In the Wenhua Palace, the four cabinet ministers packed up the political affairs to be reported for the day, and according to the routine, they had to go to the Jinshen Hall to have a small court meeting with Zhu Yunwen for about an hour.

The Great Dynasty Meeting was held once a month, but the Small Dynasty Meeting was held once a day, and its scope was limited to Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, and four cabinet ministers, and this small court was privately called the 'Council of Five' by the outer court.

The major events of the Ming Dynasty are basically decided by this small meeting, and the real court meeting is basically not used for deliberations, but more for reading out the edict.

That is, the state affairs decided by the five-person meeting will be directly announced at the court meeting, and the various ministries and leaders can go down and implement them. Or it can be used to announce new appointments.

"A few elders, Your Majesty has a will, today's small court meeting is just that."

As soon as the four of them walked out of the hall together, they met a little eunuch who ran errands, and the latter brought them a word of Zhu Yunwen's message.

Yang Shiqi stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, can you tell me the reason?" ”

The emperor is diligent, and generally does not stop the small court meeting, and since he ascended the throne, except for the days when he was not in Beijing, he has basically not slackened.

"Zheng and Zheng Gonggong have returned from Arabia, and they are waiting outside the Qianqing Gate early in the morning, and His Majesty said that he will talk to Zheng Gonggong about maritime affairs today."

"Okay, got it."

waved off the little eunuch, and the four had to turn around and return to the Wenhua Palace.

"Your Majesty has always attached great importance to the sea, and as soon as Zheng Sanbao comes back from fighting Arabia, Your Majesty will not even hold a small court meeting."

With a smile, Yang Shiqi took out a transcript on his desk that he was going to talk about at the small court meeting and said: "I just received a question book from the Quanzhou Shipping Department from the General Administration Department, and I am planning to report to Your Majesty." ”

"Quanzhou Shipping Division?"

Quanzhou Shipping Division is the important place of Daming, Yang Shiqi mentioned, Yu Xin took over: "What's wrong?" ”

"Geng Jiang, the transfer envoy of the Quanzhou Shipping Division, and Lu Dahu, the commander of the Quanzhou Naval Division, were taken into the Jinyiwei prison a few days ago."

As if it was just an insignificant little official who was taken down, Yang Shiqi said very casually: "This information was sent to the General Administration Department by the Yamen of Quanzhou Mansion last night, and I was planning to report it to His Majesty this morning, and it is estimated that His Majesty should have known it from Zheng He now." ”

There was a sudden burst of discussion in the Wenhua Palace.

"Take it to the Jinyi Guard prison? Quanzhou Shipping Division is the top priority of my Ming Dynasty's finance, taxation and commerce, this Fujian Jinyiwei is simply playing the piano, what qualifications do they have to take people. ”

The first one to jump out and shout was Li Zirong, the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation, who said angrily: "Since Geng Jiang took office, the work of the Quanzhou Shipping Division has always been very good, and the tax revenue has risen year by year. ”

"Who took it?"

didn't express his position at the first time, Yu Xin was more concerned about who was so bold and directly won the two local tigers in Quanzhou.

Yang Shiqi glanced at him, without the slightest expression on his face: "Settle down and speak." ”

The president of the Quanzhou Huangshang Branch?

Yu Xinleng paused, what qualifications does the president of a chamber of commerce have to send these two people to the prison of Jinyiwei, isn't this nonsense.

"It's just lawlessness."

The noise in the Wenhua Hall was even heavier: "Even if he is a relative, what qualifications does he have to meddle in local affairs, the four elders, this matter should be reported to Your Majesty in time, and the crime of overstepping the law and order will be determined." ”

The big guy is still relatively restrained, only talking about exceeding the rules, not about arbitrariness.

The former is at most a bargain, but the latter is going to lose his head, don't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, in the end, he is the uncle of the country, and there is a concubine standing behind him.

"Where is the exceedance, but don't forget that An Dingbo himself left the capital from the position of the Imperial Commander Jinyi Wei Baihu."

Yang Shiqi smiled: "In the past few years, no one has known who the commander of Fujian's Jinyi Guard is, and now this is not surfacing people." ”

The cabinet of the Jinyi Wei system in the provinces has always been unclear, this is directly under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Front Division, and the cabinet has never intervened.

Between the inner court and the outer court, there is restraint.

"In the past few years, Jinyiwei has enforced the law at will, and if he wants to take people, he will take people, which has made the local people panic, how to govern and govern the country."

Li Zirong was not light, and he did not care about Gu Yu's identity at all: "Whether the officials directly under the central government have made mistakes, whether they have made mistakes, according to the constitution, they should be sent to the Metropolitan Procuratorate with the Metropolitan Procuratorate in conjunction with the Criminal Department, and finally the three legal divisions will review the conviction together and submit it to the cabinet for approval."

In the past, many officials at the prefectural and county levels did not even understand the local provincial inspection department, and the Jinyiwei Hundred Households began to take people, but now it is good, even the Quanzhou Shipping Department directly under the central government, Jinyiwei can arrest it if he wants.

If you do this in the future, then you will have to inspect everything and what you want according to the Inspectorate. Wouldn't it be over to directly let Jinyiwei settle in the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division? ”

The functions of the local procuratorial departments are similar to those of the public procuratorate and the judicial department in later generations, while the functions of Jinyiwei have changed more like the discipline inspection commission over the years.

The supervision of the private sector and the supervision of business began to become more and more relaxed, and more manpower was used for the internal supervision of officials, which can be said to make the local government miserable.

There is Jinyiwei in the place, and there is the West Factory in Nanjing, and no one in these two units knows how many people there are, or how many eyeliners have been recruited and trained.

It may be a pawn of a peddler, or it may be a Qinglou actor, or even a concubine of these first- and second-class masters.

Everyone is scared and panicked.

Yang Shiqi looked at Li Zirong and had a bad premonition in his heart.

The secretary of the Ministry of Taxation, who picked it up by himself, reacted too violently on this matter.

This Li Zirong seems to be the same scholar as Geng Jiang, and before he was recorded, he really wanted to be a fellow brother taught by a fellow teacher in the same township school, right?

With a sigh in his heart, Yang Shiqi's face became a little ugly.

He was a little irritable after he got the transcript of the General Administration Department last night, not because he was worried about Geng Jiang's fall, even if the latter was from Jiangxi.

There are tens of thousands of officials in the Jiangxi Party, how can they all be Bao Zheng?

It is normal to have corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the fall of just one official cannot become a stain on the Jiangxi Party, and what annoys Yang Shiqi is the identity of Gu Yu, who took Geng Jiang to prison.

A relative, and the identity of the power of the Emperor's Shang Sect.

His action could never be just a simple meaning of performing his duties on the surface.

And now, Li Zirong's reaction has made Yang Shiqi's worries even heavier.

Pull out the radish and bring out the mud, will the clan relatives take this opportunity to make a big moth?

Fujian is adjacent to Jiangxi and Zhejiang, these years of prosperous commerce, Fuzhou, Quanzhou two ports can be called the Ming Dynasty two important land of finance and taxation, which has a rich interest, has been Jiangxi Party and Zhejiang Party remembered. It's just that the party in Jiangxi is powerful, and the important officials of the two governments are all Jiangxi scholars.

And now that Geng Jiang has fallen, the Zhejiang Party may not be able to see the same muzzle as him Yang Shiqi, and if he does not fall into the ground, it will be considered benevolent and righteous.

"Eh, the normal exercise of supervision and investigation powers by the Jinyi Guards in various provinces is also licensed by the imperial power, how can it affect the normal governance?"

Yan Zhen opened his mouth and said: "As long as the local ministers sit upright, are you still afraid that the Jinyi Weixing will be in a nameless prison, and you can't frame it?" ”

"Elder Yang Ge."

Li Zirong stood up and saluted: "The lower officials still suggest that the affairs of the Quanzhou Shipping Division should be examined by the Three Law Divisions, and should not be handed over to Jinyiwei, so as to avoid the matter of torture and torture to extract confessions." ”

This Geng Jiang really has a lot to do with it!

Yang Shiqi raised his hand a little irritably: "This matter in Quanzhou, the cabinet has not yet been reported to His Majesty in the Jinshen Palace, how to deal with the holy will has not yet been issued, what kind of heart do you?" This Wenhua Hall is used for governance, not for quarrelling, one by one nonsense, what is it like! ”

said that he was reprimanding Li Zirong, but Yang Shiqi's eyes kept staring at Yan Zhenzhi.

Pointing to Sang and scolding Huai, what do you say I am also the first assistant of the cabinet, and before I opened my mouth, it was not your turn to sing a high note.

Before Yan Zhenzhi could retort and ridicule, he saw the admonishing eyes of his eldest brother Yu Xin, so he honestly sat in his place and went to approve the recital.

Mandarin Palace, once again open the methodical work mode.

And the Quanzhou issue that they attach more importance to, in the Qianqing Palace at this time, whether it is Zhu Yunwen or Zheng He, they are too lazy to say it.

The master and servant were chatting about maritime affairs with great interest.

The main thing is that the former is saying, Zhu Yunwen listens quietly.

"This time the slave maid went to Arabia, and obtained a total of thirteen nautical charts, which led to different places, and in addition to expanding these nautical charts, the slave and maid also recruited and bought a large number of people from all over the country in the far west of Arabia."

Zheng He's eyebrows fluttered and he introduced: "There are blonde people and blue-eyed people, people who are all black, they have different skin colors, different hair colors, and even more diverse languages. ”

When it comes to language translation, it is definitely the biggest problem facing Daming at the moment.

What are the main European languages?

Germanic languages, English languages, French languages, West Slavic languages, etc., can be called a variety of languages, and there are more than a dozen of them.

In the beginning, in order to understand these things, you had to find two interpreters in the middle of the conversation.

That is, Arabic speakers who speak European languages translate these words into Arabic, and those who speak Chinese translate Arabic into Chinese.

That's the trouble.

In order to reduce the communication barrier in the middle, Zheng He learned Arabic himself.

I have to say that Zheng He is really a language genius, otherwise he would not have traveled half the world in history and traveled smoothly in Europe, Asia and Africa.

"Right now, the slave is trying to study in other language families, and I have found more than a dozen teachers for this."

Zhu Yunwen nodded again and again: "Learning the languages of other countries and nationalities is a big project, and it is not something that can be achieved in a day, but you can't learn alone, do you organize others to study together." ”

"The slaves and maids in the fleet have recruited dozens of slaves and maids who have this kind of field endowment, and they all have their own achievements at the moment."

Everything is difficult at the beginning, no matter how difficult it is to learn a foreign language, if you are willing to work hard and have the talent in this area, three or five years will be enough.

"The slave maid brought back about 300 people from all countries in the Far West this time, and they learned from them that many countries in the Far West suffered a huge plague in the past few decades, and they have not fully recovered, so in order to make a living, they have been looking for a way to the East."

It doesn't matter whether Marco Polo's Travels exists or not, but the Ming Dynasty, the Eastern Empire, Europeans must know about it.

Just as Zhu Yunwen has been looking for charts to go to Europe, Europeans have always been full of curiosity and yearning for the huge empire full of wealth recorded in the mysterious East recorded in the book.

Isn't the plague the Black Death of the 14th century?

Zhu Yunwen raised his eyebrows, this plague caused the death of more than 30% of the population in Europe, and also caused the religious doctrine of God to fall from the altar.

The mainstream system in Europe began to gradually change from feudalism to capital (mercantilism), and various related academic theories before the revival of literature and art sprung up, followed by the academic explosion, and the Renaissance entered its heyday.

"I've pushed all the activities today, let's have a good chat."

Zhu Yunwen must unveil the mysterious veil hanging on the face of Europe during this period, and he must know whether Europe at this time has started the journey of modernization and progress, and if so, then to what point has it come to.