"Chen Tian Wenjing, bachelor of the cabinet, respectfully greets you."
"That's all.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
"Come, please give me a seat."
"Yes." Yan Lin, the general manager of Qianqing Palace, quickly brought a brocade stool for Tian Wenjing.
Tian Wenjing, who was born as a supervisor, is already over sixty years old and is only a fourth-grade cabinet scholar.
Who would have thought that less than ten days after the new king ascended the throne, he summoned Tian Wenjing alone and gave him a seat.
Tian Wenjing was so moved that tears filled his eyes, and he choked up and said: "I am so grateful for the grace of the emperor. I feel so deeply that I wish I could tie a grass ring..." and said a lot of words of gratitude.
Yuzhu looked at Tian Wenjing calmly. He knew better than anyone else that Tian Wenjing was a cruel official.
The old emperor didn't like cruel officials, so he never reused Tian Wenjing.
Now, Yuzhu wants to implement four reform measures in Jiangnan, namely, the gentry will work as errands to pay grain, share the land into acres, raise honest silver and return fire consumption to the public
Li Jiapo is also a family man, but Li Jiapo's high salary and integrity are also very successful.
In Lijiapo, it took decades to see an official who was corrupt and bribery, and this was what Yuzhu wanted.
"Yi Guang, I have just ascended the throne and am about to reform and refresh the government and economy. I wonder if you would be willing to help me?" Yuzhu was too busy and didn't bother to talk nonsense in circles.
Anyway, if Tian Wenjing dares to risk his life to carry out reforms, Yuzhu will promote him immediately.
If he wants to be cunning, then I'm sorry, he will go back to where he came from.
"I am willing to do my best to repay the emperor's kindness." Tian Wenjing is not stupid. Good luck is fleeting. If he doesn't catch it, he will be the biggest fool in the world.
"Well, you go to Suzhou and act as the chief envoy of Jiangsu. You must thoroughly sort out Jiangsu's economy." Yuzhu promoted Tian Wenjing unequivocally.
Tian Wenjing had been feeling aggrieved for most of his life, and finally gained the appreciation of the new king. The touching emotions in his heart burst out in an instant.
"Back to the Emperor, I am not afraid of swords, mountains of fire, seas of swords, or being cut to pieces by a thousand knives. Even if it is from the crevices of rocks, I will definitely squeeze out the oil." Tian Wenjing's words were extremely vulgar.
However, this is what Yuzhu wants.
"My lord...wuwuwu..." Seeing that Tian Wenjing was about to retire, he actually had a second political youth, and even fell down in front of the emperor and burst into tears.
Yuzhu wanted to set an example with Tian Wenjing, a cruel official, so naturally he would not treat him badly.
I saw Yuzhu stepping down from the throne, holding a big handkerchief in his own hand, and wiped away Tian Wenjing's tears.
Tian Wenjing was stunned on the spot, with his mouth wide open, completely at a loss.
Yuzhu simply did his best and helped Tian Wenjing wipe his old face clean.
"Why are you crying? I like you, a serious veteran. Now go to Jiangsu and go ahead. If you encounter any trouble, you can send it to Qianqing Palace in secret." Yuzhu is not afraid that Tian Wenjing will offend others, but is afraid that he will be timid. I don't dare to be cruel to the gentry in Jiangnan.
With Yuzhu's support, Tian Wenjing was originally a ruthless person, but now he really is not afraid of anything!
Before leaving, Yuzhu said solemnly: "Don't worry, I will never let you have a bad outcome."
"Yes." Tian Wenjing had wasted decades of time, and once he got the opportunity to express his ambition, he answered so loudly that even the guards standing at the entrance of the palace felt their ears numb.
After Tian Wenjing left, another old acquaintance came in.
"The doctor of the Ministry of Finance, my minister Li Wei, respectfully greets you!"
"Youjie, come on, sit here." Yuzhu pointed to the opposite side of the table above the Kang, and warmly greeted Li Wei to sit over.
The real Li Wei in history was from Tongshan, Xuzhou. His family owned thousands of hectares of fertile land, so he had money to donate to a foreign minister who could fill in any shortages.
You should know that in the former Qing Dynasty, officials with a background in donation usually had to wait for a long time and pay enough money before they could make up for the actual shortfall.
Li Wei's family had a lot of money, and within a month of donating his official position, he became an actual member of the Ministry of War.
Within two years, Li Wei was recommended by his superiors to become a doctor in the Ministry of Finance due to his merits, and was appreciated by his fourth son.
This created a miracle in the donation class!
After the fourth child became rebellious, Li Wei originally thought that a disaster was coming.
However, Yuzhu never cleared up Li Wei's serious crime of attaching himself to the fourth son.
Although Li Wei was not a Jinshi, he had read a lot of books. However, he was as smart as a fool and often pretended to be illiterate.
Since Yuzhu asked him to sit opposite, Li Wei did not hesitate and immediately sat opposite the emperor.
"Youjie, everything in the past has been wiped out. Let's start over." Yuzhu smiled and forgave Li Wei's sin of rebellion.
If you were an ordinary person, you would definitely kneel down and thank you.
However, Li Wei was not an ordinary person. He pondered for a moment and whispered: "Whatever the emperor asks me to do, I will do it."
This was extremely vulgar, but Yuzhu liked to hear the truth without exaggeration.
To forgive a serious crime, there must be some outstanding meritorious service, right?
Li Wei is a very sensible person.
Yuzhu said with a straight face: "The salt policy in Huaihe and Huaihe is getting worse and worse. In the early years of Kangxi in the former Qing Dynasty, more than 10 million taels of silver were handed over every year. However, last year, the Ministry of Revenue only collected 7 million taels.
Silver, it’s time to check.”
Li Wei understood instantly that Daqing really needed him.
Therefore, Li Wei said without hesitation: "If your Majesty uses me, and I dare to use the whole family's head as a guarantee, I will definitely investigate the salt affairs in Lianghuai River."
Yuzhu felt extremely satisfied. Talking to smart people made her feel enlightened!
"Well, you go to Zhejiang, act as the governor of Zhejiang and the salt transportation envoy to the two Zhejiang provinces, and organize the salt affairs for me."
As long as he talks about salt affairs, Yuzhu will get angry.
The salt business was monopolized by the court, but the money received by the court was deteriorating, while the salt officials and salt merchants were getting richer and richer.
In the past, these were the old emperor's money, and Yuzhu was too lazy to take care of them.
Now that the whole world belongs to Yuzhu, he will naturally kill a group of salt rats, confiscate their homes, castrate their cubs, and sell their wives and concubines.
In fact, as long as it is a government-run monopoly business, it has become the back garden of the great rats.
Basically, government-run monopoly businesses are often passed down from ancestor to descendant, descendant to grandson, and grandson to grandson, constantly harming the public and enriching private interests, and there is no end!
It is very common for a fat man to be passed down for five generations!
Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-corruption campaign may seem very relieving, but in fact, it is completely unsustainable.
Because the great upright official Hai Rui was not greedy or possessive, but he couldn't even afford meat.
There is only one Hai Rui, and there are at least 30,000 officials in the country.
Therefore, it is essential to maintain honest silver.
Of course, the high expenses of officials are inseparable from the grand ostentation of their travels.
This is an objective reality and must be acknowledged.
It costs a lot of money to raise four to eight sedan bearers, horses, coachmen, and honor guards.
Letting people who don't want to be greedy have the ability not to be greedy is the focus of anti-corruption!
Don't dare to be greedy, you can't be greedy, you don't want to be greedy, if you are greedy you will be caught, you can't be impatient, you can only do it slowly!
Li Wei had the ruffian air of a bachelor.
Yuzhu asked him to have lunch with him, but he ate three large bowls of rice without any courtesy, and also ate most of the vegetables.
Unlike the emperors of the former Qing Dynasty, Yuzhu's daily meals were actually very simple, with at most eight dishes and one soup, and usually six dishes and one soup.
Through Li Wei's vulgar behavior, Yu Zhu saw what Li Wei really wanted to express.
Since Yuzhu has put past the blame, Li Wei will go all out and dare to block people's way of making money regardless of his own life.
Since ancient times, the sale of illegal salt has been closely linked to sophisticated weapons and numerous party members.
Without severe violence, how can you dare to traffic in illegal salt in broad daylight?
Don’t forget, the Great Salt Owl Huangchao is the fighter jet among salt traders!
After Li Wei left, Ortai came in.
Ertai, whose surname was Xilin Jueluo and whose courtesy name was Yi'an, was born in Manchuria under the Xilan Banner. He was the son of Erbai, the former Imperial College of the Imperial Academy.
Yuzhu’s employment is completely different from Principal Chang’s who only uses people from Zhejiang.
As long as you are talented, Yuzhu will dare to use you, regardless of whether you are a Banner person or a Han person.
Why did the brick-based imperial power eventually lose to the republic?
The fundamental problem is that under the imperial power system, even if there are British rulers, most of them are mediocre rulers.
When a mediocre leader governs a country, he will inevitably reuse incompetent people, forming a vicious cycle of reverse elimination.
Those in power are all mediocre, and as time goes by, the country will no longer be able to survive.
The most obvious example is Emperor Daoguang in history.
Emperor Daoguang himself had no ability to govern the country, but he was afraid that his ministers would look down on him, so he always picked out the words in the memorials and deliberately made big fuss, which made him appear extremely petty.
After the two countries were destroyed in the Yuzhu War, the restoration of the Western Region and the Snow Region was put on the agenda.
The Ming Dynasty attacked Mongolia and conquered it, but could not occupy it, which was equivalent to a waste of national power.
Yuzhu's basic national policy for the Western Regions is mainly to immigrate to the border areas and cultivate half-soldiers and half-peasants to truly achieve self-sufficiency.
Of course, Yu Zhu was born later, so he must have more foresight than Zhu Chongba.
When Zhu Chongba established the military household reclamation system, he completely ignored the reality that the population of military households continued to increase and there was only so much land.
How to do it?
Yuzhu must have a solution.
If you want to place the green soldiers in the Western Regions to guard the border with peace of mind, you must solve their worries.
In addition to the permanent tax exemption, the imperial court was responsible for arranging errands for the extra people in the families of immigrants from the Western Regions.
The specific errands vary.
For example, police officers and sheriffs stationed in the colonies, land allocated to the colonies, etc.
The military households and vassal clans in the former Ming Dynasty, and the rest of the Eight Banners and the idle Han people in the former Qing Dynasty were not well resolved. Over time, they became difficult to return to.
Yuzhu is different. The major colonies in the vast Asia and Oceania are in their final window of occupation.
Talents are needed everywhere to occupy territory!
Think about it, the Philippine Islands, the Java Islands, the super-large island of Australia, the Indochina Peninsula, and the Indian Peninsula, what a vast territory?
If you’re not afraid of crowds, you’re just afraid that you won’t be able to go out and explore!