Compared with today's cabinet, Guo Dan's biggest advantage is actually efficiency.

He was able to mobilize a large amount of money and human resources very quickly.

He said at the shareholders' meeting that he would go south, and a large number of businessmen were willing to follow him.

For example, Qin Zhuang and Chen Ping agreed on the spot to sell a large number of shares in Nanjing.

In fact, they all know that Guo Dan's purpose in doing this is to seek the support of Nanzhili and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and a noto coin is an iconic commodity, once Nanzhili agrees to issue a noto, it is enough to prove that Nanzhili fell to Weihui Mansion.

And once Nanzhili issues a NOo, then a NOoI will sweep the entire Jiangnan, and it will be difficult for other places to resist.

In the reform of the cabinet, the first thing to do is to strengthen the power of the cabinet, not to promote any policies, because if the power of the cabinet is not strengthened, nothing can be accomplished.

But Guo Dan's current prestige is not something that he has overnight, I remember that at the beginning, as soon as Guo Dan encountered difficulties, all the businessmen retreated in unison to keep a distance from Guo Dan.

But if there is a cheapness, it will be on the top, and if there is a difficulty, Guo Dan will be in front.

And Guo Dan has no complaints about this, and has never forced them to advance and retreat with him, and they are still cheap if they have benefits.

However, this crisis is the coexistence of danger and opportunity, and their retreat and Guo Dan's advance often lead to Guo Dan making a lot of money alone, and they have to spend more money to buy shares later.

Over time, everyone gradually understood a truth, that is, only by following Guo Dan can there be meat to eat.

So everyone began to advance and retreat together.

As far as interests are concerned, Guo Dan now has a military salary of 80,000 taels, how much business is there, if he doesn't follow, then he may not be able to take his turn.

Although this year's profitability was not very good and many problems were exposed, it was very successful as in previous years.

At the same time as Guo Dan held a shareholders' meeting, the cabinet was also holding a closed-door meeting.

Now it's their turn to catch up, so as not to be pulled further and further away by Guo Dan.

The theme of this closed-door meeting is how to improve the examination method, with the strong support of Wanli, a large number of officials have turned to the cabinet, although the reform of the six ministries is still in progress, but on the whole, it is relatively smooth.

But the method itself was controversial, and they themselves were opposed to it, and those courtiers who supported them wanted an improved method rather than the old one.

If it is taken out as it is, it will inevitably meet with great opposition.

How to improve the test method is very important.

"The disadvantage of the test law is that it ignores the actual situation and pursues political achievements too much, which leads to pressure from level to level, and finally evolves into a cool government that is all borne by the people, which is counterproductive." Wang Jiaping stroked his beard and said.

Xu Guo shook his head and said: "But if you don't govern the officials strictly, how can you know who is a mediocre official and who is a virtuous minister. ”

Shen Shixing nodded and said: "This is the problem, if you don't strictly govern the officials, it will be difficult to reverse the current corrupt officialdom, and in the end it will only be empty, meaningless." However, if it is too strict, it will not only cause dissatisfaction among officials, but may also increase the burden on the people, so that they will repeat the mistakes of the past. ”

Wang Xijue said: "Now among the state capitals up and down the country, only Guo Dan has contracted the four prefectures of Henan, and he has paid full taxes every year, and has never been in arrears.

From the princes and nobles to the peddlers and pawns, anyone who owes taxes or evades taxes will not only have to pay huge fines, but it is also difficult to continue to live in Weihui Mansion, but from top to bottom in Weihui Mansion, no one has a word of complaint, and I think the key is to be reasonable. As long as the amount of tax that the imperial court can set is reasonable, then we have reason to strictly enforce the examination law. ”

Chen Younian sighed: "But this is easier said than done!" At the beginning, Zhang Juzheng set the tax amount, which seemed to be very reasonable and reduced the burden on the people, but facts have proved that this is actually unreasonable, and the so-called reasonable tax amount is just a partial generalization and a generalization. ”

Wang Xijue said: "Why can Guo Dan formulate a reasonable tax amount, but we can't?" ”

Wang Jiaping said: "This is because Guo Dan himself has an incomparable talent for calculation, not to mention looking at the middle of the world, even if you look at the world, no one can compare with it." ”

Regarding Guo Dan's talent in computing, everyone is now convinced, and they are really unconvinced, and it seems to be crushing for them.

A key aspect of the imperial examination has also been added to the knowledge, which means that the imperial court has given a very high degree of recognition.

Wang Xijue said with a smile: "But Guo Dan is using this talent to make money, and that Xinxing is what he created single-handedly." ”

Shen Shixing asked, "You mean, let Xinxing help the imperial court calculate the amount of taxes?" ”

Wang Xijue nodded and said, "The cooperation between the banknote customs and Xinxing has proved that the computing power that Xinxing has is far stronger than that of the imperial court. ”

Shen ***: "But Xinxing is a folk workshop, and the imperial court tax system is a national event, .....?" ”

Wang Xijue said: "I think this folk workshop is more trustworthy, this official has a direct relationship with the amount of taxes, a little more, a little less, they can benefit from it, but the letter and the tax amount is not related, they earn commissions, so they care about the reputation, any account miscalculated, it will seriously affect the income of the bank." ”

At the beginning, Wang Xijue was the nominal leader of the cooperation between the banknote and Xinxing, because Guo Dan had no administrative power, so no matter what he did, there must always be a minister on the side, Wang Xijue knew very well how the banknote and Xinxing cooperated.

It stands to reason that this tariff should be more cautious for officials, but the fact is that Xinxing is much more cautious than banknotes, and the error rate is far lower than that of banknotes.

It is precisely because Xinxing rarely makes mistakes that it has today's status, especially nowadays, as the scale of business is getting bigger and bigger, the wealthy businessmen have handed over their accounts to Xinxing for calculation, and their own accounts can no longer be calculated.

Xinxing is also the industry that makes the most money purely by brain power in the country.

Shen Shixing nodded and said, "It makes sense, it's worth our consideration." ”

Xu Guodao: "But Xinxing can only calculate the amount of taxes, how to prevent local officials from forcibly leviing and extorting money from the people in order to achieve political achievements?" ”

Wang Xijue said: "The supervision system of the examination law is still flawed, because the six subjects only assess the performance of officials, as for how this performance is obtained, it is difficult to investigate one by one, and once the imperial court formulates a reasonable tax system, then it is naturally illegal to impose and extort money from the people."

But it is not appropriate to be an official to collect taxes and to judge an official.

It is also necessary to rely on the three-court system to prevent them from protecting each other, or the landlords and officials colluding with each other and oppressing the people, and then the six departments will only need to supervise the three courts. Although our Central Plains Dynasty has always had the saying that 'the official follows the political and legal affairs, and the people follow the private contract', this is only an unwritten saying, and the three-chamber system is just a written system that turns this unwritten statement into a written system.

This civil unjust case, for Your Majesty, for the country, for you and me, is actually of no benefit, but it is cheap for those black sheep, I suggest that the judiciary be divided into two, and the civil lawsuit will be handed over to the local three courts, and the magnates and officials will still be handed over to the Criminal Department and Dali Temple. ”

Chen Younian asked: "If there is a dispute between officials and the people, should it be handed over to the Third People's Court or the Criminal Department?" ”

Wang Xijue said with a smile: "The trial officials will eventually hand it over to the Criminal Department and Dali Temple. ”

Chen Younian immediately smiled and said, "You are tantamount to doing this too much!" ”

"It's not redundant."

Wang Xijue shook his head and said: "In the absence of the three courts, if the people have a dispute with the officials, there is no way to litigate, if there are three courts, the people can go to the three courts to litigate, although in the end it is handed over to the Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, but in the case of ironclad evidence, who dares to risk the world's disapproval." If anyone does this, you and I can't stop it. ”

Wang Jiaping said curiously: "If it is really ironclad evidence, why not directly hand it over to the three courts for trial, and in case of doubt, it can be handed over to Dali Temple or the Criminal Department." ”

Wang Xijue said bluntly: "If the court can judge you and me, then who has the final say in this world?" When Guo Dan built the three-court system in Weihui Mansion, he first said that the three courts had no right to judge the imperial court officials. ”

Wang Jiaping was speechless.

This involves a problem, imperial power and judicial power, imperial power must be above judicial power, otherwise, nine out of ten emperors will be pulled to behead, if the fate of officials is decided by the court, then who will be loyal to the emperor.

Wang Xijue has repeatedly changed the law and been frustrated before, but failure is the mother of success, and he now thinks about it, his idea is to separate the people from the officials, and not to pursue the same crime as the common people, which is impossible.

But water can carry a boat, can also overturn a boat, this sentence is not wrong, in fact, no emperor has the intention to get along with the people, the people live well, it is also the core interests of the emperor, but some officials in the middle will not care about the interests of the emperor, or the interests of the people.

Wanli's most shameless and shameless imposition of mining tax, the original intention was not to levy taxes on the people, the mining tax has something to do with the merchants, but it has nothing to do with the people, but the operation is not reasonable, plus those eunuchs take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, the result is getting worse and worse.

Of course, Wanli knew this, but he didn't see it, the eunuch was beaten to death, and he didn't care, he was cheeky to collect money.

Wang Xijue's suggestion refers to this point, the problems between our officials and magnates should be solved internally, anyway, there is not much justice at all, only success or failure, and speaking of justice is tantamount to self-deception, but the civil litigation still has to maintain the fairness of the law, which is also beneficial to our ruling class.

To put it simply, how much money the people pay, this must be according to the rules, forcing the people to pay more, that is not good, as for the money to be handed over, if you are corrupt, we will deal with it internally.

Shen Shixing smiled and said, "It seems that you have made a lot of preparations!" ”

He obviously agreed with Wang Xijue's suggestion.

Wang Xijue said: "Frankly speaking, this is all the inspiration given to me by Guo Dan, the fact is that since Guo Dan contracted Weihui Mansion, Weihui Mansion has become the richest Texas Mansion in the country, and before, Weihui Mansion was not even ranked in the top ten. If we don't recognize Guo Dan's success, then we can't effectively control him. ”