"Come, let's see the new bed that Dad made for your brother and sister......

On February 13 of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, when the Tianxia Guard was renovated and the soldiers and horses were adjusted, Zhu Youxiao, who was the emperor, was in the imperial garden, coaxing two children.

It was the spring season, and in the flower pavilion of the Imperial Garden, Zhu Youxiao was sitting on the side, with Zhang Yan and Concubine Hui beside him.

In front of the three of them, there were two cribs, and in the beds lay two babies, a man and a woman.

Next to the crib, there are two new, slightly larger beds.

The shaker made of yellow rosewood, I have to say that except for Zhu Youxiao, no one in the inner court has this courage.

However, even the huanghuali that is hard to buy is just an ordinary wood for him to restore his craft in his spare time.

Shaking the rattle in his hand, Zhu Youxiao said with a smile:

"It's a pity that my younger brother is busy with official business, and there is some chaos in the capital, otherwise it is estimated that my younger brother will be very happy to see Ran'er and Shu'e."

Zhu Youxiao spoke, but no one dared to answer, and he didn't care, just looked at his own blood and bones, Zhu Ciran and Zhu Shu'e.

After a long time, a person came from the corner at the end of the long road of the Flower Pavilion in the Imperial Garden, and this person was Wei Zhongxian, who was stirring up the wind and rain in the capital right now.

Behind him, followed by the graceful Hakka, the two of them walked towards the flower pavilion one after the other, and then saluted one after another:

"Long live, Your Highness, Concubine Hui......"

"Huh? Kebaba and Otomo are here? Come on in. Zhu Youxiao glanced at it and continued to tease Zhu Ciran, while the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian also went to the flower pavilion.

It's just that when they arrived, a trace of displeasure flashed on Queen Zhang Yan's face, and she didn't seem to like Zhu Youxiao getting close to these two people.

This look naturally couldn't escape the attention of the Ke family and Wei Zhongxian, but the two of them hid it very well, and they didn't let Zhu Youxiao notice it.

"How's going on in Kyochu? Was the construction of the Qi Palace's built according to my drawings? ”

Zhu Youxiao shook the rattle and questioned Wei Zhongxian, but Wei Zhongxian said with a sad face:

"Long live, the construction of the Qi Wangfu was stuck by the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry said that the Qi Wangfu drawn by Long Live is too big, and the regulations have been exceeded."

Wei Zhongxian's words made Zhu Youxiao frown slightly.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations, the circumference of the Ming Dynasty Prince's Mansion was three miles, three hundred and nine steps, and five minutes.

The height of the city is two zhang and nine feet, the lower width is six zhang, the upper width is two zhang, the east and west are one hundred and fifty zhang and two inches and two minutes, and the north and south are one hundred and ninety-seven zhang and two inches and five minutes, and there are almost 500 acres after conversion.

However, Zhu Youxiao felt that such regulations were obviously not worthy of his younger brother, and coupled with the increase in the population of the capital, Zhu Youxiao specially ordered Wei Zhongxian to build a new city in the north of Dongbianmen.

The regulation of the palace of the king of Qi is that the city is three zhang high, seven zhang wide at the bottom, and three zhang wide at the top, with a circumference of six miles, close to 800 acres.

In addition to the Qi Palace, the new city can also accommodate more than 100,000 people, so the construction of the new city is the place where Zhu Youxiao will see this year and ask for completion.

However, Wei Zhongxian's words suddenly made Zhu Youxiao unhappy.

"The Yellow River has broken several times, so transfer Wang Shunding to the south to govern the Yellow River."

As soon as Zhu Youxiao spoke, Wang Shunding, who had only been in office for three months, was transferred out of the capital, and Zhu Youxiao did not say the ownership of the new Ministry of Industry, which made Wei Zhongxian's eyes shine.

"Slave and maid order ......" Wei Zhongxian first responded, and then said:

"Long live, recently, there have been many impeachments of the king of Qi by hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China, and the scale is so large that it is definitely not the power of the Donglin party, you see ......"

"Leave them alone for ...... time being," Zhu Youxiao replied absentmindedly, and such an answer made Wei Zhongxian a little disappointed.

Since Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian inspected the Yellow River in the first month of this year and punished hundreds of officials and returned to Beijing, Yang Lian has been eyeing Wei Zhongxian like a mad dog.

For Wei Zhongxian, Yang Lian wrote "Wei Rebellion and Disaster to the Country" and openly impeached the rising eunuchs, which made Wei Zhongxian itch with hatred.

He wanted to clean up Yang Lian, but the relationship between King Qi and Yang Lian was unclear, and no one knew if Yang Lian was helping King Qi with Donglin's signboard.

If he really cleaned up Yang Lian and offended King Qi, it would be a bit more than worth the loss.

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian still hopes to use the emperor's majesty to make Yang Lian more honest.

However, from Yang Lian's return to Beijing in the first month to the present, Zhu Youxiao has turned a blind eye to the impeachment of the Donglin Party, and not only that, but Donglin has not lost ground at all.

However, Zhu Guozuo, Shen Yan, Qi Shijiao, Tang Binyin, Gu Tianjun and other party leaders were very uncomfortable.

Zhu Xieyuan was directly promoted by Zhu Youxiao to the secretary of the military department because of the rebellion against the rebellion of Lu'an, and Wang Xiangqian, the original secretary of the military department, took the initiative to resign in Layue last year and was approved by Zhu Youxiao.

Not only that, Bi Ziyan of Shanxi was transferred back to the capital by Zhu Youxiao to serve as the head of the household department, and Li Zongyan was transferred by him to Guangxi as a political envoy.

In addition, hundreds of Beijing officials, large and small, have been transferred or left out in the cold.

Among them, the Donglin Party as a speech official suffered the most, although Zhu Youxiao did not let Yang Lian enter the core position of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but dismissed Zou Yuanbiao, one of the backbones of Donglin.

At present, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is headed by Donglin's Zuo Guangdou and Li Kuilong of the eunuch party.

As for the interior of the ministry, Cui Chengxiu was transferred by Zhu Youxiao to the ministry's ministry as the left waiter, and fought with Zhao Nanxing in disguise.

Despite this, in addition to the loss of a large number of officials and imperial history, Donglin's real power has not suffered any substantial blows.

But looking at it carefully, Zhu Youxiao has successively installed eunuch party officials in the Donglin Powerful Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the way of checks and balances is very obvious.

This kind of method, for Zhao Nanxing, who has always played against Shen Shixing and Shen, can be seen clearly at a glance.

In the final analysis, Zhu Youxiao is still unwilling to get rid of the party ministers, after all, he needs the ministers to govern the government.

He has Zhu Youzhen in border affairs, but once the foreign dynasty drives away the party and civil ministers, the central turmoil is absolute.

He also knew Wei Zhongxian's thoughts, but he didn't debunk them, because although he couldn't get rid of the party ministers, it was necessary for them to be beaten.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao shook the rattle in his hand, and said to Wei Zhongxian without raising his head:

"Big companion, over there in the Qi Wangfu and the household department, as long as the younger brother allocates money and food, you will allocate it."

"The slave maid takes ......the order," Wei Zhongxian responded, and Zhu Youzhen continued to ask:

"How was the performance of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Six Divisions and Five Temples last year? Have you sorted it out? ”

"Long live Hui......" Wei Zhongxian said, while turning around and signaling the celebrant and eunuch outside the pavilion to bring the tray full of songs, and personally took it and knelt down in front of Zhu Youxiao, with a flattering face:

"It's already here."

"Hmm......" Zhu Youxiao nodded slightly, and then picked up the top volume.

[It is 13,974,391 accounts in the world, and 69,871,955 ......]

"Heh......" Looking at the performance of the six parts, Zhu Youxiao sneered suddenly, and then raised his head and said to Wei Zhongxian:

"What is the household and mouth of the imperial court in the previous year?"

"Long live back, last year, the household registration in the world is 9,835,426, and the mouth is 5,655,459."

Wei Zhongxian responded honestly, and Zhu Youxiao also said in a mocking tone:

"If a health center is renovated, or even completely renovated, nearly four million households have sprung up in the world, with more than 18 million people."

"I don't know how many ...... are there in this world."

After that, Zhu Youxiao didn't wait for Wei Zhongxian to say anything, lowered his head and continued to look at Song Shu:

[7,621,500 hectares of land, remaining 83 acres of strange ......]

"What is the number of acres in the previous year?" Zhu You didn't raise his head to ask, but Wei Zhongxian was prepared, and hurriedly replied:

"It should be more than 7,439,000 hectares, which is about 200,000 acres more than the previous year."

One hectare is 100 mu, and 200,000 is 20 million mu, which means that the number of acres in the Ming Dynasty in the third year of the Apocalypse is 20 million mu more than in the second year of the Apocalypse.

Why can there be so many acres? It is not because of the innovation of health centers in Henan, Shandong and other places in the north, plus the reconquest of lost territory in Liaodong.

According to the number of acres of Juntun fields in the Hongwu period, when the Qi Wangfu will renovate the acres of fields in the world, the number of acres of Daming fields will reach more than 7.8 million yuan, or even more.

Zhu Youxiao still did not show his joy or anger, and continued to check the recitals of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Six Ministries and Five Temples.

[Last year, 28,063,563 stone of rice was harvested, more than 6 million wheat was more than 82 stone and 6 buckets were strange, and more than 24,356,000 stone of seed grain was collected by the Imperial Horse Supervisor......]

Six departments and five temples, plus the imperial horse supervisor, the three years of the Apocalypse into more than 58.4 million stones.

This is the peak that the Ming Dynasty has not reached since the orthodox years, and it is worth at least 20 million taels of silver.

Zhu Youxiao continued to look down, and the six departments and five temples actually only collected more than 6 million taels of silver for other miscellaneous taxes such as salt classes, strange silk silk folding silk, and tea classes.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the Imperial Horse Supervisor in the third year of the Apocalypse, and the Imperial Shop alone earned more than 1.12 million taels of silver, 1.89 million yuan, a total of nearly 3 million taels.

That is to say, the Ming Dynasty in the third year of the Apocalypse has a total annual income of more than 9 million taels and more than 58 million stone rice and wheat.

This is not counting Zhu Youxiao's internal funds, if you count the internal funds, the annual income of silver can be increased to more than 13 million taels.

It's just a pity......

"At present, how much grain do they each have in Jingtong No. 2 Warehouse, Taicang, and Neifu?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian, and Wei Zhongxian also replied:

"Jingtong No. 2 warehouse stored more than 21 million stones of rice and wheat, six departments and five temples stored more than 3.9 million taels of silver, and there are still more than 4,274,000 taels of internal money."

"As for the Imperial Horse Supervisor's side, I heard that the First Battle of Fuliao has emptied the family wealth that the Imperial Horse Supervisor has accumulated for three years, I'm afraid there won't be much left ...... right now."

Wei Zhongxian understood that the emperor was preparing to transfer silver to the king of Qi, after all, at present, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies controls internal and external affairs, and nearly a million troops in the world are under the control of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the military salary will naturally be issued by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

Now the six departments and five temples do not need to pay military salaries, but in a few months, they have spent tens of millions of stones, rice and wheat, and more than two million taels of silver, how can the emperor rest assured that he will give them money and grain.

"Adjust 2 million taels of silver, 6 departments and 5 temples 3 million taels of silver to escort the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and then transfer 8 million stones of grain from Jingtong Ercang to escort them together."

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and sixty percent of the money and grain of the Ming Dynasty were transferred to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies......

"From now on, Taifu Temple belongs to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies."

Zhu Youxiao's words were amazing, and he directly transferred the Taifu Temple in the six departments and five temples to the five military governors' mansions for control.

Taifu Temple has more than 16 million acres of fields and pastures in its hands, and if it loses this financial resource, the ministers will react very strongly.

"Yes......" Wei Zhongxian ostensibly responded to the emperor's orders, but in his mind he was thinking about whether he could take advantage of this opportunity to do something.

After all, he got a lot of benefits from Yang Huan, and the benefits of this copying were so many that Wei Zhongxian was even a little addicted.

However, if you want to raid your home, you have to come up with some crimes.

"You have to make Banzai impatient with this group of guys...... Wei Zhongxian narrowed his eyes slightly, and Zhu Youxiao also waved his hand and said:

"Okay, you can step aside, just stay behind, you have to pay more attention to the affairs of the celebrant and the celebrant."

"Yes......" Wei Zhongxian immediately knelt down to thank him, and then left the imperial garden with the eunuch of the celebrant eunuch.

After he left, the Hakka family also began to smile at Zhu Youxiao:

"Long live, this baby is delicate, you have to recuperate in the palace, it's still early to go outside."

"Hmm...... To also. Zhu Youxiao also has weaknesses, and he still listens to the opinions of his nursing mother, Keshi, who has taken care of him since he was a child.

"Long live, the care of the prince and the princess, or let the concubines come in person."

Seeing that the Hakka family wanted to take care of her own flesh and blood, Zhang Yan instantly made different suggestions to Zhu Youxiao, and although Concubine Hui next to her did not dare to offend the Hakka family, she was also reluctant.

Seeing this, the Ke family was a little unhappy in his heart, but he still smiled kindly at Zhu Youxiao and said:

"Long live, the slave maid takes care of you to grow up, how the craftsmanship is, you know best, although Your Highness and Concubine Hui are mothers, they may not be skilled in slaves and maids."

"It's also ......" Zhu Youxiao thought about it, and it was true that compared with Zhang Yan and Zhang Yan, who had never taken care of the child, the Hakka family was more skilled in taking care of the child, so he persuaded Zhang Yan and said:

"Baozhu, Luluo, you and Kebaba take care of Ran'er and Shu'e together, just learn how to take care of children."

"This ......" Zhang Yan frowned slightly, a little reluctant, but she still nodded because of Zhu Youxiao's face, and as for Fan Huifei next to her, she didn't dare to say anything.

"......" looked at their deflated appearance, Ke sneered in his heart, but in the next second, he smiled and talked to Zhu Youxiao about other things.

It's just that while they were chatting about things, the atmosphere in the Wenhua Hall of the Outer Court was deadly.

A small Wenhua Hall was actually divided into nine opposing teams.

Donglin, King Qi, Eunuch Dang, and the former Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuankun......

These friends and township parties who are attached to different figures gather together, and often they need to waste half a day of talking and several days of talking about one thing to be implemented.

Such a situation of party contention has seriously dragged down the administrative speed of the Ming Dynasty.

As the first assistant of the cabinet, Ye Xianggao only felt that the current situation was more troublesome than the party dispute between Zhao Nanxing and the three parties of Zhejiang, Qi and Chu and Jingcha.

Once a three-legged situation is formed, neither side can eat the other.

But the current situation is much more troublesome than the three-legged tripod, Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, Xuankun are barely one faction, and the loosely organized Donglin is also barely one faction, while the Qi Wang Party and the eunuch party that are eye-to-eye with it are actually two factions.

The pattern of the Quartet competing for the deer must be added to other large and small township parties, as well as a large number of non-party officials.

In such a situation, let alone Ye Xianggao, he called Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong, and Yan Song, and it is estimated that these three people are also black.

The officialdom of Daming has never been so chaotic.

"Nanzhili Hubu Shangshu Li Changgeng Shangshu, on the tenth day of the first month of February, Yangzhou occurred the dragon turned over, Nanzhi should be Tianfu Su, Song, Feng, Si, Huai, Yang, except for the state and other places on the same day the dragon turned over, of which Yangzhou dumped more than 380 battlements of the city wall, more than 20 city shops, more than 3,000 dead and wounded."

In the apse of the Wenhua Hall and the main hall, Ye Xianggao had a headache and talked about the earthquake incident in Nanzhili, and none of the many cabinet ministers who heard the words spoke.

The only one who wanted to speak and stopped was Sun Chengzong.

But I don't know why, when the words came to his lips, he held back again.

Yang Lian, who was looking at this scene, snorted coldly, and immediately made the same mistake again, and impeached:

"The earth dragon turned over, and the local officials should adjust the regular liquidation for disaster relief, instead of asking the court to allocate money and grain."

"It is also difficult for Nanzhili, first to help Shandong, and then to ......" Tang Binyin of the Propaganda Party tried to say good things, but was angrily scolded by Yang Lian:

"Difficult? Since the autumn harvest, how much grain has been intercepted in the land of Nanzhili? With so much grain and straw withheld, can't you still feed yourself? ”

"Ahem......" Suddenly, at this time, Cui Chengxiu coughed and said:

"The officials of Nanzhili naturally have grain in their hands, but the imperial court is rich now, and it is not difficult to allocate money and grain, and every year Nanzhili will encounter dragon hanging, and the officials are also preparing for dragon hanging."

"If that's the case, it would be better!" Yang Lian not only scolded Tang Binyin, but also immediately scolded Cui Chengxiu, who was the leader of the eunuch party.

Everyone knows that since Cui Chengxiu went to Nanzhili to carry out the so-called "clarifying salt class" in Wei Zhongxian's mouth, a large number of officials in Nanzhili have taken refuge in the eunuch party.

Among the officials who were unwilling to allocate grain for regular liquidation this time, in addition to the Xuan Party and the Kun Party, there were also eunuch parties.

This is also why these three parties are pinching each other on weekdays, but at this moment, they are exonerating the officials of Nanzhili together.

"You ......"

Yang Lian wanted to say something, but at this time, footsteps sounded outside the main worship hall.

Many scholars looked outside the hall, and then saw Wei Zhongxian holding the holy decree, taking Wang Tiqian and more than ten eunuchs who were the celebrants into the main hall:

"Spread the will of Long Live and transfer 2 million taels of silver from the internal treasury, 3 million taels of silver from the six ministries and five temples, and 8 million stones from the Jingtong Second Warehouse to escort the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies."

"Ridiculous!" Hearing this, Tang Binyin, Gu Tianjun and others immediately stood up and said solemnly:

"Right now, Nanzhili has encountered the turn of the earth dragon, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has the supply of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, why do you need six departments and five temples to allocate silver taels?"

"This is the will of Long Live ......" Wei Zhongxian said lazily, and after finishing speaking, he said to Ye Xianggao;

"Ye Ge Lao, pass on the will of long live, Taifu Temple will be controlled by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies from now on, and all acres of grassland will be assigned to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies."

“……”

For a while, no one spoke.

This is not because he is afraid of Zhu Youzhen or Zhu Youxiao's retaliation, but because the ministers are speechless about this matter.

They knew that the emperor was going to deal with Wenchen, but they didn't expect to be so anxious to deal with it, didn't they think that they could do whatever they wanted with military power?

It's just that at this time, no one is thinking about how to fight against the imperial power, but they are all looking at the expressions of the party leaders around them.

Needless to say, Gu Bingqian, the leader of the Qi Party, and Cui Chengxiu, the leader of the Eunuch Party, have long been regarded by them as the eagle dogs of imperial power and lackeys who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Therefore, what they are looking at is nothing more than the leaders and ministers of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun, Donglin and other parties.

Although the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty did not allow the Donglin Party to give full play to the political views of the party in advance because of Zhu Youzhen's incursions, as far as the political situation is concerned, what the leaders of the six parties are thinking about now is one thing......

"Governing the country with such insects is tantamount to a sheep in the mouth of a tiger, and we must strike first to defeat this group of insects in order to restore the grand occasion of the rule of Wenchen in the past."

Thinking of this, the face of the leader of the six parties was cloudy, and Yang Lian, who was in the crowd, didn't know what to say.

He believed that Zhu Youzhen could make the Ming Dynasty prosperous, but with Zhu Youzhen's innovation, he suddenly found that the innovation that Zhu Youzhen thought about and the innovation he thought about were two different things.

The innovation that Yang Lian thought of was to restore the scene of the unity of the civil servants and the rule of Zhongxing in the rule of Renxuan and the prosperity of Zhongxing.

But the problem is that what the united Wenchen represents is the suppressed imperial power.

Looking at Zhu Youzhen's thoughts, to put it bluntly, Wenchen should govern internal affairs well, don't interfere in side affairs, and don't be greedy.

Once he interferes in side affairs and bends the law for bribes, then Zhu Youzhen has no choice but to greet with a stick.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youzhen didn't treat Wenchen in the late Ming Dynasty as a person at all, if it weren't for the fact that Yanshan students hadn't come out of the mountain yet, he wouldn't have bothered to act with Wenchen.

Zhu Youzhen now understands why Nanming is so infighting and doesn't care about the Qing army.

From the perspective of the future generations and God, the Ming Dynasty is almost finished, and you are still there to internal friction, weakening the overall strength of the children of the Han family.

As a result, from the perspective of the parties, Da Ming is almost finished, you guys are still messing around, if I don't get rid of them, everyone will die.

Although Zhu Youzhen knows the trend of history, the current trend of history has changed, and he is not worried about the entry of foreign races at all.

What he wants to do now is to help the people of Daming overcome the drought of the Xiaoice River, but as far as the riotous operation of the Chinese officials of the First War of Fuliao is concerned, the first thing he wants to do to help the people of Daming overcome the drought of the Xiaoice River, is to kill this group of guys who are dragging their feet.

Maybe he was hiding it deeply, but when Yang Lian understood his thoughts, the whole person fell into contradictions.

Zhu Youzhen has always been crushing his so-called illusion that Donglin is in power and the world is peaceful, but he has never given up this illusion.

This is why since the end of the First World War of Fuliao, the relationship between the two has gradually drifted apart.

Maybe they will help each other speak, but the premise of speaking is for the sake of Daming's development in a good direction, not for the so-called friendship.

"The matter of Taifu Temple ......"

After being silent for a long time, Ye Xianggao finally stubbornly spoke:

"Let's wait until the next time Chang Chao will discuss it......"

As soon as he spoke, the tight strings in everyone's minds were loosened, after all, they didn't have a few cards to play, and the two brothers, Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao, were still grabbing cards.

The more cards they have, the fewer cards Wenchen has in his hand.

Just like now, with the increase in the number of cards in his hand, even if Zhu Youzhen does not speak, Zhu Youxiao's methods in the court situation have become more and more tough, and compared with Wenchen, he has become more and more cowardly.

They also know that step by step, step by step, in the end, they can only wait for Zhu Youxiao to go a hundred years before they can seek the next opportunity.

The biggest obstacle to the innovation of the feudal dynasty was not the powerful ministers and gentry, but the death of the people who represented the death of the emperor.

There have been very few emperors who have been able to carry out the policies of their predecessors, because when people take power, the new rulers will always think that their policies are better.

Such as Emperor Xuan and Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Zhezong and Huizong of the Song Dynasty......

There have been too many things that have happened to people and politicians, and they can greatly inherit the policy, such as Li Zhi, who inherited Li Shimin's policy, did a good job, as for the Ming Dynasty......

As far as policy is concerned, the Ming Dynasty is a real political repercussion, and each generation of emperors rarely adheres to the practices of the previous generation of emperors, and they have to play overthrow.

It is precisely because of this overthrow that Wenchen has become powerful step by step.

Now they don't have too many cards to fight against the imperial power, and the internal division of Wenchen is too great, and before the power is integrated, smart people can only choose to hibernate.

Therefore, Zhu Guozuo and the others could only watch Wei Zhongxian glance at them contemptuously, and then leave with the back of the celebrant and eunuch.

Looking at the back, some people began to realize that the Wenchen Group was about to collapse, and their positions began to waver, while others were ready to hibernate.

Among them, including Zhu Guozuo, Shen Yu, Zhao Nanxing and others.

Zhu Guozuo looked at Wei Zhongxian's back, his eyes flickered a few times, and then a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth:

"King Qi, if you are the first year of junior high school, don't blame me for being fifteen......"