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When Yue Yang hurriedly entered the palace, he was taken to the Warm Fragrance Pavilion by the eunuchs. ●⌒ Title novel,

For the Nuanxiang Pavilion Yueyang has been here several times, so he also knows that this is actually the place where Chongzhen works on weekdays, to put it bluntly, it is his imperial study, he spends nearly half of the day here, but after Yue Yang came to the Nuanxiang Pavilion, he found that there are really a lot of people present today, in addition to the four cabinet ministers, the six Shangshu and several ministers he doesn't know are all there, and even Cao Huachun and a middle-aged man in a flying fish suit are also awe-inspiring, and Chongzhen is sitting behind the dragon case with an expressionless face.

"What happened today, how did you put up this formation?"

Yue Yang was a little puzzled in his heart, he muttered in his heart and strode forward to Chongzhen, who was sitting behind the dragon chair, and bowed to him: "The loyal and brave Marquis Yue Yang sees my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live, long live, long live!" ”

Seeing Yue Yang's arrival, Chongzhen nodded: "Aiqing is here, hurry up and give a seat!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Soon a eunuch brought a brocade stool and placed it under Chongzhen's right head, and Yue Yang sat down without hesitation.

After Yue Yang sat down, he didn't have a polite conversation with Chongzhen, and directly asked, "I don't know what is important for Your Majesty to call your ministers here?" ”

"This ......" Seeing Yue Yang asking, Chongzhen hesitated and did not answer, but instead turned his gaze to Zhou Tingru, the first assistant on the side.

Zhou Tingru also hesitated for a moment after seeing Comrade Xiao Zhu's signal, and then coughed lightly and said: "Hou Ye Yue, that's the case, because the Hou Ye did not go to the court in the early court today, he didn't know much about some things, and now the old man will tell you about it." ”

"You say...... I listen! Yue Yang made a gesture of deferential listening.

Under Zhou Tingru's slow tone, it took Yue Yang a while to understand what he meant. It turned out that Zhang Xianzhong, who was entrenched in Sichuan just half a month ago, was finally exterminated by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting.

Zhang Xianzhong's ambush was a good thing, and the court was also jubilant, but what happened next was embarrassing. After eliminating the rogues entrenched in Sichuan, the imperial court was supposed to reward the officers and soldiers who participated in the suppression of bandits. The government has to give food, seeds, farm tools and other things to the people who have returned to their homes, and they have been encouraged to rebuild their homes.

But now the biggest problem is that after years of war, Sichuan has changed from a country of abundance to a poor place where the people are poor, and where can the government still have the ability to help the people. The Sichuan government did not have this ability, so it naturally set its sights on the imperial court, and after Chongzhen knew it, he ordered the household department to prepare an allocation for disaster relief, but the answer of the household department frightened Chongzhen, although the household department still has some silver, but the food is gone. This is about to jump Chongzhen.

Under Chongzhen's questioning, the head of the household Shangshu Li waited to ask and told him that there was no more food in the granary of the household, but this time Chongzhen was taken aback and hurriedly asked the reason.

Li Beiwen's explanation is this, that is, although the tax revenue of the household department has increased in the past two years, due to the continuous drought and the ravages of the rogue in the past few years, the grain output of the Ming Dynasty has not recovered much. In addition, this year, a large amount of relief grain has been allocated to Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei, and other places where the disaster is more serious, and it is now approaching the end of the year. There is not much grain left in the several granaries of the imperial court, and there is really no way to help Sichuan.

It is said that there is nothing wrong with such an answer, but Chongzhen was more attentive, and he immediately asked people to bring over the account books of the food allocated for disaster relief since the beginning of this year. Who knew that when I looked at it this way, I could see that something was coming. Originally, the household department had allocated grain and disaster relief money several times since this year, but now the local government is still asking the imperial court to continue to allocate silver and grain for disaster relief.

Seeing this, Chongzhen couldn't hold back anymore and was furious on the spot. And after retreating from the court, he called all the important ministers to the Nuanxiang Pavilion to continue to discuss, but after these people discussed for a long time, they were all staring at each other, and they couldn't come up with an effective method. Someone suggested that the Marquis of Zhongyong was also in the capital. Why didn't you invite him over to discuss matters, this is why Yueyang's trip to the palace was made.

Hearing this, Yue Yang's brows had already wrinkled into a Sichuan character, and he turned his head to Li Zhiwen behind him and said: "Li Shangshu, there is something that Benhou doesn't understand, the household department should have estimated when it allocated silver, how can it be that the silver and grain are not enough for several consecutive times, but continue to reach out to the imperial court, what is the problem here." ”

Li Zhiwen smiled bitterly, and finally could only say vaguely: "What about this...... I am afraid that the local government miscalculated the underestimation of the number of local disaster victims, so it is necessary to ask the imperial court to allocate disaster relief funds several times in a row. ”

Yue Yang continued to ask: "Then how much silver has the imperial court allocated to Henan, Shaanxi, and Hubei this year?" ”

"One million taels of silver and seven hundred thousand loads of grain have been allocated." Li waited for an honest answer.

"Hoo ......"

Hearing this, if Yue Yang didn't understand what was going on, he would be in vain. He took a long breath and turned his head to Chongzhen and sneered: "In that case, what is the matter with the emperor calling Weichen to come?" The court has no way to deal with this matter, what can Weichen do? ”

"This ......" Chongzhen was also a little dumbfounded, he really couldn't talk about this kind of thing.

In the end, Li Zhiwen coughed lightly and said: "The emperor and the ministers mean to ask if there is still food in Shanxi and Shandong, and whether another batch can be transferred to Sichuan to solve the urgent need." ”

"Hehe......"

As soon as Li Bei's words came out, Yue Yang was immediately angry, and he smiled at Li Beiwen: "Transfer a batch, how much is a batch?" ”

Li Zhiwen didn't notice the tone of Yue Yang's words, and hurriedly said: "It's not a lot, only 300,000 taels of silver and 400,000 quintals of grain are enough!" ”

"Hahaha......" Yue Yang couldn't help but laugh on the spot anymore.

Looking at Yue Yang, who was smiling, Chongzhen frowned, Li Zhiwen was embarrassed, and several other ministers showed a trace of anger on their faces.

Chen Yan said unhappily on the spot: "Marquis Yue, Your Majesty and the ministers are discussing here, but why are you laughing so loudly?" ”

Yue Yang, who had stopped laughing, looked at Chen Yan with a thick mockery in his expression, "Lord Chen, does Ben Hou really look like a fool?" Or are you a fool yourself? ”

Without waiting for Chen Yan to answer, Yue Yang continued: "Those greasy people in the local government know it, besides, let Shanxi transfer money to the imperial court, in what name?" This year's taxes in Shanxi and Shandong have been paid, and so many displaced people pour into Shanxi every year, and the Shanxi government itself is too busy, how can it still have the spare energy to allocate silver taels? Besides, if you are rich, Jiangnan is the most, why didn't Lord Chen transfer silver and grain from Jiangnan? ”

Yue Yang's words made Chen Yan speechless, in fact, the thoughts of all the ministers can be seen by everyone, they are slaughtering Yue Yang as a wronged leader, if today's Da Ming says who is the richest person Yue Yang said that he is the second, no one dares to admit the first. I don't know how many people have been guilty of pink eye because of so much wealth, but Yue Yang's strength and ruthlessness are also known, and no one dares to put his hand in his pocket, but if it is in the name of the imperial court, it is what many people are willing to do. This thing has been the same since ancient times, and it can block the mouth of the world in the name of the country with a sentence.

But Yue Yang is not an easy person to deal with, he said to Chongzhen Zhengse: "Your Majesty, in fact, in the past two years, the imperial court has not been dragged down by Liaoyu, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's generation have been exterminated, and the expenditure of the imperial court has also been greatly reduced, but then the greed of the local government has also increased unabated.

One million taels of silver and 700,000 quintals of grain, Henan, Shaanxi, and Hubei even stretched out their hands to the imperial court after taking them, aren't they treating the imperial court as an inexhaustible cornucopia? Wei Chen can assert that if the court continues to indulge them, they will not be satisfied if you give them 10 million taels of silver, and Yi Chen thinks that this matter must not be easily understood, and it is time to investigate it thoroughly! ”

Yue Yang's words were full of murderous flavors, and everyone couldn't help but tremble when they heard it.

Yue Yang continued to say to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, the ministers often hear that if the imperial court allocates two pieces of disaster relief silver to the locality, the officials in the capital generally subtract two percent before issuing the locality, and after arriving at the state capital, the local government scrapes off two percent as usual, and then the county scrapes off two percent, and if it reaches the hands of the people, if there is forty percent left, it is already considered that the local officials have a conscience." What's more, after the disaster relief silver allocated by the imperial court arrived in the local area, not only did the people not get a tael of silver, but the local government had to continue to search for land. If this wind is not severely punished, my Ming Dynasty will be destroyed sooner or later in the hands of those moths! ”

Hearing this, the expressions of the officials in the hall became ugly, and Yue Yang's words were tantamount to revealing this scar and laying out all the problems, which made them very uncomfortable for those who were used to being with the light.

Hearing this, Chongzhen's face also darkened, and he naturally knew that local officials were corrupt as the emperor, but over the years, his mind had been focused on how to resist the field and exterminate the rogue, and he had always turned a blind eye to the matter of officials being greedy for ink, and now that there was such a big thing, he also thought it was time to deal with this kind of thing.

After a long time, Chongzhen opened his eyes and gritted his teeth and said, "Yue Aiqing, what is your good plan?" ”

Yue Yang said word by word: "The minister thinks that there is only one way to plan for the future, and that is to investigate thoroughly." Starting from the Beijing officials, all the way to the locality, those who should be killed should be killed, and finally a department directly under the emperor was set up to be responsible for this kind of thing, this department can be called the Independent Office of Integrity! (To be continued......) r527

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