"Chen Huo Weihua is here, to meet Your Majesty." A middle-aged official stepped out from among the officials standing next to him.

"Well, then tell me, what is the situation in Jingying now?" Zhu Youzhen said unhurriedly.

Chongzhen's question made Huo Weihua speechless, everyone in the world knows that the Beijing camp is rotten, and he, the right attendant of the military department, knows better that there are about 11 or 20,000 officers and soldiers in the Beijing camp, and only 20,000 or 30,000 can be pulled out to point the colonel, and the only ones who can really go into battle to kill the enemy are the family members around the generals, and there are only 2 or 3,000 people in total.

But how dare he say these words publicly, Jingying is indeed very bad, but Jingying's money and grain are distributed every month, as for where the money and food go, can he tell Chongzhen that he also divides a few hundred taels every month.

"The Beijing battalion has not practiced for a long time, and in addition, it is often in arrears, and the morale of the soldiers is worried." He held back for a long time before squeezing out such a sentence, hoping to get through the trick.

"And how are you going to solve these problems?" Zhu Youzhen was not angry and continued to ask.

"Ministers should be loyal to their soldiers, and they should be disciplined so that they are not allowed to be lazy. I also ask Your Majesty to urge the household department to pay food and salary in a timely manner, so that the soldiers will not become lazy and resentful. Huo Weihua said with a shirk of responsibility.

"To be more specific, how do you plan to be loyal and how to practice strictly." Zhu Youzhen looked like he broke the casserole and asked to the end, which made Huo Weihua completely unable to deal with it. As a dedication to the fairy dew, he caused the apocalypse to die.

Since Tianqi's illness worsened, Wei Zhongxian was very unfavorable. And he also felt that Wei Zhongxian's qi was exhausted, and he had begun to quietly start to find a way out for himself. This time, Cui Chengxiu found him and asked him to come out to be the prime minister of Beijing, but he was forced to do so.

Now with Chongzhen's questioning, he thought that he could use this to get rid of this official position that was roasted on the fire, so he simply kept silent.

Cui Chengxiu gave Huo Weihua a hard look on the side, but it had no effect. A turmoil that wanted to seize control of Beijing was finally quietly quelled by Zhu Youzhen.

In fact, in Zhu Youzhen's view, the small actions of these civil officials are meaningless at all. A civil official took the appointment of the imperial court and commanded the army to rebel, did these generals really burn out their brains?

Zhu Youzhen finally rejected the sponsorship of these officials on the grounds that Huo Weihua was not familiar with military management. He also announced that the candidate for the prime minister of Jingying would be shelved for the time being, and that he would discuss it after he understood the specific situation of Beijing.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Youzhen began to inquire about the affairs of the Beijing camp openly, and asked Zhang Shijie, the grandson of the British duke, to select a few honest Jinyi guards and a few eunuchs selected by him to visit the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp.

In this way, Zhu Youzhen has one more thing every day, that is, to watch the report submitted by the Beijing camp inspection team. Under his repeated explanations, the inspection group mainly talked to officers and men of the middle and lower classes to understand their living conditions and thoughts.

Zhu Youzhen also cleared a courtyard near the Xi'an Gate, randomly selected the names of the officers and soldiers on the report form, and summoned them to verify the situation and talk. In this way, the members of the inspection team are more cautious and do not dare to be perfunctory.

However, Zhu Youzhen's actions made some nobles in the Beijing camp feel dissatisfied, and they were afraid that Zhu Youzhen would clean up the Beijing camp, which would lead to their embezzlement of food and wages, so they went together to make a public announcement to the British, asking him to discipline his grandson and not to be so flattering to Chongzhen.

Although the British Duke is the first nobles in Beijing, in the face of so many nobles putting pressure on him, he also had to find Zhang Shijie and give a few words.

Soon Zhu Youzhen found that the report of the inspection team began to appear watery, and the people he summoned were all deliberately trained how to answer questions. Zhu Youzhen did not get angry, but gradually reduced the number of visits by the inspection team, which made the nobles in the capital finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Regarding Zhu Youzhen's small actions, whether it was Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs or Donglin party, no one made public admonitions. The personnel on both sides were now closely observing their opponents, and they didn't have the extra energy to provoke Chongzhen's disgust.

Time passed so dullly, and on this day, under the organization of Zhu Youzhen, the members of the Metropolitan Governor finally completed their first project cost accounting, calculating the amount of earthwork, labor, construction time and money spent on Wansui Mountain.

In the past half a month, the members of the metropolitan supervision finally have a basic concept of the concept of cost, and the next step is nothing more than to use actual projects to continuously accumulate experience for them.

Watching Zhou Yufeng remove the filial piety belt from his clothes for himself, Zhu Youzhen realized that the mourning period of the Apocalypse had actually ended.

When Zhu Youzhen was sentimental, Zhou Yufeng hesitated for a long time and finally said, "Your Majesty, there is one thing I don't know whether to say or not. ”

"Say, there's nothing you and me can't say."

"The first emperor's mourning period has passed, will that Hakka continue to stay in the palace? Sister-in-law Zhang has reminded me several times that this Hakka family staying in the palace is hindering His Majesty's reputation. ”

Zhu Youzhen just shook his head, and said nonchalantly: "Then let her go out of the palace, it's really not appropriate for her to continue to stay in the palace." ”

Zhou Yufeng bit her lip and continued: "The Hakka family has been in the palace for so long and knows too many things, so it's not appropriate to let her go back to the people, it's better to send her to the Huanyi Bureau." ”

"Was it your own idea?" Zhu Youzhen suddenly looked into Zhou Yufeng's eyes and asked.

Zhou Yufeng hesitated for a moment, and replied in a low voice: "It was Zhang Huang's sister-in-law's proposal." ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, "The first emperor has always been close to the Hakka family, and I don't want to treat the people close to him like this, but if you release it out of the palace now, there will be trouble." It's better to let the Hakka family go to pray for the Buddha for three years, and then let her return to her hometown, and let you arrange it. Also, how did the matter of repatriating the palace maid go? ”

The concubine and the two sisters carefully checked, and there were 1,117 palace maids who could go out of the palace over the age of 40, of which 398 were unwilling to go home and wanted to find a temple to live. Others want to return home. ”

"Well, if you want to return home, let them write a letter and send it back to their hometown, let the local officials ask their families what they mean, and give each person 100 taels of silver for severance expenses. In the future, the rule that no one is allowed to enter or leave the Huanyi Bureau will be abolished, and if there is a shortage of manpower, it will directly hire women outside the palace. ”

On September 27, Zhu Youzhen released a total of more than 1,000 palace maids in the name of praying for the emperor's apocalypse, and the Hakka family was quietly mixed in the crowd and sent away. Wei Zhongxian watched from the palace wall, and the sedan chair carrying the Hakka family went out of the Donghua Gate, and he couldn't help muttering: "It's better to go, it's better to go." I hope that the spirit of the first emperor in the sky can protect you and let you live the rest of your life in peace. ”