As an emperor, as the Supreme of the Ninth Five, it shows that he enjoys everything that is the most honorable in this world, but Emperor Hongzhi was deeply touched by Zhu Houzhao's words at this time.

He, the emperor, is really very poor, and if he wants to do something, he is basically scolded by the ministers for having no money, and there is no follow-up, as for taking out his own internal money to do things, of course the ministers are happy to see it, but this internal money is a little wealth that Emperor Hongzhi has worked hard to save.

His cheap father Ming Xianzong was a loser who left the family belongings left by his ancestors, and when he just took over, this money could starve to death mice.

Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi also attaches great importance to the little money he has saved with great difficulty, and he is not willing to spend it casually.

There is no money in the treasury here, and there is not much money in the treasury on the other side, so the most direct constraint on what Emperor Hongzhi wants to do is money, poor, so poor that he can only be Buddhist when he is an emperor, and fortunately he only has one wife, if there are three wives and four concubines in the harem or something, there will definitely be little money left.

Now when he hears Zhu Houzhao's words, hears his layers of analysis, and hears that the people behind him want to rely on money to control the imperial power, he also empathizes, this is not a good feeling of having no money.

Naturally, he didn't want such a thing to happen to his son, and now Zhu Houzhao is just making some money-making business, these people are already targeting, taking advantage of the national disaster to lay out, intending to make his son like himself, firmly controlled by them, and constrained by them.

This is absolutely unacceptable to him.

At the same time, a wave of anger inexplicably rose in his heart, the dragon has reverse scales, and Zhu Houzhao is the reverse scale of Emperor Hongzhi, this is his only son, and he is also the successor of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to control the imperial power, these people are calculating everywhere, Zhu Houzhao is just a child now, just doing some money-making business with people, and someone is calculating, so that his little child is thinking about how to deal with it, and he has also come up with three strategies.

However, Emperor Hongzhi has been deeply influenced by Confucianism since he was a child, and he is closer to Wenchen in his heart, trusting Wenchen very much.

But on the one hand, he empathizes with him, he has been constrained in money, and many of the great ambitions in his heart cannot be realized, and on the other hand, he has long trusted Wenchen, and the two are constantly in between, making him hesitate and hesitate, not knowing how to decide.

"Could this be that you're thinking too much?"

"Maybe this is just some profiteers taking the opportunity to make a fortune in the country, and it is not to say that it has risen to the level of controlling the imperial power, right?"

Emperor Hongzhi is really a good person, many times he doesn't like to think about things in a bad place, even now he feels in his heart that Zhu Houzhao is right, but he has always made the mistake of a good person again.

"Is it difficult to make a fortune?"

"If there is no one behind these profiteers, they dare to empty the official warehouse at this time?"

Zhu Houzhao was also speechless for his father, and immediately asked rhetorically.

"This..."

Emperor Hongzhi had nothing to say.

"Father, believe it or not, soon, someone will come to you like what I said, asking the treasury to spend money to buy grain for disaster relief, and then the household department will definitely say that the treasury is empty and there is no extra money at all, and then you will inevitably be asked to use internal funds to purchase grain."

"But now the price of grain is extremely expensive, a pound of grain is already fifty yuan, and one tael of silver can only buy thirty catties, and the little silver in the inner money will definitely be sucked dry by these people soon."

"There is no silver left in the treasury, and they will definitely focus on the silver and property in my hands again, and when the time comes, someone will inevitably return it to the treasury and so on."

"Father, just wait and see, this thing is definitely exactly the same as what I said."

Zhu Houzhao tilted his little head, looking like he was strategizing, seeing through everything and predicting the future.

"If it's really the same as you say, then I will make them understand that the Son of Heaven is angry and bleeds for thousands of miles."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded, and then slowly spoke after pondering for a long time.

His words also made Xiao Jing on the side couldn't help but shudder, a trace of chill flashed in his eyes, he had followed Emperor Hongzhi for many years, he knew too well the character of this good old man, once he made this good old man really angry, it was definitely more terrible than anything else.

The next morning.

"Something to start, nothing to retreat!"

As soon as Xiao Jing shouted out this sentence, several ministers above the court immediately stood up and said, "The minister has something to do." ”

The few ministers who stood up glanced at each other, and the low-grade ones of this position naturally stood back first, and let the big guy above speak first.

"Your Majesty, Chen Gongqi, the spring grain harvest in the three provinces of Beizhili, Shandong, and Shanxi is now gone, and the famine is spreading, and the land is full of hunger, so please ask Your Majesty to order all localities to open grain for disaster relief as soon as possible, and save the common people from fire and water."

As usual, this time there were almost no exceptions, and an imperial historian stood up and said that there was a famine in the three northern provinces now, and asked the emperor to come up with a truly effective response plan as soon as possible.

"Liu Aiqing, tell everyone about yesterday's Dezhou warehouse and Linqing warehouse."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded, signaling that he knew, and then said to Liu Jian.

Liu Jian stood up and told the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty the report from Dezhou Cang and Linqing Cang, which he had just received yesterday afternoon.

"The minister asks Your Majesty to investigate this matter thoroughly, at such a time when the country is in crisis, there are even young people stealing food, it is really hateful, and it is not enough to be angry if you don't kill it."

"The minister seconded the proposal that the matter must be thoroughly investigated and the food must be recovered for relief of the victims."

"It's just bold, please give an order to investigate this case quickly."

Hearing Liu Jian say that there was no food in the official warehouse, the entire court suddenly seemed to explode into a pot, and all the ministers stood up one after another, one by one, full of righteous indignation, hating to eat those thieves who stole grain, and all of them seemed to have a common enmity with these people.

Emperor Hongzhi watched quietly, but in his mind, he was thinking about Zhu Houzhao's words yesterday, and he had a little more heart, and paid more attention to the performance of the ministers in the court.

If in the past, he had great trust in these ministers above the court, because he had always been known as a sage in the wilderness, the court and the opposition were full of virtuous and capable, and the people were in the dynasty, and Emperor Hongzhi, who was influenced by Confucianism since childhood, had great trust in the court's ministers.

But Zhu Houzhao's words yesterday also shook his trust and cracked, so now he has more heart and is quietly watching the performance of the ministers of the DPRK and China.