Zhang Shi looked at Su Yonglin blankly, feeling that he couldn't accept what Su Yonglin said for a while.
It's a bit too scary for him not to be an emperor or anything.
Su Yonglin also seemed to realize that his span was a bit big, and Zhang Shi couldn't accept it for a while.
So he patted Zhang Shi on the shoulder and smiled.
"Everything takes time. Time can bring everything and take away everything. At the earliest, in the pre-Qin period, even officials were hereditary. Later, during the Qin and Han Dynasties, a reform system was created, allowing gentry to replace the pre-Qin blood aristocrats. to become an official.
Later, during the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were imperial examinations. Only after the founding of the Song Dynasty did ordinary people finally have a legitimate way to advance into the civil service. Regardless of their origins, they could take the imperial examinations, obtain merit and then become officials, although there were still some requirements for family property. Well, after all, it is impossible to be an official hereditary.
This journey took a long, long time before officials could not be hereditary. Since officials can not be hereditary, it makes people think deeply, why can't the emperor? "
Su Yonglin looked at Zhang Shi.
Zhang Shi obviously didn't know how to answer this question. He thought for a while and came up with a vague idea.
"Maybe it's for stability? The eldest son of a family is always unique, so everything will be stable."
"Yes, the inheritance of dynasties needs to be stable, and the inheritance of power in any country also needs to be stable. No one likes endless wars, but it is not necessarily the only way."
Su Yonglin shook his head: "As long as I can create a stable method of power inheritance that is no less important than blood inheritance, then the need for a hereditary emperor will no longer be so necessary."
"this……"
Zhang Shi showed hesitation and said slowly: "I really don't know any other way."
"This can't be rushed. Although I have already had an idea and started to implement it, I really can't rush it."
Su Yonglin sighed and said loudly: "The emperor is the destroyer of the aristocratic inheritance of the pre-Qin bloodline and the founder of the gentry era. Qin Shihuang was able to do it and became the emperor for the ages.
But now, I want to change this era again. I want the era of common people to come completely, and to come more simply and thoroughly, without being so stumbling, as if holding a pipa to half-cover your face.
From the beginning with Yingzheng, it ends with me. Since everything has a beginning, it must have an end. Perhaps Yingzheng himself did not realize that from the moment he decided to be the first emperor, he had already decided that the final emperor would inevitably appear. Since there was no If people are willing to do it, then I will do it. "
"The First Emperor...the Last Emperor..."
Zhang Shi took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and said slowly: "I never thought you could say such things. This may not be a good thing for the Ming Dynasty. What do you think?"
"Revolutionary revolution, if you can revolutionize the lives of others, you must also be able to revolutionize your own life, otherwise you will be a patient with double standards? I hate patients with double standards the most. The next step in the rectification of the court should also be rectified in this direction, for those who are full of brains Those with double standards must be thoroughly rectified.”
Su Yonglin pointed to the north: "So, respectful husband, if you can't accept it for the time being, it's not the most important thing. I still have to be the emperor, so you just have to watch while walking and see that in the end, it's better for me not to be the emperor." , it’s better for me to continue to be the emperor.
At that time, as long as you persist in the revolution and the path we have taken along the way, then you will definitely make the right choice that suits your heart. This is what I have always believed, no matter in the past or in the future. "
Su Yonglin's words had a great impact on Zhang Shi.
But no matter what, he felt from the bottom of his heart that Su Yonglin should not have the idea of not being the emperor.
Because he felt that the emperor was the divine needle that fixed the sea, and that Su Yonglin could be the emperor so that the Ming Dynasty could move forward continuously and resolutely.
If Su Yonglin ceases to be emperor one day, such a future is really hard to imagine.
At least for now, Zhang Shi feels that he does not have the courage or necessity to think about that kind of thing.
But Su Yonglin would have such thoughts, which made him think deeply.
In the pre-Qin Dynasty, officials were all hereditary. Later, officials broke the hereditary rule, and only the emperor was hereditary.
So, why must there be a hereditary emperor?
If from now on there is no hereditary emperor in the world, and there is no longer the kind of existence that speaks the Constitution and speaks the law, then what will the world look like?
Will it be better or worse?
No one could answer.
After Su Yonglin returned to Hangzhou City, he began to arrange the reorganization of the army and the normalization of Hangzhou City.
After a period of military control, although the lives of the people of Hangzhou were not in danger, the normal production and life of Hangzhou City was also greatly affected.
Of course, since Su Yonglin officially entered Hangzhou City, the administrative team he brought began to accept the daily government affairs of Hangzhou City and began to restore production and normal life order in Hangzhou City.
The Ming Dynasty had comprehensive control over the city of Hangzhou. In addition to military occupation, it also had political and economic control. Especially in the economic aspect, the Ming Dynasty had a more complete control.
Su Yonglin ordered some economic activities in Hangzhou that were directly related to people's daily lives, such as the silk weaving handicraft industry, wine sales, rice and grain sales, ironware sales, and salt sales, to be restored as a priority to restore order to Hangzhou City as soon as possible.
Since it has been restored, it will naturally be restored in accordance with the Ming Dynasty's method.
The first thing to bear the brunt was the price of salt. The Hangzhou government of the Ming Dynasty directly ordered to lower the salt price in Hangzhou to the level of the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, hitting the ultra-high salt price to the bottom, which directly shocked the people of Hangzhou who suffered from the ultra-high salt price in Hangzhou.
They couldn't believe it at first, but after someone actually bought salt at a low price and took it away, a crazy rush to buy salt broke out in Hangzhou.
Perhaps they were not familiar with the government of the Ming Dynasty and were worried that it was just a temporary measure taken by the government of the Ming Dynasty to appease people. Therefore, the price was only temporarily low and would return to the original price in the future. Therefore, there was an extremely enthusiastic rush to buy salt in the entire city of Hangzhou. Its scale Even bigger and crazier than the queue to buy rice grains.
Regarding this situation, Su Yonglin's response was to mobilize more salt to enter the Hangzhou market, completely satisfying the desire of Hangzhou people to buy salt, and making them have to believe that the low salt price of the Ming Dynasty was not a strategy, but a consistent policy.
Salt is really the price. The Hangzhou court also has extremely high salt reserves, but it is so expensive. It needs salt to make money, but the Ming Dynasty does not need it.
Although the Ming Dynasty has been making huge profits from the price difference of salt between the two countries since the founding of the People's Republic of China, one of the reasons behind the intensifying copper coin shortage in the Southern Song Dynasty was the private sale of salt in the Ming Dynasty.
But at the beginning of the eighth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin ordered the Salt Department of the Ministry of Finance to end the operation of selling illegal salt in the Jiangnan area to earn high profits.
He transferred back officials from the relevant departments of the Salt Department and detached ten salt sales teams to end the task of selling smuggled salt to make money. He sent them to Quanzhou and Guangzhou with dedicated personnel to assist the very lack of manpower with their rich business and trade experience. Lin Jingchun laid out Ming's overseas trade strategy.
The Salt Division carried out the imperial order and recalled all its subordinate teams, ending the history of the Salt Division being a powerful department in a sense and returning to the status of a normal civil affairs department.
In fact, the Salt Division has been running like this for eight years, providing the court with extremely generous financial revenue. It can be regarded as a great reward for hard work. It also has a relatively special status and voice in the Ministry of Finance. The Salt Division is even a department directly under the Minister of Finance.
Once the mission ended and the relevant scope of authority and power were lost, the Ministry of Finance did not take it completely seriously.
However, Su Yonglin was more foresight and prepared in advance. He transferred the relevant persons in charge of the Salt Department to Quanzhou and Guangzhou to work beside Lin Jingchun, and then replaced a group of people to take charge of the new Salt Department, solving this problem that would have been troublesome in one go. question.
After all, it is a department that has brought such huge benefits to the imperial court. Once its mission is over, it is not so easy for everyone, especially those in the Salt Division, to simply agree with it.
It's just that Su Yonglin's prestige is obviously much greater than that of Yan Si.
Despite this, Su Yonglin also learned that some officials within the Ministry of Finance had some opinions on this decision. They felt that Su Yonglin did not need to end the Salt Division's mission so early. He could wait until the Song Dynasty was completely destroyed, and it would be good to make more money.
The Salt Division's actions of selling illicit salt gave the Ming Dynasty a great deal of room to ease the tight finances in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, and provided financial support for many actions of the Ming Dynasty. The financial expenditures of some actions even depended entirely on the Salt Division's income from selling illicit salt.
Now that the country's finances are abundant, it is necessary to dismember this meritorious department?
It's not quite appropriate.
For this reason, Su Yonglin deeply felt the powerful influence of inertia and the influence of powerful departments on the political structure. This further prompted him to decide to complete the mission of national unification as soon as possible and prepare to carry out a more thorough rectification movement in the country with huge prestige. .
At the same time, he feels that we should be more cautious in the establishment of powerful departments in the future. Power cannot be granted at will, and some phenomena of interest connection must be strictly guarded against.
To this end, Su Yonglin convened a meeting of the Ministry of Finance and delivered some harsh speeches.
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