As the saying goes, there are people in the court who are easy to do, and even the emperor of Tianqi is no exception.

Since he showed in front of Wei Zhongxian last night that the emperor is difficult to be the emperor and does not want to be the emperor, there is no more impeachment of Li Banghua today, but there are more than a dozen copies of the music allocated money and cotton clothes to Jingying to help Jingying survive this harsh winter.

Moreover, it was initiated by the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry, and the vote of the cabinet was also passed, just waiting for the approval of the celebrant and supervisor, which is really efficient.

Tianqi pointed to these pieces and pretended not to know: "Wei Daban, why is it abnormal today, so many people have suggested that money, food, and cotton clothes be allocated to Jingying?" ”

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said: "Back to Long live, the slave maid felt the good intentions of Long Live last night, and went to Beijing with the officials of the six ministries early this morning to understand the situation. ”

"As far as we can see, the suffering in Beijing is far beyond our imagination, and it has reached the point where we have to allocate additional funds for relief. If there is delay, more innocent soldiers will be unable to survive this cruel winter. ”

"It was the slaves and maids who were negligent and did not find out earlier, if they could have allocated money, food and cotton clothes in advance, so many innocent people would not have died."

"The slave is guilty, please live the punishment."

With that, he immediately knelt down and wept out loud.

Tianqi stepped forward, helped him up, sighed and said: "Wei Daban is old, and he is entangled in many affairs, and it is inevitable that he will not be overlooked, and Daban does not need to blame himself." ”

Wei Zhongxian immediately said gratefully: "Long live Longen, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

And Tianqi was obviously a lot happier, and the matter of approving the red was directly handed over to the celebrant supervisor.

After Wei Zhongxian returned, he immediately asked people to give instructions, and decided that the Ministry of Household would allocate 200,000 taels of silver, 80,000 stone of grain, and 30,000 sets of cotton clothes from the Ministry of Industry.

The next day, the ministries immediately acted in accordance with the instructions and began to dispatch money, food, and cotton clothes.

Although the Beijing camp is close at hand, these things cannot escape the poisonous hands from the state funds to their hands, and they are plucked by geese.

There are less than 150,000 taels of silver left for 200,000 taels of silver, less than 63,000 stones of grain for 80,000 stones, and only about 22,000 sets of 30,000 sets of cotton clothes left.

This is still a lot, if it weren't for Wei Zhongxian's special explanation, half of it would have been good in Li Banghua's hands.

Even so, this entry was like a timely rain, which helped Li Banghua a lot, and he suddenly felt the emperor's grace, and vowed not to live up to the trust of Banzai and strive to put the Beijing camp in order.

He must have thought that this was all the will of Long Live and that it was impossible for the eunuchs to help him, and it would be good not to stumble.

The next day, Tianqi summoned Li Banghua into the palace and told him in person that he had ordered the palace to reduce the New Year's expenses, and would give him another 30,000 taels of silver, hoping that he would not live up to his hard work and strive to restore the former glory of the Beijing camp.

Hearing this, Li Banghua burst into tears on the spot, and he couldn't speak, so he could only keep thanking him.

"Long live, the old minister will not dare to live up to the hope of long live, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Because he knows very well that the cabinet, the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Division, the Hanlin Academy, the Six Sections, the Five Cities Terracotta Division, etc., and even the local governments and counties, are all over the eunuch party and its supporters, and he, a member of the three grades of the Donglin Party, can be said to stand out from the crowd.

If you slack off, you may be torn to pieces by them.

But today, at this moment, Li Banghua felt the huge power in his heart, he was not fighting alone, and behind him was the current saint.

Long live not only let the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry allocate so much money and cotton clothes to themselves in such a short period of time, but even saved the money in the palace to Jingying as much as possible.

If you don't do your best to do this errand well, how can you have the face to survive in the world?

After going back, Li Banghua was full of energy, first quickly sent out the cotton clothes, and then took out some silver money, and began to step up repairing the barracks, and bought some charcoal.

Coupled with the replenishment of food, the soldiers were able to eat enough, and the number of people who froze to death every day dropped sharply.

After basically solving this thorny matter, there were more problems waiting to be dealt with in the future, and Li Banghua immediately began to investigate the various problems existing in the Beijing camp.

First of all, it took him five days to repeatedly check three times before he basically confirmed that the current number of people in Beijing was about 137,000.

Although this number is not small, there are too many indiscriminate fillers, and there are too few that can be used.

Among them, less than 40 percent are young and strong under the age of 25, while more than half are old, weak, sick and disabled.

Because according to the convention, when there is a shortage of places in Beijing, it is allowed to increase the number of applications, and with the abolition of supervision, this is used by some well-intentioned people, and a large number of unqualified old and weak people are mixed in through bribery, and then they are ready to retire here.

Although the conditions in Jingying are not good, for those of them who have poor survival ability, they can at least barely survive and not starve to death.

With such quality and such a mentality, it is no wonder that the Beijing camp can have combat effectiveness.

Of course, they didn't think about fighting either, and anyway, Jingying didn't know how long it had been since they had fought a war.

This is only one of the problems, and there are also occupations, false impositions, etc., and so on.

The so-called occupation of labor means that soldiers are called by generals to serve in labor, and where the few plots of land and houses planted by their families need to be repaired, they can be asked to do it, not to mention wages, not even food, anyway, the Beijing camp will provide rations to soldiers every day.

In addition, in order to make friends with the powerful, these people will also drive a large number of soldiers under their command to these people, which can be regarded as an alternative bribe.

It is precisely because there are so many moths that the number of soldiers who are occupied is quite a lot, and when Li Banghua checked, he found that there were at least 7,000 people, and almost all of them were young and strong, after all, young and strong are better to use.

In fact, before he took office, Wei Zhongxian asked people to return a large number of people, otherwise this number would be one or two hundred thousand, which is terrible to think about.

For example, the full strength of a division is 448 people, but the actual number of people in the battalion may not even be half, but the roster shows that the personnel are all registered.

Where are those who see their names but not their ghosts? In the homes of those military leaders and magnates, of course.

They report the names of their domestic servants, relatives and others, and they can eat empty salaries on a per capita basis every month, so that they don't have to waste manpower, and they can get paid for nothing, and they have an extra fixed income while sitting still, so why not?

Li Banghua checked, and there were thousands of people who were fake, and this was Wei Zhongxian's erasure of a batch in advance, otherwise it would be tens of thousands.

In addition to occupying manpower and eating empty salaries, they will naturally not let go of the property of Jingying, the most valuable thing in Jingying is nearly 30,000 war horses, one is worth dozens of taels of silver.

So, with a little background and power, today this one will borrow a horse, tomorrow that one will borrow a horse, and if you borrow it, it will be a meat bun and a dog, and there will be no return.

Either keep it for yourself or sell it directly.

Therefore, the number of horses in Jingying has almost halved now, and only about 15,000 are left, and most of them are inferior miscellaneous horses, because the good horses are all picked up first.

Seeing all this, Li Banghua was so angry that his liver hurt, and he scolded the trouble of corruption, which was still very strong.