"Cao Wenzhao, when I just spoke, look at you, behave and behave, I want to laugh out loud, is it possible, you think my decision is wrong." Zhu Youzhen said to Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao saw that the emperor glanced at him, and knew that something was wrong, and sure enough, Zhu Youzhen still asked.

Cao Wenzhao knew that he couldn't hide, so he could only come out and say: "Your Majesty, Weichen remembered the years in Liaodong, how rampant the Jiannu was, and at this time he was defeated by my Daming, Weichen was overjoyed for a while, which was a bit absurd." ”

Cao Wenzhao knew that the emperor in front of him was very shrewd, and if he found a reason casually, he would definitely be discovered, and if he didn't get it right, he would have to punish the crime, so he could only tell the truth.

Zhu Youzhen nodded and reprimanded: "In the future, you are not allowed to be so ridiculous, and if you are rude in front of the king, you will be punished for a month." ”

"We're in command."

"Cao Wenzhao, I want to ask you something, when you were in Liaodong, did you have any dealings with Zhao Shujiao."

"Emperor Qi, Weichen and General Zhao only have a few faces, but I have heard Lord Sun Chengzong mention General Zhao, saying that General Zhao is brave and strategic, and he should be the backbone of the country and an important minister of the society." Cao Wenzhao told the truth.

Cao Wenzhao is an old man in Liaodong, and he has been following Sun Chengzong for a long time, and Sun Chengzong has said these words more than once in front of many cronies.

After Zhu Youzhen listened, he glanced at Yuan Chonghuan and found that Yuan Chonghuan still didn't say a word, and he didn't seem to want to say anything more about Zhao Shujiao.

Zhu Youzhen sighed, and thought in his heart: "It's been so long since I came to Jingshi, and Yuan Chonghuan's arrogance has not diminished at all. ”

Yuan Chonghuan has only been away from Liaodong for a year, and Liaodong has achieved such a big victory, isn't this a complete denial of the policy he formulated to defend Liaodong back then?

But it is not difficult to find one thing is that the defense of Liaodong at this time is not much different from the arrangement of the Apocalypse, the victory of this war is not the victory of the big policy, but the superiority of personal command, the battle of Liaodong, Sun Chengzong is stable and defensive, stabilize the overall situation, Zhao led the strange soldiers to suddenly, the soldiers made dangerous moves, if Yuan Chonghuan was there, he would definitely not give Zhao Shujiao such a big right. Not going to lose though. But it will drag on indefinitely, eating away at the little flesh and blood left of Daming.

Yuan Chonghuan's heart was uncomfortable, but he was the secretary of the military department, he still had to perform his duties, tidy up, and said: "Your Majesty, Mang Gurtai entered the customs from the Xifeng Pass, and in the ambush battle of the Santun camp, the fire cannon of the Shenji battalion played a miraculous effect, after this battle, Weichen has been thinking, why Liaodong has been passive, it is because of the courage of the Houjin cavalry, if I can have soldiers who can suppress the Houjin cavalry, I will not be so passive in the land of Liaodong, Weichen went to the Ministry of Works, I watched the case of the firearms manufactured from the fourth year of the Apocalypse to this time, and found that in the past few years, the Ministry of Industry handed over to the local guards, the Liaodong Army, the three battalions of the Beijing Division, and the forbidden army, a total of 350,000 pieces, more than 4,000 artillery, and a wide variety of firearms, but Weichen still found one thing in between, that is, since the beginning of my Ming Zhengde period, firearms have never been updated, and they are all those, and even more, the quality is much worse than the firearms in the Zhengde period, and the benefits of artillery to defend the city are well known, However, it is more convenient to carry firearms, but it has never played a miraculous effect, and Weichen thinks that the imperial court should pay attention to the research and development of firearms, especially firearms, and work harder. ”

Yuan Chonghuan's tirade made Zhu Youzhen feel very pleased, and said with a smile: "Yuan Fuchen, I really am dedicated to the country, I am very relieved, the Ministry of Industry makes firearms, which has a quantity every year and must be completed, but the allocated money has been decreasing, and I have already talked to Guo Fuchen about this." During the Zhengde period, Emperor Wuzong, love weapons, the Ministry of Industry spends more than 800,000 taels of silver every year on manufacturing, and we have since the Apocalypse, the forging cost of the Ministry of Industry has been reduced to 200,000 taels, and there is a quantity to be completed, this Ministry of Industry is difficult to cook without rice, and the quality is getting worse and worse, I wanted to start discussing with the ministers at the beginning of the year to increase the Ministry of Industry to make silver taels, but Shaanxi suffered a disaster, and the imperial court had no way to come up with so many silver taels for a while, so it was delayed, this time it was Yuan Fuchen who reminded me, Then today we will discuss how much silver taels the imperial court should give to the Ministry of Industry every year. ”

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu is Zhang Jiude, who served as a squire in the Ministry of War, the governor of Suiyuan, and began to govern the Yellow River in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and then in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he was appointed with the Ministry of Works.

Zhang Jiude is not good at forming a party, so in the court with serious party disputes, the sense of existence is not strong, and Zhu Youzhen only summoned him twice, one is to ask about the governance of the Yellow River, and the other thing is the Ministry of Industry to manufacture firearms, and what Zhu Youzhen said just now is also to understand Zhang Jiude, Zhang Jiude is a relatively upright official in the Ming Dynasty, in a high position, but he was not involved in the party struggle, and he also broke the way to enter the cabinet.

If you want to enter the cabinet as an auxiliary minister, there are only two ways, one is the emperor personally appointed, and the other is the push, also known as the court push, that is, the Ministry of Etiquette, Jiuqing, and the six departments will push the ceremony together, since the beginning of the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty has not held the court push, of course, this is Zhu Youzhen's suppression, this political measure, was originally to let the civil and military officials choose talents to govern the country, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this is already the most serious political event of party contention, because I don't want to cause excessive party political events, Zhu Youzhen has been rejecting this kind of court push.

Zhang Jiude did not form a party and would never enter the cabinet list in the court push, so it can be regarded as a broken way to enter the cabinet.

"Qi Huang Huang, Zhang Shangshu once went to the Weichen Mansion to inquire about the transfer of silver from the household department, and also asked whether Chongzhen would increase the amount of silver allocated by the household department in the second year, but Weichen prevaricated in the past." At this time, Guo Yunhou answered and said, how many silver taels the household department takes every year, he knows best, not that he doesn't want to give the Ministry of Industry more silver taels, just because the household department has been in a state of deficit as early as the Apocalypse, and the national policies in the past few years are all about demolishing the west wall and making up the east wall, and he has been thinking about how to open up sources and reduce expenditure, and how can he promise to increase investment in Zhang Jiude.

Zhang Jiude visited Guo Yunhou because Zhu Youzhen had discussed with him about firearms, so he thought that he had told the emperor about the difficulties of the Ministry of Industry, whether the emperor would explain to Guo Yunhou, thinking that he would allocate more money in the coming year, so he went to ask one or two.

"I understand Guo Fuchen's difficulties, and I also understand Zhang Shangshu's difficulty, but the affairs of the imperial court, not easy, difficult, all have to be overcome by all Aiqing, the new policy has been implemented, and the tax will be doubled next year, when the time comes, the imperial court will do things, and it will not be as difficult as now, about firearms, tomorrow, I will summon Zhang Shangshu, and when the time comes, the three auxiliary ministers will also come, let's discuss together, how much silver taels should be added." Zhu Youzhen sighed as he spoke, thinking that most of the family wealth left by Wei Zhongxian had been used, and he would start to be thrifty.