Su Yonglin did not clearly express who he was talking about.
But when it came to this, many people looked at Jiang Yu intentionally or unintentionally.
Jiang Yu looked unnatural and his face was a little red. Although he didn't say a word, it was obvious that he was quite uneasy inside.
Su Yonglin glanced at Jiang Yu, and Jiang Yu also happened to look over. When their eyes met, Jiang Yu looked away as if he was electrocuted. He did not dare to look directly at Su Yonglin, and the expression on his face became even more unnatural.
Su Yonglin sighed secretly in his heart.
After this incident, Su Yonglin began to focus on internal rectification.
Throughout mid-February of the third year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin began to integrate the Imperial Court's Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Law, Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and several departments such as the Organization Department and Supervision Department of the Renaissance Society. They held many joint meetings and arranged a plan for the surrounding areas of Zhongdu. anti-corruption action.
We also organized multiple working groups to go to all provinces across the country to carry out rectification actions in each province, pay close attention to official governance, and prepare to take advantage of the relatively favorable external environment to carry out a wave of internal rectification to lay the foundation for the next larger-scale external expansion.
Otherwise, if something goes wrong, he won't even have time to cry.
A strong country is never breached from the outside; it always collapses from within, leading to its downfall.
The Ming Dynasty is already powerful enough. Under the influence of the excellent matching mechanism of the East Asia region in the mid-to-late twelfth century, the Ming Dynasty has transcended the matching mechanism, completed the beating of diamonds to bronze, and will continue to break the East Asia region in the years to come. The upper limit has brought the East Asia region back to its original matching height.
Therefore, Su Yonglin will never allow anyone to hold him back when he takes action.
Originally, Su Yonglin had no specific direction, but planned to conduct a comprehensive rectification.
Whether it is the old bureaucracy or the members of the Renaissance, there should be a comprehensive rectification movement to properly deal with some of the problems accumulated in the three years since becoming emperor, and solve them all before these problems have affected the fundamentals of the court.
This was his initial thought.
But soon, another thing happened that changed Su Yonglin's initial thoughts.
This matter is related to the Yellow River Project.
In early March of the third year of Hongwu, Hu Wei, director of the Tai'an Prefecture Renaissance Society branch, sent an interesting internal document to the Central Committee of the Renaissance through the channels of the Renaissance Society.
This document mentioned that since December last year, prices in several counties in Tai'an Prefecture have risen rapidly recently, and the prices of many daily necessities have risen sharply.
The New Year is approaching, and if people have some spare money in their hands, they will use it to buy some New Year goods. Prices will rise to a certain extent. This is not surprising, and it is not worth worrying about.
Moreover, because of the existence of the Yellow River renovation project, the Ministry of Finance of the Ming Dynasty also adopted the principle of proximity when purchasing materials needed for the renovation of the Yellow River from various places to save transportation costs.
For example, the newly built Yellow River channel passes through Damingfu, Dongpingfu, Jinanfu, Zizhou, Dizhou, and Binzhou, so locally owned building materials are purchased locally as much as possible.
Building materials that cannot be purchased locally will be allocated by the central government or from other nearby places. Anyway, they can be closer to each other and reduce transportation costs.
This is the result of Lin Jingchun's careful calculation.
Precisely because of the principle of proximity, it is inevitable that a large amount of cash flow will flow into the local market, and local people from general merchants to farmers will benefit.
Building materials are purchased from merchants, food is purchased from ordinary people, and accommodation problems must be solved locally. If they can be solved locally, they should be solved locally. The locals have to work hard and get a salary, so there will be more money in their pockets very quickly. got up.
When people have money in their pockets, they will spend part of it. As more money circulates in the market, it is normal for prices to rise accordingly.
In fact, three years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Su Yonglin did observe that prices in some of the more important central cities in the country began to rise slowly.
But the hidden reason behind this is that after Su Yonglin's policy of resuming production and lowering taxes was implemented, the people had money in their hands.
The taxes collected by the Ming Dynasty were far less terrifying than those of the Jin Dynasty. They also purchased grain directly from farmers through the national grain purchase and reserve system, which increased the number of copper coins in the hands of the people. As a result, more copper coins were available for consumption, and the money circulating in the market increased. The increase in prices has led to a slow rise in prices.
This is economic prosperity under a balanced state, which is not surprising.
So when the report came at the beginning of the year, Su Yonglin didn't take it seriously.
I only feel that Hu Wei, who gave this report, did his duty because he stipulated that the local Renaissance branch must pay attention to local price changes and report to the headquarters of the Renaissance and himself at any time.
Su Yonglin felt very satisfied and responded to Hu Wei personally, praising him and asking him to make persistent efforts and continue to pay attention to this matter.
If this was not enough to make Su Yonglin suspicious, the subsequent report from the 11th Operation Group of the Skynet Army operating in Shandong made Su Yonglin frown.
Operation Team 11 reported that Liu Qing, a spy businessman they installed in Dongping Mansion, provided them with information.
This secret agent was placed as a businessman in Dongping Prefecture, a trading center by the 11th Action Team. The idea was that Dongping Prefecture was the transportation hub and trade center of Shandong. Merchants from all over the world gathered here, and one could easily learn a lot by doing business here. News that cannot be obtained through normal channels.
There are many other spies of the same kind, all doing various businesses here.
There are those who run hotels, restaurants, those who operate ships, those who run land transportation, and so on.
The secret agent who provided information to the 11th Operation Group was in the transportation business. With the support of the organization and some of his own business talents, he managed the transportation business very well, on a large scale, and made a lot of money. The cyber army has provided relatively large operational funds.
If your business is doing well, it will be easy to make many business friends, whether they are fair-weather friends or cuckold friends, each has its own use.
Among them, a businessman named Xue Zhili borrowed a lot of money from him not long ago, but he has been delaying paying it back. He urged him several times to no avail. As a result, after the new year, this person took the initiative to pay back the money.
Liu Qing didn't take it seriously at first and even joked with him.
"I told you there's something wrong with you. I urged you three times before and you didn't pay me back. Why are you taking the initiative to pay me back now?"
"Isn't it because the turnover is not open? Now that the turnover is open, I will return it to you. It is easy to borrow and repay, and it is not difficult to borrow again. I still understand this truth."
Xue Zhili laughed and joked with Liu Qing. Liu Qing laughed and scolded him for being dishonest, asking him to find out whether he had done anything illegal or disciplinary.
Xue Zhili shook his head quickly and didn't even say that he didn't. It was just that he had lent a sum of money to his brother-in-law for turnover, and his brother-in-law had not paid it back for a long time, and now he suddenly paid it back.
"How sudden? Why are your family members so sudden?"
Liu Qing found it funny.
"This is not sudden. I am really stuck. My brother-in-law is not... Let me tell you something. Don't tell anyone else."
Xue Zhili looked around and lowered his voice and said, "I don't know who my brother-in-law has fallen in love with. He may be going to make a fortune."
"Big fortune?"
Liu Qing said with a smile: "Tell me, what kind of wealth? How can you tell me about such a good thing?"
"That's different. You'll lose your head."
Xue Zhili looked nervous and said in a low voice: "I'm telling you, anyone who does business without capital has to pay for it, but not everyone has the courage to do it."
"Business without capital?"
Liu Qing frowned.
"Yeah, I thought it was strange at the time. My brother-in-law is a good gambler. He lost all his working capital in gambling before. I lent him the money for his working life because of my wife's face. I originally wanted to spend money to eliminate disasters. It's probably Roubaozi who beat the dog.
Unexpectedly, after a while, he actually paid back the money, and proudly boasted to me about how he could make money. I was so excited that I made him drink, got him drunk, and asked him what his business was. You know what he said? "
"How to say?"
"He told me that he had a way, and if someone helped him, he could make a lot of money by taking advantage of the darkness to move the building materials from the Yellow River construction site to a designated place."
"What?!"
Liu Qing was shocked and asked hurriedly: "The building materials on the Yellow River construction site? Steal them and sell them?"
