I'm a big dick

Chapter 71

Zhu Youxiao took out a small notebook and wrote down the talents recommended by Teacher Yuan.A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. Without a mobile phone and computer, Zhu Youxiao can only use this stupid method.

Although he knew the direction of history, Zhu Youxiao also deeply felt the shallowness of historical knowledge.As for celebrities such as Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, and Sun Chuanting, he knew about them, but there were only a few of them after all.

For example, this man named Lu Shanji, who was born as a Jinshi in the 41st year of Wanli, is currently the head of the Ministry of War, and is famous for his outstanding talents.

Ordinarily, the 41st year of Wanli Jinshi is considered to have a lot of qualifications, but he is still a petty official. The reason is that this guy is stubborn and stubborn, and was relegated and demoted by Emperor Wanli one after another.

Although Yuan Keli praised Lu Shanji's personality and academic charm endlessly, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about this stubborn "fight to the death". What he valued was another specialty of Lu Shanji.

After Lu Shan entered the official career, he first visited the Ministry of Military Affairs, and then he was appointed as the head of the Shandong Department of the Ministry of Households. Legal Proposal".

What kind of talents Zhu Youxiao is urgently looking for now, one is generals who can fight, and the other is capable personnel who can make money.

Lu Shanji has studied the salt law, and what other legal proposals can he write? Wouldn't it be appropriate to do salt politics?Even if you don't manage the salt administration and become an official in the Ministry of Household Affairs, you can be regarded as a professional counterpart.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao also found that relying on his little historical knowledge alone is absolutely not enough to find capable officials.Unless there is help from Du Niang, no one will know which guy has done what and what specialties he has.

Even so, Zhu Youxiao gradually discovered some patterns.That is, those who have worked in the local area and have outstanding political achievements, most of them are talented.

Tao Langxian, governor of Denglai, Bi Ziyan, governor of Tianjin, Zhu Xieyuan, governor of Sichuan, and some lesser-known prefects and prefects were also very talented and managed the place well.

From this, Zhu Youxiao came to a conclusion that may not be correct.Being an official in a local area is more of a test of actual working ability and knowing the sufferings of the people at the bottom, so it can be used as a standard to judge officials.

Governing a big country is like cooking small fish.Even a county, a state, and a government cannot be governed well, and they go to the court to boast about the strategy of governing the country, isn't that bullshit?
Most of the cabinet members in the Ming Dynasty came from the Imperial Academy, and the Imperial Academy was also known as the place where the government stored materials.After Yingzong, there was a more custom: non-jinshi did not enter the Imperial Academy, and non-Hanlin did not enter the cabinet.

Although it is not absolute, it is still rare for a local governor to join the cabinet.

Zhu Youxiao is already starting to reorganize the cabinet. Zhang Heming, Minister of the Ministry of War, is the first to be dismissed, followed by Zhao Nanxing, Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

The Ministry of Households is in charge of finance and taxation, which is the economic lifeline of the country. Although the current Shangshu Li Zongyan supports and sympathizes with the Donglin Party members, he is still a moderate and practical talent.

However, Li Zongyan is old and lacks the spirit of forging ahead.If Zhu Youxiao wants to reform, he will naturally be replaced, and he will return home with honor, that's all.

With military power, personnel, and finance in hand, Zhu Youxiao can carry out drastic reforms.The problem now is that it is easy to take down, who can go up and act according to his will, which makes him quite troubled.

Now, Tao Langxian, Bi Ziyan, and Li Qiyuan, who was used in the first year of Taichang, the censor of the right capital and the right servant of the Ministry of War, the governor of Shaanxi's three-sided military affairs and food and salary, have been selected by Zhu Youxiao, and will soon enter Court.

Li Qiyuan was noticed by Zhu Youxiao. It was he who used soldiers and horses to mobilize the emptiness, Huoluochiji, and the three chieftains of silver and evil to spy on and conspire to commit crimes.

The order was clear and the measures were appropriate. Zhu Youxiao approved all of them, and began to check Li Qiyuan's resume carefully.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

This Li Qiyuan has gone through the five dynasties of Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli, Taichang, and Tianqi. Promoted step by step by hard work and political achievements.

When he first became the magistrate of Yuanwu County, Henan Province, he was facing a famine. Li Qiyuan opened a warehouse and set up a porridge field, which saved tens of thousands of hungry people.But I was starving, running around to inspect, making people thin and clothes wide.

When he was the head of the household department, Li Qiyuan was known for his proficiency in department affairs.

Li Qiyuan played an important role in quelling the civil uprising in Linqing when he was sent to Linqing as a counselor in Shandong.

When he served as Henan Zuo Buzheng, Li Qiyuan was played as "the most clean and honest in the world".

This seniority, this political achievement, step by step, shines everywhere, respectable old comrades, respectable old revolutionaries!

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao believes that Li Qiyuan has a sharp eye and can spot the long-standing abuses of Ming Dynasty better than him. He has no party or affiliation, is clean and dedicated, and can be the Minister of the Ministry of Households.

The governor of Tianjin, Bi Ziyan, is also good, and has some talents in financial management.But Zhu Youxiao felt that he could plan carefully, but his mind for expanding financial resources did not seem broad enough.

Throttling is needed, but more importantly, open source.

Copying the homes of corrupt officials, cutting flesh from the vassals, and collecting industrial, commercial and mining taxes are all ways.But where is the most important source of income, earning foreign exchange through export and earning money!

But it is easy to open the sea ban, and it is not difficult to make money, but it is not easy to fill the treasury.

After the opening and closing of Longqing, one-third of the world's silver flowed into China in the 70 years to the end of the Ming Dynasty, but how much wealth did the Ming Dynasty accumulate?

To put it bluntly, the country is still poor, and Chongzhen died of poverty.

Not to mention that the country did not make any money, the influx of a large amount of silver actually caused inflation and made the lives of ordinary people more difficult.

Do you understand, maritime trade is to make money, a lot of money, but it is not the country that makes money, but the maritime merchants and officials involved in it.

Not to mention that the port of Longqing is only a trade port for one month. According to the current system and bureaucratic system, even if ten or eight more ports are opened, the bulk of the wealth will still not enter the treasury. .

Just like commercial taxation, there are so many banknotes and customs, but it still can't stop the privileges of officials and businessmen, and it can't stop wealthy businessmen from evading taxes by various means.

The small and medium-sized businessmen who had no connections complained endlessly, and they became the biggest taxpayers, and they had to collect every customs, and their business was in distress.

There is a story in "Jinling Trivia" that is very thought-provoking, and it also made Zhu Youxiao angry.

It is said that during the Wanli period, a commoner wanted to do a small business to make ends meet. After scraping together seven or eight taels of silver, he bought a batch of lamp grass from his hometown and hired a boat to transport it to sell.

Thirty tax one, the tax is only two or three taels of money, the burden is not heavy, and the common people think that they can earn two or three taels of silver every time they go back and forth.

But the waterway of more than 100 miles, good guy, there are more than ten banknotes, and the tax of nearly four taels of silver was collected.

(End of this chapter)