Compared with the Forbidden City, which took fourteen years to build, the speed of the Heart Cultivation Hall is undoubtedly a small miracle.

Jia Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Economic and Labor, personally supervised the work, coupled with the reasonable division of labor in the construction, the Yangxin Palace, located on the east side of the West Garden, has been in the final finishing stage.

Each courtier has his own shining point, and emperors often just lack a pair of eyes for discovery.

Zhu Youzhi originally had some prejudice against Jia Jun, who was born as a lifter, but after seeing Jia Jun's talent in supervising the construction of the palace, he finally knew that it was not all dependent on relationships to be able to sit in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry with the name of raising people.

Of course, in addition to Jia Jun's excellent scheduling ability, in fact, this progress has a lot to do with his abandonment of high-quality golden silk nanmu and the choice of Northeast pine.

Why did it take fourteen years to build the Forbidden City, because it took eleven years to prepare the timber and stone alone, and it was not an easy task to harvest the precious golden nanmu.

Because the golden nan wood grows mostly in the mountains, this requires a large number of people to go into the mountains to harvest, resulting in many people losing their lives, and the rebellion of Annam is also related to the felling of golden silk nan for the Forbidden City.

Zhu Youzhu is not a perfectionist, and he does not think that the palace where he lives must "send thousands of people into the mountain and five hundred out of the mountain" in exchange for a golden silk nanmu in order to be in line with the emperor's identity.

Just like the aluminum bowl that Napoleon used to eat, although it was expensive, the vast majority of ordinary people in later generations would rather abandon this expensive part and choose ordinary porcelain bowls.

After all, the palace is used to shelter from the wind and rain and the office, and now pine wood can also be used to support a roof, so why spend a year and a half to the provinces to find golden silk nanmu?

As for Yuntai, it is not necessary, after all, this is a palace for me to find important ministers to discuss and deal with government affairs together, so this item can be directly omitted.

After learning that there were many hundred-year-old pine wood in the warehouse of the Ministry of Industry, he waved his hand and asked Jia Jun to directly take the pine wood to build the Heart Cultivation Palace.

As it turned out, he did find a good Ministry of Justice.

Jia Jun has enough timber for construction, and the Ministry of Industry is not short of craftsmen, and Emperor Hongzhi also gave great support to the budget, so the work day and night has the current effect.

"Your Majesty, please come here!" Although Jia Jun was very satisfied with his results, he still led Zhu Youzhu to visit with a little apprehension.

Although the Palace of Nourishing Heart is famous for the Palace of Nourishing Heart of a later dynasty, it is different from the narrow palace that is limited by place, and now in this West Garden, where half of the Forbidden City can be built, it is natural to build a standard palace.

In the sunshine near noon, a new courtyard-like palace towers over this scenic West Garden, complementing the Taiye Pond not far away.

Zhu Youzhi walked into the Yangxin Gate, here is a very large courtyard, the east and west sides are the value room, and then enter the second door, with the inverted seat of the duty room, the east side is the study, the west side is the Zen room, and the north is the Yangxin Palace.

Naturally, the Heart Cultivation Hall cannot be compared with the Fengtian Palace, even the Huagai Palace, the smallest of the three major halls, is not comparable, and it is indeed just a place to discuss with important ministers.

Zhu Youzhu looked up at this new palace bathed in spring light, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly, feeling very satisfied with this new palace.

The design of the Forbidden City does have certain shortcomings, just like the lack of dormitories for the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, as an emperor, it also needs a convenient place to discuss with his courtiers.

If you stay in the Qianqing Palace all the time, not to mention that it is very inconvenient to summon the courtiers, even if it is a waste of time from the noon gate to the Qianqing Palace, even if the Wenyuan Pavilion to the Qianqing Palace has to walk a long way.

Now the newly built Yangxin Hall is located on the edge of the Xiyuan Gate, and the cabinet can work here, not far from Dongjiang Rice Lane and Xijiang Rice Lane, which can be said to be a multiplicity.

As for the back of the Heart Cultivation Palace, there is a hall, which is connected to the dormitory at the back, and the residences of attendants and concubines are equipped on both sides, which belongs to the back house area of the Heart Cultivation Palace.

If you want to be pure-hearted and have few desires, you will naturally sleep alone, but if you want to continue the incense to protect the treatment of your great emperor, then you can return to the Forbidden City or arrange a concubine to come over to accompany you, or find a soft and fragrant palace maid like Fan Jinling to train you.

In this way, this is the overall layout of the Heart Cultivation Palace.

The front is the office of the important ministers and the close ministers, the inverted seat of the second gate is the office of the internal officials, and the Yangxin Hall is the office of Zhu Youji, and the back area belongs to the inner house.

"Your Majesty, these two main pillars are golden silk nanmu! Thanks to His Majesty's Hong Fu, when the minister was rummaging through the pine wood, he found these two Chen trees! Jia Jun pointed to a red-lacquered main pillar, which looked very flattering and authentic.

Zhu Youzhu stretched out his hand and patted the sturdy main pillar, and immediately made a decision and said: "Jia Shangshu listens to it!" ”

Liu Jin carefully found that there was still some dust on the main pillar, and even gave him a handkerchief.

"The minister is here!" Jia Jun suddenly felt a thrill, and even knelt on the ground and said nervously.

Zhu Youzhu wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and then rewarded Jia Jun on the ground: "I know that since you are responsible for supervising the construction of the Yangxin Palace, you have been responsible for supervising your duties day and night, and you have done your best to make good arrangements. Today, the heart of the palace has been completed for more than 40 days, and you are a model of loyal and wise courtiers, and you have given the prince Taibao a reward of 100 taels of gold. ”

In the face of hard-working officials, he did not hesitate to reward, especially in gold and silver. After all, it is a worker, and people can't just be loyal to the company, and the bonus that should be given is still in place, so that it is easy to exchange for real loyalty.

"Minister...... Thank you to Your Majesty, and I am willing to die for Your Majesty! Jia Jun's old tears fell suddenly, and he was moved to thank him.

These rewards are just a matter of Zhu Youji's lips moving, but it is already a great honor for Jia Jun, who was born as a person, and it is Zhu Youji's kindness to give money, but this "crown prince and Taibao title" is a great grace.

For a scholar of the Ministry of Industry like him, who was promoted to the second rank of the Ministry of Industry, it was already the limit, so the third-grade officials such as He Cong, the left waiter of the Ministry of War, Xu Pu, the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials, and Liu Jian, the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites, did not take him seriously at all.

It's just that now, he has been given the title of Prince Taibao from the first rank by the emperor, and his status and identity have reached a higher level, and his waist will undoubtedly be more upright in the future, and he will also have the opportunity to fight for "Prince Taishi" and "Prince Taifu" in the future.

In fact, what touched him the most was "loyalty and wisdom", and the reason why he has always been responsible for supervising the construction of works is more powerful than others is that he is more diligent and attentive than others.

Now that "dedication to loyalty and wisdom" came out of the emperor's mouth, he really had a feeling of encountering Bole, what reason did he have not to serve this Ming monarch?

Zhu Youzhu may not even know about himself, a very normal reward, and as a result, he received a Ministry of Industry Shangshu with almost full loyalty.

A day later, when I saw that the Palace of Nourishing Heart was officially completed, and it happened to be an auspicious day, I simply moved in.

The Heart Cultivation Hall is larger than the East Warm Pavilion, and it is also larger than the Heart Cultivation Hall of a certain dynasty. In addition to the throne and the bookcase of the main hall, the east side is the map of the Ming Dynasty, and the west side is the list of officials above the fourth grade of the capital and the list of local governors and inspectors.

As for the plaque hanging high on the throne, it reads: Work hard to prosper the country.

After all, Zhu Youzhu is just an ordinary person, he does not know how to use his mind like some time-travelers, nor does he know how to make the majority of the official gentry give up oppressing the countrymen to become a philanthropist, but he knows that the gun is out of power, and he also knows that if he is not satisfied, he will be served.

He has the kung fu to negotiate with the officials of the two capitals and thirteen provinces and the vast number of official gentry, and he still has time to study how to make flintlock pistols and how to build Huaxia into the world's textile center.

Zhu Youzhu summoned the two pavilion elders and the six ministers, although there was a small high platform in the place, but he was sitting after all, so he arranged seats for all eight people.

Li Yu and other eight people sat opposite each other, facing such preferential treatment from Emperor Hongzhi, facing this new palace, and the excitement between the eyebrows.

At the time of Hongzhi's reform of the early dynasty and the Japanese banquet, many officials thought that Hongji was a lazy emperor, but things proved everyone wrong.

This emperor is not only diligent in government, but also has a great mind to govern the country, and now he is willing to build a new palace here to conspire with their important ministers, so why worry about the country not prospering?

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Wan An is over seventy years old, and his health is inevitably poor, but he couldn't help but sneeze, and even admitted his mistake: "The old minister lost his honor in front of His Majesty, please punish!" ”

Seeing this, Liu Ji and other officials also secretly looked at Zhu Youji, who was sitting above.

"Wan Ge Lao has recently devoted himself to voting for government affairs, and he has shared a lot of responsibilities for me, and I am very relieved, so there is no need for punishment!" Zhu Youzhu is not a person who likes to make a big fuss, but he replied lightly.

Li Yu and other officials also felt a warm heart for Zhu Youji's response.

They slowly figured out the temperament of this son of heaven, as long as you are sincere in doing things for him, then many things are unyielding, and they will even take the initiative to shelter you.

Wan An secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said gratefully: "Old minister, thank Your Majesty for forgiveness!" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, you should already know about Yangzhou, right?" Zhu Youzhu turned out the music he was looking for, and went straight to the point.

"Yes...... No...... Be! When Wan An and the others answered, they changed their answers twice.

The Department of Communications is not a top-secret channel at all, and some important notes will always leak out.

What's more, there is also news from Yangzhou that has reached the capital, so these important ministers of the imperial court already know about the changes in Yangzhou, and even they know the details that Zhu Youzhi is not clear.

It's just that they can't reveal the source of the news, so they change their words for the first time, but they think that they have committed the crime of deceiving the king, so they change their words a second time.

Zhu Youzhu didn't want to embarrass these important ministers, so he passed on the joint recital he received through Liu Jin and said: "Then you can take a look and then discuss!" ”

Li Yu and the others actually knew the truth, so after a few brief glances, they passed on this note to others.

Wang Yue is indeed a fierce man, he thought that he would only be a reckless man who would cut off people's heads with Shang Fang's sword, but he did not hesitate to go deep into the danger and unexpectedly uncovered the shocking case of Li Zhiqing and other Yangzhou officials.

Not to mention the jaw-dropping amount of money involved, almost no one in Yangzhou officials alone has been spared, and the entire Yangzhou officialdom has been completely rotten from top to bottom.

If it weren't for the conclusive evidence, who would dare to believe that those officials who had read the books of the sages did such a heart-wrenching thing and almost destroyed the salt law of the Ming Dynasty.

As for Wang Zhi, who had not heard from him for a long time, he did not expect that he would actually train the Nanjing Shenji Battalion into shape, and only 500 people shocked the 1,000 soldiers led by Yang Kang.

"Your Majesty, from the Yangzhou case, we can see that the crux of the Ming Salt Administration is caused by the collusion of these officials and businessmen, and now Wang Yue has wiped out the greedy businessmen and profiteers, which is the opportunity to reshape the salt law. Therefore, please start to clean up the accumulation of salt to ensure that the salt introduction is equivalent to the salt production, which will definitely make the price of salt in the nine sides rise to the time of Taizu, and the remaining salt can not be sold cheaply, so that the salt profit can be returned to China! When Li Si, the head of the household, learned of this, he also began to make plans, and he took the lead in expressing his position.

Zhu Youzhu was in a good mood, so he looked at the other important ministers and said, "Do you think it's feasible?" ”

Wang Yue's report card this time far exceeded his expectations. When Wang Yue was reinstated, he just wanted an upright official to sit in Yangzhou for him, and behead a few corrupt officials and profiteers to deter all parties.

It's just that he far underestimated Wang Yue's ability, this old man who knows the art of war is simply getting older and more demonic. After perceiving the smoke bombs released by Li Zhiqing, he went to Yangzhou to use Gou Huowang to muddy the matter, and then through knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger and the lone army to go deeper, he took the moths in Yangzhou together with the nest.

After achieving this result, now the world knows that the salt officials in Yangzhou are in cahoots with the salt merchants, so it is undoubtedly difficult to deal with the salt matter in the future.

The Kaizhong Law, which has continued to this day, was not destroyed by the joint efforts of salt officials and Hui merchants, and once the accumulation was cleared and the price of salt was restored, the finances of the Ming Dynasty could be revitalized.

The most important thing is that because Ye Qi was not deceived into canceling the opening of China and France, the military rations and military funds of the border army can still be effectively guaranteed, and the economic prosperity of the border areas can be maintained.

If you say that the greatest achievement you have made for China through so far, I am afraid that it is to protect the opening of the Ming Dynasty and let the Ming Dynasty open the Chinese law again.

"Your Majesty, the ministers seconded it!" Wan An and other officials are also wise politicians, and when they saw that Li Si's proposal was very reasonable, they should go along with it.

Zhu Youzhu nodded lightly, turned his head to look at Li Si and asked seriously: "Li Qing, then what do you think should start with the salt method?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the salt of the palace and the salt of the Beijing officials should be stopped immediately!" Li Si hesitated for a moment, but still offered his advice ruthlessly.

This......

When Du Ming and the others heard this, they turned their heads to look at Li Si in surprise.

If it is said that the salt of the palace is to offend the vassal kings and clansmen of the world, then Li Si proposed to stop the salt of the Beijing officials, and I am afraid that he will be spit on when he goes out in the future.

"When the minister served as the prefect of Jinhua, every time he decided a case, there was always an old sense of truth, but the minister thought at the time: If the people who enforce the law don't need to care about the situation, they will be punished with the same crime as the prince and the common people, then the law is feasible and just! Today's salt law is like this, the royal salt and the Beijing official salt are in love, but the chaos of the Ming salt policy, if the salt law is to be penetrated, it should be treated equally. Therefore, the ministers thought that the suspension of the salt of the palace and the salt of the Beijing officials would not only prevent the omission of the salt administration, but also show the determination of the imperial court to control salt to the world, and the salt law could at least restore the time of the great ancestors! Li Si also wants to do his part, that is, to express his feelings.

(End of chapter)