Wanli Youming

Chapter 39
Zhang Hong was quite astonished, and hurriedly said: "Go back to the emperor, yes, since the first emperor, the ministers above the fourth rank can only be paid half of the salary. Even if it is so, it will often be delayed for several months.”

"Then when the monthly salary is issued, all the owed salary will be made up. It's all worth it! Use the money obtained from confiscating Feng Bao."

Since Zhang Juzheng gave him, the emperor, only the opportunity to benefit the country by giving more kindness, Zhu Yijun decided to start with the kindness from the inner court first, and then make up the owed salary first.

The Ming court suffered a serious deficit.

Affected by the Japanese plague in the south and the Ida plague in the north, in order to increase military expenditures to train recruits, the deficit problem has continued from the middle and late Jiajing period to the present.

One of the most direct phenomena caused by this is that officials and officials are generally underpaid.

The inner court is no exception.

Zhu Yijun didn't want to strangle himself in the middle of the night because the eunuchs worked too hard and their wages were not paid.

Naturally, after enriching the inner money by confiscating Feng Bao once, he hurriedly made up the money owed by the inner court.

Although Zhu Yijun is not sure whether the coup d'état by the court ladies during the Jiajing period was related to Jiajing's choice to wrong the inner court harem when the financial pressure was too great.

But at least there is such a claim.

What's more, Zhu Yijun also knows that as a boss, if you want your employees to work hard, the most basic ethics should be to pay them enough wages, and then you should consider making people believe in the cakes you drew.

Of course, Zhu Yijun thought of making up the salary owed to the inner court first, because he also came from the bottom in his previous life.

Otherwise, he would not have noticed how much the lack of salary has affected an ordinary eunuch and court lady below.

Because Zhu Yijun, who is the emperor, has a very small chance of intersection with the lowest eunuchs and court ladies.

And the senior eunuchs around him, the eunuchs, didn't need to live on their salaries, so naturally they wouldn't take the risk of offending the emperor to ask for money in front of the emperor for ordinary eunuchs and maids.

Therefore, Zhang Hongcai was quite astonished.

"And it just so happens that I have got so much silver now, which is enough to make up for my salary."

"As the restructuring progresses, the situation of internal and external bank deposits will definitely improve next year. Isn't your inner court also passing the examination according to the requirements of the external court? You must strictly implement it, and strive to be able to pay your salary and reward silver next year."

Zhu Yijun continued.

"What the emperor said is true. The inner court will strictly enforce it. Please rest assured that the weaving bureau will not happen again. If it happens again, the old slave will end up like Feng Bao."

Zhang Hong replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded: "I am not disappointed in you, but you also need to know how to give me face, don't make it difficult for me to speak for you in front of foreign ministers. After all, the princess is used as a tool to make money, and the inner court property is resold. , They are all giving excuses to the Wai Dynasty. Don’t let the Wai Dynasty propose to reset the Shaofu because of this, and hand over a piece of imperial property to the civil servants of the Wai Dynasty to take care of it, and only let you clean the toilet and wash your clothes, which will make me feel bad reject."

Zhang Hongdao: "This old slave will remember the emperor's instructions."

Zhu Yijun said: "You can't be the only one to remember, let them all remember! You can't think that you belong to me, and you can mess around!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Hong agreed very humbly.

"In addition, the palace servants of the two empress dowagers will all be issued double copies at the end of the year, which is regarded as my reward for their filial piety on my behalf. This will be the case every year in the future."

Zhu Yijun said.

"This old slave would like to thank the emperor for his kindness on behalf of all the palace people in the inner court!"

Zhang Hong knelt down and kowtowed as he spoke.

"Go down!"

"Old slave quit!"

And Zhang Hong only smiled after leaving Zhu Yijun's place, and said to the two eunuchs in front of him: "Have you heard it all, why don't you hurry up and pass on the good news?"

"Hey! No one thought that the emperor would think of us first."

"If you want me to say that the emperor is the real Bodhisattva, God is so pitiful, I finally met a master who is sympathetic to us humble people."

The two ordinary eunuchs agreed and whispered to each other as they walked.

Zhang Hong called to stop the two of them at this time: "Although that is the case, don't think that the emperor is young and kind-hearted, and then think that the emperor can be bullied. Don't forget Feng Bao's end! There is no need for the emperor to clean up, our family will not spare you first. People should be grateful, but we must not forget the rules!"

"I know, father-in-law, please rest assured."

Only then did Zhang Hong leave with satisfaction, and he told Zhang Jing and Zhang Cheng about it after coming to the Prison of Rites.

Zhang Jing was also quite surprised: "Why did the emperor think of this first?"

Zhang Cheng also laughed and said: "That is, whoever has the energy to care about the life and death of the people below, things like cats and dogs, if they have the opportunity to enter the inner school, learn a name, and if they are smarter, they will recognize a good godfather. It's the same as the princes in the outer dynasty. If you don't have a chance, you won't starve to death, and there is still no shortage of leftovers in the palace."

"This shows that the emperor is more benevolent than you! You know how to be kind. You should be lucky to meet such an emperor. As the saying goes, you must fall when you climb a height. Maybe you will go down when you go down, and it won't be too miserable!"

Zhang Hong smiled and said again: "But this shows that the emperor has listened to Yuanfu Mr. Zhang's words."

"What did Mr. Zhang say?"

Zhang Jing asked.

Zhang Hong then told about the Wenhua Palace.

After hearing this, Zhang Cheng said: "No wonder, we have met the prosperous times. The emperor and Yuan Fu from the outer dynasty are considered humane. I thought that after Hai Rui and that Zhao Zhenji came, not only Feng Bao would be unlucky."

Zhang Hong smiled slightly: "That's true."

"I'm going to be on duty in the Qing Palace first."

Zhang Jing also nodded, said a word, and then took the three caps and cloak on the case and left the Supervisor of Ceremonies.

After Zhang Jing came to Zhu Yijun's place, he hurriedly took off his cloak, walked to Zhu Yijun with a smile, showed Zhu Yijun the charcoal in the fire, and said with a smile: "You guys, the fire should be changed more often. , presumably it's all due to the kindness of the emperor."

"It's also timely copying Feng Bao's home, which has enriched the charcoal of Xixin."

After Zhu Yijun said that, he saw Zhang Jing was about to close the window: "Don't close the window, just let some wind in."

Zhang Jing bowed his hands and said yes.

Zhu Yijun rubbed his hands, stood up, and asked Zhang Jing, "What's new recently?"

Zhang Jing replied: "Hu Ke gave Yu Maoxue a memorandum on the five things of admonishment, namely Chongdun Da, relatives and consternation, prudence of names and utensils, abstinence from change and anti-flattery. And he was in Chongdun In the big event, he directly criticized the law of examination, saying: "Since your majesty came to the imperial court, you have established the code of examination, the rule of resuming long-term appointments, the rules of applying for the constitution, and the law of strict deadlines. Ministers and ministers of all sizes serve their duties." Strict government is bitter, secret law is disturbing. It is not because of cultivating vitality and keeping the general. But he hopes that the emperor can be peaceful, rely on loyalty, don't count the purpose of cutting responsibility, only focus on the truth of verification, and should be lenient and strict. Government is based on peace."

"It's dissatisfaction with the New Deal. But he doesn't know that Mr. Yuan Fu Zhang is already very lenient, and he can't help Hai Rui and Zhao Zhenji's temperament, and he persuades me! But it is obvious that the officials don't understand Mr. I mean, I didn't accept his love either."

Zhu Yijun sneered and said, "Let's wait for the cabinet's draft."

(End of this chapter)