Chapter 1291 Return to life

The day after Yan Song received the secret letter, Xu Hai and the others also returned to the capital to return their orders. Emperor Jiajing took the time to summon Xu Hai, Peng Cheng and others in the East Nuan Pavilion of Wuyi Hall, accompanied by Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Xu Jie, the second assistant.

"The minister greets the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live"

Xu Hai, Peng Cheng and others walked into Dongnuan Pavilion after the **** passed the biography, and bowed respectfully to see Emperor Jiajing.

Emperor Jiajing was still wearing a blue gossip gown, sitting on a dragon chair with a gossip mat on the dragon chair. He was thin but full of majesty. After Xu Hai and the others saluted, Emperor Jiajing flicked his sleeves, put his hands on the dragon chair, and asked indifferently: "Excuse me, what's the situation after this inspection?"

Xu Hai, as the person in charge of the inspection team, replied respectfully: "Return to the Lord, the impeachment is not true. Zhu Pingan did not collude with grain merchants or accept bribes in Jingnan. Not only is he innocent, but he has merit. Most of Jiangnan, a piece of Aihong is miserable everywhere, but Jiangnan under Zhu Ping'an's rule is full of food and rice, just like a paradise."

When Xu Hai reported back, Peng Cheng, Zhang Wenbo and others stood aside respectfully, with their heads down, looking at their toes. This is the rule, when many people participate in the summons, only the leader can answer the Holy Majesty's question, and the rest cannot intervene, let alone whisper. They can only speak when the Holy Majesty specifically asks someone of them.

"Oh?" Emperor Jiajing was a little surprised when he heard the words, and asked with great interest, "How did kid Zhu do it?"

"My lord, Mr. Zhu took precautions before the flood came." Xu Hai briefly reported Zhu Pingan's methods of prevention in Jingnan, food price definition, donation publicity, and labor relief.

"All the prosperity of the world is for profit, and all the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. Zhu boy used profit as a bait to attract grain merchants, and he won the mystery of the word "profit". He is a ghost." Behavior commented.

"What you said just now, grain merchants donated 110,000 taels? Is the figure true? Is Zhu Pingan not corrupt?"

Emperor Jiajing asked again.

"My lord, the numbers are true, and Zhu Ping'an is not greedy. There are donation books and donation announcements as proof, and I have transcribed them." Xu Hai replied respectfully, and took out several donations from Jingnan from his bosom. Publicity of donations of books and transcripts.

Huang Jin went down to take the relevant documents from Xu Hai, and handed them to Emperor Jiajing for review with respectful hands.

Emperor Jiajing couldn't help shaking his head and laughing after reading it, "Boy Zhu even announced that Zhang San donated 5 eggs and Wang Wu donated 2 catties of green vegetables. Every donation and expenditure is recorded in the book. It seems true. Innocence, this reminds me of Zhu Xiaozi's naked **** inspection of Taicang."

"Weizhong, take a look too."

Emperor Jiajing said to Yan Song and Xu Jie, indicating that Huang Jin would pass the relevant documents to them for reading.

"Open and transparent, ingenious workmanship. A donation announcement form, a donation use form, the ins and outs of each donation are clearly recorded, and Zhu Pingan's innocence can also be seen from this." After reading it, Yan Song commented Zhu Ping'an was not stingy with words of praise, and it was completely an elder's gesture of appreciating and supporting the younger generation.

"Zhu Ping'an is indeed innocent." Xu Jie simply echoed, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"The merchants actually have such financial resources? A mere grain merchant in Jingnan donated 110,000 taels? The grain merchants are especially rich, so the salt merchants are even worse?!" Emperor Jiajing tapped the armrest of the dragon chair lightly with his fingers, his face The weather was uncertain, and he glanced at Yan Song and Xu Jie, "Weizhong, Huating, you, etc., go back and discuss with the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, and the Xunyan Yushi and other departments to discuss the "Discussion on Changing the Salt Law" that Zhu Bochen submitted in the matter. , come up with a charter again in the future, and report it to me.

Last month, Zhu Bochen proposed to change the salt law to solve the problem of insufficient military pay caused by the northern invaders and the southern Japanese in recent years by adding regular salt to the surplus salt. Bring two extra salts, one package each, 285 catties in total including the cable. Zhengyan opened the border and was quoted by the Nanjing Household Department. The remaining salt paid the price, and the transportation department gave a small ticket. The remaining salt is priced at five cents and five cents in Huainan and five cents in Huaibei. Every year, about 1.1 million taels of salt and silver can be obtained from the normal salt and the surplus salt to make up for the military pay.

Emperor Jiajing was very satisfied with the 1.1 million taels of salt silver at the time, and intended to approve the implementation. However, judging from the amount donated by grain merchants in Jingnan, the 1.1 million taels of salt silver is still insufficient.

In terms of profit, selling salt is much more profitable than selling grain. With a comparison, how could Emperor Jiajing be satisfied.

"The minister obeys the order." Yan Song and Xu Jie bowed to receive the order, and they knew what Emperor Jiajing thought.

"By the way, boy Zhu is doing work for relief in Jingnan, you will tell me in detail." Emperor Jiajing said to Xu Hai again.

"Abiding by the order. Master Zhu organized the disaster victims to carry out engineering construction in Jingnan, including building water conservancy, building city walls, reclaiming wasteland, building anti-Japanese forts, etc., in the form of paying wages instead of direct relief. Master Zhu said that this will not only make the people Self-supporting, living with more dignity, can also form a batch of projects that are beneficial to the long-term stability of Jingnan." Xu Hai reported in detail what he saw and heard in Jingnan.

Emperor Jiajing nodded when he heard the words, and asked how the flood situation in the south of the Yangtze River was, and Xu Hai replied truthfully one by one.

"What else do you want to report on this trip?" Emperor Jiajing asked again after learning about the relevant situation.

Xu Hai considered it for a while, and truthfully reported the secret report proposed by Zhu Pingan to Emperor Jiajing.

"Return to the Holy One. After this incident, Master Zhu came up with an idea." Xu Hai reported.

"What do you think?" Emperor Jiajing asked with great interest.

"Return to the Holy Majesty, it is a secret book! Master Zhu conceived that the courtiers who have been granted the right to secret books by the Holy Father, after the courtiers have written the secret papers, they will be sealed in a special box and sent to the capital by a special person, without going through the post station or the Secretary of General Administration." , Huijimen and other officials went directly to the imperial front and submitted it to the emperor for imperial approval. Only the emperor and the ministers of Shangshu knew the contents of the secret book. There is no limit to the content of the secret book, including impeachment memorials, suggestions and suggestions, government affairs reports, etc., everything is heard It can be reported, so as to spread the word and expand information channels

Xu Hai replied respectfully, and truthfully reported Zhu Ping'an's conception of secret books to Emperor Jiajing.

Smart as Emperor Jiajing, he instantly understood the function of Secret Zhe, his eyes lit up immediately, and he nodded calmly.

After Xu Hai finished his report, Emperor Jiajing didn't comment. He looked at Peng Cheng, Zhang Guyi and the others and asked, "Do you have anything to add?"

"Return to the Holy Lord, Mr. Xu said in detail, saying that there is nothing to add." Peng Cheng and others replied.

"Since that's the case, you should step back, and you are the only ones to stay."

Emperor Jiajing waved to Xu Hai and others, signaling them to leave, and ordered Yan Song, Xu Jie and others to stay.

"The ministers and others resign." Xu Hai and others resigned.

"Weizhong, Huating, what do you think about the secret book proposed by Zhu Xiaozi?"

When Xu Hai and others walked out of Dongnuan Pavilion, they heard the voice of Emperor Jiajing asking Yan Song and Xu Jie from behind.

(end of this chapter)