"I obey your decree!"
When Shen Weibing saw that no one was interceding for him, a stern look flashed in his eyes, and he actually bowed and responded.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he stopped talking and just waved him away.
Unexpectedly, Shen Weibing respectfully handed over a memorial and said calmly: "Your Majesty, this is the official document from the Ministry of War that I just received."
"Now we need to pay Ningnan Bo Zuo Liangyu and Pingxi Bo Wu Sangui for last year's shortage of wages, weapons and other items, a total of two million silver."
"In addition, the Ministry of War has ordered Gao Jie and Ma Jinzhong to lead their troops to Shandong, but there is no draft plan from the cabinet. I don't know how their military pay should be calculated, and..."
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but glance at Fan Jingwen after listening to Shen Weibing's words.
When he saw Fan Jingwen's expression of embarrassment, he knew that the other person was not the person in charge. It was probably the Donglin Party members who were friends with him who wanted to seize power again when they saw that the rebels had retreated.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened involuntarily.
You must know that he previously transferred Ni Yuanlu to Shanxi because Ni Yuanlu was a member of the Donglin Party and the relationship was too complicated.
In addition, the war was not over yet, so it was not the time to deal with the Donglin Party, so he would compromise. This was also a warning to the Donglin Party members.
Unexpectedly, the other party completely ignored his warning and wanted to openly take away his rights, which made him feel a little angry.
But when he saw Shen Weibing talking nonstop, his anger slowly calmed down.
It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had previously attributed Shen Weibing to the Donglin Party, but after he learned about Shen Weibing's uneven distribution of land and the increase in taxes, he suspected that Shen Weibing and Li Zushu were the same.
That's why he let Fan Wenjing temporarily take charge of the household department, in order to make Shen Weibing show his fox tail.
Seeing that Shen Weibing was sparing no effort to sow discord between the cabinet and him, Zhu Yuanzhang was already aware of the situation.
At the same time, he also understood why Li Zushu and others wanted to drag Shen Zhanran into trouble. Without Shen Zhanran's mediation in the cabinet, they had the opportunity to turn the cabinet against him.
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to understand this, and sneered again in his heart.
After Shen Weibing finished speaking, he looked at Fan Jingwen and said, "Fan Qing, we asked Wu Laoliu to tell you about this, didn't he tell you?"
Fan Jingwen is also a mature man. The reason why he wanted to plead for Shen Weibing before was because he was entrusted by Ni Yuanlu.
But after listening to the conversation between the two just now, he already regretted it.
Hearing this, he immediately bowed down and apologized: "Your Majesty, forgive me. I was confused for a moment and forgot about this matter. I will make up for it when I get back!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction, then looked at the somewhat astonished Shen Weibing and said, "Put the memorial down and go deal with the matter in Taicang quickly!"
When Shen Weibing heard Zhu Yuanzhang's order, he said with some reluctance: "Your Majesty, the military pay of Shanhaiguan and Taiyuan is 100,000 yuan..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's cold eyes and couldn't help but stop.
Then he bowed awkwardly and left Dongnuan Pavilion.
"Your Majesty, this old minister is so incompetent that he didn't discover the problem with Taicang's bank. Please punish him!"
After Fan Jingwen waited for Shen Weibing to leave, he knelt down again to apologize. Z.br>
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him and wanted to go forward to help him, but stopped again.
After signaling him to stand up, he reassured him: "Fan Qing, you just took over the household department. What does this matter have to do with you? You don't have to blame yourself."
"Let Shen Weibing handle the discrepancy in the account books. You should sit in the cabinet for us and prevent nonsense like today from happening again."
Fan Jingwen was shocked when he heard this and didn't know how to answer.
Because the cabinet is nominally the assistant agency of the emperor, but after these years of development, the civil servants have successfully caged the emperor's power, which is even worse than the previous power of the prime minister.
Especially in these years, if Chongzhen could not get the support of the cabinet, he would basically be unable to accomplish anything independently.
This is why Chongzhen hated them and had to use them.
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was not restricted by the cabinet after he woke up was because Zhu Yuanzhang
Yuan Zhang's series of beheadings suppressed the Donglin Party members.
The second reason is that the Donglin Party members felt that the defeat of the Ming Dynasty was certain, and Zhu Yuanzhang was just struggling to his death, so they paid no attention to it.
But today, Li Zicheng has been forced to return to Shaanxi, and Henan, Shandong and other places are in sight, so everyone's hearts are warmed up again and they want to restore their past glory, which is why today's scene happened.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Fan Jingwen lowered his head and said nothing, so he asked Jiang Dejing: "Qing Jiang, how much money do you need this time?"
Jiang Dejing was thinking secretly, but when he heard the words, he hurriedly said: "If it is just to resettle the people near the capital, one million taels should be enough."
"If the household department is unable to make money for a while, we can handle it for a while by allocating 300,000 taels first."
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "Qing Jiang, stabilizing the people and restoring production are the top priorities. We must not save this money!"
"We will ask the prince to allocate one million to you soon, but after you get the money, you must implement the matter."
"We hope to be able to initially provide food in autumn and be self-sufficient by next spring. Can you do this?"
Jiang Dejing hesitated for a while and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely live up to your Majesty's trust!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, ignored Fan Jingwen who was hesitant to speak, and motioned for them to leave.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang took another look at the two memorials on the case, and then studied the information sent by Wu Mengming.
Based on this information from Jin Yiwei, it can be basically confirmed that the transferred money is still in the capital, and is most likely in a certain rice merchant. This is why he took the opportunity to reprimand Shen Weibing before.
Because he wanted to send a message to Shen Weibing, that is, he was already panicking and did not believe the lie that the silver was hidden in the rice.
Just at this time, Zhu Cixiang sent a letter saying that he had discovered a secret door and a secret passage in Chang Ying's library.
The passage was made in the form of a sandwich wall, with a total length of about fifty meters, which happened to connect Chang Yingku's silver warehouse and rice warehouse.
After Zhu Cihong's inspection, he felt that the silver might have been transported out of the Changying Treasury as grain, and he also suspected that the silver might be hidden among several rice merchants on the way to transport the grain.
Because there was an accident there when transporting food, I was stranded for a long time before leaving.
Furthermore, the owners behind these rice merchants were Shen Weibing and Gong Dingzi, and they should be in the same group as Li Zushu.
Although Zhu Cixiang suspected that the transferred silver was hidden inside, he was worried that an unwarranted search would cause chaos again, so he sent someone to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for instructions.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and asked Zhu Cixiang to send people to monitor secretly first, and then send Jin Yiwei to investigate after dark.
Unexpectedly, not long after his order was issued, Zuodu Censor Li Banghua, Censor Wang Zhang and others wrote a letter accusing Jinyiwei of being too domineering and affecting the stability of the capital, and recommended that Wu Mengming and others be punished.
At the same time, he earnestly explained to Zhu Yuanzhang the principles of Yao, Shun, Confucius and Mencius, hoping that he could implement benevolent government to avoid panic among the people.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this memorial, he knew that the Donglin Party was competing with him and wanted to force him to make mistakes.
Because although Li Banghua was a member of the Donglin Party, he had no ambitions. He was just a pedantic old master, but he had a high prestige among the scholars.
And Wang Zhang has been punished many times, so if he is punished this time, it will not make much sense.
In addition, Li Zushu has not been eliminated, and if the punishment is too excessive at this time, it will only be counterproductive.
While he was deep in thought, he unexpectedly saw Gong Dingzi's name on the memorial, and he couldn't help but frown.
You must know that after Zhu Yuanzhang transferred Ni Yuanlu, in order to ease the atmosphere in the capital, he lifted the ban on Gong Dingzi from going out.
But he didn't expect that Gong Dingzai would have sex again just after he was freed, obviously trying to anger him.
If Zhu Yuanzhang disposes of him, it will inevitably intensify the conflict with the Donglin Party.
However, if Gong Dingzi is not dealt with, the Donglin Party members may make further progress, which will be detrimental to the overall situation.
Furthermore, Zhu Yuanzhang was still a little confused, because according to the information from Jinyiwei, Gong Dingzi was not a loyal person, so why would he dare to take such a strange risk now.
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was confused, Wu Laoliu took the opportunity to
He quickly walked into Dong Nuan Pavilion carrying a sack.
