"...Yes." Zhu Qingping sighed, "Your Majesty is filial and did not bring many people, but most of them stayed with the concubine. The Sixth Palace and the First Division also had to arrange for someone to go there, but the servants stayed in Qianqing Palace but could not Even though I have everything in mind, I can’t explain all of His Majesty’s rules to them all at once.”
Qianqing Palace, as the emperor's palace, was sometimes the place where foreign ministers were summoned, including eunuchs and maids.
The eunuchs are currently headed by Gao Zhong and Huang Jin serves personally.
As for the palace maids, there are no unworthy palace maids in the Qianqing Palace. Under Zhu Qingping, there were more than fifty maids on duty in Qianqing Palace.
Of course, not all palace maids serve Zhu Houcong at the same time. Generally speaking, they have to work in separate shifts, and someone must be on duty at night.
Naturally, most of these people are the maids of the original palace.
Zhu Houcong remembered that when he was about to brush his teeth in the morning, the little palace maid who was holding a tea cup was helpless and later cried in fright.
After asking about it, I found out that she was responsible for "cleaning the dragon ditch" for the emperor. It sounds weird, but it’s actually just rinsing your mouth with tea.
After seeing the emperor brushing his teeth with his own toothbrush, she felt at a loss as if she had lost the value of her existence, and thought that the emperor was dissatisfied with her.
Toothbrushes already existed at this time, and it is said that they were invented by Zhu Youtang out of consideration for the Empress Dowager Zhang. This is actually a bit of flattery, and it is true that he has improved a bit.
Zhu Houcong was more accustomed to toothbrushing. He smiled when he heard this and said: "From now on, everyone will naturally adapt to my habits. You can arrange it so that they don't have to be so worried. They will take a shower after eating later. They can go earlier in the future. I will After my run, I’ll have some food and then arrange a bath.”
With his style, the palace maid who works as an errand in the Qianqing Palace will not be afraid of being tortured in the future, and she will not take Bai Ling to strangle his neck in the middle of the night, right?
"This slave will remember it."
Zhu Qingping smiled brightly, and Zhu Houcong's eyes brightened.
Was it because of her unique position in the palace that her mood improved and she smiled charmingly, or was her heart beginning to become restless after ascending to the throne of God?
Now Zhu Houcong can understand the eyes and thoughts of some maids in the Qianqing Palace.
But it doesn’t work…it really doesn’t work yet.
It wasn't that he was physically incapable, but that he still had to go through the mourning period and help Zhu Houzhao finish the funeral.
Before clarifying their right to speak in national affairs with Yang Ting and them, they cannot make excuses because of their private life.
One more lap tomorrow!
Zhu Houcong turned around and told Huang Jin: "It's getting dark, let them all disperse, and come back early tomorrow."
Even if they designed the watch themselves and taught Zhang Zuo and Huang Jin to watch it here, these eunuchs couldn't complete it in just one day.
Then you have to read and find the information you need from a large amount of text, and then fill in the form and record it.
But Zhu Houcong gave him an incentive: whoever accomplished the most and best in this matter would be promoted to head of the library.
Zhang Zuo is also working very hard, and he is now even more eager to look forward to who will be promoted to be the head of the library, so that he can continue to be promoted quickly to become the chief of etiquette Bingbi.
This requires this audit to achieve His Majesty's purpose, although Zhang Zuo doesn't know what His Majesty's purpose is.
Amidst the hustle and bustle outside, Zhu Houcong finished his dinner first, took a shower and changed into light clothes, and then sat down to review the work they had completed today.
Because all the extracts have not been excerpted and filled out, the analysis cannot be done further.
The main thing is to see if they are doing it right. Although I did a preliminary inspection before noon, who knows if there is any deviation later?
After taking a closer look, Zhu Houcong gave some suggestions for modification based on what they made today.
The content to be filled in was still getting more and more complicated, and it could not reach the level where he only needed to fill in the key information. For example, a person must write a long list of official names, or add the first name, surname, and characters.
As for the numbers, there are still people who habitually copy them into their original form.
Zhu Houcong hoped that at least in this work, they would convert them into Arabic numerals, so that it would be easier for him to make statistics later.
It seems that we can only hope that after dividing them into several groups, the several results can be unified and collated into a final version.
It seems that this job will be left to Huang Jin.
So Zhu Houcong called him over and explained the matter, and at the same time asked him to make the request again tomorrow.
Huang Jin made a sad face: "Your Majesty is a scholar of heaven, but this method you are talking about is so stupid that I can barely understand it."
He didn't know where His Majesty learned these methods, but that didn't stop him from sincerely flattering him.
Zhu Houcong didn't blame him: "That's why I teach you, listen carefully!"
He didn't need to listen to Lao Qin about professional matters. Now take it out and let them do it. As the emperor, there is no need to explain to anyone.
Asking is the method I figured out myself.
Although it is impossible to verify clearly, China's earliest "limping accounting" transition from single-entry accounting to double-entry accounting did not appear until the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty.
However, the accounting records used by the government at this time were still the single-entry accounting method, with only the two accounting symbols of revenue and expenditure. Then at the end of the month, statistics will be made using the four-column settlement method of "old management, new acquisition, expulsion, and return", that is, the beginning balance, the increase in the current period, the decrease in the current period, and the ending balance.
Of course, Zhu Houcong is not trying to fit all of this into the double-entry accounting framework.
He is just taking the first step: to tally up the old accounts of the past ten years in his own way as quickly as possible, and then compare them with the key figures in memorials from various places to find some clues to the problems. .
To clarify the current situation and find problems, Zhu Houcong has special accounting skills.
The double-entry accounting method can more comprehensively and systematically reflect the changes in capital increases and decreases, and helps to check and ensure the accuracy of the accounting record results. To promote this thing, there is no foundation yet.
Look at how Huang Jin is struggling now: Does Ming Dynasty have so many professional accounting talents now?
Think again about the various warehouse fire cases that Lao Qin said: How many people in the Ming Dynasty are willing to support double-entry accounting?
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On the day he ascended the throne, the emperor brought great mental stimulation to his cabinet ministers.
The emperor began to audit the accounts the day after he ascended the throne, and the scope of the stimulus expanded to include more officials.
The time and etiquette for the first court meeting have been decided: it will be held at the West Jiao Gate next to Fengtian Gate on the 27th. Everyone will wear robes and no bells or drums will be sounded. The emperor was released after May 18th, while the officials were released after the "funeral" ceremony of Emperor Daxing. Before that, they were all at the west corner gate.
Now because Zhu Houzhao's funeral rites have not been completed, it is a past practice to temporarily listen to the government at Xijiaomen.
At the same time, the Ministry of Rites also asked the Daxing Emperor for instructions on who should be sent to pay homage to Emperor Xuan's palace. The reason these matters have been delayed until now is because the emperor's funeral ceremony needs someone to preside over it, and only his successor is qualified.
Zhu Houcong, who had already made plans, had made arrangements: the Zhang brothers were naturally responsible for the imperial mausoleum project and sacrificial matters related to Emperor Daxing, and were supervised by Gu Dayong.
I hope the Zhang brothers will continue to show their style and be greedy for something.
On the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth, in addition to the backlog of memorials sent to the palace the day after he ascended the throne, many new memorials were submitted to the palace in these three days.
Zhu Houcong had many memorials in front of him. He not only read them, but also recorded them in his own way.
Now that he was in control of the throne, Huang Jin was able to witness the emperor's special recording method from the sidelines.
He couldn't understand it, just like he couldn't understand His Majesty's way of checking accounts.
He is the person closest to Zhu Houcong, but in his mind, His Majesty is increasingly shrouded in mystery and sacredness. He seems to be the son of destiny, with his own miraculous talents.
Zhu Houcong concentrated his attention.
The first memorial was jointly sent by several officials from the Ministry of Husbandry and the Ministry of War, saying that the Northern Captives were spying on the enemy and the border was under martial law, and the Xuanfu officers and soldiers had been short of pay and silver for a long time. They mentioned that before Emperor Daxing's "Northern Expedition", he collected and stored a lot of money and grain in the Xuan Mansion, just to prepare for border wages. Now, should we let the other side take out 200,000 taels first?
The corners of Zhu Houcong's mouth turned up.
Judging from the accounts checked in the past four days, the money was managed by eunuchs, which was equivalent to Zhu Houzhao's "little treasury".
The most important thing is the number 200,000.
Zhu Houcong has now found out that the combined wages of all parties are only more than 400,000 taels per year. Now it was necessary to allocate 200,000 taels from here in one breath. After Zhu Houcong thought about it, he approved it with the word "accurate".
The guard system was almost rotten to the core, and the food in the fields no longer provided enough food for the soldiers of the guard as it did at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Recruitment of soldiers has been tried out as early as the Xuande period, and now the proportion is not low, all of which require payment of wages.
Zhu Houcong remembered what Lao Qin said about the annual military pay exceeding 2 million taels in the late Jiajing period. He knew that the settlement of this matter would involve the interests of many people.
Let’s lay a foreshadowing here first.
The next memorial was even better. Zhu Houcong raised his head and shouted with a half-smile: "Wei Bin?"
"My slave is here..."
Wei Bin sent over the solution he had discussed with Gu Dayong and Zhang Yong early this morning, but Zhu Houcong hadn't had time to look at it yet.
After he knelt down, he heard Zhu Houcong pick up a memorial and read: "The imperial censor Wang Jun impeached me: Wei Bin, the eunuch of the ceremonial department, and Jiang Bin, the rebellious evil, are both in-laws, and they are divided internally and externally. The eunuchs of the imperial horse, Zhang Zhong, and Yu Jing and Su Jin either fought for merit and started quarrels, ousted Zhongliang, opened an imperial shop for the first time, made grudges against the common people, or led patrols and spread poison in all directions..."
