After the scattered court, before Liu Ximing could turn around, he saw Li Daiwen looking for him with a smile.

"Xin'an, we will be colleagues from the department and the institute from today. I'm so proud of you, how about calling you brother?"

Liu Ximing looked at Li Dawen's old face, and smiled in his heart, immediately bowed and said:

"Brother Li is a senior in the imperial examination and an elderly person in the court. In the future, he will have to support me more."

"Hey, the Yangtze River is pushing the front waves. How dare I, I, be so old, dare to say "support". Let's go, brother, I will take you to the yamen in person so that my ministers can pay their respects."

Seeing that Liu Ximing was indeed as good as the legendary one, Li Tiewen immediately felt relieved. He had an old face filled with smiles and took Liu Ximing's hand and walked towards the Daming Gate.

All the six ministries' yamen were set up on both sides of the Forbidden City outside the Daming Gate, and were not too far from the Huangji Hall.

As he walked, Li Daiwen sighed:

"Brother, our Ministry of Revenue is not a good place. You are wrong. But when I talk about it, I am so happy that I am not good at my legs and feet. I will want to beg your Majesty for the next year to return home. The Ministry of Revenue has a young official like you, so I will have an explanation to my subordinates."

Liu Ximing was a little surprised and said, "Brother Li, the Ministry of Revenue is in charge of the world's money and grain, and it is only ranked after the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Personnel. No one else can ask for it. Why does it become a chore in your mouth?"

"Hehe, you don't know, it's bad that the word "money and food" is the word "destruction".

Li Daiwen was obviously also miserable. The position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue has been long, and he directly blamed Liu Xi for his life as soon as he started.

"As you said, the money and grain are under our Ministry of Revenue, so others will naturally ask you to ask for money. In theory, we should be more tough than asking for money. But now the world is not stable, and the Qiu Ba people are relying on the swords and guns in their hands, and their tempers are gradually rising."

"But you also know that there is no more money in the treasury now? The Ministry of Revenue has already eaten the food for the first time, but they don't care about you. Anyway, they know that they ask for money. If you don't give it to them, those censors will be cursed."

"This is not all. The Ministry of Households is in charge of the collection of money and grain. Every time it comes to autumn, summer grain, people have to send people to various provinces to watch. Now that the war is in chaos, who would still want to go this trip? Everyone is working on their belts. In addition, they can't even pay their salary now, and their subordinates have long complained."

Although Liu Ximing has been a Beijing official for so long, he either stayed in the Hanlin Academy or the Zhan Shi Mansion, all of which are nobles. Although he has some understanding of the Ministry of Revenue, he is not as deep as Li Tiewen.

At that moment, he pulled Li Dai to ask questions, and gradually he also gained a lot of understanding of the Ming Dynasty's financial system.

After this inquiry, Liu Ximing felt even more about the pills of the Ming Dynasty.

The financial system of the Ming Dynasty was originally unscientific. It not only had to take care of the land, household registration, territory and other matters in the world, but also had to take charge of taxation and other taxation work.

However, the officials in the Ministry of Revenue can be considered as officials, including the deputy envoys of the ninth rank, and there are only about 200 people in total.

It is obviously difficult to be responsible for all the financial affairs of the country with such a small number of people.

Thinking about the fact that Midi had collected taxes in later generations, there were about 100,000 people, Liu Ximing couldn't help but smash his mouth.

Li Tiewen smiled when he saw this, "Why, are you scared? It's useless. You're all here. Explain to you in advance. Brother, I'm going to retire soon. The Ministry of Revenue Department will take it as your decision and the personnel will be assigned by you."

"But there is only one thing, just don't let me take the blame, brother." Li Tiewen's face showed a hint of cunning.

Liu Ximing couldn't help laughing, "Hahaha, don't worry, brother, Liu has never asked others to go away from the blame for his business, which is obvious to everyone."

The two of them walked into the Ministry of Revenue and chatted and laughed.

As soon as you enter the gate of the Ministry of Revenue, you will first find a large open and closed yard. The two camphor trees on both sides of the yard are lush, providing a large shade for the entire yard.

The officials of the Ministry of Revenue had long been waiting in the courtyard under the leadership of the two ministers. When they saw Li Weiwen and Liu Xi coming in, hundreds of people hurriedly bowed.

"Meet Li Dasitu and Liu Dasitu."

Li Daiwen nodded with satisfaction. Now he is the head of the Ministry of Revenue, and how these subordinates do it represents his face.

After flashing, Liu Ximing, who was behind him, Li Daiwen smiled and pointed at him and said to everyone:

"The protagonist today is Liu Dasitu. When I came, I had already said that I am old. You should treat Liu Dasitu like you."

After Li Daiwen said that, he smiled and compared the gesture of Liu Ximing to move forward.

Liu Ximing was not nervous, and directly carried his right hand behind his back and stepped forward and smiled:

"In the future, everyone will be colleagues. Everyone can ask about this. I have also heard that the Ministry of Revenue Department has worked hard, so I will not blame everyone. However, this is not a person who indulges subordinates. I hope everyone can do it."

After glanced at the people who were lowering their eyebrows and looking at each other, Liu Ximing turned his head to look at Li Huiwen and said:

"Your Majesty is in charge of my money. Now the department has its own responsibilities. I am afraid that there will be a shortage of people to be transferred. Last year, there should be a new Jinshi in the department. Why not assign these people to me to listen to, and it will not delay other important matters in the department? "

Li Daiwen's face was happy, and nodded quickly and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, this method is good, so that you can not delay the original government affairs, and you can complete the entrusted by Your Majesty."

"Shilarious Minister Chen, please hand over the work of the new Jinshi last year and report to Liu Dasitu as soon as possible." Li Huiwen directly sent Chen Wen, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

Jie arranged.

"yes"

After arranging these, Li Tiewen took Liu Xi to the Qingcui courtyard on the right side of the Ministry of Revenue.

Shangshu had his own separate office courtyard, and from then on, this was Liu Ximing's office location. Li Weiwen lingered and chatted here for a while. During this period, people from the Ministry of Rites came to deliver Shangshu's official uniforms and other items.

Among the new Jinshi in the Ministry of Revenue, Cheng Taiding, a qing senator from Datong Sheshun, walked into Liu Ximing's Shangshu Courtyard with a dozen colleagues in surprise.

He and Liu Ximing were not only fellow villagers, but also Shunqing scholars who first joined Datong Society. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, he went to Beijing to take the exam with Liu Ximing and others, but unfortunately he failed.

Fortunately, Liu Ximing was quite concerned about these core members and often provided some space spiritual water under various names. In addition, the Datong Society had the purpose of discussing the meaning of the classics. Cheng Taiding and a group of Shunqing scholars studied hard for three years and finally passed the imperial examination this year.

With the help of Du Liangji, the doctor in the Ministry of Personnel, Cheng Taiding stayed in the capital as he wished and became a head of the Ministry of Revenue.

At this moment, Cheng Taiding was naturally very excited when he saw that his president had been promoted to the Minister of the House and became his immediate boss.

In the main hall of Shangshu Courtyard, Liu Ximing naturally noticed Cheng Taiding and others. He threw a look of peace of mind. He smiled at the dozen new Jinshi sent here:

"Do you know why I only called you here to listen? It is said that the officials of other departments of the Ministry of Revenue have been officials for a longer time and they have to be much more prone to doing things, but I chose you."

Cheng Taiding immediately bowed to answer the conversation in a tacit understanding, "I would like to ask the Grand Situ to give me some advice."

Liu Ximing nodded with a smile, "The most important reason is that you are as talented as the officialdom and have not yet become a bad habit in the officialdom. Crushing money is your Majesty's choice. It is related to whether the national treasury can be filled. It is the top priority. I have high hopes for you, so you should cherish the opportunity."

"We will be allowed to be sent by the Grand Situ!"

A group of new Jinshi showed joy on their faces.

Compared with the daily work of the Ministry of Revenue, it is naturally much better to do things with Liu Ximing, the famous man in front of the emperor. The so-called Zhongnan shortcut refers to this situation.

Seeing that he raised everyone's morale by simply mentioning a few words, Liu Ximing also smiled in his heart.

"The most important thing for us now is two things. One is to take over the Baoquan Bureau directly, and all the craftsmen and forgings must be controlled by us. The other is to go to the Ministry of Works and bring all the craftsmen under the Ministry of Works and come over to the Ministry of Works."

Liu Ximing looked at Cheng Taiding and others with a testic look, "How is it, who dares to do these things? If you are willing to go, you can go with this official post."
Chapter completed!