Chapter 57: The Pros and Cons of Chi Dao

When Zhu Qizhen and Yu Qian were leaving, they had a secret conversation.

No one ever knew.

Because everyone in the court is affected by the cabinet change. In the cabinet, Wang Wen and Luo Tong were also removed at the same time.

Luo Tong's removal was a measure by Zhu Qizhen to win over the army.

Although he has a good son, Cheng Minzheng, who has shown his talents this time, but in terms of Cheng Xin's own qualifications, he does not play a role in the position of secretary of the military department.

The same official position has different actions in the hands of different people.

Let Wang Ji be in the position of the secretary of the military department, he can press the governor's office of the five armies to become an idle position, and Cheng Xin can hold the authority of the military department now.

Even Wang Yue encroached on the authority of the military department in many things.

In this change, Zhu Qizhen attaches the most importance to military power.

Although he didn't want things to get to the point where he had to move troops to push things forward. However, the absolute support of the military is also something that Zhu Qizhen cannot back down at all, so Zhu Qizhen is more tolerant of the army.

As a result, in the cabinet, only Liu Dingzhi, Guo Deng, and Wang Yonghe can maintain their positions.

Needless to say, Liu Dingzhi doesn't need to say it, Guo Deng doesn't need to say it, and Wang Yonghe seems to be an invisible person, and he has no role in the cabinet at all.

Because Wang Yonghe was born in the Ministry of Industry. Zhu Qizhen has been carrying out large and small projects for so many years, whether it is the galloping road in the south and north of the desert, as well as the water conservancy in various places, and even the construction of sailor ships, the construction of cities, and so on. Wang Yonghe coordinated and was responsible for these things.

Speaking of which, it's all dirty work

It's all about things that have no problems and probably should be, and if something goes wrong, they will be punished.

Wang Yonghe was in charge of these things, and there were no major problems, which shows that Wang Yonghe's ability can be described as a good fighter and has no outstanding achievements.

And everyone who does engineering knows it.

This matter must have a good relationship with the person who gave the money, otherwise, there is a way to toss you.

So Wang Yonghe just started out maybe for work, and got very close to Liu Dingzhi, who was in charge of finance, and later slowly became Liu Dingzhi's follower, which is considered to be one of Liu Dingzhi's parties.

As a result, only three of the seven members of the cabinet have to be filled.

This is the largest number of cabinet members among the several additions, and it is similar to the time when Cao Nai's cabinet was ousted.

Only this time the cabinet was a little difficult to deliver.

This is Zhu Qizhen deliberately.

Without him, it is now the winter of the thirty-first year of orthodoxy.

Usually in the winter, the cabinet has a little bit of leisure. Although the six ministries will be accountable, and the cabinet will also be involved, it is the six books that are really busy, especially the household books.

Cabinet scholars can be a little more relaxed.

Zhu Qizhen's choice of this time was also deliberate.

These four places have been undecided for a long time, and Zhu Qizhen is actually looking at the wind direction below, or Zhu Qizhen wants the officials to see the wind direction clearly. Let them know what kind of people will be promoted, and the concept of implementing changes and getting closer to the emperor will be planted in the minds of Ming officials.

After all, how many ideas does Zhu Qizhen have, and the people who really do things are still hundreds of officials in the world. This cabinet by-election has become a briefing to show Zhu Qizhen's will.

The content of it is nothing more than Zhu Qizhen instructing some officials with high prestige to be promoted, and then Zhu Qizhen delayed and then vetoed them. between advance and retreat. Then select the ministers who have made contributions to the Biyong Society, such as Chen Wen, Xu Youzhen, Wang Shu, Qiu Jun, Shang Chen, and so on.

Of course, Chen Wen and Xu Youzhen are almost certain.

But Qiu Jun, Wang Shu, and Shang are a little shallow in their qualifications.

This kind of storm was brewing in Jingshi.

Yu Qian has left Jingshi, and Yu Mian stayed in Jingshi to serve the prince. The only one who followed Yu Qian to leave Beijing was Yu Qian's righteous son Yu Kang.

They first took a horse-drawn carriage on the galloping road, but they arrived in Tongzhou from Beijing in half a day.

It stands to reason that after arriving in Tongzhou, he can change to a boat and go south through the canal, but Yu Qian still takes a galloping carriage. Without him, although Yu Qian had heard of the ability to gallop, he had not really ridden it many times.

Although he had decided to give a career, in his heart, he still cared about state affairs, especially after he returned from the northwest, he suggested that the imperial court should first repair the gallop road from Xi'an to Luntai.

He was also worried that it would be harmful to the people.

So, after he got off the train at a post station, he asked a man in the post station to give him a few big money and ask some questions

This folk husband saw that Yu Qian was surrounded by only three or four old and weak women and children, and only two or three young companions of his righteous son Yu Kang.

is just an ordinary official family, so naturally there is no intention to hide it.

Yu Qian asked: "This gallop is coming, is it good?" ”

The man claimed to be in his thirties, but his face was full of wrinkles, and although his hair was not white, it was as yellow as hay, and he said: "Is it a good thing, before paying taxes, they had to be transported to the warehouse at the border gate, and it would take hundreds of miles, but now it only needs to be transported to the post station, right there?" ”

The man pointed, Yu Qian looked over, but saw rows of warehouses. Yu Qian has been a magistrate for I don't know how many years, you don't have to go in to see it, just look at the appearance and know that these houses are granaries, of course, as for how much grain and grass there is inside, I don't know. Just looking at the size of the warehouse, it can probably hold one or two thousand stone of grain.

There are about so many summer and autumn taxes in a county in the north, of course, there is a difference between large counties and small counties, and there is no way to compare with the heavy endowment in the south of the Yangtze River.

Actually, this

Yu Qian also found a phenomenon, you must know that the gallop is not a train, and the horses will change horses when there are dozens of miles between the gallop and the gallop, so the gallop station is more dense than the railway station.

And every site has a warehouse.

Yu Qian actually had some guesses in his heart.

However, what Minfu said verified Yu Qian's guess.

Minfu said: "The taxes paid can be transported here now, but it is just the work of the front and back feet, but it saves a lot of effort." ”

The south is heavier than grain, which is directly manifested in the heavy endowment of the south of the Yangtze River, while the north is heavier than service, which refers to the grain transported to the border passes by the northern counties.

Yu Qian has done local customs, and he also proposed that the grain transported to the border customs in many places cannot reach one stone in seven stones.

That alone seems like a great deal of good governance.

Yu Qian said: "But what's the harm? ”

Minfu sighed and said, "If you talk about the downside, it's here. Minfu pointed in front of him.

Although the gallop is claimed to be able to travel one or two hundred miles a day, it is generally not in a hurry, and it is rarely done, not to mention the time to change horses and rest, and the carriage galloping on the gallop road alone does not taste so comfortable.

Think about the horse-drawn carriage with no shock absorption, the feeling of shaking, think about it.

Generally speaking, when you run a stop, you will rest for a while, and then you will run another stop, so that the relay will move forward one stop at a time. In this way, it is an opportunity for each post station to develop.

However, it is also a heavy burden for the people.

Without him, the expenses of the post station were jointly borne by the imperial court and the local government.

It is even said that most of the funds for the post station are borrowed by the local government.

But the funding of the post station is a bottomless pit.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were still strict regulations on the use of post stations, and they could only be used if they received a license from the Ministry of War. But with the relaxation of the law, many people have unlimited access to the station.

As a result, there is a large deficit.

You must know that the post station does not need to give money.

The funds given by the imperial court are limited, but the deficit is unlimited, and it will be apportioned to the localities. And the local government does not have so much money, and more people are asked to bear such expenses, or let the people serve.

Among the various heavy duties of the people, the post station is one of them.

Now that the road is open, the court has allocated a little more money and grain, but the same problem still exists. It's even worse than before.

But even so, the man said, "Actually, it's nothing, it's much better than before." ”

Yes, compared to the previous trekking through mountains and rivers to resist people's pushes and transporting grain hundreds of miles away to pay taxes, now it is much better to make some efforts at the doorstep.

Although Yu Qian didn't say anything at the beginning, he kept this matter in mind.