The affairs of North Korea were being handled in secret, and Lin Haoran handed over the task of sending an envoy to North Korea to Li Yunhu's own nephew, and asked him to work with the combined fleet to transport Leizhou cloth to North Korea to advance the deal.

The reason why he participated in this transaction was naturally not to help the United Business Group make money, but to hope that the United Business Group could enter North Korea, or even directly control the North Korean market.

For the follow-up plan, he also discussed with Hua Yingrong, hoping that she could enter North Korea in a different form and issue Leizhou cloth bills to control North Korea's financial industry.

Although North Korea does not have the gold mines of Luzon or the fertile land of Siam, it is a country of 10 million people, and it also has a considerable amount of wealth.

However, these are "extra-professional matters" after all, Lin Haoran's main business is still the Ming Dynasty's Rite Department Zuo Shilang, and the most important job at present is to promote the reform of the clan system.

Although it has been three days since he sent the plan to the cabinet, there has been no movement.

In fact, this is not a procrastination, this kind of big thing usually has to go through a complete process. The plan has to be reviewed by the cabinet and the emperor, and then the Jiuqing court meeting will be held before the final decision is made.

Even if it is only for a short period of time, the performance of the two capitals and thirteen provinces is like snowflakes, which is already affecting the situation of the court.

"Guangxi Supervision Imperial History Chen Yirong played: The three prefectures of Guangxi have encountered a drought that has not been encountered for decades, and the Jingjiang Royal Mansion has been sold at the price of rice in the imperial court for many years, resulting in the price of rice in Guilin City fighting for six yuan, which is not chilling? Weichen asked to punish the Jingwang Mansion for three years to pay tribute to You......"

Although many officials could understand the behavior of the Jingjiang palace to benefit from it, they also condemned it one after another.

Most of the grain taxes in a province were used to support these clansmen, and when disaster came, these clans used the people's taxes and rice to rob the people.

It was this song from Guangxi that made everyone rethink the problem of the Zongfan Lumi and realize the harmfulness of this group of clans, which caused everyone's sentiment towards the reform of the Zongfan Lumi to be unprecedentedly high.

This sudden change, while putting pressure on Xu Jie's side, also gave Lin Haoran more supporters, and invisibly helped Lin Haoran reduce the resistance to reform.

July's rest day came as scheduled, but the weather was not beautiful, and a heavy rain suddenly fell in the afternoon.

The soybean-sized rain hit the lake surface of Houhai, rippling in the distance, and the lotus leaves in the near distance were swaying, and the endless rain trapped everyone in the attic.

"Six dollars of rice? It's really a pack of white-eyed wolves! ”

"If this goes on for a long time, the wealth of the entire Ming Dynasty will fall into the hands of the clan!"

"I don't believe that Elder Xu Ge can still suppress Senior Brother's plan all the time, I think he is really even more hateful than Yan Song!"

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As usual, Lin Haoran and the others went to the food for the sky in the north of the city to gather together in the same year, and in the face of the problems exposed by the sect, the people present also spoke freely.

Lin Haoran looked at the rain-shrouded Houhai in front of him, and raised his eyes to look at the mist-shrouded house opposite, but he didn't want to complain about these injustices, he just wanted to relax today.

Yang Futian and Ning Jiang seemed to see that Lin Haoran's mood was not high, but they didn't come over to disturb Lin Haoran, but pulled the other people of the same year to play the horse hanging.

All kinds of disputes and unsatisfactory things in officialdom seem to have been vented here, but in different ways. Some people choose to confide in the same year, some people directly scold, and some people like to drink here.

Zhou Youqing's interest seemed to be very high, but because he was a foreign minister of the merit examination, he not only took the initiative to participate in the activity of playing horse hanging, but also got drunk.

After a month, the small gathering of the same year, like this sudden heavy rain, after a fierce catharsis, everything is like a rainy day.

After the rain stopped, Yang Futian arranged for someone to send Zhou Youqing back, and then said goodbye to the others in the same year, and then followed Lin Haoran's carriage back to the south of the city.

On the second day of Humur, the cabinet seemed to feel the pressure from the outside world, but there was finally a movement, and Xu Jie asked Zhang Siwei to go to the Ministry of Rites to invite Lin Haoran to the cabinet.

Lin Haoran knew that things had taken a turn and turn, but he was either completely unprepared, or he took a sedan chair to Xiyuan, and then walked from the palace gate to the Wuyi Palace.

Thanks to the experience of the former duty Shiro, and the fact that he can often haunt here, he has a little more familiarity with Xiyuan, and even knows the little eunuch who leads the way.

The time has come to noon, and the first assistant duty room has spent the most difficult and sultry period in the morning.

Xu Jie, who was wearing a python robe, sat comfortably in front of the case, and watched Lin Haoran come in from outside, but said straight to the point: "The old man has already read the plan for the clan system you handed in, but as for the item of 'clan compensation to change civil registration', it must be removed!" ”

Although the voice is not loud, it seems undoubted, and there is no room for negotiation.

Although Lin Haoran vaguely guessed that Xu Jie would make a hindrance, listening to his attitude of firmly vetoing it, he was both surprised and shocked in his heart, and asked with a straight face: "Lord Yuanfu, why is this?" Please also give me an explanation! ”

Although in the new system of the clan, the number of people who were restrained by limiting the number of wives and concubines and prohibiting unauthorized intermarriage was increased, and the number of people in the clan was directly reduced, but the most important one was undoubtedly "cutting the number of lords for the people".

Only by breaking the "iron rice bowl" of the clan can this kind of laying the groundwork for a thorough solution to the problem of the clan in the future, and simply reducing the rice of the clan is undoubtedly a palliative rather than a cure.

Zhang Siwei was about to bring tea, but he happened to hear the conversation between the two and seemed tense, but he couldn't help but stop and shrugged his ears to listen in front of the door.

Xu Jie's status is naturally far above Lin Haoran, but in the face of Lin Haoran's questioning, he didn't mean to be angry, but responded calmly: "I discussed with Yan Shangshu, according to your compensation plan, the household department can't take out this money at all!" ”

"Lord Yuanfu, the officials actually have a countermeasure for this matter, we can start from ......" Lin Haoran already had a plan for this direction, and even responded loudly.

Xu Jie raised his hand and interrupted Lin Haoran's words, but said lightly: "The old man hasn't finished talking yet!" After a pause, his eyes followed Lin Haoran and said, "The emperor disagrees!" ”

These five words are not heavy, but they are like a heavy cannon hitting Lin Haoran's heart.

If there is still some room for bargaining for Xu Jie's reasons in the past, then these five words cannot be questioned in the slightest, because this is the will of the saint today.

Different from the past dynasties, the current emperor is an emperor who says the same. In the past, he personally directed the Zuo Shunmen bloody case to prove his cold-bloodedness, and pushed Shoufu Xia Yan to the guillotine to prove his ruthlessness, and it also established his supreme authority.

Lin Haoran originally wanted to fight for it, but when he heard this last sentence, his eyes couldn't help but widen and said, "The emperor ...... The emperor disagrees? ”

It's not that he hasn't considered the emperor's variable, but after his judgment and Sun Jixiang's careful analysis, he feels that Jiajing should agree.

But on the contrary, there was such an unexpected answer, and Jiajing became the obstacle to this reform, and even the terminator of this matter.

If Xu Jie disagreed, he could still fight for it, but if Jiajing didn't agree, he could only pinch his nose and accept it.

Zhang Siwei heard that the emperor disagreed, and knew that this matter was already final.

"When the old man was fasting last night, he personally asked the emperor with your plan, and the emperor circled the compensation for the people to change the nationality at that time, and said a word!" Xu Jie nodded lightly, and said in a flat tone.

"I don't know what it is?" Lin Haoran knew that this was the reason for the high status of the ministers, even if it was not easy for the six Shangshu to see the emperor, but Xu Jie could often meet and discuss matters, so he asked seriously.

"Actually, this is not new, the emperor said to your Ministry of Rites in the past!" Xu Jie did not immediately announce the answer, but prompted.

Lin Haoran's brows furrowed slightly, but he was confused for a while.

Xu Jie raised his eyes and looked at Lin Haoran, but he wrote a line on the slip of paper, and then handed it directly to Lin Haoran.

Lin Haoran took the paper and couldn't help but read softly: "The clouds are in the blue sky and the water is in the bottle!" ”

The correct understanding of this statement: the truth is in the clouds of the blue sky, in the water in the bottle. The Tao is in a grass and a tree, the Tao is in a mountain and a valley, and the Tao is in everything in the universe. We are in the red dust of the world, and some desires have been deeply rooted, so in order to be indifferent and lofty, we must gradually eliminate our desires, and in the end we can truly understand that "the clouds are in the blue sky and the water is in the bottle".

In the past, when Qin Minglei submitted the new plan of the sect, he got this response, and at that time, the three officials of their Ministry of Rites were all seriously trying to figure out the holy will.

"The people of the sect are clouds, and the people are water, can you understand the holy will now?" Xu Jie gently put down the brush and asked seriously to Lin Haoran.

Lin Haoran nodded lightly, sighed secretly in his heart, and suddenly felt an unprecedented tiredness.

The reason why he agreed to cut the rice of the Zong Fan was mainly because the current finances of the Ming Dynasty could no longer afford the Lu rice of the Zongfan, which affected his great cause of cultivating Xuan.

It's just that based on this motive, Jiajing doesn't need to make a big move against the clan, he doesn't need to infringe on the core interests of the clan, and even he doesn't want the clan's people to get out of the shackles of the fief.

"It's not that the old man doesn't want to implement your plan, but the emperor's attitude has become clear, you can take this plan back and revise it!" Xu Jie pointed to the plan next to him and said bitterly.

Of course, this matter is not negotiable. Even if he is the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, he has no confidence to compete with the current saint, and he has always obediently obeyed the holy will.

"Farewell to the official!" Lin Haoran could see that Xu Jie did not deceive him, so he picked up the plan and handed it over, and then turned around and left the first assistant duty room.

met the respectful Zhang Siwei outside the door, but he didn't bother to pay attention to the successor of the Jin Party, and walked out of the Wuyi Hall directly. It's just that facing the bright sunshine outside, his whole person is under the clouds.

If he could not reduce the feudal lords, not only would he not be able to cure the greatest disease of this decaying dynasty, but it would also form a huge obstacle to the reforms he wanted to promote in the future.

However, it is not completely lost hope, after all, if this day is not good, then there is still a great chance for the next day.

The matter did not drag on until the next day, and the new plan was delivered to Li Chunfang in the afternoon of the same day, and then Li Chunfang sent someone to send the plan to the cabinet.

Xu Jie saw that the item had been crossed out, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

It's just that he found that Lin Haoran still wanted to brush up his sense of existence, and in the original distribution of Lu rice from the sect, Lu rice and treasure money had always been distributed, but now silver has been added.

The official currency of the Ming Dynasty is the treasure banknote, but the current Ming treasure banknote has long become a piece of waste paper, and now Lin Haoran wants to convert the rice into silver, but he is cleverly confusing the discount of the two.

This will undoubtedly strengthen the position of silver, but the current salt tax and commercial tax are actually settled in silver, and silver has long replaced treasure money as the official currency.

The most important thing is that the impeachment of Chen Yirong, the imperial historian of Guangxi, for using Lu rice for profit in the Jingjiang Palace, has exposed the drawbacks of directly distributing Lu rice, and this method is undoubtedly conducive to reducing the occurrence of the phenomenon of selling at a price in the Jingjiang Palace.

Xu Jie did not press this plan to the cabinet again, even if it was presented to the emperor, and Jiajing did not submit it to the Jiuqing court for discussion, but directly let the cabinet promulgate it.

Since all parties had reached a consensus, the plan was not obstructed by the speakers, and it was soon made public.

It's just that no one could have imagined that this seemingly decent clan regulation quietly laid the groundwork for a big turmoil.

"Lin Leigong's name is nothing more than that!"

"The sect people have been multiplying, and this move is a symptom but not a cure!"

"The disadvantages of the clan are not cut, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are suffering!"

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In the face of the newly released regulations of the clan and domain, many scholars and low-level officials in the capital pointed the finger at Lin Haoran, thinking that the regulations he introduced were not thorough enough, and he was even more "disappointed".

Of course, many things simply do not stand up to scrutiny, and the resistance to this matter is obviously at the top.

Lin Haoran had previously thrown out a rule of "cutting the knight", but now it has not been officially implemented, obviously failing to pass the review of the cabinet or the emperor.

Although it has endured a certain degree of criticism and has had a certain impact on Lin Haoran's reputation, these are all within a controllable range, and this matter related to the reform of the clan has also come to an end.

The clan regulations did not touch the core interests of the clan, they did not react excessively, and this matter did not cause too many waves.

July of the 43rd year of Jiajing was spent in peace, and August quietly came.