At that time, Wang Hua, the secretary of the household department, also resigned, and the previous Wang Hua did not know the financial situation of the imperial court regardless of the household department, but he also found out that the imperial court was really poor.

For a while, Wang Hua couldn't help but think of some of the contents of the "Outline for Governing the Country" that Zhu Houzhao gave him, and suddenly felt that some of the contents of the "Outline for Governing the Country" were indeed right, for example, with the increase of privileged classes such as royal relatives and gentry, the expenses of the imperial court would become larger and larger, so the imperial court could not just think about throttling and finding ways to open source.

Wang Hua, the head of the household department, also wanted to go back and take a good look at the "Outline of Governance" instead of thinking about burning it.

Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, didn't pay attention to Wang Hua, the secretary of the household department, and only looked at the figure of Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, and snorted coldly.

"If Duke Liu hadn't died, it wouldn't have been his turn to take charge of the army, and this Xu Jin would soon not take our cabinet seriously," Li Dongyang, the second assistant, said on the side.

"A madman who burns four books is simply a Confucian scum, and it is simply insulting to let such a person be the secretary of the military department, if it weren't for His Majesty's stupidity, he would have been impeached and removed from office by the officials, how could he be so arrogant!"

Sanfu Xie Qian also had a very bad impression of Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, and said quite angrily on the side.

Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, was originally a foreign official in a border town, and he was always despised by the Qingliu Beijing officials from Hanlin such as cabinet officials, because in the eyes of the Qingliu Beijing officials, these border town civil officials were infected with the vulgar habits of the martial arts, and they were also looked down upon by the Qingliu Beijing officials.

Fortunately, Xu Jin has never been a party and remains neutral, and the court push of the new secretary of the military department last time forced the cabinet to choose him as one of the candidates for the secretary of the military department in order to prevent Ma Wensheng from benefiting, and now he is even named by Zhu Houzhao as the secretary of the military department.

Liu Jian and other cabinet ministers originally thought that Xu Jin would become the secretary of the military department and then woo Xu Jin, but they did not expect that Xu Jin would make the amazing move of burning the four books as soon as he became the secretary of the military department, and he did not regard himself as a gentleman, which made the Qingliu civil officials who most hoped that the courtiers would follow the Confucian etiquette law to hate Xu Zheng greatly.

Liu Jian and other cabinet ministers now want to expel Xu Jin from the court.

"If there is really an incident between the regimental battalion and the forbidden soldiers this time, there is just a reason to force him to resign!" Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, smiled coldly and said.

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian also laughed.

"But the most important thing at the moment is to let His Majesty return to the palace!" Liu Jian said again at this time.

"What Shoufu said is very true, the Son of Heaven should stay in the palace honestly! Leave government affairs to our civil officials, otherwise you will be a king! ”

Xie Qian echoed.

"Whether Your Majesty instigated by Liu Jin is outside the palace, or Your Majesty himself wants to be outside the palace, you can't let Your Majesty leave the palace at will in the future, you have to shrink him in the Forbidden City!"

Li Dongyang also said a word, and Liu Jian and Xie Qian both nodded.

……

Xu Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, reluctantly returned to the Ministry of War, and couldn't help but sigh: "Yongchen misunderstands the country, Yongchen misunderstands the country!" ”

The Yongchen that Xu Jin refers to is naturally Liu Jian and others in the cabinet, but he can only scold two sentences at this time, and there is nothing he can do about Liu Jian and others.

Even, Xu Jin himself guessed that if he couldn't give the Beijing army the arrears of Lu Mi this time, he was afraid that the secretary of the military department would be the end, and he would even use his own head to calm the anger of the officers and soldiers, if the officials and the people made an incident because of the debt to Lu Mi.

Xu Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, sighed, he wanted to make a career in the Ministry of War, but he didn't expect to face the fate of being punished.

At this time, Zhang Mao, the governor of the British Gongzhong Military Governor's Office, also came to the military department with a group of military ministers and nobles.

As soon as Zhang Mao found Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, he hurriedly asked: "Lord Xu, you are the secretary of the military department, whether you care about the Lumi of our 12th regiment battalion, this is owed for three months!" ”

These military ministers and nobles are all the governors and commanders of the twelve regiments and battalions of the imperial court, either the prince of the country or the marquis, and Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, did not dare to slack off, so he had to explain patiently:

"Ladies and gentlemen! It's not that Xu is unwilling to send Lu rice, but the court has no money and food, Xu has already found the cabinet, and the first assistant has promised that Lu rice will definitely be reissued to all the officers and soldiers of each battalion before the year! The imperial court also has difficulties, and I hope you understand! ”

"Lord Xu, we can wait, but our brothers can't afford to wait, they just point to such a little Lu to live, wives and children all point to this Lu rice to eat and dress, the court really doesn't care if we live or die, you civil officials eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas one by one, and now even we refuse to send half a tael of Lu rice, are we really muddy!"

Zhang Jie, the Marquis of Taiping, couldn't help but complain for a while.

"That's it, Master Hou, you see how much Xu is worth, you cut off Xu and sell it, okay!"

Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, is also a short-tempered person, and he was in a very bad mood, and he also talked nonsense.

Seeing this, Zhang Mao couldn't help but persuade: "Okay, Taipinghou, what are you fooling about!" ”

Saying that, Zhang Mao comforted Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department: "Lord Xu, it's not that we have to force the imperial court, but the life and death of the nearly 100,000 brothers below, we can't care about it, they guard the capital for the imperial court, if there is a change, you and I can't afford it!" ”

"To tell you the truth, the only amount of money in the imperial court is temporarily allocated to the Ministry of Industry to repair the Qianqing Palace, and now I can only wait, don't worry, I will definitely find a way to get you to Lumi!"

Xu Jin said with a sigh.

"Dare to love Your Majesty, who only thinks about repairing the Qing Palace, and is not willing to feed the brothers in the regimental camp?"

Zhang Jie, the Marquis of Taiping, couldn't help but say a word at this time, and he had already begun to have some dissatisfaction with Emperor Zhu Houzhao in his heart.

Zhang Mao hurriedly glared at Zhang Jie, the Marquis of Taiping: "Marquis Taiping, what nonsense, is this what Your Majesty can call the shots, the court has never had money, and you are not unclear, even if Your Majesty wants to repair the Qianqing Palace, we can't say that we don't repair it, but pity the brothers below, many of these are veterans who have killed Tartars, and now they have been reduced to leaving the barracks to be a sedan chair driver or even a doorman, and there are also coolies, these are all veterans of a hundred battles!" If there are Tatars in the Ming Dynasty in the future, how will the capital resist the enemy! ”

Zhang Mao sighed as he spoke.

"Who said that His Majesty only thinks about repairing the Qing Palace?"

At this time, the eunuch Zhang Yong came to the Ministry of War, and when he saw the British Duke Zhang Mao and the Secretary of the Ministry of War, Xu Jin, he saluted first: "Grandpa Guo, Da Sima, it just so happens that you are all here, and our family will not run in vain, there is an oracle from the saint!" ”

As soon as Zhang Yong said this, the British official Zhang Mao and the military secretary Xu Jin were all busy preparing to listen to the order.

"The British Gong Zhang Mao led the officers and generals of the battalions, and Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, led the officials at all levels of the military department to immediately come to the regimental camp to discuss the matter, and I will personally distribute the arrears owed to the regimental battalion and the forbidden officers and soldiers!"

As soon as Zhang Yong finished reading the will, Xu Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was stunned and secretly surprised:

"Your Majesty? But Your Majesty doesn't have much money! ”

As a civil official, Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, knows better than anyone that the internal treasury of the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao has long been dug up by the cabinet and the household department, and there are no tens of thousands of taels of silver left, otherwise the cabinet would not have returned the inner treasury to His Majesty the Emperor so easily.

Although he didn't know how much money the new emperor had now, he also knew that if the emperor really had so much money, he would not let the officers and soldiers delay until now.

But there was nothing to do, Zhu Houzhao spoke, and the British public Zhang Mao and Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, could not disbelieve it, so they could only bring their own people to the regimental camp with a suspicious attitude.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao had already arrived at the regimental camp and began to order the officers and men of all departments and battalions to immediately assemble the officers and men of each department.

This time, Zhu Houzhao wanted to personally let the army in the capital of the Ming Dynasty know who their real commander was by distributing Lu rice.