serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 475: Reduce the burden on yourself

The imperial desk in the study room was piled with memorials. Jia Hu raised his head from the pile of memorials and rubbed his wrist. Then, he placed the approved memorial on the tall pile of approved memorials.

Jia Hu's eyes glanced at the piles of memorials. At this time, his heart was no longer as excited and joyful as before. The memorials he reviewed every day were not ten thousand words, but seven or eight thousand words.

In just two days, Jia Hu experienced the pain of the emperor.

I have to sit in the study room all day long, even if I am not sick, I will be paralyzed from sitting.Damn, everyone wants to grab this broken chair.

Jia Hu was lost in thought as he picked up the tea bowl on the imperial desk, opened the lid of the bowl, and as soon as he finished drinking, he looked to the side of the hall. When Zicuckoo was not there, he put the tea bowl on the imperial desk.

No, I have to find a way, otherwise I won’t have time to enjoy it.

Thinking of this, Jia Hu stood up, walked to the cubicle, picked up the kettle, and poured tea in front of the imperial desk.

At this time, Zicuckoo hurried in and was shocked when she saw Jia Hu: "Oh, Your Majesty, how can I let you do this job!" As he said this, he hurried over.

Jia Hu looked at her: "What are you doing?"

Zijuan blushed: "I drank an extra bowl of porridge in the morning. The palace here is too big. It takes half a day to walk from Qianqing Palace to Kunning Palace." He took the kettle from Jia Hu.

Jia Hu picked up the tea bowl and took a few sips before putting it down again.

Zicuckoo poured the hot water from the kettle into the gold basin, twisted a hot face towel, walked to Jia Hu, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, wipe your face to get rid of fatigue."

At this time, Jia Hu sat on the dragon chair again and lowered his head to review the memorial.

Jia Hu put down his pen and raised his head.

Zicuckoo shook off her face towel and wiped Jia Hu's face. After wiping, she said with a smile: "Second Mistress Lian is here. She is talking to the Queen. By the way, Sister Qiao is here too."

Jia Hu: "Oh? Sister Qiao is here too. Tell the queen to leave mother and daughter for lunch. I will go back in a while."

Amber smiled: "The imperial dining room is already being prepared."

Jia Hu unfolded a chapter and said, "Look, have I lost weight in the past two days?"

Zicuckoo was startled at first, and then took a closer look: "I am by your side every day, so I don't think the Emperor has changed much. However, the Emperor has indeed worked hard these past two days and is a little haggard."

"Right." After finishing the review of this chapter, Jia Hu put down his ink pen, "I feel like I haven't been very energetic these past two days."

Having said this, Jia Hu made up his mind and must find a way, otherwise he would die of exhaustion sooner or later.

Now I finally understand why all the square dances are old ladies, and the old men are all exhausted!
At this time, the eunuch on duty walked in: "Your Majesty, the first assistant, second assistant and Jia Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue are here."

Jia Hu: "Please come in."

The chief eunuch: "Yes." He replied and left.

After a while, Jia She, Lin Ruhai and Jia Lian walked in and bowed together: "See your majesty."

Jia Hu waved his hand: "Please sit down."

Zicuckoo waved her hand, and three eunuchs on duty came in carrying a chair and placed them on both sides of the imperial case.

Jia She, Lin Ruhai, and Jia Lian said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." They replied and sat down together.

Zicuckoo brought three more bowls of hot tea on a tray.

It's no different now than before. The three of them all leaned forward before picking up the tea in the tray.

Jia Hu took a sip of tea, put it down, and looked at the three of them: "What's the matter?"

Jia She took out a piece of this chapter from his sleeve robe: "Back to the Emperor, Wu Chengxian's Memorial."

Jia Hu: "Oh, what did you say? Come and listen."

Jia She: "Yes. The memorial was sent to Guangdong by Wu Chengxian, and then transferred to Liu Fang. Wu Chengxian said that the Guangdong Navy was homesick and couldn't sleep at night. He wanted to request an order to arrange for the soldiers to go home to visit relatives in turn. In addition, he I want to go to Beijing to see the emperor."

"Oh?" Jia Hu was startled, "Has he received a letter from the old lady of the Wu family?"

Jia She: "Probably not. He mentioned Liu Fang in his memorial. This matter should be related to Liu Fang." Jia Hu nodded.

Jia She continued: "This matter should be considered carefully. It may be a test by Wu Chengxian."

Jia Hu suddenly remembered: "Look, I forgot about this." Then he told Liu Fang what he had written to Liu Fang, including the establishment of the Navy Department under the Ministry of War, the Yangtze River Navy, and the New Navy Army. It was unified and reorganized with the Guangdong Navy and divided into two fleets, the Nanyang Fleet and the Yangtze River Fleet. Liu Fang was the Minister of Navy, and Wu Chengxian was appointed the Commander of the Nanyang Fleet.

After a pause, "Counting the days, Wu Chengxian should have received the news. Maybe another memorial will be sent soon."

Lin Ruhai spoke: "Then just wait."

Jia She thought for a moment, then nodded.

At this time, Jia Lian took out two bright yellow coins from his sleeves and said: "These are the new dynasty Tongbao coins that I led the people from the Ministry of Revenue to make. Your Majesty, please take a look. If you are satisfied, I will give you the money." Just notify the coin minting bureau to mint in large quantities." He stood up and presented two coins.

Jia Hu's eyes lit up when he took the coin. He saw that the two coins were all yellow and bright, and the four words "Xuanwu Tongbao" were also very clear and concave.

He weighed the money in his hands again. Jia Hu's eyes showed a look of admiration and satisfaction, and he said with a smile: "Brother Lian, this is a beautiful thing! Zijuan, take a look at it too." He took the two coins. After making money, he handed it to Zijuan, and then took out a piece of paper from the case file and handed it to Jia Lian.

Jia Lian took the ink paper and looked at it carefully. His face became more and more solemn as his eyes moved on the ink paper, and his eyes were full of shock!

Jia She and Lin Ruhai looked at him in surprise.

After reading the last line of words, Jia Lian stood there in a daze holding the ink paper.

Jia Hu smiled: "How is it?"

Jia Lian came back to his senses, thought for a while, and replied: "Due to various reasons, there were no uniform and strict regulations on the casting and issuance of gold and silver ingots in the past dynasties, allowing private people to cast freely. If it is possible to use imperial gold and silver coins to drive out the market With the gold and silver ingots on it, the country's economy will be completely controlled by the imperial court! Please take a look at the first and second assistants."

He handed the ink note to Jia She and continued: "If this happens, it will not only cancel the fire money imposed on the people and reduce the burden on the people. It will also allow those corrupt officials to have one less corrupt person." Chance."

Jia Hu looked at him with a smile: "What else?"

Jia Lian: "It can also alleviate the imperial court's dilemma of copper shortage. In addition, since ancient times, silver has been expensive and money is cheap, and the national treasury collects taxes based on silver. People don't have silver in their hands, so they can only exchange silver from traders at high prices to pay national taxes."

Jia Hu laughed: "Okay! Okay!" Then he said to Jia She: "I think Mr. Xiao Ge is a good title."

Jia Lian was overjoyed and just about to say something, Jia She immediately looked at him to stop him.

Jia Hu looked at it and asked with a smile: "How is it?"

Jia She was silent for a moment and replied: "If the quality of gold and silver coins can be guaranteed, and the government's strong promotion is provided, all gold and silver ingots on the market can be driven out within half a year."

Lin Ruhai nodded in agreement.

Jia Hu: "Don't worry, you guys, these new gold and silver coins are not cast, but stamped. There will be absolutely no problem with their quality, and they cannot be copied by the private sector."

After a pause, "This is what we have in our hearts. Don't say it out now. When the machine arrives, I will make appropriate arrangements. By the way, do you think I've lost weight?"

As soon as these words came out, Zicuckoo burst into laughter and quickly held it back.

The three of them didn't know why, so they looked at Zicuckoo and then at Jia Hu, wondering where Mo was.

Jia Hu stopped talking in circles: "I haven't studied much, so it's a bit difficult to deal with government affairs. I thought about it. In the future, in addition to military newspapers, documents and memorials from all over the country will be compiled by the General Affairs Department and handed over to the study room in a general volume. Memorials will be handled by the cabinet. Drafting the handling opinions, and then sending the cabinet together with the opinions to the upper study, is equivalent to the draft of the previous Ming Dynasty. However, there is one less ceremonial supervisor in the middle."

Jia She and Lin Ruhai looked at each other. This was what the former Ming emperor did. All the burdens fell on the cabinet. If he did well, the officials and the people would be grateful to the emperor. If he did not do well, it would be the cabinet that would be scolded.

Although power was delegated to the cabinet, the decision-making power was still in the hands of the emperor, and the general register was there to prevent the cabinet from concealing information.

Jia Hu smiled and said, "Just take pity on me." He then looked at Lin Ruhai, "The situation in Liaodong is very critical. In two days, I will lead [-] brave guard cavalry and [-] forbidden troops to support the Liaohe defense line. We can’t wait for the main force on the canal. Sister Lin’s body is getting heavier and heavier, and she can’t handle so many memorials!”

Lin Ruhai shook his head and smiled bitterly. At this point, he could only nod.

Jia She had no choice but to bite the bullet and nodded.

Jia Hu stood up: "Okay! The land of Jiangshan State will be handed over to Uncle She and the father-in-law. By the way, the second sister-in-law Lian is here. Sister Lin ordered the imperial kitchen to prepare a banquet. Let's have a family banquet together."

The three replied in unison: "Yes."

(End of this chapter)