When he went out, Wang Chengen had already transferred the carriage from the palace.

But Chongzhen did not take the carriage, but found two eunuchs to sit on the carriage, and he and Zhu Cijiong wore phoenix-winged helmets with visor armor, and openly mingled among the accompanying Yiding.

The safety strings in Chongzhen's mind have always been tight.

The reason is also very simple, because what he is doing now has touched the fundamental interests of too many people, so there are many people who want to kill him now.

Jiannu must have wished he had died early.

The clan vassal king must have hated him too, gritting his teeth with hatred.

The lords of Qianguo, Wei and Baoguo don't need to say much.

Even those Taoist gentlemen are estimated to hate him to the bone now, because he Chongzhen wants to reform Confucian etiquette and prohibit folk foot binding, which touches the scales of these Taoist gentlemen.

Mr. Daoxue's stubbornness is absolutely beyond imagination.

Therefore, personal security work should not be taken lightly.

When the group came to the East Palace, the crown prince Zhu Cihong was not at home.

Chongzhen did not enter the palace of the crown princess in order to avoid suspicion, but asked the crown princess to carry the eldest grandson to the hall.

The little baby's little face of the two-month-old has begun to grow, and a pair of big black eyes are staring at Chongzhen tightly, Chongzhen actually has also experienced first-class blood and family affection, which should be the memory of this body.

Zhu Cijiong also leaned over and said with a smile: "He really looks like his eldest brother." ”

Chongzhen smiled and said, "Jiong'er, you will be seventeen years old when the year turns." ”

"Father, my son doesn't want to marry so soon." Zhu Cijiong hurriedly said, "Erchen wants to learn from Huo Quai, Huo Qubing said that the Huns have not been destroyed, why should the family be, Erchen must wait until Jiannu is destroyed before marrying." ”

"Okay, then it's up to you." Chongzhen didn't mean to force his son at all.

When the father and son were teasing Zhu Heyi, Zhu Cihong finally walked in briskly from outside.

"The son-in-law is late, and he hopes that his father will forgive his sins." When Zhu Cihong came in, he knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty to Chongzhen.

"Get up." Chongzhen handed Zhu Hezhen into Zhu Cijiong's hand, sat down and asked, "You just returned to Beijing from other places?" ”

"Yes, Erchen went to Songjiang Mansion." Zhu Cihong stood up and explained, "There was a grain shortage in Songjiang Prefecture, and the people were dissatisfied with the repeated price increases of grain stores, and they gathered crowds to make trouble and smashed and looted. ”

"Erchen is worried that the situation in Songjiang Mansion will get out of control."

"So I followed Kim Hyun to Songjiang Mansion."

"There is actually a food shortage in Songjiang Prefecture?" Chongzhen instantly sniffed out the abnormality.

"How can there be a food shortage in Songjiang Prefecture?" Zhu Cijiong was stunned and said, "I'm afraid there is a famous hall here, right?" ”

"The third brother is in one word." Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "Erchen went to Songjiang Mansion this time to find out about it, and found that cotton fields are planted in about 1.6 million mu, accounting for about 30% of the total farmland in Songjiang Mansion. ”

"In other words, there are still about 3 million acres of rice grown on farmland in Songjiang Province."

"This year's annual situation is acceptable, calculated at two stones per mu, six million stones of rice can be harvested."

"Six million stone rice is enough to feed two million people in Songjiang Province, and there will be no food shortage."

After saying this, he added: "So this matter is definitely caused by man-made, and someone is maliciously hoarding food!" ”

Zhu Cijiong said with a dark face: "Father, maybe it's those clan vassal kings and gentry who are doing something. ”

"Jiong'er, be confident, these people must be stirring up the wind and rain." Chongzhen's eyes cooled and said, "I guess they think that the opportunity has appeared, so they can't help jumping out." ”

"Father, speaking of which, there is something wrong with public opinion in Beijing recently." Zhu Cihong said angrily, "Those imperial historians are all like crazy and scolded them, because this retainer has quarreled with them many times, and once he even made a move, and the retainer broke Li Huicao's brain. ”

"Big brother, good fight." Zhu Cijiong praised the festival, "This dog thing should be beaten." ”

"Nonsense." Chongzhen reprimanded, "You are the crown prince, the prince of the country, how can you go to fight with civil officials." ”

"Father, you don't know how excessive Li Huicao's house is." Zhu Cihong said, "Looking at his rebellious words, if the son can still bear it, it will be in vain for the son of man." ”

"It's nothing more than eight counts, it's not a big deal." Chongzhen said abruptly, "He might as well be Zuo Guangxian." ”

"Father, have you already seen Li Huicao's recital?" Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Father, Li Huicao is actually using the topic to play, what they are really dissatisfied with is the authority of the prince of Qin and the huge impact of the Guozi supervision examination on the imperial court's talent ceremony, which is what they are most dissatisfied with these civil officials, Lu Ge Lao is also quite complaining about this matter, but Zhang Ge Lao is quite supportive. ”

"Yes, my father knows." Chongzhen bowed his head happily.

Obviously, Zhu Cihong has really the ability to think independently.

Although he has been surrounded by civilian officials all the time in the past year, he has not been misled by civilian officials.

Zhu Cihong even learned to forbear, learned to cultivate obscurity, for example, the civil official group asked him to move back to the East Palace from the Kang family courtyard, he did not be tough with the civil official group, but chose to compromise.

When Zhu Cihong wanted to continue to speak, he was stopped by Chongzhen.

"Okay, Hong'er, don't talk about it." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Let's go back to the country." ”

In Nanjing, only Guozijian is the basic power of the imperial party, and only Guozijian does not have to worry about being monitored, otherwise you will never know whether the wall will have a civil official's ear.

At present, the father and son came to the Guozijian surrounded by Wang Chengen, Gao Qiqian, Hu Guozhu and others.

At this time, Ma Mingluo, the head of the Internal Affairs Office, and all the people in Nanjing had already gathered in the Guozi Prison, and were waiting for Chongzhen to summon them in the Yilun Hall.

Ma Mingluo finally removed the subcharacter.

Now he is the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Seeing Chongzhen's father and son walking in, Ma Mingluo and others got up one after another.

"Alright." Then before Ma Mingluo and the others could bow down, they were stopped by Chongzhen, and then said, "You all know how much I hate those red tape mattresses, so don't fix those bad habits of kneeling and worshipping anymore." ”

Ma Mingluo smiled and said, "Holy Lord, the ministers just want to make a difference. ”

After speaking, Ma Mingluo led all the scholars to the ground: "The ministers knock to see the saint." ”

"Let's be flat." Chongzhen walked to the Taishi chair in the hall and sat down, Gao Qiqian quickly brought a brocade cushion and put it on Chongzhen's back, Chongzhen adjusted his sitting posture to make himself as comfortable as possible, and asked, "Ma Qing, the demon wind in Nanjing City has been quite strong recently, you haven't been affected by anything, right?" ”

"How can the Internal Affairs Office be influenced by those corrupt people." Ma Mingluo shook his head and said, "However, it is not a matter to let these corrupt Confucian officials in Beijing, as well as the clan kings and lords who have lost power, mix together for a long time, the saint, or the ministers will summon the princes of Qin to liquidate these people?" ”

"Hey, the energy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs shouldn't be wasted on this kind of." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "At present, the most important work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is to prepare for the Northern Expedition, especially the preparation of silver, grain and grass, and weapons and equipment. ”

There are priorities and priorities, and there are priorities and contradictions.

Chongzhen will not lose a big one because of a small one, and ignore external enemies because of internal strife.

In addition, the contradictions between the internal affairs government and the civilian clique have not reached the point of incompatibility.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the civil official group is only fueling the troubles, and the real demons are still those clan vassal kings and nobles.

Ruan Dacheng was still a little angry and said: "These people have insulted the saint too much, and the ministers think that they cannot be spared, and let them continue to secretly connect, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not cause trouble, and the rice shortage in Songjiang Mansion may have been done by these people." ”

Yuan Haigong still has some nature that is difficult to change, and this is the old problem of being keen on political struggles has recurred.

However, Chongzhen did not reprimand Ruan Dacheng, in fact, people like Ruan Dacheng are not completely useless, such a person is a hunting dog if he uses it well, and he can bite the prey to death, but if the control ability is insufficient, it is the vicious dog that eats the master, it will not only bite the prey to death, but also bite the owner to death.

"Ruan Qing, this matter will be discussed separately." Chongzhen pressed Ruan Dacheng down, and then asked Ma Mingluo, "Ma Qing, tell me now, how much money has the Internal Affairs Office accumulated in the past year?" ”

"Holy Lord, the total assets on the books of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have increased to 300 million taels."

Ma Mingluo said without thinking: "The profit on the books has exceeded 50 million taels. ”

The figure that Ma Mingluo said has not yet taken into account the benefits that Chongzhen has gained from Yunnan.

"More than 50 million in profit?" It was also the first time that all of the people present heard this figure, and they were immediately very excited, not only for the financial abundance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also for the fact that this year all the scholars were able to share more dividends, according to 50 million, each scholar could get a share of 250 taels.

Ma Mingluo glanced at more than a dozen of them, and said with a wry smile: "I know what you guys are thinking, you want to share dividends, right?" Then I can only tell you with great regret that this year's dividends are gone. ”

"Ma Qing, what nonsense are you talking about." Chongzhen said, "How can there be no dividends? The big guys have been busy all year, and you can't just want the horses to run and not let the horses eat grass. ”

"Holy Lord, the minister doesn't want to deduct everyone's dividends, but he really can't get the silver." Ma Ming smiled bitterly, "Why did Chen deliberately emphasize the assets on the books and the profits on the books just now? Because this is really just a number on the books, in fact, the Ministry of Internal Affairs only has one million taels of silver left in the account of the Royal Silver. ”

"Where's the money? What about the silver? Huang Zongxi said in a deep voice, "Where did the silver go?" ”

Since Huang Zongxi became a member of the Supervision Department, everyone looks like a corrupt criminal, especially Ma Mingluo.

Ma Mingluo said angrily: "Huang Taichong, don't look at me like this, I'm not corrupt." ”

(End of chapter)