Chapter 469: The Status Quo of Ming Society and the Limitations of Civilian Officials
"What are your solutions?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
Liu Hongxun said in shame: "I am ignorant, but I have not yet had a good idea."
Zhu Youxiao said: "If I want to solve or improve these problems through you, would you be willing to, or even pay your life?"
Liu Hongxun thought that he was over 60 years old and had been in the officialdom for almost twenty years, just waiting until now, and his life was no longer important, so he stood up and said, "I am willing to die for the country."
"Now I will draft an imperial edict to be awarded the Grand Secretary of Liu Aiqing Wenyuan Pavilion, and will be listed as the cabinet, and will be listed after Bi Ziyan. I will also go directly to the Political Affairs Hall to participate in the confidentiality!"
Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered.
"I obey the order!"
Yuan Keli and Liu Hongxun replied.
Next, Zhu Youxiao began to negotiate other ministers, basically satisfied, but not many were really satisfied.
Except for Liu Hongxun, Zhu Xieyuan entered the Political Affairs Hall, and the rest of the people were just adding cabinet ministers and ministers of the Privy Council, who were only in charge of internal affairs or military affairs, and did not participate in military decision-making.
Zhu Youxiao has further subdivided the responsibilities of the Ministers in charge of military Privy Council and the Cabinet in charge of internal affairs.
For example, if the cabinet ministers in the cabinet are in charge of a certain type of matter, each department needs to discuss and report to the cabinet ministers in charge of their own affairs, without having to face Emperor Chen directly.
The emperor didn't have that much time to pay attention to the government affairs in various ministries.
After all, Zhu Youxiao was not Zhu Yuanzhang, so he didn't love work so much.
Moreover, the great troubles of the Eastern Captains have been eliminated, and Zhu Youxiao's sense of crisis has completely disappeared. As long as he, the emperor, does not act recklessly, the destruction of the country has nothing to do with him.
In addition, as a time traveler, he did not have such a strong idea of family and world.
He did not expect to die of exhaustion for his descendants' future careers.
What's more, the Ming Dynasty has entered the steam era.
So, he has relaxed a lot now and is not as stressed as before, so he wants to take a break and increase the number of officials in charge, so that he can relax himself.
Of course, this is not to say that Zhu Youxiao planned to just live.
He knew that there were still many systems in the Ming Dynasty that needed reform.
There are also many restless external forces that need to be suppressed.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not plan to really live a retirement life.
However, he wanted to retreat more behind the scenes, hold military power, financial power and official licensing power in his hands, and rent out the power to govern internal affairs, so that a group of officials who dared to do things would continue to charge for him in internal affairs reform.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao first changed the court-support system to make the appointment of important officials as consistent with his intentions as possible.
There are various forces within the Ming Dynasty now, which are particularly complex.
Needless to say, princes and nobles, and gentry are prominent.
Because Zhu Youxiao relies on official business to increase the income of the state treasury and treasury, and also to encourage and support the development of industry and commerce to solve the problem of a large number of refugees.
Therefore, the number of workers in the Ming Dynasty is very large now.
Moreover, benefiting from Zhu Youjiao’s social education, in the tenth year of the Apocalypse, there are many children of educated workers.
In addition, the number of merchants is much higher than before.
Also, the number of standing troops has increased.
The number of official schools of the Yulin Guard and the Yong Guard Army has reached more than 200,000.
The number of Jinyiwei also reached more than 150,000.
There is no need to say that Dongchang Anti-Corruption Departments across the country and the number of people in the comprehensive stores is no less than 100,000.
There is also a West Factory responsible for tax collection.
Commercial tax and tariffs are much more responsible than agricultural tax collection, so there are more official schools in the West Factory than those in the Jinyiwei and the East Factory.
Then, there was the scholar. Although Zhu Youxiao was the first to kill scholars, he could not resist his repeated expansion of enrollment. In addition, more and more people could afford to study, so in recent years, the number of scholars has not decreased due to Zhu Youxiao's severe punishments, but has increased significantly.
Many scholars still expressed their dissatisfaction with the current court in various ways, while still flocking to take the scientific examination, honestly writing eight-legged essays, and then becoming famous scholars.
After all, no matter how Zhu Youxiao uses various methods, such as Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and trusted officials, the Censorate monitors all officials, and strictly prohibits embezzlement and bribery, but there are still many privileges to be an official, so naturally many people still want to be an official.
Workers, businessmen, soldiers, scholars, and farmers and landlords who have always existed.
These people from different classes have their own interests.
And the backgrounds they live in are also different.
Therefore, the thoughts are different.
There are those who want to limit the power of the monarchy, limit the power of the government, and allow the interests of industries controlled by the government to be given to the public.
Some people still want the court to lenient punishment or even fail to punish the doctor.
Some people still want the court to reduce taxes and taxes.
Some people also want the court to continue to expand their territory.
Some people even want the court to pay the employer who has owed wages to be fined.
For Yuan Keli, Bi Ziyan and Liu Hongxun, who had just entered the Political Affairs Hall, it was still difficult to manage the current Ming Dynasty well.
"Bige Lao, the Weaving Bureau reported that the Weaving Bureau's operations have made 30% less profit than last year. Because the spinning machine and weaving machine manufacturing skills were obtained by the large private weaving companies through various methods and improved them. Later, the mature workers of the Weaving Bureau were poached with higher salary, which greatly reduced the profits of the Weaving Bureau. Therefore, the Weaving Bureau requested an order to strictly control the workers of the Weaving Bureau's free choice of employers. In the following view, workers should intervene more, otherwise it will affect the treason for the imperial court's treason. Therefore, the plan is that unless the workers of the Weaving Bureau are fired, they will not be allowed to change their employers. If they do not go to the Weaving Bureau for work without reason, they will be detained for the crime of dereliction of duty. The minority is to be punished with 60 sticks, and the worst is to be exiled. Do you think?"
Li Guopu, a new Grand Secretary who cooperated with Bi Ziyan to handle economic government affairs, reported this matter to Bi Ziyan.
Although Bi Ziyan once took the initiative to put in place refugees and avoid them from causing trouble, it is not to say that he is really advanced in his mind to really take the interests of the proletariat into consideration.
What he is more concerned with is the interests of the Ming court.
Therefore, Bi Ziyan nodded and said, "It's really a lack of people's hearts! Is the salary of the Weaver Bureau not high enough? These workers are still interested in love! In this way, the Weaver Bureau employees are not allowed to apply for dismissal, nor are they allowed to return to the Weaver Bureau for work without reason. If they violate it, the department will deal with it!"
Although the vote is not an imperial edict, because the central government has a lot of government affairs, the vote is often the final result of the vote is an imperial edict.
Bi Ziyan is now the authority in the court in managing money, grain and economy, and is deeply trusted by Emperor Zhu Youxiao and the chief assistant Yuan Keli.
Therefore, Bi Ziyan's view eventually became an imperial edict.
However, Zhu Youxiao would still take time to flip through these decrees that were ignored by him because they did not involve military and national affairs.
On this day, Zhu Youxiao happened to find this imperial edict in his spare time to prepare for the emperor's random inspection.
After reading it, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but say, "Good guy, there is no spirit of contract! When encountering this kind of problem, the first thing that comes to mind is to oppress hired workers, not to improve himself. My Ming Dynasty court is indeed not the court that decides for hired workers! Even if the officials are loyal and promising, they are not really the one who regards the people as their own."
Zhu Youxiao knocked on the bronze chime because of this.
Soon, Wang Chengen walked in: "What are the emperor's instructions?"
Chapter completed!