Chapter 43: The Imperial Business Collusion (3,000 words)
Last time watching the army, Wei Zhongxian proposed to remove the platoon of the military commander of the Military and Military Affairs Office by using the owed equipment to the Yongwei Camp.
The real intention is to change to his person.
This morning, Zhu Youxiao heard that Wang An, the eunuch who was sick and recuperating at home for several days, had improved slightly after several days, returned to Silijian to serve, and specially sent someone to express his condolences.
The reason for the condolences was naturally to express his respect for Wang An. The Donglin Party members took this trick, and Wei Zhongxian even took this trick.
Wang An’s power in the inner court is no less than Wei Zhongxian. When he returned to Silijian, someone naturally went up to report Wei Zhongxian’s actions over the years.
Wei Zhongxian did this, and Wang An would not just wait for his people to be withdrawn. He immediately rushed to the Ganqing Palace to argue, saying that Wei Zhongxian was making things out of nothing, and so on.
No matter how Wang An and Wei Zhongxian fight, it will happen under Zhu Youxiao's nose, and the decision-making power is all in his own hands.
Let Wei Zhongxian, this girl's power will surge again in the Great Wall. It will rise too fast, and it is hard to guarantee that no one will start calling him Nine Thousand Years.
Once these nine thousand years are called out, it is even more difficult to ensure that Wei Zhongxian will not start to float.
As for continuing to let Wang An's people stay, Zhu Youxiao also sent someone to check it out. The company's sign was more close to Donglin, and it was indeed a case of not issuing weapons to Yongweiying.
So Zhu Youxiao planned to kick out all of these two people and take back the battle.
According to Zhu Youxiao's idea, in addition to establishing a military weapon department, the military war situation must be completely reshuffled, and according to the military weapon department, it will become its own military industry department directly under its jurisdiction.
The network of capable people in the world is used by the Ming Dynasty!
Of course, there must be a lot of money here. Just developing a gun and firing a gun may cost a lot of money.
Zhu Youxiao felt heartbroken, but he was not at all panicked.
The reason why Bi Maokang was given a three-month deadline was to make him feel nervous, otherwise he would not be too busy to study it. Could it be that it would be the same as in history, and it would not be developed until fourteen years later?
At that time, the daylily was cold!
As for why the Ministry of War was not used, it was even simpler. At this time, the Minister of War was still Wang Xianggan.
Now Wang Xianggan has been impeached by "eunuch party" such as Cui Chengxiu and Gu Bingqian. Zhu Youxiao just saw his resignation today.
There is nothing to be happy about this. Even if Wang Xiang continues to do it, Zhang Minghe who came up is still a member of the Donglin Party.
In the short term, the situation where Donglin civil servants are in charge of the Ministry of War will not be improved.
This means that for a period of time, I was unable to rely on the Ministry of War.
Letting the Ministry of War build firearms is equivalent to letting your enemies build weapons for you. Without asking, Zhu Youxiao can know the result.
The amount of money you throw in will have to be less. As for the development of firearms, compared with their name as the Qingliu, you have to stand aside!
The matter of the Military Equipment Department was settled so much. Bi Maokang left the Xihun Pavilion with a radiant look. Zhu Youxiao continued to read another book that Wang Tigan had just received, just like a person who was fine.
The king's body standing beside him was not even brave enough to look at the emperor for a glance.
Zhu Youxiao read the book quietly, and the West Warehouse gradually became aware of needles. Wang Tie was beaten inexplicably and didn't dare to move even a moment.
After a while, Zhu Youxiao asked casually: "What time is it now?"
"Go back to the emperor, it's time for Shen." Wang Tigan was excited and said hurriedly.
"Why haven't Ye Xianggao come yet? Didn't you ask him to talk about it every day?" Zhu You asked lightly without raising his head.
Wang Tigan thought for a while and said, "The elders of the Pavilion failed to persuade the emperor because of the joint report. They are now being impeached by the censor of Kedao, saying that they want to avoid suspicion in the mansion..."
The parents in the conversation naturally refer to all the ministers including the chief assistant Ye Xianggao and the second assistant Han Dong.
"Hmph, they have today too." Zhu Youxiao was surprised. He insisted on Ye Xianggao to promote the current situation of internal struggle in Donglin.
The Donglin Party became anxious and even bite his own people.
Immediately, Zhu Youxiao turned the book and said, "Go and pass the imperial edict to urge me."
"Yes, the emperor."
Seeing Wang Tigan leaving with his mouth covering his mouth, Zhu Youxiao sneered a few times, "How could this master and imperial teacher be so easy to bear?"
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The spring of the first year of the Apocalypse.
The strong wind is gusts, as sharp as a knife, and as soft as spring water, Jiangnan, which is also as soft as a spring water, seems to be cut by the wind, and the air is filled with blood.
In Suzhou City, a large number of businessmen were gathering at the pier, full of righteous indignation.
The reason why these businessmen were angry was naturally due to the newly established Supervisory Office of the imperial court. The supervisory officer of the Supervisory Office was Wei Liangqing, the nephew who had been mentioned to Zhu Youxiao before.
When the order was received was granted, Wei Liangqing was still working in his hometown to farm.
Wei Zhongxian became famous for less than a year. Although Wei Liangqing had already sent a letter, the capital had never replied, so he was disheartened.
Suddenly, he received an imperial edict, and he and the five Wei clan ancestors and grandchildren were all Jinyiwei thousands of households. They did not have to go to the capital, but went directly to the newly established supervision departments in various places to serve.
After a little understanding of the effectiveness of the Supervisory Office, Wei Liangqing knew that this was a fat man.
Suzhou is an important place in the canal. Since Jiajing and Wanli, there have been endless tourists and incense.
Wei Liangqing was already "indignant" after more than a month after he arrived in Suzhou.
This indignation was naturally promoted by the local Donglin scholars, but in fact, the increased tariffs have no actual impact on the people.
Of course, unless the businessmen are angry and unite to raise local prices.
But if they did this, it would have to be passed on to the court, and the increase in tariffs would have to be a big deal, and there would be only one result in the end.
Either Emperor Zhu Youxiao relaxed tariffs, or the merchants accepted the defeat and allowed the supervisory department to impose heavy taxes on them.
The purpose of Zhu Youzhai's establishment of the Supervisory Department was to disgust these greedy and greedy businessmen and lack of state.
However, the disgusting force is not very strong at the moment, and the fish and shrimps that jump out are all small fish and shrimps. The real chaebol boss is still huddling behind.
"If you want to pass the test, you have to pay taxes!" Wei Liangqing stood by the dock, followed by a group of officials from the supervision department and said to the businessmen below:
"The citations from the Supervisor's Fund are now issued by our Supervisor Department, and only one hundred citations are issued this month!"
"According to the emperor's will, tariffs will be imposed. Now one quotation is 2,000 taels of silver!"
When the merchants heard this, they exploded.
For merchants who want to expand overseas, this is equivalent to a certificate of qualification for export trade.
Merchants who purchase citations will be sent by local supervisors to check whether they have the ability to trade overseas and transport canals.
If you are slapping the swollen face and pretending to be fat, you will naturally not be able to give this article to him.
In fact, many people think that this verification is not necessary. If it has not been done to a certain extent in China, how many businessmen will have the ability to get the documents and entice overseas trade?
The civil servants are responsible for the matter of issuing citations in the funds supervision hall. Naturally, the civil servants are responsible for the matter of issuing citations.
Even if you know that a certain wealthy agreement must have the energy to quote overseas trade, the supervisor still needs to check it. It doesn’t matter whether you have the ability, because once you check it like this, one of the two results must be produced.
Whether you can get a citation depends on the performance of the merchants.
The distribution of citations is in actual quantity. For example, the imperial court stipulated that the Suzhou Prefecture Supervisor can only issue 110 citations per month.
The key to the matter lies in the number of "citations" issued by the court every month.
This is just a number on the official side. Civil officials in Suzhou Prefecture have long formed a system. They can issue 110 pieces openly, but secretly they can issue 1,100 pieces.
The court stipulated that the citation of the article only costs a few taels or dozens of taels of silver, and in private, it is possible to trade it to a few thousand taels per piece.
I will quote you, and you will give me a lot of money, and each of you will keep silent. Who knows about this?
As for the court investigation, I am even less afraid.
There are so many wealthy merchants in the world, and countless people travel overseas all year round. Can he check it out?
Even if he found out, would he dare to kill him with one blow?
This is just one of the collusion between officials and businessmen. The way for civil officials in Jiangnan to make money is something you can’t imagine, but they can’t do it.
The income from the citation alone is already quite large, but the court only accounts for the income from the 100 items distributed every month, and the rest is all included in the purse of the civil servants.
Even if these incomes are really in the hands of the emperor of the capital, I am afraid that one out of ten will be saved.
After Zhu Youxiao's imperial edict was issued, the Supervisory Office took the chicken feathers as an arrow and went down to compete with the officials and businessmen for cakes.
Wei Liangqing did this thing. In the name of the imperial edict, he immediately brought the real power of the citation of the supervisory staff to his own hands.
This is not over yet. The supervision department started the price, and the original article quotation of several dozen taels per piece rose directly to 2,000 taels.
How many times has the price on the official side increased?
If you want to buy it secretly, you have to supervise the department. Wei Liangqing has the final say on how much you want at that time.
Wei Liangqing was insatiable, just like civil servants, but he knew who he was and didn't bother to do those superficial skills.
Of course he would leave some, but the rest of the big heads would be sent to Zhu Youxiao.
Otherwise, let alone Zhu Youxiao, how could Wei Zhongxian tolerate him?
Chapter completed!