boyutpedia Chapter 553 Money
Chapter 553 Money
This incident started when she picked up an abandoned baby in the wild and immediately sent it to the nearest orphanage, but found the baby's condition to be worrying, so she took the baby back home.
My uncle's family impeached the local government in charge of the Charity Bureau for Children, and used this opportunity to order the censors of the Censorate and the provincial governors to investigate the Charity Bureaus throughout the country, so that daily charity work could be separated from the local government and managed by a dedicated person, and finally the royal family would be responsible for the issue of abandoned babies.
It is she, Her Royal Highness Princess Qin Mingyue of Chu who cares deeply about her country and her people.
Of course, it would be impossible without the endorsement of her mother. If she came alone, as a princess, if the matter of the Charity Bureau was brought to the court, it would easily be divided up by one of her brothers.
However, if the Queen Mother had been the mother of the world and had been the model for the nation and the mother of the country and had loved the people of the world, her fate would have been different.
The incident at the Charity Bureau opened a loophole, and Qin Mingyue could use the Queen's hand to seize the power she had been planning.
After all, the queen lived in the deep palace, and she, as a princess outside the palace, was the queen mother's tentacles, acting according to her mother's orders.
Most of the abandoned babies were girls and a few unhealthy boys, mainly the girls she wanted.
Since its establishment in the previous dynasty, the Salesian Bureau has covered all areas to this day.
The orphanages in various places were supported by hundreds of acres of official farmland allocated by the provincial government. Qin Mingyue knew that if she wanted to raise these abandoned babies for her own use, relying solely on the official farmland would not be enough.
Qin Mingyue needs these baby girls to learn to read, write, do math, and know medicine so that they can be of use to her when they grow up.
After training, she would promote capable ones to form her most basic team. If there were those with extraordinary talents, her mother would adopt them as daughters and make them female officials. It would be more convenient for her to do things than for female officials. She was indeed a genius.
There are maids to take care of abandoned babies in the Charity Bureau, and it is not difficult to find them to teach and manage them. Palace maids who have left the palace are just right, and this is under the jurisdiction of her mother, the Queen Mother.
The only problem is money. We lack money, a lot of money. The Charity Bureau is not only in Beijing.
After the palace was built, her father rewarded her with 3,000 taels of gold and 100,000 taels of silver. However, her father only gave 1,200 taels of gold and 60,000 taels of silver to her sister, Princess Qin Lingyi of Shu, who was born to the same mother as her. That was only about half of what she received.
In recent years, the princes have successively established their own mansions. Except for the mansions which were built by the national treasury, all the money given to them came from the private treasury of the emperor, who was too rich.
When she was ten years old, the whole country was exempted from corvée, that is, labor service, but the post roads and canals were still being repaired every year, and she was trembling with fear just watching them pay money and grain for their construction.
As for the source of money, not to mention the operations of the Maritime Customs and the imperial merchants, just the gold and silver mines in Dongdao seemed to be inexhaustible, and huge amounts of gold and silver were transported into the private vault in piles and boxes.
Pearls from the East and South, white jade, red jadeite, and green emerald, the gold, jade, pearls and emeralds coming from all directions are like endless mud and sand.
Just look at the gifts given by the Shaofu Supervisor to the empress and court officials every quarter every year, and you will know that my father's private treasury is still very rich.
be envious.
She didn't need the gold and silver bars in her father's private treasury. If she just investigated the corruption on the gold and silver road from Dongdao to the capital, she would never have to worry about money again.
If it really doesn't work, even if we exempt the labor service from the project, there will definitely be a lot of corruption in the construction of the post roads alone.
Even though my father is keeping a close eye on us, human nature is such that it can never be avoided.
Therefore, when the emperor sent my third and fourth brothers, who had just started to work in government affairs and were not yet twenty years old, to investigate the salt administration, it was really just to give them practice.
Charity means relief.
The Charity Bureau that adopts abandoned babies, the Juzi Granary that distributes rice to poor mothers, the nursing home that takes in the elderly and widows, the Huimin Medical Bureau that treats poor patients, and the Huimin Pharmacy that distributes medicine at low prices or for free, why should she and her mother worry about their reputation?
If the emperor suddenly goes crazy and wants to depose the queen, he has to think twice and think whether it would be more convenient to just assassinate her.
If she could make these charitable relief tasks part of the queen's power, the princesses' rights and responsibilities, and a regular practice, future queens and princesses would probably kneel down to thank her.
However, it is a bit difficult. She hopes that her father will live longer and that the next emperor will be her younger brother.
After all, she used the four words "Mother of the Country" as an excuse to highlight the royal family's charity, the queen's virtue and the princess's benevolence and filial piety, and to seek to leave her name in history. It was far from enough to shut the mouths of the gentry in the court and the public. The most important thing was the support of her father, and she needed her father's big slap like a palm-leaf fan to slap those who talked too much.
If you look through the history books and the faces of the officials in the court, you will know that it was completely an accident that she, Qin Mingyue, could still act so wantonly and ostentatiously. It was all thanks to her father's indulgence and pampering.
After discussing the details with her mother, Qin Mingyue came out of the Pepper Room with a beaming face and went to the Zhaozheng Palace to visit her beloved father, Emperor Qin Zhi.
No matter how much I thought about it, my mother agreed, and my father's support was indispensable.
It would be great if the emperor could give her more money. She didn't doubt that her father would support her desire to make a living. He would definitely support her, but the money...could he give her more? It wasn't enough, absolutely not enough.
Why is it so difficult to ask for some money?
"Father~"
On the way from the Jiaofang Palace to the Zhaozheng Palace, the second princess met her beloved father.
"May your Majesty be in good health!" After paying her respects, Qin Mingyue fluttered around Qin Zhi like a butterfly, and twirled her legs like a bird landing on the ground, light and clumsy.
"Father, I have a small request..."
"Okay." Qin Zhi walked forward slowly but did not stop for a moment. He responded slowly.
Do the work if you can; there is never too many people working.
His daughter didn't ruin the small business of the orphanage.
"Your son hasn't told you what it is yet!" In order to keep up with Qin Zhi's figure, Qin Mingyue took big steps, and her skirt fluttered.
Her father seemed to be walking at a leisurely pace, but he was actually walking very fast. She had reason to suspect that he was doing it on purpose. Since she was a child, her father had always loved teasing her like this, making her run after him, and then...
"Mind your manners."
"I know, I know!"
Qin Zhi suddenly stopped, and Qin Mingyue dodged skillfully, turned sideways lightly, stopped and saluted.
"Hehe, thank you, father. There is one more thing..." Qin Mingyue had a flattering smile on his face and a shy posture.
Although it wasn't long after she received a large sum of money for settling in, and she asked for another 30,000 taels of silver during the Chinese New Year, she never thought that money was too much, and maybe she could get more!
"No need to discuss."
"Father, you haven't heard what it is yet!"
"No money."