Chapter 136 If you can't go through reform, then reform
Dacheng is a good comrade!
Eunuch Wei subconsciously prepared to applaud, but soon realized something was wrong, so he coughed lightly, and his waist was much taller without realizing it.
Xu Xianchun saw him next to him, and after thinking for a moment, he bowed slightly, which made Eunuch Wei look taller than him.
Someone in the room said: "Brother Ruan is right. Since we have become officials, we must be good officials. Only by keeping consistent with the interests of the people and serving the people at all times can we truly be good officials and truly call ourselves a student of Duke Wei!"
This passionate voice is filled with ten thousand sincerity.
"Well, the real integration is not about taking our spirit as the wind in my ears." Eunuch Wei nodded in appreciation, "Who is this person?"
Xu Xianchun hurriedly said softly: "What I just spoke was the head of the Ministry of Personnel, Chengji."
"Oh? It's Cheng Zhengji, Changzhi, Shanxi? We know this person, I know this person... This person used to be a member of Donglin, but now he is afraid he really draws a clear line with Donglin."
Eunuch Wei still has a very impression of Cheng Zhengji, who is the Iron-Faced Judge of the thief general in "Donglin Dian General Record".
Thinking about the fact that Chief Cheng was a typical backward element back then, but now he has already used Eunuch Wei's spiritual practice and remembered it in his heart. My father-in-law was filled with emotion.
Sure enough, only study and labor can truly transform a person!
"Master Cheng is good."
Everyone who came to Dajue Temple was personally received by Xu Xianchun. Although he had no in-depth contact, Xu Xianchun had a good impression of Cheng Zhengji.
However, there is one thing Xu Xianchun didn’t know, that was that the head of Cheng was kidnapped by Eunuch Wei while traveling in Wuxi.
Of course, the word kidnapping may not be used properly. If we look at the characterization of the Donglin Academy incident by my father-in-law, it should be called arrest.
"In today's court, there are fierce party struggles, and all the important ministers and ministers have formed party members for personal gain. They have to deal with state affairs but put the interests of the party first and ignore the interests of the country. It's a fart to say that the people are rich and the country is strong. I have heard from the people in Nanzhi Prefectures, and it can be concluded that this people are rich and the people are definitely not the real people."
Another voice of indignation sounded in the house. This time, Eunuch Wei knew who it was without Xu Xianchun's words.
"It's Sun Bijing,"
Eunuch Wei rubbed his hands happily, "Okay, he has made great progress."
Sun Bixian was also listed as the general, named "Yizhangqing". He was once ordered to be blamed by Eunuch Wei, but after that, Sun Bixian changed his past and voluntarily signed up for an internship in the Imperial Army. He then returned home half a year later to take the exam. He was a high school Jinshi in 44 years, and was the head of the Ministry of Personnel, just like Cheng Zhengji, but he was a marquis.
The reason why he was appointed as a marquis was because the emperor was unwilling to be appointed for more than 20 years.
The emperor did not give official seals and official positions, and the yamen also needed people to do things, so many Jinshi like Sun Bixian worked in each yamen under the name of a marquis.
As soon as Sun Bixian finished speaking, Ruan Dacheng shouted: "So we cannot be just a good official. Just being a good official is not enough. We must be a good official who can lead the people to become rich and lead them to a well-off road! Only under the leadership of such a good official can the people be truly prosperous and truly achieve the wealth of the people, rather than the wealth of the gentry!"
"When the people are rich, the country will be strong. When the country is strong, we are worthy of the court and the people who raised us!"
The person who spoke was Mao Shilong, the director of the Ministry of Justice. He looked at the colleagues in the house with a lot of emotion and said, "Don't you know if you have seen the specific measures of breeding, production and business development?"
"Oh, Mr. Wei has the latest speech?"
Cheng Zhengji was excited, "What is breeding, industry and business development? Brother Mao, tell everyone!"
Mao Shilongyi cleared his throat and said: "What Mr. Wei said about breeding and developing industries is specifically to use the power of the central court to promote the accumulation of state capital with various policies and treasury funds, thereby driving the people to actively pursue overseas progress, thus forming imperialism with the characteristics of our Ming Dynasty, and making our Ming Dynasty truly the leader of the world."
Capital, overseas, imperialism with Ming characteristics, world leaders...
Most of the people in the house had never read the latest speech of Mr. Wei and the seventh volume of the "Collected Works of Mr. Wei" published just now. Therefore, they were puzzled by the series of words Mao Shilong said, and they could be said to have never heard of them.
Seeing this, Mao Shilong told everyone about the specific policies proposed by Mr. Wei to breed and develop industries.
"Duke Wei pointed out that the checkpoints in various places must be abolished and the unified market of our Ming Dynasty must be cultivated and developed. We must use the national power to vigorously expand the renovation roads and develop transportation and flood roads such as shipping and postal communication. In addition, we must vigorously develop industrial and mining farms directly under the imperial court, and transform and expand them to form a state-owned industrial and mining system."
Before everyone could digest it, Mao Shilong gave an example.
This example is that after the Emperor ordered the emperor to go south, he immediately collected several iron farms and mines that were fought by the Nandu nobles, and introduced the military battles of the 24th yamen of the inner court, Xixinsi and other institutions. Through the integration of these iron farms and mines, it not only effectively solved the iron demand of the Nandu garrison and the government, but also greatly promoted the prosperity of the Jiangnan iron market, and generated income for the national treasury and greatly enriched the inner treasury.
"...The establishment of Jiangnan Iron and Steel Group is the best proof that it is beneficial to the country to breed and start businesses. If these iron fields and industrial and mining are still in the hands of those nobles, no matter how much profit is, it will be used by the nobles, what is the use of the country?...I heard that Jiangnan Iron and Steel Group is cooperating with the Jiangnan Manufacturing Administration to develop ironclad ships. Once the ironclad ship is successfully developed, whether it is the Japanese pirates at sea or the red-haired ghosts in the West, who dares to kill my Ming tiger beard?..."
Mao Shilong then introduced several contents of Wei Gong's breeding and industry development. For example, Wei Gong advocated the introduction of some advanced technologies and equipment from Westerners. Not only did he hire Western technicians to come to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty also had to send students to Western countries to study and inspect, so as to benefit and win-win cooperation.
"Heavy industry and light industry must advance head-on. Heavy industry is a symbol of national strength, and light industry is a symbol of people's happiness and well-being."
"The Jiangnan Maritime Special Zone founded by Mr. Wei is holding the first textile conference. This conference has played a great role in integrating and promoting our North Korean foreign trade... In the future, more exhibitions and exhibitions will be held. Not only will merchants from all over the country in our North Korean, but also countries such as Mongolia, North Korea, Japan, Annan, and Western countries will come to participate."
Mao Shilong paused and said affectionately: "Duke Wei said that although our Ming Dynasty is rich, with a population of up to 100 million and a talented person, we must not be blindly arrogant, nor can we work behind closed doors. We must bloom all kinds of flowers and make up for our weaknesses. Only in this way can we always stand at the peak of the world's nations!"
"Mr. Wei is far-sighted, and his thoughts, thoughts, actions and actions are not as good as ours!" Sun Bixian said emotionally.
Just as everyone was singing praises to Mr. Wei, a voice came out: "Brother Mao seems to have said one less thing."
"Oh? Which is Yang Wenluo's point?" Mao Shilong nodded slightly at Yang Sichang and asked.
Yang Sichang smiled and said, "I remember that Eunuch Wei also said in the collection that our Ming Dynasty should strengthen the work of persuading agriculture, and combine farming with agriculture and animal husbandry, and establish a complete system to manage it. If this system can be established, I think its function is no less than the establishment of heavy industry and light industry."
Mao Shilong was silent for a moment and said, "Yes, this system is very different from the past that only knows how to collect taxes based on Ding and free-range policies. The reason I didn't say it out is because the key to establishing this system is to investigate Ding's mouth, but this is extremely difficult to deal with."
"The Qingting took the lives of those gentry. How would they agree? Which of the ministers of all the big and small parties in the court would be willing to support it?"
Everyone is from Jinshi, so how could they not know how powerful Qing Ding is?
The number of registered people in the Ming Dynasty was only more than 60 million, but anyone knew that the actual population was far greater than this number by at least three or four times. However, these unregistered people did not escape from the book, but were openly filled with the name of gentry as tenants in the name of "investment", and the government had no choice but to do anything about it.
"If the country wants to be prosperous and strong, no matter how good the strategy is, someone will have to do it, but it is unlikely that the interests of the gentry will be difficult to achieve."
"Yes, since ancient times, reforms have been difficult. We are all minor officials and no important officials. Duke Wei is a member of the inner court. He can do some things but cannot do overall things. It is difficult to breed and develop industries and strengthen the country and enrich the people, but he cannot reform the law."
"The reform cannot be done, we can maintain it!"
Chapter completed!