The capital in July is not very hot, but has a hint of coolness.

The sound of footsteps sounded in the Ming Shi Fang, and finally stopped in front of the study in a mansion.

The chief in his usual clothes waved at the chaise longue under the vines and said softly:

"Head of the family, there is news from the cabinet that some officials of Yanshan and the Qi Wang Party have begun to impeach Sun Chuanting......"

"Huh?" Hearing this, the man lying on the recliner slowly got up, revealing the face of Feng Quan in the matter.

After he got up, he first took a sip of the crisp mountain on the low table next to him, then felt the coolness in his mouth, and then smiled after a while:

"I have long said that whoever is in power and has authority will think about making profits."

"Governor of the world for disaster relief, this errand is not a good thing, it is a thing that offends people."

"He, Sun Chuanting, alone asked the court for more than 10 million stones, rice, and wheat, and he couldn't eat a mouthful of others."

"Even if he is not greedy, he is already greedy when the rice passes through his hands."

Feng Quan said, but the person in charge hesitated:

"But this disaster relief thing was asked to do by the King of Qi, and he ......"

"King Qi...... No matter how big King Qi is, he is also a person, with a pair of eyes, how much can he see? Feng Quan picked up the crisp mountain, leaned back on the recliner and tasted it, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"However, if you can stay in that position for two years, then Sun Chuanting is also a character."

Feng Quan rarely praised the people on Zhu Youzhen's side, and then tidied up his beard and put the crisp mountain away:

"And continue to watch, their group of people still have to make a lot of trouble, how strong and infighting the original Zhejiang Party is, how strong they are, how infighting."

"...... you, the head of the family" wanted to ask Feng Quan if he was still in the court, but he didn't want Feng Quan to continue waving his hand and said:

"All the 30 days of vacation I saved last year are for me, and I'm going to see how they fight in this house."

"Yes......" When the person in charge heard this, he had to retreat.

However, everyone in the Ming Fang was silent, but the noise in the Wenhua Hall was non-stop.

"Then Sun Chuanting patrols others, and he personally has no one to governor?"

"More than 10 million stone rice and wheat passed through his hands, without any terms and conditions, without a certificate, just based on his personal mouth, he said how much grain was used for local disaster relief, is this reasonable?"

"It was only in June this year that more than 10 million stone rice and wheat were transferred, and now he has applied for the transfer of more than 8 million stone rice and wheat, and the imperial court only had 40 million stone rice and wheat left in last year, and he used half of it alone."

"It is also said, but if he deducts some of the rice in his hand, the amount of rice and wheat that has been withheld is hundreds of thousands......

In the Wenhua Palace, when the cabinet and the ministers of the six ministries and six departments sat together, they were arguing about Sun Chuanting, who was on the front line.

From the Ministry of Household to the Ministry of Industry to the Cabinet of Scholars, from Han Yi to Yao Zongwen and Shi Feng to Zuo Guangdou and Bi Ziyan, in short, all party figures are commenting on it.

After all, when filthiness becomes the norm, innocence becomes the original sin.

Who can come to this position, who will believe that there is a real clean official.

The rice and wheat that passed by Sun Chuanting's hands, as long as the movements on his hands were a little bigger, the little rice and wheat left behind were enough to last for hundreds of generations.

Therefore, their suspicion of Sun Chuanting is, in their own opinion, justified......

Sitting in the main seat, Gu Bingqian, who was the first assistant to the cabinet, was also there, and he did not open his mouth to help, nor did he open his mouth to stop it.

In his opinion, the Qi Wang Party, the Yanshan faction, and the Five Military Governor's Mansion are also three parties, the difference is that all three of them are loyal to the King of Qi.

It's just that the question comes out, Sun Chuanting, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, Xiong Tingbi, Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, are they the Qi Wang Party, or the Yanshan faction, or the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies?

It is said that they are the governors of the five armies, but the governors of the five armies are not allowed to interfere in politics.

said that they were the Yanshan faction, but they had nothing to do with Yanshan.

Then finally say that they are the Qi Wang Party? What is the Qi King Party? It is the officials of the DPRK and China who are attached to Zhu Youzhen, and Sun Chuanting does not belong to this category.

The reason why they didn't make a move against Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, Xiong Tingbi, and Hong Chengchou was, firstly, that it was unnecessary, and secondly, they were all in the army and were all in charge.

When he arrived at Sun Chuanting, he became the only one among the six ministers who did not take charge of the army.

Hong Chengchou is different from Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou has his own diehards under his hands, whether it is Wu Bikui, Mu Qiyuan, Mu Zeng, they are all diehards under Hong Chengchou.

On the other hand, Sun Chuanting did not form a party for personal gain, so after he left the northwest, he cut off contact with Cao Wenzhao, Guan Fumin, Li Rubai, Li Ruzhen and others.

A man who has no soldiers, no die-hard loyalty to his generals, is still in a high position of power, and has great wealth flowing between his fingers, impeaching him is probably something that many people want to do.

"Why don't you transfer Sun Chuanting back to Beijing temporarily to accept the investigation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple and the Three Divisions of the Criminal Department?"

It was a Yanshan faction official who opened his mouth, and when he saw the other party speak, Gu Bingqian also thought about coughing......

"Old man......"

"King Qi has an order!"

Before Gu Bingqian finished speaking, Lu Wenzhao walked into the cabinet of Wenhua Hall with Zhu Youzhen's order.

"Chitose ...... King of Qi"

Hearing that it was Zhu Youzhen's order, everyone's hearts tightened, obviously knowing that the matter could not be done, so they got up and sang one after another.

Lu Wenzhao glanced at everyone, his eyes especially on Gu Bingqian, Yao Zongwen and others, and then continued:

"King Qi decrees that the affairs of Sun Chuanting will be handled by the Qi Palace, and the cabinet, the six ministries, and the six departments have no right to interfere."

After that, he stepped forward and put the order on the table in front of Gu Bingqian:

"Elder Gu Ge, do you accept the order?"

"Accept the order, naturally accept the order......" Gu Bingqian was old and refined, and hurriedly responded, but I don't know how voluntary there was in those words.

"Since you have received the order, let's discuss other state affairs." Lu Wenzhao glanced at everyone, then retracted his eyes and said:

"Don't forget, there are no more rumors in the dynasty, unless anyone has ironclad evidence of Governor Sun Chuanting's corruption, otherwise do your duty honestly!"

After Lu Wenzhao finished speaking, he turned around and left with the brocade guards, leaving behind many important ministers who looked at each other.

After returning to the Qi Palace, Lu Wenzhao told Zhu Youzhen the news, and Zhu Youzhen, who was looking at the water pavilion in the Qi Palace, also bowed his head slightly after hearing it.

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He stood in the pavilion and looked at the lake view, looking at the lake view and water pavilion in the distance, and after a while, he turned around, sat back on the bamboo chair, and asked Lu Wenzhao at the same time:

"How many of the people who participated in the impeachment this time do you think they have intentions and how many of them are plotting against each other?"

The lake is living water, so the sound of water always rings in the ears, and people feel a little chilled when they hear it.

Faced with the inquiry, Lu Wenzhao also frowned, he sat down with Zhu Youzhen, frowned and responded:

"It's also difficult to judge at the moment, this time the hundred officials are very sudden, whether it depends on the interests in Sun Chuanting's hands, or Sun Chuanting is really corrupt, it's hard to guess......"

"Sun Chuanting will not be corrupt!" Zhu Youzhen frowned and spoke, he didn't believe that Sun Chuanting would be corrupt.

But if Sun Chuanting would be corrupt, then in history, he would not have died in Tongguan, but chose to negotiate peace with Li Zicheng and then secede the northwest.

Chongzhen's sixteen-year situation, as long as he does not send troops, the Ming Dynasty will not have a single army in the north, even if Li Zicheng does not believe Sun Chuanting's words, the two sides can temporarily rest for a while.

With Sun Chuanting's ability, this kind of rest can give him a greater chance of defeating Li Zicheng, but he didn't choose to do so.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen could not believe that Sun Chuanting was corrupt, and it was better to say that Sun Chuanting wanted to rebel.

Just thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen had a headache again.

He just wanted to simply cure corruption, easily cure corruption, replace a group of people, and then take peace for a few years.

It's just that his simple idea has been jumped out to contradict him.

It's okay to say that the Qi Wang Party is a group of speculators who follow the trend and stand in line, so if it doesn't work, just clean it up, but the Yanshan faction is also involved, which is somewhat difficult to deal with.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen can also not deal with this matter, that is, he doesn't care whether the officials are corrupt or not, just whether they do it or not.

If he is so bad, then Daming can definitely "bear peace" for a few years.

But the problem is that such an operation of "beating the drum and passing the flowers" has to be passed to the back in the end, and he has to stand up to solve it, because there are no political experts in the Ming Dynasty during this period to help him take over the mess.

Others are "beating the drum and passing the flowers", he is burying the mine early.

So he not only had to deal with it, but he also had to deal with it early.

"The inside of Jinyiwei is not clean, have you thought about it?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Lu Wenzhao, but in the face of this question, Lu Wenzhao wanted to speak and stopped.

Obviously, he himself didn't know if Jinyiwei was clean or not.

Although Jinyiwei joined a group of Yanshan students two years ago, compared to its size, the number of Yanshan students is completely negligible.

What's more, who dares to say that Yanshan students must be honest? Zhu Youzhen didn't dare to say it himself.

Zhu Youzhen had long sensed that the influence of Yanshan students in the officialdom was too great, so he was ready to implement education for all.

At present, there are no signs of education for all, but the Yanshan faction first began to attack the capable officials of the Ming Dynasty.

"This year is the first batch of students from Suncheon Academy and Yingcheon Academy, right?"

Zhu Youzhen drank tea silently, and his words also made Lu Wenzhao bow slightly:

"This is the first batch of graduates, with a total of 3,231 people, and more than 143,000 people will also graduate from Yanshan Academy."

"What happened to the colleges in Beizhili built by the Ministry of Industry?" Zhu Youzhen asked rhetorically, and Lu Wenzhao also subconsciously responded:

"All of them have been built, a total of 134 counties, 402 colleges, each college can accommodate 1,000 students, a total of 402,000 people."

"How much instruction do you need?" He continued to ask rhetorically, and Lu Wenzhao also continued to respond:

"According to the five subjects for beginners formulated by His Highness, no more than thirty students in each classroom are counted, and at least 21,000 students are required to teach."

"Of course, this is only the first five years of teaching, and there are only children in the county."

Lu Wenzhao is now talking and Zhu Youzhen is getting closer and closer, I don't know if it is the reason why the two have worked together for too long.

However, this made Zhu Youzhen easy to understand, so after hearing the other party's words, Zhu Youzhen immediately spoke:

"How many market towns are there in North Zhili?"

"This ...... It is estimated that there are more than 1,200 ......" Lu Wenzhao did not say precisely, but only said a rough number.

"Let the Ministry of Industry build a small academy that can accommodate 300 people in this 1,200-odd market town, and I will see it all completed before the New Year's Day next year."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen's words came out, Lu Wenzhao immediately understood what the other party meant, so he immediately said:

"Your Highness, these more than 1,200 market town colleges are equivalent to more than 400 county colleges, and if they are built again, it will cost more than 20,000 teaching ......."

"I know." Zhu Youzhen replied categorically:

"I know that if there are more than 40,000 more teachings, the imperial court will spend more than 500,000 or 600,000 taels of silver, and I also know that if there are more than 40,000 teachings, there will be more than 800,000 students who can study official schools for free."

"Yanshan is no longer useful, and local education must be implemented."

"Starting from this year's recruitment, the recruitment amount of Yanshan has been reduced, and the remaining Yanshan schools that have not yet been built have canceled their plans, and it is enough for Yanshan schools to maintain the current fifteen."

"Next year, Beizhili will take the lead in implementing government education, and by the way, we will prepare for the construction of colleges in six northern provinces such as Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Shandong, Henan, and Liaodong."

"If I'm not mistaken, next year's graduation will be 160,000, right?"

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao lowered his head, and Zhu Youzhen commanded when he saw this:

"Starting next year, Enke's score line will be raised to four hundred and fifty points, and those who reach the score line can be awarded officials, and those who can't reach it will be assigned to teach."

"The officials of Daming are enough at present, there is no need for many people, not only internally, but also for the survival of the fittest in the future."

Zhu Youzhen probably knew that the previous system of awarding officials by examination was outdated, and the current shortage of official positions in the Ming Dynasty made officials think about fighting for power and profit one by one.

Since they don't have something to do, find something for them to do.

Don't they like the weary and the weak? Then he can also be tired and weak.

What needs to be done now is to change the system, and the original system of selecting tens of thousands of officials from 100,000 students every year is no longer sufficient, and the proportion must be reduced to the level of one person per 1,000 students.

This year, millions of officials will be dismissed one after another, and more than 400,000 Yanshan and Enke officials are enough to run the Ming Dynasty.

Adding more people is the icing on the cake, and getting a million officials done, and then creating an employment crisis to make hundreds of officials roll up is what he has to do.

The era of being an official and being able to do it once and for all without making mistakes must pass, and those who can't do their political achievements, or whose political achievements are getting worse and worse, get out of the way as soon as possible.

In terms of the gold and silver imports from the Iwami silver mine and the Levian gold mine, basic free education was not a problem in the Ming Dynasty.

The annual input of tens of millions of taels of silver is just a reluctance to alleviate the crisis of silver crunch for Daming, and greater investment and flocking to a larger market are the current operation methods to continue to alleviate the crisis of Daqing's silver crunch.

Someone has to put water out, and someone has to consume it.

The same is true for subsequent currency reforms, which require the support of a group of people who stand on the side of the imperial court.

The imperial store can be consumed, so Zhu Youzhen only needs to create people who consume.

Among the 140,000 graduates, Zhu Youzhen only needs less than one-third of them to become teachers, and the rest of the people need to continue to invest in officialdom, the Ministry of Mines, and the bank.

"You go and pass on Li Changgeng for a while."

After Zhu Youzhen learned about the number of Yanshan students who graduated this year, he asked Lu Wenzhao to pass on Dong Li Changgeng.

If there is anyone in the entire Ming Dynasty who can best understand Zhu Youzhen's financial management methods, then Dong Yingju, Shen Tingyang, Bi Ziyan, and Li Changgeng should be the four people who know best.

It's just that among these four people, Bi Ziyan needs to take care of too much, Dong Yingju is too old, and Shen Tingyang can't get out of the old port for the time being, so the only thing Zhu Youzhen can use is Li Changgeng.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Changgeng does not form a party in private, even if he needs to be with Gu Bingqian and Bi Ziyan because of the deliberations on the surface, but in private he still knows the truth of closing the door and thanking guests.

The bank's affairs must be done by Li Changgeng.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen silently picked up the teacup and took a sip, while Lu Wenzhao also retreated and let people pass on Li Changgeng.

Li Changgeng was in charge of the Salt Division, and things were also relatively busy, so Zhu Youjian waited for half an hour before seeing him belatedly.

Although Li Changgeng is younger than Dong Yingju and Bi Ziyan, in fact, Li Changgeng is also seven out of fifty.

Walking in front of the gazebo, when he was doing it, Zhu Youzhen could clearly see the hot sweat left on his forehead.

"Sit down......"

Zhu Youzhen raised his hand to signal Li Changgeng to take a seat, and made him a cup of tea.

Li Changgeng came in a hurry, so after kowtowing to his fingers to express his gratitude, he picked up the teacup and took a shallow sip.

If it weren't for the fact that the tea was too hot, I'm afraid he would have been able to drink a cup in one go.

Looking at his appearance, Zhu Youzhen did not rush to talk about things, but reminisced with him, and then talked about the bank.

He gave all his understanding of banks, of course, all of which were basic savings, loans, and secondments, and did not mention treasury bonds, stocks, and so on.

Therefore, Li Changgeng stroked his beard after hearing this, and then spoke:

"Your Highness wants to get a bank to replace the fire?"

"It's an idea, and there's other ideas that are used to issue new coins." After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he kept looking at Li Changgeng's expression.

As an official of the household department, Li Changgeng must have participated in the design and observation of the new currency, and it is impossible not to know.

In fact, in their opinion, Zhu Youzhen wants to issue a new currency very simply, but the difficult part is how to issue the currency and eliminate all other currencies in the market.

You must know that although the currency of the Central Plains Dynasty has been issued in all dynasties, and even every few emperors, it is actually an increment, not a contraction.

At present, on the market of the Ming Dynasty, from the five-baht coins of the Han Dynasty to the Wanli Tongbao of the Ming Dynasty, in short, there are all kinds of copper coins, and counterfeit coins are even more rampant.

The imperial store of the Imperial Horse Supervisor alone collects tens of millions of fake money every year, causing the imperial store to lose tens of thousands of taels of income.

Therefore, exchanging old currency for new currency is actually a loss-making transaction.

Jiajing also played it back then, but he got rid of it and made the court lose a lot of silver, so Li Changgeng still remembers it vividly.

Although the current Ming tax is very high, if you really want to exchange the old currency for the new currency, I am afraid that you will have to bear the cost of losing more than 100,000 taels of silver every year.

Even if the imperial court eliminated many counterfeit money dealers, the counterfeit money on the market was enough to lose tens of millions.

Just to promote the bank, Zhu Youzhen didn't care about the loss of millions of taels, so he confessed to Li Changgeng:

"The existence of the bank, the imperial court did not think that it could be profitable in the early stage, as long as it does not lose hundreds of thousands of taels every year, the imperial court can accept it."

"You were summoned to ask you to be in charge of the bank, what do you mean?"

"If His Royal Highness asks His Highness to manage the bank, His Majesty will naturally agree." Li Changgeng first expressed his attitude, and then said that it was difficult:

"But if a bank wants to be set up, and if it wants to issue new currency after it is established, it needs to be in every county."

"According to the configuration of private money banks, a county of 100,000 people needs to be equipped with at least ten banks, and each bank needs to be equipped with a treasurer and six men."

"In addition, the amount of the imperial court is relatively large, and all banks must have a permanent servant or a soldier and horse division."

"There are more than 1,900 counties in my Ming Dynasty, and there are more than 26 million people in the counties on paper, but I am afraid that there are more than 40 million people in reality."

"Based on the configuration of the bank, these 40 million people need at least 28,000 people, and the Soldiers and Horses Division must be permanently stationed at the bank."

Li Changgeng's idea is actually to focus on opening up sources and reducing expenditure, but Zhu Youzhen is not prepared for the money from the provincial bank.

Although he recognized Li Changgeng's idea of opening up sources and reducing expenditure, he did not support it:

"Banks are different from money banks, I plan to build 10,000 banks in counties across the country, recruiting 120,000 workers, including the allocation and employees' salaries, I will ask people to bring you a copy of the booklet afterwards."

"The reason why the bank is not pushed to the market town for the time being is that the strength of the imperial court is not enough, but the county town must be mastered."

"As long as you can push the bank up, the nearly 5 million people who receive wages and salaries directly from the imperial court in that dynasty are your depositors."

"Whoever you need, how many people, as long as you need these, you can be selected from the imperial court, from Enke, and from the imperial examination."

"The only thing I want to know is, within three years, will this bank be able to be set up?"

Zhu Youzhen looked at Li Changgeng, and Li Changgeng also felt a lot of pressure.

He looked at Zhu Youzhen and had to say:

"Your Highness, the lower officials don't dare to hold it up, whether it can be done in three years, the lower officials don't know."

Li Changgeng explained very honestly, after all, it was the first time he had come into contact with this so-called bank, and he really didn't dare to guarantee whether he could succeed in three years.

However, his dare not guarantee made Zhu Youzhen breathe a sigh of relief, and he was afraid that Li Changgeng was also a person who liked to take credit.

Now it seems that he has no confidence, and it seems that he is closer to the candidate Zhu Youzhen wants.

"It's okay, it also takes time for the imperial court to raise gold and silver from overseas, you first hand over the burden of the Salt Division to Bi Ziyan, and the Ministry of Household will set up a financial department from today, and the bank belongs to the financial department."

"After the Lantern Festival, if you have an idea, come back to me then."

"Yes...... The lower official retired ...... "sat in front of Zhu Youzhen and let Li Changgeng sit on pins and needles."

With a chance to leave, he also got up and slowly exited the gazebo.

Looking at his departing back, Zhu Youzhen's brows furrowed.

He found that as Da Ming became stronger, even he himself was gradually unable to face the people below.

At this time, he finally understood why the founding leaders of all dynasties had to purge internally.

It's not that they're brutal, it's that the people below are getting more and more inched.

In the past few days, the behavior of the Qi Wang Party and the Yanshan faction, especially the impeachment of Sun Chuanting, has gradually made him feel noisy, and he even wants to hold a strong bow that he has not grasped for a long time.

Although he knew it was impossible, he still wanted to give it a try.

I hope that his series of operations will make the officials of the Yanshan faction and the Qi Wang party aware of their attitudes.

If they still can't wake up after this series of things, Zhu Youzhen can only do something he doesn't want to do......