Idle courtiers

Chapter 463 The Eve of the Great Change ([-])

Zhou Nan: "According to the Qingzhou government's plea, it is not a big deal for the cabinet, the supervisor of ceremonies, and even the emperor. It is also a kind of grace, but they have to consider the consequences of doing so and the resulting consequences. influences."

"As soon as this case is opened, the local government will definitely come up with many reasons to demand the full implementation of the color reduction. Yes, Wen Jiang, you are right, this is a great thing that benefits the country and the people. However, this will involve the government affairs of the court. Many changes. For example, the calculation method of national fiscal revenue and expenditure, and even related institutional changes.”

"This is a ground-breaking change, and it will inevitably touch the jobs of the old vested interests. How can it be so easy?"

"The changes in the past dynasties are rarely without bloodshed. Shang Yang, Wu Qi, and Wang Anshi are all like this. How can we not be cautious?"

"All officials in the DPRK and China are quiet and don't like to move. How many things have happened in the country in the past two years, and there will be another big change. How to deal with the situation?"

"Reform needs to be changed, but it cannot be rushed. Let Xu do it."

After listening to Zhou Nan's words, Shi Wenjiang didn't expect such a deep meaning behind the matter, so he took a breath of air: "The wind blows from the end of Qingping, but you can still see through it from a high altitude!"

In fact, Zhou Nan's status in his mind was not too high before. In the final analysis, he was an outstanding literary servant under his father's previous staff.It's just because of his extraordinary resourcefulness and the opportunity to meet the wind and clouds that he has reached his current position.

After all, it is a bureaucracy.

Hearing what he said today, I am very impressed, the so-called unparalleled national scholars are nothing more than that, the central decision-making body really trains people.

That's right, what Zhou Nan was talking about was the "One Whip Law" in Zhang Juzheng's reform, which is to convert all taxes and corvees into silver.The state gets the money to buy materials on its own, hires young and strong, no longer accepts goods in kind, and does not recruit civilian husbands.

Also because of this reform, when Zhang Taiyue died, there were still more than 1000 million taels of silver in the treasury.It was because the national treasury was full that the later three major Wanli campaigns were able to continue the life of the Ming Dynasty for more than 80 years.

The Dharma is a good Dharma, but there are many difficulties in implementing it.First of all, you have to clear the land.

After all, digital management implemented by a whip method must have accurate data for decision-making.As for clearing the land, it will touch the interests of the gentry all over the world.In this way, officials must work without effort.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng came up with a set of "Examination Method", which is tested every year and every month.Once the official fails to complete the task, I'm sorry, you leave me.

In this way, the New Deal was implemented.

Zhou Nan traveled to the Ming Dynasty for more than a year, and there were already groups of wives and concubines, with children around his knees.He has completely integrated into this era, so naturally he will not just watch his descendants become slaves to the northern invaders in the future.In a few decades, the Jianzhou Jurchen will rise, and it is estimated that I may not be there by that time.However, as a time traveler, speaking to Dali, you must do your part for the country and the nation.To put it bluntly, it is also for my own children and grandchildren.

For the future reform of Longwan, he still wants to promote it.

This major reform is an offending job, and the resistance encountered is not small, so there must be a strong person to preside over it.

The current cabinet has been completely fragmented in the hands of Jiajing, and Zhou Nan also helped in this.Without a chief assistant like Zhang Juzheng, who has such power over the government and the public, it would be impossible to carry out this reform now.

Could it be that history will choose me to replace Zhang Juzheng as the great reformer of power ministers?

Zhou Nan's vest suddenly felt cold, and he immediately put this thought behind him.Be Zhang Juzheng, what a joke!
The fate of Lao Zhang was not good. After his death, his coffin was opened and his body was slaughtered. Even his son was starved to death at home.I'm just a little husband who eats, drinks, plays, and enjoys life. I'm not interested in doing things like this for the country and the nation.

Hearing Zhou Nan finish talking about the joints, after all, he is also a scholar and has the feelings of taking the world as his own responsibility. Shi Wenjiang suddenly sighed quietly: "Such a good law cannot be implemented. If everyone is willing to take the responsibility The historical responsibility that I should shoulder, where will this country go? Yasheng said: Is my son so brave? I have heard that he is braver than my master. I am not shrinking from myself. Although I am brown and broad, I am not worried; Instead, I shrank, although there are tens of millions of people, I will go! Could it be that the words of the saints have been read in vain?"

Zhou Nan: "Someone will do it, definitely will. Today there is Yan Shangshu, tomorrow there may be other people. With the beginning, this trend cannot be stopped."

Yes, as far as Zhou Nan knows, although the great reforms in Longwan originated in the Longqing Dynasty, they were finally fully promoted in the Wanli year when Zhang Juzheng was in power.But in fact, at the end of the Jiajing Year, the imperial court and people of insight also noticed that there were not small problems in the central finance, which needed to be changed, and many fine-tunings were made.

In fact, Zhang Juzheng's reform was not the result of him alone, but a political revolution spanning three dynasties.It's just that Lao Zhang's methods were too extreme, and he blindly used strong medicine, which finally aroused the reaction of the entire civil society.

Zhang Taiyue's problem is that he did not clarify an important issue: who is our enemy and who is our friend, and failed to win over potential supporters, so that he pushed moderate reform supporters into the hostile camp.

Yan Na sent the staff member surnamed Wang to communicate with him today, not just to intercede for the prefect of Qingzhou.

Maybe there is a moderate reform force standing behind him.

This is interesting.

In fact, Zhou Nan also tends to moderate reforms.When he was teaching in the inner school, he also continued to instill in the students the content and ideas of Zhang Juzheng's reform in the future. What he wanted was to subtly influence the management brands of the inner court in the next few decades, and prepare for the thoughts and public opinion of the big reform.

Maybe Yan Na came to communicate with me just because he heard some rumors?

Unexpectedly, Yan Shangshu still has such ambitions in his old age.

That's right, none of the ancient literati had no feelings for family and country!
Zhou Nan and Shi Wenjiang walked in the snow while pointing out Jiangshan's exciting words. The more they talked, the more excited they became, and they broke up after walking a long way.

When they got home, the family members were shocked to see Zhou Nan's head covered in snow.

Xun Fang couldn't help complaining: "The master has been seriously ill for just one month, and his body is still weak. How can he walk in the snow? What should he do if he catches a cold?"

"It's okay, my body is recovering well, where is Sanya?"

Xun Fang said: "Yunniang sent people to send a lot of toys, all for the children to play with, and Sanya is playing in her room!"

Zhou Nan was greatly surprised: "Did Yunniang write?"

"I received a letter, and I also sent a lot of things, saying it was a gift for the old man and his wife."

Zhou Nan: "Show me the letter quickly."

(End of this chapter)