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Chapter 718 I deeply agree with the E-character scroll (ask for tickets!)
As the wedding day approaches, Feng Ziying at home will no longer be able to relax as she did two or three months ago.

Fortunately, Gao Panlong had a very good impression of him, so the Hanlin Academy did not have such strict requirements, and he also knew that Xiao Feng Xiuzhuan was not good at classics and poems, so he had to do the work of revising history and edicts. I didn't call him that much anymore, and Feng Ziying immediately became an idler.

However, Gao Panlong caught Lian Guoshi after returning to the Imperial Academy, and he, Yang Sichang, and Huang Zunsu were busy compiling history.

"Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate basically settled the salt merchant's affairs, and returned more than 330 million taels of silver..." Wu Chen also returned to Beijing, and went 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 such action is at the expense of the prestige of the court. We all know that the regulations of the imperial court have given them this power, but there is no countermeasure to restrain and restrict, and many things are between love and law, but don't other salt merchants have such behaviors?"

After several months of baptism, Wu Tong has become much calmer and more mature than before he first went to Yangzhou. As a scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, he was involved in the handling of the illegal salt merchants in the Zhongshu Division. , will inevitably suffer all kinds of criticism and suffering, but this also makes him mature faster.

"There were some more clues involved, but the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate has suppressed them, or sealed them up." Wu Tong said quietly: "It should be that all parties have put pressure on the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate. A censor also said that if he knew it earlier, he should not have come to this muddy pond. Now that it is done like this, the imperial court is not satisfied, thinking that it has not met expectations, and the lower officials are also swearing, saying that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is blind ,yes……"

"Selective law enforcement?" Feng Ziying used a trendy term.

Wu Yan was taken aback for a moment, savoring it carefully, it seemed to fit well, and nodded, "That's what it means, and I'm caught in it too, hey,..."

Feng Ziying chuckled, "Friend Lu, how can you avoid these things throughout your career? If you don't be envied by others, you are a mediocre person. If you don't get scolded for doing things, then what you do is nothing, and you are in the world."

"I didn't complain, I just thought that since the imperial court was well aware of the disadvantages, why didn't they solve the problem in a targeted manner?" Wu Zhen couldn't help but said.

"How can it be that simple? Vested interest groups hold their breath and mobilize the whole body. If you want to solve the problem, you always have to rely on people. If the interests of these people are involved, how can you do it?"

Feng Ziying didn't want to go deep into it, and it would be meaningless to say too much. Could it be possible that a group of Jinshi who have not yet completed their political observation period can turn things around all at once?

Many things have to be done slowly, but this kind of aggrieved and depressed makes young people of their age who are full of enthusiasm and longing feel a little disappointed and frustrated, but it is this sense of disillusionment that makes everyone Really get together and find a solution.

This is also our own opportunity. To seek a common goal, we must first have a common experience, a consistent view on things, and even a common sense of crisis. This is the basis for everyone to reach a consensus.

After discussing official affairs for a while, Wu Tong smiled and said: "I haven't had time to congratulate you, you will be married soon, the Shen family is a famous family in Nanzhi, a famous family in Gusu, and the Shen family's daughter is famous far and wide, Ziying You have taken advantage of it, your writing may be much inferior to that of the girl from the Shen family."

"Hehe, that's not necessarily true. I'm a solid second-class Jinshi, hand-picked by the emperor. Maybe I'm a pure gold and jade, which hasn't been revealed yet." Feng Ziying also laughed.

"Just blow it up." Wu Tong suddenly remembered something, "By the way, how did you do in the exam at Qiuwei Academy?"

"No surprises, a complete victory." Feng Ziying said with a smile: "We have 52 candidates from Qingtan Academy in Beizhili and 35 from high school, which is much higher than Chongzheng Academy and Tonghui Academy. As for other provinces, there is no news yet. It was reported back, but it must be the same situation. Next year, the number of candidates participating in the Chunwei Grand Competition in our academy will definitely be the first in the Great Week, but I don’t know how good they are, the top of the three tripods..."

Wu Xuan shook his head again and again, "Ziying, your appetite is too big. For our academy, the Three Tripod Armor is good, but it is more important than the number of Jinshi in our academy."

What Wu Xin said is the truth, like Zhou Yongchun, they are concerned about how much they get in the Qiu Wei exam, how much they get in the Chun Wei exam, and whether it is Xie Yuan or Sanding Jia, they are second.

"Well, Huchen, Boya, and the others have all passed, right?" Wu Tong knew that Feng Ziying was on good terms with Xu Qixun and Sun Chuanting, and Xu Qixun was also from Nanzhi Suzhou, and he was also very familiar with Wu Shen.

"They all passed. Hu Chen, Boya, Zhong Lun, Daoying, and Yizhong all passed, and Yizhong got one at the bottom of the list." Feng Ziying was not without emotion. All of them are better than myself, but as the weight of classics and righteousness declines, current policy affairs are paid more attention to, so these few have failed in previous convictions, but they made up for it in this discipline.

"It doesn't matter if you are at the bottom of the list, the key is how well Chun Wei did in the exam." As people who have been there, they can also comment on these former classmates and friends who are still fighting for the future.

"Hu Chen and Boya are under a lot of pressure, especially Yu Xuan and Zhong Lun. They felt full of confidence in the last subject, but they unexpectedly failed. Even if Chun Wei can pass this subject, it will be separated from us. There is a three-year gap, so they are also eager to pass the test earlier." Feng Ziying glanced at Wu Sheng, "Lu You, we are not the same, next year we will face our own path choices, how about you?"

"Can we let ourselves go? The Sixth Ministry and Siyuan Temple, plus the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, all want to go to the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, followed by the Tongzhengsi and Dali Temple. Now there is an additional Chinese Book Department, but the Chinese Book Department I always feel that it is still a bit unreliable, the court should come up with a strategy, and it can't always take the place of the magpie's nest and dove, the Zhongshu Department is not a proper role after all,..."

Wu Sheng’s words are in line with Feng Ziying’s point of view, “Luyou, the system of three provinces and six departments has been like this since the Sui and Tang Dynasties. No, with the complete lifting of the ban on foreign maritime trade, the trade between Nanyang, Xiyi and Japan will increase significantly. After all, the scale of sea shipping is also increasing. The development of various industrial and commercial industries brought about by foreign trade means that the imperial court can no longer just focus on the land tax and sea tax, such as shipbuilding, mining, cotton spinning, iron smelting, tea making, porcelain making, salt making, and medicinal materials. The scale of industries such as silk weaving and silk weaving has already surpassed any previous dynasties in the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties,..."

"..., the imperial court should adjust the tax system, and at the same time, support these industries should be put on the agenda. Look at the cotton textile dyeing in Songjiang alone employs more than 5000 workers, and Suzhou silk The number of weavers exceeded 3 ten years ago, and now there are probably 5 people. On the canal from Suzhou to Tongzhou, porters and boatmen rely on wharf handling and transportation for a living instead of fields. There are also more than 10 trackers, that is to say, more and more refugees have left the land, and simply earn a living with other skills..."

"... the same change in trend means that there are more and more other needs to draw people who have lived off the land for generations, and it also means that if these industries are large enough, in the event of floods and droughts In the event of disasters, the fields can hardly support the people’s lives, and they can still enter these industries to barely survive starvation, which can also greatly reduce the government’s relief pressure and public security pressure.”

Wu Chen didn't expect that he inadvertently mentioned that the Zhongshu Division was in charge of Kaihai affairs, and it should be clarified again. Just such a mouth, it actually aroused Feng Ziying's emotion in such a lengthy speech, and the points mentioned were becoming more and more complicated, which made him They all seemed to understand something.

"Ziying, you have said so much, what exactly do you want to say?" Wu Sheng frowned.

"It's very simple. The imperial court, and even the local government, need to re-plan and divide many responsibilities. As you said, the Zhongshu Division should not be in charge of sea affairs. It's just a temporary emergency, but everyone can see it, including Maritime trade, shipbuilding, and even the many businesses involved continue to adopt such passive laissez-faire, whether they need to actively intervene to support or manage, or let existing guilds or guild halls and other non-governmental organizations manage them. I should think about it carefully, but at least I think that at the level of the imperial court, there should be a special department to take responsibility for planning, development and division of maritime trade and some important industries, for example, a new Ministry of Commerce."

Wu Zhen was stunned.

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

Three provinces and six ministries, these six ministries have been in existence for thousands of years, and have never been easier. Now Feng Ziying is going to rely on the emergence of the Kaihai incident to set up a new business department. Is he going to be Shang Yang, Yang Yan, or Wang Anshi?

Feng Ziying was not surprised to see that Wu Sheng was intimidated by her topic suggestion. Others are easy to talk about, even if it is a strategy to open up the sea, but if you want to propose reforms to the existing structure of the imperial court, the nature is completely different.

"Luyou, actually you are thinking about it, do we need to do this in the situation we are facing? Didn't the three provinces and six ministries be established because of the needs of the situation? Why must it be regarded as a standard and cannot be changed at all, even if the times It’s completely different already?” Feng Ziying looked at Wu Tong, “There’s nothing to be afraid of, my ancestors can’t follow the law, and people’s words can’t be sympathetic, I think so.”

Feng Ziying's words shocked Wu Zhen greatly, and he even understood why Feng Ziying specifically found himself to say these words.

Among the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, there are only two or three people who have a close relationship with Feng Ziying, except for Xu Xie and himself, that is, Xu Qixun. However, because of his close relationship with Ye Xianggao, Li Tingji and other Fujian scholars and important officials, he became increasingly estranged from Feng Ziying.

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

And this trip to the south of the Yangtze River has greatly improved his reputation and influence. As soon as he returned to Beijing, he was sent by Gu Bingqian, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, to express his condolences.

But Feng Ziying must be clear about these situations, and after spending so much time explaining it to herself, she undoubtedly hopes that she can bring this point of view to some people.

　Five thousand votes are not far away, brothers give me strength!

　
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