For a while, Zhu Youhua didn't speak, and looked at Wang Shixun up and down carefully, this Wang Shixun is in his forties, with a clear complexion, a long beard and beautiful hair, a round neck, and jade official boots, and his appearance is really good, and he was completely two people when he was in trouble, after looking at it, he asked Wen Yan: "Aiqing, how are the food, rice, weapons, armor, military uniforms and daily expenses of the guard town prepared?" ”

Wang Shixun said: "Weapons and armor and military uniforms, Ma Ge Lao Na promised to be very refreshing, specially led people from the military department inventory and the ordnance supervisor to collect for a long time, has been allocated according to the amount of 10,000 soldiers, among which the Ming Dynasty mandarin duck battle jacket is divided into spring and winter, two sets per quarter, a total of 40,000 sets, insufficient has ordered the five military governors to supply according to the needs of the guards, 10,000 waist knives, 10,000 spears. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In accordance with His Majesty's orders, the minister and Han Vice Rong specially selected carefully, and finally selected more than 1,500 qualified three-eyed guns and bird guns, and collected more than 8,000 pairs of leather armor, all kinds of iron armor were scarce, and only more than 1,000 pairs were collected for the time being, 13 thousand catties of wolf machines, 43 small wolf machines, 26 Hongyi cannons of all kinds, more than 120 tiger squat cannons, and gunpowder and cannons were not counted. We have to wait. ”

Wang Shixun used to be a bookkeeper, and all the data were said in a few treasures, obviously very familiar with the business, and he didn't need to check the account book, and his memory was amazing.

Zhu Youhua nodded and motioned for Wang Shixun to continue.

"As for the food, rice, daily expenses and recruitment expenses of the guard town, the minister carefully calculated, for 10,000 people, a year, a total of 55,000 stone of rice and wheat, and if the forbidden army is 2 taels a month, a total of 250,000 taels of silver; The settling-in allowance is 20 taels per person, and 10,000 sergeants need a total of 200,000 taels of silver for recruitment, and miscellaneous expenses are also a large amount, such as vegetables and silver, His Majesty said that in the future, the soldiers of the forbidden army will eat more meat, and the ministers will sum it up, and the cost of meat alone will not be tens of thousands of taels of silver in a year, and other miscellaneous expenses are expected to be no less than 50,000 taels, and the total military salary will be about 500,000. Among them, Mi Mai, the minister said that the old man of the household department had promised to allocate it, but on the grounds that the two taxes had not been paid and the treasury was tight, he was only willing to give 200,000 taels of silver. The rest is up to the ministers to figure it out on their own. ”

Wang Shixun said with a wry smile on his face: "You can't recruit soldiers without silver, so much gap in salary, where can you ask the ministers to go to think of filling it, and from the minister's point of view, the old man of the high pavilion is making things difficult for his subordinates, and he is not doing it for His Majesty. ”

Zhu Youhua frowned when he heard this.

Gao Hongtu's is clearly a personal revenge!

The emperor didn't give face.

That's right, when did this group of gentlemen who sell their fame and reputation give the emperor face!

The more Zhu Youhua thought about it, the more angry he became, his face was a little gloomy, he turned his head to Tian Chengdao, the eunuch of the imperial leader standing aside: "How much silver is in the inner treasury?" ”

The life of the new emperor after ascending the throne is very frugal, and now the people of the entire harem add up to less than 100 people, and most of the palace maids in the harem are part-time, and one person has to do what the past ten people did, but the task is not heavy, and it is not so exquisite, everything is pragmatic.

The Nandu Palace has been forbidden for more than 200 years, and there has been no emperor living for a long time, all of which have been destroyed, very damp and dilapidated, and many places have collapsed.

Zhu Youhua was born in sorrow and died in peace, and it was not the time to be greedy for comfort for the time being. Only let the Ministry of Industry repair the Qianqing Palace, Wuying Palace, one for office rest, one for the court, the court meeting, the other palace for the time being, how much can be saved, in order to alleviate the financial pressure of the imperial court.

The ministers felt that it was a matter of decency, and suggested that the emperor repair and paint the ruined halls again

There are not many kings of the Ming Dynasty who can restrain their desires, Chongzhen is counted as one, and the new emperor Zhang Wu is also counted as one for the time being, not to mention those ministers of Donglin, there is still some admiration for the new emperor in this regard, if it is not for the opposition in political positions, they are happy to get along with the new emperor and ministers.

Tian Cheng is the eunuch of the former head of the imperial palace, and the de facto chief of the inner house, and the internal government is naturally within the scope of his part-time job.

Seeing the emperor's question, he immediately replied respectfully: "The inner treasury originally had less than 20,000 taels of silver, all of which were the silver deposits of the palace. ”

"Well, first take out a hundred thousand taels of silver from the inner treasury and enter the guard yamen, as for the inner court, if you can save it, you can save it, tighten your belt, and your life will always be able to live."

Zhu Youhua's words in the inner court were less than half.

Tian Cheng was taken aback after hearing this, and was also deeply moved by the emperor's self-suffering, and had the heart to advise, Zhu Youhua knew his thoughts, and waved his hand: "Needless to say, just do what I say, all of them will be released into the guard yamen, half a child is not less, one or two less I am the only one who asks!" ”

"Yes, slave and maid."

Tian Cheng agreed with a painful face, he, the chief administrator of the Great Interior, was afraid that he was the worst one in the past generations.

Wang Shixun also wanted to persuade him, but seeing the emperor's resolute attitude, he didn't say anything, his eyes were already a little red, the emperor was so sage, and he also had the grace of knowing him, promoted to Weimo, pinned on his heart, what else did he have to say, only to die.

"300,000 taels of silver, 200,000 taels of recruitment, the military salary can be paid for a few months temporarily, and I will think of a way to do the rest of the salary. People will never be suffocated by urine. Zhu Youhua changed his previous cold face, smiled confidently, took the teacup from the bookcase, took a sip, and continued: "By the way, how is the recruitment now?" ”

Wang Shixun said: "The two lords, Han and Ma, have been ordered by His Majesty to go to Jiangyin and recruit troops on duty, and by the way, they are also looking for a good official named Yan Yingyuan for Your Majesty.

After recruiting and selecting about 20 young sons of good families or Zhejiang soldiers commanded by Marshal Qi that year, the settling-in allowance of 20 taels of silver can be said to have made enough blood, and when the Son of Heaven is still in the army, the minister guarantees that the children of those poor families will enthusiastically join the army after learning the information, and His Majesty does not have to worry about the problem of the source of soldiers, the minister expects that at most half a month, 10,000 soldiers will be able to gather in the Nanjing Forbidden Military Academy. ”

Zhu Youhua responded, and reminded: "You must cooperate with Feng Kezong, the supervisor of the forbidden army, to investigate the background of each soldier, you can't choose homeless people, you must have a household registration and land security to testify, and ensure that you can find them, and you can't let Xiaoxiao mix into my pro-military camp, which will ruin my plan, understand?" ”

Feng Kezong was originally one of the leaders of the Jinyi Guard of the Chongzhen Dynasty, with the title of governor, stationed in Nanjing, and was responsible for secretly supervising the officials in Nanjing as Chongzhen's eyes and ears. After the fall of the northern capital, Chongzhen was martyred since hanging, he immediately became a child that no one loved and no one loved, until Zhu Youhua entered Nanjing as a vassal king, he immediately expressed his loyalty and volunteered to supervise hundreds of officials for the emperor.

Zhu Youhua accepted his surrender, originally wanted him to expand Nanjing's Jinyi Guard, but the ministers could only temporarily put this matter down, in order to appease his heart, he specially added a forbidden army supervisor to him, temporarily responsible for monitoring the movement of the forbidden army, but only the right to supervise, no law enforcement power in the army, the real power is not big, Zhu Youhua promised that when the time came, he would let him regain control of the Jinyitang seal, Feng Kezong turned sad to joy, and worked hard for the new emperor.

"I understand." Knowing that this matter is important, Wang Shixun is also a rare solemn response.