Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 418 Whether officials are allowed to do business (first update)
Because of the courage to kill the crown prince of Java, Du Ding, and made some impassioned speeches in front of all the people in the capital, Qian Qianyi, the chief minister of the cabinet who almost lost the hearts of the emperor and the people, finally regained a little reputation, and Can continue to stay in the center of the empire.

Qian Qianyi is also very satisfied with this, and he also has a feeling that there is another village in the dark. He feels that he seems to have grasped how to be the first assistant of the cabinet. He still wants to continue to work and continue to harvest this kind of power. Come joy.

He even wanted to learn from Yu Qian, Zhang Juzheng and other famous officials in the previous dynasty to do a few vigorous events. Now that His Majesty is a king who is determined to innovate, he may really be able to accomplish a few vigorous events before the end of his life.

Just when Qian Qianyi was in high spirits about to do some serious business and no longer wanted to rely on flattery to wait for death, Li Mingrui was not so happy because the Crown Prince of Java was beheaded by Qian Qianyi, he couldn't help but With a sigh, he secretly thought that His Majesty still wanted to strike a balance, otherwise he would not have given Qian Qianyi such an opportunity, and although he resolutely appeased the scholars and commoners who were making trouble in front of Shuntian Mansion, he would only give money to Qian Qianyi. Yi made wedding clothes.

But Li Mingrui did not give up because of this. In his opinion, no matter how many officials among the conservatives like Qian Qianyi are so-called honest and self-defense officials, fundamentally speaking, they are not of one mind with His Majesty today. From the beginning to the end, they never gave up on bringing His Majesty to the road they thought was the king of Yao and Shun.

"If it weren't for my great Ming now that there are no internal and external troubles, these old stubborn people who only know how to study hard dare to presuppose that they are trustworthy and moral, and that peace is the most important thing, and that they let His Majesty govern. If two years ago, they would have kept He entered the imperial prison, and went to tell the fans of Dongchang that he knows how the world can be separated from His Majesty, without His Majesty, there will only be Shenzhou Luchen, and the country will not be the country!"

Li Mingrui said to Guo Yunhou, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, that unlike Qian Qianyi, Li Mingrui is very good at flattering Zhu Youxiao's back, but in front of Zhu Youxiao, he showed a very deceitful and wise image but refused to be easily subdued. Behind his back, he always deliberately shows the image of Zhu You's loyal dog.

This is also the reason why Li Mingrui has repeatedly violated Longyan but has not been ignored by Zhu Youxiao many times. Guo Yunhou, who also controls nearly half of the commercial wealth in Beizhili by his own Guo family business, understands Li Mingrui's trick very well. At this moment, he just laughed and said nothing when he commented on the current Holy Majesty in front of his own face. When he saw a figure that looked like a Dongchang Fanzi flashing out of the window, he admired Li Mingrui's sensitivity and the right timing of flattering.

Guo Yunhou couldn't help thinking that this might be the reason why he was able to rank above him even though he was younger. A hard-working official like himself could not do anything but settle accounts for His Majesty and earn some money along the way. He has practiced so proficiently in kung fu, of course, he can't do it even more for shameless flattery like Qian Qianyi.

Although Guo Yunhou, the Minister of the Household Department, who has always had one intestine to the end, has broken the knowledge in this officialdom, his nature is still difficult to change, so he couldn't help but put the teacup on the coffee table: "Okay, Mr. Li Ge, Let’s talk about business, people are gone, don’t worry about other old stubborn people of the old school, as long as these people are not greedy, His Majesty still needs them, some places are much better than those of us whose hands are stained with copper stink, But Qian Qianyi has to fight. This person is only a little talented, but he is a flatterer. But those who engage in business will corrupt the government, and the court only cares about benefits and does not care about etiquette, isn't this nonsense."

Guo Yunhou is now able to stand on Li Mingrui's side because of whether the scholar-bureaucrats with business status are allowed to enter politics, especially those who occupy the positions of the six ministers, nine ministers and the three ministers of the cabinet.

Frankly speaking, Zhu Youxiao hadn’t considered this issue before. The reason why he let a group of his cronies and ministers do business with him at the beginning was to break down the commercial barriers of the gentry while controlling the lifeline of the country’s economy and create national capital. And start the system of collecting large amounts of commercial tax, but now the system of commercial tax collection has been established, the wealth of the whole country and the degree of economic and trade development have finally entered a direct proportion, but new problems have emerged.

That is, many new capitalists have appeared, and because Ming Dynasty is now a trust empire system, the emerging capitalists are more powerful than the previous gentry, but because their interests are tied to the national interests, that is, the main profit is In the hands of Zhu Youxiao and the imperial court, they also have to pay high taxes, but just as conservatives such as Qian Qianyi worry, once these capitalists control the imperial court, the entire officialdom will also become a shopping mall. , all profit for their own commercial interests, and downplay the traditional Confucian thought of diligent government and love for the people.

Zhu Youxiao is still more worried that the Ming Empire will be controlled by these chaebols in a certain future, and then completely break away from the relationship with the people at the bottom, so he allows a group of conservative defenders to exist. The influence of the small peasant economy is also hypocritical, but the family-based ideology they promote can maintain the relationship between the upper class and the lower class people very well, and they will be the main force in promoting the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor in the future.

Sometimes Zhu Youxiao also thinks that it seems that the freedom of businessmen to engage in politics should be restricted, and government officials can be allowed to become business agents, but if government officials directly become businessmen, it may really allow the Ming Empire to target the bottom-level people and the emerging working class accordingly. Will it really intensify social conflicts before the protection of rights is established? After all, even in modern times, in order to avoid the combination of government and business and affect social stability, administrative officials are strictly restricted from doing business.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not directly reject Qian Qianyi and other conservatives’ views that he should strictly prohibit officials, especially officials from real power departments, from doing business, and even said that he should consider it.

Guo Yunhou, as the minister of the household department, is the same big chaebol as Gong Yonggu, Yang Tingchun, Mao Yisheng, Li Mingrui, etc., so he is very opposed to Qian Qianyi's idea of ​​prohibiting officials from participating in business. After all, he is the minister of the household department for them. The Guo family's pursuit of commercial interests has brought a lot of convenience. Once they lose the position of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, their Guo family will lose many business opportunities. Even an approval will be much more troublesome than before.

Therefore, Guo Yunhou and others also hope to defeat Qian Qianyi, so as to deter those conservative officials.

Seeing that Guo Yunhou was so excited, Li Mingrui couldn't help persuading him a few words, saying: "Don't be so anxious, Da Situ, this matter is not over yet, just watch, Qian Qianyi's end will definitely be miserable."

　Today's exemption is over, let's break out, and ask for some rewards by the way. By the way, there is no leader for this book. Can someone reward me? I have several writing friends.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)