Borrow the day to change the day

At dusk, in the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was discussing the recently implemented policies with his chief assistant Wen Tiren.

"Wen Qing, how is the reform of the supervision system of the Metropolitan Procuratorate going?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the current censors are too few, and the various regions are just a framework. The local procuratorates under the Metropolitan Procuratorate are in charge of the criminal names of the provinces. They did not have the supervision function of local civil servants before. This matter is also being reported to the public. Your Majesty, should we set up another yamen or set up a separate supervision branch within the procuratorate?"

Emperor Chongzhen listened, thought for a while, and then asked Wen Tiren: "What does Wen Qing think?"

"Your Majesty, I think that if another yamen is established, it will cost a lot. The current finances are not enough to support the establishment of a series of new yamen across the country." Wen Tiren replied.

Nothing can be done without the support of money.Now that we are in a decisive battle with Jianlu, the atonement silver we got by accident has to be kept for the war, and a part of it must be allocated to make the state-owned enterprises on Zhongxinghou's side run, so that money can make money, and there is no extra money to do it. Other things.

If he really wanted to have extra money, the first thing Emperor Chongzhen would do was to provide disaster relief instead of building new yamen that could not generate money.

He silently counted the usefulness of the silver money. He really felt that it would be great if there was a cornucopia. If he threw a gold ingot into it, he would be able to use the ingots continuously, and he would not worry about the silver money so much that his hair would turn gray. up.

From this matter, he thought again that Zhong Jinwei didn't know what he was doing at this time. [

If it weren't for the things in the army that made him disappointed one after another, if it wasn't for worrying that they would collapse if they touched the enemy, or even worry that they would surrender to the enemy, Zhong Jinwei, a precious talent, would not have been released to supervise the army.

Let Zhong Jinwei concentrate on managing state-owned enterprises and banks, and revitalize Daming's finances first. This is the most important thing at present.

However, due to various reasons, he clearly knew that Zhong Jinwei's job was the most suitable, but he couldn't transfer him to do it.

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help sighing when he thought of this, sometimes the emperor can't do whatever he wants!

After Wen Tiren finished answering, he looked at Emperor Chongzhen, unexpectedly, the emperor started to be in a daze.After a while, he sighed and couldn't help being taken aback.

Then he immediately thought that the emperor should be worried about Daming's finances, but why not himself!

Money is used everywhere, but there is no money everywhere. Although the chief assistant of Ming Dynasty is under one person, he is above ten thousand people.But if you don't have money, it's really hard to take care of!

The two people in the Wenhua Hall spoke to each other silently. After a while, Emperor Chongzhen broke the silence first, and said to Wen Tiren: "Wen Qing will go back and discuss with the cabinet to see if it is possible to set up a separate division within the Judiciary. Check the integrity of local civil servants, set up a reporting office to accept reports.”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wen Tiren naturally had no problem with this. When he said it earlier, he was actually inclined to adopt this method.

"How is the situation of the Daming Royal Bank?" Emperor Chongzhen asked another question of concern.

After hearing this, Wen Tiren shook his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, since the start of the Battle of Gyeonggi, there has been no such thing as a small number of people exchanging silver taels for banknotes. Some merchants who accept banknotes originally came to exchange banknotes every evening. Silver taels, but now it takes half a day to come to the bank to exchange silver taels. In addition, some court officials exchange banknotes for silver taels are also increasing.”

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen pressed his temples with his hands, and then sighed in a low voice: "They have no confidence in the imperial court, and they are all watching the outcome of the Battle of Gyeonggi!"

Wen Tiren nodded after hearing this. Not only the people of Ming Dynasty were hard to guess the outcome of the battle of Gyeonggi, but even the officials of the imperial court had no confidence. Naturally, they also had doubts about the banknotes issued by the imperial court, even if there were silver taels that could be exchanged at any time as an endorsement.

If the battle of Gyeonggi can be won, the people of Ming Dynasty will have confidence in the imperial court, and then other things will be much easier to handle, otherwise, the future will only be more difficult.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Wen Tiren with a hint of worry in his eyes and asked, "Wen Qing, how do you say the battle is going on now?" [

Wen Tiren himself had no idea, but when Emperor Chongzhen asked him this, he could only comfort Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, it has only been a few days since the army started, and I estimate that it will take two days before there will be any news."

Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen frowned, he was obviously still worried about the situation of the battle, so he said again: "Your Majesty, the King Qin Army in the outskirts of the capital is different from other Ming armies. It’s also here, and it’s an old minister like Sun Ge who seeks the country and controls the army. I think that if there are no accidents, he will definitely be able to drive away Jianlu.”

Before the war started, Emperor Chongzhen was also very high-spirited and tried to wipe out Jianlu in one fell swoop.

But after he discovered that the war is related to many aspects, and the outcome affects many things, he became uneasy, not even as confident as before, and became as worried about the outcome of the battle as ordinary people.

Emperor Chongzhen felt that he was a little too nervous when he heard the words of the always steady chief assistant.

So, he took a long breath gently to relieve the tension caused by wanting to fight just now.

Then when he was about to speak, there was a sudden movement outside the hall, and a voice came from a distance. Although he couldn't hear the content clearly, he could feel the surprise in the voice.

Emperor Chongzhen felt strange, who was so courageous and dared to make noise outside.

When he was about to let the servant go out to have a look, Wen Tiren suddenly said: "Your Majesty, it seems that the good news has come."

It is said that people will be dazzled and deaf when they are old, but Wen Tiren is abnormal, his ears are sharper than ordinary people, and he can vaguely hear the content.

Emperor Chongzhen was taken aback when he heard this, announcing the good news, what good news?

With just such an effort, the voice got closer and more clearly heard: "Great victory on the front line, more than five hundred heads of Jianlu were killed; great victory on the front line, more than five hundred heads of Jianlu were cut off."

Emperor Chongzhen heard it clearly, was overjoyed, and quickly ordered: "Quickly pass on, quickly pass on!"

After finishing speaking, he couldn't sit still any longer, stood up, and started pacing back and forth in front of the imperial table, thinking in his heart, why he was running so slowly, and he still hasn't arrived after half a day.

Wen Tiren didn't sit on the stool given by Emperor Chongzhen anymore, but stood up, turning his head to look outside the hall from time to time.

Under the gaze of the big Han general outside the hall, the servant who reported the letter ran and shouted, and finally ran into the Wenhua Hall.

As soon as he entered the Wenhua Hall, he knelt down on the ground, held the scroll of memorials above his head with both hands, and played: "Your Majesty, the front line is [-] miles away, and we will fight with Jianlu and kill more than [-] Jianlu's heads." , Great victory!"

The servants in the palace didn't wait for Emperor Chongzhen's order, they hurried over to pick it up, and hurriedly presented it to Emperor Chongzhen who was waiting in a hurry.

Emperor Chongzhen impatiently tore off the seal, lifted the shaft cover, poured out the memorial inside and quickly read it.

Wen Tiren kept staring at Emperor Chongzhen, and found that the emperor was smiling more and more, and finally smiled like a flower.I knew in my heart that the war must be relatively smooth.

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly clapped the memorial with both hands, and then said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, okay!"

At this time, he noticed Wen Tiren's longing eyes, he chuckled, walked straight down, and handed the memorial to Shoufu.

Emperor Chongzhen also said: "Master Sun lived up to my expectations, and Master Zhong brought the army to me. Beheading two of the 510 Jiankui, there were only 16 casualties. What a great victory!"

Since Daming started the war with Jianlu, it has never had such a big victory.The news made Emperor Chongzhen feel light all over, as if the gigantic boulder he had been carrying on his back was put down at once.

After reading it, Wen Tiren was overjoyed, but then he frowned, and said to Emperor Chongzhen cautiously: "Your Majesty, I think it's not appropriate to publicize it right now, you have to go through the head test."

There have been many precedents in Ming Dynasty, saying that many Jianlu were killed, but in the end, either the corpses were taken back, or when the heads were inspected and accepted, it was found that there were heads of non-genuine Jianlu to make up the number.

If the court fails to do so, it will publicize, and in the end the truth of the matter will be revealed, and the court will be slapped in the face instead.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, his emotions, which had been high just now, slowly calmed down.Of course he believed in Master Sun and Master Zhong, but what Wen Qing said was unreasonable.

"Where is the head?" Emperor Chongzhen asked the servant who reported the letter.

"Return to Your Majesty, the messenger said that the leader has arrived in Tongzhou, and will arrive at the capital tonight, but the gate of the capital has been closed, and he will not be able to enter the capital until tomorrow morning."

"Wen Qing, you arrange someone to wait at the city gate. Once the head arrives outside the city, it will be inspected first. If there is a mistake, it will be transported to the Meridian Gate early tomorrow morning to be stacked for viewing in Beijing, so that all the people in the capital can come and see it."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wen Tiren accepted the order happily.

The two had already focused on discussing other matters, and they only discussed after the head had been inspected, and Wen Tiren resigned to arrange the inspection and acceptance of the head.

The Ming army generally has the habit of exaggerating the results of battles, but Sun Chengzong understood Zhong Jinwei's temper, and as far as he was concerned, he didn't bother to do so, so this victory report did not add any embellishments.

In the early morning of the next day, the two chariots of Jianlu heads were divided into five chariots, escorted by soldiers from the five city soldiers and horses, and entered the city of Beijing in a mighty way, following those who opened the way while shouting victory.