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Chapter 550 Eliminate redundant members of the inner court (third update)

Seeing that the emperor asked him to express his position, Wei Zhongxian naturally knew that he could not retreat, so he gritted his teeth and cupped his hands and said:
"Master is absolutely right. Naturally, I don't have any objections. With the intervention of Yan Guan Yu Shi, the thorough investigation of the corruption in the palace will definitely go faster. I won't even have time to support you."

Although Wei Zhongxian's words were very useful to Zhu Youxiao, they made Wang Boyu on the side itch with hatred.

He had never thought that Wei Zhongxian would have a plan to thoroughly investigate the corruption in the palace. Moreover, in the previous thorough investigation of corruption in the palace, the emperor had Wei Zhongxian as the leader and him as the deputy.It was made clear that he wanted to be involved, and that was indeed the case now.

As the admiral of Dongchang, he was conducting a thorough investigation into corruption. The interrogation of those corrupt eunuchs was all done by Dongchang.

And during this process, in order to demonstrate his ability, he worked extremely hard. This time, he took the initiative to arrest many people, and he also tortured many testimonies.

Although the effect of this was obvious, many people in the palace now blamed Wang Boyu, feeling that he had gone too far.

So now he was as trapped as Wei Zhongxian. He originally thought that the thorough investigation of corruption would be over, but he didn't expect that the emperor actually wanted to continue to push forward, and Wei Zhongxian once again took the lead in supporting it, which made him even more dissatisfied with Wei Zhongxian.

However, Zhu Youxiao also knew that Wang Boyu had contributed a lot to this matter, and looked at him and praised him:

"Wang Boyu, I really did not misjudge you. Since you have been admiral of Dongchang, you have done well and I am very satisfied."

After hearing the emperor's praise, Wang Boyu, who had been resentful towards Wei Zhongxian just now, suddenly lost his resentment and quickly knelt down and said:

"Thank you for the compliment, Master. The reason why I am today is because of my trust in you. I don't dare to be greedy for credit."

Seeing that Wei Zhongxian was not mentioned at all in Wang Boyu's words, Zhu Youxiao smiled knowingly and immediately waved his hand to let them get up.

"You all work hard for me, but the inner court has a large number of people and a lot of rules, so it is easy for some people to take advantage of loopholes. I can only use you to rectify and rectify it, but punishing corruption will only treat the symptoms rather than the root cause. Therefore, I thought that in addition to continuing to investigate the palace's accounts and punish corruption, many things in the palace should also be moved."

The three ceremonial supervisors present were all very smart people. When the emperor said this, they knew there was something in his words.

When Wang Boyu saw this, he knelt down quickly, and his tears suddenly fell like beads.

"It's all the slaves who are incompetent that makes the master worry about the affairs of the inner court. It's just that the slaves are all dull-headed. The slaves do what the master says, so please teach us more. We don't care about anything, just Just do what the master tells you."

When the other two heard what Wang Boyu said, they immediately secretly thought that Wang Boyu was really cunning. He actually took the advantage this time, so they also knelt down and started talking.

"Get up, how can you behave like this all the time? There are two things I want to do. One is that there are too many eunuchs and maids in the palace, and the daily consumption is too high.

The current situation in the country is difficult, so I am thinking that if there are old and weak eunuchs and maids in the imperial city who feel that they can no longer stay in the palace, they can apply to leave the palace, and I will take out a sum of money from the internal funds as their own money. , so that they can have a place to settle down outside. "

Although Zhu Youxiao said this euphemistically, it was both voluntary and paid, but to put it bluntly, he meant to eliminate old and weak eunuchs.

This kind of thing had already happened in the Ming Dynasty. When Xiaozong and Sejong ascended the throne, in order to save the palace expenses, they eliminated eunuchs and let the maids over 40 years old leave the palace.

Therefore, everyone was not surprised when the emperor proposed such words, and they immediately nodded in agreement.

"As for the second matter, we will continue to check the accounts, but this time it is not just about the number of people and corruption, but also how much property there is in the palace, how many royal houses, royal shops, etc. must be found out." Hearing from the emperor, So the three of them said yes silently.Now that they have reached this point, they have no objections to continuing to investigate these royal houses and other properties.

Seeing them agree so readily made Zhu Youxiao feel a lot better, and then he told them to leave after a while.

Seeing the three people bowing and retreating, Zhu Youxiao also stood up from the couch and stretched slowly.

The inner court of the Ming Dynasty had too many shortcomings, and the 24 yamen basically took care of everything in the imperial city.Doing so would certainly strengthen the imperial power and reduce the interference of the foreign court.But it is precisely because of this that the 24 yamen in the inner court have many accumulated shortcomings.

Therefore, he has always wanted to reform the inner court, eliminate or merge the yamen, and finally, like the Manchu Dynasty, set up an internal affairs office to oversee everything in the imperial city and these eunuchs. By then, the inner court will be better managed.

But he knows that this kind of thing involves a lot, and the personnel relationships, rights involved, and interest disputes are very complicated.

It cannot be solved by issuing an edict and announcing the establishment of a department.That's why he asked Wei Zhongxian, Wang Boyu and others to clean up corruption, just to start from the mistakes of the inner court.

After checking slowly, he did not believe that there was no problem. As long as the problem was found, he would be given an excuse to eliminate or merge the organization.

Take your time, there is no rush.When Zhu Youxiao thought of this, he shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

At this time Zhang Chang walked in, followed by a eunuch slowly walking in carrying a wooden tray.

"Your Majesty, the Queen said that the weather is getting warmer now, so she specially asked her servant to bring a bowl of red dates and snow clam soup, and asked your Majesty to taste it."

After Zhang Chang finished speaking, he picked up a bowl of soup from the wooden plate and handed it to Zhu Youxiao.At this time, Zhu Youxiao also came back to his senses from his previous contemplation, took the soup and tasted it slowly.

"This soup tastes really good. The queen actually took the trouble to make it."

Zhu Youxiao did feel good while drinking, but then he thought of something and immediately turned around and asked Zhang Chang.

"Have I distributed the approval of the Liaodong inscription to the cabinet and others?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chang quickly bowed and said:
"Your Majesty, please rest assured. I just went to the Wenyuan Pavilion and personally handed the batch of red to Mr. Liu, and also told him about coming to the Qing Palace tomorrow to discuss matters."

Zhu Youxiao nodded slowly after hearing this. The situation in Liaodong is now considered very good.

Chen Liangbi took the lead and won a big victory for himself in Liaodong. He also captured Mang Gurtai, which further squeezed Jianlu's living space and gave Zhu Youxiao hope of victory.

And now that the various Mongolian tribes saw the Ming Dynasty's victory, they all wanted to take a share of the pie. Lin Danhan of Chahar and Aer Zhaitai of the Ongjishit tribe sent letters to Xiong Tingbi and others, requesting to send troops to help the Ming Dynasty fight against rebellion.

Although Zhu Youxiao looked down on these people, this really made Daming's chances of winning much higher.

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