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

Chapter 308: Zhu Houzhao, who was too happy to miss Beijing

Chapter 308: Zhu Houzhao, who was too happy to miss Beijing
The ministers present soon said goodbye and left.

Zhu Houxuan left only after seeing the people from the Royal Bank enter the Ministry of Revenue.

The officials and clerks who were watching the scene had also dispersed. They were all secretly shocked by the outcome of today's events.

Even more frightened were the expelled former Ministry of Revenue clerks. Their badges were taken away, so they were directly expelled from the Right Gate of Chang'an. However, they were still reluctant to leave for a long time after being expelled.
They were still expecting things to change, but after seeing the Royal Bank people coming from afar, their hearts sank.
"Yao Fuyou! Why didn't this matter develop as you said? Why did it turn out like this?" The clerks around him cast unfriendly glances at him.

The moment Yao Fuyou saw the Royal Bank people appear, he knew that the situation was over. He didn't expect Zhu Houxuan to be so decisive and not give them any chance.
"Everyone go home first. When they run into obstacles, they will remember us." Yao Fuyou smiled reluctantly. He knew that he must not show weakness at this time. If he showed weakness, everything would be over.
The other clerks were confused by Yao Fuyou's words and soon dispersed.
By dealing with the clerk of the Ministry of Revenue, Zhu Houxuan greatly intimidated officials and clerks in other departments. Everyone understood Zhu Houxuan's determination to promote the double-entry bookkeeping method.

The Ming Dynasty actually inherited many systems from the Yuan Dynasty. Coupled with the limitations of Zhu Yuanzhang himself, the top-level design of the Ming Dynasty was relatively rough.

For example, there is no unified national financial department. Each of the six ministries has its own treasury, and the Ministry of Revenue, which is nominally in charge of finance, has much smaller jurisdiction over finance than imagined.

This system could still meet the needs in the early Ming Dynasty, but with the improvement of Ming Dynasty's productivity, this system has become outdated compared to Ming Dynasty's current productivity. Although both are commodity economies, the top-level design of the Ming Dynasty is much worse than that of the Song Dynasty.

Zhu Houxuan also realized the problem. He knew that the best way was to change everything through political reform, but he also understood that the time was not yet ripe for political reform and that the resistance was very great.

So Zhu Houxun can only make minor repairs and attacks now.

One of his new methods was to promote double-entry bookkeeping.

If the relevant departments are unwilling to use the urban accounting method to keep accounts, it means that they have something to hide. In the next investigation, check this department first.

If the double-entry accounting method is used, the cost of falsifying accounts will be too high, and it will be much more difficult for clerks and officials to embezzle and misappropriate the petty cash of their respective departments.
After all, no one would believe that Zhu Houxun went to such great lengths to promote the double-entry bookkeeping method just to make it look good. It must have been to make it more convenient when checking the accounts, so no one dared to take chances.

But this process is destined to be extremely painful, so the officials and clerks in the capital began to miss the days when Zhu Houzhao was in the capital. At that time, there was no such thing as what is being promoted now.
Your Majesty! You have been patrolling the border for three or four months. It is time for you to come back. Hurry back to the capital and take back the King of Jing. Otherwise, life will be too difficult.
This is the voice of all the officials and clerks in the capital.
An army of thousands of people was advancing slowly across the grassland.

A young general in the lead rode his horse to the top of a high slope, and then shouted in surprise: "Brothers, hurry up, we are almost home!"

The young general was Zhu Houzhao. He had been patrolling the border for the past three or four months. He was tanned and his skin became rough, but he didn't care.
"Home" is how Zhu Houzhao referred to his residence in Xuanfu, which shows his sense of belonging to Xuanfu.

"General! Wait for us!" Several people rushed up on horseback.

Hearing this title, a smile appeared on Zhu Houzhao's face. He really liked this title.

To be honest, he now feels like he has enjoyed his life in Xuanfu and does not want to leave.
All of this satisfied Zhu Houzhao's imagination of the frontier, making him intoxicated and thinking that this was where he should stay.

Being surrounded by loyal generals and soldiers who have great respect for you, without all the worries in the capital, isn't this the happiest thing in the world?

This is the case for Zhu Houzhao.

Even though life at the border was much harder than in the capital, and food and other necessities were much simpler, Zhu Houzhao still didn't care and seemed to be enjoying it.
Even Jiang Bin didn't understand why Zhu Houzhao was so obsessed with the border.

The only drawback was that they rarely saw the Mongols, mainly because the border generals did not dare to let the emperor out. This made Zhu Houzhao very dissatisfied. The Blood-Drinking Sword at his waist had long been thirsty for blood, so he wanted to chop off a few Mongols' heads.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao did not just inspect the border, but also reorganized the border troops while inspecting. Over the past few months, he has achieved good results.

Zhu Houzhao returned to his simple mansion in Xuanfu City. Only then did he take off his armor and put on casual clothes.

Then he walked to the next door and found Jiang Jiangong and talked to him about what he had seen and heard during the inspection. This time, the General Staff was also brought to Xuanfu by Zhu Houzhao.

Zhang Yongze, who had received Zhu Houzhao's return, came to the General Staff Headquarters with two young eunuchs, who were carrying a large box.
"Your Majesty, General, these are the memorials that came from the capital in the past half month. Please take a look." Zhang Yong opened the big box and saw that it was full of memorials.

"What's the purpose of this? Why do you have to send so many memorials to this great general? What's the function of the Tongzhengsi? Shouldn't these memorials be sent to the Cabinet or the Silijian? It's also okay to send them to the Prince Regent!" Zhu Houzhao waved his hand impatiently.

"General, please calm down. These are not memorials about political affairs. They are all talking about one thing," Zhang Yong said hurriedly.

"One thing?" This successfully aroused Zhu Houzhao's curiosity.

He picked up a memorial and found that it was urging him to return to Beijing as soon as possible.
"Are these all memorials persuading this great general to return to Beijing?" Zhu Houzhao asked in confusion as he flipped through several memorials in succession.

"Yes, General, these are all," Zhang Yong said respectfully.

"This is not right. Why are there so many memorials like this in the past half month?" Zhu Houzhao asked with a raised eyebrow.

The number of memorials persuading Zhu Houzhao to return to Beijing was the highest when he first arrived in Xuanfu, then gradually became less, and now there are even more such memorials than when he first arrived in Xuanfu.
"Did something happen in the capital?" Zhu Houzhao frowned.

(End of this chapter)

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