Regarding Zhao Zhigao, Zhu Yijun's attitude is still very gentle, this old man is a dove among the ministers, a good gentleman.

He was seventy or eighty years old when he became the first assistant of the cabinet, or because of Wang Xijue's sudden retirement, basically he was boiling his qualifications, and he didn't have any handle on his body, which allowed him to stand out among the corrupt officials.

This shows that there are not many interests behind him, so this person is quite in line with the interests of the Zhu Ming Dynasty in his actions, rather than the interests of himself or a certain interest group.

And when Zhang Wei was there, the spokespersons of the major interest groups were also concentrated on Zhang Wei, Shen Yi and Shen Li, and Zhao Zhigao was pushed up by everyone to ease the relationship with the emperor and use it as a buffer band.

Anyway, Zhang Juzheng is such a fierce person, not only the emperor will not let him exist, but the ministers can't stand it anymore, Zhang Juzheng can toss them miserably!

In contrast, Zhao Zhigao is simply a little sheep, not only let everyone handle it, but also help ease the relationship with the ministers, basically the emperor will not go to court much after the fifteenth year of Wanli, and basically do not see the ministers, and then the battle of Ningxia began to gradually resume meeting ministers, but only a very small number of ministers of traditional Chinese medicine.

The courtiers who can see the emperor every month have only Zhao Zhigao since three years ago, and the emperor has given Zhao Zhigao more comfort and comfort, although Zhao Zhigao has proposed to resign and return to his hometown three times, but the emperor refuses every time, asking Zhao Zhigao to continue to work.

Just kidding, there are only two left in the cabinet now, Shen Li and Shen Yi, who is good at stubble?

Shen has always been not very clean, and he acts femininely, giving Zhu Yijun a very uncomfortable feeling, although he looks very kind, but who knows what is hidden in his stomach? Zhao Zhigao has a bad evaluation of him, but this does not affect Zhu Yijun's judgment.

Zhu Yijun felt that the first assistant who could go to war with himself and his ministers was a good first assistant.

Shen has always felt that he is a person at both ends of the first rat, although it is unlikely to fire at himself, but he can't be relied on as a shrinking turtle at a critical moment, and he doesn't like it, you know, Zhao Zhigao helped him block a lot of guns, and even Zhang Wei was willing to scare the ministers for the position of the first assistant at that time.

As for Shen Li, he is the standard kind of Zhu Yijun's most hated minister, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and he doesn't know how many dirty things he has behind his back, the key is that he has a sharp mouth, and he still stands in the name of righteousness, Zhu Yijun, who has lost the high ground of public opinion, can't fight him, and it will be fun to make him the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty.

So although Zhao Zhigao strongly recommended Shen Li to take over as the first assistant, Zhu Yijun was still unwilling, just because he was unwilling to let Zhang Wei be the first assistant, he couldn't accept a person who was specifically his own contrarian as the first assistant.

And there are a lot of such people, and they all regard this kind of thing as their own glory, Zhao Zhigao is a good old man with a gentle personality is getting fewer and fewer, and it is easy to meet one, Zhu Yijun is not willing to let go like this.

Or wait, wait for the cabinet to make up a few more people, see if there is a suitable candidate, if there is, just get rid of Shen Li, and replace this person, it is really not good, and you can only retreat to choose Shen Zhengyi.

But at the moment, Zhao Zhigao is still his most important first assistant and an extremely rare political ally, and Zhu Yijun attaches great importance to Zhao Zhigao.

"The old minister greets Your Majesty!"

Zhao Zhigao came in to meet Jun and knelt down to salute Zhu Yijun, and Zhu Yijun hurriedly invited him up.

"The elder doesn't need to be so polite, please get up, come on, show the elder a seat!"

Soon someone brought Zhao Zhigao a brocade, Zhao Zhigao thanked Zhu Yijun, and then steadily made half of his buttocks, this kung fu he has never fallen behind after decades of practice.

"Why did Elder Ge come to see me? I already know the victory of Bauhinia Pass, although the 35,000 missing Beiyu are worth paying attention to, but I am still relieved that Xiao Qing will lead the troops, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of Wang Shiyang in Taiyuan, and the Beiyu can't afford to set off a big storm. ”

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhao Zhigao, whose face was very calm.

Zhao Zhigao nodded.

"What Your Majesty said, the old ministers are clear, Xiao Zhennan led the troops to fight, and the old ministers are also relieved, the old ministers are not here for the war, but for the reconstruction of Shanxi Datong after the war."

Understood, understood, came to ask for silver.

As soon as Zhao Zhigao said this, Zhu Yijun understood that as an emperor who has never been surpassed by routines, Zhu Yijun is already familiar with this routine, basically after the ministers said some keywords, Zhu Yijun knew that they were here to ask for silver.

Unlike other courtiers, Zhao Zhigao has lived long enough, and he looks down on a lot of things, and basically talks with the emperor straightforwardly, without concealing his purpose, and without using big reasons to whitewash his words, this is the reason why Zhu Yijun is willing to meet Zhao Zhigao and is willing to talk about political affairs with him.

Everyone understands the truth, but if you keep saying it hard, everyone will get bored of it.

"I understand what Elder Ge means, and there is no silver anymore, right?"

Zhu Yijun took a sip of the tea bowl in front of him, and then said slowly: "But I remember, in a few days at most, the Japanese compensation of 650,000 taels of silver will arrive, although Datong and Shanxi need to be rebuilt, is this 650,000 silver not enough?" ”

Zhao Zhigao nodded.

"Your Majesty, the old minister very much hopes that this silver is enough, and the old minister also thinks that this silver is enough, but the fact is that not only the silver from the treasury has been advanced to the next year, but the compensation silver for the third quarter of Japan next year has also been advanced by 630,000 taels, and there is really no extra silver to use to rebuild Shanxi and Datong.

Not only that, Datong, Shanxi Province was already hit by a disaster, and if the Beiyu made such a fuss, there would be many more displaced refugees who had no food to eat and no houses to live in, and they could not all be sent to Myanmar.

Not to mention whether Burma can be resettled, the population of Shanxi will also be sharply reduced, which is not a feasible strategy, so in addition to the reconstruction silver, disaster relief silver and disaster relief grain, I am afraid that even if 650,000 silver can be embezzled, it will not be enough. ”

Zhu Yijun took a deep breath and forcibly pressed the true qi surging in his chest.

"Elder Zhao Ge, you are the first assistant, there are some things your words should be more effective than my words, state affairs use state funds, internal affairs use internal funds, not to mention that I have not used a penny of money from the treasury for ten consecutive years, this has been the case since ancient times, you say, this Shanxi and Datong's disaster relief and reconstruction is a state affair or an internal affair?"

"Naturally, it's a state affair."

Zhao Zhigao replied honestly.

"Then since it is a state affair, why not use the state money, but use my internal money?"

Zhu Yijun gritted his teeth and tried his best to state in a calm tone.

"If you let the rest of the ministers and ministers answer, Your Majesty will also be clear, they will say, this world is Your Majesty's world, state affairs are Your Majesty's family affairs, Your Majesty himself does not pay, how can you expect family affairs to be straightened out?"

"Then how would you answer yourself, old man?"

Zhu Yijun stared at Zhao Zhigao.