The day after Zhu Hao returned to the capital, he went to see Zhu Niang and Aunt Li.

After Zhu Niang saw her son, she couldn't stop chattering: "...... It's okay if you don't stay in the capital, since you became an official, you have been mentally prepared for your mother and me that you may be away for a long time. But why don't you let your wife come here more often and talk about family life? I usually miss her, but it's hard to see her."

Zhu Hao smiled: "If my mother misses it, go to my side and run the door and see her."

Zhu Niang glanced at Zhu Hao and said, "Is my mother such a person who doesn't understand the rules? People are Miss Ganjin, everyone is beautiful, or they don't look down on me, a mother-in-law born in a poor family."

People in this era generally pay attention to living together with large households, but Zhu Hao is obviously the mentality of young people in later generations, and they will have to stand on their own after getting married.

In other words, an ordinary mother would never understand that her son was separated from his family so easily, although he lived not far from each other, but the etiquette of this era actually did not allow such obvious family separation......

But Zhu Niang came over like this in the first half of her life, she asked herself if she didn't want to live with an old lady like Zhu Jiashi, and she would not do to others what she did not want, so naturally she would not force Zhu Hao and his wife to do anything.

"Then you have time, bring your wife back to see your mother." Zhu Niang said with a smile.

Zhu Hao nodded.

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Eat at home at noon.

Zhu Ting has now become a slim girl, and Aunt Li kept mentioning the matter of finding Zhu Ting's in-laws at the dinner table.

Although as Zhu Hao's younger sister, Zhu Ting is also regarded as the daughter of an official eunuch, but Zhu Hao has just entered the dynasty and has no reputation in the officialdom.

As a result, Zhu Ting faced an extremely embarrassing problem in major events in her life.

High is not low.

It seems that only by marrying a military general can this embarrassment be solved, but as the sister of the champion, she is also literate and knowledgeable, who wants to marry a stubborn and vulgar reckless man?

Zhu Hao returned to his home in the afternoon and fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was sunset.

Sun Lan stood at the door, wanting to enter the house but was very hesitant.

Zhu Hao didn't know how long she had been standing there, but after getting up, she walked over and patted Sun Lan on the shoulder. The latter glanced up at Zhu Hao, and his pretty face was slightly red.

"When the husband rested, the quilt was not covered......

Sun Lan reminded.

Only then did Zhu Hao remember that after he returned home, he was too tired, where could he take care of so much? Find a thicker piece of clothing and put it on your body, and fall asleep as soon as you get off the couch...... This is much better than him going north to the capital to sleep in a carriage, or sleeping in the open on a starry night.

As a person from Huguang, Zhu Hao himself is not afraid of the cold, not that he has gained weight and has fat and body protection, it can only be said that he can't care about these things at all.

But when he got up, he was clearly covered with a quilt.

It must have been Sun Lan who came into the house and built it for him.

Zhu Hao smiled slightly, looked into Sun Lan's eyes, and nodded, "You have a heart...... Pack up briefly, and I'll take you back to your parents' house later."

"Hmm."

Sun Lan nodded, turned around and went back to the West Chamber to tidy up and pack up his things. As the wife of the champion, whether she is married or not, at least she has to get by on face...... Sun Lan doesn't say anything else, she wants to look like she has to have a figure, like a living hanger, which can hold up Zhu Hao's face.

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The Sun family.

Sun Jiao saw that his son-in-law brought his daughter to visit the house, and he did not reprimand...... Like Liu Chun, who went to the Hanlin Academy to wait for Zhu Hao, he wouldn't do that if he was killed.

Sun Lan went to see his family, and Sun Jiao called Zhu Hao to the study, which is already a relatively private place for Sun Jiao, and there are many books in it, which are basically transported by someone from Anlu's hometown, and it seems that Sun Jiao is going to live in the capital for a long time.

Zhu Hao casually picked up a book on the desk and looked at it.

grandchild

Reminder: "Don't move, the book in your hand is a lonely book, and someone wants to borrow it and copy it, but I don't even allow it."

"Elder Sun is so stingy?"

Zhu Hao joked with a smile.

Sun Jiaodao: "If you come to copy, I won't let me, I have the ability to write it down silently, go back and transcribe it myself, or it can be passed on."

"No need!"

Zhu Hao shook his head and said, "Since I won the top prize, I have found that I have lost the patience to read, and I am entangled in mundane affairs, and I can't be idle all day long......

Sun Jiao glanced at Zhu Hao angrily: "Young people don't want to learn, they rely on conspiracy, and the final result is likely to backfire."

Zhu Hao thought to himself, it's counterproductive, you just said that I can't die well?

"Sit down."

Sun Jiao motioned for Zhu Hao to sit in the guest seat.

This guest chair was placed opposite Sun Jiao's desk, and the two sat down opposite each other across a table, Zhu Hao immediately realized that this chair was specially prepared for him, and Sun Jiao should have something to explain to him, which may be related to the official document on the table.

Sure enough......

After Sun Jiao sat down, the first thing he did was to hand over the case in front of him to Zhu Hao, and raised his chin: "Take a look."

Zhu Hao picked it up and glanced at it casually, and found that it was an official letter about the use of the northwest at the beginning of the year, with the emperor's Zhu approval on it...... Of course, this was approved by Zhu Hao in imitation of Zhu Si's handwriting, and he immediately remembered that it should have been decided in February this year, but now it is almost the end of the year.

"Elder Sun, what does this mean?"

Zhu Hao asked confusedly.

Sun Jiao said, "I should be asking you what you mean...... Earlier, I asked the master of ceremonies about the palm seal of Grandpa Zhang, and he said that he didn't know much about the distribution of money and grain, so it was better to ask you more realistically."

Zhu Hao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Grandpa Zhang is really direct."

"He's also annoyed by me, and now I actually want to know how much silver there is in the inner house? Why is it that the accounts of the Inner Government are obviously unable to withdraw silver, and the Ministry of Household has hardly transferred silver to the Inner Government this year, but every time His Majesty can always transfer two pieces of silver from the Inner Government? 「

Sun Jiao's tone became unkind.

Now the inner government is tantamount to being beyond the control of the household department, in fact, it is not subordinate to each other, but the accounts of the inner government have always been inspected by the household department.

But now the inner government obviously has two books.

One account is for the household department or the cabinet to see, and the other is the actual account, but who is in the hands of this account, and what is the situation of the inner treasury now, Sun Jiao does not know anything as the secretary of the household department.

Zhu Hao put down the official document with a smile and asked, "Isn't it a good thing that the Inner Treasury does not allocate silver from the Ministry of Users and the Imperial Treasury?" This year, the imperial court has spent so much, and His Majesty has not overspent on it, which is a great thing...... Why did Elder Sun ask so much?"

Sun Jiao looked at each other sharply: "Do you think that the old man, the head of the household, is very incompetent, right? I see you, it seems that you are managing your majesty's finances...... Say, "How much silver can be brought out of the inner treasury now......

Zhu Hao didn't want to answer this question at all.

The household department can't allocate silver to fill the vacancy in the northwest, so it wants the inner treasury to pay money, but the problem is that the silver in the inner treasury is not blown by the wind, and there is no money transferred from the household department, how can there be a reason why the emperor has to fill it out if he doesn't take money from the imperial court?

However, since Zhu Si ascended the throne, under Yang Tinghe's support, in fact, there is no such clear boundary between the inner government and the household department, to put it bluntly, the civil officials want to control both the expenses of the imperial court and the emperor's expenses, which is equivalent to controlling the public accounts and the emperor's private accounts.

The household department did not give the money, and the inner government could have been controlled.

But Zhu Si doesn't fight or rob, and I don't lack money, why should I ask the household department?

Don't you civil officials always say that the northwest has a lot of expenses, and there is no money to allocate to the inner government? Then I don't need your money! It saves you the cost of the palace, but in the past this was a big hole, if you can't do this, you still want to ask me...... I'll slap you to death!

Sun Jiaodao: "According to the harvest of the official land of the Emperor Zhuang in the past, the tax on the grain produced in a year is less than 20,000 taels...... Even if you add the royal palace in the city, there are some

industry, all income should not exceed 40,000 taels. But according to the old man's rough calculations, the expenses of the government in the past two years have exceeded 150,000 taels, I don't know where the money comes from?"

After Zhu Si ascended the throne, what he wanted to do most was to build a large number of buildings.

However, conditions are limited.

Zhu Si wanted to build a temple for his father, but in the end, the big temple was not completed, but a small temple was built; An Lu Mausoleum wants to be upgraded to an imperial mausoleum, and it also needs silver, An Luxing Mansion needs to be expanded, and silver still needs to be allocated, and Zhu Si also wants to buy something for his new daughter-in-law, so that the palace people can remember his good ......

In short, there are more places to spend money.

150,000 taels is actually a very conscientious expense.

Zhu Hao asked curiously, "Didn't you allocate a tael of silver from the household?"

Sun Jiao snorted coldly: "The household department did transfer more than 20,000 taels of silver to the inner government, but the northwest cost is huge, and the silver transferred out of the inner government is far more than that...... This is not counting the gap in the northwest last year and the beginning of this year, and the inner government had a large amount of silver at that time. Jingdao, tell the old man, how much money can the inner government make in a year?"

Sun Jiao saw that the inner government could operate normally without the control of the household department, and it all depended on someone operating secretly.

Among the so many people in Xingwangfu, the one most likely to undertake this task is Zhu Hao, who has won the trust of the emperor and a group of officials up and down the Xingwangfu system, and has a hidden appearance.

This is where Sun Jiao is entangled.

Liu Chun wondered how he could get to the throne, while Sun Jiao was worried that his errand of the household department was vacated by the inner government.

Zhu Hao's words were vague: "I can earn one or two hundred thousand taels a year."

"How much can you earn?"

Sun Jiao was surprised.

Zhu Hao thought to himself, this is definitely not the income of the silver horn and some large workshops, it is a fairly conservative estimate.

Zhu Hao said: "Most of it is the income from mining, and Huangzhuang has provided a lot of inputs, as for the merchants...... In fact, Nanjing's side is also providing His Majesty with some help, how to say it, it is the Huang Butang of the Nanhu Ministry, he intends to enter the center as the ministry, and it is not ambiguous at all to contribute money and efforts. 「

Sun Jiao said angrily: "Aren't you becoming an official man?"

"Old Sun, you can't talk nonsense, how can you sell your official beard? In fact, most of them are Huang Butang's brother-in-law, Su Dongzhu, he and Huang Butang are both from Yangzhou, and the relationship with Hui merchants is called a close, Hui merchants are now willing to contribute money and efforts to the new emperor, where can they stop it? Besides, they also make money from me...... As businessmen, they won't do it at a loss! 「

Zhu Hao's tone of speech was simply a lesson in market economy to Sun.