The three cabinet elders returned to the duty room.
The three of them looked at each other suspiciously and discussed,"Grand Secretary Liu, Yang Tinghe didn't seem to be faking it.”
"It doesn't look like he's faking it, so…" Liu Jian nodded and said thoughtfully.
Pausing for a moment, Liu Jian's pupils widened slightly as he said,""If Yang Tinghe didn't teach the Crown Prince this so-called research, then who could it be?”
"Could it be his friends who left the palace at the Crown Prince's Market?" Li Dongyang smiled.”
"Those friends of the Crown Prince?" Xie Qian sneered. Who was it? The kid from the British duke Zhang Mao's family? Or a kid from the Zhu family of the Duke of Cheng? Do they have the knowledge?"
"Let alone them, even their father might not have such knowledge.”
Xie Qian did not hide his disdain for the martial arts practitioner at all.
Liu Jian and Li Dongyang nodded. They looked at each other and pulled away. In an instant, they understood.
It was Tian Zi!
In order to nurture his son, the emperor assisted the crown prince in establishing his prestige among the officials in advance. Therefore, he put all this knowledge and understanding on the crown prince to achieve the goal of nurturing him.
Tian Zi's schemes were unfathomable! His intentions were so good!
Although he was the emperor, he was also a father. Zhu Houzhao was his only son. Which father would not love his son?
For a moment, the Third Pavilion Elder was moved.
……
Yangxin Palace Hall.
Zhu Houzhao returned to the palace with his hands behind his back. He did not go to the Eastern Palace and hurriedly found Zhu Youtang, who was dealing with the memorial.
"Father, Imperial Father."
Zhu Youtang smiled and said,"Your son is here?" What's the matter?"
"Father, I left the palace again today."”
If it was before, Zhu Youtang would have been furious, but now it was different. It was not bad for his son to go out of the palace to gain some knowledge.
"Oh."
" Father, I noticed a strange phenomenon at the Huitong River Water Transport Port today," Zhu Houzhao hurriedly said." Those long-term workers would rather take private jobs than take on the work of unloading goods from the Water Transport Yamen."”
Zhu Youtang stopped writing and looked at Zhu Houzhao with a frown."Why? The water transport yamen is bullying the people?"
After fifteen years of hard work, Emperor Hongzhi believed that he had achieved the revival of Hongzhi under his rule.
Under such circumstances, and under the watchful eyes of the Shuntian Prefecture's emperor, if the Water Transport Yamen was like this, then what about the other places in the two capitals and thirteen provinces?
Therefore, Zhu Youtang had to pay attention to the Crown Prince's words.
"That's not true." Zhu Houzhao shook his head.”
"Then why?" asked Zhu Youtang.”
Zhu Houzhao told Emperor Hongzhi everything he saw and heard at the dock.
When Emperor Hongzhi heard that the water transport yamen had forced them to settle with Ming notes, he fell into deep thought.
Now that the value of the notes had depreciated very quickly, they no longer had the constant value of ordinary goods, but the yamen still used them to settle accounts. Could the common people work for the government?
Although this wasn't considered bullying the people, from another perspective, wasn't the source of this rule set by him, the Son of Heaven, to make the people work hard?
Zhu Houzhao said," Imperial Father, if you want me to see it, you should lift the ban on the banknotes. The credibility of the banknotes is really not good anymore. At the very least, we don't have the ability to recover the value of the banknotes yet."”
"Instead of doing this, why should the people suffer?”
Zhu Youtang sighed. He knew better than anyone else that the banknote system invented by the founding father had completely collapsed. If it continued, it would only make the people suffer and would not have any effect on the country's development.
"I understand." Zhu Youtang nodded." You can go back first."”
"Wait."
Zhu Youtang stopped Zhu Houzhao and smiled."Well done, my son. Even your father couldn't see as clearly as you when he was this old.”
Seeing the proud smile on his father's tired face, Zhu Houzhao was also full of pride. He clenched his fists and nodded heavily.
……
Ming Hongzhi fifteen years, spring March 26.
Emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty ordered the Ministry of Revenue to issue an edict to the world. It was spread all over the world. The Ming Dynasty Banknote Department, which had lasted for nearly a century, announced that it would close down and no longer issue banknotes.
The local departments, the departments under the jurisdiction of the three departments of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, were not allowed to use any excuse to force the people to accept the treasure money transaction.
For a moment, the people were excited and sang praises of Emperor Hongzhi.
When the Emperor heard the reactions of the people, he was in a very good mood.
However, no one knew that the person who pushed all these decrees was a sick young gentleman in the small courtyard of the Green Vine in Scholarflower Alley.
Ministry of Works.
Liu Jin was ordered by the Crown Prince Zhu Houzhao to come to the Ministry of Works and hand over the cement formula.
The person who received Liu Jin was the assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, Liu Zhang.
Liu Zhang was an angry youth. He believed that the Crown Prince's previous stubbornness was the work of the eunuchs in the Eastern Palace. When he saw Liu Jin, he scolded Liu Jin for being a spineless thing.
When Liu Jin asked for the reward, Liu Zhang cursed,"Don't fool around with the Crown Prince in the future!”
"What kind of place is the Ministry of Works? For the country's important Yamen Office in charge of repair, construction, salt pond, garden, wasteland, water conservancy, how can it be child's play? What kind of messy cement was this? You even asked for a thousand taels of silver from the Ministry of Works? If you eunuchs continue to cause trouble, this official will definitely inform the emperor to uphold justice!”
Liu Jin was so scared that he was trembling. In fact, in history, before Liu Jin held power, he had always been bullied by civil officials.
It was only after Liu Jin took power that he would take revenge on the civil officials.
There was a reason for everyone's personality change.
"Lord Liu, this cement is really useful. It's very useful for building bricks…Uh, Lord Liu, don't hit this servant.”
Liu Zhang fiercely kicked Liu Jin's butt.
He knew that the crown prince had restrained himself and improved recently, which was a good thing.
He wanted to use this matter to warn the Crown Prince that the six ministries were the important weapons of the Great Ming Country and not the yamen that would cause trouble. If he was short of money, he would not give it to him!
Liu Jin returned to the Spring Palace Hall with a wronged expression.
"Master, Assistant Minister Liu didn't pay and even beat me up.”
Zhu Houzhao flew into a rage and said furiously,""You didn't tell him about the magical effect of cement?”
"I told you, Assistant Minister Liu said that if you don't need money, you can just get some things to fool the Ministry of Works. He told you to properly learn from Lord Yang.”
Bastard!
Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists. He had wanted to ask the Ministry of Works for some reward money so that he could give his little brother Su Ce some money, but the Ministry of Works did not know how to appreciate favors!
This makes this prince lose face!
However, there was nothing he could do. Because he was the Crown Prince, he could not beat up the civil officials. Otherwise, he would have killed them long ago!
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