But Zhang Siwei and others did not raise any objections.
First, gentlemen are ashamed to talk about profit. As bachelors, they naturally have to pretend on the surface and cannot compete to be the God of Wealth of the Ming Dynasty.
Second, after all, the cabinet is now a cabinet that Zhang Juzheng has the final say. It is not easy for them to disobey Zhang Juzheng's wishes.
Therefore, the next moment, they all looked at Wang Guoguang with a smile, and praised Wang Guoguang as indeed more suitable to be the God of Wealth.
However, although they could not seize into their own hands the power to draft this Jun Order and even to be responsible for the Du Branch in the future, they still wrote letters to their family businessmen after returning to their official residences to prepare for the emperor's wishes. Make contributions to rejuvenating the country and enriching the people, to remind your family to actively strive for it.
Zhang Juzheng also wrote a letter, but he was not just writing to his own people.
In order to take this opportunity to make it more successful for officials and gentry to pay food and serve as errands together, he also gave instructions to his eldest son Zhang Jingxiu:
"Send a letter to Xu Weizhen (Xu Guo) of She County. In your name, tell him about the three million taels of funds to rejuvenate the country and enrich the people."
After hearing this, Zhang Jingxiu couldn't help but ask: "Didn't he object to his father's love being stolen? He also sympathized with Wu Zhongxing and the others. Why did my father still give him this benefit?"
Zhang Juzheng said: "How can you care about personal grudges when doing things for the king? Especially when you are in the position of being a father, there is no real right and wrong between us and the enemy, only pros and cons! His Xu family is a big Huizhou businessman. He should know how to deal with the three problems better than us Chu people." A million taels becomes more, rejuvenating the country and enriching the people."
"The son is taught."
Zhang Jingxiu replied after hearing this.
Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and said, "Send a letter to Taicang Wang Yuanyu (Wang Xijue), and in your name, notify more companies to facilitate competition."
After hearing this, Zhang Jingxiu couldn't help but ask: "The Wang family in Taicang? But in the Susong area, the Xu family has the most workshops and businesses. Why did my father only remind and object to Wang Yuanyu's love being stolen from you, and made you furious? Instead of Mr. Xu?"
"Will this hurt the Xu family even more?"
After Zhang Jingxiu asked, he asked again.
After all, when it comes to relationships, his Zhang family and Xu family have the closest relationship.
Moreover, the Zhang family has lost face to the Xu family many times, but the Xu family has not expressed any dissatisfaction and continues to send greetings to the Zhang family on every new year and festival as always.
Zhang Juzheng said at this time: "It is because the Xu family's property is too big that they need to support other gentry to check and balance him!"
"As a father, you cannot sacrifice public interests for personal friendship. This is not the money of my Zhang family, but the money of Your Majesty and the imperial court. If it belonged to my Zhang family, I would naturally want to give it all to the Xu family, but it doesn't happen."
"Moreover, not only will there not be a Xu family this time, but there will also not be one in the future! I believe Mr. Xu will understand being a father."
After hearing this, Zhang Jingxiu raised his hands and said yes.
Zhang Juzheng looked out the window at this time. It was the spring season, there was abundant rainfall, and there was already a dense rain curtain outside the eaves, covering the outline of other official residences.
At this time, the official residence of the Second Assistant.
Zhang Siwei also wrote a letter to his brother Zhang Sijiao, telling Zhang Sijiao that the emperor and the court were planning to invest three million taels of silver to rejuvenate the country and enrich the people. At the same time, he also told Cheng Jiu:
"You asked the person who delivered the letter to tell the second master face to face, just say what I said, let Jiangling be notorious throughout the world, and let everyone in the world hate Jiangling. The matter must be done as soon as possible! The matter of defamation cannot be delayed!"
"Nowadays, the emperor is generous and takes the initiative to invest money from inside and outside to rejuvenate the country and enrich the people. However, the benefits come from this. Now, because Zhang Juzheng is the chief minister, he is able to occupy the right to distribute these benefits!"
"Therefore, no matter how respectful I am to him, he still gave the power of distributing this benefit to his true confidant Wang Guoguang first!"
"So, if our Zhang family wants to get the most out of this benefit in the future, we must overthrow Zhang as soon as possible! We must intensify our efforts to make Jiang Ling a heinous person! We can't delay it any longer! It's not just a matter of officials and gentry working together to pay for food and work, but also There will be benefits in the future!”
In order to allow silver to flow between the treasury and the people and promote the development of productivity, Zhu Yijun generously invested millions of taels of silver, which undoubtedly intensified the struggle among the bureaucrats and scholar-officials.
Although Zhu Yijun took out this piece of cake to rejuvenate the country and enrich the people, the bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats were thinking about how to eat more of this cake into their own mouths.
In the face of huge profit temptations, carnivores are often more greedy than proletarians.
After all, proletarians are often bound by certain concepts and moral constraints that have been brainwashed by the rulers for many years, but meat-eaters are all smart people, and they all understand that seizing the opportunity of information gaps and occupying more resources is the basis for gaining a foothold in this society.
What's more, greed is also the driving force for people to become rich. How many people who can become rich are not greedy? At most, it's just that while being greedy, you have stronger control rationally.
Therefore, Zhang Siwei was even more eager to replace Zhang Juzheng.
He really couldn't wait.
Although he knew that it would not be easy to reverse the plan, the emperor may not support it.
However, the emperor brought out many coveted big peaches, and if he did not defeat Zhang Juzheng, he would not be able to eat all the peaches.
"Not only will it bring Zhang Juzheng into disrepute, but it will also drag the Xu family into trouble!"
Zhang Siwei said again at this time that he obviously did not want the Xu family to hinder him from taking power and profit in the future, so he whispered to Cheng Jiu, asking Cheng Jiu to do this and this.
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"The purpose is to make Jiangling notorious, and everyone will cry out for beatings. Everyone thinks that if Jiangling is defeated, the world will be safe!"
One month later, Songjiang Huating.
On this day, the entire Huating area was covered with dark clouds and heavy rain was coming.
On this day, Zhang Sijiao came to the Xu family and conveyed Zhang Siwei's opinions to Xu Jie, Xu Ying and other Xu family members about Zhang Juzheng's continued restructuring, that is, the implementation of the unified payment of grain and errands between officials and gentry, and his suggestions to stop this new policy. .
After that, Zhang Sijiao added: "According to my brother's opinion, it is not appropriate to openly resist the imperial court, but there is no need to worry about ruining Jiangling!"
"For one thing, although Jiang Ling is cunning, he has scholarly friendship in his heart. He is not a truly ruthless person like Yan Song, so he can be bullied! As long as the instigators of the world are more dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng, he will definitely do something. They are afraid and do not dare to continue the restructuring;"
"Secondly, there are more ignorant common people who cannot work as slaves of wealthy families because of the New Deal. Many of these common people are ruthless and unscrupulous people. We can take the opportunity to incite them to retaliate against Jiangling and burn down their houses and destroy them. What happened to his tomb will definitely make Jiang Ling more afraid. Even if Jiang Ling is afraid, his people will be afraid and force him to give up the reform."
"As long as Jiangling does not change the system, the entire Zhang Party will not change the system again. And with this, even if the emperor wants to change the system, it will be difficult for him to do so!"
"That makes sense!"
"There are many scholars and slaves who are dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng. If they spend more money and have the elder brother as their backer, they will not be afraid of Jiangling and denounce Jiangling's crimes!"
Xu Ying agreed at this time.
Zhang Sijiao looked at Xu Jie: "Old sir, what do you think?"
Xu Jie, who had been silent all this time, spoke up and said with a smile: "Jiang Ling is my student after all. It is inconvenient for our Xu family to participate. What's more, after all, he is still the minister of Gu Ming and the teacher of the emperor. As the assistant of the two dynasties, I Minister, for the sake of the royal family, we, the Xu family, cannot go too far. Things will be reversed in the worst possible way. If I, the Xu family, interfere, I am afraid that it will anger the Tian family and be detrimental to Ziwei's rule. As for what you want to do, just do it. go a head."
After hearing this, both Zhang Sijiao and Xu Ying showed disappointment on their faces.
Zhang Sijiao even sneered secretly, and then said: "Please forgive me for being presumptuous, but does the old gentleman already know about three million taels or six million taels to rejuvenate the country and enrich the people?"
Xu Jie shook his head: "I haven't received a letter from Jiangling about this matter."
"Sure enough, this student Jiang Ling doesn't take his teacher's kindness to heart at all."
As Zhang Sijiao spoke, he informed Xu Jie about Zhu Yijun's decision to allocate funds to rejuvenate the country and enrich the people, support industry and commerce, and establish a branch office.
"Excessive!"
Snapped!
Xu Ying suddenly slammed the table, stood up, and looked at Xu Jie with rapid breathing: "Father! Zhang Jiangling really doesn't take you to heart!"
Xu Jieze also darkened his face at this time.
Zhang Sijiao also looked at Xu Jie.
But Xu Jie didn't say anything. The whole room was as dark as night, and there was only the ticking sound of the jade leaky silver pot.
(End of chapter)
