The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 359
"Well, Husband just pretend not to know."

Xu Qianqian said very sensiblely.

"But it's not completely impossible." Xie Shen paused and said, "I'll talk to Yizhong another day and see if he has any solutions."

Xie Pi is still the head of the department anyway, and still has some say.

Although this kind of matter is ultimately decided by the minister and the minister, it is these fifth and sixth rank ministers who give suggestions.

It would be too impersonal for his brother-in-law to completely ignore his brother-in-law's request.But he must not come forward in person. This degree must be controlled well and must not be exceeded.

Qianqian was obviously a little surprised: "Husband, is this really possible?"

Xie Shen smiled and said, "It depends on what your elder brother wants. If you want to be promoted, there is no chance of getting a promotion. It is not a big problem to get a middle evaluation."

Official performance is the most referenced in the evaluation of the Ministry of Officials.The achievements are nothing more than that.In terms of taxation, Xu Lun must not count on it, but he can mention it in terms of civilizing the people and building water conservancy.

After careful calculation, Xu Guan often went to Songjiang before and after the water control. Although Xu Lun had returned to Beijing when Xu Lun went to Huating County as a Bailihou, Xu Lun was not worthy of the old man's water control, but the maintenance of water conservancy and dredging was also the same. It's remarkable.

This is called the predecessors planting trees and the descendants enjoying the shade.

When these two achievements are mentioned, the merits and demerits can probably be offset.It should not be a problem for Xu Lun to continue to be a Qipin county magistrate.

There is not much mention of this person in history, and probably there will be no major achievements.

It's good to live a life in peace and stability like this.

"For my husband, I will write the memorial, and I will accompany you when it is finished."

Early the next morning, Xie Shen submitted the memorial requesting to open the sea ban to the imperial court.

Emperor Hongzhi did not suppress the memorial, but immediately approved the three words "know it", and ordered the Sixth Division to make a copy of the matter and send it to each yamen.

The emperor's reply to the memorial is very particular.Usually, the opinions are not directly signed on the memorial, but only a few short words are used to express the position.

The most used one is naturally "I know".

The reason for using "know" instead of "quasi" contains extremely high political wisdom.Because "I know" just means that the emperor knows about this matter, and please acquiesce to the minister's memorial.

In some things, there is still a big difference between acquiescence and permission.If the ministers do something inappropriate, the emperor can also severely reprimand them.But if it is approved and then reprimanded, the emperor will probably lose face.

As for the specific handling opinions, the cabinet scholars have already drafted a ticket, and the emperor only needs to browse it once.

Therefore, when the report from the mansion reached the Metropolitan Procuratorate one day later, Xie Shen felt a little helpless.

The emperor asked Liuke to transcribe the memorials in the residence newspaper for all officials to read. The meaning could not be more clear.

That is to see Baiguan's reaction to this matter.Another detail is that the emperor did not order Wang Hua to make a copy of Wang Hua's memorial, which proves that he was very hesitant about this matter.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

Xie Shen immediately became a man of the hour.In the Metropolitan Procuratorate, no matter what grade the censors were, they had a heated debate on whether they should open the sea ban.

What the censor does is to play lip service, and his lip service is natural.

A group of censor masters got together and kept spitting, and finally turned into a scolding battle between the two sides.

Many senior imperial censors were not surprised by this, and they drank tea leisurely, but Xie Shen was very embarrassed, neither persuading him nor not persuading him.

Fortunately, this round of scolding did not last too long, and a consensus was quickly reached that the sea ban should be lifted.

This surprised Xie Shen greatly. How could the Fengxian officer with a bright heart be so open-minded, but he didn't know that it was Wang Hua who released the wind in advance and asked several colleagues from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to secretly guide the direction of the wind.

In other words, from the very beginning, this matter was not as simple as one or two people playing.

In order for the emperor and the imperial court to agree to the sea ban, they must gain support from public opinion.

This is the case with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it is the same with other ministries and temples.

It's just that unlike the Inspectorate, the differences among these yamen are even greater, and it has been a long time before they can reach an agreement.

Of course this is not what Xie Shen wants to see, the greater the disagreement, the more shaken the emperor's determination will be.

Once the emperor's determination is shaken, the probability of this matter will be greatly increased.

As a traveler, he naturally knows the importance of the sea ban to the development of Ming Dynasty.

Only through ocean trade can the many congenital deficiencies of Ming Dynasty be made up for, and the real ZTE can be achieved.

Otherwise, according to the historical development, the so-called Hongzhi Zhongxing is just a self-consolation that treats the symptoms but not the root cause.

But it is impossible for him to go to Zhubu Temple to lobby one by one.Ming Dynasty did not have such a political tradition. Even lobbying was carried out in private relying on personal friendship, and it must not be put on the stage.

There is such a big difference in this matter, in the final analysis, it is still dictated by interests.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no distinction between officials and gentry, officials and businessmen.

Many officials themselves are big landlords, and it is even more common for families to run businesses.

Maritime merchants such as Zheshang and Fujian merchants basically controlled the ocean trade of Ming Dynasty and made a lot of money by smuggling.

A lot of this money was donated to the officials of the ministry, and of course they had to speak for the sea merchants.

After the opening of the sea ban, the biggest impact is these Fujian and Zhejiang merchants who originally relied on smuggling to monopolize maritime trade.

With the Bureau of Sea Economics, everything has to go through the process, and it is impossible to rely on the previous method to make profits.

This letter is different from Xie Shen's previous letters.

In the past, Xie Shen only impeached one person, and the threats he received were limited to that person and his allies.

But Xie Shen's request to open the sea ban offended a whole group of people.

Judging from the current situation, the number of this group is really quite a lot.

But Xie Shen didn't plan to retreat, because this was the best chance to change the fate of the Ming Dynasty.

If the sea ban cannot be lifted at this time, or if the sea ban is not lifted thoroughly, the idea of ​​rejuvenating the country through sea trade will come to naught.

Therefore, he and the censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate who supported his views jointly wrote another memorial.Listed ten benefits of the sea ban, and refuted the objections raised by opponents one by one.

Sure enough, once this joint memorial was submitted, even the cabinet was shocked.

Tai Zhuzi represented by Xu Pu and Liu Jian opposed this very much, while the young faction represented by Li Dongyang and Xie Qian supported Xie Shen's request to open the sea ban.

Even the cabinet tended to split, and Emperor Hongzhi could no longer sit still.

The emperor immediately summoned all the scholars in the cabinet to start an imperial discussion on the issue of banning the sea.

The reason Xu Pu and Liu Jian objected was that "Forbidden sea is the law of the ancestors, and the law of the ancestors cannot be abolished."

The reasons for Li Dongyang and Xie Qian's support are "opening the sea ban, increasing taxes, and strengthening the country's fortune."

Both parties had their reasons, but Emperor Hongzhi was still in a dilemma, and finally had to thank Shen for his inquiry into the palace.

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