Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 178, the rift in Emperor Hongzhi's heart
As an emperor, as the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, he obviously enjoys everything that is the most honorable in the world, but Emperor Hongzhi was deeply touched by Zhu Houzhao's words at this time.

He, the emperor, is really poor. If he wants to do something, he is basically told by the ministers that he has no money and no follow-up. As for using his own money to do things, the ministers are of course happy to hear it. , but this internal money is a little property that Emperor Hongzhi worked so hard to save.

His cheap father, Ming Xianzong, ruined all the property left by his ancestors. When he first took over, the money could starve a mouse to death.

Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi also valued the little money he had saved with great difficulty, and he was not willing to spend it casually at all.

There is no money in the national treasury here, and there is not much money in the other side, so the most direct constraint on what Emperor Hongzhi wants to do is money. He is poor. He is so poor that he can only be an emperor if he is a Buddhist. Fortunately, he There is only one wife. If there are three wives and four concubines in the harem, there will definitely be very little money left.

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words now, hearing his layer-by-layer analysis, and hearing that the people behind this want to use money to control the imperial power, he also feels the same way. It's not good to have no money.

Naturally, he didn't want such a thing to happen to his son. Now that Zhu Houzhao was just doing some profitable business, these people had already set his sights on them. He was tightly controlled by them and constrained by them.

This is absolutely unacceptable to him.

At the same time, an inexplicable anger rose in his heart. The dragon has Ni Lin, and Zhu Houzhao is Emperor Hongzhi's Ni Lin. This is his only son and the successor of Daming Jiangshan.

In order to control the imperial power, these people are actually calculating everywhere. Zhu Houzhao is just a child now, just doing some profitable business with others, and someone is calculating, so that he, a little child, is thinking about how to deal with it, and even think of it. There are three strategies: top, middle and bottom.

However, Emperor Hongzhi was deeply influenced by Confucianism since he was a child. He was closer to the civil servants in his heart and trusted them very much. After thinking about it carefully in his mind, he felt that Zhu Houzhao was thinking too much and thinking too deeply about this matter.

But on the one hand, he empathizes with him. He has been constrained by money, and many great ambitions in his heart cannot be realized. On the other hand, he has long-term trust in civil servants. The constant conflict between the two makes him hesitate, and he does not know how to make a decision.

"Could it be that you think too much?"

"Maybe it's because some profiteers took the opportunity to make money in the country, and it doesn't mean that they have risen to the point of controlling the imperial power?"

Emperor Hongzhi was really a good man, and he didn't like to think of things as bad in many cases. Even now he felt that Zhu Houzhao was right in his heart, but he had committed the same old good man again.

"It's hard to make money for the country?"

"If there is no one behind these profiteers, how dare they vacate the official position at this time?"

Zhu Houzhao was also speechless to his father, and immediately asked back.

"This…"

Emperor Hongzhi had nothing to say.

"Father, do you believe that soon someone will report to you as I said, asking the treasury to spend money to buy food for disaster relief, and then the Ministry of household affairs will definitely say that the treasury is empty and there is no extra money, and then they will definitely ask You use internal money to buy food."

"But the price of grain is extremely expensive now. A catty of grain is already [-] Wen, and a tael of silver can only buy [-] catties. These people will definitely suck up the little money in their pockets soon."

"There is no money in the internal funds, and they will definitely focus on the money and property in my hands again. At that time, someone will definitely go to the memorial to collect it from the national treasury and so on."

"Father, just wait and see, this matter is absolutely exactly what I said."

Zhu Houzhao tilted his head, looking like he was strategizing, seeing through everything and predicting the future.

"If it's really what you said, then I will let them understand that the emperor will bleed for thousands of miles when he is angry."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded, and then spoke slowly after a long period of contemplation.

His words also made Xiao Jing on the side shiver uncontrollably, a slight chill flashed in his eyes, he has followed Emperor Hongzhi for many years, he knows the character of this good old emperor very well, once this good old man really gets angry , is definitely more terrifying than anything else.

Morning the next day.

"If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat!"

Just as Xiao Jing yelled this sentence, several ministers immediately stood up in the hall and said: "I have something to say."

The few ministers who stood up glanced at each other. Naturally, those with low ranks would stand back first and let the big bosses speak first.

"Your Majesty, Chen Gongqi, now the three provinces of Northern Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi have no harvest of spring grain, the famine is spreading, and the land is full of starvation. I ask your Majesty to order the distribution of grain in various places as soon as possible, so as to save the common people from the fire and water."

As usual, this time there were almost no exceptions. A censor stood up and said that there was a famine in the three northern provinces, and asked the emperor to come up with an effective response plan as soon as possible.

"Liu Aiqing, please tell everyone what happened in Dezhou Warehouse and Linqing Warehouse yesterday."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded, indicating that he knew, and then said to Liu Jian.

Liu Jian stood up and told the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty the reports from Dezhou Cang and Linqing Cang that he had just received yesterday afternoon.

"Your Majesty, please investigate this matter thoroughly. At such a time of national calamity, it is really hateful that some young people steal food. It is not enough for the common people to be angry if they don't kill them."

"The minister seconded the proposal, we must thoroughly investigate this matter, and find food to help the victims."

"It's so audacious, please issue an order to investigate this case quickly."

Hearing Liu Jian say that there was no food in the official warehouse, the whole court seemed to explode, and ministers stood up one after another, filled with righteous indignation, wishing to eat those national thieves who stole food raw. Everyone seems to have a sworn hatred with these people.

Emperor Hongzhi watched quietly, but he was thinking about Zhu Houzhao's words yesterday in his mind. He paid more attention and observed the performance of the ministers above the court.

In the past, he would have had great trust in these ministers above the imperial court, because he has always been known as a man without sages in the wilderness, with sages everywhere in the court and the field, and the people are full of power. Wenchen is extremely trustworthy.

But what Zhu Houzhao said yesterday also shook his trust and created cracks, so now he has an extra heart and is quietly watching the performance of the ministers in the court.

　The update is late, it was only updated after a year~~Happy New Year everyone~
　　
　
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