Chapter 859: Defusing the Situation
In Li Yuntian's view, the two pieces of action reported by the auxiliary minister actually mean the same thing, that is, to attack the inner court and take the opportunity to expand the power of the Wenchen clique and the Xungui clique.
Although Li Yuntian did not know what secret deal had been reached between the Wenchen Group and the Xungui Group, and even made the Xungui Group support the appointment of a civilian official as the counselor of Nanjing, it was obvious that the Wenchen Group would definitely support the Xungui Group in other aspects in the future.
I have to admit that once the civil official group and the Xungui group are united, the inner court will have no power to resist, this kind of harmonious scene of hundreds of officials looks very beautiful, but it has invisibly violated the biggest taboo of the empress dowager: if the civil and military officials join forces to fight against the imperial power, then the imperial power will be firmly suppressed by it, which is obviously not what the empress dowager wants to see.
Li Yuntian knew that the Empress Dowager was very dissatisfied with these two movements, otherwise she would not have hurriedly sent him into the palace urgently, the Empress Dowager's purpose now was very simple, she needed the situation in the court to maintain a balance, and did not want the inner court to be suppressed by the Wenchen group and the Xungui group.
According to the current situation, in a sense, the inner court can be said to be the spokesperson of the imperial power, representing the interests of the royal family, and the suppression of the inner court is like the damage of the imperial power.
"Empress Dowager, according to the minister's opinion, since these two passages have been unanimously approved by the auxiliary minister, then the minister's guess must be justified."
After reading the two passages, Li Yuntian pondered for a while, then looked up at Zhang, and said in an orderly manner, "Since the first emperor sent governors, the duties of the eunuchs and governors of each political envoy have overlapped, and the three local divisions must report to the eunuchs and governors of the town in everything. ”
As soon as these words came out, Jin Ying's face suddenly changed slightly, if Li Yuntian supported those auxiliary ministers, then the future life of the inner court would be even more miserable.
Hearing this, Zhang nodded thoughtfully, Recently, there have been frequent incidents in various provinces where the local three divisions are at a loss because of the disagreement between the eunuchs and the governors, and there is a tendency to intensify, which is not conducive to the implementation of local affairs in the long run.
In this case, the Zhang clan undoubtedly chose to support the governor and dismiss the eunuchs, after all, those governors were from professional backgrounds, and they were not only good at governing but also had a more harmonious relationship with local officials, and were better at governing the locality.
Merely...... Zhang's brows furrowed slightly, she didn't want the inner court to be suppressed by the civil official group and the Xungui group, so that the imperial power would lose its most important supporting force.
"The minister thinks that the thirteen political secretaries can be dismissed from guarding the eunuchs, but the eunuchs guarding the borders in Nanjing, the eunuchs guarding the borders, and the duties of the officials and eunuchs in the supervision of grain, Cao, salt, and taxes should be clarified, and they should be informed to the world together." Li Yuntian keenly noticed that Zhang's frowning, and then Yu Feng turned around and said in a deep voice.
Jin Ying suddenly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and his face softened, he knew that it was extremely difficult for the thirteen political envoys to keep the eunuchs, so he was already satisfied with being able to keep the other positions of the inner court, and it seemed that Li Yuntian did not mean to target the inner court.
"That's very good." The Zhang family was also very satisfied with Li Yuntian's suggestion, and agreed to come down after bowing slightly, so that the inner court could stand firm.
"The Empress Dowager, the Nanjing garrison is a military position, once there is a change in Nanjing, it is impossible to mobilize the civil officials in the city, so the minister thinks that the Nanjing counselor can be set up to participate in the aircraft maintenance and assist the Nanjing garrison."
Seeing that Zhang was satisfied with his construction, Li Yuntian then talked about the second passage, "Recently, there have been disasters and famines in Jiangxi, Henan, Huguang and Shandong, and their territories are vast and their affairs are complicated. ”
Although Li Yuntian simply stated a fact, Zhang understood what he meant, that is, the establishment of the Nanjing Counselor and the Nanjing garrison and the Nanjing garrison eunuchs formed a three-legged momentum to ensure the stability of Nanjing's political situation, and at the same time, it also made it impossible for the Wenchen, the nobles and eunuchs to gain an overwhelming advantage in Nanjing.
The famines in Jiangxi, Henan, Huguang and Shandong are becoming more and more severe, and the establishment of garrisons to solve these famines is also in line with current events.
After dealing with the two movements, Zhang asked Li Yuntian about the preparations for pacifying the Japanese Kou, and his mood became obviously happy, and Li Yuntian answered them one by one.
In order to support Li Yuntian in exterminating the Japanese invaders, Zhang specially ordered to allocate two million taels of silver from the royal treasury for the resettlement of the people of Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island, and Li Yuntian was ready to move people to these two islands on a large scale.
"King Chungmu, what do you think of the mourning family when you hear that you want to promote a new type of school in the Gyeonggi area, where all school-age children can enter the school and provide room and board?" While talking and laughing, Zhang suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but ask with interest.
In order to train more professionals in the future, Li Yuntian plans to open new-style schools in various counties in Beizhili, providing free room and board for school-age students who come to study until they complete their studies.
At this stage, the new-style school is just an idea of Li Yuntian, Tong Guò Zhou Yuting and Zhu Yuxin revealed to the Empress Dowager, wanting to hear the Empress Dowager's opinion, although running a school seems to be a good thing, but if Li Yuntian is promoted in the counties of Beizhili, it is easy to suffer from suspicion and criticism, so he has to be cautious.
Li Yuntian knew that the imperial court would definitely not take this money out, the reason was very simple, the Ming Dynasty had two capitals and fourteen provinces, and the imperial court naturally could not favor one over the other, and the household department did not have extra funds, so the cost of the new-style school would be provided by the lecture hall, which would also solve the biggest difficulty in handling the new-style school.
"The Empress Dowager, the minister feels that if the Ming Dynasty wants to stand on the top of the world, it needs a large number of skilled craftsmen to support it to ensure the military suppression of the countries."
Hearing this, Li Yuntian bowed to the Zhang family and said solemnly, "Therefore, the minister is determined to train future craftsmen for the Ming Dynasty to promote the development of the Ming Dynasty's manufacturing and agriculture fields." In addition, the official position of the Ming Dynasty is limited and the number of students is tens of thousands, many of whom are unable to obtain fame and serve the country in their lifetimes, and the minister feels that they should be given another way, so that they can also contribute to the Ming Dynasty and not waste their lives. ”
In fact, Li Yuntian originally wanted to say "scientific and technological talents", but in order to let Zhang understand better, he replaced it with "skilled craftsmen".
"I don't know how to define the identity of these people, are they officials or people?" Zhang felt that Li Yuntian was reasonable, nodded and asked.
The Jinshi who were examined in each imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty were not only older, but also many of them could only study to death, full of courtesy, righteousness, shame and benevolence, righteousness and morality, but lacked the ability to govern.
If it is left in the past, the Empress Dowager will not feel that there is anything wrong with the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, which not only makes the scholars of the world work for the imperial court, but also gives those scholars an expectation that they will not be idle and bored.
But the current situation is different, Li Yuntian began to remind the imperial court after Emperor Xuande ascended the throne to be careful of the future intrusion of overseas countries, those countries do not have the way of Confucius and Mencius, uphold the law of the law of the jungle, so wars are continuous, and wars of aggression often break out.
Originally, the civil and military officials in the imperial court scoffed at what Li Yuntian said, thinking that Li Yuntian was exaggerating, and the Ming Dynasty had a territory of thousands of miles, so that all countries would come to the court, and they would be afraid that those overseas barbarians would not succeed?
However, Li Yuntian patiently began with the free fall test of the "Ming Xin Pao", and gradually changed the minds of the ministers of the DPRK and China to despise overseas countries, so that those ministers could understand the horror of the "natural science" respected by overseas countries.
In particular, the appearance of the Franc cannon and arquebus on the battlefield, their tremendous power brought an incomparable psychological shock to the courtiers, and no one could have imagined that the Franc cannon and arquebus made by Li Yuntian according to the research institutes of overseas countries would bring such huge damage, and it was simply unimaginable.
Emperor Xuande and the Zhang family and other royal families were even more shocked, if one day those Xiyi people took a sea ship to carry such sharp firearms to invade the Ming Dynasty, what would the Ming use to resist?
Therefore, the Zhang family supported Li Yuntian's opening of a new school, so that the Ming could maintain military suppression of those Xiyi people.
But the Zhang family had a concern in his heart, if Li Yuntian proposed to build a new-style school, then wouldn't the people who came out of those schools in the future take Li Yuntian's lead as Li Yuntian, which would make Li Yuntian's power even stronger, and sooner or later it would be too big.
Moreover, if Li Yuntian was allowed to master the workshop for making those fierce firearms, the Jiangshan Sheji of the Ming Dynasty would be potentially threatened in the future, and the Zhang family would have to think about the future imperial power.
"Empress Dowager, those who come out of the new-style school are not officials or people, but employees of my Ming court, and they are under the jurisdiction of the relevant yamen of the Ming Dynasty and enjoy the corresponding benefits."
Li Yuntian knew what the Zhang family was worried about, so he had already thought of a countermeasure and talked to the Zhang family, "According to the minister, the Ming Dynasty can set up a corresponding yamen to manage those new-style schools, and the industries involved in the future of those students also need to be managed by the corresponding yamen, and some industries are related to secrets and need to be firmly controlled in the hands of the imperial court." ”
"King Zhongwu, how do you think the new yamen should be formed?" Zhang understood the meaning of "hired labor" in Li Yuntian's mouth, and asked with great interest when he heard this, and asked to see how Li Yuntian arranged.
The personnel in the subordinate industries of the Jiangwutang are such "hired laborers", neither officials nor ordinary people, and their establishment is subordinate to the Jiangwutang, which is equivalent to the officials in the yamen that people are familiar with.
Unlike the officials, the employees of the subordinate industries of the Shobudo are only engaged in the corresponding industrial and commercial affairs and cannot interfere in government affairs.
To put it bluntly, Li Yuntian meant that he wanted to set up state-owned enterprises affiliated with the state to coordinate the development of Daming's economy, science and technology, and other matters.
"The Royal Minister's House!" Li Yuntian bowed to the Empress Dowager and said solemnly, "The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, and the minister feels that these industries should belong to the emperor, so he dared to add the word 'royal', and hoped that the empress dowager would forgive the ministers for the crime of disrespect." ”R1148