Ma Wensheng originally thought that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao would limit the power of the cabinet after controlling the inner court and driving away the three cabinet ministers, but he did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao would increase the power of the cabinet, and let the cabinet ministers take charge of the ministry, and they would also have their own government offices, which would undoubtedly establish the central position of the cabinet in the foreign courts!

And once he enters the cabinet, he will naturally be the first assistant with seniority, and he will naturally have more power to implement reforms.

Therefore, Ma Wensheng is very excited now.

Now, because Zhu Houzhao mentioned that he wanted to re-recommend candidates such as the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, and the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials, Ma Wensheng did not think about promoting his own people, but said without hesitation:

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that if you really want to reform the rule of officials, make the hundred officials diligent in political affairs, and restore the prince and let him return to the cabinet!"

Wang Shu's prestige is no less than Ma Wensheng or even higher than Ma Wensheng, once Wang Shu returns to the court, it will undoubtedly affect Ma Wensheng's status in the court, but Ma Wensheng can suggest that Wang Shu should be reinstated, and Zhu Houzhao can also see that he is not out of selfishness but really wants to change the government.

Xu Jin on the side also immediately chimed in: "As Otsuka Zai said, the severity of the assessment of hundreds of officials is none other than the prince!" And the prestige of the prince is high and not pedantic and stubborn, the first emperor once relied on the prince and Otsuka Zai to take charge of the military affairs and prosper the imperial industry, but unfortunately the prince is not tolerated by the ministers and hundreds of officials and is old, so he has become a leader! ”

Jiao Fang slapped his knees even more, and he smiled directly at the prejudices against southern officials: "If the prince is in charge of the ministry, it will undoubtedly be a blessing for my Ming Dynasty and a bad luck for hundreds of officials. ”

Zhu Houzhao also knows a lot about Wang Shu, knowing that he is an old minister in the Chenghua period, and as early as the Chenghua period, he was already famous all over the world, at that time he had the reputation of "two capitals and twelve departments, only one Wang Shu", but it is undeniable that Wang Shu is now estimated to be almost ninety, I don't know if he is still deaf and clear, and whether he can still serve the imperial court.

Lian is quite old, can he still eat?

However, as Ma Wensheng and others said, it will undoubtedly be more helpful to reform a famous minister who has a protégé and is still determined to innovate all over the world to reform, so Zhu Houzhao did not hesitate, and said: "Then prepare to use Wang Shu as the secretary of the ministry!" What about the military department? ”

"The minister recommends Yang Yiqing, this person knows a lot about military affairs! And still young, the six cabinets can't all be old ministers like me! ”

Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department, laughed as he spoke.

Jiao Fang nodded: "The minister thinks it's very good, Yang Yiqing's officials are all excellent, but it's a pity that he is not from Hanlin, otherwise he would have entered the cabinet directly that year!" ”

Ma Wensheng didn't say a word, Yang Yiqing was his protégé, and he had to avoid suspicion.

"In the future, the rule that non-Hanlin will not enter the cabinet will have to be changed, and the ministers will not know how to govern the people in matters close to the people", Zhu Houzhao said, then nodded and said:

"The secretary of the military department is tentatively planned to be Yang Yiqing, and the left servant of the ministry will wait for Wang Shu to enter Beijing when the time comes;

The three Aiqing will go back to rest for the time being, and at the same time, Otsuka Zai will immediately prepare the recital for the implementation of the examination method, how to assess the performance of hundreds of officials, how to reward and how to punish clearly, and when the time comes, when the three cabinet ministers resign, you will immediately submit it to start reform!

Jiao Aiqing's cabinet system was also written and submitted in accordance with my intentions;

Da Sima is responsible for writing about the assessment methods of the military attachés, without further ado, hurry up and do it! Now I only hope that those three will resign sooner! That makes each other's faces look better! ”

"Wait for the resignation!"

Ma Wensheng and others, whose faces were full of excitement, were also waiting for the resignation of the three cabinet ministers, and they were looking forward to the day when they would join the cabinet.

It seems that from this moment on, the resignation of Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian's three cabinet ministers is not only related to whether Ma Wensheng and others can enter the cabinet, but whether the new policy of the Ming Zhengde Dynasty can start immediately.

After Ma Wensheng and the others left, Zhu Houzhao did not go to bed immediately, but thought about how to increase the income of the imperial court.

Zhu Houzhao's first thought was to copy the house, and at present, Wang Yue and other rebellious eunuchs in the inner court must have their own industries outside the palace, and they should be able to confiscate a lot of family wealth, plus in the future, they will definitely get a lot of wealth from Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others.

But the problem is that how to use the first money obtained by the raid to make himself, the emperor and his empire, get more income is something that Zhu Houzhao needs to consider now.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Houzhao decided to open a bank, and the first bank could not be a central bank, but it must be a financial institution that stored most of the wealth of the Ming society.

However, before opening a bank, Zhu Houzhao still had to carry out an equity transfer.

That is, to transfer the private shares of the Royal Tax Administration, except for Emperor Zhu Houzhao, to the bank that will be opened.

Because the Royal Tax Administration, as a tax department, cannot directly lend to the outside world, so even if Zhu Houzhao raises commercial taxes in the future, he will not be able to control the distribution of most of the empire's wealth, and the opening of banks can not only use the interests to win over some people to support his own reforms, but also directly manipulate social wealth.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao was busy with Gu Dayong's edict to Xu Jing, and he immediately entered the palace tomorrow to see him.

Early the next morning, Xu Jing came to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao was busy telling Xu Jing about the transfer of equity and opening a bank, and told Xu Jing that the bank opened by Xu Jing was called the Royal Bank.

Xu Jing was born in a wealthy merchant family, and he was not stupid, Zhu Houzhao explained to him the concept of the bank and the way it operates, but he almost understood, only said:

"What Your Majesty said seems to be very similar to opening a money bank, but what the minister wants to say is that the Ming Dynasty is now worthless, private money is overflowing, and coins are already chaotic.

Xu Jing just said this, but also made Zhu Houzhao realize that the reform of the money law was also imminent in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu who did not understand finance, made the financial market of the Ming Dynasty very chaotic, which seriously affected the development of the empire's commodity economy.

"For the time being, my so-called bank is not like the money bank to mint and exchange, but in the future, I will let the household department carry out the reform of the money law and prohibit the minting of coins by the people, but now it is only used for the storage and lending of gold and silver and other things, and the income of Wang Yue and others who rebel against the party and the income of the royal tax bureau and even the treasury will be stored in the royal bank, and the royal bank will pay interest;

Of course, the profit model of the Royal Bank is to lend, and I will prohibit private lending to raise funds at that time, so I believe that you Xu Jing can use the money obtained by the Royal Tax Office to make more money from the money from the raid and the money from taxation. ”

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, Xu Jing couldn't help laughing, he could understand that as long as the emperor forbade private fund-raising and lending, the so-called royal bank would naturally be profitable, so he said: "That minister will transfer the equity in accordance with His Majesty's will." ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and asked Xu Jing to do it immediately.

He believes that Xu Jing can agree, and other officials involved in the investment of HM Inland Revenue will not disagree.

As Zhu Houzhao expected, the Eight Tigers and other officials also agreed to the transfer of shares.

First, Xu Jing was ordered by the emperor, and they didn't dare to disagree.

The second is that they still don't understand the meaning of equity transfer and investment, they originally paid Xu Jing to Emperor Zhu Houzhao to express their loyalty, and they didn't plan to make money from this at all, and now they heard that the equity they invested with money is still theirs, and they don't care, so they naturally agree in a daze.

Of course, they also knew that once Zhu Houzhao was unwilling to take out the income from the seizure, they would not be able to share much of the meager commercial tax income they actually received from the internal funds.

On the contrary, just as Xu Jing could immediately agree, they preferred to believe that if the emperor really wanted to use his own money to open an imperial shop, it would undoubtedly be more reliable to open a bank similar to a money bank, and maybe they could really make more money.

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According to Zhu Houzhao's will, the celebrant also officially moved to the Longzong Gate on this day, so that Zhu Houzhao could walk a few steps to the celebrant in the future, and the celebrant could only exercise the right to approve the red under Zhu Houzhao's nose.

Zhu Houzhao also came to the celebrant in the afternoon of this day, and as soon as he came, the celebrant asked Liu Jin: "Is there a recital of the resignation of the three cabinet ministers?" ”

"Back to the emperor, there has not yet been the resignation of the three cabinet ministers", Liu Jin also replied with some disappointment, he has been guarding the ceremonial supervisor since yesterday, waiting for the resignation of the three cabinet ministers, waiting for his own Zhu pen to expel the three cabinet ministers he hated from the court, but he didn't expect that the three cabinet ministers seemed to rely on the intention of not leaving, and they have been unwilling to submit the notes.

Zhu Houzhao also fell into doubts after hearing what Liu Jin said, and couldn't help but think that Liu Jian and the others still wanted to occupy the position of the cabinet and couldn't leave, did they really want to wait until they sent officers and soldiers to exterminate his family and his family?

However, at this moment, the eunuch Chu Ke came over with the eunuch Chu Ke holding the song: "Emperor, there are two letters just now, they are the resignation of Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Xie Qian, a scholar of Dongge University!" ”

"There are only two letters, why not three, Liu Jian and Xie Qian resigned, why didn't Li Dongyang resign?"

Liu Jin, the eunuch who was in charge of the seal, was very surprised and disappointed and looked at Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao himself was not so surprised, he couldn't help laughing, he couldn't help but secretly think that Li Dongyang did not resign from the government, which was different from the history he knew.

But in any case, what Zhu Houzhao can determine is that the Ming Dynasty in this time and space is still the same as the original history, that is, Li Dongyang did not leave the court at this time.

However, Li Dongyang did not resign, Zhu Houzhao was still very disappointed and a little angry in his heart, he had no intention of keeping Li Dongyang at all, and there is no doubt that if Li Dongyang is still in the cabinet, it is no longer meaningful for him to increase the power of the cabinet and let the cabinet reform the government, and even Li Dongyang will hinder his new policy because of his increase in cabinet power, after all, according to the convention, as soon as Liu Jian leaves, Li Dongyang will be the first assistant!

"Immediately pass on Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Xu Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Jiao Fang, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, to enter the palace!"

Li Dongyang's refusal to resign made Zhu Houzhao have to change his arrangements for the future court, and because of this, he had to re-summon the three civil officials he is now most trusted.