After finishing the greasy but delicious meal, Zhu Zaijing turned around and started reading various documents again.
In the past few days, Zhu Zaijing, the cabinet candidate, has basically been approved. Yes, Zhu Zaijing not only took back the power of the cabinet to write imperial edicts, but he also did it himself.
This immediately gave Feng Bao a lot of free time.
But not all the title books of the memorials were written by Zhu Zaijing in person. In that case, Zhu Zaijing would have to read hundreds of them every day.
Zhu Zaijing personally read and criticized the memorials from the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Punishment, because Zhu Zaijing focused his work this year on various unjust, false and wrong cases in the Ministry of Economy, National Defense, and the Ministry of Punishment.
The Ming Dynasty is now transitioning from old to new and moving towards a new dynasty, so many things do not need to be changed and can just remain the same. This is why Zhu Zaijing basically passed all the cabinet votes.
Although Piao Hong said it was just a matter of writing a few times with a brush, Zhu Zaijing still felt over the past few days that it would be much better if it was stamped.
For example, many memorials can be directly stamped with "passed" or "rejected", which is much more efficient than writing with a brush.
After all, the cabinet that rejected the memorial had to renegotiate the solution before bringing it to the emperor. In this way, two stamps could solve a large part of the memorial that needed to be written by hand.
"Feng Bao!"
"Long live the Lord!"
"Send a message to Shang Baojian and ask them to make two seals. One should be engraved with approval and the other with rejection!"
"Long live Lord, are you going to..."
"Let me see how you can use the seal to review memorials!"
Feng Bao has become more and more confused recently.
Originally, the Chief Eunuch, the Superintendent of Ceremonies and Dongchang, had seized the top eunuch, but now the Zhenfu Division was taken away by Zhu Shitai. The emperor said it was temporary, but Feng Bao vaguely felt that the Zhenfu Division would not be able to get it back.
Now more than half of the power of reviewing memorials has been taken away by the emperor. Originally, this was the job of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, but now the workload of the Supervisor of Ceremonies has been directly halved.
The man in front of me had no good feelings towards the eunuchs around Jiajing during the reign of King Yu. At that time, many people thought that King Yu hated eunuchs.
Now it seems that this is really the case!
During the Jiajing Dynasty, Feng Bao, who was used to having all his memorials reviewed by the Supervisor of Ceremonies, became worried about gains and losses.
"Long live my Lord, this batch of reds is a century-old rule. You are like this now..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhu Zaijing stood up coldly and walked to him.
Feng Bao quickly knelt down.
"Have I given you too many smiles in recent days?"
"I don't dare!"
The emperor is like this. Just now he was combing his hair and eating while talking and laughing, but now his face has changed again.
The eunuchs who served him felt that Jiajing was much easier to serve than him.
"Slave...Slave, go now!" He stood up and hurried away.
"Damn eunuch!"
Zhu Zaijing cursed, then sat back and began to review the memorial.
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During the cabinet inspection, Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng were checking Yin Zhengmao's property.
600,000 taels, this is the property of three low-ranking officials of sixth or seventh rank.
Of course, this was nothing strange to the two masters and apprentices who had witnessed Yan Song and Yan Shifan's father and son's property being worth nearly tens of millions of dollars after they ransacked their homes.
Moreover, this kind of supervision department has always been a department where people are keen to make money, so it is even more difficult to be greedy.
"Mr. Xu Ge, the liquidation has been completed. It is indeed 600,000 taels. It is exactly the same as the number reported by Dongchang. There is no error!"
Xu Jie took off his glasses, slowly raised his head, rubbed his eyes, and said, "How do you think the money should be distributed?"
"The disciple thought that this money can be divided into three parts: one part of 200,000 taels will be sent to the national treasury. Now the national treasury only has 200,000 taels. The New Year is full of disasters. If another accident occurs, 200,000 taels will be a drop in the bucket!"
"There is also a part divided into 200,000 taels to distribute salaries to lower-level officials. Officials in Beijing have already received salaries. Others. Officials with higher official positions such as fourth-grade and fifth-grade have also received salaries, but the first few Some of the salaries that are owed during the year and those officials of the seventh and eighth grades such as county magistrates at the grassroots level should also be given their salaries!"
Xu Jie nodded silently.
"Your Majesty has been conducting a thorough inspection of the Beijing camp recently. He will definitely find some old or even unusable military equipment. These need to be replaced. There is also Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun. If they bring the Zhejiang army to Beijing for training, Your Majesty will also There must be some rewards, I think these 200,000 taels will be reserved for His Majesty’s use!”
After discussions between the Ministry of Revenue and the cabinet, they would always leave a portion of pocket money to the emperor. This was an unspoken rule since the Jiajing Dynasty. After the ministers calculated the various expenses of the country, they had to leave some "pocket money" for Jiajing himself.
For example, at Yan Song's house, 30,000 taels of gold, 2.3 million taels of silver, as well as various famous utensils, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, etc. were confiscated. A total of tens of millions of taels of family property were sent to the national treasury. Among them, He left more than 2.5 million taels of "pocket money" for Jiajing.
"Okay! Very thoughtful! Then you can report it to His Majesty like this!"
"yes!"
Xu Jie was still observing quietly at this time. The emperor's character, coupled with the fact that he had been criticized in front of the emperor many times before, so at this time he was thinking about Zhang Juzheng going to report to the cabinet, and he should not appear in front of the emperor frequently for the time being.
At this time, a young eunuch came to the door of the duty room.
"Master Zhang, several officials from the Ministry of Revenue have arrived!"
"Oh, bring it in."
Xu Jie asked in confusion, "These people are..."
Zhang Juzheng smiled and said, "Oh, Mr. Xu Ge, these are the officials from the Ministry of Revenue who are responsible for distributing and transporting money to the border soldiers. You also know that His Majesty attaches great importance to this matter, so the disciple called them over, and then Explain it carefully!"
"Well! It's time to explain things properly, otherwise the border will be unsettled again!"
After a while, the little eunuch came to them with several people.
"Meet Mr. Ge, meet Zhang Butang!"
Zhang Juzheng's face, which had been smiling at Xu Jie just now, immediately darkened and he sat there seriously.
"No need for polite words!"
Xu Jie sat aside and quietly admired his disciple's training, and the corners of his mouth began to slowly rise.
"To make a long story short, I will tell you that the nearly 500,000 taels of silver sent to the border soldiers must be sent to them every penny, especially Jiubian."
"You also know that this is the peak period for Tatar invasion of the border. Your Majesty has already said that if the border is breached because the border soldiers have not received money, their equipment has not been replaced, and their weapons have not been updated, then we will All officials in the entire household department must be punished!”
The officials were shocked by Zhang Juzheng's serious words, and their expressions began to change.
"Don't think that I don't know the skills of the people below. They take advantage of you at all levels and get some money in various names. Let me tell you!" Zhang Juzheng patted the table, and several teacups on the table overturned. "Nine-sided ones." The money will be delivered within 10 days! The money from other borders will also be delivered within 35 days!"
"If anyone is found out who failed to deliver the money on time and in the right amount, I will apply to His Majesty to have their homes confiscated and exiled!"
