Chapter 187 Qianqing Palace was converted into the Great Hall

Listening to Niu Jinxing's arrangements, Li Zicheng thought about it. He had never stuck to one place. Now that he thought about it, he really lacked these.

"Mr. Xie, I have learned a lesson."

"Well, then Your Majesty, please prepare some troops. If we go quickly, it will take ten days to get from the capital to Jinzhou, and it will take ten days to start a war."

We still have plenty of time. During this time, we must first make arrangements for the people and officials of the two governments."

After Niu Jinxing and Li Zicheng continued to discuss for a while, they determined the preliminary combat objectives and city defense plan.

Li Zicheng couldn't help but sigh again, this old Juren was really his lucky star. When he became emperor, Niu Jinxing would be his first assistant.

Surrender? Ever since Li Zicheng dug up the Chongzhen ancestral tomb, he had no way out.

On the other side of the Ming Dynasty, the Forbidden City.

Chongzhen was reviewing memorials in the Qianqing Palace. His desk had been replaced by a modern desk, with a desktop computer and a laptop on the left.

The large empty table on the right is where memorials are placed, but now Chongzhen's review of manuscripts has become easier and simpler.

After he divided and subdued the cabinet and the six departments, he rarely dealt with trivial matters. Now he was asked to deal with memorials that had been read through the six departments, the cabinet, and the Royal Academy in turn.

Different from previous memorials, a memorial will be followed by the opinions of at least six people and summarized key points.

It is convenient for Chongzhen to see and adopt it. If the six people agree, he will take a closer look to prevent collusion.

If there is a disagreement, he will first look at everyone's key points and then approve or reject it by the majority.

After putting down the memorial, Chongzhen raised his head and looked at the main hall of Qianqing Palace.

Several Royal Army soldiers who had studied physics books and understood a certain amount of electricity knowledge were holding the herringbone steel ladder and signing the light wires of the electric lights to the beams.

This was also the reason why there was no desk lamp on his desk. After all, Qianqing Palace was an office. If you were to work here, it was still very important to protect your eyes, so Chen Ye directly asked him to install fluorescent lamps on the beams.

Below the beams, several servants were bypassing the safety range of the ladder, moving long tables and chairs, and arranging the most spacious area in the palace according to the layout plan given by Chongzhen.

With Chongzhen's computer desk as the center, there are three rows of tables and chairs in the hall.

The first row has three long tables and six chairs, and the second row has five long tables arranged in an arc shape and ten chairs.

In the third row are fourteen conference stools, separated by two beams and arranged in a larger arc. These stools can turn the armrests into table supports. In order to prevent shaking, Chen Ye specially bought an expensive and stable version.

Looking at the scene that had been basically arranged, Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction. In his opinion, such a conference room might as well not be too different from the one in the movie.

"The king is with you, the king is with you."

"Your Majesty, I am here."

Wang Chengen put down the intercom on the table and rushed over.

"Remember to connect the projector screen, projector hanger, and other image transmission cables from the expansion dock here on my computer."

"I understand that your Majesty, the projector, the curtain, and the threads all belong to you. You have to use magic to conjure them up first."

Hearing Wang Chengen's low-pitched reminder, Chongzhen remembered that he had put all the things used in Qianqing Palace in the display window.

While the officials and the Royal Army were busy and were not looking here, Chongzhen used the display window to put out the projector and curtain, and gave Wang Chengen orders while putting them out.

"I'll tell them to set it up, and you can inform all my dear friends that the meeting is ready."

After Wang Chengen left, Chongzhen finished setting up the projector, returned to his desk, picked up his calculator and started calculating. Recently, he had more time and space purchases.

"The procurement of mines, power plants, cement plants, smelters, and forging plants totals 2.8 billion.

Ten thousand tons of 425 cement used in construction costs five million, so the shop owner ordered a full hundred thousand tons.

There are also meat, drones, newspaper factories, supplies recently purchased by the royal merchants, army supplies, cannons and guns bought before, and now ships.

Damn it, more than 9 billion are almost spent, why is it so expensive to feed the Ming Dynasty?"

"Okay, okay, I made all the money, and the shop owner doesn't have any evil intentions.

During this period, agarwood and huanghuali wood from the three main halls of the palace were sold. Twelve officials were copied, the sales proceeds of royal merchants, jewelry and jade.

Well, I still made a lot of money."

Chongzhen was happily scribbling in his notebook. He had spent more than nine billion in two months, which was quite shocking to him.

After all, these nine billion, converted into silver, amount to more than thirty million taels.

However, if you think about this money, it is earned in the first place, and the Royal Company is still making money, so your mentality will be balanced.

After waiting for a while, the first people to arrive were the Wenyuan Pavilion Grand Bachelor and the Wuying Palace Grand Bachelor who were on duty in the palace.

That is, Zhang Sizhi, Fan Fucui, and the newly promoted Jiang Dejing, who also served as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

As soon as Zhang Sizhi stepped into Qianqing Palace, he was confused by the layout inside.

The huge fluorescent lamp illuminated the entire hall brightly, and the tables and chairs arranged in a circle looked more formal and more like a hall than the previous military hall.

Although he doesn't know what the formal one is, in his opinion, this should be the most bizarre and unclear arrangement in the world.

But judging from this layout, if they wanted to salute, they could only salute at the door.

Those tables and stools didn't look like they could be pushed open easily, so Zhang Sizhi knelt down directly at the door.

"Your Majesty, Holy Ann!"

Fan Fucui and Jiang Dejing, who were following Zhang Sizhi, also knelt down quickly and knelt down to kowtow to Chongzhen who was behind the desk in the palace.

"My dear friends, please get up and take your seats according to the names on the cards on the table."

"Your Majesty, this is where the etiquette of the monarch and his ministers is. How can I sit down?"

Jiang Dejing had just been promoted and was still not very used to it.

"It doesn't matter, you can just sit down. Except for meeting and paying homage, you don't need to worry about the etiquette."

"What your Majesty said is true, and I agree with it very much.

Mediator, you have to understand that what Your Majesty values ​​is what you do, not what you do, do you understand?"

"Yes, yes, your majesty, please rest assured, I will definitely handle the matter seriously. Thank you Yibai for the reminder."

Jiang Dejing hurriedly bowed and apologized to Chongzhen who had already stood up in the palace. He was also thinking secretly in his heart, where is this picture of the Four Knowledges? He was trying to be like a riddle man in two ways.

"Well, everyone, please sit down. There is no need to be restrained. Jiang Aiqing, you have just joined the Cabinet Committee. Just get used to it. Our meetings usually last for a long time, so we need to sit down."

Chongzhen stood up and waited for the Royal Academy to connect the computer cable, then sat down again, adjusted his posture slightly, and leaned on the chair, his image completely gone.

After a while, all the summoners arrived.

Zhang Sizhi glanced behind him with emotion. There were a few more people whom he had no memory of, but the old thorns like Xie Sheng, Wei Zhengcheng, Chen Yan, Li Rixuan and Lin Yuji were missing.

As of today, the members of Chongzhen's cabinet committee have been basically fixed.

That is several bachelors, seven ministers, as well as the commander of the royal army and the staff officer.

Everyone was prepared today. Chongzhen informed them of part of the meeting in advance and they were ready to face various inquiries from his department at any time.

"Well, everyone is here, so let me say a few words first.

In the past month, I have eliminated some useless people who are doing nothing, making friends with gangsters, relying on cronies, Donglin Academy, Fushe, etc. to rise to power through nepotism.

Dear dear ones present now, I have not done anything to you, but that does not mean that you are completely clean."

Listening to Chongzhen's words, the following people looked very frightened on their faces, but in fact they didn't think so. Those who can appear here today know that they are already safe.

"Zhang Sizhi, let me start with you..."

Zhang Sizhi looked at Chongzhen helplessly. He didn't know why he licked him so much, but Chongzhen started with him first.

But as I thought about it, I felt like I was being valued.

Well, His Majesty has already said that as long as I do a good job, he will give me a son. Now he is beating me like this because I still have medicine to save him.

As Chongzhen began to talk, a group of civil servants began to feel nervous.

Chongzhen directly talked about the troubles in the officialdom, their nepotism, who pushed them to the top, and who was looking for them to operate recently, layer by layer, without leaving any face.

Moreover, the people Chongzhen was thinking about were all civil servants, but no one was mentioned about the military generals. This attitude also made several ministers and chief ministers feel slightly upset. It seemed that Chongzhen paid more attention to holding guns.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me! I know my mistake and I am willing to correct it!"

Zhang Sizhi, with an attitude that was beyond everyone's reach, began to apologize as soon as Chongzhen finished his speech.

This speed puts several veteran officials to shame.

Amid the chorus of pleas for apology, Chongzhen tapped the table slightly to calm everyone down.

"I am putting this out in the open today just to tell you that I know how dirty you have been, but I am willing to give you a chance.

The Royal Cabinet Committee will be the place where the most power in the world will be concentrated in the future. To be able to join the committee, family interests and personal interests must be indispensable. But correspondingly, your abilities must also be reflected in me.

I was negligent in supervision before, which led to mediocrity and laziness in your administration, holding each other back and attacking each other.

So in the past, I let him go without further investigation, but now I pay more attention to it. If the corresponding problem occurs again, don't blame me for being ruthless. The Royal Army's cannons have always lacked live people to plug the barrels."

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will assist Your Majesty with all my heart, and I will not dare to do it again!"

When Zhang Sizhi raised his head, everyone replied in unison, and Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction.

"Well, let's start the reporting work now, let's start with the Ministry of Personnel. Jiang Aiqing, what are the main problems in the Ministry of Personnel's work now?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the main problem of the Ministry of Civil Affairs now is that the money and food provided by the Ministry of Household Affairs are increasingly decreasing, and there is a shortage of officials. As a result, officials in various places have no effective way to control local areas..."

Although Jiang Dejing was only the right minister of the Ministry of Rites before, he is now regarded as an airborne official, but the problems of the official department are similar to those of other ministries.
Chapter completed!