When Huang Jin spoke, he looked at Jiajing's face cautiously.

Jiajing's face was like a pool of stagnant water, and the ancient well had no waves, and he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and then his eyes closed slightly, and he said lightly: "Didn't I say that in the past few days, I want to comprehend the way of heaven, so that you don't come to disturb?" ”

Huang Jin hurriedly said: "It's a matter of the foreign court, and the slave and maid feel that it's not a small trouble, so I'll tell you." ”

Jiajing still closed his eyes, and was not in a hurry to ask about the foreign court, but remembered something: "Is Zhang An dead?" ”

Zhang An is the palm print eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and he is also the old man of Xingwangfu, although the relationship with Huang Jin may not be very good, but at this moment, Huang Jin's heart has a chill, and said: "When the slave got up early, I saw someone carrying his body out of Donghua Gate. ”

Jiajing snorted coldly: "This bastard, I asked him to thoroughly investigate the chaotic party in the palace, but he was so lazy, if it weren't for Zhang Tianshi's deduction skills, I am afraid that the remnants of the chaotic party will take my life at some point." Maybe he is also a rebel, otherwise, how could he cover them up like this. ”

After reprimanding, Jiajing said slowly: "How can you send it out from Donghua Gate, so swaggering?" Who's doing it? ”

Huang Jin was startled, listening to this tone, Jiajing is going to kill again, although Huang Jin is not a good thing, but he also knows that if he continues to indulge like this, sooner or later, the knife will be on his neck, so he hurriedly said: "There is no swagger, it is going out with the dung truck, no one will know." ”

Jiajing's face was full of murderous intent, and he eased up for a moment, and asked lazily: "It's just that now that Zhang An is dead, who will continue to investigate and deal with the chaos in the palace, Huang Banban, this matter will be handed over to you." ”

Huang Jin's old face froze, investigating and dealing with the chaotic party? Zhang An just died, this chaotic party has long been dead, how can you investigate? At that time, it will be nothing more than indiscriminate killing of innocents, and indiscriminate killing is nothing, but the question is, when will it be enough to kill, Huang Jin hurriedly said: "The slave and maid have complicated affairs in the celebrant prison, it's not that they are unwilling to serve His Majesty, it's just that the head of the household has just died, and the government and the opposition are in chaos......"

Jiajing nodded: "What you said also makes sense, then let the Imperial Horse Eunuch and the Eunuch do it, is it the one surnamed Wang?" He has done a lot of great things for me, so I will leave it to him. ”

Huang Jin couldn't help but smile bitterly, but had no choice but to say, "Yes." ”

Jiajing immediately said: "Yes, you just said that something happened to the foreign court, what happened?" ”

Huang Jindao: "This time, it was the cabinet that asked the palace to embezzle some treasury silver. ”

The so-called treasury is not the treasury, but the inner treasury.

Hearing this, Jiajing showed a little impatience and said: "They still want silver, do they really think that I am opening a good hall?" Isn't it enough to give them all the annual income? How much silver is stored in the inner treasury now? ”

Huang Jindao: "Last year, we allocated five million taels of silver for military expenses, built several palaces, and purchased a batch of firearms from the warrior camp, so the current silver deposit is only seven million taels." ”

Jiajing said coldly: "I didn't give a tael of silver, give them some today, and give them some tomorrow, what about my Dao Palace?" These people have to move forward and don't know how to advance or retreat. ”

Speaking of this, Jia Tao still seemed not relieved enough, and said: "In the past, the imperial court's annual expenditure of three million pieces of silver was still very rare, how come it is that now, I make up for their shortcomings in the treasury every year, but this silver is becoming more and more useless?" ”

Huang Jindao: "It is said that Yang Gechen took over the household department, let the household department check the accounts, and found that the former household department Shangshu spent money lavishly, this treasury not only has no treasury silver, but also owes more than 10 million pieces of silver, and now all provinces are waiting to be fed, all waiting for the imperial court to allocate silver, the border town..."

"Bastard!" Jiajing sneered, his eyes were gloomy: "They have a good calculation, the previous Hubu Shangshu is dead, they are good, they just pushed all the stakeholders on the dead man, and then stretched out their hands and asked me for money, do I have gold and silver?" It's their business that they're short, all in all, I don't care, spread the word, but if something happens, what I want first is the heads of these people, don't think I don't dare to kill people! ”

When he said the killing, Jiajing's face was calm, but under this calm, there was a crisis brewing.

Huang Jin hurriedly said: "The slave maid will order ......"

"You don't have to tell me, you go to the cabinet in person, tell them in person, and say that I said that I don't want money."

Huang Jin wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Yes, yes, the slave maid went to tell them in person...... Tell them ......"

Jiajing's eyes widened, he looked at Huang Jin coldly, and suddenly said, "What, Huang Banban, are you very hot?" Why did you sweat so much. ”

"I ...... Slave maid ......" Huang Jin was stunned, as if he had been discovered by someone who had stolen, he was stunned, no matter how smart he was, no matter how he could speak, at this time he was like being electrocuted, motionless.

Jiajing immediately smiled and said, "Yes, it's spring, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter." ”

"Yes, yes. The weather is too hot, and the slave and maid are still thinking, this year seems to be hotter than usual. Huang Jin hurriedly followed Jiajing's words.

Jiajing smiled incomprehensibly and said, "Isn't there a sentence that says that the heart is calm and naturally cool?" No matter how hot it is, as long as your mind is calm, you are not afraid of the heat, besides, this is not the heat, your mind is too mixed. ”

Huang Jin's tears flowed down instantly, Jiajing's words were a pun, and Huang Jin, who had always known Jiajing well, actually found that he couldn't understand Jiajing's mind at all now, his throat rolled, thinking of Zhang An, thinking of the noble man who died a few days ago, these people, once upon a time, which one was not the same as himself in the palace to call for wind and rain, which one is not important, but if he says that he is dead, he is dead, and he is so desolate that he is dead, or he is thrown into the dung and transported out by a dung truck.

Huang Jin found that he was very afraid, a fear from the bottom of his heart occupied his heart, he was confused, he didn't know whether Jiajing's words contained murderous intentions for himself, His Majesty said that his heart was not quiet, what does this mean, is he aware that he is afraid, or does he think that he is also involved in the chaotic party, His Majesty said that his mind is too mixed, what does it mean, does he mean that he is a eunuch of Bingbi because of his official duties, so he is in charge of many things, or does he have any other thoughts, or even ......

Huang Jin hurriedly kowtowed and cried: "Your Majesty...... Slave damn it... Slave ......"

Jiajing squinted, his eyes looked in the direction of Huang Jin, and the faint candle flame reflected into the depth of his eyes, which made him even more mysterious, and he said lightly: "Go and do things." ”

"Yes, yes......" Huang Jin didn't feel relieved, nor did he feel that he had escaped, and he didn't have the heart to be glad at all, he still kowtowed in fear and walked out of the palace.

As soon as he got out of the palace, he looked back vigilantly, as if there was a knife behind his neck, and there was a sharp blade, and when he saw only the void, he breathed a sigh of relief, and after a few big breaths, he was busy often going in the direction of the cabinet.

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Huang Jin went to the cabinet and conveyed Jiajing's meaning.

At this time, he has already made up his mind, no matter what, he is a eunuch after all, and he must not let himself look like he has no master. has experienced too many ups and downs, Huang Jin is not an ordinary person after all.

But when Huang Jin said His Majesty's message, the two ministers of the cabinet had already changed color.

In fact, they had expected that His Majesty might get angry and bargain with the cabinet in the end, but they didn't expect that this time they would directly and categorically refuse, and there was not even room for bargaining.

Yang Yiqing couldn't help but smile bitterly, he is now in charge, in the past, he didn't know the price of firewood and rice, but now, he knows the difficulties of the household book.

Due to the inflow of a large amount of silver, prices have skyrocketed, so the so-called annual income of the imperial court is not even as good as two million taels of silver for five years, that is, what you used to buy with three million taels of silver, but now, you may not be able to buy it.

Moreover, the Zhejiang New Army and the future Nanzhili New Army and the Fujian New Army have been preparing to build, from the time of the avant-garde system, the imperial court did not have to spend a penny, it could raise hundreds of thousands of millions of troops, but the provincial guards saw that the new army was being built, and people took money to pay them, which was inevitably unbalanced, so more or less, they always asked for money under various names. There is also Zhejiang, now there are schools built everywhere, like a goddess scattering flowers to smash silver, the provinces have seen it, but also have their own careful thoughts, one by one under various guises, or to say that a certain section of the river is in disrepair, I am afraid that there is a worry about the collapse of the river embankment, and in the name of the old county school everywhere to ask for money.

These are not enough, the current war is simply a bottomless pit, and when Liang Teng was there, he spent money very generously, and the provinces asked for silver, as long as there was a name, they were often willing to allocate silver, and the cabinet saw that the household department was approved, so it was approved, what should I do if there is no silver? Borrow! Anyway, six million taels of silver were borrowed, and another few million were also borrowed, and the household department was accustomed to spending money lavishly, and the provinces were also accustomed to asking for money under various names, and in the end, this deficit became bigger and bigger, even to the point of being dumbfounded.

In half a year, the expenses of the imperial court exceeded those of the previous three years.

Not only that, due to the soaring prices, the officials are also people, especially those Qingliu officials, one by one asked for a salary increase, they really can't survive, so the imperial court has raised their salaries several times, their salaries have risen, those who have titles are naturally dissatisfied, you give yourself silver, what should we do?

So, everyone rose, and then, everyone was happy, and they all said that the household department was good, and they all said that the court was good, but now, Yang Yiqing was dumbfounded.