Nanzhili, Suzhou Prefecture.

Guarding the New Year, Wang Yusen, the prefect of Suzhou, woke up early in the morning and began to deal with the official business at the end of the year.

At that time, he and Xu Buji teamed up to create a bloody movement in Changshu, and with this shareholder wind, he jumped from the county magistrate of Changshu County to the prefect of Suzhou, and stayed in this position for more than two years, Wang Yusen was unwilling to be lonely.

Daming's promotion is too difficult, if there is no one in the center, let alone move his ass in three years, even if it is five or ten years, there may not be this hope.

And this year, Wang Yusen smelled the deliciousness of opportunity again.

The emperor set the five-year plan targets for the cabinet, and then the cabinet carried out the apportionment of the provinces.

This is a well-known thing in officialdom, but Wang Yusen does not intend to fight with those brother provincial governments in this matter.

No way, Suzhou's congenital conditions are too 'poor'!

The north is sparsely populated and there are many barren fields, and they can easily complete the target of reclamation, but what about Suzhou? A few decades ago, it was the land of fish and rice in the rich world, where to cultivate the excess fields.

Tian Ken can't come out, he has to find a way to pay taxes, as long as he can hand over a beautiful tax report card every year, the cabinet will not find trouble in Suzhou, and he will not find trouble with Wang Yusen, but the promotion will naturally have nothing to do with Wang Yusen.

After all, he doesn't have a good reputation.

"Find another way, find a way."

Wang Yusen, who couldn't sit still, ran to the government and summoned the chief officials of a government in charge of a stall.

Wang Yusen has a bold idea!

And if he wants to realize this idea, he must integrate the power of the entire Suzhou Mansion and show his face in the entire Ming court.

Sitting in the first place, Wang Yusen turned his head and glanced at the plaque on his head when he was waiting for his colleagues.

"In a few days, after the turn of the year, this plaque will be down."

The writing of the cabinet has been down to the three levels of the provincial capital and county, and since the seventh year of Jianwen, the plaque in the main hall of the Yamen should be replaced, and the portraits of Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Jianwen should be hung.

You don't have to think about it to know that this is another proposal from Xu Buji's sycophant.

"It's a good one, and he lifts one person on the ground, but now he is on the rise, and he is even more powerful than me, the prefect."

Wang Yusen shook his head with emotion, the two of them conspired to make an anti-Confucianism movement, although he mixed a prefect position with real power, but the latter directly stepped forward to the center, and he could always see the emperor every month, and his political advantage was much greater than that of him Wang Yusen.

No, after the establishment of the new four departments, Yang Shiqi put his little brother Hu Sizong in the position of the left servant of the Ministry of Education, Yang Pu took over, and took over the new general political department to participate in politics on the left, and this Xu Buji became the right to participate in politics, in terms of level, from the third grade.

Participated in the compilation of the "Jianwen Dictionary", the editor-in-chief of the "Anthology of Jianwen Thought", and the leader of the Neo-Confucian Party.

These are all shining political highlights on Xu Buji's body, Wang Yusen saw it in his eyes, and his heart was anxious.

has been working hard in the official career for a long time, and Wang Yusen, the doorman in the officialdom, knows how many ways to figure it out in his heart.

The threshold of officialdom is a towering, impermeable wall, and layers of fog that obscure people's ears and eyes. People who are blocked from officialdom may feel how complicated officialdom is, criticize it at every turn, and darken and demonize politics.

But staying in this wall and watching officialdom, there are no layers of barriers to direct contact, and it is not so daunting, and there is no so-called great wisdom that makes people admire the mountains to be a high-ranking official.

To be an official, you first need a pair of discerning eyes, and secondly, a good mouth and a good pen are enough.

Seeing the Word clearly is more important than anything else. If you can't pivot to the left and you to the right, then even if you have the level of ten Wolong, you are only worthy of going home to farm.

At this point, Wang Yusen can be said to be convinced of Xu Buji, regardless of the latter's level many times, at least people have a pair of discerning eyes, and they can see the emperor's mind at a glance in each time period!

As soon as the cabinet threw out doubts and arguments, he dared to use the east wind to criticize Confucianism; As soon as Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, affirmed the great victory of the May Day labor, he vigorously advocated the neo-Confucian idea of letting the four classes of agriculture, industry and commerce work together to serve the country.

These eyes, this mouth, and this pen deserve to be promoted quickly.

Wang Yusen was still sighing here, and footsteps had been heard outside the main hall one after another, and the main officials of the Suzhou Prefect's Yamen had come one after another in the snow.

"Whew."

Suzhou Tongzhi Han Xu stepped in, the heat brought by the indoor heater made him breathe a sigh of relief, untied the tie at the neck, and rubbed two frozen cheeks with his hands, and then sat down to look at Wang Yusen.

"Fu Zun summoned me a few years ago, why is it urgent?"

The governor of the prefecture in charge of the ten houses also asked, "But there is a deviation in the grain tax and other things that were released into Beijing ten days ago?" Is there a discrepancy between the inscriptions of each county and the real numbers? ”

In the early Ming Dynasty, there were six departments, and the lower-level institutions, the political envoy and the local government were modeled after the center, and there was a special department in charge of the yamen, called the six rooms.

Officials, households, soldiers, workers, rituals, and punishments.

It's just that in this five-year reform, the six central ministries have become ten, and the cabinet has given a document to the local government, adding them according to the situation, and it is not necessary to set up ten rooms.

However, Suzhou is located in the south of Zhili, near Nanjing and is a big mansion, so it is naturally ten rooms.

"There is no problem in terms of annual revenue, but the five-year plan is imminent, and the progress of my Suzhou Mansion is too sluggish at the moment, so the government has some ideas, and I will discuss it with you."

Wang Yusen motioned for a few people to sit down, and his own small officials served tea, and only after they were all settled down did Wang Yusen continue to speak.

"This year, our Suzhou government has released a total of 700,000 stone of grain, 550,000 taels of silver, a number of silk, cloth and silk, and a total income of nearly 1 million taels, which is 16 more than the five years of Jianwen, barely reaching the plan of the cabinet's apportionment."

Saying that, Wang Yusen also looked around, and found that everyone had a relaxed look on their faces, so he laughed.

"What? Do you think you can sit back and relax after this year's errand? This year's barely up to standard, next year's barely up to the standard, the five-year plan is over, the Suzhou government is stuck in the cabinet's red line, and your position under the ass is stable, but if you want to be promoted, there is absolutely no hope. ”

At this moment, the faces of this group of bureaucrats became solemn.

That's right, after five years of hard work, you can't be promoted, so what's the point of doing it in the past five years?

"Did you read the begging three days ago?"

As soon as everyone did not respond, Wang Yusen knew the result, and the group of bureaucrats in Suzhou was so lacking in political acumen that they were even too lazy to even look at the retribution.

"It's not the end of the year, it's too busy, it's not."

As soon as Han Xu spoke, he saw Wang Yusen frowning: "The official has a saying, the so-called burying one's head in pulling a car is better than looking up at the road, seeking truth is the vane of the career, how do you know where to do the next step if you don't look at it?" If you don't do it right, you're stupid.

Let me tell you that this year's income of the Guangdong Political Envoy Department is a full five percent more than last year! ”

Inside the hall, there was a sound of gasping cold air.

"Impossible."

"Five-in-five? Guangdong should not be confiscated by the homes of wealthy businessmen. ”

"After the ban on business, Guangdong's annual income in the past two years has reached a new high every year, where can there be so much spare time?"

In the midst of the discussion, several people came to their senses, they were arguing about what they were arguing about, Wang Yusen said that he got the news from the Qiushi newspaper, and asked Wang Yusen if it was over.

"What did Guangdong do?"

"That's a lot."

Wang Yusen looked at the shocked faces of several people, and chuckled: "The Guangdong political envoy Si Yamen took the lead in contributing the money, and the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce jointly funded the Guangzhou Shipyard to build 20 warships and 50 cao transport ships, supporting the trade of the Fujian and Zhejiang Naval Divisions and the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau in the South Seas, making great profits, and also greatly encouraging business activities. ”

Now everyone has lost their temper, no wonder Guangdong has paid so much tax this year, who makes people dare to fight.

"This official estimates that next year the cabinet will issue a document praising the spirit of Guangdong."

Wang Yusen pointed to the crown on his head: "Everyone, if you want to be promoted and change your hat, please bother with it, think about our unique conditions in Suzhou, how can we go further." Just staring at the land, how much silver can be grown. ”

If you don't want to be an official to climb higher, then what are you trying to do as an official?

Serving the people?

That's just the duty at work, who doesn't have ambition to enter the career, who doesn't want to rise to the top, Wenhua handle the country?

"Five years of hard work, when you get to the mix, you can't get up or down, no merit, how many five years do you have?"

Wang Yusen stimulated: "The official is not in a hurry, there are still decades away from the red line of Zhishi's age, if you want to retire peacefully, and receive a sum of money from Zhishi every year in the future to tease your grandson, then everyone has their own ambitions." ”

If there is hope for progress, who wants to stand still, if Guangdong makes such achievements every year, then all the ways for promotion will be taken up by Guangdong.

"Fuzun don't sell Guanzi, if there is a good plan, we will fully support Fuzun."

"Expand the production of Jiangnan Weaving Bureau Suzhou Textile Division."

Wang Yusen threw a bombshell: "Suzhou embroidery has always been the top textile product of our Ming Dynasty, and it is also the façade of our Suzhou Mansion. ”

Expansion of Jiangnan Weaving Bureau Suzhou Textile Division?

Several people all took a look, and Han Xu frowned.

"Fuzun's proposal is indeed very good, but where is it so easy to expand production? Suzhou embroidery to the workmanship of the material to the world, hasty on the horse to expand production, once the quality is poor, the signboard can be all smashed. ”

"Who said that there was going to be a hasty production, isn't there still four years left in the planning time?"

Wang Yusen was noncommittal, and explained: "In recent years, my Ming Dynasty private rich businessmen have been increasing day by day, the output of Suzhou embroidery has obviously not kept up with the demand, the expansion of production is an imminent matter, and the ability to weave Suzhou embroidery women has been insufficient, so the government intends to borrow a group of skilled embroidery women from the major cloth merchants in Suzhou to study in the textile division, their textiles for ordinary people, from anywhere can recruit workers, will not affect their production. ”

A few people got together to discuss, and there were a lot of worries.

"The man-hours of weaving a horse of Suzhou embroidery, at least five women do it for a few days, I don't know how much Fuzun plans to increase the output of Suzhou embroidery at the moment?"

"Triple as much!"

Several people couldn't sit still and jumped, and the amount Wang Yusen said scared them.

"In this way, almost half of the embroidery girls in Suzhou will be withdrawn, can those cloth merchants be willing?"

"They can recruit from the society."

Wang Yusen said his bold idea: "Moreover, not only Suzhou embroidery should be expanded, but ordinary silk cloth should also be expanded.

The official thinks, by our Suzhou government to take the lead in funding, to build a large spinning mill, the major cloth merchants into the shares, the output is distributed according to the proportion, experienced embroidery girls are we recruited close to the Suzhou embroidery textile division, this new spinning mill is for the entire Suzhou government to recruit people, how many recruits can be recruited.

If the number of women is enough, it is the best, if it is not enough, recruit a group of half-sized children, anyway, ordinary silk cloth does not have much technical work, give them a little livelihood to do, and it can be regarded as subsidizing the family. ”

"No way!"

The Suzhou government's edict was the first to express its opposition: "Men and women are guarded, how can there be a reason for working together? ”

In these years, unless the family is really difficult and the poor can't open the pot, women will go out to be embroiderers, earn money to subsidize the family, build a large spinning mill, and it must be difficult to recruit enough women who can double the output, and now Wang Yusen actually said that the number of women is not enough to recruit half the size?

Men and women work together, they can be scolded by the people of the world in Suzhou more than the Qinglou Goulan!

"What's wrong with the co-workers?"

Wang Yusen's expression remained unchanged, and the reactions of these colleagues were completely within his impression.

"Is there bound to be adultery among co-workers? Jokes, just working together, and not sleeping in a bed, do you weave cloth in bed! ”

He slapped the table and glared, and the lobby was really quiet.

After a pause, seeing that there were signs of wanting to cool off, Wang Yusen's tone softened a lot: "Of course, in order not to cause too much uproar, let those cloth merchants and landlords in the countryside support the work of our government office, sell all the maids in their house to us, and count them as shares in the new spinning mill, how about it?" ”

There are still hundreds of wealthy businessmen in Suzhou, and it is completely easy for each family to get together and get together a few thousand maids.

"Think for yourself."

Wang Yusen picked up the tea bowl, and his tone was much more indifferent: "Either stick to the rules and wait for death with the old gadgets, or have the courage to change and rush out in this first five-year plan.

If you want to be promoted, you still want to be promoted, you choose for yourself. ”

"With so many women at home, how much manpower they have to spare, they have to spend money when they come out to make money, and if they spend money, they will have more wealth circulation, and more taxes. The wages we pay are not as good as the revenue from the production of silk cloth, and we are afraid that we will not be able to hand over a beautiful report card? ”

Wang Yusen's words still moved a few people's hearts, yes, now this juncture is the time point when everything is subject to the completion of the plan and the overcompletion of the plan.

Economic performance is hard indicator performance!

If you want to make progress, you must boldly reform!