"Don't do this!"

Sun Chengzong immediately refused and said, "You must have read the news from the palace. In order to prevent Your Majesty from pursuing Liao's strategy and training, the Dukes in the court sought treasury on the grounds of financial scarcity! With my understanding of the Dukes and the Emperor in the court, there will inevitably be major corruption cases in the future. Your Xu family has obtained this wealth and honor with your master. Don't do anything randomly! At that time, it will not only harm your Xu family but also harm your master!"

"Yes! The lesson of the minister is that students remember."

Xu Yue replied with a serious expression.

"You Xu family must ensure the next six million benefits. I will return to Beijing tomorrow and convey your words to Your Majesty!"

Sun Chengzong started talking.

Xu Yue was very excited after hearing this. He knew that this was an opportunity to prove his ability to the emperor, so he hurriedly said: "Student, thank you to the minister! Please rest assured. After the students explain the matter of the sponge mill, they will personally go to Haojing and Batavia to ensure that they will bring six million taels of shawl to the court this year!"

...

Tongzhou.

A private residence of a senior civil servant.

"I thought the emperor was very smart, far better than his grandfather. Now it seems that I was wrong, I took a look! Zhu Youxiao gave out all the treasury for those Cao Jing and Qiu Ba! Everyone said that Zhu Youxiao was a tyrant, and I think he was still a rare good emperor in the world! Unfortunately, Cao Jing and Qiu Ba couldn't talk, and the pen was in the hands of our literati! Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao, don't you plan to support your new army? Hahaha! If I were to do this, even if I didn't change my strategy for Liao affairs and would not allocate the treasury, the people and soldiers would starve to death! A group of people will not destroy the world! The scholars and officials will not tolerate bandits and win the world! Zhang Heming and his friends are good at this trick, but I really didn't expect that the emperor was so generous. Now that the court is about to make a fortune, the people in the court will immediately send people from the government to Guangyuan, Henan, and border towns to speculate on grain prices. Anyway, the court has a lot of money now, so we won't make a profit if we don't make a profit! Let the military towns in Liaodi find a memorial to the censor ask the Liao soldiers to share the salary with the guest soldiers, increase the difficulty for His Majesty the Emperor, and let him pay more treasurys and have no capital to train troops!"

When Xu Shilin reported the situation in the capital to his master, Xu Shilin's master burst into laughter and told Xu Shilin to come.

Xu Shilin also laughed and immediately replied: "I understand!"

But at this time, a housekeeper outside ran in and reported, "Master, Governor Su Song Sun Chengzong came to Beijing to report his work. You asked us to inquire. We found out that the emperor asked Sun Chengzong to come to Beijing. We learned about it by bribing Sun Chengzong's servants. It turned out that Sun Chengzong brought more than three million taels of silver to Beijing this time, and the eunuch Li Yongzhen, who was in charge of the Sili Supervision Hall, brought the Jinyiwei into the inner trunk!"

After hearing this, the gentry put away his pride on the spot, and the pen he was about to write stopped in his hand: "Three million taels?"

"What's going on? Not long after Sun Chengzong was appointed governor Su Song, how did he get so much money? How did he do it? Even if he can make money, how could he give so much money to the emperor so willingly?! If he is loyal, he is not so loyal!"

The gentry found that his mind was not enough, so he immediately threw the wolf hair in his hand on the table: "Go check! Check! Check what Sun Chengzong did in Susong! Then, he revealed the news to the gentlemen of Donglin and told them that Sun Chengzong made a lot of money in Susong, a total of three or four million!"

As he said that, the gentry took a few steps back and said, "I didn't expect that the emperor would have some money to come. It was not entirely up to the house to be searched. No wonder he was so generous. Now all the lords in the court are going to suffer a disaster!"

...

A few months later.

Wenhua Palace.

"Your Majesty, this is the account book details of the sponge mill. Please check it out. According to Xu Yue's words, this year the reliable sponge mill will bring the imperial court a huge profit of 6 million taels! But I suggest that Xu Yue serves as a thousand households in Jinshanwei. If he has an official position, it will be convenient for him to take the boat out of the sea."

Sun Chengzong said and made suggestions.

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Accurate!"

Then, Zhu Youxiao said to Xu Guangqi: "With this money, the students in the martial arts lecture hall are about to graduate, and the recruitment work is about to start, but the money for recruiting troops to form a new army does not have to be used to move the remaining millions of taels of deposit in the treasury. You can take it away first and prepare for the next recruitment of the new army immediately."

"I obey the order!"

Xu Guangqi replied.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian hurriedly came and saw that the emperor's lecture was not over, so he stood outside the hall first.

But Zhu Youxiao saw him.

After Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong left, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly called him in: "What's the matter?"

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly said excitedly: "Report to the Emperor! Our East Factory has investigated and found out that the Minister of War Zhang Heming and other officials of the Ministry of War, together with many governors, civil officials and military officials, were greedy for military pay. Your Majesty, you allocated the treasury to pay the world's owed wages and was drifted by them before leaving the capital! They planned to transport the silver to Tongzhou and transport the lost silver to Zhangjiakou.

They worked with the Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou to lend the lost silver to the Shanxi merchants, and then the Shanxi merchants sold the grain outside the pass, and then whitewashed them for their own silver;

However, this incident involves many governors, including Wenqiu, the governor of Ji Liao, and Dong Kewei, the governor of Datong.

In addition, Wang Zuo, the Minister of Works, and other officials of the Ministry of Works, also embezzled and falsely reported the project funds. I asked the emperor to show me!"

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao snorted: "I really didn't control my hands! It seems that I really didn't take my edict seriously, and everyone deserves to be punished!"

Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian: "How have the factory enrollment and training these days, will there be unreliable people intervene in? Can such a big case be handled?"

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly replied: "Please rest assured, the disobedient ones were cleaned out. According to the emperor's instructions, the Dongchang military officers and the Jinyiwei expanded their enrollment were all powerful men with innocent families, mainly among the royal family and the good men among the loyal and nobles, and they absolutely guarantee loyalty."

"That's good! First, I will immediately issue an order to lock the city on the grounds of handling a major case!

Then, arrest all the officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works first, find out one, and put it back!

Let’s go with the cabinet to draft an order and send Jinyiwei to arrest foreign officials involved in the case, and the Shanxi merchants also confiscated them!

I didn’t take action against the Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou Fort before because I was worried that I would make the matter bigger and they would block my money and food. Now I have no such concern and just copy it!

However, according to Fan Yuqing's confession, Zhangjiakou Fort was a place where the enemy Shanxi merchants had been entrenched for many years. There were many brave people in the villages. Local civil and military officials were afraid that they would also collude with him, and there were not enough people who rely on factories and guards alone;

The censor Hou Xun wrote a memorial saying that the military pay of the guest army was too high. Since this is the case, let the guest army do something other than war for the court;

You take my imperial edict to meet Qin Liangyu's army who was about to be transferred back to the capital, and tell them that the silver and silver rewards were corrupt officials such as Zhang Heming, and gave them to the Shanxi merchants, asking them to assist you in searching your house in Zhangjiakou and regaining your silver and silver rewards! After regaining it, I will reward them again!

In addition, I will allow your Dongchang to transfer a few cannons and firearms from the Ordnance Administration, and let the Zhejiang soldiers who are preparing to rush to Liaodong cooperate with you to search your home in Zhangjiakou. The reason is naturally the same as the white pole soldiers."

Zhu Youxiao ordered.

"I obey the order!"
Chapter completed!