Compared with today's cabinet, Guo Dan's biggest advantage is actually efficiency.

He was able to mobilize a large amount of funds, manpower and material resources quickly.

He said at the shareholders' meeting that he wanted to go south, and a large number of businessmen were willing to follow him.

For example, Qinzhuang and Chen Ping agreed to sell a large number of shares in Nanjing on the spot.

In fact, they all know that the purpose of Guo Dan doing this is to seek support from Nanzhili and Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and Yinuo coins are an iconic commodity. Once Nanzhili agrees to issue Yinuo coins, it is enough to prove that Nanzhili is turning against Weihui Mansion.

Moreover, once Nanzhili issues Yinuo coins, Yinuo coins will sweep the entire Jiangnan, which will be difficult for other places to resist.

Cabinet reform first requires strengthening the power of the cabinet, rather than implementing any policies, because if the power of the cabinet is not strengthened, nothing can be done.

However, Guo Dan’s current prestige was not something that he had overnight. I remember that at the beginning, when Guo Dan encountered difficulties, all the businessmen were neatly retreating and keeping a distance from Guo Dan.

But if you have cheap ones, you can get better, and if you have difficulties, Guo Dan will be ahead.

Guo Dan had no complaints about this and never forced them to advance and retreat with him. If there is any benefit, they will still be cheaper.

However, this crisis means that danger and opportunity coexist. Their retreat and Guo Dan's advance often lead to Guo Dan making a fortune alone, but they have to spend more money to buy shares later.

Over time, everyone gradually understood a truth, that is, they could only eat meat after following Guo Dan.

So everyone began to advance and retreat together.

As for the interests, Guo Dan now holds 80,000 taels of military pay, and there is so much business there. If he or she does follow, it may not be his turn.

Although the profit this year is not very good and many problems have been exposed, it is also very successful like in previous years.

And just as Guo Dan convened a shareholders' meeting, the cabinet was also holding a closed-door meeting.

Now it is their turn to chase them up so as not to be pulled further and further by Guo Dan.

The theme of this closed-door meeting was how to improve the examination method. With the strong support of Wanli, a large number of officials have turned to the cabinet. Although the reform of the six ministries is still in progress, in general, it is still relatively smooth.

But the method of examination is quite controversial, and they themselves have opposed it. Those court officials who support them hope to improve the method of examination, rather than the method of examination in the past.

If you take it out intact, you will inevitably face great opposition.

How to improve the examination method is crucial.

"The disadvantage of the examination method is that it ignores the actual situation and pursues political achievements too much, which leads to pressure from level to level downward, and eventually turns into cruel officials and cruel politics, which is all borne by the people, but it is counterproductive." Wang Jiaping said with a caress.

Xu Guo shook his head and said, "But if the officials are not strictly governed, how can we know who is a mediocre official and who is a wise minister? Since the implementation of the examination, it has broken the tradition of seniority and promoted many talents to the court."

Shen Shixing nodded and said, "This is the problem. If officials are not strictly governed, it will be difficult to reverse the current corrupt officialdom. In the end, it will be just a waste of time and meaningless. But if it is too strict, it will not only cause dissatisfaction among officials, but may also increase the burden on the people, and even repeat the same mistakes."

Wang Xijue said: "Now, among the prefectures across the country, only Guo Dan contracted the four prefectures in Henan, and paid full taxes every year and never owed a penny or a cent. If you want to be strict, the tax system of Weihui Prefecture is also the strictest.

From princes and nobles to peddlers and pawns, no one who owes taxes or evades a tax will not only pay a huge fine, but it is difficult for them to continue living in Weihui Mansion. However, from top to bottom, no one has a complaint. I think the key is reasonable. As long as the tax amount that the court can set is reasonable, then we have reason to strictly implement the examination method."

Chen Younian sighed: "But this is easy to say, but it is harder to do! When Zhang Juzheng set the tax amount, it seemed very reasonable, which reduced the burden on the people. However, the facts proved that this is actually unreasonable. The so-called reasonable tax amount is just a generalization and generalization."

Wang Xijue said: "Why can Guo Dan formulate a reasonable tax amount, but we can't do it?"

Wang Jiaping said: "This is because Guo Dan himself has an unparalleled talent for calculation. Not to mention looking at the court, no one in the world can compare with it."

Regarding Guo Dan’s talent in computing, everyone is convinced now. It’s really unacceptable. It seems like they are crushing.

The key imperial examinations also added another knowledge, which means that the court has given extremely high affirmation.

Wang Xijue smiled and said, "But Guo Dan uses this talent to make money, so Xinxing is created by him."

Shen Shixing asked, "What do you mean is to ask Xinxing to help the court calculate the tax amount?"

Wang Xijue nodded and said, "The cooperation between Chaoguan and Xinxing has proved that Xinxing has much stronger computing power than the imperial court."

Shen ***: "But Xinxing is a folk workshop after all, and the imperial tax system is a national event. This...?"

Wang Xijue said: "I think this private workshop is more trustworthy. This official has a direct relationship with the tax amount. If you collect more or less, you can benefit from it. However, the Xinchuan has nothing to do with the tax amount. They earn commissions, so they care about reputation. If you calculate the wrong account, it will seriously affect the Xinchuan's income."

When the cooperation between Chaoguan and Xinxing was Wang Xijue, Wang Xijue, was nominal leader. Because Guo Dan had no administrative power, no matter what he did, there must be a minister next to him. Wang Xijue knew very well how Chaoguan and Xinxing cooperated.

Logically speaking, the tariff should be more cautious for officials, but the fact is that the trust transaction is much more cautious than the currency, and the error rate is much lower than the currency. Every tariff has been intensively reviewed. Everyone has an account. Why do you spend money to calculate? You have to give me a reason, because they believe that the trust transaction will not calculate it wrong.

It is precisely because Xinxing Bank rarely calculates mistakes that it has its current status. Especially now that the scale of business is getting bigger and bigger, the wealthy businessmen hand over the accounts to Xinxing Bank to calculate, and they can no longer calculate their own accounts.

Xinxing is also the industry across the country, and it earns the most money by making purely brain power.

Shen Shixing nodded and said, "It makes sense, it is worth our consideration."

Xu Guodao: "But Xinxing can only calculate the tax amount. How to prevent local officials from forcing violent taxes to the people in order to seek political achievements?"

Wang Xijue said: "The supervision system that has been tested for law is still flawed, because the six subjects only assess the political achievements of officials. As for how these achievements are obtained, it is difficult to investigate one by one. Once the court formulates a reasonable tax system, then forcing the people to be levied violently is naturally an illegal act.

However, the taxation income is for officials and the trial is for officials, which is naturally inappropriate.

We also have to rely on the three-house system to prevent them from protecting each other, or the landlords colluded with officials to oppress the people, and then the six departments only need to supervise the three-house. Although our Central Plains dynasty has always had the saying that "officials follow politics and law, and the people follow private contracts", this is just an unwritten statement. The three-house system just turns this unwritten statement into a written system.

This civil unjust case is actually of no benefit to Your Majesty, the country, and you and me. It is just a cheaper black sheep. I suggest that the judiciary be divided into two, and the civil litigation will be handed over to the local three courts, and the officials will be handed over to the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple."

Chen Younian asked: "If an official has a dispute with the people, should he hand it over to the Third Court or the Ministry of Justice?"

Wang Xijue smiled and said, "The judges will eventually hand over to the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple."

Chen Younian immediately smiled and said, "You are like an extravagant move!"

"It's definitely not an unnecessary move."

Wang Xijue shook his head and said, "If the people have disputes with officials without the Third Court, there is no way to litigate. If there are Third Courts, the people can go to the Third Court to sue. Although it will be handed over to the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice in the end, who dares to take the blame for the world when the evidence is as strong as a mountain. If someone really does this, it will not be something you and I can stop it."

Wang Jiaping said curiously: "If it is really a mountain of iron evidence, why not just hand it over to the Third Court for trial? If there are any doubts, you can go to Dali Temple or the Ministry of Justice."

Wang Xijue said bluntly: "If the court can judge you and me, then who has the final say in the world? When Guo Dan built the system of the Three Courts in Weihui Prefecture, he first stated that the Three Courts had no right to judge the court's official orders."

Wang Jiaping was speechless.

This involves a problem: imperial power and judicial power, imperial power must be above judicial power. Otherwise, nine out of ten emperors would be beheaded. If the fate of an official is determined by the court, who will still be loyal to the emperor?

Wang Xijue suffered repeated setbacks in reforms before, but failure was the mother of success. Now he is also open-minded. His idea is to separate the people from officials and not pursue the emperor's crimes with the common people. It is impossible.

But water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. This sentence is correct. In fact, no emperor intends to be unable to get along with the people. It is also the core interest of the emperor, but some officials in the middle will not care about the emperor's interests or the people's interests.

The most shameless thing in Wanli was to force mining tax. The original intention was not to impose taxes on the people. The mining tax had something to do with merchants, but had nothing to do with the people. It was just that the operation lacked rationality. In addition, the eunuchs took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation, and the result was getting worse and worse.

Of course, Wanli knew this, but he also regarded it as if he had not seen it. He didn't care if the eunuch was beaten to death, but he just made money with shamelessness.

Wang Xijue's suggestion refers to this point. The problems between our officials and the powerful should be resolved internally. Anyway, there is not much justice to it. Only success or failure. Being fair is tantamount to deceiving oneself. However, in civil litigation, we must maintain the fairness of the law, which is also beneficial to our ruling class.

Simply put, how much money the people pay should be paid according to the rules and forced to pay more money. That is not possible. As for the money you pay, if you embezzle it, we will deal with it internally.

Shen Shixing smiled and said, "It seems you have made a lot of preparations!"

He obviously agreed with Wang Xijue's suggestion very much.
Chapter completed!