September 29, the seventh year of the Great Tomorrow.

The court meetings of the Ming Dynasty were not held too often, basically every three or five days. The rest of the time is left to the cabinet members to vote on, and then to the emperor for approval.

Of course, not all things are like this, like Comrade Lao Zhu and Comrade Xiao Zhu of the Ming Dynasty, that is, a workaholic who works day and night, and he can't wait to go to the court every day. But after the two of them, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not want to go to the court because of the checks and balances of civil officials, and the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty only went to the court twice in 30 years. So that the civil officials at that time were so angry that in order to let the emperor go to the court to deal with business, some officials even ran into the inner city to throw the concerta into the palace, it is reported that the eunuchs of the inner palace at that time had to collect a few baskets of concerts every day.

In the past, Zhu Youxiao didn't like to go to the court, and all the major affairs were handed over to Wei Zhongxian to deal with, but now he is going to the court normally, which makes the ministers a little uncomfortable.

In the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Youxiao sat on the dragon chair, followed by the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian to serve on the side.

"Your Majesty's Shaanxi Political Secretary jointly signed a request from your Majesty to reduce or exempt all taxes in Shaanxi this year, and hope that Your Majesty can issue two grants for disaster relief," Guo Yunhou, then the secretary of the Ministry of Households, was the first to stand up.

Guo Yunhou, the word Wanyu, the number Moqian, a native of Caozhou City, an official to the household department. His father, Guo Du, once worked as the head of the household department.

In the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, Guo Yunhou was a jinshi and served as Wen'an Zhi County. Wen'an County is often hit by floods, where old waterproof dikes have been washed away, flooding farmhouses and fields, destroying crops and displacing people. He imitated the method of Mengjin Zhandi, the king of the military department, to build a dam and strengthen the embankment. In the autumn of the sixth year of tomorrow's enlightenment, there will be a big flood, and Baoding, Bazhou and other counties will become Zeguo, and only Wen'an County will be spared, and the five grains will be abundant.

During the Apocalypse, he was assigned to the military department, and went to serve as the deputy envoy of Huguang to manage the food and salary in Xinzhou, but he could not perform his duties due to illness. A year later, he was promoted to Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, and then promoted to Zuo Shilang of the Military Department. At that time, the imperial court was becoming more and more politically corrupt, and the supply of food and salary in the frontier could not be guaranteed. He worked hard to enrich the people and strengthen the country, enjoyed prestige inside and outside the court, and was recorded in the "accounting books" as an example to follow. Later, he was promoted to Guanglu doctor, crowned the palace protection, and gave it to the fourth generation.

Guo Yunhou acts impartially and is not afraid of rape. When he was appointed as the magistrate of Luoyang, King Fu was appointed as a central envoy at the beginning, and he used his power to expropriate and extort money for his own squandering, and also invaded and seized the people's land, beat the captains, and forcibly sent his subordinates to support the fields, which the people could not bear. There are two major families surnamed Shi and Huang, who take refuge in the vassal king as an errand servant, adhering to the will of the master, and going to Lijia to extort anytime and anywhere. On the surface, Guo Yunhou coped with the blockage, but in fact, he ordered the supervision departments to act in accordance with the laws and regulations, and not to levy more or more apportionment.

Zhu Youxiao's mind instantly popped up some things about Guo Yunhou, and Zhu Youxiao's face did not change his face and his evaluation of Guo Yunhou was a few points higher in his heart.

"What happened in Shaanxi"?

However, Zhu Youxiao is still a little puzzled, and he doesn't know why Shaanxi wants to reduce taxes this year? You must know that the taxes of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the later period, have been decreasing every year, and every tax has been fully calculated.

"Your Majesty, Shaanxi has not rained for two consecutive months since July this year. As a result, the seedlings withered and the crops were lost. The people fled one after another, leaving only some old and weak women and children to survive, and some remote places even cannibalized each other."

"This matter is a major event related to the fortunes of the country, and the household department can have a budget for disaster relief food."

Zhu Youxiao thought for a long time and asked Guo Yunhou.

"This year's tax revenue will not arrive in the capital until October, and now there are still 100,000 taels of silver and 50,000 stones of grain in the household department, but these are simply a drop in the bucket for Shaanxi."

"Therefore, please ask Your Majesty to open the treasury and relieve the people of the world."

What is Internal Payment? In layman's terms, it is the emperor's private property.

Every year the emperor will obtain wealth from his own Huangzhuang or some other source, which will enter the emperor's internal pockets, and this wealth will be at the emperor's disposal, and the rest of the ministers have no right to dispose of it.

It's just that in the late Ming Dynasty, the financial revenue fell sharply, so that every time a minister proposed to let the emperor open the internal money.

Zhu Youxiao really didn't care much about his money bag, so he didn't know how much money he had in his private bag, so he couldn't help but turn around and ask Wei Zhongxian, who was standing aside. After all, Wei Zhongxian, as his big housekeeper, is still very clear about how much money he has.

"Your Majesty has 5,000,000 taels of silver in his inner money, and the rest of the precious jewels are not counted."

Wei Zhongxian bent over and whispered to Zhu Youxiao in his ear.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard Wei Zhongxian's words, he didn't expect that there was so much money in his inner pocket.

I remember that in the late Ming Dynasty in history, when Chongzhen arrived, the annual tax revenue was only 4 million, which was a collection of national taxes, and there was not as much as his own internal funds, but Zhu Youxiao also knew why he had so much money in his internal funds.

In Zhu Youxiao's memory, Wei Zhongxian did not get a lot of benefits for himself. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but pay more attention to Wei Zhongxian, after all, Wei Zhongxian's existence would provide a lot of financial support for his future plans.

Of course, it still has to be said, and it can't be opened just because the minister wants to open the internal fund. Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian was not used to being opened by the minister, and as soon as he had no money, he asked the emperor to open the internal money, resulting in his own internal money being clean in the end, only rats remained.

So much so that when Li Zicheng besieged Beijing later, Zhu Youzhen couldn't take out a tael of silver to encourage the troops defending the city, resulting in the destruction of the city and his death.

Although the later Manchu Qing Dynasty fabricated Zhu Youzhen in order to discredit the Ming Dynasty, he was simply a selfish person, and he was not willing to take out the silver taels in his inner money to encourage the defending troops, so that after the city was broken, Li Zicheng's army found tens of millions of taels of silver in Zhu Youzhen's internal funds.

It's just that this kind of thing is okay for the head, and it's a big joke for ordinary people. At that time, Zhu Youzhen was already facing a life and death crisis, no matter how stingy a person was, he would not throw his life away.

Especially Zhu Youzhen even borrowed money from the ministers of the court at the last moment, if Zhu Youzhen really had money at that time, how could he pull down his son to borrow money from the ministers of the court and wanted to give some food to the troops defending the city.

"Guo Aiqing, is it true that the household department can't even think about some disaster relief?" Zhu Youxiao's face showed anger.

"The minister is incompetent and has high hopes for His Majesty, and the minister is willing to retire from the post of secretary of the household department, and ask His Majesty to return to his hometown with the old minister."

Another characteristic of Ming Dynasty officials is that when things can't be solved, they just don't care about them and say goodbye to the old and return to their hometowns. At this time, the emperor could not really make him return to his hometown, and he had to be comforted with good words.

"The imperial court spent a huge amount of money, and the military salary of Liaodong alone accounted for 1/4 of the national tax revenue, and the remaining drinks still needed to pay for the salaries of the officials of the whole country and the grain of the feudal kings in various places."

"If Your Majesty thinks that it costs a lot, the minister will stop the military salary of Liaodong, or the salary of the officials of the whole country and the vassal kings of various places."

As the saying goes, there is no rice for a clever woman, and officials also have a temper, since you think the cost is too big, then you can talk about which one to stop.

Zhu Youxiao listened to Guo Yunhou's words, and his face couldn't help but turn a little dark.

"Stop, stop the, I don't have to do the emperor's position."

"I said, Uncle Guo, your heart is really big enough."

After stopping the Liaodong military salary, the group of border troops did not mutini immediately, and directly hit the city of Beijing. If the official's salary is stopped, the Ming Dynasty will be paralyzed immediately.

However, it is still a way to stop the grain of the vassal king, but unfortunately it cannot be implemented now. At least when you have a power in your hands that can control the whole audience.

In the end, Zhu Youxiao reluctantly opened the inner rope and endured the pain and gave Guo Yunhou 500,000 taels of silver.

However, Zhu Youxiao has always had a strange idea in his heart, and he always feels as if he has forgotten something. Until the next dynasty, Zhu Youxiao always had this idea in his heart.