Wang Yunchang didn't expect Feng Ziyong to be so stubborn, and the emperor dared not listen to his words, so he asked cautiously: "Pavilion Elder, then Ma Pavilion Elder will not notify me!" ”

Feng Ziyong shook his head and said, "No, the new law is absolutely not enforceable, and Ma Mingyuan told them to be on guard." Lord Wang, it's none of your business, you can go home! ”

Wang Yunchang couldn't wait to stay away from this matter, and when he heard Feng Ziyong say this, he quickly got up and retired.

Watching Wang Yunchang leave, Feng Ziyong called a family member and asked him to go out with a letter he wrote and go to Chen Zizhuang's mansion. Feng Zi silently recited in his heart, second brother, my brother is sorry for you, but it is really not the right time to implement the new law at this time, it can only be done for the sake of the country.

Zhu Hongsan is probably the laziest of all the founding emperors, and he can't be compared with Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang at all, even the kings of Yongzheng and Qianlong in later generations can't be compared. Zhu Yuanzhang's early dynasty was a three-day dynasty, of course, this system was destroyed by several lazy emperors in his later years, and Wanli did not go to court for decades.

After Zhu Hongsan became the emperor, as a modern person, he really didn't want to get up before dawn to work, so after coming to Guangzhou, Zhu Hongsan changed the court meeting system. The three-day dynasty was changed to the five-day dynasty, and this was still a small court meeting of cabinet members and the emperor. The Great Dynasty Meeting, which was attended by all the officials of the three ranks, was changed to a ten-day dynasty, that is, the emperor could be seen three times a month. Of course, this is only to discuss state affairs, and usually several prime ministers in the cabinet can directly meet the emperor if they have any matter.

Today is the 10th Dynasty Meeting, and Zhu Hongsan is scheduled to start at 9 o'clock in the morning, so the ministers who are qualified to participate are waiting at the carrier gate early. At present, Zhu Hongsan's group is only a province in Guangdong Province, except for the cabinet members and the various ministries, there is no other Jiuqing such as the Imperial History, the General Administration Department, and the Dali Temple, so there are more than 20 officials waiting for the last dynasty.

As soon as the hour came, the carrier door opened, and all the ministers rushed in and entered the carrier hall. In fact, Zhu Hongsan said that the emperor should be changed to Fengtian Palace, but Zhu Hongsan was too lazy to change it, so he continued to use the original name to carry the palace.

The ministers entered the carrying hall, and there was Zhu Hongsan's Ming and Huang dragon chair on the high platform in the main hall, and a chair and six Ming and Huang embroidered piers were placed below, which were the seats of the seven prime ministers. After Zhu Hongsan came to power, he wanted to make the appearance of ruling the world with scholars and doctors, and restored the habit of the prime minister in the Han and Tang dynasties to have a seat in front of the king, which made Zhu Hongsan highly praised in the Shilin.

The seven prime ministers walked to their embroidered piers and sat down, and the other officials who did not have seats looked at the light in their eyes, and secretly swore in their hearts that they would also take their seats in this place.

The prime ministers are ranked Chen Zizhuang, Ma Mingyuan, Feng Ziyong, Tong Yangjia, Huang Yingxiu, Liu Dalin, Fu Wenlong, and the seven people who entered the hall were not talking, each thinking about their own thoughts, everyone knew that there was a fierce battle today, after all, there were no secrets in the officialdom, and everyone already knew what today's topic was through various channels.

Tong Yangjia should be regarded as an alternative in the cabinet, and the Ming Dynasty estimates that since the founding of the country, there has been no bachelor's degree in Xiucai. Although Tong Yangjia got a lifter in the township test, everyone knew that he was given to him by the emperor, so Tong Yangjia was the one that others looked down on the most in the cabinet.

Tong Yangjia also knew his position in the cabinet, and when he saw the demeanor of other people towards him, he sneered in his heart: There is a good show today, I don't know if Ma Lao Er can succeed and replace his embroidered pier with a chair.

Just when everyone was thinking about the ghost, the emperor arrived. A small yellow door came out of the back of the main hall first, shouting: "Go to court!" ”

The seven prime ministers hurriedly stood up, and Chen Zizhuang led all the officials to bow and salute: "Welcome Your Majesty!" ”

Bastard Emperor Zhu Hongsan walked up to his dragon chair and said, "Everyone, get even!" ”

Zhu Hongsan had already passed the news to Ma Mingyuan two days ago, asking him to propose a new banking law at today's court meeting. Zhu Hongsan also knew that officialdom had no secrets, so he had long been prepared for a fierce battle today.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now the anti-Qing situation is very good, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces have succeeded anyway, and I have decided to lead the army to recover the old capital in the near future. However, the financial situation in Guangdong is really not good, so I think we will discuss the bank's affairs today! ”

As soon as Zhu Hongsan's words fell, Ma Mingyuan stood up.

"Your Majesty, colleagues, now the imperial court's finances are tight, and there are only 1,210,000 taels of silver in the treasury of the Ministry of Finance, which is not enough to consume in a month, so the law of the bank is imperative!"

After Ma Mingyuan finished speaking, he took out the copy of "Please Establish a Bank to Issue Silver Coins" from his sleeve, and held it high, and said: "Your Majesty, the opinions raised by Lord Feng last time have been revised, leaving a two-year buffer period, this is the new law after the amendment, please review it Your Majesty!" “

As soon as Ma Mingyuan's words fell, Huang Yingxiu, who was sitting next to him, stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this law must not be done!" ”

Zhu Hongsan had expected someone to object, waved his hand and said, "Say!" ”

Huang Yingxiu walked to the center of the hall and said, "Your Majesty, the ministers opposed it last time, and this law must not be done!" Now that the country is ruined and the north is in ruins, it is time to unite the gentry of the whole world. Lord Ma, this new banking law is obviously to make the gentry suffer losses, so that they will lose the support of the gentry of the world, Your Majesty! Now is the time of crisis, and we must not do this kind of thing that is quick for relatives and enemies! ”

"Lord Huang, how can this be a matter of relatives and enemies? If you don't agree with the new banking law, that's good! Now that the treasury has so much money, and there is still a Northern Expedition and conscription, what do you say? Ma Mingyuan saw that Huang Yingxiu came out to oppose it, and he didn't want to dwell on it, so he threw the problem directly to Huang Yingxiu, and you can do it yourself.

"Your Majesty, Lord Ma, colleagues, I also have some understanding of the financial situation, I have several plans for you to approve, one is to increase the commercial tax, I have calculated, if the commercial tax is increased by one percent, it will be an extra three million taels of silver per year. The second is to ask His Majesty to hand over the shares of the factory in his hand to the Ministry of Finance to alleviate the financial dilemma! ”

After Huang Yingxiu finished speaking, there was silence in the hall, if Ma Mingyuan's new law was to cut off the financial route of all officials, Huang Yingxiu's two articles would be the lives of Huguang officials and the emperor.

Because of the limited time in Guangdong, the Huguang faction did not occupy much arable land, but through the construction of development zones in various places, the Huguang faction penetrated into most of the commerce. The Ma family is mainly concentrated in the sugar and salt industry in Leizhou, the Tong family is mainly concentrated in the steel mining in Qiongzhou, Fu Wenlong has been the governor of Luzon for several years, and he has shares in a large number of iron ore and gold mines in Luzon. However, the Cantonese faction is still stuck in the traditional planting industry, and business has little impact on them.

These are all secondary, the most important thing is that Huang Yingxiu actually asked the emperor to hand over those factories in Dongguan, which moved the emperor's old life.

Because Zhu Hongsan was self-made, he had many of his own industries before becoming emperor, of course, these industries also contributed a large amount of silver to Zhu Hongsan every year, supporting Zhu Hongsan's luxurious life. In fact, if you want to talk about the corruption of life, Zhu Hongsan is much worse than the first dozen emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and he is compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, who asks for food. Zhu Hongsan only had seven or eight dishes for a meal, and he didn't eat it himself, and the palace was not very majestic, as long as he could get by, Zhu Hongsan invested a large amount of money in the new army every year.

But in this way, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee still looked at Zhu Hongsan's factory, and half a year ago they all forced Zhu Hongsan to hand over some unimportant factories, leaving only some heavy industries.

However, today Huang Yingxiu offended not Zhu Hongsan alone, but also the entire Huguang faction. After Huang Yingxiu finished speaking, the first one who jumped out was Tong Yangjia, and as a person with vested interests, he couldn't help but fight for himself.

"Lord Huang, you have a good plan, if you want to increase the commercial tax, why don't you increase the land tax?"

"Lord Tong, now the Tian Fu is high enough, and the Chongzhen Dynasty was forced by the Liao Levy and the Shaanxi Civil Rebellion, so it is not appropriate to increase the Tian Fu!"

Fu Wenlong listened to Huang Yingxiu's shamelessness on the side, he couldn't help it, Fu Wenlong's industries are all in Luzon, if the increase in commercial taxes will make him lose tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, he was not ready to participate in the struggle between the two factions in the DPRK and China before, but today it is not possible to participate.

"Lord Huang, you said that it is a bit unrealistic to increase the commercial tax, now that the merchants of Guangdong account for most of it, and they also pay most of the annual taxes, won't they be afraid of chaos when they increase?"

Huang Yingxiu sneered: "Lord Fu, when Your Majesty was called emperor, he was talking about reviving the old system of Taizu, and it was Emperor Taizu who suppressed businessmen back then, does Lord Fu still oppose Taizu?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang, who once asked for food, hated businessmen the most, and he thought that businessmen made all the money they made. During his more than 30 years in power, the peasant question was always his primary concern. This was not only because he was a peasant, but also because 90 percent of the people of the empire lived in the countryside. Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he immediately lowered the status of merchants in the law, stipulating that merchants were not allowed to sit in sedan chairs when traveling, were not allowed to wear silk and satin, and the descendants of merchants were not allowed to take the imperial examination.

Because of his own background, Zhu Hongsan was called emperor in the name of the Yan Dynasty's lineage, so he wanted to fully revive the ancestral system. Of course, Zhu Hongsan is just a slogan, and the ministers of the DPRK and China are all human beings, and no one takes this sentence seriously. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system, and strictly stipulated in the emperor's ancestral training that he should not establish a prime minister in the future, but Zhu Hongsan came up with a prime minister system when he ascended the throne, which is simply a copy of the prime minister system of the Tang and Song dynasties. Instead, he went to work in the cabinet with joy.