Qiming 1158

Chapter 1339 The First Emperor and the Last Emperor

Zhang Shi stared at Su Yonglin blankly, feeling that he could not accept what Su Yonglin said for a while.

He doesn't do anything like an emperor, it's a little too scary.

Su Yonglin also seemed to realize that his span was a little too big, and Zhang Shi couldn't accept it for a while.

So he patted Zhang Shi on the shoulder and smiled.

"Everything takes time, time can bring everything, and it can take away everything. At the earliest, in the pre-Qin period, even the official position was hereditary. Later, the Qin and Han Dynasty changed, and finally came up with an inspection system, allowing the gentry to replace the pre-Qin blood nobles. to become officials.

Later, the Sui and Tang Dynasties had the imperial examinations, and after the founding of the Song Dynasty, the common people finally had a justifiable entry level. Regardless of their background, they could also participate in the imperial examinations, get a title and become an official, although they also had some requirements on their family property. Well, after all, it is impossible to be a hereditary official.

It took a long, long journey to stop officials from being hereditary. Since officials are not allowed to be hereditary, then people should think deeply, why not the emperor? "

Su Yonglin looked at Zhang Shi.

Zhang Shi obviously didn't know how to answer this question. After thinking for a while, he had a vague idea.

"Perhaps for stability? The eldest son of a family is always unique. Then, everything can be stabilized."

"Yes, the inheritance of a dynasty needs stability, and the inheritance of power in any country also needs stability. No one likes endless wars, but not necessarily, there is only one way."

Su Yonglin shook his head: "As long as I can create a method of stable power inheritance that is no less than blood inheritance, then whether or not a hereditary emperor is needed is no longer necessary."

"This……"

Zhang Shi had a hesitant look on his face, and said slowly, "I really don't know what else to do."

"I can't be in a hurry. Although I already have an idea and I have started to practice it, I really can't be in a hurry."

Su Yonglin sighed and said loudly: "The emperor is the destroyer of the pre-Qin blood aristocracy and the founder of the nobility era.

But now, I want to change this era again, I want the era of common people to come completely, and it comes more simply and completely, not so stumbling, like holding a pipa half-covered.

From the beginning of Ying Zheng to the end of me, since everything has a beginning, it must have an end. Perhaps Ying Zheng himself did not realize that from the moment he decided to be the first emperor, he had already decided that the final emperor would inevitably appear. If people want to do it, then I will do it. "

"The first emperor...the last emperor..."

Zhang Shi took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and said slowly: "I never thought that you could say such a thing. This may not be a good thing for the Ming Kingdom, what do you think?"

"Revolutionary revolution, can save other people's lives, but also can save their own lives, otherwise it is a double-standard patient? I hate double-standard patients the most, and the next step in the rectification campaign will be to rectify this aspect. People with double-standard thinking should be thoroughly rectified."

Su Yonglin stretched out his finger to the north: "So, Jingfu, if you can't accept it for the time being, it's not the most important thing. I will continue to be the emperor, so you can walk and watch, and see if I don't want to be the emperor in the end. , or I continue to be the emperor.

At that time, as long as you persist in the revolution and the road we have traveled all the way, then you will definitely make the right choice that suits your heart. This is what I have always believed, no matter the past or the future. "

Su Yonglin's words had a great impact on Zhang Shi.

But no matter what, he also felt from the bottom of his heart that Su Yonglin should not have the idea of ​​not being the emperor.

Because he thinks that the emperor is the pinnacle of the sea, and Su Yonglin is the emperor, only then can Daming move forward continuously and firmly.

If one day Su Yonglin ceases to be the emperor, that future is truly unimaginable.

At least right now, Zhang Shi felt that he did not have the courage and necessity to think about that kind of thing.

But Su Yonglin would have such an idea, and he couldn't help but think deeply.

In the pre-Qin period, officials were all hereditary. Later, officials broke the hereditary rule, and only the emperor was hereditary.

So, why must there be a hereditary emperor?
If there will be no more hereditary emperors in the world from now on, and there will no longer be the kind of existence that speaks the truth and follows the law, then what will this world look like?
Will it be better or worse?
No one could answer.

After Su Yonglin returned to Hangzhou City, he began to arrange the reorganization of the army and the normalization of Hangzhou City.

After a period of military control, although the people of Hangzhou did not have to worry about their lives, the normal production and life of Hangzhou City were also greatly affected.

Of course, since Su Yonglin officially entered Hangzhou City, the administrative team he brought began to accept the daily government affairs of Hangzhou City, and began to restore the production and normal life order of Hangzhou City.

The Ming state's control over the city of Hangzhou was comprehensive. In addition to military occupation, it also had political and economic control. In particular, the Ming state had a more thorough control over the city.

Su Yonglin ordered that some economic activities directly related to people's daily life, such as silk handicrafts, wine sales, rice grain sales, ironware sales, salt sales, etc. in Hangzhou city, be given priority to restore order as soon as possible.

Since it is restored, it is naturally restored in the way of the Ming Kingdom.

The first thing to strike was the salt price. The Hangzhou government of the Ming Dynasty directly ordered the salt price in Hangzhou to be lowered to the level of the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, and punched the ultra-high salt price to the end, which directly shocked the Hangzhou people who were suffering from the ultra-high salt price in Hangzhou.

They couldn't believe it at first, but after someone bought salt at a low price and took it away, a frenzy to buy salt broke out in Hangzhou.

Maybe they are not familiar with the government of the Ming Dynasty, and they are worried that it is only a temporary measure by the government of the Ming Dynasty to appease people's hearts, so it is only a temporary low price, and the original price will be restored in the future, so there is an extremely enthusiastic buying frenzy in the whole city of Hangzhou. Its scale It is even bigger and more crazy than the queue to buy rice grains.

In response to such a situation, Su Yonglin's response was to mobilize more salt to enter the Hangzhou market, completely satisfying the desire of Hangzhou people to rush to buy salt, so that they had to believe that the low salt price of the Ming Dynasty was not a strategy, but a consistent policy.

Salt is really at this price. The Hangzhou court also has a very high salt reserve, but it is so expensive to sell. It needs salt to make money, but Daming does not.

Although the Ming Dynasty has really been using the salt price difference between the two countries to make a lot of profits since the founding of the People's Republic of China, one of the reasons behind the intensified copper money shortage in the Southern Song Dynasty is the sale of private salt in the Ming Dynasty.

However, at the beginning of the eighth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin ordered the Salt Department of the Ministry of Finance to end the operation of selling illicit salt in the Jiangnan area to earn high profits.

He transferred back officials from the relevant departments of the Salt Department, and dispatched ten salt sales teams to end the task of selling private salt to make money. Lin Jingchun's layout of Daming's overseas trade strategy.

The Salt Division carried out the court order, and all its subordinate teams were recalled, ending the history of the Salt Division being a powerful department in a sense, and returning to the state of a normal civil affairs department.

In fact, the Salt Department has been in operation for eight years, providing extremely rich financial revenue for the imperial court.

Once the mission is over and the relevant terms of reference and power are lost, the Ministry of Finance is not completely indifferent.

However, Su Yonglin was more prescient and prepared ahead of time. He transferred the relevant persons in charge of the salt department to Quanzhou and Guangzhou to be responsible for working with Lin Jingchun, and then replaced a group of people in charge of the new salt department. This would have been a little troublesome. question.

After all, it is a department that has brought such huge benefits to the imperial court. Once its mission is over, it is not so easy to make everyone, especially the people in the salt department, simply agree.

It's just that Su Yonglin's prestige is obviously much greater than that of Yansi.

Despite this, Su Yonglin also learned that some officials in the Ministry of Finance had some opinions on this decision, and felt that Su Yonglin didn't need to end the mission of the Salt Secretary so early.

The action of the Salt Secretary selling smuggled salt has won a great deal of room for relaxation of the tense finances in the early Ming Dynasty, and provided financial support for many actions of the Ming Dynasty, and even the financial expenditures of some operations were entirely dependent on the income from the salt trade by the Salt Secretary.

Now that the country's finances are abundant, should this meritorious department be dismembered?

Certainly not appropriate.

To this end, Su Yonglin deeply felt the strong influence of inertia and the influence of powerful departments on the political structure, which further prompted him to decide to complete the mission of national reunification as soon as possible, and prepare to launch a more thorough rectification movement in the country with huge prestige .

At the same time, in the future setting up of powerful departments, he felt that they should be more cautious, power should not be delegated arbitrarily, and some interests should be strictly prevented.

To this end, Su Yonglin held a meeting of the Ministry of Finance and delivered some stern speeches.

(End of this chapter)