Zhou Yanru regarded the Prime Minister's Office as a cabinet, and when he coughed, it was a formal discussion.

The group of little eunuchs who were standing in the corner of the hall like puppets just now immediately retreated softly.

"It's still the same old rules." Zhou Yanru's tone was low and his speed was slow, "Let's calculate how much expenditure we need this year, and then ask the king of the county to contact Sihai Bank to increase the number of bonds to raise money by issuing a certain amount of bonds."

"Wait a minute!"

An inopportune voice interrupted Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru just got up with his tone, and he was feeling good about himself, but he didn't expect Liu Jun to interrupt him rudely, he still had a lot of words that he had thought about for a long time, and he couldn't say it at once, and he was blocked in his throat, which was very uncomfortable.

His face was swollen and red, and he almost slapped the table.

turned his head and glared at Liu Jun angrily.

"What does the county king have to say, can't he wait for the old man to finish talking before mentioning it? This is the Prime Minister's Office, not a wet market! What about court etiquette and minister's demeanor? ”

Liu Jun was not suppressed by his big hat at all, but just smiled coldly.

"Since the first assistant wants to talk about etiquette and demeanor, then this king asks, since today's meeting is a meeting of the prime minister's office, and the participants are all important ministers of the court, why does the first assistant not invite His Majesty to listen to the government at such an important meeting?"

Liu Jun's sudden attack made Zhou Yanru stunned at that time. The emperor who has just ascended the throne is only twelve years old, and it is precisely because he is young that he has a minister who cares about his life, what does the emperor know?

But Zhou Yanru couldn't say these words directly, after all, even if the emperor was not in power, he still had the right to listen to the government. Whether the emperor understood it or not, he had the right to attend the meeting. Liu Jun pointed out this, and Zhou Yanru couldn't refute it openly.

Originally, Zhou Yanru planned to be too lazy to go through this formality. Anyway, the emperor couldn't understand when he came.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this king thinks that it is better to observe the etiquette of the court of the ancestral system. Princess, please go and ask Your Majesty to move to listen to the government. Liu Jun said to Wang Chengen, "Although Your Majesty is still young, it is precisely because of this that you need to listen to politics more and more." Such an important meeting. But putting the emperor aside, this is not the way of a courtier. ”

"What the prince said is that our family was negligent, and our family will immediately go and invite Your Majesty in person." After Wang Chengen finished speaking, he ignored Zhou Yanru, and directly bowed to Liu Jun and went out.

As soon as Wang Chengen left, the other great eunuchs in the eunuch area also followed behind.

Zhou Yanru stood there. looked left and right, and finally had to stare at him hatefully and sit back. Sitting there, panting heavily, blowing his beard and staring, he was so depressed.

Zhou Yanru thinks in his heart that the prime minister's office is the same as the cabinet, and he is the first assistant in the cabinet. In the Prime Minister's Office, that's also the Chief Minister. Therefore, it should be his final say here. Zhu Ciye is just the last minister in line, and he is still a martial artist, just sit there obediently.

The emperor has already lived in the Qianqing Palace, which is only separated by a Qianqing gate from the prime minister's office. Seeing Wang Chengen come to invite, he was still a little surprised.

Wait for Wang Chengen to tell him what happened just now. Zhu Cihong was amazed. He is only twelve years old, he is a teenager, and this age is also the most sensitive, especially when he has just lost his father and ascended the throne as an emperor. I haven't adapted to the change of identity yet.

But in his heart, he still hopes that the courtiers can respect him, the new emperor.

Originally, if Wang Chengen had not invited him to attend the meeting of the Prime Minister's Office, he would not have thought of anything. But now that Wang Chengen came over to ask for this, and then said Liu Jun's words at the meeting, Liu Cihong immediately felt that Old Man Zhou didn't take himself seriously, and the imperial brother was his own person after all, and he was willing to stand on his side and speak for himself at this time.

Thinking of the 200,000 silver dollars given by the imperial brother during the military parade in Chengtianmen a few days ago, and later, he offered a total of 300,000 silver dollars several times, adding up to 500,000 silver dollars, so that his internal money was a lot wider all of a sudden, and he wanted to reward a palace eunuch and give some gifts to the queen mother and concubines of the two palaces, and he didn't have to worry about running out of money.

Zhu Cihong immediately dropped his books and sat down to the office hall of the Prime Minister's Office on the west side of the square outside the Qianqing Gate.

"Ministers to see Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live."

The ministers hurriedly knelt down to worship the emperor, and Zhu Cihong was still a little rusty and let everyone calm down.

Wang Chengen welcomed Zhu Cihong to the top and sat down.

After tossing and turning for a while, the hall fell silent again.

"The meeting begins." Liu Jun asked Zhu Cihong for instructions first, and after getting his nod, he turned around and said loudly to everyone.

The breath in Zhou Yanru's heart hadn't been suppressed yet, and he stood up at this time and was about to speak.

Liu Jun suddenly interrupted him again.

"Please wait a moment."

"What's the matter?" Zhou Yanru felt that Liu Jun did it on purpose.

Liu Jun got up and saluted Zhu Cihong first, and then replied to Zhou Yanru, "That's the case, I found that there is still a lack of records of people in the meeting." Your Majesty, Ladies and Gentlemen, the meeting of the Prime Minister's Office is very important, and of course someone has to record and archive such an important meeting. ”

"The king of the county is right." It was Liu Zongzhou who spoke out in favor, "It should be recorded, and it should be recorded truthfully and completely." Not only can it be used for archiving, but the minutes of the Prime Minister's Office can also be presented to His Majesty for review in the future, which can be regarded as a way to learn governance. ”

In the end, Wu Fu also agreed, and the matter was settled.

The Prime Minister's Office has added a group of officials to be responsible for recording the content of the meeting, as well as sorting out and archiving and other copywriting work. Originally, Wang Chengen proposed that some small eunuchs could be transferred from the celebrant to take charge of this work, but Liu Zongzhou directly refused.

The Prime Minister's Office is so important, how can a group of eunuchs come in, even if they are to be officials. In the end, it was decided to select a group of young scholars from the Hanlin Academy to take up this simple but important job.

In the end, it was even determined that each of the four ministers had a team of officials to serve them to assist them in their work at the Prime Minister's Office. After all, the four ministers who take care of their lives are still holding other important positions, and they cannot be completely entangled in the affairs of the Prime Minister's Office.

"If you have anything else to say, if you do, let's talk about it together."

Zhou Yanru opened his mouth and was about to continue, but stopped again, then turned to Liu Jun and asked him.

Liu Jun smiled, "Since Zhou Ge Lao asked, then I really have a few words I want to say first." Liu Jun is not polite, if he sits honestly in the prime minister's office, then he will definitely not have any right to speak. He sat in the position of the minister of life so hard, but he did not come to be an audience.

You have to fight for the initiative.

Today's first meeting of the Prime Minister's Office, Liu Jun feels that it is a good opportunity not to be missed. It's a good start just now, and what is needed now is to take advantage of the victory.

"Your Majesty, Your Excellency." Liu Jun unceremoniously took over the conversation. "Today's meeting is mainly about finance. Although Elder Zhou Ge only mentioned it just now, he also talked about some plans. Zhou Gelao's plan is to calculate this year's expenses first, and then issue bonds accordingly, and increase the amount. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Jun paused, and then smiled.

"Zhou Ge Lao's plan, although it is only a head, but I have to tell you first, this plan is really not feasible. Finance is a big problem, especially now when the financial situation of the imperial court is so difficult, how can it be so casual? ”

Zhou Yanru didn't expect Liu Jun to shoot at him as soon as he came up, and he was very angry.

I couldn't help but shout, "What do you mean by being so casual? The king of the county has to make his words clear, or rather, if you have any better plans, if you have one, just say it and listen to it, if not, then don't stand aside and say cool things. ”

"Ge Lao, I really have some plans for this." Liu Jun smiled, and the more angry Zhou Yanru became, the more he would lose points in front of the emperor and everyone.

"Your Majesty, the financial issue can be said to be of paramount importance. Especially now, there is no room for sloppiness. If you follow Zhou Gelao's plan, doing it like this will be a mess at all. Even if you are a small family, you know that you have to be careful with your budget, and the tighter you are, the more you need to plan well, how can you be so casual. ”

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of the ministers, the current finances of the imperial court have reached a very critical time. The northwest was in turmoil, the southeast was tax-resistant, and the Central Plains was famine, and the imperial court needed a lot of money and grain to restore the defense of western Liaoxi outside the pass. ”

"In the past two years, the imperial court has issued 50 million silver dollar bonds, and it is unrealistic to issue a large amount of bonds in a short period of time to solve the financial crisis. In short, the imperial court must raise funds from various sources, and carefully calculate and carefully distribute the funds in order to survive the immediate difficulties. ”

The imperial court is a bottomless pit, if they are really allowed to ask for it, then Liu Jun will not have enough money for them to squander. Liu Jun's money can be lent to the imperial court, but it must be led by him, and when the money is lent, it must be exchanged for enough things.

Must get good value for money.

One hand is a cannon, the other hand is a silver dollar, and money is a cannon, which is the capital of Liu Jun's foothold in the imperial court and usurping power step by step.

"And what do you do?" Zhou Yanru is going to faint today.

"Open source plus throttling, plus careful budgeting. Spend a limited amount of silver dollars on the blade. The cabinet first and the six ministries will first make a budget report on which items are needed this year, and they must do everything in detail. Then, let's go back to the budget and allocate the money we have, first of all, to the most important one. ”

"Elder Ge, what do you say?"

Zhou Yanru disagreed with Liu Jun's words, the imperial court was waiting for money everywhere, and the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the newly reorganized 36 towns of the imperial court needed a large amount of food and salary every month, and now almost all the soldiers and horses in various places were in arrears, less than two months, and more than half a year. Moreover, although Liaoxi has been exchanged for peace, a large amount of money, grain, and materials are needed to rebuild the defense of Liaoxi.

In addition, the suppression of bandits and disaster relief in the Northwest and the Central Plains, which one does not need silver?

Although more than half of this year has passed, there is no 20 million silver dollars, and it will definitely not be solved. In a word, you can't get any money, no matter how beautiful Zhu Ciye's words are, it's useless. Zhou Yanru now even wished that Zhu Ciye would speak more beautifully and more high-profilely, so that he could smash his face fiercely. (To be continued.) )