Chapter 40 The Maritime Controversy

As soon as Zhu Youxiao's order was given, Wang An immediately sent the eunuch of the celebrant to copy the music and send it to the East Palace and the Wenhua Palace.

On the side of the East Palace, Zhu Youzhen went to dinner, and the concert was placed in the Qinqin Palace, and the cabinet couldn't hide, and the first assistant of the cabinet, Congzhe, was still in a meeting with several cabinet ministers, so he got the concert.

The little eunuch who passed the message handed the song to Fang Congzhe, and then said:

"Long live read the music of the royal history, knowing that Guanglu Temple was stretched, so he passed on more than 6,000 taels of soup and rice silver in the palace to avoid raising the heart, and hoped that the elder Fang Ge and all the adults would think of a way to make the Guanglu Temple's external silver arrive on time every year."

......When the more than 20 ministers who were in the meeting heard this, they only blushed.

Where is Zhu Youxiao's soup and rice silver in the Heart Palace? It's just a slap in the face......

The Son of Heaven can't afford to eat, but you ministers eat well in the big kitchen of the outer court.

There was no way, and when the eunuch left, Fang Congzhe could only let the cabinet ministers, the six Shangshu, the six departments of the matter, and the imperial history of the capital all read the music once.

When everyone finished reading it, Fang Congzhecai said in an old-fashioned manner:

"You've read it all, right? The meaning of long live couldn't be simpler, that is, to transport the outer silver of Guanglu Temple on time. ”

As soon as Fang Congzhe spoke, Li Ruhua, the head of the household, frowned and said:

"The silver of this Guanglu Temple is first of all to provide meals for the inner court, followed by the outer court, and finally for the festival banquet and the banquet reward of the envoys of Fanbang."

"It's just that the silver of the external solution is borne by the political secretaries of the various undertakings, and it is easy to say that Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong are near, but it is difficult to say about Shaanxi, Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Nanzhili, Fujian, Liangguang, and Yungui far away."

"Especially Yunnan, Guizhou, Liangguang and Fujian, these five provinces are high and far away, unlike Huguang and Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, which can be transported by Caoyun."

Li Ruhua is a good person, explain the problem clearly first, and then hand it over to others to deal with.

At such a meeting, everyone must speak, and if he speaks first, he will naturally make fewer mistakes.

After he spoke, Zhou Jiamo, the secretary of the ministry, also sat in his position and said calmly:

"Two capitals and thirteen provinces, on average, there is not much money in this Guanglu Temple, but as Li Shangshu said, the five provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Liangguang and Fujian are far away from the mountains and roads, and it is really not easy to escort."

"Old fox ......" Hearing Zhou Jiamo's words, the ministers scolded one after another, just because he said the same thing as if he didn't say it.

"The matter is simple, the foreign solution is two, Yungui can be paid by Sichuan, Yungui will be paid back to Sichuan, and Sichuan will take the Yangtze River to Yangzhou and transfer to the north, which is faster than Shaanxi."

Suddenly, a person stood up and spoke, and everyone looked at him, and it was Yang Lian in the military department.

"Liangguang and Fujian are simpler, just go directly by sea!"

Yang Lian spoke up righteously, just because in his opinion, this kind of thing is very simple.

However, after he opened his mouth, Zou Yuanbiao, who was also from the Donglin Party, did not support him.

The only one who nodded in agreement was Zuo Guangdou, who was also a member of the Donglin Party.

It can be seen from this that compared with the interest organizations composed of the township party, the Donglin party is not united internally.

"There is a problem of sinking into the sea by sea, and it is not appropriate to ......"

Sun Ruyou, who was also a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Dongge University, suddenly spoke, which made the atmosphere in the Wenhua Hall cool down.

If someone else spoke, the scene might not be so cold, but Sun Ruyou's opening basically vetoed Yang Lian's idea.

Without him, just because Sun Ruyou still has an identity, that is, the nominal leader of the Zhejiang Party, the largest party at present.

The Zhejiang Party, this party, rose to prominence during the Wanli period, and what contributed to its emergence was formed and developed in the process of Shen always being under the trap, excluding dissidents, and pervading private individuals.

The gradual formation of the Zhejiang Party and the expansion of its power and Shen's consistent rise in the imperial court were closely related to the national political affairs of the Wanli Dynasty, and the influence of the Zhejiang Party on the political situation in the middle and late Wanli Dynasty was far-reaching.

It was the earliest party formed in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Zhejiang Party maintained a fairly strong power in the DPRK and China during the period when Shen was the head of the cabinet, and it controlled the major affairs of the DPRK and government at that time, so that the DPRK and the CCP only had the rights and wrongs of the Zhejiang Party, and there was no right and wrong of the axioms.

Even after Shen Yiyi's death, the power of the Zhejiang Party was still very strong, and even in the 45th year of Wanli, when the Zhejiang Party officials were in charge of Jingcha, they vigorously attacked and framed the Donglin Party members, and persecuted many Donglin Party members to death.

Sun Ruyou, although his power skills are not as good as Shen's, but due to the appearance of Zhu Youzhen, the Donglin Party has no merit in supporting the palace transfer case, so he is not afraid of Yang Lian and other Donglin Party members.

As for why he opposed shipping, it was actually because he was afraid that the Donglin Party would continue to transport or re-introduce the matter of collecting commercial taxes.

Of course, this is not the only reason, the second reason is that once the sea is through, then the Caoyin in the south of the Yangtze River will inevitably go north by sea in the future.

If this is the case, then the big and small officials in Jiangnan who rely on Caoyun for food every year will inevitably rise up in droves to attack them.

Those gentry who could pay taxes a few months later would also scold him Sun Ruyou to death.

Therefore, sitting in his position, sea freight is absolutely not allowed!

At present, it is different from the Chongzhen period, the scheming masters left in the Chongzhen period, various Wanli, and Longqing years died of illness, and the death of the dead.

Therefore, during the Chongzhen period, there were still people who dared to mention shipping and dared to do it.

But at present, Sun Ruyou and other Zhejiang Party figures are still alive, and their strength is huge, and it is not something that the Donglin Party can contend with.

It would be easy to say if the Donglin Party had won the credit of supporting the palace transfer case, but now that the credit has been picked by Zhu Youzhen, the prestige of the Donglin Party is naturally not as good as in history.

However, Sun Ruyou rejected Yang Lian's method, and naturally wanted to find a new way to make up for it, so he said:

"Guanglu Temple's external solution silver two, Nanzhili and Zhejiang Fujian's silver two good said."

"Fujian is high and far away, so it will be put on the mat by Zhejiang and Nanzhili, and then Fujian will return the silver on the mat."

"As for Yungui and Liangguang, Sichuan and Huguang will help to pad it, and the same method will be done."

"In this way, the external silver of Guanglu Temple will naturally arrive every year."

Sun Ruyou wanted to use the tens of thousands of taels of silver in Guanglu Temple to ruin the idea of Yang Lian and others going by sea, but Yang Lian was not so easy to fool after all.

When he saw Sun Ruyou say this, he also responded:

"The silver outside Guanglu Temple is easy to say, but the Zhejiang autumn tax escort silver is said to have not arrived, I don't know about it, do the scholars know?"

"The floods in Zhejiang this year are not surprising that the autumn tax has been delayed." Sun Ruyou was not shocked, and replied to Yang Lian like this.

"When will it arrive in Beijing?" Yang Lian held back his anger, but Sun Ruyou said calmly:

"This matter is under the control of the Ministry of Households, and I am afraid it has nothing to do with the Ministry of War."

"Okay, okay......" Seeing that Sun Ruyou was going to fight with Yang Lian, Fang Congzhe, who had a grudge against Donglin, actually stood up and said in a round game:

"Now that the problem of the external solution of the silver in Guanglu Temple has been solved, let's stop here today, and you will return to the yamen of the various ministries first."

Seeing that some officials from Fang Congzhe's mouth, Qi Party, Chu Party, Xuan Party, and Kun Party were the first to leave, and in the end, only three members of the Zhejiang Party and three Donglin Party remained.

Yang Lian and Sun Ruyou were full of gunpowder, and they left the Wenhua Hall under the persuasion of Zuo Guangdou and Yao Zongwen.

This is the situation of party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not a chaos that can be summed up by a Donglin party......