Jingtai Fenghua

Chapter 366 Cabinet Balance

Lin Cunde has been busy here in Luanzhou for more than half a year. More than 100,000 workers work here. Moreover, the two million that Zhu Qiyu gave him before has long been gone. During this period, another two million taels were given. In addition, the Ministry of Industry because of We needed steel, so we ordered more than 10 million kilograms of steel and gave us more than one million yuan. Those officials from the Ministry of Industry supported the payment!

Especially the officials working here, after seeing what Lin Cunde did, they were very supportive of giving money. They all wrote memorials to Xie Yonghe and Zhu Qiyu, hoping to allocate money. Big things are being done here!

When Zhu Qiyu saw those memorials, he felt itchy and wanted to go and have a look. In the two years since he became emperor, he had not gone out for inspections. Now, the New Deal has only been implemented in the north and south Zhili, Shandong, and the four southern provinces. , elsewhere, Zhu Qiyu stopped!

This year's implementation of the New Deal has achieved very good results. Taxes have increased significantly, and people's incomes have also increased!

It was originally going to continue to be promoted, but considering the reaction of the vassal kings, Zhu Qiyu stopped it. However, Zhu Qiyu was ready to implement the New Deal in Shanxi, but there was no suitable candidate. Wang Zhi was exhausted. After the promotion in Beizhili, Wang Zhi had been recuperating at home for two months. Zhu Qiyu sent a large number of imperial doctors to visit him, and all the medicines he needed came from the inner treasury.

Wang Zhi is now a member of the Holy Family, and Zhu Qiyu's view of Wang Zhi has completely changed!

If Wang Zhi continues to implement the New Deal, this old man who is almost sixty-seven will probably be exhausted!

After thinking about it, the ones who can do the job are Lin Cunde and Yu Qian. Lin Cunde is busy with Luanzhou affairs now, so only Yu Qian is the only one. Yu Qian has rectified the military affairs of the former army this year and also dealt with many corrupt officials!

It's okay to let Yu Qian go, but Yu Qian has never done such a thing before, so Zhu Qiyu asked Yu Qian to go to Wang Zhi's mansion to visit and study!

Zhu Qiyu still planned to ask Yu Qian to go to Shanxi and Shaanxi to promote the New Deal and solve these two provinces first. There are many vassal kings in these two provinces!

The vassal king of Shandong, King Lu Zhu Zhaohui, was very sensible this time and did not put pressure on Wang Zhi. It was not that Zhu Zhaohui did not want to put pressure on Wang Zhi, but he dared. Cao Yi was guarding Shandong, holding an army of more than 100,000!

Cao Yi is extremely loyal to Zhu Qiyu now, mainly because he sees Zhu Qiyu implementing the New Deal, which benefits the people and officials, and Zhu Qiyu treats the people well and the officials well. Cao Yi is a scholar, and knows that Zhu Qiyu is a wise king, so he follows Such an emperor is lucky. Therefore, Cao Yi has been watching Shandong's every move. It can be said that if Zhu Zhaohui dared to move, Cao Yi would dare to go to the palace and capture Zhu Zhaohui himself!

However, afterwards, Zhu Qiyu was also very kind to Zhu Zhaohui, and he continued to reward him!

Seeing that Zhu Zhaohui had not been captured, the other vassal kings relaxed. After all, Zhu Zhaohui had a lot of things going on, and many officials were involved!

But Zhu Zhaohui was fine, and the other vassal kings began to have ideas, thinking that Zhu Qiyu might not do anything to them!

Zhu Qiyu was sitting in the study at the moment. It was already the end of November, and the New Year was coming in less than a month. Lin Cunde was in Luanzhou. Even if he came back for a few days in August, Wang Zhi was still reorganizing Beizhili. At that time, some officials continued to issue impeachment memorials, and the imperial edict even went to petition outside the Meridian Gate to put pressure on Zhu Qiyu!

Who knows, Zhu Qiyu asked Lin Cunde to come back. Lin Cunde led a thousand cavalry back from Luanzhou and asked people to move the table to the shade outside the Meridian Gate. Lin Cunde was sitting outside the Meridian Gate, with all the guards in front of him. Lin Cunde could draw pictures there. For a few days, those ministers didn't go back at night, and Lin Cunde didn't go back either. It was summer anyway, so Lin Cunde slept in a tent and continued to draw pictures during the day without talking nonsense to those ministers!

There was a minister who wanted to attack the Meridian Gate and clamored to see His Majesty. Lin Cunde pointed at him, and several guards in imperial robes rushed over and dragged him out. Those civil servants still wanted to protect the minister!

Lin Cunde waved his hand, and all the Jin Yiwei drew out their long knives!

Several civil servants were still clamoring that they had the ability to kill them, but Lin Cunde just waved his hand, lifted the head with the sword and fell to the ground, instantly suppressing the civil servants!

At this moment, those civil servants thought that Lin Cunde had commanded soldiers to kill 50,000 Wala people in Shanhaiguan. Now those civil servants seeking death and petitioning could scare Lin Cunde, and Lin Cunde dared to kill them all!

While they were still in a daze, Wang Zhi came over and began to read out the crimes of those officials. Those officials who were killed and the amount of corruption in their families were all clearly stated!

Those whose names were read were all taken away by the people from Beizhen Fusi and sent directly to prison!

And some officials who were not corrupt in the first place were coerced, and now they woke up!

People like me have been taken advantage of by corrupt officials. They are corrupt, but I am not corrupt. Why do I come to petition? Moreover, the New Deal is beneficial to me, so why would I listen to them?

Soon all the officials outside the Meridian Gate were gone!

When Lin Cunde saw them leaving, he also put away the table and went to the palace to return to life with Zhu Qiyu!

After chatting with Zhu Qiyu, Lin Cunde went to Luanzhou again!

Just when Zhu Qiyu was thinking about what happened before, Cheng Jing came over and said to Zhu Qiyu: "Your Majesty, the cabinet minister wants to see you!"

"Who is it?" Zhu Qiyu looked up at Cheng Jing.

"They're all here!" Cheng Jing answered with cupped hands.

"Oh, they're all here, okay, let them in!" Zhu Qiyu smiled after hearing this!

Now in the cabinet, Chen Xun is still the chief minister of the cabinet. However, when Zhu Qiyu reorganized Beizhili through Wang Zhi, he stuffed several people into the cabinet, including Xiao Tan, Wang Yining and Wang Wen. Among them, Xiao Tan was recommended by Chen Xun, and Wang Yining and Wang Wen were promoted by Zhu Qiyu!

Soon, cabinet minister Chen Xun led Jiang Yuan, Gao Gu, Shang Ren, Yu Gang, Xiao Tan, Wang Yining and Wang Wen in!

Now the cabinet ratio is four to four, with Chen Xun leading the first department and Jiang Yuan leading the first department. Therefore, during this period, Chen Xun was extremely tired. The cabinet was quarreling every day, even over trivial matters. No one would let anyone in. who! Moreover, Jiang Yuan is the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs and Wang Wen is the Yushi of Zuodu. These two are important ministers, and Chen Xun alone can't stand it!

After the eight people came in, they immediately saluted Zhu Qiyu!

"They're all here, what's the matter?" Zhu Qiyu asked with a smile when he saw them coming.

Chen Xun immediately raised his hands to Zhu Qiyu and said: "Your Majesty, it's almost the end of the year. Now, there are only a few provinces implementing the New Deal. Their financial support is very high. After this year's big plan, there are only four more provinces. But There are also several provinces where they have not implemented new policies and major plans, so they have not raised clean banks, and many officials have submitted memorials, bluntly saying that the court is unfair, and hope that clean banks can be given to them!"

"Yes, there are a lot of memorials below!" Jiang Yuan nodded. It is true. Now their cabinet has many such memorials coming up every day!

Zhu Qiyu nodded slightly and asked them to sit down. Immediately, a palace maid came over with tea and set it up for them!

After they sat down, they waited for Zhu Qiyu to speak, hoping that Zhu Qiyu would agree.

But Zhu Qiyu sat there and pondered for a moment, and then said: "The Yanglian Silver Society will give it to them, but we will supply it to them together after the New Deal is implemented. I have already said it, why do they not agree? They have been like this for so many years before." Come here, why not wait a year or two?"

"Your Majesty, it's not impossible, it's that they also hope to implement the New Deal in this province, but there has been no movement from the court. Last year, when the New Deal was first implemented, it was implemented in three provinces. This year, it was only implemented in North and South Zhili and Shandong Province. , other provinces have not moved.

And now it seems that the implementation of the New Deal is indeed beneficial to the people and the country, but why has it not been implemented in other provinces? Therefore, the officials of the following provinces have opinions! Today, there are many officials in our government who are familiar with the New Deal. Among them, officials from the four provinces of Jiangnan are very familiar with it. They can completely mobilize them and start implementing them directly, or they can also swap some officials! "Chen Xun stood up, raised his hands to Zhu Qiyu and said.

"I agree that the new policy can be fully promoted. Previously, the Marquis of Luling said that he was worried about other problems, but until now, no problems have been found. The Marquis of Luling is right to be cautious, but after more than a year of implementation, no problems have been found. The question is, why can't it be fully rolled out?" Gao Gu also stood up and suggested to Zhu Qiyu with his hands raised.

After hearing this, Zhu Qiyu did not speak, but looked at Jiang Yuan and Wang Wen!

Jiang Yuan stood up, cupped his hands and said: "What I mean is that we can promote a few more provinces next year. For example, the provinces that have implemented major plans this year can be promoted. Since then, most of the provinces in our country have been promoted, and the remaining few provinces can be promoted." Provinces, we can also promote it the next year!”

"That's what I mean. If we promote them all next year, we may not do it carefully!" Wang Wen also stood up and said.

"Why not be meticulous? There are a lot of officials who are familiar with the New Deal, including officials from the Six Ministries. They can be mobilized at any time and let them preside over the New Deal!" Chen Xun asked Jiang Yuan and Wang Wen.

Wang Wen was not afraid of Chen Xun and directly started to argue: "What if something goes wrong? With such a large-scale promotion, it is very easy to get out of control. If something goes wrong then, who is to blame? The Marquis of Luling has already made a conclusion, don't act too hastily. , it’s not that we don’t promote it, and it’s not that we don’t provide them with clean silver, it’s just a little later. Moreover, your majesty has also written down that if the money is not enough, you can borrow it from the Ministry of Household Affairs. The borrowed silver cannot exceed 50% of the level of the honest silver. Your majesty will give If you have the opportunity, why insist on promoting it all?

Besides, other provinces only started to promote it after anti-corruption. Is it fair to other provinces to promote it without anti-corruption? Is this fair to the officials in other provinces? Is it fair to those honest and honest officials in their own province? "

"Anti-corruption can be done slowly. The implementation of the New Deal will benefit the people! The people can't wait anymore!" Gao Gu stood up and said to Wang Wen.

(End of this chapter)