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The inconspicuous Wenyuan Pavilion on the east side of the imperial city, the center of the Ming Cabinet, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, the Taifu, the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion Han Yi, the second assistant, the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, Li Biao of the Ministry of Households, the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Qian Longxi, are discussing various places to play Chen.

Every day, there are all over the country to send the Chen here, here is the center of the Ming Dynasty, political affairs are first discussed by the cabinet ministers, and then vote for the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven Zhu approved the return to the cabinet, and then handed over to the six ministries and local officials to deal with.

Han Yi, who is in his sixties, has gray hair, but his face is ruddy, and he is in good spirits, and he is thinking deeply about one by one, this is the urging Chen of the royal court test of Denglai Dao.

Among them, since the spring, most of the food and salaries of the Denglai soldiers and guards have been in arrears, and the rewards for the war exploits of the Wenxiang Sect have not been dealt with.

Moreover, the Dongjiang islands are in chaos, there is no food and salary, the army and the people continue to flee, most of them flee to Denglai, the number of people is afraid that there is a picture of the Liao people who came to the sea to vote, they are all unclothed, emaciated and withered, the miserable situation is really unbearable, I hope that the imperial court will give money and grain pensions, and it is serious.

As an old minister of the Four Dynasties, Han Yi has never had such a headache, and now the Ming Dynasty's Jizhen, Xuanda, and Ningyuan are in trouble, Shaanxi has two droughts in three years, the people have no food and clothing, Yi Zi cannibalism, the people are in turmoil, the luxury family in the southwest has rebelled, the Fujian Navy Division has been fighting with pirates, and the Dongjiang Mao Wenlong was killed and the military and political collapsed, all of which have occurred in this year.

This is the biggest crisis that this old minister has encountered in his decades of eunuch career, but at the moment he is the first assistant of the Ming cabinet, and it is within his duty to deal with this turmoil.

In fact, things are also simple. To put it bluntly, it's a matter of food. Whether it is trouble, drought, civil unrest, suppression of bandits, or counterinsurgency. As long as there is food, it can be handled properly.

However, now Daming has no money and food, and the account books of the household department are more than the silver in the treasury, so all this is an unsolvable problem, which makes Han Yi feel helpless and has a heart of retreat.

It's just a good excuse. Otherwise, the young and vigorous Son of Heaven may not be able to agree, of course, before that, he still has the ethics to try his best to handle the tricky things in front of him.

"Lord Li, the excerpt of Denglai Dao's royal court's trial of urging wages has arrived again, this month has been three reminders, it can be seen that Denglai has been in arrears for a long time, and the soldiers below may have abnormal movements, Ru Li, now you are in charge of the household department. It's up to you to supervise it. "Han Yi can directly vote for the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven Zhu will handle it.

It's just that the major decisions made by the cabinet and the elders have always been ventilated in advance. It has become a common practice to reach a certain agreement before issuing tickets, and of course Han Yi knows that the household department is difficult, so it is even more necessary to communicate with Li Biao.

"This," the thin Li Biao raised his head from behind the case with his eyebrows locked, and now as long as he mentioned the allocation of the household department to the silver two, he had a splitting headache.

At present, the household department only has more than 100,000 taels of silver, and the other inputs can only have some silver money after the autumn payment is handed over, but the nine-sided grain and salary account for most of it, in fact, these silver taels are just turning around in the account books of the household department.

However, the Ming Dynasty is in arrears everywhere in the north, and now the political envoy of Shandong, the governor of Shaanxi and Shanxi, the governor of Xuanda, the governor of Jiliao, the governor of Fujian, the governor of Henan, the governor of Sichuan, Yunnan, and the noble Zhu Xieyuan have filled his desk.

The other Daming state capitals have already submerged his table, and he is also a clever woman who is difficult to cook without rice, "Boss, now the household only has more than 100,000 taels of silver at the bottom, which this official will never dare to use, and now the situation in the north of the Ming Dynasty is not known when there is a need from time to time, this is the silver two for emergency relief, and it must not be moved lightly." ”

"Ru Li, the situation in Denglai is critical now, the soldiers are in arrears for half a year, the soldiers and civilians of the Dongjiang River are coming from the sea, waiting to be fed, and there is no food and salary to help, I am afraid that it will be another chaos in Jizhen, how will it be then." Han Yi nodded at Li Biao.

The Jizhen rebellion was because of the arrears of pay for half a year, and the reward for repelling the northern captives was not dealt with for a long time, which caused the mutiny, and many officials and soldiers will be held accountable and imprisoned afterwards.

Li Biao shook his head painfully, his thin palm stroked his forehead, his head was splitting, Han Yi didn't urge, he felt the same way for Li Biao's difficulties, it was not easy, he watched Li Biao gradually lose weight in the past year, and he was exhausted.

"Boss, let's do this, with me for half a month, there is not much time left before the autumn fu is handed over, and it is possible to hover one or two in case, how about it?" Li Biao lowered his arm and looked at Han Yi, with bloodshot eyes looming.

"Alas, Ru Li, the official duties are huge, you still have to take care of your body, now you are not as good as me, the old and healthy," Li Biao is nearly fifty years old, fifteen or sixteen years younger than him, but he looks like sixty years old from the outside.

Han Yi also had a feeling, and said that the cabinet scholar is the pinnacle of the Ming Dynasty's career, and the Wenyuan Pavilion is the place where the Ming officials pay attention, so it should also be divided into when to enter the cabinet, today's Wenyuan Pavilion is a wooden chair, which is also hot.

"Let's just say that for Denglai, let's see how Banzai decides." Han Yi said, that is, he recognized Li Biao's suggestion to delay the handling for half a month, but this is through the Son of Heaven, who is less than twenty years old, but the young man's temper is impatient, and he does not dare to delay.

Qian Longxi didn't say much on the side, the topic of the household department is staged here every day, he knows that he has already resigned in Li Biao's position, Li Biao is also capable of doing anything, and until now, he will not participate, his own bad things are enough, no less than Li Biao.

Since Yuan Chonghuan entered the court last time, Qian Longxi had a banquet with him, and they had a very happy conversation during the period.

Both of them are straightforward temperaments, they don't put the door on their mouths, and the two of them in the banquet said that Dongjiang Mao Wenlong was vulgar and vulgar, despised the imperial court, was not called in, and cut off the Dongjiang River, and his soldiers only listened to his military orders, and Yan Ran was a country, this kind of martial arts is the foundation of the disaster, Yuan Chonghuan said, this person can use it, and if he does not follow the dispatch, he will kill it, and collect all his soldiers.

More than two months ago, Yuan Manzi really killed Mao Wenlong, not wanting not to not only not collect all the military power of the Dongjiang River, but the Dongjiang River was in chaos, and the deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, etc. each controlled the military power. Regardless of the dispatch of the superiors. Soldiers and civilians are constantly fleeing. Not only did it lose the use of the Denglai barrier, but it became the source of the troubles in the Liaohai Sea.

When the news came, the impeachment of Yuan Chenghuan by the Yushitai continued, and the voices of impeachment of local officials abounded, but the Son of Heaven did not send it, which made people speculate.

At this moment, the conversation between Qian Longxi and Yuan Chenghuan at the banquet came out somehow, and the officials were impeached for a while. It is said that Qian Longxi is a disaster to the country, and the book says that the Son of Heaven will do his crime, and Yu Shi Gaojie even denounced him as a national thief.

In the past month, Qian Longxi has been embarrassed, at this time he has no mood at all to care about other things, he has a hunch that he will not stay in Wenyuan Pavilion for long, and now he just wants to be able to get out of the way.

Han Yi opened the next letter, which was sent by Wu Zhiwang, who was stationed in Guyuan by the military affairs of Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, and it was also an excerpt from the request for salary.

He said that Guyuan and other military towns had not paid food and wages for more than half a year. The soldiers were tired and had no intention of suppressing the bandits. What's more, there have been chaotic people mixed into the army, and the rumors have confused the people, and now the soldiers are panicked, the army has no heart to fight, and there is a fear of unforeseen chaos, so they ask for immediate payment of money, calm the morale of the army, and quell the rumors.

Han Yi compared the two excerpts sent by Denglai and Gu Yuan, and what they said was extremely urgent, and even there was a tendency to plead between the lines regardless of their faces.

Wu Zhiwang is also an old minister of the Four Dynasties, successively served as Liaodong Hai Gai Bingdao, Denglai Governor, Nanjing Military Department Squire and other important positions, has always been dedicated to his duties, dare to think and speak, and now discarded the face to ask for it, it can be seen that the situation in Guyuan is critical, but the household department now has no silver available.

Han Yi was speechless and silent for a long time, at this time he made up his mind, and immediately wrote his resignation after he got off duty, and presented it to the Son of Heaven tomorrow, he knew his own affairs, he couldn't control the Ming Dynasty and the opposition now, so let's let the virtuous be.

Han Yi handed the fold to Li Biao, and returned to his seat wordlessly, and sure enough, a long sigh came, "How good is this, how good is this." Li Biaoqing blurted out his deflated words in a hurry, and he couldn't care about losing the dignity of his ministers.

Han Yi didn't urge, even if he persecuted repeatedly, he wouldn't give an extra tael of silver, so let Li Biao think about the measures, and these two excerpts would definitely be asked.

Footsteps sounded outside, and a eunuch on duty walked inside with an excerpt in his hand.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a good news from Lord Zhu of Governor Yungui." The eunuch's feminine voice sounded, but the three of them didn't care at this time, because there was finally good news in the past two months, although it was Yungui in the southwest, not Liaodong and Denglai, but after all, it was a happy event.

Han Yi broke the seal, opened the fold and looked at it for a long time, Li Biao and Qian Longxi waited eagerly.

After reading it, Han Yi smiled, "A month ago, under the planning of Lord Zhu Xieyuan Zhu, more than 20,000 thieves such as Hao Chongming and An Bangyan were ambushed and besieged in Yongning. Great joy, big surprise. ”

Li Biao and Qian Longxi were also ecstatic when they heard it.

Since the first year of the Apocalypse, the cabinet mobilized the Tusi soldiers in central Sichuan to aid Liaodong, and the Shizhu soldiers generously died, and the father and son of Yu Chongming, who were also Tusi, thought that the opportunity to take advantage of the defeat of the Ming Dynasty and self-reliance had arrived.

They led 20,000 cavalry to capture Chongqing halfway under the pretense of aiding Liao, killed more than 20 Ming officials including Xu Keqiu, the governor of Sichuan, and then captured Hejiang, Luzhou, Zunyi and other places, and established themselves as kings, called Daliang.

The Ming Dynasty gathered soldiers and horses to defeat it and recover Chongqing, Hejiang and other places, but the father and son fled to Shuixi to join Tusi An Bangyan and persisted to this day.

After Zhu Xieyuan was reinstated, he mobilized soldiers and horses to finally annihilate them, and after eight years of rebellion, he spent countless money and food, and finally quelled the chaos.

"Boss, we should report long live immediately, long live waiting for good news." Qian Longxi hurriedly said that he was anxious now, but he wanted this good news to dilute Chongzhen's evil feelings towards him.

As soon as these words came out, Han Yi shook his head speechlessly, it was true that he wanted to see through it, but the good news that he was waiting for was the Liaodong war report, which had nothing to do with the southwest, but after all, it was the best news in several years.

A few people still cleaned up and rushed to the Qianqing Palace, a few people went outside, and found that it was the time when the lights were on, a chill hit, Han Yi shivered, and suddenly felt cold all over his body, and the joy of Fang Cai faded a lot, but this chill occupied his body, and it was so cold that his heart was cold, he wrapped himself in a big coat and took the lead in walking. (To be continued.) )