Guo Jin decided to be zero tolerance for selling private salt.

Guo Jin strongly demanded that this severe punishment measure be promoted to punish those who violate the law, so that they can know the majesty of the law, and that they should know the existence of the court and always be in awe in their hearts.

Guo Jin was not completely unconcerned about this decision.

So he went to Mount Tai to pay tribute to Guo Peng and asked Guo Peng about his opinion on such a large-scale punishment.

He was a little worried that Guo Peng would be dissatisfied with this approach.

But Guo Peng did not.

"What you said is actually right. In troubled times, people's survival is all a problem. The population is severe. Continuing to use severe punishment will only cause large-scale civil unrest, which will not be worth the loss. But now, it is no longer a troubled time.

In the thirteenth year of my rule over the world, the Wei Kingdom was stable, the people were stable, and they had accumulated a certain amount of wealth. If you continue to be tolerant at this time, when your son becomes the emperor, the local forces will rise.

Although Wen and Jing's governance was important, it gave Han Wu the confidence to attack the Huns in the north, but before Han Wu the northern expedition of the Huns, it had a fierce battle with the people of the world. If it weren't for his genius, the ancestors who ruled with Huang Lao's inaction would be difficult to be excited."

Guo Peng sat by the pond to enjoy the cool air, feeding fish while smiling and expressing his opinion.

After hearing this, Guo Jin felt very satisfied and decided to take this opportunity to attack the people and defeat some unrestrained forces for him.

At the same time, we will train and strengthen the execution ability of grassroots officials and let the local government move well.

After receiving Guo Peng's approval, Guo Jin was more confident. All officials were silent and did not dare to object. He honestly implemented Guo Jin's policies.

So the three departments formed a joint working group again, divided into several small teams and went to the local area, and began to work with the local Ministry of Justice to investigate and punish households who purchased private salt.

According to the list of information collected by Linziying, they accurately punished the households who bought private salt and went door to door to punish them, without missing any of them.

It is okay to not be able to pay a fine, but if you enjoy the tax reduction and exemption policy, you must cancel the enjoyment of this policy to offset the mistakes they have made.

This really made many people feel very painful, and they signed the guarantee letter, saying that they would never buy private salt again in the future. They also promised that if they found someone selling private salt, they would report to the government as soon as possible.

In this way, this wave of large-scale punishment has caused a huge response among the people, and the people are afraid and expressed that they dare not violate the ban again.

This crackdown has severely punished criminals, businessmen and private consumers. It can be said that the policy was implemented to the end and brought great deterrence to the survivors.

At the same time, the court once again announced that if anyone found selling private salt and reported to the government, once verified, he would be rewarded.

If there are random reports and attempts to defraud rewards, they will be punished as a crime and will be sued for prison.

After a series of big moves, all the civil and military officials in the court knew that the salt and iron monopoly was the emperor's red line and could not be touched. Once it was touched, the fate would definitely not be better.

After the officials of the Salt Affairs Department were viciously cleaned up, Guo Jin took away his original position as a doctor in the Salt Affairs Department, dismissed him and demoted him to a commoner, and then decided to re-appoint a capable official to manage the salt affairs and reorganize the local salt affairs system.

The Salt Affairs Department is one of the departments with low rank but huge organizational power in the central court. It is obvious that it is a department with abundant oil and water. Compared with those departments with little water, it is simply a position that many officials dream of.

However, after this wave of purge, the position of the Salt Affairs Department's position became a position that officials avoided, fearing that this position would interfere with their future and were very afraid.

After reviewing several officials, Guo Jin felt that it was not suitable, so he chose a few more. Suddenly he remembered Zhuge Liang, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance.

Guo Peng is quite optimistic about this person and thinks that this person can become his important arm and help.

That's the case.

Then let me organize the salt service for me and let me see if you have the ability first. Just a right assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance may not be enough to exert your abilities, right?

Guo Jin made a decision, so he quickly ordered Zhuge Liang, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance, to supervise the Salt Affairs Department. Before the Salt Affairs Department had a new doctor, he was in charge of the work of the Salt Affairs Department and sorted out a chaotic Salt Affairs Department.

So all the civil and military officials in the court looked at Zhuge Liang who had just entered the center.

Zhuge Liang was very generous in doing this job, supervising the work of the Salt Affairs Department - and in fact, he was completely responsible for the work of the Salt Affairs Department, and devoted his main energy to this aspect.

There was no way, Zhuge Liang was promoted by an exception and was directly promoted from his level to one of the main central officials.

The other two leaders of the Ministry of Finance, Lu Qian and Mao Jie, are both senior officials, with very profound qualifications and are not comparable to Zhuge Liang.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang could only help the two seniors in his position as the Right Minister of Finance.

However, he seemed quite contented. He did not feel overwhelmed in doing something that was not very important, nor did he feel that his position was not respected.

This mentality has gradually made Zhuge Liang gain some good reputation within the Ministry of Finance and has more friends.

Now that Zhuge Liang finally grasped the real power, he suddenly took over the Salt Affairs Department, who was nominally responsible to the Minister of Finance but was actually directly responsible to the emperor. It made people feel that Zhuge Liang was really in the heart of the emperor.

However, at this moment, no one is sure whether it is a good or a bad thing to master the work of the Salt Affairs Department.

If you usually master the salt department, you will naturally be rich and worthy of envy, but now...

A department that has just been cleaned will inevitably become the focus of everyone's attention for a period of time. It may not be so easy for Zhuge Liang to do something. Some people who want to get close to each other dare not get close to each other, for fear that Zhuge Liang will be the next unlucky person to be denounced.

They decided to wait and see.

But Guo Jin didn't focus all his energy on salt work.

He has a lot to do.

For example, monetary reform.

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He has wanted to complete the monetary reform for a long time. This is a political achievement that he can do under his leadership, and he really wants to accomplish it.

On the one hand, Guo Jin was paying attention to Zhuge Liang's work, and on the other hand, he began to prepare for the monetary reform in an effort to issue three currencies - gold coins, silver coins and copper coins in the next time.

Through years of trade accumulation and the huge amount of gold and silver excavated from the Japanese island, the Wei Empire began to have the ability to launch monetary reforms.

Previously, due to the severe lack of precious metals, the Wei Empire could only use copper-made Wuzhu coins as legal circulating currency, but the price of copper coins was low, and small business transactions were OK. When large business transactions were conducted, the amount of copper coins needed was not a simple matter of a few cents of coins.

This actually seriously restricts the development of commercial trade and is very inconvenient. Therefore, in private commercial transactions, valuable items such as Shu brocade are spontaneously used as large-scale transactions [alternative currency].

However, these alternative large currencies have the risk of depreciation, and they are likely to be intact when they get it, and will be damaged before the next transaction.

Once damaged, the interests of the merchant will be lost for no reason, and the problem is really big.

Therefore, the commercial trade of the Wei Empire has long been plagued by the problem of insufficient currency in large denominations, and taxes have never been increased, which is better than nothing.

Until the Western Regions trade routes were opened, the Wei Empire began to trade directly with Kushan and other countries. When they found that they used gold and silver currency to trade large amounts, they had the idea of ​​learning about their monetary reform.

After many years of accumulation of Guo Peng, he continued to absorb reserves of precious metals such as gold and silver from empires such as Kushan, Anxi and Rome to the accumulation of Japanese silver mines discovered during Guo Jin's reign, as well as the completion of the two major projects of Shu Road and Grand Canal...

So in the fifth year of Xingyuan, the time for the Wei Empire to carry out monetary reforms to promote further prosperity of commerce was already here.

In early August of the fifth year of Xingyuan, Emperor Guo Jin ordered the establishment of a Coin Department, which was affiliated with the administrative plan of the Ministry of Finance, and formed a monetary reform group to begin discussions and preparations for monetary reform.

The group members include the cabinet chief and the group assistant in charge of finance, some officials from the Ministry of Finance, Su Yuan, the head of the Neiting East Factory, and several other eunuchs in charge of money. Everyone made their own ideas and made decisions together.

The economy of the Wei Empire was also two teams, the cabinet centered on the treasury, the Ministry of Finance, and the Neiting East Factory team centered on the treasury.

The two teams sometimes cooperate and sometimes have things that are not inconsistent. It is common to have verbal battles, but overall it is still stable.

After Guo Jin ascended the throne, Dongchang Factory Mansion became increasingly vocal in the economic issues of the inner court. Not only was the mining affairs in the world under the management of Dongchang, but the two royal caravans were also handed over to Dongchang Management.

The Dongchang Factory Mansion is already the emperor’s own financial advisor.

Because he controls the financial management power of the inner court, the Dongchang Factory often comes forward as a representative of the inner court to negotiate issues with the imperial court, and he is a very powerful identity.

That is, when facing the cabinet chief with audit authority, he will feel a little upset...

But there are more than one person who will be in trouble with the Prime Minister of the Cabinet.

Su Yuan, the personal eunuch beside the Supreme Emperor Guo Peng, has obviously reached his own peak and has a high say in the financial level of the Wei Empire.

Some people in the court were also dissatisfied with this, thinking that this involved the issue of eunuchs interfering in politics, but as eunuchs who were accompanied by imperial power, the court officials had no choice but to deal with them.

Most people still agree with the matter of monetary reform, so Guo Jin successfully set up this reform group and prepared to plan a series of steps of monetary reform with this center to complete it as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!