Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

Zhu Cihong stood in front of the three of them, only separated by a table, he pointed to the cherries on the plate, and motioned for the three to taste them.

"Your Highness. Each

of the three of them picked up a cherry and tasted it, and they didn't continue to taste the second one, which is also sold in Longmen Department Store, and it can still be eaten often, but it's just a little expensive, but everyone thinks it's worth it, because you can't eat this fruit in this season.

"As for the question you just mentioned, this palace knows that now the officialdom of my Ming Dynasty is that you have me, I have you, especially the magistrates, which are complicated.

Zhu Cihong returned to his seat, leaned back, and said, "So the palace plans to use newcomers." "

Your Highness is talking about Kaienke?"

"This kind of thing is good in the minister's opinion. Fan

Jingwen could only think of Kaienke when he heard this, only in this way can the court have a large number of new people injected, and it can not have anything to do with the magistrates, and it can supplement many positions.

"Aren't all the current scholars taught by some of the same academies?" Zhu

Cihong shook his head with a smile, and said: "Moreover, those who can read and learn from high school are all supported by the gentry and wealthy people, so these people are officials, and collusion between officials and businessmen is the norm."

As soon as these words came out, the three of them were embarrassed, although His Royal Highness's words were straightforward, but they were not reasonable, and they also knew very well in their hearts that the people from the previous high school and the next batch of high school people were all students handed over by the same academies, especially in the area of Jiangnan, what Donglin Academy, Fushe, and Zhejiang Party were all students taught by these factions.

"Your Highness, you can't generalize.

Sun Chengzong stood up and said that he himself was a member of the Donglin Party, and the party was not everything that bound people, but just a faction.

That's a good thing, but the real clear stream is only a few.

Zhu Cihong didn't hide it at all when he spoke to the three of them, and said directly: "The plan of this palace is not to open Enke, but to enable those who are idle at home, the next level of talents, and even Gongsheng."

"Your Royal Highness, this ......" Fan Jingwen was directly stunned when he heard this, and said a little incredible: "It is barely

able to be an official, the county and the state are generally the top of the sky, and Xiucai and Gongsheng are not qualified to be officials at all!" "Your Highness

, the minister also thinks it is inappropriate, if Xiucai and Gongsheng can be officials, then it is too unfair for those students who have studied hard for ten years to be able to go to high school, so it doesn't chill the hearts of people in the world?"

Ni Yuanlu is also a rare dissenting opinion, what are you kidding, which of these officials is not a Jinshi on the top list, if you can become an official by reading casually, then it is still ten years old, what are you doing in high school.

Zhu Cihong smiled bitterly, he knew that this decision would cause opposition, which was indeed unfair to those in high school, but a good study does not necessarily mean that he is strong, and he may also be a brute who does not do practical things, and has a human face and a beast heart, in this case, it is not better for him to use brutes directly, and there are not so many.

"Then why do these scholars want so many privileges

?" Zhu Cihong asked directly: "Since you can't do something for the country and the people, isn't the privilege of literati not paying taxes for nothing?"

"This ......"

Fan Jingwen was speechless, he really didn't know how to refute this, he could only use ancestral training to talk about things, but he knew that this would not work.

"The meaning of this palace is not to let these talents become officials unconditionally all of a sudden, but there are exams, but not the kind of exams of the imperial examination, but targeted exams.

Zhu Cihong directly interrupted Ni Yuanlu, who was about to speak, and explained to the three of them: "For example, now I want to be the head of a Daming money bank, so I will specialize in this matter, and there is a probation period, that is, a probationary period of half a year, if you don't do well, you will be dismissed directly, only if you do well, talented people will become official officials."

"Then, if you want to be promoted again in the future, it is not enough to have merit, you have to continue to take the exam and be promoted to a talent, but those in the imperial examination high school do not have this requirement, isn't there still a difference." "

What do you think?" he

explained, and looked at the three of them with a faint smile.

Fan Jingwen and Ni Yuanlu saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince like this, I was afraid that it would be useless for them to say anything, and this method would indeed distinguish between the two, so that the high school students would not lose their identities too much and barely accept it.

"Okay. The

two reluctantly agreed.

"This decree does not need to be issued to the world first, but first issued in several remote provinces, focusing on the use of poor people, and the area in the south of the Yangtze River should not be issued first, the first batch of people entering the household, the palace does not want to use the people here. Zhu

Cihong specially instructed this, he was about to engage in Jiangnan gentry and official business, how could he still use people from the Jiangnan area, of course, he wanted to use people from remote areas, and he also wanted to use people from poor families.

"Commandment. "

Yes, they can see that His Royal Highness doesn't like those literati and scholars in Jiangnan, especially scholars, this is all done by Donglin, Fushe, and the Zhejiang Party, and most of the corrupt officials are people from Jiangnan.

"The next thing is the matter of the household department, and it is also the most important thing.

Zhu Cihong suddenly put away his smiling face, picked up a stack of papers on the table, and said, "This is the salt tax calculated last night, you can take it and take a look."

When Ni Yuanlu heard this, he panicked inexplicably, the salt tax is too sensitive, and the involvement is much more serious than the previous ones, Daming Qianzhuang, the Grain Reserve Division, and the Taxation Department only move the interests of officials, but the salt tax moves the officials, the gentry, the wealthy businessmen, and the family are all offended, and even the clan is also engaged in private salt.

He walked over and picked up the papers and looked at them carefully, looking at them, his heart was pounding, and his face was shocked, the salt tax before the Ming Dynasty was only one million, but according to the accounts, if the salt tax was complete, it would be at least more than 10 million.

"The minister is guilty!" Ni

Yuanlu immediately knelt down, he couldn't collect taxes, the household department was responsible, and he, the household secretary, was even more responsible.

"The two elders took a look.

Zhu Cihong said to Fan Jingwen and Sun Chengzong again.

When the two of them heard this, they also stepped forward and spread out the paper on the table, and looked at it together, and after a while, their faces also changed greatly, and they knelt on the ground together to plead guilty.

They know that the salt tax has never been raised, and they also know that one million is probably less than the collection, but they didn't expect it to be so much less, more than 10 million, if the salt tax is complete, then the financial problem of the Ming Dynasty is enough to solve it perfectly.

However, it can be seen from this how deep the salt water is, much deeper than they know.

"The year before last, the palace decreed that all salt in the country should not be sold to local salt merchants privately, and all of them should be shipped to the Agricultural Affairs Department for processing, and then sold by the Longmen Chamber of Commerce.

Zhu Cihong's tone was very serious, and he said dissatisfiedly: "But after more than a year, this will sink into the sea, what should the local people do, you don't plan to take care

of it?" "Also, the salt tax of one million a year was so small before, as a household secretary, you don't think it's wrong?"

Ni Yuanlu knelt on the ground, sweating profusely, he knew His Highness's methods, don't look at His Highness's soft-spoken now, but if he can't say why, it will definitely be sad, and he really can't understand His Highness, what he said before is still hiding from the people to collect fire, His Highness is light-hearted, and he doesn't plan to pursue it, how can he pay so much attention to the salt tax.

"Your Royal Highness, in fact, this salt tax drawbacks are not a secret, from Emperor Taizu to the present has been rectified many times, but this private salt can not be fought at all, salt merchants and officials around the country collude with each other, plus rich businessmen, as well as civil and military nobles everywhere, and even the clan is eating private salt, this has formed a huge interest group, the salt consumed is a huge number, the officials who have always checked the salt, are in vain, really to be more honest and clear, such a huge group of chaos, must shake the country, after so many dynasties, the first emperors are clear, salt this item, simply can not be investigated。

Ni Yuanlu had no choice but to bite the bullet and tell the truth that everyone in the Ming officialdom knows.

"Your Royal Highness, not only the will of salt cannot be complied with everywhere, but also the previous policies, I am afraid that they cannot be complied with, although the ministers and Ni Butang and Sun Butang are cabinet assistants, but with the three of us, we can't move the interests of so many local officials in the country, and we can only operate according to the original state, because the interests in this are too big to move, and no one can move them, otherwise the first emperor would have moved.

Fan Jingwen also knelt on the ground and said helplessly, although he was very much in favor of His Highness's policy and admired His Highness's talent, but it was one thing to pass on the decree, and after the decree went down, it was another thing whether the officials from all over the country would obey it, and he could only say it clearly at this time.

Under the stormy Ming Dynasty, there are Jiannu outside, and there are anti-thieves inside, and Jingshi's control over the local area has dropped sharply!