"You, Xu Yingyuan, are also from His Majesty's side of the body, why do you want to bow down to Wang Chengen? Although His Majesty's trust is rare, for you Xu Yingyuan, it is much easier than others to win His Majesty's trust. After all, you have also been with Your Majesty for more than 10 years. ”

Xu Yingyuan listened to Wei Zhongxian's words, and the expression on his face changed a lot, but in the end, he still sighed and said: "The miscellaneous family never thought that His Majesty would inherit the unification, so it is not as good as Wang Chengen to do things in front of His Majesty, and Your Majesty is a person who likes to read, and His Majesty is naturally unwilling to be close to people like the Miscellaneous family, who are good at drinking and gambling. By now, it was too late to get close to His Majesty. ”

Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "It's naturally too late for you to get close to Your Majesty now, but it is not difficult to gain Your Majesty's trust, and I have a great merit for you to gain Your Majesty's trust." With His Majesty's trust, coupled with this Inner Eunuch Record, you will be able to control the power of the Inner Court seven or eight times out of ten, then even Wang Chengen will have to scruple about you..."

It was after listening to Wei Zhongxian's temptation that Xu Yingyuan couldn't wait to see His Majesty as soon as he returned to the capital, and exchanged the secrets of the silver treasury for Chongzhen's trust. I hope that as Wei Zhongxian said, I can get a great fortune.

However, after Xu Yingyuan saw the hidden silver in the treasury, he had a seizure and wanted to get a vote from it, but he fell into the pit.

Xu Yingyuan put down his hand and finally walked towards his residence. At this point, as long as he doesn't want to become a submissive echo to Wang Chengen, he can only follow the path designed for him by Wei Zhongxian.

After Zhu Youzhen ate a bowl of noodles, he felt that he had lived. After he asked Lu Qi to remove the tableware, he asked Wang Chengen, "Next, what are the arrangements for today?" ”

Wang Chengen arched his hand and said: "Back to Your Majesty, according to Your Majesty's orders: the War Bureau, the Silver Bureau, the Huanyi Bureau, the Scarf and Hat Bureau, the Needlework Bureau, the Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, the Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau, and the Siyuan Bureau, the eight stewards and eunuchs of the Yamen have been prepared, how to reorganize the plan of the Yamen, I don't know if Your Majesty wants to summon them?" ”

"Okay, you go and arrange for them to come over, and let them come and talk to me one by one." Zhu Youzhen said relaxedly.

When Wang Chengen went out to arrange the summoned eunuchs, Zhu Youzhen noticed that Lu Qi seemed to have something to say, but he was hesitant.

"Deputy Steward Lu, is there anything you want to tell me?" Zhu Youzhen couldn't stand Lu Qi's hesitant appearance, and finally asked.

"Your Majesty, there is one thing that the minister doesn't know whether to tell His Majesty or not." Lu Qi rarely showed a trace of distress and said to Chongzhen.

Zhu Youzhen's curiosity was aroused by Lu Qi, "Tell me, maybe I can give you an idea?" ”

"The minister promised someone to keep a secret from His Majesty, but the minister didn't want to hide anything from His Majesty. So I don't know what to do, so I ask Your Majesty to make it clear to the minister. Lu Qi seriously expressed his distress.

Zhu Youzhen now understands why Lu Qi has been working in the Mixed Hall Division for more than 20 years and is still a fire-burning handyman, can he ask the parties for advice on this kind of thing?

Zhu Youzhen felt that Lu Qi was really an interesting person, but looking at Lu Qi's serious appearance, he finally thought about it before he said: "It depends on what secret your friend wants you to keep, if it is a private **, of course you should keep your promise." But if it is a public matter, such a promise is naturally invalid, and private friendship cannot be higher than justice. ”

After listening to Chongzhen's words, Lu Qi finally let go of the hesitation in his heart. He originally wanted Chongzhen to give him a reason, otherwise he wouldn't have confessed so frankly.

Lu Qi told Chongzhen everything Xu Yingyuan said in the silver treasury today.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but shake his head, and said with a dumb smile: "Xu Yingyuan, I thought he had changed his character..."

He took out a booklet from the table, found the name that Xu Yingyuan had recorded before, took out a pencil and drew a line on it, he thought to himself: "What about the plan to let Xu Yingyuan go to prepare for the establishment of a silver money exchange office?" Now it seems that matters related to money cannot be handed over to him, otherwise it will only harm others and himself. ”

After doing all this, Zhu Youzhen said to Lu Qi: "Forget what you just said, just as if you didn't tell me anything." ”

Although Lu Qi didn't understand Chongzhen's intentions, he still followed Zhu Youzhen's instructions and decided to forget about today's events.

Soon, under Wang Chengen's arrangement, eight stewards and eunuchs from the War Bureau, the Silver Bureau, the Huanyi Bureau, the Towel and Hat Bureau, the Needlework Bureau, the Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, the Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau, and the Siyuan Bureau came to the upper study to report to Chongzhen the Yamen rectification plan they had prepared.

After Zhu Youzhen talked with them one by one, he found that the plan prepared by these stewards and eunuchs was basically a change of soup and not a change of medicine, and it was not the rectification plan he wanted at all.

Zhu Youzhen changed the way he talked one by one, and he asked the eight stewards and eunuchs to walk in together.

Looking at the eight overwhelmed stewards and eunuchs, they didn't know what the plan they had drawn up was not in line with Chongzhen's wishes, so they were panicking.

Liu Hong, the eunuch in charge of the Siyuan Bureau, looked at Chongzhen's face and cautiously said: "Your Majesty, the preparation plan of the Siyuan Bureau, the minister has streamlined all the manpower that can be reduced, and if it is streamlined, I am afraid that the Siyuan Bureau will not be able to operate normally?" ”

With Liu Hong taking the lead, several other stewards and eunuchs also began to comply. Zhu Youzhen was unmoved by the complaints of these stewards and eunuchs, and only after these stewards and eunuchs felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong and quieted down again, Chongzhen spoke up.

"The yamen maintenance I want is not your brainless plan to reduce manpower. After cutting people down? And then what do they have to do? Do you just leave them aside? Anyway, they are all old people who have served the palace for more than ten or twenty years, isn't it chilling to do this? If the number of people cut is arranged to have an idle meal somewhere, what is the point of this kind of reduction, isn't it a blind toss? ”

Chongzhen's reprimanding voice was not harsh, but it was a little tired in Wang Chengen's ears.

Only then did several stewards and eunuchs understand where Chongzhen's dissatisfaction came from. But for these eunuchs, most of whom have grown up in the palace since childhood, the affairs they handle now are taught by the old eunuchs. They know how to do it, but they don't know why. Therefore, they could not find any clue about the method proposed by Chongzhen that did not rely on the reduction of manpower to adjust the affairs of the yamen.

Seeing that these stewards and eunuchs bowed their heads and didn't dare to make a sound, Zhu Youzhen knew that if he wanted to rely on them to come up with a change plan, it was more difficult than Zhongti Lottery.

Zhu Youzhen gently tapped the fingers of his right hand on the tabletop, and after reorganizing his thoughts, he stopped tapping and said.

"I want you to restructure, to put it simply, to turn the yamen you manage into an operating shop."

Zhu Youzhen's words immediately shocked several stewards and eunuchs, and Yang Lin, the steward eunuch of the Huanyi Bureau, suddenly cried: "Your Majesty Mingjian, this Huanyi Bureau is where the palace personnel change clothes, and the other yamen ministers don't know, but how can this Huanyi Bureau be operated as a shop?" I really can't do it. ”

"Quiet, listen to me first. How can the Huanyi Bureau not be operated as a store? It's nothing more than that the laundry in the palace will have to be paid for in the future. I asked you to change to shop operation, not that you have to make a profit if you change to a shop.

What I want to change is the bureaucratic habits of these yamen, so that from now on, you eunuchs will no longer be officials in the yamen, but pure businessmen. You can make money for yourself openly, only legally and reasonably. But I will never allow you, relying on your status as a eunuch in the palace, to engage in deception and domination,"

Hearing that they would no longer be officials in the future, these stewards and eunuchs couldn't help but become a little depressed. And no matter how pitiful these eunuchs pretended to be, Chongzhen did not change his mind at all.

Zhu Youzhen only gave these stewards and eunuchs a choice, either to be transferred to other yamen as low-level deacons, or to reform according to his wishes.

After all, the arms can't twist the thighs, and after the rebuilding of the eunuchs, the old scenes of these stewards and eunuchs in their respective yamen are no longer reproduced. If it was in the past, they could still do some small things in private. But now, as long as they make the slightest move, it is estimated that they will be reported to the governor.

After all, the eight stewards and eunuchs were still reluctant to work hard in their respective yamen for decades, and were unwilling to start from scratch in other yamen. In Chongzhen, he promised that if they could do well in the restructuring, they would be promoted by one level and transferred to other yamen in the palace.

Chongzhen's assurance, finally made the eight eunuchs in charge reluctantly agree, and they would obey Chongzhen's orders and persuade the eunuchs in their yamen to cooperate with Chongzhen's restructuring plan.

The Siyuan Bureau was changed into a vegetable company, and the Imperial Village, which originally provided melons, fruits, and vegetables in the palace, was incorporated into the property under the name of the Siyuan Bureau.

The Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau was changed into a dye company, which not only undertook the dyeing of satin in the palace, but also the indigo factory in the west of the city.

The Needlework Bureau and the Scarf and Hat Bureau were merged into a clothing manufacturing company, the Silver Bureau and the War Bureau were merged into an appliance manufacturing factory, the Huanyi Bureau became a laundry, and the Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau was split into a brewery and a grain processing factory.

According to Chongzhen's proposal, the front of these companies can be named the word royal, and in the future, they will not only supply the needs of the royal family, but can face all social strata of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Although Wang Chengen advised, the brewery and grain processing factory were both named after the royal family, which was really disrespectful to the royal family. But Zhu Youzhen, who was bent on getting rid of the huge palace expenditures, didn't care whether this would affect his reputation.