Prime Minister

Chapter 882

After returning to the mansion from Zhongshu, Lu Huiqing thought to himself, after Zhang Yue returned to the court, I, Lu Huiqing, would be alone and helpless in the two mansions.

At this time, Lu Shengqing and Lu Wenqing came out to meet him together. They saw that Lu Huiqing's face was not good, so they asked what was the matter?
Lu Huiqing explained the discussions between the two governments in the past few days. Lu Shengqing thought that the imperial court would buy back the quotations. Wouldn't the quotations in the market be skyrocketing in the future?By coincidence, both of them were interested in making money.

Lu Shengqing said: "Brother, the current trouble is Feng Jing, Zeng Bu, Zheng Xia, not Zhang Duanming!"

Lu Huiqing knew that her younger brother and Zhang Yue got along well in Xihe, so she didn't want them to turn their faces and ask, "Then what can you do?"

Lu Shengqing thought for a while and said, "Brother, you can quote Zhang Zihou first, and Deng Wenyao and the two of you will enter the Bachelor's Academy."

Lu Huiqing said: "Both of you have insufficient qualifications."

Lu Shengqing said: "You don't have to be a Hanlin bachelor if you enter the academy, you can go directly to the academy."

Like the Zhishe Academy, the Zhishen Academy is for supporting party members and allowing those with insufficient qualifications to join the ranks.Both Zhang Dun and Deng Wan have too little qualifications. If Lu Huiqing wants them to enter the Bachelor's College, the only way is to go directly to the Bachelor's College.

Anyway, Lu Huiqing had a two-month glorious experience as a scholar in the Hanlin Academy, so why not use this method to promote Zhang Dun and Deng Wan to the Academy.

It was nothing more than a few words of "lucky progress" criticized by the ruling and opposition parties.

Lu Wenqing said at the side: "It is well known that Zhang Duzhi and Zhang Zihou are at odds. If he restrains him, my brother will have someone to deal with Zhang Duzhi."

Lu Huiqing nodded and said, "I have heard a little about the grievances between Zihou and his younger brother."

Lu Shengqing said: "The two have different political views at the moment, and Zhang Zihou will be my brother's best helper in dealing with Zhang Duzhi in the future. However, Zhang Duzhi is different from Feng Jing and Zeng Bu after all, so it is not impossible for my brother to keep him in the court."

Lu Huiqing nodded and said: "Zhang Duzhi is a great talent. Back then he changed the young crop law, and the cross-reference method he formulated the day before yesterday, all of them are detailed regulations and far-reaching plans."

"That day he told me in private. Right now, the wealthy and high-ranking officials are doing their best to eat their own profits. The burden on the government and the public is getting heavier day by day. No matter how they are reformed, it is difficult to get rid of their benefits. And the people of the lower class are heavily burdened with labor. If you are poor, once you have no way out, you will fall into the grass and even force the people to rebel. Therefore, only a well-off and well-off family can collect some money when the court reforms, so how can you bear it?"

"To be honest, his plans and considerations are more profound than mine, and he sees things thoroughly, so this is where the officials value him. But..."

When Lu Huiqing said this, he suddenly changed: "Not only that, in fact, Duzhi and I are from the same hometown, and we can get along well for many years. In the future, our Jin Prime Minister may not be able to give him a place, but since he said that he would protect Zeng Zixuan, then we I can't stand him anymore."

Lu Shengqing, Lu Wenqing knows that this is the cruelty of politics.

Lu Shengqing immediately threw stones into the pit and said: "Zeng Zixuan intends to resign as the third envoy. If he leaves, I'm afraid it will be caused by Zhang Duzhi, then it will be a big deal."

Lu Huiqing said: "Yes, Zhang Duzhi must not be allowed to join the Third Division."

Zhongshu is located to the west of Wende Hall.

In the Song Dynasty, Zhongshu was the abbreviation of Zhongshumen, not the original meaning of Zhongshusheng in the Tang Dynasty.

Zhengshitang is in Zhongshu.

Zhang Yue arrived at the Zhengshitang. In the past, prime ministers could ride horses straight into the Zhengshitang. But after Wang Anshi was beaten into the palace by horse last year, no prime minister or official entered the palace on horseback.

The political affairs hall is the place where the two governments discuss and work, and behind the political affairs hall is the main hall where the princes and ministers take care of matters.

Emperor Renzong did not allow officials to enter Zhongshu to discuss matters with the prime ministers at non-meetings, but this rule could not be enforced at all.

Cheng Hao was dismissed for opposing the new law, Zhang Jian rushed into the political affairs hall to ask Wang Anshi to argue, Wang Anshi had to cover his face with a fan and smiled awkwardly.

On this day, Zhang Yue entered the political affairs hall to discuss with Lu Huiqing the matter of making friends.

When Zhang Yue arrived at the gate of Zhongshu, the court official saw Zhang Yue and said, "Zhang Duanming, please wait here."

After hearing this, Zhang Yue thought to himself, what kind of airs are you, Lu Huiqing, putting on?
Unexpectedly, after a while, Lu Huiqing came out to meet him in person.

Zhang Yue was a little surprised. There was a system for Hanlin scholars to greet them in person when they came to Zhengshitang, but this has not been used for a long time.Because the prime minister is respected every day, and the scholar is humbled every day.

Seeing that Lu Huiqing was courteous to others, Zhang Yue said that he did not dare to take off his shoes and enter the hall, and the court official said: "Duanming doesn't have to be like this."

Zhang Yue thought to himself, could he even be exempted from the ceremony of taking off his shoes?This Lu Huiqing thinks too much of herself.

There are seats for officials in the hall, including Xu Anshi, the office of Kongmu, the official office of the fifth office of Zhongshu, Pu Zongmeng, the official office, Kumamoto, the household office, Xiang Zongru, the ritual room, and Yu Chong, the criminal room.

Then Feng Jing and Wang Gui also arrived here from this hall one after another.

Zhang Yue took his seat, took the court official's tea soup and drank it leisurely.

At this time, Xu Anshi asked: "A few days ago, Duanming Shangshu proposed to change the original Yizhou Jiaoziwu to Jiaozijian. But why not put Jiaozi and Yanyin under the supervision of Jiaoyinjian, and Jiaoyinjian will be under the supervision of Jiaoyinjian?" It has jurisdiction over three departments, namely the Salt Banknote Department, the Jiaozi Department, and the Anti-Counterfeiting Department, so it would not be better."

Xu Anshi and Zhang Zhi belonged to the same family and ranked second. It is said that after he and Xu Jiang, the number one scholar in Jiayou's eighth year, were both Xu Yuan, the two joined the sect.

After Wang Anshi became prime minister, he also promoted Xu Anshi, and Xu Jiang was ranked second in the list of champions.

Zhang Yuedao said: "Yizhou Jiaoziwu was abolished and Jiaozijian was changed to Jiaozijian, imitating Dushuijian, Guozijian, and military weapons supervision regulations directly under Zhongshu.

"Yanyinjian prints salt banknotes as big money, with denominations of five guan (one seat), ten guan (two seats), twenty guan, fifty guan, and hundred guan denominations. All small coins are discarded."

"Jiaozijian prints Jiaozi, and Jiaozi is small coins. It mainly solves the shortage of folk money, that is, the difficulty of cashing copper coins. The highest denomination of Jiaozi is Yiguan, followed by [-], [-], and [-]."

Lu Huiqing said: "However, it would be too complicated to set up a new Jiaozi prison. It is better to merge Jiaozi affairs into the jurisdiction of Sinong Temple."

After Lu Huiqing proposed, everyone expressed no objection, and Zhang Yue accepted it.

After negotiating the first thing, Kumamoto said: "Originally, the consistent money can be exchanged for 560 copper coins, but because of the copper shortage, it can be exchanged for [-] copper coins at most."

"To resolve the money shortage, can salt banknotes be printed? As far as I know, the imperial court sold salt banknotes at the same time as selling salt, but later some people bought salt banknotes not for salt but as flying tickets, and others bought salt banknotes They are saved like gold and silver, some people even use salt banknotes for speculation, and some people even have their salt banknotes eaten by fire and insects, I will not list them here.”

"The salt note has been set at 280 million guan per year. Last year, Zhangyan and Jieyan paid only 150 million guan. I think it is possible to increase the salt note to more than 300 million guan!"

Kumamoto Chushu's household department was on official business, and at the same time he was in charge of Si Nongsi. This person was very talented and trusted by Wang Anshi.

Zhang Yueze said: "Salt banknotes are paid for by the salt from the salt pond. The maximum annual production of Jieyan is no more than 300 seats of salt. If more than 10,000 million guan are printed a year, it is more than enough, but when it is low, it is only [-]+ seats. , What will we do then? The coin letter of the salt note will be gone.”

Lu Huiqing expressed support for Zhang Yue: "This matter is as Duan Ming said, and the salt note remains unchanged at 280 million!"

Everyone in the political affairs hall could see that Zhang Yue and Lu Huiqing were making decisions about this political discussion, and no one else could make up their minds. Even Feng Jing and Wang Gui could only listen attentively.

(End of this chapter)