Minister of Revenue, Bao Yun, was also an old official of the three dynasties.
In the past, when Xian Feng avoided the British and French combined forces and fled towards the Hot River, he had once ordered Bao Yun to use 200 thousand silver from the account department to repair the Chengde's Summer Palace!
This Bao Yun also had a stubborn temper, he was definitely not willing to submit an edict and even directly spoke to the emperor. The nation was in a financial crisis and had no money to build any palaces.
Xian Feng was so angry that he wanted to send him to jail, but the crime was too heinous to hear, you, the emperor, still wanted to build a palace when the empire was in a difficult situation to escape from?
In the end, Xian Feng came to find trouble with the accusation that the British and French combined forces robbed three mountains, reprimanding him and lowering his position! Of course, not long after that, the emperor also felt that he overdid it and restored Bao Yun to his original position.
It was also because of this that Bao Yun gained a good reputation in the imperial court. After Tongzhi ascended the throne, the empress dowagers promoted Bao Yun to the Minister of Revenue and Military Intelligence Service.
Today, Bao Yun walked out under the orders of General Gui Six and asked after paying his respects to the Tongzhi Emperor, ”Reporting to his majesty! ”This is the Steel plant. This official has seen it before, but I have a few questions …”
”In the preliminary data, there is only equipment for the iron factory, manual training, the employment of foreign engineers, and the financial plan for the building of the factory!”
”What about the purchase price of 500 hectares of land? And tens of thousands of military and civilian expenses? ”But he did not mention it at all. May I ask how much you need for this silver?”
Zai Chun said indifferently, ”Isn't that simple? There are eight flags of our Manchu on both sides of the Qing River, and a few of them are royal estates!”
”Since it is my own property, there is no need to be so particular about it!” ”I do not want compensation from the imperial government. All of the land in the imperial manor belongs to me!”
”The rest of the palace ministers only owned a third of the land, and had already eaten the Great Qing Dynasty's iron stalks of crops for more than two hundred years, don't tell me you have no intentions at all?”
”Give me the prince's manor without any compensation!” ”You all should do your best to help the imperial government!”
”As for the other nobles under the prince, their conditions might be a bit worse. I'll take the lands elsewhere and swap them out one by one …”
”In the end, it turns out that I'm the one who got the upper hand!”
Zai Chun thought that such an answer would cause everyone to see the light of day, but he never expected that Bao Yun would actually shake his head and say, ”It's difficult … Difficult … Your Majesty, you've only counted the land, where are the forty thousand people? How do you plan to settle this? ”
”Placement? Placement! They were both from the Imperial Manor. Wasn't it the same if they moved to a different place? What's going on … Do you still want This Emperor to compensate them with silver? ”
Bao Yun said with a bitter face, ”Your majesty! Although all the farmers in the imperial manor and the prince's manor were coating's servants, they still... However, it would not be appropriate to force them out of the fields! ”
”He has injured His Majesty's holy name!”
At this time, Young Fifth Master Yi, who had always been carefree, said seriously, ”Your Majesty! You really have to think about this... The citizens of the Beijing Belt have been unstable since ancient times, and the people of Beijing Belt have always been knowledgeable about it, so it is very easy for public opinion to be flooded into this place! ”
”It's easy to refute the rumours of the lowlifes in the court, but if the commoners of this lowly manor say bad things, the people of this world will believe it! Your reputation is more important! ”
”Besides, it's hard to leave one's homeland. Long live you might not understand those crops, but you really aren't willing to move to another place. Inviting them to move aside, but they still won't leave!”