It was the second day after Zhu Hao returned to the capital that he went to see Zhu Niang and Aunt Li.
After Zhu Niang saw her son, she couldn't stop nagging: "...It's okay if you are not in the capital. Ever since you became an official, I have been mentally prepared for my mother that you may be away for a long time. But why don't you let your wife
Come here often and talk about family life? I miss her very much, but it’s rare to see her."
Zhu Hao smiled and said, "If you miss me, just go to my place and run through the door to see her."
Zhu Niang rolled her eyes at Zhu Hao and said, "Are you someone who doesn't understand the rules? She is Miss Qianjin, and she is a lady. Maybe she looks down on me, a mother-in-law who was born in a poor family."
People in this era generally pay attention to living with a large family, but Zhu Hao obviously has the mentality of young people in later generations, and he must start his own business after getting married.
An ordinary mother would never understand that her son could be separated from his family so easily. Although they lived not far apart, the ethics of this era did not allow such an obvious separation...
But this was how Zhu Niang lived in the first half of her life. She asked herself that she did not want to live with an old lady like Zhu Jia, and she did not do to others what she did not want others to do to her. Naturally, she would not force Zhu Hao and his wife to do anything.
"Then if you have time, bring your wife back to see your mother more often." Zhu Niang said with a smile.
Zhu Hao nodded.
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Have lunch at home.
Zhu Ting has now grown into a tall and graceful young lady. At the dinner table, Aunt Li kept mentioning the matter of finding a husband for Zhu Ting.
Although as Zhu Hao's sister, Zhu Ting can be regarded as the daughter of an official family, but Zhu Hao has just entered the court and has little reputation in the officialdom. As the daughter of a concubine, Zhu Ting cannot rise to the same status. Generally, it is difficult for a young master from a wealthy family to do so.
Marry a woman like Zhu Ting.
As a result, Zhu Ting faced an extremely embarrassing problem in major life events.
If you can't do it high, you can't do it low.
It seems that only marriage with a military general can solve this embarrassment, but as the sister of the number one scholar, she is also literate, knowledgeable and polite, so who would want to marry a crude and reckless man?
Zhu Hao returned to his home in the afternoon and fell asleep.
When I woke up, it was already sunset.
Sun Lan stood at the door, wanting to enter the house but hesitant.
Zhu Hao didn't know how long she stood there. After getting up, she walked over and patted Sun Lan on the shoulder. The latter looked up at Zhu Hao and her pretty face turned slightly red.
"When my husband was resting, he didn't even cover himself with the quilt..."
Sun Lan reminded me.
Zhu Hao then remembered that after returning home, he was too tired to care about so much. He just found some thicker clothes and put them on his body, and fell asleep as soon as he got off the bed... This was much better than when he went north to the capital to sleep.
Riding in a carriage or traveling under the stars and sleeping in the open air is already much better.
As a person from Huguang, Zhu Hao himself is not afraid of the cold. It's not that he has gained weight or has fat to protect his body. It can only be said that he doesn't care about it at all.
But when he got up, he was clearly covered with a quilt.
It must have been Sun Lan who came into the house and built it for him.
Zhu Hao smiled slightly, looked Sun Lan in the eyes, nodded and said: "You are interested...just pack up a little, and I will take you back to your parents' home later."
"Um."
Sun Lan nodded and turned back to the west wing to tidy up and pack things. As the wife of the number one scholar, no matter whether they are married or not, at least she must have a decent face... Sun Lan should not mention anything else, but she must look good and have a good figure, just like a person
The living clothes hanger can prop up Zhu Hao's face.
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Sun family.
When Sun Jiao saw his son-in-law bringing his daughter to visit him, he didn't criticize him harshly... Like Liu Chun, who went to the Hanlin Academy to wait for Zhu Hao, he wouldn't do that even if he was killed.
Sun Lan went to see his family, and Sun Jiao called Zhu Hao to the study. This was a relatively private place for Sun Jiao. There were many books in it, most of which were transported by special personnel from his hometown in Anlu. It seemed that Sun Jiao was planning to go there.
Live in Beijing for a long time.
Zhu Hao randomly picked up a book on the desk and read it.
sun
Hand in reminder: "Don't move it. The copy in your hand is an only one. If anyone wants to borrow it and copy it, I won't allow it."
"Is Mr. Sun so stingy?"
Zhu Hao smiled and joked.
Sun Jiao said: "You come and copy it, but I won't let you. If you have the ability, write it down silently. If you go back and copy it yourself, maybe it can be passed down."
"No need!"
Zhu Hao shook his head and said, "Since I passed the first prize in the exam, I found that I no longer have the patience to read, and I am entangled with mundane affairs, and I have no time to relax all day long..."
Sun Jiao rolled his eyes at Zhu Hao angrily: "Young people don't want to learn, so they rely on conspiracy and tricks. The final result may be counterproductive."
Zhu Hao thought to himself, it's counterproductive. Why don't you just say that I won't die well?
"sit down."
Sun Jiao motioned to Zhu Hao to sit in the guest seat.
This guest chair was placed opposite Sun Jiao's desk. The two of them sat across the table from each other. Zhu Hao immediately realized that this chair was specially prepared for him. Sun Jiao must have something to ask him.
His explanation may have something to do with the official documents on the table.
as expected……
After Sun Jiao sat down, the first thing he did was to hand the document in front of him to Zhu Hao, raised his chin and said, "Take a look."
Zhu Hao picked it up and glanced at it casually, and found that it was an official letter about the expenditure in the northwest at the beginning of the year. It had the emperor's approval... Of course, Zhu Hao imitated Zhu Si's handwriting and approved it. He immediately remembered that it should have been approved in February this year.
But it’s almost the end of the year now.
"Mr. Sun, what does this mean?"
Zhu Hao asked in confusion.
Sun Jiaodao: "I should be the one to ask you what you mean... I asked Eunuch Zhang alone before, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and he said that he didn't know much about the allocation of money and food. It would be better to ask you more honestly."
Zhu Hao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Eunuch Zhang is really direct."
"He was also annoyed by me. Now I also really want to know how much money the inner government has? Why is it that the inner government's accounts clearly cannot transfer any money? The Ministry of Accounts has hardly transferred any money to the inner government this year, but every time His Majesty
Can we always allocate some silver from the inner government? "
Sun Jiao's tone became unkind.
Now the internal government is beyond the control of the Ministry of Accounts. In fact, they were not subordinate to each other originally, but the accounts of the internal government have always been inspected by the Ministry of Accounts.
But now the inner government obviously has two accounts.
One account is for the Ministry of Accounts or the Cabinet to see, and the other is the actual account, but who is in charge of these accounts? What is the situation of the internal treasury now? As the Minister of the Ministry of Accounts, Sun Jiao has nothing.
Know.
Zhu Hao smiled and put down the official document and asked: "Isn't it a good thing that the internal treasury does not use the internal treasury and allocate money from the court's warehouse? This year the court's expenditure is so large, and your majesty did not overspend. This is a great good thing...
…Why does Mr. Sun have to ask so many questions?”
Sun Jiao looked at him sharply: "You think that I, the Minister of Household Affairs, am very incompetent in my job, don't you? It seems to me that you manage His Majesty's finances... Just tell me how much money can be transferred from the inner treasury now.
bring it on……"
Zhu Hao didn't want to answer this question at all.
The Ministry of Revenue could not allocate silver to fill the vacancy in the northwest, so it wanted the inner treasury to provide money. But the problem was that the silver in the inner treasury did not come from the strong wind, and not a penny was allocated from the Ministry of Revenue. How could an emperor not take money from the court?
Why do we need to fill it in from outside?
However, since Zhu Si ascended the throne, under the instigation of Yang Tinghe, there is actually no such clear boundary between the inner government and the household department. To put it bluntly, the civil servants want to control not only the court's expenses, but also the emperor's expenses, which means that they have to control the public accounts.
He and the emperor's private accounts were all in hand.
If the Ministry of Revenue did not transfer money, it could have kept the inner government under control.
But Zhu Si neither fights nor robs, and I am not short of money, why should I ask for it from the Ministry of Household Affairs?
Don’t you civil servants always say that the northwest has a lot of expenses and no money to allocate to the inner government? Then I won’t use your money! It saves you the expenses of the imperial palace. In the past, this was a big hole. If this doesn’t work, I still want to follow
I'm going to... I'll kill you all with one slap!
Sun Jiaodao: "Based on the past harvests from the official land of Huangzhuang, the total amount of grain taxes and taxes produced in a year is less than 20,000 taels... Even if we include some of the palaces in the city,
The total income from the property should not exceed 40,000 taels. But according to my rough calculation, the government's expenses in the past two years have exceeded 150,000 taels. I wonder where the money comes from?"
After Zhu Si ascended the throne, what he wanted to do most was to carry out large-scale construction projects.
However, the conditions are limited.
Zhu Si wanted to build a temple for his father, but in the end the big temple was not completed and only a small temple was built. The Anlu Mausoleum needs to be upgraded to an imperial mausoleum, which also requires money. The Anlu Xing Palace needs to be expanded, and money still needs to be allocated. What else does Zhu Si want to do?
Buy something for your new wife, so that the people in the palace will remember his goodness...
In short, there are more places to spend money.
One hundred and fifty thousand taels is actually considered a very conscientious expenditure.
Zhu Hao asked curiously: "The household department didn't allocate one tael of silver?"
Sun Jiao snorted coldly: "The Ministry of Revenue has indeed transferred more than 20,000 taels of silver to the inner government, but the expenditure in the northwest is huge, and the amount of silver transferred by the inner government is far more than this amount... This does not include the gap in the northwest last year and the beginning of this year.
The Inner Palace made a lot of money at that time. Jingdao, tell me, how much money can the Inner Palace make in a year?"
Sun Jiao saw that the internal government could operate normally without the control of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and it all depended on someone operating secretly.
Among the many people in Prince Xing's Mansion, the one who is most likely to take on this task is Zhu Hao, who has won the trust of the emperor and a group of officials in the Prince Xing's Mansion system and has a hidden appearance.
This is where Sun Jiao gets confused.
Liu Chun wondered how he could ascend to power, while Sun Jiao was worried that his position as Minister of Household Affairs would be taken away by the inner government.
Zhu Hao was vague: "I only earn one or two hundred thousand taels a year."
"Can you earn so much?"
Sun Jiao was surprised.
Zhu Hao thought to himself that this definitely did not include the income of banks and some large workshops, and it was considered a quite conservative estimate.
Zhu Hao said: "Most of it is the income from mining. Huangzhuang has provided a lot of income. As for the merchants... In fact, Nanjing is also providing some help to Your Majesty. How should I put it? It is Huang Butang of the Nanhubu Department. He intends to join the central government.
It is absolutely unambiguous for the ministry to contribute money and effort."
Sun Jiao said angrily: "Aren't you selling your official position?"
"Mr. Sun, don't talk nonsense. Why are you selling your official position? In fact, it's probably Huang Butang's brother-in-law Su Dongzhu. He and Huang Butang are both from Yangzhou. They have such a close relationship with Huizhou merchants. Huizhou merchants are now willing to do it for them.
How can I stop the new emperor from providing money and effort? Besides, they also make money from me... As merchants, they will not do business at a loss! "
Zhu Hao's tone of voice was as if he was giving a market economics lesson to Sun Jiao.