Guanglu Temple Zuo Shaoqing Song Cang, five years old can recite, fourteen years old to do a student, Zhengde three years will try to get acquainted with Yang Shen, the two became friends.

"How should I deal with it?" Song Cang asked.

Yang Shen asked rhetorically: "Are you greedy?" ”

Song Cang hurriedly said: "How can I have time to embezzle? ”

"Brother Boqing, don't blame, it's the foolish brother who lost his words." Yang Shen hurriedly apologized.

Song Cangzhengde has been a scholar for three years, and he has been Zuo Shaoqing for three years, and he may be promoted again at any time, and the promotion speed is so fast that he flies. Of course, there is a relationship with Yang Shen, and he has won Yang Tinghe's appreciation in this way, but Song Cang is really not greedy, because he is not available.

This product is a workaholic, and when he was a member of the criminal department, he ate in the office for two consecutive years. It has not only completed the existing work, but also handled the backlog of thousands of cases and corrected countless unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. After being transferred to Guanglu Temple, there were a lot of trivial affairs. In his spare time, he still likes to read, and whenever he has time, he locks himself in the study, and he doesn't bother to visit Shangguan, how can he have any spare time to be corrupt and take bribes?

Historically, Song Cang became ill from hard work and died of exhaustion. He was the governor of Sichuan at that time, encountered the Baicaoban rebellion, and used a clever plan to recover the eighteen villages. Zhenzhou gathered 30,000 people to rebel, and he was pacified within three months. While countering the rebellion, he also found time to deal with other government affairs. The imperial court promoted him to be a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, but he fell ill immediately after he was idle, and died on the way back to Beijing to take up his post.

Song Cang said: "With cultivation, there is a saying, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." ”

Yang Shen hurriedly said, "Brother, please speak up." ”

Song Cang was extremely entangled and said: "Brother Fool is a protégé of Yang Ge Lao, and he has been repeatedly promoted by Yang Ge Lao. Yang Ge's kindness is unrequited in this life. But Guanglu Temple is accumulating more and more evils, and the foolish brother has long wanted to rectify it, but it is difficult to start because there are too many implications. Wang Shangshu wanted to open the knife on Guanglu Temple, Yu Gong, and the foolish brother should support him. But, in private ........."

Yang Shen smiled: "Brother, don't think too much, just handle it impartially." ”

"Where is Yang Ge Lao?" Song Cang asked.

Yang Shen said: "Don't pay attention to it, my father has a foolish brother to explain that my brother can directly visit Wang Shangshu." ”

"That's very good." Song Cang was finally in a good mood.

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Ministry of Rites.

Wang Yuan stared at Song Cang with interest, he didn't expect that this Yang Dang would take the initiative to report on his work, and asked with a smile: "What does Song Shaoqing have to say?" ”

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Although Song Cang did not rectify Guanglu Temple, he was clear about the situation of Guanglu Temple, and he said: "If you want to rectify Guanglu Temple, you have to offend many ministers, Wang Shangshu knows?" ”

"Are the important ministers of the DPRK still staring at that bit of oil and water?" Wang Yuan said with a smile.

Song Cang said: "The ministers naturally disdain ꓹ, but their children are difficult to say. ”

The minister of the third rank or above is the son of the son of the country. ꓹ who need to be shaded to enter the country is naturally the kind of person who is hopeless in the imperial examination, and they don't want to study for exams, and they spend all day waiting for assignments. And the miscellaneous officials of the five temples are the most favorite positions held by these children of Enyin.

For example, the supervisor of Guanglu Temple is only from the eighth grade, but the sesame-sized low-end adjutant can make a lot of money from it.

If you want to attack Guanglu Temple, you must thoroughly investigate these Enyin children and the result is to offend their parents, so no one has dared to clean up and rectify it for a long time.

Wang Yuan nodded and said, "This is one of them, what else?" ”

Song Cang also said: "The increase in the number of kitchen servants in Guanglu Temple is due to the increasing number of officials in various yamen in Beijing, in addition to the eunuchs' private envoys. ”

Wang Yuan said: "Let's talk about it in detail. ”

Song Cang explained: "There are only a few thousand cooks, and the inner palace is divided into more than a thousand; Imperial wine supply warehouse, candle temple, and hat pole temple, each divided more than 100; Shang Shan Jian divided more than 500; The cabinet, the six departments, the six ministries, the Hanlin Academy, and many other yamen have been divided. There are also military errands such as defense, search, and patrol, which add up to hundreds of them. Guanglu Temple itself only has less than 3,000 kitchen servants left, the first emperor set the regulations, the kitchen service is less than 4,000 can be supplemented, Guanglu Temple to increase the kitchen service is not violated, and it is a helpless move. ”

If this statement is true, the involvement is too wide, and it is really not something that Guanglu Siqing and Shaoqing can solve.

Wang Yuan's own work meal in the Ministry of Rites occupied the kitchen service of Guanglu Temple!

Wang Yuan asked again: "What else?" ”

Song Cang said: "There are two drawbacks, one is to buy idle labor, and the other is to sit and enjoy monthly food. ”

These two ills can actually be classified as one.

The family of kitchen servants has specially formulated a special household registration that is, the green register, and they only need to serve as a cook for the court and the government, and do not need to serve other servants. In this kind of family, the eldest son must be a cook, and the rest of the children can be free to study and even take the imperial examination.

As the government continues to increase the amount of kitchen service, where can the families be busy? So they bought idle occupations.

One is that Guanglu Temple hires social idlers to serve as temporary cooks, but they do not give full-term food, or even do not give monthly food, and the deducted monthly food is eaten by officials - the monthly food is the kitchen service subsidy, four buckets of rice per month.

First, the kitchen service family hires idlers to cope with the kitchen service for themselves, and also does not give full-term food, swallowing up the difference in the middle.

This practice is to buy idle and occupy labor and enjoy the monthly food.

And why are those social idlers willing to be hired as temporary cooks when they can't get enough monthly rations?

Scoop up the oil and water!

Stealing some ingredients and selling them is more than four buckets of rice for a month.

That is to say, from the various yamen who were assigned to the kitchen service, to the officials of Guanglu Temple, to the kitchen servants at the bottom, they were all embezzling and stealing the silver of Guanglu Temple.

Don't underestimate this bit of silver, it is a huge amount of money every year, so many famous ministers in history have taken action to rectify it. For example, Yan Song, Xi Shu, Hangul, Xu Jie...... Write a recital specifically on the matter of kitchen service, and take it seriously as a major event.

These ministers, no matter what the wind is, at least they are doing things!

And Wang Yuan's predecessor, Mao Cheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who had just died of illness, did not dare to do anything to Guanglu Temple, which led to more and more serious corruption and theft, and even nonsense about eating cold rice leftovers for Fanbang envoys. Mao Cheng is also a minister of incorruptibility in the history books, but in Wang Yuan's opinion, he is a corpse vegetarian guy.

Suddenly, Song Cang said again: "Those rare and exotic beasts raised by Your Majesty will take away more than 6,000 taels of feeding fees from Guanglu Temple every year. ”

"How can it cost more than six thousand taels of silver a year to feed those beasts?" Wang Yuan exclaimed.

Song Cang said: "It's really more than six thousand taels. ”

Wang Yuan wanted to scold his mother very much, when he laid down the land of the Western Regions, he asked for silver to immigrate to the real side, and the household only found 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. The generals of the border towns asked for funds to buy war horses, and after begging hard, they only allocated a few thousand taels of silver.

And the animals raised by the emperor cost more than 6,000 taels a year!

This is not Zhu Houzhao's responsibility alone, since Zhu Yuanzhang's time, envoys from various countries have continued to send rare birds and beasts. Haidongqing, lions, rhinos, elephants, tigers, leopards, and even Western pet dogs cost more than 2,000 taels a year during the Chenghua Dynasty.

Don't you think it's amazing that the rare birds and beasts raised by the emperor actually need to be provided by Guanglu Temple.

Wang Yuan said to Song Cang: "Send someone to check the daily food of each yamen, and all the surplus kitchen servants are called." And to take stock of the food of the beasts...... You can't do this, I'll go directly to Your Majesty. Anyway, if you count the cooks first, then you can use more than 8,000 cooks? ”

Song Cang, a workaholic, immediately entered the state, and in only half a month, he approved and converted the amount of food in the various yamen in the capital into the necessary number of cooks.

It doesn't take more than 8,000, but 3,500 people!

As for what the extra kitchen staff are doing? Either they were called by eunuchs and officials to do private work, or they stayed on paper, and the kitchen servants could actually eat empty salaries.

Wang Yuan is quite reasonable, three thousand five hundred cooks can do things, and he set the amount of cooks at four thousand. If you exceed this number, you will be held accountable to Guanglu Siqing, you can't afford this errand and resign as soon as possible!

At the same time, Wang Yuan also made strict regulations on the working meals of various yamen, so as to put an end to extravagance and waste.

Then, Wang Yuan personally went to Zhang Yonghe and Gu Dayong and asked them for a list of rare birds and beasts. Then, according to the conversion, those beasts could feed more than 3,000 taels a year, and Wang Yuan temporarily set a quota of 4,000 taels of silver, leaving a difference of a few hundred taels for eunuchs and officials to embezzle. In the future, if there are new animals, they must be reported in Guanglu Temple, and they will be fed according to the actual situation.

All the hired social idlers were dismissed, and they didn't bother to interrogate how many ingredients they had stolen.

These measures alone can save 60,000 taels of silver every year!

By the way, looking at the expenditure of Guanglu Temple in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, we know that Emperor Longqing was the most frugal. In the Longqing Dynasty, Guanglu Temple only needed to spend more than 10,000 taels per month, and the Wanli Dynasty directly increased to nearly 30,000 taels. Although Emperor Chongzhen is frugal, he can't stand a lot of moths, and he spends more than 20,000 silver every month.

The Jiajing Dynasty was more nonsense, because the emperor believed in Taoism, which led to the concubines and eunuchs in the palace also holding Jiao from time to time to curry favor with the emperor. Jiao is the monk to set up an altar, not only to eat, but also to sacrifice, the ingredients and sacrificial items are all provided by Guanglu Temple, so that the expenses of Guanglu Temple have risen sharply.

At the same time as the inventory of kitchen servants, the accounts of Guanglu Temple were also turned over, and Wang Yuan impeached more than 50 officials at one time.

Those above the temple level can't catch the handle, because even if they are corrupt, they still quietly collect filial piety silver, and there is no problem at all from the accounts. Even if they want to be held accountable, it can only be said that they neglected their duties and their subordinates were not strict, and Liu Rui of Guanglu Temple was so frightened that he resigned.

After rectifying Guanglu Temple, Wang Yuan rectified Taichang Temple and Honglu Temple, and once again forced the two temple secretaries to resign, and investigated and punished nearly 100 officials from the ninth grade or above.

Liang En, the eunuch of Guanglu, the commander of Shangshan, casually returned the encroached kitchen servants, and took the initiative to return a large amount of dirty silver, but was still impeached by Wang Yuan with five consecutive letters, and was finally thrown by Zhu Houzhao to guard the imperial mausoleum.

Such a rectification will not only clear the rule of the three temples, but also save 100,000 taels of expenses every year.

The civil and military officials were so frightened that they didn't dare to stretch out their hands to the yamen under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, let alone say anything because Wang Yuan had disposed of their heirs.

At the same time, a large number of officials of science and Taoism changed their impression of Wang Yuan, and no longer regarded him as a minister, but thought that Wang Shangshu was an honest and honest minister.

Many of these science and technology officials are actually very cute, and they are really full of enthusiasm.

Take Yushi Fangfeng as an example, the most outrageous thing this guy did was to impeach his own brother in the early years of Jiajing. The reason is that his brother is attached to Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao, and he thinks that Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao are both opportunistic villains.

This approach is helping Yang Tinghe to charge into battle, but do you think he is Yang Tinghe's henchman?

No, Yang Tinghe's brother Yang Tingyi was impeached by Fang Feng and resigned. And after Fang Feng impeached his brother, he impeached himself because his approach was unethical.

Isn't the operation very sassy?

First impeached Yang Tinghe's younger brother, then impeached Yang Tinghe's political enemies, impeached his brother and impeached himself, people have absolutely no selfish intentions!

Of course, to outsiders, it is a mad dog.