February two dragon raised, also known as the green dragon festival, on this day spring back to the earth, all things recovered, the legend of Fu Xi on this day heavy agriculture, farming fields. Since then, it has been followed by successive emperors. On this day, "the queen mother sends food, and the royal driver ploughs it personally" to show that he attaches great importance to agriculture and mulberry.

Jiajing didn't have a queen, and he didn't bother to fiddle with the ploughstick, but the meaning still had to be done. In the morning, he himself fasted and bathed, paid tribute to the dragon lord, and prayed for the rain to fall.

Not to mention, in the afternoon, it was drizzling. The earth that had been thirsty for a winter was moistened, and Huang Jin was so happy that he couldn't do it, and he couldn't slap it together.

"It's still the emperor's sincerity, he begged for rain in the morning, and it rained in the afternoon, it turned out that the dragon lord also had to listen to the emperor!"

Jiajing's heart was overjoyed, and he smiled: "Just your little mouth will say, but don't patronize me, but also take out the real thing, by the way, how is the matter in the outer city?" ”

Huang Jin smiled and said, "Emperor Qi, Tang Yi has been waiting outside the palace for a while, but he is just ......" Huang Jin was very embarrassed.

"Don't let me in yet." Jiajing scolded anxiously.

"Yes." Huang Jin climbed with a roll, and after a while, he brought Tang Yi to the fine house.

Jiajing sat on the cloud bed, glanced at Tang Yi, and was suddenly startled. He summoned Tang Yi twice a year ago, it was less than a month and a half, the original chic beautiful boy had changed, his body was obviously thinner, his little white face became dry and yellow, his eyes seemed to be too big, the corners of his cheeks and mouth were cracks blown out by the wind, he had just washed it with hot water, and there was a trace of blood oozing out, and his hair was a little unkempt, but his spirit was not bad.

No wonder Huang Jin didn't dare to let him in immediately, this virtue did have the possibility of colliding with the holy driver.

Jiajing's eyes rolled, and he said angrily at Huang Jin: "Good slave, do you think I don't know? Tang Yi has been since last year. I have been running outside the city, and I haven't even eaten Chinese New Year's Eve. He runs errands for me, can I still dislike him? ”

When Huang Jin heard this, he hurriedly knelt down, "The emperor is angry, and he blames the slaves for being ignorant." Please punish the emperor. ”

Tang Yi also hurriedly knelt on the ground, and said gratefully: "Your Majesty's benevolence is like the sky, the minister's liver and brain are all over the ground, and he can't repay His Majesty's kindness, the minister is afraid of disappointing His Majesty, and dares to do his best to ......" said and deliberately wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.

Jiajing chuckled: "Foolish boy, you forgot the last time I promised to take you as an apprentice, why don't you call you a teacher?" ”

Tang Yi grinned, "The disciple naturally remembers Master's words. You also said that you want to get the errand done, and if you don't do it, you will be punished heavily. ”

"Well, it's good to know, how's the errand?"

"Teacher Qiyu, the disciple has made a set of plans, please ask the teacher to take a look."

Tang Yi said and raised the thick stack of investigation reports above his head, and Huang Jin hurriedly took it, "Emperor." It's so heavy. ”

"I'm not blind." As a result, he turned over a few of Tang Yi's reports. A faint smile flowed from his face, "Tang Yi, you have always been meticulous in your work, and you are very pleased to be a teacher, so many things for our master and apprentice to talk about while watching." ”

Jiajing actually stood up and patted Tang Yi on the shoulder. Calling him to the front of the dragon book case, Tang Yi first spread out the design drawings of the outer city and explained it carefully to Jiajing, who was standing beside Tang Yi, half a position behind. Listen carefully, and nod your head from time to time.

Huang Jin's eyes almost fell off, when did Jiajing be so close to his courtiers, and the elders of other countries, even if he was the elder brother Lu Bing. What is especially rare is that it is extremely natural and there is nothing wrong with it.

Following Jiajing for many years, Huang Jin is also accustomed to the ups and downs of courtiers, from Zhang Xuan, to Xia Yan, to Yan Song, Xu Jie, Lu Bing...... Huang Jin summed up a simple rule, the core of the minister's scenery is two words: holy family. As long as you get the Holy Favor, even if it is a small six subjects, you can also provoke the first assistant of the hall, if you lose the Holy Favor, even if you are the first assistant, you will have to be in a different place.

Looking at Tang Yi's situation, Jiajing's affection for him is far from being comparable to those people. Needless to say, Tang Yi's future is definitely bright, and the most correct thing he did was to introduce Tang Yi to Jiajing!

Huang Jin's heart was secretly excited, he barely controlled his excitement, listened attentively, and saw Tang Yi pointing fingers and talking continuously.

“…… According to the results of the survey of the ministers and several adults of the Ministry of Industry, the outer city is planned to be twenty-eight miles wide from east to west and ten miles wide from north to south, and after it is built, the area is equivalent to that of the inner city, and because the outer city only has sacrificial places such as the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannong Altar, unlike the inner city full of civil and military yamen, the outer city can accommodate more people, even more than double the disciple's previous estimate......

More people means more money, Jiajing is naturally happy, but he is still worried about whether the silver is enough.

Tang Yi said with a smile: "The disciple has contacted more than a dozen money banks, and they are all very interested in building the city and are interested in borrowing money, but they have made a request. ”

"What requirements?"

"It's that they have to assign people to supervise the construction of the imperial court!"

"Ridiculous!" Jiajing suddenly slapped the table and said angrily: "Whoever gave them the dog guts, even the businessmen dared to take care of the affairs of the court, they were simply carried away, and they were rampant!" ”

Jiajing scolded bitterly, Tang Yi didn't answer, just lowered his head, he knew in his heart that Jiajing was just a false fire, and he would bow his head soon.

In the past month or so, Tang Yi relied on the identity of Jiajing's Qincha, not only ran Nanguan, but also went to the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, and even the Qingshui Yamen such as Hanlin Yuan and Guozijian.

It can be said that he has a deep understanding of the situation of the Ming Dynasty, because there are wars in the north and south, plus Jiajing's Jiao cultivation and alchemy, spending silver is like flowing water. In order to maintain the operation, as early as the 20th year of Jiajing, he began to borrow money from large businessmen to make up for the shortfall, which is not a secret, but the Ming monarchs and ministers are ashamed to speak up.

Sure enough, after scolding for a while, Jiajing's tone softened, glared at Tang Yi and said angrily: "Your kid agreed to their request? ”

"Returning to the master, the disciples naturally don't dare to agree casually, but the disciples think that it is reasonable for them to worry that the borrowed silver will be greedy, after all, the construction of the outer city is huge, and the consumption of bricks, stones and wood is amazing, once something goes wrong, the outer city is likely to not be completed as scheduled."

Jiajing's eyes flickered, of course he knew that Tang Yi's worries were reasonable, and he knew better that this time the large-scale collapse of the outer city in the earthquake was inextricably linked with the Ministry of Industry, and it was precisely because of this that he indulged Li Mo and used the external inspection to give Yan Dang a good look.

According to Tang Yi's plan, not only the city wall was built, but also roads, and even drainage ditches.

"Tell me what you think, who are you going to lead the project?"

"Zhao Wenhua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry." Tang Yi said without hesitation.

Jiajing frowned, "He? This person is very greedy, and many people have played the impeachment, saying that he has encroached on the shops of Nanguan merchants and let him continue to repair the outer city, I am afraid that he will be more greedy, right? ”

Tang Yi shook his head, "The imperial court has the rules of the imperial court, and such a huge project cannot be done without the leadership of the Ministry of Engineering." If the teacher is worried about greedy ink, the disciple has a few options. ”

"Say."

"First, to strengthen supervision, the disciple recommended that Jinyiwei and Dongchang each send a director, plus 20 sub-supervisors, and at the same time from the six departments to send ten to the matter, they inspected separately, found problems, immediately corrected, the problem is serious, with this impeachment, will not be tolerated."

"Hmm. There are three parties staring at it, and at the feet of the Son of Heaven, I don't think there will be any big mistakes. ”

"Article 2, the bricks and tiles and timber required for the construction shall be subject to public bidding, and the price publicity system shall be adopted, once every ten days, the progress of the project and the use of silver and silver shall be made public, and the supervision of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Branch Corridors shall be invited."

"It's also a good idea to be open and honest."

"Third, invite the money bank that lends money to the imperial court, and let them send a master of accounting to settle every account with the household department to eliminate mistakes. The three tricks of the disciple include real-time supervision, regular audit, and account clearing. No matter who has great power, it is impossible to control Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Kedao, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the ticket number of Qianzhuang at the same time, as long as they supervise each other, even if they cannot avoid all the drawbacks, there will be no intolerable situation. ”

Jiajing listened to Tang Yi's explanation, and looked carefully at Tang Yi's various designs, and couldn't help but stretch out his thumb, this kid really has the essence of checks and balances, and each link has a clear division of labor, and the main contractor of the project is the Ministry of Industry and Shuntianfu, and everything involving the cost of silver will be supervised and controlled by more than three parties.

If there can still be a problem with this, it means that the Ming Dynasty is really completely finished, and there is no cure.

It took Jiajing more than two hours to read the thick report.

There are links such as the planning of the outer city, the implementation of the building, and the relocation of the people, and if you look at it carefully, it can be called impeccable and flawless, and Jiajing's face showed a smile of relief.

Tang Yi was also secretly proud, he had visited the capital in his previous life, and he had also read historical materials, so he was familiar with the layout of the outer city. It took more than a month in this life, and the leather boots alone wore out three pairs, from top to bottom, and they were clear and clear.

The outer city is his first civil and military official in the capital, in front of Jiajing, to show his talent, he must succeed in one shot!

Observing Jiajing's reaction, it seems that the boss has been settled, which is basically half the battle.

Tang Yi obviously underestimated the difficulty of Jiajing's strange dragon, closed the report, Jiajing let out a long breath, and asked lightly:

"Tang Yi, you handed over the construction to the Ministry of Industry, and the supervision was given to Jinyiwei and Dongchang, as well as the Metropolitan Inspection Institute and the Sixth Section. As far as I know, many of these people have conflicts with you, not to mention others, just take Huang Jin as an example, he strongly recommends you to me, why did you give a good thing to Yuan Heng of Dongchang, and forget about Huang Jin? ”

When Huang Jin heard this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down: "The slave and maid don't have any thoughts, please ask the emperor to find out." ”

Jiajing ignored Huang Jin, but stared at Tang Yi tightly, as if he wanted to see his heart, liver and five organs clearly, and a drop of cold sweat flowed down Tang Yi's sideburns. (To be continued.) )