"Princess, when will Your Majesty return to the palace, the palace door is about to close. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Fang Congzhe refused the tea sent by Wang An's private minister in charge of the tea room, and said with some complaints, "Just ascended to the pole and went out to play, don't you advise the internal assistant?" ”

Fang Congzhe has been waiting for the Son of Heaven to drive in Wang An's room from noon to the present, and he has drunk I don't know how much sprinkling water, and he has been out of Gong several times, and he can't drink it anymore.

As mentioned earlier, Wang An's duty room is in Langfang, west of the Qianqing Gate, close to the inner right gate, which is also for the convenience of meeting the Son of Heaven at any time. The duty room is in the center, and there is the duty room of the little eunuch guarding the door at the right door on the east side, and its gate faces east, and it is the inner right door that is facing it.

Wang An's room is divided into three rooms on the left, middle and right, the middle is the main hall, and the two sides are the study and bedroom, and Fang Congzhe is on the second seat of the main hall facing the door at this time.

Wang An smiled and waved his hand to let the teahouse retreat, "Elder Ge, I told you, I will tell Long Live Lord when I come back later, you have to wait." Besides, there is nothing wrong with the long live Lord going to the imperial city and looking at the various yamen in the inner palace. ”

The life of the celebrant and the group of celebrants are served by internal officials (eunuchs), ranging from dozens to twenty people, who are called private ministers. There are respectively the head of the house, the steward who handles the food and cashier's silver, the upper room who is in charge of the lock and key of the cabinet, the head of the office and the east and west class who promises the official, and the secretary who sends the approval documents and transcribes the documents; There are also hats, clothes and boots, tea rooms, kitchens, inquiring officers, and all kinds of trivial personnel who watch the village. For example, Wang Chengen was previously the personal minister of Liu Kejing, the master of ceremonies.

"Princess, it's not that I don't trust you, but if there is no result today, I can sleep." Fang Congzhe walked to the door, looked at the empty square, and said anxiously.

"Li Rubai's matter, the temple and the emperor have all come to a conclusion, why is there a wave on the ground? Huang Jiashan of the Ministry of War is also an old minister in the temple, what is this for? Wang An also had a headache and continued the topic just now.

Li Rubai was the general who fled without a fight in the Battle of Salhu. Liaodong Jingluo Yang Haoding sent four divisions to encircle and suppress Jiannu, and ordered Li Rubai's troops to go out of the Yahu Pass from Qinghe Fort. Later, Yang Hao heard that the two armies of Juniper and Marin had been defeated, and hurriedly ordered Li Rubai to return to the division. On the way, Li Rubai's troops encountered 20 Jiannu sentinels, and the officers and soldiers were shocked, and more than 1,000 people died.

Hearing the defeat at the front, the government and the opposition were shocked, and they demanded that Wanli kill Yang and Li to calm the public anger. However, Wan Li Nian contributed to the Ming Dynasty in his father Li Chengliang back then, and he couldn't bear it, so he just arrested them and returned to Beijing, ignoring all the impeachments.

Li Chengliang, the father of Li Rubai, once guarded Liaodong for more than 30 years, and made great achievements, echoing with Qi Jiguang in the southeast, and making great contributions to the stability of the Wanli Dynasty. Although in his later years, he found out that there was ironclad evidence of killing good people and making meritorious deeds, which made his merits suspicious, but due to the support of Shen Shixing, the cabinet of the DPRK and China at that time, and others, he was still unharmed.

Nurhachi's father and grandfather died indirectly at the hands of Li Chengliang, but his rapid rise in just 30 years was also related to Li Chengliang's division and pacification of other Jurchen tribes, and not only that, the two families were also relatives.

At that time, Li Qizhen said in the note that Li Rubai had Nanu (Nurhachi) brother Suer Hachi (Shuerhaqi) as his wife, and now he has a third son, so there is a rumor that "the son-in-law of the slave chief is the town guard, and it is unknown who will fall into Liaodong".

"It's not the day before yesterday that His Majesty wanted to send personal guards to aid Liao in the Qianqing Palace, yesterday the military department had received a report from He Shixian, saying that a few days ago, Jianyi invaded Puhe and Yilu two institutes, and burned and plundered very badly, but he made a statement in the Tang newspaper, saying that he only beheaded the first level and won the second horse...... Now there is a lot of discussion in the court, especially Gu Yu and Wei Yingjia's recital book directly handed to the cabinet, saying that Li Rubai lost his teacher and lost his land last year, and if he is not punished, he will not be punished. I mean the same thing as Yixiao and Han Yi, and I should beg His Majesty to arrest him and hold him accountable, so as to show the law of the country. ”

Wang An knew what was going on, and recalled, "The temple can't bear to punish because of its dedication to his father and brother. And Emperor Daxing also means this, and now His Majesty has just ascended to the pole, this ...... Isn't it too anxious? ”

"If Li Rubai is not punished, the generals of Liaodong will think that the Son of Heaven is lenient and does not sin against the ministers, and take this as an example, and they will all flee in fear when they encounter the enemy, then when will Liaodong be at peace?" Fang Congzhe is also helpless, "I think Gu Yu is very right, today's 'Zhubian to the east, exhaust the whole universe for a corner', consume eight million silver every year, and eight million next year, if this is the case every year, I am afraid that the wealth will be exhausted and the people will be poor, and the trouble of the Ming Dynasty is not in Liaodong, but within the Xiao Wall." ”

Fang Congzhe still didn't wait for the Son of Heaven after all, and left the Forbidden City before the palace gate was dropped.

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It is said that after Ye Xiang got the layout of the imperial city sent by the celebrant on the eighth day of the first month, when he saw that there was nothing to do, he came to the Xiyuan Taiye Pool to take a turn and inspect his territory. Not accustomed to writing with a brush, he ordered a few fountain pens when he passed by the Silver Works Bureau, inspected the Treasure Banknote Division, which was used to provide straw paper for the Imperial Palace, and visited the Showa and other halls, which were later used as central offices......

When Ye Xiang returned to the palace through the Xuanwu Gate, the palace gate was just about to drop the key, because he couldn't ride a horse, so he had to be carried by a dragon chariot throughout the whole process, surrounded by nearly twenty Jinyi Wei Han generals as personal guards and eunuchs such as Wang Chengen and Wei Dynasty. The 12 libraries in the northwest and the inner school field were too late to set foot in them.

Not long after returning to the Heart Cultivation Palace, Ye Xiang asked people to light the candles, although it was not as good as the light source of the lamp, but fortunately, there were enough candles to make the Dongnuan Pavilion look less dim.

When Ye Xiang was about to test the new fountain pen, Wang An heard the news with the support of a small eunuch, and after greetings, he said, "Your Majesty, Sun Ruyou of the Ministry of Rites handed over the inscription book at noon today, saying that he asked His Majesty to take care of the affairs of the Imperial Wenhua Gate tomorrow morning. ”

Ye Xiang saw that he had made another mistake and had to be helped when he walked, so he asked Wang Chengen to bring a brocade stool and asked, "Companion, what to try?" ”

"It is a matter of sight, that is, the early dynasty, the cabinet and various ministries in the Mandarin Gate will be in the near future political affairs of the Holy Judgment. This is the rule of the previous dynasties, it was originally set at the Huangji Gate, this is not the Huangji Gate is not a disaster, the temple was changed to the Wenhua Gate. ”

Ye Xiang understood that this was the Imperial Gate to listen to the government, and thought that he really had to be idle for a moment, but suddenly felt that the problem was very serious, and asked, "Is this Imperial Gate going to be held every day?" ”

Wang An smiled knowingly, thinking that he would get up before dawn every day, I am afraid that no emperor can persevere, and no one wants to be the emperor, "Of course not, depending on the time of sewing the third, sixth, and ninth of the month, tomorrow happens to be the ninth day of the first month." ”

Ye Xiang made up his mind, so he almost patted his chest and called out a false alarm, so he asked about relevant matters. Originally, the imperial gate was a regular dynasty, and the day before yesterday in the Qianqing Palace was regarded as a great dynasty, and the great dynasty was usually held on festivals, and the etiquette was much more complicated. Compared with the royal gate is much simpler, the royal gate is to set up the imperial couch in the Wenhua Gate when the day, the screen and the table case behind the couch, the progressive chapter of the yamen has not been processed, or need to solicit opinions, on the same day to recruit relevant personnel to come forward to consult and deal with it.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial gate was basically the same, but in the Qing Dynasty, the location was changed to the Qianqing Gate.

"What the celebrant and the slave mean is that Your Majesty can be called Emperor Daxing Gangbintian, and the grief is deep, and he can't bear to leave the mourning, so he will postpone it until the sixteenth of this month to see the court, so that he can come and see it."

Ye Xiang's eyes were dark about the outside world, and he needed time to understand the relevant matters, so he nodded, "The celebrant is thoughtful for me, so let's do it." Well, is there anything else? ”

Wang An asked the entourage outside the door to hand over a few account books and notebooks, took out two of them and put them in front of the emperor first, and said, "This is the roster of internal officials sent by Nanjing in the morning, which was ordered by Emperor Daxing to be checked, and it was only received today." The two capitals have a total of 9,115 envoys. His Majesty previously asked Xu Guangqi to inspect the border winter clothes, and this big inner winter coat should also be prepared below, and the slaves and others meant to let the Ministry of Industry convert it into silver and send it to the inner palace according to the custom. ”

The number of eunuchs in Liangjing was 10,040 at the time of the temple, which has decreased slightly in recent years, and the Ministry of Industry is not only responsible for construction but also responsible for mining, metallurgy, textiles and other government-run industries, with an annual income of about 800,000 yuan in silver, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Engineering Department are responsible for supervision.

The system of the integration of the family and the state made the court inseparable from the six ministries, and the palace expenses should have been allocated proportionally by the household department after the total taxes, but since the emperor collected gold and silver for the court expenses during the orthodox period, the household department basically became the emperor's private treasury, often taking out silver from it for various reasons, making the government's public funds and the emperor's small treasury - the inner treasury stupidly unclear.

Although the household department is nominally in charge of the world's taxation, but due to the tax in kind and the inconvenience of transportation, often the tax income is directly transported to different warehouses and departments, such as military expenses directly to the health office, and there are also relevant departments in Beijing The expenses are not directly in the household department, so they enter the Ministry of Industry's Jieshen Treasury, Taifu Temple Treasury, Guanglu Temple Treasury and other treasury, and its accounts are managed separately and independently, and the Household Department has no right to intervene, which makes each department have independent financial rights.

The lack of separation between public and private and financial chaos are caused by a variety of reasons, and Ye Xiang has not yet been able to solve the shortcomings of many years as soon as he comes up, so he has to do things according to the rules first, so he said, "Then let's follow the rules." After that, he pointed to two other books and said, "What is this?" ”

Wang An once again put two rosters on the ground, "This is also the roster of officials and military officers in the world that Emperor Daxing asked the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War to sort out before. Seeing that Ye Xiang was about to read it, he stopped with a smile, "Your Majesty, it's not too late to watch these later, and the slave has something to do." ”

Then Wang An explained what Fang Congzhe had done, and analyzed the powerful relationship, "Now that the government and the opposition are talking about it, it is not enough to calm the matter, and the slaves and others suggest that Your Majesty detain him and send the three legal divisions for interrogation, so that the code can be clarified, and the mouth of the people can be blocked." ”

Ye Xiang understood that Li Rubai had now become the public enemy of the whole people, not only Donglin, but also Qi Chuzhe and the ministers all thought that he should be punished. Of course, it is not impossible for Ye Xiang to do cold treatment like Wanli and Taichang, but the problem has not been solved since then, and he is tantamount to standing on the opposite side of public opinion.

The main reason why the Donglin Party can influence the world is that they control public opinion. "Chinese Zhou Yu Shang" said, "The mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan." Ye Xiang, who was a former citizen of the Celestial Empire, certainly understands the importance of public opinion, and understands that public opinion lies in guiding rather than blocking.

Ye Xiang wants to use tools to guide public opinion, and when he asked, he learned that the imperial court had an organization called the newspaper room, which was responsible for editing the imperial court decrees and civil disasters, etc., and then mostly copied and circulated by hand, called Di Bao and Di Bao. Because the contents of the prints are sometimes distorted and sometimes secret, there are edicts at different times that 'prohibit the issuance of banknotes'. This is the prototype of a newspaper, which appeared in the Tang Dynasty earlier, but has not developed into a real newspaper for hundreds of years.

Ye Xiang had a preliminary plan in his heart, that is, to run a newspaper and take the initiative of public opinion in his own hands, he did not want to forgive Li Rubai, but he didn't want to be led by the nose, after thinking about it, he said to Wang An with a smile, "Companion, since you have decided to look at the court on the 16th, you can tell the cabinet, and then discuss Li Rubai's matter." ”