Chapter 693 There is no fear

"What else did Mr. Sihua say?" Zhu Cihong knew that this was just the beginning, and his subconscious title changed again, as if he was back to the time when he was running around behind Chen Xie's ass.

Qian Qianyi said: "Chen Gebu also said that the reform system implemented by the first emperor and the deepening of the reform by His Majesty were the most urgent things in the Ming Dynasty. Ministers would have been derelict in their duty not to care about this, so why should they not care about the stagnation of customs and commercial tax revenues for two years in a row? Whether the treasury is abundant or not is related to the lifeblood of the country, and the situation that there is no silver available during the period of the first emperor, have they all forgotten it? Or is it for some other reason? ”

Zhu Cihong's expression suddenly turned cold, and he stood up and said, "I understand, colluding inside and outside, filling my own pockets." The Independent Commission Against Corruption is to blame! Damn some minions! ”

Qian Qianyi said again: "Chen Gebu also said that the general trend of the world is Haohao soup. The Ming Dynasty became strong in the world, relying on the hard power of the country, not any moral articles. Today's Ming Dynasty is undergoing a primary revolution in industrialization. Why is it a primary revolution? The reason is simple, there is a shortage of qualified industrial workers. ”

Zhu Cihong sat down again, and was led by an invisible rope in his heart, and subconsciously asked: "How do you say this?" ”

"In fact, the total tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty should have increased substantially in recent years, according to investigation, within the scope of the Ming Dynasty, more than 3,000 new factories and workshops have been added every year, and the annual increase of nearly 20% has been maintained. These newly added enterprises are subject to tax. Taxes aside, these businesses need workers. In the past, qualified workers in the Ming Dynasty were completely based on the accumulation of experience, and it took at least ten years for a worker to be barely qualified. Such a speed of cultivation cannot keep up with the development of the form, which in turn restricts the development. Therefore, Chen Gebu said that this is the initial stage of the industrial revolution. How do I reach the advanced stage? Only by vigorously promoting compulsory education. Educated workers can read and understand all kinds of drawings and numbers, which can be called qualified industrial workers. The minister is ashamed, there are many new words, and the minister doesn't know what it means, so Majesty Xià will ask the cabinet in the future. ”

Qian Qianyi shut up in time. Just before Zhu Cihong's mind was confused. There are too many new contents, and Zhu Cihong can't figure it out at all. How will he know that the industrialization of a country, there is not enough source of industrial workers, what industrialization are you talking about? Without a perfect compulsory education system, where will industrialization come about? This thing is not something you can build if you have money, you have money to buy equipment, no one will use it, and your money is equivalent to throwing it into the water.

Zhu Cihong suddenly felt. After Chen Xie left, that relaxed feeling was really stupid. When facing Chen Xie, I will feel pressure, and when Chen Xie is not there, I will find that I have one less to rely on.

After being silent for a long time, Zhu Cihong got up and said: "Aiqing, for the post of governor of Liaodong, I will ask the officials to handle it." ”

Qian Qianyi is gone. When Zhu Cihong returned to the harem, the first thing he did was to ask someone to call Lao Zhou. His eyes looked at him like a knife and said, "How about I treat you?" Lao Zhou immediately knelt down and said: "Long live the lord is the reborn parent of the slave and maid." ”

Zhu Cihong squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Well, I came to ask you, why the income of the Commercial Tax Department and the Shipping Department has not increased in the past two years, and there are still fractions in the past." These two years are simply some whole numbers. It's the same on the books, dog minion, that's how you repay me? ”

Lao Zhou was directly paralyzed to the ground, and since Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, it was these old people in the East Palace who benefited the most. The Commercial Taxation Department and the Shipping Department are two pieces of fat. It is full of these upstarts and their interests in the East Palace. If it's just a little greedy, Zhu Cihong can tolerate it. The reality is that these people have a lot of appetites, increasing by 20 percent every year, what is this concept? The income is almost catching up with the inner library.

Despite his best efforts to cover it up, news from the palace came out quickly. Lao Zhou was deprived of a qiē right in the palace, and for the sake of his many years of affection, he was sent to the imperial village outside the city to be a small steward. Jin Yiwei commanded Luo to raise sex and hanged himself at home. In just three days, the eunuchs in the palace changed more than 30 people, and the brocade-clothed guards, who had not been seen for many years, once again reminded people with the violent sound of horses' hooves that they still existed.

Jin Yiwei rushed into the Metropolitan Procuratorate, arrested sixteen officials and internal supervisors in one go, Liaodong, Shandong, Jiangnan, and then also rode out and arrested people everywhere. The Ming officialdom, who had not seen this scene for many years, suddenly discovered this phenomenon, and a confrontation between monarchs and ministers broke out at the court meeting every ten days.

With the increasing authority of the cabinet, the cabinet will deal with ordinary matters, and the slightly more difficult things will be handled by the imperial council. The Great Dynasty Conference is now somewhat formal, and under normal circumstances, it will not talk about government affairs. Only when the Imperial Council cannot solve the problem, will it be discussed at the Imperial Council.

Zhu Cihong is also accustomed to going through the motions of the great court meeting once every ten days, and if there is something to say, there is nothing to say, and if there is nothing to do, it is the six ministers inside, and they routinely report to the emperor and the ministers what has happened in the past ten days, and how they have been handled. As for why they were dealt with in this way, they were not responsible for explaining, they only needed to get the emperor's approval.

I thought that today's court meeting would still go through the motions as before, after the ministers paid their respects, Zhu Cihong was about to come to a sentence of "something to play, nothing to enter the daily life", an official came out of the minister, arched his hand and said loudly: "Minister Li Yuzhi, please ask Your Majesty, Jinyi Wei Ti rode around, arrested more than 30 officials, I don't know what happened?" ”

Does Li Yuzhi really not know? is a minister who knows why Zhu Cihong suddenly arrested people. The problem is that this matter cannot be compromised, and once it is compromised, the status and face of Wenchen will not be guaranteed in the future. Just a little bit of Wenchen returned to Longqing and Jingtai, how did he suddenly return to Taizu, Chengzu, and Shengzu in the court. Deal with Wenchen, catch if you want, kill if you want to kill?

I can't bear this!

Zhu Cihong was taken aback, but soon sneered: "Aiqing asked well, I also have a question I want to ask Aiqing, Jinyiwei was ordered to suppress corruption and arrest corrupt officials, I don't know what's wrong?" ”

This sentence naturally can't be said Li Yuzhi, he has already prepared to come, not only is he not afraid, but he arched his hand and said: "Back to Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with suppressing corruption." However, before this incident, the Cabinet, the Six Ministries, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate knew nothing, and the ministers thought that it was inappropriate to deal with it in this way. In the future, if everything is done according to this example, what will you do with your courtiers? Please ask Your Majesty to grant permission, and this matter will not be an example. If there is any further matter, it should be discussed by the Cabinet, the Six Ministries, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and then the arrest will be carried out. ”

The civil and military officials were unexpectedly neat at this time, except for more than ten people, the others stood up, and the six ministers of the cabinet stood at the front, bowing neatly to Zhu Cihong and shouting: "Ministers, please Your Majesty." ”

The young emperor's face turned blue in an instant, and he sat on the dragon chair with a sneer. Those who didn't stand up at this time were basically Chen Xie's people, and it was not difficult to see at this time that Chen Xie's influence above the court. There are more than 200 ministers of civil and military affairs, and only a dozen or so people have not come forward, and ninety percent of them are military ministers.

Zhu Cihong looked at the ministers, and finally recovered, and said with anger: "I have a letter here, from Jiangnan. Come on, read it to all of you. At this time, the ministers all stood up straight, and the fools knew who wrote the letter. If you really want to read it out in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, if you don't do it well, something big will happen.

Zhou Yanru said loudly without hesitation: "The minister asks His Majesty to hand over the letter to the minister and others for circulation." When Zhu Cihong heard this, he nodded with a sneer, waved his hand, and had a fearless expression. Zhou Yanru took the letter, and after opening it, the six cabinet ministers gathered neatly, and the others stood behind consciously.

After Chen Xie's letter came up with a set of formats, it immediately became a sentence: "The minister asks His Majesty to suspend the fight against corruption, because this move will lead to the ruins of the internal affairs of the department, at most for half a year, and at least for three months." His Majesty decided to do so, and asked His Majesty to issue an order to the ministers, so that the ministers could send someone to take over the Jiangnan Yousi, and Jiangnan would not be chaotic, and the treasury revenue would not be lost. According to the minister, if His Majesty decides, the officials will inevitably oppose it, not for corruption, but for their lives. Corruption in officialdom has accumulated for 200 years, and if we want to rectify it, one is the system, the second is strict punishment and strict law, and the third is efficient detective force. Fourth, perseverance. There are many details, which I will not go into here. Finally, the minister said that an effective supervision mechanism is the natural enemy of many ills of the Ming officialdom. ”

In a short sentence, a piece of letter paper was done, but after the cabinet ministers read it silently, they silently passed it on.

Although there was not a single word about what Chen Xie was going to do, everyone understood the meaning. Chen Xie is issuing the strongest warning, don't make trouble, I'm still here outside.

After a letter was turned around, the face of the Minister of Civil Affairs and Military Affairs was full of grief and indignation, but no one raised any objections to the anti-corruption campaign. At this time, Zhu Cihong took Chen Xie's letter in his hand, raised it up and said loudly: "If there is anything, Mr. Sihua didn't say it in his heart, but he asked someone to bring me a message. He said, why didn't Daming Yousi dare to go to Nanyang to collect taxes? It's very simple, they have a weak heart, and they can only shout a few words to vent their dissatisfaction. He also said that since the first emperor, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the budget, the Consultative Bureau, and so on have been improved, and only a few provinces in the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty have been seriously implemented. Okay, I'm here today, and I'll tell you the truth, Mr. Sihua has something to say, the whole world is not the king's land, and Nanyang is not a foreign land. However, since its creation, there has been a huge difference between the annual revenue figures and the actual revenues. I was shocked, I arrested some heavenly servants to interrogate, only to find out that my courtiers colluded with the internal supervisors, up and down, and the amount of corruption currently found out is no less than 2 million silver yuan, this is still just the beginning, you Aiqing, please tell me, what should I do to make you satisfied? (To be continued......) R1292