My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 396 Horse grass

"Do you know what will be inside?"

Although Yan Song could roughly tell the origin of the words recorded on the bamboo slips in front of him.

But in the face of people’s inquiries.

Still shook his head.

And took the opportunity to talk with a few people.

Zhu Houcong deliberately avoided the projection range of the Bagua mirror in Zhang Fawei's hand.

After obtaining the World Tree, improving Xiyuan's aura level, and creating a clone.

Nominally, he was still staying in Xiyuan for Qingxiu.

What if the veterans in the cabinet knew that they had traveled thousands of miles away to the border of the Ming Dynasty overnight?

Who knows these are secretly preparing a war plan against northern Mongolia.

What was the reaction of the cabinet members who mobilized grain and grass, rectified household registration and corvee service along the way, and began to ask the Ministry of Industry to speed up the production of ordnance in the name of the emperor and the six ministries, and opened the arsenal to arm the militias of various guards.

Co-author: Emperor, you old man sneaked out without telling us.

If so, then what is the true identity of Zhu Houcong who occasionally goes fishing by Taiye Pond in Xiyuan.

Although it is not unexplainable.

But for Zhu Houcong, this is undoubtedly a very troublesome matter.

He felt the aura under the Jingguan that vaguely echoed that of the dragon in the water.

I have a new understanding of the energy that the Han Dynasty put into building this underground Han Tibet.

Have even those powerful beings who were regarded as gods in the ancient wilderness been suppressed here by the Han people?

Zhu Houcong thought in his mind.

The thing in front of me can be called the God of the River. Together with the dragon in the underground river not far away, it is probably the core of the first layer of defense outside the underground palace.

However, considering the decline of the Han Dynasty, various forces came here to snatch the heritage of the Han Dynasty.

It is impossible not to conflict with the arrangement of the local Han court here.

The restrictions that the Han court once placed here were so strong that it really made Zhu Houcong's scalp numb just thinking about it.

So how did such a powerful Han court perish in the end?

Zhu Houcong recalled the strange movements of the ghost soldiers of the Han Dynasty in the past three days, and couldn't help but guess in his heart.

And over there, Yan Song, the theoretical school, couldn't guess what was in it based on the existing evidence.

Zhang Fawei and several surrounding Tianshi Dao disciples possessed them again and began to drill through the half-man-high hole that Zhang Fawei had dug out of the Bone Mountain before.

In the darkness, he continued to fumble for other things besides the bamboo slips just now, and brought them out for Yan Song to observe.

While Yan Song was waiting at this time, he could neither handle his official duties nor leave his post. He was bored and adjusted the angle through the Bagua mirror on his side, preparing to see how the imperial court was making a big show of ordering the Jin Yiwei and various members of the Forbidden Army. Lu Jingrui went to Liaodong to explore the secrets of the Han Dynasty.

What exactly does it look like.

Looking at Yan Song's actions, Xu Youbang, who was holding the Longhu Mountain Bagua Mirror, couldn't help but be startled.

After all, there is a "Zhen Guo Gong" next to him who obviously doesn't want the court to know that he is going to Liaodong in person?

He could only talk quickly, trying to distract Yan Song's attention.

"I heard that the elders recently ordered the northern officials to start clearly marking the price of horse grass to purchase horse grass for the defense of Mongolia at the end of the year. I wonder how things are being prepared now?"

Regarding the pricing and acquisition of horse grass, various factions have been quarreling in the court since Zhu Houcong first came to the throne. Every year, various military stations in the Ming Dynasty were able to obtain a large amount of money from the court by falsely reporting the amount of horse grass.

Originally, horse grass was purchased through unified allocations from the Ministry of Household Affairs.

But when it comes to local areas, people often don’t know that this thing can still ask the government for money.

Instead, they were exploited by local officials, and were fined if they could not pay enough horse grass.

People's burden is even heavier.

Now that the war is over, the imperial court finally has its hands free. After Zhu Houcong took advantage of the Datong mutiny to kill many northern generals, he reorganized a wave of military discipline and arsenal.

Continue to rectify various guard military towns in the north.

"The cabinet ministers took this matter very seriously and sent many people to the north to implement the imperial court's order to purchase horse grass."

Yan Song happened to have the winter vacation in September in Beijing, and many officials said they would take the opportunity to go home and rest for half a month. Taking advantage of the fact that the salary paid by the court in the past two years was still on time, they could stock up on supplies for their families and spend time with their wives and children.

After all, most of the Ming officials who came from the imperial examination were normal people with wives and children.

It's not like eunuchs can guard the imperial power in the capital all the time, 365 days a day.

Therefore, the atmosphere in Wenyuan Pavilion looked a bit grim for Yan Song who was on duty here.

However, when I think about the festival, this group of warriors are also performing tasks in the north, and to some extent they are even worse than themselves.

At least I can still squat in Wenyuan Pavilion, read information from all over the world, and compile Di's newspaper.

These people in front of them are really ready to fight against the evil spirits and demons who come out of nowhere at any time.

The resentment accumulated in Yan Song's heart due to long-term overtime work can not help but be balanced a lot.

His expression became more relaxed.

"Can't you Xiyuan buy horse grass from various royal merchants? Why do you suddenly ask about this?"

Yan Song asked slightly confused.

Although the Beijing army is theoretically directly led by the emperor through the Fifth Army Governor's Office, whether it is personnel transfer or financial allocation, it must be approved by the Ministry of War and the cabinet before it can be implemented.

For the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the truly trustworthy Imperial Guards were the twenty-six guards who were directly allocated by the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the Inner Court, and all personnel appointments and dismissals were in the hands of the Inner Court themselves to defend the imperial city.

They have a financial system that is independent of the imperial court.

No matter how you look at it, the imperial court's purchase of horse grass has nothing to do with them.

"Your Excellency, you don't know. Recently, the imperial court has imposed a ban on maritime trade. Most of the royal merchants under the name of the Supervisor of Rites have gone to the sea with the Ministry of Rites to resell silk, tea, porcelain and other items to the Franji people. Every quarter, they give We allocate funds to purchase horse grass, but the horse grass from the horse grass merchants around BJ is directly supplied to the Royal Horse Supervisor's racecourse and the Tengxiang Four Guards... In addition, the recent government control of military supplies has caused the current price of horse grass in the surrounding areas. The price has skyrocketed, and some yamen of the Forbidden Army have even started looking for plots of land from the Governor’s Office of the Fifth Army to grow horse grass and feed them to feed their war horses."

Speaking of this, Yu Dayou thought of the various princes and royal merchants who were busy going to sea and sending away the Imperial Army with just a few bucks. He thought of the contemptuous attitude of the Ministry of Rites, "My time is very valuable, don't delay me from making money for the court." His attitude and expression couldn't help but become weird.

Damn it, those officials from the Ministry of Etiquette who usually pride themselves on being noble have now fallen into the eyes of money!

Yu Dayou was furious when he thought of the poor service attitude of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, but he thought of the large stack of banknotes on his chest that the Ministry of Rites handed over to the Imperial Guards to take the money and leave.

But he could only swallow the bad breath.

Good on you, etiquette department! You are so contemptuous of me!

The Sixth Guards of our army will remember this grudge very hard!

Come back next month!

(End of this chapter)