Perhaps when they were outside, the ministers on duty in the imperial study were all very kind and did not speak excessively to each other.
But in this royal study, especially in the inner hall, there are no other people, so it is generally too lazy to maintain a false public image.
Anyway, the people present are all old acquaintances, and they are all old acquaintances of comparable status. Who doesn’t know anyone’s details?
Smiling on the surface is useless, as soon as someone turns around, they can stab you!
Everyone is playing politics, and they get tired after playing too much. Naturally, they are too lazy to bother in front of the enemy. Pretending is of no use anyway.
But even so, the attitude of these people in front of Chen Lifu is a bit abnormal. Even if they are not enthusiastic, there is no need to ignore him on the same front!
Chen Lifu was not an idiot. After thinking about it for a while, he roughly guessed what he was willing to do. It might be related to the coupon he handed over yesterday.
This secret is not a secret. Anyone who wants to know can still find out, and Chen Lifu has no intention of hiding it. Making the secret public means that he is ready to take on the consequences of this matter.
But what he didn't expect was that all eight ministers on duty would object to this.
Chen Lifu asked himself that each of the three suggestions he put forward was beneficial to the country and the people, and the only ones whose interests were harmed were the gentry and businessmen.
Among the ministers on duty, there were several who supported reform. For example, Xie Yiwei was a well-known reformist at the top of the empire and often supported some reform plans.
But today it seems that even Xie Yiwei maintains his opposition to his plan.
Seeing this scene, Chen Lifu smiled and then said nothing!
We are all ministers on duty, and there is no need to please anyone else. As long as the Holy Emperor Li Xuan continues to use him, even if the other eight ministers on duty oppose him, they will not be able to do anything to him.
This gathering, ostensibly to welcome new colleagues, became an overt political statement.
Chen Lifu seemed to be isolated by Gu, but Chen Lifu didn't care. In fact, there was no need to care.
He was originally in charge of economic development affairs, and the three suggestions he put forward were his own work, and no one else could interfere.
After going to the office assigned to him on the second floor, Chen Lifu did not stay long and quickly left the Imperial Study Room to go to the Commercial Department.
In addition to being the minister on duty in the imperial study room, he is also the minister of the Ministry of Commerce. He also has to handle a lot of affairs of the Ministry of Commerce. In addition, he has recently had to go to the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Transportation and other departments for inspections.
After Chen Lifu left, several ministers on duty once again gathered in the inner hall on the first floor. The minister on duty, the deputy envoy to the Privy Council, and Army General Deng Xide looked unhappy and said to Xie Yiwei: "Why can't you just calm down?
Why do we have nothing to do every day? My army officers are fighting in the northwest and overseas, are they going to be stabbed in the back?"
Xie Yiwei chuckled: "We didn't bother!"
Deng Xide stood up and walked out: "I don't care about the other things, but the military merits of the soldiers must not be affected, otherwise, the millions of soldiers in our army will not agree!"
Seeing Deng Xide stand up and leave, Xie Yiwei's face darkened: "He still has the nerve to say that this military merit field is a disaster. Each of them owns hundreds or even thousands of acres of military merit fields, and they are all granted in prosperous places. For a long time,
Sooner or later something will go wrong!"
Jia Wenbo said with a smile: "He's just a reckless man. Don't worry about it. The agricultural tax is just a trivial matter. But if the minimum wage and limited working hours are really implemented, the consequences will be disastrous!"
Xie Yiwei glanced at him and said: "Limiting working hours and minimum wages is feasible, but you can't do it too hastily. You have to take it slow and lower the standards by a factor or two, otherwise the impact will be too great!"
Jia Wenbo chuckled: "Others don't know, maybe you don't know that although some industries are now very profitable, the textile industry, which provides a large number of jobs, is not as high as in previous years, and many textile companies are just struggling.
Just struggling.
Once this is done, a large number of textile companies will be unable to survive. Once the textile companies are destroyed, it will not only affect the textile workers, but also tens of millions of cotton farmers, silkworm farmers, and herdsmen behind them!"
Xie Yiwei snorted coldly: "Don't we just stop doing it?"
Jia Wenbo said: "It's not that we won't do it, it's just that the time has not yet come. Now the empire's industry and commerce are in the initial stage of development. I have always said that we should take our time, upgrade the industry first, and let the companies make money before we can engage in these things.
It's a good thing for you now, the chickens haven't even been raised yet, so you want to kill them to get the eggs."
Xie Yiwei said: "If you had visited the Shanghai Industrial Zone, you would not say this. Many people work hard, but they still cannot support their families. The ratio of female workers to child workers is getting bigger year by year. This is terrible.
Not a good thing!"
Jia Wenbo said: "Everyone knows what happened, but I still say that you can't act too hastily. If you are seriously ill, giving strong medicine will kill you!"
While these two people were talking, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy next to them also came downstairs, glanced at them, and left without saying a word.
The successive bachelors of the Hanlin Academy have never liked to get involved in these things. In the past, expressing an attitude in the inner hall was already the limit.
Chen Lifu didn't know about the affairs of the Hanlin Academy, and he had no interest in knowing. He knew why those people opposed him and why they rejected him.
It's nothing more than his three suggestions that have affected the interests of these people.
In the decades since the establishment of the empire, with the rise of the empire, a new group of powerful people have also emerged, and they will naturally maintain their own interests.
But, will Chen Lifu give in?
Of course not, he will never give in!
When he was working in the tax department, he was known as Chen Rentu.
Although he restrained himself a lot when he was in charge of the local government and gave people a conservative feeling, he was never a conservative!
Others may have misconceptions about this, but Chen Lifu himself has always been very clear about what he wants!
What he wants is a peaceful and prosperous age, and what he wants is eternal fame!
If you don't make some earth-shattering achievements, how can you step on Liu Bagou and other founding fathers to become the number one minister of the Xuan Ping Dynasty, and become a celebrity through the ages!
In the next few days, the political arena of the Tang Empire was still calm. This huge empire had been established for more than thirty years and had a complete set of operating rules. Unless something big happened, it would be very peaceful.
But half a month after Chen Lifu took office, the empire's political arena could no longer maintain calm.
Half a month after taking office, Chen Lifu officially submitted the agricultural tax reform plan to Emperor Sheng!
The Holy Emperor stayed in the middle but did not make a move!