Zhou Yanru pretended to indulge for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty, the capital is waiting to be flourished, and the cost is extremely high. The 500,000 figure is too large, and the summer grain has not arrived. Please wait."
Zhang Heyi was immediately dissatisfied, and said, "The imperial court has to wait for such a major event to eliminate the thief. Do you have to wait until the thief comes again?"
Zhou Yanru wouldn't talk to Zhang Heyi, the attendant, and said indifferently: "Li Banghua, what do you think?"
Li Banghua said in his heart that he naturally hopes to suppress the bandits as soon as possible, but Zhou Yanru has already made clear with Li Banghua a few days ago that the treasury has been swept away by thieves, and two palaces in the palace have been burned down. Not to mention the suppression of bandits, it is daily expenses. He also tried his best to raise money.
Five hundred thousand, it is already difficult to get one hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, he will not be forced to death.
Li Banghua knew Zhou Yanru’s difficulties, as well as Zhou Zheng’s eagerness. He sighed and said, “Your Majesty, it’s hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. The thieves have suffered a series of defeats, and there should be no serious problems for the time being. Xia Liang just has one month left. You can wait."
Ma Shiying went out and said in a stern tone: "Your Majesty, please order, inspect all the warehouses in the capital, if you find Tibetan silver or grain, you can put it in the treasury."
Ma Shiying is the Yushi Zuodu of the Imperial Court, and has the right to investigate all warehouses, fan libraries, and even the state treasury in the capital.
Without waiting for Zhu Cihong to speak, Hubu Shangshu Chen Yan said indifferently: "The capital was looted by thieves, and all the adults were ransacked. Where are there any warehouses? The procuratorate wants to check, just do it, but if it can’t be found The problem, when the new emperor had just ascended the throne, there had to be an argument.
"Yes, framing courtiers is a felony!"
"Master Ma, you are too presumptuous! Is this suspecting Yuanfu's corruption? You have to know that all the money and food now is raised by Yuanfu's efforts, and the others did not help!"
"Your Majesty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is going to check the warehouse at this time. It's unpredictable, and its heart is shameful!"
"Afraid of being instigated by others, otherwise Ma Shiying's courage will make it difficult to escape the suspicion of his party, please be punished severely!"
For a time, the Qianqing Palace was full of crusades against Zhang Heyi, Ma Shiying and others. At first, they were all insinuating about Zhou Zheng, but there were not so many taboos later, and it was almost Zhou Zheng's name.
The old god Li Zhong was standing beside Zhu Cihong, seeing through the battle between the two sides, but there was no wave of trouble.
The'Fortnight' party fight seems to have begun.
Zhou Zheng's people are obviously few, and they are gradually suppressed and speechless.
Zhou Zheng's light swept away and fell on Ruan Dacheng.
Ruan Dacheng looked panicked and walked out like a wake-up call, and said cautiously: "Everyone, don't quarrel. The problem now is that Lu Xiangsheng's army has regained Shanxi. Without money and food, not only can he not enter Shaanxi to fight bandits, but it may also make Chuang Chuang. The thief comes back."
Many people looked at him with dissatisfaction, but after all, they were all from Zhou Yanru, who belonged to the same line, and they endured not speaking.
The most nervous person was Zhu Cihong. He looked at Zhou Zheng, or at Zhou Yanru, and said in an uneasy voice: "Zhou Aiqing, is there really no money or food?"
Without waiting for Zhou Yanru to speak, Zhang Heyi spoke again: "Your Majesty, the minister has heard a rumor that Beijing has been building a large-scale construction project recently, and it is very lively. The minister checked, the burnt-down palace in the palace has not been renovated."
When this sentence fell, many people were nervous and looked at each other.
Zhu Cihong was interrupted by Zhang Heyi. Looking at him, he didn't know who Shuntian Mansion was, so he had to say, "Shuntian Mansion?"
Zhou Fang stepped out, raised his hand and said, "My Majesty, you should ask the Ministry of Industry about this matter. Shuntian Mansion is not aware of it."
Zhu Cihong was a little inexplicable, but knew who the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry was, and looked at Li Juesi and said, "Li Aiqing?"
Li Juesi's scalp was numb, and he stepped forward and said, "My Majesty, the thieves have done a great deal of damage to the capital. Many official residences have been burned down and cannot be lived in. The Ministry of Industry is temporarily repairing them."
Li Rixuan, the official secretary of the official department, immediately went out and said: "Returning to your majesty, the minister's residence was completely destroyed, and there were only some broken bricks and tiles that could not cover his body, so I asked the Ministry of Engineering to repair it."
Several servants, Jiu Si Si Qing went out one after another, recognized the matter.
Zhu Cihong didn't seem to think anything was wrong when he heard it. He looked at Zhang Heyi and said, "Zhang Aiqing, is there any problem?"
At this time, Li Hengbing, the Shangshu of the Criminal Ministry, suddenly went out and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, the Criminal Ministry has recently received reports that someone was corrupt and deducted the money and food that should have been distributed to the Army of the West, and used it to pay officials and repair houses."
"What's wrong with this?" Taichang Siqing immediately retorted.
"We were all looted by robbers, and we didn't pay wages and didn't repair houses. Would you let us starve to death or freeze to death?"
"Or do you feel dissatisfied that the Ministry of Engineering didn't fix it for you?"
"Huh, everybody's brains are full of fat, we just paid out payment and repaired the courtyard, which attracted such vicious revenge!"
"The intention is sinister, and the heart is punishable!"
Immediately, a group of people overwhelmed Li Hengbing and Zhang Heyi, looking like they were about to kill.
Zhou Yanru stood in front, holding the Banhue, his old face was still in a state of trouble, but his eyes were triumphant.
After the new emperor's enthronement ceremony, he has already controlled the court, Zhou Zheng's power has been suppressed to the lowest level, and it is clear from this battle.
Zhou Zheng held the Banhu in the same way, and turned a deaf ear to the words behind.
When a group of people finished venting their anger, Li Hengbing looked indifferent and said lightly: "The informant said that the renovation of a mansion for more than a dozen adults cost 60,000 taels of silver and paid 60,000 yuan."
When this sentence fell, the needle in the Palace of Qianqing could be heard.
One hundred twenty thousand silver is no small thing! You know, last year was the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the official salary paid nationwide was only 55,000 taels. In this capital, 60,000 taels were issued in just six or seven days? ?
In addition, even if the two palaces burnt down in the repairing palace, the total number will not exceed 20,000 taels, and the number of officials' courtyards will be repaired as high as 60,000
No money to kill the bandits, money to repair the yard? ?
Zhu Cihang was stunned. He just felt that the army of more than one hundred thousand was only one hundred thousand taels, and it cost more than one hundred thousand in the capital
Zhou Yanru's face flashed sharply, and he didn't know who had leaked the wind. He raised his hand calmly and said, "Your Majesty, there is no need to make a fuss about a report that you don't know the specifics. Just let the Ministry of Households investigate it afterwards."
Zhu Cihong also didn't quite believe it. He looked at the Hubu Shangshu Chen Yan and said, "Chen Aiqing, this matter is left to you."
With sweat on his head, Chen Yan raised his hand in a panic, "The minister abides by the edict."
The people of Zhou Yanru's line didn't dare to speak anymore.
Zhang Heyi let out a cold snort, and went out again, holding a melodic speech: "Your Majesty, the thief entered Beijing, the British man died, and now the twelve guards are abandoned. Please rebuild the ministers, and protect Gyeonggi, please see your majesty."
In the capital, there were originally many guards used to guard the capital and the Forbidden City, including Jin Yiwei, but when Li Zicheng entered the capital, these things that were in vain disappeared.
The capital was taken over by the patrol battalion led by Zhang Heyi, and the Forbidden City was taken over by the Forbidden Army under the charge of Shangguan Lie. (End of this chapter)