Chapter 398: Where there are people, there are factions

As an emperor, what he is most willing to hear is that others praise him as the king of Yao Shun, and the world he governs is prosperous, and it must be recognized by the history books of future generations.

Although Emperor Jiajing is not a good actor, his brain is also quite clear, especially after purging the officials and nobles of the Northern Faction, he firmly grasped Dongchang and Jinyiwei in his hands, and he is not as blind as before.

He also knows the situation of the Great Tomorrow very well, every city is extremely prosperous, after the land prosecution case, there are also all kinds of famines, but the imperial court and local treasury are extremely abundant, and it is simple to allocate silver. And the displaced people who used to be worried are no longer a problem.

In the eastern provinces, whenever there were signs of homelessness and the like, the merchants who recruited people would definitely arrive before the officials and soldiers.

There are also some unbelievable things, such as several ministers of the six departments of Nanjing, the governor and political envoy of Zhejiang, and the political envoy of Fujian, these bigwigs of the rich provinces in the south have written to demand the elimination of the bad government of the road, saying that the government of the Ming Dynasty is the agriculture and industry of the country, since the scholar can travel the world without all kinds of documents, then agriculture is the foundation of the world, why can't there be such treatment?

Regarding this matter, except for a few ministers from the northwest and southwest, the rest of the cabinet members overwhelmingly supported this policy, among which Yan Song, a university scholar, was one of the representatives.

After Jinyiwei passed on the news, Emperor Jiajing couldn't help but find out the truth of the matter, now the handicraft workshops and commercial shops in Jiangnan and Fujian and Guangdong are extremely prosperous, and there are one-fifth of the "hired households" in a prefecture and county, that is, people who live as hired laborers are already very remarkable, and these people often have to cultivate some scattered land outside the city for subsidies.

Since the extreme prosperity of maritime trade, the demand for the output of various goods has become higher and higher, and you are not afraid that you will not be able to sell it, but you are afraid that you will not be able to produce it.

All the labor force that can be absorbed in the prefecture and county towns is absorbed into the handicraft workshop, and there is no agreement in advance, and the local parents and officials of the prefect, prefecture, and county have all adopted strict policies against the so-called "street drifters".

As long as the officials saw it on the street, the lightest was also a stick, and the local elders praised it, saying that it was to persuade these idle and idle people to work hard to support their families, of course, the local fathers and elders were generally local rich squires, and these people generally had a lot of industries, and there was a shortage of manpower in these industries. Wouldn't it be a waste to have idlers in the place?

In the south of the Yangtze River, it is not realistic to expect how many displaced people from the countryside to do work, firstly, the countryside is a wealthy gentry who have been passed down from generation to generation, covering a very wide area, and most of the local peasants are tenants and hired farmers of these people, and they are protected by them.

In addition, the land in the south of the Yangtze River is fertile, and although the land endowment is also the heaviest in the world, what the farmers have left in their mouths is not bad, at least the problem of being full is not big. It is different from the peasants in the north who encounter some natural and man-made disasters that are disturbed by the wind and grass, and they cannot survive. The peasants were the most reluctant to leave the land on which they depended, but the need for manual labor in the handicraft workshops and various industries and commerce was a great contradiction.

Often, a literati's notebook said: The criminal law of this generation is more severe than the tyrannical Qin, and often the slightest crime will lead to peasants being deprived of the right to farm, living on the streets, and then forced to work by the rules and whips of "no floating waves".

However, most of China's peasants are still simple and kind, and they will not easily have to make any mistakes and have to be solved by the government, and now many people have set their sights on the poor provinces, and they always think that if the policies such as road guidance are abolished, then the various industries in the south of the Yangtze River that need manpower will definitely attract a large number of people to come and work by virtue of their wages and reputation as the land of fish and rice. This is the reason why officials at all levels are so active in writing to reform the policy of road introduction, and most of the ministers of the six cabinet ministries are very supportive.

However, they think so, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou officials may not be willing, they are Xi'an, Chengdu and Kunming have a similar situation in the south of the Yangtze River, most of the rest are dependent on the sky to eat and farm for a living, if the road is opened, people must be moving towards the rich land, if the fields are uncultivated, the local people's livelihood is withered, then they will not be scolded by the hometown fathers and scolding the street.

This seems to be the current parliamentarians who fight for the interests of their own constituencies, but there are many differences in the roots, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Europe, the Japanese country, there are all kinds of factions in the officialdom, for example, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is divided by fellow villagers, the same year, etc., the most important of which is the same township, often an official enters the official career from the imperial examination or any other way, and he is closest to those officials who are fellow villagers.

In the same way, officials are always willing to take care of those who are backward in their hometowns, and there are many officials in their hometowns, and these officials are often the children of local squires and landlords, thus forming a huge and intertwined network, and every relevant official is fully prevented or fully supported by any move that touches the interests of this network.

Although the number of officials in Shaanxi is small, they are the main cadres when Emperor Jiajing purged the capital, and they are also the faction with the largest concentration of the remnants of the old people in the Xingxian Palace.

However, the other faction is equal to the majority of the civil officials and the nobles of the south, and the emperor's monopoly of power is also relative, and it is necessary to take care of the interests and opinions of the various factions in the court, and reconcile in the middle, but this time it involves the core interests of each faction.

In the past, the contradiction was that the Beijing business groups in the north occupied most of the world's money-making resources, and those officials in the south who did not get a good fortune naturally attacked, which was called the "north-south dispute" at that time, but now the struggle between the southern faction and the northern faction has disappeared after the land inspection case, and has been replaced by a dispute between the 'Western Party' dominated by officials from the Shaanxi faction and the 'Eastern Party' dominated by officials from the southeastern half of the country.

Although Emperor Jiajing is scheming, he is not a diligent emperor, and he really likes the Taoist monks, I thought that after eliminating the people of the 'Jingshi Business Group', the government and government would obey their orders, install a few trustworthy ministers, and then continue to be happy.

I didn't expect it to be such a situation, what is the righteousness of the world, what the saint says, it seems that it is not as brilliant as Brother Kong Fang's golden light.

Recently, the Western Party has made a fold, which avoids talking about any road guidance, but says that the southeast is rich, and it should increase the amount of commercial taxes to subsidize these barren places in the northwest. As soon as this excerpt came out, the East Party was willing to let it go, and immediately said that after the land inspection case, no matter whether it was an official eunuch or a nobleman in the southeast, there was no shelter for the people not to pay taxes, and even if there were people with official status, all the industries were taxed, and there was nothing missing.

Emperor Jiajing, who was sitting in the imperial study, looked at the fold and smiled bitterly, he somewhat understood that Huang Jin and Lu Bing did not do those things for the sake of seeking power and usurping the throne, it was estimated that it was just for money and food. Thinking of this, Jiajing threw the fold in his hand on the table and said with a smile:

"Whether these people are in the west or in the east, the folds given to me are all incomparably sage, and they must see the key with their eyes, but the west says that I can see the key to raising taxes, and the east says that I can see the key to eliminating the road guide, I can't see it, I only saw the word money written on it, now think about what Lu Bing was arrested for, it's better to release ......!"

When these words were spoken, the third duke of Rui, who was standing on the side, was now the chief eunuch of the celebrant eunuch, and he was immediately startled when he heard the emperor's words, but he was not the kind of internal official who handled affairs by Jiajing's side when he was in Xingxian Palace.

He doesn't know a lot of things and doesn't have any opinions to put forward, now Rui San's power is basically divided by more than a dozen eunuchs below, these dozen eunuchs have their own responsible aspects, and regular rotation, Rui San is now doing the work of a microphone, he conveys the emperor's will and then transfers more than a dozen eunuchs in charge of collecting and correcting things, in the past, the eunuchs controlled the celebrant eunuch, Dongchang, Yuma Jian and several yamen to control the dictatorship of the court and government is gone, However, the emperor's work as the center was much heavier.

Although Rui San is known as the prime minister at this time, the power in his hands has shrunk a lot, and he has no qualifications to speak in front of the emperor, but he knows that if Lu Bing is released, those of them who will later ascend to the throne will not be at ease.

His appearance here that he wanted to speak and stopped attracted the attention of Emperor Jiajing, and Jiajing turned his head to look at Rui San and said:

"Do you have any juniors in these rich industries?"

"Your Majesty, the minion's property is the two Zhuangzi you rewarded outside the city, and there is no other ......"

Rui San, who was terrified, knelt there tremblingly.