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It was the second day after Zhu Hao returned to the capital that he went to see Zhu Niang and Aunt Li.

After Zhu Niang saw her son, she kept nagging: "...It's fine if you're not in the capital. Since you became an official, I have prepared for my mother that you may be away for a long time. But why don't you let your wife Come here more often, talk about family life? I miss her a lot, but it's hard to see her."

Zhu Hao smiled and said, "If Mother misses you, go to my side and run out the door to see her."

Zhu Niang gave Zhu Hao a blank look, and said, "Is your mother such a person who doesn't understand the rules? She is Miss Qianjin, a lady of everyone, or she doesn't like me, a mother-in-law who was born in a poor family."

People in this era generally pay attention to living with a large family, but Zhu Hao is obviously the mentality of young people in later generations. After getting married, he has to set up his own family.

As an ordinary mother, she would never understand that her son was separated from his family so easily. Although they lived not far away, the etiquette of this era actually does not allow such an obvious act of separation...

But that's how Zhu Niang lived in the first half of her life. She asked herself that she didn't want to live with an old lady like Zhu Jiashi, and she didn't want to do to others, so naturally she wouldn't force Zhu Hao and his wife to do anything.

"Then if you have time, bring your wife back to see your mother." Zhu Niang said with a smile.

Zhu Hao nodded.

Have lunch at home.

Zhu Ting has now grown into a slim young girl, and at the dinner table, Aunt Li kept mentioning about finding a husband for Zhu Ting.

Although as Zhu Hao's younger sister, Zhu Ting can be regarded as the daughter of an official family, Zhu Hao has just entered the court and has no reputation in the officialdom. As the daughter of a concubine, Zhu Ting has no status. Marry a woman like Zhu Ting.

As a result, Zhu Ting faced an extremely embarrassing problem in major life events.

You can't be high or low.

It seems that only marrying a general can solve this embarrassment, but as the younger sister of the number one scholar, she is also literate and well-versed in books. Who would want to marry a vulgar and vulgar man?
Zhu Hao returned to his home in the afternoon and fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already sunset.

Sun Lan stood at the door, but hesitated to enter the house.

Zhu Hao didn't know how long she stood there. After getting up, he walked over and patted Sun Lan on the shoulder.The latter looked up at Zhu Hao, his pretty face flushed slightly.

"When my husband was resting, the quilt was not covered..."

Sun Lan reminded.

It was only then that Zhu Hao remembered that he was too tired after returning home, how could he care so much?Just find a piece of thicker clothes to drape over his body, and sleep soundly as soon as he lands on the couch... This is much better than sleeping on a carriage when he goes north to the capital, or sleeping in the open during the starry night.

As a native of Huguang, Zhu Hao himself is not afraid of the cold. It doesn't mean that he has gained weight and has fat on his body, it can only be said that he doesn't care about these things at all.

But when he got up, he was clearly covered with a quilt.

Sun Lan must have entered the house and built it for him.

Zhu Hao smiled slightly, looked into Sun Lan's eyes, nodded and said, "You've got a heart... Just clean up, and I'll take you back to your mother's house later."

"Um."

Sun Lan nodded, turned around and went back to the West Wing to tidy up and tidy up her things.As the wife of the No. [-] scholar, no matter whether she is married or not, she must at least look good... Sun Lan, among other things, must look good and have a good figure, like a living clothes hanger, able to support Zhu Hao's face. …

Sun family.

When Sun Jiao saw his son-in-law brought his daughter to visit the mansion, he didn't criticize him... Like Liu Chun, he went to the Hanlin Academy to wait for Zhu Hao, even if he was killed, he wouldn't do that.

Sun Lan went to meet his family, while Sun Jiao called Zhu Hao to the study room, which was regarded as a relatively private place for Sun Jiao. There were a lot of books in it, and most of them were transported by special personnel from his hometown in Anlu. Long stay in Beijing.

Zhu Hao casually picked up a book on the desk and looked at it.

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Jiao reminded: "Don't move around, the copy in your hand is an orphan, and if someone wants to borrow it and copy it, I won't allow it."

"Mr. Sun is so stingy?"

Zhu Hao laughed and joked.

Sun Jiaodao: "You come to copy it, but I won't let it. If you have the ability to memorize it silently, go back and copy it yourself, or it can be passed down."

"No need!"

Zhu Hao shook his head and said, "Since I won the number one examination, I found that I have lost the patience to read books, entangled in mundane affairs, and can't be idle all day long..."

Sun Jiao gave Zhu Hao an annoyed look: "Young people don't want to learn, they just rely on intrigue, and the final result is likely to be counterproductive."

Zhu Hao thought to himself, it would be counterproductive. If you just say that I won't die well, isn't that enough?
"sit down."

Sun Jiao motioned Zhu Hao to sit on the guest seat.

This guest chair was placed opposite to Sun Jiao's desk, and the two of them sat across from each other. Zhu Hao immediately realized that this chair was specially prepared for him, and Sun Jiao must have something to do with him. He confessed that it might have something to do with the official documents on the table.

as predicted……

After Sun Jiao sat down, the first thing he did was hand over the copy in front of him to Zhu Hao, and he raised his chin: "Look at it."

Zhu Hao picked it up and glanced at it casually, and found that it was the official letter on the adjustment of Northwest expenses at the beginning of the year, with the emperor's Zhu approval on it... Of course, this was Zhu Hao's reply in imitation of Zhu Si's handwriting, and he immediately remembered that it should have been made in February this year Well, it's almost the end of the year now.

"Old Sun, what does this mean?"

Zhu Hao asked in confusion.

Sun Jiaodao: "I should be the one who asked you what you mean... I asked Eunuch Zhang alone, the supervisor of ceremonies, and he said that he didn't know much about the dispatch of money and grain, so it's better to ask you more truthfully."

Zhu Hao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Eunuch Zhang is really direct."

"He is also annoyed by me. Now I really want to know how much money is there in the Inner Palace? Why is it that the accounts of the Inner Palace can't get any money, and the Ministry of Households has hardly transferred money to the Inner Palace this year, but every time His Majesty Can you always transfer money from the inner government?"

Sun Jiao's tone became unfriendly.

Now the inner government is tantamount to being out of the control of the Ministry of Household Affairs. In fact, they are not affiliated with each other, but the accounts of the inner government have always been checked by the Ministry of Household Affairs.

But now the inner government obviously has two accounts.

One account is for the Ministry of Accounts or the cabinet to see, and the other is the actual accounts, but who is in charge of these accounts, what is the current state of the internal treasury, and Sun Jiao as the Minister of the Ministry of Accounts has nothing Know.

Zhu Hao put down the official document with a smile, and asked: "Isn't it a good thing to transfer money from the internal treasury, the user department, and the imperial warehouse? This year, the imperial court has spent so much, and His Majesty has not exceeded the expenditure. This is a great thing... …Why does Mr. Sun need to ask so many questions?”…

Sun Jiao looked at each other sharply: "You think that the old man is very incompetent as the secretary of the household department, don't you? I see you, it seems to be for His Majesty's financial management... Just tell me, how much money can be transferred from the internal treasury now?" bring it on……"

Zhu Hao didn't want to answer this question at all.

The Ministry of Household Affairs couldn’t allocate any silver taels to fill the vacancy in the northwest, so it wanted the inner treasury to contribute money, but the problem is that the silver in the inner treasury was not blown by strong winds, and there was no penny allocated from the household department. How could an emperor not take money from the court? Is there any reason to fill it out?

However, since Zhu Si ascended the throne, under Yang Tinghe's pressure, there is actually no such clear boundary between the inner government and the household department. He and the emperor's private accounts are in hand.

The Ministry of Households did not transfer the money, so it could have controlled the inner government.

But Zhu Si neither fights nor grabs, and I am not short of money, so why ask the Ministry of Households for it?
Don't you civil servants always say that the Northwest has a lot of expenses and there is no money to allocate to the inner government?Then I don't need your money!It saves you the expenses of the imperial palace. In the past, this was a big hole. If this doesn't work, I still want to ask you... I will slap you to death!

Sun Jiaodao: "According to the past harvests of Huangzhuang's official land, the annual grain tax and other taxes are less than 2 taels...even if you add some of the imperial palace in the city.

Industry, all income should not exceed 4 taels.But based on the old man's rough calculations, the government's expenditure in the past two years has exceeded 15 taels. I don't know where the money comes from? "

After Zhu Si came to the throne, the thing he wanted to do most was to build a large building.

However, the conditions are limited.

Zhu Si wanted to build a temple for his father, but in the end the big temple was not completed, only a small temple was built; Anlu Mausoleum was to be upgraded into an imperial mausoleum, and money was needed, and Anlu Xing Palace needed to be expanded, and money was still needed, Zhu Si still wanted to Add something to the new daughter-in-law so that the people in the palace will remember his kindness...

In short, there are more places to spend money.

15 taels is actually a very conscientious expense.

Zhu Hao asked curiously: "Didn't the household department allocate a tael of silver?"

Sun Jiao let out a cold snort: "The Ministry of Household Affairs has indeed transferred more than 2 taels of silver to the inner government, but the northwest has huge expenses, and the money transferred from the inner government is far more than this... This is not counting the gap in the northwest last year and the beginning of this year. At that time, the Neifu paid a lot of money. My respect, tell me, how much money does the Neifu earn in a year?"

Sun Jiao saw that the normal operation of the Inner Palace without the control of the Ministry of Household Affairs was entirely due to someone secretly operating it.

Among the many people in Xingwangfu, the one who is most likely to take on this task is Zhu Hao, who has won the trust of the emperor and a group of officials in the Xingwangfu system, and has a hidden appearance.

This is where Sun Jiao struggles.

Liu Chun wondered how he was able to ascend to the position, while Sun Jiao was worried that his job as Minister of the Household Department would be taken away by the inner government.

Zhu Hao's words were vague: "I can only earn one or two million taels a year."

"Can you earn so much?"

Sun Jiao was surprised.

Zhu Hao thought to himself, this definitely does not count the income of banks and some big workshops, it is quite a conservative estimate.

Zhu Hao said: "Mostly it is the income from mining. Huangzhuang has provided a lot of income. As for the merchants... In fact, Nanjing is also providing some help to His Majesty. How should I put it, it is the Huangbutang of the Nanhu Department. He intends to serve as the center. Department hall, it is not ambiguous at all to contribute money and effort."

Sun Jiao said angrily, "Aren't you a prostitute?"

"Mr. Sun, don't talk nonsense. Why are you selling an official? In fact, it's probably Huang Butang's brother-in-law Su Dongzhu. He and Huang Butang are both from Yangzhou. They have a close relationship with Huizhou merchants. Huizhou merchants are now willing to work for him. How can I stop the new emperor from contributing money and efforts? Besides, they also make money from me... As merchants, they won’t do business that loses money!”

Zhu Hao's tone of voice was like giving Sun a market economics lesson.