Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Aftermath of the Imperial Council

Zhu Qizhen convened this imperial meeting for two purposes, one of which was to carry out a pilot project for military reform.

In addition to the Fujian War, the hereditary generals were killed on the battlefield, and those who did not have a good life were also charged, plus Jiao Hong was there, and there were 15,000 soldiers in the Beijing battalion. There are also henchmen Guo Deng, Fang Jin, and Li Xinnai who are a large number of martial arts students.

There is a name, there is a name, and there are people. There is an opportunity and a timing, not to mention anything else, if anyone is disobedient, just transfer them to the mountains to fight two battles.

Those who are really capable will naturally stand out, and they don't have to worry about it themselves.

Even if the movement is a little bigger, you can still hold it if you want to.

This long-planned purpose. With the assistance of Xu Xi, the secretary of the military department, it was naturally completed.

The other one is Shaofu.

Before he set up a yamen to manage all the royal factories, he carefully sorted out the various factories that Ouchi was in charge of.

In Zhu Qizhen's view, it can be divided into two categories.

Some are in the mainland, and some are in other places. For example, the weaving bureaus in various places, the brick factories in Linqing and Suzhou, the porcelain factories in Jingdezhen, and the newly built woolen mill in Lanzhou in Zhuqi Town.

Wait a minute. These were managed by eunuchs.

In addition, most of them are concentrated near Beijing. Directly supplied to the Imperial Palace, what Shenmu Factory, Liuli Factory, and so on.

Zhu Qizhen didn't pay attention before.

He thought that this factory, even if it was not as good as the factories of later generations, was probably in the form of a workshop, but there should be no problems. But he has precisely the problem.

The problem is that the craftsmen who work in these workshops are not workers. Or there is no concept of a worker at all in this era.

Most of them were errand laborers of craftsmen from all over the world.

Therefore, the eunuchs who are responsible for managing the workshops and killing a few people are all trivial matters.

What happened in the Daming mine has never been an exception, it is a common phenomenon. However, the work above the mine is the hardest and most dangerous, and the same situation can be maintained in ordinary workshops, but not in the mines.

Faced with such a situation, Zhu Qizhen, after weighing the pros and cons, no longer cares about the extension of civil officials to the inner court. This, in his opinion, is a seriously deformed survival relationship, if not changed.

He wants to push society forward, and it's like a fish for a fish.

And it's not just the palace, the workshops of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, are they better? No, it's a raccoon dog, fifty steps and a hundred steps.

It is nothing more than that civil officials are a little higher than eunuchs in average quality, but the problem is that the craftsmen are directly managed. Most of them are petty officials, and their faces are no better than those of eunuchs.

Zhu Qizhen actually discovered it, and he always watched

knows what the real Da Ming looks like, what he can see clearly is only the Da Ming in the twists and turns, in various reports, even if he tries his best, he doesn't see through one layer too much.

But there are many things that everyone is accustomed to, and things that will not appear on the folds, Zhu Qizhen can rarely see them.

However, Zhu Qizhen is no longer what he used to be, and he has long been unable to see a little sand in his eyes, and when he sees the place to change, he rushes to do it.

That's why he has been brewing for half a year to strike a blow.

The problem of mining tax must be solved, and Yang Pu must have come to see him this time, it must be for this matter.

It's just that there are some things that have to be discussed in private.

After Yang Pu came, after a few words of greeting, he got to the point, and said, "Your Majesty, what does Your Majesty want about this mining tax?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "That's it. ”

Yang Pu frowned slightly, wanting to discern what Zhu Qizhen said in detail, but what it looked like.

Yang Pu secretly speculated in his heart, thinking that Zhu Qizhen was probably dissatisfied with the continuous loss of Ouchi's financial revenue.

After all, from the time of the Empress Dowager, all the silver flowed into Ouchi, and now the palace is full every year, but it is only about four million taels.

There are many ceremonial expenses for maintaining such a large palace, which is quite enough.

But Yang Pu knew that no matter which emperor he was, the more money he could use directly, the better, and the emperor was naturally dissatisfied with the hundreds of thousands of taels of money cut from the inner court out of thin air.

Yang Pu didn't want to pay for the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Yang Pu's thoughts are no different from those of most civil officials, that is, the expenses of the palace are enough, so why bother? Even if the money is spent on the nine sides to repair the city wall, it is better than repairing the palace.

It's just that the emperor meant, did he acquiesce and maintain the status quo, but wait for the limelight to pass and open the mine again? Yang Pu couldn't figure it out for a while

Yang Pu's heart turned and said: "Your Majesty, this time in the Ye Thief Rebellion, the ministers are already a place with many loopholes, mines all over the country, thousands of people gathered, and no one in the local government is in charge?" Let it cause a catastrophe, and the minister thinks that it is not too late to make amends. When there are mines in the prefecture and county, there are many counties, Tongzhi, specializing in the management of mines in various places. What does Your Majesty think of this disaster? ”

Zhu Qizhen listened, but knew that he couldn't avoid it.

Once the mine is included in the local management, think about it, how the local government will manage it, and the wind of the mining ban is so loud? Many civil servants have this idea

And Zhu Qizhen also knew that there was no one in this mine now, that is, the miners at that time followed Ye Liuzong to rebel, but it was difficult for no one to be there after a long time.

After all, Fujian is not a place else, but a well-known narrow township, and the population density is quite large.

Beizhili was thirty in the last year of Hongwu

34,000 households, and the number of households in Fujian Province in the last years of Hongwu was 815,000, which means that the population of the entire Fujian is more than twice that of Hebei.

This is also the side explanation of why the people of Shaxian County will change.

This is also the reason why the tradition of infantile drowning in Fujian is so famous.

So, it doesn't take long, and in order to make a living, naturally some people don't care about the so-called mine ban.

Zhu Qizhen's original intention was just that it would be difficult to make another mess when the mine was reopened in the future.

Zhu Qizhen said: "What Mr. means, I know, but there are some things, but I can't deceive people, since I came into power, I first assigned customs and other taxes to the household department, and then appointed the household department to establish the Taicang treasury, it can be said that now, the internal and external money and grain warp and weft are distinct, the imperial court into the household seven out of ten, three out of ten into the interior. I didn't use a sum of money from the transfer department to use it for Ouchi. ”

"But there is a reward in the palace, and it is out of the inner carrier."

"My inner carrier warehouse, is not a mountain of gold and silver, today is exempt from mining tax, tomorrow I don't know what to exempt, is it enshrined in various places, Jiangnan weaving, all are exempted, let me and the Queen Mother drink the northwest wind?"

Yang Pu could only say to Zhu Qizhen: "What Your Majesty said is very true. ”

In this regard, Zhu Qizhen has done a good job.

Zhu Qizhen is doing things above the imperial court, naturally he is lavish, but there are few things to do in the palace, and in the entire Forbidden City, since entering orthodoxy, the most is to restore the old system during the Taizong period. No new temple was ever built, at most a few farms were built, one or two small pavilions.

Ouchi's real spending is still on marrying the queen and the funeral of the queen mother.

But such a major event is actually a state affair. Even if Zhu Qizhen wants to be frugal, the ministers of the court will not let it, and he can't lose the dignity of the Heavenly Empire.

Although Zhu Qizhen's frugality is different from the tight clothing diet that ordinary people understand. But compared to some emperors, it is already quite good, at least Zhu Qizhen did not build a Buddhist temple. Ouchi has a balance every year.

In Yang Pu's opinion, it is not bad, even better than Emperor Xuanzong.

Emperor Xuanzong was a generous literary emperor.

Zhu Qizhen said: "So what does Mr. want me to do?" ”

Yang Pu said: "In the opinion of the ministers, it is better to let the local government and county open the mine on their behalf, and the annual mining tax will be replenished by the household department." Your Majesty, why do you think so? ”

What Yang Pu said seems to be good.

But Zhu Qizhen knows very well that what is the difference between this money being pulled from the household department to Ouchi and Zhu Qizhen transferring money from the household department?

It's all in the hands of someone else.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Sir, if you talk about this, you don't need to mention it again, Mr. should go and rest early." ”

Yang Pu immediately heard a hint of extraneous sound from Zhu Qizhen's words, and he asked cautiously, "Your Majesty, what do you want?" ”