After the deposit, Qian Menggao, a criminal department head of the Zhejiang Party, and Wang Shugu, the doctor of the Ministry of Justice, came to the cabinet's duty room.

Since the Fuqing Gong wrote a letter to request his retirement, the cabinet actually handled the cabinet affairs with Wu Daonan, the Minister of Rites, the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, and Fang Congzhe.

Wu Daonan was a simple official, not a party member. He was also cowardly by nature, but his organization was clear. After joining the cabinet to participate in the maid service, Wu Daonan successively listened to the emperor's Changsun, the weddings of the kings Yu and King Rui, briefly selected the officials, recommended the lost talents, and revoked the eunuchs who managed taxes, and made memorials for the lack of clerks.

Everything reported was reasonable and well-founded, but even though Your Majesty was a good decree, he refused to accept it. This made Wu Daonan quite angry and felt that it was useless to enter the cabinet. Therefore, he also wanted to leave with the Fuqing minister Ye Xianggao Ban. These days, he has been refusing to enter the cabinet and refuse to join the cabinet if he is sick.

The chief minister Ye Xianggao came occasionally and just stopped for a while, and then left after a few words. In this way, the entire pavilion was actually on Fang Congzhe alone.

When Qian Menggao and Wang Shugu came, Fang Congzhe was writing a memorial, which was to solve the financial problems caused by famine in Gansu.

In his memorial, Fang Congzhe suggested that the emperor issue treasury to provide relief to disasters. However, he also knew that Your Majesty loves money, so he said, "The treasury is given by a favor... the amount of the sacred should be verified." It means that Your Majesty, you should take some private money to pay for the difficulties of state affairs. As for the amount or less, you will all follow Your Majesty.

As for whether Your Majesty has money, Fang Congzhe believes that it has it. This year, the mining supervision tax authorities in various places have a lot of money to be transferred to the inner treasury, and it is estimated that it can be about 500,000 taels. As long as a part of it is taken out, it can solve the problem in Gansu.

After writing the memorial, Fang Congzhe read it again and confirmed that there were no wrong words, so he put it down. There was a charcoal basin in the cabinet, which was much different from the temperature outside. After sitting inside for a long time, the older people seemed to be sleepy. In addition, Fang Congzhe was on duty these days, so he felt a little sleepy and wanted to take a nap. The servant outside came to report that someone from the Ministry of Justice came to see his husband.

Qian Menggao and Wang Shugu are not unfamiliar with Fang Congzhe. These two are the "gatherers" of the Zhejiang Party in the Science and Technology. When the Siming Gong was there, the "demon book case" was born. These two people charged forward and criticized Guo Zhengyu and Shen Li, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites who were born in the Donglin Party, and wanted to use this case to completely suppress the Donglin Party. The latter also personally took charge and directed the police chief Chen Zhong to round up the thirteen servants of Guo Zhengyu, and almost starved to death. It can be said that they were the people who really formed a mortal hatred with the Donglin Party.

After Qian and Wang entered the room, they both warmed their bodies and bowed to Fang Congzhe, who was sitting cross-legged on the warm kang.

"It's cold and I'll stay home after the time of the deposit. What are I doing here? Could it be that I can prepare wine and food for you in this duty room?" Fang Congzhe smiled and raised his hand, indicating that the two of them didn't have to be too polite.

Qian Menggao said: "There is a tense outside, but my husband is good here, so he is not worried at all."

"What do I have to worry about?" Fang Congzhe looked surprised.

Qian Menggao was anxious: "Don't you know that the Donglin Party is using the impeachment of the young master Wei to deal with our Zhejiang Party?"

"Build a plank road openly and travel to Chencang secretly. This trick can't be hidden from anyone." Wang Shugu reached out his hand on the charcoal stove and roasted it.

Fang Congzhe smiled: "Did you come for this?"

"My husband will send a message, and I will also write a letter to fight back. You can't ask him to Donglin to really bring down Xiao Eunuch Wei," Qian Menggao said.

"Even if you are a quarrel, you have to have someone to accompany you." Wang Shugu said hee.

"Why, are you asking me to quarrel?" Fang Congzhe shook his head slightly, tapped the table lightly, and asked back, "Did the Fuqing husband quarrel?"

Qian and Wang were stunned.

Since Donglin wrote to Tongzhengsi, Ye Xianggao seemed to have no movement at all.

"The Fuqing husband didn't even make arguing, why did I make arguing?"

Fang Congzhe waved his hand, "Don't be anxious, don't move, stop, the sky cannot fall."

"My grandpa, Eunuch Wei and Zhejiang..."

Wang Shugu was a little worried. After all, some of the incidents involved in the Donglin Party were indeed true, just like the maritime development project that is underway in the southeast, and there is no Zhejiang Party.

"It's nothing, the treasury has no money, and Eunuch Wei can relieve His Majesty's worries. What's there to say?"

Fang Congzhe looked dissatisfied, pointed to the memorial he had just written, and sighed: "If the country does not mine or impose taxes, where can the money be run? If the country is a rational country, it is difficult for a good wife to cook without rice."

Qian and Wang all felt a little strange when they heard this, because the Zhejiang Party, to some extent, was as strong as Donglin. But now, it seems that they want to support the mining tax.

"Do you know that from the 25th year of Wanli to the present, the average annual mineral tax payment is 500,000 taels of silver and nearly 20,000 taels of gold. If the mining tax is stopped, the money will be gone."

Fang Congzhe looked solemn, "Our Zhejiang Party did object to tax deduction and mining taxes in the past, but he didn't do anything about it. Only when he sat in this position did he realize how difficult the country was. He used to have almost no regular taxes on merchants, but he was indulged in this way and shouldn't have done so. His Majesty was forced to do this."

"My husband, what I'm talking about Xiao Eunuch Wei's affairs, why is it involved in this mining tax?" Wang Shugu was a little puzzled.

"It's related, it's related."

Fang Congzhe smiled slightly, "Everyone knows that the financial owners behind Donglin are Li Sancai from Tongzhou and the factory owners of Jiangsu. For this reason, they also made a celestial response, which attracted the support of the world, so that they always suppressed us...What do we have?"

What do we have?

The money and Wang asked Xianggong Fang to make a fuss that the monk was confused.

"We have maritime affairs,"

Fang Congzhe slapped his beard, "Putting profits in the sea is the only way to solve the financial shortage now, and not arouse the opposition of the civil unrest and the gentry. Your Majesty sees this clearly. Otherwise, you think an eunuch can do so many things with great courage? To be honest, as long as this maritime affairs are done, there will be a steady stream of profits, and as long as the little master Wei is not a rebellion, your Majesty will have to protect him. So, you all go back and watch, let their Donglin Party make a fuss."

"What does my husband mean?" Qian Menggao still didn't understand.

"With the emperor's support, what are you afraid of?"

After Fang Congzhe finished speaking, he said with deep meaning, "I heard that the two princesses Ruian and Yongning entered the palace in the afternoon, and the Marquis of Wuqing also met His Majesty. If I was right, these His Majesty's close relatives might have pleaded with me for the young master Wei."

"oh?"
Chapter completed!