"Your Highness, there is a lieutenant envoy!"

Returning from the camp to his main hall of the camp, Liu Zhaohui, who was waiting for the guards and the living, came to meet him, and behind him were some officials of the camp, Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Jiayu, the two people from the secretariat, who also followed.

The crown prince does not like to use eunuchs, which is already a well-known thing in the world.

There was no way to flee when he fled, after returning to Nanjing, all the original eunuchs of the East Palace stayed in Nanjing, and none of them were brought to Huai'an.

The prince had never been married, and he recruited a few women in the inner hall around him, and it spread the word, which was not good news for several maids and the prince himself.

"The son asked his father, Emperor Jin An."

The envoy arrived, and it was the official decree, and Zhu Cihong knelt down at the foot of the temple door to salute.

As soon as the crown prince knelt down, the rest of the people knelt down and saluted together, only the direct guards in the hall still stood proudly with their heads held high, holding halberds and holding halberds.

"Your Majesty is well."

The envoy replied, Zhu Cihong was already taken aback, and when he looked up, it was indeed Wang Chengen.

"Wang Daban?"

"It's a slave!"

Wang Chengen smiled, stepped down the steps, showed the corners of his robe, knelt down and saluted Zhu Cihong, and said with a smile: "The old slave greets His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"Companion, you're so polite!"

Zhu Cihong bent over, but he also returned the favor.

Everyone present was not surprised.

Wang Chengen was a slave who almost hanged himself with the emperor, when the thieves entered the outer city, the crown prince also left, and the eunuchs were scattered in the Nuo Palace, and those who had a little conscience were still fighting with the thieves inside and outside the Zhengyang Gate, and those who had no conscience were waiting for the thieves to surrender, or simply scattered and fled.

By Chongzhen's side, there is only Wang Chengen left!

Originally, he followed him all the way out of the palace, and he had already become the eunuch of the Beijing camp, and the Beijing division was fully prepared, coupled with the experience of almost being martyred, Wang Chengen was even more red and purple after entering Nanjing.

However, Zhu Cihong grasped the military power, the original town guard eunuchs were replaced, the eunuchs of the supervising army were withdrawn, and the Dongchang Jinyi Guard was ordered to be abolished.

These actions were all desperately wanted to be done by civil officials in the past, but in the past 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the internal supervision has always been more important than the civil officials, and the internal supervision is actually an extension of the imperial power, so the civil officials have been defeated repeatedly and have never won at all.

What the crown prince did was actually digging up the roots of the eunuchs.

The current eunuchs are just ready to sprinkle and sweep.

On the prince's side, he didn't even want to sprinkle and sweep at all.

Therefore, the government and the opposition speculate that in the harem, I am afraid that the prince will be extremely hostile.

However, in Wang Chengen's place, he treated the crown prince with the same respect as he did when he fled south. Seeing the prince bowing down, Wang Chengen hurriedly avoided it, with a smile on his face: "Master, the old slave can't afford it." ”

"That's it, that's up to you."

There was nothing to say for a while, and everyone entered the temple. It was already very cold outside, and there were four huge copper basins in the temple, and the briquettes burned red in the basins, emitting bursts of warm blue fire.

Wang Chengen looked at it and said: "Dare to ask the master, is this the coal dug up in Xuzhou?" ”

"Exactly." Zhu Cihong nodded and said with a smile: "As soon as the official road between Huaixu and Xu is repaired, it will already be excavated and transported. Now I have prepared 50,000 catties, all of which are formed according to the rule and ready to be sent to Nanjing. Father, whatever is missing, I will send it. ”

He thought about it, and without waiting for the other party to reply, he continued: "In the past, all the charcoal used with spices was used, but now the state is not yet luxurious, and the father will not make a big deal if he wants to come. ”

This matter is a thorn in Zhu Cihong's heart, there are many old practices in the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty, such as charcoal fire, which is fired in Yanjing in several prescribed places every year, with a quantity of more than one million catties, and supplies all the eunuchs and palace people and central institutions in the entire imperial city. The emperor used the best one, not only the charcoal fire was large, but also spices, and when it burned in the smoked cage, the whole palace was fragrant.

Now at this time, there is no way to pay attention to these things, the first few months were poor and the bottom has fallen, and now Nanjing has also begun to try to collect cents of money, and the donation is also on the track.

Although there has not yet been a formal financial report, Zhu Cihong plans to send a group of financial and taxation personnel and people from the Department of Integrity to set up accounts and check the accounts, but it will take at least another half a year.

Led by Ferdinand, assisted by missionaries and Chinese tents, Huai'an recruited at least 300 apprentices, and this was only the first step in the plan.

In addition to food and lodging, each apprentice does not need money, and can also receive three taels of silver every month, and there is also meat cloth distributed during the New Year's Festival. That's it, the original plan was to recruit 600 people, but barely half of them were gathered.

There is no way, the situation in Jiangbei has improved this year, and many people would rather eat less and work harder, still asking their children to read serious Confucianism and prepare for the exam.

Unless it is the kind of child who is particularly naughty, or stupid, and only intends to learn a few words as an apprentice, not just blind to the kind, he will be recruited to the finance and taxation school to learn arithmetic and statistics.

However, in this case, it is very likely that you will not pass the entrance exam.

All in all, it's a headache.

If the concept does not change, many things cannot be taken for granted.

Zhu Cihong's own manpower is still tight, so he can only delay, and it will take half a year at the fastest before he can send people to the south.

Before that, I am afraid that there will be a period of fiscal chaos, and there may be quite a few people who are full. It's up to them for the time being, and they'll have to spit it out in the future anyway.

However, even if someone is full, it is expected that when it is handed over, it will be an astronomical amount that is unimaginable for both the government and the opposition.

If there is more money, the people in the palace will naturally have different thoughts. Eunuchs are like this, there is no shortage of good people, and this one in front of him is one. But the ** of the ten is still more of a lowly and shameless villain.

After all, they have physical disabilities, and it is really difficult for them to really become great husbands.

As soon as he heard Zhu Cihong talk about it, Wang Chengen also knew the meaning of the strings and songs, so he nodded and said, "The slave can save it!" The emperor's heart has not changed, he has reigned for seventeen years, and it seems that he has been Chongzhen for eighteen years, and he has been frugal since he was the king of letters, so it makes no sense to want to be extravagant now, right? As long as the emperor's heart remains unchanged, then everything will be business as usual. ”

The other party is so trouble-free, and Zhu Cihong is also very pleased.

It's just that his purpose is not to talk about government affairs with the eunuchs, and when he talks about the affairs in the palace, he doesn't need to say more.

At that moment, he smiled and asked, "Is the queen mother okay?" Is Yuan Guifei okay? How about the kings and brothers, have you made progress in your homework? I'm outside, so I can only ask my companion to bring back greetings. ”

"It's all right, the slave maid came this time, and the queen asked the slave maid to bring some things, and said that the weather is cold, please be kind to yourself. Yuan Guifei also said the same, and asked the slave to bring some eating utensils. Your Royal Highnesses are all right, ask the little master. The two princesses were also fine, asked if the master was okay, and asked, at the end of the year, do you want to go back? ”

Wang Chengen said for a long time, and in the last sentence, Zhu Cihong is a sign.

Although the fiercest cavalry battle was largely stopped at the end of October, the enemy situation along both sides of the Yellow River, from Henan to Shandong, was very tense, and at this time, how could he be asked to go back?

Don't say that it is the princess's ignorant words, if it weren't for Chongzhen's consent, the princess would say something that shouldn't be said, and Wang Chengen, a fine person, would not leak half a word.

When Zhu Cihong was a little out on the expedition, Wang Chengen smiled at Chen Mingxia who was at the bottom again: "The emperor is very happy to have won many victories and beheaded many people." I haven't made a will now, but I can also tell Lord Chen first. Mr. Li plus Taifu, Master Sima Sun plus Taibao, Master Chen plus the military department Shangshu, the prince Taifu! ”

The report documents kept reporting, and the reward was expected, but the reward was so thick that even Zhu Cihong was a little surprised.

Li Banghua's qualifications are enough, and it is not surprising to add a Taifu. However, Sun Chuanting was added to the Taibao all of a sudden, and the top reward of this former military attache was not easy to obtain.

Coupled with Chen Mingxia's addition of the military department's book, and the crown prince and the prince, one of the prince's three divisions, the status of the lord suddenly became extremely high.

In addition to these civil officials, the military generals of each town are also greatly conferred, Gao Jie's military position can not be added, of course, it is even more inappropriate to give the title, and it is not appropriate to add three dukes and three orphans, so the surname Suo added a general number of the general who captured the general to him.

It is conceivable how proud Gao Jie will be when he receives the general's seal, and his loyalty will of course be greatly increased.

Back then, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong Zheng were just a flat thief general, a general of the Ming Dynasty, and the most expensive was Zheng.

Conquer the south, conquer the captivity, conquer the west, and then go down to the flat.

The general's general number was enough to make Gao Jie more loyal to his death.

Then Liu Konghe, Li Shidong, Zhang Tianfu, Zhang Tianlu, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, and of course, Wei Yue, Li Gong, Wang Yuan and other generals all had their own rewards.

It's just that the head is not as thick as Gao Jie's.

Chen Mingxia's crown prince's three divisions and one plus are also like important ministers. In addition to not entering the cabinet, his official position is now also the top of the Ming Dynasty's civil official dream, and there is nothing to add to the cabinet and knighthood.

"The emperor's kindness is high in heaven and earth, and the ministers have nothing to repay."

Although it was not an official announcement, just a homely chat, Chen Mingxia and the people who were to be rewarded still avoided the table and stood up, kneeling and bowing.

"Ordinary soldiers, the emperor will not forget."

Wang Chengen said with a smile: "Gao Zhengyu gave Shang Fang a sword and a golden arrow, General Wei gave a silver arrow, and the rest of the generals also gave silver arrows or royal horses, brocade robes, and silver armor. Ordinary soldiers, the emperor gave three hundred silver iron whips, five hundred silver medals, and a number of them, all of which were rewarded by the master. ”

Listening to these words, most of the people present were happy, only Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Jiayu glanced at each other, and they all looked thoughtful.

Nanjing, this time, is really wealthy, and rewards the heroes, so as to be more generous than thin, so as not to lose the heart of the heroes.

The emperor's mind seems to be not simple.

(To be continued)