What Zhu Yihai said was upright and true, but it was not complete.
For Zhu Yihai, this temporary position will be a powerful weapon to control the government. If anyone is not suitable or even hinders him, then let him take the temporary position and adjust his position.
Even if someone has a serious problem, you can first transfer him on a temporary basis, and then you can investigate him more easily.
Just like in later generations, when people are sent to school to study first, they are transferred to study first, and then they can investigate and obtain enough evidence, and then they can be directly controlled by both parties.
There is no need for a court staff, decapitation or exile, which is too fierce a struggle. It will be convenient after having this thing.
If the struggle is too fierce and involves using the imperial staff, cutting off status, etc., it will actually become ugly and may even easily lead to loss of control. This is also a sign of insufficient control.
Of course, this set of temporary posts can be used not only by civil servants, but can also be used appropriately in the army. Combined with the new set of temporary exchanges and the mobility of officers in various towns, the self-esteem of the generals can be weakened as much as possible.
The threat of warlordism.
Taking temporary posts, borrowing posts, cooperating with official assessments, and then Ding You, if you do more training and study in Beijing, it will greatly enhance the emperor's ability to control the officials in the court.
Officers in the army can be transferred to the martial arts hall or military academy in the capital to study and further their training. They can be transferred out of their original town. They can even be transferred to other units after training.
The same can be done for civil servants, such as opening a class in the Imperial College and transferring some officials to Beijing to study, or after officials pass the exam, instead of directly filling the vacancies, regardless of whether there is a vacancy or not, let them first go to Beijing to study in a class.
It will take half a year from March to May, and then the vacancy can be filled.
If there is no shortage, then continue studying in the class when there is no shortage.
To put it bluntly, it is control.
Chen Zilong is a giant in social restoration, and he is also the leader in the current resurgence of party struggle. Zhu Yihai wants him to go to Guangxi as chief secretary to participate in politics on the grounds that although he is a minister, he has insufficient experience in local government in the past.
Qian Qianyi took the initiative to express his willingness to participate in politics and serve as deputy envoy, but Zhu Yihai did not approve it. People such as Hong Chengchou, Qian Qianyi and Liu Zongzhou include upright ministers and some who surrendered to the captives anyway. For example, Hong Chengchou is the kind who is really more versatile.
He is capable of both literary and military skills and has rich experience in central areas.
Qian Qianyi and Liu Zongzhou are actually the kind of clean officials who only serve in the capital. It is not bad to be an official, but not suitable for other jobs.
Zhu Yihai also intended to keep them as spokespersons and responsible for supervising this area.
It's better to make achievements than to make mistakes. In fact, there is more need for such lonely ministers who have been isolated.
For relatively young and talented officials such as Chen Zilong and Mao Pijiang, Zhu Yihai still hopes to reform them instead of beating them to death. In the face of their wrong behavior, he must not only correct them but also give them opportunities to help them.
Whether they can accept it or not is also a test for them. If they just give up on themselves, then such people are not worth reusing.
The group of bachelors summoned today are undoubtedly those who have experienced long-term struggles in the court. There are many senators from four dynasties and three dynasties, and even great bachelors from several dynasties.
But sitting in the cabin, less than an hour later, they seemed to have forgotten what they had come for.
Jiang Dejing, a fellow of Zheng Zhilong, who served as the 66th chief minister of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, was not a member of the Donglin Party. His ancestor, Jiang Wang, was from Fengyang, Anhui. He followed Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in revolting against the Yuan Dynasty. He fought for more than thirty years and was named a
Wujie General Xiaoqiwei was hereditary to supervise thousands of households in Fuquan. After that, eleven generations of the Jiang family inherited the hereditary post of supervising thousands of households.
His father, Jiang Yan, was born as a Jinshi and held the positions of Deputy Envoy to Jiangxi and Chief Secretary of Guangdong.
Although he was not Donglin, many Donglin officials were recruited through his strong recommendation. Chen Zizhuang, Ni Yuanlu, Gu Xichou and Wen Anzhi were all recommended by him. Huang Daozhou was hired and Liu Zongzhou was exonerated. He also contributed the most.
He is not Donglin. He is now co-organizer of the cabinet and a bachelor. He has a high reputation as the Crown Prince Shaobao and is co-organizer of machine maintenance. Recently, he has been recuperating in Beijing due to illness. He heard the emperor's speech in the Imperial Academy and said that Donglin was to be cleaned up. He also heard that the emperor was going to demote him to a thousand officials.
, came here regardless of his leg ailment, prepared to advise the emperor on how to revitalize the party before the ZTE was completed.
Who would have thought that after hearing countless words of advice from the emperor for a long time, it turned out to be completely different.
Chiang, who served as Chongzhen's chief minister, was good at managing finances and military affairs, and was loyal to the imperial court. He was also concerned about the world and caring for the people. This is why he came to Tokyo after already retiring in his hometown in Fujian.
Jiang Bagong, who was in his fifties, was a Jinshi in the same ranking as Zhang Guowei, and they were also similar in age.
In the 17th year of Chongzhen's reign, he resigned as chief assistant and lived in the Fujian Guild Hall outside the city. Zhang Guowei, the Minister of War, left the capital and went south on the order. Soon after, the army broke through the capital and Chiang left the capital and returned to his hometown. Hongguangli was summoned to the cabinet, and he confessed his three crimes and refused to resign.
It was not until Zhu Yihai later summoned him that he and his fellow countrymen Huang Jingfang, He Wuchu and others were summoned to the court.
Although Jiang was a relatively capable minister in the late Ming Dynasty, he deeply felt the sense of powerlessness during the Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties. He was trapped in party disputes and the monarch was jealous. He had nowhere to use his strength and could only watch the situation deteriorate day by day.
, which makes people feel exhausted.
However, after being recruited into the court by Emperor Shaotian, although he was only a co-organizer of the bachelor's degree, he could feel the completely different vitality of the Shaotian court, especially the kind of unity with the outside world that made him often lament Zhang Guowei and others.
The situation in the DPRK was not easy to come by, so before he came today, he had made up his mind to learn from Wei Zheng and admonish the emperor. Even if he was demoted then, he would not care if he was demoted to be a county magistrate.
But who would have thought, it would be such a result.
It's surprising, but it's impossible to refute.
Although he also felt that this seemed a bit too magical, he was not in a hurry to refute it.
Because even though I had only been in Beijing for a year, I could feel the many differences between the Shaotian Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty, and most of these differences were brought about by the emperor.
I remember that when he was still the chief minister, the imperial court was troubled internally and externally and had no money.
Ni Yuanlu, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and a member of the Ministry of Photographers, was a great calligrapher and the elder of Donglin. He and Huang Daozhou were both disciples of Yuan Keli.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But although Ni Yuanlu was in charge of two departments of household officials, he did not know much about finance. He was ill and sought medical treatment. He recommended a wizard to the emperor, Jiang, the secretary of the household department.
minister.
Jiang Chen proposed to the emperor a wise way to make money, which was to print treasure banknotes and issue 30 million banknotes every year. The price was always one tael of silver. The court also had to legislate it. If the people did not use it, it would be considered illegal.
He told Chongzhen that the usual cost of printing treasure banknotes was only five cents of silver, so the more he printed, the more money he would make. Within five years, all the gold and silver in the world would be returned to internal funds.
There is no deposit, so treasure banknotes are printed out of thin air and people are forced to exchange them for use.
Chongzhen actually thought that Ni Yuanlu, Jiang Chen and others' method was a good strategy to save the country, so he actually promoted Jiang Chen to head of the Ministry of Household Affairs and began to study and implement the plan.
Later, Wang Aoyong, the right minister of Hubu who took the lead in surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, knew that this method would not work, but deliberately followed Chongzhen and made even more shocking remarks.
He said that it was perfectly possible to print 50 million yuan of banknotes every year, and then the government abolished gold and silver and made gold and silver the same price as soil.
In addition to printing 50 million to support soldiers and fight, each province can also directly give 1 million to local officials at all levels to maintain integrity. It can even print money not only to support soldiers and fight, but also to provide relief to the victims of disasters.
Officials receive salary increases to support their integrity.
The king's words were actually the same as when Yuan Chonghuan deceived Chongzhen into pacifying the Liao Dynasty for five years. They were all about comforting the Holy Heart, that is, following the emperor's wishes, playing tricks on him.
Wang Yong'ao's 50 million banknote plan was approved by Chongzhen, which can be said to have the Midas touch.
Not only is there no reserve for printing banknotes, but the currency status of gold, silver and copper coins is even abolished.
Jiang Dejing couldn't stand it any longer. At the Baochao meeting in Chongzhen, he directly asked the emperor: Although the people are stupid, who is willing to buy a piece of paper with one gold?
It was like the emperor's new clothes. Everyone pretended to be dumbfounded and said they saw the emperor's new clothes, but only Jiang Dejing stood up.
In order to oppose the emperor's insistence on going his own way, he also deliberately posted a poster to compare the similarities and differences between the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in promoting treasure banknotes, and warned the emperor not to act recklessly. His poster was publicly copied, hoping to arouse a response from the government and the public, but at the time, no one paid attention to it.
The imperial court officially promoted treasure banknotes, but no banknote dealer dared to apply. Because they were worried that the imperial court would use treasure banknotes in exchange for their goods, all the shops in the capital closed down.
Desperate, Chiang had no choice but to resign, and Chongzhen refused to hold on, and even wanted to punish him, believing that Chiang was deliberately trying to undermine him.
They still insist on issuing treasure banknotes, replacing the salaries of officials with treasure banknotes, requiring citizens to exchange gold and silver, and stipulating that only treasure banknotes are allowed in land and house transactions.
Only three months later, Bao Chao was still a piece of waste paper, but King Chuang had already broken into Beijing.
After Jiang left Beijing, he refused Prince Fu of Nanjing's call to join the cabinet and returned to his hometown.
Not long after Jiang Dejing came to his hometown, he saw the silver coins and exchange certificates issued by the Shaotian Dynasty. Compared with Chongzhen's whimsical treasure banknotes, although the silver coins of the Shaotian Dynasty were not pure silver, their fineness was still very high, especially the exquisite production. Their exchange
A coupon is also a piece of banknote paper, but it does not print money in vain.
It is just an exchange coupon, which can be exchanged for money at any time, especially when paying taxes.
By now, Jiang Dejing has already adapted to Shaotian's Dragon Silver. He is even accustomed to using exchange coupons and rarely carries Dragon Silver with him. The Dragon Silver is exquisitely made and the exchange coupons have strong credit, so he has never had any exchange problems.
Comparing the treasure banknotes of the Chongzhen Dynasty with the white coins of Chongzhen Tongbao that become thinner and thinner as they are cast, the silver coins of the Shaotian Dynasty, even the semicircle, the silver coins of 20 cents, the copper coins worth ten to five, and the Shaotian Tongbao, etc., all are
It is extremely popular in the market and its currency value is stable.
After Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, he recorded that he had confiscated 37 million ingots from the stockpile, and all the ingots were Wu Boliang. This was not obtained by robbing hundreds of officials, but from the stockpile.
This data has caused a lot of problems. In fact, these are not real money, but treasure banknotes that Chongzhen insisted on printing before his demise, and his final madness.
As a result, it was all backlogged in the banknote bank, which was basically a pile of waste paper.
The use of ingots for the Ming Dynasty's treasure banknotes began with Zhu Yuanzhang. From the eighth year of Hongwu's reign, for twenty-four years, an average of 5.15 million ingots of treasure banknotes were issued every year.
Chongzhen copied 37 million ingots from his treasury, which was at most the circulation of a few years during the Hongwu period, and one ingot of 500 taels was just their stupid and crazy failed money-grabbing plan.
I remember that Zhu Yuanzhang issued excessive amounts of money in excess, and forcibly stipulated that treasure banknotes should always be equal to one tael of silver, one thousand copper coins, four guan banknotes equal to one tael of gold, and were worth one meter and one stone.
But in fact, no matter how stupid the people are, they don't want to be cut off by the court like this.
Therefore, in the 30th year of Hongwu, one tael of silver could buy four stones of rice, but it cost ten guan with treasure banknotes. The treasure banknotes had actually depreciated ten times in value.
Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to give in and forcibly issued an edict, requiring the people to ban gold and silver transactions. They must use treasure banknotes. Financial taxes can be paid, but they must use gold, silver, copper, grain, cloth and other physical objects, as well as vegetable fields, fruit trees, warehouses, donkey carts, etc.
The purpose of collecting taxes is to speed up the return of treasure money.
But by the ninth year of Zhengtong, one stone of rice already cost one hundred guan. By the Zhengde period, the treasure notes were completely turned into waste paper.
The five hundred taels of treasure banknotes in the Chongzhen warehouse also show that even those who print banknotes know very well how much purchasing power these papers have, so they did not print one tael of treasure banknotes, just five hundred taels of treasure banknotes.
Two tablets each.
Five hundred taels per ingot, but still can't be exchanged for one tael of silver. Thirty-seven million ingots were printed, worth more than 18 billion. Even if you press one ingot to exchange for one tael, these more than 37 million ingots
, it’s worth at least more than thirty million taels.
Chongzhen planned to issue 50 million taels of banknotes a year, which matched the inventory of 37 million ingots.
Five hundred taels of ingots, which is a piece of treasure money, was intended to be used as one or two, but in the end it was useless and turned into waste paper. It deceived the kings of Chuang, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, etc. for nothing, and in the end they had to be tortured angrily.
The princes and ministers who looted Beijing made up for some losses.
The Shao Tian Dynasty had copper coins worth ten to five to two, but they were heavier than ordinary coins, with more copper and even silver mixed in. Therefore, the gold and silver value contained in them was basically equivalent to their face value, and it was not an open robbery.
common people.
The same is true for silver dollars and silver horns.
Exchange coupons are just exchange coupons for money, not banknotes without credit at all.
Jiang Dejing had experienced Chongzhen's crazy treasure banknote plan, and had become accustomed to the silver coins and exchange coupons of the Shaotian Dynasty in recent years, so from this matter, he knew the difference between Emperor Shaotian and Chongzhen very clearly.
Now that Zhu Yihai's temporary job plan came out, Jiang Dejing relaxed his mind.
He believed that the emperor must have deeper meanings, but as long as the emperor was not as dazed as Chongzhen, there was no need to worry too much.
Some officials in the Ming Dynasty did lack experience, especially those in charge of finance, taxation, military, administration, etc. Although many officials came from the imperial examinations, they did not have enough experience even if they were ministers or bachelors.
For example, Ni Yuanlu was recognized as a talented man, but he was also the elder of Donglin. He held a household and two official posts, but he still believed in stupid things like printing treasure banknotes to save the country. To put it bluntly, Ni Yuanlu was good at calligraphy, but he was not good at practicing pragmatism and even party fighting.
You are a good player, but you really need specific administrative skills.
This was also a common problem among the Donglin Party members in the past, and even among most civil servants of the Ming Dynasty.
The emperor's temporary post plan is quite good.
Thinking of this, he stood up.
"I think that your Majesty's method of temporarily suspending his position is very consistent with the current situation of the imperial court. I highly praise it and I firmly support it!"
"To govern a country, you must first govern the officials. You must not only select loyal and virtuous people, but also truly cultivate and experience the real ability to do things. Empty talk will only harm the country.
I usually stand up and talk about my heart, but when I am in danger, I die to repay the king. I have missed so many things for the country. We must change!"
"Please start from now on, from the fourth year of Shaotian!
I also request that I be transferred to a temporary position, and that a province be allowed to participate in politics and have a good experience!" Jiang Dejing said, and his excited voice even rose a few degrees.
