Zhao Yu saw that he didn't know the people who jumped out, and it seemed that many newcomers had entered the court in the days since he left the court. Seeing that the man was not old, with a straight face that seemed to be full of righteousness, and he looked like he was vowing to fall into himself, he knew that he had encountered a 'two-pole' thing again. It is estimated that he was unlucky when he was young, and he died before he could show his talent, and now he wants to make a career when he ascends to the court, and if he wants to be famous and climb fast, there is no faster than starting with his own big BASS.

"Don't worry!" Zhao Yu was not angry yet, when he suddenly heard the sound of the tension spring on the scabbard behind him, and knew that Ni Liang was drawing the knife. Of course, this knife will never be slashed on his head, then there is only the one in front of him, you must know how many years no one dares to talk to him in public in the court, and he will be annoyed immediately. But you can't kill someone in the court because of a word, he hurriedly whispered.

"Hmph, it's another thing that doesn't know whether to live or die!" Ni Liang snorted hatefully, but the hand that grabbed the handle of the knife did not relax.

"Queen Mother, since it is clear which of the two ministries is in dispute this morning, please ask the Minister Lu to deal with it as appropriate!" Zhao Hao didn't pay attention to it, but got up and turned to the Queen Mother.

"Hmm!" Empress Dowager Yang nodded and said to Lu Xiufu, "Lu Xiang, the Zuo Division of Shangshu Province belongs to Director Ru, what happened today, do you know?" ”

"Empress Dowager, there is no rumor about this matter, and the minister who submitted the transformation of the East Palace has not seen it, I don't know if the governor knows about it?" Lu Xiufu also felt wronged, something like this happened to his subordinates, and he was involved in a daze. Now that the little emperor doesn't want to delve into it, the queen mother still doesn't seem to want to give up.

"Lu Xiang, when he was in Qiongzhou, the construction, money and purchase needs of the inner court were all handled by the General Division, and Shangshu Province did not interfere." Ying Jie Yan bowed his hand and said, "After entering Lin'an, I communicated with Shangshu Province about the requisition of land and mansions for the repair of the North Palace, and the official only filed and coordinated according to the usual practice, and did not interfere much, and the matter of repairing the East Palace is not clear, and the documents have not yet been seen." ”

"How can you be so confused, the emperor's wedding is a major event of the country, but you don't know the reason for the trouble, you must strictly investigate this matter!" Empress Dowager Yang was very angry, and a group of people went to the palace to sue the little emperor this morning, but it turned out that she was just making a fuss because of a big fart, and she almost wronged him.

"Obey the decree of the Queen Mother, the ministers will definitely investigate this matter and strictly deal with the officials involved!" Lu Xiufu and Ying Jie Yan saluted.

"Empress Dowager Qi, the minister thinks that although Li Langzhong is at fault in this matter, His Majesty is also at fault, and he should be held accountable!" The guy who came out of the column to join His Majesty, seeing that he was hanging there and no one cared for him, he was not only embarrassed, but also a little embarrassed, and said loudly again.

"Who is this? Why do you want to participate in me again and again! Zhao Yu frowned and asked Lu Xiufu beside him. In fact, he can also judge one or two by this person's official uniform, and he is also a green robe, which means that he is not as good as the fifth grade and has no qualifications to go to the palace. Of course, there are exceptions, one is the group of people like the 'lawsuit' just now, who are specially allowed to go to the palace, and the other is the imperial history, although their official rank is low, they have the right to go to the palace to say things. Therefore, he judged that it should be someone from Yushitai, but he didn't know it, so he was a little vague.

"Your Majesty, it's the newly elected Inspector Yu Shi Dingqi!" Lu Xiufu replied.

"Oh, this is a terrifying newcomer, I haven't been involved in two years!" Zhao Hao touched his chin and glanced at him again, and said with a wry smile.

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know why this Ding Qi wants to do something, and the minister doesn't know beforehand!" Zhao Hao's question startled Lu Xiufu, because the two things were within his jurisdiction, and if he said that he was not implicated, he would not believe it, he hurriedly explained.

In fact, Zhao Hao can't be blamed for muttering about this, the government's supervision system existed as early as the Zhou Dynasty, and many dynasties have continued in successive dynasties, and the Great Song Dynasty is naturally no exception. Why did empires establish a system of surveillance? Because to put it bluntly, officials at all levels are "wage earners" invited by the emperor, and the boss is afraid that the working people will be lazy and slack, corrupt the law, and engage in favoritism, digging into the walls of the imperial company, which will lead to the collapse of the imperial building, so he found some supervisors to supervise them, so that they will be loyal and conscientious and dare not be corrupt.

Since the imperial history is a supervisor, of course, it cannot be elected and dismissed by the supervised, but must be appointed and dismissed by the emperor himself, and other departments basically can't interfere. The same is true of the imperial history of the Song Dynasty, which set up the imperial history platform to picket the official evil and enforce the discipline. The big things are distinguished, and the small things are played. There are three courtyards in its subordination: one is called the Taiwan Courtyard, which serves the imperial history and is subordinate to Yan; The second is the palace, and the palace serves the imperial history; The third is called the procuratorate, supervising the imperial history. It was not subject to the control of the province and the court, but directly belonged to the emperor and implemented parallel management.

That is to say, the so-called power is only responsible for the source of power", the imperial history is appointed and dismissed by the emperor, directly responsible to the emperor, and is not subject to the interference of the chief executive at the same level or higher level, or even the influence of the chief of the imperial history platform. The imperial history went out to tour Beijing, "or show the seal and face the core, or seal the core", and report directly to the emperor, without being forwarded by the owner, even if the owner of the station can not be opened. At the same time, the emperor also gave the imperial history the sword of Shang Fang of "big things to be judged, small things to be decided", and under special circumstances, the imperial history can be "cheaply engaged", first cut and then played.

The emperor's supervisor was the "eyes and ears of the court", so he had to be particularly selective. In addition to being appointed by the emperor, the selection of the imperial history can also be recommended by the courtiers, but not by the relevant stakeholders, so as to avoid collusion. In addition, the chosen imperial history must have the experience of being a general judge in the local area, or three governors, and the basic conditions are loyalty, honesty, and integrity, and the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Yushi is not only the emperor's other eye, but also a knife in his hand to contain the prime minister. Therefore, the imperial history is all ordered by Zhao Yu himself, and it has always been in charge of the third master Deng Guangjian, so it is naturally often participated in by him, but in recent years, there have been very few. Some time ago, Deng Guangjian was ordered to inspect the state capitals in Jiangdong to investigate and deal with officials' business-related behavior. And he left the court again, thinking that this kid was admitted to the stage by the Queen Mother's grace, but why did he have to find trouble for himself?

Of course, there is also supervision of the Imperial History Observatory, and there is a Metropolitan Imperial History Office in Shangshu Province, which is a supervision department in charge of impeaching the dereliction of duty of the imperial history, and its impeachment of the dereliction of duty of the imperial history serves as the basis for the emperor to depose the imperial history. In this way, through this body, the executive branch can picket the dereliction of duty of the imperial historian and restrain his abuse of power. In this way, through a complete set of system design, the supervision of officials has been strengthened, and it has indeed played an important role in rectifying the rule of officials......

"If you don't let you speak, do you want to block the way of speech, act arrogantly and arbitrarily, and disobey the guidelines?" Zhao Yu turned around and asked.

"The last official doesn't dare, it's just his duty!" Ding Qi replied in a polite manner, but he was neither humble nor arrogant, and he was very like a royal historian.

"What do you add, and what is your basis?" Zhao Yu asked.

"The last official Ding Qi, the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is responsible for inspecting the mistakes of the household department." Ding Qi said again, "The last official reviewed the list of renovations of the East Palace a few days ago and found that Xiangyuan Hall was not among them, but it appeared in the materials and tariff accounts. After the last official investigated, he found that His Majesty had moved to Xiangyuan Hall to live, and changed the residence and renamed it Zhiyuan Hall. It is thus confirmed that His Majesty has used the state without authorization and fraudulently obtained funds. ”

"Well, your name is Ding Qi, and the song of Shenzhen is also from you!" Zhao Yu nodded and asked.

"Your Majesty, exactly. The last official thought that His Majesty's expenses were all for the private use of the state. Even if you are the Son of Heaven and rule the world, you should know that everything you do is the people's fat and people's ointment, and it is not appropriate to spend it extravagantly to increase the labor of the people. Ding Qi said.

"But anything else?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile after hearing this.

"The last official thinks that this matter should also be taken as a warning and listen to the advice!" Ding Qi looked directly at Zhao Yu and said.

"Queen Mother, Ding Yushi Palace is for private use, please allow me to defend myself!" Zhao Hao shook his head with a smile, turned around and saluted.

"Accurate!" The Queen Mother hesitated for a moment but nodded. In fact, she was worried that once she sat in the palace, there would be no room for maneuver, which would not only damage the emperor's prestige, but also embarrass her herself, and she couldn't help but feel resentment in her heart. But seeing that he was confident, he still nodded.

"Ding Yushi, I ask you first, have you ever seen the voucher for the household department to pay for the renovation of the East Palace?" Zhao Yu got the will, and asked after a little thought.

"The last official didn't, but only saw the submission submitted by the craftsman to the province of Shangshu, and the approval of the transfer to the head of the household department, the case, and the monk of the household department." Ding Qi replied.

"And you said in your song that I spent a lot of money to renovate Xiangyuan Hall, what is the evidence?" Zhao Yu did not argue, but asked again.

"This ...... Because the renovation of Xiangyuan Hall was attached to the accounts, and the cost was not listed in detail, the last official estimated it according to the cost of the renovation of other palace buildings. Ding Qi hesitated, and said truthfully.

"I ask you again, do you know that there is a distinction between a national and an internal child?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"The last official knows!" Ding Qi nodded.

Since he can be an official, he naturally knows that the money that has been returned to the household department in the past dynasties is called the national family, and how to use it The emperor said that it doesn't matter, if the emperor wants to use the money in the treasury, he must first discuss with the ministers, if the ministers oppose it, the household department Shangshu will not give it, and the emperor will be helpless. The emperor has his own private money called the internal money, and the internal money is completely the emperor's private money, no matter how you spend it, you don't need to greet anyone. And passed down from generation to generation, when the new emperor ascended the throne, while continuing the previous emperor's country, even the imperial silver treasury was also inherited, each generation or increase or decrease, generally stored in the inner treasury.

So where did the money come from in the emperor's small coffers? As early as the Western Han Dynasty, it was stipulated that the state finances came from the land endowment, the levy of the poll tax of adults, the income from the sale of official beards, and the income from the monopoly of salt and iron, while the income from the production of Tugong and Shanze Yuanchi and the customs and liquor tax belonged to the royal family. There are also regulations that minors must also pay a poll tax, which is called mouth money, with the big head going to the emperor and the small head going to the household department.

Sometimes the emperor would add some special taxes to the whole of the income. And there is a special agency to manage it. If the state wants to use the inner money, it must obtain the emperor's consent, and it must be returned afterwards, and interest must be paid, which is regarded as a loan. This was done to prevent the emperor from reaching into the treasury and turning the money into the royal property.

"If only you knew!" Zhao Yu nodded and smiled, beckoned to Chen Zeweng who was standing in the class, and said, "Chen Shangshu, please come forward and answer." ”

"Obey orders!" Chen Zeweng heard the emperor's call, and came to the front of the stairs after giving a salute.

"Chen Shangshu, have you approved the allocation of funds for the renovation of the East Palace?" Zhao Yu asked. He knew that he had to break it up today, otherwise it would be troublesome.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister did not approve it, and it was never allocated." Chen Zeweng replied with great certainty.

"How is this possible, hasn't the imperial court already approved two million pieces for His Majesty's wedding!" Ding Qi said in surprise.

"Ding Yushi, the matter of two million is true, but this is used for His Majesty's sue to the temple, sacrifice to heaven and earth, Sheji, and the ceremonial guards and ceremonies used in the mausoleum, and do not include the funds for the renovation of the East Palace." Chen Zeweng said, "And as far as this official knows, the salaries of the inner building, meals, the queen mother, the chamberlain, the palace maid, and even the guards are all from the inner family, and have never been allocated by the household department. ”

"Impossible, impossible, if not, why submit a document to Shangshu Province." Ding Qi was shocked when he heard this.

"I don't know about this official, but there has never been such a case before, you have to ask Lu Xiang!" Chen Zeweng stroked his beard and looked at Lu Xiufu.

"This appearance can prove that there was no such case before, probably after His Majesty left Beijing to recuperate, this precedent was made!" Although Lu Xiufu's answer was vague, it also showed that what Chen Zeweng said was good.

"You say that I spent tens of thousands of dollars to renovate Xiangyuan Hall, and I am extremely extravagant, if I answer you, you will definitely not believe it. The supervisor of Zhou Temple is still here, you can ask him! Zhao Yu pointed at Zhou Xiangdao.

"It's all chasing after the wind and shadows, a bunch of nonsense!" Zhou Xiang was not so polite, and said hatefully, "Because the East Palace needs to be renovated, craftsmen come and go frequently, and it is inevitably noisy." For the sake of safety, he moved to Xiangyuan Hall, because it was cold near the lake, His Majesty agreed to make a slight change under the persuasion of everyone, but it was just a change of plaque, dividing each hall into a small room for living, and adding a fire dragon, the materials and labor required only cost 237 and 165 Wen, how can it be as much as 10,000. Isn't that what you want to do with it? ”

"The Last Official...... Don't dare, but it's too unreasonable! At this moment, Ding Qi's face was not much different from Li Kuan just now, and he stammered as if talking to himself.

"If you are involved in the matter of tampering with the country, I will also defend myself!" Zhao Yu looked at the palace, as if looking for someone, and said, "Alas, it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of fraud in this matter because I prove my innocence, but unfortunately there are not many old people in the palace in the past......"

"Your Majesty, the minister can testify for Your Majesty!" At this time, Cai Wanyi came out of the queue.

"Your Majesty, the minister also proves one or two for Your Majesty!" Ying Jieyan said and also came out of the line.

"Your Majesty, how can you forget your minister, I used to be in charge of the transfer of Qiongzhou!" Chen Zeweng smiled beside him......