Soon, the unlucky Zhao Ge Lao got the emperor's personal Zhu criticism, as well as the emperor's angry dictation - take out 100,000 taels of silver to send troops to Xiao Ruxun, otherwise, your cabinet can resign collectively!

The emperor's anger was so strong that all the bigwigs in the cabinet, including Zhang Wei, were a little uneasy.

The cabinet is different from the general ministers, although the power is great, but the status is very embarrassing, because the cabinet auxiliary ministers are equivalent to the emperor's private secretary, and the rank of the cabinet scholar is only five grades, strictly speaking, they do not have the qualifications to hold the real power like today, but the Ming Dynasty is like this, the position is high and the power is light, and the position is humble and powerful.

This is the case with cabinet scholars, so if the emperor wants to remove other officials, other officials can still argue with reason, and the position of cabinet scholars, the emperor's private secretary, is that the emperor will prepare to resign as soon as the emperor orders you, and then many officials will hear the news and start to impeach you.

Unlike other official positions that don't have much oil and water, the cabinet scholars are facing the ministers with their backs to the emperor, and their status is different from that of ordinary courtiers.

The emperor said that he wanted the cabinet ministers to resign, and the cabinet ministers had to go to the resignation form, in order to make a show, it was generally allowed after the three prohibitions, and there were some that made the emperor extremely dissatisfied with the excerpt The emperor allowed it, and then you can go home to retire.

Other officials and emperors can't rub the flats and rounds, and the emperor like the cabinet scholars still has a little control, because their position is very jealous, and if the emperor is dissatisfied, a large group of people will immediately stage a shameless drama of the wall falling down and everyone pushing it.

But whether it should be said or not, although Zhao Zhigao has no achievements, but there is nothing wrong with it, in the cabinet that pursues the rule of saying less and doing less as long as he is not the first assistant, Zhao Zhigao is a rare person with integrity.

He tried to curb the increasingly corrupt court atmosphere, but he was very helpless, the upward and downward effects had developed to the end, and people as strong as Zhang Juzheng could not save the overall situation, let alone Zhao Zhigao.

He looked at the emperor's autographed Zhu Pi with an unprecedentedly strong tone, and then looked at the three colleagues who were looking at each other, Lao Zhao Chang sighed and said: "Right now, Zhonghua is sick, Ming Cheng, Yuan Zhong, and Shouwu, the three of you can talk about it, Your Majesty, this Zhu Pi, what are you going to do?" ”

Zhang Wei, Chen Yuma, and Shen Yi looked at each other, and helpless expressions appeared on each other's faces.

"It seems that Your Majesty is already quite dissatisfied with the increasingly empty treasury, and if it continues like this, it is difficult to say whether Your Majesty will make some bloody things, and when the time comes, it will be another group of scapegoats whose heads will fall, and none of us will be able to reap any benefits, I think, it is better to allocate 100,000 taels of silver from the Ministry of Industry to Xiao Zhennan."

Zhang Wei looked at Shen Zheng and made this suggestion.

Shen was immediately dissatisfied, because the Ministry of Engineering was the department he was in charge of.

"I said Zhang Ge Lao, the six ministries of the imperial court are the cheapest, this kind of words have been passed on inside and outside the court for many years, the old man does not argue about some of the things that have or not, just talking about the silver for repairing the Yellow River embankment, the Ministry of Industry has been waiting for three years, and the Yellow River embankment has also been waiting for three years, if you allocate 100,000 taels of silver this time, you know, at most half of the completion will be completed.

Whether the completed Yellow River embankment can withstand a yellow flood, you also have a rod and scale in your heart, and the silver allocated is exploited layer by layer, we understand in our hearts, but no one can accompany these silver all the way to the Yellow River to control the flow of every tael of silver, we are helpless. ”

In recent years, there have been many small-scale flooding of the Yellow River, and the loss is that it is a small-scale flooding, if it is large-scale, it is estimated that the whole of North China will suffer, the last time the Yellow River embankment was repaired three years ago, this time it is necessary to overhaul once, if it is not repaired, it is difficult to say.

So Zhang Wei looked at Chen Yuma.

"Then simply reduce the silver asked for by Jizhen and Liaodong Town by 50,000 taels to Xiao Ruxun, these two towns are also lions, and they will ask for 300,000 as soon as they open their mouths, especially in Liaodong, it is simply not like words, Li Chengliang is more and more alive and goes back, Li Rusong is more and more alive and can't tell who he is, and then reduce 50,000 each, and leave 100,000 to the treasury!"

Chen Yuma's eyes immediately blew his beard and glared, the military department was the department he was in charge of, and he still knew a little about the affairs of Liaodong and Jizhen.

In the past few years, the winter has become colder and colder, and it seems that the grassland in the north has also suffered a disaster, and the Mongols have repeatedly tried to go south to fight back, this time it seems that there is going to be a little bigger, and it makes sense for them to ask for more silver to repair equipment, and it is reasonable to say that more than 100,000 troops will cost two or three taels per person, right?

"Elder Zhang Ge, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, these winters are getting colder and colder, coming earlier and earlier, we are all like this here, there has been a heavy snowstorm on the grassland for a long time, every year of the snow disaster, the Mongols must go south to plunder, at this time, if you don't use silver to ensure that the defense line is not destroyed, do you have to wait for them to hit the bottom of Jingshi City?!"

Chen Yuma's words are very tough, but the truth is true, if you don't use silver on the nine sides in case it is broken through, the imperial court will really spend ten times and a hundred times the silver to compensate for it, everyone knows what the situation is in the nine sides, except for Ningxia Town and Datong Town, which are better, the rest are all stinky taro and rotten sweet potatoes!

Now it would be nice to point out that the 300,000 taels of silver could be used for 100,000 on the soldiers!

Zhang Wei was choked half to death again, and said angrily: "Then what should I do?" Where did the money come from? In your mouth? ”

Chen Yuma was about to quarrel with Zhang Wei when he was angry, anyway, he had been unhappy with Zhang Wei for a long time, and he had long wanted to fight with him face to face.

"That's it! Don't make any noise! You are called here to solve problems, not to create problems! If you don't say a few words, you're going to quarrel, so what's going on? This is the Cabinet, not the Teahouse! Quarrel and go out! ”

Zhao Zhigao is the first assistant in the end, and he is also the oldest and most senior, even if Zhang Wei covets his position, he is fourteen years younger than him, and he has to "respect the elderly".

After a burst of anger, Zhao Zhigao calmed down his mood and said slowly: "This matter is no matter what, it is reasonable, Your Majesty is here to take advantage of it, the country does not pay from the treasury when it fights, but also from the emperor's treasury, this is really a bit unspeakable, this is not a matter in other dynasties, but the Ming Dynasty has set a precedent."

If this is really to take the silver out to do serious things, then no one can say anything, the silver is really not enough, and the emperor's inner treasury has some money, which is nothing, but whether the silver is used to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble or to buy land, we all know very well in our hearts. ”

Zhao Zhigao glanced at the three auxiliary ministers, and the expressions of the three of them were wonderful in their own way.

With a sigh in his heart, Zhao Zhigao slowly spoke: "No matter what, Zhang Ge Lao, Shen Ge Lao, Chen Ge Lao, the three of you will negotiate and get the silver out, otherwise, the old man will take the lead in resigning, and you will be to blame, the old man is over seventy years old, and he doesn't care about this, but you are all still in the prime of life, don't delay the good future." ”