After opening the curtain on the throne, Zhu Youxiao looked straight at the ministers standing below and continued:
"There are some officials in this hall. I don't know if they are talkative or too curious!"
"During his tenure, he did not think about taking care of the king's worries or benefiting the people, but he pretended to be unfounded and worried about the world. He was extremely interested in things that had nothing to do with state affairs."
"After getting off duty and leaving the palace gate, eight-carriage sedan chairs walked struttingly in the middle of the street. The servants and servants showed off their power to the common people. It was so majestic!"
"The capital is like your own courtyard. I wish I could get a hundred loud men to follow behind me and loudly publicize it, without paying any attention to the influence and image."
"On weekdays, you are always talking nonsense. If you don't agree with something, your Majesty will just talk here and there, chewing the root of your tongue!"
"If you don't draw a basin of water to look after yourself, you are nothing. If you criticize your father in private, who gave you the qualifications and power?"
"I would like to remind you that curiosity killed the cat. First, sort out the things you have to do and take care of. If you want to mind your own business, check how much you weigh!"
"If something really happens, you can draft a memorial and submit it to me to advise me. If that doesn't work, you can speak directly in front of me!"
"I will set a rule for you in this great court meeting. If anyone talks about the emperor behind his back again in the future, he will be severely punished. No matter what kind of scholar you are, whether you are a prince or a noble, I will never be lenient!"
When Zhu Youxiao said the last sentence, he rapped the imperial case heavily with his knuckles. Coupled with his rather majestic expression and tone, it was full of oppression.
Although the officials could not see the emperor's face, they could tell from the emperor's firm tone that they had no room or opportunity to refute!
"Now that you have passed the imperial examination and entered the official career, you should do your own job well and don't think about what you have and what you don't have all day long!"
"I hope that in the future, I will not hear anyone complaining and criticizing my national affairs and the six cabinet ministries in the factory guard's reports."
"If you want to stand out, you'd better first see if your net worth is innocent enough and can withstand investigation!"
"Don't act like you have no talent all day long. Who are you pretending to show? I'm not blind or deaf!"
"As the saying goes, gold will shine. If you are really talented, just do something beautiful and show it to me. Then you will be missing out on the high-ranking officials and generous salaries, right?"
"What I want is not an incompetent mediocre person who only talks about morality, benevolence and righteousness, and talks about the Four Books and Five Classics."
"I don't know when the evil trend of forming cliques and seeking personal gain emerged. There is no courtesy for being a subject!" pace]
"What the emperor wants to do, what he wants to do, can you orchestrate criticism? Did the sages and saints teach you these disasters?"
Zhu Youxiao's words were quite serious. He was basically pointing at them and scolding them. It was so unpleasant!
How could the civil servants bear such contempt and insult from the emperor? One by one, they stood up with righteous indignation and argued with the emperor, hoping to win back the victory.
Although their words were sharp, Zhu Youxiao was not a vegetarian. Whenever someone came to argue and refute, he would retaliate to the end and spit out the evil anger that had been accumulated in his heart for a long time.
These people consider themselves to be superior men and are already transcendent, so they are still very conservative in their words, and the person opposite is a tyrant who kills without blinking an eye.
They had reservations, but Zhu Youxiao was not polite at all, and he almost didn't say the curse words that he would later say.
But despite this, these civil servants who had read poetry and books were still very angry.
"It is simply an insult to politeness. It is an insult to politeness. How can my majestic emperor behave like a scoundrel and rogue, speaking foul words? I am really unworthy of a saint!"
As soon as he mentioned saints, Zhu Youxiao's anger soared. There are no saints or sages here.
The official who was crying in the hall was immediately dragged out by the guards to enjoy the punishment of the imperial staff that they had always dreamed of.
Yang Huan was a ruthless man. Without getting the exact order, he killed this man alive outside the palace.
When he entered the main hall to report that the man had been killed, some officials who wanted to continue to argue felt a chill in their backs and immediately retreated without speaking again.
After Zhu Youxiao finished all his backlogged words, he finally returned to the main topic.
"The Minister of the Ministry of Revenue gave me a memorial, which is about the budgets required by various ministries and local yamen for the second year of Tianqi!"
"I did some statistics and found that compared to the tax revenue of the national treasury, it is much more. What, do you want to be bandits or horse bandits?"
An official from the Hanlin Academy stepped forward and responded to the emperor:
"Your Majesty, the funds requested by the officials are completely based on the actual situation. There are no omissions or false reports. Every detail can be verified!"
"I didn't say you were making false reports, it's just that what you reported is completely inconsistent with the national conditions. The taxes collected by the Ministry of Revenue this year must not be able to hide your curiosity, right?"
"Since we already know that we are in financial difficulty and cannot make ends meet, yet we still report so much. Isn't it because we are deliberately looking for trouble?"
A censor who was transferred back to Beijing from Shandong immediately refuted and only said:
"Your Majesty said that I don't understand what it means to deliberately seek trouble. Your Majesty may have only looked at the number and not the reason for the call. Your Majesty will know after reading it!"
"My lord, wait...!"
Zhu Youxiao immediately interrupted:
"I've seen it a long time ago. Many of the funds requested are simply unnecessary!"
"For example, the governor of Shandong requested that an additional 500,000 shi of grain and 200,000 taels of silver be allocated for disaster relief. Do you think it is reasonable?"
"The Shaanxi Provincial Censor reported to the Ministry of Revenue to allocate 500,000 taels of silver to regulate the Yellow River and repair and dredge the river. Isn't this an act of overstepping one's authority?"
"The governor of Shanxi and the governor of Shaanxi have not yet asked for the memorial, but he, a small inspector, can actually directly cross the two provincial yamen and submit the memorial to me. Who specifically approved it?"
"And the Yamen officials responsible for water transportation also jointly petitioned the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate grain, rice and money. The reason is also to clear the river!"
"Why do I remember that we just dredged the canal two years ago, which cost hundreds of thousands of taels, and countless people worked as slaves, so why can't we guarantee it for even three years?"
"How did you do this project? Now you still have the nerve to come to the Ministry of Household Affairs and me to ask for money to repair it?"
"You emptied the national treasury of money and food!"
"When something happens, you can only write a memorial and ask the court for money or food. What else do I want you to do? Who can't do this?"
"I will go to the fields and find any common people who are farming!"