Many pavilions in the renovated Leyou Garden have been paved with earth dragons, and the Lotus Pavilion is built near the lake, and the cold wind blows on the Qingxin Lake in winter, and there are no people standing in the pavilion at all. But now the brocade curtain is hanging all around, the earth dragon exudes heat, the whole pavilion is as warm as spring, and those dancing palace maids are dressed in thin skirts, as bright and moving as spring flowers.

It's already December, and the first year of Changqing is about to pass, and Shi Chongwei is very satisfied with the first year of his ascension. The court combed through it according to its own wishes, and those officials who liked to oppose themselves were either demoted out of Beijing by themselves or did not dare to talk nonsense anymore, and no one dared to offend my majesty; The peace treaty with the Northern Desert has come into effect, the pressure on the north has been greatly reduced, the army of the Sixteen Guards has returned to the capital one after another, and Jiang Anyi in the west has set up two military towns in the Gobi, and the people of the Western Regions have turned from offensive to defensive; Yang Quandong, the head of the household department, reported that this year's tax is expected to exceed 50 million taels, which is nearly 10 million taels more than the best years of his father's reign, and Shi Chongwei is full of complacency.

As soon as the hand was raised, the palace maid standing beside him handed over a glass of wine, the temperature of the wine was just right, the mellow fragrance was tangy, and he was drunk without drinking. The treasury has silver, and next year it is time to repair the Yanshan Garden, change the garden into a palace, and let the queen mother go to cool off every summer, and the queen mother must like it. When the queen mother returned to Beijing in October, she had come out of the shadow of her father's death, and she had become more energetic and fatter. The queen mother is afraid of the cold, and the newly repaired Ningshou Palace is paved with earth dragons, and the queen mother must be very comfortable in the palace this winter.

After a song, the singers fell to the ground, and Shi Chongwei smiled: "Give wine." "These singers are the show girls who were selected into the palace in September, all of them are as beautiful as flowers and can sing and dance. Among this group of singers, Yun Ruyu was named a talented person and was very favored. Among the palace maids who entered the palace this time, there was one person who was named a beauty (Zheng Sanpin), and three talented people (Zheng Sipin), if you want to go up further, it is the Yi and the concubine, generally speaking, it depends on being pregnant with a dragon.

Among the three daughters sent by Zhang Keji, Lou Xiaohua and Gao Changlan were both elected as internal officials, and Lou Xiaohua was the head of the Shanggong Bureau (Zheng Bapin), and was used in Queen Xiong's Kun'an Palace; Gao Changlan is the palm ornament of the Shangfu Bureau (Zheng Bapin), arranged to serve in the palace of Concubine Cheng Shu. When he was in the East Palace, under the instruction of Shi Chongwei, Lian Xi recognized Cheng Mingdao, the young Zhan Shi at that time, as his righteous brother, so the palace called him Cheng Shufei.

There are as many as 600 palace maids who have also entered the palace, and only 50 people can be named internal officials, Lou Xiaohua and Gao Changlan have become internal officials from ordinary people's girls, showing their own excellence, as for Yun Ruyu because of Shi Chongwei's favor and became a talented person of the fourth grade, it is even more difficult to meet, as for the Wang Meiren who was named a beauty, she is the daughter of the Wang family, and when she is pregnant with the dragon species, Yi and concubine can be expected.

The singers quietly retreated, and the little eunuch waiting outside the door took advantage of the time to come in with today's recital. When the brocade tent was lifted, there was a chill, and seeing that the Son of Heaven frowned, Zhang Jin thought that he would have to ask the court bureau to set up another brocade barrier outside the brocade barrier, so that there would be no cold wind blowing in.

The little eunuch put the fold in his hand on the table, bowed and left. Since the weather cooled down, Shi Chongwei began to get tired of politics, unwilling to get up early to go to the Zichen Palace, the time of the last dynasty dragged on to the end of Chen, and then simply fished for three days and dried the nets for two days, and handed over the political affairs to Kong Province and Duan Cizong to deal with. The ministers advised, Shi Chongwei said with eloquence, the ancient holy emperors all hung their clothes and ruled, I trusted the princes, and the big things were played by me, and the small things were self-determined.

Of course, Shi Chongwei is confident when he says this, the faction of the King of Chu has long disappeared in the court, Kong Province and Duan Cizong are all trustworthy courtiers, plus Wei Youcheng and Cheng Mingdao, these confidants, even if I can't hide the major affairs of the court, not to mention that the ministers have dealt with the government and the government to report to me, if I am not satisfied, the decree is dismissed, and the court is working for the country, why should I learn from my father and the emperor, and suffer in vain.

"Reading", Shi Chongwei glanced at Zhang Jin, who was standing beside him, adjusted his sitting posture on the brocade couch, and his body sank into the soft fur, which was warm and comfortable. A soft hand stretched out, the skin was like congealed fat, and a raisin pinched by his fingertips opened his mouth, and the sweet taste diffused in his mouth and secreted into his heart.

This is the preserved fruit of Huazhou's tribute, Shi Chongwei closed his eyes and tasted the sweetness in his mouth, since Jiang Anyi went to Huazhou, Huazhou has a lot of good things, honey fruits, longevity oil, gold and jade liquid, recently Dongshi has poured into a lot of good jade, Huang Xi reported that these jade are from Huazhou, I asked Yang Quandong, this year's tax in Huazhou is four million taels.

Last year, I asked Huazhou for 4 million taels, and Jiang Anyi sent 800,000 taels of birthday silver, I thought that Huazhou was great and had a tax of 3 million, but I didn't expect that there were still 4 million taels, which really surprised me, Huazhou is really rich, and Huazhou will become the most taxed state in a few years. Shi Chongwei sighed, Huazhou, Jiang Anyi, let me both like and fear, it is difficult to deal with it.

"Chen Qingtian made Huang Ping report it, and the minister has ...... since he received the decree", a series of official articles read out of Zhang Jin's mouth, and Shi Chongwei waved his hand impatiently and said: "Directly read the results of this clearing of the fields." ”

Zhang Jin's eyes quickly swept over the chapter, found the place to read, and read: "This time to clean up the acres, the state governments reported 138,000 hectares of self-inspection, including 23,000 hectares of vocational fields, and a total of more than 579,000 taels of taxes and silver; The Qingtian inspectors went to various places to conduct inspections and found a total of 60,400 hectares of hidden and unreported fields, including 8,700 hectares of vocational fields, and a total of 326,000 ......taels of taxes and silver were paid."

The hidden fields found out by clearing the acres of land this time are less than 200,000 mu, and the annual increase in field tax is only 600,000 taels, and the tax paid this time is less than 1 million taels. In contrast, Pan Heyi was impressed, and more than 20,000 hectares of land were found in Guanghua Prefecture alone, more than one-tenth of the inventory, and nearly 200,000 taels of taxes and silver were paid, which reached one-fifth.

Five days ago, Shi Chongwei received several secret recitals from Huazhou. Jiang Anyi's secret recital was to ask for guilt, and Huazhou found out so many hidden fields, and it was difficult to escape the blame for negligence as a strategic envoy. Shi Chongwei was very happy when he received Jiang Anyi's plea, deep in his heart Jiang Anyi pressed on his heart like a stone, and the original long bridge greeting and greeting in front of Dali Temple were all to relieve the heavy pressure on his heart. Jiang Anyi helped him a lot, and when Jiang Anyi was imprisoned, he took the opportunity to seize the perfume industry in Beijing, and Shi Chongwei knew that many people were secretly laughing at him.

The shadow in his heart has accumulated heavily, Shi Chongwei is a little afraid to see Jiang Anyi, the Western Regions Alliance invaded the father and sent Jiang Anyi to Huazhou to quell the chaos, which made Shi Chongwei secretly relieved, otherwise he would be in the court all day long, and he would have to smile on his face, and Jiang Shi Jiang Shout shortly, he was really tired. No wonder the history books say that merit is not rewarded, back then I also laughed at those emperors for being faint monarchs, and I didn't know that this sentence made sense until I became the emperor.

Holding Jiang Anyi's plea, Shi Chongwei felt that the stone in his heart was empty, and Jiang Qing would also make mistakes, and he actually indulged the Tunjun army to hide so much fertile land, and if he connived at negligence, he would at least be demoted and punished. The twist in his hand was like a sharp blade, Shi Chongwei felt that he had finally caught Jiang Anyi's handle, and he was so excited that he wanted to sing a song. Shi Chongwei had already thought about Jiang Anyi's punishment, reprimanded him strictly in the secret decree, and then comforted him, showing that I still trusted him, and let him let him go.

Zhou Yongtong's secret performance was delivered at the same time, the new assassin was a little unlucky, and when it came to this incident, Shi Chongwei read the words and phrases of the secret performance, and he could imagine Zhou Yongtong's full of grievances. I am not a faint king, so I naturally know that this matter has nothing to do with Zhou Yongtong, and when the official official document from Huazhou arrives, let the government hall vaguely draw up a reprimand. I originally intended to let Fang Shishu take over as the assassin of Fuzhou, but if this incident happened, let him retire in the position of a scholar of Jixian Palace.

Shi Chongwei is concerned about what Zhou Yongtong saw and heard after he arrived in Huazhou, many courtiers said that Jiang Anyi is powerful in Huazhou, and he may not be able to lose his tail in the future, so let me transfer Jiang Anyi as soon as possible, and I asked Zhou Yongtong to be my eyes and ears, he has been in office for more than half a year, and I don't know what I have seen.

Flipping the fold and looking down, Shi Chongwei frowned more and more, Zhou Yongtong praised Huazhou in the recital, Jiang Anyi is dedicated to the people, and he is a rare capable minister and cadre. Shi Chongwei snorted angrily, Jiang Anyi's talent, I also use you to remind you, I want you to go and take advantage of Jiang Anyi's shortcomings, and don't let him do whatever he wants.

Skipping Zhou Yongtong's praise of Jiang Anyi, at the end of the chapter, Zhou Yongtong euphemistically mentioned that many of the officials who went to Huazhou to investigate this time had the phenomenon of eating and taking cards, please long live the investigation. Shi Chongwei snorted coldly, the emperor is not a hungry soldier, these people can clear the money for me, and I will give a little kickback, but if they patronize the public and private interests, I will not spare them.

Waiting for the officials of the Qingtian inspector to return to Beijing to report on their work, I want to order the good students of the Ministry of Officials to be assessed, and the capable nature must be reused, Pan Heyi is ready to use him as the deputy envoy of the Qingtian Division, and the official rank is tentatively set under the fifth grade, from the seventh rank to the deputy envoy from the fifth grade, and I have been promoted to the eighth rank at once, and my kindness to Pan Heyi is not unimportant, and my father has never been like this to Jiang Anyi back then.

There are three considerations for using Pan Heyi, one is that everyone knows that Pan Heyi is the king of Chu, but I reuse his people, and the government and the opposition are not secretly talking about me suppressing the courtiers of the pro-Chu king, look at Pan Heyi, who dares to talk nonsense; The second is that Pan Heyi is indeed talented, this time the Qingtian inspection team sent more than 500 people, which belongs to him for the greatest credit, I want to let the hundred officials see, let the virtuous use of energy, I will not lose to my father; Third, Pan Heyi and Jiang Anyi have a grudge, this time he went to Huazhou Qingtian and offended him fiercely, his father said that the way of checks and balances, Pan Heyi can be used to balance Jiang Anyi in the future.

After Zhang Jin finished reading Huang Ping's recital, seeing that the Son of Heaven closed his eyes and did not make a sound, he then picked up the recital of Ding Dawei, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Shi Chongwei opened his eyes and asked, "What do Kong Xiang and Duan Xiang say?" ”

Zhang Jin picked up the piece of paper sandwiched in the fold and said, "The two ministers both think that this matter is too big to be ignored, so please make a decision as soon as possible." ”

Shi Chongwei thought for a while and said: "There is chaos in the state and county, when the assassination history and the county order are held accountable, the government soldiers and regimental training should be ordered to strengthen vigilance to prevent the people from making chaos, and let the Longwei Secret Guard send people to find out the reason and see if there are any Yuantian Sect thieves planning in secret." There was pen and ink on the side, Zhang Jinti took notes, and then handed them over to the Zhongshu Province for polishing and then handed them over to the Political Affairs Hall for printing and printing.

In Zhang Jin's soothing recitation, Shi Chongwei fell asleep dimly, and in his dream he saw that all the countries were coming, and the envoys of the Northern Desert, the Western Regions, and the South Seas were bowing down under the golden steps. "Hahahaha", Shi Chongwei let out a hearty laugh in his dream.