Zhang Cong's general idea is: Now the officialdom has become greedy, and the ministers of the Ministry and the Ministers are the treasury of the cabinet. If they are not rectified, the local chief will become the treasury of the ministers of the Ministry and the Ministers.

However, Zhang Cong, who was promoted too fast, has not yet seen the full picture of Ming Dynasty politics, nor has he seen the truth behind corruption.

The root of the Ming Dynasty's greed system did not start with the officials in the capital bribery of the cabinet ministers, but the group of local officials who were determined to "seek for progress", but the disease was caused by the fire and money consumption.

It is the rich rent-seeking space that closely links local officials, capital officials and the dynasty's tyrants to form a community of interests with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty.

No wonder Zhang Xiang was excluded by the civil servant group. After all, if Zhang Xiang attacked local corruption, it would have indirectly affected the input of all officials in the capital, but it stood opposite to the civil servant group.

On the contrary, Xu Jie was much smarter. On the one hand, he continued to promote additional enlistment and sects to the people, but on the other hand, he was thunderous and storming for the administration.

Lin Qingran looked at the house full of property. Even though he had never taken the initiative to be greedy, the "filial piety" of the people below was already shocking.

This is because he has always maintained an honest image and has always directly refused too generous gifts, otherwise there would be more property in the house.

Lin Xuran found that he underestimated the "long flow of water". He turned his head and looked at the dozen big boxes on the right and ordered: "You open all the boxes and let me take a good look!"

Lin Jinyuan immediately received the order and took two tribe members to open the dozen or so cash boxes one by one.

More than a dozen large wooden boxes were filled with gold, silver and jewelry. These gold, silver and jewelry were shining with a different tempting light under the light of the fire.

Lin Xuran had no strong concept of gold and silver, but he could not accurately estimate how many ten large wooden boxes were. He walked closer and reached out to grab a string of pearls from a box and said, "If you continue like this, as long as I stay in my current position for ten years, we can really fill this room!"

"If this is the case, this room can indeed be filled!" Lin Jinyuan didn't know whether Lin Xuran's words were self-deprecating or contempt, but nodded seriously.

Since Lin Junran was promoted to the Left Minister of Rites in the 40th year of Jiajing, various ice warnings, charcoal warnings and other warnings have come like a tide, and he has witnessed the growth of this silver treasury at a visible rate of naked eyes.

Since the Lin Mansion's daily expenses were not misappropriated from here, this warehouse is simply a gold-swalking beast that only enters and does not leave. It is undoubtedly a matter of time to fill this room.

In fact, let alone ten years, with Lin Qingran's current power, even five years is enough to fill the warehouse.

Lin Weiran threw the string of pearls in his hand back into the box, but sighed helplessly.

The reason why Yan Song and Xu Jie became corrupt is probably not only because of their own greed, but also closely related to the bad habits in the officialdom today.

From discovering problems to solving problems, it has always been his process of dealing with them.

If we only want to solve the problem of local officials greed for fire consumption, the fastest way to achieve the effect is undoubtedly "the fire consumption belongs to the public". This move can not only reduce the "renting space" of officials, but also illegally destroy this gray income.

But he knew better than anyone else that the hornet's nest can't be stabbed now. The waste of fire and silver is not only an input for local officials, but also an important source of income for officials in the capital, but it effectively makes up for the inherent shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty's official and employee salary system.

In addition, he did not agree with the "fire consumption" that treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and hopes that the Ming Dynasty's policy was to lightly impose on the people.

The essence of fire consumption belongs to the public is to continue to exploit the people. The so-called fire consumption is actually that the government wants the people to collect more than a portion of the tax and silver that should not have been paid, which is extremely unreasonable in itself.

Lin Weiran's pursuit is to return things to fairness, and he can rebuild the sound monetary system of the Ming Dynasty, or set the banknotes of the joint money house as official currency.

Once paper money or silver coins can replace the status of the official currency, there will be no more fire and silver consumption in the standardized currency denomination, and the disadvantage of fire and silver consumption is naturally cured by medicine.

After Lin Qingran left the warehouse, he immediately came to the study and quickly formulated a work plan for the new year.

He first wanted to promote the bad guy book nationwide, use the improved Ming Dynasty finance to rebuild the salary system for Ming officials, and then put forward the policy of maintaining integrity and banking.

Of course, the most important thing is to promote the financial construction of the Ming Dynasty and strive to make the banknotes of the United Money Bank become the world currency of the entire earth.

The tree wants to stop, but the wind does not stop.

Although during the Spring Festival, all officials have already had their holidays for the New Year, the court of the Ming Dynasty is always undercurrents.

During the close exchanges between officials, officials led by the Shanxi Gang were ready to move again, but they planned to push the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Yijun to the throne.

Although Empress Chen has been pregnant for half a year, in terms of probability, the ratio of Empress Chen gave birth to a prince or a prince is close to 1:1.

In particular, they learned from various channels that the pregnant Queen Chen did not like sour foods very much, which undoubtedly proved that the probability of having a girl was greatly increased.

Once Empress Chen gave birth to a princess, the first heir to the throne would still be the eldest son Zhu Yijun, which undoubtedly gave them hope to turn the tables.

It is precisely because officials led by Shanxi official Wang Guoguang are no longer willing to fail and are quietly planning to push the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Yijun to the throne of the crown prince.

Not only officials, but there were also undercurrents in the palace. Many eunuchs quietly participated in this invisible "Crown-Chief Fight".

The eldest princess once again played the role of a messenger and actually made a public statement: "The emperor has been ascending the throne for more than two years. Now he cannot be delayed anymore. He should immediately sign the eldest son Zhu Yijun as the crown prince!"

After all, she is a powerless eldest princess, and the incident of her relationship with the groom has long become the object of despised by the people of the capital, but few people take her words seriously.

It is precisely because the court now does not have the basis for two parties to fight each other, and the undercurrent that just emerged soon disappeared.

In these voices of supporting the eldest son of the emperor, Zhu Yijun, Lin Dang also directly gave color, but he wanted to conduct a "small test" for the officials in the capital after the New Year.

When the news came out, Wang Guoguang's mansion was suddenly deserted, and the officials who had originally planned to take a chance turned into turtles.

Lin Weiran is not a lonely man like Xu Jie, but has many followers in the court. Zhu Heng, the Minister of Personnel, was helped by Lin Weiran, and he was a life-and-death and killing ordinary officials.

The same is true. The Spring Festival in the third year of Longqing seemed noisy, but it could not cause any storm. There was a person who was silently controlling the government.
Chapter completed!