Yang Ling used to be able to be very kind to the emperor every time he went on a trip to the emperor, and he got a few days off to rest at home, but now it is legitimate to rest. Although the emperor allowed him to join the court to participate in politics, he did not have a regular position in the court.

You said he was responsible for the official examination, but he could not go to the Ministry of Personnel to work; you said he was responsible for the bandit suppression, but it was not easy for him to work in the Ministry of War. The dignified Duke sat there, where did you let the Minister of Shangshu move?

So he was comfortable in this kind of tolerance. If he liked it, he would visit him and discuss business matters. If he didn't want to go, he would stay at home. No one could do anything about him. Yang Ling's suggestion was really serious. The inner court is very stable now. Du Fu didn't read much, but he was honest and very serious in his work. After the emperor issued an order, he asked the Interior Office to pull out all the supplies consumed in the palace every day to check out which ones could be reduced.

This is amazing. What Yang Ling mentioned was just something he could look at with his eyes raised. People often call gambling houses and brothels the golden cave. This is the real golden cave. The daily consumption of silver is amazing, and many of the materials consumed are purely pomp.

For example, the emperor's bedroom, book hall, etc., regardless of whether the emperor is there or not, the things should be replaced, and the beast incense and red candles are constantly changing every day. Although the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace have regular monthly silver, they cannot take up more, but as long as they are familiar with the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is easy to ask for something. The Emperor's internal treasury will be used up and he will have to buy it. After purchasing, the Ministry of Internal Affairs can make another purchase. If you save this one, you will get hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year.

Kunning Palace, Anqing Palace, and Zhonghe Palace are under renovation. The emperor's will has temporarily stopped. In addition, the large budget for the New Year holiday was cut off. The Ministry of Revenue finally saved some money for the time being, but the new Minister of Revenue Liu Zhong, who was staring at the empty warehouse and the negative accounts all day long, was so happy.

Huang Qiyin reported that the redundant staff was cut, but he was demoted to the third-class county to become the county magistrate. Yang Ling's status was incomparable to him, but Yang Ling did not dare to be careless. Now the emperor proposed it himself and issued an order to implement it. This is much easier. Moreover, Liu Jin had already executed it once before, and the officials in the court are no longer as good as those ministers who bullied the honest emperor Hongzhi back then, so it was much easier than expected.

Yang Tinghe knew it was difficult to start from the capital, so he chose Nanjing first. After the situation was easy, it became a regular example and then lay off employees in Beijing. He was very good at playing this trick, and even if the officials of the six ministries of Nanjing wanted to go through the relationship and support route, they would have worked hard. When they finally supported the people, the imperial edict was also delivered.

The cuts of redundant staff are expected to save the court a large amount of salary, and this matter has also had an unexpected effect. The news can be released, and many officials who are waiting to die will feel a sense of crisis. Usually, they will push out the matter if they have something to do, or they will not do it. Now they will worry if they have nothing to do, and their work efficiency will be unprecedentedly improved.

This efficiency cannot be underestimated. At that time, the traffic was inconvenient and the information was not effective. If many things were not handled in time, they would not have to be done when they remembered. Either the matter was outdated or the graves of the parties involved had been covered with grass. Now, the improvement of the efficiency of the administration is not energetic, but it has invisibly played an immeasurable role in the entire Ming Dynasty bureaucracy.

There are voices of opposition. However, the people in power now have the "Application Law for the Administration of Administration" where they are in charge. If they are not doing well, they will be punished. The civil servants of the Censorate and Hanlin Academy are afraid that they will become redundant employees who have been laid off. In order to do their duty, they will be widened every day and pick the problems of those in power. Who dares to follow the rules? The execution is strong and the efficiency of the work is improved, and the redundant employees who have been laid off have no room for opposition, so they can only roll up the bedding and go home. They stand in the yard and curse.

There was no petition office at that time. Who dared to cause trouble? Even if there was a lot of inconspicuous things, the East Factory, the West Factory, the Inner Factory, and the Jinyiwei were like wolves and tigers. They had not opened it for a long time. This kind of controls one link, supervises and controls one layer at a time, and things went smoothly.

Only the post station is very difficult to clean. Although the post station is a small place, when Yangling managed Jiming Post Station, the then magistrate of Minwen Jianmin County said that many people were jealous of this official, and it was a fat man. It is precisely because it is fat man and is supported by the local area, the more it is richer it is, the thinner it is.

Now that the inn is going to clean up, the inside of the inn is unwilling, and most civil and military officials disagree, because their land salary is limited, and transportation is inconvenient at that time, so they have to go home or have a family trip, which consumes too much money. In the past, they took advantage of the inn, but now they are not allowed to use the inn for non-official purposes, so officials cannot help but complain.

However, it was difficult for Emperor Zhengde to change what he knew. He initially recognized Liu Jin as a good person, and even Yang Ling was so close to him, he tried his best to get rid of this treacherous person. The good results of the above things made Zhengde realize that Yang Ling’s suggestion was correct without thinking. Therefore, Jiao Fang, Yang Tinghe and others saw that there was great resistance to clearing the post station and there were many complaints and wanted to postpone the execution. A pair of emperors proposed it and were immediately rejected.

When several senior officials saw it, they had to bite the bullet and execute it. In order to achieve the effect, they took the lead in doing it. Jiao Huang Jiao was caught by the Hongniang and lived in his house for several days. Before leaving, they did not touch him. They just collected all the food in the mansion. As soon as the husband left, he took the military post to the capital in a panic. Now Jiao Fang took the initiative to make up for the carriage and meal fees for his son.

In order to set an example, Liang Chu clearly did not want to go back to his parents' home, so he deliberately arranged for her to go back to her home. He hired someone to hire a carriage and sent his family to follow him, and walked around Beijing for most of the time. The officials were expected to come forward and fight back to fight back this benefit, but they never thought that they would take the lead in carrying out the execution. Although they were unwilling to do so, no one dared to propose it again.

In fact, Yang Ling also knew that the salaries of officials were too low, except for those who had other incomes, but the honest officials were different. For example, Yang Yiqing, the dignified Minister of Personnel, did not eat too much. In order to supplement the family income, he often helped some big inns and hotels to write plaques. Or, a rich man asked him to write articles or something to earn some money, and Yang Ling felt miserable when he saw it.

In the future, the salaries of officials must be increased, but this matter cannot be mentioned at the moment. In a few years, various new policies have produced benefits. Although there are some complaints now, it is useless to comfort them with empty words, because they are actually profitable. However, when they get benefits in two years, you don’t need to talk about them anymore, they will understand the correctness of doing so at the beginning.

Yang Ling was not idle. He had participated in these things and made plans, but his suggestions were not adopted by the cabinet. Yang Ling was once very excited and proposed to build a bank and issue treasury bonds to make up for the emptiness of the treasury. He also listened to the thunder and was stunned by the cabinet ministers carefully explained the meaning of these two new terms, which made them dry. Several ministers, even Jiao Fang, shook their heads like rattles.

The promotion of merchants and profits has reached the highest limit of the entire literary group. It actually allowed the court to open a bank and even borrow money from the people. It was simply incredible in their hearts. If the people in the land were not Yang Ling, they would have long been denounced as madmen.

Yang Ling thought about it, now the whole country is a small peasant economy. Business has not yet been perfected and flourished, and the people have no idea about it or even have no understanding of it. At this time, they started state loans. As soon as the news spread, it was not the question of whether the court had credit or not, but the court's credit immediately went bankrupt, and anyone would think that the court could no longer pass.

Even if it is forced to continue, the people are forced to deposit money and forced to use the money to buy national debts. As long as someone spreads some rumors and the court does not have enough gold and silver to pay, all the money borrowed cannot be withdrawn. When the panicked people run the money but cannot repay it, even the rich gentry will rise up. So this radical idea has to give up.

Yang Ling believed that these things would be realized sooner or later, but it was obvious that it was too hasty to operate now. During the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the prosperity of commerce, commodity trading was developed. Paper money had already appeared among the people. However, it did not form the scale and creditability of the whole people. In the Ming Dynasty, treasure notes were issued, but they could not fully repay gold and silver in the same denomination. The credibility was too low. Once issued, it depreciated quickly and eventually became like waste paper. Yang Ling believed that with the gradual rise of the Ming Dynasty's business and the gradually developed economy, credit currency would dominate the money market early, and then these financial places would inevitably come into being.

As soon as Yang Ling walked around the six ministries, the officials were not talented, who could not guess that the emperor's refusal was Yang Ling's idea this time? The visionary knew that this was for the good of the court. In terms of long-term interests, every official benefited. He was short-sighted and criticized behind his back.

But they could only criticize behind their backs. Now there is no one with a strong position in the court to play against Yang Ling. How could Yang Ling lower his status to find them bad luck? Yang Ling occasionally heard about it, but he just laughed it off. The prime minister could hold a boat in his stomach, so how could he, the Duke of the country, not be a little elegant?

At the same time, Yang Ling was also paying attention to the situation in the north. The current situation in the grassland war seems to be becoming more complicated. Since the war penetrated deep into the area that Yuan Boyan could control, it was in the hinterland of the grassland, so it was difficult for both the imperial court's Jinyiwei and the secret detectives in the inner factory to find out the news.

Wu Jie was originally a secret probe outside the Jinyiwei Pass. At that time, he had a good relationship with many tribal leaders on the grassland outside the pass as a furry. Later, when he was transferred to the pass, he used the excuse of a cold leg disease and wanted to go to the pass for treatment. He had not been outside the pass for a long time. Now ordinary secret probes are difficult to play their role, so Wu Jie took action himself, regained his old business, and came out of the pass as a furry.

Yangling did not find out the fire screen through the internal factory channels, the Oirat coalition forces, Boyan Mengke and Huadang's battle situation, so he had to wait patiently for news about Wu Jiedi.

These days, he often asked Young Lady, Wen Xin and the others to visit Princess Yongfu in the imperial palace in the name of worshiping Buddha, but he never showed any of them. He only knew from You Niang and the others that Princess Yongfu was depressed and had a clear and beautiful appearance, especially in a black robe, without any makeup. She was so clear and pretty that she really made people feel pitiful.

On this day, Lian'er took Pan'er and Pan'er's little follower, Master Yang, to Huang'an again. When he returned home, he had just entered his bedroom to change his clothes. Yang Ling, who had heard the news in the study, followed him sneakily.

Under a big tree in the yard, two little maids stood aside with their sleeves. Pan'er led Master Yang, holding a wooden stick, and was teasing a red insect that fell from the tree with her butt.

When he saw Yang Ling entering the yard, the two little maids quickly said, "I have met the master."

When Master Yang saw his father coming, he raised his face, sniffled first, and then smiled and said to Yang Ling: "Dad, come, look at the caterpillar, the big caterpillar."

His name is different from Pan'er. It was all Yang Ling who was born in the first place and taught him the titles of later generations. This child was used to it. Yang Ling only said to others that this is a dialect and it is easy to pronounce. Naturally, others have no doubts.

Yang Ling touched his land and said, "Well, caterpillar, let's play with my sister. I'll go find your aunt."

Yang Ling flashed into the room and saw that Lian'er had just changed into a homely dress, so he sat on the chair. He pondered for a while and said to her: "Liang'er, how about His Highness Princess Yongfu now?"

Lian'er is the most sensible among all the girls. Her wit is not inferior to Cheng Qiyun. Yang Ling cares about Yongfu. She did not doubt it because she already knew that Yongfu had chosen a sick prince consort and became a monk in anger. This matter was handled by her husband. With his temperament, it would be strange if he didn't take this responsibility on himself.

But after she went to Huang'an several times, she found that although Princess Yongfu was beautiful and slightly haggard, her words and behavior did not look like a monk. Instead, she looked like a girl with unrequited love. The unforgettable taste of missing her lover. Who among the women in the Yang family has a deeper experience than her? She naturally felt it.

Especially when he was walking and chatting with Princess Yongfu, Princess Yongfu even pointed the topic to Yang Ling intentionally or unintentionally. She was happy after listening to his interesting things, and even her eyes began to shiny. If she said that Yang Ling had nothing to do with her, Lian'er really didn't believe it.

Her eyes rolled, and she walked to the table to pour a cup of tea for Yang Ling, and handed it to him and said, "Your Highness is still good. I think he just stayed in the temple alone and was not used to this kind of life, so he was in a bad mood. Yongchun and Princess Xiang'er have also come to the imperial temple to accompany her these two days, and we are here, so I'm not very lonely.

Alas! But who can always accompany her like this? The noble princess is not something we can compare with, but compared with this young princess, we are much happier."

When Yang Ling heard this, his face became gloomy and sighed heavily. He raised the tea to his mouth, shook his head and put it back on the table, and said sadly: "It was all me who harmed me. A girl like a flower ended like this. Someone's 16 or 17 years old had already become a child, but I made His Princess Qinglantern Ancient Buddha, and my husband felt guilty."

Seeing him restlessly, Ma Lian'er smiled and said, "The Emperor's Palace is grand, not just a cold imperial temple, but here is freer than the palace. It is not as pitiful as the ancient Buddha of Qinglan and a nunnery. As for the birth of a child, the princess is not old, she is not comparable to us.

It is not easy for poor families to raise daughters, and they will marry a wife on eleven or two. The southern people with better families will marry their daughters at the age of thirteen. In fact, it is still too early for some boring people to try flowers. The fourteen-year-old girl Tiangui has arrived, and the men and women love each other, so it is called a play flower. Only fifteen years old can grow up, and it is called flower blossoming. However, most of the princesses in the royal family get married at the age of seventeen, and it is already early for Princess Yongfu to be sixteen. Now, even though she has been in a year, it is still time to persuade her to change her mind."

Yang Ling's eyes lit up and she said, "Yes, that's what I mean, otherwise what would you do?"

Lian'er looked at her beautiful eyes and said to herself, "How do we know what you want us to do? You can't let us women help you abduct the princess at home?"

Seeing her eyes, Yang Ling thought she didn't understand what she meant, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "You are usually smart, but why are you confused now? You often go with her, so you might as well tell some interesting things about the market, and let the princess have the desire to think about the world. Wouldn't she insist on becoming a monk?"

Lian'er bit her lip and held back her smile and said, "In my opinion, it is better to go to a young, romantic, elegant and talented young man. Maybe the princess will fall in love with her at first sight and will immediately come to the world of thinking about the world and never ask for family worship of Buddha again."

Yang Ling's face changed and he said anxiously: "No!"

"Um?"

Seeing Lian'er's inquiring gaze, Yang Ling glared at her and said angrily: "What a bad idea! This method...This method..."

Ma Lian'er found it interesting, but her husband already has many wives and concubines. After all, she doesn't know Zhengde is a human being, so she dare not expect that she is correct and is unwilling to pull this matter on her husband. If she doesn't do it well, it's the crime of beheading, so she stretched her waist and lazily showed her beautiful figure in front of her husband, and said, "Okay, okay, I know, I won't let me be a matchmaker, and I can also persuade her. But this matter is too urgent. I often go to the temple and take advantage of the situation..."

As soon as she said this, Yun'er rushed over with a post and called out outside the door: "Master, I have an important invitation."

"Please bring it in." Yang Ling then picked up the tea and took a sip. Yun'er entered the room and gave Lian'er Yingying first. Then he presented the post to Yang Ling with both hands.

Yang Ling took the invitation and smelled a faint fragrance first. Look at the invitation's gorgeous work and the big words of mud gold. I thought that a prince invited him to drink. He opened it casually and was stunned.

Lian'er saw it and looked over in surprise. She was stunned. After a while, Yang Ling said in surprise: "Where is the local man who sent the letter? Are you still there?"

Yun'er replied obediently: "It's a father-in-law named Xiao Dingzi. After the eldest lady gave him a reward, he left."

Yang Ling patted the invitation lightly, swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and asked Lian'er blankly: "Princess Yongchun, Princess Xiang'er invites me to hunt for Qiushou? Why do they invite me?"

Lian'er rolled her eyes pretty well: "How could I know, if both girls were not titled as princess, I thought you had caused some romantic debts outside again."

Yang Ling said with a bitter face: "Don't joke. How dare I?"

Lian'er smiled and said, "I'm sorry you don't dare. But if you dare to refuse the invitation from your two high men? I'm just hunting in the Royal Garden. Let's go for a social event. The two princesses are not tigers, can you eat them?"

"I'm not afraid of tigers. I just want to knock it off with one shot. I'm afraid of women, especially princesses. If the emperor doesn't go, they invite me to hunt? Uh..., where can I use my archery skills? Otherwise, you can accompany me, your equestrians and archery skills will definitely deter the whole audience."

Lian'er curled her lips and said a little sourly: "I pointed out that I invited Duke Wei to the imperial garden to Qiushou, but I didn't say that I would take my wife. Wouldn't it be polite if I went there? You are not afraid of thousands of troops. Although the two princesses are royal princesses, they are their daughter's family after all. What's there to be afraid of? I think you have been in the officialdom for a long time and are afraid of conspiracy in everything."

Yang Ling laughed dryly and said, "Be careful, there is no big mistake. You must go, you must go, I'm leaving!"

When Lian'er saw him hurriedly getting up, she said in surprise: "Where are you going? Isn't it tomorrow?"

Yang Ling waved his hand and said, "I'll ask someone to prepare robes, horses, bows and arrows. The other two little princesses are all ghosts. I really don't know how to plot against me, but maybe I want to tease me. I have to go to the Leopard Garden quickly and reveal the words to the emperor first, and know if there is any precaution."

Looking at Yang Ling's hurriedly leaving, Lian'er frowned: "What Qiushou? The two princesses are here to Huang'an today. I think they will probably bring Princess Yongfu with me. My husband doesn't allow me to be a matchmaker. The two little princesses seem to be intentional matchmakers, but the dignified princesses won't really marry into the Duke's Mansion, right?

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the prince consorts were allowed to take concubines, but the people who wanted to be prince consorts in this dynasty did not even allow concubines, not to mention that the husband already had a wife. Marrying to be a fair wife? What if he was a jealous woman? Although he had talked with Princess Yongfu several times and was elegant and polite, who knew whether she would become a jealous woman after marrying her?"

Lian'er was worried about the future Yang family at home. However, Yang Ling couldn't guess the intentions of the two princesses and was uneasy. He really didn't expect that Princess Yongfu would go to the imperial garden, but he didn't expect that the word hunting actually restricted his thinking. Although Yongfu had not officially become a monk, he was considered half a monk. Can monks kill animals?
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