While responding politely to the officials in the court with different thoughts, Zhu Zilong looked up at the surroundings, but saw the officials of the Donglin Party with black and blue faces on their faces.

The cabinet members, supported by their officials, slowly prepared to walk outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony with expressionless expressions.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Zilong's original body frowned slightly subconsciously.

Just when everyone is about to end the show and go back to their own houses.

From behind, the female officials and eunuchs announced the emperor's decree, summoned the officials of the cabinet and others, and a group of newly appointed officials and spoke at a small banquet in the West Garden. This is the itinerary that Zhu Zilong's emperor clone had planned long ago, so everyone was not surprised, but the timetable was strangely advanced.

There are many generals and officials in the Royal Palace for the first time, and they are very excited.

The small banquet is frugal, but everyone's mind is obviously not here. It is the most important thing to be able to attend such an imperial feast, which means that he is close to the emperor's heart.

The atmosphere in the field was still relaxed. Zhu Zilong controlled the emperor's clone and spoke slowly. He smiled and said some words of advice. All the generals and nobles responded. Only the officials of the cabinet and other officials looked very good and had a forced smile.

Zhu Zilong is the Dragon Marquis of the Four Seas. According to the etiquette system, first-rank officials will bow to him when they see him. Everyone put aside their status as a cabinet member, and they are inferior to him. Even his subordinates will have to look at their masters to beat dogs, and they can no longer call and drink to the generals as they used to.

Aside, Yuan Chonghuan's face was sometimes calm and sometimes entangled. His eyes looked at Zhu Zilong's body very complicated. Beside him, Shu Ziqian, one of his deputy generals, looked at Yuan Chonghuan, and then looked at Zhu Zilong, thinking about something.

Facing Yuan Chonghuan's observation, Zhu Zilong also responded with a smile, but when he saw one of his deputy generals, Shu Ziqian, he smiled gently.

When he turned around, no one could observe Zhu Zilong's original expression, a mysterious expression appeared on his face, as if everything was under control.

The border war between Ming and Qing dynasties ended, and the Ming Dynasty's crisis in Liaodong was eased, and even a small victory was won.

However, external troubles are still there, and the main force of the Qing army is still there, and they have not suffered much loss. Perhaps after a period of lurking, they may make a comeback at any time. After all, with the climate and soil of Liaodong, if the Tartars do not rob, they will not survive.

So, Zhu Zilong controlled the emperor's clone and started chatting with the officials and generals casually based on this topic.

Everyone responded that according to the current situation, the huge supply of food and wages in Liaodong may not be stopped, and at most part of it will be distributed to Jizhen or Shanhaiguan Town.

Zhu Zilong's emperor clone nodded repeatedly. Fortunately, a few days ago, he searched the house and two princes. The emperor's inner treasury increased a lot of income, and the finances this year are still OK, as long as there are no natural disasters.

Maybe you would say that you can’t give away some money from the border?

However, there are too many interest groups involved in Liao Sheng. If the powerful interest groups exist like Shanxi merchants and Donglin Party, they will not know how to die if they want to move the interests of the inner world.

Even the emperor cannot easily take it lightly.

Looking at the cabinet, who did not get benefits from the Liao salary? It was just a matter of too many or too few.

When he was young, Zhu Zilong, the cross-city emperor, said again: "The border is victorious, and the border is at ease. If the towns can train tens of thousands of new troops after this battle, why worry about the failure of the East Enemy bandits? I am willing to train the new troops, what do you think?"

The ministers in the cabinet looked at each other, but some of them were in their imagination.

Since ancient times, the emperor naturally hoped that the greater the power, the better the military strength, and the same was true for the new army. A new army must be in the hands of the court. An effective method is to provide food and wages and arrange personnel.

In this way, the new army is stronger than the local army, and the world can be stable in the Great Ming Dynasty.

When talking about this, all the lords in the field, except for Zhu Zilong's body, all of them had bright eyes. Indeed, the new army is now attached great importance to it.

When it comes to training troops, you naturally have to go through the hands of the Minister of War.

His position is equivalent to the Minister of National Defense in later generations, so the Minister of War stood up and said, "What the emperor said is very much. The new army is now the foundation of the combat power of each town. If there are tens of thousands of people, it can consolidate the defense of General Fu, and Liaodong and Shanhaiguan are stationed. In this way, Liaodong and Jizhen are connected to the front line. If Dongnu wants to break into the border again in the past, it will be very difficult."

Zhu Zilong controlled the emperor's clone and nodded vigorously.

But other than that, the cabinet members either sneered or had no expression on their faces.

Suddenly, Chen Yan, a member of the cabinet, interjected sinisterly: "The willingness to train troops is good, but where is the food and salary for train troops?"

The Minister of War was speechless immediately, but he reacted very quickly and smiled and said, "This is the matter of the Ministry of Revenue."

When the Minister of Revenue saw that the ball was thrown to him, he quickly stood up and practiced Tai Chi, saying to the emperor, "Back to the emperor, the treasury is now exhausted, and there are famines everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters, plagues, and refugees everywhere. Many prefectures and counties have basically not been able to collect regular taxes, and many border towns and prefectures are also owed wages and salary. The Ministry of Revenue has no money!"

Zhu Zilong's emperor clone frowned, and the military generals Bo Hou were also very disappointed.

At this time, Chen Yan suddenly smiled again and said, "Your Majesty, although the northern part is full of famine, the various parts of the south of the Yangtze River are still rich. I believe that the main force of tax collection can be placed in the Jiangnan area. You can train a new army!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of officials such as the Donglin Party changed drastically.

Zhu Zilong observed it all over and thought in his heart.

Chen Yan is not a member of the Donglin Party. He has temporarily put himself in the cabinet and is a messy man. It really has miraculous effects.

At this time, nearly half of the cabinet members were Donglin Party members. They were all from Jiangnan. If the imperial court would collect taxes in the future, Jiangnan would be the main ones, and the cabinet masters would lose local support and soon their official positions would be over.

So, they all glared at Chen Yan.

Zhu Zilong watched coldly and did not dissuade him. In the original history, the factional struggle between officials in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty was very fierce. For example, the young Zhan Shi Huang Daozhou once impeached the Grand Secretary, Yang Sichang, the Minister of War Yang Ruoqi, and the other party of Huang Daozhou, as well as Donglin, the eunuch party, and the censors were constantly fighting.

As emperors, the people below who don’t like each other are definitely happy to be joking and happy to see them fight.

That's how the art of balance of the emperor is.

When he was young, the Minister of Revenue sighed: "Jiangnan is a heavy tax, and all taxes rank among the highest in the country. If the tax is imposed on the people, it is a matter of arousing civil unrest. Please think twice!"

After saying that, he choked up and talked about the sufferings of his hometown’s elders, just like the Oscar winner in later generations.

Zhu Zilong sneered in his heart. These officials knew that they would add taxes to ordinary people. My subtext: What they wanted to collect taxes refers to those rich merchants and Jiangzhuang landlords. Is it good?

Others to change the topic, the resident insects of the Ming Dynasty.

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