eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 47 Ledger
Li Guang died.

In the end, he didn't reveal a word about the prince.Otherwise, there would not even be a whole corpse.

Zhu Houzhao got up as usual,

The only difference is that Yang Tinghe sent a letter from Qingzhou.

The prince was originally reading Zhang Tianrui's advice on the Medical Palace, and was somewhat surprised when he heard Liu Jin holding the letter in both hands.

"Yang Tinghe's letter? How long has he been gone?"

Liu Jin replied: "It has been more than ten days since I returned to Your Highness."

It's been more than ten days,

time flies.

During this period of time, he read and practiced calligraphy in the morning, practiced archery in the afternoon, and then went to Kunning Palace and Qingning Palace. Sometimes he had dinner elsewhere, and sometimes he went back to the East Palace. It was very regular.

The weather in the capital also turned cold all of a sudden, and the north wind blew my face like a knife.

Zhu Houzhao's clothes have become very thick. From a distance, it looks like his head is inlaid with warm white fluff. Sometimes it is difficult to bend because of his short hands.

Now it has become his habit to write some words every day, and after so many days of study, for articles in traditional characters without punctuation marks... as long as it is not a particularly obscure or uncommon vocabulary, it is generally acceptable. read.

It just so happened that Zhang Tianrui, the official of Zhongyun, put his mind into writing a strategy for the medical palace during this period. When he came to the shortfall, he mentioned four words: make up for the loss with profit.

It means charging less for the poor and charging more for the rich.

The idea is good, and it is a great breakthrough compared to this era.But how to make the rich pay more is actually not very well written.

But overall, Zhu Houzhao is satisfied.

He must also inject his own ideas into the specific plan. For these officials, his request is "want to do this matter",

This person may not really care about the people,
It may also be a political speculation with the prince.

That's not important for now.

as long as he wants,
If you are willing, it means you are on the prince's side.

After reading this, Zhu Houzhao took Yang Tinghe's letter to read again,

The name of this letter is Xie En, which means that after he arrived in Qingzhou, he became the magistrate, and began to bend down to understand the personal things related to the people, wrote some of his own "income", and will be able to have these " The credit for the income was given to the prince.

If you hadn't sent me here, Prince, how could I have these experiences?
In addition to this, I also added a little bit of content.

"Yang Tinghe, you have a heart."

Hearing the crown prince's praise, Liu Jin paid more and more attention to this person.

The content of the letter is actually not as important as the letter itself.The main thing is that Yang Tinghe thinks about doing this, which means that he regards himself as the prince.

"Yang Tinghe said that Zhang Tianrui practiced for him when he was out of Beijing, and he was considered a gentleman for a while, so he recommended him. He also said that Zhang Tianrui is coming to visit the palace." Zhu Houzhao sneaked Liu Jinti over and asked, "Why hasn't he come today?"

Could this Liu Jin be dishonest again?

Liu Jin was also taken aback, feeling full of grievances, and her old face was full of bitterness, "Your Highness, after learning the lesson from Your Highness last time, how dare the servants make things difficult for him again? Zhang Zhongyun has been on duty for many days and has always been fine. The slaves also I don't know...why he didn't come."

"Then is he there? Go and ask."

"Yes, servant girl will go now."

The result of the final question...was that he didn't dare to come.

This made both of them dumbfounded.

"Your Highness, at the beginning...he was sick because he was scared of getting sick. This person is timid."

"Then this is too small, isn't it?" Zhu Houzhao gently threw his memorial on the desk, a little helpless.

But there is another thought in my heart, at least the timid people dare not be greedy for money.

To use people, we must put people in appropriate positions.

"Do you want to call him?"

"No, what's wrong with being scared later." Zhu Houzhao picked up the pen, only to find that the ink had dried.

It's too cold today.

"Call Qiuyun over."

Since Yang Tinghe wrote the letter,

He also has to write back.

I've been practicing calligraphy for quite a few days, and it's time to write it down seriously.

Speaking of the letter, seeing Qiuyun, Zhu Houzhao suddenly remembered the conversation with her last time.

"Qiu Yun, last time I said I wanted you to write a letter to your younger brother, but is it finished?"

The girl was also a little surprised that His Royal Highness still remembered this matter,

"Letter, finished."

"Then go and get it, and ask someone to deliver it together later."

"My servant thanked His Highness for your kindness." Qiu Yun saluted very formally.

Zhu Houzhao didn't care, he was thinking about writing something to Yang Tinghe, and after thinking about it, he felt that it would be great if he had WeChat, so he could send it directly.

Qiuyun's side was also fast, and after a while, he came back with the letter.

The little girl handed over a folded white paper with four words written on it: Invited by you personally.

These four hairpin lowercase scripts are extremely beautifully written. The so-called calligraphy and painting are slightly thin and not wide.

While the pen is full of ink, there is no trace of stagnation.

Zhu Houzhao put it on the desk as soon as he received the new one. In this way...in fact, it was unintentional, and it suddenly formed a sharp contrast with the brush calligraphy he wrote.

How should I put it, looking at the handwriting written by Qiuyun, people who know that their handwriting is not good are silent,

Looking at the words he wrote, both the good ones and the bad ones are probably silent.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but twitched his eyebrows twice, then subconsciously pulled the book over to cover it, and sneaked a guilty glance at Qiuyun between his eyes.

"Cough cough." He clenched his fist and coughed twice, "Liu Jin, has there been any change in the court situation recently?"

Qiu Yun had no expression on his face, but when he retreated to the corner and no one noticed, he secretly covered his mouth and let out a soft laugh.

Is it court?
It's strange to say that before Li Guang's death, the court was very fierce, and now it's over and it's been quiet for many days.Because Li Guang had been the most favored person for many years, when he died suddenly, many people couldn't react in time.

Liu Jin said: "...there is one thing. Eunuch Xiao found a ledger in Li Guang's home. It is said that Li Guang recorded in detail every official who gave him money, involving many ministers in the court, and even There are various ministers. Now, foreign ministers are very concerned about this ledger."

Oh?
Maybe it's because I'm afraid of taking someone's money and forgetting to do things for them, so I like to write it down.After all, it is immoral to take money and do nothing.So old, so many people sent it... It's really hard to remember.

Zhu Houzhao was stunned when he heard this. He only knew that Li Guang was greedy for a lot of money, but he never thought that he would leave this account book.

"This ledger? What do you think?"

Liu Jin said slowly, "The officials know that this news is already a celebration, and they want to use it to make a big fuss. Although there has been no movement in the past few days, one is because the news is too sudden. Some people don't believe it, and some people still believe it. I don’t know; the second reason is that Li Guang has been in power for many years, and his party members are spread all over the inside and outside, and there are many important ministers among them. Personality, even if this ledger is true, I probably don’t want to make any more waves.”

The court situation, I am afraid that it will become turbulent.

Zhu Houzhao stood up and walked around twice.

Now the civil servants have divided half of the heavenly merit of "Breaking Li Guang" into him.It seems that the prince is also against Li Guang's faction.

However, he and Hongzhi have the same attitude, tending to pass through smoothly,
It's not that he wanted to protect those courtiers who bribed Li Guang,

Rather, I don't like this Ming dynasty version of 'identity politics' and 'label politics'.

Now some speech officials must open their mouths to characterize a certain official as "Li Guang's henchman".

If things go on like this, faction disputes will intensify, so what good is there?
"I do... want to see this ledger too."

This is a sharp weapon against these civil servants.

To prevent them from opening their mouths is benevolence and morality, and to prevent you from doing what they say is a serious crime.

"If it is His Highness, the Emperor should not refuse,"

Zhu Houzhao was indeed interested.
Could it be that you saw Wu Kuan in big characters on it?

Although he thinks it's unlikely.

"Get ready, I'm going to the Qing Palace!"

(End of this chapter)