Chapter 59: The Dark Tide

Zhou Chen clearly felt that Zhu Qizhen was reluctant to give up the income from the gold and silver mines. On the other hand, I don't want to continue mining.

It's not a good idea.

It can be said that the emperor is far away, and most of these mines are in the deep mountains and old forests, and no one knows how many people have died.

Even now, there are still black coal mines.

In this era, the mine supervisor went directly to the palace, and the magistrate did not dare to ask about many things.

In such a situation, even the best policies cannot be guaranteed to be implemented.

For many eunuchs, no matter what they do, as long as they can get money, it is a good way, and they don't care whether there is blood on it.

This imbalance of checks and balances makes all solutions not solutions.

Zhou Chen said cautiously: "The minister thinks that the matter of the mine is related to local security, and a county should be set up in the local area to be in charge of the mine." ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he naturally understood the meaning of Zhou Chen's words, what he meant was to hand over the mine to the local system.

Is this a good solution?

Zhu Qizhen doesn't think it's good.

First of all, if the mine is transferred to the local government, can the virtue of the local officials be guaranteed?

The most important thing is that when the mine reaches the local system, the gold and silver handed over by the mine may have to go to the household first, and then enter Ouchi.

Normally, this is not a problem.

But in some cases, it doesn't have to be.

There are really ministers who dare to embezzle Ouchi's money, and never underestimate the courage of these civil officials.

Moreover, Zhu Qizhen's output of the mine is still based on high hopes, after all, there are many gold mines in the Northeast. Zhu Qizhen didn't know where these gold mines were, but he thought that as a large number of people entered the Northeast, these gold mines would naturally be discovered, and the development of industry would require a large amount of minerals.

Zhu Qizhen could not give up control of all minerals. Let the local government exercise all these powers on your behalf.

Not to mention the ambitions of the civil official group, just one point, if Zhu Qizhen wants to implement any reform, it must pass the civilian official group. It's so inconvenient.

And the mine superintendent is like this?

What is the situation of the various factories in charge of the palace? How many of them are cheating?

Zhu Qizhen gathered all kinds of factories and mines and set up a special yamen. More and more urgent.

Zhu Qizhen's mind was swirling, and he still asked with a salty expression: "Also." ”

Zhou Chen has been thinking about impeaching him in his heart, where did he think so much. It's just that Zhu Qizhen said that it is still useful, then there will definitely be, Zhou Chen said: "Among the ministers, when the mine is established, the people near the mine are included in the mine registration, exempt from other taxes, and specialize in mining, and each person sets a quota, which is higher than the quota, and the court spends money to buy." ”

Zhu Qizhen listened to this

The model is very familiar, that is, the model of the stove household.

In fact, this model is not the model of the stove household, but also the model of the craftsman, the Ming Dynasty set up a craftsman registration, the craftsmen have to come to Beijing to serve, and the imperial court gives Weibo wages and material money.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the money given by the imperial court was often not enough, and the craftsmen had to sell their sons and daughters to fill the pit inside, and it was not flat, so the quality of the Daming firearms can be imagined.

Zhu Qizhen naturally refused to do this.

In Zhu Qizhen's view, it is right to establish a household registration file, but the division is too detailed, and it is not right.

What military nationality, civilian nationality, can still be understood, but what kind of music nationality, cheap nationality, craftsman nationality, yin and yang people, and so on. Emperor Taizu wanted the people below to inherit their father's business from generation to generation, which was extremely inhumane.

Zhu Qizhen doesn't have the ability to abolish it now, so why should there be another one?

Zhu Qizhen admitted that Zhou Chen's method may be able to reduce the burden on the people, but it is not what he wants.

Since Zhou Chen's method, Zhu Qizhen was not satisfied, and Zhu Qizhen could only come according to his own ideas. He secretly said in his heart: "This time, Liu Dingzhi only needs to take credit for establishing in Fu, and after he comes back, I will make him a Shaofu Cheng." ”

Zhou Chen couldn't help it anymore and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a lot of affection. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Say." ”

Zhou Chen said: "On the side of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, someone has already jointly played a joint performance to impeach the ministers and guide the monarch to evil, and to expropriate violently, so that the people of Fujian have changed. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, his first feeling was that this was not for Zhou Chen, but for him.

Zhou Chen is just a person who does things.

The person who really leads these policies is Zhu Qizhen.

Since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he has been trying to find a way to open source financely. With the efforts of Zhu Qizhen, the financial income of the imperial court was 23 million stone grain and 123 million taels of silver, which exceeded nearly 10 million taels during the Xuande period.

There are so many things that can be done with this ten million taels.

In fact, this kind of fiscal policy has caused dissatisfaction among many people.

However, Zhu Qizhen was in the core layer, taking the threat of tile spurs as an example, but let the core layer support Zhu Qizhen.

After all, Yang Pu, an old minister, has all fought. I know that when there is a war, even the gold and silver mountains will be empty.

Even if he didn't come at him, Zhu Qizhen had to keep Zhou Chen.

Because of Zhou Chen's ability, Zhu Qizhen couldn't do without him at all.

Although Zhou Chen's ability in the salt tax impressed Zhu Qizhen. But what really amazed Zhu Qizhen was that Zhou Chen was abolishing the treasure money and establishing the silver standard system.

This one thing, there is no ripple at all. Perfection is smooth over.

And although the treasure banknote is now a piece of waste paper, but before the treasure banknote, it was the legal tender of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, the treasure banknote was still very valuable in the Hongwu period, and it was in the early stage of Yongle

There is a certain depreciation, but it can still be used, and what really makes him unusable is the astronomical expenses brought by the Yongle Northern Expedition.

The taxes paid by the imperial court at that time could not offset the expenses at all.

At that time, the only financial life-saving straw was treasure money, so the treasure money was issued indiscriminately, but how much was issued, Zhu Qizhen couldn't check the specific data, anyway, there were many, many people.

Many people think that the depreciation of treasure banknotes is because the imperial court will only release and will not accept them, but in fact, throughout the Xuande period, the imperial court has been recovering treasure banknotes and trying to recover the value of treasure banknotes.

It's just that once the credit is bankrupt, it is irretrievable.

Before Zhou Chen did this thing, Zhu Qizhen didn't think it was of much use, but Zhou Chen was the head of the household, and it was impossible for Zhu Qizhen to make them completely obedient if he was a minister in this position. Nor do they need to be completely obedient.

Only the minions are completely obedient.

Zhou Chen has this idea, and Zhu Qizhen doesn't see the drawbacks, so if he wants to do it as a household secretary, Zhu Qizhen can still stop it.

Only after doing it did Zhu Qizhen find out.

Without a sound financial system, whether it is the mobilization of grain or silver, it is all abolished. What Zhou Chen did was not only to abolish the treasure banknotes, but to let the silver two silver dollars replace the treasure money as legal tender and rebuild a financial system.

With this set of financial system, the rapid growth of Ming taxation was made possible.

With such a talent, how could Zhu Qizhen let some words from the people below ruin it.

Zhu Qizhen said lightly: "I know, and now it's not yet the fifteenth time to open the government, Qing will go back and rest for a few days, and when the government opens, I will definitely give you an explanation." ”

Zhou Chen listened to Zhu Qizhen's words, and immediately saluted Zhu Qizhen and said, "Thank you, Lord Longen." ”

Zhu Qizhen sent Zhou Chen away.

To be honest, Zhu Qizhen was very disgusted with some imperial historians. Feeling extremely annoyed by these people's fingers, he deliberately took the opportunity to clean up.

But when he thought of the current internal and external troubles, the tile spur was aggressive, and Uliangha was officially attached to the tile thorn. And this kind of thing happened here in Fujian.

All of a sudden, all of Zhu Qizhen's trust in the local government was shattered.

Next year, the governors of various provinces and local officials who will be dispatched from various places will inevitably contribute to the efforts of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and if they are really swept away, I am afraid that the new ones will not dare to speak.

Zhu Qizhen thought about it, but he still wrote a note by himself and asked someone to give it to Yang Pu.

Recently, there have been a lot of major events in the imperial court, one case after another, Zhu Qizhen doesn't want to make big changes in the imperial court, and he doesn't want to come to Yang Pu.

Yang Pu came out, and this thing naturally disappeared silently.

After the opening of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it was as if all the previous tandems did not exist. Just doing this, it is only the contradiction that has been temporarily suppressed, and it will erupt sooner or later in the future.