After hearing Tao Qiong ask about himself, Mo Zizai remembered the important matter of coming here, "You should still have the equipment of Yuzhiji here?"

"Ishiji?"

Yuzhishi has not appeared in the world for three years, so Tao Qiong has almost forgotten the Yuzhishi department. When Mo Zizai mentioned these three words, he was stunned for a moment before he realized, "Yes, Yuzhishi has equipment, the prince."

"Three years ago, the Master Zhou asked the lower officials to build a thousand sets of armor from the Imperial Command, but they have never been taken. They are still in the warehouse of the Military Weapon Bureau."

Yuzhi is a special department, and weapons and armor are specially made. These customized weapons and armor are also a symbol of Yuzhi's identity. Except for Yuzhi's people, no one dares to use Yuzhi's equipment, so these equipment can always be placed here.

"Take out those thousand sets of equipment and take them away directly."

Mo Zizai naturally knew about Zhou Qiding's equipment, otherwise he would not have prepared a car directly to the Military Equipment Bureau.

"Okay, the prince wait."

Tao Qiong checked the empress's warrant and confirmed it was correct. Only then did his subordinates introduce the carriage brought by Mo Zizai into the warehouse of the Military Weapon Bureau and put the thousand sets of armor on it.

Before leaving, Mo Zizai said to Tao Qiong: "When the party, I will send you 50,000 taels of silver. You will first pay Yuefeng, who is owed to the craftsmen, and use the remaining money to purchase raw materials."

"The war is tight now, and the equipment construction of the Military Equipment Bureau cannot be stopped."

"Your Majesty, you pay?"

Tao Qiong looked at Mo Zizai in surprise, "Prince, this is not up to par with etiquette."

According to Mo Zizai's previous life, the Military Weapon Bureau was a state unit. Even if Mo Zizai was the prince, he was only a private person. No state unit could accept private money.

"Stop talking nonsense, nothing is incompatible."

Mo Zizai said impatiently: "This money is taken from His Majesty's inner treasury. When the Ministry of Revenue becomes rich, he will naturally be compensated by the Ministry of Revenue."

In Mo Zizai's heart, he always regarded the Great Zhou as his own family. The inner treasury and national treasury were all his money, and he would share with each other.

Seeing Mo Zizai say this, Tao Qiong was speechless, so he had to put his hands together and bow to Mo Zizai with gratitude, "Sir, thank you, the prince."

Mo Zizai did not take Tao Qiong's gratitude to heart, and directly took the carriage back to the palace.

But after Mo Zizai left, Tao Qiong thought about the 50,000 taels of silver that Mo Zizai promised, and felt a little sad. Although this prince was not as bad as the rumored one, it was obvious that he did not know much about the Military Weapon Bureau.

There are now 3,200 craftsmen from all over the Military Weapon Bureau. Although there are more and less monthly vocations, if calculated on average, it can almost be as good as five or two per month for each person.

For three thousand and two hundred people, the monthly offering for two months would be 32,000 taels of silver. If all of them were issued, the fifty thousand taels would be left in an instant.

This 18,000 taels seems to be a lot, but for the thousands of equipment that the Military Equipment Bureau has created at every turn, it is simply a drop in the bucket.

"Oh, forget it, Yue Feng should send it for a month first, and the rest will be used to buy raw materials."

Tao Qiong sighed, then turned back to the Military Weapon Bureau, "I hope that the bitch who are raised by the Ministry of Revenue will give you some money next month, otherwise I will be scolded to death."

...

In the elephant of going back, Mo Zizai also sighed, "I didn't expect that even Yuefeng from the Military Weapon Bureau could be owed, so the situation of other departments can be imagined."

Jia Fu, who was sitting opposite Mo Zizai, nodded in agreement and said, "Best Prince, I don't know much about these, but the several yamen that I know seem to have been owed Yuefeng."

“All…”

Mo Zizai shook his head helplessly, then asked Jia Fu and said, "Jia Fu, do you think the treasury has no money, and it has anything to do with those people from the Ministry of Revenue?"

"Go back to the prince, I think it has something to do with them."

Jia Fu did not mean to avoid this question at all. He was Mo Zizai's slave. Since Mo Zizai asked, he would report it according to facts. As for other people, what does it have to do with him?

"Although it is a bit too much to blame a certain department for the empty treasury, the slave still wants to say that the empty treasury Ministry of Revenue will have to pay at least one-third of the responsibility, or even more."

"Oh? You know a lot."

Hearing Jia Fu's orderly answer, Mo Zizai immediately became interested, "Tell me what you know."

"Best Prince, you have not been in the court for the past three years, so you have no idea about many things, but I have always been paying attention to it."

During the three years when Mo Zizai was imprisoned, Jia Fu was not only buying land for the royal palace, but also actively inquire about the news from the court, in order to prevent Mo Zizai from knowing nothing after he came back.

In response to this, the man in the palace not only did not stop him, but instead opened the door to facilitate his access to the court's intelligence.

Jia Fu was wondering why that person did this before. After Mo Zizai came back to stay in the palace, he realized that it was all for his own master's sake.

"According to the news that I learned, before His Majesty ascended the throne, although my Great Zhou had already caught up with the disaster, because the disaster was not serious and the strength of my Great Zhou was stronger, the tax collected every year was about 50 million taels."

"And out of these 50 million taels, almost more than 10 million taels were taxes collected from the Jiangnan region."

"After Your Majesty ascended the throne, due to the aggravation of the disaster in the Central Plains, Your Majesty issued an order to exempt the taxes in the severely affected areas."

"But in order to ensure that the national finances are normal, Your Majesty has increased some taxes in the Jiangnan region. After all, there has been good weather and good harvests in recent years. It is acceptable to add some taxes in the Jiangnan region."

"Add Jiangnan's taxes?"

Hearing this, Mo Zizai interrupted, "The Minister of Revenue is a member of Jiangnan. Will he agree to increase taxes in Jiangnan?"

"The prince is indeed wise. Those of the Minister of Revenue do not agree to increase taxes in the Jiangnan region."

Jia Fu flattered and continued: "But His Majesty's attitude was extremely tough at that time, and he even wanted to dismiss the Minister of Revenue for this, so those people could only agree."

"When this girl is still as domineering as ever to outsiders."

However, when thinking about the domineering scene of Tang Weiyi who is only 1.5 meters tall, Mo Zizai couldn't help but want to laugh. Domineering Loli, this image is too strange.

Mo Zizai held back the smile on the corner of his mouth and continued to ask: "What happened later? Since that girl suppressed those people from the Ministry of Revenue, why are the taxes still getting less and less?"

"The tax was added, but the tax was not collected."

Jia Fu didn't care about Mo Zizai's name to Tang Weiyi. Anyway, that's what Mo Zizai called six years ago. Now that's the name, Jia Fu doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.

"Originally, the tax that the Jiangnan region should have paid in the first year was more than 20 million taels, but in the end, the tax was only 18 million taels, and the remaining 8 million taels were owed by them using various excuses."

"In the second year, the taxes paid in Jiangnan area were only 11 million taels, and owed 13 million taels of taxes."

"And this year, they only paid 5 million taels and owed 19 million taels!"

"In just three years, the Jiangnan region owed a total of 40 million taels of tax silver."
Chapter completed!