Zheng Yongji, Chen Yiming, Zhu Kaishan, and Li Guangtai, who won a great victory, left the palace excitedly.

The other ministers who heard the news went to Donghua Pavilion one after another and surrounded Zheng Yongji and the others.

"Elder Zheng Ge, how is the situation?"

"Li Yushi, what did Your Majesty say?"

"Zhu Shangshu, how much silver did you ask for this time?"

……

For a while, everyone asked the four of them in a gossiping manner.

"Colleagues, be quiet!" Seeing that everyone was noisy and shouting, Zheng Yongji frowned and shouted. Then he coughed and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, this time the old man entered the palace with Li Yushi, Zhu Shangshu and Chen Shangshu to meet Your Majesty......

Your Majesty has spoken, and has allocated 30,000,000 taels of silver to the treasury. ”

During this period, Zheng Yongji naturally wanted to praise Li Guangtai, Zhu Kaishan, and Chen Yiming.

Chen Yiming and the three of them smiled and excused themselves: "It's all Zheng Ge Lao who turned the tide, otherwise, how could Your Majesty open his mouth easily?" ”

"Where? Where? Zheng Yongji said modestly, "If it weren't for the good cooperation of the three of them, even if the old man was given great ability, the old man would not have to come out with so much silver!" ”

……

The ministers in the Donghua Pavilion praised each other.

The most beautiful person is naturally none other than Zheng Yongji, the first assistant of the cabinet.

At this moment, Zheng Yongji felt the infinite scenery.

After all, what Zheng Yongji's cabinet chief assistant did can be said to be the most aggrieved in the history of the Great Zhou......

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, someone naturally reported the news of Donghua Pavilion to Zhang Lingyang.

After hearing this, Zhang Lingyang was so angry that he slammed the cup: "These old foxes, I knew that I wouldn't talk so much." ”

In fact, when Zhang Lingyang said that he would allocate 10 million taels of silver to the treasury before, he already regretted it in his heart.

As expected, Zheng Yongji guessed his mind and forcibly raised the silver from 10 million taels to 30 million taels.

But for Zheng Yongji, although Zhang Lingyang was angry, he did not have a trace of hatred in his heart.

Zhang Lingyang understood that Zheng Yongji and others were also thinking about the imperial court, so they made this decision.

Otherwise, with Zheng Yongji's urine sex, he would not be so high-profile after leaving the palace, wouldn't he just show Zhang Lingyang and let Zhang Lingyang understand that they are completely dedicated to the public?

……

Although the treasury was full a lot at once, Zhu Kaishan, the secretary of the household department, has never been happy these days.

Without him, there is more money in the treasury, and there are many more broken households that come to ask for silver.

As soon as the royal bank transferred the silver to the treasury, Feng Zuoliang, the secretary of the military department, broke into the yamen of the household department.

Before he had time to sit down and take a sip of tea, Feng Zuoliang complained to Zhu Kaishan: "Zhu Shangshu, don't you know that after the victory in Western Xinjiang last year, the soldiers' rewards for silver have not dropped much, and the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou have suppressed bandits, and the silver money has gone to the sea." Although the Jiangnan Rebellion was pacified, the rewards of the soldiers were not all distributed.

Those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals have been blocking in front of the yamen of the military department every day in the past few months to beg for silver.

Zhu Shangshu, you can take pity on the poor old man, and transfer the money owed to the soldiers! ”

In the face of Feng Zuoliang's 'pleading', Zhu Kaishan was a little soft-hearted for a while, and he wanted to open his mouth to agree.

I don't want to break in with Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, and complained: "Zhu Shangshu, you know about the Yellow River flood last year." His Majesty had already ordered the Ministry of Works to build the embankment of the Yellow River.

But the old man is a clever woman who can't cook without rice, doesn't he come to bother Zhu Shangshu? ”

Zhu Kaishan listened.

Get!

another one who asked for silver.

The news spread quickly.

As soon as Chen Weiguo, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, sat down, Chen Yiming, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, also followed.

Glancing at Feng Zuoliang and Chen Weiguo, Chen Yiming said to Zhu Kaishan: "Now the officials in various parts of the Great Zhou have been in arrears for half a year.

Originally, there was no silver in the treasury, and the old man could delay it for a day, but now that the household department has silver, Zhu Shangshu, the officials' money, should it also be distributed? ”

……

As he was talking, Cao Rui, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also walked in and said to Zhu Kaishan: "Your Majesty's Temple of Heaven has not been repaired for many years, and the houses in the Tribute Courtyard are also a little dilapidated.

Today, the old man gave up his skin to ask Zhu Shangshu and allocated some silver to the Ministry of Rites, so that the old man could pick up and repair the Temple of Heaven and the Tribute Courtyard! ”

Now that several heads of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Officials have arrived, Gao Pei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, naturally came to the Yamen of the Ministry of Household Affairs without exception.

"Uh......" Seeing several colleagues sitting in the hall, Gao Pei was puzzled: "You also want silver?" ”

Cao Rui, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, nodded with a wry smile and asked, "Gao Shangshu is also here to ask for silver?" ”

Gao Pei nodded and said: "Naturally, the prison of Shuntian Mansion was crushed by heavy snow last winter, because the household was short of money, so the old man did not send someone to ask for silver."

No, until now, the prison of Shuntianfu has not been repaired.

But fortunately, now that the treasury is full, the old man gave up his skin to ask Zhu Shangshu for some silver, so that he could repair the prison of Shuntianfu. ”

Everyone's reasons are above board, and everyone's demands are reasonable.

But there is only so much silver in the treasury, and if you use one tael, you will have less than one tael.

What can Zhu Kaishan do?

Glancing at everyone, Zhu Kaishan smiled bitterly and said: "Several adults, the treasury has just a little bit of silver, and it has to be prepared for emergencies."

Now all of you have come to ask the old man for money, and if he allocates all the money to you, I am afraid that the treasury will be empty again. ”

"Zhu Shangshu's difficulties, we don't know!" Feng Zuoliang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said: "The old man doesn't think it's as good as this, first pay back the silver owed to the soldiers, and as for the rest, after the autumn tax comes up, it's not too late to allocate it!" ”

"Feng Shangshu's words are boring!" Chen Weiguo, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, blew his beard and glared: "As far as the affairs of your Ministry of Industry are important, the affairs of my Ministry of Industry are not important?"

It has only been a little more than a year since the Yellow River burst its banks, and because of the shortage of money, the Ministry of Industry has only repaired less than one-fifth.

If this delays the time, if there is another major flood this year, the people on both sides of the strait will suffer another disaster. ”

When the Yellow River flooded the year before last, Zhu Kaishan was serving as the governor of southern Henan, so he naturally understood how sad the people's lives were after the disaster.

Therefore, Zhu Kaishan couldn't help but echo: "Ladies and gentlemen, in the opinion of the old man, it is better to allocate the silver to the Ministry of Industry first!" ”

"That's not going to work!" Feng Zuoliang was unhappy, "The people are innocent, aren't the soldiers innocent?"

They fought to the death with the enemy on the front line, and in the end, they couldn't even get a little money for the bereavement, is there any reason for this?

Doesn't this chill the hearts of the soldiers?

If this goes on for a long time, how can there be any soldiers who will serve the country? ”

In this way, Zhu Kaishan also felt that Feng Zuoliang's statement was very reasonable......