"Your Highness, Sun Chuanting is sparse, please transfer more than 6,000 officials from Enke to Sichuan ......"

The ninth year of the Apocalypse was held as scheduled and ended as scheduled.

Of the 220,000 students, more than 24,600 were finally selected.

It's just that what Zhu Youzhen didn't expect was that Sun Chuanting actually pinched the time to send a song to the official, and he was about to leave a quarter of the Enke official.

"He's quite good at asking for it, and he still has the heart to use it on the judgment imminent."

Closing the list, Zhu Youzhen leaned back in his chair and complained to Wang Chengen in front of him.

But even so, he complained and said:

"This time, one hundred and twenty-seven Enke Jinshi will be transferred to Sichuan, and another seven thousand tribute students will be transferred."

Gongsheng was an official of the second nine grades in Enkeli, which was formulated by Zhu Youzhen, and Enkejinshi served as the chief official of the prefect, the main bo, and the prefect of the county.

Although 24,600 tribute students were elected this time, there were only 376 Jinshi.

Zhu Youzhen transferred nearly a third of the Jinshi and Gongsheng to Sichuan, and it was clear that Sichuan was a crucial step in his plan.

Wang Chengen responded when he heard this, but then he said:

"Your Highness, Chengde is asking to see you outside the palace."

"Let him in." Zhu Youzhen lowered his head and continued to deal with the sparseness, while Wang Chengen also retreated.

After a while, Chengde's footsteps sounded in the carrying hall.

"Respectfully ...... Chitose" Cheng De saluted, and he was now wearing the official robe of the fourth official.

Zhu Youzhen put down the pen, looked up at him, and then said absentmindedly:

"Let you concurrently serve as an official and a squire of the Ministry of Rites, why don't you be busy with your own errands, why do you come to the Carrier Palace?"

Zhu Youzhen asked knowingly, the newly established official position of official and scholarly waiter, Chengde naturally didn't dare to do things without asking, and he asked this because the drunkard didn't mean to drink.

Chengde is the leader of the Yanshan faction at the moment, and Zhu Youzhen asked him why he came to the Carrier Palace, ostensibly to let him do things well, but in fact he was asking him what he was doing these days.

"Your Highness, these days, the people below have a lot of discussions about what Sun Chuanting has done in Chengdu, and the lower officials have punished a group of people, and the local money and grain have been handed over in full."

Chengde's words made Zhu Youzhen a little satisfied, in his opinion, even if Chengde is loyal and upright, if he can't do things, he won't reuse the other party.

However, at the moment, compared with Gu Bingqian and Bi Ziyan, who still came to Zhu Youzhen to explain the threat of the gentry, Chengde's method of directly punishing Yanshan officials won Zhu Youzhen's heart.

He could not compromise with the gentry, nor with corrupt officials, so what he wanted was not to convey it, but to achieve results.

From this point of view, Chengde's direct action will not make Zhu Youzhen uncomfortable, but he is very comfortable.

"The Metropolitan Procuratorate has found 732 offending officials, and all of them have been handed over to the local Dali Temple and the Criminal Department for trial."

Cheng De responded respectfully, his back straight, his hands naturally hanging on his left and right, and his answer was flawless.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen didn't praise or ask anything, but picked up the tea, brewed the tea foam, and took a sip slowly.

One action, more than a dozen breaths of silence, which made Cheng De feel quiet all around, and only his own breathing could be heard.

"Under the cover of the nine skies, with Li Min, flapping his wings and flying is to control the four seas, how sad......"

Zhu Youzhen lowered his eyes and sipped tea, and suddenly came to such a sentence.

Chengde was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but immediately understood the deep meaning of the conversation, and hurriedly spoke:

"If these people are not severely punished, they are really guilty of their Highness, and they are really negative......

"Cultivated land is the foundation of the country, land division is a national policy, and the mantis arm is a car, so it is natural to be prepared for the sky to run over."

"These seven hundred and thirty-two people are just a group of corrupt officials."

"Your Highness racked his brains above the temple to try to make up for the shortfall, and they dug the walls and roots below, thinking of themselves as high."

"The lower officials think that the exile can no longer contain them, so it is better to be sent to the Nanjing vegetable market and punished with a righteous punishment!"

After his words were finished, his voice echoed in the empty hall, and after a long time, Zhu Youzhen responded:

"Do as you say, but don't forget that although the Metropolitan Procuratorate is busy with official business, you still bear the burden of studying for students from one of the six provinces in the north."

"I asked someone to send you the Ministry of Work and Household books in your yard, you should have read them all, right?"

"The lower officials have seen it, and the lower officials think that it is a national policy to first go north, then southwest, then overseas, and finally to the south of the Yangtze River." Chengde summed up his thoughts simply.

To put it bluntly, Jiangnan is so powerful that it dares to call for the imperial court.

For more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan controlled the temple for more than ninety percent of the time.

At present, the implementation of basic education for all people is naturally to reduce the influence of Jiangnan officials in the court through this policy.

No matter how powerful Jiangnan is, it can only be 60,000 or 70,000 people in Beijing every year to catch the exam.

Not to mention the southwest and overseas, if the official school in the north of the six provinces of Beijing is established, millions of students can read and write, and then tens of thousands of elite students will be selected from them to study advanced textbooks, and finally let them participate in Enke, and at the same time increase the difficulty of Enke.

So......

With such an operation, can Jiangnan still win the first place in the previous Enke and imperial examinations?

This time, more than 200,000 talents were added, and more than 24,000 people were selected, but there were only more than 1,000 students selected in Jiangnan, which was enough to reduce it.

However, this was temporary, and the gentry in Jiangnan did not begin to exert their strength until the fifth or sixth year of the Apocalypse, and the results could not be revealed until the tenth or even eleventh year of the Apocalypse.

If they exert their strength, the court naturally can't sit idly by.

Suppressing Jiangnan and letting all provinces occupy it is about the same, this is a national policy.

Otherwise, with the population and economy of Jiangnan, plus the proportion of officials in the court, whose world is this Ming?

Chengde understands Zhu Youzhen's thoughts, and he is also working hard to do it.

Although he is upright, it does not mean that he has no desires.

His desire is to ascend to a high position, take charge of the cabinet, and finally leave a name in history.

A person with a good name, Zhu Youzhen has seen too much, so naturally he won't feel anything.

Looking at Chengde's appearance, he made tea, but this time he didn't drink it, but put the tea on the table.

"The cabinet and the six ministries have crossed you off in the matter of sending people to Sichuan, do you know about this matter?"

Zhu Youzhen didn't play dumb riddles, because he knew that with the current volume of Chengde, he must already know this kind of news.

Now that he knows, he doesn't cry, he doesn't make trouble, and he doesn't quarrel, he wants to know what Chengde is thinking.

"The lower officials knew after the matter was filmed, and Gu Ge Lao meant that the lower officials were not qualified and could not take on such a big responsibility......"

Chengde said word by word, slowly, and his tone and tone were very comfortable.

"What do you think?" Zhu Youzhen put one hand on the armrest, put the other hand on the table, and gently tapped his fingers on the table.

"Xia Guan is an Enke Jinshi in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and he has only been an official for four years, and he is indeed shallow compared to the ministers and monks......

Chengde's words are modest on the surface, but there is no dissatisfaction in his words?

In his words, there are only cabinet ministers and monks, that is, in his opinion, the cabinet ministers and the six ministers are just a group of old officials who rely on the old and sell the old and sell their seniority.

The eaves are dripping one tile after another, and the talent is changing from generation to generation.

The new official is not counted as the account of the old official, and the courtiers with old qualifications will also need to be handed over in the future.

He put up with it for two years, and when he has boiled up his qualifications, become a scholar, and enter the cabinet, it will be time to show off his skills.

Chengde's words are basically the same as most Yanshan officials.

They think very highly of themselves, thinking that they have received a new type of education, which is different from the old style of bureaucracy, and can govern the world better.

This kind of thinking is quite a kind of self-confidence that ordinary modern people think that they can make great achievements when they come to ancient times.

Idealization is good, but reality and ideals are often diametrically opposed.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, if Chengde wants to enter the cabinet, ascend to a high position, and hold power, it depends on whether his ability is strong enough to fight Hong Chengchou and them.

Although he and Jin Xuan had average abilities in history, in this world, they entered Yanshan by mistake and practiced their skills.

But even so, Zhu Youzhen is not optimistic about them.

Not to mention Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, just Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng, Lu Xiangsheng and this group of people, Chengde may not be able to deal with them.

But......

"The affairs of the official department, you do it well, accumulate more protégé ......"

Zhu Youzhen did not hit Chengde's self-confidence, but pointed out with good words.

Cheng De's eyes lit up immediately when he heard this, and he hurriedly returned the salute: "Your Highness Xie ...... for your guidance"

Chengde thought of Zhang Juzheng, because Zhang Juzheng served as a teacher in the country for several years and trained many protégés, and then he had the capital to enter the cabinet and fight in the ring with Xu Jie, Gao Gong.

"Let's go down......"

Zhu Youzhen picked up the Zhu pen and waved his hand without raising his head, and when Chengde saw this, he withdrew from the palace with a happy mood after singing.

Although he didn't show any happy expression on the surface, the mood and atmosphere could be felt by Zhu Youzhen with his eyes closed.

Chengde left, Wang Chengen watched him leave at the door, and finally he walked into the hall and said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Your Highness......"

"Did you see how happy he was when he left?" Zhu asked without raising his head.

"Slave and maid look...... Cheng Shilang was very happy. Wang Chengen answered all questions, but Zhu Youzhen also smiled:

"Let him be happy to do things, and treat him with a treat."

"The slave and maid take the order...... Wang Chengen nodded his head, thinking that the next time he saw Chengde, he had to make the people in the house be more enthusiastic and courteous to him.

Just before his thoughts fell, the brocade guard at the door walked into the hall and said:

"Your Highness, the Financial Secretary Li Shilang asks to see ......"

"Pass him in!" Hearing that it was Li Changgeng who came, Zhu Youzhen knew that he should have come for the bank's business.

The brocade guard who reported the report retreated, and after a cup of tea, Li Changgeng entered the carrying hall with a thick booklet.

After the ceremonial mountain call for a thousand years old, Li Changgeng spoke:

"Your Highness, the affairs of the bank and the Mint have been sorted out, and now you only need your Highness to give an order."

"Let's talk about it." For a person like Li Changgeng who does practical things, there is no need for Zhu Youzhen to speak secretly, and it is more important to handle things well than anything else.

"Xia Guan suggested that on the basis of the original, the loan matter should be put on hold for the time being, and the bank would wait for it to gain a firm foothold before opening the loan."

Li Changgeng said, and then explained that the private money banks mainly make a living from loans, and if the imperial court intervenes in the form of loans from the beginning, then the money banks everywhere will regard the banks as the enemy.

He suggested putting the loan on hold for the time being, opening the bank around the Lantern Festival, and then using the passbook mentioned by Zhu Youzhen to distribute the money to the soldiers, officials, and employees of the Imperial Horse Prison every month.

However, this period involved the household registration system, so his suggestion was to issue the household registration certificate first, and then use the registration certificate to handle the issuance of the passbook.

The whole process is cumbersome, and it is difficult to promote it once you hear it.

Regarding the household registration system, Zhu Youzhen may have the most right to speak.

He didn't dare to copy other systems, but if he wanted to copy the household registration system, Daming was fully capable of copying it.

Although the horsepower of the third version of the steam engine was not large, it was not a problem to press the cardboard household registration book and passbook.

This is a very simple anti-counterfeiting method, the pressure of the steam hydraulic press presses multiple soft paper into a sheet, and this means is not possible to imitate on a large scale by the people.

The folk manpower pressed at most ten sheets of paper, but the steam hydraulic press could hydraulically twenty sheets of paper.

This simple means can prevent counterfeiting, which is why Zhu Youzhen dared to implement the passbook.

He told Li Changgeng about these things, and even did it himself, drawing a rough appearance of the household registration book with a blank note.

In general, it is similar to that of later generations, the surface is wrapped with hard paper and pigskin, and then the hydraulic paper inside is combined with the dyeing technology and steel seal of the imperial court, which can be very simple and anti-counterfeiting.

It is not excluded that some people can use simple machinery to hydraulicize 20 sheets of paper, but dyeing technology and steel seals, plus identity numbers, can easily trace the person who used the fake certificate.

The passbook also uses similar technology, so Zhu Youzhen explained it to Li Changgeng.

As for whether the steam engine will be used to place it after it is promoted, Zhu Youzhen will not worry about this.

The steam engine is still changing, and banks have set a corresponding demand for remote withdrawals.

In general, the banks of the Ming Dynasty were mainly established to issue new currency, solve economic problems, corruption problems, and at the same time, to solve the problem of fire consumption.

At present, the imperial court does not need it to make a profit, as long as it does not lose money.

After hearing this, Li Changgeng had a general understanding, and he no longer bothered about this problem, and Zhu Youzhen was also ready to use this account to promote Arabic numerals.

The identity number is basically the same as in the previous life, according to the first two digits to indicate the code of the province, the third and fourth digits indicate the code of the prefecture and county, and the fifth and sixth digits indicate the code of the town and township.

The seventh to fourteenth digits indicate the year, month, and day of birth, and the fifteenth and sixteenth digits indicate the code of the penal department where they are located.

The seventeenth digit indicates gender, odd number indicates male, even number indicates female, and the last eighteenth digit is the check code, which is used to verify the correctness of the ID card.

"Although the eighteen-digit number is long, the habit of reading it is almost the same, and it is much easier to use than Lu Yin."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen smiled: "After the implementation of the household registration book, the road introduction system can be slightly relaxed, which is conducive to private business and trade." ”

"Your Highness Gao Jian......" Li Changgeng patted a sycophant, but Zhu Youzhen did not respond, but just asked rhetorically:

"How many new coins has the Mint accumulating right now?"

Zhu Youzhen's words made Li Changgeng hurriedly say:

"At present, not too many are made, only 500,000 silver coins with one or two denominations have been minted, and 5 million silver coins with a denomination of 100 wen have been minted."

"A total of 200 million copper coins with a denomination of 10 yuan were minted, and a total of more than 800 million copper coins with a denomination of 1 penny were minted."

"The Suncheon Mint currently has 700 mints of all sizes, and if it is fully operational, the template will be replaced, and each coin can be minted in a single day."

"At present, the Suncheon Mint has accumulated a total of 3.84 million taels of silver coins with a total denomination, costing 3.56 million taels."

Speaking of which, Li Changgeng explained:

"The Mint didn't go all out to mint too many coins because the bank's business had not been finalized."

"As long as His Highness finalizes when the bank will open, the Mint can start working at full speed to produce the Apocalypse Tongbao ......"

Li Changgeng finished speaking, but Zhu Youzhen was not very satisfied, especially for the speed of the Mint.

With a daily output of more than 7 million coins, it sounds like a large scale, but the most commonly circulated in the hands of the common people are copper coins of one and ten yuan.

In the private sector, the scale of a penny reached hundreds of billions, and if the imperial court wanted to produce hundreds of billions of copper coins, it would take a full forty years at the speed of the Mint.

Even if it is a ten-dollar denomination, it will take a full four years.

As for why there is no mention of 100 Wen, this is because the vast majority of people do not have too many small silver coins with a denomination of 100 Wen.

The Ming Dynasty has not yet equalized the wealth and poverty to the extent that the people can squander small silver coins at will, and all the assets of a family add up to dozens of small silver coins with a denomination of 100.

What the imperial court wants to satisfy is copper coins, and the copper of the imperial court is not much, and it is basically mined from the old port.

"The Mint's production capacity needs to be doubled, and the Armaments Institute needs to prepare another mint, and the number of mints needs to reach fifteen hundred, and the daily output must reach fifteen million."

Zhu Youzhen first gave his own requirements, and then he asked: "How many coins are enough to mint the copper and silver of the national treasury at present?" ”

"The silver ingots are enough to mint more than 17 million silver coins with a denomination of one tael, and the copper ingots have already been ......used up," Li Changgeng dared to come to the Qi Palace's mansion to report on his work, so he was naturally fully prepared.

"Our dynasty is already short of copper, even if there is the old port and Yingzhou, in fact, the copper ore mined every year can only produce 200 million copper coins."

"The reason why we can mint 100,000 large and small copper coins at the moment is also because the Imperial Horse Supervisor handed over a lot of copper coins, which were smelted and used to make them."

"If you want to increase the minting of copper coins, then the Imperial Horse Supervisor ...... here"

Li Changgeng didn't continue, but Zhu Youzhen understood what he meant, and to put it bluntly, he needed the imperial horse supervisor to provide copper coins.

This is also expected by Zhu Youzhen, after all, if there is no local copper coins and silver in the Ming Dynasty as minting resources, then only with overseas resources, I am afraid that it will be difficult for Zhu Youzhen to carry out currency reform in his life.

As for whether the currency reform will consume all the ancient coins on the market, Zhu Youzhen is not worried about this at all.

The ones on the ground may be consumed, but according to the ancestors' habit of burying good things with them, it is estimated that there are still many ancient coins underground.

"The silver and copper coins in the treasury, as well as the copper coins of the Imperial Horse Warden, shall be transferred to the Mint."

"I'll ask Hua Chun to help transfer this, you don't have to worry." Zhu Youzhen said:

"As for when the bank will open? I'll need to ask someone to ask about it. ”

"First get out the household registration books of the five military governors' mansions, hundreds of officials, and employees of the imperial store, and then the bank will prepare the passbook, and then open the business when things are almost ready, don't worry."

Zhu Youzhen was very anxious before, but he is not in a hurry now, because things are already on the right track.

Taking advantage of this household registration and passbook matter, the household registration system and passbook system were fixed, and then the hidden households were checked.

"In that case, then the lower official will go back to the household department first and wait for news......

Li Changgeng saw that everything needed to wait, and Zhu Youzhen also asked him to wait, so he naturally wouldn't be so anxious in his heart, so he retreated.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand to signal him to leave, and then beckoned Wang Chengen to inform the Armaments Institute and Cao Huachun.

After they all retreated, Zhu Youzhen had time to make a summary of the current Daming.

In general, basic education for all is being prepared for the return of gold and silver from overseas, and the hukou system and banks are also being carried out at the same time.

If these three things are done well, Daming can continue to live another wave and completely solve the problem of the silver economy.

As long as the economic problems are solved, the only thing left of the Ming Dynasty is the political problem.

As for political issues, we can rely on education for all to solve them step by step.

Kai Minzhi, this matter must be carried out, even if the final result of Kai Minzhi is a constitutional monarchy, Zhu Youzhen will not regret it.

He opposes a constitutional monarchy promoted by the gentry, because with such a constitutional monarchy, to put it bluntly, the gentry are still oppressing the people.

On the contrary, if the masses spontaneously carry out constitutional monarchy, then the people who are elected will naturally bring the Ming to the good side.

As for whether anyone will scold Zhu Youzhen as a traitor who betrayed the imperial power, he is not worried about this at all.

With the suzerain-vassal system he is currently promoting, no matter who wants to carry out a constitutional monarchy or overthrow the Ming Dynasty, first of all, they cannot be stupid, and it is impossible to give up the Ming economic circle established by the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to inherit the economic circle left by the Ming Dynasty, you must first recognize the Ming Dynasty, and to recognize the Ming Dynasty, what you have to do is to have two kings and three Ke.

Therefore, there is no problem with the life of Emperor Zhu in the hands of politicians, and it is the generals who have to worry about it.

Politicians have a long-term view, and it is impossible to abolish the Zhu Emperor, but some generals who only know military affairs may not be able to do so.

But no matter what, at least in Zhu Youzhen's lifetime, or within the current three generations of the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that the political pattern of the Ming Dynasty will be difficult to change.

As for the three generations later......

At that time, Zhu Youzhen was dead, and he was still in charge of chicken feathers.

Anyway, his historical task is to lead the Central Plains Dynasty into the first and even the second industrial revolution, and then implement basic education for all under the condition of competing for two.

After doing this, Daming can still be the world hegemon for a hundred years.

As for whether there will be a foreign race entering the customs after a hundred years, Zhu Youzhen still feels that it is impossible.

Because he wants to pacify the northeast, then the Mobei, and finally the Western Regions and Central Asia.

After all these are settled, Zhu Youzhen wants to see which other forces can enter the customs.

In his expectations, Da Ming's fate was nothing more than that.

Internal political struggles, which in turn led to the division of the Ming Dynasty, the rivalry of the masses, or the exploitation of capital led to the outbreak of revolution among the workers and peasants of the people.

In short, the Ming Dynasty will be overthrown, and then the new forces will give the Zhu Emperor the treatment of two kings and three kes in order to inherit the economic circle of the Ming Dynasty.

Like the Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs, this kind of thing is a small probability event in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, which is currently extremely martial, and it is basically impossible......

Instead of worrying about what will happen a hundred years later, Zhu Youzhen is more worried about the current Sichuan, Sun Chuanting, who is about to be tried by Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru and others......