Early the next morning, the sky was just slightly bright, and Zhu Youxiao, who was sleeping sweetly with Empress Zhang Yan, was woken up by the eunuchs. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As the emperor, Zhu Youxiao naturally can't have a few days of rest after returning to Beijing like ordinary people, he can talk to his parents and stay with his daughter-in-law for a few days.

As the emperor, he had to get up early, and today is still the day of the big rise.

For the last dynasty, Zhu Youxiao, who first came to the Ming Dynasty, may still have some excitement to get in touch with new things, but now he is also a little tired of it, he doesn't understand why there is such a torturous early dynasty system, he has to get up before dawn, which makes people in a trance, and even the joy of bed in the early morning is greatly reduced.

Fortunately, the current early dynasty time has been delayed compared with the Hongwu Yongle period, and it is difficult for Zhu Youxiao to imagine how perseverance Zhu Yuanzhang, a model worker, had to get up at one or two o'clock in the morning to persist for decades.

When he entered the Qianqing Palace, the two rows of Gong E, who were responsible for the sprinkling and cleaning of the Qianqing Palace, were busy bowing, and Zhu Youxiao also happened to stop in front of Xu Fo, glanced at her, and went straight into the main hall without saying anything.

But Xu Fo couldn't help but feel his heart pounding.

In the main hall, the ministers had already been divided into left and right, and after naming the imperial historian and reporting the number of people who had arrived and the number of people who were absent, he first impeached an official of the household for the indecent thing of snoring while dozing in the courtroom.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao didn't blame the dozing household official, everyone would be a little out of spirit when he got up to go to court so early, not to mention that the household official impeached by the name of the imperial history looked a little old, and snoring was inevitable.

However, when it came to the dignity of the court, Zhu Youxiao couldn't do anything, so he simply demoted the level of this household official and let him go home and sleep enough.

This household official also understood His Majesty's painstaking efforts, and after saying thank you, he shook his head and walked out of the Jinluan Palace.

At this time, the court also began to discuss serious matters, and Zhu Youxiao first named the ministers of the six ministries to report the situation of their respective departments.

Because as soon as the New Year passed, there were one urgent event after another, such as the Tartar robbery of grain and entering the customs, and Zhu Youxiao did not have time to listen carefully to the summary report of the beginning of the year that Zhu Youxiao asked the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to make.

Now that it is just taking advantage of this early dynasty, Zhu Youxiao also wants to learn more about the current situation of Daming.

The first to stand up was Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the ministry, who was slandered as a traitor by the Donglin Party, not only was not liquidated in this era, but was transferred by Zhu Youxiao to the official of the ministry.

The Ministry of Officials is the head of the six ministries, and controls the promotion of hundreds of officials, especially middle and lower-level officials, and even whether the central government decrees can be effectively implemented is also related to whether the grass-roots officials selected by the Ministry of Officials are effective.

Since Cui Chengxiu became a celestial official of the Ministry of Officials, regardless of his background, he only asked whether he was a member of the royalist party, whether he had participated in a more radical literary society, and whether his family background was rich or poor. Those who came from poor backgrounds and were royalists were often appointed to the wealthy areas of the Jiangnan region as officials, while those from wealthy families were sent to Yunnan, Guichuan, and Sichuan.

In this way, the collusion between officials and businessmen can also be avoided as much as possible, which is in line with Zhu Youxiao's purpose of suppressing the power of Jiangnan businessmen, so Cui Chengxiu is in charge of the officials' department, and Zhu Youxiao is very relieved.

"Your Majesty, except for one hundred and three of the more than 500 Jinshi admitted to the Wuchen Branch this time, most of the rest are arranged to serve in the yamen of various provinces, prefectures, counties, and counties, in addition, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there are more than 30 Ding Wei officials, 320 people have been dismissed, 40 people have passed away, and 340 new officials have been vacant."

Cui Chengxiu said that he presented the excerpt, Zhu Youxiao glanced at it, and didn't say much, the reason why there were many dismissed officials was naturally related to his eradication of the Donglin Party last year, however, in Daming, he was not afraid of finding a two-legged scholar to be an official, no, just after the dismissal of 320 people, there were more than 300 new vacancies, and there were also new middle school jinshi.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not have to worry about not being able to find an official to do things for him after the rectification of the officials.

Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, can be regarded as a family scholar, his father has been the head of the household department, and now Zhu Youxiao let him take charge of the household department, although the Ming Dynasty's finances are becoming increasingly scarce, and the phenomenon of eating grain is becoming more and more serious, but this old Shangshu can barely maintain, and the ability to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall is also passable, but he doesn't know how to make money.

"Back to Your Majesty, in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the total tax revenue of more than 18 million taels, the total of various expenses and taxes of 20 million 40,000 taels, this year due to the exemption of Shaanxi 0 West, Shanxi 0 West and other places of tax money and grain, it is expected that the income will be reduced by more than 1 million taels, but the military expenditure in Liaodong has also been reduced correspondingly, so the revenue and expenditure are also offset, but I am afraid that there will be one or two major events, now I am waiting for more than 2 million taels of silk folded silver in Nanzhili, Zhejiang 0jiang and other places to be delivered into Taicang, or may make up for the emptiness of Taicang, and the rest of the military salaries of the nine sides can also be sent from Shan0 East and Huguang, Henan 0 and other places totaled more than 3 million taels of taxes to fill. ”

Guo Yunhou's series of figures made Zhu Youxiao also have a general understanding of Daming's current financial situation, and dare to feel that the current central finance can only achieve income and expenditure to offset without any balance, so how can he recruit new soldiers on a large scale, how to establish a military industrial system on a large scale, he will definitely have to fight several major battles in the future, how to save enough money and food for several years of war, as well as the increasingly harsh Xiaoice climate and the upcoming outbreak of the epidemic, all of which need money to smash.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help frowning.

The book of the Ministry of War has always been hung by Sun Chengzong, but Sun Chengzong basically does not care about the affairs of the Ministry of War now, and the actual person in charge of the Ministry of War is naturally Lu Xiangsheng, the left attendant of the Ministry of War and the governor of Jiliao.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao was not willing to let a feudal official in charge of the Gyeonggi garrison be the second-in-command of the Ministry of National Defense, even though this person was Lu Xiangsheng.

But now there is no way, the current system of the Ming Dynasty determines whether the military power in charge is still a senior civilian official, but there are only these few civilian officials who can be trusted by Zhu Youxiao and not blindly command, among which Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, and Wang Zaijin have all undertaken the heavy responsibility of guarding the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and they really can't transfer any of them back to Beijing.

Therefore, at present, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Jiliao, who is close to the capital, can only be assigned to the military department.

Lu Xiangsheng was single-handedly raised by Zhu Youxiao from the prefect's office, so there is naturally no need to worry about loyalty.

And now, because of his merit in dispatching troops and ensuring that several Gyeonggi important places in Jizhou and Tongzhou did not fall into the hands of the Tartars, he has also established prestige among the hundred officials, and no one can deny that he is the right person to take charge of the military department, and the Daming Daily even praised Lu Xiangsheng's deeds to flatter Zhu Youxiao's knowledge, and the topic of promoting Sima from the prefect has almost become a good story praised by everyone.