Liang Chu laughed: "Why bother to see me? I can't wait for four days for the cabinet ministers? If your Majesty wants to see it, just send it to him. Isn't it a good thing for the emperor to be diligent?"
Jiang Mian and Mao Ji were speechless for a moment.
Liang Chu asked Yang Tinghe again: "Jie Fu, now that things have happened, I'm afraid that during the court meeting, His Majesty will order the Ministry of Rites to honor King Xingxian and make the Princess the Queen Mother. Will you stop me then?"
Yang Tinghe fell silent for a moment when the question touched his soul.
After thinking for a moment, he said: "The more important thing now is that there are many specific strategies for the New Deal to be implemented as soon as possible! I'm afraid that Your Majesty is not actually disallowing all of them, but is just waiting for me to wait for this matter during the discussion. Give in. Your Majesty's handling of state affairs is not a blessing to the country!"
He did not say whether he would dissuade him or not at that time, but he determined the strategy that the emperor might adopt.
It is not the kingly way to use state affairs as a bargaining chip to exchange the approval of the ministers for the pursuit of honor and increase the number.
Liang Shuhou raised his head and looked out at the sky, stood up and said with a smile: "Then we'll see when the time comes. It's almost Shenshi. I'm old, so I'll take my leave first."
After that, he left in such a cool and leisurely manner.
The role of etiquette is indeed very important, and the emperor's actions can easily become an inducement or excuse for some unrest. The question is, are there any signs of these unrest now?
not yet. Of course, this is because the proposal of the great gift has not yet been announced to the world, but looking at His Majesty's current actions, is he really afraid that the world will not know about it?
It was expected that the accounts would be checked, but I didn't expect that it would come so quickly and the emperor would do it himself.
Does the emperor know how to audit accounts?
All the ministers expressed doubts about this. Historically, certain ministers were ordered to investigate the accounts.
The reason why Mao Ji's reaction to the current situation was so great was that it was more likely that the ministers would be investigating.
Let the internal ministers investigate. If you really want to find out some problem and use it as an excuse, there is a high probability that the foreign ministers will be the ones who want to solve it.
Did the emperor intend to purge the court, get rid of a group of people, and promote a group of new people?
Many people think this way, and thus their thoughts become active.
This is right! Even if the emperor and his ministers couldn't find anything, it was still giving a signal.
The question now is simply, who does the emperor want to suppress?
Suspicions arose, and the capital became lively before the emperor came to court for the first time.
Those who post messages to meet important ministers, those who exchange opinions at homes, brothels, restaurants and other places, those who are not passionate...
The signal given by the emperor might be to ask the ministers to help settle old scores!
Without excuses and guilt, how can we touch some people?
People like Wang Qiong, who had never had a good relationship with Yang Tinghe, wanted to protect themselves, and many officials were ready to show off their talents...
The first fire of the new emperor may be far greater than Yang Ting and others expected.
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Outside the Palace of Qianqing, the eunuchs in charge of rituals, including the other eleven eunuchs, four divisions and eight bureaus, studied in the inner library. Many eunuchs who could read memorials and account books and write were called here.
At this time, they moved many small desks and divided them into several large groups.
There are two people sitting behind each small desk. One is looking through the account books or memorials, while the other is writing down something.
Looking from a distance, those who didn't know thought that the palace examination had been held in advance, but the location was wrong.
The emperor and Huang Jin, who were patrolling among them, reminded them from time to time what should be excerpted and how to record it on the form issued to them.
Even if Queen Mother Zhang wanted to take a walk in the palace, she would not come to Qianqing Palace. But now she is also very concerned about Zhu Houcong's developments, so she was rewarded very early.
This thing started in the morning.
When Zhu Houcong came to visit her after visiting several feast halls during the You period, Queen Mother Zhang asked: "Emperor, I heard that you called all the literate slaves to Qianqing Palace to check the accounts?"
Zhu Houcong smiled and nodded, not surprised at all that she was well-informed in the palace.
In this palace, Zhu Houcong has not punished anyone first, let alone started a major blood change.
But now the audit has begun, and eunuchs are being used to audit the accounts. Queen Mother Zhang is still not sure what he means. She continued to ask: "I wonder what the purpose of checking the accounts this time is? Now that you have just ascended the throne, even if you want to beat the foreign ministers, it is safer to do it slowly..."
The situation is no longer the same. The emperor is a smiling tiger, with perfect courtesy on the surface, but he has a clear attitude towards her.
Empress Dowager Zhang, who had just been beaten, needed to rely more on foreign ministers to restrain the emperor.
Zhu Houcong kept smiling, and replied after hearing this: "I just had a good idea first, and I didn't intend to cause trouble. If I were to be questioned or deceived by the foreign ministers later, wouldn't it be a joke?"
"That's it...the emperor is very concerned. He only ascended the throne yesterday, and the palace has not had time to look around before concentrating on political affairs. The emperor is so diligent. The emperor is still young, so don't exhaust yourself."
"I've given you my instructions. They are doing everything, so I'm not tired." After Zhu Houzhao said that, he asked her how her day was, and then asked her about the start of construction of Zhu Houzhao's Xuan Palace - that is, the tomb. He asked her whether it would be appropriate to send Zhang Heling, Zhang Yanling, Cui Yuan and others to be responsible for the sacrifices. She also asked her who should be assigned to supervise the subsequent projects.
Upon hearing the candidates proposed by Zhu Houcong, Queen Mother Zhang found that her brother Zhang Heling was actually responsible, and for a while she could not understand his attitude.
Supervising the construction of Emperor Daxing's mausoleum was actually a good job. Everything has its own rules, no hard work, but the money will definitely be sufficient. After the work is done, there will be a reward.
With Queen Mother Zhang's intelligence, she understood the good intentions in this.
Of course, that's because in her opinion, the whole world belongs to the Zhu family, and it is natural for her relatives to be treated with filial piety. Is it possible that she should be held accountable for such a trivial matter?
Maybe...the emperor is still preparing to deal with the foreign ministers after checking the accounts, so now he is showing favor to himself?
Thinking of this, Queen Mother Zhang felt much better and smiled more.
The two people cared so much about each other that they looked like "a loving aunt and a filial nephew."
Coming out of Renshou Palace, Zhu Houcong walked out of the palace gate and went to Weiyang Palace next to it.
After sitting in Weiyang Palace for more than a quarter of an hour, he started his evening run.
Today, more people know about the emperor's running behavior, and some even dare to hide at the door of the passage between the East and West Six Palaces to take a peek.
Zhu Houcong didn't pay attention to this at all.
He was thinking about what Queen Mother Zhang was nervous about when she asked about the audit.
What makes Queen Mother Zhang nervous is naturally not how much money she spent or what benefits she got. Her status is respected, so there is nothing to be afraid of.
It should be her mother's house.
Zhu Houcong has heard a lot about the deeds of the two brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling over the years.
The salaries and rewards they received as relatives of the state were just a small part of the small head. They used their special status to do various businesses, embezzle land and other properties, recruit people to pay their respects, and other things, and they did not miss anything.
Although Zhu Houcong showed respect for Empress Dowager Zhang for the time being, since he refused to recognize her as his mother, how could he know that he would not find an excuse to operate on her two brothers?
In addition, he always went to say hello, and Queen Mother Zhang didn't know what to say. Why not talk about state affairs to show her presence?
Both of them had cognitive biases in each other's thinking because of their thinking habits.
After thinking about this and running back, Zhu Houcong scrubbed a little and asked Huang Jin to prepare the meal.
Zhu Qingping arranged his clothes and said softly: "Your Majesty, you are always sweating. You should take a good bath. The dragon body is important, why are you not used to being taken care of?"
Zhu Houcong looked at her strangely.
If he hadn't known about her personality and already knew that the eunuch was actually responsible for serving the emperor in bathing, Zhu Houcong would have cared about her intentions when she said this.
Zhu Qingping knelt on the ground and said, "I'm talking nonsense."
"Why are you so nervous?" Zhu Houcong asked her to stand up. "Is it possible that the Hun Tang Secretary will serve me three times a day?"
"If your Majesty needs it, this is their duty." Seeing that he did not blame him, Zhu Qingping continued, "And when your Majesty gets up in the morning, your majesty dresses and washes, and the slaves just prepare the utensils. It's okay that the slaves are used to it. , the female envoys originally sent here in Qianqing Palace are very frightened."
"You mean Xilonggou in the morning?"
