Zhu Gaochi was said to be a rice bucket, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also magnanimous, and he and Xu Jingchang are not angry, just watching from the side.

But gradually, Zhu Gaochi discovered that something was wrong, obviously he was Xu Jingchang's cousin, why did this kid get together with the Huang family, but like a family?

What the hell is this?

And looking at it like this, Xu Jingchang suddenly didn't realize it...... This kid is too sluggish, isn't he?

Zhu Gaochi's eyes rolled wildly, and he wanted to speak, but he knew that Huang saw his eyes and smiled slightly, "His Royal Highness the Prince, the ministers have received the grace of His Majesty, received forgiveness, and were promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. ”

Faced with the question, Zhu Gaochi was stunned for a moment.

From the bottom of his heart, he was naturally willing to pardon the ministers of Jianwen and turn the page of the Battle of Jingjing as soon as possible, but he was afraid and worried that it would cause his father's displeasure, so Zhu Gaochi was stunned.

"This matter, this matter is still up to the father!"

As soon as his words fell, Xu Jingchang stuffed sweet dates into the zongzi and said with a smile: "Since Your Majesty is willing to promote Huang Liushou, it means that Your Majesty intends to promote Jianwen's old ministers...... The key now is not His Majesty's mind, but what the Duke of Jianwen thinks of this matter. ”

Huang looked at Xu Jingchang and said with a smile: "Dingguo Gong, what do you think?" ”

Xu Jingchang said: "Huang Liushou, this is not an obvious matter, Jianwen is an old minister, everyone must pass the test." At least the big guy has to go through everything, especially about Emperor Jianwen's violation of the ancestral system and the overthrow of the Taizu law, and he must show up and explain it clearly...... It would be better for everyone to write a booklet, and they will make it clear that His Majesty will be gracious and pardoned. If I don't make this matter clear, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to pass. ”

Huang Guan pondered for a while, and then said: "Dingguo Gong, it is also right for you to say this, but these people are still serving hard labor everywhere, even if they have the heart, they are afraid that they don't know!" Do you think this is okay, when the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, I will send them some zongzi over, and by the way, probe the wind? ”

Xu Jingchang thought for a moment, "Otherwise, I'll go with Liushou, but I still ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to say hello to Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Gaochi said: "Cousin, you are still so leaky, I will bring this words, but why do you want to wrap some zongzi for us?" ”

"You guys? Who are they? ”

Zhu Gaochi snorted: "Good guy, in order to help you talk about matchmaking, the queen mother invited so many people into the palace, you didn't fancy any of them, so you have to be grateful for the queen mother's affection!" Also, where did you get those rewards in your palace? The second child also paid the money, I can understand it now, the second child is your money bag, he is simply wronged. ”

Xu Jingchang was stunned for a moment, "What is the wrongs of King Han?" You don't know how much money he got from me? ”

Zhu Gaochi was also stunned, "The second child entered the palace a few days ago, and cried poverty with his father, saying that he ran an industry, knitted silk, and paid for the goods, and was in a very difficult situation, so he was looking forward to going to the West!" ”

Xu Jingchang sneered, "You, you're just too stupid, King Han reported the account of the workshop, you ask him about his own account!" This bastard, if he doesn't have 10 million taels of silver now, he will let me eat zongzi to death! ”

Zhu Gaochi was so shocked that his face changed, "In this way, my father is short of money, so I can take care of my second brother!" ”

"You can't ask for money...... You can borrow, in addition to him, there is also your third child, originally I was too lazy to deal with him, but he instigated the palace to report and bet on my affairs, which is unbearable. I'll give you a list when I go back, and you can arrest people directly according to the map, and you can copy out at least one or two hundred thousand taels. ”

Zhu Gaochi nodded again and again, "Okay, I'll do it when I go back, it's time to let the second and third children have some blood." ”

At this time, Weng suddenly laughed, "Listen to the meaning of Dingguo Gong, you know everything?" ”

Without waiting for Xu Jingchang to reply, Zhu Gaochi shouted: "I remember that some time ago, Jian Tianguan's son asked his cousin, saying that my father said that you know everything, and my cousin immediately shook his head, what is the matter." But as far as I know, your own father is not a heavenly official. ”

The four members of the Huang family were stunned for a while, and they all laughed, and the two daughters couldn't help but turn their heads and smile like flowers.

Xu Jingchang was anxious, "His Royal Highness the Prince, you can't arrange me like this, the last version of this story was about Xia Shangshu." ”

Zhu Gaochi smiled: "You can change anyone, anyway, that's what it means, you Dingguo Gong's hands and eyes are all over the sky...... However, I can't find my daughter-in-law, which is really funny! Hahaha! ”

Zhu Gaochi easily seized the opportunity and made fun of Xu Jingchang, he swept the two girls of the Huang family with the corner of his eyes, with a slender body and delicate facial features, the eldest daughter has completely grown up, and when she turns her head sideways, she can see a slender neck, a typical Jiangnan girl. As the daughter of Huang Liushou, her talent is definitely not bad.

is especially rare, my cousin and Huang Guan can still talk and laugh, and get along well, which is obviously the best choice.

It's just that he is desperately trying to lead in this direction, but Xu Jingchang always doesn't go to the road, which is really worrying.

"Whoever said I couldn't find it, I'll let Jinyiwei go out when I turn around and see whose girl is beautiful, and I'll come to the door to propose."

"You're proposing a marriage, huh? It's clearly a kiss! Zhu Gaochi deliberately turned to Mrs. Weng and said with a smile: "You have to hide the two daughters, don't let your cousin target you!" ”

Weng Shi smiled faintly, "Didn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say that Dingguo Gong's hands and eyes are all over the sky, and he even knows whether the child is his own or not, where can we hide?" ”

While speaking, the eyes of several people fell on Xu Jingchang's body, but this one still shook his head, patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, I won't harm my neighbors, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors!" ”

Zhu Gaochi's face is dark, you can't be a lazy rabbit! Do you have to break the words?

At this time, Huang Guan suddenly smiled, "Don't say something that you don't have, hurry up and cook zongzi, and I'll go with Dingguo Gong to send them to those old friends." ”

Weng happily agreed and took his two daughters down.

They left, there were only three men left, and Zhu Gaochi was going to order a little cousin, who knew that Xu Jingchang would soon forget about it, and he chatted directly with Huang Guan.

"I said Huang Liushou, what do you think of Pingzhangyuan?"

Huang Guan said: "Pingzhang Yuan has won the trust of the Son of Heaven, and Dingguo Gong and Young Master Yao are the most trusted and relied on by His Majesty. ”

"No!" Xu Jingchang waved his hand decisively, "Huang Liushou is wrong. ”

"What's wrong?"

"The mistake is how to evaluate the authority of a yamen...... Now there are only two people in Heizhangyuan, the old bald ...... The monk is still sick all day long, and I am the only one left, how much power can I have? If you want the yamen to be decent, you must have enough officials and a sufficient budget, and the big yamen is more majestic than the small yamen. Those with more budgets have cards than those with less budgets. ”

Xu Jingchang talked eloquently, and did not shy away from Zhu Gaochi, and Huang Guan secretly sighed, the relationship between Xu Jingchang and the prince is really unusual!

Huang Guan smiled quietly: "This means that Dingguo Gong is going to add people to his yamen?" ”

Xu Jingchang smiled and nodded, "That's right, I have already calculated, the Pingzhang Academy will have a budget of more than 500,000 taels, and there will be more than 3,000 officials, and the annual budget will exceed 2 million ......."

"You're crazy!"

Zhu Gaochi said unceremoniously: "Cousin, are you confused that you can't find a daughter-in-law?" There are not 3,000 officials in Beijing! You want to get everyone to your Heishoin? Again, you say you have a budget of 500,000 yuan, and you want to spend 2 million, where are you going to get the money? Aren't you talking nonsense? ”

Xu Jingchang smiled faintly, "I said Your Highness, I have been in the General Administration Department for a year, and I am a professional when it comes to wasting national funds and people's wealth!" ”

"Then I'd like to hear how you're going to spend your money?" Zhu Gao laughed angrily.

Xu Jingchang said: "First of all, I want to arrange people to go down to comprehensively assess the grain output of various places, including staple grains, but also rapeseed, sesame, and mulberry cotton. Accordingly, accurate and reliable food security reports are issued. ”

Zhu Gaochi was stunned, "I've heard you say this, isn't this the fish scale book and the yellow book of the household?" ”

"Of course not." Xu Jingchang said: "The fish scale book and the yellow book are too rough, I need to find out how much farmland there is, how many people there are, how many hidden households, how much grain production is in various places, how much inventory is, how much can be transported out in a disaster year, and how much can I increase production in a good harvest year......

Zhu Gaochi was dumbfounded, "You, what are you doing here?" ”

"How easy! Only by calculating these things can I reasonably assess how much land can be used to grow mulberry trees and cotton each year. Will there be a shortage of food, whether it will be transported domestically or purchased from overseas...... Your Highness, don't you think that when you go to the West to trade, you just make money by selling silk, right? No, you think that money is so easy to earn? ”

This questioning, not to mention Zhu Gaochi, even Huang Guan was dumbfounded.

"Dingguo Gong, can you elaborate on it?"

Xu Jingchang said: "Whether it is silk or cotton cloth, it will crowd out farmland and affect grain production. Moreover, those who can produce silk are all wealthy merchants, and these people will not lack food to eat, even if the local harvest is lost, they will have a way to get it...... After all, as long as you sell something, it will fall into the hands of the person who pays for it! ”

Such a lofty argument really made Huang Guan refreshed, he couldn't help but lean forward, and said curiously: "What does Dingguo Gong mean?" ”

"Your Majesty has long set a strategy for going to the West, and we have made a lot of preparations in order to enrich the treasury. But if we can't think more things through, the food crisis will be resolved. When we really trade on a large scale and the treasury revenue skyrockets, it will be the day of chaos and smoke everywhere! It's better not to change, if you don't change it well, there will be endless troubles! ”

If you don't change it well, there will be endless troubles!

These words were like a knife, which was slammed into Huang Guan's heart, and he seemed to understand something...... The Jianwen New Deal, which they had high hopes for back then, now looks like a joke.

In the later years of Hongwu, due to the 30 years of peace, the number of people grew, and the problem of land annexation had already appeared, and the military households at the border gates also began to flee, taxes fell, and the vassal kings were powerful...... Zhu Yunwen is considered to be a prosperous era, but it is also full of crises and turbulent undercurrents.

Faced with this complicated situation, Zhu Yunwen, an intern, prescribed the most clumsy prescription, and he focused on cutting the feudal domain.

Within a month, five uncles were killed.

In order to suppress the authority of the founding fathers, the official system was reformed, and the status of civil officials was frantically improved.

He also listened to the views of Fang Xiaoru and others, and hoped to solve the problem of land annexation by restoring the well field.

These three pairs of magic drugs went down, and the pain and revenge of relatives were perfectly realized, and the one that should be hit was not hit, and the one that should not be hit was not hit.

Like the vassal king, it is necessary to deal with it, but it also has to be relied on, after all, it is the Zhu family, and it is the best to slowly figure it out.

As for the founding nobles, these people themselves have almost withered, so there is no need to kill them all. On the contrary, some people can also be promoted to alleviate the sequelae of the killing of heroes during the Hongwu period.

After these two parties are stabilized, they will find ways to deal with local finances and taxes, curb the powerful and powerful, and win the hearts and minds of the people.

Idada's set will definitely not work, but it is not difficult to find a way to increase finance and taxation and rectify the rule of officials.

It took three or five years to sit firmly on the dragon chair, and then to cut the domain, it was not easy to capture.

The result is good, the direction is completely wrong, and the contradiction between primary and secondary is also reversed...... You use civil officials to suppress Haoqiang, fight against mergers, and there are no other forces staring at you, isn't this a fate of wood begging for fish, asking Yu Blind?

As long as you sell something, it will fall into the hands of the person who pays for it.

By extension, as long as you reform, the benefits will fall into the hands of those in power.

Who is in power at the local level?

It goes without saying!

The nobles of the clan who can restrain civil officials were pushed to the opposite side by Zhu Yunwen himself...... At this level, there is no one.

Huang Guan and Zhu Gaochi both had to admit that as long as they didn't talk about family affairs, Xu Jingchang's vision was invincible.

"There is so much grain for the time being, and the rest, the rule of officials, the education of the people, the situation of overseas countries, and the mineral deposits of mountains, rivers and rivers...... Even the condition of the treasure banknotes, the situation of the Di Bao, the situation of the weavers after the establishment of large workshops...... If you don't know anything, you will become a threat in the future...... Arrange dozens of people to check each one, and then write a report, and a few thousand people in Pingzhangyuan is not a few, right? And with this information, I can publish an authoritative assessment...... For example, Annan or Waguo, which country has a better business environment and greater potential? I'll polish it casually, and the money will come. ”

Zhu Gaochi's whole person was not good, "Brother Xian, you are playing with Pingzhangyuan again!" ”

Xu Jingchang said lightly: "I'm just talking about it, whether it can be done or not, and how many people can be brought in?" He glanced at Huang Guan.

Huang Guan smiled helplessly, "When it comes to governing the country indiscriminately, no one knows better than us, the old ministers of Jianwen...... If Dingguo Gong does not dislike it, he can persuade them to come out and do things. ”

"Then there are six songs."

At this time, the mother and daughter of the Huang family came up with steaming rice dumplings. When they went, Xu Jingchang was teased, and when they came back, only Xu Jingchang was left with a big appetite, Zhu Gaochi and Huang Guan, all of whom bowed their heads and pondered, and were shocked!

(End of chapter)