Jingming

Chapter 281 The country is the most important thing, isn't the Tian family second?
The young Yan Shifan has not seen his father for a long time, so he is very excited now.

He was excited that his father had been promoted very quickly and was already the governor of Zhejiang, but also that he felt that he had grown up a lot and wanted to show off.

"There are discussions everywhere about His Majesty changing the name of the three halls." Yan Shifan had one eye full, "My son feels that this is the most important thing for His Majesty to tell the people all over the world."

Thirteen years old, Yan Song looked at his son who was growing taller, and knew in his heart that his son was more and more eager to be an official.

His Majesty put him in Jinyi Weiwei School, but Yan Song didn't take him with him.

Now that it is rare to come back, Yan Song also wants to seize the opportunity to mention him more.

"The emphasis on practice is only a trivial aspect of this matter."

Hearing what Yan Song said, Yan Shifan couldn't help being stunned.

negligible?

But who is Yan Song?
His ability to figure out the meaning is almost among the best in Manchao.

He had to think carefully about some things to mention to his son, and he must not make a mistake—the housekeeper in Jingzhong had a letter to report that the young master had been hanging out with the school captain in Jinyi for a long time, and now he is no longer bothered by eye problems.

In other words: Your son is getting more and more flamboyant now.

What if the big mouth gets out?
So Yan Song thought about it for a long time, but said to his son: "The key is in the Chinese characters."

Yan Shifan didn't understand.

Country... what's wrong?
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Yang Tingyi has been serving as Minister of the Ministry of War for six or seven years, and now he has finally risen to become the governor of the second rank.

"After serving in Jiangxi for three years, I will invite you to become an official, or just seek a post as a military staff officer." In Yang Tinghe's study, he said to Yang Tingyi, "The Yang family is in your and my generation, so we can't try to get in. Jingzhi and I have an old friendship, but Zhong is my protégé, and you are my younger brother. With the strength of the four of us, we will go to the south of the Yangtze River to pull out the cocoon and strip the silk. In the future, the Yang family can only rely on the generation of Yongxiu and His Majesty to protect him. on."

Yang Tingyi still didn't understand: "The Prime Minister and Minister of State, why did you give in? It's His Majesty..."

Yang Tinghe shook his head immediately: "This is the best choice!"

After a pause, he said solemnly: "The names of the three major palaces all focus on the national characters. The emperor is the father of the emperor, and the world is one family. For thousands of years, the monarchs of all dynasties have always lived in the world. Now your majesty wants to let all the people in the palace Purchasing at the expense of the policy requires the imperial family to use things in order to be self-sufficient, and it is even more important to set up a minister with real power. Your majesty is magnificent, but I think of what your majesty once said in the imperial study."

Yang Tingyi never attended the Imperial Study Room, so she asked with concentration, "What did you say?"

"In the 16th year of Zhengde, Tuen Mun was defeated." Yang Tingyi explained the background, and then said, "Your Majesty has something to say, the war in Guangdong is that there are small families in Guangdong and Guangxi without a country, fear of defeat and fear of defeat, selfish desires and forgetting the origin! This is not the second official rule The word can be generalized, in fact, the land of the Ming Dynasty respects the Zhu family and shares it, and divides it for selfish interests! The people of Dongguan still know that they will sacrifice their lives to defend the land and fight for defeat, but most of my officials in the Ming Dynasty have families and forget the country. Those who don’t keep it in private!”

Yang Tingyi was terrified.

Yang Tinghe had to convince his younger brother.

I have already been the chief assistant, and it really doesn't make much difference whether I am the prime minister or not.But because of himself, Yang Tingyi could only stay out of Jiuqing, and he still wanted to reach the first-rank position one day.

Yan Song didn't dare to tell Yan Shifan thoroughly, but Yang Tinghe could, because Yang Tingyi had been in officialdom for a long time.

"Imperial power is at the top, and the power of the prime minister reappears in the world. How will the struggle between the monarchs and the prime ministers change? Naturally, the emperor still sits on the four seas, so who will carry the word of this country? The most dangerous thing is to put the country first, and the family of heaven Isn't it next?"

After three consecutive questions, Yang Tingyi finally understood the danger.

In the past, the relationship between the monarch and his ministers was that of "father and son".There is also a "father-son" relationship between the Son of Heaven and the people of the world.The emperor, the head of the family, naturally has complete control over the world's property and even the lives of his subjects. The so-called thunder, rain and dew are all benevolent to the king, and the son should not blame the father.

Now the emperor puts the country above the family, so what is the country?How to handle the relationship between the kingdom and the heavenly family?
Yang Tinghe sighed: "The chief assistant of the cabinet is easier to do than the prime minister and the minister of state! There are the emperor and the national policy conference to restrain him, and the six state ministers each receive a restraint, and the factory guards, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Director of Public Security are not responsible. Listen to the tune and listen to the announcement, there are all provinces and people to govern well. I am not afraid of difficulties, but the Yang family is already on the top of the huge waves, and we must not make mistakes again, or give people the truth. I let the virtuous, it is necessary to open this The head. Fei Zichong is also smart, and he will definitely let the virtuous after one full term."

"...If you have been in office for several years or even ten years, you are really a powerful minister, and the emperor will be more suspicious."

In front of her own brother, Yang Tingyi is not afraid to speak out in private.

"Exactly. The imperial power is at the top. Although this prime minister is powerful, he is too hot to handle." Yang Tinghe said to him solemnly, "It's better to do something practical, so that His Majesty can read it in his heart, which is worse than anything else."

"……I understand."

Both of them were thinking about the situation in the past few years. Now that the emperor took the initiative to release some powers, how could it be aimed at the "new party" that was inflated by the new law in Ming Dynasty?

The character of the country is reflected everywhere, and if the officials of the world want to keep the country in their hearts, what exactly is a country?Who is the symbol of the country?

If the prime minister and the minister of state accidentally make the hearts of the people return, can His Majesty really abandon the supreme imperial power?

There is no second day, Daming, the first Prime Minister and Minister of State, what is he thinking now?

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"Thank you behind closed doors!"

Fei Hong's head hurts very much.

He used to be a cabinet minister in the capital, and knew that he went to Sichuan just to cooperate with acting, so the Fei family's house is naturally still there.

Now he is only a candidate, and other counselors may be reserved, but the local provinces and even the officials in Nanjing are rushing to post posts to see him.

Some things have to be tasted slowly to taste more. After Fei Hong was "surprised" by Yang Tinghe, he finally calmed down from the excitement and excitement of being the first Prime Minister and Minister of State.

I was fooled!

How to balance the interests of the six ministers of state, the remaining "old party" and the new law? These are trivial matters, so take your time.

The biggest problem is the erosion of the monarchy by the Prime Minister and Minister of State.

The emperor is still young and intelligent, and the imperial power is stable. Now he has released part of the government power on his own initiative. The more he thinks about it, the prime minister and minister of state become more and more like a housekeeper who takes the blame.

Financial planning, people's livelihood, culture and education, internal thieves, external enemies... In the future, whenever something goes wrong, there will be a clear and supreme responsible person.

In the past, the cabinet ministers only proposed some disposal plans through votes, which were collective opinions in name, but in the future, the prime minister and the minister of state cannot avoid it-there is no Zhu criticism, isn't it all the decision of the prime minister?
If you don't do it well, you'll be left with a vegetarian meal, and you'll have a bad reputation forever.

Well done, aren't you equivalent to a half emperor?
Fei Hong was most troubled by why the emperor did this.

Now in essence, the chief minister of the cabinet is equivalent to the prime minister.If the emperor wanted to take it easy, he could just take care of the imperial study room and the supervisor of ceremonies, and criticize and reject the cabinet's many government affairs that were about to delegate power.

Do you really want to let the Ming Dynasty move towards the rule of the monarch and his ministers?

This involves the concern of the courtiers for their own safety and security. At least in the Song Dynasty, there was a so-called ancestral motto "Do not kill scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty". What about Daming?

Besides, what are the ancestors' precepts?Didn't the old man Taizu clearly say that if there is any further discussion about setting up a prime minister, he will be cut off.

No one can kill the emperor now.

But the emperor can kill the prime minister and minister of state.

Fei Hong had nothing else to do, even if it was just a show, he began to write the dictionary overnight.

First of all, it is absolutely impossible to just sit in that seat cheerfully, the emperor always has to reveal his true thoughts and give some protection.

For this official position, the so-called "three privileges" of counseling are really not enough.

The court counselors and the gentry in the capital still only know that the three halls have been renamed, and that an expanded national policy meeting will be held soon.

They didn't know that in the "preparatory meeting" before this national policy meeting, many major issues had actually been decided in the name of discussing the draft strategy.Those who participated in the meeting in the Palace of National Policy, like the previous counselors, were asked to keep it secret for the time being.

Not confidential?Hu Lie Lie?
After the Huguang Rebellion, do you still dare to underestimate the strength of the factory guard?

Therefore, Yan Song and his son only clicked on the key points of the name change of the three halls. Yang Tinghe only chatted with his younger brother who has been elected as the governor of Jiangxi and will attend the meeting later. The people who came to visit Fei Hong were also senior officials who knew about it. .

The main topic of discussion in the capital is still the new four-title system, which is the business profiles and job recruitments of [-] state-owned enterprises published in Ming Pao.

Afraid of delaying the time, I rushed to the capital before the Chinese New Year, and by the way, I sent a poem to contact my fellow villagers. The students of my mentor are all worried about the next year's exam: won't they have to use simplified characters and a new style of answering paper?Can you take the new study?Give me a word from the Ministry of Rites!
The Ministry of Rites just didn't comment.

Zhu Houcong smiled a bit wickedly when he heard the daily status of officials in Beijing and major events in the capital presented by Jin Yiwei.

I will still express my position, but it can be slower, at least it will be published in the next issue or even later in the Ming Pao: I have only recently heard that Mingke's candidates have many doubts about the examination. After deliberation, the Ministry of Rites issued a special report...

For a few months, with the wisdom of the people and their concern for fame, the simplified characters and the new style can probably be familiarized with.

As for making a mistake in preparing for the exam?This is the test for thousands of troops to cross the single-plank bridge. Does it depend on the temporary cramming for a few months?

Exam candidates are really depressed now.

It's rare that the governor and vassals of his province are also in Beijing at this time, so don't you care about the results of the provincial exam next year?
Before leaving, there will always be special banquets, encouragement, and advice before leaving!

Now, I can't even hear back from the poems and essays I delivered, let alone meet and hear the wind.

How did they know that these governors, vassals, and high-ranking officials who they regarded as high-ranking and influential officials were all focusing on the upcoming national policy meeting.

What a big change, how many good positions have been created!Not every position is like the Prime Minister, Minister of State, the newly added Minister of State, Minister of the Ministry of War, etc. At present, only one candidate is elected.

There are less than ten days until the national policy conference is officially held, so why don't they make good contact and exchange opinions?
This is a personnel change that has a greater impact than the "controversy between the old and the new party" in the court hall in the first year of Jiajing.

Huang Jin is also very busy, but what he is busy with now is different from others.

Of Zhang Zuo, Huang Jin, Mai Fu, and Zhang Zuo, the four major palace ministers, only Huang Jin, Zhang Zuo, and Zhang Zuo are still in the palace, but each has a division of labor.

Zhang Zuo is in charge of the supervisor of ceremonies. He is responsible for the management of the eunuchs, the liaison with the local guarding eunuchs, and the connection between the inner court and the outer court. Zhang Zuo is mainly responsible for Huangzhuang, Huangming University, and Huang Jin. In addition to the internal file department and the factory guard, there are many more things related to the purchase of the sixteen state-owned enterprises and the construction of the palace.

The person reporting to him now is the news from the supervising eunuch dispatched by the Ming Pao Bank.

"Huang Dadang, can you send some more craftsmen from the imperial prison and other places? There are a lot of dictionaries, and the manpower for engraving is too short. The newspaper office has vacated a few temporary houses, but there are no people!"

It turned out that many saltworks, copperworks, etc. were originally in charge of the inner court, and the eunuchs were in charge of many of the sixteen state-owned enterprises.Now they are all converted into the "shares" of the emperor, so the emperor naturally has to send someone to represent them.It's just that those who used to be called admirals and promotions are now named supervising eunuchs, but they only have the power to check accounts and the obligation to communicate.

Huang Jin asked, "Why do you want so much all of a sudden?"

"All the provinces have sent people to Ming Pao to order. Besides, the booksellers in the capital are the ones who want the most, presumably because they will try it next year."

"...Understood, you go back first, and I will play to His Majesty."

Back in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he explained the situation.

Zhu Houcong put down his pen and thought about it.

"All companies are robbing craftsmen, right?"

Huang Jin sighed: "Yes. For this matter, every family is almost arguing with the servants and the Ministry of Industry. In the past, in the artisan households in Beijing, Jinyiwei, the inner court and the Ministry of Industry were the most in charge."

The craftsmen who are regarded as voluntary service and given some food and salary, now have to sign formal employment agreements with these [-] companies, determine their salaries and make up a roster. In addition to recruiting high-end talents on "Ming Pao", they are still scrambling artisan.

It all depends on the start-up funds in hand at this time, and the salaries of the craftsmen don't need to be paid now.

Those who dare not rob, I am afraid that there are only those craftsmen who are still responsible for making some utensils for the palace without implementing the procurement policy.

"Then transfer some people as appropriate, there are some things in the palace that are not urgently needed."

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has a decree, and Princess Yongchun's wedding needs can't be missed."

Zhu Houcong was speechless immediately: "What's the hurry!"

His younger sister, who is not yet married, is only fifteen years old.

After making a decision, transfer some people first. Maybe the profession is not right, but after all, they are all skilled craftsmen serving the royal family. It is no problem to do something with less professional skills in response to emergencies.

"Speak to Ming Pao and give them a daily salary."

"The servant knows."

"Re-deliver the decree to the University College and Ming Pao. In the future, the number of printed newspapers and books will be large, which can encourage the research and development of innovative appliances and new techniques. If it is effective, they can all report to me and award them with titles and even titles. "

From engraving to movable type, China's printing technology is naturally not bad.

However, the current printing technology still has a lot of room for improvement in movable type casting, ink, typesetting and printing technology.

The needs of other enterprises in terms of technological improvement have not yet been highlighted, but at this point in time, Ming Pao has suddenly exploded in demand, using simplified characters and new styles as the printing method, and publishing important government decrees as an irreplaceable carrier.

Natural thinking is naturally a heap of manpower.Although the new engraving factory has not yet been built, it is easy to vacate space in the capital, and there is a way to find more craftsmen.

But Zhu Houcong did not forget his own goal of setting up these enterprises besides expanding financial resources.

Zhu Houcong was still writing.

After finishing writing, he will give it to Lin Xiyuan to polish it.

The next issue of "Ming Pao" will be published on the day when the National Policy Conference is officially held. Today's typesetting and printing efficiency is limited, so it is natural to allow enough time for preparation.

The editorial department led by Lin Xiyuan has almost prepared other content, but the headlines on the front page are reserved for Zhu Houcong.

Following the new system of four titles, Ming Pao will have another big hit on the front page.

This heavyweight is a letter "written by Zhu Houcong" as the emperor himself to the subjects of the world.

In addition, there is a "His Majesty the Emperor Answers the Editor-in-Chief of Ming Pao Ten Questions".

At the same time, Lin Xiyuan was still working overtime, reviewing the manuscript he wrote again in the editing room.

"Ming Pao Editorial Department Recruitment Notice".

With the full-time members of the original Hanlin academic team in the editorial department, it is really difficult to support the content editing task of Ming Pao every [-] days.

What's more, he did not forget the original intention of the emperor to establish "Ming Pao" - to guide the world's public opinion.

This thing can start now.

The manuscripts of these contributors are naturally not published as soon as they are handed over.If there are suggestions for revision, it is inconvenient to exchange letters, and the writers in Beijing are close to the water, so they can naturally gain a better reputation by virtue of the promise of being able to sign.

Lin Xiyuan can already imagine the long-term impact of this incident: the center of gravity in the literary world may gradually shift north from Jiangnan;

There are many scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, but now the imperial court does not allow local newspapers to run, unless the Ming Pao Bank has a licensed branch.

During the long period of time from being a scholar in the exam to being a Jinshi, how many people who have no intention of official career but want to be famous will gradually gather in Beijing or the north?
Reminiscent of the planning of Beijing’s Southwest Suburb Heavy Industry Park and Southeast Suburb Qiaogong Park that will be published in this issue, it is His Majesty’s efforts to gather the strength of several of the [-] state-owned enterprises to develop the interests of industry and commerce in the north. Taxes also overwhelmed the strategy of Jiangnan taxation as the most important thing in Ming Dynasty.

These things, because I communicated with the emperor a lot, and because I was originally a leader among the officials and gentry - Hanlin Bachelor, so I can see that possible future.

But what about more people?
Lin Xiyuan once again looked at the "His Majesty the Emperor Answers the Ten Questions of the Editor-in-Chief of the Ming Daily", which he had indeed asked His Majesty during the meeting, and then wrote. Looking at Lin Xiyuan and His Majesty Jiajing below, he felt My heart is hot.

After this episode, everyone in the world will know his name, Lin Xiyuan!

(End of this chapter)