Zhu Qiyu stood up and summarized his thoughts:

"To restart the Western trade, we need to seize the silver mines, so that at least five million taels of silver can flow into the hands of the imperial court from overseas every year.

Then the imperial court got the silver, minted it into silver coins, and issued it throughout the country.

In this way, the imperial court has a reasonable right to mint money, which is neither directly robbed like the Ming treasure banknotes, nor does it have to stare dryly without a coinage system.

Then the silver coins went into the hands of the wealthy merchant gentry, and most of them were buried in the cellar and left untouched. If the silver coin is not in circulation, it is equivalent to being minted in vain.

Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the domestic commercial tax and let the goods circulate throughout the country. Let everyone have cheap goods to buy, so that silver and copper coins will be circulated with them, instead of being buried in the cellar and rusting.

Well, speaking of which, we still have to knock down Annan first.

If you want to fight Annam, you have to transfer Wang Ao, the governor of Liangguang, back to Nanjing, and change to a past that can fight.

Who's better? Now there is a serious shortage of important ministers in the imperial court. Xu Qi and Liu Zhongfu are both old, and they are almost dying, so it is impossible to make it possible to lose two more people next year.

There is no talent, dry staring, this emperor is really ridiculous.

It's ridiculous and sad, Emperor Gong and I are really a pair of poor worms: one is that I accidentally lay on the ground when I wiped the butt of the Emperor Xuanmiao, and the other is that I was about to faint when I wiped the butt of the Emperor Xuanmiao.

Oh, not to mention that I forgot, I still have to build a batch of firearms and armor, and give them to the Champa and Lancang kingdoms for nothing, which is still a lot of money. I'll have to talk to the Shangshu waiters in the Ministry of Works. ”

Several favorite concubines stared at Zhu Qiyu in a daze and muttered to themselves for a long time.

Zhu Qiyu was embarrassed, so he had to wave his hand: "Disperse, I'll go out to find someone to play chess." In addition, you will urge me again, so that the hundred officials can come up with an opinion on the selection, Jingcha, and the plan as soon as possible. ”

But before noon, the hundred officials received the emperor's approval.

The imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six departments of the department took action one after another.

However, the focus of the officials is on matters involving the interests of all officials, such as the selection, the Beijing inspection, and the grand plan.

As for the emperor to abolish the seven banknotes on the Grand Canal, how to say it, from the founding of Taizu to Xuande four years ago, there was no banknote on the Grand Canal, and the Ming Dynasty lived well.

So it's really not particularly important whether there are these seven banknotes or not.

Moreover, the southern officials in the imperial court accounted for the majority, and these southern officials were inextricably linked with the local wealthy merchants, and even many of their own families were in business.

The emperor abolished the banknote customs and reduced the merchant tax, which was a measure that benefited the entire merchant class. If the southern officials want to oppose this, it can only be said that there must be something serious in everyone's mind.

As for the excessively high commercial tax in Beijing, it is purely that the former household secretary Jin Lian deliberately pit the emperor. Jin Lian applied to the emperor for an additional commercial tax on the grounds that the country was troubled after the civil fort.

Then, in practice, the household department and the Shuncheonfu joined forces to set the commercial tax far beyond the orthodox period, almost five times as much as before.

Jin Lian was a close confidant of Emperor Gongrang, and when he saw that the new emperor didn't understand, he deliberately made a stumbling block.

Jin Lian thought that the emperor was weak and could be bullied, but in fact, for Zhu Qiyu, killing one chicken is killing, and killing two chickens is also killing. Although Jin Lian has died of illness, there are many ways to settle accounts after the autumn.

Gong let the emperor's loyal ministers always jump out next to each other, so it's no wonder that the emperor is ruthless.

However, these are all small sections, and the selection, Jingcha, and big plan are the interests of the civil and military officials.

For civil officials in Beijing who are above the third grade, they are certainly unwilling to resume the election and replace the guarantee system.

For middle- and lower-level civil officials, they don't want Jingcha and big plans.

For a whole day, hundreds of civil and military officials were in a panic, and they were all discussing this matter.

When it was almost evening, all the officials began to write a recital, expressing their opinions. After writing the notebook, hand it in, and then go home.

Early the next morning, when Zhu Qiyu got up and looked, there was no recital in the room today.

Zhu Qiyu asked curiously, "What about the playbook?" What's going on today? ”

Qianxue smiled: "You can go to Fengge to see it yourself, there are too many playbooks, and you can't take them back." ”

Zhu Qiyu was helpless, had breakfast, and came to Fengge.

As soon as he entered the door, he met He Yi's eyes full of resentment. Zhu Qiyu asked a little embarrassedly, "Is it so serious?" Did I poke a hornet's nest? ”

He Yi replied: "Because the Holy Lord has already let out the wind, he wants to resume the election, and carry out the Jingcha and the Great Plan this year." Therefore, the hundred officials have been brewing for a long time, and yesterday the saint officially raised this issue, so didn't the hundred officials all write to offer advice. ”

"What did they say?"

He Yi replied: "First of all, the election, the officials of the ministry naturally support the resumption of the election without exception. Most of the others are in favor of the selection and promotion in parallel, and support the continuation of the qualifications of officials in Beijing who are above the third grade. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "This is normal, it is all human nature." What about Jingcha and the big plan? ”

He Yi replied: "There are very many people who oppose it, accounting for the majority. As for the reason for the opposition, if the Jingcha and the general plan were to be carried out in a concentrated manner, there would be thousands, or even tens of thousands, of Beijing officials and local officials.

Those officials in the Ministry of Officials, facing thousands of people, I am afraid that they may not even be able to understand them. It is really too childish to want to determine the political achievements of an official through a few documents.

And such an assessment will only make officials more eager for quick success. For example, if more attention is paid to the amount of taxes levied, officials will focus on tax collection.

As for water control, river repair, flood control, and disaster relief, which the imperial court did not attach much importance to, officials naturally had no incentive to pay attention to it. ”

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Actually, what they said makes sense." To govern the localities, it is still necessary to give the local officials a more relaxed atmosphere and greater autonomy.

He who knows about taxation all day long, that's a cool official. doesn't care about anything, just messes around, that's a mediocre official.

How can we urge these thousands of local officials to not only do their best for the country, but also for the benefit of the people, is a big problem.

What do they say about commercial taxes and banknotes? ”

He Yi smiled: "No one cares about abolishing the banknotes. As for the high commercial tax in the capital, the household department has already given a reply, it is Xu Jing in the household department Langzhong and Liu Shi in the Shuntian Mansion, who are responsible for resetting the tax amount after receiving the order of the imperial court at that time.

At that time, these officials overestimated prices, so the taxes were too heavy.

The former head of the household department, Jin Lian, did not have time to consider it, and immediately ordered it to be carried out.

The opinion of the household department is to punish Xu Jing and Liu Shi. ”

Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly: "Push the responsibility to a Shuntian Mansion to govern the middle school, what about Fu Yin?" What about Fucheng? All pretend not to know, right?

Shuntian Mansion Yin, Fu Cheng, Zhizhong, Hubu Langzhong Xu Jing was dismissed from office for the crime of dereliction of duty.

The late Jin Lian, the head of the household department, was guilty of bullying the king, and he should have been punished by the clan, remembering that he had contributed to the country, and he had died, and he pursued all the court gifts, cut off the title, and degraded his son to the people. ”

"Isn't this a bit of a heavy punishment?"

"What's important, he has bullied the king, and it is not bad if he didn't kill his whole family. The key is that he is not once, I ordered the reduction of taxes in the provinces, and he even disobeyed the yang and yin, I don't know, I just ignored him before.

He disobeys everything I say, such a loyal minister, it is really unflattering. ”

……

However, it was said that Xu Youzhen came to the Ministry of Industry early in the morning, and just arrived in the lobby to have a sip of tea, but saw another Ministry of Industry Shangshu Zhou Chen appear in the lobby of the Ministry of Industry very rarely.

Xu Youzhen asked curiously, "Duke Zhou, why are you here?" ”

Zhou Chen happily fiddled with the dozen silver coins and copper coins on the table, and said with a smile: "I am also the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, shouldn't I appear in the lobby of the Ministry of Industry?" ”

(End of chapter)