"Liu Qing didn't come here to evade responsibility!" Liu Hong's eyebrows gradually danced so beautifully depicting the ocean, the more Chongzhen didn't believe it.

What's on the sea? In Chongzhen's memory, it seems to be all water, and pirates.

But isn't it, now it is the pirate leader Zheng Zhilong who helps Daming defend the coastal defense, and when he talks about this Chongzhen, he remembered that the black slave soldiers outside Shen Yang City were put in by this guy.

This made Chongzhen feel a little resentful, but Zheng Zhilong was the opposite compared with those feudal officials who listened to the tune and did not listen to the propaganda in the past.

This guy is listening to Xuan or not, you can ask him for money and help, this is no problem, but you let him come to Beijing to face the saint, let him go to transfer troops to fight anyone, I'm sorry, I'm not available!

He wouldn't have said it so directly, but it's hard to find an excuse, why is he unwell or the wind is in the wrong direction......

Chongzhen was not really moved by the blueprint drawn by Liu Hongji, but there was one thing he listened to.

Firearms, warships, sailors, not to mention firearms, this Northern Expedition he really felt the power of muskets and grenades, as long as the Ming Dynasty mastered these weapons of killing, he was no longer afraid of the Northern Captives.

Zheng Zhilong is Chongzhen's pain, and the warship and the sailor are ......, this is Daming's pain!

Chongzhen frowned, as if he was weighing the two.

"I ci...... Ao, Your Majesty, what are you lying to you, you wait, wait for the minister to build an ironclad ship and take you to Nanyang for a walk. Liu Hong was in a hurry, and he swore violently, and said in his heart that fortunately, the uncle didn't understand.

He was really depressed in his heart, just like telling the cabinet uncle who believed that the sky was round and the earth was actually round, if they didn't really feel it, they wouldn't understand, after all, in this era, common sense is like this.

"Alas, I also know that you don't like to play with power, but if you don't want to, how can I rest assured that I will hand over Daming to Cihong." Chongzhen sighed and chose to compromise.

Zhongxing's three-step strategy, the first step has been achieved for the most part, Jiannu has been destroyed, and there are so many muskets and grenades in the entire northern border, Chahar will definitely not dare to attack easily.

However, compared with foreign enemies, the second step is not so easy to eliminate maladministration.

Do you really think that the hundred officials in the court are fools, and they can't see where the maladministration of the Ming Dynasty is?

That's how naïve you are!

The imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty only admits more than 200 people at a time, and there is only one examination in three years, but how many people are there in the Ming Dynasty?

These guys are all proud sons of heaven who have studied hard for ten years and stood out from hundreds of thousands of people, not to mention whether they can govern the country or not, their heads must be extremely smart.

How could they not see the ills of the imperial court, but they were just unwilling to change it!

Why aren't you willing to change, why are you changing? Land? Their! Is there a business tax? Theirs too!

There may be many people in the court who have a clean breeze on their sleeves, but you go to check his own family, if there is no landlord, I will lose!

From the top nobles in the court, to the hundreds of officials in the court, to the merchants and landlords, no one would agree to such an outrageous idea.

Only a fool agrees, isn't that cutting flesh on oneself?

There is also the household registration system, the soldiers of the military household guard have long been rotten, you just pull an old man named Hanako on the street, he can scold the guard soldiers out of.

Why didn't anyone mention this stubble until the fall of the Ming Dynasty?

The guards are all free labor, and they have to pay rent to help them farm for free, so how can the nobles with vested interests agree?

There is also a craftsman household system, who is not happy to have a free craftsman to use when the officials have not yet renovated and made furniture at home?

The emperor wanted to change it, but whether it was a courtier or a relative, just one sentence that this was the ancestral system could make the emperor extinguish the fire.

Are you angry? What's the use of being angry? Everyone disagreed, and you were the only one left, the emperor who was lonely and imprisoned within the high walls, shouting in the palace, and the ministers were just barking as dogs.

In the matter of eliminating maladministration, Chongzhen's grandfather did it, but he didn't do it, and he ended up in a commotion.

Chongzhen wants to do it, but he has no confidence, and his body is not good, what about his son?

Hehe, forget it, it's not as good as Lao Tzu.

It's easy to find a good helper, but this shaft actually wants to focus on construction, and it's in vain!

"Take your time, Your Majesty, don't worry, how many years have the Ming Dynasty's maladministration, and it's not bad at this time.

Oh, by the way, Your Majesty, you have been domineering these days, how have you gained? Liu Hong said with a wicked smile.

Uncle Chongzhen is good at everything, but his temper is too impatient, and he can't succeed in a hurry, so we have to take our time and take care of our bodies.

"There are more than three million taels!" Chongzhen said angrily.

If it was placed in the past, the treasury would have been more than three million taels of silver, which was enough to make Chongzhen smile for several days, and even add two more dishes for dinner at night.

But now Chongzhen is not happy at all, with Liu Hongji's two big actions of tens of millions of taels, three million taels is really nothing.

Besides, more than three million taels is not enough, and all the expenditures of the Northern Expedition plus one piece are more than 27 million taels, and even if the silver deposits in the treasury are added, there is still a gap of at least six or seven million taels.

"Why is it so?" Liu Hong gradually blurted out.

"Hmph, this kind of thing is not something worthy of glory, I would rather not find any of these courtiers' families!" Chongzhen was not very happy about the trick that Liu Hongji taught him to steal money from.

After all, he is the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty, and the finances of the dynasty have to rely on the emperor to copy the house to support, can it be regarded as a glorious thing?

And the reason why there are only these, isn't it that those big families have been masturbated by you Liu Youming?

Fish with all your might! In this way, who will give you a job with peace of mind?

"Well, it's still a lot, Rong Chen think about it." Liu Hong gradually began to use his brains, and the courtiers were almost suppressed, and it seemed that ......

"This matter will be discussed later, and tell me, who is suitable for this auxiliary position? There is also Shi Bangzhao, a scholar of Dongkaku University, who is not doing well, and I have removed him from the cabinet, and he needs to be replaced by talented people. ”

The officials and the left and right servants were all imprisoned, which made Chongzhen even more suspicious of the courtiers, and he would rather listen to the proposal of the lazy boy in front of him than listen to the recommendations of the courtiers, including the remaining elders.

"Looking at this position of first assistant, Li Banghua and Lord Li are quite suitable." Liu Hongjian was thinking about this as early as when Zheng Sanjun was in prison.

The reason why Li Banghua was chosen is because this guy has a surprisingly poor popularity in the court, and surprisingly admits death, right is right, wrong is wrong, and he wants to mix people under him and play sloppy, unless you are the king of heaven.

Chongzhen doesn't have much opinion on this person, although this guy always contradicts him because of some negligence, but in terms of conduct, Li Banghua will definitely not form a gang with other courtiers.

Li Banghua served as the first assistant, and the second assistant was vacant, and Fan Jingwen, the secretary of the Ministry of Engineering, was vacant, and his engineering background was the most pragmatic and rigorous.

Alas, it's just too old, and it's all a bunch of old men!

Liu Hongjian proposed to be promoted to Fang Yuegong, the left servant of the household department, as the new minister, and Shangshu Chongzhen did not object, after all, this old party was originally a cabinet minister, and he was also familiar with the business of the ministry.

As for the vacant Dongge University scholar, Liu Hong gradually thought about mentioning one person.

Ministry of Rites, Han Yu.