King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Chapter 45 He is so filthy! Just greed for money!

Ying Tianfu.

Forbidden City.

The Hall of Nourishing Heart.

Zhu Yuanzhang was lowering his head to review the memorial.

In front of him.

There were several auxiliary ministers standing there.

Talk about it.

Since the case of Hu Weiyong in the 13th year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty abolished the prime minister system.

Zhu Yuanzhang in addition to decentralizing the government power of Zhongshu Province to six ministries.

The power of the prime minister was also restored to the central government.

In fact, now he himself is the prime minister and emperor of the entire Ming Empire.

The side effects are also obvious.

Things that usually required the joint efforts of the entire Zhongshu Provincial Department were now all placed on Lao Zhu.

Zhu Yuanzhang was exhausted all day long and found it difficult to accomplish so many things.

He only slept for three hours a day. Apart from eating and resting, he spent the rest of the time reviewing memorials and going to court to discuss affairs.

Only a power freak and workaholic like Lao Zhu can endure such hard days.

What's even more amazing is that he was able to give birth to 26 sons and 16 daughters despite being so busy.
  There is absolutely no problem in calling him a master of time management.

Of course, even if the emperor is made of iron, he cannot bear such heavy government work.

From this, Zhu Yuanzhang established the cabinet bachelor system.

He recruited four great scholars from the private sector as cabinet bachelors to assist him in handling government affairs.

Later, it was discovered that these Confucian scholars only had great reputations but did not have much talent for handling government affairs, and they were quickly abandoned.

However, the system of cabinet bachelors was still retained.

Zhu Yuanzhang would select talents from the Hanlin Academy and other places to assist him in managing politics.

It's just that at this time, the cabinet bachelor can only be regarded as the emperor's secretarial officer. He has no real power and his rank is only fifth grade.

It is completely different from the super-powerful first-grade cabinet assistant minister in later generations.

For example, Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the Wanli Dynasty, even arrogantly claimed: "I am not the Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister!"

If Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the descendants of the future were so embarrassed, and that he had already taken away the power of the prime minister and returned it to the emperor, but the descendants of the future generations actually returned the power of the prime minister through the cabinet bachelor, and even gave more, he would probably have to learn from Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty. Climb out and beat these unworthy descendants.

Next to Zhu Yuanzhang was Prince Zhu Biao.

When he had nothing to do on weekdays, Zhu Biao would come to Zhu Yuanzhang to observe and study politics.

Of course, in fact, with Zhu Biao's current political ability, he would be very good even if he directly became the emperor.

Whether it was the ability to control people or the ability to handle government affairs, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty could match the father and son in front of him.

Not even Zhu Di, the later Yongle Emperor, could do it. After all, he was just the general of the Northern Conquest of the Standing Deputy Emperor Zhu Gaochi, and when it came to political affairs, he was really ordinary.

"There is a severe drought in 28 counties in the five prefectures of Huguang. One year of tax exemption!"

"Fu Youde, Duke of Ying, is training troops in the north. This is the third time he has asked for money! Haha. I will grant him 20 taels! Practice hard!"

"The Fengyang City Wall is still far from being repaired. I applied for 50 taels of silver and gave them 100 million taels! In fact, there is no need to give up completely on the reconstruction of the Central Capital."

"Muying is in Yunnan. He wants to continue to expand southward and wipe out the remnants of Yuan and Meng! Let's allocate 30 taels of silver to him! We, the Ming Dynasty, want to expand our territory and far surpass the previous dynasty!"

Zhu Biao listened to the memorials reviewed by Zhu Yuanzhang and couldn't help but his eyelids jumped!

In addition to reducing and exempting so many county taxes, we also had to train frontier troops, build city walls, and conduct foreign campaigns. In a short time, more than 200 million taels were spent!

How can the treasury have so much money!

Nowadays, most of the money has been used for certain purposes as early as the 17th year of Hongwu.

How could he suddenly come up with so much money for his father's expenses?
  Zhu Biao couldn't help but remind him: "Father, with such expenditure, the court probably doesn't have that much silver at the moment! Do we need to send more money?"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said: "We don't have it, but Tan'er does! Tan'er is such a good boy! He knows that we are short of money! With this money, we can continue to handle many important things in the court! Haha." Zhu Biao laughed dryly.

Ever since my father heard that my tenth brother had captured 1000 million taels of silver from Japanese pirates.

Now when she speaks, she is Tan'er, and there is no longer the title "little bastard".

Zhu Yuanzhang was talking and laughing with Zhu Biao.

suddenly.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook the memorial in his hand at Zhu Biao and said with a smile: "Look! The memorial from Prince Lu's Mansion! It must be from Tan'er! He is here to claim credit from us!"
  Haha, we won’t treat him badly this time!
  1000 taels of silver
  Let's reward him with a prince's salary! May his son be granted the title of one more prince!
  how is it? "

Zhu Biao smiled.

In fact.

This reward is indeed not thin!
  The prince's double salary is the only one among Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants.

Originally, according to the throne succession system of the Lao Zhu family.

Each prince can only have one heir apparent to inherit the throne, and the other sons have to be demoted one level and become county kings.

And now, Zhu Yuanzhang wants to make a son of Enyin's tenth brother a prince, which means that Zhu Tan can have two prince sons in the future!
  Such a reward is indeed heavy enough.

Definitely the first one since the founding of the Ming Dynasty!
  Of course, Zhu Biao also knew.

The tenth brother deserves it
  After all, it is 1000 million taels of silver!

For the Ming Dynasty, which is now full of waste and money is waiting for money.

It's so important.

If the father's affection for the mother was not too deep, it is estimated that according to the father's temperament, the mother should be valued over the son, so that the current Concubine Guo Ning could be promoted to the queen.

Zhu Biao smiled and said, "Tenth brother did a great job this time!"

Zhu Yuanzhang opened the memorial with a smile, and then his face froze.

Zhu Biao saw Zhu Yuanzhang's expression was wrong and couldn't help asking: "Father, what's wrong?"

Zhu Yuanzhang flipped through the memorial carefully, then looked at it again, his face instantly darkened!

He gritted his teeth and said to Zhu Biao: "Prince! Your tenth brother, he...he dared to conceal the seizure!"

Zhu Biao was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly.

"My tenth brother has a child's heart after all. He may have hidden some treasures! It's inevitable. He has already made such great achievements. Father, don't blame him!"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted and said: "Whose child has such a big appetite! He...he concealed 500 million taels of silver!"

How many?

Zhu Biao's eyes widened when he heard this number!

Why did you hide so much!

Is the tenth brother crazy?
  So much money, can you use it all?
  Why are you hiding this?
  You don’t mean to make your father angry!
  However, Zhu Biao calmed down and still wanted to appease his father.

He asked softly: "Father, last time my tenth brother did a lot of inappropriate things, you said he was committing suicide. This time, is it true that he concealed the seizure?"

Zhu Yuanzhang cursed angrily: "He is filthy ass! We see that he is just greedy for money! He loves money as much as his life!"
  He even lied to his father! How unreasonable! "

Zhu Biao smiled bitterly.

Father is really
  Just now, I was smiling all over my face and calling my tenth brother "Tan'er", but this has changed!

suddenly.

The old eunuch Chen who was guarding outside said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty! Lord Jiang, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, wants to see you!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened.

"Xuan!"

Jiang Ying just entered the palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang said gloomily: "Jiang Yu, do you know your guilt?"

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