"Emperor, the elders have arrived."

Wang Chengen had been waiting in a corner of the hall for a long time, and seeing that the Son of Heaven was still stunned, Wang Chengen couldn't help but remind him.

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he quickly took back the thoughts that had drifted to the sky, wiped his face, rubbed his eyes, and said.

"Please come in, the elders."

Later, the six cabinet ministers entered the Qianqing Palace in turn, and just now there was a gust of cold wind blowing under the corridor, and they all breathed a sigh of relief when they entered the warm hall like spring.

After saluting, Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth first.

"There is good news from Guizhou again, Lu Xiangsheng captured the main village of the Shuixian clan, and Yu Chongming and An Wei were captured, in addition, Longchang, Zunyi and other places have been recovered, and Zhu Xieyuan is marching to Bijie."

Zhu Youzhen briefly repeated the content of the recital to the elders, and then asked Wang Chengen to hand it to the elders.

Since the main force of the rebel army in Yongping Valley was annihilated, after a short rest in Guiyang, the official army was like a bamboo, and successively recovered Longchang, Zunyi and other county guards.

In such a laborious battle to recover the city, the officers and soldiers all fought bravely, and no one was willing to stay in Guiyang for longer, lest the credit be robbed by others.

This Ming may really be different, the original angry tiger Lu'an rebels were crippled in less than two months, and the rebellion that I thought would take a few more years to put down is estimated to be completely over in the spring of next year. ’

After reading it, the elders sighed with emotion, and then peeked at the young man who brought about this change, and then praised it together.

"Lai Tianzi Shengming, congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty!"

The ministers are shouting again.

"Haha, this time it is also the soldier's life, the cabinet is attentive, I don't dare to be greedy for heaven's work."

Zhu Youzhen laughed twice, and then diverted the topic.

"The rebellion in Guizhou will be pacified in a few days, and the matter of changing the land and returning to the river should also be carried out as soon as possible.

Zhongqing agreed, and Zhu Youzhen then struck two more sentences.

"Changing the land and returning to the stream will be a major policy of the imperial court in the next few years or even more than ten years, if this policy is implemented, the southwest and Huguang will ensure the stability of the generations, the secretaries must be attentive, the allocation of money and grain must be timely, and the selection of officials must be fair."

"This matter is not trivial, do not because of private expenses, if you provoke a rebellion among the people because of the harsh government of the officials, it is not as simple as dismissing the officials."

The elders promised again, and their expressions were much more solemn than before.

Zhu Youzhen felt that what he said was clear enough, and the importance of changing the land and returning to the stream must also be known to the elders, if he didn't care anymore, he would disobey the yang and the yin, and seek personal gain, then he wouldn't mind killing a few officials and changing a few elders.

Zhu Youzhen then instructed a few more words about the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, and sent the elders away.

In layman's terms, the Zhengdan Dynasty will be a gathering of courtiers to pay New Year's greetings to the emperor, which is a bit of a New Year's group meeting in later generations.

However, this kind of thing is spread on the word Son of Heaven, the meaning is not the same, all kinds of procedural etiquette are numerous, since the Western Zhou Dynasty, after the evolution of the dynasties, the Zhengdan Dynasty has evolved into a particularly important ritual in the imperial court.

Some petty officials who usually can't get the court can only have the opportunity to see the face of the sky on this day, and after the ceremony, they can also have a mixed meal to get some rewards.

At that time, not only the officials above the seventh rank in Beijing will participate, but also the envoys of some vassal states will also participate, so the face of the great power and the prestige of the heavenly family must also be preserved.

A Zhengdan Dynasty will inevitably spend money, and the banquet and money after the ceremony alone will cost almost 200,000 taels of silver.

And this money will not be paid out yet, because of the reward of the heavenly family, it can only be the emperor's internal money.

Therefore, in addition to the Wanli and Jiajing dynasties, the emperor was extremely strong, since Yongle, Zhu Yuanzhang's wonderful financial system has been blessed, and the Ming emperors of all dynasties have a headache for this dynasty.

Since entering the wax moon, the Ministry of Rites, Honglu Temple, and Guanglu Temple have begun to be busy for this matter, and the emperor cannot be idle, and there must be money to hold large-scale activities, so it is the emperor's duty to raise money.

The powerful emperor is okay, and the people's fat and ointment that the factory guards have scavenged in various places will come in handy at this time, but Renjun, who was squeezed by the civil official group, is sitting on wax at this time, and he inevitably needs the support of the outer court, and sometimes he even uses his own private money such as coffin books.

However, in Zhu Youzhen's view, these are not problems, if he is richer, Zhu Youzhen can definitely be regarded as the richest emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Although he had only been emperor for less than two years, a rough calculation had roughly calculated that the amount of silver that flowed out of his hands was as much as ten million taels, and he should still have a few million taels of inventory in his hand.

Therefore, the plan reported by the Ministry of Rites at the beginning almost made Zhu Youzhen angry.

The emperor is rich, but he can't spend it indiscriminately.

So for the plan of the Ministry of Rites, Zhu Youzhen picked up the pen and chopped and chopped, and cut some ceremonies with grand plans and face.

and called Zhou Yanru to reprimand him again, saying that he wasted the people's fat and people's ointment, called the great Confucian in vain, and scolded Zhou Yanru for being a dog blood sprayer.

However, Zhu Youzhen is not as picky as Emperor Wanli, and he still retains a lot of banquets and rewards, and compared with several emperors of the previous dynasty, Zhu Youzhen is much more generous in rewards.

Zhu Youzhen had work experience as an ordinary person in his previous life, and knew that an ordinary official didn't care whether the group meeting was grand or not, and the Spring Festival welfare and lottery were what he really cared about.

Therefore, for the links that can actually buy people's hearts, give banquets and give money, Zhu Youzhen not only did not decrease, but also increased some.

According to Zhu Youjian's plan, even the seventh-grade officials at the bottom of the rank could get ten taels of silver.

A seven-grade Beijing official, Yuefeng is seven stone grain, which is equivalent to less than five taels of silver, if it is just to feed the official's family, it is enough.

But even if it is a seven-rank Beijing official, it is impossible to have no servants at home, no sedan chair when going out, and then buy a concubine, which is not enough.

Therefore, if a seven-rank Beijing official wants to live a pompous life, he must rely on the family's industrial subsidies to do so, and if he has no industry at home, he can only put down his face.

The sedan chair will not sit, and the concubine will not think about it, at most she will raise two or three servants, and the mistress will have to work hard in person for the work outside the house, but even so, the life will be tight.

In addition, it is not easy to live in the capital, and there are still many shabby petty officials in the Qingshui Yamen of the Beijing Division.

Moreover, these officials, generally from the Hanlin Academy and the Inspectorate, are all noble and important positions, and they have the absolute right to speak in Shilin, so making them happy is the purpose of Zhu Youzhen's increase in rewards.

And those old monks don't talk about it, they don't live on salaries at all, even if they are Lang Zhong or the main thing, they also have their own secret sources of income, and they generally don't look down on the rewards at the Zhengdan court.