Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Emperor and Yang Pu

Received the news that the Yellow River embankment was guarded.

Zhu Qizhen breathed a sigh of relief.

Every year in the months of the flood season, Zhu Qizhen always hangs a heart.

No, it should be said that for 365 days a year, Zhu Qizhen worries every day, worrying about drought and locust plague in spring, flooding in summer and autumn, and autumn prevention affairs after autumn. Worry about snow disasters in winter.

And not only worried about the Ming court, but also worried about whether there was a snow disaster on the grassland, because once the grassland was damaged, it was likely that the Mongols would go south on a large scale the following year.

Although they do not have the courage to go south, the harassment will be more frequent.

Let thousands of miles of border walls have a sense of exhaustion.

Being an emperor can be very easy, but if you want to be an emperor, you must be the most tired.

And there is good news from this side of the Yellow River, but it is not good news from other places.

Weishui, the Zhanghe River also defended, but the Huaihe River was not so obedient. In this rainy season, the Huai River is also furious, rushing several times, Henan, Nanzhili several counties have been flooded.

In fact, this is also the sequelae of the Yellow River's seizure of Huai.

The Yellow River has taken away the course of the Huai River, and the drainage of the lower reaches of the Huai River is not smooth, and when it encounters heavy rain, it is easy to reverse the irrigation.

Zhu Qizhen looked at it, the Yellow River, the canal, and the Huai River were almost entangled, like a ball of thread, and he really didn't know what to do with it, and he didn't know how to start.

But this did not prevent him, and he immediately reviewed the recital.

For this kind of disaster relief excerpt, Zhu Qizhen can almost review it without thinking. Because there is a set of processes, it is nothing more than to exempt from taxation according to the severity of the disaster, as little as the current season, as much as three years, and generally not more than three years. It is really difficult for the prefecture and county, so it is necessary to let the local treasury allocate funds. If it is more serious, it will allow Beijing to allocate funds for food.

Generally speaking, it will affect several prefectures or a province before the household department will directly send people to provide disaster relief.

Minor disasters in one or two counties were resolved at the provincial level.

Generally speaking, perhaps at the central level, in order to fight the war, Emperor Taizong has not been too rich in the imperial court's finances, but the local finances are actually very rich.

This is also caused by the Ming fiscal policy.

If anyone notices that Da Da will earn 23 million stone next year, Beijing will only use more than 4 million stone to transport it. Although the other grains are used for different purposes, a considerable part of them are in the localities, the political departments, and the prefectures and counties.

After Zhu Qizhen reviewed these recitals, someone suddenly came to report it, and Yang Pu asked to see him.

Zhu Qizhen immediately said, "Please." ”

For the big man at the level of the Ming Ministry, Zhu Qizhen is quite easy to see.

What is the ministry level, that is, the six ministries of the Ming Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the chief officials of these ministerial-level yamen, and the cabinet personnel. As long as he asks to see, Zhu Qizhen will be allowed to do so.

But as for the officials below, they will have to wait for Zhu Qizhen's time.

Yang Pu came to the Qianqing Palace and saluted like a ceremony, but Zhu Qizhen saw that Yang Pu was a little slow between actions.

There is no greater poison in the world than aging.

No one can avoid it.

Zhu Qizhen felt a little sad in his heart.

Yang Pu's situation actually has some credit for Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen was overshadowed by Yang Pu's incident in Wang Zhen, in fact, he has always wanted to get this sentence back. If Zhu Qizhen wants to make trouble unreasonably and wants to find a way to hit Yang Pu from the head, why is there any excuse for the crime he really wants to add?

It's just that Zhu Qizhen has the overall situation in his heart after all, and he won't mess up the rules because of the breath in his heart.

Many people feel that they are constrained by doing things under the regulations of the imperial court, but in fact, Zhu Qizhen also slowly understands who is the maker of all the rules of the Ming Dynasty?

It was Emperor Taizu.

And Emperor Taizu is an extreme power control, and the essence of his set of rules is to protect the imperial power.

Admittedly, in the decades since Emperor Taizu left, these rules have been somewhat deformed, but they have not changed in essence.

It seems that the ministers have played the rules within this set of rules perfectly, which has made Zhu Qizhen repeatedly deflated, but this set of rules is essentially to protect the emperor and protect the imperial power.

The emperor's supremacy is within this set of rules, and he is supreme. The emperor has the power to flip the table, but if there are too many tables, who will maintain respect for this table?

Every time the table is lifted, it consumes the political credit of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Qizhen will not use it to target a certain person.

How incompetent is that?

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen can only be within the rules. Find trouble with Yang Pu.

is to find faults, every time Yang Pu decides on something, Zhu Qizhen will read it carefully and find out the loopholes. Come and ask Yang Pu.

Although most of the time, Zhu Qizhen couldn't find anything wrong.

After all, Yang Pu's experience in political affairs is more than Zhu Qizhen's rice.

It's just that Yang Pu is so tired of running between Wenyuan Pavilion and Qianqing Palace, and he has to run several times a day.

For this almost eighty-year-old man, it is a heavy burden after all.

And the cabinet is also busy.

Yang Pu spent his time explaining to Zhu Qizhen, and he had to go back to work overtime to clean up the affairs of the cabinet.

Zhu Qizhen executed it for about a month, and his revenge was weakened.

After all, if you think about it, you know that Yang Pu is now in his seventies and can live for a few years. Tossing an old man like this really made Zhu Qizhen unbearable.

It's just that Yang Pu is very interested in such things.

He even took time out every day to pick out a few complicated government affairs that day, and went to the Qianqing Palace to explain to Zhu Qizhen in detail.

Maybe Yang Pu knew that Zhu Qizhen was tossing him. Maybe not. But in Yang Pu's view. It doesn't matter. The important thing is that the future of the Ming Dynasty must have a wise monarch.

Yang Pu actually knew that there was not much left of his life, seventy-three, eighty-four, and the king of Hades did not call him to go. He has already survived seventy-three, can he still survive to eighty-four?

In the eyes of different people, life is not the same.

In Yang Pu's view, the life he has left is his time to do things. The more I feel that the deadline is approaching, the more I need to work hard and shine desperately.

in order to make achievements in the world. Leave a name for yourself.

And what is the most important thing in all these things? It is to cultivate a good emperor for the Ming Dynasty.

In Yang Pu's view, Zhu Qizhen has the heart of loving the people and the determination to do things. It can also be done at a critical time. But in many places, it's a little too immature.

Since the emperor wanted to ask for advice so much, Yang Pu naturally had to explain it to the emperor well, as for the emperor's original intention, it was actually not important.

Therefore, even if the emperor wanted to end such behavior, Yang Pu was not happy. He had to go to the Qianqing Palace every morning.

Zhu Qizhen is not easy to refuse.

After all, the cabinet has thousands of affairs, and Zhu Qizhen has to keep an eye on it all the time. Even if Yang Pu doesn't come in person, Zhu Qizhen has to watch the cabinet's recital every day.

There is also a lot of paperwork in it.

After the two sat down, Zhu Qizhen asked, "Mr. is here, what's the matter?" ”

Yang Pu coughed twice and said, "Your Majesty is wise, the tribute envoy of the tile spur is here again." ”

Zhu Qizhen frowned slightly and said, "How many people are there this time?" ”

Yang Pu said: "The number of people has not increased, but this time they paid tribute, but it is not quite right?" ”

Zhu Qizhen sneered and said, "It's nothing more than a war horse, do they have anything else?" ”

It's not that Zhu Qizhen underestimates the tile spur, where is the economic system of the tile spur, to be honest, except for the war horse, the Ming Dynasty is not rare to the things on the grassland at all.

Yang Pu said: "This time, there are hundreds of good mink skins, mostly sables. There are tens of thousands of other furs, and there are quite a few of them. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, his face changed slightly, and then he calmed down, and said: "Is this a thorn that has no money, or is it a demonstration for me, can't you get tired of playing these little tricks first?" ”

Although Zhu Qizhen has always said that these are also small tricks, but looking at Zhu Qizhen's performance, he was indeed angry by the little tricks of the tile spur.

And what's the key to this little trick? in mink.

Mink is a good thing, and the women around Zhu Qizhen will probably like it, just a few hundred, and Zhu Qizhen is not enough to reward them. However, the mink was produced somewhere else, or in the Nuer Gandu Division, and in previous years it was a tribute from the Jurchen tribes.