The Emperor threw out a set of seemingly well-thought-out structures and ideas, and then it became a "painful" and "itchy" Q&A time for the counselors.

"Your Majesty, if this is the case, Guangdong's expenditure next year will reach hundreds of thousands of taels, where will the money come from?"

"Guangdong has set a tax in lieu of wages, plus the new official land added last year and this year, and there will be no danger in a few years after the tenant is leased."

“…… It's just that Your Majesty, the people of Guangdong may not be able to afford to increase the tenant rent, and the hidden households have not been clarified. ”

"The branch unites the rich and the poor, and the people are not bound by forced labor, and they can rent more. The rest can be rented by the emperor. ”

“…… Huang Mingji? ”

"I ordered Wei Bin to carry goods to sea, and when he returned to Hong Kong, he only brought three things: silver, people, and things that the Ming Dynasty had nothing."

Wang Qiong's scalp was very itchy, and she struggled to keep up with the rhythm: "Therefore, the emperor can make the people cultivate, and the local labor procurement is also borne by his people?" ”

"This is a detail that needs to be discussed. Huang Mingji can bear it, or the local commercial bank can bear it. The most important thing is that the common people do not need to bring their own dry food to serve in the agricultural slack, or they cannot get money for the big service. The local squires and wealthy families who have understood the new law can naturally understand that this law is faster than just escaping some slavery to make money. ”

The huge government procurement is a market of hundreds of thousands and nearly one million taels a year, and how much can they earn from the output of all the fields in Guangdong in a year? That's the total amount of land.

Not to mention the private market that has become active with it.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that most of the squires will wait and see at the beginning, so how can they establish their trust?"

"This matter is even less worrying, Huang Mingji is to let all the relatives participate together, and the Qing and other relatives have no partners in business before? This group of people knows where the word is. What's more, the Emperor Ming Ji Hai Trade Bank, the large number of vehicles and boats required for the transfer, the purchase and purchase, and the need for hired workers are a huge business. Zhu Houxi looked at them, "The Haimao Bank is going south with nearly three million taels of silver, and it turns around two or three times a year, so how huge are the business opportunities in Guangdong?" ”

“…… Your Majesty, in the future, other provinces will not have such input, and the effect will ......"

"Utility is first and foremost a rule. The people were able to concentrate more on their own land, the officials and gentry paid grain in one piece, and the fields were free of worries; Businesses and taxes are standardized, and the annual income of real silver increases, so the expenditure is flexible; Agriculture, business, and further education, from the bottom up, more people's efforts have a direction, and vitality will be revealed; From the imperial court to the localities, the etiquette and law are taught, and the rules and regulations are followed, and the officials and people in the world behave in an orderly manner. ”

Zhu Houxi paused for a moment and said, "This is also in line with heavenly reason. This person is not only an individual, but also a family and a country. Everyone wants to live a good life, if the current etiquette system only makes the gentry richer and richer, and the people are becoming more and more difficult, it is a lonely yin that does not grow, and the lonely yang does not last. Many of my thoughts about the new law stem from this. Its conformity with heavenly principles lies in the word circulation. People must circulate, money must circulate, and power must circulate. ”

The department uniformly converted silver, the officials and gentry paid grain and taxes in one piece, and the heavy pressure of the new law shrouded the counselors.

Guangdong has increased the number of officials and the remuneration of officials by a large amount, can it really carry out this reform? How will the other provinces react when they learn the true and complete nature of the new law?

Yang Tinghe glanced at Sun Jiao: Yuan Zonggao is gone, now you are the national abbot, do you persuade?

Sun Jiao didn't speak.

Yang Ting and Xinsai: Fei Hong, this old guy! The situation that there is still the old party in the imperial court has been rectified, and the emperor will always have leeway. If the new law is not implemented, it will mean that the new party will fall and there will be no place to bury.

Sun Jiao, the national abbot, sits firmly in Diaoyutai and helps the emperor control the overall situation.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that next year Guangdong will only open Enke, change the government office, and elect officials, and as for the enlistment, it will be placed in the year after tomorrow, right? Next year, the editorial and examination section will not be a big campaign first. If so, they will be purchased from Huang Ming Kee and local trading houses. It will take time for the new law to be indoctrinated, the gentry to be divided, and the continued use of litigation and punishment to deter and subdue the localities. Yang Tinghe still has to stick to the rhythm, "The most important thing, Your Majesty, the Beijing camp has not yet been completed, and the prince has not yet been born." ”

Sun Jiao didn't persuade him, so Yang Tinghe had to speak by himself.

He also hastened to assure: "The general outline of the new law has already been announced to the public, and the enslavement must be moved." Since it was Jiajing five years ago to observe the results, the minister thought that it would be more prudent to implement it step by step. Next year, the Guangdong government office will have a new look, the officials will use their lives, and the procurement and commercial taxation of various offices can also see one or two results; In the following year, the levy will be determined, and the officials and gentry will pay it as a whole, and then the prince will prosper and the capital camp will be established, and even if the rest of the provinces are frightened, they can only attack the ministers with more bullets. ”

Yang Tinghe had a bitter face: "Your Majesty, you will have to understand the difficulties of the ministers at that time." ”

The party leader begged for protection, and Zhu Houxi laughed: "Don't worry, I just want Qing and others to plan from the overall situation, don't flinch." I put forward these ideas, and the Qing and others should try to implement them as safely as possible, and Jiajing had a preliminary appearance five years ago. ”

Yang Tinghe breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Zhu Houxi looked at everyone again:

"In "University Derivation and Supplement", I read a sentence and thought it was quite true. Whatever the people want, the heavens will follow. Heaven with the power of the people of the world, the wealth of one person as the king, not selfish, will rely on it to govern, teach, and raise. ”

"Just as Taizu won the world, under the rule of Gayin Mengyuan, the people of China will always be slaves and miserable. Those who conform to the mandate of heaven and act on behalf of heaven need to conform to the principle of people who everyone wants to live in peace. If I can't make it possible for everyone in the world to live in peace, then the Ming Dynasty will become more and more contrary to human reason, and the destiny of heaven will eventually belong to others. If everyone in the world is to be able to live in peace, the law may need to be found in physics. ”

Zhu Houxi paused: "There are many people in the world who say that Qiu Gong is a demon, and he is also a slander for the Son of Heaven. He said: Although all things in the world are born in heaven and earth, they must be used by manpower. Its body is large and small, fine, and coarse, its power is shallow and deep, and its price is much. As for the thousands of dollars, its body is not big but fine, and it will not be achieved in one day. I deeply believe that this statement is full of the reason of things and people. ”

"The wealth of the world is not a fixed number, and the land and products of Damingtian are all numbered, but how the manpower is used in accordance with the physics, how the wealth of the world will increase or decrease. I will want to practice the new law, just because the Ming manpower has become increasingly bound to the land and forced labor, and many things in the world ignore it. Although this book cannot be fully believed, it can also be read and thought about by the Qing and other gist of the country, such as the understanding of Taoism, the identification of talents, the examination of the body, the observation of the people's feelings, the reverence for reverence, the abstinence from the desire for leisure, the prudence of words and deeds, the righteousness and prestige, the importance of the concubines, the strict internal governance, the determination of the country, and the teaching of relatives. ”

In the following paragraphs, the framework of the new Guangdong law is combined with the theories of heavenly principles, physics, and human principles, and the elderly study class encourages them to follow up.

This is also a discovery made by Zhu Houxi after being introduced in the Wanfa Museum, Qiu Jun's "University Yanyi Supplement" can indeed be called a "great rebellion" in this era, not only elaborating on the sensitive issue of the source of the monarch's legitimacy, but even putting forward the concept of "labor determines value".

Although Zhu Houxi will not adopt all of them, it does not prevent him from taking the valuable content to package his own theories of heavenly principles, physics, and human science.

Daming's problem today is actually involution.

There are too many official constraints, and everyone is mainly thinking about the fields, and the more daring merchants are heavily restricted, and the maritime trade merchants are even more prohibited. Obviously, there are probably more than 100 million people, and a small half of them have fled to "hidden households", with no identity, no dignity, and no future.

Zhu Houxi knew that there would be a lot of problems with the details of the new law, but that was something that his subordinates should help him think through.

There is only one general direction: to loosen the constraints first and release the productive forces from people.

Seeing that they were thoughtful, Zhu Houxi smiled and said: "This is an occasional gain, and you still need to think about it carefully." I don't need the gist of the new law and the essence of learning, I just need a rich and powerful master. ”

Seventeen counselors and two companions looked at him with mixed feelings.

Occasional gains...... Except for Wu Tingju, everyone else thought in their hearts: You have too many occasions, why do you often get something?

The emperor didn't want this reputation, he wanted these counselors to use his wisdom to pretend, to fold his halo, to gain fame.

But he wants to be effective.

Of course, the counselors don't dare to talk about any new academic discoveries outside now—they don't dare to grab this honor. When the emperor will officially disclose his knowledge and experience, I am afraid there will also be considerations.

Now it is just to reassure their hearts: the new law is not a random idea, and the new law is also in line with the teachings of the sages, and in line with the principles of heaven, physics, and man.

Therefore, changing the law is also part of their literary name.

The counselors did not spend a long time discussing the feasibility of this structure, because after the pattern was opened, it was already known that the expansion of Guangdong and the improvement of treatment would have a differentiated effect on the Guangdong gentry.

With the emperor clearly remembering his own purchases and the emperor borrowing the household department to purchase, Guangdong's financial pressure in a short period of time is really not great.

So the next step was quickly clear: institutional reform.

It is naturally welcome to have more official positions, and it is also very effective in dividing the resistance forces, and it is the basis for the next step to mobilize enslavement, start business, and collect business taxes.

Then there is a very clear question: who is responsible for going to Guangdong to promote the new law?

Sun Jiao asked: "Go to the minister." As soon as the queen's choice came out, the ministers were still in the cabinet, and they were probably criticized. Jiefu implemented the new law and vigorously reformed the government office in Guangdong, and the other provinces must have been in an uproar. The minister went to Guangdong, did not talk about the new law, and only supervised the commander to preach, which can be regarded as His Majesty's right to guard against the Jiefu monopoly in Guangdong. ”

Wu Dinh was numb: Started screenwriting again?

Zhu Houxi thought that this was indeed the reason, and the abbot and cabinet minister were indeed too eye-catching.

"That's how it was arranged. After the wedding, please go south. As for those who preach the new law, the Ministry of Officials can gather all the officials in Beijing who have been selected to take up their posts in Guangdong to study them first. There is still a need for a little more manpower, so let's transfer people from the Guozi Prison, and some people can also be selected from the Hanlin Academy. Zhu Houxi remembered something and introduced it to them with a smile, "As for propaganda, I sent Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, and Tang Yin to the south before. ”

The others looked at him in amazement, did this action make any sense?

"Since Yang Shen visited the gentry, the changes in Guangdong in the past few months have been recorded by the three of them. Zhang Fu played respectfully, and the poems and paintings of the three were exquisite, and they could be published. I have already approved it, and the three of them are afraid that the poetry and paintings are a bit profound, so Zhang Fujing asked painters and inkmen to write some easy-to-understand dissemination in Guangdong, all signed in the names of the three of them, and used one party to print privately. ”

Yang Ting and their mouths opened wide.

That's how Wu Zhongcaizi uses it? Isn't that worse than killing them?

Find some cats and dogs to write and draw, and let them sign them, and let so many people see them!

Zhu Houxi didn't care about their thoughts, and made the best use of them, at most to compensate: "Therefore, it will be easier to preach and educate." Chen Jin has already arrived in Guangdong, according to the inspector Wang Feng and the chief military officer Jiang Xiuyi, both with their lives, Zhang Fujing said that there is no new disaster, Guangdong only deals with people who plot rebellion, and there is no major event for the time being. I have ordered Wen Zhengming and the other three to bring the new Guangdong Keju into Beijing, and before the wedding ceremony, Qing and the others will prepare the new law to preach the matter of education. Next year, Guangdong will expand the number of hospitals, and recruit talents. ”

Let Guangdong readers first feel the temptation from the examination editor.

……

Yang Tinghe is becoming more and more unfamiliar to the Beijing officials, not only because of his "resolute" attitude, but also because of so many plans that make people feel "brain-opening".

Everyone knows that Guangdong wants to implement a new law, and the new law that Yang Tinghe said at the court meeting when His Majesty cut people last time was new enough, but I didn't expect it to be new to this extent now.

The organization was greatly reformed, and from the officials who were not in the stream but were on the staff, to the governor, there were nearly 10,000 officials in Guangdong Province alone, who were distributed by the imperial court and the local government.

This is nearly 10,000 officials on the basis of improved salaries!

Then, the New Party actually "borrowed" 400,000 taels of silver from His Majesty's internal funds!

This has not happened for a long time, and Emperor Zhengde has never lent money to Hubu to spend!

The strength of the new party was terrifying, and the lion opened his mouth, and His Majesty actually agreed.

But His Majesty is not fully supportive, the queen is the daughter of Sun Jiao, and after the news of this decision spread throughout the capital, I don't know how many people's jaws were shocked.

Your Majesty said that this year's draft is no longer just from ordinary people, but this queen's background is too terrifying, right?

Sun Jiao's imaginary bullet chapter has indeed arrived, and he does not say that His Majesty cannot make Sun Ming the queen, but that Sun Jiao is not suitable to be a cabinet minister.

All of them stayed in the center, and then they were appointed: Sun Jiao went to Guangdong to supervise and preach the new law, and was temporarily dispatched, just to take care of this matter, and did not conflict with the governor of Guangdong.

Checks and balances! It must be checks and balances!

We must also strengthen the country with a new law, and we must beware of Yang Tinghe constantly sitting big!

Everyone sometimes thinks of Yang Tinghe, feeling both admiration and pity.

After enduring it for so many years, it turned out to be a law-changing party, and the country of loyalty to the public body can be called a hundred years old. Is it for the temple, or for the conscience?

I don't know, I admire that he has thought about so many ideas in his head for so many years.

But pity him: Guangdong's approach has simply stretched the financial pressure to the extreme, and it wants to use the expansion to reduce the resistance.

I don't know if it can be done. But if it doesn't work, Yang Tinghe and the New Party will be finished, and the family will be punished.

Yang Tinghe's life seemed to be more and more intense, and every time he entered the palace and saw that a eunuch also began to practice the ten physical fitness techniques, he couldn't help but complain in his heart.

This is the secret method of the boudoir, what have you practiced for?

There is a lot of negative energy in his heart, thinking that the emperor asked him to pretend to be forced and busy, and the emperor himself was leisurely playing happily with the newly elected harem concubines in the palace, Yang Tinghe was wronged.

It was already a very leisurely old age.

Why didn't you learn Liang Chu and run away?

is also super tired of Wang Qiong: Guangdong's institutional reform, the most practical workload is in his ministry! With so many yamen, how so many officials and officials determine their names, products, and salaries, and how they are selected and pass examinations, we must first come up with a strategy as soon as possible.

"Just this time, if Guangdong's new law is successful, the rest of the provinces will draw gourds in the same way in the future." Wang Qiong summoned all the subordinate officials, "Elder Yang Ge said that those officials and officials who deal directly with the common people, their official names and powers must be simple and clear. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the upper and lower jurisdiction of the Criminal Department and the Criminal Division, the upper and lower jurisdiction of the Household Department and the Tax Division, and the upper and lower jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. It is also necessary to carefully ponder how to reorganize the original Prosecutorial Department into the Public Security Division. ”

The subordinate officials are bald: "...... Great Heavenly Official, can't you add some people to our ministry first? ”

"If you want to be promoted, if you want to add manpower to the ministry in the future, you should do a good job in Guangdong first!"

The subordinate officials slandered: The original imperial party of the Great Heavenly Officials contributed to the new party's power, and it was also so that His Majesty could rely on them to balance the new party, right?

After all, there was a stain on the original, and it was too unstable for the official position to be tied to His Majesty's thoughts, and a new existential value must be created.

If the new law is passed, will the new party be brought down with the world's complaints and enjoy its success?

Feeling as tired as Wang Qiong is also Dingguo Gong Xu Guangzuo.

All the way to Guangdong, my ass was about to be torn apart by the carriage, and I was seasick for a while.

After I went, I was a tool man.

Is it the authority to transfer the Hu Guangbing to the south is with Zhang Fujing. If he didn't turn over, Xu Guangzuo rested. After the transfer, Xu Guangzuo put on the façade.

Of course, it's not without effect.

Supporting the establishment of important ministers and lords to sit in Guangdong, the determination and deterrence of the imperial court are full.

But he didn't let him rest for a while, and hurriedly set off to rush back to Beijing - His Majesty's wedding, and he had to go to greet his relatives on behalf of His Majesty.

In three months, I went from Beijing to Guangdong, and from Guangdong back to Beijing, and the road was full of rapid marches! In a hurry!

Even if they are like Wen Zhengming, they will take a leisurely boat back to Beijing with Guangdong Xinkejuzi?

If I knew this, I might as well learn from Guo Xun to train the army!

The new imperial examination is funded by the government to take them to Beijing to take the examination, and Guangdong is a long way, so this subject simply starts early.

The three talented people are only born as Jinshi, Wen Zhengming doesn't even have the achievements of the middle school, and the three of them are not in the mood to deal with those new imperial examinations now.

"This offering, after arriving in Beijing, I thought of resigning!" Tang Yin said sadly, "Those paintings are like children's graffiti, how can I sign them, and leave that square seal!" I, Tang Bohu I, am famous...... Wen Guozhang, you must help me intercede! ”

Wen Zhengming's eyes were red: "I don't want to become a relative of the country after all." ”

“…… Although she is not a queen, she is also one of the two concubines, and I heard that she is going to give it to the earl. ”

Wen Zhengming didn't want to speak and glanced at Tang Yin helplessly, he was only worried about the safety of his baby daughter who was raised a little wild in the palace.

"Xizhe, why don't you speak?" Tang Yin had no choice but to find Zhu Yunming.

"You two have never been officials." Zhu Yunming was silent for a while, "I have been in Xingning County for a few years, but I actually came over in a daze. I think I was a parent official, and I also did some practical things in those years. In the past few months, I have never thought deeply about the hardships of the people. You are all unofficial, and you have always been free, and I have been an official for several years, but I have also planted some fields. Now I want to come ......"

The three of them were silent for a moment.

"After returning to Beijing, I would like to ask Your Majesty to print a collection of the publications written by the three of us. Zhengming, Bohu, Your Majesty used us and the other three correctly, we are really not officials. is fifty or sixty years old, and there are only a few thin names. The situation of Guangdong is the situation of the world, and it is a matter of accumulating merit to spread it in the name of us. In this life, in addition to poetry and paintings, there are always other things left. ”

The misery of the people was not what touched him.

It is Yang Shen's madness, Zhang Fujing's decisiveness, Gui Cao's shrewdness, and Huo Tao's sleekness...... He was touched by a multitude of real officials.

In the big drama before Guangdong, Zhu Yunming finally realized that he was not suitable to be an official.

But the emperor's intention of ordering the three of them to go south is now clear to them.

Tang Yin thought about it and laughed: "I'm afraid that it is a new law that will go down in history, do the three of us want to leave our names on it?" It's also a quick thing, Jingchanggu, but it's a pity that he went early. ”

Xu Zhenqing died early, and one of the four talents in Wu Zhong has gone, but now the remaining three have a different chance.

The emperor invited them to worship, but instead of letting them make court poems and statues for nobles, he traveled the world and recorded the world.

At this time, it is how difficult people like Zhang Fujing move forward, and how difficult the people are under natural and man-made disasters.

"So, do you and I have the day when we draw a picture of the prosperous world?" Tang Yin drank and asked again.

Zhu Yunming and Wen Zhengming didn't speak, and looked at the river outside the boat together.

Who can say for sure?

But who doesn't love prosperity?

(End of chapter)