After some discussion, the imperial court allocated ten official quotas to the craftsmen of the Ordnance Supervision. However, these ten quotas included both salary-paying officials and dispatched officials.
Zhang Yueze said: "Your Majesty, I have one more thing to do. In the past, the internal ministers were responsible for supervising military weapons, which made it a common practice both internally and externally. In the past, there was a situation where a good bow was repaid as a useless one. Please stop this."
After Zhang Yue finished speaking, the official looked at Wang Anshi.
Zhang Yue was worried that Wang Anshi would object, and Wang Anshi said: "I heard that the ministers in the palace who supervise the weapons supervisor are all unworthy, so they rushed to come. The previous case of the weapons supervisor Wei Duan was dropped."
When Zhang Yue and Lu Huiqing investigated Wei Duanzhi's case of scrapping hundreds of thousands of bows without any reason, the officials ordered them not to investigate further.
In the end, Wei Duanzhi and several craftsmen were only lightly punished.
There were indeed many problems with the internal eunuchs and the weapons inspection. The officials immediately agreed to Wang Anshi and Zhang Yue to reduce the number of times the internal eunuchs went to the ordnance inspection for inspections. Obviously the officials knew who was behind the scenes, but they refused to deal with it.
Zhang Yue's interruption made the officials behind him stay for a while longer.
Now after Zhang Yue's performance, the eunuchs came to urge him to have lunch.
However, the officials did not agree with the chamberlain's suggestion to let the officials outside the corridor go back first. Instead, they asked several officials to enter the palace to perform business, and they must finish the official business.
Wang Anshi and Zhang Yue naturally stayed in the palace.
After listening to the speeches of several officials, the officials returned to the palace to have lunch.
One of the officials who was playing for the first time was very moved by the diligent work of the officials. Of course, what he played was not as important as the military and state affairs that Wang Anshi and Zhang Yue played.
However, the officials inquired very carefully and did not ignore the matter just because it was trivial. They gave the imperial approval in person.
However, anyone who is familiar with the officialdom knows that this is a consistent operation of the officialdom.
After such a conscientious official retreated outside the palace, Wang Anshi still went ahead alone, while Zhang Yue was a few steps behind.
At this moment, Wang Anshi suddenly stopped and Zhang Yue subconsciously slowed down, then returned to normal and walked to Wang Anshi's side.
Wang Anshi put his hands behind his back and said, "Is it difficult for Du Zhi to return to the court this time?"
Zhang Yue said: "The official is just telling the truth."
Seeing that Zhang Yue refused to admit it, Wang Anshi said: "Shen Cunzhong has repeatedly said that it is useless, but you actually use him to criticize..."
Zhang Yue did not directly refute, but said: "Your Majesty said before that although Shen Kuo is not a scholar, he is talented enough to be praised."
Wang Anshi said: "Let's not mention this matter for now. You said before that it is inconvenient to provide porridge for disaster relief. It should be for the benefit of the hungry people. I quite agree with this case. There is also the method of silting the fields. You also approve of these two matters.
The imperial court can plan well."
It seems that the official mentioned my words in front of Wang Anshi.
Zhang Yue said: "Nowadays, there is a money shortage in the world. One is that there is little money, and the other is that the people cannot make money."
"In the past, the imperial court could distribute wealth to the poor, and the poor would also benefit from it."
Wang Anshi said: "Is Shen Cunzhong's idea of 'Building many princes with less strength' coming from you? Can you explain it to me in detail?"
Zhang Yue said: "Prime Minister, let me use an analogy. The imperial court used 10,000 guan to build weapons. In the past, the internal prison officers had to use 3,000 guan, and the officials had to use 3,000 guan. The craftsmen who worked on it only had 1,000 guan. The last three thousand guan
It’s about the materials used.”
"As for whether all ten thousand dollars can be used for craftsmen and materials, I can only say that such an ideal system only exists in the ideal."
"And excluding internal prison, if we can divide 3,000 guan for officials, 2,000 guan for craftsmen, and 5,000 guan for materials, it will be difficult to achieve."
Wang Anshi said nothing and listened to what Zhang Yue said.
Zhang Yue continued: "In the past, when weapons were built, the emperor would let eunuchs and civil servants supervise each other, but there are only so many resources. If we reduce the number of links involving power and allow more people to do the work, we can improve the efficiency of the craftsmen, and
creativity."
"creativity?"
Zhang Yue said: "That is the power of production. For example, if the people have cattle, they can plant twenty acres of land."
Wang Anshi said happily: "I quite approve of this statement of productivity."
Zhang Yue smiled, Wang Anshi had indeed changed a lot since his appearance. It seemed that Wang Anshi was not as stubborn as before.
Zhang Yue said: "The most important thing is to 'build more feudal lords but less strength'. Only when you build up the feudal lords can you suppress them. Use force to cut down the feudal vassals. If you win, there will be chaos in the Seven Kingdoms. If you lose...that's why we have the order to extend favor."
"In the Tang Dynasty, the military envoys had great weight. Later, the imperial court used the imperial envoys to control the envoys, but with little effect. However, this dynasty used literature to control military affairs. The literati were not as good as the military men. This was also a case of building up the inferior and suppressing the superior."
"Nowadays, the reason why the officials in the military weapons supervision department let the internal ministers supervise the production is because they cannot trust the civil servants who make the weapons, so they build up craftsmen. Only then can they be able to say, "If the power is small, it will be easy to make people righteous, and if the country is small, the evil spirit will be destroyed."
Wang Anshi listened very carefully and did not say yes or no.
But Zhang Yue felt that Wang Anshi really listened.
"Let me think about this matter carefully. The personal grudge between you and Lu Jifu is over. You must put national affairs first."
Zhang Yue neither agreed nor objected, but said: "Zhang does not dare to abolish public affairs for personal reasons."
Wang Anshi didn't say much, and only said one word of kindness.
Zhang Yue guessed that although Wang Anshi hated Lu Huiqing for stabbing him this time, he refused to stop Lu Huiqing immediately because Lu Huiqing was Wang Anshi's designated replacement.
In the past, Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing, masters and disciples, praised each other and I praised you. The words Confucius Yan replied were so sweet. But as sweet as the vows of each other were at the beginning, they would be ugly when they break up in the future.
Once Lu Huiqing is dismissed by him, the blow to Wang Anshi's prestige will be even greater than that of Zeng Bu.
Zhang Yue expected that if Wang Anshi went to go to Lu Huiqing, there would be a process. Lu Huiqing was not as 'honest' as Zeng Bu, and Wang and Lu were too involved, and it would be very ugly if they fell out.
Generally, one must be careful when dealing with a close confidant like Lu Huiqing. Beforehand, one must blow the air, greet the subordinates, and even have a pretentious discussion, all in order to make everyone mentally prepared.
Of course, Zhang Yue was not willing to let Lu Huiqing give up his position so smoothly.
Do you want to escape unscathed now? No way!
After the relationship between Zhang Yue and Wang Anshi improved, he learned the news about Lu Huiqing's appointment as prime minister the next day. Apparently Lu Huiqing had learned about Shen Kuo's betrayal of him, so he went out as prime minister.
Lu Huiqing was also a very smart person, but many people couldn't see the situation clearly, harboring illusions and lingering on power. It was not very honorable to leave at that time.
Lu Huiqing said in his Cishu that he had to go to Cishu more than ten days ago (the day Zhang Yue returned to Beijing), but he did not care about the feelings of the emperor and his ministers (actually Lu Shengqing and other brothers refused), but now (the despicable Shen Kuo)
Shameless villain, who was incited by a certain regime to actually stab me) had to leave, so I begged to go out.
Lu Huiqing was also very disappointed when he handed in his resignation.
He could understand Shen Kuo's betrayal of him and Zhang Yue's return to court to embarrass him, but when Zhang Yue presented Zhang Zi in front of Wang Anshi, he actually did not speak for himself.
This made Lu Huiqing disappointed.
Lu Huiqing thought to herself, Wang Jiefu and I have worked together for so many years, and you have a lot of tricks in my hands.
He, Lu Huiqing, was not Zeng Bu. After he was dismissed, he never said a word against Wang Anshi from beginning to end.