I am the king of the dead

Seeing that the courtiers could not be torn apart, the Wanli Emperor began to show off. After 13 years in Wanli, he never stepped out of the palace again.

More than half of the officials in the world were short of staff, and even three of the six ministers were missing. Emperor Wanli ignored him, and finally buried the soil of Ming Dynasty's tossing to his eyebrows.

What Jin Lian said makes sense.

"Would you like something to eat?" Zhu Qiyu looked at the fruit basket on the table, these were snacks given by the ministers who came to visit Jin Lian.

Jin Lian has been eating liquid food for four days, Zhu Qiyu is well aware of Jin Lian's physical condition, he is in good spirits today, that's why Zhu Qiyu asked this question.

Jin Lian leaned against the bed rail, did not make a sound, but stared at the birds returning home outside the window, dazed.

"Your Majesty, the old minister was just thinking about what else he hadn't explained. After thinking about it, it's useless to explain it." Jin Lian murmured, "I just hope that Daming will get better and better."

Zhu Qiyu pursed his lower lips, nodded vigorously and said, "It will get better and better, yes, I promise."

"The old minister can rest assured." Jin Lian tilted his head and slowly closed his eyes.

Zhu Qiyu had already chatted with Jin Lian for a while, and Jin Lian was a little bit exhausted, which Zhu Qiyu rarely saw from Jin Lian.

The usually penny-pinching appearance has become peaceful, and the Hubu Shangshu, who guarded Daming's purse, finally ushered in the last moment.

Zhu Qiyu walked out very calmly, Xing'an carefully closed the door behind him, only Lu Zicai and two imperial physicians were left in the room, and no one else disturbed Jin Lian's last peaceful moment.

Jin Lian, who has been busy all his life, can say with certainty that he is worthy of Daming, the community, the people of Li, and his heart.

This is Jin Lian's life.

As the sun sets, the golden light shines through the gaps in the treetops and sprinkles on the window rails, eaves, and brick and stone roads, dyeing them a layer of golden yellow.

Standing in front of the door, Zhu Qiyu looked up at the unpredictable Huoshaoyun in the sky with his hands behind his back, waiting without saying a word.

When the sun had completely set and the night was continuously smudged in the sky, the door behind him creaked and opened, and Lu Zi walked up behind His Majesty, and said solemnly, "Uncle Muyang, you're dead."

"Well, I got it." Zhu Qiyu only felt his heart being squeezed hard, and another important minister under him left.

The Tai Hospital did everything possible to keep him in the human world.

Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath and exhaled forcefully, then said: "Xing'an, let's proclaim the decree."

He thought he wouldn't be sad, but when things came to an end, he realized that he didn't even have much strength to speak.

He was young and he was not used to saying goodbye.

Xing'an took the imperial decree and shouted loudly: "Jin Rong supports the great benevolence. The benevolent seeks for the world, just like a son seeks for his relatives. If the world is poor, it will enrich the world; if the people are few, it will serve the people. To support one's own wealth, not to conceal one's wisdom."

"Jin Rongxiang is talented in the Congo. He is known for his strictness. The Ministry of Punishment upholds the law, is strict on the outside and forgives on the inside. The Ministry of Housekeeping manages the money. He is on duty to make money, and he collects enough money to use it..."

Rongxiang is Jin Lian's posthumous title.

First righteousness and then profit is glory, and the armor has labor and is called Xiang.

Jin Lian's coffin will be buried in three days. This is also Jin Lian's will. Jin Lian's family has no money, and setting up a mourning hall for seven days will delay the government. If he dies, he will trouble and delay others. That is not Jin Lian's character, which is also considered Jin Lian's funeral.

According to Jin Lian's will, Jin Lian's family will move out of the official residence after Jin Lian's burial, and Zhu Qiyu bestows a house in Chaoyangmen for Jin Lian's family to live in.

Xing'an's imperial edict was not very long. After he finished reading, he rolled up the imperial edict and did not take back the yellow silk for reuse. Jin Lian's death was a major event, so of course he had to use yellow silk. He handed the intact imperial edict to Jin Lian. Lian's widow.

Zhu Qiyu looked back at Jin Lian who was on the sick bed, and left the mansion.

"Lu Zhong, go and find out about Jiang Yuan's acceptance of bribes and write it as a secret report." Zhu Qiyu asked Lu Zhong to investigate the matter as soon as he walked out of the mansion.

He needs to know why Jiang Yuan collected this money in the first place, whether he will continue to collect this kind of money in the future, and whether Jiang Yuan can use it.

"The minister leads the order!" Lu Zhong bowed his head and took the order and left.

Zhu Qiyu got on his horse, walked through the streets and alleys of Daming, returned to the Tai'an Palace, shut himself in the imperial study, took out Jin Lian's memorial, and began to study it seriously.

Jin Lian mentioned the money shortage in Ming Dynasty in the final memorandum, and Zhu Qiyu was already working on solving this problem, so that resources such as currency or labor value and minerals would flow into Ming Dynasty.

Specifically, it is to increase the variety and sales locations of Daming’s products, or to manufacture and dump them, in exchange for the resources that Ming needs.

"Really, I'm leaving, and I still have to quarrel with you." Zhu Qiyu shook his head, and after a solemn approval, handed it to Xing'an for filing.

In Jin Lian's final memorial, he still quarreled with him, the Minister of the Ministry of Households and the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Specifically, Jin Lian could not understand the current state of confusion between state funds and internal funds, and unclear rights and responsibilities.

Because of the coinage, the military bureau of the internal funds management is responsible for the coinage, so the distribution of the seigniorage tax belongs to the internal funds.

However, it is the Baoyuan Bureau that is responsible for distributing and casting Jingtai Tongbao. The Baoyuan Bureau is also responsible for exchanging silver coins and absorbing broken silver from the Ming Dynasty. responsibility.

This state of unclear rights and responsibilities made Jin Lian quite worried, and it also caused great trouble to the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, and the internal transportation warehouse.

The method proposed by Jin Lian is to return the minting and casting of Jingtai Tongbao to the Bingzhan Bureau, the issuance and exchange of coins to the Baoyuan Bureau, and the vouchers to the Baochao Bureau to clarify the rights and responsibilities.

The Bingzhan Bureau, Baoyuan Bureau, and Baochao Bureau were merged into the Bank Court, which was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance and Economics, and admirals were set up, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate was responsible for the examination.

The unclear power and responsibility is one of the hidden dangers of the new monetary policy of Ming Dynasty.

At the initial trial stage, Zhu Qiyu didn't consider it thoroughly, and because the military situation was under the high-pressure rule, there was no corruption and corruption. The coinage is the emperor's rebellion. Reach out?

Jin Lian knew that his time was running out, so he pointed out the hidden danger, and proceeded from the phenomenon, found out the problem, summed up the reasons, and formulated practical measures. Until the time of leaving, Jin Lian still did not violate the holy Training, seeking truth from facts is doing things.

Even when he was leaving, Jin Lian also thought that Daming would get better and better.

Zhu Qiyu was very pleased.

Almost all of his new policies now revolve around the new monetary policy, and this new monetary policy is his one word, and the courtiers dare not speak out about the problems he cannot see.

Jin Lian saw it, and didn't leave this problem to the latecomers to have a headache.

On the head of the willow tree on the moon, Lu Zhong came to the imperial study room after the report, and explained clearly the things His Majesty ordered.

Jiang Yuan accepted a huge bribe from the Pu family, a big family in eastern Zhejiang. After Jiang Yuan accepted the bribe, it disappeared without a trace.

Lu Zhong said hesitantly: "Jiang Yuan is not usually extravagant, he did not raise a private house, his home is peaceful, and he has never bought farmland or mansions in his hometown. .”

"The money ended up in the hands of Jin Ying, Cao Jixiang, Wang Zhen, and Guo Jing. When it was found here, Chen and the Dongchang fans found out the final direction of the money."

Zhu Qiyu looked at Lu Zhong's hesitation, and asked suspiciously: "Where did all this money go? Didn't it find out? Could it be that the palace, even I can't check it?"

"Of course not!" Lu Zhong was taken aback, and said in a low voice: "Actually, it all went to Wang Zhen, but the minister stole Wang Zhen's house at the beginning, so the money probably went to King Jili in the end."

For the sake of the venerable, King Jili is the emperor, so Lu Zhongcai was quite hesitant when he found out that the emperor was the head of the investigation.

Lu Zhong was not empty talk, but took out the ledgers that were confiscated from Wang Zhen's home and Guo Jing's ledgers, put them on the desk and whispered, "Look here, Your Majesty."

Xing'an turned on some blowtorches, but didn't say a word. He is the governor of Dongchang, so he naturally knew that Lu Zhong and Dongchang cooperated in investigating Jiangyuan's corruption case. Guo Jing's account was given to Lu Zhong by Xing'an.

Your Majesty asked Lu Zhong to investigate the case, but he has no habit of overstepping his authority.

If one day His Majesty starts to neglect his administration, as the Supervisor of Rites and the Admiral of the East Factory, he will naturally need to do something by himself, but His Majesty is diligent now, so he will naturally not make random decisions.

"This King Jili! The whole world belongs to him. What kind of world has he made so much? The whole world is his, isn't he satisfied? He wants so much money to do it! What! What! What is there? Use it!" After Zhu Qiyu read the account book, he could match it, and there were documentary evidence and witness evidence.

Lu Zhong is very strict in his work, since he dared to speak in front of His Majesty, he naturally had testimonies and witnesses, so he did not dare to deceive the King.

Back then Xing'an cleaned up the imperial palace, but Xing'an didn't kill all the people. It hasn't been a few years, so someone knows about it.

It was precisely because it was true that Zhu Qiyu was angry. A good minister has been tainted with bribery.

When Xing'an heard His Majesty say this, he suppressed his smile.

"There are no outsiders in the room. If you have something to say, just say it. Don't look like you want to laugh but don't dare to laugh, don't spit or swallow." Zhu Qiyu naturally saw Xing'an's appearance, closed the account book and looked at Xing'an and said.

Xing'an hurriedly pleaded guilty and said: "Your Majesty is thrifty and lives in Tai'an Palace instead of the Imperial Palace. There are only a few empresses in the harem, so naturally the expenses are very low."

"The biggest expense of Tai'an Palace is the gunpowder money and rewards for the training of Tiqi. There are more than [-] silver coins a year."

"But King Jili is different. Your Majesty, in just 13 years of orthodoxy, King Jili has accepted three hundred maids into the palace. In the past six years in Tai'an Palace, including the three aunts and six wives, there were only a hundred maids, and many of them were presented by the King of Joseon. girl..."

"King Jili gave the divine weapon to others in the past, the world is indeed his, but it is not his."

Xing'an made his own words very clear. King Jili spent a lot of money. It can be seen from the accounts of the internal transport warehouse over the years. Nowadays, apart from the security expenses, the Tai'an Palace spends less than [-] silver coins throughout the year.

"That's true." Zhu Qiyu thought for a while, and it was indeed the truth.

He was scolded all day long as the king of subjugation, but the only thing he built for himself was a bathroom the size of a palm.

That small place, if people visit it in the future, tourists will say dismissively: The bathtub of the king of subjugation is not as big as the bathtub in the bathhouse.

"Bring Jiang Yuan here, I have something to ask him." Zhu Qiyu asked Xing'an to announce Jiang Yuan.

Xing'an looked at his watch in embarrassment, it was almost time.

Zhu Qiyu said nonchalantly: "Recently, the sky is changing and Jiang Yuan is busy with the granary. He is currently in the yamen of the Ministry of War. You can go to the Ministry of War to announce him."

Zhu Qiyu is very satisfied with Jiang Yuan, he is a first-class person with ability and talent. Ever since Jiang Yuan took charge of the military affairs, Yu Qian seldom worried about the affairs of the military department. excellent.

At the beginning, Yu Qian's phlegm disease was so severe that he suffered from vagal neuralgia. He became more excited in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep well. After the battle to defend the capital, Yu Qian inspected the frontiers again. After several years in the capital, it took a lot of effort to recuperate his body. Zhu Qiyu didn't want Yu Qian Followed the footsteps of Yang Hong and Jin Lian in the five declines of heaven and man.

Jiang Yuan is very serious about his work. Recently, he supervised the granary again, and he was so busy that he didn't even care about the hot food.

"See Your Majesty, is Your Majesty safe?" Jiang Yuan didn't know why he was announced late at night.

"An, sit down." Zhu Qiyu looked up and down the upright Jiang Yuan, and handed him the two accounts.

Jiang Yuan didn't understand why he looked at the two ledgers, his eyes widened, he put the two ledgers on the table tremblingly, his face turned blue and then pale.

He knelt down on the ground with a crash, bowed his head and ears, paused for a moment before saying: "I deserve death for my crimes."

Jiang Yuan thought a lot at this moment. He originally wanted to say that he was also forced, but another problem was involved. He pushed the problem to King Ji Li. What would His Majesty think?

At the beginning, King Jili was the king, and now His Majesty is also the king.

He had nothing to say but to confess his guilt.

"Get up and talk." Since Zhu Qiyu called Jiang Yuan here, he didn't intend to punish him, otherwise Tiqi would have directly arrested him.

Zhu Qiyu kept looking at Jiang Yuan, he wanted to know why Jiang Yuan charged this money in the first place.

He suddenly remembered the time when Jiang Yuan was the left servant of the household department. At that time, he had just presided over the imperial examination for the second year of Jingtai and inspected Jiang Yuan who was the granary of the world. He looked at Yu Shiyue, Wang Zhi, and Chen Ruyan.

It was a look that yearned for superiority.

If it weren't for Chen Ruyan to let the virtuous, Jiang Yuan and Chen Ruyan would inevitably have conflicts.

"Do you really want to be an official?" Zhu Qiyu asked tentatively.

Jiang Yuan gritted his teeth, and immediately said: "Yes, my minister...officials are very addicted."

When dealing with His Majesty, Jiang Yuan has his own rules of conduct. His Majesty likes to open the skylight and speak brightly, and doesn't like yin and yang, and he doesn't like to let courtiers guess the holy will.

To be honest, don't try to get away with it, but if you tell a lie, you need a thousand lies to complete the lie, and in the end you will make yourself beyond redemption.

His Majesty wanted to know why he took the money, so he confessed why he took the money and explained clearly.

"You are honest. Do you want to take the position of Shaobao?" Zhu Qiyu stared at Jiang Yuan and asked, not letting go of any of his small movements.

Jiang Yuan nodded and shook his head again, and said helplessly, "I want to, but I can't do it..."

He once asked himself, if facing the emperor being captured and the entire capital camp lost, would he be able to lead people to defend the capital, and he asked himself that he couldn't do it.

He clearly knows which positions he can look forward to and which positions he cannot sit.

Chapter 544 Sometimes, punishment is also a kind of protection

Jiang Yuan accepted a lot of bribes in the 12th year of Zhengtong, and all the money ended up in the pockets of Da Pang and King Ji Li in the palace. The ridiculous thing is that King Ji Li and Da Pang of the inner money were divided into [-]-[-].

Seventy percent of the big pengs and three percent of the Jili king.

Jin Lian knew that Jiang Yuan accepted bribes. According to Jin Lian, even Yu Qian knew about it, and it was basically an open secret.

This is also when Jiang Yuan was in his 40s, and he actually sat in the position of the left servant of the household department, and with his merits, he finally climbed to the position of the minister of the Ministry of war.

This is Jiang Yuan's ambition.

Zhu Qiyu was never afraid that his subjects had ambitions and wanted to be an official, a high-ranking official. It is not something to be ashamed to say to be a marquis or a minister.

He didn't intend to punish Jiang Yuan either. During the orthodox years, all sorts of monsters and monsters could happen.

As Jin Lian said, it is not difficult to be able to get out of the mud without being stained. In the orthodox years where monsters and ghosts are rampant, it is not difficult to keep upright, it is a matter of life and death.

"Do things well." Zhu Qiyu had figured out what he wanted to know, waved his hand, and ended the performance.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Jiang Yuan's back, tilted his head and said to Xing'an: "You tell Yu Shaobao about this, and let Yu Shaobao wait for me in Juxian Pavilion tomorrow."

"The minister leads the order." Xing'an bowed his head and took the order.

After Jiang Yuan left Tai'an Palace, he headed towards the mansion in a state of dismay. He didn't go home directly, but went to the gazebo in Shuiyunxie Garden.

Shuiyunxieyuan is a small garden built by His Majesty transplanting trees and rocks from Longevity Mountain in the official residence of Xiaoyongfang. A small canal is drawn from the Jinshui River to the official residence, which is extremely elegant.

On the top of the rockery in Shuiyunxieyuan, there is a pavilion for viewing the moon.

Jiang Yuan was sitting in this gazebo, his expression was a little slumped and confused.

At the beginning, by mistake, he accepted a large amount of bribes as a pledge to join Wang Zhen, in exchange for a chance to rise to the top, but now it triggered the biggest crisis in his life.