Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 656 Please start from the minister
What Zhu Yihai said was righteous, and what he said was true, but not complete.

For Zhu Yihai, this temporary post will be an extremely powerful weapon to control the government affairs. If anyone is not suitable, or even hinders, then let him go to the temporary post and adjust his position.

Even for example, if someone has a serious problem, he can be transferred under the pretext of temporary employment, and then it will be convenient to check him.

It's the same as sending people to school to study in later generations, learn to transfer them away first, and then investigate and obtain enough evidence to directly return to control.

There is no need for too fierce struggles such as court staff, decapitation and exile, it will be convenient after having this thing.

If the struggle is too fierce, it will actually be ugly if you don't move the court staff, cut your membership, etc., and it will even easily lose control. This is also a manifestation of insufficient control.

Of course, this set of temporary posts can be used not only by civil servants, but also by the army. Cooperating with the exchange of this new thing by borrowing posts, and mobilizing the officers in various towns, it can weaken the self-esteem of the generals as much as possible. The threat of militarization.

Suspended posts, borrowed posts, and cooperated with the official assessment, and then Ding You, if he went to Beijing for training and study, it would greatly enhance the emperor's ability to control the court officials.

An officer in the army can be transferred to the lecture hall and military academy of the capital to study further, and he can be transferred away from the original town, and he can even be transferred to other troops after learning and training.

The same can be done for civil servants, such as opening some class in the Imperial College and transferring some officials to Beijing to study, or after the officials are full in the exam, they will not be released directly. March to May and half a year, and then the vacancy can be filled.

If there is no shortage, then continue to study in class when Hou is missing.

To put it bluntly, it is control.

Chen Zilong is a tycoon in rehabilitating the society, and he is also the leader in the resurgence of party struggles. Zhu Yihai wanted him to go to Guangxi to take up the post of chief secretary to participate in politics on the grounds that although he was a minister, he had insufficient experience in local governance in the past.

Qian Qianyi took the initiative to submit a letter, willing to take part in politics and deputy envoys abroad, but Zhu Yihai did not approve. People like Hong Chengchou, Qian Qianyi and Liu Zongzhou have upright ministers, and some have surrendered to captives. Capable of writing and martial arts, he has rich experience in the central area.

But Qian Qianyi and Liu Zongzhou are actually the kind of high-ranking officials who only serve in the capital. It's not bad to be a speech officer, but it's not suitable for others.

Zhu Yihai also intends to let them be the spokespersons all the time, responsible for supervising this.

It's better to use the past than to use the merits. In fact, the officials of science and Taoism need this kind of lonely minister who has been isolated.

For relatively young and talented officials such as Chen Zilong and Mao Pijiang, Zhu Yihai still hopes to reform them instead of beating them to death with a stick. Facing their wrong behaviors, they should not only correct them, but also give them opportunities to help them.

Whether they can accept it is also a test for them. If they just give up on themselves, then such a person is not worthy of reuse.

The group of scholars summoned today are undoubtedly those who have experienced court struggles for a long time. There are many veterans of four dynasties and three dynasties, and even several dynasties of great scholars.

But sitting in the cabin, less than an hour before and after, they seemed to have forgotten their intentions when they came.

Jiang Dejing, a fellow of Zheng Zhilong who served as the chief assistant of the No.60 cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, was not a member of the Donglin Party. His ancestor Jiang Wang was from Fengyang, Anhui. General Xiao Qiwei, hereditary Fuquan is a thousand households.Since then, eleven generations of the Jiang family have inherited the post of Zhengqianhu.

His father, Jiang Yan, was born as a Jinshi, and he served as the deputy envoy of Jiangxi and the chief secretary of Guangdong.

Although it was not Donglin, many Donglins were recruited through his strong recommendations. Chen Zizhuang, Ni Yuanlu, Gu Xichou, and Wen Anzhi were all recommended by him. Huang Daozhou was hired, and Liu Zongzhou was exonerated.

He is not Donglin, but now he is in the cabinet with the title of co-organizer of the cabinet and Prince Shaobao to assist in the maintenance of the cabinet. He has a very high reputation. He has been recuperating in Beijing recently. He heard the emperor's Imperial College speech, saying that he wanted to clean up Donglin, and he also heard that the emperor wanted to relegate thousands of officials. , came here regardless of leg problems, ready to persuade the emperor well, how can the party case be revived if ZTE is not successful.

Who knew that countless words of advice had been approved, but after listening to the emperor for a long time, it was completely different.

Jiang, who served as the chief assistant of Chongzhen, was good at managing money and managing the army, and was also loyal to the court. He was more worried about the world and caring for the people. This is why he had already retired in his hometown in Fujian, and finally came to Tokyo again.

Jiang Bagong, who is in his 50s, is the same Jinshi as Zhang Guowei, and they are also about the same age.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, he resigned as the chief assistant and lived in the Fujian Guild Hall outside the city. Zhang Guowei, Minister of the Ministry of War, left Beijing and went south by order.Soon after the Chuang army broke through the capital, Jiang left the capital and returned to his hometown.Hong Guangli was called into the court, and he confessed three crimes, but refused to accept it. It was not until Zhu Yihai recruited him that he, Huang Jingfang, He Wuchu and others from his hometown were called into the court.

Although Jiang was a relatively capable minister at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he had a deep sense of powerlessness during the Tianqi and Chongzhen Dynasties. He was caught in party disputes, the monarch was jealous, and he had nowhere to use his strength. He could only watch the situation deteriorate day by day. , It makes people feel exhausted.

But after being conscripted into the court by Emperor Shaotian, although he was only a co-organizer, he could feel the completely different vitality of the Shaotian court, especially the kind of unity that he often sighed to Zhang Guowei and others.

The situation in the court was not easy to come by, so before he came today, he made up his mind that he must learn from Wei Zheng to persuade the emperor well, even if he was relegated by then, even if he was relegated to become a county magistrate, he would not care.

But who would have thought, it was such a result.

Surprising, but irrefutable.

Although he also felt that this seemed a bit too miraculous, he was not in a hurry to refute.

Because although I have only been in Beijing for one year, I can feel the many differences between the Shaotian Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty, and most of these differences were brought about by the emperor.

I think back when he was the chief assistant, the imperial court was troubled both internally and externally, and had no money.

Ni Yuanlu, Minister of the Household Department, Bachelor of the Imperial Academy, and Minister of Officials, is a great calligrapher and a big brother of Donglin. He and Huang Daozhou are both students of Yuan Keli.

However, although Ni Yuanlu was in charge of the household and official departments, he didn't know much about finances. He went to the doctor in a hurry and recommended a genius to the emperor, Jiang Chen, the secretary of the household department.

Jiang Chen proposed to the emperor a way to make money in a proper way, printing treasure banknotes, printing and distributing 3000 million coins every year, always pricing one tael of silver, and making legislation by the court.

He told Chongzhen that the usual cost of printing precious banknotes is only five cents of silver, so the more you print, the more you will earn. Within five years, all the gold and silver in the world will be returned to the internal funds.

There is no security deposit, and precious banknotes are printed out of thin air, and the people are forced to exchange them for use.

Chongzhen actually thought that Ni Yuanlu and Jiang Chen's method was a good strategy to save the country, so he ordered Jiang Chen to be the head of the household department, and began to study the implementation plan.

Later, Wang Aoyong, the right servant of the household department who took the lead in surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, knew that this method would not work, but he deliberately followed Chongzhen and made even more shocking remarks.

He said that it is absolutely possible to print 5000 million banknotes every year, and then the imperial court abolishes gold and silver and puts gold and silver at the same price as soil.

In addition to printing 5000 million yuan to raise soldiers and fight wars, each province can directly give 100 million yuan to local officials at all levels to maintain integrity.Not only can money be printed to raise soldiers and fight wars, but money can also be printed to relieve victims of disasters and increase the salaries of officials.

Wang's words are actually the same as Yuan Chonghuan's cheating of Chongzhen's five-year Pingliao in those years.

Wang Yongao's 5000 million banknote plan was approved by Chongzhen, which can be described as turning stone into gold.

Not only is there no preparation for printing money with gold, but even the currency status of gold, silver and copper coins has to be abolished.

Jiang Dejing couldn't stand it any longer. At the Baochao meeting in Chongzhen, he directly asked the emperor, although the people are stupid, who would buy a piece of paper with a piece of gold?

It was like the emperor's new clothes, everyone pretended to be stupid and said they saw the emperor's new clothes, but only Jiang Dejing stood up.

In order to oppose the emperor's insistence on going his own way, he also deliberately posted a post, comparing the similarities and differences of the implementation of treasure banknotes in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and warned the emperor not to act recklessly.

The imperial court officially promoted the treasure banknotes, but none of the banknote merchants dared to apply for it. Because they were worried that the imperial court would use the treasure banknotes to exchange their goods, all the shops in the capital closed their doors and went on strike.

The desperate Jiang had no choice but to resign, and Chongzhen did not hold back, and even wanted to punish him, thinking that this situation was Jiang deliberately demolishing him.

They still insisted on issuing precious banknotes, replacing officials' salaries with precious banknotes, requiring citizens to exchange gold and silver, and only using precious banknotes for land and house transactions.

Only three months later, the banknotes are still a piece of waste paper, but King Chuang has already entered Beijing.

After Jiang left Beijing, he rejected Nanjing Fu Wang's call to the cabinet and returned to his hometown.

Not long after Jiang Dejing was in his hometown, he saw the silver dollars and exchange certificates issued by the Shaotian Dynasty. Compared with the whimsical banknotes of Chongzhen, the silver dollars of the Shaotian Dynasty were not pure silver, but their fineness was still very high, especially the exquisite craftsmanship.Their exchange certificate is also a piece of paper, but they are not printing money for nothing.

But it is just an exchange voucher, which can be exchanged for money at any time with the voucher, especially for paying taxes and so on.

Up to now, Jiang Dejing has already adapted to Shaotian's Longyin, and is even used to using exchange coupons at ordinary times, and rarely carries Longyin.Dragon silver is beautifully made, and the credit of the exchange certificate is strong, and there has never been any exchange problem.

Compared with the treasure banknotes of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the white coins of Chongzhen Tongbao that were cast thinner and thinner, the silver coins of the Shaotian Dynasty, even the silver coins of half a circle, two corners and one corner, copper coins that are worth ten to five, and Shaotian Tongbao, etc. It is extremely popular in the market and its currency value is stable.

After Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, he recorded that he confiscated 700 million ingots in stock, all of which were Wu Boliang.This is not obtained by plundering officials, but inventory.

This data has caused many problems. In fact, these are not real money, but the treasures that Chongzhen insisted on printing before his demise, the last madness.

As a result, it was all backlogged in the banknote bank, which was simply a pile of waste paper.

The use of ingots for Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes began with Zhu Yuanzhang. Since the eighth year of Hongwu, for 24 years, an average of 510 million ingots of treasure banknotes have been issued every year.

Chongzhen Curry copied 700 million ingots, which was at most the circulation of Hongwu years, and 500 taels per ingot was just their stupid and crazy failed money grabbing plan.

Back then, Zhu Yuanzhang issued excessive and excessive issuances, forcibly stipulating that treasure banknotes were always equal to one tael of silver, one thousand copper coins, and four-penetration banknotes were equal to one tael of gold, worth one stone of rice.

But in fact, no matter how stupid the people are, they don't want to be cut leeks like this by the court.

Therefore, in the 30th year of Hongwu, one tael of silver could buy four stones of rice, but with treasure banknotes, it cost ten guan. The treasure banknotes have actually depreciated ten times.

Unwilling to reconcile, Zhu Yuanzhang forcibly ordered the people to ban gold and silver transactions. They must use precious banknotes, and the financial taxes that can be paid, but they must use gold, silver, copper, grain and cloth, etc., and donkey carts in vegetable fields, fruit trees, warehouses, etc. Zhong came to collect taxes, just to speed up the return of precious money.

But in the ninth year of Zhengtong, a stone of rice already needed a hundred guan, and in the Zhengde year, the treasure banknotes were completely useless.

The 500 tael banknotes in the Chongzhen warehouse also show that even those who print the banknotes are very aware of how much purchasing power these papers have, so they didn't print one ingot of [-] tael banknotes, just [-] taels One ingot.

500 taels of ingot, but still less than one tael of silver, 700 million ingots were printed, worth more than 180 billion, even if one ingot was exchanged for one tael, these 700 million ingots were worth at least 3000 million Ten thousand taels.

Chongzhen plans to issue 5000 million taels of banknotes a year, which is exactly the same as the 700 million ingots in stock.

500 taels, that is, a precious banknote, intended to be used for one or two purposes, but in the end it was useless and turned into waste paper. It deceived Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, the Chuang Wang, for nothing, and finally had to be tortured angrily. The princes and ministers in Beijing made up for some losses.

The Shaotian Dynasty had copper coins worth ten to five to two, but they were heavier than ordinary money, and used more copper, even mixed with silver, so the value of the gold and silver contained in it was basically equivalent to its face value, and it was not an open robbery. common people.

The same is true for silver dollars and silver corners.

Exchange vouchers are just exchange vouchers for silver money, not untrustworthy treasure notes at all.

Jiang Dejing had experienced Chongzhen's crazy treasure banknote plan, and in the past few years he was used to using Shaotian Dynasty's silver dollars and exchange coupons, so from this incident, he was very clear about the difference between Shaotian Emperor and Chongzhen.

Now that Zhu Yihai's temporary job plan came out, Jiang Dejing felt relieved.

He believes that the emperor must have deep meaning, but as long as the emperor is not as dizzy as Chongzhen, then there is no need to worry too much.

Some officials in the Ming Dynasty lack experience, especially those in charge of finance, taxation, military, administration, etc. Although many officials were born in the two imperial examinations, even if they are ministers and bachelors, they still lack experience.

For example, Ni Yuanlu, who is recognized as a talented man, is still a big boss in Donglin, who holds both household and official departments, but he still believes in the stupidity of printing precious banknotes to save the country.To put it bluntly, Ni Yuanlu is good at calligraphy, and he is good at discussing the truth and even party struggles, but he can't do it if he really needs specific administrative skills.

This is also a common problem of the former Donglin party members, and even the common problem of most Ming civil officials.

The emperor's job placement plan is very good.

Thinking of this, he stood up.

"I think the method of your majesty's appointment is very consistent with the current situation of the court. I highly praise it. I firmly support it!"

"Governing the country first governs officials, not only to choose the character of loyalty and virtuousness, but also to truly cultivate and practice the real ability to handle affairs. Empty talk will only harm the country.

Usually, you talk about your heart with your hands, and you die to report to the king. You have missed so many things for the country, and you have to change it! "

"From now on, from the fourth year of Shaotian!
The minister also asked to be devolved to a temporary position, please entrust a province to participate in politics, and have a good experience! "Jiang Dejing even raised his excited voice a few degrees as he spoke.

(End of this chapter)