Under the current rules, after the Privy Council receives the money, it begins to arrange the military-industrial system under the control of the Privy Council to respond to the needs of the army, allocate military pay, military supplies, etc.
All military needs were submitted to the Privy Council and awaited response, separated from the civilian system.
Therefore, within the military field, the Ministry of Finance is not involved.
Su Yonglin had this idea and approach because he considered that in the past few years, many private funds had been misappropriated and invested in the military field, making it very difficult for the Ministry of Finance to carry out its work, and the Ministry of Finance had many opinions on this.
And for the Ministry of Finance to be too involved in the internal affairs of the military, to be associated with military personnel, or even to have some connections, that is not a situation Su Yonglin wants to see.
The army is the army, and the civil affairs officials are the civil affairs officials. It is better not to over-connect the two.
For this reason, Su Yonglin set up the military supplies meeting.
Every year, everyone gathers together for a meeting to determine the military expenses for that year. Then the Ministry of Finance directly gives the military budget expenses for this year to the Privy Council. The Privy Council is responsible for the next thing, and the Ministry of Finance directly separates this part from the military. work in the civilian field.
Lin Jingchun had no opinion on this.
Sun Ziyi felt a lot of pressure, so he discussed this issue with Su Yonglin privately, thinking that his talents might not be enough to undertake such a major mission.
However, Su Yonglin said that the Privy Council would have to shoulder this responsibility sooner or later, and Sun Tzu Yi would have to do this sooner or later.
As a Privy Councilor and a person I trust, you cannot cower or shirk your responsibilities.
Because of this matter, Sun Tzu Yi arranged for more than a hundred officials from the entire Privy Council to go to the Ministry of Finance and asked Lin Jingchun to arrange for a special cram school for them to learn relevant financial management knowledge. Sun Tzu Yi himself also followed for a while. class.
Subsequently, Su Yonglin placed a series of state-owned business departments, including the military industry system, under the control of the Privy Council. In addition to the weapons forging workshop, there was also a war horse breeding department located on the grassland.
The three major horse farms of the Ming Dynasty - Yanshan Horse Farm, Liaodong Horse Farm, and Hexi Horse Farm. These three horse farms were also placed under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council and were directly connected to the Ming Dynasty cavalry troops.
At this point, the military system and the Ministry of Finance system were separated and no longer responsible for each other, but directly responsible for the country.
Because of the sudden increase in responsibilities, Sun Tzu worked hard and did not go home for a month at his busiest time. He stayed in the Privy Council and studied day and night. He also called on officials in the Privy Council to learn professional knowledge from professionals. He could not slack off or be lazy. , If you do something bad, you will be punished.
Anyway, his attitude is indeed very correct.
Later facts also proved that Sun Ziyi, the only non-Fuxing member in the entire Ming Dynasty imperial court, was able to secure the position of privy envoy. It was no accident, or it was because he was on an equal footing with Su Yonglin.
The official attitude of turning a deaf ear to political issues and working hard on practical matters is also very important.
Sun Tzu Yi was not interested in politics.
Whether he was the leader of Yanyun's army before or later the privy envoy, Sun Tzu Yi never expressed any political opinions on the imperial government, and he never made public remarks on the political trends of the imperial court.
Anyone who asked him would keep silent or just laugh and take them away.
If there is a political argument somewhere, he will retreat, or retreat directly to a corner where no one notices him, and directly activate his invisibility skills, losing all sense of existence, so that people arguing fiercely will not notice his existence at all.
Su Yonglin actually asked him if he had any idea of joining the Renaissance Association. If so, he could be Sun Tzu Yi's recommender.
Sun Ziyi thought for a while, shook his head and refused.
"Perhaps this will do me some good, but I have never been exposed to the theory in this area, and I have no interest in it. In my opinion, being an official is being an official, doing things is doing things, and being a human being is a human being. I am not interested in politics. I just want to do what I have to do.”
Sun Tzu Yi was telling the truth.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Su Yonglin intended to appoint Sun Tzu Yi's family members as officials. Sun Tzu Yi accepted it at first. Later, as the news became more and more popular, Sun Tzu Yi realized the problem and asked his people to withdraw from officialdom and the army and return to their hometowns to farm. Don't come to Zhongdu, and don't allow them to cause trouble in their hometown.
Later, Sun Tzu Yi became the privy envoy and became an important minister of the imperial court, with great power. Su Yonglin proposed to let Sun Tzu Yi choose his children to join the court or serve as officials in the army, but Sun Tzu Yi refused, and still asked his children to study and work in their hometown and not to cause trouble.
During the Great Purge, he felt an inexplicable tense atmosphere. In order to cooperate with Su Yonglin's policies, Sun Tzu Yi decisively handed over the excess land and houses in his family. In addition to leaving a group of clan members to take care of the ancestral home, he brought all the remaining clan members to Zhongdu. placement.
Sun Tzu Yi strictly restrained them and did not allow them to participate in any political activities or talk about any political topics. He used his generous salary to support them, and then arranged for the children of the clan to apply for admission to the recently established Zhongdu University of Technology.
He learned that Su Yonglin attached great importance to the development of science and technology, so he planned to train the children of the family to develop in the field of science and technology and avoid the political field. When he had time, he would personally supervise and inspect the learning achievements of the children of the family.
This point is the same as the decision made by Su Yonglin's father-in-law, Zhao Zuoliang.
Originally, Su Yonglin suggested that the children of the Zhao family develop into the legal field and become legal officials.
But after Zhao Zuoliang thought about it, especially after the Great Purge, Zhao Zuoliang asked all Zhao's children to withdraw from the political field, and all children entered Zhongdu University of Technology to study science and technology.
I don’t know if he was referring to Zhao Zuoliang’s action plan, but Sun Ziyi also asked his family’s young children to enter Zhongdu University of Technology to study science and engineering knowledge, and to take the path of scientific and technological research in the future, so as to prevent them from being involved in politics-related issues.
Su Yonglin respected Sun Tzu Yi's alienated attitude towards politics and did not force Sun Tzu Yi to join the Fuxing Association. He still trusted him as always and entrusted him with the powers of the Privy Council. He was also conscientious and did nothing wrong.
So now Sun Ziyi is very successful in this position.
Three years after Hongwu, Sun Tzu Yi became the only high-ranking official in the imperial court who was not a member of the Renaissance. He was also in charge of military logistics, and his position was very important.
Therefore, some people have raised concerns about Sun Tzu Yi's identity and suggested that Su Yonglin transfer Sun Tzu Yi to a casual position and replace him with a politically reliable Fuxing member to take charge of the Privy Council's logistics power.
However, Su Yonglin expressed his support for Sun Tzu Yi, believing that Sun Tzu Yi was very successful as a privy envoy and made no mistakes. Suppressing a meritorious person for the sake of political status is not the attitude that a revolutionary should have.
In fact, after the three-year purge of Hongwu, the Renaissance Society fully moved from covert activities to overt activities, fully occupied important positions in the DPRK, and became the main political force that actually dominated the national affairs of the Ming Dynasty.
However, there were not only Fuxing members in the imperial court, there were also a large number of non-Fuxing members who passed the imperial examination and became officials.
After the Great Purge, they were worried about the imperial court. They suspected that the imperial court would evaluate and promote officials based entirely on whether they were members of the Renaissance. Therefore, they even had a sense of anxiety about joining the Renaissance.
Su Yonglin has comprehensively tightened the quota for admission to the Renaissance Association and raised the requirements, making it quite difficult to join the Renaissance Association.
During this period, it was precisely because of Sun Ziyi's existence and frequent appearances to preside over the work of the Privy Council that this anxiety was alleviated to a certain extent.
For this reason, Sun Tzu Yi has become a spiritual pillar of the DPRK Central African Restoration membership group.
If we were to say that there was someone in the DPRK who had a bad relationship with Sun Tzu Yi, we could only say that they were people from the Ministry of Finance.
Because the Privy Council is the ancestor who wants money, and the Treasury is always the one who pays.
It’s always not pleasant for someone who pays to face someone asking for money.
"Can we only hold on for half a year?"
After Lin Jingchun went south, the person in charge of the Ministry of Finance who stayed in Zhongdu was Right Minister Chai Yuanming.
At this time, he showed a look of dissatisfaction and said: "Privy Sun, I remember that last year's munitions meeting left you with enough for the war. Even if the war south is quite expensive, the military savings over the years are not enough for the army." What’s needed for half a year?”
Sun Ziyi smiled helplessly, spread his hands, and replied gently.
"Of course it's not just a war going south, but when the Yellow River was in danger in the middle of last year, the Ministry of Finance temporarily seconded the military supply warehouses in Shandong and Hebei Provinces, and almost emptied them. That was a huge expense. Chai Shilang forgot Yet?"
"...It is indeed true, but I am not responsible for this matter. I don't know exactly how much was used. Did it actually be emptied?"
Chai Yuanming looked at Su Yonglin and said: "Chairman, if that's the case, I don't think it's appropriate to launch the southward campaign to Sichuan at this moment. The Yellow River project has reached its most stressful period, and the dangers of the Yellow River are not small every year, which consumes materials. Money is beyond imagination.
Furthermore, as we go south to fight this year, the newly added corps will require a lot of financial expenditures, and the newly established provinces will also need a lot of financial allocations to resume production and construction. This is the time to spend money. It is really not the right choice to launch another war now. "
