When everyone heard Sun Quan's words, they praised Sun Quan's ambiguity and shouted in unison: "Lord is wise! Long live!"

Seeing that everyone was very cooperative, another bomb was dropped and said, "Of course, I'm asking everyone to come today, not just for this little thing. Nian Nujiao, ask someone to have tea!"

When Zhang Zhao heard this, it was a terrible thing. It was a small matter to set up five phases. What was the big matter? He raised his hand to ask a question. When Sun Quan saw that he felt a little like a teacher, he felt relieved in his heart. He sat up straight and said, "Please say something if you have something to do!"

Zhang Zhao said: "I don't know what the lord is talking about?"

Sun Quan took a sip of tea and said, "Then let's talk while drinking tea. The first one is under the cabinet. I decided to set up ten ministries, each of which is the Minister of the Secretariat, and the deputy is the Minister of the Secretariat. The ten ministries are: the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water, the Ministry of Police, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Veterans Resettlement. The ten ministries are responsible for leading all kinds of government affairs in various places."

As a Confucian scholar, Zhang Zhao first felt that the Ministry of Commerce was not good, so he said: "Lord, this Ministry of Commerce minister thought there was no need to establish it. To emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce is a strategy for the long-term stability of the country. Merchants do not engage in production, but are the worms of the country. The establishment of the Ministry of Commerce will improve the status of merchants, which is not conducive to the stability of the country. Please think twice!"

After saying that, Gu Yong and others raised their hands to speak one after another, expressing their support for Zhang Zhao. Even Lu Su stood on Zhang Zhao's side, but Pang Tong and Zhou Yu stopped talking, while Cheng Pu and Huang Gai did not speak on political affairs.

Seeing everyone working together, Sun Quan said: "I set up the Ministry of Commerce not to enhance the status of business, nor to give up the policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce. It is just that the current commercial activities are spontaneous behaviors of merchants. They can set five houses at will, which is harmful to the country. For example, the price of grain. Think about it, if the war comes, the grain merchants set the price of grain very high, and the people have no food to eat, and we cannot buy military rations at a suitable price, or in the years of famine, the people will have to starve to death."

Sun Quan stood up as he said, and then said excitedly: "I set up a Ministry of Commerce to set a guided price for the world's prices. For example, there is a silver coin on the market and two silver coin on the market. Of course, these are normal price fluctuations, but our Ministry of Commerce does not care about these normal business activities. However, if a grain merchant controls the grain in a county and sells ten silver coins per duct, then we must take care of it. We must set a range of the price of grain, for example, within the range of one silver coin to five silver coins. If it is lower or higher than this price, we will arrest the merchant and punish it according to law."

What Sun Quan said was that the Ministry of Commerce should have the power of state regulation in its memory. This way of controlling national commercial activities is of course an excuse for now. Control can only control some important things. Current transportation and communication cannot control everything, and cannot collect the most timely market information. But it can also enhance the status of business.

When everyone heard that the Ministry of Commerce was set up to combat merchants, it would be great. What everyone did not expect was that these legal provisions regulate merchants' behavior while also enhancing the legal status of merchants. Then, more standardized business will naturally be more vital. However, everyone no longer objected and expressed that this article was approved.

Then, the future cabinet headed by Zhang Zhao said that the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Water also merged, and there was no need to separate. As Zhou Yu had the same understanding, Sun Quan had to repeat what he said to Zhou Yu yesterday, because this separation also increased everyone's chances of promotion and strengthened the civil minister group, so everyone naturally did not get entangled.

Then Sun Quan continued: "In addition to the Cabinet Military Affairs Office, seven other departments were established, all directly led by Gu." Today, for this reform and to highlight his authority, Sun Quan has used Gu's self-proclaimed many times in his speech.

"These seven departments are: the Ministry of Law, Audit Department, Supervision Department, Anti-Corruption Department, Jinyiwei, Imperial Guard, and Bank. Let's talk about this Ministry of Law, which is mainly responsible for the revision of the law. Because of the scope of our rule and the changes in our policies, we must promptly amend the law. In addition, some new cases have occurred in various places. If the law does not stipulate, the Ministry of Law must timely add relevant laws."

When everyone heard that the Ministry of Law had such great power and was responsible for formulating all laws, they began to say that the power was too great and should be restricted or split. After hearing this, Sun Quan said, "Everyone is worried, this last power is with me. Every decree they formulated must be approved by me, and that's it."

When everyone saw that Sun Quan did not give him the opportunity to fight for, he would not say anything about it. After all, these changes in the official system have not yet involved economic interests. As long as everyone's power and status are not affected, the motivation for opposition is not that strong.

Sun Quan continued: "The Audit Department's responsibility is to review all financial expenses, and the expenses of each department must be reviewed by the Audit Department. The Supervision Department is the responsibility of the envoy. As long as the officials in the world are supervised, of course, there will be two parts: civil and military officers. The Anti-Corruption Department is designed for corrupt officials in the world, mainly to prevent and investigate corrupt officials."

No one talks about these three departments. The lord wants to seize financial power and supervise officials all over the world. This has been around since ancient times, and there is no way to say anything.

The next imperial guards, the Jinyiwei, had already been there. They belonged to the national defense force, so naturally everyone could not speak, but when Sun Quan proposed the bank, everyone felt it was very strange.

Zhang Zhao asked, "Lord, you said that this bank is an institution that issues coins, but when we reward and purchase some coins, the coins will be issued. Do we still need a separate bank to issue them?"

Sun Quan had no choice but to express his expectations for the bank and said: "From the beginning, it was mainly to issue gold coins, silver coins and copper coins we made now, and then we had to be responsible for the exchange. That is, we can determine a exchange ratio of three different coins. This is also very important and will be a means for us to stabilize prices. In addition, banks also have the functions of saving money and lending. Saving money means that everyone makes a lot of money, but putting it at home is not necessarily safe. Then the bank can save it for free, ensuring the safety of the coins that everyone has in the bank in accordance with the credibility and name of our Jiangdong government. Everyone will know that lending will be clear."

Gu Yong said: "Isn't lending competing for profit with the people? Wouldn't it be bad?"

When Sun Quan heard this, he sneered: "It should be a competition for profit with you aristocratic families and big merchants. You are the ones who can lend money. The people have the ability to lend. The interest rate of the orphan banks is 10% a year, and then it will not be superimposed, so that the people will not easily lose their money because of borrowing. Do you all fight for the benefits of the people in the world?"

Gu Yong was shocked now. This meant that he would be unable to get along with Sun Quan. He immediately knelt down and said, "I dare not, I am stupid!" Then he lowered his head and sweated. Sun Quan had now ruled the rivers and mountains south of the river. With Wu County in the north of the Yangtze River, Lujiang is now very powerful, and the army is loyal to Sun Quan. Moreover, with Sun Quan's attitude towards the gentry in Jiaozhou, it can be seen that if he doesn't do it well, he will lose everything.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!