Shenjing, a light rain has been falling for five days, the weather has cooled after the autumn rain, the whole Shenjing City is immersed in a trace of early autumn chill, there are few pedestrians on the street, and the occasional ones are also in a hurry.

Since five days ago, the official recovery of the treasury arrears, Shenjing City has not stopped, originally thought that the emperor would not recover the arrears of officials below the fifth grade will be much easier, after all, these officials are numerous, but the king of Shu, the king of Liang and the officials of the household department are against the account books in total, and the arrears that need to be recovered are as high as more than 11 million taels.

That is to say, nearly 1,000 officials below the fifth grade in Manshenjing only borrowed less than two million taels from the household department, which is still accumulated over the years, and they divided these officials into three categories according to the amount of arrears, the first category is the prince of the clan and the noble and high-ranking officials, they borrow the most, each family is tens of thousands of taels to hundreds of thousands of taels, the second category is the number of borrowings of more than 500 taels, less than 10,000 taels of officials, and the last category is the officials who are living in poverty below 500 taels. I had to borrow money from the household department as a last resort.

Emperor Tianyou's abacus played well, but unfortunately he didn't get his wish, or rather, he overestimated these officials, originally thought that they would willingly pay back the silver owed for the sake of the King of Shu or King Liang who they supported, but they didn't think about it, today is already August 25, except for the first day of a part of the nobles and the senior officials of the six ministries and nine Qing to repay the arrears, so far no official has taken the initiative to repay the money, one to see the other, are waiting.

In the lobby of the household department, Jia Jue sat quietly on the side drinking tea, and looked up from time to time to look at the gloomy King of Shu and King Liang's brothers, who were the emperor's own sons, and I didn't know if they were distressed, or didn't want the two of them to deepen their grievances because of the recovery of the arrears, and the will was changed to the two of them to complete this errand together.

At present, it seems that the honorable nobles have been strong, and they have successively returned nearly three million taels of silver, while the civil official group has only returned less than 700,000 taels so far, not that the honorable nobles have borrowed much more than the civil official group, on the contrary, the real arrears are the civil official group, then the clan, and finally the nobles.

Song Qian, the head of the household, flipped through the account book and said to the Shu King and Liang Wang who were sitting in the hall: "The two princes, it is already the twenty-fifth day today, although the errand assigned by His Majesty has been completed, but if you wait like this, next month's errand will definitely not be completed, you have to think of a way." ”

In the lobby of the household department, all the officials were silent.

Zhu Wucheng, the king of Liang, coughed, "As the saying goes, 'borrowing money is easy to borrow and difficult to repay', but what they borrowed is the treasury silver, what is the treasury money used for, everyone sitting here knows that in the first half of the year, all provinces have reported disasters, fortunately, there are new tax silver, and now there are four months before the end of the year, and there are seven months before the tax silver is sent to Beijing. What if there is another war in the north?

There are only two or three million taels of silver left in the treasury, and for this debt, the emperor is so worried that he can't even sleep well. It's not difficult to borrow well and borrow again', in line with the principle of self-consciousness, the royal brother and the king are not willing to be this wicked person, and they are not willing to hurt the dignity of the court, as a courtier, they should share the worries of the king and take responsibility for the country, but anyone who has a little conscience should come to return the money, at least they should also say, when can they pay it back, why can't they pay it back, but now, in addition to the nobles who have repaid the silver gang and the king to complete the errand assigned by the father, only six departments and nine qing have paid off the arrears, amount, by the way, several elders of the Guozijian have also repaid the arrears, and the rest is silent。 ”

Speaking of which, the case will be shot a few times, "There is no filial piety, today this king will say ugly things in front, five days, five days later, don't come to explain the situation, raid the house!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at Jia Jue, "General Jia?" ”

Jia Jue put down the tea bowl in his hand and glanced at the officials in the hall, "You can spread the word, today is His Royal Highness King Liang's grace, otherwise, according to the cabinet's plan, the officials who owe money should be notified in the past two days to sell the house and pawn the property." ”

There was a commotion among the officials of the household department, and they all whispered and discussed.

Zhu Wuxiang, the king of Shu, changed his face immediately, and glanced at Jia Jue hatefully.

Jia Jue slowly stood up and said, "There is still something to do in the military department, and the general will leave first!" ”

As he spoke, he bowed to the brothers King Shu and King Liang, "Ming'er has something to do with the official's family, so I will ask for a leave here first." ”

Zhu Wucheng pretended to be surprised, "Oops, I almost forgot, King Ming'er will let Changshi bring He Yi to the door." ”

Zhu Wuxiang stood up, "Tomorrow, this king will also have a congratulatory gift." ”

With that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

Everyone looked at each other.

Coming out of the household department, Jia Jue went straight to the military department, and happened to meet Xie Qiong, the hereditary first-class son of the Marquis of Dingcheng, who came to discuss the matter, Jia Jue stepped forward and said with a smile: "Uncle Xie, do you remember me?" ”

"Hahaha..."

Xie Qiong smiled heartily, reached out and patted Jia Jue's shoulder, "Last time I had an errand and couldn't come to the door to congratulate you in person, don't hold a grudge." ”

"Uncle Xie laughed, they are all his own people."

"Hahaha, that's right, Ming'er, you have to prepare the wine...."

Before he could say a word, a majestic voice came from behind him, "Where is the good wine, and don't tell me a word?" ”

The two looked back, but the person who came was Shi Nai, the Marquis of Baoling, Jia Jue hurriedly greeted him, and arched his hand: "Uncle Cousin." ”

Shi Nai just came back from Liaodong, he has been dealing with dishonest Jurchens in Liaodong for more than a year, I heard that a lot of people have been killed, and I don't know if there is no ancestor of the old slave among them, Shi Nai looked at Jia Jue carefully, and saw that he has become more mature and calm than before, with a gentle smile in his eyes, "In the first half of the year, I saw the news of your promotion from the newspaper of the Ministry of War, and I couldn't believe it at the time, but now I see you yourself, well, it is the kind of our general, stronger than your Lao Tzu." ”

Hearing him mention Jia Yu, Jia Jue shook his head and smiled bitterly, "The master also mentioned his cousin a few days ago, saying that he would wait for you to come back and have a good reunion between the two families." ”

Hearing this, Shi Nai's eyes lit up, and he heard Xie Qiong say: "Ming'er has time, and today is discussing the military, so don't delay the hour." ”

Shi Nai said angrily: "What is there to discuss? What has been the final word of our grandfather over the years? It's not all the Cabinet people..."

"Uncle Cousin!"

Jia Jue hurriedly coughed.

Shi Nai was suddenly shocked, looked around carefully, and said helplessly: "His grandmother's is not as refreshing as staying in Liaodong." ”

After saying that, he walked in quickly.

After a while, the three of them walked into the lobby of the military department, Niu Jizong and the others had been waiting for a while, looking at the three people who came in, they said angrily: "Find a place to sit down by yourself, and announce one thing today." ”

Jia Jue looked at Shi Nai suspiciously, didn't he say that he was talking about the matter, how did he announce the matter?

Shi Nai leaned over and whispered: "Because of the Hetao fiasco back then, many rights of the military department were deprived, and the cabinet was in charge of major matters, unless His Majesty intervened. ”

Jia Jue was blindfolded, what is going on, it seems to be a little different from his memory, is it a deviation in memory, or is it a butterfly effect?

Niu Jizong glared at the two of them, took the fold beside him and unfolded it, and said: "Your Majesty's will, the Beijing camp will be abolished, another twelve regiments and battalions will be set up, and the Imperial Forest Army will be formed, with 5,000 men and horses in each battalion, in addition, there are two car battalions and Jia Jue's Ruishi battalion, totaling more than 78,000 people. ”

Speaking of this, Niu Jizong smiled secretly, "The Royal Forest Army, like the Forbidden Army, is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Cabinet and the Ministry of War, and only accepts His Majesty's will. ”

"Really?!"

Xie Qiong stood up excitedly.

The generals looked at each other one by one.

Niu Jizong smiled slightly, "Really, and the twelve camp masters will be personally selected by His Majesty, and you can go back to the fold." ”

Shi Nai: "I don't know what the selection criteria are?" ”

For this question, Niu Jizong already had a case in his heart, and he smiled slightly: "The Royal Forest Army, like the Forbidden Army, is His Majesty's private army, what kind of standard it should be, I think you know it in your hearts." If there is anything unclear, you can compare it with the Sharp Battalion. ”

As soon as these words came out, the generals were in a commotion and whispered about it.

Niu Jizong coughed, "Okay, there's nothing else to do, let's disperse." ”

Speaking of which, I thought of the incident again, "If you can pay back the money, hurry up and pay it back!" Don't make everyone unhappy, and finally lose face and don't say anything, if you lose your position, the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Before a word was spoken, there was an uproar in the hall, and the generals looked at Niu Jizong dumbfounded, some people bowed their heads and were silent, and some people flashed a fierce color in their eyes....