When the chamberlain led him to the way to the council hall, Zhu Youlang suddenly thought of something, and asked with some uncertainty: "Is that Lord Fu Ding Ding Zhu ”

When the chamberlain heard this, he was immediately taken aback, he looked around, and whispered to Zhu Youlang with a slightly panicked expression: "I haven't seen you for a few days, how can Your Majesty forget the name of Lord Ding?" ”

"Well, just ask."

Because a sentence almost leaked to the bottom, Zhu Youlang was immediately alert and didn't dare to speak casually anymore.

At this time, in the council hall of the palace, Ding Kuichu was wearing a black veil on his head, wearing a first-class crane supplement, and was respectfully standing under the Danqi of Jintai.

When Zhu Youlang tidied up his clothes and entered the main hall, the waiter shouted, and an echo suddenly sounded in the hall.

Ding Kuichu saw that the emperor was coming, his eyebrows were stretched, his face was humble and solemn, he bent down and bowed and bowed, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the 200,000 taels of silver donated by the Bureau last month, the old minister has released all of them into the palace, how to withdraw it is all up to Your Majesty's ruling!" ”

Zhu Youlang sat on the main seat, listening carefully to Ding Kuichu's words, and secretly guessed his meaning in his heart.

Through the history of his previous life, he knew that Ding Kuichu was not only a huge greed, but also a wall-to-wall grass, and he couldn't be trusted at all. He said that he had 200,000 taels of silver, but the actual estimate was far more than that.

It's just that now he doesn't even have a few confidants, and even if he knows it in his heart, he can't check it. Of course, even if you can check it, you can't check it, otherwise if you force this powerful minister to jump off the wall in a hurry, it will be all over.

From Ding Kuichu's words, Zhu Youlang knew that he intended to charge all the 200,000 taels into his internal money and use it for his own private money, so that he could spend it at will without worrying about the noise of the household officials.

The donation of silver was originally intended to be used by the treasury of the household department as administrative expenses, but the emperor actually did not get a few, and the expenses of the inner court had to rely on the household department to receive help at that time, and if 200,000 taels entered the household department, it would be great to be able to allocate 20,000 or 30,000 taels to the royal family.

If Zhu Youlang was not a traverser, and he knew Ding Kuichu's personality, maybe he would really be moved by his fake benevolence and righteousness. I thought Mr. Ding was a loyal and patriotic minister, but he was really loyal!

Since it is the money sent to the door, Zhu Youlang does not accept it in vain, and he is short of money at this moment. Without a money bag, there is no gun, he knows that.

"The cost of the palace does not have to be too much, one hundred thousand taels of silver is enough. I heard that the imperial court has been quite strapped lately, so please ask Mr. to send someone to solve the money warehouse of the household department! ”

"Your Majesty is benevolent and natural, and the old ministers are all civil and martial to thank Your Majesty for your compassion!"

Ding Kuichu didn't expect the emperor to take the initiative to spit out 50,000 taels to the household, and he was slightly surprised in his heart, and his face was indeed moved.

After the matter of donating silver was dealt with, Ding Kuichu was planning to retire.

Zhu Youlang stopped him.

"Chen Zizhuang, the former secretary of the military department of the Longwu Dynasty and a scholar of Dongge University, do you know?" Zhu Youlang picked up the teapot, took a sip of tea, and said casually.

Chen Zizhuang is one of the three loyalties in Lingnan, the Longwu Dynasty has achieved the cabinet scholar, in terms of qualifications, you can enter the cabinet, there is no problem to be the first assistant, at the beginning of the establishment of the Yongli Dynasty, because of Ding Kuichu and the master of ceremonies Wang Kun squeezed out, failed to enter the cabinet, at this moment is living in Nanhai, Guangdong.

There is no doubt about the integrity of this person's family, especially since he still has more than 20,000 recruited rebels in his hands, plus thousands of Guangxi Tusi wolf soldiers with good combat strength. If you can transfer the capital, it will be a great help! Xingdu's defenses can also be stronger.

Ding Kuichu didn't know why the emperor suddenly asked this, but he still replied respectfully: "Chen Jisheng is a Lingnan Confucian, virtuous and famous, and he is also an important minister of the first emperor's humerus, with outstanding merits, how could the old minister not know?" ”

"Well, I intend to order him to enter the military department and be the governor of the Beijing camp together with Mr., I don't know what Mr. thinks?" After speaking, he looked at Ding Kuichu with straight eyes.

Ding Kuichu laughed for a while after hearing this, Chen Zizhuang was originally squeezed away by him, how could he be summoned to the industry to block him? He was not generous enough to share power with others.

Originally, he wanted to refuse directly, but considering that he could not damage the image of a loyal minister that he had deliberately established, he decided to take a detour.

"The old minister is grateful for His Majesty's trust, but the military department is still a secretary of the military department with great powers and responsibilities, can you allow the old minister to go back and discuss with the other cabinet elders?"

"Ah, Mr. is really old and seeking the country, I am right!"

Zhu Youlang originally knew that Ding Kuichu would not agree easily, but he didn't expect that it was really as he thought in his heart, and he had a Tai Chi with him as soon as he came up, and he wanted to see what result this guy could negotiate in the end!

At the same time, a young eunuch wearing a green robe, official boots, and a leaf-shaped cyan birthmark on his left cheek walked quickly into the inner court clerk's room.

Wang Kun, who was white and beardless in the room and had a keen eye like an eagle, was looking down to admire the jade Ruyi more than half a foot long that his subordinates had honored him, and when he saw the figure outside the curtain, he put the jade Ruyi back into the red brocade box on the table.

After the little envoy eunuch lifted the curtain and entered and kowtowed, Wang Kunfang raised his head slowly and asked lightly, "How is the emperor today?" ”

His face was a little swollen, as if he was sick, and he spoke softly more often, not like a traitor who was tying power by power, but like a good gentleman who was full of wealth and humility.

The eunuch was busy with 1510 and truthfully reported to him the emperor's daily life, diet, what he had done, who he had met, what he had said, and so on.

He listened in silence, carefully and patiently, and when the report was finished, he nodded slightly, and the little eunuch cautiously withdrew.

This little eunuch who reported the emperor's daily situation to Wang Kun was called Wang Yan, and he was a steward, and he was not the one who directly monitored Zhu Youlang, and his many eyes and ears were all over the inner court, especially in the imperial chamberlain around Zhu Youlang.

The ears and eyes saw Zhu Youlang's daily activities in their eyes and remembered them in their hearts, and then passed them to Wang Yan orally or hand-written through one or several intermediate links, and he reported to Wang Kun.

This is almost a very complete monitoring system, which can enable Wang Kun to grasp the situation of the emperor and ministers at any time, this kind of daily monitoring of the emperor seems to have been around for a long time, he has been meticulous about the emperor's life from the beginning, to pay attention to the emperor's daily behavior dynamics and speech, which greatly exceeds the boundaries of concern and has become an out-and-out all-weather monitoring.

As early as when Zhu Youlang was still a vassal king, Wang Kun, as the head of the palace, had this habit, so that when Zhu Youlang ascended the throne and became the emperor, he took advantage of the situation to improve the entire ear and eye system, and the blood circulation ran again and again every day, and Zhu Youlang, as the object of monitoring, was unaware of this from beginning to end.

With this ear and eye system, Wang Kun figured out all the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of Zhu Youlang, and won the emperor's favor everywhere, Jane was in the emperor's heart, and always seized the opportunity in the political struggle with the courtiers and struck first.