Sen Leng's gaze roamed under the seat, the man in the yellow dragon robe sitting above seemed to be suppressing the anger in his heart, there were several copies of the folded Zhu Criticism scattered under the desk, and the attendants on the side were all unsquinting, expressionless, and seemed to be blind to all this in front of him.

"Lu Song, you say, why did this matter cause such a big mess?" After a while, he seemed to slowly suppress his anger, leaned slightly to the side, pressed one arm on the pillow next to him, and his voice slowed down a lot.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Jin and the others have already returned to this matter." Dressed in a slight bow, "the minister thought that freezing three times was not a day's cold, this time the Linqing people changed their name to the establishment of the tax supervisor, which caused dissatisfaction among the merchants and people, which led to a civil uprising, and then was coerced and used by the White Lotus Sect, which eventually led to a catastrophe, but with Zhang Jin and other secret investigations, the remnants of the White Lotus who preached and acted in various names such as the Wenxiang Sect, the Eastern Mahayana Sect, the Wuwei Sect and the Luo Sect emerged in an endless stream, and Lunan and Luxi all had the tendency to spread,......"

Sitting upright above is naturally Zhang Shen today.

The slightly raised cheekbones made his cheeks look a little slender, and the slightly fair face and slightly sunken eye sockets made the whole face look a little gloomy and deep under the flickering light in the Heart Cultivation Palace.

"The canal waterway is now an important channel connecting the north and south of Shandong, in addition to the Cao Yun, the daily communication between the north and the south of the country and Shandong, Jiangnan all kinds of people and things are through this waterway to the south and north, Linqing is a must pass through the ,......"

There was not much emotion in Lu Song's words, although he also knew that Chang Hong was arranged by His Majesty to set up a tax supervisor in Linqing to collect taxes, but the taxes that were really recovered by His Majesty were a little insignificant compared to what Chang Hong himself and other members of the party obtained.

All the criticisms of the people are attributed to Chang Hong, but the accusations in Shilin and even in the court have been directed at His Majesty, which is probably what His Majesty is most angry about.

But the question is, if we don't consider these channels and methods to collect some money back, do we all rely on donations to fill the bigger and bigger holes?

I'm afraid that those science and Taoist officials will be even more attacked.

The salary of the nine sides is becoming more and more urgent, and no one has taken over the post of household secretary for a long time, but no one can solve the current problem.

His face was expressionless, but Yonglong Emperor Zhang Shen's gaze was a little erratic.

There is a shortage of silver, and there is a shortage of silver everywhere, but silver is needed inside and outside, especially the military salary on the nine sides is more like a noose, which makes him breathless.

In the past six months, tax supervisors in various places have successively brought back 780,000 taels of silver for him, but this has always been compared with the military salary needs of the nine sides, like a drop in the bucket, and there is no sound when he throws it in.

However, the arrears of the provinces and the loans of the royal family and clan relatives on the side of the household department have not been collected for a long time, and he naturally understands the reason, but the problem is that he, the emperor, is powerless.

Moreover, even if it can be recovered, in the face of the growing demand for military salaries in the nine sides, as well as the various famines caused by the increasing number of floods, droughts, and locust plagues everywhere, the slightest carelessness will cause a catastrophe, and places like Shandong, which should have been the least likely to occur in Zhang Shen's opinion, have just happened.

Because of this, he has a sense of powerlessness.

In the morning, he had already made a discussion with several cabinet ministers about the rebellion of the people in Linqing, but he could not get the approval of the cabinet ministers.

The abolition of tax supervisors is the unanimous opinion of these civil officials, and all kinds of impeachment memorabilia of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have been handed over like rain, and he keeps saying that he wants to ask Chang Hong, that is, he said that he personally arranged to go to Shandong, but those people still refused to give up, this feeling made Zhang Shen feel very tired, but he could not do anything.

It is easy to abolish tax inspectors, but where does the required military pay come from? If there is no tax supervision, how can it be compensated?

Although it is a drop in the bucket, it can also respond to emergencies, otherwise the Tatar cavalry may have already entered the border last winter.

But if the tax supervision is not abolished, such as Shandong, and other things happen again, I am afraid that there will not be such good luck.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shen couldn't help but be afraid, if it wasn't for Caojun's decisive attack. In one fell swoop, he defeated the rebellious army of the bandits that had not yet been fully integrated, and if it was delayed slightly, I was afraid that the consequences would be unimaginable.

Both sides of the canal are the essence of the Northland, once destroyed, it will not be a year or two to relieve the air, and this kind of war caused by the exodus of the disaster victims, disturbing the surrounding area, maybe those bandits will take the opportunity to sit in chaos, the consequences are even more unimaginable.

"Lu Song, is this Shandong civil society so unbearable?" Zhang Shen's gaze became more and more feminine, but his tone was tendency.

"Back to Your Majesty, if it is in the opinion of the minister, Shandong can be regarded as a good situation in the north, and I am afraid that the situation in Beizhili and Shaanxi in the past two years will be even worse."

As the commander of the Long Forbidden Lieutenant, Lu Song is very clear about his position, the old man of the palace, and the private minister of His Majesty, so he naturally will not speak so many twists and turns to ordinary civil officials and military generals, even if it is a little ugly, he will not be taboo, because he knows that what His Majesty wants to listen to is the real side behind these clouds and fog covers.

His Majesty has hardly made any changes to the ministers of the court after the imperial pole, that is, there are already some old and unbearable people among the ministers who have proposed to Zhishi, which should have been a matter of pushing the boat down the river, but His Majesty in order to show his favor and give preferential treatment to the old ministers of the Emperor Taishang, he has ordered to be retained, but he has specially promoted himself in the position of commander of the dragon forbidden lieutenant, which is enough to explain a lot.

The current commander of the Long Forbidden Lieutenant has been bedridden at home for half a year due to illness, and the daily affairs of the Long Forbidden Lieutenant are actually in charge of his own affairs, if he is still hiding the news that His Majesty wants to know, I am afraid that there will really be no one to share His Majesty's worries.

"Oh?" Although he was upset and unhappy when he heard it, Zhang Shen knew that this was something he had to face.

If you can't get the real situation from Lu Song, then you will lose control of the entire Great Zhou.

In addition to forming a party and fighting for power and profit, the civil officials of the Great Zhou will only continue to raise troubles and problems, but they cannot come up with a solution to the problem.

Zhang Shen really misses the former Ming court staff system, although the Great Zhou did not abolish the court staff system, but in the forty-two years of his father's reign, he never used the court staff, if he was going to open the court staff as soon as he ascended the throne, he was afraid that the Shilin people's attacks on him would be more fierce, which he could not accept and did not dare to bear.

"Shaanxi has been intertwined with floods and droughts in the past two years, especially the continuous drought and locusts, the people are quite bitter, and the number of displaced people is ,......increasing" Seeing that the emperor didn't want to listen to it anymore, Lu Song also sighed secretly in his heart.

I'm afraid that the emperor has known about this for a long time, but the most urgent thing in front of him is not Shaanxi, or the impact of the civil unrest in Shandong, and even the elite hinterland of the north has become like this, how can it not make people shudder?

"The situation in Shandong is still good, the merchants along the canal are developed, and the income of the household bank is stable,...... "Lu Song can only pick up some topics that can make the emperor feel better, "In this rebellion, Lord Li, the governor of Caoyun, and Lord Shiqiao, the governor of Caoyun, and the chief military officer of Caoyun worked together, and there was no prevarication in the past, and they went down to the Qing Dynasty within one day, and the bandits were defeated with one blow, which can be described as the emperor's great blessing,......"

"Lu Song, why are Li Sancai and Qiao Yingjia so compatible this time?" Zhang Shen rubbed his temples and asked slowly.

The regulations that have been imposed since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the system of civil and military affairs, the system of the six ministries of the cabinet and the officials of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, and the system of the governor and the provinces of the imperial history, are all rules and regulations, which are to prevent one family from becoming the only one, and even disputes among the Chinese courtiers are actually a kind of regulation of different opinions.

It's just that there are gains and losses, and he has never sat in this position, Zhang Shen also feels that the situation of mutual restraint and mutual attack between the DPRK and China is very good, and his father is comfortable in controlling the situation, but when he sits in this position, he understands that it is not so simple to control, and it is necessary to pay the price for mixing different theories.