"This ......" Liu Ji was suddenly a little embarrassed.

There are some things that are really good to say and not to hear.

In the past, when they were in Yingtianfu, once the court meeting, these officials had to get up almost every four watches.

Then go to the Imperial Palace, ready to start the early dynasty.

Although the time was a little early, the officials did not dare to complain too much.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang worked much harder than them.

They could go to bed earlier at night, but Zhu Yuanzhang often had to review the recitals until late at night.

As a result, it came to Ying Tianfu's side.

The situation has completely changed.

Imagining Zhu Yuanzhang's diligence, Liu Ji was a little embarrassed to say for a while, when will they order here.

"Say!" Zhu Yuanzhang said sharply.

Paper can't hold the fire, anyway, sooner or later you have to say it.

Liu Ji didn't hesitate too much, and said honestly: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the rules set by His Royal Highness the King." ”

"What is the time for our Yanjing officials to light up in the morning...... It's time for you! ”

"What did you say?" Although Zhu Yuanzhang had been prepared, when he heard this time, he was still furious.

The hour is exactly the hour, which is converted to the present time, which is eight o'clock.

I only went to work at this time, and in Lao Zhu's opinion, this is simply living a pig-like life.

Although Lao Zhu also knew that since Zhu Han was so stipulated, he must have his reasons.

However, Lao Zhu really can't accept it.

These officials, with their old Zhu family's money, turned out to be three poles a day, and the sun dried their buttocks before they got up to work.

"You guys are really our good courtiers." Zhu Yuanzhang almost said this sentence through gritting his back molars.

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "Chen Shi is working at the right moment, looking at the whole Ming Dynasty, there are not many officials, it is so easy to have you." ”

It's okay that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say this, but when he said this, Liu Ji was even more embarrassed.

"That...... Your Majesty. It's not a clock-time office. ”

"It's just a time for officials to come and go, and then officials from various departments have to hold a morning meeting to arrange the day's work tasks."

"Or summarize what mistakes and omissions there are in the previous work."

"By the time we get to work, it's already the beginning of the day."

"You ......" Zhu Yuanzhang even felt that he had no strength to be angry.

Liu Ji personally made tea for Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty, in fact, there is a reason why His Royal Highness the King asked us to be on duty at the hour. ”

"In the past, when I was in Yingtian, Weichen and others dealt with major events in the world."

"After the court meeting, the yamen at all levels will also go back to handle their own affairs, if the time is too late, I am afraid that the official affairs in the yamen will be delayed."

"But on our side in Yanjing, we only need to deal with the local problems in Yanjing at present."

"Most ordinary people get up and go to work at the same time."

"It's not necessary to get officials up so early, so it's working out such a time."

Saying that, Liu Ji suddenly said: "But please rest assured, Your Majesty, even if you start to deal with official business at the right moment." ”

"However, the minister can guarantee that our officials in Yanjing are definitely the first in our Ming Dynasty in terms of efficiency in handling official affairs."

Regarding Liu Ji's words, Zhu Yuanzhang scoffed.

Although he admits that since Zhu Han came to Yanjing, it has brought him a lot of shocks.

However, it can be said that they are the most efficient in handling official business.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't believe it.

Lao Zhu didn't understand how many new things Zhu Han had come up with in Yanjing.

But he understands human nature, one of those officials counts as one, and nine out of ten put their own careful thinking in the first place.

As for the rest, let's all go to the back.

Doing things for the court and the people, in their hearts, basically has to be ranked last.

Officials all over the world are like this, why are the officials in Yanjing different?

Although Liu Ji wanted to explain, he didn't know how to speak for a while.

At this time, it is already the right moment.

Outside the office building, many buses and carriages stopped at the door, and after many officials got off the carriages, they ran to their yamen.

This kind of frizzy official, Zhu Yuanzhang is extremely disgusted.

At the moment, he mocked: "I'm about to be on duty, so I hurriedly went to the yamen to order." ”

"Such an official, who refuses to even come over in advance to prepare for duty, how attentive can he be in government affairs?"

Liu Ji is worthy of Liu Ji, and when chatting with Zhu Yuanzhang, he even prepared the documents needed for the morning meeting.

Liu Ji handed those documents to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Please also ask Your Majesty to be wronged and temporarily pretend to be the minister's secretary." ”

"No problem." In this regard, Lao Zhu Na actively cooperated.

He came today to see what was the difference between this Yanjing officialdom and Ying Tianfu.

The conference room of the Yanjing Yamen Office Building.

After Liu Ji came in, some of the buzzing sounds that still existed in the conference room disappeared in an instant.

Liu Ji cleared his throat and glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang intentionally or unintentionally before speaking.

Lao Zhu was expressionless, very conscientious, and played a wooden stake.

There are really few officials on Yanjing's side who have seen Zhu Yuanzhang.

After all, most of the officials of the previous six ministries have been removed because of the assassination of King Zhu Han.

The current six Shangshu were all temporarily promoted by Zhu Han.

It can be said that the core officials up and down the entire Yanjing are now.

Almost all of them are acting roles.

These people are relatively young, and they have basically never met His Majesty Zhu Yuanzhang, the famous emperor.

Even if I have seen it, it must be at the palace examination stage of the imperial examination.

At most, they can look at Zhu Yuanzhang from a distance, and they are at the most critical stage of their lives at that time, and ordinary people are definitely not in the mood to look at them indiscriminately.

As for after the temple examination.

The top players on the list of eyes and flowers, these first-class names, basically entered the Hanlin Academy or directly served in the six departments.

Those who will be assigned to various places are basically second-class.

Those who can come to Yanjing are no different from hairdressing, and naturally it is impossible to meet Zhu Yuanzhang.

Besides, even if you have seen Zhu Yuanzhang, it will be worth a few years.

After so many years, Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance has also changed a lot.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang also deliberately put on makeup for the sake of secrecy.

Therefore, in the entire conference room, none of the officials of the six departments of Yanjing recognized it.

The secretary order brought by Liu Ji turned out to be His Majesty the current emperor.

Of course, there is one person who is an exception.

This is naturally the number one person in Yanjing Ming today, Liu Song.

At first, Liu Song didn't pay much attention to it.

Although I saw Zhu Yuanzhang yesterday, it never thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would appear here.

After discovering Lao Zhu who was following Liu Ji, Liu Song's eyes almost didn't pop out.

"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty......"

Seeing that Liu Song was about to reveal his identity, Zhu Yuanzhang directly shook it off with a cold look.

Even Liu Song felt a chill down his spine, and he couldn't help but shiver.

The rest of the words were swallowed back.

Liu Ji reacted quickly, and laughed haha: "Lord Liu, you are too polite, you are a Shangguan, how can you stand up to greet the Xiaguan?" ”

It turned out that Liu Song stood up directly because of Thailand's excitement just now.

"Oh...... The officer was just thinking about one thing just now. Liu Song racked his brains and thought of a lame reason.

But fortunately, although Liu Song's reason is far-fetched, no one thinks much about it.

I just thought that Liu Song might have thought of something.

After all, anyone with a normal brain can't imagine it.

The person who followed Liu Ji will be today.

Because of Zhu Yuanzhang's arrival, the morning meeting of the six yamen of Yanjing had a small riot.

And this riot was all directly caused by Zhu Yuanzhang.

simply, dealing with this kind of small trouble, whether it is Liu Ji or Liu Song, is a matter of pinching in hand.

Soon it had subsided, and the morning meeting began directly.

is different from the early dynasties, in the early dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang waited for those ministers to report, and then dealt with them according to the ministers' reports.

Moreover, many of the reports have actually been read by Zhu Yuanzhang before and have been processed.

Put it on the morning court, in fact, it's just a process.

However, the morning meeting here in Yanjing is different.

It turned out that Liu Song was the first to speak, making an end to Yanjing's recent development, and then giving the next goal.

Then there is Liu Ji, who is more specific about what he said, such as where the project has been carried out and how long it will take to complete it.

Where something went wrong, which department was responsible for dealing with it.

Finally, there is the director of the sixth department of Yanjing.

They are responsible for asking questions, where there are difficulties, what help is needed from the higher authorities, etc.

There was a lot to say in the morning meeting, but in fact, it was really half an hour in progress, and the matter was almost over.

Even the content they discussed, according to Zhu Yuanzhang's experience, would take almost three or four court meetings to be completed.

Although this place is only responsible for the government affairs of Yanjing.

However, regardless of the economy, people's livelihood and all aspects, there is even more to be done than the Great Dynasty Meeting of the Heavenly Mansion.

Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang thought that after the court meeting, Liu Jihui, like other officials, would stay in the yamen to deal with things.

As a result, Liu Ji had just sat down and read two documents, so he hurriedly changed to the official mansion and told the coachman to prepare to go out.

It is not uncommon for officials to go out on business, although Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little surprised, but he didn't take it too seriously, so he followed quietly.

As a result, after arriving at the place, Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised to find that this was actually a workshop.

Although the area of the workshop is not small, it actually has to work Liu Ji to come over in person.

You know, who is Liu Jina?

A generation of Ming ministers who assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in founding the Ming Dynasty is also an important minister in today's cabinet.

I actually came to check out a workshop for myself.

Watching Liu Ji talking and laughing with the shopkeeper of the workshop, Zhu Yuanzhang began to be unhappy.

After all, in Lao Zhu's view, whether it is a businessman or an official, it is not a good thing.

And the relationship between them, which seems so close, naturally can't help but make Lao Zhu think of a word.

Collusion between officials and businessmen.

However, after listening to the conversation between them for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang found that it didn't seem to be the case.

"Shopkeeper Shen, how long will it take for your workshop to open?"

The shopkeeper's old face smiled like a chrysanthemum: "My lord, work will start at the end of this month at the latest." ”

"How are the workers recruited?"

The smile on the shopkeeper Shen's face suddenly became bitter: "My lord, the current wages of our Yanjing workers are too high, so I am ready to recruit a group from my hometown." ”

"There's no problem with this, but you have to pay attention, even if you recruit a worker from your hometown, the salary can't be lower than the minimum wage standard of our Yanjing, otherwise don't blame the official for not giving Boss Shen face."

Shopkeeper Shen nodded as if he said: "Please rest assured, the villain will abide by this point, and he will definitely not cause trouble to the imperial court." ”

"It's just...... The ration of this cement ......"

Without the other party finishing his words, Liu Ji had already nodded and said, "Yes, I'll talk to the people from the Ministry of Industry when I go back......"

After that, the two of them said a lot, some of them could understand Lao Zhu, and some Lao Zhu couldn't understand what they meant at all.

Liu Ji didn't waste much time here, and left in the car in just half an hour.

As soon as he got into the carriage, Zhu Yuanzhang sank his face: "You are also a cabinet minister, you are so close to the cheap businessman, you are not afraid of being rumored to gossip?" ”

Although Zhu Yuanzhang looks down on businessmen, he is not so cheap.

It's just that seeing Liu Ji, an important minister, getting so close to those mercenary businessmen, he can't help but make his words a little heavier.

"This ......," Liu Ji explained with a wry smile, "Your Majesty, you may not know that this merchant is extremely important to Yanjing now. ”

"Especially these, the businessmen who opened workshops in Yanjing are very important to the Yanjing Yamen and even the imperial court."

Zhu Yuanzhang scoffed: "How important can a mere cheap businessman be, and can it still affect national affairs?" ”

Liu Ji is not surprised, in fact, his thoughts are not much different from Zhu Yuanzhang before.

Since Lü Buweiqi has been living in goods and betting on Yingzheng as a businessman.

Merchants have always been the objects of the court's precautions.

For those small merchants, it is the sale of land at a high price to accumulate ill-gotten gains.

But after taking charge of Yanjing, Liu Ji gradually found out.

The entire Yanjing is completely inseparable from businessmen.

If there were no businessmen, at least half of all the policies implemented by Yanjing would have to be directly suspended.

This is also the reason why ancient society has always emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce.

In such an environment, if you are coerced by businessmen, it will only bring great turmoil to the country.

In comparison, ordinary people who farm are naturally much easier to control.

"Your Majesty, this shopkeeper Shen is still a distant relative of Shen Wansan. He invested in the construction of a workshop in Yenching. ”

"First of all, when we are building, we have to buy cement and various construction materials and hire people. In this process, many people can have a way to live and eat. ”

"Huh?" Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly stunned, as if what he said made some sense.