Qiming 1158

Chapter 1195 Sun Ziyi is not interested in politics
Under the current rules, after the Privy Council received the money, it began to arrange for the military-industrial system under the control of the Privy Council to respond to the needs of the army, allocate military salaries and supplies, and so on.

All the needs of the military are submitted to the Privy Council for a response, separate from the civilian system.

So in the military field, the Ministry of Finance is not involved.

Su Yonglin has such an idea and approach also because considering that there have been many cases of misappropriation of private funds to the military field in the past few years, it is quite difficult for the Ministry of Finance to carry out the work, and the Ministry of Finance has many views on this.

And let the Ministry of Finance involve too much in the internal affairs of the military, and have links with military personnel, and even have some connections, that is not a situation Su Yonglin wants to see.

The army is the army, and the civil affairs officials are the civil affairs officials. It is better not to over-connect the two.

For this reason, Su Yonglin set up a meeting of military supplies.

Every year, everyone gathers for a meeting to determine the military expenses for the year, and then the Ministry of Finance directly gives the military budget expenses for this year to the Privy Council, and the Privy Council is responsible for the next thing, and the Ministry of Finance directly separates from this part involving the military work in the civilian sector.

Lin Jingchun had no opinion on this.

Sun Ziyi felt a lot of pressure, so he talked to Su Yonglin about this issue in private, thinking that his talent might not be enough to undertake such a major mission.

However, Su Yonglin said that sooner or later the Privy Council will take on this responsibility, and Sun Ziyi will do it sooner or later.

As a privy envoy, a person I trust, you can't shrink back and shirk your responsibilities.

Because of this matter, Sun Ziyi arranged for more than 100 officials from the entire Privy Council to go to the Ministry of Finance, and asked Lin Jingchun to arrange a special cram school for them to learn relevant financial management knowledge, and Sun Ziyi himself followed for a while class.

In the follow-up, Su Yonglin placed a series of state-owned operating departments, including the military system, under the control of the Privy Council. In addition to the weapons forging workshop, there was also the horse breeding department on the grassland.

The three major horse farms in Daming—Yanshan Racecourse, Liaodong Racecourse, and Hexi Racecourse, were also placed under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council and directly connected to the Daming cavalry troops.

So far, the military system and the Ministry of Finance system have been separated, and they are no longer accountable to each other, but are directly responsible to the country.

Because of the sudden increase in responsibility, Sun Tzu worked hard and did not go home for a month at the busiest time. He stayed in the Privy Council to study day and night, and called on the officials in the Privy Council to learn professional knowledge from professionals together. Being lazy, doing something bad will be punished and so on.

Anyway, his attitude is indeed very correct.

Subsequent facts also proved that it was no accident that Sun Ziyi, the only non-Fuxing member in the entire high-level court of the Ming Dynasty, was able to secure the position of the privy envoy, or it was no coincidence that he was on an equal footing with Su Yonglin.

The official attitude of turning a deaf ear to political issues and working hard on practical matters is also very important.

Sun Ziyi was not interested in politics.

Whether he was the top commander of Yanyun's army before or later as a privy envoy, Sun Ziyi never expressed any political opinions on the government, nor did he make any public remarks on the political trends of the court.

If anyone asks him, he will keep his mouth shut, or take him there with a haha.

If there is a political controversy somewhere, he will retreat, or simply retreat to a corner where no one notices him, directly activate his stealth skills, lose all sense of existence, and make people who are arguing fiercely do not notice his existence at all.

Su Yonglin actually asked him if he had any idea of ​​joining the Revival Society. If so, he could be Sun Ziyi's recommender.

Sun Ziyi thought for a while, then shook his head and refused.

"Perhaps this is good for me, but I have never been exposed to the theory in this area, and I have no interest in it. In my opinion, being an official is an official, doing things is doing things, and being a person is being a person. I am not interested in politics. I just want to do what I'm supposed to do."

What Sun Ziyi said was true.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Su Yonglin intended to appoint Sun Ziyi's family as officials. At first, Sun Ziyi accepted it. Later, as the wind became tighter, Sun Ziyi, who realized the problem, asked his tribe to withdraw from officialdom and the army, and returned to his old family to work in agriculture. Don't come to Zhongdu, and don't allow them to make trouble in their hometown.

Later, Sun Ziyi became a privy envoy and became an important minister of the imperial court. Su Yonglin proposed to let Sun Ziyi choose his children to enter the court or to serve as officials in the army, but Sun Ziyi also refused, and still asked his children to study in their hometown, work in agriculture, and not have trouble.

During the purge operation, I felt an inexplicable tense atmosphere. In order to cooperate with Su Yonglin's policy, Sun Ziyi resolutely handed over the extra land and houses in the family. In addition to leaving a clan to take care of the ancestral house, all the remaining clan members were brought in. are placed.

Sun Ziyi strictly restrained them, not allowing them to participate in any political activities, not allowing them to talk about any political topics, using his rich salary to live for them, and then arranged for the children of the family to apply for admission to the newly founded Zhongdu University of Technology.

He learned that Su Yonglin attached great importance to the development of science and technology, so he planned to train the family's children to develop in the field of science and technology, avoid the political field, and personally supervise and inspect the learning achievements of the children of the clan when he was free.

This is the same decision made by Su Yonglin's father-in-law Zhao Zuoliang.

Originally, Su Yonglin suggested that the children of the Zhao family should develop into the law and become law officials.

However, after Zhao Zuoliang thought about it, especially after the big purge, Zhao Zuoliang asked Zhao's children to completely withdraw from the political field, and all the children entered Zhongdu University of Technology to study and research technology.

I don't know if it was based on Zhao Zuoliang's action plan, Sun Ziyi also let the young children of his family enter the Zhongdu University of Science and Technology to study science and engineering knowledge, and take the road of scientific and technological research in the future, so that they will not be contaminated with political-related issues.

Su Yonglin respected Sun Ziyi's estranged attitude towards politics and did not force Sun Ziyi to join the Revival Society. He also trusted him as always and entrusted him with the powers of the Privy Council. He was also conscientious and did nothing wrong.

Therefore, Sun Ziyi is very successful in taking this position.

Three years after Hongwu, Sun Ziyi became the only non-Fuxing member among the high-ranking officials in the court.

Therefore, some people have raised concerns about Sun Ziyi's identity and suggested that Su Yonglin transfer Sun Ziyi to an idle position and replace him with a politically reliable Fuxing member to take charge of the logistics of the Privy Council.

However, Su Yonglin expressed his support for Sun Ziyi, believing that Sun Ziyi was very successful as a privy envoy and did not make any mistakes. It is not the attitude of a revolutionist to suppress a person of merit for the sake of his political status.

In fact, after the three-year purge in Hongwu, the Fuxing Society has moved from secret to full-scale activities on the surface, fully occupying important positions in the DPRK and China, and has become the main political force that actually dominates the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty.

However, there are not only Fuxing members in the DPRK and China, but also a large number of non-Fuxing members who have passed the imperial examination as officials.

They were worried about the imperial court for a time after the Great Purge, suspecting that the imperial court would inspect and promote officials based on whether they were members of the Renaissance, so they even had a sense of anxiety about joining the Renaissance Society.

However, Su Yonglin has fully tightened the number of places to enter the Revival Society and increased the requirements, making it quite difficult to join the Revival Society.

During this period, it was precisely because of Sun Ziyi's existence and frequent appearances to preside over the work of the Privy Council that this anxiety was alleviated to a certain extent.

Sun Ziyi has also become the spiritual pillar of the DPRK-China-Africa Revival membership group.

If you want to say that some people in the DPRK have a bad relationship with Sun Ziyi, you can only say that they are people from the Ministry of Finance.

Because the Privy Council is the ancestor of money, the Treasury is always the one who pays.

It's not very pleasant for those who pay for money to face those who ask for money.

"Can you only last for half a year?"

After Lin Jingchun went south, the person in charge of the Ministry of Finance who stayed behind in the central capital was Chai Yuanming, the right servant.

At this time, he showed dissatisfaction and said: "Privacy Sun, last year's military supply meeting I remember that I have already reserved enough for you for the war. Even if the war to the south costs a lot, the military supply savings over the years add up, and it is not only the army. Is it necessary for half a year?"

Sun Ziyi smiled helplessly, spread out his hands, and replied gently.

"It's certainly not possible to just go south, but when the Yellow River was in danger in the middle of last year, the Ministry of Finance temporarily seconded the military supply warehouses in Shandong and Hebei provinces and almost emptied them. It was a huge expense. Chai Shilang forgot. Yet?"

"...There is indeed such a thing, but I am not in charge of this matter. I don't know how much it was used. Did it vacate?"

Chai Yuanming looked at Su Yonglin and said, "Chairman, if that's the case, I don't think it's appropriate to launch an operation to go south to Shuzhong at this moment. The Yellow River Project has reached its most tense time, and every year the dangers of the Yellow River are not small, and materials are wasted. The money is far beyond imagination.

In addition, this year's war in the south will require a lot of financial expenditure for the newly added corps. The newly established provinces will also need a lot of financial allocations to resume production and construction. It is the time to spend the money, and it is really not the right choice to start a war again. "

(End of this chapter)