Chapter 157: Yi Xiang

The temper also passed, and Zhu Qizhen's mood slowly calmed down.

Things are like this in the world, and accidents can come at any time. And no matter how much wind and rain there is, no matter how many accidents and difficulties.

Zhu Qizhen does not have the right not to accept the offer.

So it is with the head of a nation, so it is with the head of a family, and so it is with the head of a man.

Many people talk about freedom, but they don't want to be their own masters.

Zhu Qizhen had already expected this choice in his heart, but when he came to the front, it still made Zhu Qizhen feel difficult to choose.

In fact, although the imperial court's finances are short, can't you fight without money?

If it is compared with the modern finance of the Ming Dynasty, it is actually much better than the finance of the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Even under the financial situation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was no shortage of victories.

Many battles were won by the soldiers below in arrears for most of the year's salaries.

Now, although there is a financial gap in the imperial court, in fact, after the Hebei water conservancy project, the Ming Dynasty's finances are inclined to the border passes, and the Ming border army has never known what the shortage is? Are there only too many rewards and subsidies?

So in this case, in fact, the Ming Dynasty is not without the strength to fight.

It's just that in this case, it's too risky.

Zhu Qizhen hates taking risks the most.

Zhu Qizhen knows very well what his biggest advantage is? It's nothing else, it's the country handed down by Taizu and Taizong. He is not himself, but inherits the accumulation of four generations of monarchs of the Ming Dynasty.

This kind of size advantage is far from being an opportunity for tile spurs.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen doesn't need to take risks, he doesn't need to do any tricks, he just needs to attack step by step.

It is adhering to this idea that I want to be a dignified and upright soldier, and Mount Tai is at the top. Zhu Qizhen rectified the finances little by little, straightened out the logistics, and tried his best to improve various aspects.

Isn't it just trying to use money to smash the tile spurs.

Now it seems that this approach has gone bankrupt.

Zhu Qizhen thought about it for a long, long time, and all kinds of things flashed in his mind, military preparations, civil preparations, financial preparations, generals in the army, ministers in the court, and even vassal kings, governors from all over the country, all kinds of news came to his mind one by one, and they were eliminated by Zhu Qizhen one by one.

It's like an illusion.

This is certainly not an illusion.

But a lot of things don't help decision-making either.

Because a lot of things are just courage, principles, and hearts in the end.

The end of rational thinking is irrational decision, because when there are too many factors and too many clues, each decision can find infinite reasons, different emphases, and also extend infinite choices.

The last question you ask yourself is, what do you want to do?

"What do I want to do?" Zhu Qizhen said secretly in his heart: "I will never bow my head to the tile spur." ”

Then there is only one option.

"If you want to fight, you will fight."

Since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne to the present, all his patience has come to an end, and if he can't bear it, he doesn't need to endure it anymore.

Zhu Qizhen's eyes were bloodshot, which made people feel very terrifying. He secretly said in his heart: "Since we want to fight, then many problems must be solved." ”

The first thing to be solved is not the financial problem.

As I said before, although the financial problems need to be solved, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty is much better than that of the middle and late Ming Dynasty. This issue, although important, is not important in the first place.

What is the problem that must be solved?

It's a personnel issue.

If you want to build extraordinary achievements, you must get extraordinary people.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said this sentence to illustrate a universal truth, as long as you want to do something, the personnel struggle must be carried out before the matter.

If you don't arrange the right candidates, then you will get twice the result with half the effort, and there will even be a lot of resistance.

Zhu Qizhen wants to fight, and the current cabinet is completely incompetent.

Cao Nai and Wang Zhi must no longer be in the cabinet.

However, it doesn't matter whether Cao Nai's idea is correct or not. The important thing is that the position of the head of the cabinet does not need to be controlled by someone who does not support the battlefield.

And Wang Zhi is even more so.

To tell the truth, according to the order of the cabinet, Hu Hu has no intention of being the first assistant, and Zhang Fu naturally can't, according to his qualifications, he is Wang Zhi, but Wang Zhi's speech today also ruined his first assistant's road.

If Wang Zhi was also Zhu Qizhen's original minister, he couldn't take care of it now.

So after Cao Nai and Wang Zhi, who will take on the role of first assistant?

Zhou Chen, can only be Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen has enough qualifications and ability, he has done so many great things in the household department for so many years, and he has a good reputation among the people, and he also has his own team among the six departments.

At least locally, but now the governor of Jiangnan is still Zhou Chen's protégé and former official, and in the six departments of the center, the household department is also his basic plate.

Moreover, Zhou Chen is in charge of the money bag, and the other ministries are also very flattering to him, and it is also related.

These relationships are not enough for Zhou Chen to establish absolute authority among the hundred officials, but if Zhu Qizhen's support is added, the position of the first assistant can still be stable.

Zhou Chen's shortcomings are sleek and glazed on all sides, but he lacks the heart to fight in front of the emperor. It is a good executor, but the cabinet is not at the decision-making level.

I'm afraid that if he becomes the first assistant of the cabinet, he will naturally do whatever Zhu Qizhen says.

If before, Zhu Qizhen also admitted that this was a shortcoming.

After all, Zhu Qizhen didn't dare to guarantee that the decisions he made were correct, he needed someone to check and fill in the gaps for him, and fight for it on the basis of reason.

He may be uncomfortable, but he can ensure the normal operation of the Ming bureaucracy, which is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty as a whole.

But

The situation is different now.

Since Zhu Qizhen has made up his mind to go to war, then in his heart, the entire Ming system should be transformed to wartime, at least the northern provinces should be like this.

At this time, everything is tilted in the military direction, and although the head of the cabinet is the head of the civil ministers, it should also be lowered above the real power.

It can be said that during the future war, Zhu Qizhen hopes that the cabinet will be a logistics organization, a maintenance organization, and everything must be prepared for the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Tile Spur.

And this point is handed over to Zhou Chen, and Zhou Chen can do it well.

However, although Zhou Chen can do a good job, in the cabinet, Zhou Chen alone can't do it, and another person can also be transferred back, that is, Wang Ji, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou.

With his qualifications and connections, he is more than a cabinet scholar.

Zhou Chen is the first assistant, Zhang Fu, Hu Hu is followed, Wang Ji is responsible for front-line logistics support, after all, Wang Ji is a veteran, and Wang Ji is well aware of the situation in the towns on the nine sides.

As for other university degree adjustments.

Zhu Qizhen was handed over to Zhou Chen. The reason is simple.

As a cabinet scholar, you must have several helpers if you want to control the cabinet.

Yang Shiqi, needless to say Yang Pu, even Cao Nai has Wang Zhi's support behind him. Coupled with the aftermath of Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu, and Zhou Chen's personality, maybe the people below don't know, but who in the cabinet doesn't know, Zhang Fu, Hu Hu, even if it's Wang Ji, it is impossible to listen to Zhou Chen's words honestly.

Therefore, Zhou Chen must have his own supporters.

This is the benefit that Zhu Qizhen gave to Zhou Chen.

However, before going again, Zhu Qizhen has to see Zhou Chen again. It is not only to discuss financial issues, but also to put Zhou Chen to the final test.

Before Zhu Qizhen could order Zhou Chen to be summoned, he heard a report: "Zhou Chen, a cabinet scholar, asks to see him." ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "It's really Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived." Zhu Qizhen returned to the dragon chair and sat upright, and the fragments of the tea bowl on the ground had been cleaned up.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Biography." ”

In a moment, Zhou Chen came in, and after he saluted. Zhu Qizhen asked, "What is the important matter for Mr. Zhou to come to see me?" ”

Zhou Chen said: "The old minister manages the money for the court, and now the situation is the fault of the old minister, and the old minister specially came to ask His Majesty for guilt. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "There is no need to ask for sin, it is also wrong to say that I am too lavish, and I spent too much money before." ”

This is also a lesson that Zhu Qizhen feels.

For later governments, the financial surplus was not as much as possible, and in the early Han Dynasty, the warehouse was full of money and grain, and even the rope that tied the money was unusable.

Later generations said that this kind of behavior was stupid.

Zhu Qizhen also thought so before, he felt that the government should invest heavily to improve the environment in all aspects so as to increase the treasure for agricultural production.

At this moment, I realized that if you ignorantly graft the ideas of later generations in this era, you are simply stupid.