Chapter 422: Whether Officials Are Allowed to Do Business (Part 1)

Because of the courage to kill the crown prince of Java, and made an impassioned statement in front of all the people in the capital, Qian Qianyi, the cabinet chief assistant who almost lost the heart of the emperor and the people, finally regained a little prestige and was able to continue to stay in the center of the empire. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Qian Qianyi is also very satisfied with this, and he also has a feeling that the willows are bright and bright, he feels that he seems to have grasped the feeling of how to be the head of the cabinet, and he still wants to continue to work and continue to reap the joy brought by this power.

He even wanted to learn from Yu Qian, Zhang Juzheng and other famous ministers to do a few vigorous things, and now His Majesty the Emperor is a king who is determined to innovate, and he may really be able to do a few vigorous things before the end of his life.

Just when Qian Qianyi was in high spirits and wanted to do something serious and no longer wanted to rely on flattery to eat a vegetarian meal and wait for death, Li Mingrui's side was not very happy because the crown prince of Java was killed by Qian Qianyi, he couldn't help but sigh, and secretly said that His Majesty still wants to balance now, otherwise he would not give Qian Qianyi such a chance, and although his side decisively appeased the scholars and people who made trouble in front of Shuntian Mansion, he just turned his head and made a wedding dress for Qian Qianyi.

But Li Mingrui did not give up because of this, in his opinion, no matter how many officials in the old school of Qian Qianyi are so-called honest and self-disciplined officials, but fundamentally speaking, they are not of the same mind as the current Majesty, and they have never given up on bringing Your Majesty to the path they think of as the king of Yao Shun.

"If it weren't for my Daming now that there are no internal and external troubles, these old diehards who only know how to study dare to talk about faith and cultivation in front of His Majesty, and value harmony, and also say that let His Majesty hang the arch and rule, if it was two years ago, he was kept in prison, and he went to tell the fans of Dongchang to tell the Vertical Arch and know, how can this world be separated from Your Majesty, and if you leave Your Majesty, you can only Shenzhou Lu Shen, and the country will not be a country!"

Li Mingrui said to Guo Yunhou, the head of the household, that unlike Qian Qianyi, Li Mingrui is very good at patting Zhu Youxiao's back, but he is very treacherous and wise in front of Zhu Youxiao, but he is unwilling to give in easily, but behind his back, he always deliberately shows the image of Zhu Youxiao's loyal dog.

This is also the reason why Li Mingrui can repeatedly disobey Long Yan but can repeatedly not be taken care of by Zhu Youxiao, Guo Yunhou, who also controls nearly half of the commercial wealth of the entire Beizhili by relying on his own Guo family's business, knows Li Mingrui's trick very well, and he only laughs and does not say anything about him commenting on today's saint in front of him at the moment, and when he sees a figure that looks like a Dongchang fan suddenly flashing outside the window, he admires Li Mingrui's acumen and the right time to pat the fart very much.

Guo Yunhou couldn't help but secretly wonder, this may be the reason why people are younger than him, but they can be above themselves, a hard-working official like himself can't do it except for settling accounts for His Majesty and making some money together by the way, but he can't do it to Li Mingrui who can practice the kung fu of patting the sycophants so well, of course, he can't do it for shameless flattery like Qian Qianyi.

Although Guo Yunhou, the head of the household who has always had a intestine to the end, has broken through the knowledge in this officialdom, it is still easy to change his temperament, and he still can't help but put the teacup on the coffee table: "Okay, Elder Li Ge, let's get down to business, people are gone, and other old diehards of the old school don't have to care, as long as these people are not greedy, Your Majesty still needs them, some places are much better than those of us whose hands are stained with copper stench, but Qian Qianyi can't help but fight, This person is only a little talented, but he is a flatterer, good at making conspiracies and tricks to harm his colleagues, not to mention, but also intends to persuade His Majesty not to make businessmen officials, the reason is that businessmen will make officials corrupt, and the court only talks about interests and not etiquette, isn't this nonsense? ”

Guo Yunhou can now stand on Li Mingrui's side because of whether he allows scholars with the status of businessmen to enter politics, especially in the positions of the six ministries and nine secretaries and the three ministers of the cabinet.

Frankly speaking, Zhu Youxiao did not think about this problem before, the reason why he let a group of close ministers follow him to do business with him at the beginning was to break the commercial barriers of the gentry while controlling the lifeline of the country's economy, and to create national capital and open a system of large-scale collection of commercial taxes, but now the system of commercial tax collection has been established, and the wealth of the whole country and the degree of economic and trade development have finally entered a positive proportion, but new problems have arisen.

That is, there are many new capitalists, and because the Ming Dynasty is now a trust empire system, the new capitalists are more powerful than the previous gentry, but because their interests and national interests are tied together, that is, the main profit is in the hands of Zhu Youxiao and the imperial court, plus they have to pay high taxes, but as Qian Qianyi and other conservatives fear, once these capitalists control the court, it will lead to the entire officialdom becoming a shopping mall, all for their own commercial interests, It dilutes the traditional Confucian idea of diligence and love for the people.

Zhu Youxiao is still more worried that the Ming Empire will be controlled by these chaebols in a certain future, and then completely break away from the relationship with the people at the bottom, so he allowed a group of defenders of the old school to exist, these people may be solidified in their thinking, deeply affected by the small peasant economy, and they are also hypocritical, but the family-oriented ideas they preach can well maintain the relationship between the upper class and the lower people, and they are the main force in the future to promote the idea of loyalty to the monarch.

Sometimes Zhu Youxiao also thinks that it seems that the freedom of businessmen to engage in politics should be restricted, and government officials can be allowed to become businessmen's agents, but if government officials directly become businessmen, it may really make the Ming Empire really exacerbate social contradictions before the corresponding rights protection for the people at the bottom and the emerging working class are not established, after all, even in modern times, in order to avoid the emergence of the combination of government and business and affect social stability, it is also strictly restricted from administrative officials doing business.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not directly reject the views of Qian Qianyi and other conservatives who wanted him to strictly prohibit officials, especially officials in real power departments, from doing business, and even said that he should consider it.

And Guo Yunhou, as the head of the household department, is the same big chaebol as Gong Yonggu, Yang Tingchun, Mao Yisheng, Li Mingrui, etc., so he is very opposed to Qian Qianyi and other ideas to prohibit officials from participating in business, after all, his head of the household department has brought a lot of convenience to their Guo family to seek commercial interests, once they lose the position of the head of the household department, their Guo family will lose a lot of opportunities to operate and trade, even an approval is much more troublesome than before.

Therefore, Guo Yunhou and others also hope to defeat Qian Qianyi, so as to deter those conservative officials, and it is best not to lightly initiate policy reforms that officials cannot engage in business.

Seeing that Guo Yunhou was so excited, Li Mingrui couldn't help but persuade a few words, and said: "Da Situ doesn't have to be so anxious, this matter is not over yet, look at it, Qian Qianyi's fate will definitely be miserable." ”