The Ming Dynasty started with caution

"Prepare the horse! I want to go to Taicang to have a look myself!"

Han Wen took the tax book, looked at it for a few times, and then walked out of the palace quickly. The yamen runners were waiting outside the Meridian Gate with a horse.

The national treasury is divided into Taicang warehouse and ten warehouses of the inner government.

Taicang warehouse is divided into Jingcang, Tongzhou warehouse and various water warehouses, which store rice and grain.

Among the ten warehouses of the inner government, only Neichengyun warehouse stores gold and silver.

The gold and silver collected from various places and mining taxes will be stored in this warehouse.

Han Wen is going to Jingcang. When the Ministry of Revenue and the Cabinet agreed, they established a system that the silver collected from the new commercial tax will be stored in Taicang warehouse.

Taicang warehouse,

Hou Xun, a member of the Ministry of Revenue, is patrolling the warehouses. In the past few days, the commercial taxes of various prefectures have been transported to the capital.

At first, when counting the commercial taxes paid by Shuntian Prefecture, Hou Xun was shocked that the tax silver collected was more than 200,000 taels.

After the counting was completed, the tax book was quickly sent to the Ministry of Revenue to settle the annual revenue.

Afterwards, tax silver was delivered to various prefectures one after another, and Hou Xun was so excited that he couldn't sleep for several nights.

"Sir, the Shangshu is here!"

"Sir Han is here? Where is he? Take me there quickly." Sir Han certainly didn't believe that he had collected so much silver from the commercial tax, so he came to check it out in person.

Hou Xun hurried to the warehouse door, and before he could salute, Han Wen asked anxiously: "Where is the tax silver stored?"

"Sir, please come this way!"

Hou Xun took Han Wen to the warehouse where the silver was stored. There were countless large boxes. When he checked in, he saw that there was neatly arranged silver.

Han Wen opened the tax book in his hand and looked at the boxes in the warehouse again, "Are all these silver?"

"Reporting to the lord, it's all silver. I counted it before putting it into the warehouse."

Hiss~

All silver?

In order to rectify the malpractices of the Beijing camp, His Majesty pretended to be crazy for three days, which shows that his determination is as solid as a rock.

If the silver can be collected, His Majesty will certainly promote it throughout the country, and no one can stop it.

"It's all silver...it's all silver..." Han Wen murmured.

Not afraid of Emperor Hongzhi's blame, afraid of impeachment by those grandsons of the Censorate, the end of the year is the time for all government offices to settle their performance, but those grandsons of the Censorate are still impeaching to death.

"I shouldn't have obstructed it at the beginning, how can I report to Your Majesty now?"

...

Snowy and icy, the cabinet.

Liu Jian was not feeling well today, so he took a day off. In the cabinet, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian read the memorials submitted from all over the country, and a Hanlin added some firewood beside them.

Xie Qian opened a book on the table, which was a memorial by Yang Tinghe and Wang Hua impeaching Zhang Xian, the magistrate of Liangxiang.

"Brother Binzhi, Yang Zhanshi and Brother Dehui, jointly impeached one person, which is rare."

"What's the matter?"

"It harms scholars. Liangxiang opened a strange encounter house, which is haunted. I'm afraid...it has something to do with Brother Binzhi's son-in-law." Xie Qian teased.

Rumor has it that the Earl of Anding intends to matchmake with Brother Binzhi, so that guy from the Censorate will become Brother Binzhi's son-in-law. Speaking of which, Brother Binzhi doesn't seem to like his student, so Xie Qian secretly finds it interesting.

"Yu Qiao, don't be naughty."

Li Dongyang felt cold all over when he thought of that nightmare.

"What about this memorial?"

Xie Qian wanted to ask if he should help to stay. The impeachment of the Zhanshi Mansion was nothing more than the prince's slackness in studying and going to Liangxiang to make trouble.

His Majesty has seen too many such memorials and is too lazy to punish the prince.

In other words, this is a memorial that can be submitted or not.

"Present it to Your Majesty."

...

East Warm Pavilion,

After reading the memorial sent by the cabinet, the prince did not study these days and went to Liangxiang to make trouble. With the temper of this evil boy, he would be honest for half a month after being beaten once. It seems that... he has not been beaten for a long time.

"Call the prince to see me."

Xiao Jing hurried to the East Palace to announce the decree.

It was snowing outside, Zhu Houzhao was reading in the bedroom. It had been almost a year, and Liu Banban hadn't come back yet.

"Your Highness, His Majesty summoned you to see the Emperor."

"Who said bad things about me again?"

Zhu Houzhao stared at Xiao Jing, who was so shocked that he took a few steps back. The prince was not careful. He knew martial arts, but he dared to attack the prince.

"It was Yang Zhanshi and Wang Shao Zhanshi..."

Zhu Houzhao was stunned, and came to the East Warm Pavilion nervously. He dug a hole in the window and saw his father reading inside.

Xiao Jing had a dark face, and the windows of the East Warm Pavilion were broken by the prince.

"Your Highness, the prince is here."

Emperor Hongzhi put down the book, and saw Zhu Houzhao striding into the hall and saluted him: "Your son Houzhao, I meet your father."

"Two masters from the Zhanshi Mansion went to Liangxiang to look for you. You are getting better and better at playing."

Is my father praising me?

Zhu Houzhao couldn't laugh, he lowered his head slightly, his eyes rolling, it was very painful to be whipped in the cold weather.

"I went to Liangxiang to compete in poetry, and I didn't ask for leave from the two masters. It was my fault. I beg you not to punish me."

"How did I hear that you went to Qiyu House to hang out?"

"I went to Qiyu House, too. I went to the library first, and then to Qiyu House." Zhu Houzhao knew that he was followed by the Jinyiwei and couldn't hide it.

At this time, a little eunuch came in to report: "Your Majesty, the King of Korea, Li Long, sent an envoy, Han Simen, to pay tribute!"

"Announce!"

Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand, signaling Zhu Houzhao, the annoying guy, to go to the side to cool down, and he would settle accounts with you later.

Zhu Houzhao stood aside in dismay.

A moment later, an official in casual clothes strode into the hall. The casual clothes were very similar to the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, but the rhinoceros belt was raised to the chest.

"I am here to pay tribute to the emperor of my country, Li Long, at the end of the year. I have come to see the respected Emperor Ming."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded. This Li Long had sent envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty many times, which was nothing more than the idea of ​​igniting firearms.

"Let the Ministry of Rites handle the banquet and return gifts."

Xiao Jing nodded and ordered people to go to the Ministry of Rites to announce the decree.

Hansmen saw that Emperor Hongzhi was not enthusiastic, flattered a few words, and then left sensibly.

Emperor Hongzhi glared at Zhu Houzhao and said, "I heard from the Jinyiwei that you created that place of ghosts?"

"It was Lao Gao who did it."

Emperor Hongzhi snorted coldly, and the eunuch next to him handed over the whip and beat Zhu Houzhao, asking him to be honest for half a month.

The next day, before dawn, the snow was strong and the wind was fierce.

Yang Tinghe came to the Zhanshi Mansion to prepare lessons and handouts for the prince. When he opened the book, a group of cockroaches crawled out.

He jumped up in fear, stood on the stool, and almost cried.

"Ah...!"

"Someone...! Quick! Someone!"

Wang Hua and the assistant officer of the Zhanshi Mansion heard the noise and rushed over. They saw cockroaches all over the floor. Yang Zhanshi was standing on a stool, jumping up and down.

"What's wrong, sir?" Wang Hua said.

"There are cockroaches!" Yang Tinghe almost cried and pointed at the ground.

At this moment, a cockroach flapped its wings and flew onto his clothes.

Huh~

Yang Tinghe jumped onto Wang Hua flexibly with a whoosh. The two fell to the ground, catching Wang Hua off guard.

He niang...

The yamen runners of the Zhanshi Mansion came in and quickly cleaned up the cockroaches. Yang Tinghe knew that he had lost his composure just now. He cleaned up his official clothes and said with a serious face: "Why are there so many cockroaches in my book?"

"I... don't know."

Yang Tinghe didn't want to make a big fuss to the point where everyone knew about it.

He had no choice but to pretend to be polite and change his work position. When it was time for the lecture, he quickly walked to Minglun Hall.

"Where is the prince? Why didn't he come today?"

The eunuch next to him said, "Yesterday, the prince was scolded by His Majesty and couldn't get out of bed today..."

For some reason, Yang Tinghe always felt that someone knew that he was afraid of cockroaches.

"No, now the whole Zhanshi Mansion knows..."