At the end of the morning of the next day (4:30 a.m., for the convenience of reading, the post-narrative time is counted as 12 hours), Liu Hong was gradually woken up by Sun Xiuxiu, reminding him that it was time to go to the court, last night was too crazy, Liu Hong gradually had a sore waist, lying stunned and didn't want to move, and he rubbed until five o'clock in the morning, before he dressed and washed his face under Sun Xiuxiu's service.

Before dawn, under the candle fire on the table, there was already a stack of side dishes and a bowl of rice porridge.

"Xiuxiu, come and eat with your husband!" Seeing that Sun Xiuxiu was still wearing thin clothes and getting up so early to cook for herself, Liu Hong was gradually very distressed.

"Husband, Xiuxiu is not hungry, you eat first!" Sun Xiuxiu folded the futon, sat at the table, and watched Liu Hong gradually drink porridge with her hands on her cheeks, with a sweet smile on the corner of her mouth.

"You were tired last night, too!" Liu Hong gradually grabbed a chopstick and chewed the pickles.

"Husband, you still say!" Sun Xiuxiu remembered last night's madness, and slapped Liu Hongjian on the shoulder in shame.

"Since you followed me, you have eaten pickles every day, and you have suffered for more than a year, and when your husband goes to court, you will redeem our big yard and buy you a maid for your husband, and you can rest in the future!" Liu Hong gradually drank the last mouthful of porridge and sighed.

There are very few fresh vegetables in the spring in the north, but it does not mean that there are none, there are some relatively hardy vegetables on the market, but the price is not cheap, only the rich and noble can eat.

"Xiuxiu is not uncommon, and if you can be with your father-in-law, you will be content with Xiuxiu, who is safe and secure!" Xiuxiu said gently.

Sun Xiuxiu's family inherited Sun Chengzong, although Sun Chengzong was an official to the military department, Liaodong Governor, and Dongge University, but he was very honest as an official, not only had he never eaten in fine clothes, but he was extremely strict with his family education since he was a child, and then he was martyred in Gaoyang, and the whole family was in decline, which can be said to have suffered from displacement.

After breakfast, Liu Hong gradually put on the python robe given by the emperor, rode the thin horse from Jingying, and went straight to the noon gate.

However, he went out late, and his equestrian skills were not good, so it was already six o'clock in the morning by the time he reached the noon gate.

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor generally listened to the government at the imperial gate of the imperial gate, and only when there was a major event or worshipping the ancestors, he was in the imperial palace.

Emperor Chongzhen is also very diligent, big and small, every thing must bow down, it is not enough to change the three days and one morning to one day, and every day to review the chapter until late at night.

And this early dynasty was held in the Imperial Palace.

Is it the thief army who is making a comeback? Or did the Manchus commit another offense? All the ministers in the Imperial Palace are talking about what is happening.

Less leaning, Emperor Chongzhen entered the palace with the support of Wang Erxi, and the ministers immediately silenced.

Chongzhen inspected the court, but did not find Liu Hongji's figure, not only frowned slightly, but secretly said that the bastard boy didn't take my words seriously, and he would punish you later.

"Ministers!" Wang Erxi shouted with a male duck.

Seeing that no one was out of the class, Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household, stroked his gray beard and took a step out of work.

"Your Majesty, the treasury is empty, and the military salary in Beijing this month still cannot be paid on time, please let the emperor know."

"I know, Aiqing and step aside!" Chongzhen frowned.

"The minister has something to do! Wu Sangui's department of Shanhaiguan reported asking for military salaries for last year and this year, and said that if he did not pay military salaries again, he would not be able to suppress it, and it was possible that he would ...... There is a possibility of mutiny! ”

Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, raised his eyebrows and looked at Chongzhen as he spoke.

It's money again, it's money again, and every time Chongzhen in the early dynasty doesn't know what these ministers will do besides asking for money.

"Humph! Hugh wants to use the mutiny to suppress me, I treat him Wu Sangui is not thin, when the thieves besieged the city, where was he? Now you're asking me for money? Shameless! ”

The more Chongzhen thought about it, the more angry he became, and he exploded in foul language directly in the court, in order to appease Wu Sangui, after thinking about it last night, he still listened to Liu Hongji's advice, held back his dissatisfaction with Wu Sangui, went to the prison of the Criminal Department, and personally welcomed Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang out of prison.

And Wu Xiang was already loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and when he heard that the rebel son supported the army and respected himself, he refused to enter the king of Jingqin, and immediately wrote a letter to him, angrily accusing Wu Sangui of forgetting his ancestors, and severing the father-son relationship with him if he came again.

I didn't expect him to do so much, and as soon as he went to court the next day, he was hit by Wu Sangui's counterattack, how could Chongzhen not be angry.

Seeing that Chongzhen was furious, Zhang Jinyan didn't say much, and after taking a step back into the ranks, he bowed his head and was silent.

As the secretary of the Ministry of War, how could he not know that the treasury was already empty, he just wanted Chongzhen to know that he was working diligently, as for whether Wu Sangui's Liaodong soldiers could be paid military salaries, what did it matter to me!

At this moment, a figure from the Imperial Palace trotted in, wasn't it Liu Hongjian who was late for the first day of work?

By the time of noon, because the early dynasty had begun, Liu Hong gradually wasted a lot of effort, until he took out his famous artifact AKM from the horse, and then entered the noon gate in the incredible eyes of the guards on duty.

Liu Hong gradually handed over the horse to the sergeant on duty, carried two AKMs, and snorted through the long imperial road, and then passed through the Huangji Gate, and when he arrived at the Huangji Palace, he was already a little out of breath.

"Your Majesty...... The emperor forgives the sin, Weichen's horse is too thin, and he is delayed on the road...... Lost some time! Liu Hongjian put AKM on his shoulders and explained while panting.

Seeing that all the ministers were saluting him with unkind faces, Liu Hong suddenly remembered that he hadn't saluted yet, so he threw AKM to the ground.

"Wechen knock on the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Flat!" Chongzhen glanced at AKM on the ground, and then glanced at Liu Hongji, expressing dissatisfaction with the behavior of being late for work for the first time after being knighted

Liu Hong gradually got up and picked up the AKM on the ground, hung one on each of his left and right shoulders, looked left and right, most of the rows on the left were old men Wen Jiaojiao and shaking his head, and on the right were all big shoulders and round waists, presumably military generals, remembering that he was the beginning of the war and the title of the knight, so he twisted the AKM on his shoulder and twisted it to the side of the military minister.

"Hey! Thank you so much for making room for you! ”

"This is my position, you can't stand around, go behind!" A bearded military general refused to give way to Liu Hong in disgust.

Liu Honggradually did not get angry, and stood at the end of the generals' queue stupidly.

Chongzhen signaled to Wang Erxi, the eunuch beside him, and Wang Erxi immediately took a step forward.

"Listen to the order!"

The ministers immediately knelt down to listen to the announcement.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: Since I succeeded to the throne, there has been a great drought in the north, the people have been displaced, and the land is full of hunger, and I am very heartbroken, in order to sympathize with the people, from now on, all taxes will be exempted from the people of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and Beizhili within three years, and the collection of three salaries (Liao, Liao, and Lian Yuan) will be stopped, and the people in the rest of the provinces will have their taxes halved except for the grain salary, and the household department will transfer grain from the southern provinces to the northwest for distribution."

Wang Erxi paused and continued to read.

"Increase the commercial tax! The Ministry of Household is solely responsible for the collection of commercial taxes in the country, and Jinyi Wei assists in acting, and those who do not pay taxes and deliberately default will be severely punished! ”

"Since the inauguration of Wu Mengming, the former commander of Jinyiwei, he has been sparse and has made no achievements, and he has been demoted to the commander of Jinyiwei, and An Guobo has been appointed as the new commander of Jinyiwei, and assisted the household department in charge of commercial tax collection, so that!"

Well?

Liu Hong gradually stood at the end of the team with his hands folded, and was a little shaky, when he suddenly heard that he was mentioned in the holy decree, his eyes suddenly widened, the commander of the Jinyi guard? Is this going to buckle the basin of the local tyrant to the head of Lao Tzu?

I don't want to be an official, Your Majesty! You're cheating on me, why did you become me again?