Chapter 104: Zhou Chen

When Wang Zhi arrived, it was almost dark.

Zhu Qizhen asked: "In the current situation, how can Mr. teach me?" ”

Wang Zhi said: "Your Majesty has not already made up your mind. South Yang instead of West Yang. ”

Nanyang is Yang Pu, and Xiyang is naturally Yang Shiqi.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Mr. thinks, who is up and down between Xiyang and Nanyang?" ”

Wang Zhi said: "The minister does not dare to speak presumptuously about the minister. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Mr. commented on ancient characters at the beginning, so ruthless, why is this the case today? Now it's not the monarch and the minister, but you and I teachers and students chatting? ”

Wang Zhi said: "Xiyang is magnificent, with power and conspiracy, but his public is enough to win the private, hold the righteousness of the world, become the affairs of the world, and the house of this dynasty is also." ”

Nan Yang is ambitious, but he is a little anxious, it seems that during the Yongle period, ten years of imprisonment made him change his temperament. The minister didn't care about the hypocrisy, but he regarded it as a tiger. ”

"Tigers are meant to eat people. This is especially true of Hungry Tigers. ”

Zhu Qizhen also remembered some of Yang Pu's experience, Yang Pu was sent to prison by Emperor Taizong because he angered Emperor Taizong, and he lived for ten years.

At that time, many ministers had such an experience, such as Yang Shiqi, Xia Yuanji and others, all of whom had the experience of visiting the imperial prison, but no one lived for ten years like Yang Pu.

Twenty years ago, ten years. But it was the most essential time of Yang Pu's life, he was in prison, reading the scriptures and history over and over again, after being released from prison, the sea of eunuchs rose and fell, and under Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong, in the fight between the two bigwigs, he could only be cautious and cautious in order to protect himself.

No matter how many words you make.

Thinking about it like this, this Yang Xie Yuan felt depressed in his chest, and he didn't know how many years he had been holding it back.

Zhu Qizhen understood Yang Pu a lot at the moment. secretly said in his heart: "If Yang Pu and I are of the same mind, I may not be able to help Yang Pu and make him a famous face in the world, but it depends on how Yang Pu chooses himself." ”

Zhu Qizhen diverted the topic and said: "Liu Zhongfu, the head of the household, intends to be a scholar, in the opinion of Mr., who can replace him?" ”

Wang Zhi was stunned for a moment.

He is in charge of the household department, and it can be said that there are many things in the household department, and he knows more than Zhu Qizhen, and he has never heard of the household department's Shangshu to give advice.

However, his head turned quickly, and for a moment he seemed to think of something, so he naturally didn't ask, and said: "Wang Zuo, the head of the household, is proficient in all things like money and food, and can be a scholar on his behalf." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Sir, there is one thing, do you know? ”

Wang Zhi said, "Your Majesty, please speak." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Uliangha and Wathorn have married, and it is estimated that the wedding will be in this month or two. ”

If last year's news was still a rumor, it has now become a reality. However, at the speed of transmission at that time, the news had not yet reached Beijing.

Wang Zhi naturally didn't know

Road.

When Wang Zhi heard this, he immediately frowned, pondered for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty, you can't allow Uliangha and Varspur to be one. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "I have this intention, so I have to throw a mouse bogey." The tile spur is known as 440,000 riders, even though there are some imaginary numbers, but more than 200,000 riders, there are still some. ”

"Tile Thorn is also first, he can be regarded as a hero, in just a few years, he integrated Mongolia, and after marrying Uliangha, he will go westward in a big way."

"Now Chagatai is still in the Western Regions, and once the tile thorn sweeps the Western Regions, it will invade the south on a large scale, and it will be a situation where the scourge of war is connected."

"But what is my Daming's financial resources, you also know, is it enough for a big war?"

Wang Zhi secretly said in his heart: "If you don't want to repair the Hebei Water Conservancy, the money in the inner treasury is enough to fight." It's just that Wang Zhi naturally won't say it.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Although the war is still a few years away, there are some preparations, and we can't do it until the end of the day, so I need a minister who manages money." ”

"It's just, why did Mr. Wang teach me?"

Wang Zhi touched his beard for a while before he said: "I heard that Dongli Gong said that there is a person, who is Zhou Chen, who is now the governor of Jiangnan. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Zhou Chen. ”

Wang Zhi said: "Dongli Gong once said that no one in the world can surpass the ministers of financial management. His Majesty's ministers who want to manage money are none other than Zhou Chen. ”

"It's just --------"

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's just what's wrong? ”

Wang Zhi said: "Zhou Chen's reputation is not very good. ”

Zhu Qizhen flipped his brain, he didn't know how many twists and turns he read a day, and not any name left traces in Zhu Qizhen's heart.

Otherwise, Jane would not be so important in the emperor's heart.

However, he still remembered Zhou Chen. Not because of Zhou Chen's ability to manage money, but because of his integrity, he said: "It is with Hangzhou Zhong, and called Zhou Chen." ”

"The people call it Qingtian?"

Wang Zhi said: "Exactly. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened, then got up and walked into the bookshelf on the side.

Immediately a little eunuch held a lamp and candle to illuminate it.

It turned out that Zhu Qizhen and Wang Zhi were chatting and chatting, and it was already night.

Zhu Qizhen's figure disappeared into the layers of bookshelves, Zhu Qizhen looked at the nameplate on the bookshelf, which wrote Nan Zhili, and then flipped through it again, and then took out a letter, but it was to impeach Zhou Chen.

Zhu Qizhen took a closer look, but he impeached Zhou Chen for changing the ancestral system and levying more rice and grain. Zhu Qizhen immediately smiled: "Sure enough, the reputation is not good." ”

Zhu Qizhen hurriedly flipped through several letters of impeachment. Most of them were attacks on Zhou Chen's reform of the taxation system in Yunnan.

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen greatly appreciates Zhou Chen.

Because it's very simple, look at a person, the best way,

It doesn't have to be about who his friends are, it's not about who his enemies are.

Zhou Chen is a clean official, to what extent is a clean official. Known as the blue sky.

Although the Ming Dynasty was well governed in this era, there were only three or five people who were embraced by the people, Yu Qian was one of them, and Zhou Chen and Guo Zhong were also two or three of them.

Zhou Chen's reputation among the people is so good, even Jinyiwei has reported it. said that Zhou Chen was going to be an official somewhere, he went alone first, paid a private interview, and asked the people the most bitter.

And then it will definitely be resolved.

However, how did a Qing official with such a good reputation among the people end up in a situation with a bad reputation in the officialdom.

Zhu Qizhen didn't think about it before, but when he thought about it now, it was really interesting.

There are only interests.

And Zhu Qizhen watched Zhou Chen's own twists and turns. Zhou Chen's solution to the Jiangnan reassignment.

The matter of Jiangnan's re-endowment has also been explained before.

This is a question of historical legacy.

From Taizu Taizong's taxes on the Jiangnan area, layer by layer, so that more than half of the world's taxes are in Jiangnan, although Zhu Qizhen feels unfair.

But it's not easy to change. After all, there are too many benefits to pay. It's just that there are too many tax quotas, and the people below can't collect them.

Emperor Xuanzong exempted Jiangnan from taxes, which was always exempted from millions of stones.

This is Emperor Xuanzong's generosity.

Zhu Qizhen may have thought so at first, but now that he has dealt with more government affairs, he has already discovered it. It was not that Emperor Xuanzong was generous, but that he faced taxes that could not be collected, as if they were bad debts of state-owned banks. What else can you do except write it off?

This is a situation where the tax is actually heavy, but in terms of implementation, it becomes a light tax.

In the past few years, Zhou Chen has sorted out the acres of land in Jiangnan, and asked the imperial court for a reduction or exemption of rice grain in Jiangnan, and the imperial court has also reduced some of them, and Zhou Chen has implemented these quotas one by one.

If you think about it, you will know that the tax quota is high, although some people really pay a lot, but most of the gentry just don't want to pay.

As for what kind of means Zhou Chen used, he implemented the Jiangnan reassignment one by one, and reduced the burden on the people, so that the people called it Qingtian, but many officials impeached him for changing the ancestral system in vain and levying more rice and grain.

And it's not one or two, there are a lot of Zhu Qizhen alone, and there are even more who want to transfer to the cabinet. Wang Zhi is in charge of the household department, and he thinks he has seen a lot, so he said that Zhou Chen has a bad reputation.

Zhu Qizhen turned out from the bookshelf, although it was not yet confirmed that Zhou Chen was the next Hubu Shangshu, but he had already put him among the candidates in his heart, and said, "Sir, can you tell me about this Zhou Qingtian?" ”

Wang Zhi said: "The minister naturally knows everything, and he says everything, but what the minister knows is mostly the archives of the officials, and the rumors of officialdom may not be true." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Sir, but it's okay to talk about it. ”