After the old man spoke, Ren Yonggang nodded solemnly, and was distracted for a while.

And after a while, he took the initiative to get up and bow to the old man.

The old man didn't see it.

Yes, he had already turned around, smiled and put the pole on his shoulder, and walked towards the sun, which was shining in the sky.

Capital.

It was also a sunny day.

Zhu Yijun, who was also heading towards the rising sun, was looking at the majestic Daming Palace under the golden sun, and came to serve the imperial division.

The interior of the Imperial Chamberlain was already magnificent, and when the sun poured in, it added to the brilliance.

After Zhu Yijun came here, he couldn't help but stop and take a look, and then sat on his imperial throne and looked at Wang Xijue and other ruling ministers with golden light.

Wang Xijue, Li Chengliang and other ruling ministers all stood up after Zhu Yijun came to serve the imperial secretary.

It is already the tradition of the Wanli Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty to sit and talk about politics, so after Zhu Yijun came, there was no need to say that he would sit, and these ruling ministers sat down and began to wait for the emperor to speak.

Although Zhu Yijun is forty years old, for an emperor, it is the peak of spring and autumn.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun also has all the calm attitude of an emperor in his gestures, and when he began to discuss politics, he also asked lightly:

"Does Daming want to increase his debts and eat food appropriately, this point of view put forward by Yuan Fu, does Zhu Qing have anything to say?"

Originally.

With the deepening of the Ming Dynasty's economic research, and no longer pay attention to following the traditional idea of governing the country, but generally believe that the idea of acting according to the actual situation has become the guiding principle of governance, many bureaucrats specializing in finance began to take the initiative to put forward many new financial management views, and some bureaucrats began to advocate that the imperial court should let the appropriate Yin eat the grain, that is, the so-called appropriate increase in the deficit rate in later generations.

These bureaucrats believe that this will stimulate consumption and increase wealth, thereby achieving the goal of further benefiting the people.

In other words.

These bureaucrats hoped that the Ming treasury would not only not have a surplus, but should also be appropriately insolvent and properly fed.

And this is undoubtedly very different from the traditional concept of governance.

It must be known that in ancient times, an important criterion for whether the dynasty was in its heyday was how much surplus the treasury had.

According to the traditional scholar's point of view, this is the same as a family, as long as there is surplus savings, in order not to worry about natural and man-made disasters will not be able to deal with it, so in good times to pay special attention to frugality, save more money and food, in order to survive the famine year.

Especially in China, a land where various disasters often occur, whether it is individuals, families or the whole country, they are accustomed to saving more in normal times and preparing for the unexpected.

Even, if anyone eats grain and spends tomorrow's money today, it will be considered a loser, which is a manifestation of incompetence, and the children of ordinary people are regarded as unfilial, and if they are emperors, they are regarded as faint kings.

But now, because of the economic growth brought about by the 30 years of reform in the Ming Dynasty, many officials have begun to change their attitudes, especially high-level bureaucrats, because they have been exposed to more information, they have also begun to think against traditional thinking, and begin to think that in the current environment, they should eat more food.

Among them, the bureaucracy, represented by the first assistant Wang Xijue, especially advocated this view, and hoped that the imperial court would expand its debts.

According to Wang Xijue's point of view, the current debts of the Ming court are still not worth the income, and the annual income of the treasury is still increasing, so in order to prevent the officials related to the management of the treasury from stealing and misappropriating, a lot of expenses have been increased and a lot of financial revenue has been wasted.

After all, these expenses don't do much to increase productivity.

In Wang Xijue's view, instead of this, it is better to be appropriately insolvent, so that people in the world can take the initiative to think more for the country because they owe money to the court and because they see that the court does not have enough surpluses, and because they are afraid that the court income will not be able to increase and cannot repay their debts.

"Your Majesty, the minister is against it!"

"It is difficult for people to control their dreams, and the same is true for the country, once Yin eats food, it will be difficult to control it."

"If you dare to spend next year's money today, then maybe you will dare to spend money ten years later next year, and if this continues, I really don't know what money I will have to spend in fifty or even a hundred years?"

"What's more, the benefits of the world are all taken from the people, and if the people's profits are not exhausted, they must rest with the people!"

Guo Zhengyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, first stood up at this time and put forward his own opinions.

Yang Junmin, the imperial history of Zuodu, got up at this time and said: "Your Majesty, the great uncle is reasonable, but this does not mean that you can't eat the grain, Yuanfu advocates that it is appropriate to eat the grain, not that you really can't be restrained." ”

Guo Zhengyu retorted: "Although what is said is appropriate, once this opening is opened, and Yin eats grain as a feasible strategy to a certain extent, it will be like opening an opening in the flood control embankment, which will make people's greed increase unstoppably. ”

"But at present, the growth rate of national wealth and people's profits has slowed down, and the price of subscription coupons is the most obvious evidence, and its rise is not as good as before, which shows that the momentum of the growth of national wealth in the world has almost dried up."

"And the ministers are trusted by His Majesty and hundreds of officials, and they can't help but take precautions to avoid that in the future, the real growth of the country's wealth and people's interests will stop, and there will only be signs of decline."

"The panic caused by this, once it spreads, is likely to affect the fortunes of the country."

"Therefore, the minister thinks that it is appropriate to eat the grain, and make my Ming Dynasty's silver dollar coupon become the currency of the world as soon as possible."

"This way, even if there is a financial flash flood, there is a large enough place to discharge the flood."

After Wang Xijue said this, Guo Zhengyu said: "The growth is slowing down, and increasing the intensity of Wanghua is, but it is not necessary to eat grain, after all, the country cannot have no savings, otherwise it will not be enough to deal with the catastrophe." ”

"When there is a catastrophe, you can borrow again, and the small people still know how to borrow to survive the famine year in a famine, why doesn't the country know this?"

"What's more, if you don't eat the grain, you will have the desire to keep it, and you will be stuck with the status quo."

"Even if we increase the intensity of kingization, sooner or later we will take the initiative to reduce expenses because the income and expenditure cannot be offset, and then we will no longer be enterprising, and we only want to keep it, and even prefer to cut the land and abandon the land, rather than work hard to solve the accumulated shortcomings."

"Like curing a disease, I would rather cut off some rotten meat with one knife than use a cure to save this piece of meat and avoid rotten meat in other places."

"The same is true for the country, if you don't owe debts, it's easy to think about Gou An and forget the danger."

"Moreover, if the savings are not exhausted now, they will be exhausted in the future, and it is better to be depleted in the future than to be depleted now."

"In the future, when it is exhausted, the country will not be able to thrive again because of the heavy spirit of Gou An, and even the accumulation of disadvantages."

"Now that it is exhausted, it can still be because the whole country has an enterprising heart, and can always improve the royal industry, so that in the future, even if the descendants are not good, they will still breed the nature of laziness, and only want to keep it, and even prefer to abandon the land and abandon the people, but also to indulge in pleasure, at least there will be enough land to give up."

"Therefore, Your Majesty, the foolish minister thinks that it is not possible to sit idly by and ignore the convenience brought by the steam engine now, but only follow the step-by-step process, build a steam ship and build a steam train for a penny, and build a steam ship when it is needed, in this case, sooner or later, it will come to a standstill because of people's indulgence and dislike of hard work, so that thousands of years later, people in the world will still use steam engines!"

"Just like, the animal-powered car that appeared when the Three Emperors and Five Emperors appeared, because the ancients did not dare to eat grain, so that for thousands of years, it has been using animal-powered cars, until recent years, because the dynasty began to eat grain from the temple to continue to seriously lead to the continuous call for restructuring, so that His Majesty was also deeply affected by it, and then vigorously enterprising, so that the steam-powered car appeared, and finally changed the three-thousand-year-old predicament, and made the world unified, no longer limited to Kyushu in the Qin and Han dynasties, but all over the world!"

Wang Xijue's words silenced the minister.

Zhu Yijun also began to nod frequently, admitting that what Wang Xijue said was very reasonable, and the trend of reform in this dynasty was indeed because the Jiajing Dynasty's finances were in deficit every year, and then more and more scholars had to take the initiative to think about ways to change the law.

Zhang Juzheng is just a typical representative of this.

Zhu Yijun knew that he needed to make his own judgment at this time, and it was not appropriate to hesitate, so he said:

"I also believe that the unification of the world's currency is very important, as the so-called foundation of the world is in the people, and the foundation of the people is in wealth, without wealth, the people will be difficult to live, and the country will be difficult to establish; However, if the country has an appropriate deficit and is conducive to monetary unification, it should be implemented. ”

After Zhu Yijun said this, all the ministers were silent.

After a while.

Guo Zhengyu stood up and said, "Your Majesty! In the opinion of the foolish minister, Yuanfu's words are not for the future of the society, but for personal merit! Because he didn't want to lose to the first master and Shen Taifu in his deeds, he insisted on supporting Yin to eat grain, so that he could use more national funds to do more good things! ”

Officials don't want to toss the hard work, and now it's finally good, the world has prospered to the point that the treasury is growing every year, and you can live a peaceful life with nothing to worry about, so Wang Xijue's suggestion is indeed very unpopular, and it is inevitable that some ministers will continue to insist on opposing it.

Guo Zhengyu is just one of the representatives, a representative who dares to speak out.

"Why don't you just say it's a great achievement?"

Zhu Yijun asked him rhetorically at this time.

"Minister!"

Guo Zhengyu was speechless for a while.

Zhu Yijun said: "This proposal has been decided, there is no need to discuss it again, I really can't agree, you can resign and return to your hometown, so as not to be impeached in the future and say that you are secretly doing evil." ”

Guo Zhengyu couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this, and then silently said yes.

Next, Guo Zhengyu really wrote his resignation, and Xie Jie, the secretary of the school, found him and asked, "Gongzhen wants to resign?" ”

"Your Majesty has said so, if I stay here with a shy face, won't I be a person in love with power?"

Guo Zhengyu asked with a wry smile.

Xie Jie sighed and said: "But Gong has always been upright, and he should be a talent for the pavilion, but now he leaves the court early, it's a pity!" ”

"How can Your Majesty be temporarily dissatisfied with his views because of his official duties, and then make a decision to expel the virtuous."

Then, Xie Jie said again, and said to Guo Zhengyu:

"I mean to keep the public for the sake of the public, please don't resign first." (End of chapter)