After Wang Dehua and Han Yiliang left, Zhu Youzhen listened to the footsteps outside and gradually faded away, and then asked Wang Chengen thoughtfully: "I asked the six ministries to change the officials to civil servants, how is the implementation of the ministry?" ”

Wang Chengen took a small step forward and said to Chongzhen: "The Ministry of Officials Reform Group, according to His Majesty's opinion and the original measures for the management of officials, has drawn up a "Provisional Regulations for Civil Servants of the Ming Dynasty".

The main change is that the current civil servants will be divided into 12 ranks, from ordinary clerks to the highest inspectors of the six departments.

The tenure and hereditary system of officials has been abolished, and a series of systems for rewarding and punishing, training, dismissing, and adjusting positions, ranks, and salaries for civil servants have been established..."

After listening to what Wang Chengen said, Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said: "How many students in the two financial colleges established under the name of the master of ceremonies can now be qualified for simple reading and writing work? ”

"There were less than 300 people, and the first batch of students were apprentices to shops, children with no hope of employment, and children of clerks and merchants.

They have a certain foundation of reading and writing before entering the school, and they enter these two schools to study, mainly to be able to enter the Four Seas Commercial Bank after graduation. However, this group of personnel has been booked by the Four Seas Commercial Bank, and they will enter the Four Seas Commercial Bank in September. Wang Chengen looked at the emperor and said.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "Let the Four Seas Commercial Bank postpone and wait for the next batch of graduating students, and this batch of students will be used elsewhere."

After Han Yiliang left the capital, he asked his deputy to stay in the capital to investigate the ** situation of Tongzhou Cang. If I remember correctly, there are hundreds of large and small warehouses in Tongzhou Warehouse, which is an important warehouse area for managing taxes from the south and transportation to the north, as well as an important wharf for managing Cao Yun.

There are more than 600 officials with positions alone, and I hope to take this opportunity to replace half of the officials in Tongzhou Cang. ”

For the emperor's order, Wang Chengen suddenly felt a little stunned. The ** situation of Tongzhou Cang is naturally quite serious, but those who can benefit from the officials of Tongzhou Cang**, in addition to those household officials, the eunuchs in the palace also have a lot of benefits.

After all, there are many warehouses in Tongzhou Cang that are directly under the management of the Inner Court, and these officials who manage Caoyun and the warehouses will contribute a part of the bribes to the eunuchs in charge sent by the Inner Court according to the custom.

Hearing that Chongzhen wanted to move Tongzhoucang, Wang Chengen had to carefully excuse these officials: "Your Majesty, didn't you just say that the Hubu corruption case should not involve too many people, so as not to cause unnecessary political disputes between the DPRK and China?" Why do you suddenly want to make a big move against Tongzhou Cang now..."

Zhu Youzhen replied indifferently: "Aren't the backers of the Tongzhou warehouse officials some of the people of the household department and the inner court?" The incriminating evidence of most of the officials in the household department has been placed in front of me, is there anyone in the inner court who has an opinion on this? ”

Wang Chengen immediately changed his tone and said firmly: "There will definitely be no one in the inner court who opposes His Majesty's order, and even if there are such people, the minister will immediately remove them from the inner court." ”

After listening to Wang Chengen's assurance, Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, and said with satisfaction: "It is very good that Wang Ban has such an awareness, no matter what time it is, the inner court should understand that the inner court is an institution that exists to serve me, not the other way around.

As for the reason you are talking about, there is no such thing. I want to thoroughly investigate Tongzhou Cang, but I am just cleaning up a group of insatiable officials, and they are some kind of court officials.

People of insight throughout the ages know that what maintains the national fortunes of our Ming Dynasty is the Grand Canal that connects the north and the south. But in order to maintain the passage of this Grand Canal, the price paid by the people on both sides of the river is frighteningly high.

In order to ensure the water storage of the canal, water is not released into the dry rice fields on both sides of the river during the dry season. In order to protect the canal embankment from being washed away by the flood, water was released to flood the rice fields that were about to mature on both sides. This kind of thing happens almost every year.

The main source of water in the northern part of the Grand Canal comes from the Yellow River, which has always been claimed to be half sediment. Over the years, the sediment brought down by the Yellow River has raised the Grand Canal by several meters, which has also made the Grand Canal more and more expensive to maintain, and the shipping capacity to be lower and lower.

It is imperative to change from water transportation to sea transportation. The 200,000 stone tax grain harvested this summer has already been shipped from Nanjing to Tianjin by sea, and it is expected to arrive in three or five days.

Every year, 4 million stone of tax grain is transported to the north, about 1.5 million stone is harvested in summer, and about 2.5 million stone is harvested in autumn. If the 200,000 stones are successfully transported to Tianjin, the scale of shipping will definitely continue to expand in the future.

The declining scale of the Cao Yun will inevitably lead to a backlash from those with vested interests who have benefited from the Cao Yun. I don't want to wait until the shipping is successful, and these people will be together to impeach. So take advantage of this opportunity and preemptively strike is the best.

Half of the staff of Tongzhou Warehouse has been replaced, and they can't take care of it, arguing with me about the pros and cons of sea transportation..."

On the mansion of Zhou Yanru, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Wen Tiren, who was in charge of the affairs of Zhan Shifu with the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, was talking secretly with Zhou Yanru in the study.

Zhou Yanru was 36 years old and had already become a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, which was the age of high spirits. And Wen Tiren is nearly 19 years older than him, and judging from the appearance of the two, they stand together a little like father and son.

But in the conversation between the two, the more casual one was the younger Zhou Yanru, and the older Wen Tiren was more restrained, and the body leaned forward more.

This is because, although Wen Tiren joined the company earlier, his prestige is far less than that of Zhou Yanru. Because Zhou Yanru is a character who almost won the third yuan and the first, he won the Huiyuan and the champion in a row at the age of 20, and has been famous all over the world since then.

Although he entered the official career more than ten years later than Wen Tiren, he has a prosperous official fortune, and he already has a faint meaning of coming from behind.

Wen Tiren said with a calm face: "Although this Yao Mengchang left the capital, fortunately Wei Zhaocheng did not flinch, but unfortunately he does not have Yao Mengchang's reputation, and the impeachment officials who were originally contacted are now half scattered." ”

Zhou Yanru didn't want to listen to Wen Tiren's words, but interrupted him a little upset and said, "Are we going to stop for the time being?" Didn't you say that it seems that someone from the Jinyi Guard is looking after this? ”

Looking at Zhou Yanru, who was panicked when he heard a little wind, Wen Tiren couldn't help but feel a little disapproving.

However, his face did not change and said: "Since Brother Jade Rope has this meaning, we might as well let it go first, anyway, we have already done what we should do, and now we can only wait." ”

Hearing Wen Tiren say this, Zhou Yanru was a lot relieved, but after being silent for a while, he couldn't help but ask: "After Wei Zhao takes the sparse ride, can he set off the storm in the capital?" Will this Huang Liji really resign for this? ”

Wen Tiren smiled and comforted him and said: "As long as Yang Jingfu can come forward to confront the truth of the content of the peace agreement, then no matter how brazen Huang Liji is, he will not be able to continue in the position of the first assistant." ”

Zhou Yanru pondered for a while, and then seemed to understand something and said: "Also, the content of this peace agreement was revealed by Yang Jingfu himself, and he didn't dare to deny it." This level of content is enough for Huang Liji to quit himself. So, we can now wait and see what happens? ”

Wen Tiren shook his head slightly and said: "We don't need to interfere in the affairs of Shangshu, but on the cabinet side, we must at least install an eye and ear..."

Yao Ximeng left the capital, and Qian Qianyi, in accordance with Chongzhen's instructions, recommended Yang Hao as the newly established governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and proposed the establishment of a hierarchical confidentiality system for documents, which was approved by the cabinet, and the people of the capital were also distracted by the emperor's fanfare for the games.

However, there were still more than 20 officials who rallied around Wei Zhaocheng, and despite the hints sent by the emperor, they must carry out the impeachment to the end.

After Chongzhen received the news, he also felt very surprised, after all, according to Wang Chengen's previous investigation, this Wei Zhaocheng was not a person.

He was quite unhappy and asked Wang Chengen to investigate the reason as soon as possible. Yang Ho's new appointment has already been confirmed by the cabinet, but if Wei Zhaocheng questions it when it is officially announced, it will undoubtedly embarrass the cabinet.

On the third day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Chengen finally reported to Chongzhen for a supplementary investigation. According to the information of Qiao Yingjia, who had already compromised with the inner court, the reason why Wei Zhaocheng did not accept the goodwill conveyed by the inner court was because he felt that the benefits given by the inner court were too small.

Wei Zhaocheng felt that as the person in charge of this impeachment, his reputation would soon be known everywhere. For the officials of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they have fame, then the high-ranking officials will naturally be automatically sent to the door.

Compared with giving up Shangshu and only being released to promote a level, he is more optimistic about the reputation he has gained after Shangshu, which can help him go further. Not to mention, the assurances made by some powerful people to him made him even more confident.

After listening to Wang Chengen's investigation report, Chongzhen just frowned and thought for a long time, and then ordered a response plan to Wang Chengen.

Yang Ho's new appointment was announced the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and because the Mid-Autumn Festival took a day off, the impeachment of Wei Zhaocheng and others was reported after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The number of impeachments against Yang Ho for his recklessness and for the court to publish the contents of the peace treaty reached 27. Among them, there are more than 10 bullet seals, and the content is quite off-topic, and there are many mistakes and omissions.

After the cabinet and Chongzhen discussed, they believed that some of these officials were simply crowded, and they were not worth paying attention to at all.

However, since they raised questions about the ministers of the imperial court, it is naturally inevitable to verify the authenticity of the content of the peace treaty between the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin.

However, in view of the document classification and secrecy system that has just been passed, the peace treaty between Daming and Houjin has been classified as "top secret". Top Secret, Confidential, Secret, General Secret, and General are the five levels of document secrecy. The top secret level was only allowed to be viewed by the emperor and members of the cabinet, and its secrecy period was fifty years.

Therefore, after the emperor's proposal and the approval of the cabinet, it was decided to set up a secret review group to review whether the peace treaty was contrary to the legal principles of the Ming Dynasty, and then decide whether to reopen the peace treaty.

The emperor's proposal seemed very reasonable, but in fact it directly deprived ordinary officials of the right to discuss the matter.

And in order to compete for the five positions of the secret review team, the small group, which was already not cohesive, suddenly had no unity at all. Wei Zhaocheng's dream of becoming the new leader of Qingliu was shattered, which obviously greatly discouraged his enthusiasm for participating in this matter.