In May, he went out of Jiangning to inspect the defense area, and Lin Jian was ordered to do it, and when he returned to Jiangning, he naturally had to return to the order.

On the second day of October, Lin Tie entered the palace to report on his work, the Queen Mother and Emperor Yongxing sat on the soft couch of Menghuang Jinphi Forging, and there was a small table of boxwood with a gloomy color in the middle, Emperor Yongxing was not in good spirits, his hands were separated on several cases, the Queen Mother was a little hunchbacked, and the embroidered phoenix court clothes could not hide her old Longzhong, Yuan Yan and Song Jia stood behind the Queen Mother, compared to Song Jia's plump and mature charm, Yuan Yan's slightly pointed melon seed face has a compelling youthful atmosphere.

“…… The fish and shrimp in this Hongze Puli are abundant, the minister travels by boat, the boat swings the water, the fish jump out, jump onto the boat board, or the day is endless, but the minister is fishing, and you can also taste the beauty of fresh fish from time to time; In July, when the rain began to fall, there were many flooded villages along the coast, and the victims were fishing to satisfy their hunger, and they could barely survive the hunger. ”

Lin Lian Xinkou talked about the scenery and people he saw during the northern tour, Cheng Yuqian, Zuo Chengmu, Yu Xinyuan, Lin Xuwen, Zhang Yan, Yuan Guizheng, Shen Rong, Liu Zhi and others sat around with them, their faces were smiling, and they looked kind, as if many people in this hall had never had a gap, and they had never been a big enemy of life and death.

The so-called scenery and human feelings are all digressions, and Lin Jian always has to talk about something to show that he is not greedy for luxury/pleasure on his northward trip this time.

"The Privy Council's military strategy has also been seen by the declining family," the Empress Dowager Liang's withered hands like chicken claws were propped up on the small table, and after listening to Lin Tie for a long time, she turned back to the topic and asked, "It's already October now, and when you are lying in bed at night, you can hear the north wind whistling, when will Lin Aiqing send troops to exterminate the rebels?" ”

The Huaidong people were worried that the Privy Council was not well prepared, and the hasty army would cause great harm; The Queen Mother is more interested in seeing Huaidong suffer setbacks. In this way, they can find a chance to turn over, as long as it is not like the last time Jiangning City called for others to attack.

Lin Jian smiled slightly and said, "When the rice is harvested this season, the time will be ripe to send troops, and we need to wait for the first half of the day......

100,000 soldiers and horses should be gathered in the periphery of Shangrao, a large number of mules and horses and the people who recruited the army, and the materials consumed every month should be more than 100,000 stones. Although there are more than 200,000 stone of materials in Wuyuan now, it is only enough for the consumption of 100,000 soldiers and horses for two months, and it is far from supporting the Shangrao war in Lin Bin's plan.

If we want to prevent grain prices in Jiangnan from skyrocketing again, the real large-scale material procurement and storage can only be delayed until after the rice harvest in Jianghuai and other places is put on the market. At the same time, it can also prevent farmers from suffering losses due to the centralized listing of rice and grain and the sharp drop in grain prices.

After Yue Lengqiu was used in Jiangzhou at the end of October, this is also the case.

How to use soldiers and when to use them, Lin Jian has his own decision, but when the Queen Mother asks in person, she always has to answer one or two and explain a little.

"Oh, it turns out that this is the consideration, but the declining family is a woman who has seen it, and she is a little anxious," the Queen Mother said, changing the topic and asking, "Recently, there are ministers in the court discussing the establishment of a prince, has Lin Aiqing heard of it?" ”

Lin Jian glanced at Yongxing Emperor Yuan Jianwu, and saw that his hand holding the cup and drinking suddenly tightened his muscles, and said: "The establishment of the prince is a family matter of the emperor, and it is inconvenient for the minister to say more......

Emperor Yongxing looked at Lin Lian, his eyes were complicated.

Zuo Chengmu said: "The establishment of the prince is the foundation of the country, and if you discuss it in vain, you will cause trouble......"

In addition to the eldest son of Emperor Yongxing who was named King Shou to Shouzhou and was protected by Huaixi, he returned to Jiangning and brought back to Jiangning, and a son was named King Min, who was only five years old; The queen mother's family proposed to establish a prince at this time, and it was clear that they wanted to establish Yuan Jianhai, the king of Hailing, as the emperor's younger brother.

After Emperor Yongxing returned to Jiangning, his health has not been very good, but if he really wants to set up Yuan Jianhai as the prince, maybe there is a possibility of dying of violent illness, Zuo Chengmu always can't bear it.

For Lin Bin, Emperor Yongxing was quite cooperative after returning to Jiangning, so there was no need to make extraneous branches. Even if Emperor Yongxing has any accidents, supporting the young emperor or supporting the Yuan Jianhai will not cause too much turmoil, so he will not pay much attention to the matter of the prince. Besides, if you don't establish a prince, between King Min and King Hailing, there will be Cheng Yuqian and Zuo Chengmu who will fight, and it will save them from causing other incidents.

For Emperor Yongxing, although he became a puppet after returning to Jiangning, as long as he did not establish a prince, he still had a sense of security in his heart.

Lin Jian didn't support it, Zuo Chengmu clearly opposed it, and this matter of establishing a prince couldn't be discussed.

Seeing that the atmosphere was frozen there, Cheng Yuqian coughed lightly, changed the topic, and said to Lin Bin: "It is often said that streamlining the government is the way to hold the country, but since the establishment of the Privy Council, a new division has been established every month, which seems to be contrary to this way, and most of the officials are from the right path, Lord Lin has some opinions?" ”

The Privy Council was originally set up to control the military and political powers, and in addition to the military subsidiaries, it was not accommodated by the six ministries and the Zhujian Temple, or many departments that were newly established or independent, and Lin Jian also hung them under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.

It can be said that the Ordnance Superintendent, which specializes in the manufacture of ordnance, the Postal and Telecommunications Division, the Ship and Ship Division, which specializes in ship construction, the Metallurgical Department, which specializes in iron smelting, and the Operational Field Division, which specializes in arranging fields and water conservancy, can be said to be directly related to the military, and naturally they should be placed under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.

The Lijin Bureau, which specializes in industrial and mining taxes, regular tariffs, and foreign tariffs, and the mining superintendents who specialize in coal and iron mines, can be said to be in charge of the central financial lifeline in addition to the taxes and koutian taxes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, and Lin Jian naturally does not allow others to get involved.

In addition, the Privy Council also allocated funds to the Privy Council.

The office of the Privy Council occupies the territory of the former Ministry of the Interior.

In the past, although the Ministry of Inner Service was ranked outside the six departments, it served the inner court, and was in charge of the guards, and had the authority to feed the ministers at present, and the organization was huge, far outside the six departments, so the gaps in the imperial city should be accounted for by more than half of the provinces.

To this day, the Inner Chamberlain has been given to the periphery, and the Inner Court is strictly limited to less than 600 people, and the space vacated by the Interior Chamberlain is occupied by the Privy Council, which is suitable for the growing size of the Privy Council.

In addition to setting up a separate supervision department for the affairs under the jurisdiction of the original six ministries to achieve the purpose of restricting the six ministries, the officials in the original six ministries, those who are inclined to Huaidong, agree with Huaidong's new policy, and can be pragmatic and competent, have also been successively absorbed into the Privy Council. In particular, the Ministry of Works, the officials at the level of the director, almost had to be drained of the Privy Council.

Now there are more than 2,000 central officials, and the Privy Council accounts for 40 percent; In addition, the Privy Council also has a number of officials assigned to supervise special affairs in various places, and the number is also more than 200.

After the interruption of the imperial examination, the replenishment of regular officials stopped; On the other hand, however, the Privy Council has continued to send outstanding personnel from the schools under its jurisdiction to the Privy Council or assign them to various localities to serve as officials, and together with the local elections, there is a tendency to replace the imperial examinations.

These are unbearable for Cheng Yuqian and others.

"The state affairs are difficult, and the land devastated by the war is full of people, all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, everything needs to be done, and it is difficult to simplify the government," Lin Jian sighed lightly, "Speaking of officials, there is a mess everywhere right now, which is really helpless." Yan Ji, Jin, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Guangchuan Lake and other places, or trapped in the enemy's territory, or the road blocked, want to carry out scientific examinations, there is a good way, let the scholars in these areas gather in Jiangning to take the exam? It is difficult to do the right thing, and you can only do expedient measures, Cheng Xiang thinks that what this court said, is there any reason? ”

Cheng Yuqian couldn't refute Lin Tie's words, the more he crossed his homeland, there was only half of the country left, and it was difficult to prosper in the imperial examination, and he was also trapped by reality.

Yu Xinyuan said: "At present, it is also a fact that there is a shortage of manpower in the six departments of Zhujian Temple, but there are still many people who have sharpened their heads and drilled into the Privy Council, so we can't make the six departments become empty shelves!" ”

"When this is difficult, it should be recorded only for merit and use," Lin Jian said, "The six departments are short of manpower, or promoted from the local government, or recommended by the local government, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials, and it is difficult for this court to give Cheng Xiang and Yu Xiang any advice......

"The cost of the imperial examination is huge, and in the short term, the current national strength can afford it," Lin Xuwen said, "The six departments of the Zhujian Temple, the total salary plate is so big, the officials all say that it is hard, and if you increase the number of people, I am afraid that it will be diluted, and the resentment below will be so big that it will soar to ......the sky."

Speaking of excuses, money and food can be used to block other people's mouths at any time.

Nowadays, seventy percent of the household income should be used for raising soldiers and defending the war, and if you want to do other things, you must detain it very tightly. Including the inner court attendants, they are also limited to less than 600 people.

In the past, Emperor Yongxing felt that the palace was crowded, but this time he felt that the palace was empty. However, he returned to Jiangning and rarely left the dormitory to walk around.

There was no result in all the discussions, and on the side of the Privy Council, Lin Jian still did not allow Cheng Yuqian and them to get involved.

In fact, Lin Jian wants to build the Privy Council into a state department that can implement the new policy in the true sense of the word, in addition to the traditional six ministries, and finally achieve the goal of replacing the traditional six ministries.

During Lin Jian's absence in Jiangning, the major issues that the Privy Council supervisors could not decide were also convened by Lin Mengde to convene the chief of the supervisors to discuss and make decisions.

After resuming the decree and pulling a lot of dispensable words, Lin Jian returned to the Privy Council.

In the palace, he was grinding with Cheng Yuqian and others, but the Privy Council still had a bunch of things to do, Lin Mengde and they were all waiting here, watching Lin Jian leisurely walk into the atrium, and asked, "Why are you delayed in the palace for so long?" ”

"I finally caught the lord back, how can there be anything worry-free?" Gao Zongting explained for Lin Jian with a smile, holding a few silver coins in his hand, and said, "This silver coin, I have seen it with Song Gong, and it can indeed be widely implemented......

When the world's money transactions mainly rely on copper and gold and silver, copper money has become customized, but gold and silver are used for trading, mainly to raise ingots and weigh. In the early days, the court had gold and silver as a reward, but the amount of money raised was very small.

When gold and silver ingots are used for trading, they often need to be weighed by shears, which is very troublesome, and there will be additional losses when cutting and weighing. In fact, all of the above has seriously hindered the development of commerce and trade.

When Huaidong forged the Huaidong copper dollar, the coin-raising technology was mature, and gold and silver were easier to forge into coins than copper.

The large and small silver coins are made with pure silver, and the copper dollar is used as auxiliary coins, which will not have any impact on the currency system of the world, and the pure silver is raised into silver coins, and the blowing of the coin is buzzing, and it is easy to identify.

Once the silver coin is popularized and farmers pay taxes, they can avoid giving the local government an excuse to exploit it with fire.

Lin Tie took the silver money, the front of the big silver coin engraved "one yuan, Dayue Privy Council Coin Bureau supervision" words, the back engraved "full silver one tael, when a thousand coins" words, many small silver coins engraved on the front of the words "one corner, two corners, five corners" and so on, the back of the silver weight and the value of copper coins are also marked one by one, and there are hammer hoes, spikes and other ornaments, beautifully printed, comparable to the silver coins used in the inner court.

This silver coin is said to be pure silver, but it is actually a ratio of silver and nine bronze to one. The silver ingots themselves also have impurities, and the chips are also lost, and copper doping is also inevitable. After the key is to determine the doping ratio, there are certain specifications for the thickness and size, so as to have the identification effect of blowing the coin.

Large and small silver coins were combined with copper dollars and traditional copper and iron coins, and the currency system was relatively perfect for the time.

As for paper money, counterfeiting is one thing, but the more difficult consequence is to control the impulse to indiscriminately when the central finances are tight.

"Tell the household department to take a look, if it is feasible, then it will officially replace silver with currency in the future." Lin Jian said.

Zhou Guangnan took the silver money from the side and went to the yamen of the household department, the sooner this matter is implemented, the more benefits will be.

Lin Jian walked to the public hall with Lin Mengde, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others to discuss other matters.

Song Fu and luxury Wenzhuang and called the Mindong double masters, naturally also very capable and knowledgeable, before attaching Huaidong, also paid close attention to Huaidong's various innovations, knowing that Lin Bin's governance was unparalleled in the world, but the bystanders always did not have a deep experience, nearly a year with each other, in order to truly appreciate the various innovations made by Lin Bin, which has long been beyond the scope of the predecessors can envision.

Of course, all the innovations that Huaidong can carry out are also based on the miscellaneous craftsmanship that Lin Jian had admired in Jiangning at the beginning.

The things of gold and silver are changed to ingots and coins, which is convenient for the people to trade in the market, and the government collects silver and pays taxes, which is also convenient. The benefits of this are not that the world can't think of them, but the traditional method of turning sand has a lot of money, which should be used for copper and iron, not for gold and silver, so it has not been implemented, and gold and silver money can only be used for court rewards in a small range.

"The news of the establishment of the Machinery Manufacturing Division spread on a small scale, and some people came to inquire whether the four-wheeled carriage made in Huaidong was allowed to be built, and the textile machinery was not allowed to be built. If you take these two things out and raise 180,000 taels of silver, there should be no problem. Lin Mengde submitted another matter.

"Naturally," Lin Jian said, "since I propose that everyone abandon the sedan chair and ride in the car, this carriage will be built in batches." The Privy Council can't do everything, so it has to raise shares from private companies, which is my original intention......"

Song Fu secretly said: The new policies and many reforms are based on new learning. The "abandonment of the car car" to be advocated is actually related to the maturity of Huaidong's car-making technology over the years; Now that the rollers have been built, the craftsmanship of the car builder can be taken to the next level.

In the past, mule carriages, mostly used to carry goods, people sit in the meantime, far less comfortable than carrying a sedan chair, and the four-wheeled carriage made by Huaidong, the axle disc is made of fine iron, the walking steering is convenient, the spacious carriage is placed on the four-wheel axle disc steadily, strong and solid, comfortable to ride, the line is all inclusive, a person travels by car, and the horse is not tired of traveling a hundred miles a day.

Why is this so, the details of this are sealed in the shaft plate, and the craftsmen in the ordnance prison do not speak, and others can't understand how they look at it.

Of course, this four-wheeled carriage uses a lot of fine iron chips. The axle disc and other components raised by fine iron are as light as two or three hundred catties, and the weight is five or six hundred catties, and the axle disc of the large carriage with four horses weighs more than 1,000 catties - it is also a loss that Huaidong produces a lot of iron and can withstand such consumption.

Lin Jian remembered something and asked Lin Mengde: "What about Lord Jiang?" ”

Lin Mengde said: "Lord Jiang is accompanied by Jingxuan to the estuary, and the time should come back." ”

Lin Jian said to Song Fu: "The key point in the axle plate of the carriage made by Huaidong is still the credit of Lord Jiang. This time to set up the Machinery Manufacturing Division, Lord Jiang is willing to abandon the high position of the Heavenly Supervisor and come to lead the Machinery Manufacturing Division, which can be the biggest surprise since I returned to Jiangning. ”

The character of Jiang Yue, Song Fu has also heard of it a long time ago, is Chen Xinbo's niece and son-in-law, and he only concentrates on academics. In the era when craftsmanship and miscellaneous studies were suppressed, Jiang Yue was famous for building armillary spheres in his early years as Si Tianjian.

Donghu seized Yanjing City, and also sent people to search for Jiang Yue; Jiang Yue and his family gave the Huaidong Military Intelligence Department to infiltrate the secret room of Yanjing and move to the dark place one step earlier, mixed with the homeless people, and then tossed and turned, before escaping to Jiangning.

Jiang Yue didn't care much about political affairs, and when he went to Jiangning, he was first appointed as Si Tian's young eunuch, and he was reappointed as a waiter in the Ministry of Works, and he did not participate in the entanglement between Huaidong and the Imperial Party, and Lin Jian had no intention of dragging him into the whirlpool.

Lin Jian returned to Jiangning this time and wanted to set up a new machinery manufacturing department, so he asked Jiang Yue to go out of the mountain, and he really didn't want to leave such an amazing talent in the Ministry of Industry.

Si Tianjian is the high position of the four products, and the new superintendents of the Privy Council are all temporarily sent, except for a few official products, most of them have not been recognized by the imperial court. Fortunately, Jiang Yue was not in the ranks, and after thinking about it for two days, he agreed to serve in the Privy Council.

Ge Fu and other old people, although they are also talented, are also a fact that cannot be ignored in their old age; Moreover, the level of real academic research is very few people can compare with Jiang Yue.

Song Fu thought carefully about Lin Bin's principle of appointing people, with practicality first, those who can be pragmatic are most appreciated by Lin Bin, and they are promoted the fastest.

Entering the public hall and talking about everything, when the sun was about to set, Sun Jingxuan and Jiang Yue walked in, and the old man Ge Fu also walked with him.

Lin Jian stood up to greet him, looked at Jiang Yue, and said with a smile: "Jiang Gong went to the estuary to see it, how do you feel?" ”

The town of Estuary was destroyed in the war, but as soon as the fighting ended, the town of Estuary was rebuilt early.

Both the Huaidong and Dongyang Township parties regarded the Jinchuan estuary, where Lin Jian had originally risen, as their spiritual home. In just eight months, the town of Estuary has been renovated.

However, unlike the previous rice industry, which was mainly engaged in the rice industry, the re-established estuary concentrated the relocation of the Ministry of Industry and the relocation of many factories from Chongzhou. Huaidong has put into practice a lot of new machinery in recent years, which can be seen in the estuary workshop.

Jiang Yue had to lead the Machinery Manufacturing Division, and the secret of craftsmanship mastered by Huaidong would naturally not be hidden from him. is also the only way to show Jiang Yue that his talent can make these further improvements and enhancements in the future.

Jiang Yue has a clear face and is in the prime of life, but he has been involved in many party disputes over the years, and he has experienced war and chaos, his brows are wrinkled, and he holds a salute with both hands: "It's really an eye-opener, I only hope that the adults can give Jiang Yue three or five months to ask Master Ge for advice, otherwise I really don't dare to speak and laugh generously......"

"Speaking of craftsmanship," Ge Fu said with a smile, "Ge Fu and all the craftsmen combined, they are far inferior to adults, and the little old man has nothing to guide Master Jiang......"

"Yes, yes, the adults in Jiangning have spared no effort to promote craftsmanship, which is a precedent for a generation, and the merit is in the future." Jiang Yue said that in his eyes, Huaidong's victories over the years were not as dazzling as Lin Yue's initial behavior.

"No, no, no," the old man shook his head and said, "The business of advocating learning is not what the little old man cares about, the little old man is only obsessed with small things, but when Lord Jiang has heard the idea of the marquee of the adult, he will know the difference between the high and the low, and the little old man is more than one level worse than the adult!" ”

"Marquee?" Jiang Yue asked suspiciously.

"......" Lin Lian laughed, it was difficult to talk about the marquee for a while, so he only said to Sun Jingxuan, "The matter of the Machinery Manufacturing Department will be handled by you, and Jiang Yue will use a few capable officials to share trivial affairs," and said to Jiang Yue, "If it weren't for the troubles, I would also be willing to get along with Ge Lao day and night, which is much more interesting than Lin Mengde." It's not early in the day, Jiang Gong and Ge Lao first went back to the house with me for a banquet, and after the banquet, I invited Jiang Gong to watch the marquee......"

Next, he talked about the establishment of a factory by raising money from private businessmen, although these things were under the jurisdiction of machinery manufacturing, Lin Jian didn't want Jiang Yue to be entangled in trivial government affairs, in short, he wanted Sun Jingxuan to give Jiang Yueleng a few more capable deputies.

The establishment of the Machinery Manufacturing Division, of course, is not limited to the manufacture of four-wheeled carriages, but to promote most of the practical new machinery to the people since Lin Xingxing's craftsmanship and miscellaneous studies, and according to the actual needs, can be further improved.

Jiang Yue's role should focus on the latter, and the former ...... G！ ~！