West Garden, in the Palace of Longevity.

As a cough came out of the quiet room, the little eunuch and the palace maid outside the door were shocked, and after receiving the summons from inside, they hurriedly walked inside with pills and kettles.

After a while, Jiajing, who was wearing a blue robe, walked out of it.

Jiajing looked at the age of sixty, although his body was a little fairy-like bones, but he had already appeared hunchbacked, his whole face was unhealthily pale, and his eyes were not as sharp and wise as last year, but the momentum of the whole person was still like a lion.

After a short short journey, I came to the temple, but I chose to lean on the soft collapse for the first time.

Feng Bao and Chen Hong are like two industrious little bees, they have already classified the songs, but the most urgent and important ones are placed at the top.

"Master, Elder Xu Ge is asking to see you outside the palace!" Huang Jin stepped forward and reminded in a low voice.

Jiajing would not turn away this most powerful assistant, so he raised his hand slightly and said, "Xuan!"

When the order was issued, a little eunuch went outside the palace to bring Xu Jie in, Xu Jie came to the front of the palace and saluted respectfully, and Jiajing let Xu Jie get up with kindness.

Jiajing held a note in his hand to intercede for Yan Shifan, but asked lightly: "Elder Xu Ge, what's the matter?" ”

"Your Majesty, after sending officials from the Ministry of Industry to carefully check, the expansion plan of the Ling En Hall of Xianling has come out!" Xu Jie took out a drawing from his sleeve and presented it respectfully.

Jiajing is undoubtedly a filial son, not only put his father and mother to the status of emperor and empress, but also took great pains to bury them together.

In the third year of Jiajing, Jiajing won the title of emperor for his biological father, Xingxian Wang, and the royal tomb of Xingxian King should be upgraded and rebuilt accordingly according to the regulations of the imperial mausoleum, and named "Xianling".

In the seventeenth year of Jiajing, the Empress Dowager Zhang Shenghuang passed away, and Jiajing decided to move the "Xianling" to the north, and set the auspicious soil under the Dayu Mountain in the southwest of Changling, so as to start the construction of a new "Xianling".

Repairing the mausoleum has never been an easy job, especially the emperor's family did not hesitate to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in this regard.

The most famous is naturally the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which took 720,000 people to participate and took 39 years to complete. However, the peak of the Ming Dynasty has not yet arrived, and the most generous one is the Wanli Emperor who spent 8 million taels to build his own mausoleum.

To get back to the point, Jiajing is very concerned about his parents' Xianling, and the Qi'en Hall on the surface of the Xianling has been built, but he feels that it is not enough for 12 years, but he is required to rebuild the Qi'en Hall "such as the Jingling system".

Time has passed, and another 12 years have passed. Every year on the Qingming Festival, I go to worship, and this year is no exception, but seeing that the Qi'en Temple looks old, Jiajing has the idea of rebuilding the Qi'en Palace.

Jiajing took the drawing from Huang Jin's hand, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Very good!" ”

"Your Majesty, after the household department calculates, if you want to rebuild the Qi'en Palace, you have to follow the example of Changling and use all golden silk nanmu, which will cost at least 730,000 taels!" Xu Jie's face was embarrassed.

When Feng Bao and Chen Hong heard this amount, they couldn't help but gasp, but they didn't expect to spend so many silver taels, but they couldn't help but look at each other.

Seven hundred and thirty thousand taels, this is one-third of the imperial court's financial revenue. I thought that the outer city of Beijing and the rebuilding of the three major halls, Daming would not have much of a project, but I didn't want such a stubble to appear again.

Jiajing didn't even blink his eyelids, and said decisively: "The household department allocates funds!" ”

In just four words, it determines the whereabouts of one-third of Daming's fiscal revenue.

"Your Majesty, please forgive your sins! Just now you want to build the Yude Palace, the Le Cheng Hall and the Tengxi Palace, the household is a piece of silver to get together, and now it is ...... Taicang is really no silver available! Xu Jie threw himself on the ground, crying as if he was patriotic and loving the people.

Chen Hong and Feng Bao deal with each other every day, and they are also clear about Daming's finances, and seeing Xu Jie's crying like this, he actually sympathizes with this conscientious Shoufu in his heart.

Jiajing didn't eat this, pointed to the top of the palace, and said arbitrarily: "If you don't have silver, you will find a way to solve the matter of silver!" If you can't solve it, then naturally there are people who can solve the silver, and this Wanshou Palace can't solve it because of Yan Song! ”

The matter involved his parents' mausoleum, and he no longer made a polite gesture, but directly reminded Xu Jie's first assistant throne how he got it.

The reason why he asked Xu Jie to replace Yan Song was that in addition to Yan Song's old age, Xu Jie also vetoed Yan Song's plan to move the palace, and built this Wanshou Palace for him as quickly as possible.

He doesn't need courtiers who worry about the country and the people, he only needs courtiers who can do things, if Xu Jie's can't do it, he also has Yuan Wei, Wu Shan, Yan Ne and Li Chunfang, and even Guo Pu who guards the system in his hometown in Henan.

Xu Jie was shocked in his heart, and responded loyally: "The emperor, please calm his anger, even if the minister is broken, he still wants to find a way to raise money for the emperor!" But...... Please be sympathetic to the difficulties of the ministers and give them more time! ”

Huang Jin looked at Xu Jie, who was prostrate on the ground, not only thinking of Yan Song in the past, but also feeling sorry for this poor Xu Shoufu.

Over the years, he has been so loyal to the emperor, and has been doing everything possible to raise money to solve the emperor's worries. But as long as one thing is not done well, the black gauze hat on the head is not guaranteed.

Jiajing is also very clear about the situation of the household department, if it weren't for Lin Haoran to get some silver taels from Guangdong and Yangzhou, I am afraid that the Taicang of this household department would have been unable to issue a hundred civil and military officials.

His face couldn't help but soften slightly, but his tone was still cold: "I can give you some time, but when it comes to the matter of Xianling, you still have to do your best!" ”

In the end, his tone was ruthless, but it was also a sincere admonition. If Xu Jie can't get things done in the end, then he doesn't mind replacing this Shoufu, Yuan Wei and Wu Shan seem to be good choices.

"The emperor's filial piety, the ministers empathize! Even if the minister is not for himself, just for the emperor's filial piety, he is also doing his best! Xu Jie shed tears and said loyally.

When Chen Hong and Feng Bao saw this scene, they also sighed secretly in their hearts, and even considered that things really couldn't be done in the future, and they also had to plead for this loyal first assistant.

Although Jiajing was ruthless, he was not a hard-hearted person, and he didn't want to continue to embarrass Xu Jie, so he asked lightly: "Xu Aiqing, do you still have something to do?" ”

When Xu Jie heard this, he wiped away his tears and reported: "Your Majesty, Yan Shifan has been escorted to the capital, and he is in the prison of the Criminal Department, and I ask the emperor to decide!" ”

When Feng Bao heard this, he couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: It's here.