Chapter 217

Jiajing sat there, talking about what happened in the court last year. The ministers below also lowered their heads and listened, and no one dared to say anything!

"Last year, the court spent more than 14 million taels of silver, how much of it was spent on the root? I estimate that there was not even 60% of the money, and most of the money might have entered my personal pocket. I handed over all the things to the cabinet and to all the ministers. You just treat me like this and treat the people of the Ming Dynasty like this? Is it shame?" Jiajing sat on it and continued to say to the ministers.

When Lu Ben and the others heard this, they hurriedly knelt down. Then, the other ministers also knelt down and shouted: "Prince forgive me!"

"All up, I don't want to punish anyone today. I just talk about what happened in the Ming Dynasty last year. The people are suffering. If you do this, the people will not rebel? There is no way out, so how can they not rebel?" Jiajing sat there and continued. Those ministers dared to get up.

"Your Majesty, don't be angry, I'll just hammer them to death!" Zhang Hao stood there, turned his head and said to Jiajing.

"Well, it's simple to hammer it to death, but can't you all be hammered to death? I don't believe that there will be no good officials in the Ming Dynasty. Since I have come here today, I am not afraid that you will get into trouble and solve the problem. Daming, you can't keep this like this. After all, evil cannot be suppressed by the right person!" Jiajing nodded and then said to the officials below.

"Emperor, I have something to do!" At this moment, an official knelt there and bowed his hands and shouted.

"Well, let's talk!" Jiajing looked at him and said.

"I want to impeach Liang Quan, the doctor of the Ministry of Revenue. This person has huge money from unknown sources and lives a luxurious life. He has more than 20 concubines in his family! Liang Quan was a Jinshi in the first year of Jiajing. He has been an official for more than 20 years. His family has accumulated huge wealth, which is seriously inconsistent with his income!" The official immediately raised the impeachment memorial very high.

An eunuch immediately went to get his impeachment memorial and sent it to Lu Fang who was standing in front. Lu Fang opened it and took a look. After confirming that there was no other thing in it, he immediately turned around and submitted it to Jiajing. Jiajing opened it and looked at it.

"Your Majesty, I want to impeach the cabinet minister, Yan Song!" At this time, another minister shouted, "When Zhang Hao heard that he had the courage, he actually dared to impeach Yan Song?" So he looked over and found that he was a young official, and he probably was not forty years old.

Yan Song felt a sudden slap when he heard this. He immediately turned his head and looked back, then turned around and knelt there. The eunuch also went over to get the memorial.

"Emperor, I want to impeach the Chief Minister of the Cabinet, Lu Ben!"

"Your Majesty, I want to impeach Xu Jie, the Minister of Internal Medicine!"

"Emperor, I want to impeach the Right Minister of War..."

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Then all of them were impeachment memorials. At this moment, Jiajing was happy and proud. Now, those ministers are finally not a solid piece of law. They dare to impeach them.

The officials who were impeached were also worried at this moment, but some officials who impeached others were impeached. Anyway, just a moment, Jiajing received more than 70 impeachment memorials.

At this moment, Lu Ben, Yan Song, Xu Jie and others were also afraid. One-third of the impeachment memorials were impeached by the three of them, and among them, Yan Song was impeached the most. Yan Song was sweating all his brains at this moment. Now it depends on what attitude Jiajing is on.

Jiajing sat on the top to watch the impeachment memorial, and the officials below knelt, but Zhang Rong and the lords did not kneel. No one impeached them, and they asked themselves that there was no illegal matter, so they were not afraid.

"Well, it's all impeachment memorials, so there's nothing that needs to be submitted this year?" Jiajing said while sitting there.

"When I go back to the emperor, there are some stations everywhere that are in ruins and cannot be used at all. The Honglu Temple has been applying for those stations before, but they cannot apply for each time. I also asked the emperor to allocate funds to repair the stations!" At this moment, the Honglu Temple Minister immediately bowed and said.

"How much?" Jiajing asked.

"It may take 500,000 taels of silver to go back to the emperor. Perhaps it is not enough. The stations across the country have basically not been built for seven or eight years. Many houses have been collapsed, and many roads have been destroyed. We have to continue to repair them!" The Minister of the Honglu Temple immediately bowed and said.

"Well, Sun Yingkui!" Jiajing heard this and looked at Sun Yingkui.

"Back to the emperor, the Ministry of Revenue has no money now. However, by March, it can be used to withdraw 200,000 taels, and in June, it can be used to allocate 300,000 taels!" Sun Yingkui immediately bowed and said.

"Okay, remember to ask the Ministry of Revenue!" Jiajing nodded and said to the Minister of the Honglu Temple.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The Minister of the Honglu Temple immediately bowed and said.

"I heard from the emperor that the Japanese pirates in the southeast are prevalent, and most of the taxes in the seven southeastern provinces were eaten by the Japanese pirates. The Ministry of War also asked the Ministry of War to come up with a plan to completely solve the Japanese pirates!" A minister stood up and said to Jiajing. Jiajing immediately looked at Wang Bangrui, the Minister of War.

"Returning to the emperor, it may be difficult this year. The Japanese army in the southeast has been insufficient military pay and training. It is only after the end of the year that it has received a sum of money and started training. I expect that in June, the Japanese pirates can be stabilized!" Wang Bangrui immediately bowed and replied,

Then the ministers also began to report the matter. They had to go through the cabinet before, and then report it to the Sili Supervisor. The Sili Supervisor also read it to Jiajing. Jiajing sometimes had to ask the cabinet's opinions. The cabinet could hide it from it, so those ministers also had great opinions on the cabinet doing this.

Now that they saw Jiajing going to court, they must have said it all. Jiajing sat there to deal with the problem. He could handle it on the spot and handle it on the spot. If it could not be handled on the spot, then he would like to put it aside. Then he would discuss it again. It would not be stopped for a whole morning.

It was almost noon, and Jiajing was tired, so he asked the ministers not to start the report. At the same time, he announced that Jiajing would come to court every day on the first day of the month.

Yan Song and the others heard this and breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they didn’t come every day, it would be troublesome. After going down the court, Zhang Hao escorted Jiajing to the side of the Danfang.

"Zhang Hao, go back first. There is something happening at home. I didn't expect that I would go to the dynasty today, so I set your day on the ninth day of the lunar month. It would be a few days later if I had known it!" Jiajing said after he sat down at the Danfang.

"Your Majesty? You, you, are you killing the donkey!" Zhang Hao looked at Jiajing depressedly when he heard this.

"What does it mean? Why did I kill the donkey?" Jiajing looked at Zhang Hao incomprehensible and asked.

"You know that it's time for lunch, so you drive me away. Didn't you mean it?" Zhang Hao rolled his eyes and said.

"Oh, right, no, what words are you using? Can you read more books? What does it mean to kill a donkey? Hurry up, pass on the meal!" Jiajing understood what was going on when he heard this, and immediately said to Lu Fang, then glared at Zhang Hao.

"I stood there for a whole morning and was exhausted and didn't care about the meal!" Zhang Hao said as he sat on the stool and continued to complain.

"Stop it, why don't you care? Didn't I forget it?" Jiajing looked at Zhang Hao helplessly and said, "There was no choice but to be arrested by him."

"But, Your Majesty, can we not go to court in the future? Are you tired? I stood there for a whole morning and my legs hurt. But when I thought about it, the ministers had been kneeling for a whole morning, and they probably felt even more uncomfortable. During the Xia Dynasty, I saw that the ministers were supporting each other, and it was very pleasant to think about it!" Zhang Hao sat there and said with a smile.

"I am very satisfied with this dynasty today. However, I can't go according to the normal dynasty meeting time. Just go there once a month. Just bear with it!" Jiajing said with a smile at this moment.

Today's court meeting was beyond Jiajing's expectations. He originally thought that if no ministers spoke, he would just leave the court early, but he just wanted to convey a message to the outside world. He came back. Unexpectedly, those ministers submitted impeachment memorials and reported many things that he had never known before.

All of these are the dereliction of duty of the cabinet, the dereliction of duty of Yan Song and Lu Ben, and the dereliction of duty of Xu Jie. However, Xu Jie has just entered the cabinet for a short time, so he cannot be blamed. However, some people impeached Xu Jie. Corruption is not just a dereliction of duty. Among them, they went to Guangping Prefecture to investigate the case. Some officials believed that Xu Jie deliberately leaked the news and asked those officials to transfer all the money!

"Zhang Hao, your father-in-law has a lot of things now!" Jiajing sat there and said to Zhang Hao.

"Will you hammer him to death?" Zhang Hao asked when he heard this.

"Baby, he is your father-in-law. You will get married tomorrow. If you say such words, will they dare to marry your daughter to you?" Jiajing looked at Zhang Hao speechlessly. What is his brain?

"He dares not marry? Not marrying is disobeying the imperial edict. I will take people to destroy the family!" Zhang Hao sat upright and said arrogantly,

Jiajing could only shake his head helplessly and thought for a while, but he still didn't talk about Xu Jie's affairs. It would be impossible to talk about Yan Song. What if this bastard got angry when he heard that he was so angry that he took a hammer to hammer Yan Song to death? Yan Song was terrified now. After thinking about it, he might as well stop talking about the affairs of the court!

Soon, Lu Fang brought food, and Zhang Hao sat there and swallowed it. After eating, he wiped his mouth and said to Jiajing: "Master, I'll go home to get married and come to see you in two days!"

"Okay, it's okay, come after the Lantern Festival!" Jiajing said to Zhang Hao with a smile when he heard this.
Chapter completed!