My Daming New Empire

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It is not that there was no budget system before the Ming Dynasty, but the previous data were used as a reference, and the budget system was never put first.

The main problem here is not that it cannot be implemented, but that the ministers are afraid that the Ministry of Households will directly determine their wallets, so they insist on participating in the allocation of silver by the Ministry of Households.

But now, Zhu Dirang implements the budget system, and all departments must make statistics based on past expenditures.

This year, the Ming Dynasty treasury is abundant, and the budgets of all departments have increased by 20.00%. Naturally, the officials of each department have no objections.

And these funds are all planned public expenses. In order to deal with emergencies, natural disasters and man-made disasters, the Ministry of Household Affairs also has an unplanned fund that can be used flexibly.

The funds of each department have been satisfied, and the funds in the plan are not restricted by the household department, and they are directly credited to the account every month according to the budget.

So although they are busier than in previous years, the people in the household department are still full of energy. After being busy for a while, they will be much more relaxed this year.

As long as there are no emergencies, they only need to monitor the use of funds in each department every month.

This is much easier than they used to be busy from beginning to end every year.

At noon, that is, around eleven o'clock in later generations, Zhu Di's official duties for the day were finished.

Every time someone is interviewed, Zhu Di always asks Zhu Zhanji for his opinion, and he also teaches him why he should deal with it in this way.

Compared with the government departments of later generations who had to manage everything and worry about everything, today's imperial court's political style is still relatively lazy, a bit of a style of doing nothing.

Small things are handed over to the village elders' association, and the lower-level clans solve them by themselves.

As for major events, except for rebellion, in Zhu Di's mind, there is almost nothing that can be called a major event.

Now that the ministries have been given a lot of power, and new rules of procedure have been re-established, most of the things have been handled by the ministers.

So the current emperor is actually very good.

Of course, it is not easy to be a good emperor.

Because of the backwardness of communication and transportation, it took a month or even longer for many events to reach the capital. If you really wanted to control the overall situation like Chongzhen, 48 hours a day would not be enough.

Of course Zhu Zhanji will not have that kind of selflessness. He always believes that the most important thing is to hold the money bag with one hand and control the army with the other. This is the basis for being an emperor.

As for the balance of the situation in the imperial court, the flow of information, including social development, they are all based on the development of the foundation.

Now he controls one-third of Ming's army, once Zhu Di leaves, he will control the overall situation.

The two banks of Ming Dynasty are under his control, which is tantamount to pinching the money bag.Therefore, he was not afraid that after Zhu Di left, the situation would deteriorate and get out of control.

But at this time, Yang Rong walked out with Huang Yuan with a satisfied expression on his face. As soon as he came out, he bowed to Zhu Di and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, now we have another great general."

Zhu Di smiled and asked: "Could it be that Zirong is also ashamed of himself?"

Yang Rong was not at all jealous of the performance of talents, and praised: "If you only talk about marching and fighting, and dispatching food and grass, I feel ashamed."

Zhu Di was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "It's really rare to be praised by Zirong like this. Huang...do you have words?"

On formal occasions, the emperor called his ministers by their first names, and occasionally they would call them Aiqing.

For example, Yang Rong's original name was Daoying, and his style name was Zirong.Zhu Di can call him Zirong or Aiqing, but he can't call him by name directly.

In this era, names can only be used as written language.Calling names in person is equivalent to cursing, and only enemies would do that.

Huang Yuan bowed and said, "Weichen's character is Qianjiu."

Zhu Di smiled. Confidently, he didn't care about the meaning of Long Qian Jiuyuan, and said, "Good word, it can be seen that Huang Ruxi has high expectations for you."

"Don't dare to be praised by His Majesty."

Zhu Di smiled and said: "Here, I don't care about my background, my age, or whether I was my enemy in the past. As long as I sincerely rely on me, I will not hesitate to trust me. To be trusted by Zhanji and praised by Zirong like this, it's a great opportunity." When it is of great use... Huang Qian took nine orders..."

Huang Yuan knelt down on both knees, kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty Huang Yuan respectfully wishes you eternal life..."

Zhu Di said solemnly: "In the drafting of the imperial edict, Huang Qianjiu is specially ordered to be the marching commander of our Daming's Western Expedition to the South Route Army. All supplies, food and grass, and personnel will be allocated by him."

Huang Yuan bowed again: "Your minister must go all out, do your best, and die."

Zhu Zhanji looked at Yang Rong, who happened to look over too, smiled and nodded slightly.

The reason why Yang Rong is so magnanimous is of course that promoting Huang Yuan has no loss for him, only benefits.

Let Huang Yuan take his place, not to marginalize him, but to keep him in Beijing for great use.

Now he doesn't have to travel tens of thousands of miles to go west, and stay in Beijing to assist Zhu Zhanji.

Being able to establish a closer relationship with the future new emperor is far more beneficial than his expedition.

Yang Rong felt Zhu Zhanji's heart, and at this time he was responding to his favor.

Zhu Zhanji also smiled and nodded slightly. Yang Rong is indeed the best candidate to assist him at present.

But in this way, Huang Fu is the chief logistics officer of the North Army, and Huang Yuan is the chief logistics officer of the South Army. It is also the only one.

Huang Yuan was not fascinated by this huge glory, after Zhu Di asked him to stand up, he bowed and asked: "Your Majesty, since you have appointed me as the marching commander, please set the date of the expedition as soon as possible, so that I can make preparations early. Although marching by sea is not as difficult as traveling by land, I have to sort it out from beginning to end, so as not to miss the great cause of the Western Expedition.”

Zhu Di nodded and said: "I want to leave in late March, and you have less than two months left. You, the Commander's Mansion of the Five Armies, the Navy Headquarters, and the Ministry of War, should hand over the matter to you. business."

"According to the purpose..."

Except for Yang Rong who had already guessed that Zhu Di was going to let Zhu Zhanji supervise the country, no one else knew the significance of Zhu Di's arrangement.

However, the fact that a young man under the age of 30 was appointed as the marching commander is equivalent to the chief soldier of the army, which is a bit shocking.

Especially Hu Yan, in addition to being a cabinet scholar, he is also the Imperial College Jijiu, equivalent to the president of Daming University and the Minister of Education in later generations.

Except for education, he seldom speaks on government affairs. Seeing that Zhu Di's appointment of Huang Yuan was a foregone conclusion, he said with regret: "Qian Jiu, I have been waiting for you for three years, and I hope you will win the first place in one fell swoop next spring. It's a pity now!"

Huang Yuan didn't dare to be careless in the face of him, bowed and said: "The student has failed the teacher's expectations since he joined the army seven years ago, it is really Yuan's fault."

Hu Yan laughed and said: "A number one scholar can't compare to today's general soldier. If Huang Ruxi, an old guy, knows this news, he will be embarrassed again!"

It was difficult for Huang Yuan to answer these words, so he could only change the subject with a smirk. "In terms of literary talents, the students feel ashamed to face Xie Zhenqi, and now they dare not take the exam, and they don't want to make a fool of themselves."

Zhu Diqi asked: "Whose child is this Jiezhen period?"

Hu Yan said with a smile: "Xie Zhenqi's father is Xie Lun, a doctor of the Five Classics of the National Academy of Sciences, his mother Ouyang Xiu's descendant Ouyang Wan, his uncle is Xie Jin, and his uncle is Huang Jinhua.

This son can be regarded as having seen him grow up since he was a child, and his literary talent is not inferior to his uncle.Moreover, he is different from Xie Jin. With his good books and good strategies, he has no one around in the early stage of the younger generation, and he can be called the number one in the younger generation.His books are sparse and meaningful, and he is happy without losing his family style. "

"The literary talent is comparable to Xie Jin's nerd, and he can make a good strategy?" He turned his head to look at Zhu Zhanji and asked, "Have you heard of this person?"

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "He went to the West with his grandson, and he also helped his grandson to promote Western arithmetic, geometry, letters and punctuation. Apart from being a great talent, he acts calmly and well, which can be of great use."

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji knew him, Zhu Di nodded and said, "There will be an autumn chamber this autumn, and a spring chamber next spring. Zhanji should pay more attention to selecting talents for the court."