When Hu Guang heard this, he didn't think about reading the memorial and asked directly: "What's the matter?"

"The Jianlu troops retreated, and the martial law has affected people's livelihood. Everyone asked to lower the martial law." Wang Dehua bowed and replied.

When Hu Guang heard this, this was the truth. Now, officials must first go to the East Factory to register when they go out, not to mention ordinary people, which will indeed cause inconvenience to the lives of everyone in the capital.

He thought for a while and issued an order: "Martial law can be lifted in the capital during the day, but no orders are allowed to enter and exit the city gate. Martial law will be implemented in the evening."

Judging from the information reported by Cao Huachun, the Shanxi merchants in the capital were still stable. These Shanxi merchants were either traitors, but there was no sign of subverting the Ming Dynasty and selling the capital to Jianlu. What they might prefer was that Jianlu could continuously obtain property from the Ming Dynasty, and then trade with them to make huge profits.

The control of the capital is not enough to rely solely on the East Factory. The Jinyiwei must also be rectified and utilized.

Hu Guang thought so and began to consider whether to transfer Liu Xingzuo to the top. However, if Liu Xingzuo was not there in Shanhaiguan, he would not be able to obtain information in time and understand the dynamics there.

Oh, the number of people in the chat group is still too small. Hu Guang couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The bottleneck in increasing the number of people in the chat group is the consumption in the work group.

However, if the personnel are not brought into the working group and just stay in the primary group, there will be no consumption problem. It’s just that the identity is not confirmed, the personnel are complicated, and it will be troublesome.

"Your Majesty, there is a memorial from Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue here." Wang Dehua waited for a long time and saw that the emperor was stunned there, so he had to speak out, "Is it necessary to withdraw the order to revoke the order to serve the king? All the soldiers who were still halfway through the king would return to their original place, otherwise the amount of money and food consumed in the capital would be even greater!"

After hearing this, Hu Guang nodded after thinking for a while and said, "It's accurate!"

After Wang Dehua finished reporting, he returned to Silijian. After he left, Hu Guang suddenly remembered something. After thinking about it, he immediately summoned Cao Huachun and asked him to send someone to bring a secret order and send it out of the capital immediately.

In the afternoon, the long-silent capital finally became lively, and there were finally people on the empty streets. No matter how cold the weather is or how biting the cold wind is, it cannot stop these people from walking around the streets.

Officials pass by from time to time on the street. But there is a very strange phenomenon that most of these officials go in the same direction and finally gather on the street.

Seeing the sedan chairs lined up in front of one of the mansions, they were almost at the end of the street. The length of the queue was very spectacular, which made the people passing by looked at them.

These people and their companions dare not stop and watch, but just walked and whispered and sighed: "Wow, what are they doing? If you don't know, you would think this is the Forbidden City!"

"Yes, this was not the case here before!"

"Don't you know? Look at where they are lined up, it's Wen's Mansion!"

"What Wen Mansion, Lord Wen Tiren Wen, Minister of Rites? Why is it so lively?"

"Look at the past few days, you only know how to hold your wife at home? Lord Wen has been promoted and is now the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and..."

"We're going to the restaurant ahead. Come on, let's talk about it later!" Someone saw the sign in front, his eyes lit up and immediately greeted him.

There is a big difference between the capital and other places, that is, ordinary people are easy to talk about political affairs, or are very interested in political affairs. If anyone goes out to meet an acquaintance, he will feel that he has no knowledge and no face if he doesn't talk about it.

In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of trend of talking about politics has long been spread. However, in other places, it is still limited to scholars. Among them, there are the contributions of the famous Donglin Party members. In the past, not many people would be so interested in the court or political affairs.

When these people entered the restaurant, they found that the restaurant's business was surprisingly good. They were almost full of customers, and there were familiar friends on each table, drinking and eating, while talking about the current situation.

This restaurant is close to Wen Mansion, so many of the drinkers at the table start from a long line of sedan chairs and express their own opinions.

"It's really unexpected that in the blink of an eye, the martial law was lifted and he saw that he had already changed his prime minister. What's even more rare is that the Minister of Rites directly entered the cabinet and became the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty. Tsk tsk! No wonder so many officials came to visit in front of the door!"

When the man's deskmate heard this, he looked like you were too ignorant. He held the chopsticks in his hand and said to the previous person: "You don't know yet. The emperor also gave Wen Zhengjiao the power to directly recommend the auxiliary minister of the cabinet. Do you understand? This is the key point. In the future, the Chief Minister Wen must have the final say in the cabinet. It would be strange if there is no official to curry favor with him!"

Someone heard it at the table next door and turned his head and interrupted, "It's useless to flatter you. Shoufu Wen has never let anyone in. They are all turned away and no one will come! Otherwise, can there be such a long team?"

"It's not good. If you don't give face, if you offend all your colleagues, and if the emperor has a small opinion of the chief minister, he will inevitably be attacked by the crowd, and there is not even a person to help him speak, wouldn't it be..."

This sentence seemed to touch the itch of many people, and someone immediately replied: "You don't understand this. The chief minister is going to be an isolated minister..."

Before he could finish his words, someone's voice immediately overwhelmed him and interrupted him: "Everyone, you guys, you don't understand our current emperor!"

"Do you know? Did you come from the palace?"

"Let's say something else?"

“…”

Well, as he spoke, he almost started fighting. After everyone persuaded him, the man began to reveal: "You don't know that when the Celestial Empire was discussing a few days ago, the emperor issued an order to increase the taxes of the court, and the civil and military officials of the court would satisfy the emperor..."

"Ye, this treacherous minister wants to plunder the people's wealth and ointment, so is the emperor..."

The whistleblower was interrupted by him and couldn't help but glar and shouted: "Shut up, do you know why the emperor wanted to increase taxes? At that time, no one in the court dared to say that this was plundering people's wealth and ointment, but you are the one who is good?"

When someone heard this, he became curious and immediately asked the reason for it with a modest attitude.

So, this man told them all the things that the emperor said were nothing more than military pay, refugees, etc. One rare thing was that the tax that the court said was taken from the people and used for the people.

Many people thought after hearing this, but some people muttered in a low voice: "Who knows, maybe the money will be collected and then the court will be fed!"
Chapter completed!