Chapter 57 Pros and cons

Zhu Qizhen and Yu Qian had a secret talk before leaving.

No one has ever known.

Because everyone in the court was moved by changes in the cabinet. Wang Wen and Luo Tong were also present in the cabinet.

Luo Tong's departure was an initiative of Zhu Qizhen to win over the army.

The Minister of War was replaced by Cheng Xin, who had a shallow qualification. Although he had a good son, Cheng Minzheng, who showed his strength this time, in terms of Cheng Xin's own qualifications, he could not play any role in the position of Minister of War.

The same official position will have different actions in the hands of different people.

If Wang Ji is in the position of Minister of War, he can suppress the Governor's Office of the Five Army and become a free job, and Cheng Xin can defend the current authority of the Ministry of War.

Even Wang Yue invaded the power of the Ministry of War in many things.

In this reform, what Zhu Qizhen attaches most importance to is military power.

Although he didn't want things to develop so that he had to move troops to carry out the matter. However, the absolute support of the military was that Zhu Qizhen could not give in at all, so Zhu Qizhen should be more tolerant to the army.

In this way, only Liu Dingzhi, Guo Deng and Wang Yonghe could maintain their position in the cabinet.

Needless to say, Liu Dingzhi, and Guo Deng, and Wang Yonghe seemed to be an invisible person and had no effect in the cabinet at all.

Because Wang Yonghe was born as the Minister of Works. Zhu Qizhen has been engaged in various projects for so many years, whether it is the roads in the south and north of the desert, water conservancy in various places, even the construction of naval ships, construction of cities, etc. These things are coordinated and responsible for Wang Yonghe.

Speaking of which, it's all dirty work

It’s probably because there is no problem, but if there is a problem, you will be beaten.

Wang Yonghe was responsible for these things, and there was no major problem. It can be seen that Wang Yonghe's ability is a good fighter and has no great achievements.

And everyone who works on the project knows it.

This matter must be well-connected with the person who gives money, otherwise there will be a way to torment you.

So Wang Yonghe was probably very close to Liu Dingzhi, who was in charge of finance, at the beginning, perhaps for work. Later, he gradually became Liu Dingzhi's follower, and was considered one of Liu Ding's party members.

In this way, there are only three out of the seven people in the cabinet, and four places need to be added.

This is the largest number of cabinet members among several times, and it seems to be the difference between the Cao Nai cabinet once was dismissed.

But this time the cabinet has a little bit of labor.

This was Zhu Qizhen's intention.

It’s nothing else, but now it’s the winter of the 31st year of Orthodox.

Generally, in winter, the cabinet will have a little leisure time. Although the cabinet also needs to participate in the account of the six ministries, the one who is really busy is the six ministries, especially the Minister of Revenue. The cabinet's grand scholars can be more leisurely.

Zhu Qizhen chose this time on purpose.

These four quotas remain undecided for a long time. Zhu Qizhen was actually looking at the wind direction below, or Zhu Qizhen wanted officials to see clearly the wind direction. Let them know what kind of people are promoted, and they will always carry out the concept of promoting reforms and getting closer to the emperor into the minds of the Ming officials.

After all, Zhu Qizhen has so many ideas, the real people are still all officials in the world. This cabinet by-election has become a briefing that shows Zhu Qizhen's will.

The content was nothing more than Zhu Qizhen instructed some officials with high reputation, and then Zhu Qizhen delayed it, and then rejected it. In the advance and retreat, and then selected ministers who made contributions to the Biyong meeting, such as Chen Wen, Xu Youzhen, Wang Shu, Qiu Jun, Shang Lu, etc.

Of course, Chen Wen and Xu Youzhen are almost certain.

But Qiu Jun, Wang Shu, and Shang Lu have become a little shallower in their qualifications.

This kind of storm was brewing in the capital.

Yu Qian had left the capital, and Yu Mian stayed in the capital to serve the crown prince. Only Yu Qian's adopted son Yu Kang left the capital with Yu Qian.

They first took the carriage galloping, and arrived from Beijing to Tongzhou in just half a day.

Logically speaking, after arriving in Tongzhou, he could change to a boat and go south through the canal, but Yu Qian still rode a carriage that was riding on the road. It was nothing more. Although Yu Qian had heard of the ability to rid the road, he didn't really ride it many times.

Although he had decided to retire, he was still concerned about state affairs in his heart, especially after he returned from the northwest, he suggested that the court first cultivate the road from Xi'an to Luntai.

He was also worried that this incident would harm the people.

So, after getting off at an inn, he found a civilian at the inn, who gave him some big money and asked some questions.

This civilian man saw that there were only three or four elderly, weak, women and children around Yu Qian, and only his adopted son Yu Kang had two or three young companions.

Just consider it an ordinary family of officials, there is no intention to hide it.

Yu Qian asked, "Is this Chi Dao good to come?"

The man claimed to be in his thirties, but his face was wrinkled. Although his hair was not white, it was as yellow as hay. He said, "It's good. Before the tax was paid, he had to transport it to the warehouse at the border. It had to be transported for hundreds of miles. Now he only needs to transport it to the inn. It's right there?"

The civilian man pointed and Yu Qian looked over, but saw rows of warehouses. Yu Qian had been a local official for many years. He didn't have to go in and look at the appearance and knew that these houses were granaries. Of course, he didn't know how much food and grass there were. Just looking at the scale of the warehouse, it could accommodate about 10,000 or 20,000 shi of grain.

There are probably so many summer and autumn taxes in a county in the north. Of course, there are differences between large and small counties, and there is no way to compare with the heavy taxes in Jiangnan.

In fact, Yu Qian also discovered this phenomenon. You should know that the road is not a train. If you change horses if you change a few dozen miles apart, you will change horses, so the road stations are more dense than train stations.

And every site has a warehouse.

Yu Qian actually had some guesses in his mind.

However, what the civil servant said verified Yu Qian’s guess.

The civil servant said: "The taxes paid are now shipped here. They are just a skill that saves a lot of effort."

The south is more important than grain, which is directly reflected in the Jiangnan intensive taxation, while the north is more important than labor, which refers to the grain transported to the border by counties in the north.

Yu Qian has worked in local customs, and he also proposed that many grains transported to border areas cannot be obtained by seven stones.

Looking at this alone seems to be a great good governance.

Yu Qian said, "How is it bad?"

The civil servant sighed and said, "If it is the bad, it is here." The civil servant pointed in front of him.

Although the road of the cycling is said to be able to travel one or two hundred miles a day, it is usually not in a hurry and rarely does this. Not to mention the time to change horses and rest, the carriage that is galloping on the road of the cycling is not so comfortable.

Think about the shaking feeling of the carriage without any shock absorption, and it is clear.

Generally speaking, when you stop, you will rest for a while, and then you will be able to move forward at a time. In this way, it will be an opportunity for development for each station.

However, it is also a heavy burden for the people.

There is nothing else, the funds for the post station are shared by the court and the local government.

It is even said that most of the funds for the inn were raised by local governments.

But the funding of the inn is a bottomless pit.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were still strict regulations on the use of post stations, and they could only be used after obtaining a license in the Ministry of War. However, as the rules relaxed, many people used post stations without restrictions.

This led to a large number of deficits.

You should know that there is no need to pay for the inn.

The funds provided by the court were limited, but the deficit was unlimited and would be distributed to the local area. The local area did not have so much funds, so the people could bear such funds or let the people serve.

Among the various heavy battles of the people, the post station is one of them.

Now that the road is open, the imperial court has allocated a little more money and food, but the same problem still exists. It is even more serious than before.

But even so, the civilian said, "Actually, this is nothing, it's much better than before."

Yes, compared to the past, traveling through mountains and rivers to resist people's push, transporting grain hundreds of miles away to pay taxes, but now it has been much better to put some effort at the doorstep.
Chapter completed!