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The empire's once night ban system, after more than two hundred years of wear, is like a chain that has been sealed for many years, becoming rotten and unable to restrain the hearts of Yuwang's people. During the Chenghua period, the Son of Heaven issued an edict in the form of a holy decree, requiring shops operating at night to be obliged to provide lamps and candles for officials who returned home from night play, and if the ban was abolished by holy decree. As a result, people can enjoy their nightlife more unbridledly.

The company's alley, Goolan alley, Hanjiatan...... In these alleys of the famous capital, sedan chairs and carriages line up in long queues, and the sound of silk and bamboo orchestras echoes through the walls over the entire city. The beautiful girl is dressed in splendid clothes, or singing gracefully, or dancing, or whispering and laughing with the benefactors around her, and the showers of flowers and rain are sprinkled in the room.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty can still be regarded as a first-class city in the whole world today, whether it is the size of the city or the population, it is not inferior to any famous city in the world. It is true that the city has the same problems as the empire of the boss, but these problems are like the dust on the treasure and do not affect its value.

It is a place where merchants from all over the world gather, as well as the world's heroes and the most powerful officials in the empire. Like a group of stars, it surrounds the Son of Heaven and dominates the fate of the empire. And these pillars of the empire, while enjoying the service of beauties, drank and sang, talked loudly, and talked about most of the objects of the actual manipulation of this empire, the owner of the Zhang Mansion in Dengshikou and Shamao Hutong: Zhang Juzheng.

The first assistant of the Ming Empire, the Zuo Zhu State, the scholar of the Middle Pole Palace, the prince Taibao, and the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu...... Any one of these long titles is enough to glorify one's ancestors, and when these titles are concentrated in one person, they can only be described in one word: a supreme minister.

He tied Feng Bao and Empress Dowager Li internally, and then used the cabinet to clamp down on the six departments, and the cabinet to clamp down on the department, monopolizing the power, and the blessing was up to himself. Entering and exiting was guarded by the border army, and even sat next to the Son of Heaven in the early dynasties. There are some transgressions in these behaviors, but he is the teacher of the Son of Heaven, and if anyone dares to point out the misconduct of this emperor, the first person to be angry is the emperor.

When the minister found out that these actions would not damage Zhang Jiangling's status, he realized that his actions were actually showing off his strength to the enemy, so that everyone understood that this era was Zhang Juzheng's era, and whoever tried to fight him would die without a place to be buried.

Around him, a group of followers with him as the core gathered, including Zeng Xingwu, Wang Zhang, Pan Sheng, Li Youzi, Wang Guoguang and others. The whole group existed because of Zhang Juzheng, and in private, the ministers called these people do: Gangneung Party.

These people are greedy for money, astringent or murderous, in short, if you look at it from the perspective of life, everyone's private morality is quite debatable. But under the light of Zhang Juzheng, these flaws are irrelevant, their decision is the decision of the Son of Heaven, their ideas, on behalf of the country, everyone must cooperate unconditionally. The old and dilapidated cart of the Ming Dynasty is being pulled by Zhang Juzheng and his Jiangling Party and is moving forward with difficulty.

This kind of forward movement is not always comfortable, and the parts that have long been worn out will inevitably rub and even damage during operation, causing the whole car to make a tooth-aching crunch and drop countless debris fragments. In most cases, this damage is considered a necessary sacrifice and does not attract attention, and even if it is bigger, Zhang Juzheng will subdue it with his own iron fist. However, the problem facing these pillars of the empire at the moment is that this iron-fisted chief assistant is also unable to suppress it by force, so he can only try to raise money to solve it: there is no money.

Mellow wine beauty, flower rain incense powder, these are all services that can only be exchanged for silver. When the empire can't pay the officials, the empire must also bear the scolding, complaining and even hatred of these Beijing officials. When Zi Chongling ascended the throne today, when he was not yet a director, all the power was in the hands of Zhang Juzheng, who could he scold if he didn't scold him? Even those women who accompany the wine have to whisper a few words with the benefactor, they are always in arrears, how long will it take to pay off the debts owed by these nobles?

In the study of Zhang's mansion, on the mahogany Taishi chair, Zhang Juzheng, who is also the real ruler of this huge empire, is sitting upright. The helmsman of the empire, who had the name of a beautiful man when he was young, is now just fifty years old, and he is still dignified, with sword eyebrows and tiger eyes, white face and long hair, and his demeanor is not inferior to that of young people, but he has a more mature and stable temperament, and his charm is even greater. I believe that as long as he thinks, it is enough to make thousands of girls fall crazy for it.

It's just that this Shousuke's face is not good-looking, and his brows are slightly locked, and his face is solemn. In the guest seat, the Hubu Shangshu Wang Guoguang, who is over the age of six, is carefully observing the color of the first assistant, worried about whether he can pass the test.

Zhang Juzheng was silent for a while, and said leisurely:

According to the Beijing officials, the six parts are rich and powerful. The land of the household is moist, and it is not allowed to live in a rich word, but now it is ...... If anyone goes to Taicang to see, they will find that this household is not very wide, not to mention money and food in the huge Taicang, I am afraid that it is a mouse, and there is no one. ”

Seeing Zhang Juzheng telling jokes, Wang Guoguang also laughed at himself: "There are still some mice, and there are some fat rats in the household warehouse, which are very big, and they are not afraid of cats." But they're too fat to get into the holes, so it's not easy to see at this time. ”

"It's not that you can't get in, it's that you don't want to drill. As soon as the rat's body is fat, his vision becomes very large, and he used to be willing to drill small holes, but now he feels bored, and it takes a long time to steal only a few grains of rice, and he can't make it. I also know that there will always be rats in the warehouse, and if you want to kill all the rats, you can't do it, so steal a few grains of rice, as long as it doesn't go out of the way, just let it go. You can't burn down the warehouse for a few mice. But now that my rice barn is empty, if there is a rat to burrow at this time, I will kill it! Even if rat meat can't quench hunger, it can also quench hatred. ”

Wang Guoguang has not been in office for a long time, and he is not very familiar with the affairs of the household department, but the top ten warehouses in the capital of the former governor are familiar with the situation in the treasury. Listening to Zhang Juzheng's words, he had no choice but to sigh,

"The rice warehouse is not a sky, it has been like this since the first emperor was alive. And these warehouses are empty, and they can't all be blamed on rats. After the lower officials took office, they checked the bottom file of the transfer department, and in the second year of Longqing, the annual income of the imperial court was 2.5 million taels, and the income was 4 million taels, and the loss was 1.5 million taels. Such a big deficit, from the second year of Longqing to today, and counting the countless expenses of Daxing Zhai when the temple was born, no matter how many warehouses there are, it will be lost. ”

Zhang Juzheng recalled thoughtfully, "When I ascended the throne today, I needed to revise the actual record. I was on a recital at the time, and I still remember the words in it. The ministers and the emperor are eager to eat and feast for this, not only for the sake of etiquette, but also in the heart of the uneasy. And the cost of a banquet can be moved to hundreds of gold, and saving this matter may not be a way to save money. In order to save the cost of lamps and candles, he had to start the lecture in the morning, so that he could save the luncheon, and then even the lights of the New Year's Day were cut. The most pitiful person is the Queen Mother, in order to save the New Year's expenses, there is only a fruit feast during the festival, and even the fruit is saved on weekdays. The queen mother of a country should be raised by the world, but she can't even eat the fruit, which is more than the mother of an ordinary rich and noble family...... For the sake of seven hundred taels of silver, the Queen Mother did not know the umami, Zhang Juzheng, the sin should not be forgiven! ”

Wang Guoguang hurriedly said: "Yuan Weng can't say that, we can all see Yuan Weng's difficulties." The country is difficult, Taicang is empty, and we can't come up with a good way except for a provincial word. To say that heaven and earth do not allow it, it was really too much for the first emperor to spend some back then, and what was left to us was such a mess. On the river, the money is spent like flowing water every year, and the war is not worry-free. If it is not bad as expected, when it comes to the autumn defense, Li Chengliang will give us a problem, a big victory, in the eyes of the people, only see how to fight and win, how the court has raised the national prestige, but in our eyes, what we see is those reward silver. There are also honorable annual rewards, and money is used everywhere in these places...... I have a headache when I think about it. ”

"It's not a way to throttle money, the province can't save so much money, and the last way is to open source. It is necessary to open up a large source of wealth in order to maintain the country, otherwise in a few years, the imperial court will collapse. The court has no money, just like people have no blood, how can it be maintained. Shu'an, I'm afraid you're going to have a hard time in the past few years, people will certainly scold me Zhang Juzheng, but you, Wang Shu'an, can't escape. ”

"It's an honor to be able to slander Yuan Weng."

Zhang Juzheng smiled bitterly, "A few days ago, where was the storage warehouse, it was very troublesome?" ”

"It's not about pepper and sumu, but the clay people also have earthy nature, and the color is all used to give pepper and sumu, and whoever changes it will make a fuss. Especially those petty officials have no oil and water, and they all count on Yulu to live, it is not easy for Jingshi Mi to live in a noble house, and they all point to paying off the debts when they send Yulu, but this time they are all given to pepper Sumu, how can they live? ”

"Pepper and sumac wood are also valuable, and their value is not low. But...... The pepper and sumu of Yongle Year are not easy to shoot. I also know that if I ask them to sell sumac pepper, they are not selling things, but selling faces and yarn hats! The same Su Mu, if the household officials go to sell Su Mu, they can sell it for a high price, but if Shang Baosi's people go, they can't even exchange the bowl of porridge. If this business is done, it is equivalent to putting the handle in the hands of the merchants, and the officials of the court must be subject to the merchants, and it will not benefit the country or the people. But if I don't, what can I do, and what can I do with it? ”

Wang Guoguang smiled bitterly: "Xiaguan's Su Mu is very expensive, and I think it depends on the price of this old face." Yuan Weng suffers, everyone knows the psychology, even if they say a few words, they know what is going on in their hearts. ”

Zhang Juzheng sighed and said: "When the temple was in power, Yan Weizhong repeatedly went up and down, either calling on the Beijing officials to support half of the money or not to support it, and most of the petty officials below mentioned the father and son of the Yan family, and most of them cut their teeth. At that time, my teacher told me that Fen Yi was slandering His Majesty. He's a sleek man, how could he want to do such a thing, but if he doesn't do this, what can he do? Where can you save money if you don't pay half of it? Ever since I became the first assistant, I have been able to understand the difficulties of folk women. When it comes to cooking, you have to ensure that everyone has food in the bowl, otherwise the family will make trouble, and this stone mortar is not so good. ”

"Yuan Weng works hard, and the officials know it. Come to think of it, it won't take too long, and it can always get better. As Yuan Weng said before, the new law will be implemented to rectify the rule of officials, and if it can be implemented, the situation will be better. ”

"Easier said than done. The so-called new law is just a whip of the temple, and this law was abolished that day because the resistance below was too great. Measuring the fields of the world, integrating all the enslavement and miscellaneous levies into one, and taking the other to become poor officials, this is tantamount to smashing the rice bowl of the grain chiefs, so that they can no longer take the opportunity to harm the township, and there will be many resistances. Your Majesty is young, and although he is confident in practicing the Fa, he is too eager to achieve success, and the young man's mind is fast, and he is afraid that if he does not achieve results in two or three years, his enthusiasm will disappear, and on the contrary, he will mess up a good deed. How to push it, and when to push it, this is a difficult problem. ”

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the study, and when Zhang Juzheng summoned him, he saw that it was You Chubin, the head of his house, who came in from outside with a package in his hand.

"The Cantonese concert sent by Yintai is Ling Zhongcheng's office, and it is urgent for 600 miles, and Yintai said that it must be seen by the master himself."

Six hundred miles of urgency, probably the military newspaper is available. But now that the military of Liangguang is in the hands of Yin Zhengmao, he is only qualified to send it urgently, and it is impossible for it to be sent from Lingyunyi's yamen. Zhang Juzheng shook his head, "What is Yangshan doing this time?" Wait for me to see, he is so anxious to give treasure, what kind of good things he is giving. ”

As a minister, there is no need to avoid it. Zhang Juzheng saw things very quickly, ten lines at a glance, and he had finished reading the piece in a moment, but he saw that there was another clip attached to the piece. Wang Guoguang smiled: "What? Brother Yangshan, is this going to protect people? ”

"Yes, it's really protecting people, and it's still a white ding, and I didn't even pass the government test, so I brushed it off."

"A boy who has never passed the school test...... That's a little interesting, this talented man doesn't know when he will be able to enter Beijing, and the lower officials also want to meet him. ”

The gloomy cloud on Zhang Juzheng's face was gradually replaced by a smile, and he put the piece on the table, "I'm afraid I will have to wait a few years, and when I reach the year of Ding Chou, I can meet him." ”

The so-called Ding Chou meeting naturally refers to the imperial examination, and Ling Yunyi is naturally an official. People who are officials will not participate in the Keku, Wang Guoguang said with a smile: "Yangshan Gong protects him, most likely because he wants to keep him an official position, right?" Isn't it not very good to save the face of Yangshan? ”

"I am in the same department as Yangshan, if it is a little trivial, he will say a word, and I will be approved. But just because this man is really hard-rooted, I can't give him an official position. Giving him an official position is equivalent to ruining his future, and he can go where he can go if he is a miscellaneous person? always has to wait for him to be nominated for the gold list before it can be useful. Shuan, you see. ”

Since Zhang Juzheng allowed it, Wang Guoguang also dared to watch the song, and after reading it, his face also showed joy, "Yangshan and Yuan Weng thought of going together to try a whip method in Guangdong!" Lingnan is smoky, and there are only a limited number of Cantonese people in the imperial court, and there is little resistance to the implementation of the new law there. If Guangdong can succeed, the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty cannot be said to be unable to do it anywhere. Looking at the meaning of the song, just because this method was first implemented, most of the salaries of the two Guang can be solved by themselves. And this method is actually called this one...... Fan Jin's scholar related? If I were in Beijing right now in this life, I would like to call him over and ask him face to face, and ask him how he came up with the idea of practicing this Fa in Guangdong. ”

Hearing that Guangshi did not need the assistance of neighboring provinces, Zhang Juzheng also showed a smile on his face, and his hand was lightly rubbed like ink and hair, "It can be seen that a whip law has won the hearts of the people, and the people's hearts are wanted, and this law will be successful." Shu'an, you will enter the palace with me tomorrow morning, hand over the chapter in person, and ask for approval, and try out the new law in Guangdong for a period of three years to see the results. ”

Wang Guoguang nodded, and suddenly said, "What about this clip?" ”

"It's okay, Yangshan may not be able to leave him now, so naturally he can't move. This clip is nothing more than a reward, let me know that there is such a scholar in Lingnan. When he enters Beijing to catch the exam, he will give him some more care. If Ling Yangshan can't take care of his future in Guangdong, then how can this new law continue? Tour Seven! You go to Renhe Mansion and ask him to come to my house now. ”

The so-called Renhe is the number of Zhang Han, the secretary of the ministry, Wang Guoguang asked: "It's not early, Yuan Weng invites Renhe to come?" ”

"yes, there's something he has to do. The former Yin Shiting named Tao Jianzhi, the prefect of Guangzhou, and this chapter has not yet been discussed, so it must be stepped up. Looking at the situation in the recital, with Tao here, the new law will not work. In order to practice a whip method, you must first go here to be Dao Zhilan. ”

Wang Guoguang knew that Zhang Juzheng's current attention was all about implementing the new law, and Fan Jin, who was playing with Lingyun Wing's clipping, would probably not be forgotten by Zhang Juzheng in a very short time.

The mistake is not to make any new achievements, otherwise there will be no weight on this clip. The Ming Dynasty has never lacked talents, Xu Wenchang, who helped Hu Zongxian pass through the southeast, also praised the great achievements of painting military aircraft, and was talented and famous in the southeast, but now he is unbearable, and people have become half-crazy. But I don't know what the situation will be with this Fan Jin.