Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 392 The Lost Hu Weiyong
Hu Weiyong made such speculations because he wanted to deny the matter of sailing. Once His Majesty is happy, he will be more confident to sit on the right.

However, from the perspective of Shangshu Kaiji of the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple Minister Zhang Shiyue, there is no way to say right or wrong about this kind of thing, after all, the relationship between His Majesty and the Crown Prince is father-son.

Although sailing costs a million taels, it can also open up trade routes for Ming Dynasty, as the court said earlier that day.

The imperial treasury tax, plus the commercial tax, has more than 1000 million taels of cash every year, and the rest of the tax is paid with grain and silk.

If His Majesty did not allocate money for the voyage from the treasury, it would be excusable.Besides, in the past few years, the Weaving Bureau and the Ming Commerce Bureau have contributed a lot of money alone.

Hu Weiyong had many eyes, seeing Kaiji and Zhang Shiyue hesitated about this matter, he only moved a few chopsticks when drinking and eating.

Asked his son to pour wine for the two: "There is no way to measure right or wrong when it comes to drinking and eating. You and I don't tell each other, how will His Majesty know whether we drink and eat for business or other things?"

"What's more, there is no rule in the Ming law that colleagues cannot communicate with each other. What's more, we still have to discuss official affairs, so there is no restriction."

Hu Weiyong comforted the two of them, but Kaiji still got up: "Well, the Criminal Department still has some things to deal with, so I'll go back."

Kaiji's attitude was firm, so Hu Weiyong asked Hu Peng to send him away. Hu Peng looked at Kaiji in front of him with disdain, and sent him away from Hu's residence.

However, after a while, Dali Temple Minister Zhang Shiyue, who hadn't finished his glass of wine, also got up reluctantly, saying that he wanted to leave.

Hu Weiyong patted Zhang Shiyue on the shoulder: "This is looking down on me, Mr. Hu."

"How could it be? It's really something in the yamen, so I have to go back first." Zhang Shiyue thought of the prisoner he had tried with the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

His Royal Highness is very kind to himself, so don't take any risks in this matter, the matter of great navigation is definitely a certainty.

Compared with the result that Luo Ge and Sun Xuan, the magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture, were beheaded by Qiu Hou, he was lucky to save Hu Weiyong's face.

Comparing in this way, I feel very balanced in my heart, and I am not so miserable...

The Wenhua Hall and the Wuying Hall are facing each other, and Zhu Biao went to the Wenhua Hall to deal with the memorial after lunch.

He went here for the first time, and Lao Zhu took a look at it later. Zhu Biao read the memorial very quickly, according to the priority and the order of the big and small things.All the flattering melodies were glanced at and put aside by myself.

It's not appropriate to leave those who have problems alone, and discuss it when he meets Lao Zhu at night. At least until now, he has seen Hu Weiyong's new memorial, and he licked Lao Zhu in his speech, saying that he would share the worries of the voyage for His Majesty.

Zhu Biao stared at the memorial, groaning silently, holding it for a long time without putting it down.

Xiao Huangmen, who walked over with a stack of new memorials, saw this situation, and asked, "Prince?"

Now Sanbao has more important things to do. It has been preparing for sailing for several years, and the Maritime Affairs Bureau is making preparations, but there are still many things that need to be paid more attention to.

"Go and call Tang Ding, the chief minister of the Maritime Affairs Bureau, and ask Tang He and Zongbing Zheng to come too. Send someone to the National Academy of Scholars to summon Lu Chang."

As soon as the little eunuch went out, Zhu Biao threw Hu Weiyong's memorial on the table, and after a while put it in the memorial for Lao Zhu.

For the position of the right minister, Hu Weiyong really kept thinking about it, and kept licking Lao Zhu.In the future, if he wanted to lick himself, he would still find him disgusting.

Zhu Biao frowned and thought for a while, then waved to the servant next to him: "Come here. Send this memorial to the Hall of Martial Arts to His Majesty."

The servant took it and hurriedly headed towards the Hall of Martial Arts.

Zhu Biao was busy reading the memorabilia, when a cup of tea was placed on the table, and when he subconsciously went to pick up the tea, he was stunned for a moment.

Didn't the servant who served him go to the Hall of Martial Arts to deliver the memorial?

Zhu Biao tilted his head: "Xia Yuanji? Why are you here?"

Xia Yuanji was not tall, so he lay down on the table and said, "Your Highness, I came to hand in my homework, so I made you a cup of tea."

I don't know why, looking at this Xia Yuanji, maybe I mentioned it casually at Lao Zhu, but I made the right one.

Zhu Biao went through his homework, put it down and said: "You did a good job, you can go to Princess Xu later and ask her to take care of your meals."

"Okay." Xia Yuanji's face blossomed into a smile.

"If you dare to eat and walk around again, Gu will ignore your food next time. I have never seen such a thrifty guy like you."

"Hey, I got it." Xia Yuanji looked at Zhu Biao anxiously, as if he was embarrassed to ask something.

"Don't look at it, I sent the money back to your hometown a long time ago. The person who sent you from your hometown also gave it to you. Don't you trust the people in the East Palace to handle things?" Zhu Biao asked him.

"Trust." Xia Yuanji chin leaned forward, looking at Zhu Biao's memorabilia on the case table.

Zhu Biao: "Your wine jar is in Yongning Palace, take your pocket money away."

"Your Highness, didn't you send money to my hometown? Then why is the money I saved still with Princess Xu?"

"Your little money is not enough to run errands. Gu Gu gave the money alone. The crown princess will help you collect the money you saved."

Xia Yuanji looked down at the ground, held his abacus in his arms and flicked it a few times, then ran over and said, "I don't want the money I saved, Your Highness, just take care of my meals."

"Is the food at Huangming Bookstore not good?"

"Princess Xu's cooking is delicious."

Zhu Biao nodded, indicating that he understood, and continued to look down at the memorial.Xia Yuanji saw that the servants hadn't come, so he helped to sort out the piles and arrange them in piles.

At this time, Xiao Huangmen came in panting from the outside: "Your Highness, Bureau Cheng of the Maritime Affairs Bureau and Zheng Zongbing are asking to see you."

Zhu Biao waved his hand, motioning for Xia Yuanji to sit beside him, and then said, "Tell them to come in."

Originally, Xu Yungong should be the prime minister of the Maritime Affairs Bureau, but Xu Miaowei felt that Tang Ding was more careful than Xu Huizu.

Tang He has done a good job in the shipyard in recent years. He is also smart and never talkative.This made Zhu Biao very satisfied with him.Last time I went to kill pirates and worked diligently.

"I see His Royal Highness the Prince."

After hearing the sound of Tang and them saluting, Zhu Biao came to his senses: "Sit down."

Sanbao and Tang Ding told Zhu Biao about some recent preparations, and reported the budgeted silver taels to Zhu Biao.

"Returning to Your Highness, basically, it will cost more than 300 million taels, and the cost of repairing a hundred ships will also cost a lot." Sanbao and Tang Ding sent up the list.

Tang Hedao: "Large treasure ships need twice as much repair materials as ordinary ships. I have some experience in shipbuilding materials in recent years."

Since he decided on sailing as a hot potato, no matter how hot it was, he had to catch it.Zhu Biao comforted them and said: "The National Academy of Scholars has a bank deposit, this matter will be resolved alone, you just make preparations."

Later, Lu Chang also came over and talked about the situation of the National Academy of Scholars.

"In the past two years, the Shen family has donated the profits of the winery every month, and they have stayed in the National Academy of Scholars. Lu Chang, how much money do we have now?"

Lu Chang said: "A total of 380 million taels, but these silver can only be used by the National Academy of Sciences to purchase experimental raw materials, as well as medicinal materials, utensils, and smelting..."

Listening to Lu Chang talking a lot, Zhu Biao knew it was useless.

"Your Highness, some of the money raised by the Ming Commerce Bureau from merchants all over the country should be allocated." Sanbao suggested.

Zhu Biao shook his head: "The money is the money needed by the Daming Post Office and elementary schools, middle schools, and government schools in various places. Even the maintenance of the straight road by the Highway Bureau is there. It is absolutely impossible to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall."

The money was recorded by the Ministry of Industry at that time, and was used to repair straight roads and post offices in various places.Many rural post offices are still under construction.

"Okay, step back." Zhu Biao frowned.

There is a treasury, but I promised in the court not to take a penny from the treasury, and the silver from the treasury can't be taken out so much for navigation at once.

Seeing that Zhu Biao was frowning, Xia Yuanji said, "Your Highness, why don't you go to the Shen family?"

Zhu Biao turned his head and waved to Xia Yuanji and said, "She doesn't have that much money herself. She doesn't belong to the Shen family alone, a million taels is not a small amount."

"That's right, how can a man ask for money from a girl's family?"

"Do you want to find His Majesty?"

"You know as much as you do."

Zhu Biao lowered his head and continued to change the melody. After a long time, he raised his head to look at the sky outside, and asked the time.

Xia Yuanji said to Xia Yuanji, who was reading next to him: "If you want to grab some food, hurry up, it's time for dinner."

Xia Yuanji packed his things and planned to go to Yongning Palace, thought for a while and said: "Your Highness, come down, the Crown Princess asked, how should I answer."

"If you want to discuss other matters with His Majesty, you can go by yourself..."

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(End of this chapter)