Jinyi champion

Chapter 492
When Zhang Zuo saw Tang Yin and Zhu Hao with a big box, Zhu Hao was arranging people to hang a plaque on the house.

"Sixianju? What do you mean?"

Zhang Zuo looked up and asked curiously.

Tang Yindao: "It's all Zhu Hao's famous trick. He said that there will be more talented people here in the future. Who knows what he will do... Please meet Mr. Zhang."

Welcoming Zhang Zuo to the main room in the inner courtyard, he saw that the arrangement was quite different from before. There were six or seven long tables set up like book cases. There were chairs behind each table, along with the Four Treasures of the Study and copybooks. Luo An explained: "Zhu The gentleman said, this is called a desk."

Tang Yin said angrily: "The desk is just a desk, if you have to make those bells and whistles...it doesn't matter."

Because of Lou Suzhen's matter, Tang Yin was a little bit rebellious, and has been fighting against Zhu Hao recently.

Zhang Zuo first told the new emperor's request to Zhu Hao to write a question for the examination of the school's tribute, and said in public that the room was full of "his own people", and Zhang Zuo was not afraid of the matter being leaked.

As soon as this remark came out, Luo An and Lu Song had nothing to do with it, after all, this matter had nothing to do with them.

However, Tang Yin's face changed drastically, and he was speechless, "Tsk tsk, the examinees take the self-examination. Since ancient times, Confucian scholars have taken you Zhu Hao as the number one! It's really strange!"

Zhu Hao said: "Sir, you are mocking me...Why don't you go and talk to His Majesty so that he can take it back?"

Zhang Zuo said with a smile: "You two don't have to talk and laugh, Mr. Zhu has such abilities and is trustworthy...Mr. Tang, don't you think so?"

Tang Yin sighed helplessly and shook his head, probably lamenting the injustice of fate, why wasn't he treated like this back then?And Zhu Hao can be invincible in the imperial examination field and be able to rise to the top?
"He has this ability, he doesn't dare to think about it, and he doesn't dare to compare..."

Tang Yin almost gave up on himself.

When Zhang Zuo opened the box sent by Zhu Si again, Tang Yin was even more dumbfounded. The emperor actually asked Zhu Hao to criticize him?Still want to use the emperor's handwriting?
Then wouldn't Zhu Hao become...a figure with more power than the prime minister?

Zhu Hao took out one or two memos and looked at them. Not all of them were important government affairs memos, but each one contained the cabinet's proposals.

Zhu Hao said: "Eunuch Zhang, how can I dare to accept the work of His Majesty and the Supervisor of Ceremonies? It's better not to ask me for such matters."

Zhang Zuo looked helpless, and pleaded: "Recently, Your Majesty has been diligent in government affairs, and only sleeps for two or three hours a day, but these memorials are still piled up like a hill, and they have not been diminished at all, and not every memorial is mentioned. There are things... It is also because our family is not capable of helping His Majesty share the pressure. Most of the time, it is just drafting something, and we can only copy it. Your Majesty feels that Daming is about to be controlled by the cabinet..."

In one sentence, the reason why Zhu Sihui sent the memorials out of the palace to Zhu Haozhu for criticism.

Whether it is Zhang Zuo or Zhu Si who wants to make a difference, their ability to handle government affairs is too average. They have never had the ability to take care of one side, let alone the whole big game of chess tomorrow. All the words can be understood, but there is no way to give a better opinion than the cabinet.

Making some mild revisions, but still copying the cabinet proposals, Zhu Si gradually felt a sense of powerlessness.

And Zhang Zuo is even more so.

Zhang Zuo himself didn't study much, and his abilities were not as good as Tang Yin's, so he became an eunuch in charge of ceremonies, what achievements could he make?

It is very difficult for Zhang Zuolian to distinguish which of these memorials are important and which are not so important.

In the end Zhu Si made a decision that seemed extremely absurd, but in his eyes was very correct...

Let Zhu Hao come to Zhu Zhu to adopt the emperor's handwriting.

In this way, it won't be subject to the cabinet everywhere, right?
Tang Yin originally wanted to entertain a few words, but after hearing Zhang Zuo's complaints, he immediately understood that it was not easy to be an emperor to a eunuch in charge of ceremonies. For newcomers, he could indeed control a certain amount of initiative in personnel appointments and dismissals through Zhu Hao's guidance. Due to their limited ability to deal with government affairs and the constraints of the palace wall, Zhu Hao and Tang Yin themselves could not enter the palace to help with consultation, and they were controlled by others everywhere.

"Mr. Zhu, Mr. Tang, please take care of the two of you, and what tricks Zhu has when criticizing... Please let me know, our family is very grateful..."

What Zhang Zuo meant was, teach me more, so that I won't have to bother you.

Tang Yin narrowed his eyes slightly, with a narrow expression.

The emperor gave Zhu Hao the power to criticize reds, and asked us to give advice?It's best that you can't learn it all your life, and rely on Zhu Hao to handle it all in the future.

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After nightfall, Zhang Zuo, Tang Yin and others went to drink, leaving Zhu Hao alone to critique the memorial.

Zhang Zuo felt ashamed and said that he came to learn from Zhu Hao, but it also depends on whether Zhu Hao is willing to teach, and the review of memorials really can't be learned overnight, it involves too much knowledge, if he can learn all Zhu Hao's skills back , tantamount to reshaping life.

Talking about studying, but physically sincere, Tang Yin asked to drink, Zhang Zuo was itchy, and immediately agreed, and Jiang Lun, Lu Song and others went to drink with him.

At the second watch, Tang Yin returned to the office.

Zhu Hao looked up at him: "Where is Mr. Zhang?"

"He didn't drink much, but his body couldn't hold on anymore. He said he was going to rest for a while, and after you finished the review and sorted out the notes, he brought them back to the palace before dawn."

Tang Yin looked at the almost empty box and asked, "How's the progress?"

Zhu Hao said, "Oh, it's almost over."

Tang Yin's eyes widened: "So fast?"

Picking up the piles of memorials on the table, I found that, as Zhu Hao said, they had all been reviewed. I thought that Zhu Hao would just copy the cabinet proposals like Zhang Zuo, but when I picked them up and read them carefully, I found that there were specific contents. None of the memorials is the same as the proposal, and many opinions are independent.

"You... I'm afraid you can't do it. It involves such a big expenditure of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry. You don't listen to the cabinet and insist on adding opinions. Are you afraid of causing trouble if you post it?"

Tang Yin read a few copies. Although he didn't understand the tricks, he felt that Zhu Hao's changes in the cabinet's opinions were too big, which might cause backlash.

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "Can't you see that the cabinet is actually fooling His Majesty?"

"fool?"

Tang Yin was a little confused.

"This is called bullying, and many expenses do not match the actual situation...Look here, at the beginning of spring this year, the late emperor proposed to allocate expenses for repairing the leopard house and the elephant house, a total of [-] taels. At the time of the state, this batch of silver was returned in the form of the former emperor's edict. The original expenditure was already [-] taels, which means that it is enough to return [-] taels.

When Zhu Hao said this, Tang Yin frowned and said, "Is there something wrong with my arithmetic? Isn't it [-], could it be [-]?"

Zhu Haodao: "I said, Mr. Tang, governing the country is not a simple arithmetic problem. The most important expenditures proposed by Xiangfang and Leopard House are the purchase of stone and wood. After the flowers are gone, the wood and stone will not all disappear, will they?

"Look at this again. The Ministry of Industry clearly mentioned in mid-February that the cost of purchasing stone materials from Huguang and Jiangxi was [-] taels, but this batch of goods was directly transferred to repair the river at the end of March. ...The wood and stones used to build the palace were piled directly on the embankment?
"Look at this again... In the Memorial of the Zuo Buzheng Envoy of Henan, it was mentioned that the wood and stone collected by the local government had been transported to the north through the canal, and the Ministry of Households had an official letter of acceptance..."

Zhu Hao explained it to Tang Yin in detail, and Tang Yin probably understood it. In fact, the [-] taels were put on the big warehouse account of the household department through different channels, but they were not reported truthfully.

Tang Yin said: "Does that mean that stone and wood were purchased for [-] taels? But it seems... that there is no difference in cost. It is not a problem to pay [-] taels. You can't resell the stones and wood, right?"

Zhu Hao shook his head and said, "However, in the report for the construction of the Taimiao and the Temple of Heaven, it was necessary to re-purchase stone and wood, but the Ministry of Household Affairs thought that the cost of Taicang was too high, and wanted to confiscate it from the house of the traitor Jiang Bin and others to the inner house. It is tantamount to misappropriating the personal expenses of the new emperor as court expenses, isn't this obviously a bully?"

Tang Yin patted his thigh: "I understand. In fact, there are ready-made wood and stone materials in the warehouse of the household department. They don't use them, but propose to transfer money from the inner palace. expenditure!"

Zhu Hao sighed: "Sir, you finally understand. If you don't check the accounts carefully, it is difficult to know that there are still a large amount of materials left by the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry. Whether this batch of wood and stone is in the same place, so my opinion is, In the name of His Majesty, I ordered to ask the Ministry of Households where the stone and wood used to repair the elephant house and leopard house went! Let the Ministry of Households give a reasonable explanation. If anyone has lost money from it, if it is still there, then His Majesty can directly propose to use this batch of materials for the repair project of the Taimiao and the Temple of Heaven..."

Tang Yin said with a smile: "You didn't talk about it when you came up, but you just raised a problem and asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to investigate it. It will make the cabinet feel that His Majesty is aware of the details, and will not feel that His Majesty is too radical."

"Don't flatter me, Mr. Tang, this is just an introduction. It's just about the imperial court's expenses. It involves Hegong and Jiangxi's disaster relief last year. Many of them are muddled. We can only see one side of it. If we let If I read more memorials, maybe I can sort out the context of all the affairs in the court..."

Zhu Hao felt a little regretful.

Zhu Si sent him memorials, after all, there was only one box, and he could only see a small part of the whole picture.

Tang Yindao: "Then when I send off Eunuch Zhang, I will tell him..."

Zhu Hao shook his head: "Aren't you afraid that Eunuch Zhang will have opinions? He was supposed to do these tasks, but now I'm doing them for you. If he doesn't say anything, I'm afraid he will really mind it?"

"What's your opinion? It's all for the new emperor and Daming. He praised you a lot when drinking today, saying that if it weren't for you, it would be hard to say whether His Majesty would be able to take over the throne smoothly. He also said that it was all because of your urging, Your Majesty." Now I am full of energy and plan to become a wise king..."

When Tang Yin said this, his eyes were full of admiration for Zhu Hao: "Work hard, I am optimistic about you, if you teach me more in the future, I can also share some of the burden for you."

(End of this chapter)