Chapter 1 Morning Court Storm (1)

Finally, under the influence of the medicine, Magu closed his eyes tiredly and continued to sleep soundly. Zhu Yinglong didn't close his eyes all night and was a little tired. After closing his eyes and pretending to sleep for a while, he heard a slight knock on the door. Zhu Yinglong suddenly woke up, stood up, and walked out with a slight hand and opened the door.

"Your Majesty, it's time to go to court!" Xu Yingyuan stood at the door and said.

"Okay, I understand." Zhu Yinglong turned around and looked at Magu's room in the inner room and said, "Leave four people behind to protect them in secret."

"I'll make arrangements now," Xu Yingyuan said in response.

Zhu Yinglong met in the house again and looked at the sleeping Magu, then went to the study to write a note and put it on Magu's bedside. He didn't know if he could leave after going to court today, so he would also explain it before leaving.

When he got into the carriage, Xu Yingyuan had already brought the dragon robe and the golden crown. He had to save himself from returning to the Yangxin Palace. It was too time-consuming to go to Wenhua Palace to go around this circle. When Zhu Yinglong changed into the dragon robe, he closed his eyes and thought about what to say this morning and what the ministers had to discuss and decide.

When he arrived at the palace, Zhu Yinglong took a dragon chasing and left looking straight at Wenhua Palace.

Dang...dang...dang, after three bells rang, hundreds of officials entered the court, and more than 200 officials entered the Wenhua Hall one after another. The civil and military officials were in two rows, standing in order of the official ranks, each standing with a solemn expression, waiting for the emperor to arrive.

"The Emperor is here!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" The civil and military officials knelt down and said in unison.

"My dear friends, let's be flat!" Zhu Yinglong sat in the supreme position, raised his hands with his hands and said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" After thanking, the officials stood up one after another.

The etiquette of the business has passed, Zhu Yinglong said, "I see that all my dear friends are radiant. Are they still comfortable during the Spring Festival?"

"Report to the emperor, the old minister is comfortable." Han Du took the lead, and most of the officials followed suit.

"Okay, okay, okay." Zhu Yinglong said three words of "good" in a row, "I won't talk about this for now. Today, I want to discuss this canal channel dredging and the issue of strengthening the Yellow River embankment for you to this year. If you have any ideas, I will say it."

The Ministry of Industry is in charge of water conservancy, so this matter was naturally Zhou Shunchang, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and was the first to leave the list: "Report to the emperor, the canal dredging section of Yangzhou to Huai'an last year, Lord Hong Chengchou had completed the dredging section of this year. This year, the key river section from Huai'an to Jining, Shandong is expected to cost more than one million taels of silver, with about one hundred thousand people, and it is divided into spring and autumn. As for the Yellow River embankment project, the Weichen suggested that while building the embankment, the Yellow River channel should be widened and deepened to enhance flood control and discharge capabilities during the flood season."

"What Zhou Aiqing meant is that the court needs to increase more extra investment?" Zhu Yinglong heard that Zhou Shunchang wanted to properly rectify the Yellow River so that it could be quiet for more than ten years, so as not to bring disaster to the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

"What did Weichen think?" Zhou Shunchang replied honestly.

"So according to your estimate, how much investment is needed to complete this large project?" Zhu Yinglong has always spared no effort to support such projects that improve national economy and people's livelihood and reduce losses caused by natural disasters. Those who win the hearts of the people will win the world, and the people are the foundation of the country.

"Weichen and several adults from the Ministry of Works have carefully calculated that five million taels should be enough."

"Five million taels!" More than a dozen screams of exclamation came from the hall.

"Your Majesty, Master Zhou is very dedicated. The governance of Huang is a big project that cannot be completed in one or two years. Although the court is rich now, the people still need to live a long life. The empress does not oppose Master Zhou's plan, but I just hope to take it step by step, so that it will not put a lot of pressure on the court's finances." Sun Shenxing was anxious. He, the Minister of Revenue, was the most difficult to be the Minister of Revenue. Everyone cares about him asking for money, but he knew that some money could not be saved, but he had no choice. Although the court had some foundation, it was now not enough to make ends meet. How could it be if he was not careful in calculating? Now he was waiting for the court to take back the taxes and taxes of the four provinces in Jiangnan. Maybe he could only take a breath until then.

"What Sun Aiqing said is also reasonable. If you invest five million taels in one go, the effect may not be the best." Zhu Yinglong also agreed with Sun Shenxing's point of view. Saving money to fight is his only goal now.

"Reporting to the emperor, Lord Sun has actually misunderstood. The five million taels that we said were gradually used in three to five years. In fact, it only takes 1.5 million taels to start the project in full." Zhou Shunchang said.

"So that's the case, Sun Aiqing, can your Ministry of Revenue take out this one million and a half taels?" Zhu Yinglong turned to Sun Shenxing and asked.

Sun Shenxing thought that it was not, but this was a good thing that benefited the country and the people. He seemed to have no reason to object, but the silver in the treasury was not a number, and there was no real silver. What did he give it to him? He said helplessly: "Report to the emperor, the Ministry of Revenue cannot provide such a large amount of silver at once. However, the Ministry of Revenue can allocate a portion of it every month, but it cannot guarantee that it will meet Lord Zhou's final requirement of 1.5 million taels."

"This is OK. As long as Lord Sun can allocate liang of silver to me on a monthly basis, there will be no problem with the start of the project." Zhou Shunchang said happily. Among the six ministries, the Ministry of Works was getting higher and higher, but he, the Minister of Works, felt that he had no achievements at all, as if he was always benefiting from the lights below. So he decided to study water conservancy and inspect the banks of the Yellow River in person, and then he decided to do this great project that benefits and future generations.

"Okay, I have any good suggestions to put forward together, so everyone can think about it." Zhu Yinglong was very happy. He remembered the tofu project of Jiujiang Dike in later generations, so he hoped that someone would propose a suggestion of "engineering supervision".

Unfortunately, after waiting for a long time, no one could mention this point. In the end, he asked the Censorate to send a censor to supervise the allocation and use of funds and the supervision of project quality throughout the process. The Ministry of Industry set up a project quality team to inspect the quality of the project anytime and anywhere. Such a large investment and such a large project, if there is a tofu project, the consequences will be unimaginable. Because of the history that Zhu Yinglong knew, twelve years later, a flood in the Yellow River, thousands of miles of fertile land, and many cities on both sides of the strait were washed away by the flood, and countless casualties were injured.

As soon as this proposal came out, there was a lot of praise and praise in the hall. There were unprecedented people and no one to come later. Preventing troubles before it happened. The emperor of the ages, the talents of Yao and Shun, etc., as long as they could be used, I really admire the brilliant Chinese character civilization, and the flattery of the same meaning can be expressed in different words.
Chapter completed!