Han Zanzhou came out of the queen and came to Gao Yiming, and consciously told Gao Yiming about the queen's search for him, because now the guards of the palace are all Yan Yingyuan's people, and there is a disturbance, Gao Yiming knows it, but Gao Yiming didn't say anything.

Now there is still more than a month left before his March to complete the order of streamlining the various yamen, except for the military department, that is, the household department, the progress is the fastest, and even the Nanjing governor yamen has begun to act, and the four departments are still relatively slow, and he is worried about this matter.

Five days later, Hou Sui reported the situation of the household department. Gao Yiming looked at the fold he handed over, more than 700 people were reduced to 300 people, which is not bad, more than half.

Closing the fold, Gao Yiming said to the officials standing below: "There is an example of the military department in front, and now there is a successful example of the household department, I heard that the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Punishment are slow, you have to pay attention to it, there is not much time left for you, I don't want to raise the knife that killed the minister, but if you want to try, you can continue to grind."

After the murderous words were finished, Gao Yiming said again: "The task of the household department has been completed well, according to the preface, give Hou Aiqing the word Ming Official, control the royal flat and allow its lintel to be hung high, reward 800 taels of silver, and retreat from the dynasty."

After speaking, Gao Yiming shook his hand and walked out of the Fengtian Palace, and before he went far, he saw a corner gate a little farther away, and there was a woman dressed in a phoenix crown and a xia curtain, Gao Yiming glanced at Han Zanzhou, and Han Zanzhou immediately said: "Queen Mother, you have been standing there for a long time."

"You go over and ask, see what's the matter with the queen."

Han Zanzhou received the order and trotted to the queen: "Niangniang, the emperor asked the slave to ask, what is the matter with you?"

"I think the emperor is a little angry, what happened?"

"The emperor is still worried about the things that have been compiled by various ministries."

"Got it, you go, the palace is fine, just come and see the emperor, you go back to the emperor, don't stand there and burn your body."

Han Zanzhou received the order and trotted over again: "Emperor, the queen said to look at you, and asked you not to stand under the sun for too long, so as not to get sunburned."

Gao Yiming nodded, and looked at the queen again from a distance, because he couldn't see the beauty and ugliness clearly from a distance, he could see the height clearly.

"You go and ask Lord Hou to come to me." Gao Yiming gave an order and then returned to the imperial study.

Hou Sui came to the imperial study, and Gao Yiming said: "When the staff is streamlined, can someone splash and roll?"

Hou Sui didn't know why he suddenly asked this, and said carefully: "Back to the emperor, there are a few, but they were all sent away by the ministers, and they don't dare to bother the emperor."

"That's good, how is Wang Chengen's salt tax in Yangzhou?"

"Thirty percent has been recovered, more than 15 million taels of silver have been collected, and it has been put into the treasury, so it's good, you take out 10 million taels from here, and I am ready to open a cabinet shop in the name of the royal family all over the country."

"Huh? Your Majesty, open a cabinet in the name of the royal family? ”

"yes, what's wrong, can't you?"

"It's not impossible, but the royal family is supreme, and if you become the lowest businessman, I'm afraid it will be detrimental to the royal majesty."

"Majesty can't be eaten as food, how to make the people not give more and the country is sufficient, this is what I still consider, and this is also the foundation of the country's long-term peace and stability."

"The Emperor Shengming!"

"By the way, how are the Royal Garden treasures sold?"

"I sold it for forty percent, and the income of 60 million silver went to the inner house."

"It's such an exaggeration, can't it be hundreds of millions of taels sold?"

"The ministers have roughly estimated that if all of them are sold, there should be as much as 300 million taels of silver."

"So much?" Gao Yiming smacked his tongue, this Chongzhen is a dead old buckle, sitting on a mountain of gold and silver, and he actually let himself die of poverty.

"Sell, sell, sell, and sell all the empty gardens."

"Huh? Your Majesty, now that these treasures have begun to fall in price because they have flowed into the market too much, the garden will never dare to sell them again. ”

"Huh? If the supply exceeds demand, then sell it overseas. ”

"Does the emperor allow foreign purchases?"

"Are they in high demand?"

"Huge!"

"Then sell them, these things should not be eaten or drunk, and they will be exchanged for food, gold and silver. On the dim sum, don't let the foreigners cheat, in this case, you don't need the treasury to pay for the cash cabinet, let the inner government come forward. ”

"Yes, in addition, the ministry asked, now that the treasury is sufficient, can the officials be added."

"Ignore them for now, and wait until the whole country has streamlined its institutions before talking about it, and their officials are the most slow to do this work now."

"Yes, I understand."

"Our current world enemy, the Qing Dynasty is growing stronger and stronger, we must make adequate preparations, that is the biggest event at present, so the supply of soldiers, horses, money and food must be given priority."

"Yes! Chancellor understood. ”

"There you go."

After Hou Sui left, Gao Yiming said to Han Zanzhou: "You give Wang Chengen a decree, let him come to Nanjing immediately after collecting the tax within a month."

"Yes, Emperor."

In the queen's palace, the personal female official has returned from Yangzhou.

"What did Wang Chengen say?"

"Niangniang, the princess didn't tell the slave or maid anything, so he wrote a letter for me to bring back to you."

"What about faith?" I have to say that Queen Zhou is still very authoritative in the harem, whether it is in the capital or Nanjing, she is a good daughter-in-law.

The female official handed Wang Chengen's letter to the queen, and after Zhou Hou, she looked at the wax seal and saw that it was still intact, so she opened it and saw that it was written: "Niangniang is a thousand years old!" Slave Wang Chengen goodbye, the original emperor hanged himself on the coal mountain behind the palace in the capital, only the slave and another little eunuch were there, the little eunuch is now gone, as you said, after the slave rescued the emperor from the yellow silk, the emperor didn't remember the slave, and the old slave was scared silly at that time, thinking that the emperor was injured in the head, who knew that the emperor had not completely forgotten many things before, before the emperor went out of the capital, let the slave order the hundred officials and the people to go south, and let Wu Xiang and his son Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan go to the Wu mansion, Later, I will go to Shanhaiguan to meet Wu Sangui, and then I will go to the later ones, you are clear, all kinds of arrangements are clear, according to the minions dare to guess, the emperor should have forgotten many things in the palace, but he remembers the civil and military officials and the governor's mansion very clearly. All of the above, disrespectful, the slave is a capital crime, and Wang Chengen worships his mother for a thousand years. ”

After reading Wang Chengen's letter, Zhou Hou asked the personal female official to call Yuan Guifei.

Yuan Guifei arrived, and Zhou Hou showed her Wang Chengen's letter, Yuan Guifei pear blossom said with rain: "At that time, I thought that the sky had fallen, and the emperor ruthlessly ordered the harem concubines to cut themselves on the one hand, and on the other hand, he personally killed many princes and grandsons over eight years old, but I am afraid that the emperor's heart was dead at that time, and now it makes people cry blood in retrospect, and it is not difficult to understand that the emperor does not remember it now, that scene is really not something that people can bear."

"What you said is good, now the emperor can't think of it, he can't think of it, it's not necessarily a good thing for me now, I called you here to discuss how to serve the emperor well."

"Sister, now that the emperor has amnesia, I don't even remember you, I don't know what to do, how to listen to your orders."

"Well, you know about this matter now, and Wang Chengen has guessed some of them, so don't publicize them."

"Sister, rest assured."

"Take your time with the rest."

"Good!"