The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 354 Debriefing
Zhu Linmi turned her head to look, and saw Princess Chen was stepping over the threshold, although she looked pleasantly surprised, there were tears in her eyes.

He hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Mother, all blessings."

Princess Chen helped him up, looked him up and down carefully, "Okay, okay, I'm back at last, I'm slim..." She had a lot to say to her son, but she suppressed her emotions and looked at Zeng The Empress Dowager said in a low voice: "The Empress Dowager has been short of food and sleep for several months, and it has been decreasing day by day, so I have been staying with her in the palace."

Then she walked slowly to Empress Dowager Zeng's side, and said, "Sister-in-law, Mei'er is back, I will go back to the mansion temporarily, and I will come to accompany you tomorrow."

The Empress Dowager Zeng nodded again, and said softly, "Go."

After Zhu Linming left the Meridian Gate, she was dragged by the Empress Dowager and boarded a carriage and headed towards the Fuzheng Palace.

The Crown Princess booed and asked some questions, and Zhu Linming waited for her to pause for a while, and hurriedly asked: "Mother, has the Emperor improved recently? How does the Empress Dowager describe it like this?"

Princess Chen shook her head and said: "Your Majesty is still the same, only opening his eyes occasionally when breastfeeding, the rest are all lethargic."

She sighed again, "This son is the mother's lifeblood. The emperor has always been like this, and the queen mother has lost all hope. All day long, she only thinks that if she wakes up her son, she will fall into the eighteenth level of hell." She also has no complaints.

"You have also seen that the Empress Dowager is just chanting Buddha and praying to gods all day long. Although it is not good for her health, I am afraid that if she does not have the energy to do this, she will collapse..."

She babbled a lot, and Zhu Linmi couldn't help but sigh in her heart.Historically, Zhu Linyuan was murdered by Li Chengdong when he was only two or three months old. Now, although he saved his life, he is still on the verge of collapse.

He immediately thought that even though he had himself supporting the Ming Dynasty, the emperor still had a symbolic meaning that could not be ignored.Now not only is the Lord Shaoguo suspicious, but also the emperor is seriously ill, so the people in the world will inevitably have other thoughts, and there will be even more restless people in the government and the opposition.

It seems that only by recovering Nanjing as soon as possible can the world's confidence in Daming be completely restored.

He called Shi Lin again, asked him to return to the palace, and told Pang Tianshou to strictly restrain all the eunuchs, court ladies, and imperial doctors, and not to reveal anything about the emperor's condition.

After the horses and horses stopped in front of the Fuzheng Palace, Zhu Lin got out of the car, and when she raised her eyes, she saw that the wall of the Palace had been changed to a two-foot-high city wall, and the main entrance had been increased by more than four feet. The vermilion gate was obviously newly painted. The dense copper nails on it are dazzling.

Seeing his surprised expression, Princess Chen hurriedly said: "When you first returned to Guangdong, the imperial court ordered a major renovation of the palace." She lowered her voice again, "There are many places that have surpassed the princely system..."

Zhu Linmi frowned, knowing what the people in the imperial court were planning.

He stepped into the mansion, called a group of people who should be in charge, and ordered them to remove all the transgressive places, and repeatedly warned that they should not spend an extra tael of silver on repairing the mansion in the future.

After dinner in the mansion, Yang Tinglin, Song Yingxing, Xu Erlu, Hong Si, Zhang Canghai and others rushed to the palace to meet and report to His Royal Highness the assistant government about their respective affairs in the past few months.

In fact, they will report to the public every once in a while when they are on official business, and Zhu Linmi has learned a little about it on the way back to Fujian.

However, their presence at this time is only one aspect. These people are all Zhu Linmi's "direct descendants" in the court, and being able to come here at this time also shows that they have an unusual relationship with His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince.Even if the other officials wanted to come here at this moment, they would definitely not be able to enter the auxiliary government palace.

Several people were polite in the side hall, but in the end, according to their positions and closeness, Yang Tinglin and Zhang Canghai from the household department first entered His Highness's study to have an audience.

Yang Tinglin made a salute, and first said some polite words to congratulate His Highness on the great victory, Jiangnan was initially settled, and the weather in Ming Dynasty was in full bloom, and then he frowned and said bad news, "Your Highness's conquest of the Southwest this time, although only led the elite main force, but Traveling thousands of miles, the consumption of grain, grass and utensils is still huge.

"In addition, the salaries of officials are very high now, and the construction of water conservancy and the safety of the people in Guangdong and Guangxi are also expensive. As for the two shipyards in Nan'an and Yongbeili, there are even bottomless pits.

"At present, there is only less than 60 taels left in the account of the account department. If there is no big income, according to the previous spending speed, I am afraid that it will start to go short in more than two months."

The money that was copied from the criminals who did not defect to the enemy will be bottomed out so soon?Zhu Linmi smiled wryly in her heart. Going is easier than coming. It seems that the speed of maritime trade must be accelerated, but the Helan people will definitely not let it go.A while ago, there was a report from the Guangdong Customs Department, saying that in the past two months, a total of ten Flangji merchant ships had been robbed by pirates.

He planned in his mind that he would visit the shipyard in the near future and learn about the training of the navy by the way.

However, Yang Ge's department in front of him still needs to be comforted. Zhu Linming pretended to be relaxed and smiled and said: "The Guangdong Customs Department should send tax money in the near future, which can temporarily relieve the urgent need."

In fact, the construction of Macau Port has not yet been completed, and the Helan people are obstructing it. The recent trade volume is not very large, and the tax payment for two months is only 7 to [-] taels.Even so, due to the plugging of the Portuguese tax evasion gap, it has doubled several times compared to the previous customs revenue.

Yang Tinglin hurriedly said: "The next official will contact Guangdong tomorrow, so the national treasury may be slightly wider."

After he solved the biggest problem in his mind, his expression became lighter immediately, and he continued: "Your Highness, I still have some good news for you."

"Tell me, Yang Gebu."

Yang Tinglin motioned to Zhang Canghai beside him, and the latter hurriedly took a step forward and said respectfully, "Your Highness, the first batch of potatoes and sweet potatoes sown in Jiangxi a few days ago had a bumper harvest."

Zhu Linming was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "How's the harvest?"

"Returning to Your Highness, Nankang Mansion, Raozhou Mansion and other places have not yet been counted, but only Ganzhou, Ji'an, Jianchang, Fuzhou, and Linjiang have produced a total of 74 shi of potatoes and sweet potatoes!"

Zhang Canghai's tone was full of pride. You must know that the thirteen prefectures in Jiangxi produced a total of more than 1000 million shi of grain last year.

(End of this chapter)