Shang Zhen came back to his senses, and the wine was frightened awake, and he hurriedly explained in a whisper: "The minister just heard, heard!" ”

"Heard? If there's anything else, why don't you talk about it all together! Zhu Qizhen looked at the two lumps of red on Shang Qi's cheeks and said.

Shang Chen had completely sobered up at this time, and kept wiping cold sweat with his sleeves.

"Your Majesty, the minister is immoral after drinking, please punish him!" As soon as his knees went limp, he knelt down.

Zhu Qizhen asked with a dark face: "I'm not afraid of being drunk, I'm afraid of talking nonsense, what you said just now is true, or did you drink too much Zhang Guan Li Dai?" ”

Shang Yu said with certainty: "The minister heard that it is a fact, and it is also a fact that Cheng Anhou personally admitted this matter outside, please let the emperor know it!" ”

Zhu Qizhen's complexion softened at this time, and he didn't ask about other things, and led everyone to leave the drunken wind building.

Before going out, he suddenly remembered something and explained to Guo Mao: "Pay more attention to that Liu Qiang in the future, I always feel that something is wrong with him." ”

Shang couldn't stop wiping the cold sweat, Li Xian and he watched Zhu Qizhen leave, and walked home together.

"Hongzai, in the future, in front of the emperor, you have to be more restrained." Li Xian persuaded.

Who knew that Shang Zhen didn't take it to heart, but said: "It's true that you can't drink so much anymore, drinking is wrong!" ”

Li Xian smiled helplessly: "Hongzai, you know that I am not talking about this, but ...... Forget it, you know how much the emperor values you, since you are favored, you have to be more careful in your own actions, don't make enemies everywhere! ”

The merchant said with a long smile: "Thank you Brother Yuande!" Hirozai is taught! ”

The figures of the two men soon disappeared at the end of the street, and the clear night sky was full of stars, illuminating the way home for the night walkers.

Zhu Qizhen was sitting in a pavilion in the palace at this time, holding a cup of tea in his hand, taking a sip from time to time, and the heat in the late autumn evening was already very obvious.

His eyes looked a little hollow, his eyes stayed on the blooming Xia Ju without focus, and the words in his heart kept appearing.

"Jin Ying, sit down and have a sip of tea with me." Zhu Qizhen came back to his senses and commanded.

Jin Ying knew that the emperor's personality had changed a lot since these two battles, and he was no longer verbose, so he naturally sat down after greeting.

"Is the emperor still worried about that?" Jin Ying poured a cup of tea and asked.

Zhu Qizhen nodded, in his memory, he didn't have a deep impression of officials doing business, it should be that the original Zhu Qizhen didn't care about this kind of thing at all.

Also! Zhu Yuanzhang's iron card of 'ministers are not allowed to interfere in politics', and Zhu Qizhen tacitly agreed that it was destroyed by Wang Zhen.

What's more, the so-called stipulation that officials above the fourth grade cannot do business will inevitably have to give way in front of their own political interests.

"Jin Ying, how many of the ministers of the DPRK and China do you say are secretly doing business?" Zhu Qizhen's voice was full of exhaustion.

Jin Ying was silent for a moment and then replied: "Your Majesty, there is a general situation about this kind of thing on the Jinyi Guard's side, and the slaves and maids will let them send it tomorrow." ”

After thinking about it, Zhu Qizhen shook his head and said: "Since you want to see it, it is natural to have a detailed situation, you can arrange this matter and give me an answer as soon as possible." ”

"Yes! Slave obeys! Jin Ying was ordered to get up and make arrangements.

Zhu Qizhen pressed the silver-haired old eunuch, and asked with puzzlement in his eyes: "Aren't they enough?" ”

Without waiting for Jin Ying to reply, Zhu Qizhen let go of his hand again, motioned for Jin Ying to finish the tea, and then fixed his eyes on Jin Ying again, and as he left, Zhu Qizhen muttered.

"It's not enough, when civil engineering is preparing for war, the monthly ration of ordinary soldiers is only three buckets, and it will only increase to six buckets when it comes to training and fighting.

And a small official who has not entered the stream can reach 36 stones, which is enough for a family of five to eat for a year! People's hearts are always high and want to be higher!

Jin Ying, I'm only in my fifties and my hair is gray, I hope to live a few more years than before! An Annan man is even more loyal than many ministers......"

It may be that under the influence of alcohol, Zhu Qizhen rested well at night, and slept until the morning of the next day, and today is the first day of September!

"Begin to play the Emperor!" Yu Qian's recital is.

"Many thieves in Fujian and Zhejiang have been arrested, and rebels in Guizhou and Huguang have been concentrated in a few areas. It is advisable to take the chief military officer Ningyang Hou Chen Mao, Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji and others to return to Beijing.

If the thief is still not restless, you can stay with the general and wait for the official to arrest him! The imperial history had previously selected all the capitals and guards to enter Beijing to prepare for the official army, and it was advisable to go to Beijing. ”

Zhu Qizhen sat on the dragon chair and focused on Yu Qian.

He remembered that the Miao rebellion in Guizhou and Huguang was the longest and most influential after Deng Maoqi in Fujian, and it was not at all reported by Yu Qian as if it was about to end.

After thinking about it carefully, Zhu Qizhen said: "Dispatch Sichuan, Yunnan Binghui Wang Ji and Chen Mao to fight against the rebel seedlings, and rush to the vanguard to aid Pingyuewei with 800 miles. The rest of the recitals are acceptable. ”

After speaking, Yu Qian nodded, and Yu Qian also suppressed the confusion in his heart, the situation in this battle report should be inconsistent with what the emperor knows, so there is this arrangement, then just follow the order.

After Yu Qian retired, there were other yamen who came out one after another, and Zhu Qizhen also dealt with them one by one, mostly daily situations.

For example, the household department said that the local disaster situation that was affected last year was confirmed, and asked the emperor to reduce or reduce taxes;

The Ministry of Rites said that the surrounding small countries have come to pay tribute again, and whether they should be rewarded according to the practice of previous years;

Taifu Temple said that there were not enough war horses, and there was not enough forage, so it had to be apportioned to the people;

Taichang Temple said that there are still those and those for this year's sacrificial activities, and it is necessary to start preparations;

Qin Tianjian said that this year, lightning has always struck the heavenly temple and kissed the owl, and it is time to pardon the guilty prisoners to appease the wrath of heaven;

Guozijian also said that the classrooms and dormitories are in disrepair, so you can allocate some money to repair them.

Then the Ministry of Household said that our budget is not enough, and the Ministry of Industry still has to build a martyr's shrine, build bridges and pave roads, bury soldiers who died in battle, comfort the families of martyrs, and reward meritorious soldiers. Let's wait until next year.

Speaking of this, the Ministry of Industry was not happy, and asked the Ministry of Household Affairs why they had not allocated money after the budget of their martyrs' shrine had been reported for a while?

The household department said that you have reported too much, and you will get 50,000 taels of silver to transport a piece of wood, and the overall price is 1 million taels, isn't that nonsense?

The Ministry of Industry is also very aggrieved, this is arranged by the emperor himself, and there is Kuang Ye, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, and Wang Zuo, the secretary of your household department, are among them, and there are countless noble princes.

It must be made of the best wood, and that piece of wood is cut from the mountains and transported by hand, but it will not cost so much. (Tribute to the Ming Dynasty)

The two yamen people were arguing, Zhu Qizhen rubbed his sore temples, he also knew that 50,000 taels of wood was very expensive, and it could be used on the martyrs, can you say that you don't need the best?

This matter has been quarreled several times, and in the end, he can only go first, leaving a few people to look at each other, and I don't know what he means.

But today, he doesn't want to avoid talking about it anymore, how many people will it take to create this value for 50,000 taels?

"Well, I don't need to talk about it anymore. The Martyrs' Shrine, since it is the place where the martyrs are buried, is naturally respected by the martyrs' wishes.

The heroes fought for the people, died for the Ming Dynasty, and today they will build an ancestral hall with the materials of the Beijing Division, so as to support the heroic soul forever! ”

"The Emperor Shengming!" All the ministers praised and made peace.

This alone was based on local materials, which saved hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for the Ming Dynasty's finances.

After the controversy between the two yamen of the Ministry of Household and Labor, the early dynasty fell into silence for a while.

Li Xian took advantage of this time to make a suggestion: "Your Majesty, there are more than 10,000 outsiders living in Beijing who have surrendered now. The commander made a monthly salary of 35 stones, but only one stone was actually paid, and those who surrendered were actually paid 17 stones and 5 buckets.

Such a demotion is equivalent to seventeen and a half members of the third rank, and they should be gradually moved to other places, in order to save heavy expenses, and to nip the calamity in the bud. ”

Zhu Qizhen was taken aback by these keywords, and these were the only things left in his hands? What about the low-level officials? How much can this salary be paid? Could this be the fundamental reason why officials do business and annex land? It was nothing like what he remembered.

And the fact that those surrendered Tartars can have such an income is not only unfair, but simply mad!

Zhu Qizhen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, changed his face again and again, and said in a serious tone: "Surrendering troops to serve my Ming Dynasty should naturally not be measured by the amount of monthly food.

Now that Guizhou is rebelling against the seedlings, it is a good opportunity for them to show their skills to serve the country, spread my will, and order the troops in Beijing to go to the front line to fight, and they will be rewarded for their meritorious service!

As for the question of the actual collection of money by the Beijing officials......"

"Your Majesty! Never! Xu Bin, the secretary of Honglu Temple, shouted loudly.

"It has been a national policy since ancient times to fight with the foreign tribes who surrendered to Chengcheng, in order to break down the antagonism of those tribes and get the effect of surrendering without a fight!

If you send them to war, won't all your efforts be in vain? In case of defection, it will be a disaster for my front-line soldiers, please take back your life! ”

Zhu Qizhen looked at Xu Bin, who was spitting excitedly, and couldn't help but feel a sense of disgust in his heart, his compatriots, and even his own salary, had not yet been settled. I know all day long that I am holding the legs of foreigners, this is still the Ming Dynasty, now the most powerful empire in the world, how can there be people with such soft knees?

"Your Honglu Temple's duty is to receive foreign envoys, when did you even take care of the matter of descending people?"

Xu Bin was speechless for a while, but immediately came back to his senses and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are in charge of guest affairs, and these foreign ministers are naturally also one of the objects of appeasement by the ministers. ”

Zhu Qizhen's face became more and more cold, and he asked, "You said this is a trivial matter?" ”

Xu Bin said as a matter of course: "Exactly! Be a model for all countries! ”

"The rations of hundreds of thousands of people are just a small thing in your heart? Oh, what a breath! ”

"Your Majesty! That's not what the minister meant! ”

"Enough!" Zhu Qizhen shouted angrily, interrupting Xu Bin's sophistry.

"Jin Ying, immediately send an edict to those people to set off immediately and reach Pingyuewei as soon as possible! Xu Bin, you go with you, if they have any dissatisfaction, you, the Honglu Temple, will be responsible for appeasing! ”