As expected by Jiajing, after Pingliang Mansion was raided, someone revealed the location of the hidden body in order to reduce the punishment. Shuntian Mansion Yin Ding Shichang followed the map and successfully found the hidden body, and the case was successfully concluded.
After the case was solved, the government immediately posted notices in the streets and alleys of the capital for publicity, which also attracted a burst of cheers from the people of the capital.
In the early morning, Jiajing was sitting on the futon with his eyes closed, breathing in the meager spiritual energy.
As the mana circulates throughout the body, the fatigue in the body is also eliminated. After Yan Song returned last night, he sent someone to send the money to his own money. This is the first time Jiajing has entered his own money since time travel. Take a look.
Among the internal funds, there are countless kinds of gold, silver and jewelry, and a dazzling array of rare and rare treasures can be seen everywhere. For example, Jiajing found a red coral weighing dozens of kilograms in the corner of his internal funds. Jiajing was not interested in these things. He didn't care much, what concerned him the most was the many secrets of cultivation collected by his predecessor.
The secret books collected by his predecessor were numerous and quite mixed. Jiajing used his spiritual consciousness to scan through the pile of books, and finally found a book that could still be practiced, called "Yi Qi Jue".
Jiajing was overjoyed, and soon started to activate the magic power in his body by referring to the above exercises, and did not sleep all night.
"With the help of the exercises, it is much better than my simple breathing and training, and the training speed is more than twice as fast!" Jiajing ended today's training with a twinkle in his eye.
At this moment, Lu Fang walked in with silent steps and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine Shen asked to see you and said that she has something important to discuss with your Majesty."
After hearing what Lu Fang said, Jiajing waved his hand and said calmly: "Let her come in."
Soon, the royal concubine Shen, who was elegantly dressed, walked in. She saluted Jiajing and said softly: "I, I have met your majesty!"
Jiajing got a practice book unexpectedly, and was in a good mood. He helped Shen up, then asked her to sit next to him, with a smile on his face: "My beloved, get up quickly, what do you want from me?"
"Your Majesty, it's like this. Since the last time you came to the palace, I realized that you haven't been here for a month..." Shen said with a shy look on her face. Seeing that Jiajing was still looking at her, He lowered his head in embarrassment.
"My concubine means that I have a child! Have you asked the imperial doctor to see her?" Jiajing looked ecstatic after hearing this, and then gently put his head on Shen's belly, trying to hear some movement.
"Your Majesty!" Seeing what Jiajing did, Shen raised her head and looked around, and said coquettishly.
"Ahem, I was rude, what did the imperial doctor say?" After being rolled over by Shen, Jiajing took his head back from Shen's belly and coughed twice to ease the embarrassment.
"My concubine has already visited Dr. Li before. After the diagnosis, Dr. Li also said that she is almost pregnant." After finishing speaking, Mrs. Shen gently stroked her belly, her face full of tears. The color of love.
"Okay, you have made great contributions to our Zhu family! I will reward you well." After Jiajing said that, he hugged Shen in his arms, and then kissed her smooth and jade-like cheek.
"Your Majesty!" Shen was a little embarrassed to be treated like this by Jiajing, and gently patted Jiajing's chest with her jade-like hands.
"Okay, the next thing I have to do is to take good care of my baby and try to give birth to a big fat boy for me!"
"In addition, starting from today, the imperial dining room will provide you with three meals a day. Do not touch other items of unknown origin. Even the incense used in the room must be replaced by a dedicated person. Do you understand?" Jiajing looked at it. Shen, who was lying happily in her arms, couldn't help but exhorted.
"I understand what your Majesty said." After hearing Jiajing's instructions, Mrs. Shen couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, and she leaned closer to Jiajing's chest.
"Your Majesty, it will be time for the cabinet meeting later." At this moment, Lu Fang's voice came from outside the house.
"Your Majesty should be diligent in state affairs. I will resign now!" Upon hearing this, the imperial concubine Shen broke away from Jiajing's arms and saluted.
"My dear concubine, you don't have to salute me when you see me in the future." Jiajing looked at Shen's leaving figure and warned her.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Shen suddenly paused before leaving, and then responded.
After Shen left, Jiajing called Lu Fang in from outside the room and said calmly: "Let's go to the cabinet."
There was silence along the way, and Jiajing brought Lu Fang to the cabinet.
There were no quarrels in the cabinet today, but a dull tone, with only the sound of memorials being turned over.
"Your Majesty is here!"
After the eunuch outside made the announcement, Jiajing took Lu Fang into the cabinet. Inside, the cabinet members headed by Yan Song knelt on the ground.
Jiajing glanced at it and said calmly: "Everyone, get up."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The ministers returned the greeting and then sat in their seats. Jiajing also walked directly behind the bead curtain and sat on his dragon chair.
"The matter discussed by the cabinet today is another severe drought in Gansu! According to reports from Gansu officials, since it has not rained for almost three months, the local people have not harvested any grain they planted, and many families were immediately cut off. Cooking, now the government is actively providing relief, and I hope the court will allocate 1.32 million taels of silver for disaster relief." Yan Song stood up first and read out the contents of the memorial.
"Humph, money, money, money again, they will only ask our household department for money! This 1,320,000 taels is not a small amount." After listening to Yan Song's report, Gao Gong was the first to express his dissatisfaction.
"Then according to the wishes of the Minister of Household Affairs, Gansu will not be able to recover from this disaster?" Yan Shifan looked at Gao Gong and said sarcastically.
Seeing Yan Shifan labeling himself as opposed to disaster relief, he raised his eyebrows and retorted: "I didn't say I wouldn't provide disaster relief to Gansu. It's just that places like Gansu and Shaanxi cannot collect taxes every year." , and have to rely on the central government’s finances to support it. There was a severe drought last year and another severe drought this year. How can it be such a coincidence?”
Xu Jie on the side also took advantage of the situation and said: "Money for disaster relief must be allocated, but how can there be a reason for drought every year? In the Ming Dynasty, there were two capitals and thirteen provinces, but Gansu suffered a drought every year. If this is the case, then there will be a drought every year." Come, aren’t all the people there dead?”
Jiajing, who was sitting behind the bead curtain, heard what Xu Jie said and felt that it made sense. He whispered: "Bring me the records about Gansu."
When the ministers discussing outside heard this, they also knew that the emperor was interested in this matter. They summoned the officials one after another and found out the records of tax payment in Gansu over the years, as well as the records of the court's allocation of funds for disaster relief.
Jiajing flipped through the record from beginning to end, frowning even more.
It is recorded above that since the Hongwu period, Gansu could still pay more than 4 million yuan in taxes to the court every year, and then it decreased year by year. In the end, it paid less or even less on the grounds of drought, locust plagues, and poor harvests for the people. Simply don't pay taxes.
"See for yourselves!" After Jiajing finished speaking, he handed the record to everyone through Lu Fang's hand.
After everyone took the record, they summed it up in their minds and quickly discovered something was wrong!
Then a terrible suspicion arose in everyone's mind: "Isn't Gansu exaggerating the disaster and defrauding the court of relief funds?"
Yan Song, the chief minister of the cabinet, was the first to kneel on the ground, and then asked for orders: "Your Majesty, I request a thorough investigation of this matter! We must not tolerate it."
Xu Jie, the second assistant to the cabinet, also knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I also request that this matter be thoroughly investigated!"
Seeing that the first and second ministers of the cabinet had requested orders, the others also knelt down and asked the emperor for orders.
