The rumors in the capital gradually subsided, so that Zhu Youzhen could better prepare to go to Nanjing, and this time he was ready to bring the queen Zhou with him.

This undoubtedly conveyed another message to the outside world, that is: "The emperor is going to Nanjing for business, not to Jiangnan for affairs." ”

But what Zhu Youzhen didn't expect was that his operation made many ministers in the court who were waiting for the birth of the little prince all day long secretly sad at home.

However, before that, since the emperor was going to Nanjing, Jingshi had to find a reliable person to preside over government affairs on behalf of Zhu Youzhen, and generally speaking, this position should be the crown prince who supervised the country and the like.

But Zhu Youzhen doesn't even have a son or daughter at the moment, let alone a useful prince.

Subsequently, Zhu Youzhen found Huang Liji...

Although as the first assistant of the cabinet, in the eyes of Zhu Youzhen, he is slightly inferior to many virtuous people, but Zhu Youzhen knows that Huang Liji can still sit in this position safely, which is his greatest ability.

So, it seems that Huang Liji has become the best choice.

is no longer the familiar Dongnuan Pavilion, this time Zhu Youzhen personally went to the cabinet to find Huang Liji.

At this moment, as the first assistant, he is crouching in front of the table, busy with work.

"Huang Aiqing.."

"Ahh Your Majesty! When are you here. Huang Liji looked up to find the place where the sound came from, but saw Zhu Youzhen standing not far from him.

Seeing that Huang Liji wanted to get up and salute, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said, "No need to salute, I have something important to come to you today." ”

Although Zhu Youzhen's face was not anxious, Huang Liji understood that it was impossible for the emperor in front of him to come to the door to find him in person.

So, he bowed his head slightly and saluted and said, "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know..."

"I'm going to Nanjing, and there needs to be someone who temporarily takes charge of the affairs of the capital, and after thinking about it, I decided to let you replace me for a while."

"Ahh Minister, minister, must not! Emperor! ”

...

Huang Liji still didn't beat Zhu Youzhen in the end, but as Huang Liji said, some of these great Ming affairs he can handle, and some of them are helpless.

In the end, Zhu Youzhen still issued an order and ordered Xu Guangqi to enter the cabinet.

All issues except government affairs will be handed over to Wei Zhongxian and Wang Chengen, and the two chapters can only be effective when they are parallel.

Although this will slow down a lot of things that could have been solved quickly.

But Zhu Youzhen felt that in the face of power distribution, it was all worth it.

It's just that this Nanjing is easy to go, but Zhu Youzhen also has a headache if he can't deal with things, especially when the Tiger Army's expansion plan appeared on his dragon case during this period...

"Expand the army by twenty divisions .... It is planned to build five more artillery divisions, twenty logistics support brigades ...

Zhu Youzhen's brows became tighter and tighter, and the scale of the Heavenly Tiger Army seemed to be expanding too fast.

Walking back and forth in the Dongnuan Pavilion, Zhu Youzhen couldn't think of a reason not to allow this to be passed, after all, military training takes a lot of time.

What's more, after a large-scale reform of the Ministry of War, in a sense, every time the guards in the Ming Dynasty are reformed, a certain defensive gap is exposed.

So when the local forces could not fill this vacancy, didn't the imperial court have to solve such a vacancy? At that time, there will not be enough troops in his hands, what will Zhu Youzhen use to supplement?

However, this is a significant expense.

Zhu Youzhen is also a little puzzled about how much silver there is in the imperial court now.

In order to solve the doubts in his heart, Zhu Youzhen once again summoned Bi Ziyan, who had not been seen for a long time, as Zhu Youzhen's money bag steward, Bi Ziyan is in charge of taxation with his left hand and the bank with his right hand, which can be said to be in the hands of one person.

It's just that behind this is inseparable from Zhu Youzhen's close monitoring, and now Daming not only has a clean government supervision system, but also the Royal Financial Supervision Bureau established before, closely monitoring the expenditure and flow of every penny of silver in the Ming court.

As long as this system still exists, there is no large number of corrupt officials in it.

Zhu Youzhen is not worried, but Zhu Youzhen also turns a blind eye to some trivial corruption issues, as long as they are not on the table.

There will be no large-scale cleaning, after all, when the water is clear, there are no fish, and Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, has long been well versed in this principle.

"The ministers are strict, and I will meet Your Majesty."

It is still a crimson standard Ming official robe, but due to the long hours of work, Bi Ziyan's temples have become a little whiter than when he first came to the capital.

Zhu Youzhen silently looked at Bi Ziyan, who came to meet him, and said: "Since Bi Aiqing took charge of the financial power for me, in my heart, it can be said that a big stone has fallen to the ground, before I always didn't know where the silver was spent, how much was spent, I only knew that this silver was always not enough to spend, and now it will not be." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, as long as there are ministers, the kind of situation that Your Majesty said will no longer exist, and the ministers dare to guarantee that every penny of silver in the court comes from and where it goes, there are accounts on the books."

Bi Ziyan bowed and said.

At first, Bi Ziyan was actually only in charge of the Royal Tax Bureau, and later the connection between the Daming Royal Bank and the Daming Tax Bureau gradually increased, and became closer and closer.

In order to avoid unnecessary redundancy, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand.

Bi Ziyan was ordered to be in danger, and he had to work on both sides, which made this man, who was born to be good at dealing with silver, completely gray his hair.

On the surface, he is the money bag of the imperial court.

But this money bag is not easy to manage, not only is there a gap everywhere, but more importantly, it has to take on the promotion of banking and taxation.

Banks, which have had similar trade names since ancient times.

Taxes, since ancient times, when there is no such thing as not paying taxes.

But two things that are obviously similar are different from the past.

Daming overnight there were countless bureaus, countless places to use money, and of course, there were also more places that didn't dare to think that money would come, such as commercial taxes.

The benefits of tea, salt and iron also returned to the imperial court overnight.

That's why the life of the Ming court can be so good now.

I only heard Zhu Youzhen say again: "The Tianhu Army sent the next army expansion excerpt today, and I am thinking about whether the surplus silver of the Ming Dynasty can be borne now." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, now there are more than 264 million taels of silver in the Ming Royal Treasury."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen heard this, he stood up after a while.

looked at Bi Ziyan with a shocked face: "Bi Aiqing didn't laugh? Now the imperial court still has so much money? And so much silver? ”

"Back to Your Majesty. . . Every sentence is true. ”