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The next day, Wei Guangde saw the first memorial sent by the Ministry of Households in the cabinet value room, which was about restricting the amount of the estate of the fifth relative of Xun.

After the cabinet meeting was adjourned yesterday, Ma Sen returned to the Ministry of Finance and arranged for someone to revise the memorandum overnight and deliver it to the cabinet early this morning.

When the secretary of the cabinet distributed the memorial, he naturally sent the memorial from the Ministry of Accounts directly to Wei Guangde's housekeeper.

Consistent with what was said yesterday, Shixun limits Zhuangtian to [-] hectares, and Qi Wan to [-] hectares. Those who have been abolished have Zhuangtian to enter the government, but those whose ancestors’ tombs still exist, those whose fields are [-] hectares are allowed to keep five hectares, and those who have less than [-] hectares of land are allowed to reserve five hectares. Three hectares were left to pay for sacrifices.

For those who don't record the land grants, they will be ordered to review the Chen Shu. Those who have no land at all will be admitted to the government, and all the traitors who hide their seeds will be hunted down.

Wei Guangde's review was correct, and the ticket was immediately considered "Yes", and put aside, it was prepared to be sent to the palace at a later date, and presented to the emperor for viewing.

Afterwards, Wei Guangde dealt with several more memorials, and soon a Xuanda Memorial appeared in front of him, and there was also a review by the Ministry of War.

Just last month, Ma Fang, the general officer of the Xuanfu, led more than a thousand people, including Liu Tan, his subordinate general, to attack the captive cavalry two hundred miles away from Dushi, and was defeated at Haizi in Changshui. After chasing after Anzishan, Ma Fang and others resumed the battle and were defeated. They captured and beheaded more than [-] people and seized more than [-] horses.

The governor of Xuanda, the minister Chen Qixue and the governor of the Xuanfu Wang Lin Yijie reported to the Ministry of War for commendation, and the Ministry of War deliberated, and proposed 40 taels of Fang silver, two pieces of silk, and one son of Yin Zhengqian.Governor's Minister Chen Qixue 40 taels, two watches.Governor Wang Lin 30 taels, one for the inside and the outside.Each is promoted to one level of salary, and the deputy envoy of military preparations is in time, and the participating general Liu Tan has 20 taels of silver each.

Naturally, Wei Guangde recognized the award proposed by the Ministry of War, which is also a custom.

However, he has not been a cabinet minister for a long time, Wei Guangde needs to consider more, he also has to win over the Ministry of War and other six key departments.

At the level of cabinet minister, it is not advisable to be a lone minister in some film and television dramas, because there is no one under his command, and no one may do his best to complete the policies formulated, so he needs to build his own team in the six departments.

And the people he wants to win over are naturally the ministers and ministers of the various ministries.

Thinking back to when Chen Yiqin entered the cabinet, he was also fearful and afraid of being isolated. It was Wei Guangde who gave him advice, not only recruiting fellow villager Zhao Zhenji to be his servant, but also pushing Wang Ting to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to serve as the censor of the Zuodu. Build up your strength.

Wei Guangde didn't have as many worries as Chen Yiqin, at least the Ministry of Industry supported him, and there were also a bunch of officials from Yuan Yuqi, but he also had to consider recruiting more officials to work for him.

After writing down the proposal of agreeing to the proposal of the Ministry of War, Wei Guangde finally used the reason that there was no police in autumn defense, and praised the Ministry of War for its solid defense work in the North this year. .

Whether you have a date or not, hit a shot first to show your kindness, and there will always be someone who will come to the house to see what you like.

After reading several memorials, Wei Guangde couldn't sit still.

When he was in the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites, he didn't have so many documents to deal with.

Even if he recorded "Yongle Dadian" at the beginning, he only read a few books every day, and he might not always sit in the guard room to read. Sometimes when the weather is good, he would move the tables and chairs to the courtyard.

But now that he is in the cabinet, of course he can no longer be so casual.

After sitting and dealing with the memos for a long time, Wei Guangde got up and went out.

Sitting for a long time to handle official business is definitely not good for your health. If you don't pay attention to exercise now, you will suffer from it when you get older.

With his hands behind his back, as soon as Wei Guangde left the guard's door, he saw the secretary in the cabinet coming with a reed cloth. After saluting, Wei Guangde pointed to the guard behind him and said with a smile: "From now on, you can do business here."

"Yes, my lord, the villain will definitely do my best to do my best for my lord."

The cabinet is no more than other yamen, and has certain review procedures for those who enter and work here.

The main reason why Wei Guangde always took Lu Bu with him was because he knew that he had another identity besides being a scribe.

After all, the royal family wants to put a pair of eyes by his side. Instead of changing places and looking for them by himself, it is better to put him under his nose from the beginning.

It's just that Wei Guangde didn't expect that it would take so much time for Lu Bu to follow him into the cabinet.

Perhaps, Jin Yiwei didn't want the cabinet to find out that they had done something, so they didn't use some connections to stuff Lu Bu into the cabinet as soon as possible, but followed the relevant procedures honestly.

In fact, Jin Yiwei has been monitoring the important officials in the court all the time, and it is very confidential.

Because in principle, the cabinet ministers and the six ministers have a lot of information that is not known to the outside world, and the monitoring of them must be approved by the emperor.

Otherwise, it is very likely that surveillance will become secret theft.

And the emperor agreed, naturally there will be many considerations, and the decision will not be made in a short time.

And the important officials are also extremely disgusted by the extra pair of eyes around them. Once they are discovered, they will often sue the emperor. When the time comes, the board will definitely hit Jin Yiwei on the head.

That's why they attached so much importance to it. Even if Wei Guangde was willing to keep Lu Bu, he would never dare to reveal his identity and could only wait for the instructions from above.

Now that he is here, it may also explain a lot of things.

In fact, after Wei Guangde arrived in the capital, the people around him have always been acquaintances, that is, people from Bengshanbao.

The original crew of the Wei Mansion were all sent by Wei's father, because he was afraid that Wei Guangde would recruit people who were less than four or six in the capital and cause trouble for him.

The family members of these people are either in the capital or in Jiujiang. Under Father Wei's nose, he is not afraid that they will betray their masters for glory. One day they can deal with them casually.

However, after marrying Xu Jianglan, there were quite a few people from Nanjing who came over as dowry. Wei Guangde had no good way to deal with this kind of servant who came from the Duke's mansion.

He can be sure that there are spies from Jin Yiwei, but with Xu Jianglan's relationship, he can't drive these people out of the house.

The current Wei Mansion has actually been infiltrated more or less by spies, and he has nothing to do.

Fortunately, I still follow the rules when making money by myself, and there are no illegal means such as extortion, so I am not afraid.

Yes, if Wei Guangde's method of making money is used in later generations, it must involve the transaction of power and money, which is illegal, but in the Ming Dynasty, this was within the rules.

Of course, if one day he offends the emperor, what is legal will become illegal. Otherwise, the emperor always has the constitution in his mouth, and he will do whatever he says.

He asked the clerk to take Lu Bu to his room to familiarize himself with it, so he wandered over to Chen Yiqin and saw that he was still working at the desk, so he advised him to pay more attention to his body, and it was best to learn from him when he was handling official duties for a while. Walk around, exercise your muscles and bones, and by the way, talk about some memorials that you have dealt with today.

This can be regarded as a secret communication of information, and the memorial has not been sent out yet, if Chen Yiqin is involved in it, there is still time to change some things.

Chen Yiqin stayed here for a while, then he wandered over to Yin Shizhen's side and talked for a while.

As for Li Chunfang and Zhang Juzheng, he just went there every now and then to sit and chat.

Now Daming's cabinet is basically controlled by them. As long as they don't tear up their faces with Li Chunfang and use the privilege of the chief minister, they usually have the most say in cabinet meetings.

When it was close to noon, the memorials that had been processed in the morning were taken away by the servants and sent to the Supervisor of Rituals for classification. They would be sent to Emperor Longqing in the afternoon at the earliest.

Don’t look at the large number of memorials sent from the Secretary of General Administration and the Supervisor of Rites every day, but in fact there are only a few things, and many of them are repeated from various places. Tax bank and so on.

There are precedents. In fact, after reading it, it is good to follow the usual practice.

The reason why Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di created a cabinet was actually to deal with such memorials.

Correspondingly, if Wei Guangde was in charge of the cabinet, he would like to delegate the errands of handling such memorials to the Zhongshu, and let them draw up drafts. Anyway, they would copy the past practice, and there would be no mistakes.

Unfortunately, he is not.

During this period of time in the cabinet, most of the documents handled were repeated in this way, which annoyed him.

In the afternoon, Emperor Longqing saw Wei Guangde's memorandum on limiting the amount of estates owned by honored relatives.

Because the people involved are not ordinary, it is also regarded as the focus of today in the Supervisor of Rituals, and it is placed first in all memorials.

Emperor Longqing frowned slightly after reading the memorandum and the cabinet draft, not because he had any objections to the attitude of the Ministry of Finance and the cabinet, but because he thought of more.

Well, to put it simply, it's his uncle's house, and several other relatives that he walked around when he was King Yu.

In fact, the memorials of the Ministry of Household Affairs have detailed descriptions of Shixun and Qi Wan's granting of land. For example, among Shixun, the one with the most land is Chengguo Gong's family, with more than [-] hectares of land, and the residences of Dingguo Gong and Yingying Gong also have more than [-] hectares of land. Hectares, and other Shixun also have hundreds of hectares.

But Qi Wan is different. Just the consort Duwei and Prince Taibao Li He have more than [-] hectares of land, and Xu Congcheng has more than [-] hectares of land.

Well, these two are the son-in-law of Emperor Longqing's younger sister. They married Princess Ning'an and Princess Jiashan. How do you make Emperor Longqing popular?

Zhuangtian was given by his labor and capital Emperor Jiajing, and he will take it back when he comes to him?Or is it taxed?

After hesitating again and again, Emperor Longqing took up a pen and wrote in the memorandum: The ministers of the fifth generation and the princess are here, and the son-in-law has each farmland. The cabinet and the censor of the field agreed to keep a number of rules for hearing.

This kind of redemption is actually a refutation of the figures discussed by the cabinet in the cabinet meeting before. Wei Guangde also forgot that in the heart of Emperor Longqing, there is more or less a little bit of personal love between the heavenly family, so how could he do things too badly? .

Well, when Wei Guangde saw the son-in-law's farmland as high as thousands of hectares, it was impossible to say that he was not jealous.

How many fields does his family have?

If these relatives marry a princess or a daughter, they can easily get hundreds of thousands of hectares of land from the emperor, and this business is just done.

Emperor Longqing hesitated for a moment after writing the redemption.

He also knew from the words on the ticket that this memorial was written by Wei Guangde, so it is necessary to let Wei Guangde know what he meant, so that the next time he submits the memorial, he will agree with him.

"Chen Ju."

Emperor Longqing said.

"The slave is here."

Chen Ju hurriedly stood up from the side and stood still in front of Emperor Longqing.

"Come with ears."

Emperor Longqing did not speak directly, but whispered.

A strange look appeared on Chen Ju's face for a moment, but he quickly recovered, and then he leaned in front of Emperor Longqing.

Emperor Longqing's face didn't change at all, he leaned over and whispered in Chen Ju's ear, and soon Chen Ju opened his mouth slightly.

He hadn't read the memorial. He was not on duty today as the supervisor of ceremonies, but it was his turn to attend the imperial court, so he was still a little confused by what Emperor Longqing said. When the emperor handed the memorial to Chen Ju, he glanced at it. It took me a long time to understand what was going on.

"You take it and go directly to Shandai and let him deal with it again."

Emperor Longqing sat up straight at this time, and gave orders to Chen Ju majestically.

"According to the order."

After Chen Ju bowed and saluted, he quickly left Qianqing Palace with the memorial.

Soon, Chen Ju's figure appeared in the cabinet, Wei Guangde's office.

"Eunuch Chen, what can I do?"

In the cabinet, Wei Guangde and Chen Ju met in a business-like manner.

"Old Wei Ge, here is a memorial, Your Majesty asked me to bring it to you."

While speaking, Chen Ju had already taken out the memorial in his sleeve and handed it to Wei Guangde.

Although suspicious in his heart, Wei Guangde reached out to take it, and recognized it at a glance.

Looking at the sticker, two lines of small characters appeared in front of his own ticket, and Wei Guangde knew at a glance that it was not the representative of the ceremonial supervisor, but the emperor's own handwriting.

"It is said that the fifth generation of honorable ministers and the princess are here, and the son-in-law has each farmland, and the cabinet will discuss with the censor of the field that the number of acres should be kept for information."

After muttering it in a low voice, Wei Guangde's heart sank, knowing that this matter was not in line with the emperor's wishes, so he was dismissed.

And the reason, he can also see that the Zhuangtian of Xunqi seems to be less.

There is also the royal family that has a relatively close blood relationship with Emperor Longqing, which seems to have not been considered.

Wei Guangde frowned and looked at Chen Ju, his heart suddenly moved, "What do you want to say, Your Majesty?"

It was really difficult for him to guess Emperor Longqing's psychology, so he simply asked.

Chen Ju looked back, the clerk had left the room, and now there were only the two of them in the room, so he waved to Wei Guangde.

Wei Guangde was suspicious, but he still leaned over. Chen Ju repeated Emperor Longqing's words in his ear.

After hearing what Chen Ju said, Wei Guangde frowned even deeper.

What the hell, this emperor is really not in charge of the family and doesn't know how expensive Chai Mi is.

He is the head of the family in name, but he leaves everything to them.

Wei Guangde was a little speechless. He didn't mean to levy some taxes, and he didn't say that he would enlist his family's farmland, but Emperor Longqing set the tone so high all of a sudden. If he really wanted to do this, Shixun would be dissatisfied. .

"Your Majesty, there is no room for negotiation?"

Wei Guangde asked hesitantly.

"Your Majesty must have known that the news had spread like this, and some people might be dissatisfied, so he asked me to pass the message to you."

Chen Ju replied in a low voice.

Wei Guangde glanced at the emperor's approval on the memorial, fortunately he highlighted the important points, if he directly dismissed it, he didn't know how to talk about it with other people.

To put it bluntly, the emperor should treat them differently.

There is no problem with Shixun and his relatives in principle, it is just that the relatives have increased from [-] hectares to [-] hectares.

As long as he is lower than Shixun, it's okay to appease him.

But the attitude of the emperor was different for some families among his relatives, and this was the reason why Wei Guangde felt embarrassed.