Wenyuan Pavilion is the place where the cabinet ministers work, in addition to a few cabinet scholars, there are usually some low-level ministers, these ministers are generally the most promising young officials of the Ming Dynasty, they follow a few ministers in the Wenyuan Pavilion to learn the experience of politics, in the future, they only need to be released as officials for a few years, and when they are transferred to the capital, they will be immediately reused, it can be said that these young officials are almost equivalent to the senior reserve officials of the Ming Dynasty. Watermark Ad Test: Watermark Ad Test

Most of these young officials who were able to enter the cabinet were in their twenties and thirties, and they were usually responsible for drafting documents and conveying news, and even took care of the diet and daily life of several cabinet ministers, which in the words of later generations were equivalent to secretaries in the cabinet. But don't look at the low position of these officials, but because they can get close to the core government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, they are all the envy of others, plus these people are young, so in front of outsiders, they are all full of energy, and many people are desperately slapping them, in order to know the direction of some government affairs as soon as possible, and the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has become a trend, so these official positions in the cabinet can be regarded as a famous fat shortage in the Ming Dynasty.

However, since Emperor Zhengde left, these young officials in the cabinet have encountered big trouble, because Zhou Chong, the regent, needs to deal with government affairs frequently, and at the same time has to communicate with the cabinet in a timely manner, and Zhou Chong does not like to turn the Zhao Wangfu where he lives into an office place, so in the end he discussed with Yang Tinghe, and simply found him a room in Wenyuan Pavilion, which became his usual office, and he would come to work on time every morning.

Zhou Zhong is young and energetic, he came to Wenyuan Pavilion to work, and soon found that some decisions in the cabinet would be leaked, which made him very angry, after all, the cabinet is the political core of the Ming Dynasty, if even the government affairs here can be leaked. So what secrets does the entire Ming Dynasty have at all?

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Chongming Jinyiwei secretly investigated, and the results were quickly found on those young officials in the cabinet. Zhou Zhong is not Yang Ting and these old ministers, they may have been used to this situation for a long time. It is quite possible that the same thing has even been done before. But Zhou Zhong would never tolerate such a thing, so he punished a group of young officials who had leaked secrets. Then, a group of young officials were re-transferred from the Hanlin Yuan and the Guozijian to supplement them, and secrecy regulations were formulated, so that the secrets in the cabinet would not be easily leaked.

A small room in the northeast corner of Wenyuan Pavilion, which is where Zhou Zhong works. The whole room is very small, in Zhou Chong's opinion, only more than 30 square meters, in addition to a table and a chair and a few large iron cabinets for storing documents, there is only a pot of orchids on the windowsill, and there is no other decoration, it looks extremely simple.

"Only. How are the bank's transactions handled now? Zhou Zhong took a sip of tea, looked at Yan Song who was sitting in front of him and asked, but it was Yan Song's word, although Yan Song's age was greater than Zhou's. But because there is a difference between the top and bottom, Zhou Zhong only needs to call his words.

"Qi Yu Jianguo, now the central bank's headquarters in Beijing has been built, and it will soon be able to move in, and in addition, in the cities where the political envoys and yamen are located, branches of the central bank have also been built, with these branches, we can also more effectively grasp the flow of money in various places, as for the various commercial banks, they have opened their branches to the state capital level under our arrangement, and even some of the more prosperous counties, there are also branches of commercial banks, which has preliminarily completed the plan of the people of the country. How to use the bank next is up to the superintendent! Although Yan Song sat on the chair, he still behaved very respectfully.

"Good job, this king really didn't look at the wrong person at the beginning, hahaha~" Zhou Zhong was also very satisfied with Yan Song's answer, and finally couldn't help laughing. If he wants to change the status quo of the Ming Dynasty, he must reform the Ming court, and if he wants to reform, changing the law is the key, but if he wants to change the law, he must clean up the rule of officials, and the key to the rule of officials is corruption and bribery.

Of course, Zhou Chong didn't fully believe the words of the big traitor in front of him, and immediately asked about some details about all aspects of the bank, but Yan Song answered it clearly almost without thinking, and even took out some statements sent by banks around the world for Zhou Chong to see, which made Zhou Chong finally believe Yan Song's words, and at the same time more affirmed his ability.

"But your ability is really good, the bank's affairs are in your hands, this king is also very assured, in addition, although the central bank has been initially established, but its potential is far more than that, you still need to slowly explore it yourself!" Zhou Chong smiled and appreciated, although he was still a little wary of Yan Song, but he was very appreciative of the ability he showed.

Next, Zhou Zhong asked Yan Song about the difficulties encountered, for this, Yan Song also answered very honestly, the biggest difficulty their bank is now encountered is the difficulty from the Ministry of Households, originally the finances of the Ming Dynasty were managed by the Ministry of Households, but now with the strong rise of the Central Bank, it has infringed on many of their interests, and the bank is also an independent department, except for the emperor, no department has the right to control the bank, which also makes the Ministry of Accounts very dissatisfied with the Central Bank, and from time to time will find opportunities to provoke, but they also have a sense of proportion, after all, behind the bank is Zhouzhong, although the household can make some small actions to express their dissatisfaction, but they don't dare to really take the bank.

"There is no way to do this, the bank's financial management function overlaps with the financial management of the household, they will naturally be a little dissatisfied with you, but with this king, they don't dare to do too much, so you only need to be patient for the time being, if they really dare to do something excessive, then the king will naturally rectify it!" Zhou Zhong is also very helpless, the guys in the Daohu Department are all extremely slippery, and the banks are all used in the regular way, which makes Zhou Chong unable to catch the mistakes, so he can't help if he wants to.

"With the words of the superintendent, the lower officials and others will be content, anyway, no matter how difficult the household department is, our bank will still be opened, and the scale will become larger and larger, maybe the household department will ask us in the future, and then we will embarrass them in turn!" When Yan Song heard Zhou Chong's words, he was also half-joking and half-serious, but Zhou Chong smiled in his heart when he heard this, and he finally discovered one of Yan Song's shortcomings, that is, he was a little cautious.

After chatting about the bank for a while, Yan Song was about to get up and say goodbye, Zhou Chong was also having a headache about one thing now, so he didn't plan to keep him, but just as Yan Song was about to walk out of the door, Zhou Chong suddenly had an idea, and immediately stopped him and said, "Weizhong, have you heard about the affairs of Xuanfu?" ”

"What the prison said is that His Majesty wants to establish an elite cavalry, but the cabinet does not agree, so now the two sides are deadlocked?" Yan Song heard Zhou Chong's question, and also turned around and said.

"Yes, it is this matter, the imperial brother wants to learn from Chengzu to conquer Mongolia in the north, so he wants to establish an elite cavalry, but such a cavalry must cost a lot, although now the Ming Dynasty's finances are better, but there are many places to spend money, and the cabinet does not want to see the imperial brother take risks, so they are all against the establishment of cavalry, and now the two sides are deadlocked, the king has not expressed his position for prudent reasons, but the imperial brother is now urging me to support him, which is really an embarrassing thing, I wonder what you can do? Zhou Zhong said helplessly.

Zhou Zhong also has objections to Zhengde's desire to establish elite cavalry, but he is Zhengde's younger brother and the supervisor appointed by Zhengde himself, if even he does not support Zhengde at this time, although this will win the favor of the cabinet and ministers, but it will make Zhengde feel more isolated, and with Zhengde's temperament, he may do something irrational, so Zhou Zhong had to drag it all the time, so that Zhengde and the cabinet quarreled first, but unfortunately it can't drag on now.

Yan Song heard Zhou Zhong ask him about his opinion on this matter, which made him feel refreshed, because this marked that he had been favored by His Royal Highness King Zhao, and at the moment, I saw Yan Song think for a moment, and stepped forward and replied: "Lord Jianguo, Your Majesty likes martial arts, and before that, he personally commanded the army to defeat the little Tatar prince, so that His Majesty's confidence was greatly increased, so he gave birth to the idea of establishing a cavalry and burning the fire to the grassland." ”

Yan Song paused here when he said this, and then said: "In this case, the cabinet rejected His Majesty's idea, which will naturally cause His Majesty's strong dissatisfaction, and in the eyes of the lower officials, it is estimated that it is impossible to make His Majesty completely change his mind, but the lower officials feel that they can think of a way to delay, after all, they first agree to His Majesty's request to establish cavalry, but the establishment of cavalry is not a matter of one or two days, which requires the cooperation of many parties and a large number of materials. Maybe it will be difficult to build this cavalry in ten years. ”

"Procrastination? That's a good idea! Zhou Chong's eyes lit up when he heard this, but what he thought in his heart was not Yan Song's method, but Yan Song's words just now made him suddenly have another idea, Yan Song's delay is just the idea of using the bad habits of officialdom to prevent Zhengde from establishing cavalry, but Zhou Zhongzhong thought of another way to delay, if this method can convince Zhengde, maybe it can solve the grassland people in the north forever.