"What should I do, my beloved?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
Liu Hongxun said with shame: "I am ignorant and I don't have a good strategy yet."
Zhu Youxiao said: "If I want to solve or improve these problems through you, are you willing to even pay your life for it?"
Liu Hongxun thought to himself that he was already over sixty years old and had been in the officialdom for almost twenty years. Didn't he just wait until now? Life or death no longer mattered, so he stood up and said: "I am willing to die for the country."
"Now we are formulating a decree to grant Liu Aiqing a bachelor's degree in Wenyuan Pavilion and join the cabinet. After Bi Ziyan, he will be directly admitted to the political hall to participate in confidential matters!"
Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered.
"I obey the decree!"
Yuan Keli and Liu Hongxun replied.
Next, Zhu Youxiao began to interview other ministers. Basically, he was satisfied, but not many were really satisfied.
Except for Liu Hongxun and Zhu Xieyuan who entered the political affairs hall, the others were just additional cabinet ministers and privy council ministers. They were only in charge of internal affairs or military affairs and did not participate in military decision-making.
Zhu Youxiao has further subdivided the responsibilities of the ministers in the Privy Council responsible for military affairs and the cabinet responsible for internal affairs.
For example, ministers in the cabinet will be responsible for certain types of affairs. Each ministry only needs to discuss and report to the ministers in charge of its own affairs, instead of directly facing the emperor.
The emperor did not have so much time to directly deal with the government affairs of various ministries.
After all, Zhu Youxiao is not Zhu Yuanzhang, he doesn't like work that much.
Moreover, now that the great danger of Donglu has been eliminated, Zhu Youxiao's sense of crisis has completely disappeared. As long as he, the emperor, does not act recklessly, the country's subjugation has nothing to do with him.
In addition, as a time traveler, he does not have such a strong idea of family world.
He didn't want to die from exhaustion for the sake of his descendants' inheritance for generations to come.
What's more, Ming Dynasty has entered the steam age.
Therefore, he has relaxed a lot now and is not under as much pressure as before, so he wants to take some time off and increase the number of officials in charge so that he can feel more relaxed.
Of course, this does not mean that Zhu Youxiao plans to muddle along.
He knew that there were still many systems in Ming Dynasty that needed to be reformed.
There are also many restless external forces that need to be suppressed.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao has no plans to really live a retired life.
However, he wants to retreat more behind the scenes, hold the military and financial power and the power of officials in his hands, and rent out the power to manage internal affairs, allowing a group of officials who dare to do things to continue to carry out internal affairs reform for him. Charge into battle.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao first changed the system of tingtui to make the appointment of important ministers as consistent with his intentions as possible.
Nowadays, there are various forces within the Ming Dynasty, which is extremely complicated.
Needless to say, there are princes, nobles, country gentry and officials.
This is because Zhu Youxiao relied on government-run industry and commerce to increase a large amount of national treasury and internal revenue, and also solved the problem of a large number of refugees by encouraging and supporting the development of industry and commerce.
Therefore, the number of workers in Ming Dynasty is very large now.
Moreover, thanks to Zhu Youxue's vigorous social studies education, in the tenth year of the Apocalypse, there are many educated workers' children.
In addition, the number of merchants is also much greater than before.
Also, the number of standing armies increased.
The number of official schools of the Yulin Guards and the Yong Guards has reached over 200,000.
The number of Jin Yiwei has also reached more than 150,000.
Not to mention Dongchang, the number of Dongchang anti-corruption departments across the country plus the comprehensive stores is no less than 100,000.
There is also the West Factory, which is responsible for collecting taxes.
Commercial taxes and customs duties are much more responsible than agricultural taxes. Therefore, there are more official schools in Xichang than in Jinyiwei and Dongchang.
Next, there are the scholars. Although Zhu Youxiao killed the scholars at the beginning, he could not withstand his repeated expansion of enrollment. In addition, more and more people can afford to study. Therefore, in these years, the scholars The number of prisoners did not decrease because of Zhu Youxiao's harsh punishments, but instead increased significantly.
Many scholars are still expressing their dissatisfaction with the current imperial court in various ways, and at the same time they are still eager to participate in scientific examinations, conscientiously write eight-legged essays, and then become famous scholars.
After all, even if Zhu Youxiao uses various methods, such as Jin Yiwei, Dongchang, secret reports from trusted officials, and the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to monitor all officials, and strictly prohibits corruption and cheating, there are still many people who are in office. Since they are privileged, naturally there are still many people who want to be officials.
Workers, businessmen, soldiers, scholars, as well as farmers and landowners who have always existed in large numbers.
These different classes of people each have their own interests and demands.
And the backgrounds are also different.
Therefore, the thinking is also different.
For this reason, some people want to limit the power of the monarch, limit the power of the government, and want to give up the industrial interests controlled by the government to the people.
There are those who still want the court to give a lenient sentence or even not punish the doctor.
Some people still want the imperial court to be light on corvee and light on taxes.
There are also those who want the imperial court to continue to expand its territory.
Some even want the court to cut into pieces the employer who owes wages.
For ministers such as Yuan Keli, Bi Ziyan, and Liu Hongxun, who are new to the political affairs hall, it is still difficult to govern the current Ming Dynasty well.
"Mr. Bi Ge, the Weaving Bureau has reported that the operating profit of the Weaving Bureau has been 30% less than last year. This is because the manufacturing skills of spinning machines and looms were obtained by large private weaving companies through various methods and improved. Later, due to higher The Weaving Bureau poached mature workers with their salary, which greatly reduced the profits of the Weaving Bureau. Therefore, the Weaving Bureau requested an edict to strictly control the workers of the Weaving Bureau to freely choose their employers. From the following point of view, workers are free to choose their employers, and more intervention is needed, otherwise What is affected is the imperial government's national funds, so the vote is that in the future, workers in the Weaving Bureau will not be allowed to change employers unless they are fired. If they do not go to work in the Weaving Bureau without reason, they will be charged with dereliction of duty and be detained by the supervisor, who may be punished with a cane. Sixty, or in severe cases, exile, do you think?"
Li Guopu, a newly-minted bachelor who worked with Bi Ziyan on economic government affairs, reported such a thing to Bi Ziyan.
Although Bi Ziyan once took the initiative to suggest resettling the refugees to prevent them from causing trouble, this does not mean that he was really ideologically advanced to the point where he really had the interests of the proletarians at heart.
He was more concerned with the interests of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Bi Ziyan nodded and said: "It's really a lack of people's support! Isn't the salary of the Weaving Bureau high enough? These workers are still in love! According to this draft, according to the title written by the Weaving Bureau, employees of the Weaving Bureau are not allowed to apply for dismissal, nor are they allowed to If you don’t return to work in the Weaving Bureau without any reason, if you violate it, you will be punished by the department!”
Although the draft is not an imperial edict, due to the large number of central government affairs, in many cases, the draft will eventually become an imperial edict.
Bi Ziyan is now the court's authority in managing money, grain and economy, and has won the trust of Emperor Zhu Youxiao and Chief Assistant Yuan Keli.
Therefore, Bi Ziyan's views eventually became an imperial edict.
However, Zhu Youxiao still took the time to look through these decrees that he ignored because they did not involve military affairs.
On this day, in his spare time, Zhu Youxiao happened to find this edict that was archived for random inspection by the emperor.
After Zhu Youxiao read it, he couldn't help but said: "Good guy, there is no spirit of contract at all! When encountering this kind of problem, the first thing that comes to mind is to bully the employees instead of improving themselves. The Ming Dynasty really does not make decisions for the employees. The imperial court! No matter how loyal and capable the officials are, they don’t really put the people first.”
Zhu Youxiao knocked on the bronze chime.
Not long after, Wang Chengen walked in: "What are your orders, Your Majesty?"
"Send the message to Bi Fuchen to come see me!"
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