Chapter 148 My note, I will approve it (please subscribe)

The next day.

In the city of Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

A hotly searched piece of news quickly topped the list of the day.

Throughout the city of Beijing, dozens of unknown enthusiastic people donated silver to the Changping Academy, which had not yet been built, to help the students of the academy with their future studies.

Nowadays, donating money and grain to academies and schools is not a rare thing.

But this time it was Changping Academy.

Those unknown enthusiastic people were surprisingly united in donating a full 5,000 taels of silver.

Those who are interested can find out from various sources.

The total amount was no less than 400,000 taels of silver.

I don’t know how many Changping academies could be built here.

It is precisely because of this that it has become the biggest hot news in Beijing today.

Everyone was discussing what was so great about the Changping Academy that it could attract so many unknown and enthusiastic people to donate so much money.

In addition, as the Spring Examination of the Imperial Examination will be held next year, students from places far away from Beijing, such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong and Guangxi, have already rushed to the capital in advance, waiting to take the Spring Examination of the Imperial Examination after the New Year.

Therefore, both the common people in the city and students from all over the country paid more attention and discussion to the Changping Academy which had not yet been built.

In response to this, Yan Shaoting did not have any reaction, nor did he make any external explanation.

Changping Academy accepted those who wanted to insert people into the position of quartermaster, and gave each of them 5,000 taels of silver, without any discount, and the matter was handed over to Xu Wei.

He followed the rules and obediently went to the small table at the door of Wenyuan Pavilion's classroom to drink tea.

Naturally, the imperial edict should also be sent to the Hanlin Academy, the Zhanshi Palace and the Ministry of Revenue.

The Yan family now has a special large box to hold the imperial edicts sent to various government offices.

All the contents are the same, except for Yan Shaoting's day off, only the dates are different.

Every day, someone from the Yan family would deliver the imperial invitation to the Hanlin Academy, the Zhanshi Palace, and the Ministry of Revenue respectively.

rule!

No one in the capital can find fault with Yan Shaoting!
Yan Shaoting felt a little bored sitting alone at the door of the cabinet classroom drinking tea, so he called over Gao Hanwen, who seemed to have nothing to do.

The two of them sat on small benches, looking quite leisurely.

The tea has been replaced with a new one.

Yan Shaoting turned his head and glanced at the cabinet classroom which was closed today.

"What's going on today? What are they discussing inside? Why do I hear so many people?"

He came to the cabinet a little late today.

But apart from the cabinet, who outside dares to check the cabinet's roll call records?

Gao Hanwen has now developed the habit of drinking tea with Yan Shaoting.

He put down the teacup and looked towards the tightly closed classroom door.

Gao Hanwen moved his mouth and whispered, "It's the officials from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War who are inside."

Yan Shaoting asked curiously: "Oh? Do you know what it is?"

Gao Hanwen nodded, moved closer to Yan Shaoting, and whispered, "I heard that it's something outside the Great Wall. The Anda tribe on the grassland has started to behave dishonestly again. They want to go south to grab some things before winter comes and take them back for the winter. Recently, Xuanfu and Datong have sent urgent messages one after another, requesting the court to allocate this year's border defense needs as soon as possible."

"The imperial court has a shitty military inventory right now!"

Yan Shaoting cursed casually.

He is now in charge of military supply affairs. Although the vacancies below him have not yet been filled, he is rapidly understanding and gaining control of matters related to military supply.

Gao Hanwen shrank his head.

He didn't dare to say this, and only the gentleman in front of him dared to talk about it so carelessly.

He whispered, "As for the shortage of military supplies, the elders seem to be planning to purchase them from the border areas nearby and let the merchants from Shanxi supply the two towns first."

Yan Shaoting sneered: "Another IOU? What benefits did you promise this time?"

In recent years, the imperial court has been living beyond its means.

The IOUs issued by the Ministry of Revenue were probably enough to cover all the windows of the Forbidden City.

Gao Hanwen chuckled and suddenly reacted.

He shrank his head again.

He quickly restrained his expression and explained, "What other benefits can there be? According to what Lord Gao meant, we should still use the salt permits as an excuse. Not only will we issue salt permits from the Hedong Salt Field as usual, but we will also issue some new salt permits from the Lianghuai Salt Field this time."

Yan Shaoting frowned slightly: "I don't even know when the salt permit will be issued. Are those people still willing to accept it?"

Prices in Beijing have started to rise recently.

Yan Shaoting called Yan Hu to take people to search various places in the city.

Indeed, as those unlucky stewards of the Yan family who were almost severely punished that day said, prices are indeed rising.

Among them, the price of salt increased the fastest.

The Ming Dynasty had implemented the salt policy for nearly two hundred years, and it had long been on the verge of total collapse.

Gao Hanwen looked embarrassed and sighed, "The salt permit is actually very important. Those people below just want a title. The court is not unaware of this, but just turned a blind eye."

Yan Shaoting suddenly narrowed his eyes and asked Gao Hanwen.

"If you were asked to reform the salt policy, what would you do?"

Gao Hanwen was surprised by the sudden attack. He was stunned at first, then he frowned and thought for a moment before he said, "In fact, the Jiubian Kaizhong has been closed for a long time. The official salt is more expensive than the private salt, but the quality is the worst. The people are not willing to buy the official salt, but only buy the private salt, and the profits are all earned by those profiteers. In my opinion, it is better to stop the Kaizhong..."

A sentence has not been finished yet.

There was a bang.

The door of the cabinet classroom was heavily opened from the inside.

Facing him was Gao Gong’s angry face.

He snorted angrily, and when he lowered his eyes, he saw two idiots huddled at the door, drinking tea and gossiping about state affairs.

Gao Gong glared and said, "Do you still want to eat the salary? Do you think the cabinet is the vegetable market at your doorstep?"

Gao Hanwen quickly stood up and bowed, but before Yan Shaoting could react, the boy had already disappeared.

Yan Shaoting could only stand up awkwardly and glance at Lao Gao who seemed so angry for some unknown reason.

Behind Gao Gong, Yan Song, supported by Yuan Wei, walked out of the classroom with the Minister of Revenue Gao Yao and the Minister of War Yang Bo.

Yan Shaoting hurriedly bowed and clasped his fists, greeting everyone one by one.

Yan Song hadn't seen his eldest grandson who went to Changping for some time. He had a smile on his face. Yuan Wei, who was supporting him, also nodded at Yan Shaoting.

Only Gao Yao and Yang Bo had tense faces.

It seemed that he had just been scolded a lot in the classroom.

Gao Gong stared at Yan Shaoting, but then he turned his eyes away and snorted, "We are going to the West Garden. I just happen to have something to do with you. Follow me and go with me."

Yan Shaoting looked up and blinked.

How?
Could it be that the mission of managing the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty will also fall on my shoulders?

Yan Song nodded with a smile and said, "Come with me. His Majesty mentioned you yesterday in the Wanshou Palace."

Only then did Yan Shaoting stop speculating in his mind and quietly followed this group of old guys with a completely different atmosphere.

Out of Wenyuan Pavilion.

You have to go through Zuoshunmen, Youshunmen, Xihuamen, then cross the Taiye Lake beside Yingdao behind the Imperial Household Department, turn north and you will reach the Wanshou Palace which has been rebuilt today.

If it were in the past when Wanshou Palace had not yet been built, one would have to cross the Yuhe Bridge in the north to reach Yuxi Palace.

The crowd arrived at the rebuilt Wanshou Palace.

Today's Wanshou Palace was naturally rebuilt according to Yan Shaoting's proposal and presided over by the Minister of Works Lei Li. It took a very short time and only 200,000 or 300,000 taels of imperial treasury were used to complete the reconstruction.

The entire Wanshou Palace is naturally more than four times larger than the Yuxi Palace.

However, due to the influence of the Xiyuan Incident not long ago.

Nowadays, in addition to the factory guards and imperial guards guarding inside and outside the Wanshou Palace, there are an additional 3,000 elite guards selected from the Beijing camp.

Almost every place outside, whether visible or invisible, was filled with officers and soldiers from the Beijing camp who were transferred to the Western Garden.

Once you enter the Wanshou Palace, you’ll see the main forces: the factory guards and the imperial guards.

Everyone arrived in front of the main hall of Wanshou Palace.

A young eunuch had already gone in to report, and Lu Fang came out to greet him.

To the inner hall.

The layout of this place is still the same as that of Yuxi Palace in the past, with a Taoist platform and a Bagua formation arranged around it.

It seems that it is because there is money in the treasury.

The jade chime that was smashed by Jiajing before has now been changed to one made of new materials, and it looks more exquisite at a glance.

Everyone enter.

As usual, Old Yan gave him a seat.

No one else gets a share.

They are all still young!
Jiajing, who was on the Taotai, first looked at Yan Shaoting with an ambiguous gaze, and then looked at the three cabinet ministers and two chancellors.

"What's the matter?"

Jiajing spoke briefly and to the point, his brows slightly furrowed.

The only reason this group of people could come here with people from the six ministries was that something bad had happened in the Ming Dynasty again.

Yan Song said, "Your Majesty, this is a matter concerning the two towns of Xuanfu and Datong. Since the matter falls under the Ministry of Revenue, it is better to let Su Qing report it."

As Yan Song spoke.

Gao Gong then bowed and said, "Your Majesty, recently the two towns of Xuanfu and Datong have repeatedly reported that the bandits of the Anda tribe on the grasslands outside the Great Wall are gathering troops and intend to go south to plunder the wealth of our border areas in order to prepare for the winter on the grasslands.

The two towns petitioned the court to urgently dispatch various military supplies to equip the two towns and defend against the enemy outside the Great Wall.

However, the imperial court had just experienced a case of corruption in military supplies, and the vacancies in the military supplies department had not yet been filled, let alone whether there was anything in the warehouses that stored the military supplies.

We have discussed in the cabinet before that we will open more salt permits in Hedong and Lianghuai this year, so that merchants from the two towns and Shanxi can raise the necessary military funds for the troops of the two towns. "

After saying that.

Gao Gong didn't wait for Jiajing to make a decision, he turned around and looked at Yan Shaoting, and changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, this matter is related to Yan Shidu. The military supply issue has not been advanced, but I heard that the academy built by Yan Shidu in Changping today actually received no less than 400,000 taels of silver."

Gao Gong completely lost the defense he had shown to Yan Shaoting when the censors of Yuxi Palace rose up to impeach Yan Shaoting a few days ago, and once again pointed his sword directly at him.

This matter is not big or small.

It can be said that it was a donation, but it can also be said that it was an opportunity for corruption.

Yan Shaoting smiled slightly.

This is the Lao Gao that I know.

Jiajing smiled in his heart and looked at Yan Shaoting with a hint of ridicule on his face.

"Yan Shaoting, is it as Elder Gao said?"

Yan Shaoting was not in a hurry and took out a memorial from his sleeve.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Lord Gao."

"Here is a copy of the memorial I prepared today."

"It was also signed and sealed by this humble official."

"It just hasn't been reported to the Ministry of Revenue yet."

"Your Majesty, please have Mr. Gao read this."

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"Ming History, Volume 18, Chronicle of Emperor Shizong" In the Gengxu year, Altan invaded Xuanfu, and the deputy general Ma Fang repelled him. In the Gengzi year of September, he invaded Juyongguan, and the assistant general Hu Zhen repelled him.

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