At the end of September, in the city of Beijing, if it is in previous years, you can still feel the aftermath of the autumn tiger at this time, everyone has to contribute a little sweat to the sultry weather, but in recent years, starting in mid-September, this day began to blow the cold wind, get up early in the morning and open the door, a gust of cold wind blows, enough to call the big men who open the door a sneeze to the ground.

"Hell, why is it freezing so fast this day?"

Some time ago, some officials raised the issue of worrying to the cabinet that the weather would be too cold and affect the autumn harvest, and the cabinet had nothing to do about it for a few days, so it had to let the officials at the bottom think of other tricks, and the weather was cold too fast for the agricultural harvest to be absolutely not a good thing, and it was not good to make trouble, and there would be a number of places that would fail to harvest.

The failure of the land harvest is a disaster for the Central Plains Dynasty in any period, and the failure of the harvest means famine, starvation, and exile, as well as the most terrible rebellion.

In recent years, there have been more and more incidents of rebellion, large and small, mostly in the northern and northern places, and as soon as the weather is cold, the grain production in these places will be greatly reduced. The key is that the taxes must be collected as usual, the silver must be paid as usual, and if they can't be paid, they still have to ask for the crime and confiscate the land, the officials don't have so much to say, and they have to pay the difference to the top, right?

Since the beginning of this year, more than 30 small-scale rebellions of displaced people have made Wang Xijue dizzy and at a loss, and he was exhausted because of the emperor's coup d'état, and now the emperor is at peace, and the world is beginning to be restless again.

The emperor is restless and can clean up, just ask the queen mother to come forward, but the world is restless, can you still ask the king of heaven Lao Tzu to come forward? Feeling the slightest chill of this weather, Wang Xijue sighed, frowned, and walked back to his duty room, where the other two pavilion elders and the six Shangshu were waiting.

"Elder Wang Ge, you can give me an idea! The weather is unusually cold, and I received a message this morning, saying that some places in the Guanzhong area have gotten up in the morning to see frost on the ground, how is this good? It's not even October before the frost, so if it's November and December, then don't you want the heavy snow to flood the capital? The grain is preparing to be harvested, and it is actually frosted, fortunately, there is no frost before, and the grain is almost grown, so if the weather is cold again, don't stop the harvest? ”

Zhang Wei looked at Wang Xijue and unceremoniously threw out the question.

His dissatisfaction with Wang Xijue is not a day or two, since Wang Xijue borrowed to serve his mother and went home to avoid the political tide, Wang Xijue's political prestige is no longer what it used to be, and now the emperor is soft and admits defeat to the victory of the ministers, Wang Xijue is still in the grand corpse vegetarian meal, not to do practical things, but also to set up stumbling blocks everywhere to play the black hand, and several people who plan to take advantage of the victory to pursue and ask the emperor to immediately establish the prince of the official to belittle.

Although there is the Empress Dowager mediating in the middle, but Wang Xijue's political life has come to an end, since Zhang Wei has entered the cabinet, he must win the position of the first assistant, in the Ming Dynasty can change the world only one of the first assistant, even the emperor does not have this power.

As for Zhao Zhigao, to put it bluntly, Zhang Wei doesn't take Zhao Zhigao in his eyes, Mr. Confused, he is also old, he is purely senior, and he has no actual merits, that is, he has been the mainstay of the war to aid Korea for a period of time, and has played a little role, so he served as the acting first assistant, and when Wang Xijue came back, he retreated to the second assistant, it is conceivable that after Wang Xijue retired, he will be the first assistant, but how long this confused Mr. can be the first assistant is still a question.

In order to realize such political ambitions, he must actively move closer to the power of the ministers of the DPRK and China, and cannot learn from Wang Xijue and Zhao Zhigao and move closer to the emperor.

The time when the emperor decided life and death with a word has passed.

Wang Xijue didn't know what Zhang Wei meant, but he was powerless to stop it, he had already decided to end his political career before the winter of November, and go home to truly serve his mother to retire for the rest of his life, waiting for the end of his fate, but he never thought that he would encounter a natural disaster before leaving, which was very likely to be used by political enemies as a handle to attack him, which was unacceptable to Wang Xijue.

He wants to retreat with dignity, not to retreat helplessly after being attacked.

This is his last dignity.

"No one would have imagined that this kind of thing would happen, this year is considered to be dealt with, but what about next year? And the year after? Guanzhong is making trouble with the displaced people and causing a famine, and if you don't come up with a reliable method, you don't have enough food to prepare for disaster relief, so what's the use? A rebellion is about to begin! You want me to make up your mind, okay, Yang Shangshu, you don't have a good way? What about the silver and grain in the treasury? What about the 10 million taels of silver that Xiao Ruxun just got back from the Wa Kingdom? ”

Wang Xijue pointed the finger at Yang Junmin, the head of the household department, Yang Junmin's face was stunned, and he said: "Ge Lao, you don't know that the Ming Treasury is not a matter of one or two days, Xiao Ruxun did get a lot of silver, but it was not brought in one go, but it was transported from the Wa State in different time periods, and the batch that was shipped before, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War had already booked a large amount of silver to do things, and at the moment, there really wasn't much silver in the treasury to use." ”

Shi Xing immediately retorted: "I said Yang Shangshu, you must not count all the problems on the head of my military department, the expedition to the northwest, the Korean conquest, the Japanese country, and the current conquest of Dongwu, all of them are wars, and they all cost silver, you go and see which of the expenditures of my military department is not innocent?" ”

Shangshu Zhenji of the Ministry of Industry also immediately retorted: "Yang Shangshu, don't talk about my Ministry of Industry, over the years, many things have been closely related to the Ministry of Rites and Rites to use silver first, and the silver of my Ministry of Industry has never been enough!" Now that I finally came with a sum of money, you still don't let me use it, so if the Yellow River embankment is cut off, will you be responsible for so many lives or will I be responsible? You can't stop me from repairing the Yellow River embankment, right? ”

The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, in short, Yang Junmin himself is unreasonable.

Yang Junmin is now a bitter haha, as the leader of the Jin Party's forces, he is the first wave of forces under the emperor's power that are hostile to the ministers, before the emperor was in front, he Yang Junmin can still fish in troubled waters, but now that the emperor has withered, he will become a bird, and the powerful Da Ming Yan official must always have a window to vent, either the emperor or the person in power, or anyone who wants to harm their interests.

Looking at Yang Junmin's bitter look, Zhao Zhigao couldn't look at it, and said: "You can't say that this matter is all the fault of the household, at the beginning, such a large sum of silver blindfolded the eyes of the big guys, and they thought that the world was peaceful, so they began to use the silver indiscriminately, and now the next batch of silver will not arrive in two months, and the treasury is empty, who can blame it?" It's just that the household department is afraid that it is inappropriate, right? ”

"What then? All counties in Guanzhong are clamoring for disaster relief silver and relief food, so they can't just watch the homeless people rebel, right? ”

Zhang Wei immediately opened fire, just because he didn't want to give Yang Junmin a good time.

Luo Wanhua, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, rolled his eyes and came up with a bad idea.

"I remember that at that time, Xiao Ruxun returned from the great victory of the Japanese kingdom and presented a sum of silver to the emperor, now the emperor's internal funds should be abundant, and there is still so much income from the mines, it is better for us to make a comeback, please ask His Majesty the Emperor to give relief to the victims, right?"

Zhao Zhigao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "It's not proper, it's too much to have to pay for several wars, and now that you have got such a large sum of silver, you still have to pay for it, even if Your Majesty is willing, we must also pay attention to the leisurely mouth of the people in the world, this from ancient times to the present, the court has no money to ask the emperor to pay out of his own pocket to make up for the shortfall, it is really the only thing in the Ming Dynasty, we can't do this!" ”

Wang Xijue also spoke: "The old man also thinks it's inappropriate, last year and the year before that, he asked the internal money to pay, and the internal money has already paid no less than one million taels of silver, if he repeatedly asks the internal money to pay, how His Majesty will be angry, we will be difficult to deal with!" ”

Luo Wanhua said nonchalantly: "You can't say that, this world is the world of the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, if the emperor doesn't even care about his own world, then what should we do as ministers?" ”

The rest of the Shangshu also nodded again and again, in short, it would be best if they didn't want to find a way to get money, as for whether the emperor would be angry...... What if he's angry? Whatever!

Song Yingchang, who was sitting at the end of the seat, watched this particularly shameless scene coldly, and secretly sneered.

Xiao Ruxun's words were right, let him seek the position of the secretary of the criminal department, so that he could stay in the center and watch all this coldly, he didn't take power, he didn't make trouble, he was kind to everyone, and the big guys were together, although everyone in the criminal department had their own bosses, but no one hated this kind old man, so although Song Yingchang didn't do anything practical, his position was still quite stable.

During this time, the ministers were busy with the war and the emperor and the Jin party, he was quite stable here for the time being, although sooner or later he would be implicated, but at least for the time being, he was still stable, observing the various states of the capital, he found that he understood a lot of things that he could not understand in the past.

And Xiao Ruxun's foresight surprised him even more, just said that the weather is getting cold, Xiao Ruxun has said to him many times in North Korea, he has not cared much about it, but now, how much harm the cold weather has brought to the Ming Dynasty, he can't ignore it, the cold weather can cause the displaced people to rebel, this is a very terrible thing, but the ridiculous elites of the court don't think about the problem, but here think about how to get money out of the emperor's pocket.

The finances of the Ming Dynasty have always been very bad, Zhang Juzheng died after his death, it was out of control, not only popular to borrow silver from the treasury to play white slips and not repay the money, borrow one tael today and borrow two taels tomorrow, a few hundred taels of silver a year are gone, not one person borrows, that is a group of people to borrow together, that is all favors, can not be pushed off, anyway, it is not their own silver, can also get favors, who does not want to? One person borrows two people, hundreds of thousands of millions of silver is wiped out in this way, and in the end, a law does not blame the public, okay, hello, hello, everyone, but the country and the people are not good.

Emperor Zhu's pot is wronged!

However, the ministers are all proud of the emperor, ashamed of the emperor's sake, they oppose everything that the emperor supports, and they support everything that the emperor opposes.

Song Yingchang smiled coldly, remembering the letter that Xiao Ruxun brought to him from Myanmar the day before yesterday, and he had his own plans in his heart.

Xiao Ruxun said that he had basically dealt with the affairs of Myanmar, and he would soon be able to report to Beijing with success, and he hoped that the imperial court could promote the establishment of a military town in Burma, and more importantly, he hoped to obtain the qualification of "Yongzhen Burma".

Song Yingchang was surprised, remembering that for so many years in the Ming Dynasty, only the Mu family in Yunnan was able to Yongzhen Yunnan because of the relationship with Emperor Taizu, and it has always been very peaceful, only this one has no other branch, although you Xiao Ruxun has made great contributions to the country, but it has not reached the level of Mu Ying, let alone Mu Ying's identity as the godson of Emperor Taizu, why do you want Yongzhen Burma?

But thinking of the rumors and implementation of the Li family in the court a few years ago, he felt that this matter may not be feasible, and the reason why the Li family in Liaodong failed to succeed was because the interests of Liaodong were complicated, but Myanmar did not have the interests of the Ming Dynasty, and in the south of Yunnan, in a remote and hot place, it is estimated that few people are willing to be officials and are willing to establish political power.

The Ming Dynasty has a military management system in the northwest and southwest frontiers, that is, there are no civilian officials in the border areas, but the generals lead the troops to set up guards and towns to manage, which is essentially military management, but because of the small number and the remoteness of the climate, so it is nothing, Myanmar is a place outside China, to put it bluntly, the Ming Dynasty can't stand the repeated provocations of the Burmese so he wants to do it, and he has no idea of controlling this land at all.

Daming is very big, there is a lot of land, and they are not interested in such a poor and remote country as Myanmar.

In their opinion, the south of Yunnan is the meaning of the wild land, this kind of place will cost a lot of money if the Ming Dynasty wants to rule, this is really not cost-effective, these people sent Xiao Ruxun to fight with the intention of reaping benefits, to see if Xiao Ruxun can get some more money back, the original idea was to let Xiao Ruxun stay there and not come back, if you give a Yongzhen Myanmar qualification, wouldn't it be better?

However, Yunnan Mu's title of Duke of Qianguo has been hereditary, do you want to give Xiao Ruxun a duke title? Although the title of Daming is not so valuable, it is still a symbol of honor, you are a twenty-four-year-old hairy boy who has won the marquis is already grace, do you still want to get the title of duke?