On the fourth day of April in the first year of Jiajing, Chang Dynasty.

The Chang Dynasty is different from the Great Dynasty Meeting, all the officials in Beijing must participate in the Great Dynasty Meeting, and only worship and do not deal with political affairs, while the Chang Dynasty only officials above the fifth rank are eligible to participate, and the emperor will listen to the ministers' recitals at the court meeting.

Of course, some special department officials, even if the official position is not enough for the five grades, can also participate in the Chang Dynasty, for example, in the six sections, although the official position is only seven grades, they can also participate in the Chang Dynasty, and the power is quite large, and they have the right to refute and cancel the chapters, and even the emperor can criticize and correct the wrong places. This kind of design of small and large official positions has considerable advantages, and is more advanced than the "top-down" patriarchal system of the current republic.

It is said that Xu Jin participated in the Chang Dynasty for the first time since he was promoted to the Hanlin Attendant and the Wailang of the Military Department last year.

At this time, Dan saw that the little emperor Zhu Houxi was wearing a five-clawed golden dragon robe, wearing a winged crown and sitting on the throne of Fengtian Palace, and the ministers of the civil and military classes were lined up on the left and right, and Xu Jin was standing at the back of the civil official team in a very low-key manner.

After the civil and military officials paid their respects, Bi Yun, the eunuch of the celebrant and eunuch, stepped forward with a whisk of dust and sang loudly: "If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat!" ”

As soon as the words ended, Hu Ke gave Yu Kuan a line in the middle of the matter and said loudly: "The minister has this book." Beginning in February this year, the household department tried to plant sweet potatoes in Wanping County, and originally promised to give the trial farmers a bucket of grain subsidies per mu, but two months have passed, but the promise has still not been fulfilled, and the people are quite complaining. It was the late minister who impeached Yang Tan, the secretary of the household department, for dereliction of duty and fooling the people, so please remove him from the post of secretary of the household. ”

As soon as these words came out, the ministers of the two classes were slightly commotioned, these officials were originally cannon barrels, and it was normal to bombard this and that tomorrow, but as soon as Yu Kuan opened his mouth today, he directly impeached Shangshu-level officials, and bluntly demanded that Yang Tan be dismissed, which was a bit unusual.

Zhu Houxi had long been unhappy with Yang Tan, who was in charge of the money bag, and said with an expressionless face: "Let Yang Tan, the head of the household, defend himself." ”

After all, Yang Tan is an old official, and he has not been impeached once and a half, so he came out unhurriedly and said: "Emperor Mingjian, because the grain of sweet potatoes is not enough, it takes time for the household department to collect grain seeds throughout the country, so all the trial planting plots in Wanping County were only sown in early March.

In addition, Wanping County has planted a total of more than 8,000 hectares of sweet potatoes on a trial basis, and the subsidized grain is 12,000 stones, and it takes a certain amount of time to deploy and transport, so the subsidy is late. ”

Yu Kuan immediately retorted: "Ridiculous, Wanping County's trial planting of sweet potatoes was decided after the cold dew last year, why not collect the grain early, and find that the grain is not enough when it is planted in the spring of this year?" ”

"Lord Yu's words are extreme, sweet potatoes are a new crop, lack of planting experience, and it is normal to make mistakes in the estimation of growing grain." Shi Jue, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, came out to defend Yang Tan.

Zhu Houxi said lightly: "It is desirable that the grain seed estimation is wrong, but the subsidy does not need to wait for all the sowing to be distributed, it can be distributed in batches, and the farmers who have planted will be given subsidies, so why should the people complain?" ”

Although Zhu Houxi's words sound reasonable, but in practice it is very troublesome, there is a unified distribution to save trouble, and the officials under the household department are just troublesome, so they decided to issue it uniformly, so as to save time and effort, and also save transportation costs.

Therefore, what makes sense is not necessarily reasonable, and it mainly depends on which side of the position you stand on, and if you look at it from the standpoint of farmers, the sooner you get the subsidy, the better.

At this time, Yang Tan knelt down very wisely and apologized: "The emperor is sage, it is indeed the negligence of his subordinates, please ask the emperor to punish the crime." ”

Zhu Houxi nodded and said: "Yang Tan, the head of the household department, did not do things well, but he thought that there was a reason for the incident, and it did not cause a big mistake, and he was fined for one month as a punishment." ”

"Thanksgiving!" Yang Tan kowtowed and apologized and returned to the ranks of civil officials.

There was silence in the Fengtian Palace, and a group of civil and military officials suddenly realized at this time that the little emperor who had been on the throne for a year was becoming more and more familiar with things, and his virtue was becoming more and more prosperous, and he punished a scholar with an understatement, and there was no way to refute it.

Xu Jin also had to admit that Zhu Houxi's kid was indeed very smart, no wonder Emperor Jiajing in history was able to successfully transform into a thunderous emperor as a young vassal king, controlling the ministers and eunuchs in applause, and was not like the later Wanli Emperor, who was overturned by Zhang Juzheng.

At this time, Yang Tinghe, the first assistant, walked out slowly and said, "The minister has something to do!" ”

Zhu Houxi's expression slowed down, and he said politely: "Mr. Yang, please speak." ”

Although the little emperor was dissatisfied with Yang Tinghe, he was still very respectful on the surface, and he was called Mr. to the four elders of the cabinet.

"The people of Yanzhou Mansion in Shandong suffered from floods last year, and even suffered from military disasters, and the people lived in hardship and hardship, and the emperor had decreed that Yanzhou Mansion should be exempted from taxes and grain for one year, but this was obviously not enough, and it was the ministers who implored the people of Yanzhou Mansion to be exempted from taxes and grain for two years."

Zhu Houxi nodded and said, "Quasi-play!" ”

As soon as Yang Tinghe retreated to the team, Xia Yan came out and said loudly: "The minister has a book!" ”

Xia Yan had sparse eyebrows and a loud and clear voice, Zhu Houxi had a good impression of him, and said happily: "Come!" ”

Xia Yan hugged Wat and said loudly with righteous indignation: "Last month, in Ningbo Mansion, Zhejiang, the two Yi vendettas, and the poisonous flow of the city, so that our people suffered heavy casualties.

The minister thought that the root cause of everything lay in the city shipping promotion department, and asked the emperor to issue an order to abolish the two city shipping promotion divisions in Fuzhou and Ningbo on the same day, strictly ban the sea, block the wharf, destroy the ships going to sea, cut off sea traffic, and prevent similar things from happening again. ”

As soon as Xia Yan finished speaking, many officials immediately stood up and seconded the proposal.

Xu Jin couldn't help frowning when he saw this, even if he abolished the suspension of trade by the City Ship Lifting Division, he even had to destroy the ships going to sea, wouldn't this be tantamount to abolishing his martial arts? Can you be more mentally retarded?

"Do all of you agree to abolish the City Bo Tiju Division and strictly ban the sea?" Jiajing raised his voice and asked, his gaze swept over the two classes of ministers, and finally stopped at Xu Jin's body.

The ministers who noticed that the emperor's eyes were different, all subconsciously turned their heads to look at Xu Jin, who was hiding in the corner.

When Xu Jin saw the current situation, he was already a little retreating, so he had to come out and say loudly: "The minister is against it!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar, and now the ministers in the entire Fengtian Hall almost overwhelmingly support Xia Yan, Xu Jin actually objected, could it be that this kid likes to do things against the ministers?

Zhu Houxi said solemnly: "Why is Jing Anbo opposed? ”

Xu Jin secretly took a deep breath, since he was a leading bird, then let it go, and then say another if it succeeds, so he took out a notebook from his arms and said loudly: "The minister wrote all the suggestions in the notebook, please take a look at it." ”

Zhu Houxi said solemnly: "Submit it!" ”

Immediately, Xiao Huangmen was responsible for presenting the notebook in Xu Jin's hand to the throne, and Zhu Houxi's kid took it and pretended to look at it.

Shoufu Yang Tinghe frowned, and glanced back at Xu Jin thoughtfully, and Mao Cheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, directly snorted coldly and reprimanded: "Grandstanding!" ”