Chongzhen stepped down at the main gate of Kunning Palace and walked in. The Son of Heaven, who had just passed his prime, walked very fast, as if someone was always chasing him. The erosive situation over the years has also made him frown, and he has not had a chance to relieve himself for a long time.

Of course, Nakanomiya got the notification that Bixia had arrived. According to the rules, Her Royal Highness the Empress should greet the Emperor at the main gate of Kunning Palace. However, as soon as Queen Zhou entered the palace, she abolished this rule, on the grounds that "the wife of the chaff does not go to the court", and only greeted her at the door of the main hall.

For sixteen years, it has been so.

The husband and wife of the heavenly family saw the salute and walked to the throne together. In front of the throne was a bookcase with a thick thread-bound booklet spread out on it.

Chongzhen sat down in a hurry and asked, "What book does the queen read?" ”

"The concubine just flipped through the account books of the previous month." Zhou Hou said: "Compared with the previous few months, there is no decrease, but it is a lot lower than this time last year." ”

Chongzhen finally heard a little good news. Since he ascended to the pole, he has been building a frugal inner palace, wanting to guide the subjects of the world to tide over the difficulties together. For this reason, Queen Zhou set up twenty-four spinning wheels in the palace and took the palace maids to spin. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong destroyed the ancestral tomb of Fengyang, Chongzhen even withdrew the meal and moved to the Wuying Hall of the outer palace.

"During the Wanli period, the food silver in the palace for a month was 10,000 taels, and in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Bixia dropped to 9,000 taels, and now it is only 5,000 taels." The Empress sat down beside the Emperor and pulled the ledger closer, her fingers running between the ranks.

This is completely different from the traditional ledger, in fact, it is more like a statement. All major items, small items, and miscellaneous items are clearly listed, income and expenditure are clear at a glance, and a fixed point library is made every quarter to make a list of movable and immovable property. It always sounds like a lot of trouble, but once you get used to this set of rules, the female officials and eunuchs in charge, and even the emperor and empress, are a lot easier.

The only ones who are annoyed are the eunuchs of the palace who are doing things below, and there are too few places that can make them cheat. And there are so few that they can no longer capture their level, no matter how careful the accounts they make, they will always be able to escape the wisdom of heaven. Only a few people know that it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was helping his mother to audit, which was even more chilling than the old financial account.

Chongzhen watched the queen's fingers move, and said with a smile: "This set of financial methods is really useful, and I don't know how Brother Chun came up with it." I originally wanted the Sixth Department to use this kind of report, but unfortunately it was too difficult for those officials to learn it. ”

"Lieutenants who haven't read anything can learn it, and all the ministers are talented people who have read the books of sages, can't they learn it?" The queen shook her head and said: "Even if it is not as good as my family's Brother Chun'er, he can't even learn it, isn't it perfunctory." ”

Chongzhen sighed, suddenly remembered something, and said: "Today, Gong Yonggu entered the palace and said about the epidemic in Jingshi, what do you think Brother Chun said?" ”

"I want to go out of the palace for disaster relief."

"Oh, yes, he's been here." Chongzhen suddenly said again: "Did you allow him?" ”

"How can you let him out!" Zhou Hou said loudly: "No matter how many people die in Jingshi, it can't shake the country!" What's more, my brother is not yet fifteen, and if he is in the people, he hasn't even tied his hair yet! ”

Chongzhen's face sank, and he said, "However, the foreign minister is really not as good as my prince." ”

"Now I haven't heard of any foreign ministers' family members who have died, they are not in a hurry, what are we anxious about."

"That's not what I said," Chongzhen stood up and paced slowly, "This world is my Zhu family after all." They are not in a hurry, but I cannot watch my people suffer. ”

Zhou Hou let out a long sigh.

This sigh includes the worry that his son is about to be in danger, and the helplessness of his husband.

- Bixia's rebellious heart is really heavy.

Even the palace maids sighed silently in their hearts.

"I've thought about it, it's better to let the prince go out of the palace to see the people's suffering. Take the Fu army as an example. Chongzhen said firmly.

Although it was a victory, there was no excitement after the week. Taking advantage of her husband's character weaknesses, which her son taught her. I really can't even imagine it, why the prince, who has been raised in the deep palace, has a deeper understanding of people's hearts than her dignified mother?

- Let that bastard succeed again!

After the week, he gently bit his inner lip.

"Queen, the prince is doing things, I don't worry, you should also rest assured." Chongzhen thought that Zhou Hou would not let his son go out, so he stepped forward and persuaded him gently.

"Alas, where does the prince live when he leaves the palace?" The queen said: "It is better to send more old and capable palace people to follow." ”

"Let him live in the Hidden Mansion." Chongzhen said: "As for the palace people, they are all handled by the queen, just don't exceed the system." Well, the prince should also choose a concubine next year, so this time even the female officials of the four divisions will be sent together. ”

"The concubine is saved," the queen paused, and added, "I always feel that the prince is still very young, a little early." ”

Chongzhen smiled, and his eyes fell on the ledger again.

……

"Oh, do you want to take care of the army?" Zhu Cihong sat in the study in the Duanben Palace, and the rice paper spread out in front of him was densely packed with fly-headed small letters. Although he spoke, the brush in his hand did not pause for the slightest. When he finished writing one, he put down the brush, lifted it casually, and handed it to the eunuch next to him: "Go and engrave." ”

The attendant eunuch beside him took the page, walked to the door in small steps, and turned it to another little eunuch. The eunuch put the paper in a cardboard and hurried to the celebrant factory.

Seeing that the little eunuch ran away, the attendant eunuch wearing a big red python robe turned around and returned to the prince, and saw that the prince was pinching the acupuncture points, swallowing and holding his breath and standing aside.

"Tian Cunshan." Zhu Cihong leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes and shouted.

"The slave is here."

"According to Fu Jun's example, how many guards can there be in the East Palace?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"This ...... The slave and maid went back to check and then reported to His Highness. Tian Cunshan said cautiously. He knows that the wisdom of the prince today is by no means a master who can be deceived and deceitful.

Zhu Cihong's eyebrows jumped slightly. This Tian Cunshan is considered young and promising among the eunuchs, and at the age of thirty, he has to be awarded the seal of the East Palace, but this age is still too young for the eunuchs of the Inner Palace, and he has no foundation. The means and the heart are still too immature. Especially compared with Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen, and Wang Xinxin, they are even more incompetent.

But the prince's eyes may not be eye-catching to the prince. One is because the prince has taken away the easiest trick to play with power from the celebrant supervisor, and the other is that these Da Jue are already a lot old, and when the son is young and strong today, there is really no need to pave such a far back road.

If there is a capable old eunuch by his side, he will be able to relax a lot in the past ten years.

Zhu Cihong took a breath, straightened his waist, picked up the pen again, and began to write again. After writing two words, Zhu Cihong suddenly raised his head and said, "Last year, when I entered the palace in the book, it seems that there is a copy of "Records in the Middle"? ”

Tian Cunshan didn't dare to say that he didn't know, he knew that the prince had never forgotten, so he boldly echoed: "It seems that there is, His Royal Highness seemed to be saying it at the time...... He also said that he had time to look for it. When the prince reads the book list, he will say "I have time to look for it" for many books, so even if the prince remembers that he didn't say it at the time, it is not a big mistake that he has a bad memory.

After all, not everyone is as wise as the prince.

"This book was written by the great eunuch of the Shenzong Dynasty, right?" Zhu Cihong put down his pen again and asked without raising his head.

"Your Highness forgives your sins," Tian Cunshan knelt on the ground, "The slave maid will go to check back and forth with His Highness." ”

"I guess I'm no longer in the palace, otherwise I'm a commander and eunuch." Zhu Cihong pretended not to know, but said: "You go to investigate, if he is still willing to go back to the palace on an errand, please ask the celebrant to come to me." ”

Tian Cunshan was worried in his heart, and secretly complained: This is the prince who is dissatisfied with us! Alas, accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, how can the prince be more fierce than the tiger! Anyway, this master is not something we can serve, and it's a good thing to change places.

"The slave obeys." Tian Cunshan kowtowed, and was about to run out, when he suddenly heard the prince cough lightly, and hurriedly took steps again.

"Cao Huachun has been back to his hometown for five or six years." Zhu Cihong said suddenly.

Tian Cunshan immediately knelt down, with tears in his eyes: "Your Highness's benevolence is rare in ancient and modern times, and you still remember me and other slaves." Eunuch Cao was on leave due to illness for 11 years, and returned to his hometown in February of the 12th year. ”

"Where's his home?"

"The slave maid remembers that Eunuch Cao is from the Wuqing clan of Tianjin."

"It's not too far," Zhu Cihong continued, "send someone to visit the sick, and if he is still healthy, invite him to Beijing, and I will see him." ”

"The slave obeys." Tian Cunshan hurriedly went out to explain, and then hurriedly ran outside the palace.

Zhu Cihong buried himself in writing for a long time, and finally finished writing two more pages, called the eunuch, and asked him to take it to the factory to open the engraving. Although he had already printed a lot of books, and it is said that some of them were circulated outside, after all, the red wall was so deep that he had not even heard a single movement. Now the plague in Beijing is not in Zhu Cihong's historical knowledge, it is an emergency, so this epidemic control draft can only be written on the spot.

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