Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly, as he expected, the officials who represented the interests of the bureaucracy still supported the cabinet to take power.

After all, whether an official wants to do good or bad things, it is much easier to get a cabinet chief assistant than a hundred officials.

Just like when Zhang Juzheng wanted to reform, he had to let himself have great power first.

In essence, as the emperor, Zhu Youzhen also hopes that the head of the cabinet will be in power, he is not Zhu Yuanzhang, and he does not want to be a hard-working worker like Zhu Yuanzhang, he would rather die of exhaustion and bear the responsibilities of the emperor and the prime minister.

As a later generation of citizens, he has lazy genes in his bones, and he would rather control a cabinet chief than a hundred officials.

After all, it is easy to control one person, but it is not easy to control countless people.

But he couldn't let the cabinet have too much power, even to the point of killing the lord, and letting the cabinet centralize power did not make the government's exploitation of businessmen and people disappear.

The bureaucracy has always had a deterrent effect on the capitalist group.

From the point of view of the interests of the whole of China, the bureaucracy must be controlled, and the bourgeoisie and handicraftsmen cannot be exploited unscrupulously, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will not be able to completely walk in the forefront of world civilization.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen finally made up his mind and said: "The two courts still have to be set up." ”

"Your Majesty!"

Zhang Huangyan was about to say that Lao Tzu was gone, but Zhu Youzhen shouted before he could speak: "Listen to me!" ”

Zhang Huangyan shut his mouth, and several high-ranking officials who had just wanted to come forward to speak also retreated.

At this time, they realized that the Ming Emperor in front of them was the supreme person who wanted their life at any time.

Wang Jiaqin, Song Mingquan and other officials were a little happy, they found a way to set up two houses to control the cabinet from the sacred school, with the emergence of a large wave of ideas advocating democracy and freedom among the people, they were also deeply influenced by it, hoping that the imperial court could also implement the contract system like a company, and change from the rule of man to the rule of law.

And their confidence is that although the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen holds the highest power in the empire, he has been implementing the rule of law intentionally or unintentionally, and they feel that His Majesty supports them.

Zhu Youzhen did support them, but Zhu Youzhen did not want all the wealth accumulated by the empire through industry and commerce to be used by the bourgeoisie as a luxury for the poor.

The extravagant life of the wealthy businessmen has been clearly understood by Zhu Youzhen through the report of the East Factory.

In just a few years, there have been tens of thousands of Dongying women engaged in the profession of Fengyue, and the tax revenue brought to Daming has exceeded three times that of Lelang, which is enough to show how much money the new aristocrats of Daming's capital have spent to have fun.

Zhu Youzhen hoped that the wealth accumulated by the empire would be used more for the expansion of the empire and the improvement of the living conditions of the grassroots people, so he added:

"However, considering that the main tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty now comes from the industrial and commercial tax, and the agricultural tax must be exempted, in the event of war and economic turmoil in the future, the imperial central government must ensure that it has strong financial resources, so the cabinet chief assistant has the right of veto and the final decision on any proposals and proposals of the two houses, and the cabinet chief assistant and the subordinate executive department officials have the right to submit proposals to the two houses."

After Zhu Youzhen said this, the ministers were still a little confused, but after careful analysis, they understood that this is not much different from not having two courts, at most it is just to let the businessmen have more rights to know, Zhang Huangyan was relieved, and first bowed his hand to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

And Wang Jiaqin, director of the Imperial Economic Reform Commission, had to smile bitterly: "Your Majesty, you, don't you mean that you have not set up two houses, the head of the cabinet still has the highest executive decision-making power, and his proposal, if the two houses can't pass it, he can also directly decide to pass it, which doesn't mean that he is busy working in vain." ”

"Why, don't you be satisfied, do you want to be like when the Donglin Party was in power, you can force the cabinet ministers to step down at every turn? Playing like that, when watching a drama, is indeed exciting, but the entire Ming Dynasty can't afford such a toss, and it is unprecedented for me to let the merchants who pay taxes and the people who participate in the construction of the empire set up two houses to discuss the affairs of the central government of the empire;

If I don't guarantee that their interests will not be destroyed by the officials, and if we don't exempt them from taxes first, once they are forced to rebel, they will become the next Li Zicheng, and when the time comes, what do you do to fight with others, even if you win, it will be the entire Ming Dynasty that will be damaged, and you will lose a lot! ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Wang Jiaqin, who had the background of the second banker in the empire, did not speak again, only smiled awkwardly.

Zhang Huangyan took over at this time: "What Your Majesty said is that Weichen now agrees to set up two houses according to His Majesty's wishes, but he can only give the two houses the power to discuss politics, but he has no decision-making power, and it is indeed the biggest concession of the empire to let you businessmen say a word in the court. ”

"Weichen also thinks that His Majesty is right, businessmen have always been too profitable, if there is a very profitable, they dare to offend the royal law and even betray the country, Jin Shang is an example, the court treated Jin merchants as a bad thing, but in the end it betrayed the enemy for decades, let it set up two houses to senate the government has been the implementation of the imperial court and listen to the move, if you let it control the government, don't sell the Ming Dynasty or even your majesty!"

Shang Shuwen of the Organization Department also helped Zhang Huangyan to speak at this time.

And Song Mingquan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, suddenly roared excitedly: "Wen Ge Lao, the discussion of politics is the discussion of politics, but you can't humiliate the people who are engaged in business, they are also first-class citizens of the Ming Dynasty, and they are also loyal to the Ming Dynasty and loyal to His Majesty, how can they be compared with the Jin merchants and other dog thieves back then, the northern expedition of the imperial court and the conquest of the four yi, they have also made contributions, otherwise the imperial army will go on an expedition of thousands of miles, and the imperial court alone can continue to logistics!" ”

"This official didn't say that you are all traitorous businessmen like Jin Shang, this official is saying that if you are not controlled by the imperial court, there is no guarantee that none of you will do something evil for profit, such as selling opium to the people in the country, forcing Liang to sell girls to Dongying for prostitution, and eighty percent of the major cases handled by the Criminal Department this year are cases of businessmen making illegal profits!"

Wen Chushi said this, Song Mingquan had no choice but to shut up, his own family also runs a mining company, and there has also been a mine collapse that killed several white pigs, although it is not a citizen who was killed and not punished, but it also made him feel a little sorry for his conscience, and it was not easy to say anything after Wen Chushi's scolding, which was a tacit acquiescence to Wen Chushi's meaning, and the world's businessmen did dare to harm the world for profit.

"Your Majesty, Weichen agreed to set up two houses, retaining the final decision and the right to veto and the right to file a case in the cabinet.

Wang Jiaqin expressed his attitude at this time, and took the initiative to stand up: "The ministers respectfully receive the holy oracle!" ”

"Respectfully receive the oracle!" The important ministers of the court present all stood up.

Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly, and said in his heart: "In any case, this is the result of a compromise between the bureaucracy and the capital group, and it is a good phenomenon to reform politics without civil war." ”

(End of chapter)