Jingming

Chapter 92 The "Surprise" of Enthronement Full Moon

"Yan Song and Liu Long, are you writing your answer sheet?"

Hearing the emperor's sudden opening, Yan Song and Liu Long subconsciously stood up and retreated to the side, bending over.

"...I haven't written yet." Yan Song answered truthfully.

Liu Long: "The minister is the same."

"Is this difficult for me?"

"Your Majesty, state affairs are intricate and intricate, and all of them are intertwined with financial planning. I know that Your Majesty has the ambition to double your annual income in ten years, so you dare not exaggerate. If there is a slight increase, you can do a better job of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. However, doubling your annual income... I'm afraid It is necessary to find one or two fundamental ills to solve this predicament. It is easy to solve, but it is really difficult to deal with the aftermath."

Liu Long: "I think so too."

Zhu Houcong couldn't help looking at Liu Long: Should your surname be Zhang Mingfei?
Liu Long lowered his head and kicked his official boots.

"External troubles and internal troubles can affect the whole body." Zhu Houcong sighed with emotion, "The fundamental ills... Let's list the problems that the Gongsheng students talked about first. The old rules, record the number of times, and arrange them in order."

The policies and theories of more than 300 new scholars and the countermeasures of all the counselors in Beijing are still used for statistics.

In the minds of the ministers, Zhu Houcong was going to count out the entry points for improving Daming's financial situation.

Income, expenditure, "cost" in the implementation process... He always takes this opportunity to sort out the messy financial situation first.

Yang Tinghe was in a hurry to enthroned every day, and there were still many things in the imperial edict that only set the direction and had no strategy, but Zhu Houcong knew that he would never touch economic issues lightly.

The entanglement of interests is too complicated, whether to go to the military garrison, or to really annex the land, or start from the Huangzhuang Huangdian or even the commercial tax tariff, or... the coinage that is no longer under the control of the imperial court right?

After this period of understanding, the treasure banknote system established at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty seems to be a joke.

Regardless of copper coins or silver, Daming is not a land rich in these two precious metals.Yunnan is still in Jimi, where copper mines are mined and transported, and an unknown number of people are involved in the process.Besides, copper had to be used to cast weapons.

Zhu Houcong can't just apply the fiscal and taxation systems and various measures of later generations to the present. He has to have a deep understanding of the interests of today's era, technological limitations, communication efficiency, and the quality and concepts of officials who implement these systems.

He is indeed more serious than Yang Tinghe imagined, but no matter how serious he is, he is more radical than Yang Tinghe thinks.

Looking down at the policy theory of the new subjects who have been reviewed in detail, not only looking at their arguments and evidence, Zhu Houcong also has to figure out their temperament from their words and emotions.

"Your Majesty, it's all sorted out."

Under the eyes of Yan Song and Liu Long, Zhang Zuo walked in holding a locked box, bent down and put it on the imperial case.

Zhu Houcong nodded: "Continue to work. Has Fang Feng handed over the fine money for impeaching you for the crime of negligence?"

The stolen goods and fines treasury is also one of the internal treasuries. At the beginning of its establishment, the internal treasury was also supervised by the Ministry of Accounts.

After many years of evolution, the internal treasury has become the private treasury of the monarch. Not only has it become increasingly difficult to "borrow" money from the internal treasury due to insufficient expenditure from the treasury, the emperor has also increasingly used the treasury for private use.

Zhu Houcong doesn't have to be difficult to do so far, he is now only focusing on the inner library.

All the people who were used to by Queen Mother Zhang were kicked out by pre-selection, but Fang Feng was considerate, and Zhang Jin and Zhang Zuo were also fined some silver taels symbolically.

Take the blame and let the royal family be more decent.Zhang Zuo bowed his head and replied, "The slave has already been handed over."

Zhu Houcong had already opened the box with the key, took out the booklet inside and looked at it and said, "This matter was done quickly and in detail, thank you."

So the "penalty silver" that was just taken out came back in the name of being efficient, and there was a little more.

Zhang Zuo thanked him and went out. Yan Song and Liu Long didn't know what he was doing or what was inside the box.

Do you dare to ask more about the factory guard?

The silent busyness lasted until dusk, when Zhu Houcong stood up: "Go to Dongnuan Pavilion for dinner. Yan Song and Liu Long, tell me about the old things in Xining today."

Yan Song's heart shuddered: I really want to change the way!
Really, some tough nuts to chew on?

But today's Yang Jiefu is not the old Wang Jiefu!

Among the important officials in the court, no one has Wang Jiefu's prestige, talent, courage, and stubbornness.

The so-called self who has been raised and looked after for ten years is also worthy?

Dongnuange finally has the appearance that it has been talking about for a few days. Today, it is talking about history, talking about the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty before the Xining Reform, talking about the struggle between the old and new schools, and talking about the distortions and gains and losses in the implementation process.

The speaker was Yan Song, who had been prepared for a long time, and Liu Long said "exactly so" from time to time like a fan.

Until Huang Jin sent in a memorial.

"The Ministry of Criminal Justice, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple jointly named Shangshu, and the two cases of Qian Ning and Jiang Bin have found some real evidence related to the University Scholars, the Jiuqing, and the honorable ministers of the Five Houses. Your Majesty, please judge!"

Yan Song and Liu Long were suddenly shocked.

Not much fighting this year.

It's not that we won't do it, it's just that we won't do it together first.If some important ministers are involved because of something, it will be discussed again.

What the emperor said at the first court meeting is still in my ears. Now that it has been nearly a month, what should come is still here.

This time, it was because something involved some important ministers, right?

Zhu Houcong opened the memorial with a heavy face, and everyone in the East Nuan Pavilion dared not say anything.

In the memorial, Xie Changjie, who was in charge of the case at the Metropolitan Procuratorate, signed his name impressively.

Among the important ministers involved, Liang Chu, Wang Qiong, Chen Jin, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Yang Tan, Minister of the Household Department, were among them.Among the honorable ministers, there are several Hou Bo.

The crimes of Qian Ning and Jiang Bin also involved many internal officials, including Gu Dayong, Wei Bin, and Zhang Yong, who had already been dealt with once.

The crimes involved include eunuchs disrupting power, framing loyal officials, embezzling and extorting bribes, seizing people's land, falsely claiming empty pay, and... plotting treason.

Do you want to continue the investigation?

Zhu Houcong, who was enthroned on the full moon, received a surprise from courtiers discussing matters.

"Let's stop here today." Zhu Houcong calmly closed the memorandum submitted after today's joint trial by the three jurisprudence divisions, "Decree, I will go to the hall of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to hear the trial tomorrow. go."

Yan Song and Liu Long left with their own thoughts, and then Zhu Houcong calmly ordered: "Call Zhang Jin and Zhang Zuo here."

The air pressure in Qianqing Palace dropped, and Zhang Jin and Zhang Zuo already knew what was going on here.

"Under the secret investigation by the servants, the Datian official is deeply involved with Qian Ning and Jiang Bin... more than what the memorial said." Zhang Jin felt that the flames of the fire had already reached his feet, "The Ministry of Punishment ...I'm afraid there are still hands left."

Zhu Houcong looked down at the report. This was the result of investigations that Jinyiwei and Dongchang divided into two lines, internal investigations, unannounced visits to the outside world, and years of secret files.

The case of Qian Ning and Jiang Bin was used as an excuse during the first court meeting, so how could it not be guarded against?
But now it has been confirmed by many sources that Liang Chu, Wang Qiong, Yang Tan and others have indeed left a lot of clues.

As for Yang Tinghe, Jiang Mian, Mao Ji, and other important court officials, have they all spoken righteously to Qian Ning and Jiang Bin before?

Of course not, Qian Ning and Jiang Bin fought Yang Yiqing and Fei Hong away. Yang Ting and them were the ones who entered the final round under the fierce fire of these lucky ministers in the past, so it is difficult to have a clear reason.

What's more, the presiding judge was the Ministry of Criminal Justice.Zhang Zilin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, was recommended by Yang Tinghe.

Chen Jin from the Metropolitan Procuratorate was involved in the case, and Xie Changjie signed it.

Dali Temple, which was in charge of the review, also approved the current preliminary trial opinion.

Expand to find a dirty result?Difficult and time consuming, but it seems...

What is Yang Tinghe trying to do?
Zhu Houcong is reflecting: Is it because I have been too knowledgeable and prudent recently?

(End of this chapter)