Chapter 1573 Persuasion
Your Majesty, you know that the minister is guarding the court outside the Wumen Gate?”
Emperor Longqing looked stunned and said, "Minister of the Court? When did it happen?"
Luo Xin said the matter again, and the expression on Emperor Longqing's face turned gloomy and clear. He had already remembered that he must have thrown things in the room, scolded and beat the treacherous ministers to death, and Feng Bao and the others went out to beat them.
Not to mention, Emperor Longqing was still a little moved at this time, and he felt that Feng Bao and others were close to him. Seeing the expression on Emperor Longqing's face, Luo Xin knew what he was thinking, and sighed in his heart. Zhu Zai'an had become the emperor. If he were in an ordinary family, he would have been bullied like a dog or sold, and he would have helped people count the money.
At this time, Emperor Longqing's face changed. He thought about what would Gao Gong's ministers think of him?
I immediately said with a little stiff voice: "No, they are bullying me too much. I just want the fifth barracks to be in my hands."
"The Five Military Camps were originally the Emperor's personal army."
"But...will they listen to me?"
"You are the emperor, who do they don't listen to you?"
"Listen to the cabinet?" Emperor Longqing said angrily.
Luo Xin silently took out a few pieces of paper and handed it to Emperor Longqing. Emperor Longqing took it in confusion and looked down. After reading it, he still looked at Luo Xin in a little confused and said:
"No, what are you showing me these things?"
"Your Majesty knows what this is?"
"This should be the money obtained by the treasury, right?"
"Not bad!" Luo Xin nodded and said, "These money are all the money that the Inner Palace asked the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue in these days, the total amount of money that the Inner Palace asked the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue has reached 1.28 million taels. Your Majesty, do you still believe me?"
"Of course I believe it." Emperor Longqing said without hesitation: "If I don't believe in Master Luo, who else can I believe?"
"Okay, please block the treasury immediately. I will help Your Majesty check the accounts."
Emperor Longqing asked with some uncertainty: "Do you mean someone is greedy?"
"I dare to assert." Luo Xin said seriously: "Your Majesty can't use a fraction of this one.280,000 taels."
Emperor Longqing's expression changed: "You mean the rest are all greedy?"
"Cha Cha, can you know?"
"good!"
Emperor Longqing immediately made it clear, and there was a faint anger in his heart. This was all his money, but he was actually greedy?
Luo Xin immediately mobilized the accounting offices of the Jinyiwei and the Ministry of Revenue. Liu Shouyou and Xu Shixing had already prepared. Without Feng Bao's time, they immediately blocked the treasury.
Inside the hall.
Several tables were gathered together, and ten accounts sat in two rows, each with an account book and an abacus in front of each person, calculating in a crackling manner.
Emperor Longqing was already a little drowsy. After two hours, the sound of the abacus gradually stopped and the hall became silent, which made Emperor Longqing wake up suddenly.
A accountant stood up and handed Luo Xin a few pages of the ten accounts to Luo Xin. Luo Xin looked at it and handed it to Emperor Longqing who was looking at him.
Emperor Longqing hurriedly took the paper, Luo Xin waved his hand, all ten accounts retreated, and some small eunuchs also retreated. Feng Bao looked at Luo Xin for help, and Luo Xin sighed:
"Eunuch Feng, go and close the hall door."
Feng Bao looked at Luo Xin gratefully, then closed the door, and stood at the door with his legs trembling. At this time, Emperor Longqing's chest was already violently ups and downs.
In the past few months, the treasury collected a total of 1.286,000 taels of silver. It turned out that there were 367,000 taels, which totaled 1.653,000 taels. Now the inventory was 181,600 taels, and the rest had been spent.
However, the money spent from the treasury is accounted for, and the ten accounts are all vicious, listing all the inappropriate prices and doubts. According to these suspicions, the estimated accounts were estimated, Emperor Longqing spent about 180,000 taels of silver in the past three months, and one million taels of silver disappeared silently.
"Your Majesty!" Luo Xin spoke: "These things are easy to check."
"Crash..." Emperor Longqing threw the papers at Feng Bao, and the papers were flying in the air. Emperor Longqing said angrily: "Give me an explanation."
"Plop..."
Feng Bao knelt on the ground, crawled over tremblingly, picked up a few pieces of paper, and looked at it quickly, his face turned extremely pale. He knew that Luo Xin was right, and these were easy to check. Just check each item and one by one.
"Your Majesty, this is just a little greedy thing." Having said this, he waved his hand to Feng Bao and said, "Eunuch Feng, you go down first."
"Long live the Lord..."
"Go down!" Emperor Longqing roared.
"Long live, I'm wrong..." Feng Bao cried bitterly.
Luo Xin looked at Emperor Longqing. Seeing that there was a hint of unbearableness on Emperor Longqing's face, he knew that Feng Bao had escaped this level. After all, Feng Bao accompanied Emperor Longqing from the most difficult life. Emperor Longqing was generous by nature. If he insisted on dealing with Feng Bao, he might have a rift with Emperor Longqing. He turned his heart and said:
"Your Majesty, let Eunuch Feng stay."
Feng Fan looked up at Luo Xin in surprise. Seeing that Luo Xin's eyes showed gentleness, he showed gratitude in his eyes. Emperor Longqing said angrily:
"Give me an explanation, are these real?"
“Yes… it’s true.”
Twist...
Emperor Longqing walked to Feng Bao, raised his foot and kicked Feng Bao to the ground.
"Dog slave, do you want to die?"
"Your Majesty, sit down first, don't get angry."
"Bang!"
Emperor Longqing kicked Feng Bao again, and then sat down panting, feeling a little ashamed that he did not dare to look at Luo Xin.
"His Majesty!"
"Master Luo!"
"Your Majesty, I know that you have some concerns about governance... and some concerns to the civil officials of the court..."
Although Luo Xin stopped every time he talked about the key points and gave face to Emperor Longqing, no matter how stupid Emperor Longqing knew what Luo Xin meant later, and his face turned red. Isn’t this just saying that he was lazy in politics and disgusted with civil officials?
"However, you are too partial and indulging eunuchs and do not pay any attention to the ministers' practices. The result is that you get the news from the eunuchs around you. If you listen to and believe it, it will inevitably lead to more indulgence to the eunuchs around you. This will make them infinitely grow arrogance. They will look down on all officials, bully the people, and even violate the ancestral teachings and openly intervene in the six ministries. Because of Your Majesty's partiality and indulgence, the six ministries and nine ministers cannot resist a small eunuch.
If this continues, all officials may no longer stick to their true intentions and choose to surrender to the eunuchs. It is like the era of Wang Zhen, Wang Zhi and Liu Jin."
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Chapter completed!