In the palace of the capital, Emperor Hongzhi was chatting with several important ministers of the imperial court.

Won the Tartars, even the little prince was beheaded, at least in the next ten years, there will be no border problems in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and now, in winter, he can sleep peacefully and well.

The problem of the southwest toast, under the policy of changing the land and returning to the stream, is also quickly settled, although there are still a few toasts are still stubborn, but it can no longer become a climate, and most of the areas have become stable after the land is changed and returned.

Coupled with the butterfly effect caused by the emergence of Liu Jin, Daming's economy is also developing rapidly, and all aspects are thriving.

Naturally, his life as an emperor is much better, and there are not many troubles, so he also has time to chat with these ministers.

"Your Majesty, this new Qianqing Palace should be usable, it's really splendid, and the ministers can't help but want to enter and have a look."

At this time, everyone was talking about the Qianqing Palace, which was burned down because of a fire last winter, Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao took the initiative to undertake the construction, after almost a year of construction, spent millions of taels of silver, and finally it was almost built, and it was about to be delivered.

The new Qianqing Palace is built very majestic, with a reinforced concrete structure, a large number of glass and tiles, and many designs from later generations, so whether it is outside or inside, it looks very atmospheric and luxurious.

Now it has also become the focus of discussion in the whole capital, and has become a landmark building in the capital, especially at night, when the Qianqing Palace is lit up with dozens of meters high, it is resplendent and radiant, and the whole capital can be seen, very beautiful.

"If Aiqing wants to see it, let's go and see it together, to be honest, I can't wait to move in."

Hongji said with a smile.

At this moment, a small yellow door came to the door in a hurry, and handed over a piece of music to Xiao Jing's hands, Xiao Jing asked in detail about the situation of this song, and he didn't dare to delay, and immediately hurriedly sent it to Hongzhi.

"Your Majesty, there is a note sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in an urgent manner for eight hundred miles."

Xiao Jing presented it respectfully and said at the same time.

"Oh?"

"The Prince's Sology?"

"Eight hundred taels were sent urgently?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he immediately became interested, and he picked up the song and looked at it carefully, while the ministers on the side were curious one by one.

This Zhu Houzhao went to reward the three armies, of course they knew that this time they won a big victory and spent tens of millions of taels of silver, Zhu Houzhao followed this matter, and he also fiercely brushed up a sense of existence, and he also established a prestige in the Ming army.

Emperor Hongzhi raised his hands to support this matter, he is just this one son, and this position will be passed on to Zhu Houzhao sooner or later.

Moreover, in the past few years, Emperor Hongzhi obviously felt that his body was not as good as before, and he had intended to cultivate Zhu Houzhao's ability to deal with national affairs a long time ago.

This time, he absolutely supported the matter of showing his face in the army and establishing his prestige, which was very helpful for Zhu Houzhao to control the army after he ascended the throne in the future.

Zhu Houzhao went to reward the three armies, and everyone didn't think there was anything wrong, and they all felt that nothing would happen, they had just won a big victory, what could happen at this happy time?

Therefore, everyone is also very curious about what Zhu Houzhao wrote in an urgent note of 800 miles.

Everyone looked at Emperor Hongzhi, only to see him looking at Song Shu, the smile on his face quickly disappeared, and then his face became gloomy.

"Oops~"

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Ma Wensheng, and Zhou Jing saw it, and they immediately shouted secretly in their hearts.

Something big must have happened, otherwise Emperor Hongzhi would definitely not have changed his face so quickly.

"Hmph~ It's lawless!"

After Emperor Hongzhi finished reading the song, he angrily threw the song, and the whole person was angry.

In the song, Zhu Houzhao told Emperor Hongzhi in detail about the situation he investigated on the side of the border army, from weapons and equipment, to military supplies, to military salaries, as well as opening a horse market, opening a slave market, and even robbing past merchants, killing good people and taking meritorious deeds, etc., all kinds of problems were stabbed to Emperor Hongzhi at once.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

Liu Jian and the others looked at each other and said stubbornly.

"See for yourself~"

"You all see."

Emperor Hongzhi said with a cold face.

Liu Jian set up a recital, looked at it carefully, the more he looked, the more shocked he became, there are too many problems listed above, too many, the key is that any problem comes out, as long as it is checked, the custody can make the situation turbulent, I don't know how many heads will land.

After reading it, Liu Jian also sat down on his chair all of a sudden, and then weakly handed over the song to Li Dongyang, who also hurriedly took it over and looked at it quickly.

"This..."

After reading it, Li Dongyang was also dumbfounded, and at the same time, he immediately understood why Emperor Hongzhi was so angry.

Xie Qian, Ma Wensheng, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao also carefully watched the recital one by one, and Zhou Jing and Ma Wensheng immediately knelt on the ground as soon as they finished reading it.

"Minister... The minister is guilty! ”

Zhou Jing and Ma Wensheng kowtowed heavily and said.

The two of them have an unshirkable responsibility for this matter, one is the secretary of the household department, the other is the secretary of the military department, the household department is in charge of money, and the military department is in power, and now that such a huge thing has happened in the army, the two of them cannot escape the blame.

"Guilty, of course you are guilty."

"If this time, if it wasn't for the prince to check on the border army, I wouldn't know that the Ming army was already full of holes, no wonder in the past, when the Tartars went south, we could only watch."

"Look at the armor and weapons issued by this household, the armor is cotton armor, and there is only a thin layer, and this weapon is iron, and it is almost the same for performance."

"And the rice that the soldiers ate, all of which were moldy and rotten, and they couldn't even eat enough."

"The soldiers of the border army have not received a penny of military pay for more than a year, and some people have died directly because they have no money, and their children are sick and look down on the doctor."

Emperor Hongzhi was completely angry, like an angry lion, constantly telling the things written on the song, the louder and louder he said, the more excited he became, so that his words kept echoing throughout the palace, and everyone suddenly became trembling.

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Zhang Mao also couldn't sit still, and they all knelt on the ground one by one, with cold sweat on their foreheads, feeling the anger of Emperor Hongzhi.

This good old man was really angry.

He used to trust these civil servants too much, and felt that they were very at ease in doing things, and he was alienated from the military generals and noble groups, so what was the situation in this army, he was simply smearing.

His only feeling is that the army of the Ming Dynasty is unbearable, and every year the Tartars go south, and every year they become shrinking turtles, and they have never been tough, and they have never fought with the Tartars with real knives and guns.

Every time the Tartars went south, he, the emperor, couldn't sleep and was worried, but the ministers below all said that they couldn't beat them, and they would go back when the Tartars had enough.

No one has ever said to himself that he wants to fight with the Tartars, and no one has said why he can't fight.

In fact, can't you really beat it?

Not necessarily, this time it was not to win the war, to destroy all the Tartars, and even the little prince did not flee back to the grassland.

Daming has a population of tens of millions, how can it be impossible to defeat less than a million grassland people?

It turns out that the root cause of all this is this, the army of the Ming Dynasty has long been riddled with ills and has no combat effectiveness, which has completely ruined these civilian groups.

Emperor Hongzhi was angry not only that there was such a thing in the army, but also that he felt that his trust was fed to the dogs, and he trusted these civil officials, and this is how they came to be loyal to the king?

"Ahem~"

Because he was too angry and too excited, Emperor Hongzhi was out of breath all of a sudden, and his whole body coughed violently.

"Your Majesty, rest your anger, rest your anger, the dragon body matters~"

Xiao Jing, Liu Jian and others hurriedly said, Xiao Jing stepped forward to support Emperor Hongzhi and patted Emperor Hongzhi lightly on the back.

"Whew~"

After a while, Emperor Hongzhi changed and looked at the minister who was kneeling in front of him.

His eyes became cold, and again and again, his trust was fed to the dog, which made Emperor Hongzhi, who was a good man, completely murderous.

At this moment, he understood the reason why the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang went on a killing spree, sometimes, killing may not solve the problem, but it can solve these people who create problems.

If you don't establish some prestige, they will think that you are so foolish, and they will not be afraid of you, on the contrary, they will think of ways to restrain you and control you.

His eyes were locked on Zhou Jing's body, this Zhou Jing, Zhou Peeling, he didn't have anything else, that is, he knew that he had hollowed out his internal treasury, and the treasury was empty, and he thought of a way to get silver from the internal treasury, but he never thought about levying commercial taxes or anything like that.

In the past, if he wanted to do something, Zhou Jing came over without silver, and at this moment, Emperor Hongzhi felt that this Zhou Jing was not afraid of himself at all, and he used silver to limit himself.

Emperor Hongji's face was gloomy, and his mind was thinking quickly, and soon, he made a decision.

"Come on, put the household department Shangshu Zhoujing, and the military department Shangshu Ma Wensheng into the prison~"

Without any mercy, Emperor Hongzhi directly took down Zhou Jing and Ma Wensheng, he was really angry, he had never been so angry about the theft of the official warehouse last time, and he had not touched these ministers of the six Shangshu levels.

But this time, he not only moved Zhou Jing and Ma Wensheng, he also had to kill.