Zhu Houzhao said and looked at Liu Jin and the other eight tigers.

Liu Jin and the other eight tigers also looked at Zhu Houzhao with their hands, since Liu Daxia, the secretary of the military department, was successfully blown up, they are now more and more convinced of the ability of Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

And for the next goal of knocking down the imperial horse eunuch Zhang Zhao, it is also something that makes them even more excited.

Because the killing of the military department Shangshu is just to make another civilian official profit, it is equivalent to making a wedding dress for someone else, and now if Zhang Zhao is brought down by the palm seal of the imperial horse supervisor, it means that he can replace himself and become a great eunuch with great power!

The inner court of the Ming Dynasty is divided into 24 yamen, that is, 12 prisons and 4 divisions and 8 bureaus.

The Imperial Horse Supervisor is the second most important department after the Celebrant Supervisor, and is in charge of the Imperial Stables and Soldiers, and even the Imperial Horse Supervisor is the direct yamen who commands the forbidden army.

The so-called forbidden army is the Four Guards Battalion and the Warrior Battalion, which are the army of the Suwei Ouchi, and together with the twelve regiments and battalions, they constitute the military system of the capital.

In addition, the eunuchs of the 12th regimental battalion of the Admiral are also often the eunuchs of the Imperial Horse Eunuch.

It can be seen that the temptation of the imperial horse eunuch and the eunuch to the eunuchs in the ministry is no less than the temptation of the military department to the foreign ministers and civil officials.

And the current eunuch Zhang Zhao is the eunuch of the 12th regiment of the commander, and he is also the actual leader of the forbidden army.

According to his memory, Zhu Houzhao only knew that Zhang Zhao and Zhang Yu had a great relationship, and they were both promoted by their ancestor Wang Yue, so Zhu Houzhao naturally pointed his gun at this Zhang Zhao now.

At this time, Liu Jin only said: "Your Majesty, are we going to blow up this eunuch Zhang Zhao again?" ”

"This eunuch Zhang Zhao is very honest now, he never leaves the palace, the palace ban is strictly controlled, and now he has just killed Liu Daxia, and he is investigating it very strictly, and it is impossible to blow it up a second time", Gao Feng, who is in charge of investigating the palace forbidden army, said at this time.

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "This time we don't need to use murder to deal with Zhang Zhao, but we want to create a fake murder case, and it is murder!" Gu Dayong, you are in charge of this matter this time, you must put on a good show for our ancestor Wang Gonggong, who is the master of ceremonies, and Liu Jin will cooperate with Gu Dayong when the time comes! Here's how to do it. ”

As Zhu Houzhao spoke, he pulled Liu Jin and Gu Dayong over and whispered a few words.

Then, Gu Da nodded hurriedly: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the slave and maid will definitely handle this matter!" ”

Here, Liu Jin also nodded: "At that time, the slave and maid will definitely come according to His Majesty's arrangement!" ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then looked at Gao Feng, Zhang Yong and the others who were in charge of investigating the internal situation of the army: "What is the morale of the army now, how many lords and generals are willing to join the Zhongjun Society?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the commanders LinkedIn of the regiment and battalion, Zhang Mao and Xia Ming, the commanders of the regiment and battalion, Zhang Mao and Xia Ming, as well as the young eunuch Li Tang and the commanders Tian Zhong and Gui Yong, who are in the camp, intend to join the Zhongjun Society, Zhang Zhao is now only giving rations to the battalion guards led by the military attachés with whom he has a good relationship, and now the forbidden army and the regimental battalion, these military attaches who are unwilling to befriend him, and their subordinate soldiers Lu Mi owe them for two months, and they are quite resentful."

Zhang Yong replied at this time.

"Li Chun, the eunuch of the Siwei Battalion, Zhang Hong, Jia Jian, Li Long, and others, the right governor of the Warrior Battalion, intend to join the Zhongjun Society, and like Zhang Yong, the Siwei Battalion and the Warrior Battalion now owe Lu Mi for a month!"

Gao Feng replied.

Zhu Houzhao knew that the amount of silver in circulation was not large now, and most of the remuneration paid by the imperial court to officers and soldiers was grain, cloth and other physical goods, and of course, there were also treasure money, which was the same as the silver in the future.

But after Zhu Houzhao heard what Zhang Yong and Gao Feng said, he was also quite surprised, the imperial court's owe of Lu rice, especially the army of Jingying, which is a common phenomenon when the dynasty is in financial difficulties, just like the salaries of hundreds of officials, not to mention the salaries of military generals and soldiers.

But what Zhu Houzhao doesn't understand is that it is now the eighteenth year of Hongzhi that has just ended in the Hongzhi Zhongxing era! The Ming Dynasty in the Zhongxing world can't even afford the rice of the officers and soldiers? Are the empire's finances really so bad?

In this way, it is no wonder that the armament will be slackened, and the little prince of the Tartars will make trouble in the border town as if he were returning to his own home. The imperial court does not pay the soldiers, so why should people sell their lives.

But in any case, Zhu Houzhao also knew that this was a good opportunity to subdue the army and regain military power, and he decided that he, the emperor, would take the initiative to ask for rice for these soldiers who defended the capital and the court for the Ming Dynasty.

It is the Ministry of War that distributes Lu Mi in charge of the army, and now Xu Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is a reserve member of his Zhongjun Society, and Zhu Houzhao can now also meddle in the affairs of the Ministry of War, so he decisively instructed Liu Jin: "Liu Jin, you go and ask Xu Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, when will I owe the Lu rice of these soldiers who defend the capital and the palace in the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Liu Jin went to the military department with Zhu Houzhao's will, and the other seven tigers also retreated one after another.

Zhu Houzhao began to think about how to use the problem of the lack of rice among officers and soldiers to achieve his goal of controlling the army.

Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, has now put his seat in the first place, and when he was about to reorganize the military department, he saw Liu Jin coming, "Father-in-law Liu brought the words of the organization?" ”

"That's right, the organization hopes that you can help Your Majesty subdue the hearts of the army and bring down the current Imperial Horse Supervisor Palm Seal Eunuch Zhang Zhao, because of this, Your Majesty also issued an edict for me to ask you, how long will the Ministry of War owe the officers and soldiers Lu Mi?" Liu Jin asked.

Xu Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, sighed and explained: "Please ask Gonggong Liu to tell His Majesty and the organization, it is not that Weichen is unwilling to send Lu rice, but that Weichen has no silver to send Lu rice, and the household department said that now even the silver for the burial of Emperor Daxing has not been raised, and His Majesty's wedding still has to spend money, and our military department can only wait, in short, the court has no money!" ”

After listening to Xu Jin's explanation, Liu Jin told Zhu Houzhao of Xu Jin's original words, and Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing: "Tell Xu Jin that the household department can't afford to pay the silver, so this matter will be handed over to me, isn't it 200,000 taels of silver, is it worth being poor like this?" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Houzhao asked Wei Bin again: "How much silver does the Royal Industrial Company make now?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's tens of thousands of taels, and now the number of orders has declined, and the growth has slowed down," Wei Bin replied.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, tens of thousands of taels is already a lot of money for ordinary people, not to mention that the silver has not depreciated now, but for Zhu Houzhao, the emperor, it is indeed still less, and he doesn't want to move the silver deposit of the royal industrial experimental base, after all, he still has to rely on this silver to support the development of his Ming industrial base.

What's more, this silver was made up by the "Eight Tigers" around him, and the purpose was not to spend it but to make money, Zhu Houzhao felt that it was necessary to continue to increase the way to make money, and as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he could not help but change the situation of the Ming Dynasty's lack of money.

"Qiu Ju, take out all the handicrafts that are now in stock in the Royal Industrial Experimental Base and hand them over to Wei Bin! In addition, Ma Yongcheng and Gu Dayong are now going to choose a place on Qipan Street outside Daming Gate to pick up a high platform, and I will go there tomorrow to open a royal exposition! Tomorrow's expo will be presided over by Liu Jin. ”

Zhu Houzhao explained in detail what an expo is.