Chapter 1117: Burning Chen Lifu

There are many, for example, in domestic affairs, Li Xuan hopes that stability overrides everything, he does not want to see all kinds of turmoil, only when politics is stable, can he continue to develop the local economy and people's livelihood, and then increase national strength to support his global strategy.

Secondly, Li Xuan pays great attention to balance!

In the army, Li Xuan is balanced, and in the cabinet, Li Xuan is also balanced.

When the authority of the tax department was too large, and the actual power of Qian Aoli could even be compared to Liu Bagou, Li Xuan acquiesced to the following courtiers to split the tax department, and then limited Qian Aoli's power.

But when these courtiers went too far and wanted to kill Qian Aoli directly in one step, Li Xuan stood up and directly returned the Customs Department to the Ministry of Taxation, and at the same time approved many of Qian Aoli's suggestions.

What is recommended?

The newly established Ministry of Finance appointed a suggestion, and Qian Aoli did not dare to intervene in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, but Qian Aoli put forward a lot of suggestions from the squire and the directors and deputy directors below.

And Li Xuan adopted most of these suggestions!

This is also to reveal to the outside world, don't continue to toss, I am still optimistic about Qian Aoli, and I want to pull Qian Aoli off the horse, and wait a few years.

In Li Xuan's governance plan, Qian Aoli still has a very important role: carrying the black cauldron!

After the reform, the Ministry of Taxation still retains the core taxing power, and the current tax system of the Tang Empire, although it is very perfect compared with various traditional feudal dynasties, is still not perfect compared with the real tax system of modern countries, and Li Xuan will continue to reform the tax system in the next few years.

Every reform of the tax system will inevitably touch the interests of many people, and this kind of thing is very offensive, and no one wants to pay more taxes.

Now Qian Aoli is still doing a very good job in this regard, and the tax policy is almost always respected by Li Xuan, and Li Xuan will do whatever he says, and he will not even ask why.

Such a good courtier, Li Xuan naturally would not let him be ousted by those civil officials who wanted to take the position.

Even if Qian Aoli needs to leave the front line of politics, it will be after Li Xuan completes the tax reform, and this time will be five years later.

However, Li Xuan's thoughts, the courtiers below didn't know, at most they guessed that Li Xuan still trusted Qian Aoli, but they didn't know what Li Xuan's real purpose was to continue to reuse Qian Aoli.

Even Qian Aoli, at most, knows a little bit about it, and he doesn't know how huge the tax reform plan of the Holy Son of Heaven is.

Qian Yili, who doesn't know, is naturally worried about his future!

With the reform of the Ministry of Taxation, Qian Aoli and Chen Lifu have ushered in apprehension, and Chen Lifu has no idea why he suddenly became the deputy director of the Financial Department of the Ministry of Finance.

Chen Lifu, who has never even been in contact with finance, doesn't know how to carry out his work!

In the tenth year of Xuanping, in late October, the Tang Dynasty newspaper officially published the news of the reform of the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Taxation carried out reforms, and established the Ministry of Finance, which was also the appointment of high-level personnel in the Ministry of Finance.

The first secretary of the Ministry of Finance was not from the Ministry of Taxation, not even an official from the traditional imperial examination, and his appointment was also unexpected by a large group of people.

This person's name is Song Nguyen Gao, and before he was transferred to the Ministry of Finance as Shangshu, this person was the head of the Royal Assets Section, and before that, he was the president of the Royal Bank!

In his early years, he was the shopkeeper of a silver shop in Liuzhou, and when the Tang Dynasty went south to Guangxi, he was also a dragon, first serving as an account clerk in the army, and then transferred to the Imperial Assets Division, after the establishment of the Royal Bank, this person successively served as the president of the Zhaoqing branch of the Royal Bank, the president of the Guangdong branch, and the president of the head office of the Royal Bank.

Later, he was transferred back to the Imperial Assets Section of the Hanlin Academy as the deputy section chief, section chief!

This person has been dealing with money all his life!

However, the personnel of the various departments of the Hanlin Academy are generally relatively low-key, and the grade is not high, even if it is a bachelor in charge of the academy, it was only the fourth grade in the early years, and it was later promoted to the third grade, and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, that is the minister on duty in the imperial study!

The minister on duty in the imperial study of Zheng Sanpin, which is also the only one in the Tang Dynasty.

Ordinary officials of the Hanlin Academy are relatively low-key, not to mention that although they are under the name of the Hanlin Academy, they are only responsible for the royal family's private property, even though the Royal Assets Division has a lot of influence in domestic industry and commerce, but it is serious in the political arena, and it is just a small organization.

But the person in charge of such a small institution finally ascended to the sky in one step and directly became the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, which has to be said to make a jaw drop!

And Li Xuan chose this person to be the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, naturally there is a reason!

Don't look at the Imperial Assets Division as just a branch of the Hanlin Academy, which takes care of the royal assets, but in fact, the authority of the Imperial Assets Division is more massive than outsiders think.

Why?

Because of the Royal Bank!

A royal bank that can almost be said to have completely dominated the domestic financial system!

The Royal Bank has the right to issue currency, and the silver, gold, and bronze bills issued by the Royal Bank are legal tender notes in the Tang Dynasty, while other banks do not have the power to issue such banknotes.

At the same time, cashier's checks and cheques from the Royal Bank are standard equipment for large business transactions.

This is just one of the functions of the Royal Bank, and more importantly, the Royal Bank absorbs too many deposits, which means that the Royal Bank also lends a large amount of money.

Regardless of whether it is the central government or the local government, if you want to build infrastructure but the funds are not enough, when you want to take out a loan, then you can only find a loan from the Royal Bank.

Over the past few years, the Royal Bank has provided various types of bonds to the central and local governments totaling more than 50 million taels of silver, becoming the largest creditor of the imperial treasury.

Of course, these bonds are not ordinary loans, but national bonds, local bonds, and the royal banks buy these bonds only for interest.

But in any case, the Royal Bank is already deeply involved in all aspects of the empire's economy, and that is real.

And the Royal Assets Division, which is in charge of the Royal Bank, is naturally not an ordinary institution.

Although the grade is not high, the status in Li Xuan's heart is not low.

Of course, because the grade of Song Ruan Plateau is too low, the head of the Royal Assets Section is only the fifth grade!

So Li Xuan also gave him a transition in advance, and when he planned to finance the Ministry of Finance, Li Xuan transferred him to the secretariat as a first-class secretary, and by the way, he upgraded his grade, mentioned from the fourth grade, and then transferred him to Chengtianfu to serve as a fellow intellectual, which is the position of the third grade.

But this person has only served as the prefect of Chengtianfu for half a month, and he actually didn't take office, and then he was transferred to the cabinet and served as the left waiter of the Ministry of Agriculture, which is from the second grade.

It was only three months before and after, and this person was transferred to the three institutions of the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, Chengtianfu, and the Ministry of Agriculture, and then the grade changed from the fifth grade to the second grade, and this official was promoted faster than riding a rocket.

But in fact, it can't be said that although Song Ruan Gao was a positive five products at the beginning, the Royal Assets Section and the Royal Bank are too special to be regarded as ordinary officials.

Li Xuan wants to use this person, even if it is a rocket-like promotion, others don't dare to have any opinions!

Therefore, when the Ministry of Finance was established, this person naturally became the secretary of the Ministry of Finance!

Except for Song Ruangao, most of the others are traditional officials, and many of them are directly transferred from the original Ministry of Taxation, such as the Department of Finance.

Even people like Chen Lifu are officials of the Ministry of Taxation.

To some extent, although the Department of Finance and the Department of Budget have been separated, Qian Zhili still maintains the influence of these institutions.

But I don't know how long this situation can last, after all, Song Ruan Gao is not a dry meal, although he was only the head of the royal assets section of the fifth grade, but he was the president of the Royal Bank, and there are many royal assets enterprises under his hands, and he has a lot of dealings with the domestic business community and the financial industry.

This is not a bit of a skill, and it is impossible to go all the way to the head of the Imperial Assets Section.

Moreover, the new official took office three times, and Song Ruangao knew that he was about to become the secretary of the Ministry of Finance a few months ago, and he was already preparing to do a big job, so after the establishment of the Ministry of Finance, Song Ruan Gao inevitably had to fight with the officials of the original Ministry of Taxation and Qian Qili.

As a result, Chen Lifu found that he had become the center point of the fighting method!

Originally, he was only the right deputy director of the financial department, and logically speaking, he would not be involved in such a high-level struggle, but after he, the right deputy director of the financial department, took office, he began to be in charge of the securities department.

And the first fire of Song Ruan's new official took office was to burn to the Financial Department!

Within a few days of taking office, Song Nguyen Gao said that many problems had arisen in the domestic financial market, and that it was necessary to straighten out the domestic securities market and banking industry, regularize and legalize it, and put an end to financial practitioners using all kinds of illegal means to make money and infringe on the interests of ordinary investors.

And then what!

The director of the financial department was demoted and kicked to Yunnan to serve as a political envoy, and the director of the securities department was even more miserable, not to mention being directly dismissed from office, and was also investigated by the Inspectorate, and he had to stay in prison for several years.

In order to protect himself, the deputy director of the financial department directly said that he couldn't get sick, and he had an attitude that you big guys were fighting, and I couldn't afford to provoke him!

As a result, Chen Lifu, who had only been in office for a few days, found that he had to take over not only such a mess as securities affairs, but also fell into a crisis of high-level fighting.