Qian Qianyi's plan to enter the cabinet was finally settled, and at the moment when the emperor said that he had entered the cabinet, Qian Qianyi felt like he was going to cry. In his life, he has been wandering around the threshold of entering the cabinet many times, starting from the Chongzhen Dynasty, he has had a total of three opportunities to enter the cabinet, and he has been interrupted by various people and things. Now that he has finally got his wish, can he not make Qian Qianyi feel emotional! Although the small court of Shenwu is only partial to Guangdong, although it must be ranked last in the cabinet, but after all, it is the cabinet, and he can finally be recorded as a cabinet minister in the history books of later generations.

Zhu Hongsan doesn't care about Qian Qianyi to taste life here, and now there are big things to do.

"Ladies and gentlemen, is it time to discuss the bank?"

Hearing what the emperor said, the ministers in the hall reacted that they still had to discuss the matter of the bank today, but they were too involved in watching the play just now and forgot the main agenda of the day.

The next thing is very simple, the main opposition has been defeated, Chen Zizhuang has just been impeached, completely lost his arrogance, and Ma Mingyuan's proposed banking law has finally been passed. In the end, it was decided to start the formation of a central bank at the end of this month, and to issue new silver coins, leaving a two-year buffer period for the gentry, after which all areas controlled by Emperor Shenwu would cancel silver and trade silver coins instead. The new law looks simple, but the local resistance to its implementation must be extremely great, and it is now August, and the end of the year is the time for the central government and the localities to hand over taxes, and then it will be a fire to consume a local official and lose a lot of silver.

However, now it is different from before, after Zhu Hongsan came to power, he greatly increased the income of officials, and the annual income of a seven-grade county was raised from seven taels to 150 taels. The cabinet of these prime ministers is to reach more than 3,000 taels of money per year, if converted into later generations of paper money is more than 3 million (I don't know if you have seen the golden plum, which has a very detailed description of the price of the Ming Dynasty Wanli years, Ximen Qing's wives and concubines more than 10 people eat a meal of crabs only cost seven dollars of silver, which has to be put aside to the present day how to say more than 1,000 yuan, so the price in this book is one or two silver exchanged for a thousand banknotes in later generations, everyone don't think much, Bao Zheng of the Song Dynasty is just a Kaifeng Mansion Yin, and the salary is more than 20 million yuan for later generations, So if you want to be an official, it's appropriate to go to the Song Dynasty, envy!! ）。

In addition to the formal bargaining, Zhu Hongsan also opened the door to convenience, leaving many loopholes in road construction, development zone construction, and real estate development; as long as it was not too excessive, Zhu Hongsan turned a blind eye to the solicitation and bribery of his subordinate officials. Zhu Hongsan estimates that the annual income of a Qipin County Order is about 500 taels, which is enough to feed a family and live a decent life.

Zhu Hongsan was very happy to see that the new banking law he had pushed for had finally been passed. Zhu Hongsan had also read some time-traveling novels before, and he felt that it was very simple for those time-travelers in them to implement the new method, but when they actually operated, they found that there were many difficulties.

Regardless of whether a policy is right or wrong, since it can be implemented for hundreds of years, a group of vested interests will inevitably be formed, and any change will be the lifeblood of these interest groups, so Zhu Hongsan really admires those predecessors of reform, such as Shang Ying, Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng, and so on. Now Zhu Hongsan just wants to move the issue of fire consumption has such a big repercussions, if it involves the core interests of the gentry, for example, "the gentry are one and the grain is one and the errand is not known". But fortunately, Zhu Hongsan caught a scapegoat to top the tank, that is, Ma Mingyuan, the gentry of the lake.

Ma Mingyuan is definitely an outstanding representative of the literati of this era, with tens of thousands of acres of grain fields in Huguang's family, countless industries, and he is still the first in the second class, and there are countless officials in the family. It stands to reason that this kind of person should completely oppose Zhu Hongsan's "officials and gentry are one and pay food and are one errand", but there is no way, Ma Mingyuan was marked as a princeling early on.

As an orthodox scholar, Ma Mingyuan's concept of establishing a successor has been deeply rooted in his bone marrow, not to mention that Zhu Hai is still the eldest son. and Ma Mingyuan, in order to consolidate his own interests, married his daughter to Zhu Hai, and was firmly tied to Zhu Hai's chariot, and now Ma Mingyuan has no way back at all, even if he wants to get off. So I can only accompany Zhu Hai to the end, either Zhu Hai will ascend to heaven as the emperor Ma Mingyuan's whole family, or Zhu Hai will be abolished Ma Mingyuan's family will die and have no place to be buried, and there is no third way to go. For the sake of the whole family, but also for his own power position, Ma Mingyuan had no choice but to betray his own class, work hard for Zhu Hongsan, and strive to add points to Zhu Hai.

Seeing that the new law has been implemented, Zhu Hongsan continued: "The matter of the new law is like this, and now the situation of the whole country to resist the Qing Dynasty is very good, I have decided to make persistent efforts, and at the end of this month, lead the army to attack Nanjing occupied by the Manchus, and the matter of Guangdong will be entrusted to a few gentlemen in the cabinet!" ”

The ministers all knew that the Shenwu Emperor had created a new army with his own hands, and he was extremely capable of fighting, but he did not object much. It's just that Tong Yangjia's eyes rolled and he stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, you are leading the army north, can you ask the prince here in Guangdong to supervise the country?" ”

The prince Zhu Hai went to Ganzhou to serve as a soldier, and the ministers of the court and the central government did not know, and when someone asked about Zhu Hongsan, he prevaricated on the grounds that the prince was sent to study. However, it is really abnormal for the prince not to show up for several months, and some ministers in the DPRK and China have begun to discuss it in private, and Tong Yangjia is one of them.

Tong Yangjia also asked Qian Lide, but Zhu Hongsan was afraid that the news of the prince's matter would leak out, so he didn't let Qian Lide know that it was Dongchang, which was more trusted by Zhu Hongsan, who was responsible for the prince's safety. So Jin Yiwei didn't know the exact news, but he only knew that the crown prince hadn't appeared in the palace for several months.

So today, Tong Yangjia heard that the emperor was going to drive the imperial expedition in person, and he was thinking about finding out the situation of the prince, if the prince was really not in Guangzhou, then he could do a lot of things.

As the chief prime minister, Chen Zizhuang certainly knew the importance of the crown prince, but he was just choked by the Huguang faction, and he didn't react for a while. Now when I heard Tong Yangjia say this, I immediately reacted in my heart, this is an opportunity to divide the Huguang faction.

Chen Zizhuang immediately stood up and said: "Your Majesty, after all, this expedition has taken a long time, and the minister hopes to invite the prince to supervise the country!" ”

Zhu Hongsan frowned, it doesn't matter who is in charge of the country, the key is that the prince is not in Guangzhou now, and in order to protect the prince himself, he can't say his whereabouts, it's really embarrassing. Zhu Hongsan looked at Tong Yangjia's heart and moved, opened his mouth and said: "The prince is now focusing on his studies, let the king of Chu supervise the country here in Guangzhou!" ”

Ma Mingyuan was shocked when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, and he now regrets that he agreed to allow the prince to go out to join the army at that time. At that time, I had the intention of letting the prince make more friends with military generals, but I thought that the emperor would go to the imperial expedition in person. If the emperor has a good guy and dies on the front line, and the prince is far away from the center of power, he will immediately be taken advantage of by the people of the Chu king's family.

Tong Yangjia was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this, he really gained a lot today, so that the king of Chu also knew that the prince was not in Guangzhou, and the next step was to know the exact place of the prince, as long as the prince had an accident, he was very hopeful that the king of Gong Chu would become the prince.

And Fu Wenlong, another Huguang faction bigwig in the cabinet, also had a flash in his eyes, if the prince had an accident, the most promising one would be Zhu Jiang, the son of Ma Ruyan, the king of Qin.

Ma Mingyuan looked at Chen Zizhuang's words and made the Huguang faction, which was still united on the surface, fall apart, Ma Mingyuan scolded in his heart, he should have won a big victory today, but now it seems that the most unlucky thing is himself, the prime minister did not act, and now he has split the Huguang faction, which is really worth the loss.

Ma Mingyuan looked at Feng Ziyong on the side, and couldn't help but think in his heart, today is you, Feng Lao Er, who is stirring up the situation, or the prime minister is mine, or the prime minister is mine, or since you don't miss the affection of relatives, don't blame me, let's take you first today.

Thinking of this, Ma Mingyuan stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a matter!" ”

Seeing Ma Mingyuan stand up, Zhu Hongsan was very surprised, isn't today's matter over, what else is wrong with Ma Laoer?

"Mr. Ma, what's the matter, let's talk about it!"

"Yes! Your Majesty! After speaking, Ma Lao Er walked to the center of the hall and arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty! Now that there are frequent wars in the north, His Majesty still has to drive the expedition in person, and the minister is worried that the military production in Guangdong will not be able to keep up! ”

Zhu Hong twisted his beard with three hands and thought: This is a problem, in the past, the military factory was always in charge of it himself, but now there is no one to manage it when he goes north, which will definitely affect production.

"Mr. Ma is right, what do you have good suggestions!"

"Your Majesty, as long as one person replaces the emperor to manage, now that the governor of Liangguang is vacant, it is just right for a prime minister to go out of the cabinet to act as the governor of Liangguang and be responsible for the overall affairs of Guangdong, so that His Majesty the Emperor can also rest assured of the Northern Expedition!"

As soon as Ma Mingyuan's words came out, Tong Yangjia was covered in a cold sweat, he was in charge of the military in the cabinet, and the governor of Liangguang was really tailor-made for him, and there was no second choice. Tong Yangjia secretly scolded in his heart: This Ma Lao Er is really vicious, and he wants to kick me out of the cabinet!

Tong Yangjia hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is in charge of the military, and if you want to follow Your Majesty on the expedition, you really can't stay in Guangdong!" ”

Zhu Hongsan also thought that Ma Mingyuan was going to take the opportunity to attack Tong Yangjia, and just as he was about to speak, Ma Mingyuan spoke first and said: "Don't worry, Lord Tong, your water product official knows that you are not worthy of being the governor of Liangguang!" ”

Tong Yangjia scolded in his heart when he heard Ma Mingyuan belittle him, but after hearing that he was not a candidate for the governor of Liangguang, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

Zhu Hongsan is also very strange, what is Ma Mingyuan going to do today?

"Mr. Ma, what exactly are you going to say? Who is the candidate, don't guess whether it's okay or not! ”

"Your Majesty, the position of Governor of Liangguang is very important, and it has to be filled by a heroic and resolute person, and the minister recommends Feng Ziyong, the prime minister of the cabinet, to hold it! Mr. Feng has served as the prefect of Dongguan, the prefect of Guangzhou, and the political envoy of Guangdong, and is very familiar with the government affairs of Guangdong, and the Dongguan Industrial Zone and the Guangzhou Development Zone are built by Mr. Feng himself, Mr. Feng is very familiar with the foremen of various factories, I think that after His Majesty's personal conquest, only Lord Feng can control the overall situation and keep the family business for His Majesty! ”