Although he is not yet in his sixties, he is still fifty-six. Because of his depressed years, Xu Jie has never felt that he has not been able to feel that he has gotten up in the early morning.

Emperor Jiajing moved to Xiyuan and had not attended court for nearly twenty years. Many officials with poor qualifications in Beijing were late, and there were strange things like Qian Yuan who were almost late every day, but Xu Jie had always been punctual.

After purifying his face, Xu Jie did not use breakfast first, but slowly moved around the yard, then went back to eat breakfast, and took a nap on the lounge chair to take a moment to calm down.

His current goal is to try to live longer than a turtle!

Although I basically heard no good news these days, and my old friend Zhao Zhenji who was stuffed into Zhejiang was even played with applause, I was only depressed for one night and Xu Jie regained his strength... As long as he could hold on, he could always endure Yan Fenyi!

Zhuge Liang is the best in the world, but he is still killed by Sima Yi... Whoever survives to the end is the winner!

Everything is ready and it is dawn. After all, it is early in summer.

He sat in the sedan chair and went to Xiyuan slowly. Xu Jie did not go directly to Zhilu. That was the autocracy of the chief minister of the cabinet. Yan Song was too old, but he still had a small cabinet master.

Although Xiaoge Lao has a small character, the arrangement is before Xu Jie and Lu Ben.

Xu Jie picked a random place and walked around. He probably went to Zhilu until the time was about to be over. He was stunned as soon as he entered. In addition to Yan Shifan and Lu Ben, the Minister of Revenue Fang Dun was also there.

After saying hello, Xu Jie sat down and looked through the memorials delivered, thinking about Fang Du's purpose for today... A few days ago, Fang Du often came to Zhilu to escape, and the Ministry of Revenue Taicang was empty, but now Ningbo tax silver is in warehousing, what are you doing?

After a while, Xu Jie began to feel something was wrong, and Qian Zheng, the Tongzheng envoy, also appeared. This was a guy he was very tired of at one time... Although it had been ten years, the political legacy left by Xia Yan and Nie Bao still existed on this person.

What made Xu Jie most wary of is that Qian Zheng is Qian Yuan’s uncle.

After all, he is a fellow villager? Xu Jie was about to come forward to greet him, but someone came again.

Zhao Wenhua, the Minister of Works, respectfully saluted Yan Song and Yan Shifan? He was also very courteous to Qian Zheng.

Xu Jie looked at Lu Ben, a colleague who arrived earlier than him, for inquiries? But Lu Ben turned his face expressionlessly.

However, there is no need for Xu Jie to guess? Xu Wei walked in with a stern face, "Everyone? Your Majesty summoned him."

"Huh? Why is Wen Chang today?" Zhao Wenhua asked with a smile: "Where is Eunuch Huang?"

Xu Wei was quite disdainful of Zhao Wenhua, but he knew that this man had a private relationship with Qian Yuan, and reluctantly replied: "Just just now, Your Majesty read the Qing Ci and summoned the officials to meet him? He heard that Lord Qian, the Tongzheng Envoy, asked him to see him? His Majesty ordered the officials to come."

Yan Shifan rolled his eyes, "What a waste of time? You Xu Wenchang lives in Suiyuan!"

Xu Jie's eyes fell on Qian Zheng's face, who seemed a little nervous. It was his first time to meet him in nearly three years after returning to Beijing? But at such a critical moment... Xu Jie was very sure that Qian Yuan should be behind him.

Everyone set out to Wanshou Hall? Only Yan Shifan stayed in Zhilu. On the one hand, Zhilu needed to keep people? On the other hand, Yan Shifan was the Minister of Works, not the Master of the Nine Ministers? Not the Hanlin minister? He was not qualified to meet.

Emperor Jiajing is not in a good mood these two days? It doesn’t matter in the southeast, but Altan has broken the north... God knows if he will come to the capital again one day.

Emperor Jiajing thought in his mind that the border army seemed to be as strong as the new army trained in Zhejiang. Zhan Cai and Wen Chang mentioned several times that Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang were famous generals at the time, Wu Baipeng and Tan Lun were all talented in command. When the Japanese riots in the southeast were pacified, they could transfer the South and the North.

In fact, Emperor Jiajing was a kind of person who was half-understood about military affairs. The new army in Zhejiang won the battle, so the combat power was strong. The border army was defeated by Altan, so the combat power was weak.

But this time he was right, and the fact is indeed the case. In history, the Qi family army was transferred to Jimen in the north and paraded the nine gates, which shocked the border troops and was known as the strong army in the world. Later, Li Chengliang emerged, and Altan, who had made trouble from beginning to end in Jiajing, finally calmed down.

Emperor Jiajing also knew that such a strong army needed money to support the army... I don’t know how much tax and silver can be paid in Ningbo Prefecture every year.

At this time, the ministers met, and Emperor Jiajing asked casually: "It's been a few more months, how many months does the tax silver in Ningbo Prefecture cost per month?"

Xu Jie felt a little upset and asked directly about the tax silver... What is His Majesty going to do?

Fang Dun came out and said, "Your Majesty, Ningbo Prefecture has not submitted its account books from April to June. Today is July 12th... However, the Tongzheng Department received a memorial from the Ningbo Prefect Tang Shun today."

Qian Zheng came out and said: "The memorial of Tang Shun of Ningbo Prefecture stated that the account books from April to June have been escorted to the departure..."

"How many?" Fang Dun asked, "It's not less than the previous three months, right?"

Xu Wei coughed twice, "In the first three months, a total of 180,000 taels of tax silver were collected, 86,000 taels of tax silver were collected in April, 73,000 taels of tax silver were collected in May, and 55,000 taels of tax silver were collected in June, totaling 214,000 taels of silver."

After all, it was not a formal court meeting. The old man Fang Dun immediately asked: "A month is less than a month... What's the matter with Qian Zhan!"

Qian Zheng said expressionlessly: "Donald Li'an, this is a memorial from Ningbo prefect Tang Shunzhi, and it has nothing to do with the Zhejiang Inspector Censor Qian Yuan."

Fang Dun was blocked with chest tightness and looked back at Emperor Jiajing, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue should be elected to send officials to Zhenhai."

Emperor Jiajing glanced at Yan Song and Xu Jie, who didn't say anything from beginning to end. You should know that the sea ban has never been recognized by the court so far. So why should we stay in Zhenhai to check the accounts?

Xu Wei advised from the side: "Mr. Li'an, I guess the tax silver will be restored to more than 80,000 taels in the next three months."

“Why?”

"Of course it is Jingguan piled up at Houtaoshan Wharf." Zhao Wenhua smiled and said, "Qian Zhancai wiped out more than a thousand bandits, but in fact, anti-smuggling maritime merchants. Who else dares to put his head on Qian Zhancai's sword and try it out?"

Fang Du finally understood it now, and after thinking for a while, he returned in disappointment.

Emperor Jiajing didn't care about these things. He didn't have them in his account book, but Qian Yuan had already written the relevant data in a secret letter. Qian Yuan also mentioned the reasons for the decline in tax and silver, and set up an ambush to kill all the eight maritime merchants.

Seeing that Fang Dun, the stubborn old man, finally settled down, Emperor Jiajing looked at Qian Zhengnunu's chin, "What should I do to meet with the Tongzheng envoy?"

"The memorial of the Ningbo Prefect Tang Shun entered the capital, but the minister did not dare to delay it, so he appointed his relatives to send them to the cabinet..."

Qian Zheng said this and Yan Song said, "It is of great importance. The old ministers dare not be proficient. The cabinet members will send the communist to the government to meet with him, and then inform the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works."

When Xu Jie heard the four words "Cabinet Representatives", he felt sour. Mom, I don’t know what happened yet!

Emperor Jiajing leaned on the couch with great interest. The lion cat jumped down from his knees, stalking to the center, staring at Qian Zheng who was about to speak.

Xu Wei quickly bent down and picked up the lion cat, and walked a few steps to hand it to Huang Jin.

Qian Zheng then spoke: "Ningbo Prefect Tang Shunzhi presented three hundred giant trees."

Emperor Jiajing, who had already received the news, blurted out, "It's not a hundred..."

Xu Wei's face was a little distorted. Your Majesty, your performance is incorrect!

It’s really impossible to blame Emperor Jiajing. Qian Yuan mentioned in his secret letter in the morning that there were only one hundred giant trees.

Emperor Jiajing coughed twice and asked as if nothing had happened: "Ningbo is located in the southeast, where can there be a giant tree?"

Zhao Wenhua and Fang Dun were both happy first, but then laughed and cried.

Xu Jie felt cold in his heart. This was Qian Yuan's backup plan... He naturally wanted to find where these three hundred giant trees would be used.

Qian Zheng took out the memorial from his sleeve and replied loudly: "People's Maritime Trade Fair."

"Folk maritime business?"

"Wangzhi, Huizhou, Nanzhili, Maohaifeng, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang, and Tanlong, Taizhou Prefecture, heard that the three halls were burned down and it was difficult for them to raise giant trees in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, so they purchased giant trees overseas for offerings. I hope that the three halls would be rebuilt as soon as possible."

After a pause, Qian Zheng added: "The three hundred giant trees are all compliant with the sacred trees during the Yongle period, and they are all nanmu."

Zhao Wenhua, the Minister of Works, took a deep breath. Three hundred nanmu trees were hard to climb to the sky, let alone the sacred trees that meet the specifications of the three main halls of Yongle.

Emperor Jiajing asked according to the script this time, "Wang Zhi? I have some impression of it, who is this?"
Chapter completed!