Chapter 557 Coinage(1/2)
Zhu Xu didn't sleep for two hours, so he washed up and rubbed his face to the imperial study room. .
After listening to the whole process of Zhou Yingqiu meeting Zhu Youjian, he nodded thoughtfully and said, "Are you saying that the world's officials do not agree or understand the new policy enough?"
Zhou Yingqiu looked slightly and said in contemplation: "It shouldn't be that it's not enough, but that they are resistant and unwilling to accept it, so they are unwilling to understand. Even if there is encouragement from the court, they are unwilling to take another step."
Zhu Xu understood what Zhou Yingqiu said. His reform was very sudden. The entire Ming Dynasty was not mentally prepared. Now, when his thinking was fixed and even rigid, it would take a time process even if it was reasonable. What's more, this reform seemed very "radical".
"How is the government affairs class in the Royal Court?" Zhu Xu said.
Zhou Yingqiu said: "Because of repeated interruptions, it was not going well. In addition, the emperor intends to purify the lower-level officials. I plan to slow down the Beijing officials starting this year. Provincial officials will take turns to go to Beijing for training, and a temporary period of three months."
朱栩手指敲着桌面,思索着道:“在各省政院也准备开课吧,从省里的官员开始,过一阵子,府一级也可以开始,革新革新,到了革命思想的时候了.”
After several years of running-in, the new policy has become more and more perfect, and the curriculum and teaching team have become more and more mature. It is time to spread out.
Zhou Yingqiu thought for a moment and said, "Yes, the Ministry of Personnel has this plan. In addition, I also want the Ministry of Personnel to build a newspaper specifically for introducing the new policies and the government affairs of the Ministry of Personnel, and to help scholars all over the world."
Zhu Xu felt aroused in his heart and said with a smile: "This is a good idea. Let's do it. Each of the six ministries sets up a newspaper and named it after the six ministries. Then the Ministry of Rites will be handed over to the cabinet now."
Zhou Yingqiu was stunned for a moment and then said, "The emperor is wise and the newspaper in the cabinet. I believe it should be named: Jing Zheng Chaobao."
Zhu Xu looked at him and smiled, not pointing out his little thoughts. His fingers kept tapping on the table, and the crisp sound of horse hooves continued.
The Ming Dynasty is about to enter a new era, and public opinion orientation is very important. Now it is time to seize and control it.
Zhou Yingqiu looked at Zhu Xu, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Emperor, regarding the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture, I wonder if there is anyone in the emperor's mind?"
Zhu Xu's expression remained unchanged. Although Ruan Dacheng's incident happened suddenly, he had been doing talent reserves. After a change of thought, he said, "Shen is appointed as the Minister of Justice, and Chen Qiyu is appointed as the governor of Shuntian Prefecture."
Zhou Yingqiu raised his hand without any hesitation and said, "Abide by the order. I will interview the two masters with Eunuch Cao, Lord Bi, Lord Sun, and King Jing."
Zhu Xu nodded. These five people represented the Silijian, and it can also be said that they were the emperor, Bi Ziyan, Sun Chengzong was the cabinet, Zhou Yingqiu was the Ministry of Personnel, and King Jing was the governor.
"Well, you must be cautious when selecting and employing people. You must strictly check all aspects and not make any mistakes." Zhu Xu said. He is about to prepare to clean up the bottom layer and needs to maintain unity and stability of the top layer.
Zhou Yingqiu said: "Don't worry, after August last year, the third rank and above in Beijing will be touched every six months. The governors, governors, and political senators outside the Beijing also will be cleared once every six months. If there are any problems, they will be cleaned up in time."
Zhu Xu was very relieved. After taking a sip of tea, he said, "Political reform, do you have any other ideas?"
Zhou Yingqiu looked up at Zhu Xu, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said, "Master, now my Ming Dynasty's eyes are all focused on political reform. There are a lot of pressure and obstacles, which is not a good thing."
Zhu Xu paused his fingers slightly, and looked at him with a moving heart and said, "You mean... you need to find a way to divert your attention?"
Zhou Yingqiu raised his hand and said, "Yes, and it's the kind of short-term transfer that can quickly come back and forth and be controlled."
Zhu Xu knew it in his heart and said with a smile: "Okay, I know, I'll find a way. After you go back, you still have to complete the political reform as soon as possible. This is the top priority at present, and you must not slackew."
"I obey the order!" Zhou Yingqiu said.
Watching Zhou Yingqiu leave, Zhu Xu breathed a long sigh and said softly: "The pressure has been very high recently, and I have to find a way to relieve it..."
Although the Ming Dynasty had internal and external troubles, it was relatively stable.
Huang Taiji and Korqin are not able to hinder the border yet, and the civil unrest in the southwest is also controlled. Japan and China have closed their doors, and there are no Japanese pirates along the coast. The Netherlands, Spanish and Japanese threats can be handled safely. Annan is now in a separatist melee, and Burma is busy with the war of unity and has no time to invade the Ming Dynasty.
On the grassland, Zhu Xu's hand could not be so long, and the southwest provinces were stable. Japan's capital was a good choice, but the navy was not mature enough and was not sure. At sea, only Annan and Myanmar could do it.
Zhu Xu thought, and flipped up the memorial on his right hand.
For the Ming Dynasty, the continuous reform plan can be said to be changing with each passing day, but it can be implemented and affected the world in a very small way. It is one thing for the court to issue policies, and implementation and implementation are another thing.
The entire social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty actually did not change much.
Bi Ziyan and others have realized this problem. While improving political reform, they are constantly discussing and talking with governors from all over the country and participating in politics. They hope that they can seriously and deeply implement the imperial court's reform plan and promote the in-depth political reform.
Not long after Zhou Yingqiu returned, the cabinet and the six ministries began to prepare new newspapers.
The name is very interesting. In addition to the Jing Zhengchao report of the cabinet, the Ministry of Personnel is the "Ministry of Personnel Times", the Ministry of Works is the "Ministry of Works' newspaper", the Ministry of Rites is the "Ministry of Rites' newspaper", the Ministry of Justice is the "Ministry of Justice Case Report", the Ministry of Revenue is the "Ministry of Revenue News", the Ministry of War's "Ministry of War Border Report", and the Ministry of War's "Ministry of War Border Report".
They are all concise and easy to understand.
The eight newspapers began trial operation the next day, and the provinces were ordered to make changes.
These newspapers are free in the early stage and can be collected at will from vendors, stations, yamen and other places until they are finished.
In any case, the literate class of the Ming Dynasty was still very concerned about the government. These newspapers were often taken away in less than half an hour, and the "hunger marketing" prompted the discussion to be even more lively.
Yu Ya Palace.
Li Jieyu served sweet potato porridge for Zhu Xu, smiled and looked at the listless little Yongning and said, "Princess, what's wrong?"
The little guy's head hit the table, looked at Li Jieyu weakly, sighed, and said in an old tone: "The Empress Dowager is in a bad mood and always bullies others..."
Zhu Xu ignored this girl and picked up the steamed buns to eat.
Li Jieyu also served a bowl for Xiao Yongning, sat beside him and laughed softly, "The Empress is in a bad mood recently, so princess should not make trouble."
The little guy curled his lips, looked up at the bowl, picked up the chopsticks and said, "Uncle, can you change to something else? Every time I eat this, I have lost weight..."
"Sit up." Zhu Xu said, holding her ears.
"Ahhhh..." The little guy screamed a few times and sat up reluctantly.
Li Jieyu picked up a few dishes for Xiao Yongning and said, "Princess, these sweet potatoes are very delicious, and ordinary people in the capital like to eat them."
As a new economical and affordable staple food, sweet potatoes were quickly spread out in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, effectively suppressing grain prices, which also allowed Zhu Xu to purchase more strategic grain storage more easily.
The palace has always been frugal. This is not the first time a little guy eats it. He flips over with chopsticks for a while, turned his head and looked at Zhu Xu with his eyes wide open and asked, "Uncle Emperor, can I grow sweet potatoes?"
"Grow sweet potatoes?" Zhu Xu glanced at her, thought for a while, and smiled, "Yes, in the Imperial Garden, you can plant whatever you like."
The little guy responded in a depressed voice and started eating.
Zhu Xu ignored it. The little girl gave her three points of color and went to heaven. While eating, he was flipping through the meeting minutes of Bi Ziyan and others yesterday.
Zhou Yingqiu said that gentry banned the imperial examinations and business practices if they did not pay taxes, etc., which were very deterrent and easy to implement. However, this cannot be issued an open order, and can only be informed afterwards, forcing them to pay taxes honestly.
Xiao Yongning slowly squeezed the porridge, bit the sweet potato pieces lightly, blinked his big eyes, and quietly looked at Zhu Xu's side face from time to time.
Li Jieyu took all her small movements and smiled without saying a word.
"Uncle Emperor, are you going to leave the palace today?" Sure enough, the little guy couldn't help it. He turned his head to look at Zhu Xu, blinked his big eyes and pursed his lips, looking very well-behaved.
Zhu Xu continued to look at the meeting minutes and said lightly: "You ran over after you know, right?"
Xiao Yongning's little face changed and she laughed: "I heard it by accident. Uncle and Empress Dowager have always stared at them these days, and they don't even have time to rest. They want to go out of the palace to play..."
"No." Zhu Xu refused very simply.
Xiao Yongning pursed his mouth and wanted to cry.
Zhu Xu ignored it, it was time for this girl to take care of her.
The little girl immediately knew that this trick was useless, so she sat upright and said hummingly: "I don't let me go out to play, hum, I have a way to go out to play by myself..."
Zhu Xu took a few bites and said to Li Jieyu: "If you have nothing to do, go to the imperial sister-in-law to sit and chat. Also, you are responsible for escorting this girl to Cining Palace."
When Li Jieyu saw that Zhu Xu had such a bad appetite, he hurriedly said, "Yes, should the emperor eat more?"
Zhu Xu waved his hand, turned around and went out.
The little girl frowned at Zhu Xu's back and muttered, not knowing what she was talking about.
Zhu Xu left Yuzao Palace and came to the Imperial Study Room. After sitting down, he gave himself a cup of tea, and said, "What are the arrangements today?"
Cao Huachun held a text in his hand, opened his eyes and said, "Emperor, today you are going to meet Mr. Sun Ge and Mr. Bi Ge talk about political reform. Goodbye Lord Fu, and talk about the minting of coins and silver notes in the royal bank. He wants to summon Wei Liangqing and others to talk about the situation of several major commercial banks. The concubine and the empress dowager will host a banquet for the imperial concubine in Beijing. The emperor wants to take time to go over and take a look. You are going to summon the governor of the 18 provinces to talk about local military affairs... Emperor, do you want to sort the time?"
Zhu Xu took a sip of tea and said, "No, let me tell Master Bi and Ge Lao Sun to speed up the improvement of political reform and persuade everyone that these people cannot leave for a long time and must go back as soon as possible. You inform Fu Tao that I will leave the palace and go to Huitong Trading Company. I will talk to him on the way."
Last year, Zhu Xu asked Fu Tao and others to integrate their industries under his name. Now Huitong Trading Company has been divested and established a royal money house. The current Huitong Trading Company is a general term for Huiyun Shipping, Huimin Chamber of Commerce, etc.
Cao Huachun understood and said, "Yes, I will make arrangements now."
Zhu Xu glanced at the table, was stunned and picked it up.
This is a purple mark, a secret memo from the Jinyiwei.
Zhu Xu looked at the seal, carefully opened it, pulled out the letter paper, spread it on the table, and then took out a bottle of alum from the drawer and gently smeared it on it.
After a while, the handwriting on it appeared. Zhu Xu looked carefully and unconsciously the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.
This is a secret letter from the Jinyiwei from Japan. It says that the infighting in Japan is powerful. One of the generals was very powerful between the emperor and the warlords and warlords in various places. However, Japan. The disaster in China is also serious, and there are farmers who cannot eat everywhere. Japan, the court has strictly controlled them, and they are trapped on one island, and the population is not allowed to move.
Zhu Xu knew very well that the "little glacier" was not just coming to the Ming Dynasty, but on the grasslands and islands would be even more serious. He had issued a secret order to infiltrate Japan and China as soon as possible, lurking, and provoking civil wars, and now he is just waiting for the harvest.
This secret letter also called Japan. The book "is everywhere in gold" and has a sparse population.
Zhu Xu has an impression of this. Japan seems to be rich in gold. After years of civil strife and invasion of Korea, Korea and Japan, the current population is probably not much different from Annan. Japan, a island country, if it really wants to attack, it can be easily defeated from the sea.
"I don't know how the sea drawings are on the Navy?" Zhu Xu thoughtfully, picked up the teacup and took another sip.
After a while, Zhu Xu wrote a secret decree to the Jinyiwei, and then continued to read the memorials from all over the country.
“Huh?”
Zhu Xu looked at Qian Longxi's memorial and looked surprised. His memorial was called Jiang Su. He could accept 300,000 victims.
Zhu Xu had already let Bi Ziyan reveal the news, and this was the first local governor to express his willingness to accept it.
“三十万……”朱栩沉吟,现在的江.苏省,包含着后世的安.徽等不少地方,地域广大,最为发达,三十万,在朱栩看来还是太少了.
After thinking for a while, he left the memorial.
After watching for a while, calculating the time, Zhu Xu changed into plain clothes and walked out of the palace.
To be continued...