Zhang Mingyi looked at Xu Shiyang.

After a moment, he said:

I'm here not to cause trouble for you.

Xu Shiyang nodded:

Since that's the case, please, we must get into work as soon as possible and don't waste time anymore.

Zhang Mingyi brought about a problem of military pay.

The court was in a turmoil this year, and the national treasury was exhausted, so that the imperial guards under former Gao Qiu had already owed more than three months of salary.

The civilian army and the former anti-army army have never received a penny of military pay. Even the two thousand imperial guards in the core of Xu Shisong have been in owed a year since they were incorporated into the Helian fleet and left Jiangnan.

Xu Shisong calculated that regardless of Tong Guan's situation, the court's wages owed more than 1 million guanshishi by his own subordinates alone.

The army had some complaints about this, but literati like Weng Shuping who likes to talk about his heart and mind are not practical people. They can't think of any way except to force the soldiers to endure it.

Xu Shisong also had a headache about this.

Therefore, after the situation was slightly stable, he immediately took a few personal guards and rushed back to Lin'an to discuss this issue with Wen Xianggong Wen Zhong and other new court bosses.

At this time, the prince was just a governor and had not ascended the throne, but the court was completely controlled by the pro-war faction.

Wen Jiefu was appointed as the Minister of the Central Secretariat and was the only prime minister in the court. His eldest son Wen Zhong was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue (the three envoys who were with the ministers) and Tong Guan was still the Privy Councilor but was not in Lin'an.

Perhaps in order to restrict Wen Jiefu, Bao Zheng was placed in the court as the chief magistrate and the Ministry of Justice.

Wen Jiefu, Wen Zhong and Bao Zheng.
Chapter completed!