Zhu Youxiao took out a small notebook and wrote down the talents recommended by Teacher Yuan. A good memory is not as good as a bad pen, without a mobile phone and computer, Zhu Youxiao can only use this stupid method.

Although he knew the trend of history, Zhu Youxiao also deeply felt the shallowness of historical knowledge. If you want to talk about celebrities such as Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, Sun Chuanting, etc., he knows, but after all, there are only a few.

For example, this one is called Lu Shanji, who was born in the 41st year of Wanli Jinshi, and is currently the head of the Ministry of War, and is famous for his outstanding talent.

It is said that the Jinshi of Wanli forty-one years can be regarded as having a lot of qualifications, but he is still a petty official, and the reason is that this guy is stubborn and stubborn, and he was demoted by Emperor Wanli one after another.

Although Yuan Keli praised Lu Shanji's personality and academic charm, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about this strong man's "fight to the death", he valued Lu Shanji's other specialty.

After Lu Shanji first entered the career, he first observed the military department, and then gave the head of the Shandong Division of the Ministry of Households, and the salt law was taken from the national border salary.

What kind of talent is Zhu Youxiao urgently looking for now, first, a general who can fight, and second, a capable person who can make money.

Lu Shanji has studied the salt law, what other laws can be written, wouldn't it be appropriate to do salt politics? Even if you don't take care of the salt administration and go to the household department to be an official, you can be regarded as a professional counterpart.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao also found that relying on his own historical knowledge alone, it is absolutely not enough to find capable officials. Unless there is Du Niang's help, who can know which guy has done what and what specialties he has.

Despite this, Zhu Youxiao gradually discovered some patterns. That is, most of those who have worked in the local area and have made outstanding political achievements are talented.

For example, Tao Langxian, the governor of Denglai, Bi Ziyan, the governor of Tianjin, Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Sichuan, and some more unknown governors and prefects are also very talented and run the local area very well.

From this, Zhu Youxiao came to a conclusion that may not be quite correct. Being an official in a local area is a test of practical work ability, and he knows more about the suffering of the people at the bottom, so he can use it as a standard to inspect officials.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh. Even a county, a state, and a government are not well governed, and they go to the court to talk about the strategy of governing the country, isn't that?

Most of the cabinet members of the Ming Dynasty came from Hanlin, and the Hanlin Yuan was also known as the place where the government stored materials. After Yingzong, there was a more common practice: non-Jinshi did not enter the Hanlin, and non-Hanlin did not enter the cabinet.

Although it is not absolute, there are still very few local governors who enter the cabinet.

Zhu Youxiao was already in the process of reshuffling the cabinet, and Zhang Heming, the secretary of the military department, was the first to be deposed, followed by Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the ministry.

The household department is in charge of finance and taxation, which is the economic lifeblood of the country, and the current Shangshu Li Zongyan, although he has some support and sympathy for the Donglin Party, is still a relatively moderate practical talent.

It's just that Li Zongyan is old and lacks the spirit of forging ahead. Zhu Youxiao wants to reform, so naturally he will be replaced, and he will return with honor, that is.

With the three powers of military power, personnel, and finance in his hands, Zhu Youxiao was able to carry out reforms in a bold way. Now the question is, it is easy to take, who can go up and do what he wants, he has a lot of trouble.

Now, Tao Langxian, Bi Ziyan, and Li Qiyuan, who was used in the first year of Taichang, the right capital imperial history and the right governor of the military department in Shaanxi and the military affairs of the three sides of Shaanxi and the management of food and salary, have been selected by Zhu Youxiao and will soon be in the cabinet.

Li Qiyuan was noticed by Zhu Youxiao, and it was he who used the soldiers and horses to recruit emptiness, and the three chiefs of Chiji Neng and the three chiefs spied into the gap, and the twelve models were sparse.

Clearly organized and the measures were appropriate, Zhu Youxiao took all the instructions and began to carefully check Li Qiyuan's resume.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

This Li Qiyuan has gone through the five dynasties of Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli, Taichang, and Tianqi, and has successively served as the prefect of the county, the head of the household department, the senator, the deputy envoy, the political participant, the political envoy, the governor, and the governor.

When he first became the magistrate of Yuanwu County, Henan Province, he was experiencing a famine, and Li Qiyuan opened a warehouse and set up a porridge field to save tens of thousands of hungry people. But he was starving, and he went around inspecting, making people thin and clothed.

When he was the head of the household department, Li Qiyuan was known for being proficient in ministry affairs.

When he was appointed as the senator of Shandong to Linqing, it coincided with the Linqing civil uprising, and Li Qiyuan played an important role in quelling the civil uprising, saving 48,000 taels of silver for the imperial court, and the storage was well prepared, and was deeply valued by the Wanli Emperor.

When he was the political envoy of Zuobu in Henan, Li Qiyuan was played as "the first honest man in the world".

This qualification, this political achievement, step by step, shines everywhere, respectable old comrades, respectable old revolutionaries!

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao thinks that Li Qiyuan has a keen eye, and he can find the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty better than him, and he has no party or faction, is honest and dedicated, and can be a scholar of the household department.

Tianjin Governor Bi Ziyan is also good, and he has some talent in financial management. But Zhu Youxiao felt that he could be careful in his calculations, and his brain hole to expand financial resources didn't seem to be broad enough.

Throttling is needed, but more importantly open source.

Raiding the homes of corrupt officials, cutting meat from the clans, and collecting industrial and commercial mining taxes are all methods. But where is the most important source of money, export to earn foreign exchange and earn silver!

However, it is easy to open the sea ban, and it is not difficult to make money, but it is not easy to fill the treasury.

After the Longqing switch, in the more than 70 years after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, one-third of the world's silver flowed into China, but how much wealth did the Ming Dynasty accumulate?

It's not nice to say, the country is still so poor, and Chongzhen was poor to death.

Not to mention that the state did not make any money, the influx of silver caused inflation and made life more difficult for the common people.

Understand, maritime trade is to make money, a lot of money, but it is not the state that makes money, but those maritime merchants and officials involved in it.

Not to mention that Longqing switch only has one month port is a trade port, according to the current system, as well as the bureaucratic system, even if ten or eight ports are opened, the bulk of the wealth will still not enter the treasury, and the fat is still the Jiangnan wealthy clans, merchants and officials.

Just like commercial taxes, there are so many banknotes, but they still can't stop the privileges of officials and businessmen, and they can't stop wealthy businessmen and tycoons from evading taxes through various means.

Small and medium-sized businessmen who have no way out are complaining bitterly, and they have become the majority of tax payers, and they must collect money at every pass, and their business is in dire straits.

There is a story on "Jinling Trivia" that is very thought-provoking, and it also makes Zhu Youxiao angry.

It is said that during the Wanli period, there was a common man who wanted to do some small business to make a living, and after scraping together seven or eight taels of silver, he bought a batch of lamp grass from his hometown and hired a ship to transport it to sell.

Thirty taxes are one, only two or three dollars of taxes, the burden is not heavy, and the people are thinking about how to earn two or three taels of silver once and again.

But more than 100 miles of waterway, good guy, there are more than 10 banknotes, and he was stunned to collect nearly four taels of silver.