May 23.

Yang Gengai had only been up for a long time, and he was about to go to the court. Today is the day of the last dynasty again.

Wang Chengen whispered on the side: "Your Majesty, the small fierce fire oil tank that His Majesty ordered yesterday to be made has been completed, and Fu Mingde of the War Bureau is waiting outside the palace with a few craftsmen who make the fierce fire oil tank." ”

Yang Reform is inexplicable, he asked someone to send a message to him when it was almost dark yesterday, and he made it early this morning? That's too fast, isn't it? Didn't wake up? Yang Gengai smashed his head.

"Wouldn't it, Omemate, so fast? It seems that I only told them to do it last night, and it will be done today? Yang was puzzled.

"Back to Your Majesty, listen to Fu Mingde said, this fierce fire oil tank was made in the early years, but it was not very useful, so it has been discarded aside and no one cares, Fu Mingde knew that His Majesty wanted to make a small fierce fire oil tank, so he took the craftsmen to bring the small fierce fire oil tank that was made before, please look at it." Wang Chengen explained.

That's weird, there have been small fierce fire oil stocks before? That is, there were small pig-burning weapons before? Yang reformed and wondered.

"Forget it, it's going to be early today, and let's talk about it after the early dynasty." Yang Gengai plans to wait until after the early dynasty.

"The slave obeys." Wang Chengen agreed.

…… The eunuchs carried their chariots and walked towards the Taihe Gate.

Taihemen Palace.

The ministers kowtowed, chanted the slogan of "Long live", followed by singing, and almost danced again, so that they could compare with the pyramid scheme in the future.

Yang Reform has not seen this formation for a few days, but he feels that this formation is quite unusual, and when he has time, he has to get a dance for this group of guys, this is a complete MLM organization.

"Let's be flat." Yang Gai said.

"Your Majesty Xie......" The ministers replied in unison, and then they got up and fought well in turn according to their rank.

"What's going on today?" Yang asked Gengai.

Shoufu Shi Fenglai first said a few trivial things, he is the first assistant, no matter what, he is also the first to speak, so if there is nothing to do, this rule cannot be changed.

Yang Reform yawned when he heard this, these trivial things don't need to be discussed in a place like the court, they can be approved in Pingyue, Yang Reform now has a little understanding of state affairs, knows which ones are important and which ones are not important, those things need to be approved immediately, those things are, just take a look.

…… Just when Yang Reform was about to fall asleep, an official that Yang Reform didn't know played: "Your Majesty, the minister has a matter, I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

"Just say something." Yang Gai scolded in his heart, isn't this nonsense? You said you had something to play, and you asked me if I should say it, and if I shouldn't, you just don't play it.

"Your Majesty, the Criminal Department said to Liu Mao in the middle of the matter, and I implore Your Majesty to give an order to govern the post."

"What do you say? Post? Yang Reform's originally heavy eyelids suddenly opened suddenly. I was shocked, what kind of fierce man is this! Actually got involved with the post station? Isn't this asking for your own life? Frightened, he asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, the Criminal Department will play Liu Mao in the matter, and implore Your Majesty to rectify the post station." The minister replied in the affirmative.

Something new is coming, something powerful is coming, Yang Reform is as excited as if he has been beaten with chicken blood, oh! Oh! Oh! This post station was a famous word in the late Ming Dynasty! But it's an ominous thing! I only raised the salary of the post station a few days ago, and now someone has proposed to rectify the post station, what is this for?

"Liu Mao? Is it? The Criminal Division is in the middle of the matter? Yang Gai asked, why is Liu Mao's name so familiar? Think about it again, it seems that the famous cut-off station in the history of the late Ming Dynasty proposed this name! Yang Reform's heart, I don't know whether to be happy, frustrated, scared, or angry, anyway, I really want to meet the founder of Li Zicheng.

"Your Majesty, yes."

"Liu Maoke is there?" Yang Gengai asked, there seemed to be a power in the dark, summoning, making Yang Gengai want to see this history-maker.

"Back to Your Majesty, Liu Mao is a young official, waiting outside the palace." Wang Chengen reminded in a low voice.

"Summoning Liu Mao into the temple." Yang Reform's curiosity, that is inflated greatly, ready to see what this Liu Mao looks like, history can be said to be created in his hands! A small gesture that allowed him to leave his name in history.

"Summoning Liu Mao into the temple." Hearing that the emperor was going to summon people, the eunuch on the side immediately gave a loud order.

After a while, someone led a young official in a green robe into the Taihemen Palace.

Yang Reform carefully looked at this person, about forty or fifty years old, wearing a green robe, wearing a black veil, slightly chubby, looking like a rich old man.

"Weichen Criminal Department to the matter, Liu Mao knocked to see my emperor, long live, long live, long live" Liu Mao tried his best to calm himself down.

Yang Gai watched it for a long time, this forty or fifty-year-old "master" is the founder of the famous Li Zicheng? After half a ring, he said, "Calm down." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Liu Mao stood up respectfully, lowered his head, and waited for the emperor to ask a question.

"Liu Mao? What year were you a jinshi? "Yang has now developed a habit of asking others about their origins first.

"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen is a forty-one year Jinshi of the Divine Ancestor." Liu Mao cautiously agreed.

"Forty-one years of the Divine Ancestor?" Yang Gengai knew that this god ancestor was probably talking about Wanli, but it was still a little difficult to calculate how many years had passed from the forty-first year of Wanli to the present, so he didn't adapt to this method of chronology, and turned to Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen saw the emperor looking at him, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it has been fifteen years since the forty-first year of the Divine Ancestor,...... Your Majesty can remember Zhou Yanru, the deputy minister of disaster relief, who was the champion of the year. ”

Is it one session with Zhou Yanru? has been an official for fifteen years, or is he a seventh-grade official? Zhou Yanru is now a deputy minister for disaster relief, and he is a waiter, and Zhang Jiude, who is also a deputy minister, has the title of secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and this Liu Mao's official fortune is not ordinary! Yang Gengai remembered that Jinshi started with seven products! It seems to be from the seventh grade in the matter, doesn't this mean that this guy has been doing it for more than ten years and has never moved half a step? Thinking of this, Yang Gai looked at this forty or fifty-year-old rich petty official curiously. Who has to be this? Either he is too incorruptible, or he is too ignorant of human feelings, or he is a two-hundred-and-a-half idiot.

It is estimated that it is impossible to be an idiot if you can be admitted to the Jinshi, so you can only be too honest and do not understand the world.

"Liu Mao, I ask you, are you talking about the post station? How are you going to take the station? "Yang Reform didn't talk nonsense, he asked the core thing directly, if you say that the post station is cut, then simply, don't be an official, go home and hug your grandson, Yang Reform doesn't dare to touch that string now.

"Returning to Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that about seven or eight out of ten people are trapped in post stations in the prefectures and counties today, and only two-tenths of the post stations are used for official business, and eight tenths are used for private affairs,...... Weichen thinks, Your Majesty, it's time to rectify the station......" Liu Mao replied very calmly.

"You're saying it's a remediation, not a layoff?" Yang Gai was afraid that he would hear the wrong words and turn the elimination into rectification, this is different from the one in history!

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, the post station is full of malpractices and wastes money and food,...... Didn't Your Majesty allocate a lot of money to the post station a while ago? These money and grain, His Majesty's original intention was to allocate to the post guards, in order to reward the post guards for passing on military information, the hard work of the official documents, which His Majesty had mercy on the post guards for their hard work and specially rewarded, but, as far as the ministers knew, most of this money was not used for the post station guards, most of them were swallowed by whales, and most of them were used for private affairs to usher in the delivery, and His Majesty's silver money, even before leaving Gyeonggi, used up most of it, and it was not used at all where His Majesty thought, therefore, Wechen implored His Majesty to issue an order to rectify the post station. Liu Mao continued to answer intently. The words were not loud, but the information revealed in this made Yang Reform feel cold.

Yang Reform listened to the words of this petty official, and felt that the sky was snowfalling, and his body became cold, this Ming Dynasty, it was said that it was bad on the cutting of the post station, and he was originally sensitive to this piece, and now the founder of Li Zicheng was talking about the post station in front of him, and Yang Reform felt cold all over his body. Listening to what this founder of Li Zicheng said, his heart was even more cold, he allocated out the silver, and spent most of it before he left Gyeonggi, that is to say, his good wish to increase Li Zicheng's salary was shattered, and it was over for this group of bureaucrats. The money was not used on the post man, but filled the hole for public and private use.

"Ah...... Autumn ......" Yang Gengai sneezed out. Touch it again, damn it, the green snot is cold, Yang Gai scolded in his heart, this group of miscellaneous things, it's really not a good thing! From the original fear of Li Zicheng's founder, to now, it has become a hatred for the bureaucratic class.

"Your Majesty, does it matter?" Wang Chengen hurriedly asked.

"It's okay, it's okay." Yang Gai felt that his whole body was extremely cold, as if he had been thrown into the refrigerator, this is May and June! But it's summer! It's not good to be cold by the actions of these bureaucrats.

"Liu Mao, I asked you, you said to rectify the post station, so how do you plan to rectify it?" Yang Gengai saw that this guy didn't say that he would cut the post station, and he felt a little relieved, ready to see what he was going to say, this hole in this post station was too dark, and he threw 100,000 taels of silver down, but he didn't hear a sound, even if he threw more silver in the future, I am afraid it would not bubble, his naïve idea, to increase Li Zicheng's salary, let him not rebel, I am afraid that it is very stupid and naïve! Yang Gengai felt that perhaps, this post station should indeed be moved, not to mention layoffs and layoffs, he should also think of some other way, at least, he must be able to increase the salary of Li Zicheng and his ilk to this level, otherwise, even if he wants to intervene in history, there is no good way! Directly sending money to Li Zicheng alone, Yang Reform will never do it, how to explain this? An emperor sends money to a postman? Yang Gengai saw that this guy, who had not advanced half a step forward for more than ten years, dared to talk about this matter, and felt that this guy had some ideas, so he decided to ask. Perhaps, he is missing a knife and moving the hole of the post station.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the purpose of rectifying the post station is nothing more than to curb [***] and save court expenses, so Weichen suggested that the post and the stack should be separated, and the post is the post, which is dedicated to transmitting military information and official documents; The stack is to receive people passing by, and the stack that Weichen said is the inn of the inn, not the station of standing, so this stack means to receive people passing by,...... After the diversion, the post is still under the management of the military department, and the stack is managed by the Ministry of Etiquette. The post shoulders the heavy responsibility of transmitting military information and official documents, so the minister suggested that His Majesty can still be paid by the imperial court, just like the official army, and even higher than the ordinary official army, so as to treat His Majesty with the heart of the post guard, and the stack is borne by the local government, and the imperial court subsidizes a part of it every year, which can be ......" Liu Mao said his plan.

Yang Reform couldn't help nodding, this Liu Mao is very different from what is said in history, I don't know what's wrong, this character should have appeared in the future, and it was also said that the post station was cut, but now, the time for this guy to appear has been advanced, and the content of what he said, although it is related to the post station, but, it is not a post station, but a separate post station, a post station is separated, a post is returned to a post, and a stack is returned to a stack. Li Zicheng can be said to be born as a postman, in fact, it can also be said to be born in a guest house, because the two functions of mail and hospitality were merged together in the late Ming Dynasty. The post office and the guest house are definitely two units.

Since the money I threw into the post station didn't even cost a single flower, then I am afraid it would be stupid to throw the money into it again. Yang reformed for a while, he wanted to stabilize Li Zicheng and his ilk, and wanted to stabilize the postal system, indeed, the post office and the guest house were divided.

"Everyone, let's talk about your opinions." Yang Reform had a little idea in his heart and decided to see what the ministers meant.

Many ministers also knew about this matter in advance, that Liu Mao is a very unsociable person, on the music, but also participated in a book, this takes advantage of the post station to dip the public's cheapness, everyone is doing, to this person, it is also very unkind, but, very unkind to you, no matter what, others are still from Jinshi, the seventh grade is already low enough, others don't make any big mistakes, do you still get an eight-grade Jinshi?

Many people are also worried, the emperor only gave a few days ago, indeed, before leaving Gyeonggi, he spent most of it, and the silver that can really be distributed to the hands of the world's post guards is very few.

Yang Reform's eyes turned around, but no one spoke.

"Shi Fenglai, you are the first assistant, you speak first." Yang Gai hated these bureaucrats for being shameless, dark, bad for their own affairs, and harming their own lives, and hated them so much, but there was no good way, freezing three feet, not a cold, he wanted to reverse corruption in one fell swoop, and it was impossible to let everyone be a living Lei Feng.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the post station is separated, it is a good thing, the post station ushered in, the cost is broken, and often embezzles the money that should belong to the post man and the groom, resulting in the military information, the transmission of official documents is not effective, if separated, strengthen the management of the post, improve the post man, the groom's salary, presumably, the transmission of military information, the official document will be smoother, timely." Shi Fenglai didn't dare to mention that the officials were greedy for the emperor's silver, and instead pulled up the post station after the separation, the post station had the advantage of passing official documents, which could be regarded as following the emperor's words.

"Yes, Shi Aiqing, it makes sense, my original plan was to be sympathetic to the transmission of military information, the post man of the official document, the groom, but not to fill the pit that filled the dissatisfaction, the post station ushered in and sent to that hole, I know, I didn't expect it, it would be so serious, since this is the case, then simply, the post station is separated, the post is returned to the post, and it is not under the jurisdiction, it belongs to a kind of soldier, and it is an elite soldier, and the salary should be taught to be high for ordinary soldiers, and the food and salary are directly allocated by the imperial court, and the lack of the imperial court will be made up by me, the purpose is to make our court pass on the military informationIn the past few years, the military situation outside the border and the drought situation in the north have always needed to transmit a large number of correspondence, and we must strengthen the speed of transmitting military information and official documents,...... As for the inn, I mean that the inn's inn, after the separation, is still managed by the local yamen, specifically responsible for the accommodation of people along the way, the money, part of it is allocated by the imperial court, part of it is responsible for the locality, and part of it is the responsibility of the accommodation staff, and the post station itself can also be responsible for the post part, so it saves a lot of expenses for the imperial court and local states and counties, what do you think? ”

Yang Reform now also sees the benefits of this post station separation, he wants to appease Li Zicheng, what he wants is to improve the speed of the transmission of military information and official documents, as for the guest house that eats and drinks [***], it is better to divide it out earlier, eat and drink with public funds, eat and drink at the same time as the business surname unit, and raise a part of the funds by himself, which can be regarded as in line with the later days.

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and I don't know how to answer the emperor's words, this matter, for the benefit of everyone, should have been opposed, but the reason for the opposition is very far-fetched, besides, the emperor's 100,000 taels of silver were drifted away by everyone, and the emperor didn't say anything about the investigation, in case he stood up, the emperor wanted to investigate the matter of the 100,000 taels of silver, who would bear it? Yourself? Who has nothing to do when they are full? So, in the midst of everyone's watchful and hesitation. The Emperor said again.

"Since all the Qing families are silent, then this matter has been decided, the post house is separated, the previous matter, I will no longer ask about it, the post house separation, since it was proposed by Liu Mao and Liu Qing's family, then Liu Mao is responsible, by the way, after the post house is separated, one is under the management of the Ministry of Soldiers, and the other is under the management of the Ministry of Rites, then, Liu Mao went to the Ministry of Punishment to give the matter, and the Ministry of Rites to the Ministry of Rites, and to take charge of the separation of the post house......" Yang Reform made a decision quickly, and did not give the ministers time to be verbose, Now I am not the same as before, now I have a gun, Man Gui, Zhao Shujiao have entered Beijing, my waist is much harder, there is no need to care too much about the meaning of the ministers, what to do, what to do.

(To be continued)