"...Yes." Zhu Qingping sighed, "Your Majesty is filial and did not bring many people, but most of them stayed with the concubine. The Sixth Palace and the First Division also had to arrange for someone to go there, but the servants stayed in Qianqing Palace. I can’t take everything into consideration, and I can’t explain His Majesty’s rules to them clearly at the same time.”
Qianqing Palace, as the emperor's palace, was also where foreign ministers were sometimes summoned, including eunuchs and maids.
The eunuchs are currently headed by Gao Zhong and Huang Jin serves personally.
As for palace ladies, there are no unworthy palace ladies in Qianqing Palace. Under Zhu Qingping, there are more than fifty palace ladies on duty in Qianqing Palace.
Of course, not all the maids served Zhu Houcong at the same time. Generally speaking, they had to work in separate shifts, and someone had to be on duty at night.
Naturally, most of these people were the maids of the original palace.
Zhu Houcong remembered that when he was about to brush his teeth in the morning, the little palace maid who was holding a tea cup was helpless and later cried in fright.
After asking about it, I found out that she was responsible for "washing the dragon ditch" for the emperor. It sounds strange, but she actually rinsed his mouth with tea.
After seeing the emperor brushing his teeth with his own toothbrush, she felt at a loss as if she had lost the value of her existence, and thought that the emperor was dissatisfied with her.
Of course, toothbrushes already existed at this time, and it is said that it was Zhu Youtang who was the invention of Empress Dowager Zhang's consideration. This is actually a bit of flattery, and it is true that he made some improvements.
Zhu Houcong was more accustomed to toothbrushing. He smiled when he heard this and said: "From now on, you will naturally adapt to my habits. You can arrange it so that they don't have to be so worried. They will take a shower after eating later. They can go earlier in the future. I will After my run, I will have some food and then arrange a bath."
With his style, the palace maid who works as an errand in the Qianqing Palace will not be afraid of being tortured in the future, and she will not take Bai Ling to strangle his neck in the middle of the night, right?
"Slave, I remember."
Zhu Qingping smiled brightly, and Zhu Houcong's eyes brightened.
Was it because of her unique position in the palace that her mood improved and she smiled so touchingly, or was it because her heart became restless after ascending to the throne of God?
Now Zhu Houcong can understand the eyes and thoughts of some palace maids in the Qianqing Palace.
But it doesn’t work…it really doesn’t work yet.
It wasn't that he was physically incapable, but that he still had to go through the mourning period and help Zhu Houzhao finish the funeral.
Before clarifying their right to speak on state affairs with Yang Ting and them, they cannot make excuses because of their private lives.
One more lap tomorrow!
Zhu Houcong turned around and told Huang Jin: "It's getting dark, let them all disperse, and come back early tomorrow."
Even if they designed the watch themselves and taught Zhang Zuo and Huang Jin to keep an eye on it in advance, these eunuchs would not be able to complete it in just one day.
Then you have to read through a large amount of text to find the information you need, and then fill in the form and record it.
But Zhu Houcong gave him an incentive: whoever accomplished the most and best in this matter would be promoted to head of the library.
Zhang Zuo is also working very hard, and he is now even more eager to look forward to who will be promoted to be the head of the library, so that he can continue to be promoted quickly to become the chief of etiquette Bingbi.
This requires this audit to achieve His Majesty's purpose, although Zhang Zuo doesn't know what His Majesty's purpose is.
Amidst the hustle and bustle outside, Zhu Houcong finished his dinner first, took a shower and changed into light clothes, and then sat down to review the work they had completed today.
Because all the excerpts are not filled out, the analysis cannot be done further.
The main thing is to see if they are doing it right. Although I did a preliminary inspection before noon, who knows if there is any deviation later?
After taking a closer look, Zhu Houcong gave some suggestions for modification based on what they made today.
The content to be filled in is still getting more and more complicated, and it cannot reach the level where he only needs to fill in the key information. For example, for a certain person, he has to write a long list of official names, or add his first name, surname, and characters.
As for the numbers, there are still people who habitually copy them into their original form.
Zhu Houcong hopes that at least in this work, they will convert them into Arabic numerals, so that it will be easier for him to make statistics later.
It seems that we can only hope that after dividing them into several groups, the several results can be unified and collated into a final version.
It seems that this job will be left to Huang Jin.
So Zhu Houcong called him over, explained the matter, and asked him to make the request again tomorrow.
Huang Jin grimaced: "Your Majesty is a scholar of heaven and earth, but this method you are talking about is so stupid that I can barely understand it."
He didn't know where His Majesty learned these methods, but that didn't stop him from sincerely flattering him.
He didn't need to listen to Lao Qin about professional matters. Now he took it out and asked them to take care of it. As the emperor, he didn't need to explain to anyone.
Asking is the method I figured out myself.
Although it is impossible to verify clearly, China's earliest "limping accounting" transition from single-entry accounting to double-entry accounting did not appear until the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty.
However, the accounting records used by the government at this time were still single-entry accounting, with only two accounting symbols: revenue and expenditure. Later, at the end of the month, the four pillars of settlement were "old management, new revenue, expulsion, and see".
The method can be used to make statistics, that is, the beginning balance, the increase in the current period, the decrease in the current period, and the ending balance.
Of course, Zhu Houcong is not trying to fit all of this into the double-entry accounting framework.
He is now just taking the first step: to tally up the old accounts of the past ten years in his own way as quickly as possible, and then compare them with the key figures in memorials from various places to find some clues to the problems.
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To clarify the current situation and find problems, Zhu Houcong has special accounting skills.
The double-entry accounting method can more comprehensively and systematically reflect the changes in capital increases and decreases, and helps to check and ensure the accuracy of the accounting record results. There is currently no basis for promoting this thing.
Look at how Huang Jin is confused now: Does Ming Dynasty have so many professional accounting talents now?
Think again about the various warehouse fire cases that Lao Qin said: How many people in the Ming Dynasty are willing to support double-entry accounting?
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On the day he ascended the throne, the emperor brought great mental stimulation to his cabinet ministers.
The emperor began to audit the accounts the day after he ascended the throne, and the scope of the stimulus expanded to include more officials.
The time and etiquette for the first court visit have been decided: it will be held at the West Corner Gate next to Fengtian Gate on the 27th. Everyone will wear robes and no bells or drums will be sounded. The emperor will be released after May 18th, and all officials will
He waited until Emperor Daxing's "funeral" to be released. Before that, he went to court at the west corner gate.
Nowadays, because Zhu Houzhao's funeral rites have not been completed, it is a common practice in the past to put it at the west corner gate to temporarily listen to the government.
At the same time, the Ministry of Rites also asked for instructions on who should be sent to pay homage to Emperor Daxing's Xuan Palace. The reason why these matters have been delayed until now is because the emperor's funeral ceremony needs someone to preside over it, and only his successor has this qualification.
Zhu Houcong, who had already made plans, had made arrangements: the Zhang brothers were naturally responsible for the imperial mausoleum project and sacrificial matters related to Emperor Daxing, and were supervised by Gu Dayong.
I hope the Zhang brothers will continue to show their style and be greedy for something.
On the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth, in addition to the backlog of memorials sent to the palace the day after he ascended the throne, many new memorials were submitted to the palace in these three days.
Zhu Houcong had many memorials in front of him. He not only read them, but also recorded them in his own way.
Now that he was in control of the throne, Huang Jin was able to witness the emperor's special recording method from the sidelines.
He couldn't understand it, just like he couldn't understand His Majesty's way of checking accounts.
He is the person closest to Zhu Houcong, but in his mind, His Majesty is increasingly shrouded in mystery and sacredness. It seems that he is really the son of destiny, with his own miraculous talents.
Zhu Houcong concentrated his attention.
The first memorial was jointly sent by several officials from the Ministry of Husbandry and the Ministry of War. They said that the Northern Captives were spying on the border, the border was under martial law, and the Xuanfu officers and soldiers had been short of pay and silver for a long time. They mentioned that Emperor Daxing's previous "Northern Expedition" had brought many
The money and grain are collected and stored in Xuan Mansion just for border payment. Now, should we ask them to take out 200,000 taels first?
The corners of Zhu Houcong's mouth turned up.
Judging from the accounts checked in the past four days, the money was managed by eunuchs, which was equivalent to Zhu Houzhao's "little treasury".
The most important thing is the number 200,000.
Zhu Houcong has now found out that the total salary and silver from all sides is only more than 400,000 taels per year. Now he wants to allocate 200,000 taels from here at once. After Zhu Houcong thought about it, he approved it with the word "accurate".
The guard system is almost rotten to the core, and the food in the fields no longer supplies the soldiers of the army with surplus food as it did in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Recruitment of soldiers has been tried as early as the Xuande period, and the proportion is not low now. All these require the allocation of salary.
Zhu Houcong remembered what Lao Qin said about the annual military pay exceeding 2 million taels in the late Jiajing period. He knew that the settlement of this matter would involve the interests of many people.
Let’s lay a foreshadowing here first.
The next memorial was even better. Zhu Houcong raised his head and shouted with a half-smile: "Wei Bin?"
"My slave is here..."
Wei Bin sent over the solution he had discussed with Gu Dayong and Zhang Yong early this morning, but Zhu Houcong hadn't had time to look at it yet.
After he knelt down, he heard Zhu Houcong pick up a memorial and read: "The imperial censor Wang Jun impeached me: Wei Bin, the eunuch of the ceremonial department, and Jiang Bin, the evil eunuch, are both in-laws, and they are divided internally and externally. Zhang Zhong, the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, in
According to the classics, Su Jin either fought for merit and initiated quarrels, ousted Zhongliang, opened an imperial shop for the first time, made grudges against the common people, or led patrols, spreading poison in all directions..."