Fang Fengshi stood up, holding the elephant wat, and was silent for a while, with only the black wings on both sides of the fu's head swaying slightly.
Later, Fang Fengcai cupped his hands to Zhu Yijun and said: "Your Majesty is a king who loves the people, and Yuanfu is a minister who seeks the country. Therefore, your Majesty is worried that the people cannot prosper and get rich because of practical affairs, and Yuanfu is worried that the parliament will decline because of practical affairs. The people are in the country. At this point, it seems that local governors must be allowed to set up practical affairs! This is because this dynasty is a country that unifies the top and bottom. The strong are in the officials and the weak are in the people. If we want to benefit the people and strengthen the country, we still have officials to play the leading role."
"Even if I don't want to accept this fact, I have to accept it! But I still want to ask, if the local governor starts to make huge sums of money because of this, he can gather large numbers of soldiers, and win over all forces. In this case, how should the imperial court use its arms?"
“If local governments set up practical services, why can’t the central government set up practical services?”
Zhu Yijun asked Fang Fengshi directly at this time.
Fang Fengshi raised his eyes and looked at Zhu Yijun: "This..."
"In terms of financial resources, advanced skills and talents, is the central court weaker than the local chief secretaries?"
Zhu Yijun continued to ask.
Zhu Yijun went on to say: "The imperial stores opened in the past were no different from the dental stores. They were only for the convenience of the people and were even equivalent to taxation, so the eunuchs of the inner court could manage them; they did not produce much benefit for the people and the country; but if it is used If we do practical work in the name of the country, can’t we benefit the people and the country?”
"In my opinion, some practical matters do need to be handled by the state!"
The origin of the imperial store in the Ming Dynasty was that there was no place to store the goods coming to Beijing, so they were often robbed. Therefore, Zhu Di ordered the construction of some houses to provide warehouse storage functions for merchants who shipped goods northward. Later, it became The merchants are responsible for the sales, and the merchants need to pay storage service fees and receive dividends after the sales are made on their behalf.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun said here that there is no difference between Huangdian and Yaxing, and it is not considered an industry. He hopes that the central court can also take the initiative to establish practical businesses, especially in military industry, shipbuilding, vehicle manufacturing, mining and metallurgy. Indeed, it is more important for the court to handle it. Suitable and most powerful.
Because the skills for making these are basically still monopolized by the imperial court.
In the Ming Dynasty, when the finances had not yet collapsed, craftsmen with advanced skills were basically still official craftsmen, or even palace craftsmen. After all, they were safe, paid well, and had official positions.
For example, Zhao Shizhen was awarded an official position in history because he developed firearms well during the Wanli Dynasty.
However, for the bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty who had always advocated governing the country by etiquette, the sudden change of the imperial court's emphasis on practical matters and economic benefits made it difficult for many of them to change quickly.
However, few ministers who can come to the imperial court are really pedantic and stupid, and some can see the future better than Zhu Yijun.
Therefore, Fang Fengshi still looked relaxed at this moment, and said, "What your Majesty said makes me enlightened!"
Then, he added: "Since the local government handles practical affairs, the imperial court also handles practical affairs. Moreover, I believe that some important industries can only be handled by the imperial court! Just like the salt industry; however, if the imperial court wants to handle practical affairs, its main purpose should be Benefiting the people lies in the pursuit of the country, and we should not be greedy for temporary huge profits. We must be different from doing business with ordinary people."
"Your Majesty, I agree with what the Prime Minister said!"
"At the same time, I believe that there is another way to prevent local governors from setting up practical affairs and having enough wealth to rival the country and not wanting to obey the court. That is to give officials to businessmen who set up practical affairs for local governments! All businessmen who set up practical businesses in the central court are appointed officials, and officials are promoted and dismissed by His Majesty himself, so that he can control various industries."
"In addition, governors should be changed frequently, and the time limit should be set. Even if you fail to pass the exam, you have to transfer! Also, the governor should be permanent. Otherwise, a governor should be in charge of military affairs, civil affairs, and also run industry. Everything is complicated and difficult to be thorough. It is also not conducive to the system of ministers. If a region has a governor to coordinate, and there are governors and governors to divide the power, the system of ministers and governors is stronger than the governor to coordinate, and the governor to the ministers is stronger. After all, although the governor has a small official rank."
Shen Shixing then raised his hands and started talking.
"Very true!"
"Then the Ministry of Commerce will be established, and the Ministry of Commerce will take charge of the practical affairs of the imperial government."
"The governors will be changed to permanent ones. The court will discuss and establish which governors will be permanent, their powers and responsibilities, the number of years to complete the examination, and the deadline for promotion."
Zhu Yijun said.
Shen Shixing handed over his hand and said yes.
At this time, Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "If you are good at learning, you will become an official. If you are good at business, you will become an official. The same goes for skills. In all industries in the world, as long as there is an elder, they will all be regarded as bureaucrats!"
"Your Majesty is worried that in the future everyone will only be an official or a minister!"
"However, the biggest problem now is that once the imperial court handles practical affairs and establishes the Ministry of Commerce, if the officials are only recruited from scholars, it may ruin the big thing. Just like ordering civilian officials to command the army, letting them handle practical affairs will only lead to a few exceptions. Although they have outstanding performance, most of them may still be able to just sit back and talk and listen to their staff and slaves, and these people only want to make money and will not do practical things for the country and the people!"
Zhang Xueyan, the Minister of Civil Affairs, put forward the possible problems to the point.
"Even if all industries have to be managed by officials, they still need to be professional and technical and understand some practical knowledge. Therefore, in the future, officials must be more selective based on their actual talents, and schools must be set up for training."
After Zhu Yijun nodded and said a few words, he smiled and said: "Sure enough, if you want to benefit the people and strengthen the country, you have to do a lot of things and it is very tiring. No wonder most of the rich and honorable people in the world are willing to stick to the old ways, even if they are old rituals It has become so corrupt that not many people follow it, not many people propose to establish new rites, and only a few Qing family members such as Yu Aiqing propose to establish new rites."
"The most difficult thing is Your Majesty!"
"As the saying goes, running a big country is like cooking small dishes. You must turn them over, and you can't turn them over at will. The emperor is the one who holds the spoon, so he naturally needs to grasp the proportions. And here, the cheapest thing is not to turn over the food, even if the country has a lot of weight. , we can still rely on frugality to sustain the short-term national destiny and gain a reputation for success; but it is difficult to truly benefit the people and strengthen the country!"
Shen Shixing sighed a few words at this time.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun raised his eyes, glanced at Shen Shixing, and took a long breath: "So I still need Yuan Fu and Qing to control the heat for me."
"I dare not disappoint His Majesty's expectations!"
Shen Shixing cupped his hands and replied.
All the other officials bowed their hands.
Then, Zhu Yijun said again: "Let's do this. The cabinet will add a policy making department, which will be directly managed by the chief assistant! In the future, after the officials' opinions are discussed by the ministry, if the ministry deems it feasible, they will be transferred to the policy making department for review, and the policy making department will issue a proposal. Please discuss and implement any new policies in the political hall."
"According to the order!"
Zhu Yijun wanted the chief minister to be able to really govern the country to the left of the emperor and have the ability to be a prime minister.
After all, the flaw of the Ming Dynasty's political system is that the power of the prime minister has not been clearly defined, so that the chief minister sometimes has more power than the emperor to exercise power. It can be called euphemistically because he is not good at ministerial power, so he only drafts the word "lower department discussion". Then submit it to the Director of Ceremonies for approval.
Now that Zhu Yijun has set up the policy department, it is to let the chief minister have the responsibility to pacify the general government and the emperor Zuo, instead of trying to mess it up. Of course, if the policy is implemented improperly, the responsibility must also be shared, and it cannot be just the emperor and the ministers of the ministries who take the blame. .
This is a good thing for the chief assistant who is willing to do things.
For those who just want to be the first assistant, this is naturally a bad thing.
"Do you have anything else to say about construction practices?"
Zhu Yijun asked again at this time.
All the ministers in power looked at each other and finally answered no.
Zhu Yijun nodded, and then said: "In that case, local governors are allowed to establish practical affairs. In addition, the imperial court also sets up a commercial department and prepares national-level practical affairs. Governor Shen Li of Yingtian, Governor Lu Kun of Fengyang, and Governor Jin Xuezeng of Fujian are political heroes. Exhibiting talents and adhering to good governance can be said to be a role model for governors, and they should be set an example by being appointed as deputy censors of the capital."
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"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
