Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 141 Court Meeting ([-])

In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Youxiao, who was sleeping soundly with the queen Zhang Yan in his arms, was woken up by the eunuch.

As the emperor, Zhu Youxiao naturally cannot have a few days of rest after returning to Beijing like ordinary people to talk with his parents and spend a few days with his wife.

As the emperor, he had to get up early, and today was the day to get up.

Regarding the Shang Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao, who had just come to the Ming Dynasty, might still be a little excited to learn about new things, but now he is also getting tired of it. He really doesn't understand why there is such a torturous early court system, and he has to get up before dawn. It makes people in a trance, and even the joy of bedtime in the morning is greatly reduced.

Fortunately, the current morning court time has been delayed compared to the Hongwu Yongle period. It is difficult for Zhu Youxiao to imagine the perseverance of the model worker Zhu Yuanzhang who got up at one or two in the morning to go to court for decades.

When he entered the Qianqing Palace, the two rows of maids who were in charge of cleaning the Qianqing Palace were busy bowing their heads and saluting. Zhu Youxiao also happened to stop in front of Xu Fo, glanced at her, and went straight into the hall without saying anything.

But Xu Fu couldn't help but his heart was pounding.

In the main hall, the ministers had already been divided into left and right sides. After the censor called and reported the number of people who arrived and the number of people who were absent, he first impeached an official of the household department for snoring while dozing off in the court room.

After Zhu Youxiao heard this, he didn't blame the dozing household official. Everyone would be a little depressed when he got up so early to go to court. Snoring is also inevitable.

However, when it came to the dignity of the court, Zhu Youxiao couldn't do anything, so he simply demoted the official of the household department to one level and asked him to go home and get enough sleep.

The household official also understood His Majesty's painstaking efforts, so he hurriedly thanked him and left the Golden Luan Hall shaking his head.

At this time, the court also began to discuss serious matters, and Zhu Youxiao first called the ministers of the six ministries to report the situation of their respective departments.

As soon as the new year was over, there were urgent events one after another, such as the looting of food by the Tartars and the entry into the customs. Zhu Youxiao did not have time to listen carefully to the year-end summary report that Zhu Youxiao asked the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to do.

Now, just taking advantage of this early court visit, Zhu Youxiao also wants to learn more about the current situation of Daming.

The first to stand up was Cui Chengxiu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials. This eunuch who was slandered as a traitor by the Donglin Party was not only not liquidated in this era, but was transferred to the official of the Ministry of Officials by Zhu Youxiao.

The Ministry of Officials was the head of the six ministries, which controlled the promotion of all officials, especially middle and lower-level officials. Even the effective implementation of central government orders was related to the ability of the low-level officials selected by the Ministry of Officials.

Since Cui Chengxiu became a heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials, regardless of his background, the selection of officials only asked him whether he was a member of the royalist party, whether he had participated in a more radical literary society, and whether his family background was rich or poor.Those who were born in poverty and were members of the royalist party were often appointed to be officials in wealthy areas in the south of the Yangtze River, while those from wealthy families were sent to Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

In this way, collusion between government and businessmen can be avoided as much as possible, which is in line with Zhu Youxiao's purpose of suppressing the power of Jiangnan merchants. Therefore, Cui Chengxiu is in charge of the Ministry of Officials, and Zhu Youxiao is very relieved.

"Your Majesty, of the more than 320 Jinshi admitted by the Wuchen Division this time, except for 40 who stayed outside the capital, most of the rest were arranged to serve in the yamen of various provinces, prefectures and counties. In addition, in the seventh year of Tianqi, Ding You officials A total of more than 340 people, [-] people were dismissed, [-] people died, and [-] new vacant officials were added.”

After Cui Chengxiu said it, he submitted the papers. Zhu Youxiao glanced at it and didn't say much. The reason why there were so many dismissed officials was naturally related to his eradication of the Donglin Party last year. When two-legged scholars become officials, no, just after 320 people were dismissed, there are more than 300 new vacancies, and there are also new scholars.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao doesn't have to worry about not being able to find an official to do things for him after rectifying the officials.

Guo Yunhou, Minister of the Household Department, can be regarded as the source of family education. His father was the head of the Household Department. Now Zhu Youxiao let him take charge of the Household Department. , the ability to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall is passable, but they don't know how to make money.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, in the six years of the apocalypse, the total tax revenue of various items was more than 4 million taels, and the total amount of various expenses and taxes was 0 million taels. It is estimated that the income will decrease by more than 0 million taels, but the military expenditure in Liaodong will also decrease accordingly, so the income and expenditure will balance out, but I am afraid that there will be one or two major events, and now we are waiting for the two major events in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Zhejiang and other places. More than one million taels of silk folded and colored silver were deported into Taicang, which may fill the emptiness of Taicang, and the military pay on the other nine borders can also be filled by a total of more than three million taels of taxation from Shandong, Huguang, Henan and other places."

Guo Yunhou's series of figures let Zhu Youxiao understand the current financial situation of Ming Dynasty. Dare the current central finance can only make ends meet and have no balance. In this case, how can he recruit recruits on a large scale? How to build a large-scale military industrial system will definitely have to fight several wars in the future, how to save enough money and food for several years of war, and the increasingly harsh climate of the small glacier and the upcoming outbreak of the epidemic, all of which require money Go smash it.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help frowning.

Sun Chengzong has always been the minister of the Ministry of War, but Sun Chengzong basically doesn't care about the affairs of the Ministry of War now, and the one who is actually in charge of the Ministry of War is naturally Lu Xiangsheng, the left servant of the Ministry of War and governor of Jiliao.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao was not willing to let a feudal official in charge of the Gyeonggi garrison also be the second in command of the Ministry of National Defense, even though this person was Lu Xiangsheng.

But there is nothing to do now. The current system of Ming Dynasty determines that the military power in charge is still high-ranking civil servants, but Zhu Youxiao can only trust these civil servants without blindly commanding them. Among them, Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, and Wang Zaijin have already They all undertake the important task of guarding the Nine Frontiers of Ming Dynasty, and it is really impossible to transfer any one of them back to Beijing.

Therefore, at present, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Jiliao, who is close to the capital, can only be appointed as the post of the Ministry of War.

Lu Xiangsheng was promoted by Zhu Youxiao from the post of magistrate, so there is no need to worry about his loyalty.

But now, because of his merits of dispatching troops and keeping several important cities in Jizhou and Tongzhou from falling into the hands of the Tartars, he has also established prestige among the officials. No one can deny that he is the right person to take charge of the Ministry of War. Daming Daily even praised Lu Xiangsheng's deeds to flatter Zhu Youxiao's knowledge of people. The topic of being promoted from a magistrate to a young Sima has almost become a good story that everyone praises.

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