It is now October of the 19th year of Wanli, the first snow has fallen, the city is full of silver makeup, and every household has burned charcoal.

Waiter Imperial Division.

When Zhu Yijun agreed to Wang Xijue's invitation and left the imperial office, Shen Yi stood by the charcoal fire in front of the imperial case, and he did not come back to his senses for a long time.

Because the emperor finally decided to personally levy the emperor, and the opponent was the only one, Wang Xijue, who had clearly stated that he did not want the emperor to go out of Beijing, actually became the initiator of the emperor's personal expedition.

Therefore, Shen has always felt very puzzled.

"Why did the Duke suddenly take the initiative to let His Majesty personally go out of Beijing?"

So, after Shen Cheng was for a long time, he couldn't help but ask Wang Xijue.

Then, Shen Yi looked at Shen Shixing again and asked, "And Yuanfu, why did you suddenly agree to Your Majesty's departure from Beijing?" ”

Wang Xijue replied with a smile: "I didn't propose to let Your Majesty go out of Beijing before, because I didn't expect that there would be officials below who were greedy and bad to this point!" I can't tell whether these officials are really stupid or really bad, and they actually let there be two rebellions in the place, so I think that if I don't let Your Majesty go out of Beijing to see it, maybe Your Majesty will lose confidence in Xinli. ”

"It's shallow on paper, and I never know that I have to do it."

"Yuan Yu is not wrong, there have been two rebellions, and letting His Majesty stay in the palace will make His Majesty even more reluctant to receive good news from the world."

Shen Shixing also explained with a smile at this time.

"yes!"

Qi Jiguang also nodded: "The emergency report of the Ningxia Rebellion before, Your Majesty was not angry, but felt normal, which shows that our Son of Heaven is smart!" ”

"However, smart people are often mistaken by cleverness, so what we should be worried about now is that Your Majesty will be disappointed in his ministers and his own people, and really feel that they don't know what to do, and think that they are willing to delight themselves, so they will be discouraged and unwilling to reform!"

"Therefore, it is better for Your Majesty to see for himself, and see that although the good governance he implements is not as perfect as he thinks, it is not as bad as he imagined! The good news from the factory guards and the people is not all sycophancy. ”

"As the prime minister said, in the end, I despise Your Majesty, Your Majesty has never thought so highly of us scholars, don't look at Your Majesty's respect for the first master!"

"Therefore, the matter of Dang Xin and the matter of Cao Zideng did not make him angry, and even the children of the clan were persecuted by some corrupt officials and the vassal kings by Jinyi Wei, Your Majesty was not very angry, it seems that in the eyes of Your Majesty, there is nothing strange about the pickled things that our scholars can't do."

"If this continues, do we still need to worry about anything bad that His Majesty doesn't want to hear?"

"On the contrary, we should be more worried about whether His Majesty will further distrust us scholars, even of us who are in power."

"In the past, Mr. Guo let His Majesty be a scholar in the ruling school, but I was afraid that His Majesty would sneer in his stomach after hearing it, and he didn't think so."

Wang Xijue spread his hands and said very aggrievedly: "But God is pitiful, are the scholars who are familiar with the saints really all good-looking people, and even have no lower limit?" So much so that His Majesty was not surprised by this incident, and even asked the rebels how dare to rebel with a smile, obviously waiting for us to expose our own shortcomings. ”

After hearing this, Shen Yi stretched out his hand with a happy and sincere face, then closed his hands to Shen Shixing, Qi Jiguang, and Wang Xijue and bowed his hands and said: "Thanks to the guidance of the princes, I understand, I really didn't expect this layer." ”

Next.

These ruling ministers didn't say anything, they only began to write letters to their protégés on the ground, and after the news of the emperor's personal conquest was promulgated, they also reminded them to do a good job in their hands, don't make a fork like Dang Xin when the time comes, don't let yourself die, not to mention leaving a mess for the court.

The ruling ministers who have been in and out of the sea for many years are actually clear about the virtues of these bureaucrats, so they are even more surprised than Zhu Yijun about what the local bureaucrats will do with the new deal.

But they still hope to maintain the good image of the entire bureaucracy in front of the emperor, so they try to remind and guide the bureaucrats as much as possible within the scope of legality, just as an executive in later generations does not want the big boss to feel that the people under him are not good, which will also indirectly make the big boss question his own ability.

On this day, the sky was just right, the sky was clear, and Zhu Yijun, who was walking in a clear blue sky, instructed Huang Xun after leaving the Imperial Division: "Follow me to the inner carrier warehouse!" ”

Huang Xun said yes, and ordered someone to inform Zhang Yuangong, the British minister of the Shaofu in the transportation warehouse.

Due to the decrease in the number of eunuchs, coupled with the fact that many eunuchs only want to make money and obtain benefits, and do not consider the long-term interests of the Sheji Sect Temple, there have been several shocking incidents at home and abroad, so the current affairs of the inner court can basically be handed over to the clan relatives.

Zhang Yuangong was stimulated by Qi Jiguang's nobles, and he also took the initiative to learn and improve his ability, and used his expertise in financial management to pass the exam and become the palm print of the internal carrier.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun now wants to see the situation of the internal carrier, and Huang Xun is busy asking people to pass on the British public.

"Your Majesty!"

It didn't take long for Zhang Yuangong to come to the inner transport warehouse, and greeted Zhu Yijun, and then asked Zhu Yijun: "What does Your Majesty want to see first." ”

"Let's look at the gold first."

Zhu Yijun said.

Zhang Yuangong said yes, and then took Zhu Yijun to the treasury where the gold was stored.

Zhang Yuangong was not afraid that the emperor would come to inspect the treasury in person.

Because he is really in charge of this inner treasury very seriously.

One is that he knows that the inner treasury is related to military power, because the current military system of the Ming Dynasty is mainly a recruitment system, and the combat method has also become firearms-based, and the guard system has long existed in name only, so how much army the emperor can control does not look at how much land is distributed to the soldiers, but how much silver can be issued to the soldiers, as long as the emperor is not short of money, he can pull up a well-equipped army at any time, and he can also control the army by controlling the supply of firearms at any time.

Whether the military power is controlled by the Son of Heaven is related to whether the Ming Dynasty can maintain long-term stability.

Therefore, for the sake of the long-term interests of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Yuangong did not dare to let the money in the inner treasury become less and less.

The second is that he knows that this is related to the fate of his Zhang family, and the eunuch can change the law to make money from the inner treasury, that is because the eunuch only has his own generation, even if the nine clans are condemned many times, they can't make up the nine clans, but his Zhang family is different, if he really manages His Majesty's inner treasury is getting more and more empty, his Zhang family's hereditary dukedom may not be able to keep, and this is an iron rice bowl with the country.

Therefore, if he has a normal head, he does not dare to easily smash his Zhang family's iron rice bowl.

The third is that this internal treasury is also a real power errand, and it can also achieve a win-win situation with the royal family through financial means.

He, Zhang Yuangong, as a member of Xungui, finally let this power transfer from the hands of the eunuchs to the hands of Xungui, where dare to do it easily, let the emperor no longer hand over this errand to Xungui to do, and hand it back to the eunuchs, or directly to the civil officials.

Of course, the eunuchs and civil officials also returned to the honors because of this errand, and they also kept a close eye on them, so that Zhang Yuangong did not dare to come nonsense.

Therefore, Zhang Yuangong is now managing the inner library very well.

Zhang Yuangong himself was confident that the emperor would admit his ability in financial management after checking the inner treasury.

Soon, Zhu Yijun arrived at the gold inner storage warehouse of the inner carrier warehouse, and then saw the house full of gold, he was dumbfounded for a while, and said in his stomach:

"I've never seen so much gold in my life!"

Zhu Yijun then couldn't hide his joy and asked Zhang Yuangong: "How many?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, from the excavation of gold mines such as Burma and Luzon and the purchase of gold in Dongying, Ryukyu and other places, there are about 125,000 catties of gold in storage."

Zhang Yuangong replied.

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "I think I can afford to go out of Beijing to inspect the world, right?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it is enough, not to mention that there are more than one million catties of sterling silver and silver dollars in the inner treasury, and the minister has also been ordered to prepare the estimated cost of His Majesty's first trip to Beijing to inspect the world, and now wait for His Majesty's order."

Zhang Yuangong replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded, and then said to Zhang Yuangong: "You are a competent person!" ”

Zhang Yuangong immediately gave his hand: "Your Majesty praises falsely." ”

Zhu Yijun then went to the queen's bedroom, told the queen about the matter, and then took the queen's hand and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that my first trip to Gyeonggi would be a personal expedition, so it will be inconvenient for you to go with me, and you will go together on a southern tour in the future." ”

The queen nodded and smiled slightly, "The concubines didn't expect that there would be so many ministers from foreign dynasties who supported His Majesty's personal conquest. ”

"They want to save the dignity of the bureaucrats in the world, and they want to prove to me that after the implementation of the new policy, there have indeed been changes, and many good news are not fakes, so that I can continue to trust them."

Zhu Yijun said after a smile.

The queen couldn't help but pull the prince over, and asked for the prince: "Then does Your Majesty trust them?" ”

Zhu Yijun got up and walked to the gate of the palace, looked at the pavilions under the clear sky, and said with a smile: "Why don't you trust?" But no amount of trust does not mean that I will not judge them with the greatest malice, nor will I be surprised by the evil things I have done to some of them. ”

"What did Father say?"

The crown prince Zhu Changxun came over at this time and asked.

Zhu Yijun looked at the prince with a smile and said: "Never underestimate how bad a person is, just as you should never underestimate how good a person is, the same is true for scholars!" ”

"They tend to be better, but they are often worse, and more importantly, the bureaucracy as a whole is itself a product of the herdsmen, they don't produce things, but they have to have more property, and this property can only be taken from the people, and what your father and the emperor are trying to do now is to try to make them take from the outside."

"But they are accustomed to taking from their own small people, this habit is too strong, after all, it is a habit of thousands of years, so it is not a complete change in one or two decades, and it may have to be continued in this direction in the future."

"Understood, Zhu Changxun?"

Zhu Yijun asked the prince as he spoke.

(End of chapter)