Sun Jiao is about to make a move.

The tiger is not powerful, you treat me as a sick cat?

My grandson has experienced so many turbulent waves in the court, and now the emperor and the first assistant scholars are using the household under my control as the main battlefield of the battle, thinking that I have no temper and will not fight back brazenly?

However, Sun handed over a very special way, that is, before he officially took action, he specially greeted his son-in-law.

Probably because he was afraid that Zhu Hao and even the emperor behind him would not be prepared.

After Sun Jiao left, the next morning, in front of all the ministers of civil and military affairs, he reported his matter about reducing the cost of coastal defense in the southeast, and refuted the emperor's decision on strengthening the coastal defense budget with the figures of money and grain used for coastal defense over the years.

Sun Jiao's voice fell, and many people at the court meeting did not react.

Isn't your old man Sun the emperor's man?

Why did you take the initiative to jump out and go against the emperor now? Could it be that it was incorporated by Yang Zhongtang? I didn't hear that this guy has been getting close to Yang Zhongtang's people recently.

Zhu Si couldn't help but want to laugh when he heard Sun Jiao's words.

Because Zhu Hao had sent someone to inform him in advance, before going to the court today, Zhang Zuo personally told him that Sun Jiao might give him problems at the court.

As a result, this conundrum......

It sounds mild, even a little naïve.

Zhu Silang said: "Sun Qing's family, since last year, the southeast coast has not stopped, I heard that the tribute ship of the Japanese country on the other side of the sea in the east has almost arrived in Ningbo Port...... I have consulted many people on this matter, and they all agreed without exception."

Sun Jiao became angry when he heard this.

You have consulted other people's opinions, you won't say that you have consulted Zhu Hao and Zhang Zuo, and you have also asked Yang Tinghe, but you have not asked me about the household book, right?

It seems that our household department is the yamen who pays for food.

Is my household secretary so unwelcome?

Zhu Si didn't continue, but instead looked in the direction of several cabinet ministers, and asked loudly, "I wonder what the cabinet has to say about this?"

This was clearly asked by Yang Tinghe, who was standing at the front of the queue.

Recently, Yang Tinghe has been extremely low-key, and if he can not express his opinions in the court, he will not express them, and try to avoid verbal conflicts with the emperor, forming a phenomenon of discord between the monarch and the minister.

Because Yang Tinghe knew that if she did not have a good relationship with the emperor, it would seriously affect her reputation and prestige, and if Shoufu had a conflict with the emperor, the people below would inevitably be cranky and detached.

The people of this era are influenced by the "Three Outlines and Five Constants", the so-called monarch is the minister's outline, the specific manifestation is that the monarch wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die, so the vast majority of courtiers dare not offend the emperor, even if they are now temporarily attached to Yang Tinghe, but in fact, it still depends on the emperor's face.

Only when the emperor shows enough respect and trust in Yang Tinghe can Yang Tinghe get more support and his position as the first assistant can sit firmly.

Jiang Mian said: "In the past 100 years, although there have been frequent banditry in the southeast coastal defense, it has generally not caused a bad impact, and the local guard posts have been able to fulfill their duties...... In the past few years, it has been reported that the number of fugitives from the Southeast Coastal Defense Station has increased, and the combat effectiveness has declined, which may be related to the unfavorable local tuntian areas and the lack of money and grain allocated by the imperial court......

Jiang Mian said this more tactfully.

It not only shows that it is a trivial matter to increase the use of the southeastern region, but also explains that the southeast coast really needs the imperial court to allocate money and grain.

Zhu Si frowned and said, "Last year, the sea disaster situation was quite serious, and the imperial court originally agreed to increase 200,000 taels of silver as expenses, and the actual transfer was equivalent to 130,000 taels of silver, but the result was that the actual use was not even 50,000 taels, and some of them were even diverted by the local government for other purposes.

"This year, I just proposed to increase the expenditure by 350,000 taels at a time to ensure that the southeast coastal areas do not have the situation of frequent sea disasters last year, is this also not in accordance with the rules?"

The emperor suddenly told the detailed accounts in front of all the ministers, which made people feel that the emperor was prepared.

In addition, Sun Jiao suddenly had no reason to oppose the emperor's increase in the southeast

The idea of coastal defense expenditure, it is inevitable that some people will think, will it be the emperor and the old man Sun singing a double reed?

If you want to promote it, suppress it first!

Let Sun Jiao stand up and oppose it first, take the opportunity to put this matter forward, and then the emperor will use the topic to play and settle accounts with the ministers, which not only reflects the emperor's wisdom and martial arts, cares about everything and accounts and so on, but also reflects the emperor's attention to local affairs, and is a Ming monarch and holy lord......

Everyone thought about it.

It's possible!

Jiang Mian, as the person who spoke on behalf of the cabinet before, behaved calmly at this time: "Your Majesty, if you want to increase expenses, it should be subject to the actual situation of the household department now, and I don't know if the household department can increase this part of the transfer...... or leave it to the court of the courtiers."

It is just to increase the cost, and it is not used to build the palace and the inner government for private use, so it does not need to rise to the level of bad rules.

As far as the matter is concerned, the emperor wants to increase your expenses, you can't be rigid and arbitrary, it's best to ask our opinion first. We didn't object to it before, but that doesn't mean that no one has jumped out to speak out now that the matter has been made public...... In this case, it is definitely not that our cabinet is asking you for trouble, but that those ministers who can't see it feel that there is a problem.

For example......

Sun Jiao is still the head of the household.

Sun Jiao is against you, not against us!

So, Sun Jiao was put on a high place.

Didn't you come out against the emperor's claims?

We now feel like you're singing a duet with the Emperor! If you step back and don't talk about it now, everyone will look down on you, and it depends on how you get back.

But Sun Jiao'er didn't think about retreating at all, the reason why he jumped out today and was bent on confronting the little emperor was not to help Yang Tinghe, but purely to oppose it from the position of Hubu Shangshu.

Sun Jiaodao: "Your Majesty, the old minister really can't understand, it's just that the Japanese sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty, why do they have to increase the expenditure out of thin air? Now the household department has some surplus, but there is still a long time before the end of the year, if there is a situation in the northwest of the Tatar border, or if there is a disaster in some places, the household department needs to provide money and grain, and it is better to leave this part of the money and grain in case of emergency?"

Sun Jiao not only opposed the emperor, but also indirectly exalted himself.

During the Zhengde period, the household department could not make ends meet every year, and now the new emperor has been on the throne for less than two years, and the household department has only been under the care of his grandson Jiao for more than a year, and has begun to have a surplus.

Just ask you, my grandson is doing a good job in this household book, right?

Zhu Si thought for a moment: "I have heard...... It is just a folk rumor, there are constant disputes within the Wa State, there are many factions, and some of them local forces sent people to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, wanting to represent the Wa State, but the rest of the forces did not agree...... If they send their own people, they are afraid that it will cause some diplomatic disputes...... What's more, what if they fight in my Ming territory? How can you be defenseless?"

"Wow!"

As soon as the emperor said this, the people present fryed.

Saying that you are diligent in government affairs, that is to look up to you, no matter how diligent you are, do you have your cheap father filial piety?

Say you know the world, but you actually pretend? When he was an emperor, he sat in the palace and stayed at home, but he had even heard about the Wa Kingdom on the other side of the sea?

Why don't you go to heaven?

Sun Jiao frowned: "Your Majesty, such a thing is hearsay, even if the situation in the country is really like this, it has nothing to do with my kingdom tomorrow. If it is for the sake of civil strife among the Japanese, the Ming Dynasty will increase expenses and strengthen coastal defense, so isn't that giving the Japanese people a long face?"

Ah.

The ministers are a little impressed by Sun Jiao, and you are very completely opposed.

The emperor has already started to pretend, but listening to the meaning of your words, it seems that you are pouring cold water on the emperor, and the meaning of this singing double reed has been reduced a lot.

Zhu Si turned to look at Yang Tinghe: "Elder Yang Ge, I want to hear your opinion."

When the monarch and ministers had a disagreement and their opinions were deadlocked, Zhu Si naturally wanted to find the first assistant of the cabinet to support him.

I helped you in the previous trial fraud case, and now that someone has come out to question me, you should help me, right?

Yang Tinghe had no choice but to come out at this time, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that there is no need to bother. Since last year

There is a gap of tens of thousands of taels in coastal defense, and if it is filled, if it is increased for no reason, I am afraid that it will ...... In order to tighten the budgets of various parts of the government treasury, there is still some leeway to prevent natural and man-made disasters from happening in various places this year."

Little children don't know how to be thrifty.

When you become a family, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are.

If you have a little surplus, you have to throw money at the southeast coastal defense?

Also 300,000 taels?

Allocate a maximum of 100,000 taels to the past, and the problem will be solved, leaving 250,000 taels to be saved for repairing the great rivers and the northwest, or for disaster relief after natural and man-made disasters occur in the local area.

Has Your Majesty forgotten last winter when the northwest was tight, when all parties struggled for money and food?

Although the southeast coastal defense does need silver, and it is right to prevent troubles before they happen, but now the imperial court only has a little surplus, and as a result, it began to spend a lot of money, which is not knowing how to be diligent and thrifty.

Zhu Si sighed helplessly and said, "I originally wanted to prevent something big from happening in the southeast...... If you think that I am making something out of nothing, and I am vainly allowing the court to increase unnecessary expenses, then I should not have mentioned it. However, it still needs to be transferred, and as for how much to transfer, it will be left to the household department to redraw the plan."

Speaking of which, Zhu Si was a little disgraced.

Sun Jiao looked confused.

I came out to persuade me, just as a matter of routine, or to find myself a sense of existence.

Just persuaded the emperor like this?

It's not like the emperor's style. In the past, shouldn't he blow his beard and stare at him, and fight to the end with the ministers present? What's going on?

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Zhu Si said that he wanted to compromise, and he really compromised.

Really handed over the matter to Sun Jiao to redraw it, and see if it was appropriate to allocate 50,000 taels or 100,000 taels...... In short, there will be no large expenses, but small fills still have to be given, so that Sun Jiao has a certain self-esteem, and at the same time, it also makes people feel that Sun Jiao is a competent minister, and he can be heart-to-heart with the Wenchen led by Yang Tinghe.

When Sun Jiao walked out of the Fengtian Palace, he hadn't come back to his senses.

Why was the emperor persuaded by me?

Shouldn't I come out and speak?

Let Your Majesty feel that even I, a neutral minister who has always been devoted to him, are vehemently opposed in such matters, and that Your Majesty feels that it is because of the anger of the people, that I have lost my way?

Didn't I indirectly help Yang Jiefu?

Sun Jiao found that the gazes cast around him softened a lot.

It seems that everyone treats him as their own, and all of a sudden, Sun Jiao's status in the minds of his colleagues has changed from ignoring dogs to heartthrobs.