Chapter Eighty-Three: Bad Governance

Zhu Qizhen ordered a clear edict.

"Emperor Taizu takes the love of the people as the key, the ancestors and the ancestors are all the guides, and there is no doubt about it, and he does not dare to go beyond it in the slightest, but there is Ye Liuzong in the front, and then there are Deng Mao and the seven people in the back, is it a widow and no virtue, and can not make the people return to their hearts? Or is it a political mistake? Please two or three sons, try to say. ”

I believe that no official who has died on this issue dares to say that the emperor is not virtuous. All they can say is that they have lost their politics.

Yang Pu looked at Zhu Qizhen's letter and coughed violently.

Ordinary people only see this problem, the imperial court has to settle the cause and effect before and after Ye Liuzong's rebellion. But Yang Pu saw that Zhu Qizhen almost blatantly showed his attitude towards reform.

Yang Pu secretly said in his heart: "Just send one person to "This Dynasty Has Nothing to Do for a Hundred Years". ”

In fact, this edict vaguely carries the attitude of taking sides with this point.

It seems that Ye Liuzong's rebellion has accumulated disadvantages before and after, but if someone sprinkles thousands of words and learns from Wang Anshi, the emperor will only be happy in his heart.

But Yang Pu didn't want to encounter such a situation.

The tile spurs are approaching step by step, the Yellow River is flooded, the people are in distress and the soldiers are arrogant, and the morale is declining, there are too many things for him to deal with, especially the death of Guo Zhong. made Yang Pu faintly sad, the people were one less sky, and the court lost a loyal minister. also made him feel that he was going to find a replacement.

Who is this substitute?

It can only be Cao Nai.

Because this person was chosen by the emperor and acquiesced.

Cao Nai's water conservancy in the north gave the emperor great support, and after Yang Shiqi went, he brought a large number of people from Yang Shiqi's faction around him, and he himself was the leader of the northern scholars.

Therefore, Cao Nai is not inconspicuous, but he is not a person who Yang Pu can change if he wants to.

"Shousuke," Cao Nai said, "What does Your Majesty mean?" ”

Yang Pu said: "Your Majesty's intentions, the cabinet will naturally follow them, but if you give orders, Your Majesty's holy virtues are perfect, don't talk nonsense, and judge things by facts." ”

Yang Pu had already pulled Cao Nai by his side and taught him how to be the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty.

Cao Nai understood that what Yang Pu said was important in judging things by facts. It is to be circled on the rebellion of Ye Liuzong, and it is not allowed to play on the topic.

Yang Pu said: "The major affairs of the imperial court have always been said, not done, and the four emperors of this dynasty are as for the present, and the rules of the ancestors are out of place. But if there is anything wrong, it is the responsibility of those in power, and it is the responsibility of those who change it. If it is said openly, it will make a lot of uproar, hold its two ends, attack each other, and repeat the scourge of the two Song Dynasty party disputes, but it is not the blessing of the court. ”

"Remember, Shoufu is to uphold the authority of government and assist in yin and yang. The king should be obedient to the king, and the lower should be a hundred officials. The Ming Dynasty is thousands of miles away, and it is impossible to mess up. ”

"My position will be yours sooner or later, but these things are what you have to think about."

Cao Nai said: "Xiaguan understands. ”

Yang Pu greeted him in advance, so the courtiers who wrote the book did not talk about it, and they didn't say much about the shortcomings of the administrative system. There are two main points.

One is the mining tax, and the other is that the guard is unbearable.

Zhu Qizhen didn't know that Yang Pu greeted him. But he also understands that this is indeed not the time to make a big noise, so he pretends not to know.

However, he wrote down the names of all the officials who had seen the bottom one by one, and waited for the tile to be calmed down. It is time to implement domestic reforms, and perhaps reuse them.

Zhu Qizhen convened a pre-imperial meeting on these two points.

These are the two points that are discussed.

In the Mandarin Palace.

The members of the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the six ministries of the Cabinet have all arrived, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies has also arrived, because this time they have to discuss the affairs of the Guard.

Naturally, they did not dare to be absent.

The objectives of the civil servants were specific at the beginning.

Chen Qiu said: "The original intention of Taizu, the matter of opening a mine, if it is useful, it will be nothing, and the yellow and white things, cold can not be clothed, hunger can not eat, and the people who use it donate the lives of small people, which is against the original intention of Emperor Taizu." ”

"The minister thinks that the Empress Dowager's eyes are like torches, and she has already seen the disadvantages of it, so please order Your Majesty to never start the mining tax in the future."

Zhou Chen's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he said: "Lord Chen is so angry, Your Majesty has rewarded hundreds of officials, and replaced treasure money with silver dollars, since Lord Chen thinks that yellow and white things are not enough to use, is it that Lord Chen will not use silver dollars in the future." ”

"Anyway, you shouldn't eat or drink?"

Chen Qiu sneered and said: "A gentleman loves money, he takes it in a good way, ill-gotten wealth is like a floating cloud to me, the official's fortune is a reward from the court, why don't the official, but some people are insatiable, accumulate endlessly, and only see the silver with all their hearts, but not the blood on the silver." ”

"I don't know how to read the books of the sages."

Zhou Chen gritted his teeth secretly.

Both sides were filled with the smell of gunpowder from the start.

Chen Qiu is Zhou Chen, who stirred up the people's uprising, and 10,000 are not pleasing to the eye. If it weren't for Yang Pu's greeting, when Ye Liuzong's rebellion broke out, Zhou Chen would have been drowned out by impeachment.

And Zhou Chen's attitude is also very resolute, there may be a problem with the mining tax, but it cannot be banned forever.

First, Zhou Chen is the first person to bear the financial pressure of the Ming Dynasty. There is such an emperor who is so happy with his achievements, and money will never be enough.

Zhou Chen has only one task in the office of the head of the household, which is to make money, make money, make money. Whether it is the fiscal reform he presided over, or the salt tax reform, or the money law reform that is slowly advancing.

Because the problem of Daming copper coins was too big, Zhou Chen decided to implement silver coins to suppress copper coins. At the same time, he increased the issuance of copper coins, and he had repeatedly played the imperial court to increase the crackdown on minting private coins.

Zhu Qizhen has already approved.

But this reform of the economic system

, it is better to smooth out the transition and not make big news.

And the more the reform is implemented, the more Zhou Chen issues a hidden danger, that is, a lingering shadow in the physical currency, that is, the shortage of money.

Money shortage is in circulation, money is never enough, and a large number of people will store money. As a result, the circulation of money in society decreases, and the value of money increases. The money they hide is worth it.

During the Song Dynasty, there were even overseas Song money, and a large amount of money was exported, resulting in insufficient money for the people, and even Sichuan used Jiaozi, and iron money was forced out in such a situation.

As a financial expert, how could Zhou Chen not know about this matter.

Recently, a large amount of flowing silver has been minted into silver coins, so there will be a shortage of money for a while, and it will not happen, but it will not happen now, and it does not mean that it will not happen in the future.

What should I do if I am short of money?

Zhou Chen can't come up with a complete solution, but increasing the amount of money minted is a way that is not a solution. But now the number of silver coins has become one of the main currencies, and the Ming Dynasty is a country that lacks silver, and there are only a few silver mines, and they are not allowed to be mined, so how can it work.

This is a no-go.

Even if a few more people die, even if the silver is stained with blood, the silver mines of the imperial court will never be able to reduce mining, but will increase them.

Not to mention, he as a proponent of mining. He has always stressed that this matter was done by someone below, and he did not know about it. But if he is in the middle of the court, he succumbs.

This doesn't mean that he is at a loss. Or even that he is responsible for the Yeliuzong Rebellion?

This is something he absolutely cannot accept.

Zhu Qizhen sat on the dragon chair and made a sound.

See Zhou Chen's tongue and battle group of Confucianism.

Zhou Chen didn't say anything else at all, and directly listed the mining tax of more than 100,000 taels of silver, and asked the yamen who was willing to bear the hole of 100,000 taels.

This one thing, he also admitted.

For a time, none of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty spoke.

Zhu Qizhen sneered in his heart. People are like that.

It's like if the economic situation is not good, and the company wants to lay off employees, everyone can accept it, but if you want to lay off me, it is absolutely unacceptable.

Hundreds of thousands of taels are not much, but they are said to be a lot less, don't look at the imperial court, but hundreds of thousands of taels are a lot of money in that yamen.

Who is willing to tighten his clothes and food to fill this hole.

Seeing that they couldn't come up with a result, Zhu Qizhen coughed lightly and said, "What you Aiqing said is extremely true, Taizu's original intention, mining is set up for things, and nothing will happen." This is Taizu's cherishing of the people's power, but now that the times have passed, the court needs silver to mint money, and this mining thing is indispensable. ”

"Therefore, let's discuss how to ensure that the imperial court mines without harming the people and hurting the reputation of the imperial court."

Zhu Qizhen spoke, and it was naturally the final word, and Zhou Chen won the first game.