Lao Zhu said that he would supply the words of the entire Ming Dynasty with his own strength and suppressed all the officials.

At this moment, the thought that comes to the minds of most officials is whether they got up early today and did not wake up.

Otherwise, how could so many bizarre things happen in the court today?

After Ni Yuanlu was stunned for a moment, he looked at Lao Zhu with suspicious eyes.

Although the emperor's treasury is not open to the ministers, no one knows how much private money the emperor has.

But there are some things that can be known after a little calculation, plus what kind of life Chongzhen has been living all these years, and these ministers are also looking at it.

Therefore, Ni Yuanlu estimates that even if Chongzhen's inner library is the highest, it is already good to have tens of thousands of taels.

But now, Lao Zhu actually said that he had covered the expenses of the imperial court, where did he get so much money?

Could it be that Chongzhen is still a miser who is very hidden, so that these important ministers of the court are blind?

No, the people who can get into the center of power in the court are all human spirits, if you want to say that one person is blind, forget it, can't all of them be blind, right?

"Your Majesty, the expenditure of the treasury is not a small amount."

Ni Yuanlu, who was a little puzzled, said directly: "Just to fill the deficit in the treasury, it will take millions of taels of silver, and if you count the expenses, it may cost tens of millions of taels of silver." ”

"And it's only for a year, if it's like this every year......"

To be honest, Ni Yuanlu's words are already very conservative, because Daming has been poor for too long, so Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household, calculates the expenses with the bare minimum.

If it is open to military training and disaster relief, it will not be tens of millions of taels of silver, but at least tens of millions of taels of silver.

"A deficit of several million taels ......"

Lao Zhu pondered for a moment and then said, "The gap is indeed a bit bigger, but it shouldn't be a problem to fill it in." ”

"Wang Chengen, go back and count the silver taels in the inner treasury, send them to the household department first, make up for the previous deficit, and ...... if it is not enough."

When Lao Zhu said this, he glanced at the ministers with a somewhat dangerous look, and then said slowly: "Let's find a way." ”

The ministers standing below didn't know what Lao Zhu was thinking, but after being swept by Lao Zhu's scrutinizing gaze, they always felt a chill in their hearts.

For some reason, they always felt that Lao Zhu's eyes were like a butcher, looking at the pigs that had been fattened in his own home.

And Zhou Yanru was undoubtedly the person who understood Lao Zhu's thoughts the most when he saw Lao Zhu's dangerous eyes, but he didn't have the slightest sense of reminding these ministers of the upcoming tragic encounters in his heart, and even had some schadenfreude in his heart.

The sage Zeng Yun did not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, his family was almost blackmailed by Lao Zhu, how could he watch others be safe and sound.

Therefore, he looked at the eyes of these ministers, not only did not have the slightest worry, but was full of anticipation, as if he wanted to see these ministers unlucky immediately.

But fortunately, Lao Zhu knows the truth that he is too late, he has already killed so many people in the court, and there will be some danger of chaos in the court if he kills it again.

Now that the situation is unstable, it is better to stabilize it first, and wait until the officials are made up later.

In Lao Zhu's heart, these officials are like leeks, one stubble will have the next, just take your time.

"Ni Yuanlu, do you have any objections from the household department?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there is no objection from the household department."

Ni Yuanlu shook his head, the emperor said that the money that the imperial court lacked came from the inner treasury, and the taxes that could be collected by the Liao salary and the training salary together were not as much as the silver from the old Zhu Neiku, so what else did he have to object.

Although it is absurd to support a country with his own wealth, since it has happened, he is not unacceptable.

And the most important thing is that Ni Yuanlu suddenly thought just now that Zhou Kui, the national abbot, and those officials who were killed yesterday, after being killed, their mansions seemed to be guarded by Jinyi Guard, and it seemed that they were going to raid their homes.

In addition, Lao Zhu just said that let Wang Chengen count the number of silver taels in the inner treasury, which shows that this money is definitely not from the inner treasury, otherwise Wang Chengen will definitely not even know how much money there is in the inner treasury.

Therefore, after combining these circumstances, the answer is about to come out.

The emperor's wave is obviously robbing the rich and helping the poor.

robbing the officials' money to bail out the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, which has bottomed out, is somewhat inappropriate from a legal point of view, but it is very effective.

Although Ni Yuanlu felt that this matter was not very appropriate, that he was mutilating these officials and trampling on the dignity of officials, but he thought about the poor treasury, and then thought about what Lao Zhu just said that he would give this money to the household department and fill the deficit in the treasury, Ni Yuanlu could only accept the millions of taels with tears.

After all, if you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are.

If it was left a few days ago, Ni Yuanlu would definitely not just forget it, the officials broke the law, the free court punished them legally, and directly raided the house, it was too brutal, whether it was for the emperor's reputation or for the dignity of the officials, he had to fight with the emperor.

But since Lao Zhu mentioned the Hubu Shangshu some time ago, Ni Yuanlu found that the imperial court was really poor!

！

Before the court discussion, every time the household department needed money, the household department directly said that there was no money, and when he heard this, if he didn't care about his identity, Ni Yuanlu would definitely jump up and scold the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the household department.

Every time I ask you for money, you don't have any money, so what do you need to do with these wine bags and rice bags in your household? It's better to cut it all.

However, after he took over the household department, he found out that the household department was not crying poor, but really had no money.

Daming was stormy and needed money everywhere, Ni Yuanlu took people to calculate the accounts for a whole day, and wanted to see if he could save some unimportant places and save a little expense for the imperial court.

After the results were calculated, not only did not save a penny, but also picked up several expenses that were rejected by the original household department, and there were several more out of thin air.

So these days, for the expenses of the household department, Ni Yuanlu, who is not yet fifty years old, almost turned his hair white.

Therefore, Ni Yuanlu didn't care about the dignity of any officials at this time, after guessing how Lao Zhu raised money, he even hated to let Lao Zhu copy a little more corrupt officials' homes, so as to make up for all of Daming's expenses today.

And after the household department, which needed the money the most, said that it had no objections, the rest of the officials could not say anything.

After all, this matter was mentioned by the first assistant, and the emperor also strongly supported it, and now the household department has no opinion, and whether they agree or disagree has no impact on the overall situation, so this matter will naturally be passed.

The two major events arranged by Lao Zhu were carried out without hindrance.

Although the banning of tax inspectors and two salaries is definitely the happiest of those country gentry, it can also give the overwhelmed people some respite.

As for the rest of the accounts, Lao Zhu will slowly calculate them for them, and he is not in a hurry now.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Zhu Chunchen and Xu Yunzhen and other nobles originally wanted to discuss with the officials they had befriended in the past how to solve Li Guozhen's affairs.

Only to find that the officials were hiding from them as if they were hiding from the plague.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this time the emperor is determined to clean up these nobles, and now he is still getting up, isn't he looking for death.

Looking at these colleagues who regarded themselves and others as like beasts, Zhu Chunchen and the others were full of bitterness in their hearts, and they only felt that the officialdom was warm and cold for a while, which was vividly reflected at this time.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that Li Guozhen's arrest was just the beginning, and before even a day had passed, Dongchang took the evidence from Li Guozhen's interrogation and began to arrest Xungui on a large scale, and even the two of them failed to escape.

In addition to the officialdom, the management class of Jingying and Jinyiwei has also been replaced, and those officials who are subordinate to the nobles, only those who have bad deeds have been tried, and basically all of them have been taken down.

These nobles who have been rich and noble with the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and now with the arrival of Lao Zhu, their wealth is basically over.

Li Guozhen was robbed of his family and died directly in prison, Tang Guozuo was beheaded and his family was confiscated, and his son was sent to the battlefield of Guanning.

As for Zhu Chunchen and Xu Yunzhen, because there was still one in Nanjing, they were killed and their families were copied, but the title was not taken away, but the lord of the same clan in Nanjing inherited it.

After all, the situation in the Ming Dynasty is not good now, and the Xungui is deeply rooted in Nanjing and is not very moving, so after the capital cleaned up the Xungui in the capital, Lao Zhu did not continue to act against the Xungui in Nanjing, but issued an edict to apply for it unceremoniously.

Although this will is to reprimand the nobles of Nanjing, in many cases, the reprimand also means that there is nothing to do.

So with this holy decree, although the nobles in Nanjing were a little frightened, after observing for a while, they found that Lao Zhu really did not mean to be connected, and they were temporarily appeased.

Of course, this kind of appeasement is only superficial, and no one knows what these nobles think in secret, and Lao Zhu doesn't care at all.

After the absence of these nobles, the rectification of the Beijing camp became much easier, and because the money given by Lao Zhu was enough, Li Banghua directly expanded the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp after asking for instructions, so that the number of soldiers in the Beijing camp reached 100,000 for the first time in these years.

The most important thing is that these 100,000 troops are all young and strong people who have been strictly screened by Li Banghua, and after training, they will definitely be able to have not weak combat effectiveness.

Before the Beijing camp formed a combat effectiveness, Lao Zhu did not continue to make any big moves, but only promoted some officials from time to time, and the rest did not move much for the time being.

It's just that although he didn't do anything, but because of his attitude tendency, and the first assistant Zhou Yanru has completely fallen to him, so there are rare signs of peace in the court, and many people with lofty ideals have taken advantage of this time to emerge one after another, and for a while, the Ming Dynasty Hall looks quite prosperous.

Just when the capital fell into peace, Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian who Lao Zhu had ordered to summon from the beginning, finally arrived in the capital.

Zheng Zhilong is definitely a legend, he started to be a pirate from scratch, after part of the inheritance of his father-in-law, the pirate merchant Li Dan, it happened that Zheng Zhilong began to rise officially, united a large number of pirates, known as Eighteen Zhi, and then almost wiped out all the pirates who did not obey their orders on the sea, and dominated the sea.

It's just that at that time, the strongest maritime power was the Dutch East India Company, and they were backed by the official power of the Netherlands, which was not comparable to Zheng Zhilong at all.

So at that time, although Zheng Zhilong was the strongest pirate, he was basically doing something like a little brother to the Dutch.

However, when Zheng Zhilong's strength swelled to compete with the Dutch, he did not hesitate to abandon the Dutch, who had already begun to be a little jealous of him, and turned his head to accept Chongzhen's recruitment.

After that, Zheng Zhilong had a major war with the East India Company, and the final result was that the East India Company, the overlord of the sea, was overturned, and Zheng Zhilong officially became the strongest maritime hegemon in the South China Sea.

And now this sea overlord looks a little apprehensive.

He stayed well in Fujian, but for some reason he was suddenly summoned by the emperor.

To be honest, as a native of the Ming Dynasty, although he is already a powerful overlord of the sea, he is still very in awe of the emperor in his heart.

To tell the truth, when he heard the summons, he hesitated for a long time in his heart, and even thought about whether to resist the decree and disrespect it, so he didn't come directly.

After all, now that Daming is in turmoil, there must be nothing good for him to come at this time, either because he has a fancy for his forces and wants him to contribute, or because he has a fancy for his money and wants him to contribute.

But Zheng Zhilong didn't really want to give these two things, after all, this emperor was not a hero, and Zheng Zhilong really couldn't trust him.

And with his power at sea, if he doesn't obey the order, even if there are any serious consequences, it's a big deal that he shouldn't be the chief soldier, and then go back to the sea, anyway, with the sea power of the imperial court, he can't help him.

It's just that piracy is a high-risk industry after all, and he is the king of pirates, yes, he can be invincible at sea without any opponents.

But what about when his strength weakens? Or after he dies and his heirs take over his power, can he still guarantee that he will be so strong?

If his forces can't deter other forces at that time, if there is any accident, then no one in his clan will survive.

In fact, to put it bluntly, being a pirate at sea is a rootless duckweed, and there is a danger of capsizing at any time.

It is precisely because of this that he tried his best to accept the recruitment of the imperial court, and finally got into the position of the general soldier of Fujian, if you let him give up now, how can he be reluctant.

Therefore, after hesitating for a long time, he finally decided to come to Jingmian Sheng.

Even if the worst situation really happens at that time, his eldest son Zheng Sen (Zheng Chenggong) is already an adult, and with the help of his brothers, there will be no problem.

And now that he is the chief soldier of Fujian, how can he be regarded as a member of the imperial court, if the emperor's request is too much, even if he refuses, he can't kill himself, right?