But when Zhu Youzhen returned to the dormitory from Jiale Palace, his steps couldn't help but be much lighter. Wang Chengen endured it until the emperor entered the upper study, and then he carefully complained to Chongzhen.

"Your Majesty, if you don't let your ministers participate in this nautical commission, why is it that even the Overseas Trade Bureau has been handed over to those merchants. The deposit paid by each merchant ship that goes to sea for trade, as well as the compulsory insurance premium for the people on board, is a lot of money. Your Majesty, aren't you afraid that those businessmen will take advantage of the opportunity to enrich themselves? ”

Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting behind the desk, looked at the documents on the table and said casually: "You guys, you are lost when you see money. When you see a piece of gold on the other side, don't you even ask how deep the river is, and you jump into it?

This overseas trade has just begun, and whether they can make money or not, and how much money they can make, they need to wade out of the way. Spring sowing has just begun, and you are eyeing the seeds in the hands of others, will there be someone to plant for you in the future?

Go back and tell the attendants to look farther and not stretch your hands too long. Every word and deed you say when you go out to do errands represents my face, and if you look too ugly, you are slapping me in the face. ”

"The ministers would never dare to think like this." Wang Chengen was suddenly bluffed by Chongzhen and knelt down to ask for guilt.

As Chongzhen began to read the documents seriously, the study suddenly fell silent. Half an hour later, Zhu Youzhen broke the silence with a slightly mocking voice.

"Okay, Wu Fangyuan's property from the soldiers in the Beijing camp is only 50,000 or 60,000 taels, and the loss reported by Lian Shanxiang's inspector Shuntianfu is nearly a million taels, go and call Lian Shanxiang to me."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Chengen quickly agreed, then quickly exited the study and asked a eunuch to pass on Lian Shanxiang.

In front of Chongzhen, Lian Shanxiang reported to him 1510, the origin of these data, in fact, has nothing to do with Jinyiwei, who supervised the registration of losses.

After the mutiny subsided, the main force of the Jinyi Guard was still placed on clearing the chaotic soldiers in the city, arresting street idlers who took advantage of the mutiny to carry out criminal activities, and more than a dozen felons who escaped from the prison of the Criminal Department by taking advantage of the chaos.

For the registration of the affected households in the capital, it is mainly dependent on those county officials who are familiar with the geography and households. Apparently some smart people smelled money in it, so they began to inflate the losses of their tenants in the hope of making a profit.

Lian Shanxiang's forehead was a little sweaty, this was the first time he messed up the task assigned by Chongzhen. He began to reflect on whether he had been too carried away these days, and even the tasks that Chongzhen repeatedly told him to easily believe the reports of his subordinates without conducting a careful spot check.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the two reports on the table, but the anger gradually subsided, he looked up at Lian Shanxiang and said: "Inform Shuntianfu, transfer the officials and officials of Daxing and Wanping counties, and then let them re-examine the losses of the people in the capital, and each of the two counties will be stationed with a small banner of Jinyi Guard."

The first is to prohibit the officials of the two counties from collusion, and the second is to keep a record of the problems they inspect. Tell them that as long as they have made meritorious contributions during the inspection, the punishment can be reduced. ”

Lian Shanxiang didn't dare to slack off, and wrote down Chongzhen's new requirements in detail, before bowing his head and exiting the study. Wang Chengen, who left with him, took Chongzhen's order to communicate with the cabinet members in the Wenhua Hall and issue Chongzhen's will.

No one can tell what is going on in the minds of the elders in the cabinet now, but after Chongzhen handed over most of the administrative power to the cabinet, several cabinet elders suddenly realized the difference between the present and the past.

In the past, it was the emperor who needed the support of the cabinet, and without the vote of the cabinet, the emperor's orders could not be conveyed.

Between the power struggles between the officials and the emperor, the cabinet was in a position of detachment, and what they could or could not do depends entirely on what position they stand.

But now, although most decisions are made by the cabinet, it is the cabinet that needs to ask the emperor for support.

The more than 200 years of political habits of the Ming Dynasty were not so easy to reverse, and most officials habitually waited for the emperor's statement rather than acting on the instructions of the cabinet.

If it was in the past, the delay in official affairs because the emperor did not express his attitude was naturally the sin of the emperor's neglect of government. But now, these official documents, which cannot be executed, have become the culinary responsibility of the cabinet leaders.

In the past, the cabinet balanced between the emperor and the civil officials, but after Chongzhen stopped the court meeting and handed over the power except for the military and judicial affairs to the cabinet, the cabinet began to become a power organ with its own position.

The conflict between the cabinet and the six ministries and local officials began to deepen, and Huang Liji and others had no way to get them to pinch their noses and obey orders for the Beijing officials who were close at hand.

But for those local officials, those who dare to put the court orders in the cabinet if they don't like them, they are really beyond the reach of the whip.

When Wang Chengen brought the order, Chongzhen wanted to exchange the officials of Daxing and Wanping. The three pavilion elders shook their heads at first, wanting to refuse this child's play-like request. But then several cabinet elders came to their senses one after another, and this was a good way to deal with disobedient subordinates.

Let these officials who do not obey orders change positions, then officials in an unfamiliar environment will not dare to resist the policies of the imperial court so justifiably.

An official who dares to shelve a decree issued by the imperial court without the support of his subordinates is either a real fool or a pedantic person who does not understand politics at all. To deal with these two kinds of people, the cabinet elders have a way.

In order to verify the feasibility of this method, Huang Liji and others, in the name of the cabinet, issued a decree that the officials of Daxing County and Wanping County under the jurisdiction of Shuntian Prefecture should be completely exchanged.

In other places, this exchange of officials in the whole county would take at least a few weeks, and then the government offices in the two counties would not be able to function normally for at least a few months.

However, Daxing County and Wanping County are within the capital, and the central axis of Qianmen Street is the boundary, dividing the capital into two parts.

The east is Daxing County, and the county government is in the Daxing Hutong near the intersection. The west is Wanping County, and the county government is in the east official room alley to the west of Di'anmen.

The county government of the two counties was even less than 10 miles away, and with the arrival of the cabinet's order, the two teams of Jinyi guards blocked the two county offices, and the officials of the two counties could not even bring out a piece of paper out of the county government under the supervision of the Jinyi guard.

The exchange of officials only reached the sixth room of the main officer, and the staff in charge of the sixth room of the county government has not changed.

But it is these officials who falsify the data and falsify it. According to the bad rules of officialdom passed down from father to son in the Ming Dynasty, these officials have held their positions for at least 3 generations.

Compared with the falsification of the amount of property losses of the people in the capital in the mutiny, the most striking thing is that the deed tax withheld by the officials in the two counties in the housing deed transaction, and the Langfang money embezzled by the collusion between the upper and lower levels.

Although many officials tried to oppose this forced transfer, when the leader was arrested as a rebel, the officials of the two counties immediately recognized their situation.

Under the supervision of Jinyiwei, the officials who were not arrested began to tremble and look through the suspicious points left by their predecessors.

In this era, the methods of making false accounts are basically the same, and in front of these knowledgeable officials, one by one suspicions were quickly exposed.

The national tax collected by the two counties every year is nearly 30,000 taels of silver, and the expenditure is about 4-50,000 taels, which can be said to be a deficit every year. However, the money that fell into the pockets of these officials and county officials was also not less than 30,000 taels per year.

Regarding the detailed case report handed over by Jin Yiwei, whether it is Chongzhen or several cabinet elders, they all think that it is not appropriate to make it public.

First, because the content of the report was too detailed, it became a criminal guide for officials everywhere after it was made public.

In addition, in addition to a part of the money and food that fell into the pockets of officials and officials, another part was used to distribute the food and silver of the three shifts of officials, and the last part was used to meet the apportionment in the palace.

Zhu Youzhen took a closer look, and the weddings of the previous princesses, as well as the unnamed sacrificial supplies throughout the year, had already accounted for nearly one-third of the hidden amount.

He had to admit that this was a problem with the Ming Dynasty's system, not that these officials were so greedy by nature.

He did not intend to use the heads of a few officials and officials to cover up the flaws in the Ming system, nor did he think that the death penalty could play any deterrent role in such a system.

Zhu Youzhen rejected the cabinet's opinion that the case should be handed over to the Criminal Department for handling, and he transferred several officials who were most involved in the case, set up a school for the further education of officials, ordered that all new officials in the territory of Beizhili must enter the school for study, and began to send officials from various counties for training and study.

The officials of the Northern Zhili and the yamen of the capital were no longer set as fixed service, but began to circulate, and the phenomenon of officials not feudal and feudal officials began to disappear in the Northern Zhili.

Originally, the cabinet had been unable to carry out the local reform, abolished the hereditary system of officials, and added two institutions, the State Taxation Bureau and the county court, in each county, and established two counties in Daxing, Wanping and Shuntianfu.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen also officially issued an edict abolishing the apportionment of the palace to the locality, but required the local government to assist the palace in purchasing various items.

Although Chongzhen did not completely abolish the collusion of interests between the palace and the locality, compared with the previous gratuitous apportionment, this has greatly reduced the burden on the two counties.

On the afternoon of the last day of the maritime conference, Isabella, dressed as a Ming girl, was walking with Yuan Zhaorong in the "Palace Garden".

Although escaping the control of Bishop Antonio and others, Isabella finds herself jumping from one small prison to another.

Unlike in Macau, where there were Portuguese compatriots to communicate with, in this palace full of high walls, she had little to talk to except for a grandmother.

After two or three days of such a life was about to drive her crazy, but fortunately, the emperor of the Ming kingdom seemed to realize that a lady should not be treated like this, and finally moved her out of the deserted courtyard.

Her life soon changed dramatically, and the emperor not only arranged for her two maids-in-waiting, but also had a noble lady take care of her, and Isabella liked this noble lady who seemed to be more mature than her age, so she stayed with Yuan Zhaorong all day.