I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 305 Confrontation
Zhu Houxun looked at Yao Fuyou deeply, and his gaze passed over him and fell on the group of clerks behind him.

"Are you all going to resign too?" Zhu Houxuan asked in a deep voice.

Facing Zhu Houxuan's questioning, the clerks showed some fear, but they still gritted their teeth and withstood the pressure...

"Your Majesty, I can't learn double-entry bookkeeping..."

"I am also..."

"..."

Seeing the attitudes of the clerks, Zhu Houxuan had already guessed their purpose.

This made him feel a little weird - was he causing a strike?
Just as he was about to speak, a roar came from behind him, "You clerks have been blessed by the emperor for generations, but you have never made progress. Today you are even going to resign en masse. Do you treat state affairs as a joke?"

Zhu Houxuan knew it was Yang Yiqing's voice without turning around.

He looked back and saw that the four elders of the cabinet had also rushed over.

Yang Yiqing walked in front with an angry face. He had been transferred among the six ministries for many years and was the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue before entering the cabinet. He was an old leader of the Ministry of Revenue and was very familiar with the clerks in the Ministry of Revenue, so he started cursing when he saw this situation.

The arrival of the cabinet ministers brought the atmosphere to a climax. This was the first time that so many high-ranking officials and royal family members gathered in the six ministries.

This area is the gathering place of various government offices and the place with the highest density of officials in the capital. It was morning, so it attracted the attention of all officials. Although they did not dare to gather around to watch, they still quietly observed the situation here and listened to the sounds here with their ears perked up.

Coupled with the even larger number of clerks from various government offices, the Ministry of Revenue is the center of attention today.

Before Zhu Houxuan arrived, this group of clerks had already made public the reasons why they did this. Although they said it very vaguely, anyone who could work in this place is definitely a shrewd person.

So now the people around him looked at Zhu Houxuan with all kinds of eyes, including hatred of the enemy, anger, gloating, worry, etc.

Facing so many eyes, Zhu Houxuan was not moved at all. He saw that Yang Yiqing had already spoken, so as the Prince Regent, there was no need for him to speak.
"Stop embarrassing yourself here and go back to work!" Yang Yiqing shouted at the clerks over Zhu Houxun.

He swept his angry eyes over the clerks present, causing chaos among them.

An old leader is an old leader. Although the clerks always say in private how they look down on the civil servants, when they actually face the power of a senior official, they still feel a little nervous.

Seeing that the team was wavering, Yao Fuyou knew that he had to stand up to protect people's hearts.

"Lord Yang!" Yao Fuyou knelt down at once. "How dare we treat state affairs as a joke? It's just that His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has ordered that all accounts should be kept using double-entry bookkeeping from now on. But His Royal Highness's method is too sophisticated, and stupid people like us really can't learn it! We are afraid of delaying state affairs, so we took the initiative to resign."

"You..." Yang Yiqing didn't expect that someone would dare to stand up and talk back, but he quickly reacted, "Don't think I don't know what you are thinking, I have already given you a chance, get out of here!"

Yao Fuyou was unmoved. Things had come to this point, and he could not afford to back down. In fact, he was very calm, even a little happy. The bigger the commotion today, the more people would pay attention to it, and the more cautious the punishment would be, and the safer they would be. "Your Excellency, we are wise. If this delays state affairs, we, the humble people, cannot afford it!" Yao Fuyou continued.

"You..." Yang Yiqing didn't know what to say for a moment when he saw that Yao Fuyou was so smooth and didn't fall for his threats at all.

Fortunately, Liang Chu, who was observing from the side, spoke in time: "How about this, you go back to work first, I will discuss the matter of double-entry bookkeeping with His Royal Highness the King of Jing, and I will give you a satisfactory answer."

These two cabinet ministers, one plays the good guy and the other plays the bad guy, and their cooperation is seamless.

The chief minister of the cabinet had spoken, and his words were so polite that many of the clerks below showed wavering looks on their faces.

Yao Fuyou took a deep breath. As someone who had been in officialdom for a long time, he knew that Liang Chu's move was just a delaying tactic. Although Liang Chu's words sounded high-sounding, he was actually very vague on the key points and did not promise anything at all.

Moreover, he also knew that today's matter must not be affected by Liang Chu's delaying tactics. If this matter dragged on for a while, then among so many clerks, some would definitely be divided.
"Your Excellency, please understand! We don't know how to use double-entry bookkeeping. The more we do, the more mistakes we make. The affairs of the Ministry of Revenue concern the people of the world, how can we have such mistakes? So for the sake of the people of the world, please allow us to resign." Yao Fuyou said loudly.

Liang Chu looked at Yao Fuyou with some surprise, thinking that this man was indeed a veteran in the officialdom, he would not be fooled at all, and he was quite good at making a big deal out of things.

"Please wait here for a moment. I will discuss with His Royal Highness the Prince Regent before making a decision." Seeing that Yao Fuyou was obsessed with the double-entry bookkeeping method, Liang Chu felt that he had to talk to Zhu Houxuan first.

"Just do as Lord Liang said." Yao Fuyou breathed a sigh of relief. Things had begun to develop in the direction he had imagined.

Zhu Houxuan watched coldly from the side. In his opinion, there was nothing to talk about with these clerks, but he could not help but give face to Liang Chu.

So they went into the Ministry of Revenue and started discussing things in the wing of Shi Jie's office.

"Your Highness, please understand! Shi Jie swears to heaven that the affairs of this group of clerks today have nothing to do with me, nor was it instigated by me." Shi Jie couldn't wait to say as the meeting began.

Shi Jie was feeling very helpless now. The past few days had been so exciting that his heart could hardly bear it. If his career and affairs after his death were affected because of this incident, he would feel very wronged.

"Master Shi, please don't be anxious. Please be at ease. I am not blind. I know that this matter has nothing to do with you!" Zhu Houxuan comforted him gently.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Shi Jie breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Highness, what do you think about this matter? Is it necessary to implement the double-entry bookkeeping method?" Liang Chu asked.

"Lord Liang is focusing on the wrong point. Double-entry bookkeeping is not the key. The key to the matter now is whether I, the Prince Regent, should bow to those clerks." Zhu Houxuan said calmly, leaving no room for maneuver as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Your Highness, you are too polite," Liang Chu said quickly.

"I didn't say that. Double-entry bookkeeping is just a change in the way of bookkeeping. What's so difficult about it? Those clerks are using it to make a fuss about something that they can learn at a glance. Why don't they want to use double-entry bookkeeping? Isn't it because double-entry bookkeeping makes it impossible for them to falsify accounts?" Zhu Houxuan's tone was still calm.
(End of this chapter)