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Chapter 418 Split

Qian Qianyi's plan to enter the cabinet was finally settled. Just as the emperor said that he had entered the cabinet, Qian Qianyi felt like crying. He was wandering in his life and wandered around the threshold of entering the cabinet many times. Since the Chongzhen Dynasty, he had three opportunities to enter the cabinet, and was interrupted by various people and things. Now he finally got what he wanted, so how could he not let Qian Qianyi feel very moved! Although the Shenwu court was only in Guangdong, and although he was ranked last in the cabinet, he had entered the cabinet after all. He was finally recorded as a cabinet minister in later history books.

Zhu Hongsan doesn't care about Qian Qianyi's savoring life here, and there are still big things to do now.

"Several adults, is it time to discuss the banking matter now?"

After hearing what the emperor said, the ministers in the hall realized that they would discuss banking matters today, but they were too devoted to watching the show just now and forgot about the main agenda today.

The next step is very simple. The main opposition has been defeated. Chen Zizhuang had just been impeached and was completely out of arrogance. The banking law proposed by Ma Mingyuan was finally passed. Finally, it was decided to start the establishment of the central bank at the end of this month and release new silver coins, leaving a two-year buffer period for the gentry. Two years later, all areas controlled by Emperor Shenwu will cancel silver and change it to silver coin transactions. The new law looks simple, but it will definitely have great resistance to implementation. Now it is August. The end of the year is the time when the central government and various places hand over taxes. At that time, it will cost a lot of money to lose one amount of money.

However, unlike before, Zhu Hongsan has significantly increased the salaries of officials after he came to power. The annual salary of a seventh-rank county magistrate increased from 7 taels to 150 taels. These prime ministers in the cabinet even reached a salary of more than 3,000 taels per year. If converted into later banknotes, it would be more than 3 million yuan (I don’t know if you have seen Jin Ping Mei. It has a very detailed description of the prices of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Ximen Qing’s wife and concubines only cost seven cents of silver for a meal of crabs. How could it be said that it would not be more than 1,000 yuan if it is put to the present day? Therefore, the price in this book is one tael of silver for exchange for later banknotes. Don’t think it’s too much. Bao Zheng of the Song Dynasty was just a prefect of Kaifeng, and his salary was more than 20 million in later generations. So it’s appropriate to be an official to the Song Dynasty. I’m envious!!!).

In addition to the official salary, Zhu Hongsan also opened up a lot of convenience, leaving many loopholes in road construction, development zone construction, and real estate development. As long as it is not too much, Zhu Hongsan even turned a blind eye to the bribery of his subordinate officials. Zhu Hongsan estimated that all of these were combined with a seventh-rank county magistrate who earned about 500 taels per year, which would be enough to support the family and live a decent life.

Zhu Hongsan was very happy to see that the new banking law he promoted finally passed. Zhu Hongsan had read some time travel novels before, and it was very simple to implement the new method when the time travelers opened their mouths, but only when they actually operated it, they found that there were many difficulties.

Regardless of whether a policy is right or wrong, since it can be implemented for hundreds of years, a group of vested interest classes will definitely form, and any changes will cause the lives of these interest groups. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan really admires the reformed predecessors, such as Shang Yang, Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng, etc. Now Zhu Hongsan just wants to cause fire consumption to be affected and has such a big reaction. If it involves the core interests of the gentry, such as "officials and gentry are one-piece food and work together", I don't know what changes will happen. Fortunately, Zhu Hongsan caught a scapegoat to hold the jar, which is Ma Mingyuan, a gentry from Huguang.

Ma Mingyuan is definitely an outstanding representative of the literati of this era. He has spent tens of thousands of acres of grain land in Huguang, and has countless industries. He is still the first in the second grade and has countless officials in his family. Logically speaking, such people should completely oppose Zhu Hongsan's "officials and gentry are one in one's own jobs," but there is no way, Ma Mingyuan was labeled as the princeling symbol early on.

As an orthodox scholar, Ma Mingyuan's concept of establishing a legitimate legitimate has penetrated into his bones, not to mention that Zhu Hai is the eldest son of the legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate legitimate work for Zhu Hongsan, and strive to get extra points for Zhu Hai.

Seeing that the new law has been implemented, Zhu Hongsan continued: "This is the case with the new law. Now the situation of the anti-Qing Dynasty in the country is very good. I have decided to continue to work hard. At the end of this month, I will lead the army to attack Nanjing occupied by the Qing Dynasty. I will ask the cabinet gentlemen for the matter in Guangdong!"

The ministers all knew that the Emperor Shenwu had created a new army with his own hands and was extremely capable of fighting, so they did not object. But Tong Yangjia turned his eyes and stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, you are leading the army north. Can you ask the prince to supervise the country here in Guangdong?"

The ministers in the court did not know about the matter of Prince Zhu Hai going to Ganzhou to serve in the army. Someone asked about Zhu Hongsan, so he made excuses on the grounds that the prince was sent out to study. However, it was not normal for the prince not to show up for several months. Some ministers in the court had already started to discuss privately, and Tong Yangjia was one of them.

Tong Yangjia also asked Qian Lide, but Zhu Hongsan was afraid that the prince would leak news, so he did not let Qian Lide know at all. The Dongchang, which was responsible for the prince's safety, was even more trusted by Zhu Hongsan. So the Jinyiwei didn't know the exact news, but he knew that the prince had not appeared in the palace for several months.

So today Tong Yangjia heard that the emperor wanted to lead the army in person, and he was thinking about clarifying the situation of the prince. If the prince is really not in Guangzhou, he could do a lot of things.

As the Chief Prime Minister, Chen Zizhuang knew the importance of the crown prince, but he was just hit hard by the Huguang faction and did not react for a while. Now, when Tong Yangjia said this, he immediately realized that this was an opportunity to get rid of the Huguang faction.

Chen Zizhuang immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty, this expedition took a long time after all, I hope to ask the prince to supervise the country!"

Zhu Hongsan frowned. It’s nothing if anyone is in charge of the country. The key is that the prince is not in Guangzhou now. In order to protect the prince, he cannot tell his whereabouts. It’s really a dilemma. Zhu Hongsan looked at Tong Yangjia and opened his mouth and said, “The prince’s academic priority is now. Let the King of Chu in Guangzhou supervise the country!”

Ma Mingyuan was shocked when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this. He now regretted that he agreed to the prince to go out to join the army. At that time, he had the intention of asking the prince to make more military generals, but then he thought that the emperor wanted to lead the army. If the emperor had a good time and died on the front line, the prince would be far away from the center of power and would be immediately taken advantage of by the King of Chu.

Tong Yangjia was overjoyed when he heard the emperor say this. He gained a lot today. While the King of Chu was supervising the country, he also knew that the prince was not in Guangzhou. The next step was to know where the prince was going. As long as the prince had an accident, he had great hope of becoming the prince.

Another Huguang tycoon boss in the cabinet, Fu Wenlong, also had his eyes flashed. If the prince had an accident, the most promising person would be the son of Ma Ruyan, Zhu Jiang, the King of Qin.

Ma Mingyuan looked at Chen Zizhuang's words and caused the Huguang faction, which was still united on the surface, to fall apart. Ma Mingyuan cursed in his heart that he should have won a great victory today, but now it seems that the most unlucky one is himself. The Prime Minister did not regard it as a matter of this. Now it has caused the Huguang faction to be divided, which is really not worth the loss.

Ma Mingyuan looked at Feng Ziyong beside him and couldn't help but think in his heart, today it was you, Feng Laoer who was disrupting the situation, or the Prime Minister was mine, okay, since you don't miss the relationship between relatives, don't blame me, and today I will attack you first.

Thinking of this, Ma Mingyuan stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to do!"

Zhu Hongsan was very surprised to see Ma Mingyuan stand up. Isn’t today’s business over? What else does Ma Laoer have to do?

"Mr. Ma, tell me!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!" After Ma Lao Er said that, he walked to the center of the hall and bowed, "Your Majesty! Now wars in the north are frequent, and Your Majesty still wants to lead the army in person. I am worried that the military production in Guangdong will not be able to keep up!"

Zhu Hong twisted his beard with three hands and thought: This is a problem. In the past, he had always been in charge of the military factory, but now he has gone north and no one has managed it, which will definitely affect production.

"Mr. Ma is right. Do you have any good suggestions!"

"Your Majesty, just use one person to replace the emperor's management. Now the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi is vacant, which just allows a prime minister to act as the Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi to be responsible for the comprehensive affairs of Guangdong. In this way, His Majesty the Emperor can also feel at ease in the northern expedition!"

As soon as Ma Mingyuan said this, Tong Yangjia was sweating all over. He was in charge of military affairs in the cabinet. The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was really tailor-made for him, and there was no second candidate. Tong Yangjia cursed in his heart: This Ma Lao Er is really cruel and wants to kick me out of the cabinet!

Tong Yangjia quickly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I am in charge of military affairs and I want to follow Your Majesty to go to war. I really can't stay in Guangdong!"

Zhu Hongsan also thought Ma Mingyuan was going to take the opportunity to attack Tong Yangjia. Just as he was about to speak, Ma Mingyuan said first: "Don't worry, Lord Tong, I know that you are not worthy of being the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi!"

Tong Yangjia heard Ma Mingyuan belittling him and cursed in his heart, but after hearing that he was not the candidate for the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

Zhu Hongsan was also very surprised. What was Ma Mingyuan going to do today?

"Mr. Ma, what are you going to say? Who is the candidate? Don't guess the riddles, okay?"
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