My life skills in Daming Liver

Since taking the elixir, Jiajing's body has been turned upside down with cold and heat.

It is now April, and the weather this year is extremely cold. It snowed in the capital not long ago.

But in the Renshou Palace in Xiyuan, the palace door was wide open, and the cold wind was rushing through the palace. Emperor Jiajing, who was dressed in a thin Taoist robe, did not feel cold at all.

In order to serve the emperor, the little eunuch did not dare to wear more clothes, so he could only serve in thin clothes.

The emperor, who loves to meditate and cultivate immortals, is rarely doing serious business today, and is checking the letters of Zhengyin officials in various places one by one.

The Minister of the Ministry of War, who had always advocated slow peace, was kicked out of the court, and the imperial case was full of policies for flattening the Japanese, but none of them satisfied the emperor.

In fact, the emperor did not have much confidence in the performances of these local officials.

Although the ministers of the imperial court and the officials of Ke Dao are annoying, they are all second-class Jinshi. Only those who rank in the top of the palace examination can stay in the capital as speech officials, and those who rank poor in the palace examination are all sent to the local officials as officials.

In other words, during the imperial examination, these local officials had already been dismissed.

If there is no accident, they can only stay in the places where they have served, and then return to the capital with no credit or hard work, and retire as a middle-level official in the Six Departments.

The emperor asked the local officials to write a letter because the emperor did not trust the ministers around him.

Emperor Jiajing was a very smart person, but also a very suspicious person.

Since the Renchen Palace Change in the 21st year of Jiajing, Jiajing's suspicion of the people around him and his officials has reached a new level.

He asked the officials in charge of Nanzhili, Fujian, and Guangdong to submit the memorial, because he wanted to hear different voices from Yandang and Qingliu.

The Japanese invasion could not be put down for a long time, and Ida in the north invaded the frontier again. Emperor Jiajing urgently wanted to know the situation in the southeast.

However, after looking through the memorial book for a long time, Emperor Jiajing was also a little tired. A fat eunuch came up and said:

"My lord, my minister will help you read."

Emperor Jiajing nodded slightly, left the imperial case, and lay down on the bed.

The eunuch who can serve Emperor Jiajing personally is of course the most powerful eunuch in the Forbidden City. This fat eunuch is named Huang Jin, and he is an old man who has served Jiajing since the Xingxian Palace.

Now Huang Jin is the supervisor of etiquette, the eunuch of Bingbi and the director of Dongchang. He is the supervisor of power who greets even the cabinet ministers when they see him.

Huang Jin read it word by word in Mandarin:

"Chen Fujian knows the affairs of Yanping Mansion and asks the question"

Emperor Jiajing shook his hand and said, "Don't read too much before."

Huang Jin immediately skipped the previous long paragraph of nonsense, and started directly from the part of Pingwo Jinghai Seven Strategies.

"One is called fasting and offering sacrifices to the Sea God."

Hearing this, Emperor Jiajing frowned a little. The prefect of Yanping is a sensible person.

Jiajing kept Fang Zhifu in mind, if there was a chance for promotion next time, or if Fang Zhifu had Fang Zhifu's name when recommending officials by the Ministry of Officials, then he would have a high probability of being promoted.

This is the so-called "simplicity in the emperor's heart". In a feudal autocratic society, a name familiar to a leader is more effective than a great achievement.

"The second is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure."

This can be regarded as a cliché, who doesn't know how to increase revenue and reduce expenditure?

But whose source? Festival whose stream?

Emperor Jiajing knew in his heart that when those officials of Qingliu talked about saving money, they would use the newly built temples to talk about it.

When the strict party mentioned open source, it just called for donations, and now the imperial court has opened the payment of millet to prison, and if it continues like this, it will sell officials and nobles.

Although Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with immortality, he didn't want to leave a reputation of selling officials and nobles in the history books.

Originally, Emperor Jiajing was going to let Huang Jin skip it, but he heard Huang Jin start to recite the "chaoguan method".

Huang Jinnian's tongue-in-cheek, in fact, he doesn't know much about the banknotes. Originally, Huang Jin just wanted to read it as soon as possible, but the emperor knocked on the copper.

"Read it again!"

Huang Jin was about to read it again, when the emperor walked over and snatched the memorial, "No, I will read it myself!"

After carefully reading the bill pass law, Emperor Jiajing suddenly burst out laughing.

"My lord, my lord?"

Huang Jin was taken aback, thinking that the emperor was suffering from anxiety, but he heard Jiajing say:

"This prefect of Yanping is a loyal minister!"

Huang Jin looked at Jiajing in disbelief, having served the emperor for many years, he knew the emperor's evaluation system for ministers.

The last thing to wait for is "crazy little minister". Whenever the emperor utters this sentence, the official career of this official has almost come to an end. Relegation is considered a favor, and it is normal to be sent to prison.

The better one is the "stupid minister". This kind of person is labeled as incompetent in the emperor's heart, and even if he is not punished, he will not be able to be promoted in the future.

On the upper level are "capable ministers". Those who can get this evaluation belong to the emperor's list, and they can be promoted and reused as long as they have the opportunity.

And "loyal minister" is the highest evaluation.

Obviously, for the suspicious emperor, loyalty is the most important attribute, far surpassing "talent".

This memorial to the magistrate of Yanping County received first-class evaluation. Huang Jin secretly kept this name in his heart, and it might not take a few years for him to be seen in the court.

"Copy one copy, send it to the cabinet, and copy another copy to the household department!"

"In addition, bring his file over from Dongchang."

Huang Jin hadn't seen the emperor so excited for a long time, but although he had read books in the inner study, he didn't know much about financial affairs. place.

Seeing the excited look of the emperor, Huang Jin quickly ordered the little eunuch to come over and copy it, and then went to Dongchang to retrieve Fang Zhifu's files in person.

By the time Huang Jin returned to Renshou Palace, Fang Zhifu's memorial had already been copied to the cabinet and the household department.

Emperor Jiajing took over the file of Fang Zhifu, quickly read through the thin file, and felt happier.

The top three Jinshi in the 31st year of Jiajing had a clean background and did not join any faction of the strict party or the Qingliu.

In the county magistrate, he has good political performance and official reputation, and he is indeed a capable minister.

This kind of official with a clean background is naturally the emperor's favorite.

But Yanping Mansion.

The suspicious emperor tapped the place name with his fingers, and new doubts arose in his heart.

After Fang Zhifu's memorial was sent to the cabinet and the household department, it also caused a huge wave.

Yan Song is an expert in financial management. Although he is old, he still sees the subtlety of this "money customs method"!

This is a set of executable policies that integrates the implementation plan and the supervision plan, and it is aimed at merchants who transport goods in the Southern Zhili area.

It has been a long-standing maladministration that the country does not collect enough commercial taxes. It is politically correct to tax these merchants!

On this point alone, scholars in the Manchu Dynasty have no room to refute.

Compete with the people? Which people would hire caravan ships to transport goods?

You talk about exploiting the common people, but merchants can deduct the tax after paying the tax and entering the city to buy and sell. They have to pay these taxes when they do business.

After Yan Song finished reading, he sighed heavily and said, "Young people are awesome, I'm old."

In the cabinet, Xu Jie, the second assistant, was calm on the surface, but his eyes were fixed on the memorial in Yan Song's hand.

Originally, the cabinet was going to be off work at this time, but suddenly such a memorial came out from the palace, and the eunuch was still standing at the door of the cabinet waiting for the elders to reply. This matter seemed unusual.

It's a pity that I'm still the second assistant, and it's my turn to wait until Yan Song finishes watching.

Xu Jie has always kept his covetousness for the position of chief assistant well hidden, but at this moment he wished that he could replace Yan Song immediately.

"Old Xu Ge, you should take a look too."

Yan Song didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and he passed the memorial to Xu Jie after a long time of emotion.

After Xu Jie took the memorial and read it quickly, he was as shocked as Yan Song.

Where did this magistrate of Yanping Prefecture come from?

Yan Song looked at Xu Jie with a tentative expression in his eyes.

Xu Jie had been an official in Yanping Mansion, so there must be some old officials in Yanping Mansion.

Could this prefect Fang be someone Qingliu secretly introduced?

But Xu Jie was wronged too!

He really doesn't know Fang Zhifu!

But Xu Jie quickly adjusted his mentality. It doesn't matter if he doesn't know him, as long as he is not a member of the strict party, he can bring this prefect over here!

This memorial quickly fermented in the cabinet and the Ministry of Finance.

At this time, Zhao Wenhua, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, came back from inspection outside the city, and hurriedly went home to write the memorial.

His "Pingwoshu" has almost been written, but he has been thinking about this memorial for a long time, and he will definitely be able to fly to the sky with this article!

To avoid repeating the old incident of Baozong, the Ministry of Industry sent Zhao Wenhua to build the outer wall of the capital.

After finally finishing the project, Zhao Wenhua heard a shocking news before he could sit still in the study.

Fang Wanghai, the magistrate of Yanping Prefecture in Fujian Province, made great contributions to the seven strategies to pacify the Japanese. He was promoted to the Youqian Capital Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he was in charge of the anti-Japanese affairs in Jiangnan and Zhejiang.

He also took Fang Wanghai as the envoy of Sihai Zhaijiao, and worshiped the God of the Sea in Zhejiang. Into Tai warehouse.

This edict was quickly confirmed by the cabinet and the Ministry of officials, and it was sent to Fujian immediately.

This promotion speed is outrageous!

The magistrate of Yanping is an official of the fifth rank, and the Yushi Youqian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the fourth rank. This promotion is not outrageous.

But the power behind it is outrageous.

The governor of Jiangnan and Zhejiang is a rich place in the world. This governor means an imperial envoy, not a permanent position, but this means that Fang Wanghai has the right to submit a secret report to the emperor, or directly submit a memorial to the cabinet.

The Four Seas Zhaijiao envoy is a Taoist official, and Emperor Jiajing seeks longevity, which is regarded as an expression of the emperor's favor.

What kind of official is that bank envoy? Go directly to the Southern Zhili Household Department, and all the money collected goes to the Household Department Taikuang?

Anyone who is familiar with the imperial court knows that this envoy is the most important position.

This means that if Fang Wanghai can do this job well, there will still be room for promotion in the future!

What kind of outrageous speed is this?

When they first entered the officialdom, the rate of promotion of local officials was higher than that of Beijing officials.

However, it is difficult for local officials to be promoted after reaching a certain level, so there is an inequality that the seventh rank of Beijing officials is greater than the fifth rank of local officials.

But the capital censor, Youqian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is a Beijing official! And he is a clean and expensive speaker.

Shu Jishi, who was the same age as Fang Wanghai, hadn't been promoted to the fourth rank.

When Zhao Wenhua heard the news, his first reaction was anger.

Zhaijiao Sea God was also the first thing he thought of, Fang Wanghai, a sycophant! He actually used the emperor to uphold Taoism!

But soon the "Money Customs Law" was spread from the Ministry of Households, and Zhao Wenhua was dumbfounded.

He is also proficient in financial planning, so he naturally knows the beauty of this method.

And Zhao Wenhua is from Cixi, Zhejiang. He is well aware of the prosperous commerce in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. If this method is really used to collect enough "money tariffs", then Fang Wanghai will definitely be able to flourish!

Zhao Wenhua really couldn't figure it out, where did Fang Wanghai come from, to come up with such an ingenious policy?

Zhao Wenhua also finally understood why Fang Wanghai was appointed so quickly, because neither the strict party nor the Qingliu could raise objections to the "money customs law".

Coupled with the emperor's support, the cabinet and officials quickly passed the edict.

Zhao Wenhua tore up his memorial, but in his heart he was extremely wary of Fang Wanghai.

If Fang Wanghai enters the capital in the future, this person must be his own archenemy!

Zhao Wenhua hurried to his godfather Yan Song's house with gifts, to find out the details of Fang Wanghai.

Su Ze didn't know what happened far away in the capital. He came to Tongmu Town, where the owners of tea gardens of all sizes on Wuyi Mountain gathered here to discuss how to share the tribute.

Cai Yuanwai is dead, Xiong Yue's mother has received the court's letter, and the official uniform has overturned the previously signed contract, and the Wuyi Mountain tea tribute will be redistributed.

Sitting at the table, Su Ze saw for the first time what is mutual harm at the bottom.

When distributing the tribute money, the owners of several small tea farms accused other small tea farm owners of not following the rules, selling tea at a low price, stealing tea gardens from neighbors, and fighting fiercely.

On the contrary, the owners of several large tea gardens sat firmly on the Diaoyutai and rejected the tribute money that should be borne in a few words.

Su Ze is also the owner of such a large tea garden. Although it was his first time to participate in such a meeting, no one dared to ask him to bear more tribute money.

What's going on here, shouldn't these small tea garden owners unite to deal with the big tea garden owners?

Su Ze looked at this scene in confusion, how could it be different from what he had imagined.

Mother Xiong was sitting next to Su Ze. Now that she had the honor of the imperial court, no one dared to persecute her like before.

Mother Xiong said: "Sir, I'm just curious, why don't they unite and ask for a fairer division?"

Su Ze nodded.

Mother Xiong said: "We in small tea houses have to worry about every penny and baht. We have forged countless grievances on weekdays. He bears more tribute silver, and he himself bears less. No one expects those big households to pay more. Can bear more tribute silver."

Su Ze asked suspiciously, "Why?"

"If the big family sells tea at a low price, the first ones who can't support it are the small tea plantation owners, and those big tea plantation owners are all people with status in the county. How can we small tea plantation owners be able to fight?"

It was only then that Su Ze realized that there were still a small number of people who dared to resist like Xiong Yue, and most of the lower-level people competed for resources from other lower-level people.

Su Ze cleared his throat and said:

"I suggest that the tribute should be shared according to the size of the tea garden."

After Su Ze spoke, the owners of those big tea gardens couldn't sit still, and they all glared at Su Ze, which would obviously make them pay more tribute.

But before they could stand up, a man in soap-colored official uniform rushed into the venue:

"Brother Aze! You've hit the top of the case! Little Sanyuan!"

Everyone looked at Su Ze one after another, and the owners of the big tea garden who were about to come up to argue with Su Ze all smiled:

"According to Su's plan, share the tea tribute with the tea garden acres."

"Congratulations to Su!"