Since the imperial court decided to build the Yuan reform, the Ministry of Industry has obtained a large amount of funds, began to rebuild the palace and major official offices in Zhongnanhai, after more than half a year of efforts, now the scale and area of the Han Wangfu complex have changed considerably, and the empire finally has a quite grand meeting place.

Compared with the Forbidden City in the past, this palace is obviously a little inferior, although the Ministry of Industry and the Ya 'Gate' is also built in accordance with the model of the palace, but the Han Dynasty is still early, the foundation is shallow, and compared with the accumulation of hundreds of years in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is still a lot worse. In fact, every time there is a court meeting, many former Qing officials see the new palace with a sense of kinship, and complain about the "nonsense" of the Han King who brazenly dismantled the Forbidden City in the past, and there are many bad remarks in 'private', but feelings belong to feelings, and remarks belong to remarks, and after returning to reality, no one dares to slander Lin Feng's behavior in public.

The name of the new palace is called "Qianyuan Palace", the scale is very large, the main hall can accommodate nearly a hundred officials and the corresponding 'attendants' from the samurai class, outside the hall is a square paved with blue bricks - this is to deal with the needs of the imperial meeting, according to the imperial ceremony in the traditional system, although the small court meeting on weekdays only needs the presence of senior officials of the central ministries, a large hall can meet the demand, but the large court meeting will not work, according to the rules, the officials above the six grades of the large court meeting in Beijing must report in the Qianyuan Palace, However, in fact, in the large-scale court meetings, there were far more than 1,200 civil and military officials discussing politics in the Qianyuan Palace, and the principal officials of various ministries and bureaus and the officers stationed in Beijing who were qualified to 'appear' their faces were probably more than five or six hundred, and the blue brick square outside the palace was often filled. So in this case, the so-called "discussion of politics" is of course not the king of Han and hundreds of thousands of people to hold a conference together, in fact, among these many officials, can really see the king from a distance, and the king is only from the third rank or above the court members, and less than this level of officials can only wait outside the palace, without permission, not allowed to speak at will, not allowed to move around at will, not allowed to be late and leave early, words and deeds have quite detailed norms, this is the so-called "court meeting class ceremony", It was supervised and corrected by officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Historian of the Imperial Procuratorate.

Lin Feng rarely carried out this kind of large-scale court meeting after taking power, as a later person, he was more opposed to this kind of pure etiquette 'sex', meaningless things, in the short history of the Lin Han court, several large court meetings can be counted clearly, generally in a year, this kind of court meeting attended by many people only has the annual official examination, the palace examination in the imperial examination and the year-end banquet of hundreds of officials and the sacrifice of ancestors, worship the sky, in addition, often' Although theoretically, as a "diligent government" king, he must meet every day, but Lin Feng obviously will not give up sleeping because of this, so in the current court system, this kind of meeting is five times a month, that is to say, the central dignitaries who maintain the operation of the Han court have an average meeting every six days.

However, this situation is not suitable for a period of significant events. In addition to the civil and military officials in the imperial court, even the Confucian scholars who lingered in the Qinglou tavern knew about this matter, and there was a lot of discussion in the capital, and people with a little political sense knew that there would be changes in the imperial court.

Lin Feng tried his best to keep the situation in a normal state, although there was a lot of discussion outside, and many officials asked for a large court meeting in order to make Lin Feng "open up the way of speech", but this suggestion has not been agreed to by Lin Feng, until now, the discussion on the reform of the imperial financial system has been among the central dignitaries, to a certain extent, Lin Feng's desire to see this matter with a "normal heart" has failed.

After receiving the clarion call from Zhang Shu 'Yu', Li Guangdi was undoubtedly the most important person among the opponents. There is no doubt about this, before the reform of the imperial court, Li Guangdi was the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, known as the second leader of the Han army, in charge of the people's livelihood and finance, so whether it is from the official rank or business, he is qualified to make the final evaluation of this policy, but, although he has deep qualifications, the government and the opposition look up, but in any case he is still a courtier, although he was deeply dissatisfied at the beginning of receiving the palace report, but he has not spoken out, on the contrary, after understanding Lin Feng's intentions, his university scholar's mansion was immediately closed. The door is closed, not receiving any visitors, and it seems to have heard of the wind and rain in the city.

Lin Feng knew his thoughts, and entrusted the minting of money and the credit business of the money bank ticket number to the businessman, which was absolutely against the lessons of the sages, and Li Guangdi did not speak because he was the head of the civil officials and was in charge of the household department, and now that Lin Feng wanted to divide the power of the household department, the more difficult it was for him to speak. If you agree, you will definitely disappoint your officials and be spurned by the ministers, and if you oppose it, you will be suspected of "autocracy" - in front of a strong monarch like Lin Feng, autocracy is undoubtedly looking for death.

Despite this, in the court meeting, the first thing Lin Feng wanted to find was Li Guangdi, "Mr. Jin Qing, what do you think of Mr. Gu Ningren's advice to me to change the financial affairs this time?!" ”

"This matter is extraordinary, and it can be predicted by non-ministers!"

Lin Feng smiled, Li Guang said this kind of thing is ridiculous, talking about talent, who can cover Scholar Li?! ——This is definitely not a joke, as far as Lin Feng knows, Li Guangdi's growth process can be called legendary, it is said that he was five years old to 'Meng', half a year to learn the three classics and learn a hundred texts, the 'private' school teacher exclaimed "Fu Neng Jiao also", a sensation in the township, the name of the prodigy is famous, to this day, many people evaluate Li Guangdi, still have to get used to the "sex" with the prefix "young Yingyi", he read through the group at the age of thirteen, compiled "'sex' understanding" at the age of eighteen, wrote "Four Books Explanation" at the age of nineteen, wrote "Zhou Yi Solution" at the age of twenty, and compiled "The Essentials of the Calendar" at the age of twenty-four In addition, he is also familiar with Lu Lu, understands the sound rhyme, the piano, chess, poetry and painting are all 'fine', there are many famous articles for people to recite, when he entered Beijing to catch the exam, he was shy of money, and had to compose music and make songs, and he is still singing for the Qinglou in Beijing, which shows that the talent is amazing (note: not YY, the history is true, Li Guangdi does have such a genius).

Hearing Li Guangdi's prevarication, Lin Feng looked around at the ministers and said with a smile, "Even Mr. Jin Qing can't predict, who will listen to the king?!" ”

"King Qihan, the minister thinks that this matter may be reckless!" Xu Xueqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stepped forward and said, "Don't dare to deceive Your Highness, now that the imperial court is reforming financial affairs, the north is salty, and there are many comments in the south of the Yangtze River, all of which are said to be 'ridiculous', and in the capital, there are many refutations, my lord is talented and intelligent, and he dominates the world. ”

Xu Xueqian is a pseudo-Qing official, a native of Kunshan, Jiangsu, is a famous physicist today, he is very famous in Shilin, he is straightforward, and has always dared to speak, according to his temper, it turned out that Lin Feng wanted him to go to the Imperial Procuratorate to be the imperial history of the capital and help supervise hundreds of officials, but he was not used to Chen Menglei's "villain" who placed spies everywhere, and thought that the imperial history should be upright and not "reluctant", so he refused the appointment and served in the Ministry of Rites.

Because his hometown is in Jiangsu, he was deeply influenced by the "Fushe" school in his early years, so like Zhang Shu'yu, the governor of Nuergan, he is also the backbone of the "old school" in the Han court, and has always advocated "Chongli retro", and he hated the construction site advocated by Lin Feng and the policy of encouraging businessmen. After Gu Yanwu put forward the financial reform proposal this time, he was one of the few high-ranking officials who publicly criticized him, so he was also ruthless to Lin Feng at this time.

His words were very hurtful, but Gu Yanwu was not angry, smiled and twisted his beard, and did not argue with him.

"Villain?! Who's the villain?! Lin Fengqi said, "Your consciousness is that the old gentleman Gu Ning is a villain?!" ”

"Yes!" Xu Xueqian was not afraid, and said awe-inspiringly, "Gu Yanwu, as a member of the third grade, disregarded the official body, and accepted the 'friendship' with the Jin and Hui merchants, and then risked the great disapproval of the world, in order to seek the promotion of the merchants, and trapped the king in injustice - such a big fang with ill intentions, which has never been done in the past few years," he turned his head, glared at Gu Yanwu angrily, and said loudly, "The minister, please punish this big fang, and remove a big harm for the court, in this way, the court is very prosperous, and the world is very good!! ”

Gu Yanwu turned his head in astonishment, bowed his hand to Xu Xueqian slightly, and said with a smile, "I have no intention of officialdom, and I don't understand being an official—Lord Xu is serious!" ”

Seeing that Gu Yanwu was so understated and didn't take himself seriously, Xu Xueqian became more and more angry, pointed at his nose and said, "Gu Yanwu, you have a reputation for a long time, and others say that you are a 'great Confucian in the world', how can you be so shameless?!" ”

Lin Feng's face changed, and Chen Menglei hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Xu Xueqianjun lost his honor in front of him, and the minister was impeached!" ”

"Okay, Xu Xueqian, you should pay attention to what you say," Lin Feng waved his hand, "Just talk about things, don't talk about people, they are all members of the imperial court, what shameless is not shameless, do you think this is a vegetable market?!" - I will spare you the sin of disgrace today, and pay attention in the future. ”

"Thank Your Highness for your innocence!" Xu Xueqian's face flushed, "The minister thinks that the power of the household department will be entrusted to the businessman, which has not been done for thousands of years, Gu Yanwu's discussion is ridiculous, I hope His Highness will think twice!" ”

Lin Feng ignored him, beckoned and said, "Chen Tingjing, you are the head of the household, you can talk about it!" ”

"The minister thinks it can't be," Chen Tingjing is an honest man, a bureaucracy, never messing with right and wrong, and wholeheartedly 'mixing' seniority to climb up, but at this time, it involves the interests of the department, and he can't afford to retreat, and immediately said loudly, "The minister is trusted by the king, and he is in charge of the household department, according to the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, the minister should not argue with His Royal Highness, but this matter is indeed a bit reckless, since the sage ruled the world, coinage and financing are the foundation of the society, how can it be easy to deal with people?!" ——The non-ministers are fighting for power with the merchants here, and His Highness can know that if the merchants are in charge of the country's finances or have different intentions, what will His Highness do? It's so upside down, I'm afraid there will be something unbearable! ”

"You mean, the merchants will rebel when they take control of the finances?!"

"Ahem...... Cough...... This ......" Chen Tingjing was stunned for a moment, calmed down, and coughed dryly, "The minister is just conjecturing based on common sense!" ”

"Well, I see!" Lin Feng nodded, turned his head to look at Li Guangdi, "Jin Qing, you are the head of our Han civil officials, and the widow still wants to hear from you!" Seeing Li Guang's hesitation, Lin Feng's face sank, and he said unhappily, "Don't push the blame, don't you dare to speak?!" ”

Li Guangdi was silent for a long time, and said slowly, "According to the minister, what Lord Xu and Lord Chen said is quite reasonable, but they are also a little cautious, and the minister thinks that there is still some room for discussion in this matter." ”

Lin Feng looked at Gu Yanwu and smiled in amazement, "What kind of discussion method?!" ”

"As far as our Han Dynasty in the past political affairs, the merchants have helped us a lot, in the past, to stabilize prices, to appease the displaced people, Liaodong reclamation, and even now to open customs, through the south of the Yangtze River trade, the Jinhui Chamber of Commerce, the Beijing merchants have made great efforts, therefore, the lord also opened a special grace, with them a' In the name of the Han Commercial Tax Law Committee, his opinion can be heard from this, so although he is not a court official, he is actually participating in politics, and there is no big mistake along the way, so the minister thinks that our businessmen of the Han Dynasty are still loyal to the lord, if they are entrusted to the big government, it may be worth discussing, but the promotion and appointment, and the princes are the ministers of the palace, but it is not a big deal! ”

Xu Xueqian looked at Li Guangdi coldly, and couldn't help but say, "Li Xiang, my Huaxia Celestial Empire, for thousands of years, has been the head of the people as 'Shinong Industry and Commerce', could it be that the adults want to set this precedent?!" ”

Li Guangdi retorted, "Lord Xu, the first Qin and Han Fei have clouds, 'Shanghu is the law of the first king,' the land is divided into north and south, and there are ways of change from time to time, and they are stuck in chapters and sentences, and they are stagnant, how can it be the well-being of all the people?!" ”

"Li Xiangsan thinks twice," Chen Tingjing frowned, "and now our dynasty has not yet unified the world, there is 'Mongolian' ancient Korqin in the north, and Wu Sangui Gou'an in the south, the lower officials think that even if there is a way of reform, it can only be implemented after our dynasty unifies China, if not, I am afraid that the people of the world will talk about it, and then the scholars will be centrifuged, and the virtuous people will escape in the mountains and forests, and the world will be ruled by the great world?!" ”

"Lord Chen's words are serious," Li Guangdi secretly glanced at Lin Feng, and said in a good time, "Horqin is barbarian, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, Wu Sangui jumped off the beam clown, what does it have to do with my big politics?!" ——This official thinks that today's events will be the watch of eternity, and the so-called time is not waiting for me, so it can be tried and slowed, but only it cannot be slowed down! ”

Looking at everyone's suspicious expressions, Li Guangdi smiled slightly, closed his mouth, turned his head sideways, glanced at Zhou Peigong, Zhou Peigong understood, and stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency, I am like the rising sun under the sun, and the heroes of the world are all in one place, which is the heyday, so the domination of the world is only between the day and night, and the difficulty now is in the military grain - my lord is lenient and benevolent and loves the people, and cannot bear to exploit the people. ”

Xu Xueqian said angrily, "The eyes of the rat are light, the eyes of the rat are light!! Turning around, he knelt on the ground in front of Lin Feng, "Your Highness Qiqi, the minister thinks that no matter how many benefits there are, all kinds of benefits, the reason why our Huaxia is the Celestial Empire is rooted in the word 'li', how can it be easily replaced?!" - I hope Your Highness will be kind! ”

Lin Feng shook his head, he didn't know how to answer him, in fact, he didn't understand what he was talking about now, he just talked about finance, and he talked about etiquette or something, in his opinion, the two were really incompatible, I really don't know what this guy was thinking in his head.

"Okay, Lord Xu, please get up, you see that we are not discussing this, of course I will be kind, don't worry!" Lin Feng said comfortingly.

Xu Xueqian still didn't give up, "Your Highness, Wang Mang in the past fell from this, it can be seen that there is no result in going against the grain, I hope to think twice before acting!" ”

Rao is Lin Feng has such a good temper, this time he is also a little angry, in front of the minister of civil and military affairs, pointing at himself and saying Wang Mang, isn't this pointing at the monk and scolding the bald donkey? ! He stood up and glared at Xu Xueqian angrily, staring at him for a long time, before he could barely suppress his anger, and said dryly, "Xu Shangshu, you go back to the column first, and listen to what the gentlemen have to say!" ”

Everyone was silent, and the hall was silent. Li Guangdi lowered his gaze and stared at his toes, Zhou Peigong looked up and stared at the top of the throne, and the plaque of "people's livelihood first" written by Lin Feng was silent without saying a word.

"Mr. Ningren," Lin Feng nodded sideways, "You proposed the appointment of the businessman, how about you tell everyone?!" ”

"Yes," Gu Yanwu arched his hand and said, "The minister thinks that this matter is not a big deal at all, and you adults are probably too worried!" ”

"Oh?!" Lin Feng looked around left and right and said with a smile, "I would like to hear it in detail!" ”

"In his early years, he traveled all over the world and knew a lot about the people's feelings, in fact, this matter of minting money, don't you adults know?!" Gu Yanwu 'revealed' a hint of mockery, "I am a Chinese copper noble, in all dynasties, the township is strong for profiteering, there are many 'private' people who rent copper money, this public news, the past dynasties have repeatedly banned, and the household ministers have no way, so the ministers play the king, and simply transfer this money-minting business to the businessmen, they are experts, only to know how to make money, forbid 'private' money!" ”

"What about the establishment of the Imperial Court Bank?!" Chen Tingjing's face turned black and asked.

"This matter is even more nonsense," Gu Yanwu said with a smile, "The Jin merchant ticket number is famous all over the world, is it possible that if the imperial court does not set up a money bank, will they close the 'door' and go out of business?!" ”

"In that case, then why does Lord Gu want to play His Royal Highness and please set up a big Han money village?!" Chen Tingjing 'pressed' step by step, and asked again and again.

"For the public lier," Gu Yanwu said eloquently, "Today is different from the past, and now under the rule of my Han Dynasty, the port is prosperous, the merchants are everywhere, the city is prosperous, the copper money is not enough to meet the silver roots, the common people are for the benefit of business, three or four times the usury is also endured and followed, and there are many black-hearted businessmen who make huge profits, so I think that in the long run, it will be unfavorable to the Sheji court, and the government must explicitly govern it, thinking that the merchants are restricted!" ……”

Xu Xueqian sneered, "It turns out that the lord has entrusted the power of the imperial court to the merchants, and he still has to restrain the merchants!" He turned his head to look around and smiled, "-Takami!! Sure enough, it's a good idea! ”

"That's right," Gu Yanwu didn't get angry, and asked rhetorically, "Okay, dare to ask Lord Xu, do you know how to do business and how to operate goods?" How can we protect legitimate businessmen and punish black-hearted people?! ”

"If you can't be an official, can you be a businessman?!" Xu Xueqian shook his head contemptuously, "I have been reading the book of sages for forty years, and it is the first time I have heard this wonderful news!" ”

"Forty years? The old man has been reading the books of the sages for sixty or seventy years, and he still doesn't understand it. Gu Yanwu smiled and said, "I said Master Xu, the old 'problem' of our Confucian students is that they like to pretend not to understand after becoming officials, and they think that after reading the Four Books and Five Classics, they will understand everything - isn't this nonsense?!" The sages and sages still honestly admit that they don't understand the 'pastoral skills'? Could it be that your Master Xu's knowledge is higher than that of Sage Kong?! ”

Xu Xueqian's face was flushed, and he protested, "A certain learning is the skill of governing the country, how can it be comparable to a businessman who makes profits and profits, and comes and goes?!" ”

"That's right," Gu Yanwu said sneeringly, "So you are now a secretary of the ministry and a member of the imperial court, and if a businessman wants to get a small sesame official, it depends on whether you agree or not!" ”

Lin Feng lightly knocked on the board, "Okay, the two of you will take a break, don't be rash!" Saying this, he felt that the kung fu had been done enough, and there was no need to go through the motions again, he stood up, cleared his throat and said, "What do you mean, the widow has already understood, I heard what Lord Chen and Lord Xu mean is that this new deal is better not to do, but the meaning of the widow is similar to the opinion of Mr. Jin Qing and General Pei Gong," he smiled, "New things, how can you do it if you don't try it?!" ……”

"Your Highness......" Xu Xueqian was taken aback and hurriedly stepped forward.

Lin Feng waved his hand, interrupted his words, and continued to himself, "Actually, Mr. Ning Ren told me very truthfully, our Han Dynasty opened the Qian Zhuang official office, controlled the world's ticket number Qian Zhuang, and presided over the casting of Qianyuan Tongbao, not to shake the tradition of 'Shinong Industry and Commerce', the sage lesson, that must be respected, but now China has suffered many disasters, first Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other grass Kou 'chaos' country, and then the pseudo-Qing Eight Banners split and rebel', so many things have changed, the so-called impermanence of the world, we have to learn to be flexible- In the past, which dynasty and which generation had the general staff ya'men'? Isn't our big man set up? And this thing is not the original creation of this king, in the past, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister of the three provinces, and set up a separate university cabinet to govern the country, isn't it also original? ! Therefore, there is no doubt that a new creation of the imperial court must have something new! ”

He paused, thinking about setting the tone for this court meeting, and said in his mouth, "You are all the ministers of the widows, so let's not tell lies, now that the merchants under the rule of our Han are prosperous and help the court, can we pretend not to see it?" From the year before last to the present, most of the displaced people who flowed into our Han Dynasty from the northern provinces were sent to Liaodong to reclaim the famine, and most of the capital for these people to settle down was borrowed by merchants, in addition, the arms and equipment, military uniforms, clothing and cotton used by our imperial army were provided by them, so merchants have made great contributions to the country and are loyal to the widows......"

"Your Royal Highness, under the whole world, it is not the king's ministers, the shore of the land, it is not the king's land, such wealth is owned by the king, the wealth of the merchant is also the wealth of the king, and the loyalty of the merchant to the court is also his due share, how can he be allowed to sell it to invite merit?!" Xu Xueqian argued.

Lin Feng glanced at him and said coldly, "This king doesn't have that much ability, the property of the widow is the widow's own, and the property of the merchant is the merchant's own, if this king wants money, he has other ways, and he will definitely not go to the merchant to be a robber," his face was solemn, and he raised his voice and said, "You have heard clearly, from now on, what 'the wealth of the world is the emperor's private 'property' is not allowed to mention it again, this king is not Zhu Yuanzhang, a beggar thief, nor is it Aixin Jueluo's ticket bandit, under the rule of the Han Dynasty,' Private' property cannot be infringed upon, and no one may deprive it without reason!! This is the iron law of my Han Dynasty, and future generations will never be replaced......" He turned his head and said to the historian who wrote the living notes next to him, "Write it down, draft the edict tomorrow, and send it to the ya'men and the imperial court at all levels!" ”

Everyone was shocked and looked at Lin Feng in disbelief.

Lin Feng had a calm face, "The foundation of my Han Dynasty is all here, without the Chamber of Commerce Foundation, we can't even support the army, all of you gentlemen are my Han talents, don't be 'blinded' by ancient books, you must open your eyes to see the situation clearly, if you talk about 'all the wealth in the world belongs to this king', don't wait for the enemy army to come, we ourselves have to have a civil war first, this king issued this edict, it is to calm people's hearts, let the people of the world be loyal to my Han!" ”

Li Guangdi stammered in agreement, "My lord...... The Lord is wise! ”

"Okay," Lin Feng looked at Li Guangdi with a smile, and then at the ministers in the hall, "Since Jin Qing has agreed, then there is no need to discuss this matter, Master Hanlin-"

Zhang Boxing, the minister in charge of the Hanlin Academy, was stunned for a moment, and suddenly heard Lin Feng's words, and hurriedly stepped forward to respond, "The minister is here!" ”

"Proposed edict: From now on, the Department of Minting Money will be set up, the Han Royal Money Village will be set up, and a member of the proposed trade 'waiter' Lang will be in charge, and the rank will be from the three products, and two members of the Lang will be supplemented, and they will be subordinate to the cabinet. This edict! ”

After the dictation, Lin Feng said with a smile while looking at Zhang Boxing's draft of the 'color', "It is reported that Xu Danyang of the Jinhui Chamber of Commerce is quite talented, capable, and can be reused. He turned his head, looked left and right, and smiled, "What do you think?!" ”