Zhu Yijun quickly approved the question book submitted by the ministry.

It's just that as soon as the decree was promulgated, it quickly caused an uproar in the entire officialdom.

Many officials who wanted to make a mess of life were suddenly mourned.

Some began to secretly scold Wang Xuan for his personal luck and did not hesitate to treat the bureaucrats harshly.

"Wang Bazhou is so embarrassed by hundreds of officials in the world, isn't he afraid that hundreds of officials in the world will also be embarrassed by him and his descendants?!"

"Wang Bazhou is so tossed in the temple, isn't he afraid that he will have no friends after returning to the forest in the future?!"

"This Wang Bazhou is so unkind, I really regret pushing him when I pushed him!"

……

Zhu Yijun looked at these scolding remarks sent by Jinyiwei, and was not angry, but just smiled, and then asked Zhang Jingxiu:

"After not allowing hundreds of officials to resign arbitrarily and leave office, is there any other situation?"

"Back to Your Majesty, in other cases, there are many scholars and doctors who threaten to be willing not to be an official or take the imperial examination or take an official career, rather than be in the same league with traitors like Otsuka Zai."

"Because of this, there are indeed a lot fewer literati who have signed up for the election of officials and participated in the imperial examination, and many literati have really begun to despair from their careers, start other professions, and even threaten to only write scripts as a career in this life."

Zhang Jingxiu replied.

"This is not willing to go along with the dirt, but I just don't want to work so hard."

Zhu Yijun said.

Zhang Jingxiu replied: "What Your Majesty said is true! ”

"This is also related to the fact that the world has been very prosperous, so many talents are not keen on taking the road of official economy, and now the imperial court has also issued an order not to let hundreds of officials resign arbitrarily after leaving office, there are more scholars who are unwilling to take this road again, and are more willing to feel the people in the way, anyway, in today's Ming Dynasty, when an ordinary scholar or even an ordinary commoner, he does not feel any oppression, and he does not need to serve and pay less taxes."

"It's a good thing not to be an official, so there are more people who are willing to spend time on all kinds of knowledge and skills."

Zhu Yijun replied.

"What Your Majesty said is that now there are more and more people who come to the temple to obtain the technical title of craftsman set by His Majesty, and many of them are scholars and doctors who are officials, and they are no longer keen on going to the ministry to run the official, but are keen to go to the temple to run the technology."

Zhang Jingxiu replied.

"It's even better!"

"Fewer people who drill camps and more people who study are conducive to the long-term peace and stability of the country."

Zhu Yijun got up as he spoke: "I will also go to Jiangzuo Temple to have a look, speaking of which, I should also personally go to see how the steam engine spinning wheel is made, and ask the first assistant and the cardinal minister, and the second assistant to go with me." ”

"Yes!"

……

Since Zhu Yijun decided to implement the steam engine on the market, Jiangzuosi was ordered to increase the machinery factory of the government-made steam engine, and the central commercial bank of the Ming Dynasty issued a steam engine purchase order to the government-run machinery factory of Jiangzuosi.

As Zhu Yijun said to the ruling ministers in the Imperial Division, because the steam engine of the Ming Dynasty was not spontaneously produced and improved by the people, but produced and improved by the official institutions of the imperial court, it was destined that the application of the steam engine was also forcibly implemented in the city by the official business preparation of the imperial court.

Naturally, whether it was the institution that produced the steam engine or the institution that was about to use the steam engine, it was the official commercial institution of the imperial court.

After Zhu Yijun came to Jiangzuo Temple, he saw the first steam-powered spinning wheel that was trying to spin here.

"At this moment, spinning doesn't even need people, and before this, people really didn't dare to think like this."

In the rumbling sound of the machine, the three ruling ministers of Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, and Wang Xijue already knew about the steam engine, but after following Zhu Yijun here and seeing the steam-powered spinning wheel with his own eyes, Qi Jiguang still couldn't help but sigh to the two.

Li Chengliang then smiled at Qi Jiguang and said: "Lingzi is still promising, making such a magical car." ”

"It's just that I don't know if this is a good chance in the eyes of people in the world."

Qi Jiguang replied.

"I really don't know how cheap cotton cloth will be again with this steam engine, and the cotton fields that need to be expanded will also increase."

Wang Xijue twisted his eyebrows and said something else at this time.

Zhu Yijun didn't hear the conversation between Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, and Wang Xijue at this time, he was only listening to Qi Changguo and Zhao Shizhen introduce to him the specific structure of the steam engine spinning wheel.

Zhu Yijun listened carefully and asked some questions.

And Zhu Yijun has to admit that Qi Changguo and Zhao Shizhen already know better than him in terms of specific steam mechanism construction.

"Good!"

"With this steam-powered spinning wheel, I don't have to worry about not being able to quickly make new winter clothes for the soldiers to wear after the increase in troops, but it is not enough to make steam-powered spinning wheels, you also have to make steam-powered chariots or trains come out, or warships come out, so that you can open up more territory as cotton fields."

"After all, as soon as this steam spinning wheel appears, there will undoubtedly be a greater shortage of cotton, and if a large amount of cotton is needed, there must be a large number of cotton fields, so naturally no one dares to say that it is useless to open up new territory."

After that, Zhu Yijun said with a smile that in the future, the Ming Dynasty may open up more territory to do cotton fields.

"What Your Majesty said is that as soon as this steam spinning wheel appears, the demand for cotton will definitely surge, and naturally more cotton fields will be needed, but the minister just thought about it and felt that more importantly, more people must be willing to buy so much cotton cloth from the country."

"Because it is certain that the emergence of this steam spinning wheel will make the cotton cloth production of the dynasty higher, the people of this dynasty can not buy so much cotton cloth, and even now the overseas trade areas with my Ming Dynasty can not buy so much cotton cloth, the imperial court has to open up a new place to trade with the dynasty, buy the cotton cloth of the national dynasty, in order to make these cotton cloth into silver or grain, otherwise, a large amount of cotton cloth will only be accumulated in the treasury, and at that time, these cotton cloths are easy to mold and damage, not to mention, it will also cause the imperial court to let the steam spinning wheel eat so much coal and spend so much steel."

Wang Xijue happened to come to Zhu Yijun's side at this time with Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang, and when he heard Zhu Yijun's words, he also talked about his opinion.

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said: "What Wang Ge Lao said needs more people to buy my Daming cotton cloth, which can be called a commodity market, that is, I Daming needs a larger-scale commodity market, otherwise this steam spinning wheel will not benefit the people of this dynasty, but will only consume national funds." ”

"Your Majesty's statement that this is a commodity market is very appropriate, and this is exactly what the minister means."

Wang Xijue replied with a smile at this time.

"Let the Cabinet Department discuss how to increase the market for commodities without making this steam engine useless."

Zhu Yijun then commanded again.

Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, and Wang Xijue all said yes.

Since Zhu Yijun asked Wang Xun to further reform the official system, so that officials can no longer resign easily and be lazy, few bureaucrats in the DPRK and China dare to resign casually, and they have been more serious in their work than before.

Because if you are not serious and lazy, you will not only be dismissed, but you will not be honored in life, you will not be posthumously awarded in death, and you will be demoted and retired.

When Qi Jiguang presided over the planning department to discuss the application of the steam engine after he was ordered to formulate a new policy, none of the officials of the cabinet planning department dared to be absent from work, and all of them were present.

"Tell me, what problems should be dealt with once this steam engine spinning wheel starts to produce cotton yarn?"

After Qi Jiguang sat on the chair of the central master in the chamber of the new planning department of the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Cabinet, he glanced at the cabinet officials and spoke.

"The first thing we should face is that the cotton yarn produced by private workshops cannot be sold due to the backlog caused by the lower price of government-run cotton yarn caused by the emergence of steam engine spinning wheels, which is equivalent to taking the people's profits, which will make some private workshops unable to operate, and then lead to many yarn workers unable to make a living."

Shen Li, a university scholar, said a word first at this time.

Qi Jiguang nodded after hearing this: "This is a problem that should be worried, it is nothing that the private workshop cannot be operated, the key is that the livelihood of many yarn workers and even workshop owners cannot be ignored." ”

"In this case, we can only expand the army and increase the scale of government-run commercial banks, and absorb them into the army and government-run commercial houses, regardless of gender."

"If you just increase the number of troops, you have to set more goals for opening up the territory, after all, you can't let the soldiers be raised in vain, especially after the increase of troops to a certain scale, if you don't open up the territory to the outside world, you will lose a lot of national funds in vain."

"In addition, the expansion of the scale of government-run commercial banks must also open up more commodity markets, after all, they cannot expand in vain, and if they do not open up the market, there will be losses."

Zheng Luo, a university scholar, also put forward his own opinions.

Wang Xijue said at this time: "Why don't you open the steam engine spinning wheel to the people and allow merchants to buy it?" ”

"Yes, but the steam engine spinning wheel costs a lot of money, maintenance also requires money, and there are few people who can operate the steam engine and repair, even if the private businessmen can buy it, they will not want to buy, one is to spend too much money, the second is the risk, the third is that he has to force the dismissal of a large number of yarn workers against the resentment of his own employees, in contrast, it is better to reduce his own yarn workers' wages or directly lay off some yarn workers."

Zhang Jiayin, a cabinet scholar, also stated his views at this time, and said: "Therefore, even if private businessmen are allowed to purchase steam engines from the imperial court, they are afraid that they will not be willing, and they can only recruit into the army or into the government-run commercial house, as Zheng Ge Lao said. ”

"There is another place that can be absorbed, that is, the normal students that His Majesty has requested to be trained on a large scale, since the Holy Decree clearly requires your army to carry out five-year compulsory universal education for military households, there is a need for more normal students who specialize in teaching and educating people, especially female normal students."

"After the implementation of the new ceremony, it has been clearly believed that 'women are not talented is virtue' is the dregs of the old rites, and it is not suitable for the current reality, so women also need to study, but there are many women who do not study in the past, so there is an urgent shortage of female normal students."

Qi Jiguang also followed at this time.

Wang Xijue followed the head: "What Yuan Fu said is that in this way, the first is to expand the armament war, the second is to expand the factory and increase production, and the third is to expand the recruitment of normal students. ”

"The expansion of normal students only needs to increase expenditures, and the expansion of armament warfare and the expansion of factories and production will inevitably continue to raise wars, and the best war to rise up now is to conquer the Tokugawa clan, and the key is that the Tokugawa clan has no news yet."

Zheng Luo said at this time.

Qi Jiguang got up at this time and said, "Just don't wait!" Let the Privy Council press the decree to Dongying, and find a reason to start a war first, anyway, the Japanese have repeatedly violated my Ming Haijiang, and they have been passing since the founding of the dynasty. ”

"I have to ask for a meeting of the government hall to ask Your Majesty to judge."

Wang Xijue said at this time.

Qi Jiguang bowed his head, and in the afternoon of the same day, he asked for a meeting of the political hall.

In this regard, Zhu Yijun also came to the government hall to listen to the opinions of these ruling ministers on the matter of exterminating the Japanese.

"Your Majesty, if you don't destroy the steam engine, it will not benefit the people but will only harm the people, so if you want to let the steam engine benefit the people, this steam engine can't be destroyed."

After Zhu Yijun came, Wang Xijue opened his mouth first. (End of chapter)