With the wedding date approaching, Feng Ziying at home will naturally not be as idle as she was two or three months ago.

Fortunately, Gao Panlong had a very good impression of him, so he was not so strict on the side of the Hanlin Academy, and he also knew that this Xiao Feng Xiu had never been good at scripture and poetry, so he didn't call him much for his work such as repairing history and making edicts, and Feng Ziying suddenly became an idler.

However, after practicing state affairs and returning to the Hanlin Academy, he was caught by Gao Panlong, and Yang Sichang and Huang Zunsu began to be busy repairing history.

"The Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate has basically settled the matter of the salt merchants, and returned more than two or three million and three million taels of silver,...... "Wu Fu also returned to Beijing, specifically to Feng Ziying's mansion.

Feng Ziying nodded with a low face, and sighed, "This kind of thing is not a long-term solution, every time such an action is made, it is at the expense of the prestige of the imperial court, although it is reasonable to say that the law and reason, but the discerning people know that the regulations of the imperial court give them this power, but there is no countermeasure to restrain them, many things are also between love and law, and other salt merchants do not have such behavior?" ”

After a few months of baptism, Wu Fu has been much more calm and experienced than before the earliest Yangzhou, as a Jiangnan scholar, he opened the sea in the Zhongshu Branch, and was involved in the disposal of this illegal salt merchant, inevitably suffered all kinds of attacks and suffering, but this also made him mature faster.

"There were some more clues involved, but the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate suppressed them, or sealed them." Wu Fu said quietly: "It should be that all parties have put pressure on the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, I heard that one of the imperial historians is also saying that he should not have come to this pond of muddy waters, and now that it is like this, the imperial court is not very satisfied, thinking that it did not meet expectations, and the lower side is also abusive, saying that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is blind, it is ......."

"Selective enforcement?" Feng Ziying used a trendy word.

Wu Fu was stunned for a moment, savored it, it seemed to be very consistent, and nodded, "That's what it means, I'm also caught in it, hey,......"

Feng Ziying chuckled, "Luyou, you have a lifetime of career, where can you avoid these things?" If you don't get envied, you're a mediocrity, and if you don't get scolded for doing things, you're not doing things, you're messing up the world. ”

"I didn't complain, but I just thought that since the imperial court knew about the shortcomings, why didn't it solve the problem in a targeted manner?" Wu Fu couldn't help but say.

"How can it be that simple? Vested interest groups are fixed, involving the whole body, you have to solve the problem, always rely on people, and if these people's interests are involved, how can you do it? ”

Feng Ziying is reluctant to say deeply, it is meaningless to say too much, can he, a group of Jinshi who have not yet completed the period of observing politics, still be able to turn things around all at once?

Many things have to be done slowly, but this kind of grievance and depression makes young people of their age full of enthusiasm and longing a little disappointed and frustrated, but it is precisely this sense of disillusionment that everyone can really gather and find a solution.

This is also an opportunity for oneself to seek a common goal, first of all, to have a common experience, to have a consistent view of things, and even a common sense of crisis, which is the basis for everyone to reach a consensus.

After talking about official business for a while, Wu Fu said with a smile: "I haven't had time to congratulate you, I'm about to get married, the Shen family is a famous family in our south, the Gusu Wang family, and the women of the Shen family are famous, Ziying, you have taken a big advantage, your literary talent may be much inferior to the girl of the Shen family." ”

"Hehe, that's not necessarily, I'm a real second-class jinshi, hand-picked by the emperor, maybe I'm just a golden jade, and I haven't revealed it yet." Feng Ziying also laughed.

"Just blow it." Wu Fu suddenly remembered something, "By the way, how did you do in the exam of the current Keqiu Academy?" ”

"No surprises, big wins." Feng Ziying said with a smile: "There are fifty-two candidates in our Qingtan Academy and thirty-five in high school, which is much higher than Chongzheng Academy and Tonghui Academy, as for other provinces, the news has not yet been transmitted, but presumably this is the case, the number of lifters in our academy participating in the Spring Festival competition next year will definitely be the first in the Great Zhou, but I don't know what their level is, and the position of the top three tripods ......."

Wu Fu shook his head again and again, "Ziying, your appetite is too big, for our academy, the three dingjia is good, but it is more important than the number of jinshi in our academy's examination." ”

What Wu Fu said is the right reason, like Zhou Yongchun, they are concerned about how much they are in the autumn and spring exams, and Xie Yuan or Sanding Jia is second.

"Well, Huchen and Boya have all passed, right?" Wu Fu knew that Feng Ziying was good friends with Xu Qixun and Sun Chuanting, and Xu Qixun was also from Suzhou, Nanzhi, and was also very familiar with Wu Fu.

"It's all over, Huchen, Boya, Zhonglun, Daoying, and Yixin have all passed, and Yixin has taken a list at the end." Feng Ziying also sighed, if you want to talk about the level of these people's scriptures, all of them are stronger than themselves, but with the decline in the weight of scriptures, current policy affairs are more valued, so these people are all on the list, but they can make up for it in this subject.

"It doesn't matter if you are at the end of the list, the key is how well you do in the spring exam." As people who have come before, they can also comment on these former classmates and friends who are still fighting for the future.

"Huchen and Boya are under a lot of pressure, especially Yuxuan and Zhonglun, they originally felt full of confidence in the last subject, but they unexpectedly failed the list, even if this subject can be passed in Chunqiu, it has opened a three-year gap with us, so they are also eager to pass the test earlier." Feng Ziying glanced at Wu Fu, "Luyou, aren't we the same, we will face our respective path choices next year, what about you?" ”

"Can we help ourselves? The six departments and the Siyuan Temple, plus the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, all want to go to the Six Ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, followed by the General Administration Department and the Dali Temple, and now there is one more Chinese calligraphy, but the Chinese calligraphy department always feels that it is still a little unreliable, and the imperial court should come up with a strategy, and it can't always be a magpie's nest dove to occupy the Yue Yu Dai, and the Chinese calligraphy department is not a proper part after all,......"

Wu Fu's words are very in line with Feng Ziying's point of view, "Luyou, the system of three provinces and six ministries has been like this since the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it has changed in the two Song dynasties, and it has been a pen in the former Ming Dynasty, but these six ministries have never changed, but have you noticed that with the complete lifting of the ban on foreign maritime trade, the trade of Nanyang, Xiyi and Japan will increase significantly in our Great Zhou, after all, the scale of sea shipping transportation is also getting bigger and bigger, the establishment of the City Shipping Division, and the development of various industrial and commercial industries brought about by our foreign trade, This all means that the imperial court can not only focus on that little bit of land and sea taxes, such as shipbuilding, mining, cotton spinning, iron smelting, tea making, porcelain making, salt making, medicinal materials, silk weaving and other industries have already surpassed any of the previous Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties,......"

"......, the imperial court should adjust the tax system, and at the same time should put the support of these industries on the agenda, look at the cotton textile dyeing in Songjiang more than 5,000 workers, and Suzhou silk weaving and weaving workers exceeded 30,000 ten years ago, and now there are 50,000 people, from Suzhou to Tongzhou on the canal, relying on the wharf to transport and transportation for a living and no longer rely on the fields for a living There are also more than 100,000 porters, boatmen and slender men, that is, more and more displaced people have left the land, And simply make a living with other skills,......"

"......, this same trend also means that there is more and more demand to attract these people who have depended on the land for generations to leave the land, and it also means that if the scale of these industries is large enough, in the event of floods and droughts, the fields can hardly support the people's livelihood, they can still enter these industries to barely survive to starve to death, which can also greatly reduce the government's relief pressure and public security pressure."

Wu Fu didn't expect that he inadvertently mentioned that the Zhongshu Department was in charge of the affairs of opening the sea, and it should be re-clarified, just such a mouthful, which actually caused Feng Ziying to sigh at length, and the points mentioned were becoming more and more complicated, so that he seemed to understand a little.

"Ziying, what do you want to say when you say so much?" Wu Fu frowned.

"It's very simple, the imperial court, and even the local government, need to re-plan and divide many responsibilities, like you said that the Chinese calligraphy department should not be in charge of the affairs of the sea, temporary emergency only, but everyone can see, including maritime trade, shipbuilding and even many livelihoods involved, is to continue to take such a passive laissez-faire, need not take the initiative to intervene to support or manage, or let the existing guilds or guilds and other non-governmental organizations to manage, should be carefully considered, but at least I think at the level of the imperial court, There should be a special department to take on the responsibilities of maritime trade and some important industry planning and development, for example, a new Ministry of Commerce. ”

Wu Fu was stunned.

Feng Ziying actually thinks that the imperial court should set up a new ministry on the basis of the six ministries-the Ministry of Commerce?!

Three provinces and six ministries, these six ministries have been followed for thousands of years, and there has never been any easier, and now Feng Ziying, this guy, is actually going to rely on the emergence of the open sea affairs to set up a new Ministry of Commerce, is he going to be Shang Ying, Yang Yan or Wang Anshi?

Seeing that Wu Fu was frightened by his own topic suggestions, Feng Ziying was not surprised, everything else is easy to say, even if it is a strategy to open the sea, but if you want to reform the existing structure of the imperial court, the nature is completely different.

"Deer friends, in fact, you are thinking about it, is the situation we are facing need to do this? Didn't the three provinces and six ministries also be established because of the needs of the situation? Why does it have to be a guideline, and it can't be changed in the slightest, even if the times are completely different? Feng Ziying looked at Wu Fu, "The sky is not enough to be afraid, the ancestors are not enough to be afraid, and the words of people are not enough to be compassionate, I deeply think so." ”

Feng Ziying's words shocked Wu Fu a lot, and he even understood why Feng Ziying specifically found himself to say this.

There are only two or three people in Jiangnan who have a close relationship with Feng Ziying, except for Xu Ji and himself, that is, Xu Qixun, but Xu Qixun has only just been promoted in the examination, and he is far from entering the career of the court bigwigs, but Xu Qi is becoming more and more estranged from Feng Ziying because of his close relationship with Ye Xianggao, Li Tingji and other important ministers of Fujian scholars.

The only thing is himself, Fang Congzhe even values himself, and has already arranged for someone to come and ask twice.

As soon as he returned to Beijing, he received a message from Gu Bingqian, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, to send condolences, and I don't know if this was appointed by the old Fang Ge.

But Feng Ziying must be clear about these situations, and she has taken such a lot of trouble to explain herself, undoubtedly hoping that she will bring this point of view to some people.