Daming: I'm rotten, my father is Hu Weiyong

Chapter 112
"This is the food and clothing of millions of waterworkers. Your Majesty, don't think about it."

Zhu Yuanzhang was wearing a regular uniform with four rounds, and sat on the Su embroidery soft table in the Wenhua Hall.

Xuande stoves are placed on the rosewood incense tables on both sides, and wisps of aloes are rising, dyeing a stream of tranquility and tranquility.

The tranquility and tranquility in the Wenhua Palace did not last long, and was soon turned into depression and sullenness by the aggressive words of several central officials.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the several central officials sitting on the official hat chair, feeling bored for no reason.

How did the Yuan Dynasty fall?

Zhu Yuanzhang knew better than any central official in front of him.

It is mainly due to various maladministration caused by bureaucrats and gentry, the treasury has collapsed, and the common people have no way out.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to make an expedition to Liaodong, defeat the remaining forces of the Mongol Tartars in Liaodong, and planned to rectify a major maladministration of the Ming Dynasty, so that the treasury could have money and food to conquer Liaodong.

This major maladministration is water transport.

This waterway not only connected the north and the south of Daming, but also related to the taxation of Daming.

Taxes on silver, silk cloth, rice, tea, etc. were all transported to Jinling through waterways.

These bulky goods are not light, and these taxes can only be transported by water.

In the process of water transportation, fire consumption will inevitably occur.

These unnecessary fire consumption made the taxation extra unimaginably extravagant.

Zhu Yuanzhang understood the dangers of water transportation better than anyone else, so he summoned several central officials and proposed a new policy to rectify the bad policies of water transportation.

Waste water to sea.

It was proposed just now, and the benefits of it have not been explained yet. Several central officials immediately rejected this new policy without even thinking about it.

Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless as he listened to the harsh "Millions of Water Workers Department" and looked at the old faces of several central officials who were not at all shy.

He opened his mouth about a million-dollar water worker, and shut up about the people's livelihood and public opinion. Those who didn't know thought that these few loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty were really dedicated to the country and the people.

In the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, these bureaucrats and gentry thought they could deceive the emperor who was born as a beggar, and there was only disgusting party formation.

What are the virtues of these bureaucrats and gentry?

For their own self-interest, they can't wait to dig up the ancestral graves of other central officials.

Tonight, these officials of the central government suddenly changed their gender. They neither fight nor fight.

Nothing more than two words, silver profit.

According to the provisions of the Daming Law, the fire loss caused by water transportation is only the loss during water transportation.

It is almost insignificant compared to the millions of stones of grain collected by the various chief ministers.

However, compared with the early years of Hongwu, Caoliang has reduced by hundreds of thousands of shi.

Where did the grain go?

How many central officials really thought that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know?
It all went into the pockets of these bureaucrats.

If the water was abolished and the sea was replaced, how could the corrupt officials, bureaucrats and gentry, eat up the waste of water transportation over the years.

Zhu Yuanzhang leaned back slightly, leaning against the Suzhou embroidery, his face was expressionless: "Some time ago, Jin Yiwei went to check the treasury's inventory, and found that the treasury was already unable to make ends meet to maintain the current military equipment."

"The world is initially determined, and there are still Liaodong and northern grasslands to conquer, and we have to expand our army."

Having said that, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped on purpose and looked at the central officials in front of him.

There was still no unnecessary expression change on the old faces of several central officials, as if this matter had nothing to do with them.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "However, grain and salaries are about to be distributed, and some prefectures and counties still need disaster relief. The treasury can't keep making ends meet, so we thought about changing the grain to be transported by sea, so as to save unnecessary fire consumption."

The tank boats in the canal are all flat sand boats with hundreds of materials. If they are all transported by sea, they can be replaced with blessing ships with thousands of materials.

Fuchuan has a very deep draft, which will completely eliminate the loss of grain caused by the ship's rollover, water ingress and other reasons.

However, several central officials understood one thing, the saved fire consumption was not the petty profits in the process of water transportation, but the water grains that bureaucrats, gentry and officials at all levels were greedy for ink.

This is only the item of grain, not counting the fire consumption of smelting broken silver into official silver.

As well as the fire consumption during the water transportation of silk cloth, tea, salt, etc., if all of them are counted, the bureaucrats and gentry at all levels involved are too numerous to count.

Several officials of the central government themselves enjoyed the most money in the process of water transportation, even if they knew what the beggar emperor's intentions were, they would not cut off their money.

They sat on the Huali official hat chairs without saying a word, holding the official kiln teacups on the Xiangnan table next to them in their hands.

The tea brewed is Tanchun tribute tea, which is refreshing and refreshing.

I didn't see them taking a sip.

Always motionless, it has become a clay statue in the temple.

remain silent.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw what the officials of the central government looked like, and understood what they meant.

No matter how much the beggar emperor in front of him said, the central officials would never agree to the new policy of abolishing the water and reforming the sea.

Zhu Yuanzhang clenched the Hubi in his hand, and couldn't help but want to smash the Hubi on those annoying old faces made of clay.

In the end, he just waved his hand.

"Old minister, please don't bother Your Majesty."

The central officials shouted His Majesty, but without a trace of remorse on their faces, they walked out of the Wenhua Palace lightly.

Obviously he didn't take what he did just now to heart.

This is why Hu Weiyong has always been important. Knowing that Hu Weiyong is constantly seizing power, he must be reused because he is more obedient than bureaucrats and gentry. At least he is dedicated to the sake of the court and continuously increases the food and wages for the northern frontier army.

There has been a long history of scholar-bureaucrats competing with the emperor for power.

Since the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, I have never seen any Song Dynasty official who did not fight for power with the scholar-bureaucrats.

The bureaucratic and gentry who have never won the whole world, even the emperor is not called, and they have taken a bureaucracy that flatters the literati.

Precisely because of the clarity of this.

Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to reuse Hu Weiyong, who had been seizing power, but became more and more afraid of Hu Weiyong: "Brother, what if we kill all these officials."

Yuansheng Gonggong Rao was a high-ranking monk with deep Buddha nature, but he was still terrified by this sentence: "Your Majesty killed these officials, and the re-appointed officials are still members of the bureaucracy and gentry, so it is impossible to kill all the officials in the world. The scholars are not successful."

"Without scholars, who can help His Majesty govern Daming."

"Furthermore, we have to keep the bureaucrats and gentry to check and balance Hu Weiyong. If Hu Weiyong's family really dominates, it will cause endless harm."

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Yuan Sheng's every sentence was reasonable, so he could only temporarily suppress the idea of ​​killing officials: "We can only temporarily let them go for the sake of the world that is not yet completely peaceful."

"If we continue to be obsessed, we don't mind setting off another empty seal case to let these bureaucrats know that we are not the weak emperors of the Song Dynasty, allowing them to annex the common people's land."

(End of this chapter)