The next morning, just as the sky was getting light, Zhu Youxiao, who was sleeping soundly with Queen Zhang Yan, was awakened by the eunuchs accompanying him.

As the emperor, Zhu Youxiao naturally could not have a few days to rest after returning to Beijing like ordinary people. He could talk to his parents and stay with his wife for a few days.

As the emperor, he had to get up early, and today is a day when he was called "big up".

Zhu Youxiao, who had just come to the Ming Dynasty, may still be excited about getting in touch with new things, but now he is also a little tired of it. He doesn't understand why there is such a tormenting morning court system. He has to get up before dawn, which makes people feel dazed, and even the joy of bed in the morning has been greatly reduced.

Fortunately, the morning court time is delayed now than the Yongle period of Hongwu. It is hard for Zhu Youxiao to imagine how perseverance Zhu Yuanzhang had to get up at 1 or 2 in the morning to go to court for decades.

When he entered the Ganqing Palace, the two rows of palace maids responsible for cleaning the Ganqing Palace were busy bowing their bodies to salute. Zhu Youxiao also happened to stop in front of Xu Fo, looked at her, and went straight into the hall without saying anything.

Xu Fo couldn't help but his heart thumped.

In the hall, the ministers had already been divided into the left and right. After naming the censors to report the number of people they had been absent from, they first impeached an indecent act of a Ministry of Revenue official snoring while dozing in the room.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao didn't blame the dozing official of the Ministry of Revenue. Everyone would feel a little unhappy when they got up so early to attend court. What's more, the official of the Ministry of Revenue who was impeached by the Censor looked a little old and it was inevitable that he would snore.

However, Zhu Youxiao could not do anything about the dignity of the court, so he simply demoted the Ministry of Revenue officials to the level of the Ministry of Revenue and asked him to go home and sleep enough.

The official of the Ministry of Revenue also understood His Majesty's painstaking efforts, so he hurriedly thanked him and shook his head and left the Golden Palace.

At this time, the court also began to discuss the main affairs. Zhu Youxiao first called the ministers of the six ministries and courts to report the situation of their respective departments first.

As the New Year passed, one urgent matter after another such as the Tartars robbing grain and entering the pass, Zhu Youxiao asked the six ministries and the Censorate to give a summary report at the beginning of the year without having time to listen carefully.

Now it's just taking advantage of this morning court. Zhu Youxiao also wants to learn more about the current situation of the Ming Dynasty.

The first person to stand up was Cui Chengxiu, the Minister of Personnel. This important minister of the eunuch party who was slandered by the Donglin Party as a treacherous minister was not only not liquidated in this era, but was transferred by Zhu Youxiao to the day-on-day official of the Ministry of Personnel.

The Ministry of Personnel is the head of the six ministries, which controls the promotion of all officials, especially middle and lower-level officials. Even whether the central government can be effectively implemented is related to whether the grassroots officials selected by the Ministry of Personnel are effective.

Since Cui Chengxiu became a Tianguan of the Ministry of Personnel, regardless of his origin, he only asked whether he was a member of the royal party, whether he had participated in a more radical literary society, whether his family was rich or poor. Those who were poor and members of the royal party were often appointed to become officials in a wealthy area around the south of the Yangtze River, while those who were rich in the family were asked to go to Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

In this way, it can also prevent collusion between officials and businessmen as much as possible, which is in line with Zhu Youxiao's purpose of suppressing the power of merchants in Jiangnan. Therefore, Cui Chengxiu was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, and Zhu Youxiao was very relieved.

"Your Majesty, this time, the Wuchen Certificate has been admitted to more than 500 Jinshi, except for 103 who remained outside the capital, the rest are arranged to serve in the prefectures, prefectures, and county government offices in various places. In addition, in the seventh year of Tianqi, there were more than 30 officials in Ding You, who were dismissed from office, and 40 died, and 340 new officials were vacancies."

After Cui Chengxiu said that, he presented the note. Zhu Youxiao looked at it briefly and didn't say much. The reason why there were many dismissed officials was naturally related to his elimination of the Donglin Party last year. However, in the Ming Dynasty, there was no fear of not finding two-legged scholars to be officials. Just after 320 people were removed, more than 300 people were missing, and there were also new Jinshis.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao didn't have to worry about not being able to find an official to do his job after rectifying the administration of the officials.

Guo Yunhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, can be regarded as a family education source. His father was the head of the Ministry of Revenue. Now Zhu Youxiao has allowed him to take charge of the Ministry of Revenue. Although the Ming Dynasty's finances are becoming increasingly scarce and the phenomenon of eating grains in the Yin and Mao is becoming more and more serious, this old minister can barely maintain it. He can't pass the ability to tear down the east wall and repair the west wall, but he just doesn't know how to make money.

"Report to Your Majesty, in the sixth year of Tianqi, the total taxes of all taxes were more than 18 million taels, and the total taxes of all expenses were 2040,000 taels. This year, due to the exemption of taxes of Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, the income is expected to decrease by more than 1 million taels. However, the military expenditure of Liaodong also decreased accordingly. In this case, the income and expenditure were offset. But I was afraid that one or two major events would happen. Now I am waiting for more than 2 million taels of silk-broken silver in Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other places to be transferred into Taicang, which may make up for the emptiness of Taicang. The remaining military pay on the nine sides can also be filled by more than 3 million taels of taxes of Shandong, Huguang, Henan and other places."

Guo Yunhou's series of figures made Zhu Youxiao have a rough understanding of the current financial situation of the Ming Dynasty. It turns out that the current central government can only offset the income and expenditure without any surplus. So, how to recruit new recruits on a large scale and establish a military-industrial system on a large scale will definitely have to fight several major wars in the future, how to save enough money and food for several years of war, as well as the increasingly severe small glacier climate and the upcoming outbreak of the epidemic, all of which require money to spend.

When Zhu Youxiao thought of this, he couldn't help but feel frowning.

The Minister of War was always Sun Chengzong, but Sun Chengzong is basically not in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of War, and the actual person in charge of the Ministry of War was Lu Xiangsheng, the left minister of the Ministry of War and the governor of Ji Liao.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao was not willing to let a rank official in charge of the garrison troops in the capital and also be the second-in-commander of the Ministry of National Defense, even though this person was Lu Xiangsheng.

But there is nothing to do now. The current system of the Ming Dynasty determines whether the military power in charge is the senior civil servant. However, there are only a few civil servants who Zhu Youxiao can trust but do not command blindly. Among them, Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, and Wang Zaijin are all responsible for protecting the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty, and they really cannot transfer any of them back to Beijing.

Therefore, at present, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Ji Liao, who is close to the capital, can only be allowed to serve as the Ministry of War.

Lu Xiangsheng was raised by Zhu Youxiao from the prefect, so there is no need to worry about loyalty.
Chapter completed!