In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Wanli glanced at all the ministers, the cabinet and the six ministries were all present.
The elders of the cabinet have been torn apart in front of him for a long time. In the current cabinet, there is no such powerful person as Zhang Juzheng. The elders of the cabinet have been torn for a long time, but there is no conclusion. There are also the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei.
As the top of the six ministries, the Ministry of Officials was the first to speak, impassioned: "Your Majesty, in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, the native officials have followed the Han and Tang Dynasties to the present. Official unchanged!
During the time of Taizu and Chengzu, they wanted to solve this problem, but because of the chaos in the Northern Yuan Dynasty and no time to look south, the matter was delayed again. Now that Yang Yinglong is being put to death, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It just happens to be broken and established, and the system of exile officials will be implemented throughout the whole of Bozhou! "
The Ministry of Officials is responsible for the assessment, promotion and appointment of officials. I don’t know how many idle officials are dismissed every day and alternate officials, digging doors and stealing holes, entrusting relatives and friends, waiting for the officials who have returned from old age, dismissed after committing crimes, or died suddenly to make room.
If the floating official system is implemented throughout Bozhou, he will have a lot of official positions to appoint, and he will feel ecstatic when he thinks about it.
Hubu Shangshu immediately jumped out to object: "Your Majesty! The heroes of Taizu and Chengzu have a general idea. Is it possible that they have no time to go south and return to the land just because of the chaos in the Northern Yuan Dynasty? Emperor Chengzu swept Mobei five times, and Beiyuan was invincible. The emperor has too much energy and no time to look around?"
The Minister of the Household Department stepped forward and said loudly: "I think that this is the emperor Taizu and Chengzu who discovered that everything cannot be done overnight and is too hasty, so this is the policy of returning home slowly. In the land of Bozhou, the Yang family ruled for more than 700 years. There are layers upon layers of officials, which cannot be counted.
If you rush back, can the government order be uploaded and issued? There was Hu County in the past, and it returned to Liuliu for five years, and the imperial court subsidized a large amount of money and food every year. The taxation of the entire province of Guizhou today is not as good as that of a small county in the south of the Yangtze River. Once the land of Bozhou is completely returned, it can be predicted that within at least fifty years, the imperial court will not be able to collect a single penny, and the relief that needs to be subsidized will be reduced. It was an unbearable burden for the imperial court.
My Ming Dynasty first pacified Northwest Boba, then fought against Dongying Fusang, and then fought against the Yang family in Bozhou. "
The Ministry of Households is in charge of money and food. Once the policy of reforming land and returning local residents is fully implemented, the money spent...that is an astronomical figure, and it is not a single sum, but has to be filled into this big hole every year. Once the emperor really listened to the words of Shangshu Libu, Shangshu Hubu could imagine how miserable his future life would be.
"When you die, you know everything is empty, but you don't see the same in Kyushu. Wang Shibei set the Central Plains Day, and the family sacrifices will never be forgotten." Make Hangzhou Bianzhou."
These complaints are the emotions of those literati when they encouraged writing. If the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty really hoped that the Northern Expedition would succeed, wouldn't he want the Northern Expedition to regain the lost land? Where does the greatest resistance come from? Not from the emperor, but from the officials and gentry, from the common people!
The Song Dynasty was rich, until the subjugation of the country, the people's livelihood in the Song Dynasty was the best era in all dynasties, and the people lived the most carefree life. Northern Expedition? Once the Northern Expedition succeeds, the imperial court will have to spend a large amount of money to subsidize the corrupt and economically backward north, and it will have to use the money from the southerners to help the northerners. Do you think they are willing
This is the situation today. The Minister of the Ministry of Officials and the Minister of the Ministry of Households sit in different positions on their buttocks, and they think about problems from different angles. For the issues that the Minister of the Ministry of Officials supports with both hands, the Minister of the Household Department opposes with both hands and feet.
The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment immediately jumped out and said: "The great Situ is old enough to seek the country, and the minister seconded it!"
The Tianguan of the Ministry of Officials is elegantly called Otsuka Zai, and the Minister of the Household Department is elegantly called Da Situ. Da Sikou (Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice) of course supported the Shangshu of the Household Department. Ye Xiaotian helped him vigorously build a grassroots judicial office in Tongren Mansion, and the results were remarkable. If all of them were replaced by Liuguan, would they be able to achieve such great results? stop being funny!
Those low-ranking officials are rotated every few years, so they can settle down to do things that take a long time and can't show their achievements during their term of office? Even if he is willing, the Central Plains region has always been a system of floating officials, and officials have to rely heavily on local gentry. Once the local gentry adopts a non-cooperative attitude, it will be difficult for him to implement his decrees, and he will end up doing nothing, not to mention the Bozhou kind that has been passed down for hundreds of years. The native official area of the millennium.
Emperor Wanli looked at the other three Shangshu and said, "What do you think?"
The Ministry of Rites is Lin Shilang's territory, and Lin Shilang is Ye Xiaotian's ally, so naturally he stood up to second the Minister of the Household Department's words.
The Secretary of the Ministry of Industry did not offend both sides, frowning and stroking his beard, muttering a bunch of technical issues: transportation, water conservancy, construction, manufacturing...
After some fuzzy analysis, Minister of the Ministry of Industry put forward an astronomical budget: once the land is reformed, the infrastructure construction of Bozhou must be greatly rebuilt to match the governance of the officials. . He needs money!
The stingy Emperor Wanli frowned when he heard it, and the Minister of the Household Department who was short of money was terrified when he heard it.
And the Minister of the Ministry of War opened his mouth, still asking for money!
If you want to change the land and return the whole Bozhou, you must build guards and guard the place to replace the native soldiers and native officials, right? Are these things that can be done just by touching the lips? It's hard to move an inch without money!
When Emperor Wanli heard that he was asking for money again, he felt heartache. In a blink of an eye, I looked at the Minister of the Ministry of Officials who supported the reform of land and return, and suddenly thought that once the system of exile officials is fully implemented, so many officials will suddenly increase.
In the eyes of Emperor Wanli, copper coins piled up higher and higher, like a mountain, and the money was to be thrown into a bottomless pit, which was a matter of his life.
Thinking of the disputes among the elders, and thinking of the fact that the Shui'an family is also coveting the fat of Bozhou under the guise of opposing Ye Xiaotian, while the Shuidong Song family is supporting Ye Xiaotian, trying to unite with Ye Kang'an, and a three-legged confrontation is finally made. down.
The Shui'an family has a strong foundation and is even more terrifying than the Bozhou Yang family. If the An family is made stronger, will An Zhi become the second Yang Yinglong in the future? Although the Shuidong Song family is weaker than the Shui'an family, once the Southern Six Mansions of Bozhou are assigned to the Song family, the Song family will leap ahead of the An family, and there will be endless troubles.
It is not feasible to reform all the land and return it to the local people. If we follow Chengzu's example and cut off the six prefectures for self-government, and don't reward meritorious ministers like Ye Xiaotian, how will the imperial court face the people of the world? The Song family of Shuidong and Nanliufu are close at hand, will they take the opportunity to secretly recruit and buy them
If the six southern prefectures are divided and autonomous, will the northern prefectures of Bozhou be secretly obstructed by the native officials of the six southern prefectures? Only when the three pillars stand together, allowing the three families of An, Song and Ye to check and balance each other, can my country be more secure.
Thinking of this, Emperor Wanli stood up: "I think it is the general trend to reform the land and return it to the people. However, if you seek a cure too quickly, the harm will be even greater. It should be implemented steadily and gradually! Therefore, I ordered: Yi Sinan Xuanfu envoy At the request of Ye Xiaotian, the southern six prefectures of Bozhou were placed under Ye Xiaotian's rule, called Pingyue Mansion, which was still under the jurisdiction of Guizhou.
All the prefectures on the northern line were reformed and returned to Liu, called Zunyi, and belonged to Sichuan! The prefects, magistrates, and county magistrates in the northern prefectures were sent by the imperial court to send out officials, and the remaining Zhengyin officials and miscellaneous officials were filled by local native officials! This! "