Li Ying wore a flying fish robe and walked straight into the leopard room with his head held high.
Zhu Houzhao liked this majestic look. Jin Yiwei was so short that he would be considered a coward when he came to see him.
"Sanlang is here, come here quickly." Zhu Houzhao smiled and waved. His cough had improved a lot, and he had completely forgotten about the minting of bad money by the Ministry of Industry.
I really forgot!
Zhu Houzhao did not pay attention to the major cases that affected the internal and external courts. He was just very angry at the time.
Li Ying presented the results of the trial: "Your Majesty, the Baoyuan Bureau's bad currency case has been revealed, and it was secretly instigated by Liu Yong, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry. It's just..."
"Just what?" Zhu Houzhao asked casually.
Li Ying whispered: "This case involves Governor Zhu."
"Which Governor Zhu?" Among Zhu Houzhao's godsons, there are currently three governors.
Li Ying said: "Zhu Bin, the commander-in-chief of the left rear army."
Zhu Houzhao wondered: "This case happened in the Ministry of Industry, how could it be related to him?"
Li Ying said: "Dudu Zhu has a relationship with the Royal Horse Supervisor Wang En."
"Wang En in the elephant room? I remember it!" Zhu Houzhao suddenly had an impression.
The minting institution of the Ming Dynasty was initially the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, and the local mint was the Baoquan Bureau (affiliated to the Chief Secretary of each province).
Later, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development set up the Baoquan Bureau in the northern and southern capitals, which took over the money-minting business from the central government. From then on, the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry almost no longer minted money. However, the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry did not cancel its establishment, and it was still retained legally
The power to mint money.
Just before Zhu Houzhao contracted the cold, he was lured by Jiang Bin to see the tiger in the elephant room.
Wang En, the eunuch in charge of the elephant room, took the opportunity to flatter him by taking out the "Zhengde Yuanbao" and said that the emperor's portrait on the silver dollar was very majestic. If the silver dollar could be circulated throughout the country, people all over the world would know the emperor's heroic appearance. At that time, Zhu Houzhao laughed out loud at the flattery.
Wang En added: "Even if the silver coins are minted too little, I can only get one silver dollar now."
Jiang Bin chimed in: "There are only a few people in the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, so it is of course very slow to mint money."
Wang En then said: "The Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry can also mint money, and let the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs start work at the same time. Wouldn't this new money be minted faster?"
Zhu Houzhao joked: "This makes sense. If you don't become an eunuch, you can definitely be a capable official."
Wang En said with a smile: "Your Majesty is joking, how can a slave be an official? You can also come up with bad ideas."
"Hahahaha!" Zhu Houzhao laughed and went to see the tiger, and the Baoyuan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry was assigned the task of minting money.
Zhu Houzhao recalled the situation at that time and already understood that Jiang Bin and Wang En were acting. They wrote the script, Jiang Bin led the emperor to the elephant room, and Wang En brought the topic to new money, fooling the emperor into a fool the whole time.
The more Zhu Houzhao thought about it, the angrier he became. He was very new to Jiang Bin and knew that Jiang Bin was greedy for money.
But if you want money, just say, I can give you land. If you collude with the eunuchs to deceive you, what do you think of me?
Li Ying saw that the emperor was silent and said: "Your Majesty..."
"You step back first and let me think about it." Zhu Houzhao said irritably.
Li Ying bowed and left.
Zhu Houzhao then said to the accompanying eunuch: "You also retreat."
Zhu Houzhao sat alone in his study, feeling extremely depressed. He trusted Liu Jin, but Liu Jin built his house after the Forbidden City; he trusted Qian Ning, but Qian Ning colluded with Prince Ning; he trusted Zang Xian, Zhang Xiong, Zhang Zhong, Zhang Rui, and Lu Ming
, Shang Zhong, Qin Yong... these people are also King Ning's spies!
Now it's Jiang Bin's turn.
Zhu Houzhao didn't care that Jiang Bin was greedy for money or that Jiang Bin was domineering. He only hated Jiang Bin for deceiving him!
The accompanying eunuch who exited the study took the opportunity to relieve himself in the toilet and suddenly summoned a young eunuch. Soon, the young eunuch rushed to the ceremonial supervisor and told Zhang Yong exactly what had happened.
Zhang Yong sneered: "Wang Erlang wants to borrow a knife to kill people, so what if we use it as the knife?"
After deliberately waiting for a moment, Zhang Yong held a stack of cabinet approvals and respectfully went to the Xiyuan study room and knocked on the door.
"Get out!" the emperor's angry voice came from inside the room.
Zhang Yong said: "Your Majesty, I am a slave."
No more words were spoken inside, and Zhang Yong did not dare to say anything. He only blew the north wind and stood outside the door.
About a quarter of an hour later, Zhu Houzhao suddenly said: "Come in."
Zhang Yong went in holding the cabinet's approval: "The emperor has not been in charge of the government for a long time, and the cabinet is urgently pressing. The Chief of Ceremonies really can't stand it anymore."
"You came to bother me too, and I told you to handle it!" Zhu Houzhao was extremely irritated.
Zhang Yong said seriously: "I have no right to applaud your majesty on behalf of your majesty."
Zhu Houzhao said casually: "Then I will give you an imperial pen and criticize red on my behalf."
Zhang Yong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt ecstatic.
There were no eunuchs holding pens during the Zhengde period, and the drafting of cabinet votes had to be approved by Emperor Zhu. In the past, Zhang Yong was asked to handle the memorial, but after it was handled, Zhu Houzhao had to pretend to sign. And what the emperor just said was equivalent to announcing that the first eunuch holding pens in the Ming Dynasty was
born!
Zhang Yongqiang suppressed his laughter and said in fear: "Your Majesty, I am afraid that all the officials will not agree."
"I don't care whether they agree or not!" Zhu Houzhao was confused today.
Zhang Yong said: "Before the officials agree, your Majesty should approve these cabinet votes."
A pile of cabinet approvals were placed there. Zhu Houzhao didn't even bother to look at them, and he signed countless "accurate" words one by one in a daze.
Suddenly, Zhu Houzhao asked: "Are you short of money?"
Zhang Yong winced and replied: "That's enough."
"I think how much money you have is not enough." Zhu Houzhao said in a strange tone.
Zhang Yong knelt down quickly: "Your Majesty, this old slave is scared."
Zhu Houzhao sneered and said: "A few years ago, you blatantly moved hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the warehouse to your home. And the traitor Qian Ning, who didn't think the loot was enough in the capital, actually sent Tiqi to do it.
Jiang Bin was even more courageous. In order to make money, he even dared to forge the 'Zhengde Yuanbao'. It has my face on it, and it can be broken as soon as it is made, but he doesn't take me seriously!"
"The old slave is guilty, the old slave is guilty!" Zhang Yong kowtows crazily, but smiles on his face facing the ground.
Zhu Houzhao asked: "Tell me, what exactly does Jiang Bin want to do? If he dares to desecrate my portrait today, will he lead his troops into the Leopard Room tomorrow?"
Zhang Yong reminded: "There is no need to fight into the Leopard Room. The soldiers in Governor Zhu's hands are trained at the Leopard Room School Ground on weekdays."
Zhu Houzhao suddenly stopped talking. He asked the border troops to enter Beijing not only because he wanted to train his troops for the expedition, but also because he felt insecure. There was no way. Liu Liu and Liu Qi rebelled against the army and attacked the capital again and again, but he, the majestic emperor, had no soldiers to use.
.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao wanted to train an emperor's own army capable of fighting. In order to show the emperor's favor and win over the soldiers in the border towns, he directly brought the border troops to Baofang Campus.
But now, the commanders of these Leopard Fang border troops seemed not to be of the same mind as the emperor.
Zhang Yong suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I have something that I don't know whether to talk about or not."
"Say it!" Zhu Houzhao said.
Zhang Yong asked: "Your Majesty, does he still remember Wei Bin?"
Zhu Houzhao said: "Of course I remember, that old guy was sent to guard the imperial mausoleum."
Zhang Yong said: "Dongchang learned that Wei Bin's niece is the first wife of Governor Zhu (Jiang Bin)'s concubine."
Zhu Houzhao suddenly became furious and slapped his hand on the desk: "What on earth does Jiang Bin want to do!"
Zhang Yong said: "I don't know, I know. Perhaps Governor Zhu wants to get closer to the internal officials so that he can better serve the emperor. But..."
"If you have anything else to say, say it!" Zhu Houzhao scolded.
Zhang Yong said: "Captain Zhu has a lot of complaints about Xu Tai. He said... He said that he fought many battles for the emperor, and there was no credit but hard work. Killing a few common people and gentry to get money, what does it count? The emperor therefore said When Xu Tai was asked about the crime, Governor Zhu and many of the adopted sons in the army were quite dissatisfied, and such words were spread throughout the adopted son hall."
The adopted son's hall is a large club building complex built by Jiang Bin after demolishing a community in the capital. Many of the emperor's godsons are VIP members.
It's okay for one person to complain, but he still dares to complain in the adopted son's house. Is this to make all his godsons resent the emperor's father?
Zhang Yong continued to apply eye drops to Jiang Bin and said: "Your Majesty, Governor Zhu still..."
"say no more!"
Zhu Houzhao gritted his teeth and said: "Immediately call Wang Erlang to the Baofang, and ask him to appease the soldiers on the border of the Baofang. Don't make any noise. You take the Dongchang Official School, Jiang Bin, Shen... Forget it, only capture Jiang Bin alone, I don’t want to see him again!”
"I accept the decree!" Zhang Yong was so happy that he wanted to cheer.
When Zhang Yong was about to walk out of the study, Zhu Houzhao couldn't bear to say: "Remember to save his life."
Zhu Houzhao didn't take the bad currency case to heart at all. If Li Ying hadn't reported the case, he would have forgotten it all. Even if he knew that Jiang Bin was involved, Zhu Houzhao was still undecided. He was more inclined to take it lightly and punish him for a few months. Salary is enough.
It wasn't until Zhang Yong came to apply eye drops and stabbed his heart madly with every sentence from an extremely professional point of view that Zhu Houzhao immediately became furious.