Chapter 126 Yang Jisheng’s choice

Zhou Mengchen said, "Fortunately you came back quickly, otherwise I would have gone south and I would not be able to see you and I today. Do you know who came to Beijing this time?"

Yang Jisheng said, "I know. The Minister of the Honglu Temple, I want to thank you. It was because of this matter that I quickly whipped my thighs and even my thighs were bleeding. I was about to ask you some things about the sea."

Zhou Mengchen said: "You can let go of this matter first, and there is one thing that needs to be mentioned before. I will not bend the curve for many years of friendship between you and me. Master Xu has reached the top. You are a student of Master Xu. I am a thorn in Master Xu's side. The Minister of the Honglu Temple is very important to me."

"Of course, if you follow Mr. Xu in the future, I won't say anything. The official position of the Minister of the Honglu Temple will not be moved. Even when Tunan sees you, he will call you Uncle Yang. Your two children will have New Year's money when they are with me. But you and I will have a chance to see each other."

Yang Jisheng was silent for a long time.

Yang Jisheng was Xu Jie's disciple in the Imperial College. From a certain perspective, he was more intimate than Li Chunfang and Zhang Juzheng, who entered the Hanlin Academy and became Shujishi.

Even Yang Jisheng may not have been sent to Zhou Mengchen as a person who was Xu Jie at the beginning.

Yang Jisheng said: "I have come back this time, although I haven't seen the teacher yet, but I understand the teacher. Some problems that he cannot solve. Who am I following? I follow Taoism. Who can solve the problem of the Ming Dynasty? Who am I following."

"And you are the one who can solve the problem. You can only be sorry to the teacher."

Yang Jisheng’s idea was not something that only exists today. It was only something that was confirmed today.

When Yang Jisheng and Zhou Mengchen were working together, they had often violated Xu Jie's thoughts. But at that time, both sides still had room for maneuver. Their faces had not yet been torn apart.

But now there is no room for maneuver between Zhou Mengchen and Yang Jisheng.

Yang Jisheng must choose one of two.

Yang Jisheng chose to follow Zhou Mengchen, and he saw hope here.

Yang Jisheng has a strong will. He has a strong will in history and is moral in his heart. He climbed up step by step from the lower class. He has never missed the care of the people.

He knew Xu Jie and Zhou Mengchen very well.

His relationship with Xu Jie was not inferior to Zhou Mengchen, or even above Zhou Mengchen. However, Xu Jie was a famous person. Xu Jie could not do the important task of being a papermaker and replacing pillars for the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Mengchen said: "Okay. Let's give the Ming Dynasty a new beginning."

Yang Jisheng said: "Don't say these empty words, let's talk about Honglu Temple first. Judging from your words, it seems that a new yamen is built. You are leaving now, but you won't explain clearly. You won't understand it in the future, and you don't know who to ask."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Okay."

Then Zhou Mengchen and Yang Jisheng had a secret talk at home, from noon to evening, after serving the food, they continued to talk until late at night. Only then did they come to an end.

Zhou Mengchen drank a sip of strong tea and said, "That's all. Overall, that's all."

Yang Jisheng said: "You said it very easily. Let me analyze it. The most important thing is the most difficult part of customs. You have to formulate different goods at different ports and have different tariffs. According to your algorithm, you need to calculate multiple people, let alone what to calculate? Are you doing it?"

"In addition, we are responsible for overseas policies. The vassal states pay tribute, immigrate to Xinjiang, and even prepare for war. There are only a hundred people in the Honglu Temple. There are Huitong Halls below to entertain foreign vassals. But some chefs and servants are just that they cannot do anything. You simply asked me to build a yamen from the beginning. Without hundreds of people at the top of the top, I can't support this stall. Where do people come from?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "I recommend two people. One is Wang Zongmu and the other is Nie Bin. Wang Zongmu is responsible for shipping. I want to include all the maritime yamen under the jurisdiction of Honglu Temple. For shipping, I hope that the officials will supervise the people-to-people. In this way, the cost will be controlled and the risks will be borne by the people. The opposition between the court and the inside and outside of the country is relatively small. Shipping replaces the canal transport. It is more convenient. Wang Zongmu is familiar with the sea situation and can help you to familiarize yourself with the sea situation. Nie Bin is considered a Shanghai Trade Family. Although he is not familiar with the sea situation, he is familiar with domestic and foreign goods. He also presided over the Shanghai Customs. He will have to stay in the south for a period of time in the future and carry out customs in various places. He can assist you in the matters of customs."

Yang Jisheng said: "I am choosing a few new Jinshi for these two people, and then looking for some Imperial College. It is probably enough for those who are officials to be officials, but what should the people below do? You need a lot of calculations like this. You need a lot of officials who are proficient in math. Not one or two people. There are hundreds, or even hundreds of them may not be enough."

"This is also a way to understand your governance strategy. It is always a matter of mathematics. It's just that there are too many things to calculate in the world. There are too few people who are proficient in mathematics. I can't bring all the students of Datong Academy over here."

"It's not enough to pull it over."

Yang Jisheng is worthy of being Zhou Mengchen's partner. He knows some of Zhou Mengchen's habits.

To be honest, Zhou Mengchen actually has a little gap compared with many old ministers in his administrative abilities. This is not surprising. There are capable ministers in every era, and the traditional Confucian governance methods and strategies are consistent with this era.

Zhou Mengchen cannot be said to be incapable of being able to come from the bottom of the bottom, and he really doesn't understand some things. But Zhou Mengchen has his own method and habit, that is, mathematics. There are countless absent maths in his later work. Zhou Mengchen naturally has the same habit in management.

It is also very effective in many cases.

I dare not say that I can beat many famous officials. But it is very difficult for anyone to deceive Zhou Mengchen in mathematics.

But in this way, Zhou Mengchen needed a large number of grassroots officials who were proficient in mathematics.

Therefore, wherever Zhou Mengchen went, and the new yamen he founded, all require a large number of such personnel, whether it is a bank, a customs, or even a military, etc.

Zhou Mengchen knew this problem and said, "Or, you can build a college affiliated to Honglu Temple to specialize in cultivating such people. Otherwise, it may not be enough.

Yang Jisheng frowned slightly and said, "Although it's not time to hurry, it's all."

It was already late at night when the two of them said this. But Zhou Mengchen was a little reluctant to speak but stopped. He didn't know how to speak for a while.

But he didn't speak, and Yang Jisheng also knew what Zhou Mengchen was going to say.

Yang Jisheng said: "Don't worry, I'll stay in the capital for one day, and you can feel at ease with the affairs in the capital. I will provide you with any matters on the teacher's side in time. Don't worry."

Zhou Mengchen’s hope for Yang Jisheng was the core of the Zhou faction in the capital. However, this core was not easy to be. To do this core well, on the one hand, we must withstand the pressure of Xu Jie, and protect the Zhou party’s staff in the capital. We must also become an intelligence center. And so on.

It can be said that Yang Jisheng and Xu Jie have a close fight.

It was already a bit unkind to ask Yang Jisheng to choose a side station. He asked Yang Jisheng and Xu Jie to turn against each other and fight against each other. Zhou Mengchen couldn't speak out.

Yang Jisheng's character is much stronger than Zhou Mengchen. Otherwise, in history, he would not have surrendered under Yan Song's torture. Now that he has stood on Zhou Mengchen's side for the sake of his morality, he has already had the worst thoughts.

Naturally, I know what I want to do.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Okay, when I leave, I will invite everyone to you, so that you can get to know each other. I will leave the capital to you."

Yang Jisheng said: "I'm waiting for you to come back in the capital."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Don't worry, within one or two years, I will definitely come back and will not let you fight alone."

Zhou Mengchen and Yang Jisheng looked at each other and seemed to be back to their time in Datong. At that time, they worked together to do things that others thought they could never do. At this moment, he had to face other challenges together, but he didn't know whether it was successful or not.
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