Mingshi

Chapter 1567
"Your Majesty, there are ministers fighting in the court outside the Meridian Gate, do you know?"

Emperor Longqing was stunned and said: "Minister of the court battle? When did it happen?"

Luo Xin said the matter again, and the expression on Emperor Longqing's face became uncertain.He had already remembered at this moment, he must have thrown things in the room, cursed at the same time, and beat those treacherous officials to death, Feng Bao and the others went out to beat them.

Not to mention, Emperor Longqing was still a little moved at this time, feeling that people like Feng Bao were still close to him.Seeing the look on Emperor Longqing's face, Luo Xin knew what he was thinking, and sighed in his heart, this Zhu Zaihou has just become the emperor, if he was in an ordinary people's house, he would have been bullied like a dog long ago, Or they were sold, and they helped count the money.

But at this time, Emperor Longqing's expression changed, thinking about this incident, what would Gao Gong's officials think of him?
Immediately, his tone was a little blunt: "No, they bullied me too much. I just want the Fifth Army Battalion to be in my hands."

"The Fifth Army Battalion is the Son of Heaven's own army."

"But... will they listen to me?"

"You are the emperor, who do they listen to if they don't listen to you?"

"Listen to the cabinet?" Emperor Longqing said angrily.

Luo Xin silently took out a few pieces of paper and handed them to Emperor Longqing.Emperor Longqing took it in bewilderment, looked down, and after reading it, he still looked at Luodao in bewilderment:
"No, why are you showing me these?"

"Your Majesty, do you know what this is?"

"This should be money obtained from internal funds, right?"

"That's right!" Luo Xin nodded and said, "These money are from the Department of Shipping, the Exchange, and these days, the Inner Palace has asked for money from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households. Add up, the total has reached 1208 million taels. Your Majesty, you Do you still trust me?"

"Of course I do." Emperor Longqing said without hesitation, "If I don't trust Master Luo, who else can I trust?"

"Okay, Your Majesty, please seal off the internal treasury immediately. I will help you to check the accounts."

Emperor Longqing asked with some uncertainty: "You mean someone is greedy for ink?"

"I dare say so." Luo Xin said seriously, "Your Majesty won't need a fraction of the 1208 million taels."

Emperor Longqing's expression changed: "You mean to say that the rest have been corrupted?"

"If you don't check, you will know?"

"it is good!"

Emperor Longqing agreed immediately, and there was a faint anger in his heart, it was all his money, and he was greedy for ink?

Luo Xin immediately mobilized Jinyiwei and the accountant of the household department.Liu Shouyou and Xu Shixing had already made preparations.Without letting Feng Bao have time, he immediately sealed off the internal money warehouse.

Inside the hall.

Several desks came together, and ten accountants sat in two rows, each with a ledger and an abacus in front of them, crackling and calculating.

Emperor Longqing was already a little drowsy, but after two hours, the sound of the abacus gradually stopped, and the hall became silent, allowing Emperor Longqing to wake up all of a sudden.

One accountant stood up and handed a few pages of papers compiled by ten accountants to Luo Xin. Luo Xin looked at it and handed it to Emperor Longqing who was looking eagerly at this side.

Emperor Longqing took the paper in a hurry, Luo Xin waved his hand, ten accountants all retreated, and some young eunuchs also retreated, Feng Bao looked at Luo Xin begging for help, Luo Xin sighed and said:

"Eunuch Feng, go and close the door of the main hall."

Feng Bao glanced at Luo Xin gratefully, then closed the door, and stood at the door with trembling legs.At this time, Emperor Longqing's chest was already heaving violently with anger.

这几个月內帑总共收了120八万6000两白银，原来有36万7000两，加起来就是160五万3000两。如今库存18万一千600两，其余的都已经花了。

However, the money spent from the internal funds is accounted for. The ten accountants are all vicious, listing the inappropriate and suspicious parts.Based on these suspicions and the estimated accounts, Emperor Longqing spent about 18 taels of silver in the past three months, and 100 million taels of silver disappeared silently.

"Your Majesty!" Luo Xin said, "These things are easy to check."

"Wow..." Emperor Longqing threw the few pieces of paper at Feng Bao, the papers were flying in the air, and Emperor Longqing said angrily, "Give me an explanation."

"Pfft..."

Feng Bao knelt on the ground, crawled over tremblingly, picked up a few pieces of paper, read them quickly, his face became extremely pale, he knew that what Luo Xin said was right, these are easy to check, as long as you go through them one by one Check, one check is accurate.

"Your Majesty, this is just a trivial matter." Speaking of which, he waved his hand to Feng Bao and said, "Eunuch Feng, you go down first."

"Long live lord..."

"Go down!" Emperor Longqing roared angrily.

"Long live, my slave is wrong..." Feng Bao burst into tears.

Luo Xin looked at Emperor Longqing, and seeing a trace of unbearable expression on Emperor Longqing's face, he knew that Feng Bao had escaped this test. After all, Feng Bao accompanied Emperor Longqing through the most difficult life, and Emperor Longqing had a generous nature , if I insist on dealing with Feng Bao, I am afraid that I will have a rift with Emperor Longqing, and my heart will turn, so I said:

"Your Majesty, let Eunuch Feng stay."

Feng Banban looked up at Luo Xin in astonishment, and when he saw the gentleness in Luo Xin's eyes, his eyes showed gratitude.Emperor Longqing said angrily:
"Give me an explanation, are these all true?"

"Yes... it's true."

steaming...

Emperor Longqing walked up to Feng Bao, raised his foot and kicked him in the face, knocking Feng Bao to the ground.

"Dog slave, do you want to die?"

"Your Majesty, please sit down first, don't get angry."

"boom!"

Emperor Longqing kicked Feng Bao again, then sat down panting, a little ashamed and afraid to look at Luo Xin.

"His Majesty!"

"Master Luo!"

"Your Majesty, I know that you have something about governance... and you have something about the civil servants of the court..."

Although Luo Xin stopped every time he talked about the key points, to save face for Emperor Longqing, but no matter how stupid Emperor Longqing was, he knew what Luo Xin meant behind him, and couldn't help but blushed. Isn't this just saying that he is lazy and hates civil servants? ?

"However, you are too partial and conniving to the eunuchs, and you don't pay much attention to the actions of the ministers. As a result, you get the news from the eunuchs around you. If you listen to and trust the eunuchs, it will inevitably lead to even more dissatisfaction with the eunuchs around you. Connivance, so that they infinitely breed arrogance, they will look down on the officials, oppress the people, and even violate the ancestral precepts, openly intervene in the Six Departments. And because of His Majesty's favoritism and connivance, the Six Departments and the Nine Qings can't resist a small eunuch.

If things go on like this, it is very likely that the officials will no longer stick to their original intentions and choose to submit to the eunuch.Just like Wang Zhen, Wang Zhi, and Liu Jin's era back then. "

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