Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 185 Cross-Supervision
"The literary talent is not bad, the censor who wrote this article is called Zuo Guangxian?"

After watching Qin Zhe, Chongzhen asked with a smile, "I remember he is Zuo Guangdou's younger brother?"

"Yes." Zhu Cihong replied, "This is just a rotten Confucian's opinion, so my father doesn't need to pay attention to it."

"Hey, Hong'er, what you said is wrong." Chongzhen said with a straight face, "The other nine items are fine, but the seventh item is very insightful."

"Article [-]?" Zhu Cihong hurriedly opened the memorial.

I saw the words on it: [-]. The wealth of the world is managed by one person and one government. Over time, malpractice will inevitably arise, and corruption will inevitably be rampant. Lu Jinshen, merchants and businessmen greet each other, and when they enter, the big and small affairs of the mansion will be settled with one word. Although no bad deeds have been seen for a while, it may not last for a long time.

"This?" Zhu Cihong was a little suspicious of his father for a moment.

Logically speaking, the House of Internal Affairs was created by the Royal Father alone, and the original intention of the Royal Father to establish the House of Internal Affairs was because there were too many outdated rules and bad habits in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, resulting in overstaffing and inefficiency. Bypass the civil servants.

But listening to what the emperor said just now, it seems that he doesn't trust the Ministry of Internal Affairs so much?

Immediately, Zhu Cihong frowned and asked: "Father, do you really intend to let Yushi supervise the House of Internal Affairs?"

"Let's not discuss this for now." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "There is no one else here now, only you and you, the heir of the Ming Dynasty, are here. Let's discuss a problem that countless sages and emperors have wanted to solve since ancient times but have never been able to solve it. Unsolved eternal problem.”

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cihong knew what Chongzhen wanted to say.

Zhu Cihong straightened his face and said: "Father, do you want to say that the officials are corrupt?"

"That's it." Chongzhen said, "How do you think we should put an end to official corruption?"

"This minister can't say it well." Zhu Cihong said, "But I know that Emperor Taizu Gao's iron fist is not effective in deterring. Emperor Zugao treated officials poorly, and the salaries he set for officials were really too low."

Chongzhen laughed and said, "So you mean to increase the salary?"

Zhu Cihong hurriedly said: "This is just the words of my son's family."

"Hey, you don't need to be so cautious in private discussions between father and son." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "It is inevitable to increase the salary of officials, but the emperor wants to ask you, can corruption be curbed just by raising the salary of officials?"

"I'm afraid not." Zhu Cihong said, "We still have to improve the supervision and supervision system for officials."

"How to improve it?" Chongzhen asked again, "Now there are already censors and supervisors. Is it possible to set up another supervisory court to supervise the officials? Then set up another institution to supervise the supervisory court?"

"I'm afraid it's useless to do so." Zhu Cihong smiled wryly, "Emperor Taizu Gao first set up Jinyiwei to monitor hundreds of officials, Emperor Chengzuwen set up East Factory to supervise Jinyiwei, Emperor Xianzong set up West Factory to supervise East Factory, Emperor Wuzong An internal factory was also set up to monitor the western factory, but in the end it was discovered that apart from the addition of a large number of Tiqi and internal servants, which consumed countless money and food from the Ming court, the corruption of officials had not been substantially improved. What they did, it didn't work."

"Hey, you can't say that." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "These measures had a very good effect when they were first introduced, but all the policies in this world are time-sensitive. No matter how perfect a good law is, it will become a bad law, and instead of helping to purify the ranks of officials, it will only increase the country’s financial responsibility, such as the establishment of institutions such as the East Factory, West Factory, and Inner Factory.”

Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen said again: "But then again, we can't stop doing any policy because it has timeliness. In that case, it will become a waste of food because of choking."

Zhu Cihong said: "So, father really intends to let Yu Shi to supervise the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

"Father really has this plan." Chongzhen didn't hide anything about Zhu Cihong, the heir of the Ming Dynasty, and directly confessed, "Father not only intends to let the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate supervise the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also plans to set up a supervision department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to monitor In addition to monitoring the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the department also has the right to supervise the six ministries, five temples, and local officials."

"Father, do you mean cross-supervision and picking on each other?"

Zhu Cihong's eyes lit up, this is a good idea.

"Yes, cross-monitoring and picking on each other!" Chongzhen smiled and said, "However, for this policy to really work, there must be a prerequisite."

"This minister knows." Zhu Cihong's handsome face turned flushed red, "It is to make the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the officials of the six ministries and five temples form an incompatible situation."

"Yes." Chongzhen said with a smile, "We want them to be incompatible with each other and treat each other as enemies."

After a pause, he added: "Not only do we have to make them incompatible now, and treat each other as enemies, but we also need to ensure this through the system in the future."

"Father means to separate their origins!"

Zhu Cihong's face was not only flushed, but his eyes became brighter than ever before: "But how to distinguish their origins?"

"This is also very simple." Chongzhen said, "Separate exams!"

"Separate exam?" Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment, then asked blankly, "How is the split exam?"

Chongzhen said: "The separation of examinations means that the current Ministry of Rites examinations are still retained, and local officials and cabinet members of the six ministries and five temples are still selected through the imperial examinations."

"However, in addition to the Ministry of Rites Examination, there will also be a Guozi Examination."

"If you pass the Imperial Examination, you can enter the Imperial Academy for further study."

"You can enter the Ministry of Internal Affairs as an official after graduating from the Imperial College, and you don't have to be a candidate to participate in the Imperial College Examination, as long as you obtain the student qualifications, you can participate!"

"Wonderful!" Zhu Cihong couldn't help admiring, "This basically forms two groups. If the subjects of the two exams are also set to be incompatible, then the officials from the Ministry of Rites and those from the Imperial College There is really no way for officials to reconcile, so they can keep fighting."

"It's too early for you to say that." Chongzhen was very sober, "There is no policy in this world that can always work, but the timeliness of this method will definitely be more durable than the methods of Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Chengzuwen. , Don’t dare say it for a hundred years, but it’s fine for fifty years.”

After a pause, he continued: "As for what to do if this method fails fifty years later, it can only be up to you or your children and grandchildren to think about it, and I have nothing to do with it."

"Father." Zhu Cihong's face immediately collapsed, "You will definitely live a long life."

"Long life to a hundred years? Heh, have you ever heard of an emperor who lived to be a hundred years old?" Chongzhen said a little lonely, "I'm not greedy. I'll just live long enough to exterminate Jiannu, and I'll leave the rest to you." do it."

Having said that, what Chongzhen thought in his heart was that the reason why the ancient emperors did not live long was because there were too many concubines in the harem, and they cut them down at once. The foundation is also very good, so it should not be a problem to live to be seventy or eighty years old.

So, prince, you are ready to be the prince for fifty years.

Let our father and son become the longest reigning emperor and prince in Chinese history, and it must be passed down as a good story.

Zhu Cihong couldn't guess what was going on in Chongzhen's mind at all, and said excitedly: "So, now let Ma Mingpao and the imperial censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have a grudge and let them fight!"

"That's right, let them fight first." Chongzhen smiled and said again, "You drafted an imperial decree for me, saying that although the ten items listed by Zuo Guang first were mostly speculative, the original intention was good. If there is no way to strengthen the responsible attitude, let the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate conduct a comprehensive audit of the accounts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and ask Zuo Guang to take a look first, is there any corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

"Understood." Zhu Cihong immediately sat down to draft the imperial decree.

While writing, Zhu Cihong asked again: "Father, why don't we make it a common practice now, and ask the censor to check the accounts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs every year or even every quarter?"

"No." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Now the Ministry of Internal Affairs has not yet perfected the organization, and even the powers of affairs have not been fixed. If you become a subsidiary of the Sixth Ministry, then everything you have done before will be in vain.”

"Oh yes." Zhu Cihuang suddenly realized, "Then the will must be made clear, this time is just a special case."

"Yes, just this once." Chongzhen said, "It's just to start a war, to make Ma Mingpao and the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs hate the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and to tell Ma Mingpao what I mean by repurchasing bonds. Yes, but it is absolutely impossible to repurchase at the original price, at most [-]% repurchase.”

Although cutting leeks is very cool, you still have to save some leek roots.

Repurchasing bonds at a price of [-]% will not hurt the root of the leek.

The [-]% price mentioned here refers to [-]% of the issue price, not the highest [-]%.

Therefore, if calculated according to the highest level, it is actually equivalent to [-]%, which is almost like chopping off the ankle, just leaving a little leek root, which can also help the bond market recover as soon as possible.

In addition, there is still thirty million taels left in the accounts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!
Coupled with the dividends from the stock exchange, 1800% of 51 million taels, 918 million taels.

That is to say, there is still nearly [-] million taels of silver left in the account of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is at least no problem to survive Chongzhen's eighteen years of expenses.

What's more, the bond market will definitely reopen later.

Therefore, the Exchange will still have a steady stream of income.

Zhu Cihong quickly wrote the imperial decree, handed it to Chongzhen and said, "Please review the imperial father."

"No need." Chongzhen took the imperial decree, called Wang Chengen in directly, and handed the imperial decree to Wang Chengen for him to arrange for urgent delivery.

After the imperial decree was issued, Chongzhen said again: "Go and ask the Crown Princess and Jionger to come in."

Zhu Cihong hurriedly called Kang Xi in, and Zhu Cijiong also followed.

"Father, what did you say to Brother Huang?" Zhu Cijiong was slightly resentful.

"It's about adults, what do children ask?" Chongzhen said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)