To sum up, Xiaotian's harvest on this trip is as follows: eight ships full of grain, more than 400 captured Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, and one Zheng He's treasure ship. The ship of Zheng Hebao www.biquge.info was loaded with strategic materials transported to Qinhuangdao from the southeastern provinces, including: more than 6,000 pieces of various blades, especially more than 1,000 brand-new arquebuses, which really made Xiaotian overjoyed.

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some people are sad, Xiao Tian is full of ambition on the other side of the sea, and those who have dealt with him in Suzhou City are dumbfounded. In fact, in Xiaotian's original plan, whether it was Huang Gonggong or Han Renbin, he found out that being deceived was to smash two cups and scold the street, and he forgot about him after a few days, after all, he was deceived by Huang Gonggong for two days to eat and drink, as for Zhang Tielin's eight boats of grain? Who knows who you are, and besides you are buying and selling, not selling you a boatload of silk?

But now things are a bit big, Zheng Hebao, the country's important weapon responsible for transporting strategic materials to Datong, was taken away by Xiao Tianshun, which is not digested by Suzhou or even ZJ at all, after learning the truth, Huang Gonggong hurriedly sent the distress letter to his godfather Huang Jin, Huang Jin saw this letter when he was numb, to say that this matter is the most important responsibility for his godson, except for Han Renbin, all the people who were deceived were fooled because of the diligence of Huang Gonggong. To say that this Huang Jinneng became the only great eunuch in the Jiajing Dynasty, where the eunuch was not even as good as a dog, he was naturally not a simple character, so he took the letter and went to Dongchang. Dongchang is naturally useless in the Jiajing Dynasty, but fortunately, he found the right position of others, and single-mindedly did chores for Jinyiwei, so when he found Dongchang, he naturally found Jinyiwei, and when he found Jinyiwei, he naturally found Lu Bing, and Huang Gonggong didn't even come out of the Forbidden City, so he found the most powerful ally for himself.

Xiyuan, Yongshou Palace, at the age of more than 70 years, still adhere to the fine tradition of not getting off work until the end of the day, and the next day on the main road, because Emperor Jiajing had to practice during the day, and he would only review the recitals at night. Of course, Jiajing usually reviews the recitals by himself, and Yan Ge is more than seventy people, even if he is really willing to accompany Jiajing, he has to be embarrassed, right? But today is a must, as the first assistant of the cabinet, Yan Song of course watched the concert earlier than Jiajing, this is also his job, filter out the unimportant, after all, Emperor Jiajing is very busy, alchemy and medicine are busy looking at national affairs, you make a bunch of trivial things to send up, aren't you looking for scolding. But Yan Ge always dare not hide it, today's recital is full of bad things, with Yan Ge's understanding of Jiajing, today you go in to accompany you, it is nothing more than to scold you, but if you are not there, no one can say what rumors he will hear tonight and how he will think, especially after Xu Jie entered the cabinet last year, in case that kid is here. Sure enough, when Yan Ge Lao came to Xiyuan, Xu Ge Lao waited there quietly.

After Jiajing finished meditating, he came out and saw these two goods, and he snorted coldly, "Yohe, you are both here, it seems that something has happened again." "It's no wonder that Jiajing's face is ugly, I don't know what's going on in the past two years, things in the court haven't gone well, and there are always big things, and it's not a good thing.

opened the fold in front of him, and it was really a bad thing, and his face became more and more ugly. "What did SD do over there, didn't they all send disaster relief food, how did they all go to Haozhou, and in a few days, will they come to the capital?" "You old dog, how much are you greedy for this disaster relief, how can there be so many people and thieves, usually you are greedy, this time it is a national disaster, do you dare to reach out, believe it or not, I will cut you down tomorrow." As soon as these words came out, Yan Song was shocked, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty is wronged, and the minister also knows that the minister's reputation is not good, to say that usually the old minister's old eyes are dizzy, and the people below are greedy for some small profits in the name of the old minister, but this disaster relief is related to the country's social welfare, and the old minister is staring at it strictly, and he has never let the people below be greedy for half a point, and I hope Your Majesty will see it."

In fact, Jiajing also understands in his heart that Yan Song, an old man, can be said to be selfish and unfair, and the state has nothing in his heart, and he is greedy a lot on weekdays, but one of the two biggest advantages of this person is loyalty, not that he believes in his character, but his reputation Yan Song has become stinky, and Qingliu scholars are ashamed of having a relationship with him. The second advantage is that he is timid and afraid, and the first assistant of the cabinet is timid and afraid of things, which is not good for the country, but it is a good thing for the emperor, this person knows very well what silver can be taken, and where he can't reach out no matter what, if there are no two advantages, he Yan Song will be able to figure out his mind again, and Jiajing will already cut him if he can pat him. "Since the disaster relief money is in place, why are there still so many thieves? Xu Jie, you said"

Jiajing knows that Yan Song is his powerful weapon against the power of his subordinates, although this person is a good hand at playing politics, and the level of the whole person can almost be said to be the best, but the ability to govern the country and the country can be said to be half a point, and this kind of practical problem still has to listen to a capable minister like Xu Jie.

Sure enough, Xu Jie did not disappoint Jiajing, and at first glance, he had done his homework, "Back to Your Majesty, this year, there was a famine in various parts of SD, and basically no food was collected. The Ministry allocated 500,000 taels this year, if the grain price in previous years was barely enough, but this year Datong opened the horse market, and the relationship with me has not eased, plus the GZ Miao people made trouble, the grain price has doubled, and now SD is in a famine, some grain merchants have also taken the opportunity to hoard, and the grain price in several provinces near SD has doubled again. Therefore, if you want to completely relieve the disaster, I am afraid that the imperial court will have to pull out another 1.5 million taels.

"How did the people of this household get it, why didn't they give it all at once, and they made such a mistake"

"I can't blame the household department, this year the reorganization of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, spent 700,000 taels, last year I left after robbing countless people in Jizhou, in order to appease them, it cost another 400,000 taels, the Great Wall and border defense spent a total of 1.1 million taels, nearly 100,000 new recruits from all over the country, spending 1.3 million taels, the household department has already allocated more than 1 million taels of silver to various places, but it will not be in place until mid-October at the earliest, and this is already the local limit, and if you want to increase it, I am afraid it will provoke a popular uprising. The household department is also a clever woman who is difficult to cook without rice, and even the minister's money has been owed for half a year. ”

Jiajing knew that the household department was short of money, but he didn't expect it to be so short. I wanted to say something, but in the end there was only a sigh. "Then you say, what should I do about the situation in SD".

"For today's plan, we should quickly get rid of He Dong, the governor of Suliao, and drop the soldiers and horses of Beizhili. In addition, to crack down on illegal grain merchants, the magistrates must let them open warehouses to sell grain, no matter what method they use, and if there are any stubborn ones, they will be beheaded. You can also call on the noble vassal king to donate some to solve the urgent need.

"Let's do it, I didn't expect that my Daming couldn't even take out a mere one million taels. What makes sense? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, most of the taxes paid by our dynasty come from the southeast, and if the southeast is rich, it will be rich, and if the southeast is safe, it will be Ming'an. It is only in recent years that the southeastern Japanese plague has become more and more serious, and the taxes paid in various parts of the southeast are less than one year a year, and this year, it is not as good as half of what it was three years ago, and it is less than half of what it was ten years ago. ”

Jiajing was groaning, but his little eunuch came to report, and Lu Bing asked to see him outside the door.

"Oh? Milk brother? If you're looking for something to do with me this big night, let him in quickly. ”