Chapter 794: The Anger of the Taiping Heavenly Prince

Since Zhang Yue has not yet been divided into ministries and courtyards, he does not need to go to the next day's court meeting early, so he really slept extremely peacefully on the first night he came back. Although his parents, wives and concubines and children were not around, and his sister Zhang Jing did not pick up from the British government for the time being, this sense of security of going home made him sleep until three o'clock in the morning and was unwilling to get up. It wasn't until the little girl who stayed behind carefully urged him for the third time that he lazily got up and dressed.

Now that the three branches of the Zhang family have been separated, the people who call them are naturally separated. The official slaves and maids rewarded by the officials naturally all belonged to Yangwu Bofu, and most of the old servants for many years were given to Zhang Xin, Zhang Yue only left some old people who were used to it, and many new faces were added. The male servants were all brought in by his father Zhang Zhuo, and most of the girls and mothers-in-law were newcomers, just like the few in the room right now, Zhang Yue hadn't seen him for a long time, and he could hardly call his name.

After breakfast, Zhang Yue met Lian Sheng and Lian Hu in the study outside. Knowing that the clan study was thriving, in addition to the children of the clan, there were more than 100 people attached to the school, which was comparable to those famous private schools, and he couldn't help but nod secretly. Not only that, these students have won in the college examination and last year's township examination, eight of them have been admitted to Xiucai, and two have been admitted to Juren, although it does not sound like much, but it is already a very high achievement in the distance. After all, the students in ethnology are not very old.

Flipping through the account book, Zhang Yue nodded happily and said, "Yes, you have managed well in the past two years." ”

"The little ones are just in charge of the young master's orders." Lian Hu smiled and saluted, and sighed regretfully, "Ago, the young master sent a letter saying that he accepted Li Gongzi and Rui Gongzi as students, but unfortunately they didn't catch up with this subject, and they have to catch up with next year's college exam, otherwise this subject may be the first." If that's the case, the young master has two Jinshi students, and he won't be famous in the world? ”

"Do you think Jinshi is so easy to get into?"

The ability of the two students Zhang Yue is very clear, his own ability in the stepping stone is limited, and he can't teach the two of them too much in the exam, so if he wants to take the college exam next year, after Li Guoxiu Rui Yixiang comes back, he has to participate in the essay meeting to solve the problem and draft the essay. He didn't think that they could do it overnight, so he didn't care about this, and asked about the Lianhu Grange, and learned that the planting of things on the Grange was not smooth, but the gardener tossed back and forth, and cultivated several potted flowers that had never been seen before, and now most of them were sold to various nobles and official mansions, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

This is unintentionally inserting willows into the willows.

Lian Sheng and Lian Hu were already two years older than him, and now he is a child, so are the brothers. Knowing that the eldest of the two children was already seven or eight years old, and the younger one was still crawling on the ground, he thought for a while and said: "Go back and wait for Jingguan and them to come back, and they also need someone to accompany them to study, so that the children of your two families can read and write, and when they are older, they can share some work with you." As for the girls, the third sister has to be picked up when she goes back, and with the addition of the third sister, there are times when they can be used. There will only be more and more things in the family in the future, you should pay more attention to it, and there will be a time to use you greatly in the future. ”

As soon as they heard this, the brothers were all overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed. The third room was not obvious at the beginning, they were selected to accompany Zhang Yue to study, but the family was not touched by any light, but who would have thought that in twenty years in Hedong and twenty years in Hexi, yesterday I even heard that the eldest master of the long house came to ask his young master for help?

"Young master, the envoy from outside is here!"

Yesterday, Wang Jin came over but visited in a private name, so he didn't need to open the middle door or change his clothes, but at this time, it was reported that an angel was coming, and it was officially summoned, Zhang Yue immediately asked Lian Sheng Lianhu to go out to help Gao Quan with some points, and he hurriedly went back to change his official clothes. When the black gauze hat collar shirt was properly put on, he hurried to the front yard, but saw that this time it was a middle-aged eunuch with an extremely unfamiliar appearance, and what he announced was just a simple meaning - an audience in the Qianqing Palace.

From Yongle to Hongxi to today's Xuande, the personnel in the palace have changed a lot. Zheng and Wang Jinghong returned to the old line and went to the West, Hou Xian set off again to reward Western countries such as Wusizang, Bili Gongwa, Lingzang, and Sidazang, Zhang Qian sat in Guangzhou City, Liu Yongcheng replaced Zheng and Wang Jinghong to garrison Nanjing, and Haishou went to Xuanfu...... If you add those who are old and dead, those who die of illness and don't know what to call dead, the palace has completely changed into a group of new faces.

It's like the middle-aged eunuch who led the way after the decree was announced, and he didn't say a word when he brought Zhang Yue in all the way, until he went up the platform from the high steps in front of the Qianqing Palace, and saw that he was about to send people in, so he whispered: "The little one is the apprentice of the prince, and when the little one set off before, the emperor lost his temper, please pay attention to Lord Zhang." ”

Zhu Zhanji is not in the main hall, bypassing the throne in front of the screen, passing through the east room into the back eaves, and going inside to the easternmost point, which is now the newly established Liang Palace. Now it is hot and dry weather, from the outside to the inside, Zhang Yue feels a lot colder, it turns out that there are not only ice basins on all sides of this room, but also people slowly pull fan blades to send wind, and some people hold ice fruits to retreat.

Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji is still less than thirty now, compared to his grandfather Zhu Di's knife-like facial features, his father Zhu Gaochi is as fat as Maitreya Bodhisattva, his figure is very well-proportioned, his shoulders are broad and his waist is heavy, but his face is quite unnaturally pale, and there are already horizontal lines between his eyebrows. After Zhang Yue saluted, he looked at Zhang Yue for a long time, and suddenly sighed.

"I really don't understand, you have been running around all day long, and you have lost weight and looked dark, but you are still in good spirits!"

The emperor opened his mouth like this, Zhang Yue couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and then smiled: "Even if the ministers work hard, they only need to take care of the mess in front of them, and the mental energy consumed is naturally limited. With all due respect, the emperor looked at him in a worse spirit than before. ”

The servants here are all proper chamberlains and palace maids carefully selected by the celebrant and the royal eunuch, and they have seen a lot of Zhu Zhanji summoning courtiers, but even if it is an old minister like Yang Shiqi Jianyi, who has gone through five dynasties, he doesn't dare to be so outspoken when he sees him. For a while, even a bold person quietly glanced at Zhang Yue, wanting to see if this person had eaten the bear's heart leopard gall.

"Okay, you Zhang Yue, only you dare to say that my spirit is worse!"

Zhu Zhanji stood up, walked around the bookcase, and looked at Zhang Yue very much, and then said happily: "In the past, when I was still the emperor's grandson, I was still able to train in the front guard of the government army, shoot willows during the Dragon Boat Festival, be able to accompany the northern tour, and be able to quietly pick up some gadgets at leisure...... Now that I want to go hunting in Xiyuan, I will also attract the advice of a large group of officials, all of whom say that they will rule the world by hanging their clothes, which is nothing more than trying to tell me that Wen Tao can be used to govern the country, and Wu Yong's set is no longer needed! Now, if I and you go to the school field to compete in archery again, it will be difficult to say whether we will win or lose! ”

Although it has been more than two years since he left, Zhang Yue knows Zhu Zhanji's temper very well. Zhu Zhanji is versatile and good at writing and painting, he is not a person who can't sit still, but he can sit still, he is bored in the palace all day long, and he will be criticized even if he wants to move, and he really sympathizes with this peaceful son in his heart. It's just that he is in the Qianqing Palace at this moment, and the sentence in front of him is intentional, and the others are not easy to say.

So, he could only smile bitterly: "The emperor knows, the minister's archery skills used to be fooled, but now he has not used a bow and arrow for at least two or three years, but he is afraid that if he shoots ten arrows, ten arrows will miss the target." ”

"If I have a chance to turn around, I will compare with you again!"

Although he missed the scene when Zhu Di asked Zhang Yue to accompany him to train the avant-garde of the government army and shoot willows in the small school field, Zhu Zhanji also knew that this was not the time, so he sat down and asked Zhang Yue about his experience outside all these years. Zhang Yue briefly mentioned the progress of the Guangdong City Shipping Division, and also mentioned the many shortcomings and improvement strategies of the valuation of the Municipal Shipping Division, and finally said bluntly.

"The foundation of the peasant country, light taxation can make the peasant more willing to cultivate the land, but the merchant 30 tax is too light. Guangdong is not the place with the highest concentration of merchants in the world, but whether it is a maritime merchant or a sitting businessman, the profit of the whole year is several times or even dozens of times that of the squires who own thousands of acres of land, and the taxes paid are far less than these people. The minister had heard that due to the lack of use of the treasury, he planned to reduce the discount of the color, but if the commercial tax was sufficient, why worry about the insufficient use of the treasury? ”

Although Zhang Yueren is outside, all kinds of excerpts will be sent to the capital every month, most of them are in the genre of travelogue essays, Zhu Zhanji puts it away every time he looks at it, and takes it out and looks at it again when he is in a bad mood, so as soon as he hears this, he remembers as if he has seen it somewhere, and immediately nodded.

"I once said this to Hu Hui, but he didn't think so, saying that open source is to compete with the people for profit, not the right way, it should be based on throttling, and the true colors of the court officials are enough for a family, and the color is less, and it can also be deducted with sumu pepper and other things, if there is a complaint, it is not loyal enough......"

"Hu Shangshu is from a solid family after all, how did he know that now ordinary Beijing officials rent a house in the capital, and in order to save expenses, they don't even dare to take their families over to live with them, so there are heirs who are extinct because of this! As for the New Year's Festival, there are not a few people who expect the Yulu family to fight tooth sacrifices, and he cuts off half of the banknotes at once, which is to take money from the already shallow pockets of these people. Your Majesty, Emperor Taizu made officials honest and honest, which is really good, but if officials are so hard, it is difficult to ensure that some people will not be greedy. And those who are far away in the frontier are even more so, the first election of officials in the ninth year of Jiaoluan, the minister has seen with his own eyes, in the early years, those who were selected and transferred from Yungui in Guangxi to be magistrates, when they went, they were full of black hair, but now they are pale and drooping old with sideburns......"

After all, Zhu Zhanji is the emperor, and the Dongchang Jinyi Guard supervises officials, where will they pay attention to their living conditions, and although Yang Shiqi and others also have advice, they have gained respect and trust, but it is impossible to say that they are close. Therefore, Zhang Yue used an almost blank description at this time to talk about what he had seen and heard in Guangzhou in the past two years, as well as those experiences on the way back and forth, and the more he listened, the more carefully he listened, the more he listened, the more he was engrossed, and he didn't even hear the sound of the report outside.

Zhang Yue didn't pay attention at first, but after several rounds of announcements outside, he immediately stopped talking. This time, Zhu Zhanji finally noticed the movement outside, and was going to drink the order to wait for a while, but after thinking about it carefully, he ordered someone to come in. After a young chamberlain came in with a large stack of folds in both hands, whether it was Zhu Zhanji sitting on the chair, Zhang Yue who was standing, or the palace eunuchs around him, they couldn't help but be stunned.

At this moment, it seems that this is not the time for the Cabinet to present a copy of the recital.

"Your Majesty, this is the eleven imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate who submitted it to the Secretary of the Governor's Court, and after reading it by the cabinet elders, they ordered it to be submitted immediately."

The three words of the Metropolitan Procuratorate immediately made Zhu Zhanji's face blue. Commanding someone to bring it up, he picked up one at hand, and at a cursory glance it rested on the table, followed by a second, third, and fourth...... After turning over most of the time, he put all of them on the table in one go, and sneered angrily: "Okay, I just used a few eunuchs to share some things for me, but I just wanted to find a few people who could speak, and they all swarmed up!" Okay, very good, all of them are loyal ministers, but I am not a virtuous king! ”

Seeing the surrounding palace maids and eunuchs kneeling on the ground one by one, they didn't dare to say a word, Zhang Yue also bowed and said: "Your Majesty, it is the duty of the officials to say things, if there is something that excites the excess, please forgive the emperor." The Son of Heaven has no trivial matters and no internal affairs, and he also asked the emperor to read and speak with a sincere heart. ”

"You still speak for them, do you know how many people have impeached you from the time you came out of the Yongle Dynasty to the previous release of the Guangdong Political Department and even the Counselor to the military affairs? Even the incident that you saw unevenly meddling in Nanyang Mansion Road this time was picked up and reported by well-informed people, and the news was faster than Jinyiwei! Lu Feng came back from you yesterday and came to me to plead guilty, saying that he had inadmissible discipline and connived at his nephew, thanks to you for taking care of him, I scolded him a few words, and was thinking about rewarding you for being careful in everything and leaving room for others, but others put a charge on you for being careless! ”

The more Zhu Zhanji thought about it, the more angry he became, secretly thinking that when his grandfather Zhu Di was there, those civil officials were all submissive, if there was nonsense and many tongues, they either went to the Jinyi Guard, or sent to Jiaolu to count the stars, and since he ascended the throne, he easily got away the most verbose people around him when he was in the palace of the imperial grandson. Thinking about the resistance he encountered when he wanted to establish a prince before, he suddenly became ruthless.

"Spread my will, let the ministers of the six departments of the Imperial Court and the Wenyuan Pavilion argue with these royal histories at noon after the court meeting tomorrow! Zhang Yue, if you stay at that time, I won't believe it, this little internal supervisor can still be compared with the fire in the three major halls! ”