Sure enough, after a while, a cough sounded, and Wu Wei, a doctor from the Ministry of Revenue, stepped out and said loudly: "Last night, the Ministry of Justice's prison went out of the water, and the prisoner broke out of prison, causing turmoil in the capital. I beg Your Majesty to severely punish the relevant people and others to correct the rules and regulations!"

When everyone heard this, they turned to look at the Minister of Justice Qiao Yunsheng. It could be seen that this was a counterattack.

In the original history, Qiao Yunsheng was arrested and imprisoned for this incident, and then sent to the frontier and died on the way.

The spearhead of this matter is directed at the Minister of Justice, which is a major case. All civil and military officials looked at the emperor again, but they didn't know how to make a decision. Judging from the previous killing of Luo and killing Yuan, Qiao Yunsheng is probably in trouble this time.

Unexpectedly, Hu Guang was not as good as their wishes. He only heard him say, "There are many doubts about this matter. I have ordered the East Factory to investigate."

In fact, it is not that Hu Guang cares for Qiao Yunsheng, but that the case of the Ministry of Justice prison involved Gao Yingyuan and others, and even more involved the matter of Yongchang Piaohao.

Yongchang Piaohao is not only the industry of Shanxi merchants, but also has many relationships behind it. Hu Guang is also interested in the prototype of this bank and is considering nationalizing the bill, which will have a very great benefit to the Ming Dynasty's finances.

Therefore, before a series of things were confirmed, Hu Guang temporarily decided to hold on to this matter.

After he made a conclusion, he glanced at the civil and military officials below and asked loudly: "I am most concerned about how to fill the treasury. Who else can you have a good idea? Is it possible to have more assignments?"

The emperor had no excuses and said something urgent and simply brought the topic back in a simple and straightforward way, but the ministers had nothing to say.

Many of them began to wink again, or shook their heads and sent secret codes to their accomplices, most of them wanted to mention the matter of the chief minister again.

At this moment, with a cough, a man walked out of the front of the civil servant and bowed and said, "I have a memorial!"

Hu Guang heard the sound and saw that it was Wen Tiren. He thought to himself, why did you stand up now? At least you do something to give me a reason to promote you!

However, when he saw Wen Tiren's face was exhausted and his red eyes, he suddenly remembered that he had not had much rest last night and was worried about Gao Yingyuan's affairs. He couldn't help but lose all his complaints, his voice became softer, and he was no longer as cold as other ministers: "Wen Qing has something to do, just report it!"

All civil and military officials are basically all human beings. When they hear the emperor's voice, they know that the emperor has a good impression of Wen Tiren, and they can't help but be surprised.

Wen Tiren bowed and responded, then said loudly: "I read history and occasionally gained something, and was extremely surprised by it. I am here to report it to Your Majesty."

Everyone was surprised when they heard this. Didn’t Wen Tiren talk about financial and taxation strategies? Why did he mention reading history?

Hu Guang was also a little curious, but he was sure that Wen Tiren would definitely not take his topic far, so he had enough patience and nodded to signal Wen Tiren to continue.

Wen Tiren heard loudly playing: "The Song Dynasty Food and Message Records record: In the second year of Zhiping, 11,638,450 were imported from inside and outside. In that year, 16,292,93 of the roads were accumulated, but the capital was not prepared."

"In addition, Zeng Gong Zengzi of the Song Dynasty said: the world is in the past year, the emperor's blessing, and the governance of the country is more than 100 million, and the annual expenses are also more than 100 million. Since ancient times, the country's wealth has not reached this."

Speaking of this, Wen Tiren bowed to the emperor and explained: "Although the income of Song Dynasty was mixed, it was added up with two pieces of Guanshishi. However, the income of the court was much greater than that of our dynasty."

Just before, Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue, said that the court's annual income was only less than 4 million taels. Therefore, Wen Tiren's statement caused a sensation.

The sound of "papa" sounded again, and finally calmed down the turbulent civil and military officials.

Wen Tiren was already willing to go out at this time, and he heard him say again: "The population of our dynasty is much larger than that of the former Song Dynasty. Logically speaking, the cost of salt, tea and wine should be much higher than that of the Song Dynasty. But..."

He said this, turned to look at the civil and military officials on both sides, and continued loudly: "In the previous Song Dynasty, the three items of salt, tea and wine, the income reached 47.52 million guan. In our court, haha, the salt tax was only about 2.5 million taels, and the tea tax was even less, only more than 100,000 taels, of which 17 taels in Yunnan and about 6 taels in Zhejiang. The wine was not at all..."

Suddenly, the civil and military officials exploded again. According to the etiquette system, they had to cough in advance before leaving the listing, but some civil officials could no longer wait to cough and rushed to leave the listing.

"I want to impeach Wen Tiren, the thief, to ignore the ancestor's system..."

"I also want to impeach, and I don't hear that the harsh government is more powerful than the tiger. This is what the Wen thief wants..."

“…”

It's noisy and raucous, and you can almost only listen to the beginning.

Wen Tiren was not afraid, but just looked at these colleagues coldly. In fact, he knew very well that after saying this, he would definitely offend all his colleagues.

Others also know about these things. However, no one else dares to talk about them in this regard. Just now, Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue, denied all taxes as soon as he spoke, saying that this was not good or that was not good, and he finally decided to make an additional payment.

If it were the case before, Wen Tiren would not dare to stab the hornet's nest. But it is different now. Since he joined the inexplicable chat group, he has realized that he has one more trump card than his colleagues.

The most important thing is that Hu Guang gave him high trust and was ready to use it more. Moreover, at the beginning of today's great court discussion, the emperor explained the consequences of the court's lack of money in many ways, showing a firm determination that the treasury must be filled in order to allow the court to do more for the people.

Wen Tiren had been standing there silently without saying anything before, just looking for opportunities to make a big splash. When others were not in line with the emperor's wishes, he could naturally achieve his goal by saying these words in public.

At this time, he was determined to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As Hu Guang had told him before, revitalize the Ming Dynasty together and leave a name in history.

As he expected, even if there were many ministers attacking him, the emperor always stood on his side. After the "pa" whip sounded again, the scene finally became quieter, Hu Guang stood up and said loudly: "The court meeting for a whole morning was held, but what Wen Qing said was deeply my heart. Others, etc., learned from Wen Qing, and did it hard, and doing more practical things is the serious! The order was passed!"

Speaking of this, Hu Guang was very satisfied and immediately announced loudly: "Wen Tiren, the young master and the prince's grand tutor, the Grand Secretary of the Jianji Hall, entered the cabinet to assist in the government, and was the chief assistant to the Ming Dynasty."
Chapter completed!