Although the Great Dynasty Conference wasted a lot of time and brought many local officials to the capital, it was actually a tiring journey and a waste of financial resources. But Zhu Houzhao still has to do it.

Because he had to make every effort to make the principal officials of the state aware of what the court was to do every year, and to make it known to the public in a righteous and bright way. The layout, understanding, and letting the people below figure it out are only applicable to special matters.

In other words, he did not agree with Emperor Jiajing's 'riddle' style of governance, although it was convenient to control the court, but it was not good for the country, Zhu Houzhao chose the right path.

After the seven-day conference, officials from all walks of life should "run the department" and leave Beijing.

And the palace also kept coming out of the will - all of them were transferred officials.

Before the Great Dynasty Meeting, Liu Jian, the political envoy of Shandong, was promoted to governor, and except for him, the rest of the people were not adjusted. Now that it's over, the officials will begin to act according to the emperor's instructions.

The emperor summoned dozens of officials in a row, and for officials, it was actually a kind of examination school, and some people performed well in this kind of examination school, and some people performed poorly, and the reaction was of course different in their official careers.

Only through direct changes in personnel can the work of the first year of Zhengde be promoted, and the second year of Zhengde will be more smoothly.

What do you mean?

- Well done, promoted.

If all the officials just came to Beijing to go through the motions, and then went back to their respective homes after the work, there would be no movement at all. In that case, the court meeting will become a publicly-funded tour, and the annual tasks discussed by the emperor and the cabinet will become empty words.

Therefore, as soon as the court meeting ended on March 8, a holy decree was issued, which was announced by the celebrant and the cabinet and the ministers.

Fei Hong, the political envoy of Sichuan, was promoted to the governor of Sichuan, and was awarded the title of Imperial Historian of the Right Governor of the Imperial Palace, Prime Minister of Grain Reserves, and Admiral of Military Affairs and Governor of Sichuan. As soon as the news came out, the dynasty was shocked.

Because Fei Zichong is only 39 years old this year, it is really rare to serve as a high-ranking official of a province at such an age.

Even Yang Tinghe back then did not have such speed.

After that, the will came out faster and faster, even to the extent that a holy decree decided the fate of several people.

Peng Ze was transferred to the governor of Henan, and Huang Changyin, the political envoy of Huguangbu, was transferred to the governor of Huguang. Mao Jidai, the political envoy of Zhejiang, and Wang Qiong, who lectured at the Hanlin Academy, no longer served concurrently.

Guangdong's political envoy Ji Ying and Ying were sluggish and deposed as the prefect of Raozhou, Jiangxi.

In addition, the governor of Jiangxi and the three envoys were uniformly stationed by the Ministry of Officials, and the number of governors fell on the head of Jiao Fang, the waiter of the Ministry of Works.

Jiao Fang has always wanted to be a fortunate minister, and he is the most active in patting the emperor's ass, Jiangxi vacated many places in the officialdom earthquake last year, and this opportunity came, but I don't know how to do it.

The emperor's continuous large-scale adjustment of officials in various places really caused a lot of discussions.

And the first one is that whether they are on the list or not, they all understand what the 'path to success' is, that is, to do what can be said.

Fei Hong, who had taken office as a new official, went to Shaanxi Governor Qi Chengjiao and Taifu Siqing Wang Yu on 8 March while officials from various localities were still in Beijing.

The one who did it, the horse also.

“…… On that day, when His Majesty was discussing horse politics, he had been brewing these ideas all the time. ”

The three of them sat at the table, the fresh hot tea rising from the mist.

Fei Hong is the youngest among them, Qi Chengjiao and Wang Yu are both in their early forties, Qi Chengchuan is okay, Wang Yu is the director of the Yuan Racecourse, the conditions in that place are more difficult, so the face is wrinkled, and people are also lean and lean due to perennial fatigue.

The three officials sat in the pavilion, wearing red shirts, bottoms and knees, white gauze singles, white socks and black shoes, leather belts and ribbons around their waists, and a crown on their heads. If ordinary people see this, it will also be an incredible three masters.

"Your Majesty allocated silver to the Trilateral Governor's Mansion, and the Trilateral Governor's Mansion paid silver to buy horses, but there should be insufficient war horses in Shaanxi Guan's Horse Ranch, and the number of war horses is quite tight, isn't it?"

Wang Yu is an expert on 'horses', and he immediately understood the meaning of the Sichuan governor in front of him, "Tibetan horses are short, if the lower officials sell these horses to Yang Ge Lao, Yang Ge Lao will probably cut off the head of the lower official, even His Majesty will not spare the lower official." ”

Fei Hong waved his hand, "How could I let the prince's servant do such a thing, the war horses raised on the northern horse farm are naturally different from those in the southwest, but although Tibetan horses cannot become war horses, they can carry goods, so that they can replace some tall war horses." In addition, in order to raise as many war horses as possible, His Majesty's intention is to slowly make Taifu Temple a 'horse merchant'......"

Qi Chengjiao also heard the string song and knew the elegant meaning, "In the sixth year of Chenghua, Xianmiao decreed that the tributaries of Wu Si Zang and Duo Gansi must come to Beijing from Sichuan, and Sichuan has become a concentration of tea and horse markets. However, like Shaanxi, private tea is rampant and prohibited. ”

The tea and horse trade was a barter method between the Central Plains Dynasty and ethnic minorities, and the exchange of tea for horses was originally a matter of taking what each wanted from each other.

But tea, like salt, is a commodity controlled by the state.

First, the profits are huge, and second, tea is a daily necessity for ethnic minorities, so controlling tea can actually control their lifeblood, which is a national security strategic consideration.

Moreover, after the state controls it, it can gain a bargaining advantage, that is, foreigners can only buy it with me at a certain price, and this price is naturally more expensive for them.

In this way, private tea will definitely be produced,

Because places such as Ya'an and Qamdo are suitable for growing tea, if you trade through tea and horses, you can exchange dozens of catties of tea for a horse - the price of a horse can be sold for more than 20 taels no matter what.

The living expenses of ordinary people are about ten taels a year. Therefore, this kind of transaction, ordinary people will also do it at the risk of breaking the law.

In retrospect, the idea of controlling ethnic minority tribes by controlling tea has actually failed - the common people are selling smuggled tea in large quantities.

Fei Hong has been in Sichuan for several years, and he is very clear about the flood of private tea.

At the beginning, Yang Yiqing was also in Shaanxi, and the method adopted by Yang Ge Lao was to crack down severely, so the momentum of private tea in Shaanxi was curbed.

But Fei Hong is considering another way.

"Private tea is indeed forbidden, so I am thinking about whether it is possible for the imperial court to become a tea merchant. After exchanging tea for horses, it was sold to Taifu Temple. ”

Fei Hong thought well.

But Qi Chenghe didn't understand, "Originally, the tea and horse market was led by the imperial court, what is the difference between becoming a tea merchant?" The key to this is to severely punish smuggling. ”

"It's not the same. In the past, the imperial court dominated the tea and horse trade, and it was closed after exchanging tea for horses, but the horses still had to become silver in the end, so that the imperial court could account to the people. I don't know how the two of you understand Your Majesty's thinking, but there are actually many things, and Your Majesty wants to 'drive people away with profit'. Tea is exchanged for Tibetan horses, Tibetan horses are exchanged for silver, and silver is used to buy tea, the key is to straighten out this chain,"

Wang Yu was puzzled, "If you want to sell the horse, why do you need the Taifu Temple, Mr. Zichong can sell the horse himself." ”

"The imperial court uses troops in the northwest, and the number of horses is insufficient, how can I, as the governor of Sichuan, sell horses to the people at this time?"

"But private tea will still be overflowing. When the people change horses, they can always trade with the people themselves. ”

Fei Hong replied fluently, he should have thought about it in advance, "Small businessmen smuggle, firstly, the quantity is small, so it is not a matter of concern, and secondly, when the imperial court conducts large-scale transactions, the price that can be negotiated must be better than his." And if it is a big businessman smuggling, the court can punish it, and it is harmless to the people, so it is enough. ”

There is a subtle difference in this, that is, Fei Hong wants to learn from the increasing number of 'imperial merchants' in recent years to set up tea merchants and join this competition. Solve problems by means of business, not government decrees.

In the past, the actions of the government were all administrative thinking, and Fei Hong could vaguely feel something after looking at the emperor's thinking for so long. Just like Mei Ji in Hangzhou, the imperial court was doing sea trade, and at the same time the people were allowed to do so.

Why?

Since the sea trade is profitable, why not all of it is controlled by the imperial court?

One of the important ones is that the government should give the people a way to live.

The people of Sichuan should also have a way to live.

This way of life, to come from the tea, tea can be exchanged for horses, horses can be exchanged for silver, if the government set up a tea merchant, and then establish a channel with Taifu Temple to exchange horses for silver.

Isn't tea turning into silver?

However, this transition from the administration to the market was very subtle, and it was not particularly different from the previous model of the imperial court dominating the tea and horse market.

To say that there is, it is the tea and horse exchange market of the imperial court in the past, with the ultimate goal of exchanging horses, to put it bluntly, it is because of the lack of horses that such a mutual market is allowed. But this time, Fei Hong's idea is to exchange for silver as the ultimate goal.

Horses, in cold weapons is a weapon, so previously it was put in、For the victory of the war。 But behind the silver, there is a kind of business.

In the process of doing business, it also makes up for the lack of horses.

It's not easy to understand.

Wang Yu of Taifu Siqing has some doubts about this, he was asked to pay money today, in case he spent 100,000 taels of silver and came with 5,000 horses, but the quality was not up to par, how could he explain?

The imperial court is now tracking down these allocated silver, he could have been a cadre in the hands of Ming Jun, and if he did a good job, he would be a generation of famous ministers, why take risks for the sake of a Fei Zichong's face?

So after a little muttering, he said: "Brother Zichong, the tea and horse markets are widely implicated, I don't know if this matter has been played by the emperor?" ”

"It's not time yet." Fei Hong also told the truth.

He actually wanted to make some achievements, coordinate with the relevant parties, and report to the emperor again when he has the results, so that it is easy to get the emperor's support.

Yang Yiqing in the northwest has been flying very fast in the past three or five years, faintly having the momentum of the first minister of Zhengde, and there is the emperor Wang Wei in the southeast, leading the sea opening with the respect of heavenly officials.

One south and one north, two major events.

But there was no movement in the southwest.

Before this year's court meeting, when the emperor summoned him, he had some doubts about Sichuan, the country of abundance, only 80~1 million stone of tax grain per year, even he himself felt that Sichuan, a treasure land, should have a better performance.

In addition, now from top to bottom, he wants to get rid of bad governance, so he also wants to make a difference.

"If you don't play the emperor...... It is difficult for the official to simply agree. The silver taels allocated by the imperial court were to ask the Taifu Temple to raise more war horses, but the lower officials bought some Tibetan horses back, I am afraid that it will be inappropriate. ”

Fei Hong also wanted to fight, "The horse used for transportation can be a Tibetan horse." ”

"But the silver of the court will be lost in this way."

"Where does the money come from?" Fei Hong asked himself, and he replied affirmatively, "At sea." And in the future, there will be a steady stream of coming, and there will be a steady stream of horse signs. Unless there is no shortage of horses in the Ming Dynasty. ”

Qi Chengsui frowned, "If I don't lack horses, what Brother Zichong said today wouldn't it be like a dream?" ”

Fei Hong thought to himself, it seems that the thoughts of these people are not on the emperor, "There is no shortage of horses, and our tea will not be exchanged for their horses!" ”

They want tea, but of course we are short of what we want, and I really feel that the other party has nothing to offer, so send 50,000 troops to fight for me! Why is the brain so dead!