In the sound of firecrackers, six years have passed since the sound of firecrackers, and the panicked Longqing has passed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Zaiyuan has been gone for more than half a year, but the people are still grateful to this benevolent monarch, and when the Chinese New Year is approaching, the people are in an endless stream, going to the temple to burn incense and pray for blessings, and countless people go to Zhaoling to worship.

Compared with other imperial tombs, Zhaoling is far beyond the regulations and materials, and the weather is strict and solemn. As we all know, the emperor's mausoleum is a very complex project, not only the cost is huge, but also the frontier is long, some emperors have been repaired almost a lifetime, until after their death, the mausoleum has not been completed.

As for Zhaoling, it started construction in the third year of Longqing, and it took less than four years before and after to complete it completely, and it has to be said that under the control of Tang Yi, the construction capacity of Daming has been improved unprecedentedly.

In order to build the tomb, in addition to the extensive use of prefabricated cement parts, railroad tracks were also built, and heavy horse-drawn carts were used to transport the earthwork out. With the use of railroad carriages, it was possible to remove the earthwork that could only be transported by 30 ordinary horse-drawn carriages at a time, which made the biggest trouble in construction easy.

The list goes on and on.

Tang Yi was not reluctant to disband the construction team, but set up a construction company directly under the Ministry of Industry, contracted the project, and started to build ten reinforced concrete high-rise buildings with more than five floors in the capital in one go.

According to preliminary estimates, a construction company alone is worth more than 3 million yuan, while the cost of Zhaoling is only 2.8 million yuan.

Others are losing money when they build the imperial mausoleum, but only repairing the Zhaoling Mausoleum has to make a profit, which is really breathtaking...... Seeing the slight knowledge, after six years of Longqing, Daming has indeed been reborn and has undergone too many changes.

Especially after the southern tour of Longqing, the vitality of the entire business was released, even after the counterattack of the Li family, it still did not affect the momentum of the rapid progress of the Ming Dynasty.

As the first assistant of the cabinet, Tang Yi proposed several times at the beginning of the year that he had promised the first emperor that he would only serve three terms as a scholar, and at the end of his nine-year term, he would return to his hometown to study and cultivate the fields.

The big guy counted with his fingers, didn't he say that next year would be Tang Yi's last term, what are you kidding, now there is a lot of mess in the center, there are beacons everywhere, and many changes have just begun, how can you stop? Except for Tang Yi, who can take on this burden.

In the end, everyone publicly recommended Hu Zongxian, Gao Gong, Ge Shouli, Zhu Heng, and the four old ministers, on behalf of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, to persuade Tang Yi, and after a long talk, Tang Yi finally nodded.

However, he still insisted that there must be a term limit for scholars, and he also gave the example of Yan Song, if Yan Ge Lao only retired to Lin Quan after only nine years of term, maybe he would still be an example of a virtuous minister and a gentleman, only because he refused to leave because he relied on his position, he was ruined.

The time is short, and it will definitely not work to change people like a marquee, but if you don't go to the love stack, you will be old and mediocre for decades, and you will not be able to cope with the heavy government affairs, which will only be a bad thing.

After discussion, it was decided to change the term of office of a fellow scholar to five years, and in general, two or ten years.

Five years is enough to see a person's level, if he can do well, continue to be re-elected, and if he can't do well, he will abdicate and make way for Xian. After serving two terms, in principle, you must go home.

However, these people pondered that Tang Yi had been working for five or six years, and if he did it for another term, it would only be five years, which was too short, especially because he was young, and in another five years, he would just be a year of confusion, and it would be a pity to put it among the senior officials of the ministry and the court, all of them were young, and it was a pity to be a master immediately.

After thinking about it, they added another article, if it coincides with the war, or the situation is urgent, it can be appropriately extended for one term, for three terms, fifteen years, but there is a premise, the age of the three terms must not exceed 70 years old, once the age is too old and the physical strength is exhausted, it must also be done as soon as possible.

Of course, even if Tang Yi served six terms, he would not reach seventy, and this article was obviously left for the people behind him to prevent them from leaving.

After properly discussing the term of office system, Tang Yi added another article, during the term of office, if he does not commit major crimes such as betrayal of the country and collaborating with the enemy, he shall not be dismissed.

With this article, the status of the scholar is completely stable, and he is even countless times stronger than the prime minister of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

And from then on, the stay of scholars is no longer a matter that the emperor can lead, the term of office is not enough, the emperor can't take it, and when the term of office is up, the emperor can't keep it.

From the root, the scholars and the imperial power were cut open.

Dealing with the matter of tenure, Tang Yi in February of the first year of Wanli, officially promulgated the cabinet proclamation of "continuing the essence of the Longqing reform and continuing the Zhongxing Daming country", promulgated two capitals and thirteen provinces, Tang Yi put forward the next comprehensive reform plan, including a thorough reform of official positions, from the cabinet, the original bloated six ministries should be split into more capable and professional more than a dozen ministries, the subordinate institutions of each ministry should be improved, and all officials should implement the tenure system and responsibility system.

At the local level, the governors and governors were to be changed to permanent officials, the original division of powers between the three divisions was to be unified under the governors, and the provinces were to increase their institutions and establish institutions corresponding to the central ministries. Realize the vertical and horizontal connection, and implement the national policy of the imperial court more efficiently.

Third, it is necessary to completely abolish the local officials, change the land in the southwest, and abolish the hereditary lineage of the Tusi head.

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Tang Yi put forward a total of more than a dozen changes, covering almost every aspect, of course, the focus is still on the rule of officials. In Tang Yi's words, if you want to appease the world, you must first appease the hearts of the people, and to appease the hearts of the people, you must first appease the hearts of the officials.

The huge clique of officials is a tool for reforming the law, and if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools, and if he does not straighten out the internal affairs of the bureaucracy, he will not be able to do his job properly.

The current cabinet is free of the constraints of old ministers such as Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji, and it is almost completely in accordance with Tang Yi's intentions and quickly implemented.

Sure enough, the three-plate axe was cut out, and countless cheers were ushered in, especially in the southeast, and the old wisdom of the Tang Pavilion was praised. When Longqing was touring the south, they proposed that the original three classes and six rooms were not enough for a long time, and that the official system must be adjusted and restrictions on business must be reduced.

After looking forward to it for several years, Tang Ge Lao finally made it for the big guy, and Tang Yi's pace was far faster than they imagined. The Consultative Bureau in the southeast has been thoroughly controlled by the gentry of businessmen and the representatives of Xinxue.

They formed a strong support for Tang Yi at the Consultative Conference, which was also the first time that businessmen really intervened in politics.

For example, Lei Qi strongly advocated that the imperial court should continue to open up overseas markets, and that the imperial court's immigration work could not be without the participation of merchants, who were willing to subscribe to bonds, provide loans and materials for the immigration work, and were also willing to underwrite agricultural and mineral products in Annam and other places.

In order to stir up the trend, Lei Qi united with a large group of southeastern businessmen, bought full-page advertisements in newspapers, and went full force to publicize them everywhere.

In the eyes of some unspeakable scholars, they have simply lost the dignity of officials, no different from street vendors, and are full of interest animals.

Lei Qi has always been dismissive of these people's accusations.

A bunch of sour Confucians, without Lao Tzu paying taxes all these years, you still drink the northwest wind! After consulting with the representatives of several provinces, he proposed at the council meeting that the funds of the Ministry of Rites should be reduced, especially some complicated and useless ceremonies, such as worshipping the heavens and sacrificing holes, should be abolished.

Lei Qi also put forward a more exciting one, he believes that officials, like other scholars, all come from agriculture, industry and commerce, but their professions are different, and the official uniform should be abolished, and the hierarchical restrictions on clothing, houses, frames, and accessories should be abolished, and the people should choose for themselves.

Although merchants were not allowed to wear silk, it had long been a dead letter, but it was the first time that they dared to really put it forward and put it on the table to abolish the distinction of rank.

Lei Qi's spearhead is directly aimed at the Ministry of Rites, after Gao Yi Zhishi, the left Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is Zhu Dashou, and the right Shangshu is Pan Sheng, Zhu Dashou is okay, Pan Sheng is the eye of Jiajing for 20 years, full of old qualifications, where will he put a mere businessman in his eyes.

The two sides quarreled every day, and Lei Qi was bad enough, he actually stuck the budget of the Ministry of Rites.

Tang Yi asked the budgets of various ministries to be reviewed by the advisory meeting last year, which was also one of the quid pro quo between Tang Yi and Gao Gong. Otherwise, Gao Gong is not a fool, what is the council for, should it be ornamented?

In his heart, Gao Gong also felt that some expenses were unnecessary, but Pan Sheng was his fellow student, and his high beard was sandwiched in the middle, so he was not easy to behave.

Hey, put the trouble on Tang Yi......

"I can't help it." Tang Yi spread his hands, "The six ministries should have been adjusted a long time ago, what money should the imperial court spend, and it should also come up with a charter, I fancy that Xuangong should not regard this controversy as a matter between Lei Qi and Pan Sheng, but to look at the overall situation, the mandate of heaven is already slim, and it is not worth spending a lot of money every year to sacrifice to heaven and earth." ”

Is this still called no way?

Tang Yi's attitude is clear enough, Gao Gong pondered for a while, in fact, it is not bad, just to establish the authority of the advisory meeting, those things in the capital all regard the advisory meeting as a decoration, and the old man will let you know that it is powerful!

The tall beard was brewing a big move, but Tang Yi was more concerned about Lei Qi's other proposal, it was indeed time to promote colonization more quickly, relying on Beiyang and Nanyang Company alone was still too weak.

Tang Yi immediately ordered three generals to be transferred, one was Liu Xian, one was Deng Zilong, and the other was Qi Jimei.

Everyone is an old acquaintance, Liu Xian was the chief soldier when he was fighting against the Japanese, a member of the full fierce general, but later he was involved in a lawsuit and almost lost his life, but fortunately, Tang Yi was around and saved his old life. And Deng Zilong, he is Yu Dayou's subordinate, brave in battle, very strategic, Qi Jimei needless to say.

"I am going to let Mr. Liu serve as the commander, command 13,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry, immediately cross the Yellow River, and eradicate Geng Xiang and his gang."

"Yes!"

Liu Xian was very excited, his old buddies, Tang Kekuan, Lu Bo, Yu Dayou and others had already achieved fame, but he was not embarrassed or embarrassed, it was easy to come to the opportunity, how could he let it go.

"My lord, you don't need a knife to kill chickens, you can deal with Geng Direction, three thousand people are enough!"

Tang Yi laughed, "The old general is a great talent, how can he be of little use!" I mean you go all the way south, from Huguang into Guangxi, bulldoze the remnants of Wei Yinbao, and then march in here! Tang Yi's finger fell on Thang Long Mansion in Annan. (To be continued.) )